It's another week where I feel totally vindicated.

100%.

We've been on the drum for a while.

We've been beating the drum for a while that this administration is purely about aesthetics and vanity.

They are a vanglorious group of people that purely care about how they are perceived and want to be perceived as strong by hurting minority groups.

Yes.

And this is further encapsulated in this Vanity Fair article we got. They thought they were cooking. They thought they were cooking so hard, man. The Vanity Fair, the Vanity Fair article is one thing. That's good into itself. The Vanity Fair photo shoe is an absolute banger, dude. Holy shit. The way that these people's like, I don't even want to call them medium shots, but the way that the photographer just took pictures of them in the most awkward positions possible. And they think they look hard. They think they're fit's hard. Yeah. They think they're acting so hard and they look so small and so frail and so just little. Yeah. No, Christopher Anderson, the photographer here, he's credited with all of the photos. the right wing's been very mad at him because one, he did the series of like super close-up shots. It's so good. That captured all of the pores and blemishes and imperfections on all the people in this story. Injection sites. People like Stephen Miller, Caroline Levitt, J.D. Vance and so on, like the top people of this administration. And then there were also a bunch of just like

other photos. Yeah. One where like J.D. Vance's back is up against the wall and the, the, the baseboard is really high. So it makes them look tiny. It's so cool. Dude, it looks like when my mom says, on the first day of school, and my mom says, let's get a picture. And I just back up, you know, my fit's hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's an image of Caroline Levitt where like the background is all like slightly disturbed. The blanket on the couch, like the couch is like half of the frame. The blanket on the couch is ruffled. She's in that power pose. She's in the power pose. Like it's all like all the people with liberal arts degrees came out and dissected these images. It's good.

And it is really modern art.

And I'm glad to see someone finally doing journalism. And it's just like the Caroline Levitt close up. Banger. Oh my God. Absolute banger, dude. The way they up the greens in her skin. Her lips look blue. Her skin looks green and yellow. She looks sickly. You can see everything. It's absolutely insane.

J.D. Vance's close-up looks like if you said, hey, AI, make this clash of clans picture real life. He looks like a grumpy barbarian. It's good. Stephen Miller's black and white picture. That dude looks like a ball sack. Marco Rubio just looks the most stressed that a person can be in that high contrast black and white picture. And then back to those medium Like we had that J.D. Vance first day of school picture. And then we got Marco Rubio just slightly bent over for no goddamn reason looking at a lamp like the edibles just hit and he's freaking out. Yeah. Like they're so good. I think for a lot of these in post they bumped up the greens to make a lot of them just look gross.

Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. Or just like the random Stephen Miller photo that's just black and white for some reason. Dude, he looks like he's got a permanent pouty face on in all of these. And that's accurate. Like that's real. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. So the photography itself very, very good. And we know it's good because it made the right wing really angry. But I also do want to read an excerpt from the story itself because it's like a full article. Essentially this journalist was for some goddamn reason, Susie Wiles, chief of staff for Trump, gave this journalist like full access to her. She said, I'm going to tell you everything. Yeah, like she basically spilled everything over the course since like January just about. Since before the, before the inauguration, I think. Yeah. Oh, yeah, since December of last year. So for about a full year, this journalist has just been having like repeated meetings with Susie Wiles talking about Trump, what he's doing, his administration, all that kind of stuff. And I just want to read this one excerpt because Jesus Christ, man.

Absolutely insane.

So it says this is the beginning of part one of the article.

We often spoke on Sundays after church.

Wiles, an Episcopalian, calls herself Catholic Light.

One time we spoke while she was doing her laundry in her Washington, D.C. rental.

Trump, she told me, quote,

has an alcoholic's personality. Vance's conversion from Never Trump or Tamaga Acolyte, she said,

has been sort of political. The vice president, she added, has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. Russell Vaugh, architect of the notorious Project 2025 and head of the Office of Management

and Budget, is a is a

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