While others shout into the void, David Waldman and Greg Dworkin stare into the abyss, weekdays on KITM:

The inferno continues around Los Angeles, urged on by the red wind. California is finding out who their friends are, and who isn’t. Some will learn something, some won’t. Insurance companies are having to scrape money together to buy insurance for themselves.

We dive into our own metaphorical conflagration next week. President Joe Biden rides off into the sunset, although Joe might not have let the sun set so far before he started riding. The guy taking over has no beliefs, no principles, no shame and no problem. Welcome back to the art of the deal.

Jack Smith is also out of here. Aileen Cannon makes another big move to clinch this season of The Presidential Apprentice. DOGE is vaporware, but that doesn’t mean that Elon won’t get some fun trolling out of it.

Would a blackout drunk rapist still be a hiring risk as long as he was a good Christian nationalist? That is the question hoped to be answered in soon upcoming cabinet nominee hearings. Senator Katie Britt doesn’t have that answer but can describe in detail how useless corporate news has become.