Donald Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent, Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Johnson, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, Bobby Kennedy Jr., etc., etc., etc. . . . the presidential administration from hell . . . a roll call of mentally incompetent, morally impoverished butt-lickers seemingly lifted from the pages of a dystopian Dostoevsky novel.

There couldn’t possibly be any more of them waiting in the wings for top government positions, could there? Surely, that’s the lot of them.

Sorry . . . but if that’s what you believe, I have bad news for you. Just consider these two:

Markwayne Mullin: As the country was celebrating the departure of Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Trump trumped himself by nominating as her replacement Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin — as nasty a piece of work as can be found anywhere. (See my post of 3/6/26: “Now You See Her, Now You Don’t.”) His views align 100% with Noem’s (except that, as far as I know, he hasn’t been accused of murdering his pets); and so, if he is confirmed, we can expect more horror stories from ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the future.

As of this writing, Mullin has been cleared by a margin of just one vote (from Democrat John Fetterman!) in the Senate, and we can only pray that the House will have more sense.

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But wait . . . there’s more.

Gregg Phillips: Still within DHS, we have Gregg Phillips — appointed in December 2025 to head the Office of Response and Recovery of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With little or no background in federal emergency management, his qualifications for the position are questionable at best. But, believe it or not, that isn’t what I find most concerning about him.

Even when I read that he had become known as a far-right activist spreading conspiracy theories regarding voter fraud, and for his violent verbal attacks on political opponents, I was not surprised. After all, isn’t that true of virtually the entire Trump administration?

However, Phillips seems to feel no need for self-restraint when talking about people he doesn’t particularly like, as exhibited by this comment about former President Joe Biden from a January 2025 podcast with fellow right-wing whack-job Catherine Engelbrecht:

“I would like to punch that b*tch [Biden] in the mouth right now. He is a nasty, shitty, crappy human being, and he deserves to die. And I hope he does.” [Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Gabe Cohen, CNN, March 20, 2026.]

Nice. Really nice.

But I seriously began to worry when I read that Phillips had made bizarre claims of having been . . . wait for it . . . involuntarily teleported — not once, but multiple times.

In the same podcast, he described his alleged experiences:

“I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House — this was in Georgia and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was. And they said, ‘where are you?’ and I said, ‘A Waffle House.’ And ‘a Waffle House where?’ And I said, ‘Waffle House in Rome, Georgia.’ And they said, ‘That’s not possible, you just left here a moment ago.’ But it was possible. It was real.”

Then he added:

“Teleporting is no fun. It’s no fun because you don’t really know what you’re doing. You don’t really understand it, it’s scary, but yet um — but so real. And you know it’s happening but you can’t do anything about it, and so you just go, you just go with the ride. And wow, what just an incredible adventure it all was.” [Id.]

He also claimed that on another occasion his vehicle “lifted up” while he was driving, carrying him about 40 miles before depositing him in a ditch near a church. [Id.]

From my standpoint, his hate-filled rants and his conspiracy theories are enough to disqualify him from any position of authority. But more seriously — and this is in no way a medical diagnosis — it appears that either he is a world-class b.s. artist, or he is truly delusional and needs professional help. It sounds as though he is losing blocks of time.

Equally alarming is the response to CNN by a FEMA spokesperson, who said:

“This is so silly it’s barely worth acknowledging. DHS, FEMA, and Mr. Phillips are focused on the critical mission of emergency management and ensuring the safety of the American people. Many of the comments cited are taken out of context or represent personal, informal, jovial, and somewhat spiritual discussions made in the context of barely surviving cancer; in a private capacity prior to his current role.” [Id.]

Taken out of context, possibly. But silly? Jovial? Spiritual?!! Not so much — and definitely not in a private capacity, as they were statements made in a widely-distributed podcast.

Methinks the Federal Emergency Management Agency could use a bit of emergency management itself.

Bottom line? The inmates are truly running the Washington asylum . . . and Congress is enabling them. But you already knew that.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/21/26