2018 – The Year in Review (Part One)
Monday, December 31, 2018
2018 – The Year in Review (Part One)
2018 is nearly done, and few of us will be shedding bitter salt tears
over its passing. It was a year which frequently lacked subtlety or
rationality – seemingly the new norm in the hyperbolic, neon-colored,
Thunderdome world of Donald Trump versus the Lunatic Left.
JANUARY
Donald Trump started the New Year’s ball rolling by tweeting that he is
“like, very smart and a stable genius,” which is pretty much all it took
for the Left to declare it prima facie evidence that the man is
nuts. An opinion which they didn’t change after what may or may not have
been the President’s questionable choice of words regarding certain
third world countries…
In a closed meeting about special immigration protections for some
populations, Trump allegedly asked “why do we want people from shithole
countries?” Despite the fact that the quote couldn’t be verified, Trump
was vilified by the Dems as a racist (yawn), while others wondered “why do we want people from shithole countries?”
As it turns out, we’d want them to clean up the rubble in case the world was destroyed during a government shutdown…
Leave it to CNN to turn a boring government shutdown into a possible
apocalypse. Which is exactly what they did with their preposterous claim
that the “Government Shutdown Risks An Undetected Asteroid Strike.“
Not that potential catastrophes were absolutely impossible…
Trump stated that he was willing to be put under oath to answer questions from Special Weasel Robert Mueller regarding Russian collusion,
potential obstruction of justice, and the whereabouts of the kidnapped
Lindberg baby. Happily, we’d make it to the end of the year without that
happening. Meanwhile in…
FEBRUARY
We learned from Democratic operative Donna Brazile, who has miraculously not shot herself multiple times in the back of the head, that in the run-up to the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton literally bought the debt-ridden DNC in order to ensure that she would become the nominee,
thus disenfranchising the young Democrat voters who overwhelmingly and
enthusiastically supported Bernie “I’ll Drop Out for a Lake House”
Sanders.
Of course, Hillary wasn’t the only politician finding questionable ways of spending money…
Trump caused renewed conniption fits by declaring that the United States
would put on a giant, wildly-expensive military parade to show the
world our awesome destructive capabilities and our talent for
presenting entertaining, highly-choreographed events. Plans for the
parade fell by the wayside when the President redirected his laser-like
attention to playful squirrels on the White House lawn.
Which allowed the media to direct their attention to the squirrels who had previously occupied the White House…
Laughably awful official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama were
unveiled, with art critics swooning over the works solely because they
were created by persons of color. Which should have been taken as a
considerable insult to the many persons of color who – unlike these
hacks – have actual artistic skills.
And speaking of hacking, in mid-February we finally got an accounting of Russia’s actual financial investment in (ahem) corrupting the 2016 election…
Despite the media’s claim that Russian election interference was “a
worse attack than Pearl Harbor,” it turns out that Putin’s evil army
spent $46,000 on Facebook ads, compared to over $81 million spent on
Facebook by Clinton and Trump. In other words, over 99.9% of campaign
ads on Facebook weren’t originated by Russia, making it pretty darn
unlikely that Russia had any influence on the election’s outcome whatsoever (and certainly less impact than Facebook’s own anti-conservative bias).
This apparently struck President Trump as good enough news for him to make a happy and hardly unexpected announcement…
Trump announced that he’d be running for President again in 2020. This set a new official record of early declaration for the office, but failed to surpass the unofficial record which was set when baby Hillary spoke her first words.
Words were also on the mind of another former first lady…
Okay, it wasn’t actually going to be a sex manual (apparently some asshole had already used the name “Obama Sutra” on a book), just a standard memoir which sold for an un-standard price: Michelle and Barry split $60 million for their respective book deals. And while their books might not be page-turners, the calendar pages predictably turned to…
MARCH
The world was once again shocked, shocked, by an announcement from Donald Trump…
Trump agreed to meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jung Un, to discuss
the possible denuclearization of the nasty little dictatorship.
Hilariously, serial liar and Obama insider (but we repeat ourselves)
Susan Rice immediately came forward to suggest that, prior to the
meeting, Trump avail himself of the “expertise” which informed the Obama
administration’s feckless (and fecked up) policy of watching North
Korea build increasingly powerful nukes.
Of course, Trump wasn’t the only high profile politician working the international scene…
We didn’t make up Hillary’s wildly offensive statements above. This is what she was spewing in India while promoting her book
“What Happened,” describing the millions of Americans who voted for
Trump as hateful, misogynistic racists who would actually have to improve to be deplorables.
Not that those on the Left hated those who were actually deplorable…
Aging porn star Stormy “Sperm Bank” Daniels was interviewed on 60
minutes about her nightmarish experience of having consensual sex with a
man who gave her a six-figure paycheck to keep her mouth shut, after which she realized, heartbreakingly, that she could likely get seven figures for blabbing. Oddly, the simple act of a whore raising her price made her a feminist hero.
