Feb 26
1h 53m
-Matt Welch’s Caribbean identity crisis at Da Pig Beach
-The State of the Union aka a two-hour hostage note
-A greatest hits, lowest lights compilation for President Camacho
-The futility of “speeching” your way through a math-defying approval rating
-You can’t talk your way through a 38% approval rating
-Let the hockey boys drink
-Dan Crenshaw is allowed to be mad
-The RNC’s new guard of real fucking bozos and sycophantic dick-tots
-JD Vance as anti-corruption czar and populist beard for the crypto-regime
-Tariffs and The Gilded Age corruption engine, now with “ballroom fund” exclusions
-Drug prices are down 600%,….so do you owe me money?
-Moynihan screaming drug questions at his glitching phone
-Marxist Republicans and the gobbledygook of corporate housing bans
-Maybe let’s just abolish the State of the Union
-Dispatches from the Purple State: An interview with Senator Elissa Slotkin
-Stop kicking allies in the teeth to play grab-ass with dictators
-Walking out on Lindsey Graham’s Danish disdain
-AI thinks Moynihan is a neo-folk neo-Nazi
-Four years of war and Ukraine gets a one-sentence hand wave
-Anthropic vs. Hegseth: Code is speech until the Pentagon wants a frictionless kill-switch
-We tried collectivism once. Everyone starved. The end.
-Gemini identifies the mystery caller as Friedrich Nietzsche, chimney sweep
-About that BBC BAFTA N-Word Drama….
-“You’re acting like Israel” is the ultimate Park Slope breakup trump card
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