Ken Klippenstein: Exit Mitch McConnell, Enter Abdul El-Sayed

Exit Mitch McConnell, Enter Abdul El-Sayed

McConnell's wife leaves country; Democrats leave old school politics

Ken Klippenstein July 6, 2026. On Substack

McConnell sits behind his wife, Elaine Chao

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“Elder abuse” — that’s what Charles Booker, the outsider Democratic candidate to replace Senator Mitch McConnell, calls the effort to keep the bedridden 84-year-old in office.

By saying what everyone is thinking but Washington refuses to acknowledge, he embodies the new generation of Democrats rejecting the time-honored tradition of saying nothing in favor of saying something. 

From Zohran Mamdani to Melat Kiros, the old guard extinction event is here. These new Democrats are unapologetic about their views. That stands in glaring contrast to their predecessors’ neurotic obsession with focus-grouped sound bites that might poll well but radiate insincerity. You might not agree with the new Democrats, but you don’t need a decoder ring to decipher their positions.

Charles Booker

If the polls are to be trusted, these new Democrats could make up nearly 10 percent of the Congress after the midterms. Wondering what’s driving this upheaval? Look no further than the old guard’s refusal to address the obvious reality that McConnell is circling the drain.

“I don’t want to speculate on anyone’s health,” Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said last week when asked during a press briefing about McConnell’s hospitalization.

I, on the other hand, have no problem “speculating,” like about the fact that only a tiny fraction (fewer than five percent) of octogenarians survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest like the one McConnell suffered.

I’ll speculate further: even if he’s part of that lucky few, he’ll have brain damage, as the vast majority of survivors do.

Speculation is necessary here because McConnell’s office has refused to say why he’s been in the hospital for the past three weeks, what his current status is, or when he’ll be out. This has led to a lot of confusion, as seen in the following post from an X/Twitter account that provides daily updates on whether McConnell has passed. 

All of this “speculation” is common sense to just about any ER nurse or medical expert, who are all over TikTok expressing their bafflement that the media is entertaining the possibility that McConnell will soon be wheeled down the Senate chamber like Hannibal Lecter.

This Weekend at Bernie’s routine explains the success of all the current insurgent candidates: they’re willing to say and do the thing that’s obvious and necessary, rejecting the ways of those with political “experience” (read: expedience) whose slogan might as well be: The buck stops somewhere else. The old guard believes in procedures over results and hide behind things like decorum and civility as an excuse for doing and saying nothing. 

Let’s talk about decorum and civility.

McConnell, who has held his Senate seat since 1985, embodies the old ways perfectly. In his final years he became one of the only Republicans willing to break with Trump — voting against his most controversial nominees, including Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and took to the Senate floor to call Trump “practically and morally responsible” for January 6 (while voting against his impeachment). He lamented that his party had grown too populist, too isolationist, too Trump. The decorous man was, by the end, a man without a party.

It’s hard to imagine now, but McConnell was once a moderate — a Rockefeller Republican, pro-choice and pro-labor, who in his first run for local office courted unions so aggressively that he won the AFL-CIO’s endorsement by promising to back collective bargaining for public employees. (Once elected, he reneged.) His biographer Alec MacGillis titled his book, bluntly, The Cynic, tracing McConnell’s shift “from a moderate Republican … to the embodiment of partisan obstructionism” — driven less by any change of conviction than by a bottomless appetite for power.

His first wife, Sherrill Redmon, a Democrat, divorced him in 1980 as he calcified into that operator; she became a feminist scholar at Smith, where she ran the Sophia Smith Collection and worked with Gloria Steinem on an oral history of the women’s movement. In 1993 McConnell married Elaine Chao, who would serve as labor secretary under George W. Bush and transportation secretary under Trump I — and whose family’s China-based shipping fortune, and the millions it delivered to the couple, has trailed him for decades. 

As transportation secretary she drew a criminal referral from the department's inspector general for using her staff and office to benefit her family; the Justice Department declined to pursue it. Chao resigned in the days after January 6, one of the “decorous” exits that changed nothing.

