The Friday Brief

March 28, 2025

Inside: A Lawless White House In Panic. Social Security: Still The Third Rail. Elise Stefanik Gets Rug-Pulled. The Low Men Who Worship Andrew Tate. Watching Early Races. Is The Red Court Cracking? Tom Homan Is Going To the Fucking Hague. Golden Age, My Ass - Part 19, The Children Yearn For The Mines. RIP, Lanny Griffith. Substack Finds. What I’m Reading. Scenes From The Home Front.

The Big Picture

A Lawless White House In Panic

The White House is in a blind panic because it long ago adopted the Roy Cohn mantra—later passed down to degenerate fop and phrenological sideshow specimen Roger Stone—of never back down, never apologize, deny, deny, deny.

Trump has never corrected his behavior, never admitted error, and God forbid, never apologized for anything, from COVID to January 6th.

For him and the dopamine-starved freakshow that is the Very Online MAGA right—these rules are sacred writ. They cannot admit fault. They cannot change course. Growth is for suckers, and accountability is weakness.

That’s why this brutal, unending week of Signalgate keeps dragging them deeper into the hole. They don't just refuse to stop the bleeding—they don't know how.

Responsibility is as foreign to them as empathy is to an alligator.

The week’s lineup of dipshit Senate and House performances by Trump’s so-called national security brain trust only confirmed what anyone not in a cult already knows: these people are reckless, incompetent, and what Waltz, Hegseth and the rest of the Signal Squad did flagrantly illegal, wildly reckless, and deeply dangerous to our men and women in uniform.

Team Trump’s pathetic and borderline insane response?