They pay college football players now?

I read this story about the Tennessee quarterback leaving the team and realized I've been completely out of the loop on college sports nowadays. 

Bernie's perpetual grift

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has some terrible news.

Donald Trump is rapidly turning America into an oligarchy. pic.twitter.com/VCfd5sxgx4

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 11, 2025

Being a Democrat turns you into a wimp

What happened to astronaut Mark Kelly?  I can't believe he said this:

Reporter: "Did you like the no emissions on the Tesla, though, being electric?" 

Kelly: (Reluctantly) "Yeah, yeah. You know, I--"

Reporter: "'Cause the truck doesn't get very good miles per gallon."

Kelly: "I bought the Tesla for its performance. That thing was really fast. Um, but there were also things I didn't like about it. And I couldn't drive it anymore. I mean, the guy's calling me names. You saw that."

Reporter: "I did see that. Thanks, Senator."

Elon called him names.  This is the response from a person who isn't eight years old.  My God.

Well, I'm sure this exchange will turn the tide with young male voters.

Rachel Maddow: I'm a journalism

Ace: "On Eve of Trial, NBC Settles $30 Million Defamation Suit With Obstetrician That Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Niccole Wallace Repeatedly and Recklessly Defamed as a "Uterus Collector" Who Butchers Women and Steals the Uteruses of Immigrant Women."

I'm astonished that the woman who ran with the Russia Russia Russia hoax for three years has been duped again.  Just gobsmacked. 

Well, bye

Twitchy: "Greenland Base Commander Relieved of Her Post After Publicly Undermining VP Visit." 

Why can't Chuck Todd go away?

PJ Media: "Chuck Todd Finally Confesses but There's a Catch."

The point — once again — is that the entire mainstream media knew that Biden wasn't just unfit to run for reelection but that he was already so deep into senility that he was effectively a figurehead, a puppet of unknown figures. The electorate had the right to know all this, and Chuck Damn Todd had the duty to report it. 

Chuck Todd is a complete hack and his recent attempts to justify covering up for Biden is just part of his typical M.O.  He loves to cosplay as the White Knight protector of a higher truth, the same way he censored all viewpoints that didn't align with the environmental nuts. 

Go away, Chuck.  Nobody wants you here.  Take Stephanopoulos with you.

Snubbed

Hot Air: "Hilarious: Leavitt Refused to Answer Journalists Who Specify Pronouns in Bio." 

Those kids are sneaky

PJ Media: "DOGE Uncovers Massive Unemployment Fraud Under Biden Administration."

• 24,500 people, allegedly over 115 years old, claimed $59 million in benefits.
• 28,000 supposed children between the ages of 1 and 5 claimed $254 million.
• 9,700 claims from people with future birth dates totaled $69 million

It's a start.

To be fair it was first class on JetBlue

NY Post: "AOC flies first-class to Bernie Sanders’ ‘Fight Oligarchy’ rally as critics pan lefty pol for battling inequality one ‘mimosa at a time’." 

It's a constitutional crisis!

Liberals Devastated As Stock Market Recovers https://t.co/m3MVBz2cPS pic.twitter.com/xGnz02iw9d

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 9, 2025

AYFKM?

Legal Insurrection: "Judge Orders Trump to Restore Associated Press Access to White House - “No, the Court simply holds that under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists—be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere—it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints.”

According to this logic, the White House cannot refuse a pass to any person calling himself/herself a "journalist."

Also, if the White House press secretary calls on everybody but the Associated Press during a press conference, is that also a violation of this order?  Does the White House have any discretion at all or is it only ever under the thumb of compulsion by flighty judicial decisions?

I feel like this is a hill the White House should fight on and it should use press access during the Biden administration as a counterargument.  

Mann overboard

Daily Caller: "Court Delivers Massive Blow To Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics."

Hawaii judges

Volokh Conspiracy: "Twice, SCOTUS Finds Coastal Courts Improperly Exercised Venue - In two consecutive orders, the Court signals that progressive litigants forum shopped to the wrong courts." 

* reference to title here among other examples of judicial YOLOing.

Seems like a big deal

Fox News: "Supreme Court grants Trump request to lift stay halting Venezuelan deportations - Justices on the high court ruled 5-4 to grant the administration's request to lift the stay, in a temporary victory for Trump and his allies."

This ruling gives an imprimatur to Trump's broad interpretation of immigration laws.

You did it. The crazy son of a bitch, you did it.

Fox News: "Women's pool tournament championship features 2 transgender players after beating female competition."

Well, this is terrifying

Red State: "Intel Sources Claim China Plans Attack on Taiwan in 'Next Few Months'." 

Now it can be told

Looking back on this Jim Geraghty article from August 2021 is amazing in light of all the tell-all books coming out now: "Something Is Wrong with the President." 

The Bud Light-ification of Hollywood

Federalist: "Snow White Bombing Was The Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us."

I don't want to see Disney fail.  I like Disney.  But Snow White represents a larger ideological drift in Hollywood where Americans who just want to be entertained with a story are cudgeled with modern posturing.  Thus the downward spiral of movie viewership. 

You can blame the failure of Snow White on its main star dumping on 1) the original story, 2) Disney fans and 3) half the country.  But I think people would have still gone to see the classic story if it had remained the classic story instead of the "girlboss" trope so popular and ubiquitous in contemporary movies.

Recently there was a story in the paper that the art house cinema in the middle of Amherst, Massachusetts was facing financial pressure due to waning attendance.  For those of you who don't know much about Western Massachusetts, this is the perfectly ideal place for a boutique cinema, smack-dab in the middle of the Five College system.  My wife and I used to be regulars but we've gone less and less over the years; the last movie we saw there was "The Holdovers" (which was great!).  Now you need to look no further than Conclave and Emilia Perez to understand why we - and many others - have skipped the movie house.  Like Snow White, it's just a non-stop diminution of traditional values dressed up as entertainment and people aren't buying it anymore.

Watch this: the real reason the US is betting on tariffs

This is the way, part #2

Always - always - throw it back in their faces.  Red State: "Grab Some Popcorn: Amy Klobuchar Tries to Corner Witness on Attacking Judges, Gets Hit by Schumer Threat." 

Awesome way to start the weekend!

Townhall: "This Reporter Had Only Four Words for This Dem Rep After She Accused Him of Serial Sexual Harassment."

The words were: "See you in court."  This is the way.  $10 million libel lawsuit.

Stock up on avocados

NY Post: "Shoppers may need to buy these items quickly before Trump’s tariffs kick in."

I'm not a fan of these tariffs although I understand Trump's motivation.  But historically they're not the best tool and the libertarian in me says the government should stay out of this.

Mental illness

Fox Business: "Liberals admit to shoplifting from Whole Foods as a way to stick it to Jeff Bezos - 'If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too,' one man confessing to theft said."

This is the same mindset leading to the keying of Teslas to stick it to Elon Musk and his American automobile company.  T.S. Eliot had it right:

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."

