The House passed the SAVE Act, which is the most heavy-handed effort yet to prevent (some) people from voting. Republicans have never made any secret of the fact that they want to restrict voter turnout, because the more people who vote, the lower their chances of winning. The SAVE Act is designed specifically to disenfranchise marginalized groups who are more likely to vote Democratic. BUT… since the measure would require voters to prove their citizenship with a document like a passport or birth certificate, it could have a bigger impact on red states than blue states; residents of blue states are considerably more likely to possess those documents, and residents of red states are considerably less likely. In other words, with this bill Republicans could be shooting themselves in the ass big time. (This actually happened a week earlier, but somehow it neglected to make the grade for the Week In Stupid.)

After it surfaced that Pete Hegseth once again transmitted sensitive information on a Signal chat — this time definitely knowingly and deliberately — conservative media attributed the news to efforts by the “Deep State” to bring him down.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had her purse stolen while she was dining — in the presence of a full security detail –and the purse contained her passport and official badge. Don’t you feel so much safer with these people in charge of your security? It’s just a good thing for the thief that he or she wasn’t accompanied by a disobedient puppy.

Sean Hannity demonstrated that he is as clueless as ever about climate change, totally ignorant of the simple fact that global warming means higher average worldwide temperatures in the long run, which can lead to more extreme weather of all kinds in the short term: “Make no mistake, at the end of the day, this has nothing to do with the Earth cooling, global warming, which has evolved into the generic climate change, so if it gets warm, they have a name for it. If it gets cold, they have a name for it. If it snows, they’ve got a name for it. If it doesn’t snow, they have a name for it…Climate warming, climate cooling, climate changing is the left’s mechanism for Marxism.”

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law a bill (which unanimously passed both houses of the state legislature) requiring English proficiency for truck drivers operating in her state. Why should they be the only ones who should have a command of the language? Clearly it’s discriminatory — to keep her former boss from driving a truck.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves declared April Confederate Heritage Month, noting that it’s important to “gain insight from mistakes”. That’s apparently what you call insurrection and bigotry these days. Mistakes. And apparently the way to learn from such mistakes is to beatify those who made them.

Attorney General Pam Bondi “proudly” announced that she is heading an “anti-Christian bias task force”, which we all know is something that the world desperately needs. After all, the oppression of Christians is so intense that Christmas decorations don’t go up until September. So far, the “proof” of “anti-Christian bias” they’ve uncovered is that the Biden administration had a Transgender Day Of Visibility, and prosecuted people who attacked abortion clinics.

RFK, Jr. You already knew he’d make the cut, didn’t you? This time he said “ADD, ADHD… Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.” Is he really that proud of what a bubble he’s lived in? All of these “injuries” were identified before he was even born. Some of the names have changed — ADD / ADHD has been labeled as such for only about 40 years or so , but the condition itself has been recognized for more than two centuries. In normal times, the director of HHS might be a little knowledgeable about the history of health issues — and maybe even appreciative of medical science for developing means to detect problems more often.

Remember that letter the administration sent to Harvard demanding total control of the university or else it would illegally withhold funding from the university? The administration now claims the letter was sent “by mistake”. Hey, we’re not really totalitarians — we’re just grossly incompetent.

Megapastor Joel Webbon has some sage words of advice for gays: just “stop it”. And if those magic words don’t work, he’ll offer you free counseling. Admit it, don’t you want to follow in his footsteps?