[U: Polls!] Flu Edition: Guest Post — By Rigby!

Sorry to see that you’re not feeling well. Since you’re sick, allow me to pick up the baton and run with a couple of things:

1) John Hinderaker’s post, Meat Is Back!

Good! I hope this means we’ll be seeing fewer posts from John about how the Democrats are going to force us all to eat bugs.

2) William Otis’s post, High minded blather impersonating Deep Thought

This one is rich. Bill complains about David Brooks’s column condemning Trump’s authoritarian lawlessness, writing:

What Brooks and the Left can’t get over is that Trump won. For them, respecting the results of a free election and all that jazz is soooooooooo yesterday.

Riiiiiight. Because objecting to a president’s policies (as Bill certainly did under Biden and Obama) is exactly the same as falsely proclaiming that the election was rigged, and instigating a violent (but deeply stupid) insurrection attempt.

After bleating on and on about Brooks’s supposedly hyperbolic wailing, Bill finally concedes something:

I get it that the Left has gone over the edge about Trump. In truth, there are reasons for this, some of them serious and quite worrisome. Paul and I have not been shy about discussing them and we will not be shy about discussing them in the future. But that the editors at the once-august New York Times allow Brooks’ brand of eighth grade “civilization-is-at-stake” emoting into print is, if nothing else, depressing (not to mention one more reason that respect for journalism has cratered).

So, in other words, Brooks’s concerns are completely valid, but there’s a correct way to object to the administration’s lawlessness, and Paul and Bill have been demonstrating it every day by mildly murmuring their mild concerns about the blatant Constitutional violations we’ve been seeing from this administration on a regular basis.

Be sure to keep that up, Paul and Bill. It’s sure to make an impact any day now.

Update, Friday morning — Condor sees that at least Bill and Paul admit reality, about Trump’s vast unpopularity (unlike Glahn/Hinderaker’s ongoing delusions). They know he’s going to cause a blue tsunami (again!) in 2026 — just as in 2018. They even post similar charts, to the one I posted earlier this week. So reality is setting in for at least those two boys. Silver linings, indeed: