A Tale of Two Parties

Clarice Feldman   

"And while Obama looks increasingly crushed by the results of the last election, even to the point where his usually glib patter is failing him, the world is treating Trump, even before the inauguration, as our head of state."

"Eighty-three years after the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor which galvanized our nation to prepare for a long fight and ultimate victory, we have a clearer picture of how Barack Obama (and through him, President Biden) destroyed his party and with it many of our institutions. We now have a leader and a plan to restore their strength. Much has been written about why the Democrats suffered such a devastating loss in the election, but I’m inclined to place great weight on the views expressed by 
Adam Mill in Chronicles Magazine, who argues persuasively that the Democrats’ decision-making process doomed their chances, a process unlikely to soon change. “Democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have ‘facilitators’ who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points,” he argues. To keep on message is the key autocratic aim of the party, so any “single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise.” This explains as well as most theories why Kamala Harris’s rare public interviews devolved into bafflegab word salads. Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic
books in public school libraries, “fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody.” . . .

. . ."In contrast to the generally incompetent Biden cabinet, who often rose through the ranks of those they were set to govern, President-elect Trump has reached out to some of the most forward-looking, competent, non-governmental leaders to head his government -- people like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Howard Lutnik, Scott Bessant, Jared Isaacson, and Kelly Loeffler.

"So thoroughly are the Democrats locked out of the new order that Steve Hayward suggests they might now actually rediscover the Constitution: . .  ."

OPINION: Pete Hegseth Is on the Path to Confirmation

RedState 

"In my view, the criticism Ernst has faced from what seems to be a grassroots level has had its effect, and she will vote for his confirmation—not only because it is the right thing but also because she doesn't want to be Liz Cheney."

News That Matters.

   . . ."While things looked grim for Hegseth earlier in the week, I believe he's now on the path to confirmation. Let me tell you why.

The Press Stories Have Burned Out

There was a spate of damaging stories on Hegseth concerning regular public drunkenness and womanizing. Those stories have not received the traction that might have been expected for a couple of reasons. Many colleagues rallied around Hegseth to deny the stories that gave the appearance that Hegseth was an alcoholic and to create a solid doubt that undermined the narrative that was forming (OPINION: Latest SecDef Nominee Pete Hegseth Smears Ring False; Fox News Colleagues, Senators Cry Foul – RedState and The Pete Hegseth Smears Show Press Has Not Learned Lesson and Continues to Trample Journalistic Ethics – RedState). The woman who made a police report alleging Hegseth sexually assaulted her does not come off very well in the report. While the left screamed about him "forcing" her to sign a non-disclosure agreement, given the correct lighting, her refusal to cooperate with the police investigation and waiting three years to demand a settlement one could also catch images of a shakedown.

There may still be stories waiting to come out, but from the bullsh** media attacks on Hegseth's military record (The Washington Post Goes Dumpster Diving With New Attack on Pete Hegseth's Military Service – RedState) and religion, I think the media consensus is that the wine, women and song stories aren't going anywhere.

He's Not Feeding the Beast

The best way to keep a story alive in the media is to keep talking about it. Hegseth has shown remarkable discipline in resisting the temptation to engage in conversations with the media, which will inevitably lead to more conversations and controversies. This video shows his strategy in a nutshell.". . .   

"Led by President Trump, we're fighting for Pete Hegseth. And we're doing so because Pete Hegseth will fight for our troops. For too long, the Pentagon has been led by people who lose wars. Pete Hegseth is a man who fought in those wars."   JD Vance

Support Pete Hegseth

Mr. Hegseth is too admirable a man to be set up for failure. He will need all the expertise and support available to run a major government agency while Democrats do everything to see that Pete fails. TD

 Over 100 Navy SEALS Set to Descend on Washington D.C. in Explosive Show of Support for Army Veteran Pete Hegseth

. . ."Hegseth, a decorated Army combat veteran and prominent conservative voice, has faced relentless media attacks in recent weeks.

"The fake news media have leveled accusations ranging from outdated and disproven sexual misconduct claims to allegations of public drunkenness and financial mismanagement during his tenure at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).

"Critics on the right are pushing back hard against what they view as a deliberate effort to derail a nominee poised to shake up the Defense Department." . . .

