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Air Grift One is Not a Bribe: Grifting of America Part 3

The MAGA Jet Built on Your Backs By Joe Bob JusticeGrifting of America Series Let’s talk about the $3.9 billion not a bribe MAGA jet in the room. This ain’t a drill, folks. While most of us are patchin’ leaky roofs, fightin’ medical bills, and wonderin’ if our kids’ schools will even have books next […]

May 5th brings Foreign Movie tariffs on Cinco de Mayo

Joe Bob’s BULLSHIT-O-METER: Cinco de Mayo Sombreros, Foreign movies with subtitles, and the Great American Tariff Party Bullshit Level: Full-throttle, two-stroke rage I don’t usually need two rants in one day—but this country’s serving bullshit like it’s a holiday buffet and I’m sittin’ front row with a broken plate and a bottle of Pepto. First […]

The Grifting of America Part 1

We are watching the grifting of America by Executive Order on the White House lawn. I was about twelve years old the first time I saw a man get locked up for the crime of bein’ in the wrong place at the wrong time. No weapon, no threat, no record. Just a last name that […]

When Presidential Grubby Hands and the Overreach Around

When Even the Ivy Leaguers Wake Up, You Know Presidential Overreach has Gone Too Far By Joe Bob JusticeBullshit-O-Meter Blog | DoWhatMATAs.org | April 29, 2025 Well, folks, I didn’t wake up this mornin’ thinkin’ I’d be defendin’ Harvard. Or Princeton. Or any of them ivory-tower types who usually spend more time sniffin’ their own […]

Karoline Leavitt and Jimmy Kimmel Bullshit

Karoline Leavitt Brought Spin to a Satire Fight, Bullshit Meter Maxed By: Joe Bob Justice 🍺 Lemme tell you what happened. I sat down with a cold one, ready to laugh at a few zingers. Figured Jimmy Kimmel would be roasting some politicians, maybe make fun of a celebrity haircut, you know — light stuff. […]

What Causes Autism? RFK Jr. Claims Ramp Things Up

The Autism “Cure” Con: Why RFK Jr.’s Promise is Dangerous Nonsense About What Causes Autism By Joe Bob Justice and Quin Halliwell Joe Bob: By now y’all might’ve heard the latest headline bait: RFK Jr. says by September, we’ll know what causes autism. Just like that. Boom. Problem solved. Forget decades of research, forget the […]

Porch Talk Grit No. 4: An Undocumented LGBTQ Resistance Leader Speaks Out

“Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unashamed” By Liberty Lane & Joe Bob Justice Today’s Porch Talk Grit #4 is going to be a POINT/EXTRA POINT format:  POINT – Liberty Lane When I heard that young woman in D.C. say, “I am undocumented, unafraid, queer, and unashamed,” I didn’t flinch. I nodded. I didn’t know her name at the […]

Tariff Tantrums & the Working Class

Y’all ever get the feelin’ someone in Washington done broke the thermostat, then blamed you for sweatin’? Well buckle up, because the Bullshit-O-Meter just redlined on another hot one — and this time, it’s tariffs. Tariff Tantrums do nothing but hurt the working class. Now I ain’t no fancy economist, but I do know when […]

The Quiet “Mass Firing” Sweeping through the CDC, FDA, and NIH

The Bullshit’s (mass firings at CDC, NIH, FDA) Piling Up Faster Than Chicken Feed in a Tornado And if you ain’t mad yet, you ain’t payin’ attention. Well, well, well. Look who decided to gut every damn health agency we got like a hog at a county fair — the Trump crew. Again. If you […]