Overnight News: If you laughed when Kyle Rittenhouse said, “We all know how the FBI works” – the joke is on all of us.

Much of my speech is ironical. I am a poet, to begin with, and I hate to bore my own ears. And I am a Swann boy, raised into a rapid-fire verbal wit: Homophones, definition-swaps, non sequiturs – work it and work with it fast or be swept away in the vortex. And: I am Loki from my father, my mother, her father, her brother – and from my own delight in trickery.

Accordingly, to speak with me is kind of a shit test: I can tell right away if you are actually listening to me, since you won’t get the jokes if you’re not. The good news is, if you are listening, I know you will be listening when we get to the parts of the conversation that are not deliberately inverted for comic effect. But before even that, there is simply this: People who are awake enough to laugh at the world are awake.

Last night on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Kyle Rittenhouse issued an unintentionally-comic national shit test: “We all know how the FBI works.” He wasn’t being ironical, alas, but everyone who laughed knows he is telling the truth.

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