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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Nov. 25, 2024

Greetings! Matt Gaetz, cable news host? Newsmax is reportedly considering a show hosted by the telegenic hate-magnet, ex-Congressman and failed AG candidate (The Independent)…WND writer Patrice Lewis thinks she knows why the Pilgrims almost succumbed to starvation at their tiny outpost in the New World.  “What was the reason behind the disastrous harvests that nearly wiped out the fledgling Plymouth colony? Was it climate change? Student loan debt? Lack of universal health care?” she writes.  “No, it was socialism”…Last week’s craziest headline from the right: The Federalist’s It’s Past Time We Bring Back the Washington Redskins.  Not a chance (although you never know what may happen in the upside world of Trump 2.0)…Acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet, whose politics have moved rightward for more than a decade, has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal heralding the incoming Trump administration.  I love Mamet the playwright and screenwriter, but his politics are a real buzz kill…Washington Examiner reporter Brad Polumbo asserts that woke white women have initiated TikTok’s “cringiest trend.”  These wokesters, per Polumbo, wear blue bracelets to signal to like-minded individuals, especial racial minorities, that they can be trusted…X-odus.  That’s what I’m calling the phenomenon of users fleeing X for the fast-growing social media platform Bluesky…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard