Today on Ben Kissel Politics, we cover the news cycle’s perfect trifecta of absurdity.

🎤 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey gave a press conference that went off script—thanks to a rogue burp into the microphone. Call it southern charm, call it indigestion, call it the most relatable thing a politician has done all year.

🇺🇸 Meanwhile, Donald Trump is promising that burning an American flag will mean a mandatory one-year prison sentence. Because nothing says freedom quite like locking someone up for using it.

💻 And across the country, data centers keep multiplying like political scandals—draining power, eating resources, and making neighbors wonder if cloud computing is really worth the blackout risk.

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