And Now for a Light TGIF Thought…

Let’s kick off the weekend with some batshit-crazy news, courtesy of Donald Trump. On August 1, 2025, he canned Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, because her jobs report was not to his liking. He’s out here screaming that she fudged numbers to prop up Kamala Harris. No evidence, just vibes.

I always cringe when I see these patterns. It’s like a Soviet locomotive joke, perfect for this Thank-Trump-It’s-Friday mood. Picture this: post-1917, the Communist train breaks down. Lenin’s like, “Tsarist losers left us junk rails!” The engine’s still dead, so Stalin barks, “Shoot the engineer, use enemies for wheels!” Predictably, that did not help, so Khrushchev, ever the genius, goes, “Rip up the tracks behind, slap ’em in front, and plant corn in the ashes!” No improvement. Enter Brezhnev: “Get KGB dudes to wave tree branches out the windows and explain to everyone that ‘We’re in Communism!’”

Fast-forward to 2025, and Trump’s in full ‘shoot the engineer’ mode, firing McEntarfer for bad stats. Next up? Khrushchev’s track-shuffling or Brezhnev’s branch-waving? I can almost hear him: “We’ll grow our own bauxite, folks, the best bauxite, like nobody’s ever seen! Rare-earth metals? We got the rarest, folks, but I will find them because nobody finds ’em like me!”

As someone who’s seen this circus before, I’m picturing FBI agents jogging around the White House, waving branches, with a Fox News Fembot clutching a crucifix and singing hosannas to Trump.

But #TGIF, so let’s laugh at the absurdity of my historical associations, sip some weekend vibes, and trust the inherent democratic guardrails to keep this MAGA train from derailing.

Happy Friday. With luck, one of us won’t live to see that day.