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It’s Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. 

The USA hockey team was supposed to beat Canada on Thursday and win the 4 Nations Face-Off in front of the home crowd in Boston. Alas, the players choked and lost 3-2 in overtime, even after President Donald Trump specifically instructed them to win. One can only assume the crushing defeat was the result of something Barack Obama did. The disgraced former president has a long history of sabotaging American athletes, a phenomenon sometimes described as the “Obama curse.”

It wasn’t a total failure for the Americans, who embarrassed the Canadians last week in Montreal, where Prime Minister Justin “Black Face” Trudeau looked on, and the home crowd booed “The Star-Spangled Banner” like a bunch of uppity attic-dwellers eager to defy the only distinguishable aspect of their national identity—being worse than Americans at everything except being polite. Enjoy the rest of your intolerable winter, losers. Your Golden Age was never. Our is now.

Speaking of Canadian malevolence, on Monday a Delta Air Lines plane flipped over after a rough landing at the Toronto airport. It was probably Canada’s fault, but who knows? It definitely had nothing to do with Trump’s efforts to reduce inefficiency in our bloated federal bureaucracy, which includes the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Doing what comes naturally, America’s esteemed journalists insisted otherwise.

Tom Costello of NBC News said the crash would “yet again raise the concern about FAA staffing,” even though the Delta flight was operating under Canadian authority. Why? Because, Costello mused, there has been “talk about maybe staff cuts at the FAA as a part of President Trump’s effort to trim down the federal workforce,” which was going to “feed into all these recent [plane crash] incidents” and ensure that the “safety of the total air traffic system” would be “part of the conversation.” And what is the source of all these conversations and concern? Primarily other journalists and the Democratic politicians they invite on their shows to complain about Trump. That’s how the news cycle works. If a Democrat is concerned about something, journalists are concerned, which means the American people must also be concerned because journalists have their fingers on the national pulse.

Gayle King, the CBS News host and Kamala Harris donor best known for taking yacht vacations with Barack Obama and other celebs, during her interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian tried and failed to get a juicy soundbite for her Democratic friends to be concerned about. “The cuts do not affect us, Gayle,” he said. “I understand that the cuts at this time are something that are raising questions, but the reality is there’s over 50,000 people that work at the FAA, and the cuts, I understand, were 300 people, and they were in non-critical safety functions.” King was not pleased with the response. Here is the face she made when Bastian told her that Trump’s cuts would not affect Delta. Like a golden retriever watching a bag of treats get tossed in the trash.

Speaking of trash, former CNN anchor Jim Acosta and some of his fellow #Resistance journalists are calling on mainstream media organizations to go to war with the Trump administration on behalf of the Associated Press, which has been banned from the White House press pool for deadnaming the Gulf of America as the “Gulf of Mexico.” Acosta urged journalists to “rally to the cause” by writing supportive op-eds (ouch!) and, if necessary, by “refusing to cover presidential movements in solidarity, until Trump backs down” (double ouch!). Acosta, who had his White House press pass temporarily revoked in 2018 for being obnoxious and manhandling a female intern, reckons the American people will revolt at the prospect of losing access to the mainstream media’s indispensable reporting.

Related: CNN’s Brian Stelter Courageously Spell-Checks Trump’s Twitter Feed

Media executive Jim Friedlich floated the idea of media outlets banding together to form a “NATO for news” that would respond collectively to attacks on a single outlet by leveraging “their opinion pages” to criticize Trump. Not sure how that would be any different than the status quo, but good luck!Speaking of NATO, Sanna Marin is our Babe of the Week. The 39-year-old former prime minister of Finland was the world’s hottest leader until stepping down in 2023 to spend more time partying after divorcing her husband. Marin, who still looks amazing in retirement, published a seductively sensible op-ed in the Economist this week urging European countries to start pulling their weight militarily. “It is entirely reasonable for American taxpayers to question why they should shoulder more of the cost of European security than Europe itself,” she wrote. “We can no longer rely on someone else coming to our aid, and must be able to stand on our own.” Listen up, deadbeats. If she can’t persuade you, you’re unpersuadable.

Democratic geezer of the week: “You remember the name Don Devine?” said Rep. Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) at one of the numerous anti-Trump rallies Democrats have been holding since January. Hoyer, 85, is even older than Joe Biden, but he’s slightly younger than Don Devine, 87, who served as director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during Ronald Reagan’s first term. In other words, no normal American under the age of 50 remembers the name Don Devine.

Republican geezer of the week: Longtime Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), 83, is retiring at the end of his term in 2027, assuming he can live that long. McConnell’s inability to stop falling down or freezing up in front of a microphone has raised Biden-like concerns about his fitness to serve. Above all, he will be remembered for driving Democrats insane and inspiring a number of sinister-sounding nicknamesthat actually made him seem like a total badass. Liberal derangement of the week: New York Times ethics columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah fielded one of the most insane questions we’ve ever seen from an anonymous “straight white dude” who wants to “prioritize dating women of color” in order to advance his “antiracist principles” but is worried that his preference might be “insensitive or somehow itself racist.” To his credit, the Times columnist (politely) advised this weirdo to chill the f— out and (gently) scolded him for using the word “kyriarchy,” which isn’t a typo. It’s an actual word coined by a “feminist theologian” to describe intersectional oppression or whatever.

Woke crusade of the week: Democrats in Washington State introduced legislation this week to redesign the state’s flag, which features an image of George Washington. The bill would establish a committee to create a new flag that “better reflects the diversity and values of all Washingtonians,” which means goodbye Founding Father, hello hideous trans-inclusive nonsense.

In related news, just 21 percent of registered voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job, with 68 percent expressing disapproval, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll.  Republicans fared much better at 40 percent approval and 52 percent disapproval. Democrats needn’t worry, according to the Associated Press, because their “next savior” is about to reenter the political arena, and he has “the tools to lead his party on a national scale.”

Behold the savior…

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