There’s something I see at the grocery store every so often that just knocks me out.

In the potato chips aisle, there are rows of cheese dip in jars. One particular brand has printed the following disclaimer on its label: “Cheese-Flavored Product.”

Notice that they don’t say that their dip is actually made from or with cheese. It’s just “Cheese-Flavored.” Whatever that means.

This administration is much the same. It’s about as real as the flavored matter in one of those curiously-labeled jars of dip.

I suspect that if recipients of Social Security experience a disruption in their payments over the next several months, even those among their number who voted for the Comb-Overed Cantaloupe will start to get very angry with this administration. Or maybe not. Maybe there’s truly no going back with them.

I recall reading the following account in Japanese economic history: when widespread automation came to Japanese auto factories in the ’70s and ‘80s, the soon-to-be-replaced human workers on the assembly lines were encouraged to stand there and applaud the robots taking their jobs.

Will MAGA do the same when Trump and Musk come for their Social Security? Will they shrug and say, “I guess I’ll be working until 80. Or 90. Or 100..”

Or will they finally wake up and say, “Enuff Z’Nuff.” *

(* That’s the name of one of my favorite power pop/hair metal bands..)

If we get that far, I’m expecting the GOP will be microwaved on high in the midterms next year. But it never should’ve come to this in the first place. Misinformation and voter apathy have taken one helluva toll.