PJ Vogt

Like, that is one of the things that there's question marks around.

Like, one of the questions I just had is, like, why, like, almost $2 billion gone.

Obviously, like, the founding fathers were not like, there should be a fund for the president to pay his friends and punish his enemies.

Like, why was this money even there?

So there's an existing pot of money for when the government makes mistakes.

Yes.

It's just not supposed to go

in this direction from this person.

It's not supposed to be Trump's piggy bank.

One piece of evidence for Jesse's theory that this story is so unusually brazen that it even breaks through to the people who don't spend much of their time being outraged is that it broke through to me.

My nervous system rejects outrage.

I only really like stories that invite lots of feelings, not knowing, complexity.

President uses taxpayer money to make personal slash fund is not a normal search engine story.

But it's where we are this week because it genuinely did grab my attention.

Genuinely forced me to feel things that I try not to feel because I think if you feel them too often, they do something bad to your brain.

I'm sure our next episode will be more normal.

But this week, I feel like I've huffed a can of MSNBC.

I solemnly apologize.

Jesse is different for me.

He routinely reports on stories that outrage him.