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7 dispatches.
He promised an unconditional surrender from Iran, and — credit where it's due — he delivered one. There's just one glass-shard-in-your-heel detail: the party doing the surrendering is us. A field guide to losing while spiking the football.
The nonpartisan CBO projects Trump's proposed tax cuts would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. A familiar playbook: detonate the deficit, then blame the 'socialist spending' of the other side when the bill comes due.
It's a difference so fundamental it renders many conversations moot before they begin: one side asks 'what does the evidence say?' and the other asks 'what feels right to me?' A field guide to the epistemic universe where pawns move diagonally just because you want them to.
Harvard, treated like a rogue state in need of sanctions. Blocking international students doesn't protect American jobs — it pushes the brightest minds into the welcoming arms of rival nations, and forfeits nearly $38 billion in the process. Isolationism dressed up as patriotism.
Trump treated the global economy like a claw machine — jiggling the controls and hoping something valuable drops out. Spoiler: it mostly just shakes everything precariously, while someone close to the decision-making quietly buys low and sells high.
Rising gas prices weren't enough — now Trump's trade war is reportedly delaying the Nintendo Switch 2. Because nothing says 'greatest economy in history' like rationing your video game consoles until 2026.
Fresh off a golf outing, Trump has reportedly decided penguins are the key to... something. The 'penguin tax' is performative grievance dressed as policy — and, surprise, you're the one who pays for it.
