High Jinks in MAGA-land

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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We close out the week on Donald Trump's pardons, picks, and tantrums and RFK Jr.'s AI-based report. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.
0:07.0	Seeing all and more of our energy comes from wind farms like this one.
0:14.0	Guys, what happened to recording that a solar bomb?
0:18.0	To learn more, visit about amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability.
0:27.6	Oh!
0:29.6	Hope for the best.
0:38.3	Expect the worst.
0:40.3	Some drink champagne.
0:42.3	Some die of thirst.
0:44.3	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:48.3	Hope for the best.
0:50.3	Expect the worst.
0:52.3	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast. Today is Friday, May 30th, 2025. I am John Podhoritz.
1:02.4	The editor of Commentary Magazine with me, as always, senior editor, Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth.
1:08.4	Hi, John.
1:09.1	And our social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And our social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi,
1:11.4	Christine. Hi, John. Okay, I'm just going to read to you one of my favorite weekly moments,
1:16.8	particularly on a Friday, is the release of Nellie Bowles' newsletter at the free press. One of the more
1:25.3	delightful forms of political commentary in America, TGIF.
1:31.8	And I'm just going to read you the opening paragraph because I think it gets to the difficulty one has in reconciling oneself,
1:41.4	at least if the one in this case is me or I, depending on how you want to
1:46.0	phrase it grammatically, with the ongoing day-to-day business of the Trump administration,
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