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It has been an interesting few weeks since the last installment of this column. I have had a lot to write about that didn't require me to take my daily plunge into the opinion sections of the New York Times and the Washington Post. It wasn't a planned break from visits to the virtual mainstream media asylum, but it was most definitely a welcome one. Even an unfazed, mostly dead-inside critic like me needs some time away from that nonsense.
Feeling refreshed and ready to return to my bread-and-butter targets of mockery, I almost eagerly dove back in this morning. I decided to begin with the WaPo today and, lo and behold, I only had to look at the headline at the top of the opinion page to get what I needed for this column.
Everything is coming up roses—that are next to a microbrewery with attractive waitresses—in my world.
The article was written by WaPo regular Shadi Hamid and is titled, "The beginning of the end of the Trump era." It's a long one, and a testament to how much nonsensicality the Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media can pack into one rant about President Trump when not subject to time limits at their keyboards.
As with all of these TDS columns of mine, there's no reason for me to subject you to the entire screed that we're focusing on that day because the inanity of the Coastal Media Bubble™ tantrums is always revealed near the top of these slogs. Here are the third and fourth paragraphs from Hamid's diaper-filling:
All of this was hard to measure. What is a vibe after all? As John Ganz writes, a vibe shift is a shift “to mood itself, that is to say, something felt but not fully articulated or articulable.” It’s more than a feeling but it’s still just that — a feeling. And feelings aren’t facts. Or, if they are facts, they’re not necessarily durable.
I was wrong to think that this — whatever this was — would be more lasting. It wasn’t. It turns out the moment of Trumpian dominance was just that: a moment. Something has shifted again. We are now in another phase: the vibe shift away from the vibe shift. The way we experience time has altered, as well. Through his flurry of executive orders and nonstop assaults on American institutions, Trump has compressed time. What would have taken months to play out now takes weeks, sometimes even days.
To prop up this fantastical assertion, Hamid relies on the two mainstays of Dem propaganda "journalism": obfuscation and prevarication. Bless their ignorant little hearts, the leftists in media still think that the mere repetition of a lie will make the great unwashed believe it. Let them keep believing that.
Hamid writes that Republicans face "angry constituents at town hall events." What they've faced in a few situations are astroturfed Dem trolls who have been paid to disrupt Republican town hall events. Trust me, I know whence I speak regarding the astroturf machine the Dems regularly employ.
A large portion of the article is devoted to the fallacy that Mahmoud Khalil's arrest had something to do with free speech. Sometimes I think that the only true motivating desire of leftists is to be exhausting. The more one of their talking points is refuted and debunked, the more they want to repeat it.
My favorite part about Hamid's article is when he writes that all of his alt-reality rambling means that the Democrats have a real "opportunity to present themselves as the true defenders of American values." I'll give those of you who just did a spit take a moment to mop up.
At present, the Democrats couldn't take advantage of an opportunity to find their way into a restroom in which they were already standing.
More than nine weeks into President Trump's second term, we're learning that the Democrats and their media mouthpieces are determined to remain divorced from the obvious. The arrogance of the Dem elites and their messengers is creating an "irreconcilable differences" scenario in this breakup.
I can't wait to see how this golden opportunity for the Democrats to make their big move against Orange Man Bad plays out. OK, I really mean I can't wait to watch them keep digging the hole that they're in.
I might even buy them some more shovels.
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