Feb 26 2025 117 mins 22
Right pukka, innit? Another KITM today featuring the brilliant púcaí doodlebugging of David Waldman and Greg Dworkin!
The Gop big beautiful awful bill passed the House last night. Clever and feisty Dems were clever and feisty but not quite successful... yet played a great game. Should Democrats strategize and triangulate and stick up for minorities while appealing to the majority? Yes! Or… they could just pick out some principles and hills to die on and take those damn hills or find themselves simply primaried out...
Or they could wait. MAGA policies aren’t popular, and Donald K. Trump is despicable. People see zero difference between Glenn Youngkin and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Gop town halls aren’t as comfy as they used to be.
There’s a chance that we could live to see Republicans crumble, but with medical research lab funding halted, we have no one to figure out what that chance might be. Traffic-cone-on-the-face research device, Gesundheit II, hoped to study the deadly spread of sneezing. (Gesundheit I traced a more silent yet deadly threat.)
Federal firings bring back the thrill of flying. Wouldn’t you know, Elon Musk has just the fix: Starlink satellites that he could turn off whenever he’s in “one of his moods”. You might ask, “How was Elon awarded that contract so quickly? Was there a vetting or bidding process?” Go ahead. Ask all you want. They drew straws to see who’d run DOGE, and Amy Gleason was out that day.
A federal board agreed to pause firings for some staff. Members of the board, as well as lawyers who assisted Jack Smith, are advised to stay away from open office windows.
Any lowly immigrant carrying only their worldly belongings and a certified check for $5 million dollars will always be welcome here as long as Trump is president.