McConnell — a lifelong Washington operator who started as a legislative aide to Kentucky Senator Marlow Cook before becoming a deputy assistant attorney general under Ford — hated public speaking and courting voters, preferring a data-driven war room to the stump. This is exactly the politics voters are rejecting. They want to be in the room where it happens, as participants rather than spectators

Which brings us to the insurgent leading the Democratic primary for Michigan's open Senate seat: Abdul El-Sayed. He's a rejection of everything McConnell stands for, distilled into a single slogan: "Money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All." Agree or disagree, you know where he stands.

An MD and epidemiologist, El-Sayed comes not from politics but from medicine — a world whose failures he's clearly passionate about fixing. He ran Detroit's health department after the city's bankruptcy gutted it, then led Wayne County's, serving 1.8 million people. This is not the usual lawyer-to-Washington pipeline of most career politicians like McConnell.

The dinosaur establishment, meanwhile, is spending real money to stop him, which tells you everything.

And McConnell? This weekend it was reported that just three days after his resuscitation and hospitalization, Chao traveled to Beijing to meet the Vice President of China, Han Zheng — for talks Chinese state media described as strengthening U.S.–China ties. Business ties, that is.

McConnell’s wife meeting with China’s VP last month

Contrary to the movies, CPR is brutal: it breaks ribs, cracks the sternum. McConnell, in what are very likely his final days, has been in excruciating pain — alone, at least from his wife.

How’s that for civility?

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Epstein Was a Network, Not an Island . (In the Sea of Capitalism)

 

Richard Mellor

I really enjoy Bruce Fanger’s writing, especially in the way he captures the strange, disorienting processes unfolding around us. Yet what stands out just as much is what he doesn’t say. He never names capitalism, never touches on the underlying system of production that shapes the very events he’s describing. His commentary is an attempt to explain our moment as we live through it, but it stops short of identifying the structural engine driving these crises. This is all too common with opponents of the present state of affairs in the US and internationally.

I’m not sure whether this omission is intentional. Perhaps Bruce sees these developments as failures of human nature — a common explanation these days — rather than as the predictable outcomes of a particular economic and social order. I am not in the slightest questioning his integrity. But if we’re honest about what we’re experiencing, we have to recognize that this is not simply a moral or psychological breakdown; the product of personality flaws. It is the late stage of a social system in decay, to borrow the words of a well‑known Russian revolutionary.

 

And if that’s true, then the path forward is not nostalgia, not moral renewal, not minor reform and certainly not more organised religion. And I am not saying Bruce is recommending any of these as I have not spoken with him about his political views. But my view is that what will resolve these crises is systemic change. Without it, we risk losing far more than we realize. Richard Mellor FFWP Admin.

 

Epstein Was a Network, Not an Island

Bruce Fanger

White Rose June 19, 2026

 

How Peter Thiel, tech oligarchy, and elite access turned private rooms into power

 

The mistake is thinking Jeffrey Epstein was only an island.

 

The island matters. The mansion matters. The planes matter. The victims matter most of all. Nothing should blur that. But if we stop at the island, we miss the machinery that made Epstein useful to powerful people long after any decent society should have shut every door in his face.

 

Epstein was not merely a predator hiding among elites. He was an access broker moving among them.

 

That distinction matters because the network changed over time.

 

Donald Trump belonged mostly to Epstein’s earlier world: Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, New York money, beauty-pageant culture, models, celebrity real estate, and rich men orbiting one another in rooms where money mistook itself for innocence. That connection was public enough that Trump once praised Epstein as a “terrific guy” and acknowledged his taste for younger women. The later explanations about when the relationship ended and why it ended have shifted, which carries its own distinct odor.

 

But Trump’s Epstein connection does not appear to be the same play as the later tech-oligarch layer. That is the important distinction. Trump was the gaudy old-world layer: gold trim, private clubs, social access, rich-man sleaze in Palm Beach lighting.

 

The tech oligarchs show up in a different phase of Epstein’s usefulness.

After Epstein’s 2008 conviction, any normal person would have treated him as radioactive. Instead, parts of the elite world treated him like a damaged but still functioning connector. He moved through finance, science, academia, philanthropy, technology, and political influence. The point was not simply sex or scandal.

