Russell Vought, one of the architects of Project 2025, also happens to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget. And he is trying to make it sound like it's totally okay to spend obscene amounts of everyday Americans’ money to simply change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Exactly how much, you’re wondering? Esquire columnist Charles P. Pierce has the scoop below. —Chris Hatler, deputy editor
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Nothing like spending a prodigious amount of government dollars just to make Pete Hegseth feel tingly.
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Did you know that changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War cost us all $125 million? Well, the Congressional Budget Office would like you to know that. And Russell Vought, the jumped-up sublevel bureaucrat hired by the administration in order to make lives miserable as the director of the budget, would like you to know how much sense that makes.
Vought appeared before a House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. He was at his smarmiest, which is very smarmy indeed. And Representative Glenn Ivey (D-Maryland) asked Vought about what would appear to the conscious mind to be a prodigious waste of money just to make Pete Hegseth feel tingly.
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From a young age, I was driven to masturbate frequently. Once I found porn, I fell in love. It was magazines at first, then pictures and videos. Porn was evolving alongside technology, and I happily ate it up.
My family is super religious, so I was very sexually repressed as a teen. Porn has always been something I had to hide. But I knew my friends in high school were watching porn and jacking off because we would share porn clips and DVDs. We’d never talk about masturbating to porn, though. That was too awkward.
I felt isolated in my porn watching. Then, in 2020, during Covid, I found the gooner community on Reddit. I was 30. I’d never heard the term before. But when I heard the word, I was like, “Oh yeah, that’s me. I’m a gooner.”
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Looking for a potion that will keep you going from the darty to the rave? You don’t need magic—though the espresso bomb martini might make you feel like you’re under a spell.
Touted as a hangover cure, the original espresso bomb went viral due to its recipe’s inventive simplicity. Espresso boosts energy, salt delivers electrolytes, and water, well, you can never drink enough when you’re hungover. However, when I see a drink go viral, all I can think about is: How good would that be if it had alcohol?
Turns out, I’m not alone. Diego Osorio, founder of premium tequila brand Lobos 1707, shares the same thought. “I knew that Lobos would taste great with coffee in this drink,” Osorio says.
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