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

A lot of fine people calling out NeverTrump Ben Shapiro and Joe Biden for the fine people hoax, including Dilbert!








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.

Total killed in Sri Lanka Muslim terror bombings against Christians revised down to about 253, 76 under arrest

Sri Lanka blasts: fewer deaths than previously thought

Bi-partisan Joe Biden on 1994 crime bill: We have to take young black predators out of society


They are beyond the pale. We have no choice but to take them out of society.

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

 

Remember when Obama and Biden scoffed at the idea that Russia was our geopolitical foe?

Good times. Good times.

Obama, October 2012.

Biden, April 2012.


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.

Good news: Straight America is coming back under Joe Biden, like we used to be


Joe Biden's America like it used to be is Virginia today, where its Democrat top office holders are accused of rape or appearing in black face


Alexandria the Great is so dumb she thinks Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky is an older GOP member


A quick study she is not.

There's something we haven't seen much of lately: first time claims for unemployment higher than a year ago, both SA and NSA


Bernie Sanders is going to lose elections where America's 5,000 or so state, federal and local jails are located


"President Biden's campaign began colluding with foreign interests in March 2019, fully twenty months before they helped him win one of the closest contests in American history"


Yeah, with castration instead of DEATH, making him a liberal reformer in his time