Jay Murray (JZ DeLorean)

🚨 LMFAO HOLY CRAP! President Trump just dropped an INSANE one-liner in front of the Japanese PM in the Oval REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? TRUMP: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why did you not tell me about PEARL HARBOR!? Right?" 🤣🔥

This Joe Kent saga is interesting to me. Admittedly, I didn’t learn who he was until Tuesday as I don’t really follow MAGA-World as closely as I probably should, and his name never gets mentioned on the Natsec pods I follow. Since Feb 28th several conservative leaning journalists based in and around DC have come theorized openly that a member of the “Restrainer-Right” faction in the administration had been leaking information to mainstream, ostensibly liberal, news outlets proliferating anti-Israel-pro-Iran sentiment. Kent’s resignation, and the subsequent revelation he has been under the FBI’s eye as a suspected leaker is interesting, but not at all that compelling. Nobody will remember his name in three months. What did catch my eye was Kent’s wife, whom he married in 2023. A journalist in her own right, she’s so far left she makes Madam Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib look like a country club Republican. Boomer-Lib conventional wisdom is that right-wing conservative men heavily influenced their wives to vote or believe in certain ways. Perhaps that was true in a bygone era, but I’ve seen zero evidence of it in my lifetime. I tend to believe it was an urban myth used as a bulwark by activists in the 1970’s to combat the rise of conservative women such as the Jean Kilpatrick’s and Phyllis Schafly’s of the nation. What I have seen, virtually everywhere, is the inverse of that myth. The most politically intense and highest propensity voter demographic in the nation is white college educated suburban women. The turbo-feminized power of that voter block holds considerable influence within the institutional confines of polite society to the degree that I’ve watched men I know learn how to manage such a landscape. Dudes looking both ways making sure it’s safe to drop a “problematic” political take to a buddy at a Stevenson football game. The jokes men tell about “paying” for their Trump vote. The sarcastic gc texts about avoiding the in-house “HR”. The GenX/Millennial “Wife-Guy” memes we send to normies when they behave like betacucks. All of this to say, Joe Kent is a living breathing example of a politically active Right Winger, ostensibly perceived as a member of the lunatic Groyper Right – whatever the fuck that is – who achieved a certain commanding height within the MAGA-GOP, only to marry a left wing radical and get buck-broken seemingly overnight. What a time to be alive.