Butler is MIA, so Vane and Crocus formed a skeleton crew to navigate through the late May news cycle. They start by reflecting on how America is really in its boss baby era and then Vane repeatedly digresses off about the fall of the Soviet Union and how the DNC is like a Jerry-tocracy, or something along those lines. They also can’t help but mix up their “Bernie would have won” and “weekend at Bernie’s” metaphors.

Vane also repeatedly confuses Jerry Nadler and Jerry Connolly, but he can probably be forgiven for the confusion since the only difference is that one recently died and the other pooped himself in public, which kind of also proves the point that congress is really old.

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Links to sources listed below:

In Case You Missed It. . . | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities – (05:45) House spending bill chart showing tax breaks offset by welfare cuts

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/congress-war-on-math/ – (07:15) CAP article showing Congress’ war on math

https://apple.news/AsCN_Fx52Tj-rg7zUSWzYMA – (29:35) article which companies have already announced price increases due to tariffs

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/moodys-downgrades-us-aa1-rating-2025-05-16/ (30:00) Moody’s downgrades pristine US credit rating