{"id":118447,"date":"2025-08-29T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118447\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:24:07","slug":"tgif-all-american-by-will-rahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118447\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF: All American – by Will Rahn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, and welcome to TGIF. I\u2019m Will Rahn, filling in for Nellie Bowles one last time while she raises money to replace the Orgy Dome at Burning Man. Joining me as always are the brilliant Sean Fischer and Suzy Weiss. I\u2019ve told Sean he can write more jokes than usual this week. He can be reached at Sean@TheFP.com<\/a> if anything upsets you. Compliments and praise for this edition of TGIF can be sent to Letters@TheFP.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also: For our New York City dwellers, join Coleman Hughes and Steven Pinker for a live taping of Conversations with Coleman at the Comedy Cellar in a few weeks. Get your tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2192 No more Mr. Nice Democrat: Nate Silver, the left-leaning data guru and influential pundit, made a perplexing argument<\/a> this week. And by \u201cperplexing,\u201d I mean \u201cuncharacteristically dumb.\u201d It came via a post praising California governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s aggressive redistricting effort, which Silver said \u201cmarks the end of a decade-plus of a \u2018when they go low, we go high<\/a>\u2019 attitude among Democratic leaders.\u201d He says Democrats \u201cperhaps for a change, [are] in a mood to fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but what are we talking about here? I don\u2019t remember the Democrats exactly rolling over when Donald Trump first won the White House. In fact, if memory serves, they spent most of his first term insisting he was a Russian asset. That line of attack seems pretty stupid now, but at the time\u2014when Vladimir Putin\u2019s meme brigade was out in force across social media\u2014it also seemed pretty stupid.<\/p>\n

Recall Joe Biden\u2019s interregnum presidency, in which he called<\/a> anodyne changes to Georgia\u2019s voting laws \u201cJim Crow on steroids.\u201d His allies were quick to denounce anything Republicans did as authoritarian, racist, fascist, a threat to our democracy, and on and on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello, and welcome to TGIF. I\u2019m Will Rahn, filling in for Nellie Bowles one last time while she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-118447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}