The Week In Pictures
March 1, 2025 — Steven Hayward
I’m torn this week between listing the five things I accomplished this week (I assert finishing three overdue articles counts as three individual items), or keep going in my high-five mode over every day’s delicious news of the latest Trump accomplishments. My contribution is to paraphrase Leo Strauss’s great summary of the defect of liberalism by saying this week we perceived the telos of the “joyless quest for Joy Reid.”
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February 22, 2025 — Steven Hayward
So Trump has finished his first month in office. Good news liberals—only 47 more months to go! Will liberals make it? Seems unlikely. It’s going to seem like 47 years to most of them. Psychologists and pharmacists filling anti-depressant prescriptions had better cancel vacation plans for the next 47 months. Meanwhile, keep on DOGEing. Headlines of the week: And finally. . . a rare double-bill:
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February 15, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Does it seem like every day is Christmas morning? You wake up to find yet another Trump Administration triumph, usually involving firing someone, cutting spending, or beating down on our weak “allies” around the world. I don’t think it is possible to get tired of all the winning, but I hope Trump keeps trying to make us tired of all the winning. And happy Valentine’s Day a day late. Headlines
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February 8, 2025 — Steven Hayward
The great thing about Trump is that he simply ignores the conventional wisdom and supposedly fixed boundaries of acceptable discourse on any subject. I’m sure someone told him that proposing to empty out Gaza would be roundly rejected by Arab nations, and be called “ethnic cleansing” here at home. But this is how Trump shakes things up, often with positive results. Everyone knows the “two-state solution” is never going to
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February 1, 2025 — Steven Hayward
It is clear by now in week two that the Trump Administration has decided to treat the media, and its political opponents generally, in a most fitting manner; that is, like dogs. And no one is doing this better than Vice President J.D. Vance. I think “I don’t really care Margaret” should be the default slogan to throw at every liberal who cries “racism!” “nazi!” “carnivore!”, and other reckless epithets.
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January 25, 2025 — Steven Hayward
The time has come when someone can write a sequel to John Reed’s famous book about the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World. The title is obvious: 100 Hours That Shook the World. I could include a longish subtitle, as is the fashion these days with trade book publishing. I suggest: “How Donald Trump Broke Five Decades of Leftist Drift, Crushed the Democratic Party, and Drove Liberals Out
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January 11, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Trump clearly isn’t satisfied with just making America great again: he wants to make the entire western hemisphere great again! And who says Reaganism is over and fine with, now that we’re on course to reconquer the Panama Canal. Here’s an idea: build a long water pipeline from the Gulf of America directly to fire hydrants in California. (And maybe sneak some oil and natural gas in it when Newsom
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January 4, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Only seventeen more days to go. But even a senile president can do a lot of damage in 17 days when he is a malevolent narcissist. Makes you long for the good old days when the worst thing an outgoing Democrat did was steal the White House china and furniture and rip out all the ‘W” keys from the computers. Headlines of the week: And finally. . . a throwback:
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December 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So we’re in the twilight period between Christmas and New Years, when the days start growing imperceptibly longer, even as everyone wishes Joe Biden’s remaining time in office could somehow be made shorter. Underneath the Christmas present wrapping paper are some worthy items of note. Let the holiday season continue! Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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December 21, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The droneswarm has only intensified over the last week. And that’s just in New Jersey. On Capitol Hill, the spending drones have suddenly hit some electronic interference in the form of Elon Musk, and boy are they hopping mad about it. Imagine—a billionaire not named Soros or Bloomberg having the audacity to get involved in politics! And media drones such as George Stephanopoulos and Chris Cillizza are losing altitude fast.
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December 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So there are unidentified objects flying over New Jersey? Paging Orson Wells! “Drones,” they say. Oh, aerial drones—not the drones of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, Joe seems to have lost his girl Jill to another guy and the left finds a new celebrity criminal to replace Mumia and George Floyd. Also, can we just call him President Trump now, since he’s already doing the job and Joe isn’t? Headlines
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December 7, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The only surprise about the Hunter Biden pardon is that anyone was surprised—outside the mainstream media, which had treated “my word as a Biden” as though it was ever serious. Predictions: Biden isn’t done with his dubious pardons yet, and he will leave office in January with the lowest public approval rating in history, topping even Nixon in 1974. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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November 30, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So it’s Thanksgiving Weekend, when we work off our tryptophan hangovers and calorie overdoses, and wonder why the Chicago Bears are trying to make the Dallas Cowboys look good. Kamala got a head start on the holiday festivities, and what roll-model she is. You may have roasted a 22lb turkey, but Democrats are bigger turkeys still. But they can just fly away to better climes. Wait—what do you mean turkeys
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November 23, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This is transition week everywhere it seems. There’s the Trump transition of course. There’s Jaguar’s bizarre decision to transition from a luxury car brand to a Teletubbies car company. I expect they will next turn Land Rover into some kind of Barney the Dinosaur car. RFK Jr’s transition into a Republican is continuing. “The View” may be transitioning to “The Rear View.” The one transition we’re not yet seeing is
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November 16, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Does it seem like Trump is already president? If his first week following the election is compared to a football game, he isn’t just throwing long bombs or running a smashmouth fullback right up the middle; he’s more like a run-and-shoot offense that completely confuses the defense and leaves it breathless. I’m hoping he names Steve Bannon to be chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Corporation
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November 9, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Even though I’ve been posting special edition TWiPs all week because of the surfeit of memes, I still have a record haul for the weekend. And P’Nut memes have legs! Who knew a non-rabid squirrel would trigger the rabid response of our diseased administrative state that would redound to the benefit of the Great Orange Man! Strap in with a double-cappuccino—it’s a record long gallery today. Headlines of the
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November 6, 2024 — Steven Hayward
It’s deja vu all over again. The 2016 leftist primal scream is even more satisfying since they threw everything possible at Trump and he survived. Later I’ll explain elsewhere why everyone took the wrong lesson from the disappointing (for the GOP) 2022 mid-term results. In the meantime, enjoy: And head climatista Michael Mann has a case of the sads: And finally. . .
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