Noam and Jen waited for Kamala, but she (or at least her VP nominee announcement) didn’t come. No matter, there was still plenty to talk over; the assissinations of Hamas head Ismael Haniyeh and Hezbollah senior member Fuad Shukr, what it all means for what comes next in the Middle East, the massive prisoner exchange between the US / Germany and Russia, the massive messup Bloomberg News made in jumping the gun on reporting the swap, Rolex watches, and what you could buy us to show your appreciation.

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Jen and Noam do not have to throw a week’s worth of notes in the fire! Hooray! The past week has still been quite eventful; Kamala (or Nancy, really) gets the thumbs up from all the major Democratic players, Joe says goodbye to the campaign trail, the Democratic veepstakes begins, J.D. Vance is confronted with his own statements, and the Normies start to realize that conservatives are weird. 

At the end of the episode, we touch briefly on Hezbollah’s (yes, it was them) rocket attack on civilians in Golan Heights, a topic I’m sure we will be revisiting in the upcoming week.

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Noam and Jen ONCE AGAIN have to preempt a whole week’s worth of news to discuss breaking news, this time to discuss Biden’s announcement that he is dropping out of the presidential race (but not resigning) and endorsing Kamala Harris to be the nominee. We give our initial thoughts on Biden’s bow out, where this leaves the pundit class, how this changes the view of the RNC and Trump’s speech, Biden making himself a lame duck president, who’s on first, the geopolitical angle of needing to know who’s on first, and we snuck in a little discussion about Trump’s would-be assassin and the curious incuriosity of everyone on this topic.

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Jen and Noam once again have to preempt a whole week’s news due to the news of an attempted assassination of Trump. We discuss what we don’t know (and may never know) about the motive for the shooting, The Picture, the weirdness of an assassination attempt being a crime of opportunity, what Trump may or may not have learned from his near-death experience, the perils of assigning iconography too soon, how Noam thought the Pentagon had Iron Dome, the randomness of reality, and briefly on Vance being officially named as Trump’s VP pick.

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Noam and Jen start with the SCOTUS presidential immunity decision (the real news of the week) and Trump already testing the boundaries of the ruling before we move to basically ripping the press to shreds for being a bunch of unserious clout-chasing hacks (except for Alex Thompson) when it comes to the topic of Biden dropping out of the presidential race, our hatred of unnamed sources, Jen’s overall hatred for the political press, and how everyone on the Resistance Left now being A/V experts.

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Jen and Noam discuss The Debate, the Debate Discourse, is it cynical for the press to want to yeet Biden into the sun, does Biden yeet himself from the race, the other guy that was at the debate, where does Kamala fit into this conversation, the importance of a good VP pick, who is Trump gonna pick as his running mate, and will we be talking about any of this in a week.

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Noam and Jen kick off the official beginning of Election Season by giving our pre-debate thoughts, Jen shares her doubts on if this debate will happen as planned, how Trump is basically the luckiest SOB ever, Jen makes a HotD joke that spirals into a discussion on monarchical succession, how “anti-Zionism” reached new lows, a brief history of Israel-related animal conspiracy theories, and a bit of a Taylor Lorenz Minute.

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Jen and Noam discuss SCOTUS deciding that the ATF doesn’t have the authority to enforce the bump stock ban, Hunter Biden’s potential future as a 2A champion (if his dad doesn’t pardon him), 2020 amnesia, AOC and others realizing they are indeed surrounded by antisemites, the recently renewed COVID debate, and doing time on the hunger strike rotation.

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Noam and Jen spend the whole episode discussing K-pop and anime. Just kidding. They spend the entire episode discussing the breaking news that four hostages taken from the Nova music festival were found and rescued by the IDF, including Noa Argamani. From the news itself to the operation that resulted in the freeing of the hostages, and of course, the reactions to the news both online and from mainstream media outlets, they go over what we know so far. 

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Jen and Noam note that it is officially Rainbow Capitalism Season, discuss the Trump guilty verdict, the latest Israel - Gaza ceasefire plan (?), the fate of the floaty pier and its humanitarian aid, and life during wartime before near-instant communication was a thing. 

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