Kagro in the Morning - August 11, 2025

Monday and David Waldman return to varying degrees of anticipation.

Greg Dworkin hauls in his latest Raft O’ Stories™ out of the fetid morass of ExTwitter. Let’s say that place sucks and you don’t like it.  If so, you can follow Adam Carlson, Jacob Kornbluh, Lakshya Jain, Justin Wolfers, Scott Lincicome, Brian Rosenwald, John J. Harwood, and Jonathan Robinson on... BLUE SKY! You won’t find Andrew Cuomo there, but that’s not a bad thing.

The Zohran Mamdanimentum seems unstoppable. If Andrew Cuomo wasn’t Andrew Cuomo he might have a chance, but the more people know about Andrew Cuomo, the more they want Zohran Mamdani. Donald K. Trump wants New Yorkers to think of Trump when they see Cuomo. The “think of Trump” strategy might work for Democrats in 2026, but not forever. 

Good news! If the US goes post-apocalyptic in the next few months, the Dems will be shoe-ins! Trump promised you that other countries would pay the cost of Tariffs… but did you get that in writing? The only thing Donald ever gets in writing are NDFs.  If Trump doesn’t agree to anything he can claim anything.

Trump is replacing the CHIPS act because it worked, it was Biden’s, and he wasn’t getting a taste, which is called “state capitalism with Soprano's characteristics”.

Trump is now aiming his Epstein-Class missiles at any “drug cartels” of any country who haven’t nominated him for a Nobel recently. Winsome Earle-Sears blows reveille while the Feds march like Sherman through DC. Meanwhile, Donald’s crack “SS” Troops (Sydney Sweeney) infiltrate our beloved internet arguments.