I’ve had a horrible cold for the past week, which has made processing recent events in DC even more disorienting and surreal than it was already bound to be.
I went to bed congested and woke up to the US feuding with Canada. Just kidding, we’ve actually moved on to turning the Gaza Strip into beachside condos. The day before, we shuttered USAID. Also, it wasn’t just the NyQuil talking — a barely-legal lackey named “Big Balls” really has infiltrated the Treasury payments system, and J.D. Vance is defending him despite his racist tweets. All of this, improbably, is in support of an America First agenda. Ignore that none of these things hang together in any sensible way.
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