Too late, they realized their mistake

Ross Douthat in the NY Times: "Why the Manhattan trial is probably helping Trump."

I defer to those analysts on what New York state legal precedent suggests. But I would defy anyone to summarize the underlying situation, in which a presidential candidate could be sent to prison for a misdemeanor offense elevated by a second crime for which he isn’t even being charged, without the description coming across as somewhat Kafkaesque.

We warned that charging Trump for a bookkeeping dispute would turn him into a martyr and now the laughable nature of this case is doing just that.  Great job, guys!

I can't make sense of this stupid article

Here's Democrat operative Symone Sanders LARPing as a journalist with "Democrats need to counter Trump's courthouse campaign."

The theme here seems to be that the Trump trial is creating a media circus that is sucking the oxygen away from all the great work the Biden administration is doing:

Trump’s indictments are historic and should be covered vigorously by the media. But minuscule details of the trial threaten to obscure developments out of the executive branch that affect the lives of millions of Americans.

If only we could track down the people who have generated this black hole of attention around Trump!

Furthermore, nobody's stopping you from getting your message out, Symone.  The idiot White House press secretary gave five press conferences this week.  Dementia Joe even sat down for interviews with CNN and Yahoo recently.  The problem (for you) is that Americans have tuned out the constant gaslighting about the economy. 

Go ahead and spread the great news.  Nobody's stopping you.  Here, let me help: "Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years."  

Awesome job.  The adults are back in charge!

Alabama votes "no"

The Corner: "So Much for the Great UAW Unionization Wave."

Two words: "Vroom vroom!"

Federalist: "If Joe Biden Is ‘Sharp As Ever,’ Why Is He Trying To Suppress The Hur Audio?" 

We all know why. 

When you've lost CNN

PJ Media: "Michael Cohen Gets Destroyed During Cross Examination, Leaving Anderson Cooper Stunned."

This is great:

"I think it's devastating,” Cooper added later. "I mean, for Michael Cohen's credibility on this, I mean, on this one particular topic."

He added, "Yes, I think, if I was a juror in this case, watching that, I would think this guy's making this up as he's going along or he's making this particular story up."

Cohen is the prosecution's star and final witness.  The defense hasn't even started yet!  If the judge had any scruples, he would throw out this silly case with a directed verdict.

This robot gets paid $19/hour

Twitchy: "Nina Turner EMBARRASSES Herself With Another Hot Take on What McDonald’s Workers Should Be Paid."

People who have never had to meet a payroll always know what's best.  This is the future:

Saw this fry flipper robot in action today in Chicago at the National Restaurant Association show.

Didn’t hear a single complaint to management out of the robot. pic.twitter.com/X34cULsdPy

— Joe Kinsey (@JoeKinseyexp) May 22, 2023

Biden won't debate

Know how I know?  His debate announcement video: "Biden mocked over number of jump cuts in Trump debate challenge video: ‘Like a Claymation film’."

I've seen quite a few articles online questioning why Trump agreed to Dementia Joe's terms for the debates including picking left-loving CNN to moderate.  My feeling is that Trump is calculating - correctly - that Biden can't speak extemporaneously anymore.  Every public appearance by Dementia Joe is assisted with teleprompters and note cards and occasionally the Easter Bunny.   Whenever Biden is deprived of his crutches, it's a disaster and the only thing that saves him is that journalists are too deferential to call him a liar.

Donald Trump won't be so deferential.  Biden won't debate.

Biden won't debate

Red State: "Joe Biden Tells Inflation Whopper Again, As His Campaign Continues to Crash and Burn."

Here's the transcript from Yahoo Finance.  Dynamo Joe fielded a grand total of three questions, didn't answer two of them, and completely lied on the third by repeating the inflation falsehood.

Jim Geraghty estimates there are three scenarios to explain why Biden lies about inflation (among many other things): 1) he knows he's lying, 2) he was told he lied but already forgot or 3) he wasn't told he lied.  I believe this last scenario:

Another possibility is that Biden misremembers the inflation rate when he took office, said so publicly, and no one around the president has told him, “Mr. President, when you took office, the inflation rate was just 1.4 percent, you can’t go around claiming that it was 9 percent.” Meaning we have a president who operates in a fog of half-truths and illusory claims that reflect the way he wishes things had happened, and no one around the president sees any point in correcting him.

