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27 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
There's an article to be written explaining how and why so many people who began with "anti-woke" as their defining identity ended up as "anti-vax."
But who should write it?
Even weirder

Some who started on the anti-anti-Trump right; others on the anti-HIllary left - none with any particular interest in the vaccine issue one way or the other - but who are now drifting toward anti-vax crackpot ideology only because they hate liberals so much.
Likewise, there's no apparently necessary reason that ex-leftists who pooh-poohed Trump's Russian connections should drift toward championing ivermectin and mocking Dr Fauci - and yet it keeps happening. Why, why, why?

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On this anniversary of Pearl Harbor, an anecdote from Max Hastings' "Overlord":

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Afterward, a Pole with a healed gash across his face, approached the American lecturer. “You omitted the most important lesson of all."

“What’s that?” asked the American.

The Pole replied: “Be the stronger one.”

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Congressional subpoena power was agreed in the first Congress by a committee led by James Madison that also included constitutional signatory Roger Sherman
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