Earlier this week, Virgie Tovar, an “expert” in “anti-weight-based discrimination” and “fat positivity” revealed San Francisco hired her to help normalize the concept of fatness (essentially) while consulting on important issues such as not talking about exercise in the workplace (really). While a funny story in almost any context, there’s something truly special about the notion of a hired “obesity is fine” consultant one day after Gavin Newsom declared California leads the nation in DOGE-like cost cutting. Because folks, if there’s one thing Virgie doesn’t represent, either personally or from the perspective of our government, it’s accountability. She did reveal she recently turned down a free Ozempic prescription from her desperate doctors on account of it wouldn’t “solve weight bias” however, which — while totally insane — at least presents some opportunity: if you don’t want it, give it to our government. It’s time to cut the fat.

Amidst a projected $16 billion budget shortfall, outgoing Washington Governor Jay Inslee proposed a new personal wealth tax for citizens worth over $100 million in an attempt to avoid police, education, and mental health service cuts. “The state and the nation has to respond to this inequity beyond human imagination,” Inslee said. “We cannot survive as a healthy, robust community ... while we have this level of poverty and want amidst this enormous wealth.” But what the state of Washington actually couldn’t survive was twelve years of Jay Inslee, who presided over the doubling of the state budget, a 25% increase in state employees, a 66% hiring spree of non-teacher school staff, and, of course, Antifa’s terroristic annexation of a Seattle neighborhood in 2020. Call me crazy, but I don’t think we need communism in order to afford a police department. We actually just need fewer communists in government.

Yesterday, my mild-mannered, CNN-watching, Economist-reading, 68-yr-old Canadian dad (who I love very much) texted “Trudeau has got to go” to the family group chat — a critical black swan event suggesting Justin Trudeau’s colorful reign over Canada is almost at an end. He was the golden boy of milquetoast 2010s lib policy (drugs, deficits, gender/climate/etc. equity), but this week, after 9 long years, party members and state-funded media mutinied. First, his finance minister dropped her resignation letter hours before a major budget update, then 24+ MPs called on him to step down. Now, he’s facing the most aggressive public outcry since the trucker rally. Even spectres of the old blackface incident return to haunt him: one of his cabinet ministers just got caught pretending to be native. It’s Macbeth Act III, and the only domino left is his socialist party ally, who can trigger an election anytime. Tick tock, Trudeau.

The odds that Trump privatizes the USPS in his first 100 days? Polymarket says 7%, and we are here to tell you, folks, this is where the conservative coalition splits. See, the USPS debate exposes the fault line that is “retvrn” Republicanism — think Amtrak, raw milk, national parks, all things trapped in the tension between modernist ambition and rugged Americana nostalgia. The USPS isn’t just a mail service… it’s an ideal. The hum of sorting machines, the small white truck winding through snow, the mailman greeting you with a warm smile. It’s imperfect, yes, but undeniably ours — a quiet reassurance that some things still connect us. When it comes to gutting these classic American federal services, don’t be surprised to find many who, much like FDR, won’t stand for it (no pun intended). And don’t be surprised to find all the odds you’re looking for over on Polymarket.

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