Let Us Unburden Ourselves Of The Stupid Things That Have Been

As we usher in a new year, it’s time to let go of the old.

Of course, some things are easier to say goodbye to than others. Ditching the old, doddering dementia patient occupying the White House for a few more weeks, for instance, easy peasy. Cutting loose the reportedly slap-happy Second Gentleman, a piece of cake. 

Other useless things may prove harder to get rid of. Like the long line of leftist celebrities who swore they would leave the country if Donald Trump were reelected. Well the 45th president is about to become the 47th, and the famously deranged are still here. And it doesn’t appear that MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle are going away, at least for now, despite being told they must take a massive pay cut. The left-wing nuts’ audience certainly has disappeared, however.

Shakespeare tells us through time that parting is such sweet sorrow. Not always. Sometimes saying goodbye is just a real pleasure.

So in that spirit, here are some things that definitely need to leave in the new year.  

It’s X. Just X. 

Memo to corporate media: You can stop telling us that X is the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. We know. Enough already. Elon Musk bought Twitter more than two years ago. At this point, the leftists running corporate media are doing the whole “formerly known as” schtick as pathetic nostalgia. They so desperately want the conservative speech-suppressing social media platform of old that they have to keep reminding us that there was a time when Musk didn’t own it. 

Latinx es Estupido 

You know who loves the made-up word Latinx? White liberals, particularly women, who prize cats and their misguided sense of self-satisfaction above real human contact and reality. While no one asked for it, they insist on an “alternative to the gender binary inherent to formulations such as Latina/o,” according to “gender justice” group Women’s Voices for the Earth. You know who hates the word Latinx? Everyone else, particularly Hispanics who resent the radical LGBTQ scene foisting it upon them. 

‘The Ick’ Terms of 2024 

Speaking of stupid words that should cease to exist, how about the made-up term “pretty privilege.” Clearly dreamed up by aggrieved ugly people, pretty privilege is defined as “an unearned and mostly unacknowledged societal advantage that a person has by fitting into the beauty standards of their culture.” That’s according to Dictionary.com, which made the ill-advised choice to include the nonsensical DEI noun among 1,700-plus words it added or updated to its database in 2024. Other gems include, “bussin,” “Barbiecore,” “greedflation,” and “The ick,” which is a “sudden feeling of disgust or dislike, often in response to the actions of another person.” To use it in a sentence, The ick is what I feel when I read or hear idiotic new words and phrases created and forced into the mainstream by people who can’t write complete, coherent sentences.

Spit This Out

Isn’t it long past time to put the whole “Hawk Tuah Girl” phenomenon to bed, so to speak? A society transfixed by a young woman explaining how to create a goober lubricant is a society with a fall-of-Rome destiny. Rarely have those with so few discernible legitimate professional skills risen so highly in public notice. Hawk Tuah Girl, otherwise known as Haliey Welch, has turned her hacking, viral sensation video clip into a golden ticket to influencer land. She’s got a podcast, a line of merchandise, and, now, a meme coin. The group behind it is now facing a lawsuit after the the coin crashed within hours of its launch. 

“Hawkcoin, trading under $HAWK, hit a peak total market value of $490 million soon after launch on December 4 but a major sell-off saw that drop to $26.4 million,” the New York Post reported before Christmas. 

Shocking. The proverbial wagon of the Hawk Tuah Girl “brand” crashed and burned?! Who could have seen that coming? 

Adieu Kamala

So long, failed Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Let us all be unburdened by what has been. The vice president certainly unburdened duped donors of north of $1 billion of their cash. 

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.