 

The point was access.

 

That is where Peter Thiel becomes the more serious figure.

 

Elon Musk belongs in this story, but not at the center of it. Musk is spectacle: rockets, social media, political noise, government contracts, artificial intelligence, Starlink, Trump-world proximity, and the constant toddler-with-a-flamethrower performance. His documented Epstein references deserve scrutiny, especially because Epstein appears to have tried to cultivate him. But Musk is not the foundation of this argument.

 

Musk is the flare in the sky.

 

Thiel is the architecture underneath.

 

Peter Thiel sits at the intersection of venture capital, surveillance technology, defense contracting, right-wing political engineering, elite secrecy, and the fantasy of escape. PayPal made the network. Palantir made the surveillance state profitable. Founders Fund helped seed the future these men now claim only they are qualified to govern. Thiel’s support for figures like JD Vance shows the movement from influence to installation. That is not just donating to politics.

 

That is building political hardware.

 

The Epstein-Thiel connection is not merely social fog. Reporting has tied Epstein to planned meetings, correspondence, and investment in Thiel-linked Valar Ventures funds. That does not prove participation in Epstein’s crimes. It does not need to. The significance is not that every person near Epstein was criminal. The significance is that Epstein still had access to powerful men after his conviction, and some of those men were helping build the machinery of the future.

 

Then there is Dialog, the private invitation-only network co-founded by Thiel and recently exposed through leaked reporting.

 

Dialog is not alarming simply because powerful people meet privately. That is old news. Elites have always preferred rooms without the public in them. The concerning part is the particular mixture: tech capital, political figures, finance, media, academia, artificial intelligence, defense-adjacent interests, surveillance power, and off-the-record secrecy at a time when these industries are moving deeper into the machinery of government.

 

That is the new ruling-class style.

 

Not smoke-filled rooms. Clean rooms.

 

Not mob bosses. Platform owners.

 

Not only oil men. Data men.

 

The people who want to manage the future meet away from the people who have to live in it.

 

This is why Epstein’s later tech connections matter even if they do not prove criminal wrongdoing by everyone named in his records. The careful distinction must be made: appearing in Epstein’s schedules or documents does not prove participation in Epstein’s crimes. Planned meetings do not prove meetings happened. Mention does not equal guilt.

 

But the pattern still matters.

 

Epstein’s genius, if one can use that word for something so diseased, was understanding that access itself is power. A billionaire does not need every person in the room to be criminal. He needs them flattered by invitation, softened by convenience, protected by status, and trained to believe that normal rules do not apply in private spaces.

 

That is why the timeline matters.

 

Trump represents Epstein’s earlier social-access world. Thiel represents the later tech-finance-power world. They do not need to be one continuous crew from the beginning. In fact, the distinction makes the story sharper. Epstein adapted. First came Palm Beach sleaze. Later came futurist power. First came clubs and models. Later came tech capital, science prestige, venture money, AI, rockets, surveillance, and private governance.

 

Trump was old-money sleaze with gold trim.

 

Musk is future-money spectacle with rockets and a propaganda platform.

 

Thiel is the server room.

 

Thiel’s New Zealand story exposes the psychology of this class. His proposed Wānaka compound was described as a luxury lodge, not officially an apocalypse bunker, and that distinction matters. But symbolism has a way of telling the truth before the press release catches up. Remote land. Earth-sheltered design. Elite refuge. A private sanctuary at the edge of the world.

 

It was not proof of an end-times plot.

 

It was evidence of an instinct.

 

The same men who sell disruption to the public often buy isolation for themselves. They preach the future while reserving escape routes from it. They tell ordinary people to adapt, compete, retrain, sacrifice, endure, and trust the market. Then they purchase distance from the consequences of the world they help create.

 

Epstein’s island was a private room surrounded by water.

 

The tech oligarch’s refuge is a private room surrounded by collapse.

 

That is the tell.

 

Oil barons threaten humanity by burning the physical world while funding delay, denial, and dependence. Tech oligarchs threaten humanity by building the control systems for the damaged world that follows: surveillance platforms, AI decision systems, border enforcement tools, privatized intelligence, social-media propaganda, military logistics, and political candidate pipelines.

