Episode 27: Burping Governors & Burning Flags

Today on Ben Kissel Politics, we cover the news cycle’s perfect trifecta of absurdity.🎤 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey gave a press conference that went off script—thanks to a rogue burp into the microphone. Call it southern charm, call it indigestion, call it the most relatable thing a politician has done all year.🇺🇸 Meanwhile, Donald Trump is promising that burning an American flag will mean a mandatory one-year prison sentence. Because nothing says freedom quite like locking someone up for using it.💻 And across the country, data centers keep multiplying like political scandals—draining power, eating resources, and making neighbors wonder if cloud computing is really worth the blackout risk.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.