‘WE COULD USE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT GOOD OLD GLOBAL WARMING’: Trump uses record-low New Year’s Eve forecasts and arctic blast gripping the northern US to question climate change.
And as always, drive the DNC-MSM absolutely insane.
Related: Associated Press: Global Cooling Requires More Government Money.
Global cooling? I blame Leonard Nimoy:
“Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it’s a very different story”: Former New York Times public editor and WaPo columnist Margaret Sullivan goes to the trouble of actually doing the legwork that so many pundits promised but failed to do post-election. The takeaway is crisply honest, and isn’t going to make many friends in newsrooms still in denial:
“We need to heed complaints about the blending of news and opinion, and to make it clear which is which. We need to focus more intently — and more engagingly — on subjects that matter most to ordinary people’s lives, and to calm down about White House intrigue and Trump’s every tweet. And we need to stamp out the snarky attitude that seems to brag, “I’m smarter than my audience.” Perhaps most important, we need to be much more transparent — willing to explain our work, and own up to our inevitable mistakes.”
Fortunately, Sullivan is an old school journalist who doesn’t put popularity ahead of honest analysis.
ANOTHER OPEN THREAD: Talk amongst yourselves.
MARC THIESSEN: Trump’s Little-Noticed War On Hidden Taxes. “He worked with Congress to repeal 14 major regulations implemented under Obama, and withdrew or delayed more than 1,500 others by executive action. Most importantly, he issued Executive Order 13771, which directed government agencies to eliminate two existing regulations for each new one issued, and to ensure that the net costs of any new regulations are zero. Last Thursday, Trump announced the first results of this effort: His administration achieved $8.1 billion in lifetime regulatory savings — and is on track to achieve an additional $9.8 billion in savings in fiscal 2018. Since excessive regulations are a hidden tax on American workers and businesses, that amounts to an $18 billion tax cut.” It’s a good start.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Trump Ends 2017 Residing In His Enemies’ Heads.
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I’M GLAD SOMEONE IS STANDING UP TO SEXISM: “Former ‘Last Comic Standing’ winner Iliza Shlesinger is reportedly being sued after hosting a comedy show in Los Angeles that didn’t allow men to attend.”
FUN IDEA: Replace ‘white’ in this BuzzFeed headline with any other race or ethnicity and see what happens:
As Clay Travis tweets, “If this is written about any other race every advertiser bails on company & a ton of people are fired.”
Why, it’s as if the alt-right is the mirror image of the mainstream American left, or something. Why are Democrat-monopoly organizations such cesspits of racism?
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
SOMETHING EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE: A Carbon Monoxide Alarm.
WHEN TAXPAYERS GET TIRED OF FUNDING THIS STUFF, WE’LL BE TOLD IT’S BECAUSE OF “ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM:” Professors claim farmers’ markets cultivate racism: ‘Habits of white people are normalized.’
ACTUALLY, MORE OF IT WOULD BE BETTER. Get a Grip: Trump Derangement Syndrome in Public Is Not Okay.
Steve’s Second Law of Holes says, “When your opponent is in one, hand him a bigger shovel.”
FARAWAY, SO CLOSE: Bono Won’t Work With Trump: ‘You Can’t Believe’ What He Says.
Huh – that’s never stopped Bono before: Bono and the Obamas Brunch in the Big Apple — and Get a Standing Ovation.
SO IT’S COME TO THIS: Leftists search for hidden meaning after Jared Kushner photobombed by Confederate flag.
BREAKING NEWS – MUST CREDIT MASHABLE! Dwayne Johnson confirms men will also wear black to the Golden Globes in protest of sexual misconduct.
Gentlemen, you can’t wear black tuxedos here – this is an awards show!
Update: “The idea, I assume, is that they’ll be wearing black shirts with their tuxes this year instead of white ones,” Allahpundit writes. “Better still, they could have outed some of the degenerates who are still being protected by a conspiracy of silence. Because you know and I know that plenty of people in that audience know those names. But no, they’re going to do the absolute metaphysical minimum by holding their big party as scheduled and dressing to the nines for it but adding a tiny element of darkness to suggest that they’re introspective and contrite. It’s so feeble, it’s worse than those colored lapel ribbons they used to wear to signal their virtue. And it’s so vain, in every sense, that it feels worse than not protesting at all.”
THESE ARE HEINLEIN’S “CRAZY YEARS” — WE JUST LIVE IN THEM: “TransKids” Site Sells Prosthetic Penises For “Trans” Little Girls To Wear.
PETA’S #METOO PROBLEM.
HERE COME THREE HUGE, UNEXPECTED SURPRISES FOR THE “EXPERTS” IN 2018: If yours truly has learned anything living in Washington, D.C. since 1976, it’s that when you need to know where the country is headed in the near future, check the conventional wisdom among America’s political, academic and media elites, then expect the opposite to occur. Here are three major examples. And boy are there going to be some dumbfounded swamp creatures in coming months.
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