Three days in and the Hunter Biden pardon fallout rages on, as the left divides in two: an opinion this is embarrassing (wisely navigated by Jon Stewart), and an embarrassing opinion (“what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” said Whoopi Goldberg incoherently, and “he’s the president, he can do whatever he wants”). But everyone’s missing the broader picture. Controversial pardons are as American as apple pie. Grant pardoned Confederate officers. Obama pardoned nearly 2,000 criminals — or 8x as many as Trump. And FDR pardoned 2x that many — or roughly the population of a small town. And that’s fine, actually. If America wants momentum, she needs a failsafe for our boys in the arena. Screw it, I say, go all in and pardon everyone. Then start over with truly draconian sentences for violent criminals only. And if that’s Hunter’s legacy? Then every puff of crack was worth it.

In this week’s latest tit-for-tat trade feud, Beijing banned exports of gallium, germanium, antimony and other “rare earth minerals” to the United States on “national security” grounds. A CCP spokesman reasoned the American government “generalized the concept of national security, and politicized and weaponized economic, trade and tech issues,” which is literally their job description. Tragically, to keep up semiconductor manufacturing and other key tech and military innovations, the US will now be forced to roll back unnecessary environmental regulations and launch cutting edge mining operations to refine domestic rare metals, bringing production of these vital resources onshore, which will likely take tens of thousands of American workers and billions of dollars of investment, inevitably creating high-quality jobs that invigorate previously blighted communities, streamlining inefficient and insecure supply chains, spurring massive economic growth, protecting American strategic and national security interests, and defining a new era of energized patriotism, which…hey wait a minute.

A growing number of Mexican citizens have reportedly soured on immigration, with 7 in 10 believing migrant flows are “excessive,” and a whopping 13% believing their borders should be shuttered and migrants deported, according to a new poll conducted by the UN. One local even went so far as to borrow one of Trump’s favorite lines (about Mexicans lol), claiming: “We’re being invaded.” Now, in the eyes of one official at a refugee agency in Mexico City, these people are obviously just being mucho xenophóbico, because “among the general public [here], diversity hasn’t yet been normalized.” But may I offer an alternative explanation? Might concern over unbridled mass migration have less to do with racism than it does a fairly universal aversion to having your hometown reshaped overnight? No? Okay then, I tried. Break out “The Brown Face of Racism” legacy media op-eds, and let’s have ourselves a laugh.

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