Economy

Oh Shut Up, You Ken Doll: Actor Upset Trump Won't Make His Taxes Go Up
A Canadian actor who lives in the U.S. is crying about how upset he is that he will be paying less taxes under President Donald Trump. The stupid is strong with this one. Canadian actor Simu Liu — known for portraying Shang-Chi in Marvel’s superhero flick Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) — posted one of the most beta male things on the internet January 22.

IDIOCY: NYT Buries Data on Federal Waste in Screed Against Trump
Defending the destructive spending plaguing the federal government appears to be what The New York Times does best, which explains its nervous breakdown over President Donald Trump taking scissors to Washington D.C.’s credit cards.

HUH? WashPost Tries Blaming Trump for GDP Growth Slowing in Q4 of 2024
Wow, that was quick. The Washington Post has already taken to blaming President Donald Trump for America’s economic woes, except the new data they’re using as the basis of their argument reflected the disastrous Biden economy, not Trump’s.

One Year, Big Results! How Milei Freed Markets, and Reduced Inflation
Finally, a real libertarian is president. That’s in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he’s had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular. Argentina was once one of the richest countries in the world. Then, years of big government brought high inflation and poverty…

Here Were the Dumbest Moments from Jim Acosta’s Last Show at CNN
Tuesday was the end of an era with Jim Acosta’s 18 years at CNN coming to an end with the showboater choosing to avoid a demotion to weekdays at midnight Eastern and jumping ship with a cartoonish commentary about not “bow[ing] down to a dictator” and not “giv[ing] into the lies.” In the roughly minutes before that, Acosta was unapologetically partisan and went full Homer Simpson dropping a…

New Sheriff in Town: Karoline Leavitt Opens New Era of WH Briefings
In the first the first White House press briefing of President Donald Trump’s second term, Press Secretary Karoline Levaitt made clear from the onset of the 46-minute-and-36-second briefing things would be different inside the Brady Briefing Room. Along with the opening and closing statements made famous by Kayleigh McEnany, Leavitt announced seats for new media and called on 21 different…

GO AWAY: Krugman Struggling Post-NYT, Cries ‘Trump Wants You to Die’
Former New York Times columnist and pseudo-economics savant Paul Krugman clearly isn’t taking retirement too well, as he’s taken to going on rants against his former employer and President Donald Trump, who lives rent-free in his brain.

MAGA and King’s Dream
I have written often that there is a common denominator in our deeply divided nation. That is the general sense that something is wrong. The points of departure among our large and diverse population are the perceptions about what the problems are and what must be done. In this spirit I ask, as many have over recent days, what message we might take from the coincidence of the inauguration day…

In First Interview AS VP, JD Vance DISMANTLES CBS’s Margaret Brennan
When CBS announced that it landed the first post-inaugural interview with Vice President JD Vance, with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation, many conservatives questioned why Vance would even give the time of day to hateful “legacy” media. Within minutes, we had our answer.

Evening Nets Ignore Mortgage Rates Topping 7% Under Biden AGAIN!
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news networks completely ignored new damning data that bookended Bidenomics as arguably the dumbest set of economic policies the U.S. experienced in its history

NYT BRAIN ROT: Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt’ Economy
No, the headline does not deceive you. The New York Times got its pants in a bunch over President Donald Trump daring to refer to violent Mexican drug cartels as “terrorists” because it could supposedly harm the economy.

DINGBATTERY: NBC News Declares Trump Getting Economy ‘In Solid Shape’
NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans is already laying the groundwork for how the stupid media narrative will be spun if the supposedly stellar Biden economy nosedives: blame President Donald Trump.

‘Partisan,’ ‘Unsparing,’ ‘Very Dark’; NBC’s Lamest Inaugural Whinings
Both before and after their brutal rhetorical beatdowns at the hands of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), NBC’s inauguration coverage paddled the struggle boat as, over the course of six-plus hours of post-ceremonies coverage, they voiced their own set of grievances over President Trump’s “searing,” “single most partisan,” “very dark” speech that’s put him at “risk” of “overstepping what…

‘Hard to Watch’; ABC FREAKS Over ‘Harsh,’ ‘Hot Mess’ Trump Speech
With their struggle sessions on Monday morning serving as an appetizer, ABC delivered the main course in the afternoon hours following President Trump’s second inauguration with meltdowns about the address as a “harsh” repudiation” of Joe Biden, a “hot mess of division” “filled with hammers,” and heard before an audience of supporters who “did not really reflect” America “when it comes to…