Red Tape, Bureaucracy, and Official Dumbassery

For the policies, memos, statements, and official decisions that somehow made it through a room full of adults. This is where institutional stupidity gets dragged into the daylight.

Recent Stories

Fact Check Theater

Trump's Cabinet gave a press conference where they made 47 false statements. AP Fact Check rated them "Mostly True."

April 9, 2026

73 claims examined. 47 were factually inaccurate. AP's rating methodology apparently allows systematic falsehood as long as it's directionally consistent.

Government Shutdown

TSA screeners have not been paid in 18 days because Congress "forgot" to include the agency in the continuing resolution

April 8, 2026

A 1,247-page bill omitted an entire federal agency. TSA workers kept showing up, kept doing their jobs, kept not getting paid. Congress called it an administrative oversight.

Tax Fraud

The IRS discovered $47 billion in fraudulent Employee Retention Credits. Congress raised the limit and told companies to try again more carefully.

April 7, 2026

When fraud becomes widespread enough, enforcement becomes politically impossible. The government's response was to accommodate the fraud rather than stop it.