Victor Davis Hanson.

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

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One might think that the worst of online leftism can be found on Twitter, but you’d be wrong. Instagram is home to a plethora of sharable infographics that serve to propagate the woke orthodoxy to as many young minds as possible. Specifically, the account Impact has some of the most hilariously bad takes in the world of lefty infographic drivel.

Seven out of 10 people aged 18-29 use Instagram, and the platform is relatively on par with Twitter in serving as a news source, according to Pew Research Center. Instagram is a broad, direct avenue for ideas to be disseminated to the youth.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Coordination among the authorities and the mainstream media operatives is so blatant one might conclude is so blatant as to be laughable. We miss Rush Limbaugh’s recurring demonstration of the phenomenon. The FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence is only the latest in a long line of examples. Word came down that what was once a “raid” is now a “search.”

The conformity of the talking heads is mind-boggling. The element of high-mindedness they add to their conformity is comical. Those falling into line can’t help but add a large, large dose of self-love to their humiliating compliance.

ZMan looks at the Deep State.

The Russian collusion hoax is a good entry point in understanding the appeal of the deep state concept. Most of the people who hated Trump could not tell you why they hated him so much. The deep state concept filled that whole. Trump was in league with those dark forces that manipulate the world. On the other hand, Trump supporters could rely on the deep state to explain why the system attacked Trump. Both sides of the Trump story could sense the Cancer Man in the room.

John Derbyshire famously said, “The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; we want to get even with that s.o.b. who insulted us at the last tribal council. For most people, wanting to know the cold truth about the world is way, way down the list.” From that it should be easy to see why the deep state is a popular villain.

Another reason people like the idea of secret actors controlling events is that it is easier to hate a person than a process. Anyone who has worked with big complex systems knows the frustration of not having someone to blame. The people are all doing the right thing, both morally and technically, yet the results are wrong. There is no one to blame but the system and the system is the result of all of those correct and well-intended actions by the people involved.

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Said family apparently included some fully-indoctrinated Wokerati. Perversion is evidendly the New Normal.

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He looks to be in good shape for 90 years old. I hope I look that good at that age.

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Enough politics! Let’s geek out….

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Electric vehicles present a real opportunity to take a step towards better designed, more reliable, and sustainable transport. Instead, electric cars have become nightmarishly complex gadgets whose limited lifespans will make them less sustainable than a diesel pickuptruck running on whale oil.

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The World Economic Forum, assisted by food researchers in academia, wants you to believe that meat is unhealthy compared to soy, tofu, insect and fungus protein diets. Statistical workings of food research are presented here to show this is not true. Food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) are used in studies of population cohorts. Years later, this information together with health outcome observations are combined in statistical analyses. These analyses easily lead to over 20,000 food?disease associations tested in a typical FFQ study – called multiple testing. Researchers can then search thru and select and only report the results they want, but many of these can be false. Red meat is not unhealthy. It is belief of deceptive statistical practices and false claims from academic food researchers that are unhealthy.

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The pandemic was supposed to ease high housing prices in coastal superstar cities. Instead, it spread them nationwide.

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A new Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad aimed at wooing Latinos says Democrats “strengthened Arizona by investing in small businesses.” The business to which the ad subsequently cuts is almost certainly not in Arizona, or even America—its prices are listed in euros.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Even before the hapless Biden Administration decided to make a yuuuge in-kind contribution to the Trump 2024 campaign by raiding his Florida home in search of . . . classified documents?!(yeah, right), everything I have been hearing from people who have spoken with Trump or been close to Trumpworld all say the same thing: he’s running again.

Perhaps it is only a coincidence, but the day after the raid, Trump released this very powerful video about “A Nation in Decline,” which I heard John Podhoretz (no Trump fan) say is the most effective short piece of political communication since Reagan in 1979-80. It’s just three minutes long, and worth watching. See if you notice what’s not said in this spot.

Ann Coulter.

Let’s hope Merrick Garland’s search of Mar-a-Lago is based on more evidence than his indictment of the Louisville, Kentucky, police officers involved in the raid on Breonna Taylor’s house.

That passive construction I just used — “involved in the raid on,” instead of “who raided” — is not sloppy writing: It’s the facts. The officers who actually shot Taylor have not been charged, apparently on the flimsy grounds that they were being shot at when they fired.

