There Are Unhinged Press Junkies at the Helm of America

The feed is dangerous, and we’re eating it up

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Have you turned on the news lately? Have you turned it off? A few days ago I took all the apps off my home screen, only to return within a matter of hours to the reality show I can’t stop watching.

Take, for example, the pilot week of daily episodes on America, You’re Fired! and The Apprentice: Dismantling the Government. It’s positively unchained:

Elon Musk, King of DOGE, has swiftly thinned out federal agencies while gaining access to sensitive files. The conflict of interest is illustrated by the brand itself, DOGE— which is the favored by Musk and known to fluctuate based on X posts, and also a government-gutting business.

Musk’s Mission Impossible team includes a tribe of neurodivergent (speculation) techies (fact), who apparently prefer to sleep at the office. But seriously, who are these people?

Before we can close our agape mouths, suddenly, planes are crashing, with kids in them, and the president is blaming it on a speculative DEI habit of hiring people with “intellectual and psychiatric disabilities” for air traffic control.

But isn’t Trump the one hosting a casting call for reality TV stars and nepo babies to fill…