This week: a 10-year-old’s electric vehicle essay turns into a national story, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx fires back, and Fingers wonders why adults keep using kids as political props. Then, the Senate gets very concerned about FBI Director Kash Patel’s alleged drinking, because apparently Washington, D.C. has discovered moral standards and would like everyone to pretend that’s normal.

Plus: taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements on Capitol Hill, why “taxation is theft” hits a little harder when Congress is paying for its own bad behavior, and a sample of The Snark Factor 3 in 3 — three stories, three minutes, every weekday at FingersMalloy.com.

Fingers also talks Memorial Day weekend, grilling, ribs, brisket, charcoal, and taking time to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

They kick things off with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award going to Jerome Powell and “the people of the Twin Cities,” which leads to a sharp conversation about immigration enforcement, media narratives, political branding, and how the word courage now gets stretched so far it could snap. From there, they get into Trump’s joke about Japan and Pearl Harbor, Congress debating a bill tied to harming law enforcement animals, Denmark allegedly preparing for a possible U.S. move on Greenland, and why the federal government needs to get its grubby lizard fingers out of the student loan business.

Then the show takes a turn from political absurdity to modern-life dread. Fingers and Sarah dig into the alarming rise in death rates among Gen X and elder millennials, which spins into a conversation about colorectal cancer, colonoscopies, processed food, fast food, stress, and whether a generation raised on pizza rolls and “just keep moving” is finally paying the bill. After that, they tackle a new experimental keto pill that promises the effects of dieting without giving up carbs, an AI-generated Val Kilmer appearing posthumously in a new film, and Tinder wanting deeper access to users’ photo libraries to build more “authentic” matches. In other words: health anxiety, artificial people, privacy collapse, and the future getting dumber by the minute.

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