 

They've learned nothing

Shot: "Cory Booker’s sad stunt epitomizes Democrats’ empty agenda."

Chaser: "Sad Trombone: Dems in Deep Disarray As More Bad Polling News Hits Them Where It Hurts."

Hangover: "Cory Booker’s Record 25 Hour Filibuster Overshadowed by Dem Party’s All-Time Low 21% Approval Rating." 

Extra - Outkick: "Cory Booker Finally Shuts Up Just In Time For Dems To Get Hit With An Embarrassing New Approval Rating." 

New focus group research has dropped

Twitchy: "'McCarthyism' Is the New 'Hitler': Sen. Markey Goes on CNN to Whine About Trump Withholding Harvard Funds." 

Won't somebody think of the poor Harvard students? 

Where were the Inspectors General?

Mark Tapscott: "Three Groups That Could Have Prevented the Stench Being Uncovered by DOGE - Where Were They While Fraudster Politicians and Bureaucrats in Both Parties Swam in Corruption and Waste of Your Tax Dollars and Mine?" 

Who watches the watchdogs?  I guess DOGE now.

Keep pushing that narrative

Astroturfed for $200

PJ Media: "There's Something Very Suspicious Going on With Those Tesla Protests." 

Awesome sauce

Axios: "Scoop: White House to take charge of briefing-room seating chart."

Eat a bag of d**ks, WHCA.  You've invited this retaliation with your biased coverage. 

A sudden realization

Red State: "Laugh-Out-Loud: NY Times Editorial Board Thinks Democrats Went Too Far Left in 2024."

There's only one reason the Times is making this admission now and it's not to criticize the Democrats nor is it to express a mea culpa for its terrible reporting.  It's because they've become so alarmed by the drop in the polls for the home team, they needed to stage an intervention. 

They're so lost

NY Post: "Democrats’ response to losing? Profanity chic and terrorist porn."

They 100% focus-grouped the profanity ploy. 

Can American schools be saved?

I'm skeptical.  It's been over four decades since the landmark report "A Nation at Risk" was released and American kids are dumber than ever.  If there was anybody more suitable for this heavy lift, it might be the liberal governor in the most liberal state in America.

Or not: "The state stepped in to fix the Boston Public Schools. Now it’s giving up. - There has been some progress. But the district failed to meet several of its goals, and the goals it did meet have not translated into sustained academic gains."

Everybody's got their two cents on how to fix American schools so here's mine: slash them to the bone.  And by that I mean schools should only focus on teaching kids how to read and write and do nothing else.

The mission creep of American schools is undeniable, and if we’re being brutally honest, too many schools have become one-stop social services hubs that also teach a little reading and math on the side. Instead of maintaining a focus on academics, schools are stretched to the breaking point, in part because of federal and state mandates and in part because they have been captured by an ideology that demands that every single student's need be met before any teaching or learning can occur. 

Schools used to be institutions of academic instruction, designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become good citizens, prepared to meaningfully participate in a free society. But somewhere along the way, we decided that schools should also become social service hubs that cater to all the needs of students and families and aspire to fix societal problems that extend far beyond education. It seems fair —and even overdue —to seriously ask if it makes sense to continue using the word “school” to describe educational institutions that are also expected (or required!) to provide breakfast, lunch and snack, host immunization clinics, offer wrap-around health services, provide counseling, address declining mental health, disrupt the “school to prison pipeline,” supervise toothbrushing, teach financial literacy and host drag queen story hour. 

Massachusetts governor Maura Healey has the opportunity to capture the "only Nixon can go to China" moment: oppose the teachers union, fire the score of administrators, and help Bay State kids.  But she won't so we'll continue to move kids through this pipeline where they don't learn anything but at least their feelings aren't hurt.

There's a reason homeschooling is taking off in America.

Related - "The average college student today." 

Tired of winning

NY Post: "Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong resigns, just days after caving to Trump admin demands." 

The Left eats their own.  Amirite, Chuck Schumer?

Always be on offense

Townhall: "Scott Jennings Has a Reminder for Biden Admin Officials Worrying About Accountability After 'Signalgate'."

This guy is a national treasure.

How do you like this headline?

Real Clear Politics: "CNN's Enten: Trump Is More Popular Than Ever, Americans Who Think We're On The Right Track "Through The Roof"."

But but but Hitler!

The Left hates free speech

Federalist: Senate Dems Claim Censorship Industrial Complex Never Happened — And If It Did It Was A Good Thing - At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can’t help but admit they support government censorship of free speech." 

I'm so sorry this is happening to you

Red State: "James Carville Is 'Worried' About How Good Donald Trump Is Looking in Polling; He Thinks It's Bad for US." 

Not actually surprising at all

Ace: "Former Biden Staffer: We Bullied the Weakling Press Into Only Reporting What We Allowed Them To Report. It's "So Weird" That the Press "Never Pushed Back."

Yeah, so so weird.  

MSNBC on the taxpayer's dime

Hot Air: "NPR's Katherine Maher Doesn't Remember Her Tweets, Admits NPR Blew It on Hunter Biden."

I used to listen to NPR fairly regularly during my work commute.  I even donated a couple times!  But Trump Derangement Syndrome made NPR intolerable and I'm not the only one who noticed:

Over the decade that NPR’s journalism priorities have narrowed, so has its audience. Back in 2011 it was roughly divided between liberals, moderates, and conservatives, tilting just slightly to the left. By 2023, progressive listeners outnumbered conservatives by six to one.

Defund these left-wing clowns, post-haste.  I refuse to pay for this.

This nothingburger is all they have

OMG, the performative outrage over this group chat story: "The Atlantic's Signal Story Is Quickly Falling Apart."

Yes, it's an embarrassing mistake but the Democrats are trying to revive the "but her emails" meme.

So unclassified info was discussed on an encrypted messaging app approved for use by staff, where all parties involved were unified under President Trump’s agenda.

They’re so bad at this lol.

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) March 25, 2025

Civil War

Ace: ""They Hate Us:" The Democrat Base is Revolting.  I Mean, They've Always Been Revolting. Now They're Rebelling." 

There's only four, geniuses

The Hill: "5 ways Democrats can fight Trump and defend the republic."

Two of them are more foot-stamping and the other two ("detail what we would do" and "eliminate waste, fraud and abuse") are things you either didn't do before the election or failed to articulate during the campaign.  You're all on board with cutting waste now? 

Just like Bernie's deathbed conversion for stopping illegal immigration, I guess. 

Old man yells at cloud

Left-wing fruitcake Robin Abcarian in the LA Times: "Americans aren't waiting for the Democratic Party to take on Trump."

What exactly are they doing?  Marching and protesting.  And protesting and marching.  And screaming at the sky.

Good luck with all that.

Trust has been lost

John Kass: "How the New York Times is killing America." - "The New York Times is as lost in its Acela Corridor provincialism as any isolated shepherd boy in the most remote valley of Kurdistan. It hates the America that most of us love and so many died for. In its offices and newsroom, The New York Times whispers into its sleeve like the politicos of old Chicago and Tammany." 

This is a condemnation of the New York Times and most of the mainstream media.  If a serious pandemic or national emergency emerges, nobody is going to believe the Boy who Cried Russian Collusion. 

Just like Reddit

Commentary: "Bluesky: The Online Cone of Silence"

I quickly learned that the site’s core innovation is not finding ways to facilitate thoughtful conversations. Instead, Bluesky’s secret sauce is the powerful tools it gives users to shut down voices they disagree with. Block lists—featuring the names of people you will not permit to see your posts—are public and widely shared and discussed. “People make nasty lists and lists and lists there,” a Bluesky user in Germany explained to me. Many Bluesky regulars import other users’ lists wholesale, allowing them to block hundreds of people they’ve never even heard of. One frustrated user complained, “I barely have 1,000 followers here on Bluesky and I’ve already been blocked by 300+ people!”

Perhaps it’s no surprise that a platform built on the notion that users need sanctuary from dangerous ideas would encourage hypervigilance against intruders. Some Bluesky users roam the site like white blood cells in the human bloodstream, always searching for invading pathogens. Any time a new user arrives who shows signs of heterodox thinking, they raise the alarm.

I've heard that Bluesky is the ultimate echo chamber and the drive to censor doesn't surprise me at all.  I've seen the same thing on Reddit where users rush to compliant (and left-leaning) moderators whenever a thought-crime is committed.  The Left hates free speech and, thus, these hive mind safe zones.

Girlboss governor caves

Outkick: "Maine Universities Back Down To Trump, Will Ban Trans Athletes From Women’s Sports."

They used to love Elon Musk

A fawning article from Rolling Stone back in November 2017:

Concluding paragraph: "I leave his home still hearing his chuckles in the doorway, and hoping that when the Mars colony builds its first statues of Musk, they’re not of a stiff man with a tight-lipped expression looking out into space, but of a fuzzy bear." 

More of this

It's the only way they learn: "Elon Musk Says He’s Suing Democrat Jamaal Bowman for Calling Him a ‘Nazi’ on CNN." 

Ratchet government

Federalist: "Republicans, Don’t Buy Democrats’ Lies About Medicaid ‘Cuts’." 

News anchors who don't follow the news

American Spectator: "How Much Longer Is CBS Going to Carry Margaret Brennan? - There must be a final level of embarrassment mainstream media is willing to tolerate."

You shant be missed

Red State: "BREAKING: Pres. Trump Is Set to Sign an Order Closing Department of Education."

How bad do you have to be at your core mission to keep your job?  It's time for this useless cabinet position to go. 

Uh-oh, they might be figuring it out

NY Post: "Dem Rep. Seth Moulton calls out own party for being ‘out of touch’ and alienating allies."

“We lost this election across the board, an election that should have been easy for us to win,” Moulton said. “I mean, when in our history have we ever run against a convicted felon sitting at the top of the ticket? So this past election should have been an easy one for Democrats. And yet we lost across the board because so many Americans said, ‘You guys are just out of touch. You‘re just out of touch. I mean, this other guy might be crazy, but you guys are not in touch with the majority of Americans,’ which is kind of by definition, what we showed by losing this election.”

And yet, when push came to shove, Moulton voted to keep biological men in women's sports after publicly stating that he didn't want his daughters to face that scenario.  He had the opportunity to stand up to the 20% nutcases in his party and backed down.

The damage-control tour is going great

Twitchy: "Chuck Schumer Gleefully Sneers at Weary Taxpayers Desperately Clinging to Their Hard-Earned Paycheck." 

Sounds like he reaped the whirlwind

Schumer spent years rousing his activist base to protest and riot and now won't face them. https://t.co/4WBDGIMa6K

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 17, 2025

* reference to title here. 

I know what the Dems need: more ping-pong paddles

USA Today: "Democratic Party's favorability hits record lows in two polls after 2024 losses." 

Astronaut rescue in process

Thomas Lifson: "CNN wants you to know that Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk is rescuing - As always, the media is stepping in to help the Democrats, this time, taking narrative control to diminish Musk’s rescue of the stranded astronauts."

Now that Elon Musk is on Trump’s team and the latest two-minute hate (and vandalism) target, he must not be allowed to look heroic in the media. But the spectacle of his SpaceX stepping up to rescue the astronauts who have been left in orbit at the International Space Station for months longer than planned is awfully compelling and—face it—downright epic. It takes no imagination whatsoever to foresee how the media would play up a successful rescue if Musk had happened to be a loyal Democrat.

The fact that Musk is doing what gigantic defense contractor Boeing was incapable of accomplishing—and the fact that his DOGE team is simultaneously uncovering unimaginable levels of waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending -- makes the mission even more toxic in the eyes of the media division of the Democrat party.

I don't want to say that Joe Biden stranded two astronauts because he couldn't bear to give Elon Musk a win.  It's too terrible to think about.

Update - NY Post: "NASA ‘alien’ greets SpaceX crew aboard ISS as stranded astronauts gear up for return to Earth." 

American colleges hooked on federal cash

Gerald Ford once said: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

The idea here - central to conservative theory - is that once you're dependent on the government to provide you with support, you've given up a portion of your freedom and self-sufficiency.  if external circumstances or a new government turns off the spigot, you're in a world of hurt.

Colleges are now in the "find out" stage of FAFO as Trump demands they adhere to new federal standards: "Colleges Are in Trouble and Suddenly Realizing They Have Few Allies."

No more antisemitism.  No more DEI.  Don't like it?  Stand on your principles without federal support.  Looking at you, Columbia. 

The press is always the hero of their own story

Boston Globe: "In Murrow’s empty shoes, a warning for American democracy - Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy."

Just another journey down nostalgia lane for the legacy media, trying to convince themselves that they are the great defenders of Democracy and certainly not the discredited shell they've become.  This thing is so cookie cutter (Hitler references! "pillars" of Democracy!) that it could have been written by either ChatGPT or any college sociology major.  

The Michael Jordan of awfulness

Outkick: "The View's Sunny Hostin Claims She Is ‘Stuck’ In 'Racist' America And Wants To Leave."

We would also like Sunny Hostin to leave but ABC pays her $8 million/year to tell us how racist America is so she ain't goin' anywhere.

You're going to get tired of winning

Townhall: "Total Trump Victory' As Spending Bill Passes, Killing Far Left Hopes for a Gov't Shutdown."

Trump wins again

PJ Media: "BREAKING: Schumer Caves on CR, Blames Trump for His Own Surrender!"

I'll tell you exactly what happened: several Democrat Senators told (or screamed at) Schumer they were voting for the continuing resolution so he needed to make a humiliating reversal and try to portray his forced position as a profile in courage.  

Birds gotta fly and fish gotta swim

Democrats have to lie about Social Security.  Ace: "You're Not Going to Believe This, But Democrats' Line of Attack on Trump Is Spreading Lies About Trump Cutting, Get This, Social Security." 