   

Hegseth On Track?   . . ."I don’t think there are four Republican senators willing to buck Trump on an important nomination. Senators like Joni Ernst have expressed caution, but I can’t see her–or any other Republicans -other than Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins –actually voting Hegseth down. So I am optimistic that he will be confirmed." . . . Thank goodness Mitt Romney is gone now. TD

When Pete Hegseth is confirmed as Secretary of Defense, he will be a forceful agent of change for the betterment of the United States of America.

. . ."I read some articles by Hegseth, had seen him interviewed on television, and went to Washington, D.C., to meet him and the team. He was humble, direct, and smart. It was clear to me that he was policy-driven and capable, though only in his mid-30s. He was familiar with my published work and that of many others involved in counterterrorism and the war against Islamic radicalism. And critically, in our earliest discussions, he made it clear that he understood that taking care of our veterans’ medical needs was paramount.

"He made healthcare the immediate focus of CVA. His vision matched the core values of the organization. While I was focusing on building out a solid ground game, Pete was challenging VA shortcomings, holding their feet to the fire on behalf of American veterans. As a concerned veteran, I was impressed.

"Pete recruited other veterans like me who had significant national security backgrounds to build out the national organization. This was the very thing required of his position. He met with policymakers and funding sources who could move our organization forward.

"We held dozens of events together over several years. We drank coffee by the gallon, but I never witnessed any performance impaired by alcohol. In fact, he handled a situation well that involved an employee who did have an alcohol-related incident. That man had a drinking problem and had made a pass at a female coordinator under his supervision. As I addressed the situation, I called Pete. After I described what happened, Pete was decisive. He asked me to place the employee in rehab, reassign him, and counsel him against ever doing that sort of thing again. We placed a letter in the employee’s personnel file and protected the female employee’s privacy and interests. This demonstrates Pete’s decisiveness, concern, and responsibility for CVA and its personnel. These decisions were made in a single day.

"Senators interested in the moral compass of CVA should consult other senior managers from the organization. I will provide any interested senator with the names and contact information of people who conducted dozens of events and worked closely with Pete Hegseth for several years.

"One policy issue addressed by Hegseth garnering much attention is his stated opposition to women in combat. Looking to the Afghan conflict ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ as a recent example, women made up approximately 10 percent of the force on the ground. They are in theatre and add great value as pilots, medical personnel, and intelligence personnel. Their work is high quality, but using them in combat arms needs to be addressed honestly." ...     Read the full article here.

Gary Berntsen is a retired CIA officer and best-selling author. He is the recipient of the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and Intelligence Star. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force. After retirement from the CIA, he worked in Afghanistan for the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) in support of the 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Regional Command East combating the networks that employed IEDs (roadside bombs) that caused 80 percent of U.S. combat casualties. He also worked for Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).

Late update:  

VDH: What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done – And Will Not Do

 Victor Davis Hanson   

"The current crew, not their proposed Trump replacements, prompted the sick and tired American people to demand different people. Voters want novel approaches to reform a government that they not only no longer trust but also now deeply fear."

"Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees.

"Many of Trump's picks are well outside the usual Washington, D.C./New York political, media, and corporate nexus.

"But that is precisely the point -- to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are not part of it.

"Trump's nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, is already drawing severe criticism.

"His furious enemies cannot go after his resume since he has spent a lifetime in private, congressional, and executive billets, both in investigations and intelligence.

"Instead, they claim he is too vindictive and does not reflect the ethos of the FBI.

"But what will Patel not do as the new director?

"He will not serially lie under oath to federal investigators as did interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a current Patel critic.

"He will not forge an FBI court affidavit, as did convicted felon and agency lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.

"He will not claim amnesia 245 times under congressional oath to evade embarrassing admissions as did former Director James Comey.

"He will not partner with a foreign national to collect dirt and subvert a presidential campaign as the FBI did with Christopher Steele in 2016.

"He will not use the FBI to draft social media to suppress news unfavorable to a presidential candidate on the eve of an election."  

"He would not have suppressed FBI knowledge that Hunter Biden's laptop was genuine -- to allow the lie to spread that it was "Russian disinformation" on the eve of the 2020 election."...

Much, much more here...

Fetterman Offers an Unlikely Plan to Bind Up the Nation's Wounds

 Robert Spencer 

"What’s more, the case against Trump in New York doesn’t involve any federal charges, so Biden couldn’t issue a pardon even if he wanted to. Nevertheless, even if Biden’s handlers prompted him to make a statement admitting that all the cases against Trump were more partisan political lawfare than the noble pursuit of justice, it would go a long way toward binding the nation’s wounds and enabling us to move forward as one nation, with malice toward none and charity for all. That, of course, will never happen even if Old Joe lives to be a million years old."

. . ."Fetterman, however, was on point, at least in regard to the cases against Trump, when he added, "And I really think collectively, you know, America’s confidence in these kinds of institutions has been damaged by these kinds of cases, and we cannot allow these kinds of institutions to be weaponized against our political opponents, and it’s very clear both trials were politically motivated and weaponized on the other side." 

"At that point, Joy Behar brought another case of the Democrats’ legal persecution of Trump: the phony Jan. 6 “insurrection” as she “suggested the incoming Trump administration would be defending a pardon for them using a similar argument to the one offered by Fetterman.” In reality, Trump needs to go much farther than saying that the Jan. 6 prosecutions were politically motivated. He needs to call them out as the crime against innocent people that they were and call for a full and open investigation of the left’s fabrication of the entire “insurrection” narrative.

"Fetterman didn’t go that far, of course, but he replied with a bit more of his newly emerging common sense: "I’m talking about the New York trial and now the Democrats on our side, there were some that were gleeful calling — now he’s a convicted felon and those things. And now for our party, we were talking about criminal justice, and we are now talking about second chances and now, all of a sudden, now you're like, well, he’s a convicted felon and all these things.”

"Seeing the down-the-line party hacks of “The View” get called out for their hypocrisy was delightful. Here’s to John Fetterman getting more attacks of common sense."

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Black Lives Matter leader sparks outrage as he claims ‘KKK got another victory’ in rant outside Daniel Penny trial

NY Post

"The notorious leader of New York’s BLM chapter caused outrage outside the Daniel Penny trial by slurring the former Marine, saying “the KKK got another victory,” after the judge in the case dropped the top charge of manslaughter.

Hawk Newsome, after the jury deadlocked Friday, told reporters anyone who thinks Penny is innocent has “racism in their heart”, and suggested at least one juror in Penny’s case could be a “white supremacist hold out”, according to a report from the Daily Mail.

“Logically, if you pick a white supremacist jury specialist, and you pack a jury with white people, obviously you think race has a specific role in this case, and obviously you are looking for that one white supremacist hold out,” Newsome said according to the report." . . .

". . .Newsome is a frequent rabble rouser, who who once promised “bloodshed” in response to Mayor Eric Adams’ push for tougher policing.

"Penny, 26, was charged with manslaughter after he allegedly put Jordan Neely, 30, — a mentally ill homeless man — in a chokehold during the May 2023 encounter on a Manhattan F train.

"Neely had reportedly been harassing and threatening other passengers when Penny put him in the chokehold.

"On the second day of deliberations, jurors asked to review the six-minute video shot by another passenger that showed Penny, a former marine, choking Neely.

"Prosecutors begrudgingly decided to toss the manslaughter charge after jurors sent two notes — just hours apart — both saying the group was deadlocked on the manslaughter charge." . . .

Again, this reminder of how other nations regard the work of BLM and BLM heroes:

Serial Liar Adam Schiff Officially Resigns From [House] Effective December 8; Joins Senate

He is the California Coast's choice along with Gavin Newsom. The congressman elected by Atwater Village, Burbank, East Hollywood, Echo Park, Elysian Valley, Fairfax, Glendale, Griffith Park, Hancock Park, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, Larchmont Village, Los Feliz, Mid-Wilshire, Miracle Mile, Park La Brea, Pasadena, Shadow Hills, Silver Lake, Sunland, Tujunga, Universal City and West Hollywood. TD

 Cristina Laila: The Gateway Pundit 

"Serial liar and Trump-Russia collusion hoaxer Adam Schiff officially resigned from Congress effective Sunday after more than two decades in the US House of Representatives. Schiff will be sworn into the Senate on Monday after defeating Republican Steve Garvey in California." . . .

. . .“I just cast my last vote as a member of the House of Representatives,” Schiff said on Friday.

“ 'To my LA constituents — thank you for the amazing opportunity to serve,” he said. “And to the people of the whole state of CA, I’m so grateful for your confidence and look forward to all we can get done together!”

"Schiff was deeply involved in spreading the Trump-Russia collusion hoax after Trump won the 2016 election.

"He was also involved in the first impeachment show trial against Trump in 2019 and the unconstitutional J6 Committee.

"Shameless liar Adam Schiff said there is significant and incriminating evidence that Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election even though Mueller concluded his investigation with no new indictments in 2019." . . .