Instead, our lunatic attorney general has indicted officers who prepared the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search Taylor’s home. In the words of the indictment, the affidavit “contained information that was false, misleading and out-of-date … and the officers lacked probable cause for the search.”

I am thankful that we didn’t have to suffer him being a Supreme Court Justice.

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It’s not good.

For decades, schoolchildren across America have taken field trips to presidential homes such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and James Madison’s Montpelier. Students and adults alike have learned about the lives and legacies of the men who crafted our founding documents and stood for freedom at the risk of their own lives.

But today, visitors to Monticello and Montpelier will discover that a new narrative has seeped into the grounds of these historic sites in Virginia.

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Amazon has announced the retirement of its proprietary MOBI file format for eBooks, and a transition to the EPUB format for use on Kindle devices and apps. As of August 2022, you will no longer be able to send the MOBI file format to Kindles or the Kindle app using the Send to Kindle service. The MOBI file format no longer supports the newest document features, while the EPUB format is updated and accepted by Kindle devices.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is purporting to investigate Donald Trump’s businesses. James is obsessed with Trump, and her supposed investigation is an obvious piece of political grandstanding. She scheduled Trump for a deposition today. In Trump’s eyes, the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid was the last straw, and he announced today that he is invoking the Fifth Amendment and has declined to submit to a deposition.

Trump released a statement that is lengthy, but worth reading in its entirety:

When the government is doing a witch-hunt, anything you say can land you in jail, as Martha Stewart found out.

Don Lemon rejects ‘narrative’ that CNN is moving toward political center

Don Lemon rejects ‘narrative’ new CNN boss wants to shift network to political center with Charlamagne Tha God

Pro-Antifa California teacher given 3 years’ salary to resign: report

Two House Democrats cut ads for Liz Cheney in Wyoming (The Hill)

Kinzinger allies unveil new push to recruit ‘pro-democracy’ candidates (The Hill) On the road to becoming a Democrat in name as well as in nature.

Sen. Wyden Proposes Big Tax Hike on Oil Companies Making More Than $1B  Democrats never see a Deep Pocket without feeling a compulsion to pick it.

GOP Rep. Beutler, Who Voted to Impeach Trump, Concedes Primary Loss  Karma is a bitch.

The Chickens Of ‘Woke’ Are Coming Home To Roost On Business Heads

Michels Wins Wisconsin GOP Gov. Primary; Trump’s Endorsements Sweep 6-0

Texas Still Busing Migrants to NYC Despite Mayor’s Threat  Hey, enough New Yorkers are moving to Texas that it’s only right we balanced things out.

Every Single Senate Democrat Just Voted Against Defining Pregnancy As A Biologically Female Process

Twitter Suspends Journalist Paul Sperry After FBI Trump-Raid Tweets

How Vulnerable Dems Used Legislative Gymnastics To Pretend They Were Against New Taxes

Former FBI Agent Says Agency’s Political Bias Started Under Mueller

Buffoonery: Paul Krugman Suggests Dems May ‘Save’ Civilization with Insane Inflation Bill  If Princeton is actually paying him to teach economics, they ought to demand a refund.

Twitter Suspends Russian Foreign Ministry Account For COVID Origins Theory

Biden: No Guns for Weed Smokers

Trump uses FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home to solicit campaign donations (Reuters) The swine! (This is news?)

FBI would not let Trump attorneys in rooms as agents raided Mar-a-Lago, warrant focused on NARA: source

How the Republican Party came to embrace conspiracy theories and denialism (NPR)

Why the Fulton County Grand Jury Isn’t Going to Indict Trump (Daily Beast)

Eli Lilly assails Indiana antiabortion law — after plying its supporters with campaign funds (L.A.Times)

Another reason not to work in Indiana (Chicago Sun-Times) Fine, stay in high-crime high-tax Illinois.

Public opinion relatively unchanged after Jan. 6 hearings: poll (The Hill) The Stalinist show-trial didn’t work–hence the raid on Trump’s home.

Ex-Trump aide shares story about Trump mishandling classified documents (CNN)

New hotline to report white supremacist activity has received more than 2 dozen calls (CBS Boston) Can’t have a witch-hunt without witches!

