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The media refuses to report the fact that the stock market has fully recovered from the "Liberation Day" slump.

It felt much longer, but the U.S. stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day." That's when he shocked Wall Street by announcing much steeper tariffs than expected on nearly all U.S. trading partners.

Those tariffs unveiled on April 2 were so severe that they raised fears Trump did not worry about causing a recession in his attempt to reshape the global economy. Within just four days, the S&P 500 fell about 12%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 4,600 points, or about 11%.

This past Friday, though, the S&P 500 rallied 1.5% for a ninth straight gain and pulled back to where it was on April 2.

The left has discovered a politician they want to evict from office due to mental incapacity.

That politician? John Fetterman, of course.

They claimed he was mentally fit as a fiddle when he wasn't even capable of understanding human speech but now that he's dug-in in his support for Israel, now he's too retarded to be a senator.

In 2022, when John Fetterman had a stroke while he was running for his Senate seat, the Democrats and their media allies were insistent that to even question his fitness to serve was ableist and unacceptable.

My, how times have changed.

This week, New York magazine, as reliable a Democrat organ as there is, ran a scathing hit piece on Fetterman in which current and former staffers all but suggest that not only should he not be Pennsylvania's senior senator, he belongs in an assisted living facility.

The piece has no "gotcha" moment that would make any fair person say that Fetterman needs to step aside - you know, the kind former President Biden provided daily. Rather, it is a collection of anecdotes about him snapping at staff, or withdrawing into himself, perhaps not taking his medication. Try as they might, the folks at New York magazine constructed a molehill, not a mountain.

But why, one wonders, two years after waiving away similar behavior is a liberal news outlet suddenly parading the senator's alleged diminished capacities? What changed?

Well, the article itself gives us a big hint with this line, "The endless fights over Israel, which saw Fetterman draw further into himself, coincided with setbacks in his recovery regimen."

You don't say.

Allow me to humbly suggest that this is not, in fact, a coincidence. Fetterman's strong support of Israel, America's ally, and his other recent moderate positions have placed a giant target on the back of his hoodie sweatshirt.

Condemning Israel's defensive war against Hamas is just one of the progressive shibboleths that Fetterman refuses to mindlessly repeat, but it may be the most important one. After all, according to progressives, he is supporting genocide.

Likewise, his completely sane and rational position that not every utterance of President Donald Trump needs to be met with setting one's hair on fire completely contradicts Democrats' claims that Trump has already begun ushering in autocratic fascism.

It's honestly kind of amusing that one of the only Democrats who isn't driven completely insane by Trump is the one they say is mentally unfit.

Collin Rugg
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REPORT: Antarctica reverses trend and gains ice for the first time in decades, according to a new study published by Science China Earth Sciences.

Researchers say from 2021-2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet saw a record-breaking mass *gain.*

Tongji University researchers say satellite gravimetry data shows that from 2011 to 2020, the Antarctic Ice Sheet lost 142 gigatons of ice per year.

That trend flipped between 2021 and 2023 when the ice sheet allegedly gained about 108 gigatons of ice per year.

Most of the gains are in East Antarctica. Scientists say much of the gains are linked to precipitation patterns, which could be temporary.

Crazy.

Notice that when the news is good, and defies climate alarmists' fake predictions, they claim it might be "temporary." Weird that they never say that temperature fluctuations could be temporary.

The New Yorker did a spread on "power houses," the homes of leftwing millionaires in New York, including the "textile designer" Ella Emhoff. The daughter of Kamala Harris's woman-punching, nanny-boinking husband. AKA The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.

Below, Alex Soros and Huma Abedin, the modern-day Cleopatra of Political Dick-Riding.

posted by Ace at 05:25 PM

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