Some days the news cycle earns a break. Not because things have gotten better — they haven’t — but because for one brief, bizarre moment, a handful of Republicans in Congress actually told the village idiot to go to hell. The mainstream media didn’t know what to do with that. Neither did we. So instead of pretending we had all the answers, we did something different. We went to Twitter.
Yes, Twitter. Still Twitter. Always Twitter.
If you want guaranteed crazy on demand, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, no waiting, no effort required, you go to X. And that’s exactly what we did on today’s episode — we took a guided tour through the right-wing fever swamp so you don’t have to.
First stop: Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina, who told us — with complete confidence and zero shame — that January 6th was staged. Made up. A hoax. Not the riot, mind you. The riot was real. It was just created by the other side. This man holds elected office. Let that settle.
Next up: Pat Stedman, J6 political prisoner and — I am not making this up — men’s dating coach. Pat wants a piece of Trump’s $1.776 billion pardons-and-payments slush fund, and he wrote a whole manifesto on X to make his case. He stormed the Capitol and he will you find your dream girl. Two things.
Then there was a clip from Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene that was somehow shockingly normal, which was arguably the most disturbing part of the whole episode.
And we closed it out with Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon propaganda video — $250,000 of your taxpayer money, animated like a Saturday morning cartoon, narrated like a Sesame Street episode gone rogue.
It’s a confederacy of schmucks. But at least they’re entertaining.