In praise of John Feinstein

NY Post: "John Feinstein, famed sports author, dead at 69."

I've only read one book by John Feinstein but it's one of my favorite non-fiction books of all time: "The Last Amateurs."  It's about student-athletes playing basketball for the Patriot League which (at the writing) included Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, and Navy.

These kids are not on scholarships, their games will not be televised, the crowds are sparse and they'll never* go to the NBA.  They largely play for the love of the game and competition.  Feinstein's writing draws you in to this low-stakes world where the players are found studying in the hallway before the coach shows up for practice.

Just a great book - highly recommended.  RIP John Feinstein.

* Except for C.J. McCollum and Mike Muscala, according to Gemini.

We're on to your game

When it’s a D // When it’s an R pic.twitter.com/DnklPWi78s

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) March 12, 2025

Remarkable given the slim margin

Townhall: "Virtually All House Republicans Unify to Pass Continuing Resolution."

Now the CR goes over to the Senate where who knows what might happen.  The Democrats are in full-blown "resist" mode but they also don't want to get blamed for shutting down the government.

Well...bye

NY Post: "NY Times tells editorial board writers: Accept new position or take buyout." 

This again? Really?

Hot Air: "This Is Stupid: Justice Department Investigating Big Egg Over Price Increases."

This is disappointing blame-shifting that the Democrats usually pull for Big Oil.  Now it's Big Egg, I guess.  Silly.

America was panicked into compliance

Boston Globe: "The case against Anthony Fauci - On the fifth anniversary of the COVID outbreak, a new book examines where American science — and politics — went wrong."

You probably don’t remember the lockdowns all that fondly. 

But if you’re like a lot of Americans on this fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, you at least understand why they were put in place. 

The virus felt so frightening back then. So unexpected. 

And if public health officials made some mistakes — you might be convinced, by this point, that they kept schools closed too long — you’re willing to cut them some slack. 

People like infectious disease chief Anthony Fauci were doing the best they could with the information they had. They were following the science. And we got to the other side in better shape than we might have. 

But if there’s something comforting in this story — even a little triumphant — there’s just one problem: It’s almost completely wrong.

Oh, so now dissenting opinions are allowed and the truth can be told.  All during Covid, I insisted that wearing masks was performative nonsense that did nothing to stop the transmission of the virus.  At one point, the World Health Organization agreed but then gave in to the mob:

And while the WHO acknowledged that the evidence for masking’s effectiveness was scant, the group still “conditionally recommended” it in severe pandemics — explaining that there is “mechanistic plausibility for the potential effectiveness of this measure.”

Was it worth it, America?

The costs of the shutdowns were enormous: trillions of dollars in deficit spending to stave off economic ruin; massive learning loss, concentrated among the least advantaged children; the special pain of leaving loved ones to die alone in dreary nursing homes and emergency rooms; a further cleaving of our already divided society. 

And despite all the sacrifice, the United States still had a much higher death rate than other wealthy nations.

This is why Anthony Fauci had to get a blanket pardon.

Related (h/t Battleswarm): 

“Does Dr. Fauci have a Nobel Prize?”

“No, but he does have a pardon for crimes against humanity.”

There goes that car alarm again

Jonathan Turley: "Panic politics: Law professors’ umpteenth ‘constitutional crisis’ falls flat."

I thought we stopped doing these declarations sometime after the 51 security "experts" declared that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.

Anyway: yawn.

She deleted all her text messages

Twitchy: "Karen Bass Welcomes Investigation Into L.A. Wildfires Because She's Made Sure to Delete All the Evidence."

I can't wait to hear her explanation for this.  Perhaps she'll request a supplementary investigation.

Keep it up, you're doing great

Fox News: "Pollster warns Democrats' 'amateurish' anti-Trump antics are 'tanking' with Americans - Former Clinton advisor warns Democrats have turned the public off with their behavior." 

Interesting!

Red State: "ActBlue Fundraising Platform in Turmoil As Executives Resign and the Last Lawyer Has His Email Shut Off."

Hey, what did I miss and what happened to my investments?

I was largely incommunicado this week and, boy, did my phone explode when I turned off airplane mode.

Anyway, I see nothing has changed at "The View": "Sunny Hostin Baselessly Claims Trump Will Kill People By Taking Away Social Security, Medicaid."

This is all they have.

Hiatus

Well, traffic is off since the election - sounds like a good time for a vacation!  See you next weekend.

Meanwhile, here's K-pop sensation (G)I-DLE:

The beatings will continue until trust is restored

Hot Air: "How Low Can You Go: New Gallup Poll On the Trust-in-Media Limbo."

I've said this several times before but it bears repeating: the current legacy media must be burned to the ground.  Jeff Bezos should just fire everyone at the Washington Post and start anew. 

I'm feeling sad for Jeff Bezos. He sent out a blast yesterday, hoping for change. The paper today absolutely sucks. It is biased, stupid, partisan, packed with pathetic tropes, pounding the same worn bongos every single day. It's awful. He might just have to fire everyone.

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) February 27, 2025

Even more winning

PJ Media: "Jeff Bezos Orders WaPo Opinion Section to Concentrate on 'Personal Liberties and Free Markets'." 

This is great news

Fox News: "Trump admin guts White House Correspondents Association in bid to end 'monopoly' of 'DC journalists' - The WHCA has determined access to the White House for decades." 

I forget where I saw it but the judge in the Associated Press lawsuit asked why the White House Correspondents Association had any standing in the case given they had no legal standard.  It's just a collection of (mostly) like-minded notebook-scratchers. 

Flashback

Just a little reminder on the occasion of Lester Holt leaving NBC Nightly News: "NBC's Lester Holt says we don’t need to hear both sides to define truth: ‘Fairness is overrated’." 

Temporary stays are not legal decisions

Jonathan Turley: "“We’re Winning Across the Board”: Raskin Takes a Premature Victory Lap Just Before a Slew of Court Losses." 

Twitchy: "Legal Analyst Leaves MSNBC Panel SPEECHLESS Pointing Out Trump Isn't Losing Legal Battles and LOL"

Tough times at MSNBC!

The winning continues

NY Post: "MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s lefty show as network makes major shakeup." 

It only took Reid and MSNBC losing half their viewers since Trump's election.

Extra - Red State: "Schadenfreude Overload At MSNBC: Race-Obsessed Joy Reid and Others Finally Get the Kibosh." 

"Uber Eats driver" - that's the description they chose

Recent news from here in Western Massachusetts.  See if you can guess the inconvenient fact about this Uber Eats driver the Boston Globe omitted from the headline: "Uber Eats driver charged with raping customer in her Wilbraham apartment."

An Uber Eats driver is facing a rape charge for allegedly using a “ruse” to enter a female customer’s Wilbraham home and rape her during a delivery, legal filings show.

Roiber Andres Rodriguez Melendez, 21, pleaded not guilty on Feb. 14 to a rape count in Palmer District Court, records show. He was ordered held without bail after a dangerousness hearing.