Grisham denies she was source of Haberman’s White House toilet photos (The Hill) Can’t have a War on Trump without toilet photos.

4 Key Questions After FBI Raids Trump’s Home

MSNBC Fearmongers: Mar-a-Lago Raid Will Trigger Terrorism Like OK City Bombing  Certainly that’s what the Left would do.

GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Agents Seized His Cellphone

The Guardian Accuses Republicans Of ‘Weaponising’ Trump-Raid  Gee, I think the FBI already did that.

FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security chief says (Michael Isikoff)

Ruhle Demands You Stop Calling The FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a Raid!

Kevin McCarthy Promises a Republican Congress Will Obstruct Justice (The NationO Well, no, that’s just the Narrative spin. What he said was that the Republicans will start playing hardball, and that’s what the Deep State fears most.

“The Whole Enchilada”: Pundits Wrongly Claim Trump Raid Could Disqualify Him From Future Office

‘It’s Christmas!’ Colbert Celebrates ‘Most Beautiful’ Mar-a-Lago Raid

Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where (Newsweek) And if they had actually found anything significant, we would know it by now; it would have been leaked to somebody in the Narrative Media.

Facebook bans hate speech but still makes money from white supremacists (Washington Post)

Eric Trump tells DailyMail.com what REALLY happened in FBI raid: President’s son says 30 agents REFUSED to hand over warrant, kicked lawyer off property, rifled through clothes – and how Mar-a-Lago staff refused to turn off security cameras

Trump and Republicans Are Already Trying to Cash in on the Mar-a-Lago Raid (Rolling Stone) This is news?

FBI agents, Garland and Wray see increased death threats after Trump Mar-a-Lago raid: sources  And rightly so.

Josh Hawley, senator-as-symptom of a broken news business (Washington Post) George Will goes full RINO and joins the witch-hunt.

Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge  (Vice) Welcome to our world. Karma is a bitch.

Does Ukraine Have A Stash Of Domestically Developed Ballistic Missiles?

The people of Belarus want democracy — America must stand with them (The Hill) And get in Yet Another War?

Russian disinformation spreading in new ways despite bans (Associated Press)

Crude oil prices rise as Russia suspends exports to Europe through pipeline

EU Members Back Zelensky’s Call To Ban All Russians From Traveling

Oil Slides As Ukraine Readies Resumption Of Russian Crude Flow To Europe

Zelensky Vows Liberation Of Crimea Following Russian Base ‘Mystery’ Blast

Russia Vowing to Destroy Nuke Plant If Ukraine Retakes

What the Hell Is Happening With Monkeypox? (Rolling Stone) Trying to fine the Narrative.

Three Possible Futures of the Monkeypox Epidemic (Wired ‘Science’)

Head Of The Lancet’s COVID-19 Investigation Is “Convinced” It Came Out Of A Lab  As am I.

Anthony Fauci Booed At Seattle Mariners Game  And rightly so.

17 GOP Govs Urge Biden to Drop International COVID Vaccine Travel Mandate

Landmark US climate bill will do more harm than good, groups say (The Guardian)

California’s cliffs are crumbling into the sea. This map shows the spots where they’re eroding the fastest (S.F. Chronicle)

Many Americans still don’t think climate change is coming for them (CNN) And there’s a reason for that.

Billion Barrel Oil Reserve Discovery Confirmed In Central Wyoming

Panama Canal grapples with climate change threat (BBC)

Trillions of dollars at risk because central banks’ climate models not up to scratch (The Guardian)

Heavy rains close major California tourist attractions (S.F. Gate) How’s that Great Drought coming?

Claim: Reserve Banks Should Hire Climate Scientists

The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action (Wired ‘Science’) Buy the Narrative! Buy the Narrative! Buy the Narrative!

Star Marine Ecologist Committed Misconduct, University Says

Congress Just Passed a Big Climate Bill. No, Not That One. (The Atlantic)

The GOP Is Learning What Black Folks Have Known Forever: The FBI Can Be Corrupt (Newsweek) Women and Minorities Hardest Hit!

A Latina professor who was denied tenure at Harvard is demanding a ‘revolution’ in academia (NBC News)

“The Menace of Nativist Hate Stalks Muslims Even in Sunny Albuquerque.” Oh, Wait, Never Mind …

The Atlantic’s Reviewer Denounces “The Last White Man” as Not Anti-White Enough

Is the Pope Hispanic?

