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Driftglass Day

·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

After you jump off the high place, you can pretend you're flying for a while, then the sharp pointy rocks come up fast.

The show opens by framing Trump as having given up on passing legislation other than the SAVE Act. From there, the conversation treats the White House as a chaos engine: when one disaster runs out of steam, another distraction or bigger boom seems ready to take its place. The hosts keep coming back to the idea that the gears are already in motion, and that no one around Trump seems ready to stop him from doubling down. The episode leans hard into the sense that the point is not governance but delay, destruction, and keeping people from following the fallout. The discussion then turns to Newt Gingrich’s social post about using nukes to create a new canal, and the hosts ask whether satire is even the right read. They sound far from convinced that the post was meant lightly, and the conversation briefly veers into old nuclear-era memories and names. The back half opens up into a longer exchange about what happened, what should happen next, and how to bring some of that energy back to the fight. The ending goes long and playful, with Star Trek and Starfleet Academy carrying the show out on a digressive note.

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A sharp, unruly politics conversation about escalation and distraction.

This episode tracks a familiar slide into escalation: Trump's legislative push narrows to the SAVE Act, while the White House looks more focused on distraction and damage than on moving anything forward.

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