Friday, April 26, 2019
CNBC's lede in GDP story this morning got it wrong by two years
Here's the lede out of the box this morning, still up at Yahoo:
The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in six years. . . . It was the first time since 2013 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
That wasn't at all true, of course. CNBC has since revised the story to this:
The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in four years. . . . It was the first time since 2015 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
Must be a hangover at work from the awful Obama years when Q1GDP kept digging holes in the basement.
David French and Ben Shapiro join up in NeverTrump redux, just in time for 2020
Responding to Joe Biden's announcement of his candidacy for president, Ben Shapiro oddly saw it as an opportunity to bash President Trump yesterday, laughably resurrecting the long debunked "fine people hoax" of Charlottesville to riff on Trump's weakness for reelection in 2020.
Trump's still a racist, you see.
Shapiro might as well have been speaking as a paid member of the Biden campaign. That he wasn't speaks to an uglier animus which is willing to lie in order to smear. The goal doesn't care about the facts.
David French, meanwhile, has been in Shapiro's corner of late, defending him on Twitter against recent WaPo stories ludicrously painting Shapiro as alt-right.
Now French is out in TIME, tag-teaming with Shapiro in criticism of Trump as, you guessed it, weak:
What a cohencidence!
In French's reading, Trump is weak because the Mueller report shows him not to be the alpha male he makes himself out to be. If the voters ever find out, he's finished, you see.
Leave it to the impotence of NeverTrump to fixate on fantasies and miss the real source of Trump's 2020 vulnerability.
If the public which elected Trump realizes that the border is even more wide open than it was before he was elected, that's when Trump will be finished.
But, of course, NeverTrump is just fine with wide open borders.
The public won't be hearing that from them.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Ben Shapiro's been under attack as alt-right, which is why he's attacking Trump today as soft on Richard Spencer
And Joe Biden's announcement today gave Ben the cover he needed to make it look like a perfectly innocent response to that, instead of to these recent attacks on himself.
A twofer, but he won't get away with it.
Biden is using Heather Heyer's 2017 death in Virginia like Bush 41 used Willie Horton in 1988 . . .
. . . only it's just to win the Democrat primary, not the general against Trump.
Desperate times for Democrats call for desperate measures.
Saturday night's forecast overnight into Sunday in Grand Rapids, Michigan is for two inches of snow!
Rain showers before midnight, then
rain and snow showers. Low around 32. Northeast wind 8 to 11 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of around 2
inches.
Tax cuts were real despite average refund in 2019 coming in $56 lower than last year, $50K earners saved $48 a week with lower withholding under tax reform
The IRS stats are in: Here’s how tax refunds look compared to last year
Your Paycheck Could Increase Very Soon -- Here’s How Much You Can Expect
Joe Biden Jan 2018: Give me a break, millennials don't have it tough
Biden on young people complaining they have it tough: 'Give me a break':
"The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a
break. No, no, I have no empathy for it. Give me a break," Biden, 75,
told The Los Angeles Times earlier this week.
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