himself. quote, no one s going to believe it was a suicide bomber. suide.t to his chief of staf f. there will be conspiracyrett theories all over the place. now,response it s a pretty odd e if you think about it at the time. there is no way that bill barrew could have known for sure how jeffrey epstein died.ncern so you would think as the attorney general, his first conceroun would be finding out what actually happened, but instead, his first concern waseu worry that the public mightto jump to unapproved conclusions d. not belhappene and in some ways, bob barr was right to worry. many americans did notth believr that jeffrey epstein had killedc himself. he was ge strange circumstanceus of his death. stranger even the most a people understood at the time ustainedit was going to takeconn a sustained public relations campaign to convince americans that jeffrey epstein killed th himself. but bill barr was willinghe fle to make the effort. two days later, he flew to new orle
and he did it without the help of anyone.s ad none of his advisors wanteviserg to use on foreign policy. i policyp to b desperately wanted trump to be quiet, bute n trump wouldn t. what s the point of nato ?t nat he asked nearly thirty years y after the fall of the soviet aft union, no one in washington could answer him. p racist shut up. racist, they replied. but trump just kept going in. his trump way. russia, why would we fight russia? he wondered.e wouldn t making russia our our enemy just drive putin into the arms of china? inand create the most powerful and dangerous anti-american bloc in history? no one bothered to answerbody him. in fact, for the sin of asking,y they called him a traitorch to his country.ed him for they impeached him for it. it se ind then they started a war with putin. but in retrospect, trump asked a deeply patriotic question.ue if russista everion. joined fors with china, american global hegemony, its power would end instantly. you d have the w
and there was infanticide at scale to the western mind. therw the whole thing was repugnant and alien. but maybe the most un-american thing about the chinese, one child policy was a policya h itself. the idea that government could ment cf into the moste deta intimate details ofilof your private life struck most americans at a gut levell as incomprehensible. the whole point of america was to avoid plans like that. the whole point of america is personal freedom. that s where the country was founded. what you do in private on your own time, with your own money i within the boundaries of the law wanesss your own busines and nobody else s business wasn foundational point. and on that question, therequesi appeared to be thankon god , bipartisan agreement. conservatives believed in the bill of rights. liberals believed in personal choice. my body, my choice, they said government out of our personal ths. didn they said thatt for decades now we know they didn t mean it turns out th
criminal because he had unauthorized possession of secret documents that very same joe biden himself had unauthorized possession of secret documents. but don t worry, it s not a big deal unlike you and that despicably orange donald trump joe biden is a good person. joe biden is so virtuous. he is transcended temporal law. it s not a crime when he does it. so that s the frustratingly familiar headline from this week s story, which you probably seen by now. but the details of the story are actually pretty interesting. so a week before these last midterm elections, joe biden s lawyers were for some reason rooting around in a locked closet in the washington office of something called the pen biden center for diplomacy and global engagement. and while in that locke s closet, biden s lawyers find a sheaf of highly classified government documents. so the first question here is , why were joe biden s lawyers doing this in the first place? and we can t say for sure because they
hysteria, which makes sure that every living american is terrified of somethinsg ortob other from breakfast till bed. but there is no good news office that s something the biden people never considered. so yesterday, the administration seemee admind a little awkward, maybe even sheepish, when it announced the best news of alld , which is that the covid era has. finally passed. r for three years, the u.s. has lived under a permanent government designated covidmergn emergency.cy at this point, lookingnow nobo backward, no one can agreedy loo on what the point of it was. certainly nobody got any healthier, that s for sure. in any case, it s ending for good or bad. technically, the emergency technically th will continue until may. this allow the bush administration to shovel a few more cargo plane s full of taxn dollars to its donors in the so-called health care industry. bute ta that s it.as o those are the last gasps of the rona s scare. we re done abna. and that mean