Cut His Mic (Again)

Trump’s Knesset fiasco, Hegseth’s Qatari backpedal, Oregon’s secession fever, and the language of empire, one long karaoke of decline.

Good morning! If you want a sense of how fractured the American psyche has become, take a drive east from the Oregon Coast. By the time you reach the high desert, you’ll find counties voting to secede from Oregon altogether, to join Idaho, no less, because they’re “tired of being governed by Portland elites.” It’s a familiar dirge in the age of delusion…