The Week In Pictures
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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November 5, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Okay, this is likely the last special TWiP edition for the week, though you never know. We’ll just have to see what happens, as Trump likes to say. First, it looks like the one betting market that showed Harris drawing even with Trump has snapped back to a solid Trump lead. Wondering of someone deliberately placed bets to distort the market as a psy-op: You may think you hate the
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November 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Imma gonna have to do several special TWiP editions this week, aren’t I? Let’s start with this ADHD election. The fall campaign began with cats being eaten in Ohio and looks to be ending with everyone having an ADHD episode and shouting, “Look! Squirrel!” And yet the government SWAT raid on Peanut the Squirrel is a fitting example of governance today: don’t enforce the border, or law and order on
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November 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Everyone who still watches an NBA game on TV will know the kind of game where, in the midst of a one-sided blowout, the end of the game has come to be known as “garbage time,” when the third stringers are in and everyone is taking wild shots and not caring very much. Since Kamala’s team has been third-stringers all along (with Joe Biden as the person who never should
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October 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
There’s a great scene late in the movie “Patton” where the general is surveying a scene of death and destruction in the early dawn after an overnight battle that devolved into hand-to-hand combat, and Patton says to his aide-de-camp: “You know how you can tell the Germans are beaten? They’re using horses to move their artillery.” Well this week the Democrats beat the deadest horse in their stable: Trump is
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October 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We’re supposed to be having October Surprises roll out right now, but this week seems like a re-run of last week: another battlefield triumph for Israel, more polls showing the presidential race unchanged (still tied), and more terrible media appearances for Kamala Harris. Oh, yeah, she’s a plagiarist, but since she’s never had an original thought in her life, it is hard to tell. But Trump killed it at the
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October 12, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Kamala Harris is from Oakland, and seems to be the final vindication of Gertrude Stein’s famous comment about Oakland: “There’s no there there.” There’s no ‘There’ to Kamala Harris. It is more obvious with every passing day. She’s been exposed for having to use a teleprompter for the most routine appearances. It almost makes you want to choose government-by-senility over government-by-teleprompter. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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October 5, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Forget “faceplant” as the term denoting a staggering and embarrassing failure. After this week, I nominate “Walz-plant” to take its place. Could perhaps be confusing, since Walz seems to have the intelligence of a house plant. We know he is pro-weed, so maybe it fits better. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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September 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So our foreign policy geniuses in Washington are calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, chiefly because of panic over how the conflict will hinder Kamala’s campaign. But she can bomb all on her own, but she isn’t supplied with smart bombs, obviously. She even flopped when under the friendly questioning of the Ruhleing Class. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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September 21, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Just when you thought it looked like the Week of Cat Memes was going easily to the top of the box office charts for a second week, along comes Operation Grim Beeper to knock it out of the top spot instantly. OGB surely has to rank in the top five schadenfreude moments of all time. One thing we know about radical Islamic culture is that they hate being humiliated more
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September 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I have no idea whether the story of the Great Springfield Pet Massacre is true, or true to a small extent, or something in between, but the ruckus and meme explosion are a useful reminder of one of the core principles of leftist post-modern philosophy—that “truth” is created, through symbols, repetition, and so forth. The fact that the cat-eating immigrants story has exploded points to something real—the rejection by a
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September 7, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Did anything happen this week? Seems just like the week before, with Kamala avoiding the media, leaving the media more time to harass Trump and make up stuff about J.D. Vance. Putin is still putin us on, and Russia Hoax 2.0 is all arranged and ready to go on November 6. Feel the joy! Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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August 31, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I used to think the four worst words in the English language were “The bar is closed.” But now we have Kamala Harris: “My values haven’t changed.” Yes, ma’am, that’s exactly what we’re afraid of. This is a more compact formula of what Reagan meant when he proposed the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” At the present time
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August 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Democrats think they’re recaptured the Beatlemania cultural sensation that surrounded Obama’s arrival and triumph in 2008. But all the media exertions and messaging (Joy! Vibes! Forward! New Shep Fairley poster!) have managed to do is recreate The Monkees, the pre-fab four intended to be another pop culture sensation. In other words, if Obama could be said to be Paul McCartney and John Lennon, Kamala Harris is Mickey Dolenz and Peter
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August 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Trump made his triumphant full return to Twitter this week, attracting by some estimates over 1 billion views worldwide. That would be more traffic than MSNBC has generated in its entire existence combined. The left, naturally, lost its mind. True, easy to lose something that small and loose. Meanwhile, the ventriloquist media moves into its fourth week of imputing genius into the Democrats’ latest dummy nominee. Headlines of the
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August 10, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This edition almost didn’t happen on the usual schedule. Out here in Calizuela I had my second long power outage of the week yesterday afternoon and evening, and hence no internet access. I figured it was PG&E taking retribution on me for saying in last week’s podcast how much I hate corporate socialist utilities like PG&E. But I got power back just in the nick of time. And what a
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August 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
There’s a flashback scene from an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” where Leonard Hofstadter responds to the ad for a roommate from uber-nerd Sheldon Cooper, but knocks on the wrong apartment door, and greeted by a large black man in a bright red halter dress with big ear rings. Hofstadter asks, “Dr. Cooper?” “Nah, you want the crazy guy across the hall.” An instance of art imitating life in
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