Taking Ship

Reunited, the crew of Salty Jason's Revenge delves into one of the dumber weeks in America. From President Good Brain Best Words having to call Speaker Pelosi "mommy" to Roger Stone's half naked body and Starbucks coffee just being the worst. This is a quick episode to start your week of off right.

articles briefly mentioned:

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/you-cant-get-there-from-here-1831622949

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/426331-use-it-or-lose-it-seagoing-nations-must-defend-embattled-waterways 

With Frank Spring possibly trying to fashion an axle out of guano, an iPhone charging cord and the wrapper from a rest stop microwavable burrito, Maggie Moore and Elie Jacobs celebrate National "Good Day" Day by speculating wildly (some may say irresponsibly) about the shutdown and then play everyone's favorite parlor game: "Who should play the democratic presidential candidates on SNL". 

Articles mentioned:

Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation 

Special Counsel response: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-mueller-teams-decision-to-dispute-buzzfeeds-explosive-story-on-trump-and-cohen/2019/01/19/d89dba5b-fa0f-445b-9fd3-72f0e911e28d_story.html?utm_term=.1a1678876087 

Kodiak, Alaska: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/us/politics/coast-guard-government-shutdown.html

Elizabeth (not Nancy) Drew: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/opinion/trump-impeachment-resign-drew.html

Taking the week off the high seas, the crew of Salty Jason's Revenge decided to repost an old interview with one of our incredible guests: Chris Lu.

Chris is currently a Practitioner Senior Fellow at the Miller Center and has been:

With one crew member off this week, Frank and Elie are joined by Aaron ____ (aka: @BobbyBigWheel) for a lengthy conversation about what lessoned can be learned from the 2018 race, how donors should be thinking about making donations and general states of play. This is a good one for all you political nerds out there.

Together for the last voyage of 2018, Frank, Maggie and Elie put forth their nominations for dumbest thing, dumbest person and dumbest enterprise in the year of our lord 2018. This year lasted so long, we've all aged multiples of what was though to be physically possible. Remember the torture device in The Princess Bride? Yea... kinda like that. 

Anywho, tweet back at us @takingship to give us your nominees. The only prize is the end of 2018 and the start of what is surely going to be an even dumber 2019.