Evening Roundup, August 4
Blanche puts Trump first, government-sponsored cooking show, the always-ending Iran war, Senator Whitehouse talks Blanche's chances, April Ryan with Bryan Fink, and more
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Stacey Young, Justice Connection founder
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Let Them Eat Salmon Cakes
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Perhaps the best thing that can be said about The Real Food Show, R.F.K. Jr’s new government-sponsored cooking show, is that he doesn’t make anything with roadkill.
The War Trump Keeps Ending
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Over lunch last Tuesday, a colleague asked the question now hanging over nearly every discussion of Iran: How does Trump get out of this war?
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An attorney general auditioning by loyalty instead of law, and a war that keeps getting declared over so the ending can be sold again. Both are the same trick. Strip an institution of its actual function and keep the nameplate on the door.
The DOJ that serves one man is not a justice department, it is a garrison with letterhead. The war that ends every few weeks never ended, it just needed another announcement. Watch the function, not the label. The label is the last thing to go.
Johan . 🐌