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Greetings, Dear Reader,
Sydney Sweeney. Jeffrey Epstein. I bet you’re wondering how these things are related?
EPSTEIN’S GLASS, SWEENEY’S HAMMERS
In their scramble to find a lifeline, something, anything with any purchase on Donald Trump, Democrats rediscovered Jeffrey Epstein.
Indeed, after years of silence on the matter, in which their kind dominated the highest perches in America – Hollywood, academia, the intelligence community, the military, corporate boardrooms, Congress and the White House – the official communications arm of the party is now tweeting Epstein bait into the public discourse.
It’s because they’re facing a conflagration of their own making.
Even as the popularity of Trump’s major initiatives loses steam, nothing they say or do seems to increase their own national popularity. So they have broken the emergency glass and grabbed hold of the Epstein Files.
If it smells like desperation, it’s because that’s exactly what it is. It’s also not entirely without merit.
Americans reflexively know that it wasn’t just Epstein and Ghislaine doing the raping. If it wasn’t a sprawling intelligence operation – which it’s quite possible it wasn’t – certainly someone else bears some culpability for the criminal enterprise.
In some ways, Democrats embracing what they once dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” represents a return to sanity. Whether it sticks or not is another question entirely.
It’s just too bad that Sydney Sweeney sucked all the air out of the room.
Her ads for American Eagle dropped like strikes from Thor’s hammer. Sweeney’s hammers bludgeoned the false reality liberals built and injected into the media and their own party apparatus over the past decade.
“Eyes up here,” she says in an ad that is about men leering at cleavage. Any red-blooded American male watching that ad thought “me too” with no sense of irony whatsoever.
“I’ve got good jeans,” she says in a punny ad about having “good genes,” which caused public shrieking about Nazis from a too-online, ultra-liberal cohort of tedious, purple-haired hags.
Each photo spread, each line, struck the very heart of the neo-Marxist ideology Dems zealously institutionalized and imposed on Americans over the past decade.
The worst part for them is that it worked brilliantly. Orders for Sweeney’s jeans blew up. American Eagle’s stock blew up.
They have yet to realize it’s their new ideology, the one they used to ram themselves into controlling every aspect of culture, that served as the accelerant for the bonfire that crispified their party. The central problem is simple: It’s divorced from reality.
They still can’t figure out why Trump’s transgender “Trump is for you, Kamala is for they/them” ad resonated so deeply with Americans across the political spectrum. They think it’s just rank bigotry, but it’s actually instinctual.
It’s the same reason the Sweeney ads work.
The most baseline requirement for leadership in America is sanity. Does this person live in universally accepted reality? Check. Okay, now we can move on to more important matters.
I’m not here, Dear Reader, to debate the morality of ads that exploit the looks of beautiful women. The ads work. They have worked for decades. “Sex sells” is an unfortunate but plainly objective truism of advertising.
The fact that American Eagle was the first major brand to ditch the left’s insistence that every ad check absurd boxes – fat acceptance, racial diversity, transgenderism – showed that at the very least its leadership was realigned with baseline reality, morality aside.
And their stock price reflects the value of leadership suddenly and unapologetically staking a claim to baseline reality.
How can you expect Kamala Harris to solve any crisis if she can’t say what a woman is?
Immigration, the war in Ukraine, trade, the housing shortage, inflation. These issues are astronomically more complex than deciding whether or not it would be good to hire the hottest woman in America to sell pants.
Just like you can tell the difference between Admiral “Rachel” Levine and Sydney Sweeney, Americans reflexively know Democrats occupy an imaginary world. Borders aren’t real. Gender isn’t real. Shoplifting is fine. Riots are peaceful. Law enforcement is bad. Racial quotas aren’t racist. Obesity is healthy. 25-cent masks prevent disease transmission and also, by the way, we’ll arrest you for not wearing one.
Attempting to impose unreality on human beings might work for a time, but it’ll catch up with you eventually. It did with Dems in 2024.
All this to say, I’d hate it if my lifeline were literally Jeffrey Epstein.
Their return to sanity had to start somewhere, I guess.
WHAT I’M READING
The least shocking local news imaginable.
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Well wouldja look at that?
‘Oh, I’m Very Happy’: Latinos Living Along Southern Border Rave Over Trump’s Crackdown
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