
1488: Torture Telephone
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned Representative Rashida Tlaib that halting fossil fuel investments would be the road to hell for America during a contentious House Committee on Financial Services hearing. Tlaib, who repeatedly mispronounced the word Celsius while citing climate targets, called for Chase customers to close their accounts in retaliation. The exchange highlights the growing friction between Wall Street and progressive lawmakers over net-zero mandates. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink joined Bill Gates and the Clinton Global Initiative to propose a trillion-dollar annual overhaul of IMF and World Bank charters to fund African decarbonization. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden triggered a market sell-off for vaccine makers like Pfizer and Moderna after declaring the pandemic over on 60 Minutes. This declaration stands in contrast to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky’s testimony regarding border closures and Dr. Paul Offit’s dissent on the FDA vaccine advisory committee over bivalent booster data derived from mouse studies. In Minnesota, federal prosecutors indicted 47 individuals from the nonprofit Feeding Our Future for allegedly embezzling $250 million in COVID relief funds to purchase luxury real estate and cars. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Leslie Dach celebrated the Inflation Reduction Act as a victory over pharmaceutical lobbyists while a Tesla-powered PG&E battery facility in Moss Landing caught fire, forcing the closure of Highway 1. The episode also features a look at the new Space Force anthem Semper Super and a breakdown of the Inca-Pinque reading trick used to humiliate students.



















