The Wednesday Morning Briefing

Forget the Twilight Zone; we're in the Trump Zone now.

• So just when did Christopher Buckley get control of the script for the second season of the Trump Show?

• Forget Trump’s insults to Canada: Our worst offense against Canadian pride is being delivered by Yale University. Jason Stanley is moving to Canada! He says, “the decision was entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” He wants to “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship.”

Never heard of Jason Stanley? Consider yourself lucky, since he thinks he’s one of the most important philosophers of our age, certain to be read 200 years from now. (Seriously, he does think this.) And don’t you dare forget he’s the Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy, at least until the moving van is packed up. This is the most delightful 1:30 video you’ll ever see:

If Canada considers this an act of war I won’t blame them.

Chaser: What will the former Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale University do when Canada becomes the 51st state? Greenland perhaps? Oh, wait. . .

P.S. I encourage other mediocre leftist faculty to emulate Stanley’s example.

• The whole business about the Signal chat is pure DC theater and fake outrage, but it’s the first serious misstep by the Trump Administration that the Dems can exploit. As I said yesterday, this is overblown. That said, this is funny:

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Oh, and while we’re on it, this is The Atlantic:

• Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?

Hat tip: Mark Perry

• Who did this?

• Tattoo this on the rear end of every climatista:

• Meme of the day: