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The people running New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Service really don't want you to show up in person. Which is fine. They mailed us a driver's license renewal form that allowed renewal via mail or online. We chose the latter option and renewed our license in five minutes. Just one of the many reasons why this blog doesn't hate Phil Murphy. Actually the MVS was first streamlined in the early 2000's by former governor Jim McGreevy, about whom the less said the better. 

It cost us $75 to fill up our Honda Pilot yesterday. We vaguely remember hearing about the 'Energy Crisis' in the late 70's. Well the energy crisis is coming back, isn't it? Thanks Joe. 

Five years ago yesterday we made America great again. The Trump record:

-Last president lawfully elected
-Hillary denied
-Courts remade
-Greatest economy ever
-Energy independence
-Secure border
-Isis defeated, Soleimani and Baghdadi killed
-Abraham Accords
-Operation Warp Speed

To be clear on the top line point, the Dems stole the election of 2020. Stole. The election of 2020 was fraudulent, unfair, dirty, corrupt. In other words the election of 2020 was stolen by the Democrats. To be clearer, Trump won.*

This blog will believe Joe won when critics can present evidence that the election was fair.

Should Trump run again? He's already been elected twice. But a strong case can be made that Trump's moment has passed. Time and distance allow for an honest assessment. We've found flaws. Why go with the original software when you can upload version 2.0, say DeSantis? The laws of political gravity being what they are, DeSantis being the hot candidate now all but guarantees he won't be the hot candidate in 2024. 

*Yes, this blog supports Jack's decision not to concede. What's the rush? No, this blog does not think Phil Murphy stole the governor's race.

Will's Notes on the Friday Follies

Our latest bit of collusion with Moscow (what is 'hillbilly'?):'This observer assumes Joe Biden will take the oath of office on January 20th 2021. We’re no lawyer, but after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s Pennsylvania brief 9-0, we’re not optimistic about his chances. Now Texas has sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to prevent them from awarding their combined 62 electoral votes to Biden. Seventeen states, including Florida, have joined the suit. To put it another way, one third of the states including the 2nd and 3rd most populist states in the union think the election was illegitimate. This is legal civil war. Time is not on their side though, as the Electoral College meets December 14th.' 

We're going to take the unusual step of starting next week's KGB column this week, right after we finish this post in fact, as we have plenty of ju-ju about the China/Dem spy scandal and China's broader victory in the Covid War. They won, didn't they? Joe is Beijing's man in Washington and lord knows what kind of kompromat they have. Maxim, I am rolling.

Israel and Morocco are normalizing ties, another win for the president's Abraham Accord. The Times of Israel describes the large Moroccan Jewish diaspora. As we recall, Mark Twain wrote about Moroccan Jews in his travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad.  

Disney + has 86 million subscribers, ourselves among them. It is with pleasure we learn that they're actually going to make the Kenobi TV series, with Ewan Macgregor starring. They're also planning another movie, Rogue Squadron, directed by Patty Jenkins. We're told she directed Wonder Woman, which we haven't seen. Fingers crossed? Rogue One being the least worst of the Disney Star Wars films, we're cautiously optimistic. We shrug, maybe we shouldn't be. This is going to be a Woke disaster, isn't it. Exit question, is Favreau in charge?

We've taken to reading Haaretz, Israeli's palestinian daily, and The Guardian, just to make sure we're not stuck in the Deplorable bubble. Both papers are honest about what they are, which is why we'll read them and not, well you know. We have a few FB friends to help us with that as well. Pro-tip, just keep scrolling. Boy Haaretz really hates Bibi. But at this point who doesn't? Even this blog is wavering. C'mon Bibi, can't you find something else to do? You'd make a killing on the speaker circuit here. A killing.