Archive for 2016
December 6, 2016
LET’S GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO FRET ABOUT: Europeans mocked Bush, but they’re downright scared of Trump.
European leaders — the “Europeans” Ann Friedman refers to here — ought to be most afraid of their own voters.
LIVING LARGE: Obama family travel, vacations, cross $85 million mark.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Hillary Clinton blew the most winnable election in modern American history. And it’s her own fault.
I don’t care if the “fundamentals” favored the GOP. Trump was a fundamentals-defying opponent who should have landed flat on his face regardless of the baseline assumptions. I don’t care if Clinton racks up a nearly 3 million vote lead in the popular tally by grabbing up gobs of electorally superfluous ballots in California. She lost the election because she failed to win where she needed to win and where Democrats had a long record of winning — the upper Midwest — as well as where they win when they’re doing their jobs well (Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina). That’s a sign of a campaign screw-up of monumental proportions.
Most of all, I don’t want to hear about how unfairly Clinton was treated by the media. In comparison to whom? All the other candidates who’ve run for president while under criminal investigation by the FBI? (Maybe that substantial handicap should have overridden the party’s presumption that she was owed the nomination because it was “her turn.”) Or do you mean, instead, that she was treated badly in comparison to her opponent? Really? You mean the one whose 24/7 media coverage was overwhelmingly, relentlessly negative in tone and content? Either way, a halfway competent campaign should have been able to take advantage of the great good fortune of running against Donald J. Trump and left him bleeding in the ditch.
Why didn’t it happen?
Read the whole thing — but the short version is that Clinton was a terrible candidate, a lackadaisical campaigner, and she squandered her enormous ad budget.
SO THIS IS ON SALE FOR 99C: Wings by Sarah A. Hoyt.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED: WikiLeaks exposes Democratic smear campaign against Jeff Sessions.
SO LONG AS WE KEEP THEM AWAY FROM ANY POWER: For many social-justice warriors, systematic oppression of dissent is a feature, not a bug.
OF COURSE THEY DID: Report buried Trump-related ‘hate crimes’ against white kids.
FROM TOM KNIGHTON: The Essence of Man: A Real Guide To Masculinity In The 21st Century.
OF COURSE WE KNOW WHAT YOU SAID THE TEA PARTY WAS, SO WE’RE ASSUMING BLUE STATES ARE RACIST, SEXIST, ETC? Why Blue States Are the Real ‘Tea Party’.
A MINOR DELAY ON HIS ROUTE SOMEWHERE MUCH HOTTER: Jeep Carrying Castro’s Ashes Breaks Down During Procession.
HE IS NOT WRONG: Generation Brat, in Full Voice.
December 5, 2016
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THE HALLMARK OF 2016 IS PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT USING TACTICS PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED ONLY BY THE LEFT: Quack Jill Stein Holds Presser at Trump Tower – TRUMP Supporters Crash Event (Video).
I’VE ALREADY EXPRESSED MY DOUBTS ABOUT A BIG TRUMP INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN, but this, alas, seems right: “We’ve spent 35 years having the ‘big government versus small government’ fight. Big government won. You can be mad about it, you can disagree with it, but it is what it is.”
I’m not opposed to better roads and airports, but the truth is, there’s been a lot of money thrown at those projects, and most of it seems to get diverted into graft, consultants, and environmental impact statements. If you really want to see infrastructure boom, get rid of a lot of that federal regulation and the existing money will go far enough to get us more and better new infrastructure than even a huge slug of new cash will get us without such reform. But my approach offers fewer opportunities for graft.
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WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN INDUSTRIES LIKE HOLLYWOOD SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY AND SEXUAL COERCION? ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Rape Scene Was Not Consensual, Director Bernardo Bertolucci Admits.
HE’LL BE FORGIVEN FOR THAT: ‘Family Guy’ Calls Jesus a ‘D*ck’