Epstein files takeaway 🗂️: We've told you for a while there isn't enough to charge anyone based on the new content from the Epstein files. - ⚖️ The Department of Justice under the Bush administration through Trump 2.0 all looked — no one person is being protected.
- The Epstein files prove the system is rotten
- 👷♂️A poor day laborer picks up a prostitute … he gets arrested and charged (we can debate the legality of prostitution later).
- 💼 The owner of a professional sports team trades emails about hiring Russian "pros," and it's business as usual.
- Jeffrey Epstein proves there is one set of rules for the elite and another for everyone else.
Exciting 🚨: More than 20 years ago, a brave Vanity Fair journalist published one of the very first pieces on Epstein's life — she joins us tonight. |
Politics is Downstream of Culture 🗳️ |
🎶 Did you see the Grammys? I didn't, but I didn't need to. - The highlights (or lowlights) were utterly predictable; celebrities went through verbal gymnastics to prove their anti-ICE outrage.
- 🎤 Bad Bunny: "Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say 'ICE out.' We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."
- 🎤 Billie Eilish: "Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter."
- 🎤 Olivia Dean: "I'm up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I'm a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated."
- I'll spare you the obvious snarky responses.
📺 Then there was "SNL" making fun of Melania Trump but also going after Tom Homan. - Thought bubble 💭:
- America according to late night 📺: A legal immigrant who becomes first lady is OK to mock, but ICE deporting illegal immigrants is the Gestapo — got it.
Politics is downstream of culture, and the culture shows no desire to solve the immigration problem. Politicians don't either. Sadly, I have come to a conclusion: The immigration debate is too important to be solved. - Important 🚨: It's perfect for both sides.
- Let's review what both sides have done with immigration over the past few years.
- Democrats 🫏: Open borders, sanctuary cities and violent clashes with ICE
- Republicans 🐘: Closed border, overzealous ICE raids, refusal to negotiate
- Solution ✅: The deal on immigration that we should have is obvious…
- ❌ A truly closed border
- 🌆 The end of all sanctuary cities and states in all forms
- 🚔 Immediate deportation of any illegal immigrant convicted of a crime or with a criminal record
- 💼 Permanent legal status and work status without a pathway to citizenship
- It's so simple a caveman could figure it out.
- But neither side will compromise because it's much better as a fundraising and wedge issue.
Look back 🗓️: The original cultural warrior, Bill O'Reilly, figured out immigration would be the debate of our time in the early 2000s. |
🗑️ The only thing bigger than the snow piles in New York City are the trash piles. - One week after what should be a normal snowstorm, the city is wrapped in a warm blanket of collectivism.
- Wow 😮: Mamdami's work to turn the city into a social utopia is going faster than expected.
- Cheap shot? Mamdami walking around in his brand new "mayor" hardshell zip jacket is not going to age well.
Zoom out 📷: Deep-blue Northern Virginia isn't much better than NYC, where school is still closed – same with Maryland. - Zoom way out 📷: New census data shows seven of the top 10 states for new arrivals are red states.
- Four of the five states that experienced population decline were blue states.
- This is not a coincidence
Watch tonight 📺: Former Congressman Dean Phillips on whether the mass exodus is correlation or causation. - Sad 🚨: It's always the poorest among us who get hurt the most — they largely can't move.
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