Gavin Newsom Breaks With Biden to Set Up Presidential Run

 The American Spectator  "Biden is toxic for those seeking the Oval Office." But does he know it or even care?

 . . ."This weekend, Newsom will take one more step toward solidifying his role as the leader of the opposition against Trump when he hosts the Democratic governors for their winter meeting and seeks to set the tone for the next four years." . . . 

"Gavin Newsom is going full-speed ahead with his presidential bid — and he’s hardly being shy about it.

"This week, he made a major, necessary move given the current environment: splitting from Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Newsom told Politico that he is “disappointed” with Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. The carefully crafted quote read: “With everything the president and his family have been through, I completely understand the instinct to protect Hunter. But I took the president at his word. So by definition, I’m disappointed and can’t support the decision.”

"Newsom’s disavowal of the president’s action begins to remedy the major mistake he made over the past year: siding with Biden over and over again, and vocally so, even as it became increasingly clear that Biden was not remotely up to the task of the presidency and had no prayer of being elected.

"Even when other Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, were demanding behind closed doors that the president pull out of the race, Newsom was appearing on cable news show after cable news show to claim that the president was as sharp as ever.

"Newsom took his defense of Biden so far that he embarked on a campaign tour of swing states to vouch for the president after the disastrous debate. At one Biden rescue mission in western Michigan, on the Fourth of July no less, Newsom said, “I’m all in, and not only that, I’m here with you to prove it.” In fact, Newsom’s efforts to support Biden even while powerful Democrats worked to force the president out were so all-encompassing and impactful that he single-handedly kept Joe Biden’s campaign on life support for over a month.

"Newsom is running from this reality now that Biden’s desperate effort to remain in the race is being looked upon by Democrats as selfish, conceited, and foolish — a nearly evil endeavor that cost Democrats the presidency and handed it to “fascist” Donald Trump. For instance, Axios reported yesterday that Biden is “loathed by many Democrats who blame him for twin sins of selfishness: running again, then pardoning Hunter after repeatedly saying he wouldn’t.” . . .

'Free Palestine' Supporter Shoots Two Kindergarteners at CA Christian School - Where's Newsom's Outrage?   . . ."Another possible reason for Newsom's relative silence on this case is that Litton was a mentally ill homeless person who'd been arrested three times in the last month in various California jurisdictions and released on his own recognizance (yes, even as a convicted felon!), so it highlights Newsom's utter incompetence in dealing with homelessness and crime." . . .

. . ."Contrast that with Newsom's response when a Muslim boy in Illinois - which, obviously, is not the state he leads - was stabbed to death in another religiously-targeted killing:

My heart broke when Wadea al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old child, was stabbed to death in Chicago—he and his mother viciously attacked because they were Palestinian and Muslim. I grieved not just for Wadea and his family but for all who felt less safe after that devastating tragedy, who wondered whether they or their children might also be targeted because of their Muslim faith or Palestinian heritage. This sort of horror doesn’t just inflict violence on one life or one family—it tears at the safety and belonging of whole communities. 

Obama crawls out of the woodwork, blows dog whistle to leftists to disrupt Trump's presidency

 Monica Showalter 

. . ."He's come out of the woodwork to project Democrat riggings onto Republicans, and to repeat the old tropes already rejected by the voters about Trump being a "threat" to "democracy." . . .

. . ." The video posted by Dr. Swain, makes the absurd claim that Republicans are the ones who have rigged the election process, as well gone beyond democratic means in matters such as "politicizing the armed forces," which certainly hasn't happened under Republicans, (Democrats are another story), meaning no compromise is possible, because "in those circumstances, a line has been crossed. And we have to stand firm."

"She reads that as a dog whistle to leftists to do all they can to disrupt the Trump inauguration rather than try to get along, since Republicans are hopelessly antidemocratic. With that the firm belief, and Obama promoting it, there can't be any cooperation, just disruption, which is why Dr. Swain views it as a dog whistle to disrupt the inauguration, and probably the presidency of President Trump, which has been done before.

"If you consider your opponent an inhuman monster, a Hitler, a threat to all democratic order, well, why would you treat them as opponents instead of enemies? Yet oddly enough, Obama says Republicans consider them the enemies, (defeated enemies) a situation he bemoans as uncivil.

"It all goes to show that Obama is practicing the same old divisiveness, cloaked as unity, but only if the opposition is banned, the way they do in dictatorships beloved in his party, like Cuba.

