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Donald Trump’s own new government AI chatbot was supposed to make Washington work better.

Instead, it started giving Americans answers that created a very different problem for the man who proudly introduced it.

Then there’s JD Vance asking Americans to give Republicans another chance, while Mike Johnson explains what that next chance would actually look like.

Those two messages sitting next to each other are something to behold.

And if that isn’t enough, Arizona Congressman Eli Crane has apparently decided that what America really needs right now is a fresh dose of Cold War paranoia.

Socialists. Communists. Democrats. The language may sound like it was pulled from a campaign ad made in 1954, but Crane is using it right now, and the reason why is worth examining.

Some of this would be funny if the stakes weren’t so damn serious.

This is A World Gone Mad, where I take apart the bullshit, follow the facts wherever they lead, and try to figure out just how much crazier the world can possibly get.

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Nine days away from the microphone. You’d think that might calm me down, clear my head, maybe even give me a little perspective.
Yeah. That didn’t happen.

I came back to a United States Congress heading for the exits, Mike Johnson and Thomas Massie battling over Pete Hegseth and the Iran war, and an announcement about American weapons in space that sounds like somebody pitched it in a science-fiction writers’ room.

Then there’s Canada, Donald Trump, the European Union and a relationship with America that suddenly looks very different when you step back and see where things may be heading.

Some of this would’ve sounded ridiculous a few years ago. Now it barely survives a news cycle before something even more unbelievable comes along.

At some point, you have to wonder whether we’re becoming so accustomed to the absurd that we’ve stopped recognizing it.

I spent nine days watching, reading, yelling at the television and wondering whether anybody else was seeing what I was seeing.

Now I’m back behind the microphone. Congress. Iran. Weapons in space. Canada and the EU. There was apparently a lot waiting for me, and nine days wasn’t nearly long enough to make me any less pissed off.

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What happens when we hand kids the most powerful intellectual shortcut ever invented? New York City is putting the brakes on generative AI for hundreds of thousands of younger students, and it raises a much bigger question: Are we teaching kids how to use AI, or teaching them they don’t need to think anymore?

Then there’s the strange case of the disappearing American. We used to go to banks, pharmacies, grocery stores, restaurants and dozens of other places where we actually encountered other human beings. Now almost everything comes to us. It’s incredibly convenient. So why are we surprised that people increasingly feel disconnected from one another?

And then science enters the room and completely loses its fucking mind.

Cockroach milk. One thousand pairs of underwear buried around the world. Scientists deliberately stepping on venomous snakes. The physics of blowing your nose. Splash-free urinals. Mosquitoes being recruited for microscopic 3D printing. Every one of these is real scientific research, and somehow the explanations may be even better than the headlines.

Somewhere between kids outsourcing their homework, Americans outsourcing the need to leave the house, and scientists discovering that apparently we haven’t fully exploited the nutritional potential of cockroaches, you begin to realize how spectacularly strange ordinary life has become.

This is definitely A World Gone Mad.

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