Democrats shoot the moon by losing and have Trump right where they want him. 

Well Wilson, the Democrats look like ... something that stinks. Since Donald J. Trump was sworn in on January 20, 2025, he and his Sancho Panza have not been titling at windmills. No siree bob, they've been riding roughshod over the U.S. Government, as the Democrats look like helpless fools in a bad Chuck Schumer suit. (New Yorker Schumer being the Democrats leader in the Senate.)

Sancho, aka Elon Musk, has accepted his knight's command to cut the government down to size. He's breezing through the bureaucracy with a chainsaw, a handy metaphor for his approach. Grenades, too, could have worked.

Meanwhile, Don Quixote Trump is on a revenge tour, looking to kneecap anyone who's ever messed with him, including the FBI and Department of Justice, who had the audacity to charge him with leading an insurrection, interfering with the 2020 Georgia election and swiping a truckload or two of classified documents as he vacated the White House in 2021. He skated on all charges after being reelected in 2024.

It all looks quite sinister. But the Dems have a secret plan. Wilson, did you ever play the card game Hearts? Players try to avoid getting stuck with any hearts, which are band news. But if a player captures all the hearts he wins. It's called “shooting the moon.”

The Dems strategy, apparently, is to lose so bad they win. Sheer genius.

Leg Isn’t Targeting Rainbow Flags and LGBT Kids
You know the last thing we need is a bunch of rainbow flags here, there and everywhere. Our kids will see them and they'll turn gay or trans and then they'll want to play girls soccer. Those flags undermine our values of freedom and self-determination.

But wait, it's really not about rainbow flags. In fact, the Utah Legislature passed a bill that would disallow any “nonsanctioned” flags in public schools and government buildings. See, it's not about rainbow flags at all. It's just about good ol' Utah values.

But some people don't get it—like those hipsters running the Sundance Film Festival. They've got their undies in a twist because they think Utah is getting down on the LGBT crowd.

Well, state Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, couldn't give a hoot: “Sundance promotes porn. Sundance promotes alternative lifestyles. Sundance promotes anti-LDS themes,” he posted on X.”

OMG Wilson, did you know that Sundance promotes porn? Well, if Sen. McCay can't spot porn, who can?

The dustup comes as Sundance organizers are considering moving the festival. It's been a mainstay in Park City since 1981 and brings some $250 million into the state annually.

“Sundance is Utah, and Utah is Sundance,” said Gov. Spencer Cox. “This is your home, and we desperately hope it will be your home forever."

Just maybe, the guv might want to think about vetoing the flag legislation—even though that could put our children in grave danger—or not.

To Trim Debt, Musk Will Layoff 18,000 IRS Agents If you wanted to trim the national debt, you might want to collect more taxes—right? Wrong. See, your average Joe or Marry Taxpayer doesn't understand complex economics.

But Republicans do. That's why they are always hammering on about the national debt as they cut the budget of the IRS. That means the agency doesn't have enough manpower to catch all the cheats. In 2022, the IRS estimated it failed to collect some $696 billion.

This is what they call cognitive dissonance or going with your gut. Elon Musk, the Robespierre of the Trump revolution, will cut 18,000 IRS employees, saving a whole bunch of money and costing billions in uncollected taxes, according to Americans for Tax Fairness. Each additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue. Clearly, the Tax Fairness people don't understand complex economics.

The lack of IRS agents means the agency will be unable to audit complex returns from corporations and wealthy Americans. That means corporations and the wealthy will have more money for bonuses and vacation homes and boats. That will boost the economy and provide jobs for all the federal workers getting the axe. Clever. Of course that doesn't even get to Trump's hefty tax cuts for corporations and fat cats, further spurring our economy into uncharted territory. Brilliant.

Postscript—That's it for another historic week here at Smart Bomb, where it's impossible to overstate anything and where we keep track of deportations so you don't have to.

Well Wilson, it's lucky you and the guys in the band did your demonstrating back in the 1970s, when you could raise a ruckus and not get deported. The Trump administration is pulling out all the stops to deport immigrants, citizens and legal visitors, including Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, who is in this country legally.

His crime: he took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations in June 2024 over the Israeli siege of Gaza. He remains in a federal detention center in Louisiana as his attorneys fight deportation.

The hit list is endless. Another Columbia student, Ranjani Srinivasan, an international student from India, ducked ICE agents and bolted for Canada. She is a Fulbright recipient who was working toward a doctoral degree in urban planning. The Trump administration nullified her student visa, saying she advocates violence and supports Hamas.

In a New York Times interview, Srinivasan said: “I’m fearful that even the most low-level political speech or just doing what we all do—like shout into the abyss that is social media—can turn into this dystopian nightmare where somebody is calling you a terrorist sympathizer and making you, literally, fear for your life and your safety.”

Well Wilson, looks like the storm troopers are on the move—got to get those deportation numbers up. If immigrant students are making noise, just accuse them of being terrorists and deport them from the land of the free and home of the brave. So anyway Wilson, you and the guys in the band must have a little something we can use as a theme song for this special time:

Germany was having trouble, what a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory
Where, oh where was he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me and now it's

Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Winter for Poland and France
“Springtime for Hitler”—by Mel Brooks, from The Producers