MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Blue States Advance From Slow-Motion Suicide to Fast-Action.

Upon hearing word of the English defeat at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War, a young nobleman named John Sinclair wrote to his friend, the Scottish economist and political philosopher, Adam Smith.

“If we go on at this rate, the nation must be ruined!”

“Be assured, my young friend,” Smith calmly assured Sinclair in his reply, “that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron, traveling back through time, wrote, “Hold our beers!”

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