Greetings, readers! It’s almost the weekend, and a happy weekend to all of you who aren’t on the Epstein list. By the time you read this, much of that is going to be out.
At least, that’s what they’re telling us.
But Thursday afternoon, we were also told that the FBI in New York is attempting to withhold a large trove of documents from the attorney general, and that’s a potentially really big deal.
It’s only natural to see that and figure that those are the documents we really want to see.
I’m holding off on doing any Epstein stuff in this column. I’m going to save that for next week when we actually know something.
Instead, let’s start with a fun YouTube.
1. Have You Ever Seen a Centrifuge Break Itself? You’re Watching It Now.
You’re familiar with the concept of a centrifuge, right? It’s an exceptionally powerful piece of machinery. Centrifugal force is an amazing thing. Used properly and with a well-maintained machine, you can even enrich uranium with a centrifuge.
But if something goes wrong with a centrifuge, things can go very, very wrong.
There are lots of YouTubes demonstrating this process. Here’s one…
A front-loaded washer isn’t precisely a centrifuge, but it operates the same way. Throw something into one that will move it out of perfect rotation, and, well…
You get today’s Democrat Party.
I’ve said this, but the Democrats are a centrifuge. Everything they’ve done over the past 15-20 years has been an effort at using centrifugal force to create the America they’ve wanted — dividing us into identity groups, moving us further apart, spinning everything faster and faster so we’d have no choice but to hang on at the far reaches and then be demonized for that.
And the Democrats aren’t trying to bring us into the center. They stopped trying to reach the center a long time ago. Since 2008, Democrats have won elections by turning out their people, not by persuading anybody that their ideas are better.
Barack Obama built this centrifuge. It was Obama who placed it at the middle of the Democrat Party. Obama turned the Democrats into a community-organized, socialist front-load washer filled with gravel and nails, and the Democrats proceeded to march the American people into it.
Most of us went willingly, but in 2016, we said “enough” and found our way out. But that machine kept spinning, more and more wobbly all the time. It managed to suck the public back in late in 2020 thanks to … lots of “unusual” circumstances.
But like that doomed washer in the YouTube above, things got worse and worse all the time. And now, the centrifuge is well and truly broken.
You have to make it stop spinning if you want to save it. But they can’t. They don’t know how to do anything else but spin it as fast as it’ll go.
So Indivisible reprises its dumb idiots-in-red-t-shirts routine which flopped back in 2017, and Democrat senators and congressmen scream about “racism” and other bigotries as a response to efforts at real reform, and legacy media talking heads rally around this crossdressing nincompoop as he whines about how the corporate press is no longer able to gatekeep access to the president…
That’s Eugene Daniels, who last year was given the job as head of the White House Correspondents Association. What’s amazing about this is two things: first, that the folks at the WHCA would believe they could make such an outrageously subversive and out-of-touch choice for their leader. And second, that they would believe the Trump administration and the public, which brought it about, would stick to convention and give this WHCA the power to filter Trump to the public.
When the centrifuge is broken, you have to stop spinning it. Clearly, as example after example proves, they can’t do it.
I know there are a lot of you who think it’s a matter of time before the Democrats come back, and that Trump’s victory was slim and Republican majorities are small. You aren’t wrong about most of that. But the problem with your thinking is that they need a map out of the wilderness and some leadership willing to follow that map. (RELATED: Democrats Have No Roadmap for Their Journey Through the Wilderness … and James Carville Knows It)
Do you see any of that?
After Michael Dukakis took the 1988 election on the chin, the Democrats were able to resuscitate themselves enough to get Bill Clinton elected president for two terms. That’s the model they need now, but it doesn’t look like it’s particularly operable. For two reasons.
First, it was George H.W. Bush who was the out-of-whack washing machine back then because Bush betrayed lots of promises to his voters and earned a third-party challenge from Ross Perot. If Perot didn’t run for president in 1992 and 1996, it’s reasonably likely Bill Clinton never gets to sexually abuse interns in the White House. Could this happen again? Maybe, but one thing Donald Trump is pretty good at is keeping promises he makes to his supporters — and right now, that is beginning to become infectious within the GOP.