Native Americans Urge Boycott of ‘Tone Deaf’ Pilgrim Museum

Russian Spies Were Behind Black Nationalist Protest Groups

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Boston Bicycle Advocate Visits Amsterdam and Complains Dutch City Planners Focus on Needs of Dutch Cyclists Rather Than on Bike-Hating People of Color

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Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at ETH Zürich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, says his system for converting ambient air into jet-ready kerosene fuel using a solar refinery tower isn’t science fiction. It’s simply thermodynamics.

In a two-year proof-of-concept test atop ETH Zürich’s Machine Laboratory building in Switzerland back in 2019, Steinfeld’s mini solar refinery first showed how the process works, and laid the groundwork to scale the project. Both carbon dioxide (CO2) and water are extracted directly from ambient air and split using solar energy, as Steinfeld describes his work in a new paper, published late last month in the journal Joule. The result is syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which is then processed into kerosene.

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Can’t say that I blame her. I mean, the place is crawling with Democrats.

Washington City Paper reports that the “quintessentially D.C. dispute” dates back to at least 2009, when residents of the wealthy neighborhood successfully pushed back against city plans to build sidewalks for pedestrians in the interest of public safety. Opponents complained that doing so would make the posh neighborhood feel more “urban,” a racist euphemism for “not white.”

Oops. Can’t have that.

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Dunh-dunh-DUNHHH!

Amazon.com Inc.’s $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner company iRobot Corp. is a move by the megacorporation to use Roombas to map the interior of homes. This data type is a digital gold mine for Amazon because if marketers know more about what’s inside, they can easily create tailormade ads.

From a market perspective, Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot is to gain deeper insight into customers’ homes via the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner called “Roomba.”

I can see some guy picking up his Roomba and shouting at it: “Hey, Jeff! Where are my fargin’ granola bars?”

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning….

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Unless scores of witnesses saw Donald Trump stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone, the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago home represents an unforgivable politicization of our justice system. The proof rests in the peaceful, undisturbed abodes of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, James Comey, Stefan Halper, Rodney Joffe and every other partisan the FBI investigated without violating the sanctuary of their homes.

On Monday, news broke that the FBI had raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Conservatives justifiably doubt that probable cause supported the search, but an even broader swath of America should see the Bureau’s raid as an affront to equal justice under the law and the weaponization of the Justice Department against its political enemies.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

What do we know? Law enforcement leaks and confirmation from the Trump side indicate that the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence indicate that the search was focused on presidential records and the possible violation of the Presidential Records Act. In her inside account of the raid, Miranda Devine puts it this way: “The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.”

The scope of the seized documents, however, may have extended well beyond the terms of the warrant. It appears that the FBI scooped up just about every document at the residence. I take it that the authorities are out to get Trump.

That seems a reasonable assumption.

The Attorney General and the FBI are not talking in public. You see, they are involved in an ongoing investigation. Confidentiality is sacred.

“[M]ultiple people familiar with the investigation” nevertheless spoke with the three New York Times reporters who wrote up the raid. Funny how that works.

ZMan scratches his head.

The Clinton-Trump connection is useful for understanding the weirdness of the current age, because the two of them have a lot of connections. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were golf buddies and bonded over their carnal interests. They both hated Hillary Clinton for the same reasons. Both had a thing for shady land deals and the shady people who operate in that space. Their existence is more a symptom of a larger problem than the cause of anything we see today.

Putting the personal comparisons aside, the transition from the old way of doing things to this new way is evident in this comparison. Bill and Hillary Clinton were spectacularly corrupt politicians, but once they were out of office no one thought it was a good idea to keep pursuing their criminal activity. That was the old thinking. The new thinking has the FBI raiding Trump’s home over a petty issue. In that Clinton-Trump window, much has changed and changed unexpectedly.

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President Biden stood outside the White House on Tuesday, celebrating what was arguably the best stretch of his presidency. He smiled. He basked, aviators firmly in place, in the sun. He signed his latest legislative priority into law.

“Decades from now, people are going to look back at this week — with all we passed, and all we moved on — [and say] that we met the moment at this inflection point in history,” Biden said, before signing a bill to boost semiconductor manufacturing.

That may be true. But they also may not remember it tomorrow. Cable news channels covered his remarks, but then quickly returned to the topic they had been covering before the brief Biden interlude: Donald Trump.

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U.S.- German auto parts company ZF has engineered a strut suspension front axle concept that allows the front wheels to turn up to an incredible 80 degrees. The invention is called EasyTurn.

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FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.

The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.

A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.

Appalling.

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German citizens are being told what they will have to do in the coming winter. In addition to freezing and starving, they will be required to get a Corona “booster” every three months.

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Kellen worked for Epstein as his scheduler for years and was referenced in deposition testimony given during the defamation case between Virginia Guiffre and Ghislaine Maxwell. Marcinkova was a more prominent member of Epstein’s entourage as she served as one of the pilots of his infamous aircraft dubbed “The Lolita Express.”

Reinhart assumed his role as Kellen and Marcinkova’s attorney once he set up a criminal defense firm after resigning from his post as a senior prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida as it was negotiating a non-prosecution agreement for Epstein. Reinhart would officially begin his legal representation of Epstein’s accomplices within days of leaving his position as a senior prosecutor within the district.

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We’ve reached the stage of American history where everything we see on the news must first be understood as political theater. In other words, the messaging layer of news now almost always dominates the factual narrative, with the latter often reported so unreliably as to be meaningless anyway. Yesterday’s sensational tale of the FBI raiding the Mar-a-Lago home of former president Donald Trump is no different.

As of now, it’s impossible to say if Trump’s alleged offense was great, small, or in between. But this for sure is a huge story, and its hugeness extends in multiple directions, including the extraordinary political risk inherent in the decision to execute the raid. If it backfires, if underlying this action there isn’t a very substantial there there, the Biden administration just took the world’s most reputable police force and turned it into the American version of the Tonton Macoute on national television. We may be looking at simultaneously the dumbest and most inadvertently destructive political gambit in the recent history of this country.

Over 300 Illegal Haitian Migrants Detained Trying to Sail to U.S.

FBI Director Wray Leaves Senate Hearing Early to Fly on Government Plane to Vacation Spot  Imagine what would have happened had a Trump administration official done such a thing.

New Bill In Congress Hires An IRS Agent To Live In Every Home  (Babylon Bee)

Rick Scott Wants Biden, DOJ, FBI to Explain Raid on Trump’s Estate  He won’t get it.

DHS to End ‘Remain in Mexico,’ Asylum Seekers to Enter US  And once they’re in, they’re in for good. We know how this scenario works out.

‘Squad’ supporting Justice Democrats PAC raked in six figures from dark money source

Officers in this Northern California county stop Asian drivers at 12 times the rate of other drivers, lawsuit claims (S.F. Chronicle)

Thieves steal $2M worth of valuables from New York City jewelry store, video shows

Obsessed CBS Demands Tim Scott Talk All Trump All the Time

Back-to-School Blues: Droves of Americans Ditching Public School

CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged

George Soros and His Woke Prosecutors

Rejecting Christian Nationalism Is What Jesus Would Do (Daily Beast) As if anybody at The Daily Beast had the slightest clue as to what Jesus would do. That’s like asking Himmler what’s kosher and what’s traif.

2 Democratic lawmakers encourage Wyoming voters: Change parties and back Cheney (ABC)

… ‘and Her Merry Persons?’ New Robin Hood a Black, Female Gen-Zer  They deform everything they touch.

Poll: 70 Percent of Texas Teachers Considering Leaving Profession  Being Woke in a red state will do that to you. Of course, the sooner we get rid of such people the better.

Princeton Introduces ‘Diversity’ Search Filter for University Vendors

Progressive Pollster Finds That People Oppose Progressive Policies

ACLU wants US border officials to stop helping Abbott remove illegal immigrants (Washington Post) Of course they do.

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Ten companies exist on the planet today that were founded before 1000 AD. Seven of those are Japanese, the oldest being Kong? Gumi, a construction firm founded by three craftsmen from Korea who took a commission from Prince Sh?toku in 578 AD. Sh?toku was the great early patron of Japanese Buddhism and was responsible for constructing the Shitenn?-ji temple, Japan’s oldest Buddhist house of worship (still in operation, image above). The Kong? clan continued to operate their family firm for centuries, contributing for example to the construction of Osaka Castle in the 1500’s. In the early 2000’s, a scion of this business dynasty, Masakazu Kong?, was still Kong? Gumi’s CEO. But his poor business decisions finally led to its acquisition by a larger firm in 2006. No pressure, Masakazu-san.

Sarah Hoyt.

Either they find secret stuff they can use to do their big Stalinist show trial and finally imprison him — yes, they really believe this, because he’s a “bad man” so of course he must have recorded himself twirling his mustache and talking about his love affair with Putin — OR they piss us off so much that we erupt into civil war and then they can put us down easily, because frankly there’s only a couple thousand of us, and we’re all racist rednecks and over 70. So it will be trivially easy, right?

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The first thing you need to understand is that evil people assume everyone else is evil. Crooks assume everyone else is a crook, and pathological narcissists think everyone is a pathological narcissist. You have to understand that to realize why they act the way they do.

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Look for ‘Soylent Green’ on the label.

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I’d love to get a look at Biden’s tax returns — not to mention Obama’s.

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The drab white left and its minority whipping class consists of the worst people in the world. They are the worst because they have fostered a culture that encourages destroying the things they secretly admire and promoting the things they privately hold in contempt. The left cannot stand being reminded of achievements it has never achieved and thus assumes moral superiority in order to circumvent personal integrity. Unfortunately, the most destructive representative of this phenomenon is today’s watered-down WASP, who insists upon milquetoasting his heritage into soggy oblivion by taking the best of his traditions and putting them to work in the service of his own self-subversion. It is a curious state of affairs.

Curious, and depressing.

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Even taken at face value, sending armed men to recover documents that first, do not exist, second, if they did were removed by staffers, third, if they had been removed would not have been illegal (since the President can declassify any document at will by removing them from the White House), fourth, if they had been removed illegally, Trump already offered, without reservation, to have officers of the national archives go through his documents to confirm.

The FBI padlocked the room to secure it weeks ago, in order to secure any possible documents while the Archivists investigated. During the raid, they broke the padlock they themselves installed.

Of course, this is red meat to the MAGA base. If the effort to exclude Trump from the next Presidential election fails, they may deeply regret the effort. “He who draws his sword against the king must throw away the scabbard.”

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When a patient suffers an ischemic stroke — when a clot chokes off the blood supply of vital oxygen and nutrients to the brain — those brain cells begin to die within minutes. The resulting tissue damage can lead to long term complications, including paralysis, memory loss, depression, difficulty controlling emotions, and changes in behavior.

There are currently no FDA-approved therapies for repairing the damage caused by a stroke.

Now, researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Case Western Reserve University have identified a new drug which may help repair — not just limit — stroke damage.

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We seem to be seeing the same dynamic form up in present day America as the ruling class operates by motives that baffle those outside. The raid on former president Trump by the FBI is the latest event without an obvious explanation. A feature proudly celebrated by the American political class for a long time is that Americans do not criminalize politics like other countries. The losers of elections are not jailed and former officer holders are not persecuted.

For two years the political class has been waging a war against the former president and his supporters for reasons that continue to baffle. There must be a reason as there is a reason for everything, but no logical reasons make sense. Again, we look at our political class and see a black box at the center of their actions. It is what motivates them but what is going on inside is a mystery. As a result, we are left to speculate as to their motivations and that always leads to dark motives.

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The Deep State is getting serious.

UPDATE: ‘Dark Times,’ Trump Responds as Agents Raid Mar-a-Lago Home

UPDATE: Hunter Biden Breathes Sigh Of Relief As FBI Raid Team Passes By His House On Way to Mar-A-Lago (Babylon Bee)

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A Joe Biden donor is the organizer behind a U.S. Senate debate in Georgia that will allow Democratic senator Raphael Warnock to symbolically debate an empty podium after Republican challenger Herschel Walker turned down the invitation.

Atlanta Press Club director Lauri Strauss, who is organizing the debate, and at least three other members of the group’s board have donated thousands to Democrats, including Biden, Georgia Democratic senator Jon Ossoff—and Warnock himself.