Dana El-Kurd

Yeah, I also just want to mention that, like, obviously the other reason they're doing this is that this stuff is hideously expensive.

Yeah, a lot of money to generate this stuff.

Unfathomable amounts of money are just being lit on fire.

Listen to everything ever written by our friend and colleague Ed Zitron if you want to know how much money is being lit on fire by this bullshit, but...

Yeah.

Yep.

A few other small news stories.

The U.S.

Army has raised its maximum enlistment age to 42, and the Pentagon is planning to maintain National Guard presence in Washington, D.C.

through the entirety of Trump's second term.

In a special election Tuesday night, the Dems flipped Trump's own state house district in Florida, Palm Beach County.

Trump won this district by 11 points in the 2024 election.

This Tuesday, Democrat Emily Gregory won by two points, nearly a 14-point swing.

Vote by mail.

But it's okay, because the Florida system is safe and secure.

Uh-huh.

Also, I want to point out this is more vindication of the Mia of the Mia blue tsunami theory that this is going to be a 2008 style blowout.

If they're losing fucking Mara Lago.

Yeah, I try not to predict how the fucking bigger elections are going to go anymore.

Yeah, it's it's so hard, but it's not you wouldn't call it a good sign for the Republicans.