Well, I certainly picked the wrong week to go on vacation. Normally you dont have to worry about much going down news-wise in August, so Ive typically taken a week there and the week after Christmas off in nearly a decade of writing this newsletter
and I cannot think of a single time Ive done that where I felt more absent or overwhelmed by the amount of news I saw flying by every single day. Today the White House faces a massive crush of challenges, both thanks to the world and of their own making. Their pandemic response has stalled, and theyre desperately throwing out impotent mandate threats their vaunted plans proven incapable of returning the country to a state of normalcy, even if thats what they ever really wanted.
Their Afghanistan withdrawal has resulted in the deaths of young Americans in the military and will likely soon lead to the deaths of civilians as well. Top Men are in a finger pointing war in Washington .........