The Week In Pictures
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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July 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The media is really going the extra mile to give “fake news” a bad name with its wholesale revisionism of Kamala Harris’s record. And as Charlie Cooke pointed out, it was nice having an objective media for a month, when it reported finally on Joe Biden’s infirmities. The media is proclaiming Kamala as the greatest monarch-like girl-boss since Queen Elizabeth I, though I suspect more voters will see her as
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July 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Another extraordinary week calls for a special mid-week TWiP, or else this Saturday’s regular edition will be longer than Encyclopedia Brittanica. Wall Street’s best contrary indicator strikes again: Okay, so Kamala hasn’t ridden in the Dukakis tank yet, but this is even less likely to happen than fetch: And finally. . . Trump and his new Secret Service detail (as long as we have to have DEI hiring, we might
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July 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Who knew that the easiest way to foil the Secret Service is to slip them a roofie. (Thanks, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.) Speaking of slippery slopes, the slide has been polished, greased, and sprayed down, but Joe Biden refused to ride it down. Hey—would you expect anything less from someone who faced down “bad dude” Corn Pop? I mean, after facing Corn Pop, Nancy Pelosi and
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July 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So this was the week Joe Biden and the Democratic machine, looking for a squirrel, any squirrel, discovered Project 2025, which—horror of horrors!—proposes conservative ideas for America. Ideas like sound fiscal policy, strong national defense, family values, lower taxes, less regulation, back to basics education, etc. In other words, for the left, a climate of hate. As Joe Biden might say, anyway. . . Now back to President Chauncey Gardner,
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July 6, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Looks like America is undergoing it’s own Orange Revolution. It is said that nothing rhymes with orange, but in the make-it-up world of Karine Jean-Pierre what rhymes with orange is “Joe Biden is the kindest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known. Also the smartest and most energetic. In fact he ran a marathon before breakfast this morning. That’s why his face looked so orange in his latest appearance.
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July 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Good grief, it is only mid-day Monday out here on the left coast, but already the Biden memes are stacking up so fast that by Saturday the inventory could well exceed the capacity of our creaky website. Especially with the embarrassment of riches provided today by Vogue magazine. So here’s a special Monday edition of The Week in Pictures, and I don’t rule out a special mid-week edition as we
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