His lawyer said Friday that he denies the allegations.

Rodriguez Melendez, who also has a pending case out of South Hadley for alleged motor vehicle violations, is a Colombian national who is “not here legally,” court papers said.

So an illegal alien raped a woman in Wilbraham.  To add insult to injury, he had an active warrant which means he's exactly the kind of person who would have been detained under the Laken Riley Act.

Every single Massachusetts politician except for Stephen Lynch (MA-8) voted against the Laken Riley Act.

The inevitable AP lawsuit

Twitchy: "The Associated Press Throws an Epic Toddler Tantrum, Sues Trump for Not Inviting Them to the Party."

An utterly ridiculous tantrum.  There is no free speech argument here: the AP can write whatever they want.  Also: the White House can grant or restrict access to any media outfit.

Have you considered calling Trump a "fascist" but harder?

Daily Caller: "‘Never Seen Anything Like This’: Fmr Clinton Pollster Says Dems’ Support ‘Is Falling Off A Cliff’." 

Robert Reich is an asshole

Loser’s mindset https://t.co/9WnJeHgT9A

— Chris Camillo (@ChrisCamillo) February 21, 2025

Robert Reich has been playing the same schtick for 30 years now and he still gets paid from stupid articles in the Guardian and some YouTube videos.  Like most charlatans humping the class warfare grift (e.g. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders), they will never debate and they can't stand the slightest bit of pushback.

Watch how easy it is to refute his premise: Jobs & Wozniak.  J.K. Rowling.  Hewlett & Packard.  That's just off the top of my head.

Yet another media outlet settles a lawsuit

Hot Air: "MSNBC Settles 'Uterus Collector' Lawsuit."

As predicted here, MSNBC's parent company has settled a defamation lawsuit filed against the network brought by a doctor who was dubbed the "uterus collector." The trial in this case was set to begin in April and MSNBC has wisely decided there was no upside to taking this to court.

There's a joke about Rachel Maddow that she's "always wrong, never in doubt."  I wonder how much of this settlement came out of her salary.

Another all-time low

Keep it up, Democrats.  Your'e doing great.

The Jasmine Crockett / Chuck Schumer / AOC axis of public relations is working out great. lmao look at these Dem numbers https://t.co/yGgW9my2AF

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) February 19, 2025

Hamas killed a baby

Then held on to the corpse for 16 months: "We Must Prepare Ourselves for the Pain of February 20."

Thursday, February 20, will always be remembered in Israeli history as a day of unimaginable emotional pain. It is a pain that should be felt by every civilized human being on this planet.

Hamas is releasing the bodies of four kidnapped victims. Let's be clear: these are not hostages. A hostage is someone who has been kidnapped and is alive. These are murder victims. They include the corpses of a mother, her toddler, and a nine-month-old infant who were kidnapped on Oct. 7 — 16 months ago — are being returned to Israel in coffins or body bags. In exchange for these bodies, hundreds of convicted mass murderers and terrorists will be released on Saturday. 

Pure evil.  I can't even with Gaza anymore.  I read stories like this and think: "Maybe we should ship the Palestinians to Jordan and turn Gaza into a parking lot."

Haha - what?

This is a bold strategy.  Let's see if it pays off, Cotton: "LA Mayor: I'm Investigating Why I Was 'Allowed' to Go AWOL." 

Stunning and brave

Legal Insurrection: "‘Wicked’ Star Cynthia Erivo Cast as Jesus in Hollywood Bowl’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’."

Never change, Hollywood.

Wipe it out

Issues and Insights: "Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? Time To Kill The Education Dept." 

Margaret Brennan again

Power Line: "Why no one respects the legacy Media."

To which I would add that Amy Klobuchar recently appeared on CNN spreading outright lies about Trump's budget cuts, receiving absolutely no pushback from Dana Bash.

Extra - Red State: "'60 Minutes' Airs an All-Timer, and the Depths They Sink to Will Blow Your Mind."  What's in the water over at CBS News?

More - PJ Media: "What the Hell Is Wrong With CBS News?"  Good question!

It's complicated

Nice review here by Eugene Volokh as to whether the Associated Press can be excluded from the White House press briefings: "May Officials Exclude Journalists from Press Events Based on Disapproval of Journalists' Speech?"

The short answer appears to be: "yes, but it's a bad idea." 

The Left hates free speech

If it's Sunday, it's time for Margaret Brennan to make an ass of herself again: "Marco Rubio Leaves CBS News' Margaret Brennan Speechless After She Claimed Nazis 'Weaponized' Free Speech." 

That was an exciting 12 laps

Rain stopped the NASCAR season after a dozen laps.  Oh well, there's this: "NASCAR fans cheer as Trump arrives for Daytona 500 in Air Force One."

SNL is a crashing bore

Hollywood in Toto: "How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Betrayed Its Legacy (and Us) - Once-mighty show's political bias only half of its existential crisis." 

Here's my take: I used to watch SNL fairly regularly, at least catching the opening sketch and monologue for a laugh.  But then there was a stretch where Alec Baldwin as Trump opened the show every single week.  It was a predictable and total bore with the same anti-Trump jokes recycled over and over.  For the past four years, I've been waiting for the Joe Biden sketches but they never materialized until after the debate and he was essentially a zombie candidate.

So maybe the show is funny again, maybe not.  But I'm not watching so I wouldn't know.

The Paper of record

Babylon Bee: "Democrats Demand Transparency From Man Who Posts Literally Everything He Does On The Internet." 

This was written by a grown man

I had to check but apparently Dan Froomkin is not a sophomore at Oberlin College.  He's a man (allegedly) who wrote this childish temper tantrum over the Trump White House banning the Associated Press: "How the White House press corps should respond to the banning of the Associated Press."

Spoiler alert: it involves a lot of ineffectual foot-stamping and moral solipsism.  Legal action?  OMG, don't threaten me with a good time, Dan. 

"It's just so obvious. They're so bad at it."

Twitchy: "Trump and Musk Amused at Dems and Legacy Media’s Lame Attempts at Driving Wedge Between Them." 

Fauxcahontas on the war path

Reason: "Elizabeth Warren's Hubris Allowed Trump To Defund the CFPB - Instead of isolating the CFPB from Congress' budget-making authority, Warren and former President Barack Obama made it easier for a president to effectively shut it down."

Here's where the hubris enters the story. When Warren and Obama created the CFPB, they designed that unorthodox funding structure specifically to prevent a future Republican-led Congress from trying to defund the bureau. Remember, this was in the age when Republicans were running around the country telling voters they intended to repeal Obamacare too. By isolating the CFPB from Congress' budgetary powers, Warren was trying to make it invulnerable to attack.

Instead, she simply gave it a fatal flaw.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration submitted its CFPB funding request to the Federal Reserve. It asked for…$0.

If Warren didn't get cutesy and instead just submitted CFPB to the normal budget process, it may have survived.  But instead she and Obama created a federal fiefdom that fell under executive purview alone and now that's Trump. 

