I mean, the reason you might buy tomorrow's paper is because if the world doesn't collapse

into ash by then, your grandkids, grandkids someday are going to look at that old physical newspaper

you were able to save from August 9th, 2022, and they are going to goggle at the thought of what your life must have been like.

They are going to goggle at the thought of what it must have been like for you to see something like this happening in your lifetime, in real time,

for the first time ever in American history, having no idea how it would play out.

Nothing like this has ever happened before, and we don't know how this ends. history having no idea how it would play out.

Nothing like this has ever happened before, and we don't know how this ends.

Tonight's news that the FBI has raided the home of the immediate past president of the

United States.

It feels both astonishing and sort of inevitable in equal measure.

Before Republican President Donald J. Trump, we'd never before

had a president impeached twice in a single term. We'd never had so many members of a president's

own party vote not only to impeach him, but to convict him and remove him from office and bar him

from ever serving an office again. We had never before had a president reject the results of the election that did remove him from office.

We'd never before had a president summon his followers to a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

to try to stop the transfer of power to his successor.

We had never before had a president who was known to tear up official government documents,

whose chief of staff has reported to have burned government documents in a White House fireplace,

which would be the most lurid document destruction we've ever heard of in any presidential administration

or it not for the fact that the former president himself has repeatedly been credibly accused

of flushing

government documents down a variety of nearby toilets. So even the Burningham in the White House

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