Overnight News: ‘Legitimacy’ simply means the acquiescence of the governed. What happens when the world’s largest militia withdraws its consent?

I wrote a song this morning. Feel free to sing it with me:

I do not consent
I do not consent
I do not consent
to being enslaved by government.

I know Trump’s victory – and America’s – was stolen, and I now suspect that all elections have been corrupt for decades. But that does not even matter, by now: America is at the abyss, and if it tumbles, the whole world goes with it.

Fun fact: Every prediction is non-epiphanted. What happens today could change everything.

Otherwhere:

CNBC: Mortgage demand from homebuyers pulled back sharply, even as rates ended 2020 near record low. Hmm… How’d that happen?

Housing Wire: Mortgage applications drop over holidays. Hey, maybe that’s it!

CNBC: Snowflake CEO says Covid has shown old approach to working at the office is ‘nonsense’.

City Journal: The Sunshine Exodus: New York license plates increasingly stand out on Florida roads.

Lee Smith: The American Elite Declares Its Independence From America.

Christopher Rufo: Radicals in the Classroom: San Diego’s school district tells white teachers that they are guilty of “spirit murdering” black children and should undergo “antiracist therapy.”