"Republicans have no history of Castro-worship, or communist China envy (Obama once bemoaned that he couldn't run America the way the ChiComs already run China), or general dictator envy -- they just play civilly, and get rolled for it every time, until, it seems, now, with President Trump giving them a taste of their own tactics." . . .

Biden White House Isn’t Blaming Trump for His Pardon of Hunter. It’s Blaming This Guy Instead

Robert Spencer

So there you have it: don’t blame Old Joe for pardoning his son and reinforcing the idea that there is a two-tier justice system in America, one for leftists and one for patriots. It’s not Biden’s fault, it’s James Clyburn’s. Feel better now?

"Old Joe Biden is deeply proud of being a member of the Biden clan, as he has made clear on numerous occasions when he has guaranteed the veracity of some statement (usually a whopping lie) by following it up with “My word as a Biden.” In reality, however, being a Biden has come to mean the total evasion of responsibility, and the determination to blame someone else for one’s failures when not denying outright that they were failures at all. This is, actually, a general tendency on the left. On Friday, Biden’s chief propagandist, Karine Jean-Pierre, found a new person to blame for the pardon Old Joe just gave to his son and bag man, Hunter Biden.

"Oddly enough, Jean-Pierre did not blame the man whom the left regards as the focus of evil in the modern world, Donald Trump, for the Hunter pardon. Would that have been too much of a stretch even for the dwindling number of true-believing Bidenites to accept? Instead, she blamed Rep. James Clyburn (D-Trump Is Hitler). What Clyburn has done to offend the Biden crime family remains a mystery, but the New York Post reported that Jean-Pierre claimed that Old Joe had a hard time making up his mind about whether or not to pardon Hunter, and that it was Clyburn who pushed The Big Guy over the edge into naked, gleeful, my-family-is-above-the-law corruption.

"Jean-Pierre couched it all, of course, in soothing rhetoric about what a devoted family man the senescent corruptocrat in the Oval Office is, and how his corrupt decision grew out of that devotion: “You heard this president say this many times before, he believes when it comes to his family, when it comes to how he moves forward, about thinking about his family, they’re the beginning, the middle and the end. And he wrestled with this. It was not an easy thing for him to decide.”

"Enter Clyburn. Jean-Pierre recounted that a couple of weeks ago, the viciously partisan representative appealed to Old Joe on Hunter’s behalf, urging him to break his repeated promise not to pardon Hunter: “This is Clyburn’s words: ‘The president was reticent’ when he tried to encourage him to pardon Hunter.… I think that’s important to note.” . . .

Joe Biden Just Got Some Devastating News About His Legacy    "Joe Biden has long considered himself a successful and consequential president. He boasts about creating jobs that he didn’t actually create, claiming credit for more job growth than any president in history, despite most of those jobs simply returning after the COVID shutdowns. He presents himself as the leader who ended the war in Afghanistan, conveniently overlooking the disastrous withdrawal that allowed the Taliban to reclaim control. 

"Perhaps most of all, he views himself as the only Democrat capable of defeating Trump — even if the circumstances surrounding that victory remain questionable. However, regardless of how Biden perceives his legacy, voters have a very different view of him and his presidency." . . .

Poll: Americans think Biden was a terrible president  Who wouldn't?

. . ."Biden is unique in that he deliberately created the circumstances that made his presidency so disastrous. It was his affirmative, proudly touted policies that drove inflation, opened the border, and led to so much American weakness on the world stage that two potential “WWIII starting points” erupted. It was his values, his weaknesses, his corruption, and his senility that got moved events.

"I sincerely hope that history is incredibly cruel to Biden. He will have left the White House 50 years after setting his sights on it, but I want his legacy to be tarnished in his own mind. Anyone who has wreaked such terrible havoc on this once proud nation deserves to be horribly aware of the disdain in which his countrymen hold him."

The Much Awaited End of KJP   . . ."In the view of many observers, the daily double-talk from the White House podium by KJP came on like a come-on from a carnival barker: instead of presenting straightforward, unvarnished truths from the briefing room lectern, listeners were subjected to a daily diet of kaleidoscope logic.

"The main reason her versions of events worked for as long as they did was that the briefing room was populated by a band of willing accomplices, happily lapping up the White House spokesperson’s blather.  Based on years of softball questions that the White House legacy media corps put forth, it was apparent that the majority of the reporters were content to run with KJP’s falsehoods in order to maintain their access to “unnamed, high level Administration sources.” . . .

