It’s our second week missing Donna, and boy do we miss her, but somehow Karoli and I managed to rake through the highlights of Trump’s week in criming and a few other national and world events, some of which aren’t even horrible.
We talked about Dell getting a big ol’ government contract after Trump had a cozy meeting with them…nothing to see there, we’re sure! And the interesting decorating choice to coat the iconic bronze statues around the Lincoln Memorial in 24-carat gold. Art of the tacky? Art of the grift? Sorry, Arts of War and Arts of Peace, bronze means 3rd place to the Sphincter-in-Chief. Don’t get us started on the cage match on the White House lawn.
On the bright side, the $1.776 billion-with-a-”b” slush fund for J6 insurrectionists is on wobbly legal legs (we knew that, but that hardly means it won’t go forward). On the dark side, Trump’s DOJ scrubbed every f*cking press release mentioning J6 from its website.
Karoli has optimism about James Talarico’s chances to win Texas’ U.S. Senate seat over uber-corrupt Ken Paxton, but I don’t think I’d know what optimism felt like if it bit me in the ass. Talarico is a talented politician with a lot more brains and charisma than Paxton, but we’re talking about a state that repeatedly sends Ted Cruz – likely the most loathed even by members of his own caucus – to Washington, but here’s hoping Texas surprises us!
There’s lots more, including a rant by yours truly that we can probably all be grateful came at the end of the podcast, so that it had no choice but to be short. What was it about? Let’s just say it gives a very simple answer to the quintessentially American question of why white men go around shooting people who threaten nothing but their imagined superiority.
Next week Donna returns!!! Yaaaaaay! And it was so much fun seeing our familiar friends watching live with us, I have a weird name, Ramona Grigg, my big sis Rachel Fogel, and Kevin Kelley. You each make us feel like you’re keeping us company, keeping our facts straight, and keeping us sane. We love you and all our readers and listeners! MWAH!
