Of course Vance is has a weird thing with car seats. His attraction to children’s furniture is probably his deepest, darkest secret. IKEA meets Epstein’s island.

DeSantis took a good shot at being Trump 2.0. He had the media attention, truckloads of money, a bully pulpit he used to attack "Wokeism" 24/7 while implementing actual hard right policies. On paper, he should have attracted MAGA voters, at the very least as a possible successor to Trump. Instead, it just... didn't work.

Trump captured lightning in a bottle in 2016. He was able to present himself as this John Galt-like figure while also leveraging his media savvy to control narratives and dominate coverage. Obviously, not everyone bought it, but enough did to win the election. No one on the right has those qualities now. It may not even be possible to duplicate. At this point, even the 2024 version of Trump is failing to live up to 2016 Trump.

Ah yes, the Fourth Amendment right to drive a vehicle while intoxicated. You could argue that the Founders were referring to horses and buggies, but clearly the spirit of the law was that it should be legal to get intoxicated and operate any mode of transportation. We'll see how that airline pilot's case goes, though. I'm worried that his right to fly drunk will be infringed.

[Tim] Pool said on his podcast that he’s been contacted by federal authorities and plans to provide a voluntary interview.

Of course, the first rat to jump off the ship and into the federal lifeboat is Tim Pool. Not even slightly surprised.

From here, it'll be a race to give statements and turn on each other as all the best deals get made to the earliest and most thorough cooperators.

For hundreds of thousands of years, we spent 2 or 3 hours a day hunting and gathering, then chilled out and had fun the rest of the time. That’s what our bodies are designed for.

“Remove all the wires, or you are all fired. We’re transitioning to the AI Cloud. You’ll all be sleeping in your office cots this month.”

1. Rant and rave about nonsense for an hour (given)

2. Announce that all "bogus" charges against you have been dropped

3. In a completely unrelated event, announce that you're dropping out of the race

4. Fuck off to Moscow forever

The BP Heat Spill has a great ring to it.

Japan had a bad enough day that it rocked every market on the globe. But it rebounded almost instantly, and everything stabilized.

~~Cancel~~ Flaying Culture has gotten out of control.

I like doing as much work as possible on days like this, because there's no bullshit distracting you. I've gotten 90% of the shit I was going to do from next Monday to Wednesday done today, because I didn't have to stop what I was doing every 15 minutes to deal with random horseshit.

Biden should pause repayments until the courts figure their shit out.