 

The oil baron says the house can keep burning.

 

The tech oligarch says he can manage the ashes.

 

Humanity should reject both.

 

Epstein sits in this story not as the only villain, but as a window. He showed how the ruling class actually moves when no one is watching closely: private planes, private islands, private meetings, private money, private introductions, private reputational laundering, and public denial once the lights come on.

 

The scandal is not that one monster fooled polite society.

 

The scandal is that polite society kept answering his calls.

 

That is why the Thiel focus matters. Trump’s Epstein connection is ugly and real, but it belongs largely to the earlier social world. Musk deserves scrutiny, but in this story he is not the foundation. Thiel gives us the architecture: surveillance, capital, politics, secrecy, elite forums, and escape.

 

Epstein was not an anomaly.

 

He was a method.

 

He was a private operating system for elite access, and the tech oligarchs did not invent that system.

 

They upgraded it.

 

The old oligarchs wanted the oil.

 

The new oligarchs want the operating system of society.

 

Epstein opened doors.

 

Thiel builds rooms without windows.

 

That is the real threat.

Something Pretty Explosive came out Today About the Epstein Files.

Something pretty explosive came out today about the Epstein files.

Rachel Hurley*

June 11 26

Does anyone else remember that rumor about the whole Trump team getting together to figure out how to deal with the fact that Trump was in them so many times?

 

Well, guess what - the NYT reported the whole story today. It's in a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan called "Regime Change," and here's what they say happened.

 

So - as we all recall - last July the DOJ and FBI go "yeah there's no client list, the guy killed himself, nothing to see here."

 

Then MAGA absolutely loses it. Charlie Kirk's Turning Point event turns into what the authors call an Epstein grievance fest, speaker after speaker trashing AG Pam Bondi. Trump reportedly called Kirk and chewed him out, then went online and told his own fans to quit wasting "Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein." 

 

It did not work.

 

Ten days later, JD Vance hauls everyone into the Situation Room - Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, and the deputy AG, Todd Blanche.

 

Trump's not even there. Vance walks in and goes, basically, this is a huge problem.

 

And the idea Vance throws out is get Tucker Carlson to go interview Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, on the theory that maybe she'll sit there on camera and say Trump never did anything.

 

Vance was actually the one arguing to just release everything. Everybody else wanted to sit on it. And the reason they wanted to sit on it is in the files. There's a document - emails from an Epstein accuser named Sarah Ransome - making a graphic claim about Trump. The book says officials sat in the most secure room in the country having a "surreal" conversation about the "nipple material," some of them hearing the claim for the first time. 

 

When the Ransome allegation came up, Vance argued for putting it and other accusations on the DOJ site as "maximum transparency," saying Trump's been accused of worse and wouldn't care. Wiles shut him down cold - told him the president would absolutely not be fine with that. 

 

Vance also tried to set up a Rogan interview timed to the DOJ launching its Epstein files website. The plan was to put Blanche on Rogan - but Rogan told Vance, on the phone, he didn't want Blanche. Vance then floated himself, pitching that only part of it would be about Epstein and the rest could be about the new legislation and "working families." Never happened.

 

Later at the DOJ, everyone was at each other's throats. Dan Bongino, then deputy FBI director, walked into a DOJ meeting and screamed at Bondi - "you f*cked this thing up from the start" - over the client list she'd promised was "on my desk" and then never produced. He and Kash Patel both reportedly told the White House she needed to go. Bongino called the whole mess Trump's Iran-contra.

 

Okay but the one who actually matters here is Todd Blanche.

 

Blanche runs the whole Justice Department right now - he's acting attorney general. And before any of this he was Trump's personal defense lawyer, the literal guy standing next to him in court. Then he got the number two job at DOJ, and now he's been nominated by Trump to run the place officially - because of course, right?

 

Pam Bondi already testified that Blanche had been in charge all along of how the files got released - and apparently, in that situation room meeting - he was workshopping how to make it seem like he was doing his job.

