2025-01-29 - Making (Bad!) Excuses

Jonny and Heather check in with each other after a rough first week
of Trump Administration 2.0. They then explore how right wing
pundits and trolls make really convoluted excuses to support their
president, pairing the controversy over Elon Musk's "Roman" gesture
and outrage over Bishop Budde's blessing at the Washington
Cathedral. In the back half of the show, they discuss the conflict
of policy mandates with agency restructuring and dismantling,
resulting in inefficiency and higher governmental costs. All of
this posed against a backdrop where already the Trump
administration claims inflation is not a focus of their agenda and
its going to "take a while" for food and other cont-of-living
prices to come down.