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February 24th, 2026: The State Of The Union, A Snowball Fight And My Subway Ride · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by Bodega Sandwiches, the most delicious,
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  filling, inexpensive meal you'll ever have.
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  So my first year of the second term, which should have been my third term,
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  Trump and his State of the Union last night.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and today is February 25th, 2026.
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  In real news, Catherine Hartley Short, the 42-year-old daughter of Martin Short,
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  died this week in LA in what looks like suicide.
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  She wasn't in Hollywood. She was a social worker.
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  She was the person who helps other people through their worst days when she
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  was fighting something herself.
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  This is just a reminder that having a famous, successful, talented,
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  and rich dad doesn't mean anything.
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  Okay, well, it means some things, but you get my drift.
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  New York got its first real blizzard this week, in a decade,
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  and naturally the city said, let's have a snowball fight.
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  A massive snowball fight got organized in Washington Square Park on Monday,
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  and everyone showed up super excited and started throwing snow.
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  The police came in because the world is in such high alert these days.
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  Somebody called them since a lot of people were just throwing things at each other.
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  Snowballs started hitting officers, and two got minor injuries.
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  Police commissioner Jessica Tish calls it criminal, and Mom Donnie watched the
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  same videos and was like, it just looks like a snowball fight.
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  The internet immediately does what the internet does best, and created memes faster than anything.
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  Now politicians are arguing over whether this was assault or just seasonal enthusiasm.
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  Meanwhile, every other New Yorker is just thinking, we just survived a blizzard.
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  What else are we supposed to do?
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  It's Gen Z versus the New York city government.
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  And honestly, if this is the biggest crisis of the week, I think we're doing pretty okay.
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  The State of the Union was last night, if you care, and it was less State of
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  the Union and more State of Donald.
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  I mean, were we expecting anything less? So this is everything I watched before
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  I went to bed last night and or before I had to turn off the TV because I was
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  getting sick and could not bear watching anymore.
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  So Trump opened in full victory lap mode. The economy is incredible.
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  Inflation is basically cured. Eggs are down. Therefore, we are thriving.
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  Never mind that overall food prices are still up year over year and beef is
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  still 15% more expensive. But sure, eggs came down from $15 a few months ago.
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  Then we move to foreign policy, where he claimed he ended eight wars.
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  Eight. That would be impressive if most of them had actually ended.
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  Some had ceasefires that collapsed. Some were in limited clashes. Some resumed fighting.
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  Ukraine is still very much at war despite his previous promise to end it in 24 hours.
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  We are well past 24 hours.
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  He talked about Iran. He said that they will never get a nuclear weapon.
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  He celebrated strikes on their nuclear facilities. He mentioned diplomacy.
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  He did not explain what the end goal is. Is it regime change?
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  Containment? Deal? A timeout?
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  We still don't know, and chances are, he doesn't know either.
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  Immigration was peak Trump. He spotlighted families of crime victims and then
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  turned to Democrats and asked why they weren't standing up clapping.
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  Meanwhile, the data shows a large share of people being detained or deported
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  have no violent criminal convictions, but the messaging stays focused on the criminals.
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  He promised to always protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid,
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  which sounds comforting but isn't when the Times flags that as false.
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  He just reminds me of one of those guys who promises you everything and he's
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  going to be the best guy you could ever meet and you want to believe that it's
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  true, but you know and know for a fact that he's not capable of doing so.
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  There were small cracks in the Democratic response during all this.
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  Most stayed seated during his
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  Venezuela remarks, but a couple Hispanic Democrats stood and applauded.
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  So it wasn't total party unity, just a lot of side eye.
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  So the overall vibe during all this was a lot of strength and credit taking and very little nuance.
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  A lot of we-solved-it energy for things that are still actively happening.
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  So that's what I got from all of that. I can't speak for anything that he said after 11 p.m.
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  And just a reminder that he started talking at
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  9 p.m and these things aren't supposed to go on for more than
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  like an hour but what else do
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  we expect from this guy in Lindsay life so last night I was on my way home from
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  an open mic and my phone was about to die go figure so for the first time I
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  like actually looked up from not looking at my phone on a subway and I was standing
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  and I saw all some really weird things happening.
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  So I'm standing in the middle of the subway and I'm like holding onto the pole
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  and I look over to my left and there's this guy looking at his phone and it
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  looks like just like a thing, an aquarium.
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  And he's just like staring at it and he's bumping his head. And I'm like,
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  well, okay, I must be missing something here.
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  And I'm looking at the aquarium And the photo of this tank and there's nothing in the tank.
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  And I'm like, I must be missing something.
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  This guy is just bobbing his head. And this goes on for like at least one whole subway stop.
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  And I'm on an express train. So this is happening for more than three minutes.
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  So at the next stop, I was like, I should probably leave. And then I'm like,
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  wait, I want to see what he's actually staring at.
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  So I continue looking for another few minutes.
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  Then finally, he like swipes it away and it shows that he was literally just
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  staring at a photo of an empty fish tank.
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  And I was so confused that I look over to my right and I kid you not,
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  when I look over to my right,
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  there's just a girl watching a video of a stripper dancing on a pole and I look
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  up and there's this little kid. He wasn't little.
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  He was definitely like in his 20s or in his teens
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  I sound so old that he was whatever a
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  kid and he's just like totally leaned
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  over in his seat like watching this girl's phone and she's
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  just scrolling through her videos of just like maybe I guess it was her or her
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  friend or a stripper just dancing so that's what I get for not keeping my head
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  down staring at my phone on the subway things I'm thinking about well definitely that.
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  But do people actually buy the churros on the subway? And if so, are they good?
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  Because I've always wanted to try one.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Don't put pepper on your tofu. Ew.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date,
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  email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com. Thanks so much for listening.
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  Talk to you guys tomorrow.