We Saw the Devil: A True Crime Podcast31 Mar

War Crimes and Tee Times: It's Only Monday

This week, the line between reality and absurdity didn’t just blur, it packed a bag, told us it was going to the store for milk, and then left town.

We are in a war that we are very carefully not calling a war, which feels like when you eat an entire cake and say, “I didn’t eat it, I just emotionally processed it.” Meanwhile, the president is on the golf course, just out there living his best retired billionaire life, while the rest of the world is like, “Should we be panicking? Because it feels like we should be panicking.”

At home, everything is also going great if your definition of “great” is “historically alarming.” The Supreme Court is about to weigh whether being born here still makes you American, which I thought we had locked down in the 1800s, but apparently we’re workshopping it again. Red states are passing laws about identity like they just discovered other people exist and took it personally. Political alliances are shifting in ways that make you go, “Wait, am I having a freaking stroke or is Marjorie Taylor Greene making sense right now?”

And while all of this is happening, the propaganda war has entered its final form, which is memes. Not even good ones. Just… memes. Foreign adversaries are somehow better at talking to Americans than our own government, which is honestly embarrassing.

So this episode is about that. The collision of war, politics, media, and whatever this performance art version of reality has become.
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