OF SPECIAL ELECTIONS AND JUDGES

A Mid-week around the horn

First, let me address this nothingburger of the Atlantic piece by saying I have no interest in discussing it. This is a typical hoax news “gotcha,” and while there was an error in letting a squidpickle from the Atlantic anywhere near a conversation, that’s all it was. This is the first time I’ve seen Susie Wiles slip up. There will always be screwups, but the failure this time was hers, in not telling Mike Walz and everyone else involved to STFU. Do not go on Fox News, do not tweet. Absolutely ignore it.

The other fault lies with so-called “influencers” who have not yet learned the new Republican Way of War. Let me explain. The key moment in the period from 2015 to 2025 was not Trump’s near assassination. That was extremely important, but was only an event by the fact that about nine years ago an even more important event took place in this historian’s view: the “Access Hollywood” tape.