Hello friends:
After two years of binging on authoritarianism, the United States is starting to wake up—with a killer hangover. Just this past week:
The longest national ground stop for American commercial aircraft since 9/11—including four hours of total silence by the White House and clownish press briefings by former MTV actor Sean Duffy and ex-plumbing contractor Markwayne Mullin.
A Microsoft Outlook outage took down organizations all over the world because AI writes all the code and no humans understand it anymore.
Jensen Huang of NVIDIA was ousted as CEO after it was leaked that he’s slept with at least three women other than his wife—including a Chinese spy who smuggled advanced chips to China.
Both Trump and Howard Lutnick were aware of Huang’s arrangement and enabled it anyway.
Elon Musk and the government throttled Starshield in Ukraine again, leading to more suffering and death from Russian missiles and drones.
Putin removed military restrictions on killing Zelenskyy.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff continued their performative efforts at a “peace agreement” with Putin by traveling to Moscow, and returning with nothing but hugs and Russian jackets.
After 26 years, the United States has lost its measles elimination status as cases skyrocket under RFK Jr.
Trump has been totally absent from public view since Wednesday, and spent his day on Saturday posting pictures of the local golf course he wants to renovate. He didn’t bother to address the airline crisis until Sunday morning, blaming it all on Biden.
But despite the unfolding chaos, the failure, and the degeneracy, here was Trump’s message to the American people Sunday AM:
Well, I feel better now. Don’t you?
Sadly, none of this is the slightest bit surprising. I learned the hard way long ago that nothing is free and the hangover is never worth it. Unfortunately, it has just gotten started.
Please join me and our brilliant community for a Zoom today at Noon PT / 3PM ET to discuss the terrible hangover we’re all suffering together, the rise of Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff, and anything else on your mind. It’s always open to questions and comments. Hope to see you! Details below.