This is the way

Here's Trump answering questions from the Oval Office today:

Trump schools CNN reporter on Russia/Ukraine war: "This should have been done by Biden years ago. This should never have been allowed to happen. I know he's a friend of yours. He's a friend of CNN. That's why nobody watches CNN anymore because they have no credibility."

BOOM! pic.twitter.com/vGuPPsRU7h

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) February 13, 2025

Haha - holy cow.  This is the only way for Republicans to address the mainstream media: always assume they're the enemy.  It's a well-earned reputation. 

Corruption in Illinois? No!

Just the News: "Ex-Illinois House Speaker convicted on 10 corruption charges at trial that exposed Democrat greed." - "Michael Madigan, the long-serving Illinois House Speaker who in his hey-day rubbed elbows with elites like Barack Obama, was convicted Wednesday on 10 federal charges after a long-running influence peddling trial that exposed corruption and greed inside the state's Democrat establishment." 

FEMA FAFO

NY Post: "FEMA employees fired over ‘egregious’ $59M payment for NYC migrants." 

This is just career suicide. 

They can't help themselves

Here's liberal pollster Ruy Teixeira stating what is completely obvious to non-Democrats: "Defending USAID Is Political Suicide for Democrats."

Okay, let’s recap the situation:

1. Democrats are unconditionally defending an obscure government institution at a time when even well-known and previously trusted institutions are regarded with intense suspicion. A key finding from New York Times polling in the 2024 election cycle was that voters overwhelmingly believe the political and economic system in America needs either major changes, or to be completely rebuilt.

2. This particular obscure institution does one of American voters’ least favorite things: provide foreign aid.

3. Finally, not only are Democrats blanket defending an obscure institution that does something American voters don’t particularly want to, they are defending it without explaining their own priorities. What aid would they preserve and what would they get rid of? It is a legitimate issue, in light of concerns about USAID, which is not a “criminal organization,” as Musk called it, but does have long-standing issues with efficiency and focus.

A political faction not consumed with sheer hatred would accept the current zeitgeist and pick their battles more carefully.  But that's not the TDS-obsessed Democrats today.  

They're in a spiral.

The Left is utterly lost

The grasping madness: "Liberal Magazine: Hitler Knew How to Fund Science, Unlike Trump." 

CFPB powers down

Red State: "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Website Goes Dark and the Woodchipper Warms Up."

I'm not necessarily opposed to the role of the CFPB as a kind of overseer of the financial sector.  What I do not like is the quasi-legal structure of the bureau which is semi-isolated from the control of the executive branch.  Until now, maybe.

Update - CNBC: "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff told to work remotely as headquarters is shuttered." 

Trump pulls Dementia Joe's security clearance

Twitchy: "Who's Gonna Tell Him He Had One? President Trump Revokes Sleepy Joe Biden's Security Clearance."

My gosh, look at the difference in Biden's cognition from four years ago.  He's actually lucid here:

Hey Joe,

Thanks for setting this precedent. pic.twitter.com/75S0LKqQlp

— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 7, 2025

Doubling up to $20 billion

Deadline: "Donald Trump Amends CBS Lawsuit To Claim That The ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview Unfairly Diverted Viewers From His Truth Social Platform."

I'm quite certain that Trump doesn't care at all about the money.  It's all about getting CBS to admit fault.  He'll settle for $20 and an apology.

More winning

Mediate: "Pentagon Ejects WaPo and CNN From Offices in Favor of The Daily Caller, The Free Press, and Others." 

All of 2024 revised downward

PJ Media: "Joe Biden’s Fake Job Numbers Scandal Just Got Worse."

It was just four years of gaslighting and Americans got wise. 

Damn, J.D.

Red State: "'You Disgust Me': JD Vance Rips Into Ro Khanna Over Victimhood Politics, Parenting in Wild X Exchange." 

Do the slightest bit of research first, dude

Red State: "Community Notes Demolishes Dem Congressman for Wild Take on Trump at National Prayer Breakfast."

60 Minutes only airs 20 minutes

Reason: "Transcript Proves the 60 Minutes Scandal Was Always Fake - Donald Trump's complaints were always meritless, but CBS' capitulation sets a dangerous precedent for the future of the news media."

Yeah, I wasn't exactly blown away by the "evidence" of a cover-up considering that all television shows have to do a certain amount of editing.  But why was "60 Minutes" so bound to showing only 20 minutes when they clearly had time to show much more of the interview with a Presidential candidate?  I, for one, would have liked to have seen the "why do you want to be President" question that (predictably) ran into a ditch with Kamala's standard word salad of citing "ambitions, dreams and aspirations."  

That verbal tic trio appeared so often in Kamala's speeches and interviews that you can visualize the focus group memo upon which it was borne.

No more Romneys

Behind the Black: "Trump has finally taught Republicans how to fight."

One of the biggest complaints conservatives have had about the Republican Party for decades is that its politicians just would not fight. At the slightest hint that a Democrat was offended or disagreed, they’d fold like a house of cards. And their fear of the propaganda press made them so timid that Democrats could literally do anything and get away with it (as we are now finding out in the USAID scandal, which became a money laundering operation funneling taxpayer funds to partisan leftist organizations and media outlets).

Well, no more. Donald Trump got elected the first time and the second time because the one thing that stood out about him was his unwillingness to back down, and to “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

I tend to think that some of this pushback is overreach by the Democrats.  There was immigration, for sure, but in my mind the breaking point for a lot of Americans was biological men competing in women's sports.  This was the point where a lot of people didn't GAF if you called them "racist" or "transphobic" or "fascist."  That wasn't going to land anymore which is why Trump's "she's for they/them, he's for you" campaign ad was so effective.

Americans are laughing and ignoring the unhinged outrage from the Democrats now.  It's glorious.

Fact check: FALSE!

Twitchy: "Fact-Check: Transgender Opera in Colombia Didn’t Receive a Dime From USAID."

Funding didn't come from USAID.  It came directly from the U.S. Department of State.

It's like peeling back an onion

PJ Media: "The USAID Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Minute."

Extra - "Quiz: Can You Guess Which Of These Things USAID Actually Funded And Which Ones We Made Up?" 

What? No.

CNN: "Trump says Palestinians should leave Gaza permanently and US will ‘take over’ strip."

Was Trump just riffing during his presser with Netanyahu?  This is a bad idea.  Let's get back to the good ideas like taking over Greenland. 

The media is nothing if not self-righteous

Fox News: "'60 Minutes' producer defiant as CBS parent company mulls settling Trump lawsuit: 'I will not apologize' - CBS News was ordered to send the raw transcript of the Kamala Harris interview to the FCC."

The Trump Presidential Library is going to covered with solid gold by the time he's done.

Popcorn popped

NY Post: "GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on NPR, PBS to appear for hearing on media bias." 

