Nice Butts And Cartoon Villains For Office

Send us Fan Mail The funniest political moments are often the ones that make you feel a little sick afterward, because they reveal what gets rewarded in public life. We start with the gap between what voters say they need (lower prices, stability, less chaos) and what campaigns keep serving up instead: spectacle, scapegoats, and applause lines that dodge real accountability. Along the way, we dig into Islamophobia resurfacing as a familiar tactic, the absurdity of cheering corporate oil profits while people struggle at the pump, and the darker edge of dangling help for veterans as a conditional prize.  Then the show takes a sharp turn into investigative reporting with journalist Matthew Cole, author of Princes and Fees, for a deep conversation about Jared Kushner and the first Trump administration’s Middle East policy. We talk about Kushner’s outsized role despite limited oversight, the alliance-building among Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the UAE’s Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), and key players in Israel, and the idea of diplomacy as a purely transactional dealmaking exercise.  Cole also lays out the most controversial claims from his reporting: alleged secret financial channels and bank accounts connected to regional power plays, covert operations, and conflicts like Libya, plus a startling intelligence thread involving Russian access to Kushner’s phone and what Dutch intelligence reportedly observed. We push on skepticism, sourcing, plausibility, and why these stories matter even when the full picture is hard to prove in real time.  If this mix of sharp comedy and serious accountability reporting is your thing, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it. Support the show