Bruce and Howard admire the man; what's left to discuss?

 "Do you remember the presidential debate when Trump stated that a Biden presidency would lead to new wars, wide open borders, and an economic crisis? It was all true and Democrats fooled themselves thinking Joe Biden was going to bring peace, stability and a growing economy." Comment by TommyConnolyn| Fox News

What Bruce Springsteen Has Said About Joe Biden - Newsweek, Sep 21, 2020: 

"Though his disdain for Donald Trump is well-known, Springsteen has revealed he supports Joe Biden and believes his election will help repair America's global reputation.

"Speaking about this year's RNC, Springsteen said it was "just seeded with constant lies and total distortion of the American idea."

"The 70-year-old told Rolling Stone: "It's heartbreaking and terrible. The first thing is to get the Trump administration out of office and start again."

"The "Born to Run" singer is advocating for "some pretty serious systemic changes moving leftward" and cited Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as leading left politicians in the U.S.

" 'I like Bernie Sanders a lot," he said. "I don't know if he was my main choice, my first choice. I like Elizabeth Warren, I like Bernie."

. . . As for the current Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Springsteen approves and believes his presidency will resurrect the "power of the American idea."

" 'The power of the American idea has been abandoned," he said. "It's a terrible shame, and we need somebody who can bring that to life again.... I think if we get Joe Biden, it's gonna go a long way towards helping us regain our status around the world."

"He added: "The country as the shining light of democracy has been trashed by the administration. We abandoned friends, we befriended dictators, we denied climate science."

"The musician backed Biden at this year's DNC with a a new video for his 2002 song, "The Rising." . . .

Then he gets to the subject of the George Floyd riots and Antifa, whom I suspect appears today chanting for Hamas and praise for all the Israeli families they murdered on Oct 7, 2023:

Sophie Corcoran combines her thoughts about liberals resenting British mourning for the departed Queen and American youths rioting over the death of George Floyd:

... Howard Stern lets President Biden off the hook: Letters to the Editor   "The horrible farce of the failed Biden presidency reached a staggering new low during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday (“Indecent exposure,” April 29).

"Not only did Biden demean his putative opponent; he outright insulted the press by admitting to The New York Times’ complaint that he avoids the questions of journalists.

"Yet the press corps almost universally laughed at this. That means its members do not take their profession, craft and mission seriously.

"Freedom of the press is meaningless unless journalists respect their role in our democracy."

'NO EVIDENCE': Biden mocked for stretching the truth on shock jock Howard Stern's show | Fox News  "Comment to this post:  The US has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. I've needed a Doctor, a Teacher, I need Farmers everyday. I need Truck Drivers everyday. I've needed an auto mechanic, a plumber, a painter, and a lot of other skilled everyday people. I have NEVER, not once, NEEDED a Pro-Athlete, a Media Personality,an Entertainer for ANYTHING!"

Howard Stern Thanks President Joe Biden for Making a Difference

Know what parody is? The Babylon Bee.

Tragic: Celebrities Flee To Canada Only For Trump To Annex It

"At publishing time, celebrity Raven-Symoné had started to feel left out after Trump said he had no idea who she was."

"CANADA — The celebrities who fled the U.S. in horror following Trump's presidential victory are finding themselves right back where they started: under the tyrannical iron fist of Trump's authoritarian will. Trump's surprise announcement to annex Canada has sent ripples through the persecuted celebrity community.

" 'All those celebrities — all terrible and untalented, by the way — are Americans again," Trump posted on Truth Social. "I have taken Canada as America's 51st state. They now live in MAGA country, which is the best country, even if they don't know that. They don't have to thank me, but I'll still say, 'You're welcome, celebrities.'"

"Several celebrities, including Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, and Alec Baldwin are all feeling the heat, each of them concerned they will soon have to get pregnant and wear Handmaid's Tale uniforms.

" 'How could it come to this?" Alec Baldwin asked no one. "I was in Cats & Dogs. Everyone loves that movie!"

" 'This can't be happening!" Streep reportedly said upon hearing the news. "He's going to force me to get pregnant!"

"Trump pushed back on the negativity. "Don't be ridiculous, no one is going to get you pregnant, Meryl," he said, directly addressing Streep's claims. "You'll be working in the maple syrup mines with the rest of the menopausal celebrities."

"At publishing time, celebrity Raven-Symoné had started to feel left out after Trump said he had no idea who she was."