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Ballrooms and Battlefields

From regime change to reverse bathtubs, the president who can start wars, build ballrooms, and stack Big Macs, all without a permit.

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Mary Geddry
Oct 16, 2025
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Good morning! When your country is in partial shutdown, your president is publicly authorizing the CIA to conduct covert operations inside another sovereign nation, and your governor is floating the word dementia over diners, you know Washington is entering a new era of absurdism. Let’s descend into it.

We’re in Week Three of the shutdown, and shockingly…

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