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State of the Union Post-Mortem with Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) - #546

Is it any surprise that this most recent SOTU was two hours of sycophancy and the continuing death of civic dignity? We are joined by Senator Slotkin to talk about that and foreign policy.

-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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