There certainly has been a lot to parse since Garland’s Folly was unleashed on Mar-a-Lago on Monday night. As Robert writes, this is an unprecedented level of acrimony between American political rivals who, in theory, are all serving the same country.

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All of this is being driven by the Democrats’ obsession with using the J6 fauxsurrection to keep Trump off of the ballot in 2024. They know that they could resurrect FDR and Trump is still going to waltz back into the White House. He’s the monster under all of their beds. As I’ve written before, he’s not only living rent-free in their heads, he’s building condos and inviting his friends.

Had they not been working out daddy issues since Jan. 20, 2021, there is a chance that Trump might have opted to enjoy more golf and play Republican kingmaker. Let us not forget that he enjoys sticking it to establishment “Harumph!” Republicans as much as he does to Democrats.

All that these idiot Democrats have done with their extended fascist tantrum is guarantee that Trump wants to come back and give them a righteous butt-whupping. Every single thing that they do to weaken him makes him stronger, constantly renewing his energy to build more of those condos.

It’s cloudy now but that’s one heck of a silver lining.

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And this from Larry:

Wondering if Geraldo Rivera will be called in to reveal the contents of Trump’s safe?

Ha! My best friend said the same thing to me!

We’ll wrap up with this from Les:

First: I love your column and am a daily reader. Thanks

Second: I was curious why the FBI hit when President Trump was absent. Then it hit me, if President Trump had been present we would have been presented with the interesting scenario of the FBI negotiating with the Secret Service detail for access.  THAT is a clown show that I would have enjoyed watching.

For the longest time, there was only one reason that Elon Musk irritated leftists: he was gloriously wealthy.

Worse yet, according to the commie crowd, he’s a billionaire. In their fixed-pie world, that means he’s responsible for the fact that Jasmina is struggling to make ends meet after spending $150,000 to get a bachelor’s (PATRIARCHY) degree in Gender Queer Albino Panda Studies.

Lately, Musk has emerged as a practical, no-nonsense type who triggers all of the fragile idiots who need to be triggered, and for all of the right reasons.

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Musk recently created a stir by insisting that his employees who became accustomed to working remotely during the pandemic return to in-person work for 40 hours a week or seek employment elsewhere. While I may not agree with the idea that people need to be in an office to be productive, I do admire the fact that the people he pays need to do so.

The latest leftist weaklings vs. Musk episode is the best yet though. Athena has the story:

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This is an absolutely brilliant example of how little young leftists who were raised in the participation trophy era understand the real world and the way it works. They’ve been raised to believe that feelings are paramount and that anything that hurts them is a grave offense.

“Here’s a tissue Billy, cry it out and head to the unemployment office.”

You don’t even have to be that old to know how absurd it is to think that public criticism of the person who signs one’s paychecks could happen without consequences.

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Athena points out why what SpaceX did here was notable and important:

Usually, this is the point at which corporations cave to the woke moblet of employees, trampling on the silent majority who just want to get their work done to waste company time and money on soothing the sensitive hyperventilaters. They then discover too late that it’s never possible to placate these people, and that once in the throes of the cycle, the organization ends up circling the drain. (See Disney Corporation.)

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The world has been suffering from a dearth of adults in the room who aren’t willing to stand up to petulant whiners. We are well and truly doomed unless more people follow Elon Musk’s example and give the crybabies their marching orders.

It is not the least bit hyperbolic here in the year of our Lord 2022 to aver that the United States has lost its way. Fingers of blame are pointed in so many directions that the casual observer could think it’s impossible to say that just one or two things are the root of our present national malaise.

Well, I’m not a casual observer and have no problem saying that this country’s woes can be traced to the abandonment of God and moral absolutes for the false comfort of secular relativism.

This isn’t something that I just thought of when I woke up this morning, it’s a conversation I often have with friends and colleagues. This past weekend, one of my closest friends and I talked at length about it, and I figured that it was time to write something.

It is important to note up front that I am in no way positing that all people of faith are good people or that all secular non-believers are bad. Far from it. I’m just saying that things tended to be better when there was some sort of moral compass involved, even if there was disagreement on the particular brand of compass.

