We bought a TV ad? Plus, where's DOGE with all this 'non-citizen voter' & ICE waste?

<p>If you&#39;re like many Americans who spend the weekend absorbing football games on Saturday and Sunday, it was awful hard to miss that spray-tanned, purse-lipped face that won&#39;t let us escape his orbit anytime soon. Between his appearing at half the Texas-Tennessee college game Saturday (wreaking havoc on the coaches&#39; communication equipment) to the Air Force One flyover at halftime (seriously?) to - get this - taxpayer funded TV commercials touting Donald Trump&#39;s perceived accomplishments and aspirations, the man was everywhere. </p><p>Which begs the question: why are we allowing our taxpayer dollars to be used to recycle (literally!) Trump campaign ads? For a party that&#39;s beat the drum ginning up fear of fascism and state-run media, the silence from Republicans is deafening on this and the rollout of &quot;Trump TV&quot; from the White House, no?</p><p>=+=+=+=</p><p>Then there&#39;s the &quot;narrative-to-nothing&quot; trajectory of the Trump administration&#39;s assertion that non-citizen voting is worthy of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in investigation - and maybe even armed ICE agents at polling places - that&#39;s become much ado about nothing in swing states like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/nevada-voters-homeland-security-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Nevada</strong></a> and yes, in <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/09/trump-administration-crackdown-on-noncitizens-voters-comes-in-advance-of-midterms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Georgia, where they found three. Not three thousand or three hundred; just thre</strong></a>e. All that after <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/09/trump-administration-eyed-non-english-ballots-in-georgia-email-shows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>salivating over the prospect of eliminating non-English ballots</strong></a> in the state. They&#39;re telegraphing to us all what their strategy is: it&#39;s just falling flat. </p><p>But wait - there&#39;s more (waste): we already knew of ICE/DHS splurging on detention facilities because they over-spent in nearby Social Circle, but a <a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/09/24/repub/millions-of-dollars-of-waste-found-in-trump-administration-push-for-immigration-detention/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>GAO study found taxpayer dollars wasted </strong></a>throughout the country by ICE, and it leaves me wondering &qu