Unsocial Media Monitor: Team left unhinged at celebration of St. Patrick’s Day

By now, you are likely aware that there are elusive, ever-changing, progressive-determined rules surrounding the celebration of holidays:

Kids in search of Halloween costumes better make sure their race matches that of their favorite Disney character. Thanksgiving is really a “Day of Mourning.” And you likely have a vague sense that there are definitely rules about if and how people are allowed to celebrate Cinco de Mayo —but good luck figuring out what they are.

But one could be forgiven for thinking it was still possible to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in peace. What could team left possibly have to say about St. Patrick’s Day? A look at social media on Thursday revealed one of the main complaints about the holiday: white people seem to enjoy it.

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Elon Musk Condemns Rising Woke Trend In Corporate America

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk condemned “ESG” standards — a growing trend in corporate America to make businesses more “socially conscious.”

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria are “a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments,” according to Investopedia. For instance, a company may emphasize its use of green energy, association with LGBTQ suppliers, or otherwise arrange its operations such that producing shareholder value is inseparable from a leftist agenda.

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Elizabeth Warren Says the Solution to High Gas Prices Is Higher Taxes on Oil Companies

“Putin’s war is causing gas prices to rise, but this is no excuse for large oil companies to pad their bottom line with war-fueled profits,” tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) along with an MSNBC video of her explaining her stance. “Senate Democrats are watching closely—and already working on a windfall profits tax.” Warren also said that she gets “supply and demand—that prices go up” but that “profit margins should not go up, that’s just oil companies gouging.”

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Leftists Demand Big Tech Preemptively Censor Trump’s Truth Social

Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social wants to make itself cancel-proof against leftist demands that Big Tech preemptively deplatform it.

So far, the increasingly popular free speech platform has already survived attacks from the corporate media hellbent on smearing anything associated with Trump.

Now, leftists are wielding Jan. 6 as an excuse to demand Big Tech companies such as Apple thwart Truth Social before it even becomes fully operational at the end of the month.

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Paul Krugman dreams up nonexistent Biden economic success story

On cue, Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist, expressed his frustration last Thursday at the apparent disconnect between the public’s perceptions of the economic health of the country and the statistics.

I say “on cue” because President Joe Biden’s approval rating remains in the dumpster. The poor economy is one major reason.

Not so, according to Krugman. The economy is “booming,” said Krugman. He noted that Biden’s recent State of the Union made that clear. Last year, the United States added 6.5 million jobs, which was more than ever created in a single year. Krugman fact-checks these claims and declares them “entirely correct.” Of course, to any sensible person, these added jobs were not created in any sense of the word. The economy is still, by most employment measures, attempting to recover from the 2020 lockdowns and the associated transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street.

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Are Democrats Really Going To Cross the Rubicon?

While the world focused on Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine last week, little attention was paid to the ineffably consequential decision by Democrats to go all-out in their assault on American democracy.

Just as Julius Caesar invited civil war by crossing the Rubicon, the partisan House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol let it be known that it will recommend bringing two sets of criminal charges against former President Donald Trump regarding the 2020 election. One allegation is that that he tried to obstruct the lawful counting of votes. The other is that he engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through his false claims of a stolen election.

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Lead Prosecutors Abruptly Quit Trump Investigation

The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan DA’s investigation into former President Trump and his business abruptly resigned on Wednesday – after having mysteriously stopped presenting evidence to a grand jury a month ago, according to the New York Times, citing people with knowledge of the matter, and suggesting the future of the high-stakes inquiry has been thrown into “serious doubt.”

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