Pete Hegseth's Secretary of War approval rating just dropped to minus 25 points — nearly three times as unpopular as when the Iran war started — and his response was to roll out new military health rules that track troops' morning erections. Meanwhile, a Republican lawmaker forced an impeachment vote against him, and Speaker Mike Johnson's solution was to send everyone home for two months instead of holding it. Congress, quite literally, went limp.

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