This Is Not Fucking Normal
Bob Cesca joins me to talk Trump, Iran, corruption, media failure, and the dangerous normalization of American political madness.
Trump’s second term has produced so much corruption, chaos, and outright madness that it has become difficult to process any single scandal before the next one arrives. But that is of course the point. The firehose is designed to exhaust people, blur reality, and make the abnormal feel routine.
In this fascinating conversation, Bob Cesca and I try to cut through that fog: the Iran debacle, the open grift, the media’s failure, the coming midterms, and the deeper question behind all of it — whether America is watching Trump finally collapse, or learning to live with something far more dangerous:
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