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What if there's no secret plan?

To quote Heath Ledger as The Joker: After both House and Senate voted to release the Epstein files, and Donald Trump signed the bill into law, the chatter immediately turned to, "They won't release anything. It'll all just be blacked out." But answer me this: Has anything this regime done smack of planning? Of careful deliberation? Of some grand, master strategy? No, my friends. To quote another film: The idea that a lumpen like Stephen Miller could organize a thousand year fascist Reich is farcical beyond belief. Pete Hegseth? Pam Biondi? Duck Lips Kristi Noem? The only reason they're in their positions is because they landed the Mother of all Trifectas. They hit it lucky on the ponies. But luck is just that: it's blind, and it doesn't stay with you for long. Your luck will run out. And the speed with which it will run out is directly correlated to your intelligence or lack thereof.  We are all traumatized. We watched our voters re-elect a monster who sai...

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