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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge. Here we are again! Wish we weren’t.

This was an awful week. The jokes begin in the third entry, if you want to skip ahead, and they cover the very funny subject matter of the president’s relationship with a deceased sex criminal. Then the gags really get going when we talk about the tensest state of affairs between Russia and NATO since the Cold War. Can’t get enough? How about a conflict of interest at the Federal Reserve? Finally, everyone’s comfort food: relitigating Democrats’ calamitous performance in the 2024 election.

Thank you all for reading.

1. Charlie Kirk

A national horror.

The assassi

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