Counterrevolutionaries of the Regency

On this day:
1430
Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
1498
Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
1533
The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1934
American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1934
The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1939
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1945
World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1948
Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.

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A 27-year-old woman was shot by security guards after she drove erratically onto the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters complex in Langley, Va., early Thursday and ignored their attempts to stop her, according to people briefed on the episode.

A spokeswoman for the C.I.A. described it only as a “security incident.” The woman, whose name has not been released, was believed to have been under the influence when she drove onto C.I.A. property around 4 a.m. She was shot when police fired at her vehicle to try to stop her, according to the people briefed on the matter, who added that her injuries were not life-threatening.--from NYT. Other reports say she was not shot and did not get onto the grounds.

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Did the Pirates really give up Ortiz and two other pitchers for a platoon player?

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OnlyFans owner Fenix International Ltd is in talks to sell the porn-driven company to an investor group at a valuation of around $8 billion, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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A quote from a Biden cabinet secretary in “Original Sin”: “I’ve never seen a situation like this before, with so few people having so much power. They would make huge economic decisions without calling [Treasury] Secretary [ Janet] Yellen.”

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America has created a free, equal, and productive multiracial/ethnic nation. Are there others?

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Counterrevolutionaries of the Regency

The chaotic Democratic Party is looking for a landing strip. One of the dumbest is that Jill Biden is Lady Macbiden, eager to continue the incompetent Biden presidency so she could go to parties. This is like arguing somebody should have diagnosed Biden's prostate cancer. That might be true, but it is not what is wrong.

What is wrong is that a group of political opportunists saw an empty shell of a man whom they could prop up like a ventriloquist dummy, sidestep the voters' wishes, and advance their personal political views, antithetical to the nation's very creation and nature. That is not provocative, or unusual, or abusive, or a health care question.

That is a coup. A coup.

Interestingly, we do not know who these rebels are. But we have certainly identified the ineffectual guys who raised hell on January 6th, guys who never dreamed of subverting the nation as these fifth columnists did with ease.

And without guilt. Why? Because they think they know better than the electorate. Like the European aristocracy, they feel ordained with insight and a true vision. And, coincidentally, that vision says they should run everything. Save the people from their inherent failures. The enemies of Washington, Madison, and Jefferson. The idols of the court sycophants. Pre-Revolutionaries. Lawbreakers. Fifth columnists.

Traitors.