 

The book says Blanche brought two ideas. One, he'd personally go interview Maxwell. Two, ask a court to unseal the grand jury testimony. He pushed the court thing knowing it'd get tossed, because grand jury material is about the most locked-down stuff there is. He just wanted it on record that he asked, so somebody could point to it later.

 

Then he went and interviewed Maxwell. Two days, in the courthouse in Tallahassee where she's doing twenty years. Former prosecutors said that's insane - a senior DOJ official does not personally run an interview like that, line prosecutors do, with FBI in the room. He went himself, to talk to the one living person who knows the truth about his boss.

 

And then, about a week later, she mysteriously got moved to a nicer prison - a minimum-security camp in Texas, the kind of place sex offenders basically never get sent.

 

So, yeah - that's the incredibly, non-surprising story of the Trump administration trying to run cover for the star of the Epstein Files.

 

What a country.

 

Rachel Hurley is running for Congress in Tennessee’s 5^th District

Publishing this article is for our readers interests and is not FFWP’s endorsement of her political campaign. This blog does not support the Democratic Party.

 

University Professor's Speech on How Real Progress is Made.

Richard Mellor

Free speech is not yet dead in the United States. There are many, many, people that will be inspired by these comments from Derek R. Peterson, Professor of History and African Studies and outgoing Chair of the Faculty Senate, at the University of Michigan commencement of 2 May 2026.

 

We will see more and more of this as the US government, as well as western governments in the UK, and Germany in particular, attempt to silence any reference to Israel’s genocide in Palestine and the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population there. The relentless attempts to conflate Judaism with Zionism in order to undermine opposition to Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the region, are being rejected by young people in particular.

 

The vast majority of the people in the US are opposed to US imperialism’s forever wars and in particular the most recent unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran by Israel and the US as well as Israel’s ongoing devastating war on Lebanon. Opposing the assault on Iran does not indicate support for the Iranian regime.

 

We in the US are also being kept in the dark about the actual deaths and destruction of US bases in the Middle East as the strongly censored and corporate controlled US mass media covers for the massive failures and wasted lives and resources, costs that are borne by the US taxpayer. Some $30 billion has been spent in the Iran venture and the Trump Administration is asking Congress for another $1.5 trillion for the misnamed defense budget. 

 

Thank you Professor Peterson.

Statement from the Shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner

My immediate view on something like this is it is not a "crazed" rant from some psychotic individual. In fact, I am reluctant to judge any individual in this situation especially after reading this statement. After all, we don't refer to our troops that kill people abroad as "crazed", or cops that shoot unarmed people as "crazed" we say the troops are heroes and the cops defending their lives.

I will say this, just as the Luddites smashed machinery and in the early days of the US labor movement workers took to acts of violence, bombing and sabotage directed at the enemy's power, we have to accept in my view that in the absence of any social force, political party or workers movement we will see more of these individual acts of resistance to the savagery of the market and it's perpetrators. 

It is not the correct approach, it will not achieve our aims, the emancipation of the working class and society from capital. but we have to see it as the desperate act of a worker acting in anger and with no organized force that can resolve what is a real crisis facing working people today, in the US and throughout the world. Richard Mellor FFWP Admin

Cole Allen

 

Thanks to Liza May for sharing.

 

"Accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a sprawling, crazed manifesto to family members about 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack, sources told The Post.

The 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning — signed Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen” — outlined his “rules of engagement” for the shooting and stated he believed it was his righteous duty to target administration officials."

 

Cole Allen’s manifesto in full:

 

"Hello everybody!

 

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I

 apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

 

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

 

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

 

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

 

On to why I did any of this:

 

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

 

What my representatives do reflects on me.

 

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

 

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

 

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

 

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.

 

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible 

(aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

 

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

 

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

 

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

 

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

 

Guests: not targets at all

 

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

 

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

 

Rebuttals to objections:

 

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

 

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

 

Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

 

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

 

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

 

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

 

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

 

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

 

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

 

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

 

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

 

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

 

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

 

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

 

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

 

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

 

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

 

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

 

Thank you all for everything.

 

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

 

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

 

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

 

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

 

No damn security.

 

Not in transport.

 

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

 

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

 

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

 

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

 

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

 

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

 

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids."