Same Old. Same Old.

NBC News reports Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law has come forward with an affidavit claiming Hegseth abused his ex-wife. The sister-in-law says she was advised that filing the affidavit would scuttle Hegseth’s nomination by getting fence-sitting senators to vote against him.

Instead of asking who told her that, the press corps rushed to report and amplify the story. Here’s a key detail: Hegseth’s ex-wife denies the allegations, saying she did not push her sister to speak up and wants reporters to leave her alone.

Elon Musk told a crowd at an inaugural event, “My heart goes out to you.” He then grabbed his chest with his hand then flung his arm out towards the crowd as if throwing his heart to the crowd. The press, led by PBS, rushed with “some say” it was a Nazi salute. The PBS reporter says it was a “Heil Hitler” gesture.

The inauguration was running behind schedule, and the president needed to take the oath of office as close to noon as possible. Chief Justice John Roberts, rushing things, started administering the oath before Melania Trump could get situated with the family Bible. As a result, Trump did not have his hand on the Bible, and the press corps reported it as Trump failing to place his hand on the Bible.

These people have learned nothing.

Joe Biden walks out of office and pre-emptively pardons his family members with an oddly specific start date for the pardons. No one in the press wants to investigate. They have simply taken it as an article of faith that this was to prevent harassment by Trump, which Biden claimed. But Biden also claimed he was mentally ready for the job, and we all saw that was a lie.

The press corps has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. We will get four years of outrage-driven coverage. We will not get probative, thoughtful press analysis. It will all be driven by Democrat-seeded talking points.

The Elon Musk one is the one that really drives this home. There are numerous examples of Democrats throwing their hands in the air like a Hitler salute, and no one, left, right, center, or in the press, accused them of doing it. But Elon declares his heart goes out to the crowd and flings out his arm away from his chest and we are all supposed to believe it was a Hitler salute or we’re apologists for Nazis.

I don’t know how Trump made so many people turn into drooling morons, but he managed to make it happen, and the biggest morons are the American political press — generally lazy people who like to be spoon-fed from a left-leaning hive mind.

Welcome back after four years. Hope you reporters had a great vacation and are lubed up well so the DNC can muppet you. In the meantime, I have to say this is not just predictable. It’s a bit boring.