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Five Quick Things: Who Knew That This Was Heat Miser Week? | The American Spectator

President Donald Trump is off to Alaska today, hopefully for a diplomatic event which yields better results than the last time the 50th state served as such a venue.

If you’ll remember, four years ago, Joe Biden’s new secretary of state, Tony Blinken, went to Alaska for a sitdown with his Chinese counterpart. That did not go very well, as the Chinese delegation proceeded to browbeat Blinken with a protracted narrative castigating America along the same woke lines that Biden’s campaign had embraced in the previous year’s election.

Hopefully, this meeting with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin goes a little better. What’s obvious at this point is that the Russo–Ukrainian War, which began early in Biden’s second year in office and has devolved into a mostly pointless stalemate wasting blood and treasure on all sides, needs to end at the negotiating table. That’s been obvious for three years now. (RELATED: Trump, Putin, and Peace in Ukraine)

It’s also obvious, however, that neither Putin nor his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy are very serious about making a peace deal. And for Trump, that’s a confounding issue. He should be able to broker something — after all, since retaking office, he’s brokered no less than seven agreements to douse regional fires, the most recent one a deal to end the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. (RELATED: Trump Brokers 11th Peace Deal. More to Come?)

Maybe the best way to describe this would be to say that if Trump can’t get a deal to end the Ukraine war, no such deal is possible.

That would be sad.

What else is sad is that Trump’s Alaska trip will take our attention away from one of the most bizarre political weeks we’ve ever seen. Something so conventional and substantive as peace negotiations is utterly out of place amid what we’ve had on our plates.

For example…

1. Behold, The Heat Miser Speaks. And He’s Not Very Trumpy At All.

If you’re a Gen Xer or above, you probably saw A Year Without a Santa Claus, which debuted on television in 1974. It was one of those Rankin/Bass animated Christmas-show extravaganzas, but it wasn’t as iconic as, say, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or Frosty the Snowman.

But two of the supporting characters in A Year Without a Santa Claus, Snow Miser and Heat Miser, became cult figures in their own right. So much so that Warner Bros. ended up giving them their own live-action special in 2008.

Which wasn’t such a great hit.

The original Heat Miser was a proper villain, though. Who can’t appreciate this guy, even if he’s going to rob you of a white, snowy Christmas?

It turns out that there’s a real-life version of the Heat Miser, and he’s a contributor at MSNBC. He calls himself Anand Giridharadas — nope, I can’t pronounce that either — and he seems to be just as ill-tempered as the animated version…

One assumes they pay this guy in currency, though perhaps it’s in hair products, for his opinions. Perhaps they should stop.

On the other hand, elevating climate change above basic public safety in the nation’s capital is exactly the kind of moronic rhetoric that will keep the Democrats from getting political power ever again. (RELATED: New Climate Report Deserves to Be Debated, Not Silenced)

With that consideration in mind, Mr. Giridharadas perhaps should have his own show. MSNBC already has a great theme — the set could be built to resemble a lair inside a volcano, and the host could be properly decked out in pink sequins so that he can explain it’s climate change and Trump’s authoritarianism to blame for the lack of a white Christmas this year.

This is where we are. But there’s more.

2. You Never Heard of Jennifer Welch Before This Week, And You Were Better Off for It

I had no idea who this woman was. Perhaps those of you who waste your time watching the Bravo channel on cable know Jennifer Welch, the star of something called Sweet Home. It’s a show about interior decorating, and it’s the usual reality-TV dreck — at least, as best I can tell.

But Jennifer Welch, who says she’s “happily divorced” from her husband, whom she still lives with (or did at one time; there’s only so much research I’m willing to do for this entry), also has a podcast. And this is apparently the highlight of her career in punditry…

We do have something to thank her for, which is that perhaps we can now open a discussion into the proliferation of utterly atrocious behavior on the part of AWFLs — affluent white female leftists — and the negative effect they’re having on American life.

There isn’t enough space here to kick that off, which is OK because it’s already happening. And it’s necessary, because this is something a whole lot of people are suddenly noticing and objecting to.