And second, the Democrats have to be able to rebrand themselves as a more centrist party like Clinton was able to do in 1992. Good luck with that project. It’s not only that they lack anybody credible to do that without a breathtaking about-face from some prominent politician of theirs (though don’t be surprised if Andrew Cuomo gives it a shot). No, the real problem is structural. They don’t do retail politics and persuade people of things, mostly because they can’t. To do that would mean taking majority positions on things like men in women’s locker rooms or free healthcare for illegal aliens or fighting forever wars, and they aren’t built for that. They’ve got to be able to dragoon their voters to the polls, but now the money is drying up for that, thanks to DOGE and fissures within key constituencies like black men, Hispanics, and young voters.
Lotsa luck, guys. Make a YouTube when the parts really start coming off that machine.
2. Go Ahead, Demonize This Guy
If you’re flying somewhere and you land safely, you’re going to have to thank the man the Democrats demand you hate…
To be clear here, the Verizon communication system to air traffic control is breaking down very rapidly. The FAA assessment is single digit months to catastrophic failure, putting air traveler safety at serious risk.
The Starlink terminals are being sent at NO COST to the… https://t.co/B3XOFZerJB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 27, 2025
I’d love to hear the story of how this is actually Elon’s greed at work. Except I don’t think I have time for the TL;DR version.
3. This Is Great. You Sure It’s Enough?
Here’s an interesting bill filed in Congress…
I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses) pic.twitter.com/lApx7MstJ6
— Matt Blackwell (@matt_blackwell) February 26, 2025
The real question is why we’re stopping at a 21 percent endowment tax. Our colleges and universities, especially the most well-heeled ones, are more like hedge funds with a school attached because we’ve given them sycophantic tax treatment. That’s being utterly abused on just about every level, but probably the most idiotic is the one the Left complains about the most.
Namely, the outrageous and unserviceable student loan debt so many of the gullible kids going through those universities are racking up.
Joe Biden illegally bailed out a lot of those kids, and from a conservative perspective, the instinct is to say you borrowed the money, so you pay it off. That isn’t wrong, but it’s not to say the student loan debt isn’t a real problem. Those debt payments represent money that could be spent on mortgages, car purchases, or individual savings and investment, all things our economy could use, and instead they’re feeding into a system that already has too much money and produces far too little net value.
So, tax the living hell out of those endowments and use the proceeds on student debt relief. And 21 percent is a nice start; I’d change that number to 63 percent.
4. Bye, Kathleen
I’m going to leave this one to the Critical Drinker because…
…well, what he said. (Warning, there’s a little bit of salty language in here)
5. Trump and Vance Humiliated Starmer, and the U.K. Utterly Deserves It
Great Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer showed up at the White House on Thursday.
It didn’t really go that well.
No, I mean it REALLY didn’t go that well.
But that was hardly the most embarrassing thing the Brits suffered through this week.
This was.
UK has not hit rock bottom yet. This is getting them closer. When the King and the Head of their Church is packing up food for a conquering people guilty of mass child rape of his subjects… rock bottom is getting real close. https://t.co/umIYmxhZ9M
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) February 27, 2025
The King of England is, by definition, the head of the Church of England. Why is he pandering to Muslims on Ramadan and calling it the Holy Month? Ramadan is not on the Church of England’s religious calendar.
And given what the Pakistani rape gangs have been up to in that country, with very, very little pushback from Britain’s ruling class, the optics of this are utterly demoralizing.
Nobody’s bagging dates for Tommy Robinson as he rots in jail for exposing corruption and dhimmitude at the BBC, you know — and by the way, the BBC is spinning their own centrifuge at top speed…
The BBC blew £400,000 of YOUR money on a Gaza documentary narrated by a HAMAS official’s son—WHY is OUR state broadcaster funding terror apologism? pic.twitter.com/GFStpZrgzx
— Ben Habib (@BackBrexitBen) February 26, 2025
What an utter disaster
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