I am reading & laughing at many of your group chat joke posts, but has anyone else gone ice-cold with terror about how our national security is now a global punchline & we have no one protecting us against the world's bad actors, who can apparently just drunk-sext Pete Hegseth whenevs?
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or, I suppose, we could do both
If John Le Carre turned this in as a draft his publisher would have strangled him.
... and when I used to work in DOJ, when leading a safety brief or talking tactics, I'd often say, "If at some point during the [warrant, op, whatev] you feel like you're in a movie, things have gone way fucking wrong."
And here we are.
I'm still gonna make jokes about it.
I'm a comedy writer. It's how we process trauma.
Both responses are valid.