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I better be on that list!

What, did Tony Hinchcliffe text a bunch of Puerto Ricans or something?

What is this, FBI? And I guess the obvious question is ...

Are you serious?? Instead of looking for real criminals you're looking for racist text messengers?

In related and highly timely news, the New York Post ran a deplorably predictable story yesterday headlined, “FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source.” Yep. It’s true. They just can’t stop themselves.

PolyMarket has repeatedly and recently graced Coffee & Covid’s posts, since it seemed to be, and was proven to be, a far more accurate electoral predictor than the traditional polls. So of course it must be destroyed. Early yesterday morning, around 6am, the FBI raided the Manhattan apartment of Shane Copeland, 26, Polymarket’s CEO, and rudely confiscated all his electronics.

Sound familiar? It’s like a recurring nightmare, except we’ve had it so many times now it’s becoming more like the predictable punchline to a bad dad-joke. And then the FBI raided everybody!

The Post reported that one anonymous French trader earned a whopping $85 million betting on Trump, a vast wealth transfer from progressives to Trump supporters. PolyMarket itself charge no fees and does not bet or engage in any betting itself. Shane was not arrested, not informed of charges, and not even told what the raid was even about.

I’d be speculating if I opined about what the feds might be looking for. But we sort of already know, don’t we?

The Biden-Harris administration’s FBI has raided the home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan a week after the betting platform predicted the landslide victory for President Donald Trump.

Unlike corporate media polling, which predicted a “close race” between Trump and Kamala Harris, Polymarket used betting averages to predict the outcome of the election.

As a result, Polymarket accurately predicted Trump’s historic win over Harris.

Law enforcement recovered a cellphone and other electronic devices from the 26-year-old’s Manhattan apartment, the New York Post reported.

The FBI must be ended. It is a purely criminal organization now. Maybe it always was.

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired for lying under oath, spent $70,000 in taxpayer dollars on a conference table. The FBI also redacted the conference table’s steep price tag from documents that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee requested, in an apparent attempt to hide it from Congress.

In a letter sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed that the FBI had redacted the cost of the table from a document he and his fellow members of the committee requested to see. Grassley said many of the redactions within the documents made no sense, nor were they made to protect national security secrets.

“Congress, and the public, have a right to know how the Department spends taxpayer money,” Grassley wrote. “I am unaware of any legitimate basis on which the cost of a conference table should be redacted. Embarrassment is not a good enough reason. The manner in which some redactions have been used casts doubt on whether the remaining redactions are necessary and defensible.”