Fauxcahontas kills another company

Flashback: "iRobot Faces Bankruptcy After Elizabeth Warren Helped Kill $1.65 Billion Amazon Merger."

Today: "Elizabeth Warren Killed Spirit Airlines and Now She’s Complaining About It." 

When journalism happens

NY Post: "Bill Maher drags Gavin Newsom for high-speed rail and sky-high gas in blistering interview."

I cracked up at this line:

The moment appeared to catch Newsom off guard, his expression shifting as the criticism landed.

Yeah, imagine that: an interviewer pressing a politician and expecting a straight answer.  This is why somebody like Hakeem Jeffries would never appear on Maher or Rogan.  Jeffries, in particular, excels at never answering a question and he sticks to shows like "Meet the Press" where he knows he can get away with his obfuscation.  The last time Jeffries was pressured was when GOP Congressman Mike Lawler confronted him in front of cameras and all Jeffries could do was engage in schoolyard insults.

How do low-IQ clowns like Newsom and Jeffries rise so high on the national stage?  It's because the media actively covers up their deficits until - like Biden on the debate stage - it's all exposed.

Like this:

Staffers for Seattle Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson abruptly end an interview with KOMO News Senior Reporter Chris Daniels when she can't answer basic questions

Wilson has been criticized for dodging the press & being unable to answer basic questions since she came into office pic.twitter.com/eJnFtg6CLy

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) May 1, 2026

Another aftereffect of runaway Covid spending

American Thinker: "SNAP Is Beyond Broken - From millionaires to overseas foreigners, from NFL players to luxury car owners, our money is going to everyone but us."

Please come back and pay our bills

The Laffer Curve is hilarious!

The return to normalcy

Federalist: "Dems Revive Court-Packing Threats After Being Told They Can’t Do Racist Gerrymandering - After being told states can’t partake in racist gerrymandering, Democrats are renewing their threats to pack the Supreme Court once they regain power." 

Why wait?  Can we pack the courts right now?

Here come the sob stories

NY Times: "Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage - Americans can’t afford the higher health insurance premiums that resulted from Congress’s refusal to extend federal tax credits."

Just a reminder: Congress passed Obamacare subsidies and then extended them during Covid to paper over the structural failure of the program.  According to the NY Times and the Democrats (I repeat myself) we were supposed to prop up this farce in perpetuity, like Somali Learing Centers.

Uh-huh

U.S. Sun: "DROPPED AGAIN? ABC chiefs are ‘ready to pull’ Jimmy Kimmel Live! & have already spiked promo ads over his Melania ‘widow’ comments."

The man with the Nazi tattoo

The Corner: "Maine Shows Antisemitism Is a Shortcut to Success in the Modern Democratic Party."

Platner was largely unknown at this point last year and yet managed to drive a sitting governor out of the primary before a single vote was cast. But he had one thing going for him, which is that he gained attention for his antisemitism. That is a ticket to success in the modern Democratic Party.

Sadly true.  Still, you have to be careful about those secret Israeli agents. 

Extra - Of course: "Maine Kampf: Bernie Sanders Gives Dem Senate Hopeful Graham Platner His Socialist Seal of Approval." 

While we were watching Iran

1945: "Russia’s Economy Is on the Brink of Collapse." 

West Coast Mamdani

Twitchy: "She Seems Nice: Seattle’s Socialist Nepo Mayor Cackles 'BYE' as Wealth Flees Her Dumpster Fire City." 

Is *everything* in California a money-laundering scheme?

Hot Air: "California Is an Unfunny Joke."

If you stacked dollar bills in the $231 billion needed to finish California's high speed rail, it would be over 15,000 miles high. 

This is not the government's role

Disagree: "The FCC’s Bad News for Disney/ABC: The Time for Playing Nice Is Over."

Agree: "Here's an Idea — Just Let Jimmy Kimmel Continue to Cancel Himself." 

Kimmel has lower ratings than Stephen Colbert who is losing $40 million/year on his way to cancellation.  The federal government shouldn't be involved in pushing Kimmel out.  That's the job of the market and Disney's calculation.

Already ran out of other people's money

That was quick!  Twitchy: "Socialism's Math Lesson: NYC Mayor Mamdani Promises Free Everything, Then Begs New York State for Bailout."

Who could have predicted this outcome?  Oh, yeah, everybody outside the Upper East Side.

Eliminate it

Reason: "The Federal Minimum Wage Is Irrelevant. Good. - The national wage floor is so low that it might as well not exist." 

They cannot be reasoned with

Sasha Stone: "There is No Saving the Left - There is only saving the country from them." 