Margaret face-plants again

Never mind my question, I didn’t actually want an answer, she said, once he answered her. https://t.co/qLM1yff76u

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 3, 2025

Climate cult catastrophe

Quillette: "Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis"

The Democrats’ position presents a striking irony. California’s progressive leadership has positioned itself at the forefront of climate change policy, championing emissions reductions and denouncing climate scepticism. Yet when faced with the practical requirements of climate change preparedness, whether conducting controlled burns, maintaining water infrastructure, or restricting development in fire-prone areas—they have proven to be inept. They appear more comfortable with grand pronouncements about global challenges than with the unglamorous work of preparing their own communities for climate realities they themselves warn about.

The grandstanding and climate moralizing was job #1.  Making sure a 117 million gallon reservoir was available to fight fires was somewhere down the list.

Democrats have a big problem with the male vote

Therefore, the solution is David Hogg: "The Democratic Party Wants to Die."

That pretty much brings us to the current day. As far as I can tell, Hogg has never held a real job, and none of his activism has ever added up to anything but losing elections. His home state of Florida has become solidly red, and we all know how the national elections in 2024 turned out. In other words, Hogg appears to be the least qualified, least accomplished DNC official in history, and yet, Democrats saw his record and thought, "Let's make him one of our leaders."

It's astonishing when you think about it. As I said at the beginning of this piece, this is a party with a death wish. If anyone thought, and some more moderate Democrats presumably did, that there would be a course correction, they were incredibly wrong. Not only has there not been a course correction, but the party's leaders are going further into woke insanity, making it the very core of their messaging and identity. 

Don't change a thing, Dems.  You're doing great.

I think it was Ace when speaking about the Washington Post that it needs to fire half their staff and start from square one.  In a similar vein the Democrats don't need a scalpel, they need a machete.  But they just don't realize it.

Sorry!  I meant "xey" don't realize it.

It's a new day

Based Underground: "Fox News Host Takes Down ‘The View’ for the First Time Ever in Ratings Showdown" - "Fox News host Harris Faulkner’s program, “The Faulkner Focus,” took down ABC’s “The View” in average total ratings for the first time ever in the month of January." 

Come on over, Frenchy!

Yahoo Finance: "French luxury billionaire sparks tax debate with threat to leave." - "Bernard Arnault, the billionaire boss of the world's biggest luxury conglomerate LVMH, has picked a fight with the French government by suggesting that companies could flee France for the United States to escape a planned tax hike." 

This article is laughably bad

Boston Globe: "Democrats need to start winning elections in all 50 states."

Throw it onto the pile: yet another opinion piece where Democrats delude themselves into believing the actual problem is communication and messaging.  I did a word search on "immigration" and it wasn't there.  But, sure, go to rural Iowa and communicate how the federal government can help you out.  Get that message out.

Extra - Byron York: "Choosing new leaders, Democrats are still in denial"

In the big picture, as the DNC, choosing new leadership, surveyed its current position — out of power — leaders told themselves that the causes of the party’s failures are 1). racism and misogyny, and 2). poor communications. That is what losing parties do. Somebody else is to blame. Our only fault is insufficiently communicating to voters how wonderful we are.

Accurate. 

How to get rich through socialism

It's the Bernie Sanders method: "Guy Who Owns Three Houses Brags About Taking Donations From Working Class People, Not 'Greedy' CEOs." 

Defund NPR

This would make me so happy: "NYT: Trump's War on NPR/PBS Is Real, and It's Spectacular."  NPR, in particular, is just the worst as meticulously detailed by Uri Berliner last year: "I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust."

Back in 2011, although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large. Twenty-six percent of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23 percent as middle of the road, and 37 percent as liberal.

By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal. We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals. 

Trump broke NPR just like any number of newspapers and magazines.  They burned their credibility on a pyre of TDS.

I totally believe this

Ace: "Megyn Kelly: The Democrats' Brazen Banana-Republic Lawfare Against Trump Was Their Own Undoing."

Ibram Kendi takes his grift to Howard

Boston Globe: "Ibram X. Kendi to leave Boston University for Howard."  Bye!

Yikes

Hot Air: "How Bad Is It Now For Dems? This Bad …"

Trump's new press secretary: "You guys in the legacy Media suck"

Man, what a great opening for Karoline Leavitt.  Before taking questions, she castigated that mainstream media and threw some questions to the "new" media.  Amazingly, I don't think she looked down at her podium a single time while answering questions: "First White House Press Briefing for Karoline Leavitt Has the Press Off Balance Dealing With Competency."

If you want to get a feel for the kind of justified pushback this White House is going to rain down on the legacy Media: "Karoline Leavitt: It's Nice of You to Suddenly Care About the Price of Eggs, But the Increase Happened While the President You Corruptly Covered for Was "Sleeping Upstairs in the Residence". 

Damn, girl.

This is the 1st @AP post with the words "egg prices" since February 2023. Two years. https://t.co/4DzbWF0olv

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 28, 2025

You don't hate the media enough

Outkick: "New York Magazine Appears To Crop Out All Black Attendees Of Trump Inauguration Event."

Despicable.  Gotta maintain that narrative.

Amazing imitation!

 

President Trump goes to Arby's 💀pic.twitter.com/AtvqPIqx31

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 27, 2025

He is so very good at this

Blaze Media: "'I don't really care, Margaret': Vance carpet-bombs Margaret Brennan interview with inconvenient facts and common sense."

What a moment.  Shades of his "Do you hear yourself?" interview with Martha Raddatz.  

J.D. Vance and Pierre Pollievre should teach a seminar on how to deal with the hostile media.

Old habits die hard at the LA Times

The LA Times owner may be trying to moderate the paper's message but that doesn't mean it can't still churn out dumb articles like this one: "Trump talks ‘free speech’ while moving to muzzle those he disagrees with."

If you read the article, the so-called censorship is only ensuring that people who report to him in the Executive Branch adhere to his policies.  As the elected President.

Both at home and abroad, the Trump administration has ordered federal employees and diplomats to cease communications on a range of issues, including “diversity, equity and inclusion,” “environmental justice” and “gender ideology.”

Nobody's stopping anybody from engaging in free speech.  Go, Karen, go spread the good word of DEI across the land from your Bluesky account!  You just can't do it from a Trump administration position.

These people are just clowns.

Zeno's paradox in the NFL

The Washington Commanders had so many penalties against the Philadelphia Eagles goal line drive that the ball moved "half the distance to the goal" about four times.

Reminded me of Zeno's dichotomy paradox. The Eagles eventually scored.

Here we go again

Yet another "now the truth can be told" moment a week into Trump's Presidency: "Conspiracy Freaks Batting 1000: CIA Believes Covid-19 Likely Caused by Lab Leak." 

You cannot possibly be this stupid

Let me start by saying that I used to subscribe to The Atlantic magazine before Trump broke it.  It is now a hotbed of complete TDS as evidenced by this latest column: "Turns out signing the Hunter Biden letter was a bad idea - Why so many titans of intelligence were willing to risk their hard-won credibility is deeply mysterious."