It's just easier to let Dementia Joe mis-remember the awesome job he did then give him some ice cream.

Can you imagine a debate with Trump where these obvious lies are called out in real time?  It would be the bloodbath we were promised.

He should have done the opposite

Wall Street Journal: "The George Costanza Presidency - With each expedient act, from climate policy to the Mideast, Joe Biden digs a deeper hole for himself."

Look who's ox is being gored now

Jonathan Turley: "The New York Times Denounces Cancel Culture . . . After Fueling Cancel Culture for Years." - "Recently, however, the mob came for liberal professors and media who have remained silent for years as conservatives and others were targeted on campus. Suddenly, there is a new interest in free speech and academic freedom, including by the Times editors who blamed cancel culture for the recent demonstrations and disruptions on campus."  

Suddenly, indeed.  Tom Cotton was unavailable for comment. 

Architects of their own destruction

Don Surber: "We don't want journalism back"

Do we really want the dingbats and dingleberries that Kahn described as the people who decide what is news and what the facts are? When I was a youngun, a wise newspaperman explained to me that the power of the press belongs to the man who owns the presses. NYT and the rest abused that power. We will not give it back to them.

Thus the answer to Taibbi’s question “Is Journalism Back?” is no. Journalists abandoned objectivity. Readers have decided that they do not want the journalists back.

The largest paper in Western Massachusetts has not run a single editorial with Joe Biden as the topic in an entire year.  For four years, every week (at least) the same paper inveighed against Orange Man Bad.

You can probably guess which half

Reason: "Nearly Half of All Masters Degrees Aren't Worth Getting - According to new research, 23 percent of bachelor's degree programs and 43 percent of master's degree programs have a negative ROI."

However, different kinds of degrees were more likely to have a negative ROI than others. For example, 77 percent of bachelor's degrees and doctoral and professional degrees have a positive ROI. In contrast, just 57 percent of master's and associate degree programs have a positive ROI.

Story time: a couple years ago, I felt my career in engineering had hit a dead-end so I went back to school to get a master's degree.  This degree was a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management.

Know what kind of degrees have a positive return on investment (ROI)?

1) Engineering

2) Management

and ipso facto

3) Engineering Management

For me, it was a great investment and enhanced my career.  So YMMV but thumbs-up for me.

The paper of record

 

Biden Strikes Deal Where Hamas Gets To Keep American Hostages In Exchange For Fifteen Votes In Michigan https://t.co/bCkU6m09IL pic.twitter.com/SRxE58SW6l

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 9, 2024

That CNN interview was...something

Hot Air: "Joe Biden's Really Bad, Truly Terrible Interview on CNN."

This was the interview where Biden decided to abandon Israel: "Biden Commits To Saving Hamas, Will Cut Off Offensive Weapons To Israel If It Enters Rafah."  Because - hey - those votes in Dearborn, Michigan ain't gonna buy themselves.

On the homefront, Biden lied relentlessly about the economy.  

As somebody who follows Dementia Joe's speeches with some regularity, I can tell you that he uses the same rationalizations and prevarications with predictable reliability.  As a journalist - even a CNN journalist - interviewer Erin Burnett should have been prepared for Biden's lies.  I'm not even talking about statements that can be open to interpretation (such as, say, Trump saying there will be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected).  I'm talking about hard numbers, immutable history, and cold facts.

So, once again, I'm disappointed at the mainstream media that allows Biden to say that inflation was 9% when he took office.  This is completely untrue and just one of the ways Biden tries to weasel out of any responsibility for his terrible economic record.   And yet, Burnett did not push back.  At all.

This is why I hate the mainstream media.  These clowns love to wrap themselves in the "truth to power" mantra until the truth will embarrass a Democrat. 

Extra - NY Post editorial: "Biden tells a lie a minute during CNN interview."