And while on the topic of people who don’t take human reproduction seriously enough…
While in Japan, Barack Obama said that he’d like to spend his
post-presidency life mastering (or some word that sounds similar) the
skills to “create a hundred or a thousand or a million young Barack Obamas,”
and that this terrifying new race “could take the baton in that relay
race that is human progress.” Yes, he actually played the relay race
card.
But even the notion of a million fetal versions of Barack Obama couldn’t
quite make us supportive of the ghouls at Planned Parenthood…
Giddy from getting 500 million taxpayer dollars in the “Omnibus Funding Bill,” a Pennsylvania branch of Planned Parenthood came up with this bold initiative to make their services more appealing to very young girls who weren’t aborted.
And that wasn’t the only entertainment related news…
After striking development deals with Barack and Michelle Obama,
streaming giant Netflix made Susan “Bald-Faced Liar and Accessory to
Murder” Rice a member of their board of directors owing to her “great expertise” with foreign policy. The company would
subsequently go on to lose over one third of its stock market value,
decimating the retirement portfolio of America’s best-loved (and least
known) political cartoonist.
Although there would at least be a bit of comic relief coming up in…
APRIL
Actually, we don’t need to give any additional explanation to that
cartoon, do we? Rather, we should save our wits for trying to decipher
other mysteries…
Disgraced former FBI director and serial-leaker James Comey announced a
publication date for his tell-all book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies,
and Leadership.” The book was a compilation of insights by a man who couldn’t find dirt on Hillary, a stunt that even Helen Keller couldn’t pull off despite being blind, deaf, and dead.
That’s a combination of conditions that the rest of us might envy,
considering we still had to put up with nonsense like this in…
MAY
Actually, Michelle, there’s a new and immeasurably better First Lady in town. Not that she has ever been shown the proper respect…
Melania Trump was gracious, elegant, and compelling when giving an anti-bullying speech, but Progressives attacked the world traveling, multi-lingual First Lady for having a “funny accent” and not “sounding like an American.” This
from the same people who have helped flood our nation with so many
illegals that we now have to punch buttons on our phones just to
continue a conversation in English.
And of course, there had been no such criticism of Hillary “I Always
Carry Hot Sauce!” Clinton when she’d previously had a sudden attack of
“Amos-and-Andyitis” when addressing a group of African Americans.
But that didn’t mean that race was no longer a sensitive subject…
The glasses make all the difference. |
Following Roseanne Barr’s career-ending tweet, everyone resolved to use much more civil language in…
JUNE
Well, that didn’t last long! After all the hoo-haw from the Left about it being totally unacceptable to even jokingly use derisory language to describe a woman, alleged comedian Samantha
Bee took to the airwaves to declare that “Ivanka Trump is a feckless
cunt.” After which, withered miniature actress Sally Field tweeted her
disagreement with Ms. Bee because “cunts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.” Making us think that the onetime Flying Nun likely experienced a few too many crash landings without a helmet.
So, too, did our hopes crash when hearing the results of the DOJ Inspector General’s report on James Comey…
The report called Comey’s actions in Hillary Clinton’s alleged investigation “extraordinary and insubordinate,”
and added that various FBI agents assigned to the case were actively
working to “stop Trump,” but suggested no charges for anyone involved
because, as Comey said of Hillary, no harm was intended.
Which pretty much made it official that America has no instrumentality
for acting against a slow motion coups attempt staged by our
intelligence agencies.
But that wasn’t going to be the month’s biggest blow to our nation’s actual intelligence…
Dr. Charles Krauthammer died from a recurrence of cancer. An author and
Fox News contributor, Krauthammer’s wit, wisdom, encyclopedic knowledge,
and stunning gifts of insight and analysis were (and are) desperately
needed in these chaotic times.
Besides his remarkable academic gifts, Charles Krauthammer could make us
laugh, loudly and frequently. And he radiated a strength and positivity
about life, despite facing and overcoming enormous personal obstacles.
His passing was a huge loss for our country, our culture, and to our
lives at a time when actual reason and rationality were in demonstrably
short supply…
After Sarah Huckabee Sanders was chased from a restaurant, Mad Maxine
Waters joined the throngs of Democrats calling for organized violence
against members of the Trump administration. It was Waters’ contention
that decent people shouldn’t be expected to share their
community, government, restaurants, or Democrats-only drinking fountains
with those she considered sub-humans. A mindset which was once all the
rage, literally, in parts of our country.
But fortunately, justice and righteousness got a shot at making a return
when Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement,
giving Donald Trump the opportunity to name a well-qualified potential
successor…
Having none of those items, Barry Soetoro didn’t get the nod for the
job. But little did we know how much grief was about to occur regarding
the actual nominee…
Join us Wednesday for 2018: The Year in Review (Part Two)!
BONUS!
Hosting a New Year’s party tonight, or need a hostess gift for a party
you’re attending? Print this picture (click on it for a larger size),
put it in a Dollar Store frame, and hang it on the wall (preferably over
the bar).
See how many people figure out the New Year’s significance of the (wait for it!) old Lang sign…
Posted by Stilton Jarlsberg at 12:05 AM
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