While I am not given to quoting Bible verses to make a point, there is one that pertains to what I’m trying to say here. The last few chapters of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament are filled with tales of wholesale slaughter and cruelty. It’s truly gruesome stuff, even by OT standards. The final verse of Judges says, “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.”

At least we know that moral relativism isn’t new.

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It’s a “chicken or the egg” situation when trying to determine whether individuals or institutions led the charge to secular relativism. I tend to think it was the former, who had too much influence on the latter.

Like Academia.

A fringe contingent of ivory tower commies on college campuses has polluted countless American institutions with its godless secular lunacy over the last half-century, and there may be no coming back from it. Academics hold so much sway over mainstream media outlets that journalism has been all but abandoned. That’s why The New York Times felt comfortable burying the story of the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a part of the paper generally devoted to complaining about city council lunch expenditures.

Now that people on the left are making up rules as they see fit, they’ve decided that they have a right to go through life never being offended.

This is where society really hits the toilet.

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People who truly believe that they have the right to the world being exactly as they want it have no problem justifying any means to help craft their impossible world, from ruining careers to ending lives. It’s the impetus for everything from Twitter cancel culture mobs to mass shooters.

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J. Christian Adams wrote a column for us a few years ago that examines something that isn’t discussed often enough:

The millennial generation might be surprised to learn that theirs is the first without guns in school. Just 30 years ago, high school kids rode the bus with rifles and shot their guns at high school rifle ranges.

After another school shooting, it’s time to ask: what changed?

Cross guns off the list of things that changed in thirty years. In 1985, semi-automatic rifles existed, and a semi-automatic rifle was used in Florida. Guns didn’t suddenly decide to visit mayhem on schools. Guns can’t decide.

We can also cross the Second Amendment off the list. It existed for over 200 years before this wickedness unfolded. Nothing changed in the Constitution.

That leaves us with some uncomfortable possibilities remaining. What has changed from thirty years ago when kids could take firearms into school responsibly and today might involve some difficult truths.

While this may not be part of the ongoing gun argument (it’s not a “debate”) in America, it does get brought up a lot by those of us who are Second Amendment proponents.

I was born and grew up in Arizona, which has always had the freest gun laws in America. My grandfather was a gunsmith who owned a gun store when I was a little kid. He amassed one of the largest collections of antique guns in America, including a Gatling gun and a pistol from the fight at the O.K. Corral. Guns were a way of life in my family.

I spent my formative years in a little mountain town where every home had an arsenal in it.

Nobody was shooting anybody.

This could be dismissed as anecdotal evidence but when anecdotal evidence is overwhelming, it’s just evidence.

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Emotional fragility coupled with a sense of entitlement (Participation trophy!) is a toxic societal cocktail and it’s literally killing us.

I could write for another week and not have begun to examine this topic in depth, so I will leave it here to be revisited at another time.

I happened upon an interesting Opinion piece in The New York Times that I wrote about yesterday. It was written by a progressive state senator in Maine and her campaign manager and it pointed out what could be the Democrats’ biggest problem heading into the midterms: the party has abandoned rural America.

The authors of the piece minced no words, saying that the Democrats’ message to rural voters over the past decade or so has been clear: “You don’t matter.”

A lot of those voters broke Trump’s way in 2016 because they were fed up with the Democrats never coming through with their promises. Joe Biden was able to sucker a lot of them back in 2020 by pretending to be an old-school moderate Democrat who would have their backs.

It was another bill of goods.

Rural voters who are worrying about financial issues probably aren’t as concerned with abortion on demand and propping up teachers who talk to first-graders about gender reassignment as coastal Dems are.

The Democrats have spent the last twenty years becoming a regional party. Because that region includes some populous states, they’re under the mistaken impression that they represent what America really wants. In reality, if you dropped most of them anywhere in small-town America they’d think that they had been abducted by aliens and deposited on a foreign planet.

The good news for Republicans is that Democrats lack the capacity for self-awareness, so they won’t be figuring any of this out anytime soon.

Welcome, everyone, to Week Two of this recap of the eternal descent into ever-deepening madness in the Opinion section of The New York Times. I hadn’t planned on being on the wagon for the first two installments of this column, but it worked out that way. I’ve learned a lot about myself as I’ve wandered through the Times each day.

Almost all of it is pretty dark.

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This one seems innocent enough just from the headline, doesn’t it? It even appears to be an exhortation to return to normalcy and fun.

Then you remember that The New York Times is where normalcy and fun go to die bloody, screaming, hideous deaths.

This article is yet another leftist call to a globalist New World Order:

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The author goes on to talk about a “global, data-driven” system to keep track of the vaccines and those who are vaccinated.

Welcome to Cyber New East Berlin.

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This is from the reality-challenged brain of Jamelle Bouie, whom we will no doubt see a lot of in this column as time goes on.

Apparently, Jamelle doesn’t read The New York Times. If he did, he would know that it’s the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media who have gone all in on keeping the COVID panic porn alive. I am at the point now where I’m convinced that they all celebrate any news about the Delta variant (and its Greek alphabet-named successors) because they desperately need the public to buy into their “War of the Worlds” fiction if they have any hope of winning an election after Grandpa Sniffsakid besmirches all that he can besmirch while they’re still letting him have unsupervised playtime in the Oval Office.

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3. “How Has Joe Biden Become So Unpopular?”

It’s a twofer from Jamelle Bouie this week! I told you we’d be seeing him again.

That’s an actual headline that a professional editor signed off on just a little more than a week after Joe Biden’s nightmarish withdrawal from Afghanistan cost 13 Americans their lives. The answer to the question seems fairly obvious.

Unless, of course, you’re sniffing The New York Times’ Opinion writer glue.

Bouie leads with blaming the Delta variant, Texas, and Florida. Then he mentions Afghanistan. The slavish devotion to the COVID panic porn fetish must go on.

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4. “The Minimum Voting Age Should Be Zero”

This op-ed, dear readers, is probably the most utterly bat**** crazy thing I have ever read in the Times Opinion section. That’s saying a lot. Prior to reading it, I would have had a difficult time singling one out as the worst of them.

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There are layers of stupidity here, beginning with the initial premise. Just when you think that nothing could be dumber than giving one person multiple votes based on the number of progeny he or she has, the author then suggests that kids should start voting “in their early teen years.” You thought vote-by-mail created problems, wait until elections are being swayed by a bunch of hormone-crazed teens who vote based on which candidate has the best TikTok moves.

And how about divorce-custody-revenge voting? Imagine a host of bitter women (they exist in the wild, I’ve seen them) getting custody of their kids and casting all of the new family votes for the opposite of whatever Dad likes out of spite.

I’m getting a headache just thinking of all the ways this could go wrong.

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PostScript: “Do the unvaccinated deserve scarce ICU beds?”

It really is impossible to make these things up.

This is an easy game to play.

Do longtime smokers deserve treatment for lung cancer?

Do obese people deserve CPR during a heart attack?

You get the idea. Hospitals are filled with people whose roads there were paved with personal choices.

If I eat it on my bicycle I know that the ER staff isn’t going to ask me how fast I was going in order to determine whether I get treated or not.

If today’s headline about election-stealing seems a bit over the top and incendiary, I can assure you that it was most intentional. Democrats and their flying media monkeys make outlandish claims like that about conservatives and Republicans all the time and are never held accountable for them.

These are, after all, the lunatics who are referring to the presence of federal officers in burning riot cities as a portent of “martial law.”

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In each one of these “steal the election” rants, Biden immediately rambles on about mail-in ballots. Again, that’s all they’ve got and they know it. That’s where the real election-stealing can happen and it’s not going to be done by the Republicans.

The Democrats have shown — especially in the Trump era — that most of what they throw at the Republicans is just a bunch of twisted political psychological projection.

For example, take the absurd notion that Dems have recycled from 2016. They are again insisting that President Trump won’t accept the election results, giving it a minor update, saying that he won’t leave the White House now that he’s the incumbent.

This from the party whose vanquished alcoholic grandmother from 2016 is still going on television and saying that the election was stolen from her. Throw in Stacey Abrams and her ongoing psychotic break about being the real governor of Georgia and I think we can see which side has a difficult time accepting the results of an election.

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Given the Democrats’ propensity for projection, all of their “steal the election” talk sure makes it seem as if they are spending a lot of time thinking about stealing an election.