Does this chair make my butt look big? Viktor Orbán lost the Hungarian presidency in a landslide. The winner, Peter Magyar, told the Orbán toadies to resign within a few hours of his win.

Looks like a good model to hold up to elected Democrats. Kash Patel, to nobody’s surprise, was outed as an out of control drunk by The Atlantic. Donald Trump presented himself as Jesus Christ, which I thought the conventional wisdom took as absolute proof that a person had lost whatever wits they may have had, but I guess Trump is still the media’s special boy.

And JD Vance supported the myth of Silicon Valley expertism on everything by schooling the Pope in just war theory and the limits of theology. There is not an emoji for my eyeroll. Pete Hegseth is spouting variants on “Kill them all, God will know his own” in his prayers for a bloody and terrible victory.

I’m not sure he’s even got a grasp on just war theory. Yes, let’s impeach the eater of raccoon penises. CALL YOUR HOUSE REP AND TELL THEM TO CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES.

NOW!— Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T17:45:43.919Z If you want to maintain your sanity, it is probably best to assume that the Strait of Hormuz is closed until there is a lot more work to come to a conclusion of the war. The trouble is that every day it is closed means a deeper recession and more harm to everyone except those who are making bank on Trump’s tweets. Trump has no idea of how to get out of this one and is trying his usual tactic of bullshitting his way through.

But he has empowered the Iranians to call his bullshit. The markets like the bullshit, though. There’s a NYT op-ed this morning that argues that the participants in the markets think they’ll be bailed out, although the national debt is pretty much maxxed out, and we have the incipient AI crash to think about too.

In the best case, we’ll be seeing effects later, maybe around midsummer, although obviously gas prices have started to respond. That’s baked in. It will be good timing to convince people to vote against Republicans, so there’s that.

In the meantime, somebody’s making a bunch of money on the back and forth. Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, wonders why her former newspaper can’t say that Trump is losing it. Peter Baker came close in one of his columns this week, but it’s pretty much business as usual over there.

Trump has managed to convince most of us that he cannot be believed on anything. (Yes, it took some longer than others to get there.) The media seem to be slowly catching up. A motion for impeachment was introduced in the House, and a bill for a committee to investigate whether Trump is losing it in the Senate, I think. I am not able to keep fully informed on everything.

Trump’s delusional vanity prevents him from doing anything constructive to end his war on Iran, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard now feel that they have the upper hand. It’s hard to see how this ends, although I could probably suggest a path that neither is likely to follow. Orbán shows us that authoritarians can be beaten.

He left enough of the Hungarian voting system in place, and ours has shown to be pretty robust against Trump’s attacks. But if we could remove him before then (like tomorrow), that would be better. Microsoft is backing off on Copilot?

Follow the court-watchers for the details of the lawsuits. Chris Geidner (LawDork, Bluesky), Roger Parloff (Lawfare, Bluesky), and the Just Security tracker. Let’s stay away from hypotheticals, as usual.

Post your pets. Zooey had two teeth extracted on Monday and then came home and tried to eat kibble right away. He was down for a bit on Tuesday, but he’s pretty much back to normal now except for a slightly tender mouth. 143 more weeks to go.

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