So many happenings and so little time, which means we need an installment of news and views.
NEWS: CNN’s “Fake” Jake Tapper has a book about the media coverup of the failing mental state of Clueless Joe Biden.
VIEWS: Give Tapper the lead balls award for this. It was Tapper, in a video to be played over and over again, who derided Lara Trump for questioning Biden’s mental acuity during his time as president, saying she was mocking a stutter and lacked standing to make judgments about cognitive ability. Yo, Jake, anyone such as me who has had relatives dealing with dementia, recognizes the symptoms. Jesus, did Biden stutter up the plane steps, stutter off his bike, stutter when tripping on stages, or needing guides to show him the way off them, stutter when freezing mid-sentence or stutter forgetting names of individuals or countries they represented? Did Biden stutter during the debate that prompted Democrats to dump him as the candidate for re-election? Now, in an apparent effort to make a few bucks and rehab a reputation for unbiased reporting that the guy never really had, this book is the answer?
NEWS: President Trump is getting heat for proposing a $5 million gold card for would-be immigrants to speed up their process of coming to the United States and perhaps eventually becoming citizens.
VIEWS: I guess the critics think it is better to let in gang members and assorted criminals, put them up, at taxpayer expense, in first-class hotels, give them cell phones and pre-loaded debit cards for incidental expenses. This just in, almost by definition, the odds are people with a spare $5 million are more likely to be productive members of society than your average gang members. Also, unlike Clueless Joe’s refugee army, these people would be vetted before being accepted.
NEWS: Attorney General Pam Bondi has said to expect release of Jeffrey Epstein files, perhaps including passenger lists for plane trips to his isle of debauchery, as soon as Thursday.
VIEWS: A lot of leftists choked on their coffee when they heard that. I would suspect there will be Republicans on the lists, too, but I’m betting that more prominent Democrats show up on the manifests, not that merely being on the passenger list indicates felonious behavior. Regardless, it is not a good look.
NEWS: The usual media naysayers are outraged that Elon Musk was at the meeting Wednesday of the Trump cabinet.
VIEWS: Funny, I don’t recall them being outraged that unelected DR. JILL BIDEN !!!!!!! attended and spoke at a rare Clueless Joe cabinet meeting, or that feckless son Hunter spent a lot of time with daddy (perhaps changing his Depends) at White House staff meetings.
NEWS: Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is a voice of raging optimism as shown by his Fox News interview with Bret Bair during which he expressed real hope about balancing the federal budget and paying down the national debt of $37 trillion or so.
VIEW: Too predictably, even for Fox, a panel was brought on later to discuss what Lutnick said and it was two-thirds dismissive, Taking the lead on negativity was Brit Hume who should know better, and some harpy from USA Today. But Charles Payne of Fox Business provided some balance, imploring the negative nellies at least to give Lutnick and, by extension, Trump, a chance to get the job done instead of saying it is impossible.
NEWS: Musk, speaking to the media at the cabinet meeting, noted that reining in spending and preventing that national debt from mushrooming further is the only chance this country has to avoid bankruptcy and a huge decline in living standards.
VIEWS: It’s hard to argue with Musk when our interest payments on the national debt, at about $1 trillion a year, now exceed the defense budget
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