In the words of John McEnroe: you cannot be serious.  I can't believe the echo chamber is so echo-y that an intelligent writer can't suss it out.  Instead, I think (in this era of media turbulence) that Graeme Wood knows exactly why these guys whored themselves out to the Biden campaign but wrote a long "Trump bad" article to satisfy his lefty boss Laurene Powell Jobs. 

That's my Occam's Razor take.

Yeah it's a huge mystery why they all did that. Somebody dig up Robert Stack and get him on the case. We may never know the answer to this one. pic.twitter.com/fy3vBWKxPJ

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 24, 2025

This isn't going to work anymore

USA Today: "Elon is Hitler? Liberals regress to cancel culture to compensate for their loss. - Rather than debate Elon Musk and Donald Trump in good faith or engage them in civil discourse, Democrats have resorted to what they do best: name-calling in an attempt to 'cancel' those they dislike." 

Paging Vice President Vance

Looks like Hegseth is going to need a tie-breaking vote with the Senate at 50-50.

Murkowski, Collins, and McConnell (!) are the three GOP defections.

Update - Confirmed. 

The era of the liberal crybullies is OVER

Really great article from Victor Davis Hanson: "The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left."

Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the Left's hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked.

......

In sum, the Left wants no debate because they know voters have rejected what they saw and suffered during the last four years of the Biden administration.

Forgetting nothing, learning nothing, like zombies, leftists keep screaming banalities. But like addicts and their feel-good fixes, their hysterics only further turn off the public as they destroy themselves.

This "fascist!" fear mongering crap doesn't work anymore: "'Because It Was Bulls**t': Axios Doesn't Understand How Musk, Tesla Remain 'Bulletproof' From Nazi Smear."  That half-wit Connecticut senator Chris Murphy tried to hump this story and nobody was buying it.  Make sure you keep calling all deportation efforts as "racist," too.

Nobody cares.  Just get out of our way now.

Extra - Hot Air: "Trump Approval Rating Net +18%--Highest Ever for Him"

Democrats are flailing, still trying to find the right angle from which to attack the president.

Have they tried the "bloodbath" hoax again?  How about the "very fine people" hoax?  The classics never go out of style.

Final word:

We are currently watching the wokest elements of the left realizing in real time that they are a tiny minority and that most Americans hate them and their ideas.

For a long time they thought they were the dominant force in America, socially and politically.

It is now dawning on…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 23, 2025

What would we do without the disinformation experts?

Reason: "Disinformation Experts Hate Trump's Free Speech Executive Order - As expected."

The grift is over.

Unclear on the concept

San Francisco Standard: "Walgreens closures leave entire SF neighborhoods without a pharmacy."

Joe Moore, 71, criticized Walgreens for the decision to close the Ingleside location, saying the chain is prioritizing profits over the needs of seniors.

“They don’t give a shit about us,” Moore said. “We’re dollar signs to them.” 

It's called a "business," Jim.

Start with Acosta

CNBC: "CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, sources say."

47 minutes yesterday and almost an hour today

Trump answered so many questions yesterday while signing executive actions that they ran out of stuff to ask.  At one point somebody asked if they had re-installed the Diet Coke button on the Resolute Desk.

Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim

The media: We don’t know why we aren’t trusted anymore

Also the media: Come spend the next 27 days with us pretending Elon did a Nazi salute

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) January 20, 2025

Fun stuff

Powerline: "Inauguration day in pictures." 

Amazing talent

The audio system failed for "America the Beautiful" so Carrie Underwood just sang it a capella.  Wow!

President Trump back in charge

I'm not gonna lie: I saw Butler live and up until the oath I was afraid something terrible was going to happen.

I totally called it, part 2

This news broke in the MIDDLE of the inauguration ceremony:

BREAKING: Biden pardons his family for all crimes since 2014. Last act in office. pic.twitter.com/7DntwEPp0p

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 20, 2025

I totally called it

A week ago I said Dementia Joe would do this: "Breaking: Biden Issues Preemptive Pardons to Mark Miley, Anthony Fauci, January 6 Committee."

And, thus, a brand-new standard has been set for Presidential pardons.

Four more hours to flush down the toilet this corrupt and contemptible Administration. 

Extra - Federalist: "Seven Reasons Biden Was One Of Our Worst Presidents." America largely agrees.

The guy who claimed he would “protect norms” continues to bulldoze them and the Constitution until the bitter end.

Biden truly is one of the worst Presidents in American history and will only be remembered as the guy between Trump’s two terms. https://t.co/tc8fDtqPbK

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) January 20, 2025

Let's see if we can make it through the next 5 hours

Would not be at all surprised if Dementia Joe makes some final outrageous pardon for the last little hit of Presidential power.  Watch for a blanket pardon of his money mule Jim Biden or Liz Cheney.

Good news

Fox News: "Hamas frees 3 Israeli hostages under Gaza cease-fire deal."

Let's get some Americans now.

Just making stuff up

Jonathan Turley: "Biden Again Summons His “Leading Legal Constitutional Scholars” to Support an Absurd Constitutional Claim."

That echo chamber of higher education offers liberal leaders instant support even for the most ridiculous claims like the ratification of the ERA. The problem is that the group-think culture has a greater hold on academics than the public at large. For most people, selling the ERA as alive and well is akin to trying to sell a dead parrot as merely sleeping or stunned.

As the article notes, Harvard professor Laurence Tribe has been Biden's go-to "scholar" for his YOLO anything goes legal opinions only to be overturned by the Courts.

Maybe it isn't funny

Powerline: "It isn't funny." Either way, it will be over soon.  Right after the unprecedented blanket pardons for potential crimes.  

This will never not be funny

Still active on his YouTube account:

"Pennsylvania is on its way to becoming a red state"

Real Clear Pennsylvania: "Pennsylvania’s GOP Sweep Was No Fluke."

Huge, if true.  When I was younger, Missouri used to be the bellwether state where whatever candidate won the Show Me State won the Presidency.  It's looking like Pennsylvania is the "key" (pun intended) to the White House now.

How you know this is all for show

Joe Biden declared there's a 28th Amendment now but the National Archivist is in open revolt against the Executive Branch: "Biden’s Final Constitutional Crisis"

But the National Archivist works within the executive branch, which means that she works under the supervision of . . . Joe Biden. This means that, by telling the truth, the National Archivist is in open rebellion against her boss.

The President can fire and replace anybody ignoring his orders!  So what's gonna happen here?  Nothing.

This problem could be easily resolved by Joe Biden ordering the National Archivist to certify the 28th Amendment, and then either reversing his position or firing her if she refuses. But, because he is a reckless coward, Biden has not issued such an order, and, per his office, he will not issue such an order.

Of course not. 

This is the way

Wall Street Journal: "CBS Owner Discusses Settling Trump Suit, With Merger Review on Tap - Trump seeking $10 billion in suit over ‘60 Minutes’ Harris interview; FCC signals tough review of Paramount merger with Skydance."

The pain of lawsuits is the only way to bring the mainstream media to heel.