Republicans deserve their own FDR (with working legs).
Democrats deserve Chuck Schumer (and Tim Walz).
The media deserve your contempt.
Hunter Biden deserves nothing.
It's Friday, March 21, 2025
Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist and federal inmate, made a startling prediction this week during an interview with Chris Cuomo, the former CNN host best known for giggling with his big brother, former New York governor and sex pest Andrew Cuomo, while COVID-19 was ravaging the state's nursing homes. "I'm a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028," Bannon said. "A man like this comes along once every century, if we're lucky."
He's got a point. Presidential term limits have been around since 1951. They were only added to the Constitution after the socialist invalid Franklin D. Roosevelt served three terms before dying a few months after being sworn in a fourth time. Democrats are huge fans of FDR, who also played a minor role in helping America's military win the Second World War. Joe Biden loved FDR so much he used to invite elite historians to the White House to explain how similar he was to the wartime leader. (Fact check: Not very, apart from the health problems and proximity to death.) It's only fair for Republicans to enjoy their own three- or four-term president, especially when that president is Donald Trump, who is widely considered to be the most successful American president since (arguably) Abraham Lincoln or (most likely) George Washington. The fact that it's only been done once before isn't a good enough reason not to try it again.
O.K. Schumer: Trump's presidency must be great for Democratic fundraising because Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) seems to be doing everything in his power to whip up support for a third term. After pissing off the vast majority of his party last week, Schumer went on tour to promote his new book on anti-Semitism, which was denounced in the Washington Post by one of his former interns. A number of public events were canceled due to the threat of heckling protesters, so he's been limited to the friendly confines of MSNBC and The View. Even so, Schumer found a way to disgrace himself and damage his party, which ostensibly still cares about winning elections.
Here's the closing line of what Democratic data analyst David Shor found to be the Kamala Harris campaign's most effective ad of the cycle: "I’m Kamala Harris, and I approve this message because you work hard for your paycheck. You should get to keep more of it. As president, I’ll make that my top priority."
Here is Schumer, who has never worked in the private sector, ranting about Republican voters on The View: "You know what their attitude is? 'I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me. I don't want to pay taxes.' Or, 'I built my company with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, the land and water that I own, or my employees.' They hate government. Government's a barrier to people, a barrier to stop them from doing things. They want to destroy it. We are not letting them do it, and we are united." Good to know. This clip will be replayed often in 2026.
Here's Schumer ranting about oligarchs on The View: "I wake up at three in the morning sometimes so worried about the future of the country under these oligarchs."
Here's Schumer posing with his "good friend" Alex Soros, the oligarch son of liberal billionaire George Soros:
Ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats: Schumer isn't the only one going out of his way to humiliate himself in public. Most people have already forgotten about Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, but the Minnesota governor has been doing his own weird publicity tour. He might actually run for president in 2028, which would be hilarious. The failed VP candidate was last seen on Gavin Newsom's podcast telling the California governor that Republicans were "scared" of him because he can "fix a truck." During a town hall in Wisconsin earlier this week, Walz channeled Schumer's disdainfor business owners, saying he got a "little boost" every time he saw that the price of Tesla stock went down (because Elon Musk is bad). As of last year, the Minnesota State Board of Investment held 1.6 million shares of Tesla in its retirement fund for public employees.
The degree to which Musk derangement has taken hold among Democrats is fascinating. It wasn't too long ago that Barack Obama was regularly praising Tesla for saving the environment and creating American jobs. Maybe all the hysterical shrieking about climate change wasn't entirely genuine. Sen. Mark Kelly (D., Ariz.) recently ditched his clean-driving Tesla because it was "built and designed by an a–hole." He traded it in for a Chevy Tahoe SUV that gets about 15 miles per gallon. Lincoln Project cofounder Rick Wilson was temporarily banned from X, which Musk also owns, for encouraging deranged leftists to "attack" and "kill" Tesla, which he breathlessly described as "a bank for fascists, a goose-stepping hedge fund bankrolling the political fever dreams of Elon Musk and his DOGE dreams of controlling the ruins of the American government." The Lincoln Project sent out a fundraising appeal minutes later.
Bless his heart, the poor boy: Hunter Biden needs another hug. His stupid paintings aren't selling like they used to. And this week, Trump revoked Secret Service protection for Joe Biden's adult children "effective immediately" after Hunter brought his taxpayer-funded detail on a luxury jaunt to South Africa. Recall that when Biden was still president, he reportedly refused to provide Secret Service protection to the mother of Hunter's love child—the baby girl whose existence the president refused to acknowledge for years after Hunter challenged his paternity in court and called the mother a whore in his memoir about being a crackhead.
Journalists are the worst: This week the New York Times published an op-ed about how "we" were "badly misled" into believing the COVID-19 virus that originated in Wuhan, China, couldn't possibly have come from the coronavirus laboratory also located—by coincidence—in Wuhan. Thanks for that. Also, what the f— is wrong with these people? When Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) suggested back in February 2020 that the virus might have escaped from the Wuhan lab, the Washington Post denounced him for "spreading a debunked conspiracy theory." When Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) criticized a so-called fact-check in the Postconcluding the lab leak theory was "doubtful," the paper's lead fact-checker accused him of spreading lies. Even now, years later, Times opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci defended the so-called experts who were actually spreading misinformation by arguing their critics were "acting in terrible faith" in order to "inflame public opinion." These are the same people who insisted that protesting racism was the only "safe" reason to go outside.
WTF Gen Z beta lib story of the week: Meet Harry Sisson, the Biden-Loving Feminist Influencer Outed as 'Possibly Not Gay' After Multiple Women Accused Him of Being a Sex Creep
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