Welcome to the third decade of the 21st century…
Do better, Chuck Todd. And if you don’t know how, get out of the way and let someone else do it.
“Americans may feel as though Christmas lasts forever, but at worst the holiday spreads out over two months, from Halloween until January 2. We do, however, have one truly endless season: campaign season. According to CNN, the 2016 presidential campaign took 597 days, which seems accurate if you believe the campaign ended on Election Day 2016, which everyone knows it did not. It’s still going strong and will continue going strong until at least Election Day 2020. In Japan campaigns last 12 days, in Australia they last 33 to 68 days, and in America they last forever.”
“But if you think of the GOP as being organized around identity groups, these policies hang together quite well. The clear beneficiaries of the Trump administration’s actions have been businesses and corporations whose leaders back the president (such as those in the coal industry), conservative Christians, farmers, gun rights enthusiasts, people wary of increases in the number of foreign-born Americans and Islam, people wary of movements like Black Lives Matter and MeToo, pro-Israel activists and residents of rural areas.”
The histories hidden in the periodic table.
Seriously, just fire Bret Stephens already. Among many other things, he sucks at his job.
Fervently wishing Rep. John Lewis all the very best.
“Despite this turbulence, 2019 was the year that UFOs managed to propel themselves into an uneasy political legitimacy”.
Donkeys love violin music, thus proving there are some worthwhile things left in this world.
“As a result [of the Trump tariffs], US manufacturing has seen job losses and higher prices for consumers.”
“In honor of the end of this year, I wanted to give a thread summary of the state of Devin Nunes’ lawsuits, both for those who don’t know exactly what’s going on and those who could use a refresher.”
Here are your 2019 Golden Duke Award wnners.
And here are your 2019 Worthy Award nominees.
Have you been drawn into a debate about whether or not we actually are in a new decade? Well, this will settle that argument.
RIP, David Stern, former NBA Commissioner.
RIP, Don Larsen, former Yankees pitcher who threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
News flash: We are old. So very, very old.
“The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans in the Senate will rush to acquit Trump. I outline here why I think that overstates the case, and that the process has any number of variables in which things may change.”