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I din’t think that’s really a new stereotype.

but he is getting away with it
https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/us-news/tax-refunds-swell-thanks-to-trumps-worker-friendly-deductions-in-the-big-beautiful-bill-he-knows-what-hes-doing/

This is terrible news for democrats

They're hating that Americans are benefitting and that is sad.  They could have done the same thing, as pointed out by PeaceWave, but they didn't and if I was a democrat I would have to question why.

KC

The Electric Bus Bust Mayhem Continues

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/17/the-electric-bus-bust-mayhem-continues-n3813999

Most wind up in the slow-rolling disaster column, and man - that does seem to be the case with the Biden administration's $1.6B push to electrify city transit fleets.

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...E-buses have been purchased by transit agencies in part through a "Low-No" emissions grant program mainly through the Federal Transit Administration that received a $1.6 billion infusion during the Biden years.

"Given the scale of this investment, there must be an examination into whether taxpayers are receiving the reliable, deployable transit assets capable of serving the communities for which they were funded," Power the Future (PTF) President Daniel Turner said.
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...Similarly, PTF highlighted a 2024 EPA Inspector General audit that found the agency failed to meaningfully track the deployment of electric school buses under a 2022 rebate program through which $836 million was handed out by federal officials.
...An EPA Inspector General statement from October regarding the school bus program said "three material weaknesses so significant that they could lead to material misstatements in the Agency’s financial statements" were found.
"The EPA did not monitor bus deployment status and recipient use of over $836 million of 2022 Clean School Bus, or CSB, Program rebates, despite the Agency stating it would do so," another OIG report from 2024 said.

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In March, I had a field day posting some of the latest news that had come in on both the urban and school district E-bus experiments. Tragically for the tax dollars involved, and, in some cases, the health, comfort, and well-being of the kiddos on the buses, most were abysmal disappointments and many flat-out disasters.

There were mechanical issues galore, scary fires that thankfully erupted in unoccupied vehicles but consumed the fleet in some cases, and maintenance/parts problems arising from bankrupt bus manufacturers that seemed insurmountable.

I'm so old that I remember when "Electric Mayhem" was the house band on "The Muppet Show".

WaPo, WSJ Wonder: How Could Dems Get Blindsided By Eric the Pred?

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/17/wapo-wsj-wonder-how-could-dems-get-blindsided-by-swalwell-n3813963

Really? No idea at all, Washington Post? Surprised, Wall Street Journal? Or just attempting to cover up the complicity of the Protection Racket Media?

The framing used by the WaPo amounts to a self-indictment by the Beltway's home-turf newspaper. The lack of self-awareness in publishing this poser:

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The stunning fall has Hunt and others asking how someone who was dogged by persistent rumors of inappropriate behavior toward women similar to what she heard in 2020 could have risen so high and so fast in a party that says it supports women’s rights.

That's certainly one question. Another question is how these rumors flew around the Capitol for at least six years, and yet not a single reporter reported on them ... or even thought to investigate. Bear in mind that by 2020, when "several other young women" working in congressional offices knew enough to warn Hunt that Swalwell was a predatory creep, three years had passed since the #MeToo explosion that detonated in Hollywood, New York, and Washington DC.

It wasn't just the Democrat Party that posed itself as the defender of women's rights. The Post itself led the "believe all women" charge, and had carried the banner Democracy Dies in Darkness for at least the same period of time. And yet, despite the fact that Swalwell was hardly a backbencher and that he operated in the Post's own exclusive turf, they either missed or ignored the story – and the latter seems a lot more likely.
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Yes, let's find out what Democrat leaders knew, and when they knew it. But what about reporters, such as those for the WSJ, which covers Congress in some depth? What did they know, and when did they know it? At what point did reporters hear 'rumors' about Swalwell and his predatory nature, and did they ever bother to follow up or talk to staffers who may have come into contact with Eric the Pred and could shed light on his actions?

Do a little (very) mental math. In 2020, ~6 years ago, Cheyenne Hunter was cautioned about Swillwell, by several women staffers. The rumor mill does not grind slowly, but that Hunter was cautioned by several women indicates that the rumors, if that is all they were, had been accumulating and circulating for some time, probably several years.

As the article points out - as many have - the Dems' and their MSM-shills' incuriosity is grossly obvious, and questions are being asked. BUT since the people who have the potential access to ask the "right people" pointed questions are the MSM-folk who need to be asked those pointed questions, expect that aspect to fade away quickly.

I'll go a step further and ask, what were the MSM doing in the early 2020s and late 2010s INSTEAD of investigating the rumors/reports of sexual harassment and abuse by Swillwell? In a word, Trump! The absurdly false Trump-Russia Collusion delusion. The Trump-did-nothing-about-Covid absurd lie. The known-false Shampeachment 1.0 claims. The known-false claims of Shampeachment 2.0.

The hyper-partisan MSM were hyping the Dems' attack-falsehoods instead of actually investigating something real.

As Instapundit Glenn Reynolds often says in posting stories on Instapundit, if you hate the MSM, you don't hate them enough.

"Unprofessional" = Throwing the crap of MSM Dem-shills in their faces, preemptively

As with the Pope, the MSM are not sacred, and when they go full-partisan they earn whatever criticism they get in response. The difference between Trump and many/most R pols is that he fights back. And for this Administration he chose men and women who will and are fighting back.