Having fixed the economy, won a trade war battle with Red China, appointed 1/4th of the appellate judges, rolled back regulations, and cut taxes, what is next for President Donald John Trump?
My guess is he will end the Afghanistan War next.
Well, stay tuned.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Transgender man gives birth to non-binary partner’s baby with female sperm donor.
BUT IT LET OUR BETTERS FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES, AND THAT’S WHAT’S TRULY IMPORTANT: Faculty, student protests of ICE lead to cancellation of medical contracts to help illegal immigrants. “Critics of enforcing immigration laws on the one hand are pressing for improved treatment for illegal immigrants. But on the other hand, some faculty and students are also protesting universities and medical centers that sign government contracts to provide health services and advice for the illegal immigrants.”
Hey, you can’t make a self-esteem omelet without breaking a few lower-class eggs.
THE PAST IS ANOTHER COUNTRY: I tried to live like it was 2010 for a day and it was impossible.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Wired/L.A. Times leftist Virginia Heffernan lists all of her favorite “conservative” columnists:
As “Comfortably Smug” tweets in response, “If your definition of conservative means they’re media approved, chances are, they’re actually a Lib.” And presumably, won’t be threatened with being tossed through a plate-glass window, as another future-Wired columnist fantasized about PJM’s Michael Ledeen in 2008.
A FOLLOW UP TO TRUMP’S DISHWASHER REFORM INITIATIVE: Make Gas Cans Great Again & Lock Up the “Snow Blower Vote.”
RIP: Sue Lyon Dies: Lolita Star Was 73. “Lyon’s followup to Lolita was a co-starring role opposite Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr in the John Huston-directed 1964 feature The Night Of the Iguana. She went on to appear in two dozen movies and TV shows, more notably Evel Knievel, Tony Rome and 7 Women.”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: Can We Trust The BBC?
—Title of 2007 book by former BBC Today host Robin Aitken, reviewed at the above link by your Humble Narrator at the late, lamented Tech Central Station.
—CNN.com, yesterday.
● Hangover (Well, hangover cure, to be honest): Boris Johnson threatens BBC with two-pronged attack. No 10 boycotts Today programme and considers decriminalising non-payment of licence fee.
—The Grauniad, December 15.
DONORS STARTING TO SOUR ON WARREN: Zachary Stieber of The Epoch Times reports contributions are down for the fourth quarter. Even if another $3 million is in the bank by Dec. 31, bringing the quarterly total to $20 million, the campaign will still be nearly 19 percent down from the third quarter total.
OUT ON A LIMB: Disney’s new Star Wars movie, the Rise of Skywalker, is a mess.
Well, yes, it is. But having seen it in a three-quarters sold out theater in Dallas on Boxing Day, it’s a much more watchable mess than its immediate predecessor, The Force Awakens, in no small part because the in your face Wokeness factor was dialed waaaay back. Plus the story focuses primarily on the latest trilogy’s three main characters, in an attempt to try to recapture the chemistry of the Luke, Han, and Leia triad that drove the original Star Wars back in 1977. But Adam Driver’s perpetual Lord of the emo-Sith Kylo Ren, who, like Rick Moranis’ “Dark Helmet” from Spaceballs or the interstellar equivalent of SCTV’s Guy Caballero, seems to only wear his mask “for respect,” generating none of the pathos of the horribly scarred Darth Vader, permanently trapped behind his black mask. And Carrie Fisher’s role was created largely from outtakes of her appearances in the prior two Star Wars movies, which makes the interactions of those around her, particularly Daisy Ridley’s Rey, seem largely incoherent, as the writers were forced to craft dialogue to match Fisher’s outtakes.
All of which may be why, as Forbes speculated yesterday: Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker Could Join The $100 Million Losers Club As It Nears $1 Billion.
If so, as Steve wrote in October, “Disney, as Bill Whittle pointed out, has done the impossible: They killed the Star Wars movie franchise.”
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: The first winner of Inglewood’s home-buyer program is *drum roll* a city employee. “No other applicants qualified for the same priority.”
RIP: Lee Mendelson, executive producer of Peanuts TV specials, dies. “Mendelson, 86, died on Christmas Day after a long battle with lung cancer. Mendelson’s sons, Jason and Glenn, said that their father always talked about the serendipitous nature of the iconic Peanuts Christmas special and his career path. ‘It wasn’t great for us, but to have him pass on Christmas really ties into his history and legacy,’ Jason Mendelson said.”
Earlier: How Charles Schulz Got The Gospel Past CBS Execs In A Charlie Brown Christmas.
WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO EAGER TO WRECK THE GLOBAL ECONOMY? Or: Putin Puppets, Unmasked: Issues 2020: A Fracking Ban Would Trigger Global Recession.
“I will ban fracking—everywhere.”[1]
— Elizabeth Warren“Any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands.”[2]
— Bernie Sanders“I favor a ban on new fracking and a rapid end to existing fracking.”[3]
— Pete Buttigieg
As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added at the start of the month. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
After the Democratic presidential candidates’ apocalyptic-themed “climate change” town hall on CNN in September, Bryan Preston wrote, “If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela. Thank you, CNN, just for letting these people talk. Do it again next week? Please?”
PRETEND GOVERNOR STACEY ABRAMS HARDEST HIT: Federal Judge Denies Effort to Restore 98,000 Purged Georgia Voters.
WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE THE WORKING CLASS? New York Governor vetoes bill to legalize e-bikes and e-scooters: The assisted bikes preferred by delivery workers will continue to be illegal in NYC.
