Frank's wild cheers

In the gold-stained fortress next to the swamp, there are many flying monkeys. One is a guy named Frank Bisignano. Formerly one of Jamie Dimon's boys, these days he's running the Social Security Administration, which is responsible for keeping a lot of old and disabled Americans alive. Nervous, but alive.

When our nation's Dear Leader couldn't find another dude who could survive a Congressional hearing and get confirmed as Commissioner of the IRS (he went through something like seven different Commissioners in 2025 alone), our Stable Genius issued a decree. "Screw it," he announced, "we won't have a Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Instead, we'll just invent a new position and put Frank in it." So was born the "chief executive officer" of the IRS, which in some ways doesn't even exist. Frank's got that title now, on top of Social Security administrator, even if he doesn't know the IRS from his ASS. His main agenda item at the tax agency is to not audit certain people.

Anyhow, along with his multiple head honcho nameplates, Frank has this little problem where he likes to send out Republican Party campaign ads as emails from his Social Security account. There's a federal law called the Hatch Act that sure seems to outlaw such a thing, but hey, to the MAGA functionaries, laws are meant to be broken. Here's the latest, which graced the inboxes of millions of us on Thursday.

He did this last year at this time, too. But that one was tamer, with no direct mention of the Commander-in-Chief. This time Frank says the "T" word five times, with an additional reference to "the President" for good measure, out of about 350 words.

What a disgrace. But hey, just throw it on the pile with thousands of other disgraces. Happy Fourth of July, everybody, from Frank.