In a two-way race in 2024, Donald Trump got 26.5% of the vote in City of Los Angeles. In a three-way race in 2026, Spencer Pratt has 26.7% of the vote. I'm not sure what the mystery is that demands a conspiratorial explanation.
NIGHTCAP QUESTION:
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli says California is blocking a federal audit of who is registered to vote in the state.
Should California provide that data?
President Trump is doing the right thing for seeking peace, for negotiating, and avoiding another Middle East war despite others trying to get him to restart the war.
MAGA -- soon as they got right back into power -- went from "The evil Deep State is interfering in our politics" to "We demand that the NSA and CIA have the right to spy on American citizens without warrants."
Pete Hegseth: give us this power or the terrorists will kill you.
We are entering a world in which we can rely less and less upon the state, the corporation, or family or friends to help and protect us.
It is a globalized, harshly competitive environment.
We must learn to develop ourselves.
Hotez - corrupt in more ways than one. His sexual misconduct is horrible to even imagine. NY Post of course broke this story at 9:30pm on a Saturday night…. Hoping no one would see it. Discovery should be fun!
Long COVID serves a psychological purpose.
To be clear, I am not talking about cases where a viral infection causes demonstrable medical sequelae in specific organs or physiological systems. Those are real medical questions that should be investigated on their own terms.
I am referring to the broader cluster of symptoms often grouped under "Long COVID" that are predominantly psychiatric - subjective and nonspecific: fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, low mood, difficulty concentrating, and related complaints.
It helped keep the emotional world of the pandemic alive after the emergency had ended.
During COVID, being cautious was seen as virtuous. Avoiding risk meant being responsible and paying close attention to symptoms showed you were taking things seriously.
Public life reorganized itself around protection, accommodation, and the assumption that anyone could be gravely harmed.
In that sense, COVID accelerated the feminization of social norms: safety, emotional validation, vulnerability, and infantilizing care became the organizing principles of public life. Not helpful for those tending naturally towards neuroticism that was not only left unchecked but actively encouraged for over 3 years.
For those people, the end of the pandemic meant the loss of belonging, the dissolution of a social environment in which their concerns, anxieties, and risk assessments were widely shared and affirmed.
Long COVID allowed the crisis to continue in another form. It confirmed that all the fear and excessive care at the expense of others were justified. It preserved the sense that the extraordinary measures had indeed been necessary. It kept alive the emotional framework of the COVID years.
And in that framework, demonstrating concern for suffering becomes more important than asking the question: What actually helps people recover?
Florida condo supply just hit 13.2 MONTHS.
Cape Coral condos:
-19% YoY
Fort Lauderdale:
-12%
Sarasota:
-10%
This is the closest thing to a real-time 2008 housing reset happening anywhere in America.
The establishment lost to Donald
Trump twice and created the conditions for Trump's rise.
That is why mainstream Dems outside the Beltway are frustrated with the party as weak & out of touch.
The old guard needs to go and we don't need recycled faces from the past.
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