After ten years of dehumanizing language, they can’t see the reality of who Trump is anymore, much less see his supporters as their fellow Americans. They can only see the delusion - the mirage - the supervillain they invented. If he isn’t even a human anymore, then killing him is as easy as taking out the garbage.

They speak in mantras. They mirror each other. Their hysteria spreads from person to person and ultimately unites them. They are as aligned and of one mind as a cult. They must believe they are still the “resistance” going to war on an insurmountable evil force that can’t be defeated in any ordinary way. It requires something extraordinary, someone, to “just do it.”

Some of my favorite videos on YouTube are the conservatives who wander into "No Kings" rallies and starts asking very basic questions.  These so-called adults just completely melt down at the slightest pushback.

Good question

Hot Air: "Trump to ABC: When Are You Going to Fire Assassination Clown Kimmel, Anyway?"

Kimmel is gonna paint himself as a free speech warrior but at heart he's a coward who would never allow anybody to confront him to his face.  Go ahead, Jimmy: have somebody like Ted Cruz on your show.  Let's see how that goes.

Kimmel must go and NOW

Fox News: "Kimmel calls Melania Trump an ‘expectant widow’ before White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting - The segment aired shortly before a gunman opened fire at a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton."

I've said this before but I'm one of those Disney people.  I've been to the parks with my kids a half-dozen times and, after they left the nest, my wife and I have been on a bunch of Disney cruises.  I was so desperate to get out of the house during Covid that I got the vaccine just so I could cruise on the Disney Magic.  Needless to say, I've paid the Disney premium for the Disney brand of entertainment.

But I can't do it anymore if ABC is going to continue to give Jimmy Kimmel a platform for his bottomless and humorless brand of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Look, Disney, we already know his low-rated show is losing millions a year.  Just cut the cord already.

And, yeah, I get that I'm a molecule in the ocean of Disney's revenue.  But maybe there are millions of guys like me who make the decision to switch to Universal for my theme park needs and Norwegian Cruise Line (leaving out of Boston) for my cruise desires.  Maybe we cancel our Disney Plus accounts and get our Disney merchandise from knock-off sites on Ebay.

But I won't support ABC and Disney while Kimmel still has a show because you're obliquely telling us what you think of half the country.

Pretty much what you would expect

NY Post: "Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto."

Just another loser covering himself with moral vanity.

China buys 80% of Iran's oil

TIPP Insights: "The Squeeze - The Strait of Hormuz is squeezing Iran. It's also squeezing China."

So I just got back from vacation

To this news: "BREAKING: Shots Fired at Correspondents Dinner, Shooter Neutralized, Trump Evacuated."

This is breaking news but what I'm hearing so far is that somebody tried to get through the metal detector and was shot dead by Secret Service after producing a gun.  Fox Business is allegedly reporting there is a separate person in custody.

So this is by my count the fourth assassination attempt on Trump by nutcases fomented into violence by the political Left.

Update - Now they're saying the gunman is not dead.  Hannity is saying that a Secret Service agent took a bullet to the chest but his vest stopped it.  Trump is supposed to speak in 30 minutes.

Update 2 - In custody: Cole Tomas Allen from California.

Update 3 - Red State: "WHCD Shooter Identified, a 31-Year-Old Teacher From California."  Usually when you reach your thirties, you develop some perspective and reason in your life but I guess not if you're from California. 

Hiatus

Gotta take a break for a couple of weeks.  Catch you later.

When journalism happens

PJ Media: "Maryland’s Wes Moore Gets the ‘Spotlight’ Treatment — and He’s None Too Happy About It."

There is nothing here that a good newspaper wouldn't pursue for a potential Presidential candidate, but all Wes Moore can do is complain that the Baltimore Sun has been taken over by a right-winger.  Sure thing, buddy.  Tell your story to Jen Psaki. 

As I predicted

Hot Air: "Vance: No Deal – And That’s Bad News For Iran."

The sum total of this "negotiation" was that Iran give up its efforts towards nuclear capability.  But they would never do that because they've spent nearly a half-century convincing themselves that opposition to America and Israel is the sum total of its existence. 

Every movement by the Iranians is geared towards delay.  The U.S. response should be geared towards this reality...and a prompt response. 

Overnight implosion

Townhall: "The Eric Swalwell Sexual Assault Story Is Now a Total Fiasco."

Damn, this whole thing went from zero to a 100 in record time.  Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.  I suspect that divorce and resignation from Congress is in his future given the severity of these allegations.

By the way: do you remember what Senator Al Franken did to be forced out of office?  He did an adolescent joke where he mimed grabbing a woman's breasts.  As of now, Swalwell is being accused of r*pe.  He can't remain in office.