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Saturday’s Final Word – HotAir

Saturday night’s all right for tabbing (this time)





Ed: They were giving more than peeps — they were cheering it on, along with aiding and abetting the government censorship that Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger uncovered in the Twitter files. Not coincidentally …

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The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections.

The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party—the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view.

That is a far weaker assessment than voters give to either President Trump or the Republican Party, who are viewed more unfavorably than favorably by 7 points and 11 points, respectively. A mere 8% of voters view the Democrats “very favorably,” compared with 19% who show that level of enthusiasm for the GOP.

Ed: To quote John Houseman, they achieved this the old-fashioned way — they earned it. Before Republicans take too much schadenfreude in this, they should check out their trendline over the past 35 years too. They have slowly improved their position since 2016, but they’re still significantly underwater. Democrats may think that Trump’s unpopularity will give them an opening in the midterms, but check out the numbers on the issues later in the report. 

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Ed: People have gone to prison for such ‘complications’ in their narrative under oath or while being interviewed by federal prosecutors. The NYT stopped being a newspaper years ago; now it’s just a narrative lab for the progressive elites. 

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… Nothing would make me happier than to see the end of CBS as she knew it.

Ed: It’s the end of CBS as we know it … it’s the end of CBS as we know it … it’s the end of CBS as we know it … and I feel fine!

(Alternate theme song: It’s a wonderful time for a Skydance, with the stars having tears in their eyes …)

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Macron coupled his announcement about recognizing a Palestinian state with a post on X stating that “the urgent priority today is to end the war in Gaza and to bring relief to the civilian population.” Apparently, Macron does not regard defeating Hamas as an urgent priority. Israel can be forgiven for disagreeing with him.

I should also note that the Palestinian state France will recognize presumably encompasses the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas is still in power in Gaza. Thus, Macron is recognizing a state, part of which is run by the most bloodthirsty terrorists imaginable.

Naturally, Hamas called Macron’s decision a “positive step in the right direction.” It urged all countries of the world “to follow France’s lead,”





Prime Minister Netanyahu had the best response I’ve seen to Macron’s announcement.

Ed: Netanyahu didn’t call Macron a cheese-eating surrender monkey, but he didn’t necessarily refute that characterization either. Former US ambassador David Friedman had a better response that more specifically pins the Hamas tail on Western donkeys like Macron. 

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Ed: At least East Berlin had an excuse; the Soviets refused to rebuild for a long while, to punish the Germans for their perfidy in June 1941. This is a deliberate choice — although we should keep in mind that this is not yet complete. The outside looks like it’s a foundation for a façade of some sort that could dramatically improve the look. 

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“Forgetting is sin!” The minister’s words have stuck with me through all the intervening years, and perhaps readers now understand better why I sometimes dwell on historic themes (e.g., “Of Declarations and Independence” on the Fourth of July, and “The Meaning of Thanksgiving” last November). The remembrance of history is a religious obligation, a debt we owe to God, and certainly in this matter, Christians would be wise to study the example of the Jews.

Jeff Dunetz knew who he was. His sense of identity was a source of inspiration, as well it should be. Not all of my acquaintances share my admiration of the Jews (note the tactful understatement) and among the criticisms one sometimes here is about how “those Jews all stick together” — like that’s a bad thing, or something. Far from disapproving of such tribalism, I consider it a trait worthy of emulation.





Ed: Be sure to read it all from Stacy McCain. RIP, Jeff Dunetz. Your memory will forever be a blessing and you will not be forgotten. 

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Ed: Maybe Mrs. Macron needs to slap her husband harder the next time. 

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Small boats and sky-high legal immigration will continue to wreak demographic havoc. This change is permanent. Millions of immigrants from clashing traditions will bring only more of their friends and families. None of these people are going home. A succession of governments has systematically watered down British culture, until it’s a pale solution with no distinctive flavour, like over-extended squash.

Supposedly, a leading “British value” is “fair play”. So let’s talk about fairness. Amid an ever-escalating housing shortage, itself powered by mass immigration, your government uses your money to provide a free water-taxi service to your shores and to put up low-skilled, overwhelmingly male foreign citizens in four-star hotels. No one’s putting locals in free hotels.

Ten million working-age inhabitants are on benefits. Almost half of universal credit recipients need neither work nor look for work, and over a million are foreign-born. Soaring disability payments allow anyone to retire to a life of Netflix if they’re worried or sad. At once, the tax burden is the highest of the postwar era and set to rise further.

Ed: Via Instapundit. This cri de coeur from Lionel Shriver about the UK (from Portugal) is a few days old but is well worth reading. We were well down this same path until November’s election. Read it all for context around Trump’s remarks yesterday in Scotland.





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Ed: This is also why Macron is pushing for statehood for Hamas and sheltering terrorists. It’s not just the economics and law enforcement that are impacted by massive migration into Europe from the Middle East — it’s also foreign policy. 

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Ed: I think this is a no-brainer. The question will be how many others involved were dumb enough to keep telling the cover story under oath and to federal investigators. 

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Because the real January 6 – the one that changed everything – wasn’t in 2021. It happened four years earlier, in 2017. Not at the Capitol, but rather in a glass-walled conference room on the 26th floor of Trump Tower.

That morning, President-elect Donald J. Trump received a classified briefing from top intelligence officials – a routine, transitional step for any incoming commander in chief.

But what he got wasn’t intelligence. It was a malicious setup, a trap.

Ed: Let’s hope it was a petard, with a few hoists left in it. 





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Ed: Best. Yard Sale. Pitch. Ever. It’s so good, it’s inconceivable. 


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