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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Yes, but, there is a possible silver lining here. It may also provide some accountability to those in congress. This way they’re not just grossly negligent standing by and letting it happen. It will make them specifically vote in favor of it, making them directly complicit. And they can’t afford to have hardly anyone abstain from voting on it because congress is so close. This means that the few GOP congresspeople that represent purple districts that are up for election in 2026 will have to choose. 1) risk losing their seat to a dem for supporting wildly unpopular cuts, or 2) split from the party on the votes for those cuts and then the worst cuts don’t go through. It’s a small victory, but a welcome one to me.




  • Eh, I have no doubt that Jon will pull no punches, ask the real questions and come with the receipts for fact checking… but I have every doubt that Elon will provide anything worth our time. It will likely be little more than Jon editorializing. Elon is a coward and will try to dodge every question, accusation and critique and will, at best, talk nonsense rather than face the truth. Exposing his cowardice has some value, and it’s better than just giving him a platform to spew bullshit unchallenged but you can only get so much out of someone unwilling to be challenged and criticized.














  • If it were me, and my show, I would mute him immediately when he started that. I would say, “This is an interview, not a pulpit, not an editorial. I will not allow any guest to take over my show to force their unfiltered messaging over my questions. If anyone gets to editorialize on my show, it is me. And here are the facts as I see them.”

    And then I would list all of the questions he failed to answer, fact check the ones he did, and then draw my own conclusions based on those lies and evasion, and I would do it all while his stupid face screams ineffectually into the camera, completely silently, until he stormed off in anger. Then I would plaster the stupidest, maddest face he had made in the frame instead for the remainder of my monologue.