Hey folks! I’ve been deep in the book writing hole but came up for a quick Live with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali today!
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Now. Where were we?
We are watching, in real time, the most catastrophic confluence of failure, hubris, and rot this regime has produced yet, and that is a high goddamn bar. The Iran war Trump promised would be “two weeks, tops” is a smoking crater of global economic disaster, blown alliances, dead and wounded Americans, and a Pentagon press shop issuing communiqués in crayon. Meanwhile, our Dear Leader has picked a fight with…wait for it…the Catholic Church.
Pope Leo, a man whose job is literally turning the other cheek, has had it. JD Vance got heckled off the stage at TPUSA by his own people. The Jesus meme broke something in the MAGA hindbrain that the cages, the grift, and the felonies somehow couldn’t.
And the man at the top? He’s slurring, sundowning, and ranting like a drunk uncle on Truth Social at 3 a.m.
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