Should We Be Embarrassed for Tim Scott? Nah!

“Scott’s willingness to endure Trump’s ritual humiliation of him raises a number of important questions. … How many Republicans left in the party are willing to tell the truth about Trump? How much further will Scott and his competition go in pursuit of the vice presidency? How much can abasement can any one person take before collapsing in on themselves like a dying star? And, of course, how funny will it be if this ends with Scott earning the same reward Chris Christie did back in 2016? Or, crueler still, a stint as Commerce Secretary?”

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U.S. Economy Grew Faster than Expected in Q4 of 2023

3.3%

“The economy grew much faster than expected in the final three months of 2023, as the U.S. easily skirted a recession that many forecasters had thought was inevitable,” CNBC reports. “Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced, increased at a 3.3% annualized rate in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to data adjusted seasonally and for inflation.”

DeSantis Quotes Budweiser, Not Churchill, in Concession Speech

“Winston Churchill once remarked that, ‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.’ While this campaign has ended, the mission continues.”

— In a fitting end to what has been called the worst presidential campaign in modern times, Ron DeSantis ended his campaign as it started — ineptly — by misquoting Winston Churchill and instead quoting from a 1939 Budweiser advert, reports Pink News.