Without attempting to pass as an expert on Welch, it certainly seems like she’s the perfect distillation of an AWFL. It’s interesting that legacy media outlets would be promoting her as some sort of rising star. I’m not sure she fits the moment.

3. Hunter Hasn’t Kicked the Habit, Has He?

Speaking of not fitting the moment, we’ve got a fun lawsuit about to happen…

First lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not.

Trump takes issue with two comments Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, made in an interview this month with American journalist Andrew Callaghan. He alleged that Epstein introduced the first lady to now-President Donald Trump.

The statements are false, defamatory and “extremely salacious,” Melania Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, wrote in a letter to Biden. Biden’s remarks were widely disseminated on social media and reported by media outlets around the world, causing the first lady “to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm,” he wrote.

Biden made the Epstein comments during a sprawling interview in which he lashed out at “elites” and others in the Democratic Party he says undermined his father before he dropped out of last year’s presidential campaign.

“Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep,” Biden said in one of the comments Trump disputes. Biden attributed the claim to author Michael Wolff, whom Trump disparaged in June as a “Third Rate Reporter.” He has accused Wolff of making up stories to sell books.

The Left is screeching about the fact that Melania Trump is threatening a defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden. Bernie Sanders went on Stephen Colbert’s soon-to-be-extinct show on Wednesday and fussed about the fact that Donald Trump had successfully sued several media outlets for defaming him, for example.

What was Hunter’s response to Melania’s threat? Pretty typical.

Great. Let’s have this out. Surely Hunter can prove his claim that Donald Trump is tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and therefore, defend that lawsuit. And surely Hunter will be able to shoulder the cost of his legal defense as well as his drug habit. (RELATED: No, Epstein Was Not Melania Trump’s Matchmaker)

Surely.

Right?

4. Gavin Newsom Is Aping Trump’s Truth Social Posts. And by Aping, We Mean He Comes Off As an Ape.

What is this all of a sudden?

Obviously, it’s Gavin Newsom’s comms team thinking a good idea for them would be to copycat things Trump posts on Truth Social.

Not cringe at all.

The great crime of Gavin Newsom isn’t that he’s an abysmal leader, an incompetent manager, or a deranged leftist. It isn’t even that he’s derivative, though that is surely unforgivable. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Wants To Be Donald Trump So Badly)

Newsom’s great crime is that he tries entirely too hard. So hard, in fact, that it’s difficult to find a stitch of humanity in him. He’s the embodiment of Patrick Bateman, the hypervillainous Christian Bale character in American Psycho, whose murderous passions hide behind a poorly constructed facade of upwardly mobile respectability.

It would be easy to see Newsom donning a plastic raincoat and swinging an axe at the heads of his detractors, but for the evident shortage of physical courage present between those ears.

Still, the cringe persists. One wonders whether the all-cap tweets will. Does anybody find that snappy or amusing?

5. And Now They’re… Throwing Sandwiches?

His name is Sean Charles Dunn, and he’s a lawyer at the Department of Justice.

Or at least he was, until he did this…

And now he’s been arrested and charged. Oh — and fired…

A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social media post Thursday.

A video of Sean Charles Dunn berating a group of federal agents late Sunday went viral online. Dunn was arrested on an assault charge after he threw a “sub-style” sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent, a court filing said.

Dunn, 37, of Washington, was an international affairs specialist in the Justice Department’s criminal division, according to a department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter.

“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ,” Bondi wrote. “You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement.”

A multiagency flood of uniformed federal law enforcement officers had fanned out across the city over the weekend after the White House had announced stepped-up measures to combat crime. That was before President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he was taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard.

Apparently, Dunn melted down over the fact that ICE agents were among the federal law enforcement officers deployed to Washington’s streets to do something about the crime problem. Naturally, he had to invoke the bugaboo of fascism in defense of the carjackers, muggers, and crazed junkies of Washington’s streets.

In the olden days, expressions of disrespect were a bit more civilized…

Alas, Mr. Dunn had no glove. All he had was a footlong Subway Club.

And now he hasn’t even that much to offer in defense of the criminals of his city.

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