Author name: Josh Slocum

Left-wing extremism

Democrat Melts Down When Committee Chair Won’t Call a Man “She”

Parenting guides have been published for at least several hundred years in the West, full of advice on everything from diet, to curing colic, to whether and how to “sleep train” a baby. But we need a guide for how to parent adult babies, otherwise known as Democratic lawmakers. So far, the only option most people can think of to deal with the left’s temper tantrums is to let them cry it out. 

And oh, are they crying it out. The sour faces, heckling, shouting, and infantile signs—”Musk Steals!”—of the Democrat half of the Senate during President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress was the most immature display in politics in living memory. Even the lunatic-left Washington Post acknowledged it, though in the gentlest possible language, calling the party’s behavior a “low ebb.”

Transgender ideology, even more than shoveling endless billions to Ukraine, seems to be the issue that brings your average Democrat to hysteria quicker than anything else. Republican Representative Keith Self of Texas learned this when he referred to another male member of the House as  “Mr. McBride.” Self’s colleague, Massachusetts Democrat Bill Keating, jerked like a dog on a chain and started barking at Rep. Self. 

Why? Because Self referred to “Mr. McBride.” The Democratic Representative from Delaware is a man formerly known as Tim McBride who now calls himself Sarah McBride, and tells the world that he is a woman. 

McBride immediately referred to Chairman Self as “Madam Chair” right back, I guess in an attempt to “show him what misgendering feels like.” It doesn’t make much sense, because McBride was being correctly gendered the whole time.

Bill Keating didn’t think that McBride could defend himself, apparently, and rushed in like a knight errant to defend the “lady’s” honor. “Would you repeat what you just  said,” he asked Rep. Self in an outraged voice. 

Representative Keating got even more emotional, pulling a McCarthy-hearing-moment on Self, spluttering, “have you no decency?” and telling the chairman that he was “out of order” and that he, Keating, would not be participating in any hearing until Self agreed to call McBride a woman. 

Check it out:

Self’s response was a gavel bang along with “This meeting is adjourned.”

Let’s see how X/Twitter users saw it. 

News

Why is USAID Shredding Docs? Cover-up or Standard Practice?

What’s going on at the soon-to-be defunct U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)? Well, lots of document shredding, but for what purpose, and whether this is standard operating procedure or an attempt to cover up malfeasance, is not clear. 

Politico reports that a “senior official” at the troubled agency sent an email to all staff instructing them to destroy “sensitive” documents. 

USAID has come under fire from the Trump administration for wasteful spending on international projects that seem to have nothing at all to do with benefiting the United States. Worse, the agency has been funding “woke” projects on transgenderism and more in foreign countries. 

Here’s just a short list of the grants the agency has disbursed to foreign countries, according to a summary from the White House:

—$1.5 million for “diversity, equity and inclusion” in Serbia

—$6 million to boost Egypt’s tourist trade

—$47,000 for a “transgender opera” mounted in Colombia

—$32,000 for what’s described as a “transgender comic book” to be published in Peru

—$2 million for sex change operations for the citizens of Guatemala

You get the picture. President Donald Trump has targeted USAID for closure,  which sparked a flurry of lawsuits by left-aligned interest groups. As of March 11, 2025, a federal court has ordered the Trump administration to pay out $671 million in USAID money owed to contractors who have already completed projects for the agency. But, it appears the courts recognize the administration’s authority to shut the agency down after making good on its back bills, and that’s exactly what Trump is doing. 

That brings us to the order from USAID officials to employees to shred documents. While the media is full of reports on this, it is not yet clear what’s going on. Is this a brazen and illegal attempt by fleeing officials to cover up misdeeds? Or, is it standard operating procedure related to sensitive or classified documents? It’s murky, but a union that apparently represents contractors working for USAID (really?) has asked federal courts to step in to stop the destruction of documents. 

According to Politico, a supervisor instructed employees by email to “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.”

It will be at least one or two more days before the fog around this situation clears. Meanwhile X/Twitter users are speculating. Most seem to think it’s “extra-legal”:

This user thinks the alleged burn-order is so brazen it can’t possibly be real:

Other users think this is probably a standard practice when an agency is closing down and it may be blown out of proportion:

What do you think?

Sports

Crocodile Tears or the Real Thing? HS Runner Accused of Assault Says It Was an Accident

Given the last five-to-ten years of wokeness, Americans are used to living in Opposite Land. Activists, leftist politicians, and the media have “educated” us on how everything we thought we knew about the world and the humans who live in it is wrong. Not just wrong, but exactly backwards. Men are women, and women are men. Morbid obesity is healthy. Censorship is freedom. Free speech is fascism. 

This extended version of Freaky Friday rests on what I call the narcissistic reversal. Genuinely narcissistic people reverse the truth to duck out of responsibility for their own bad behavior.  If they harass and malign a coworker, they claim that their target is really the one trying to ruin their reputation. When they lose their temper and scream demands at friends or loved ones, they’ll quickly turn on the tears and claim the victim of their tirade was “being angry and threatening.”

What’s so frustrating is that it works. Most people are fundamentally decent, and they mistakenly believe that must mean that every other person is fundamentally decent. Since I’d never lie and accuse someone of stealing from me if I was the one who took her possessions, then surely no one else would reverse the truth like that, we say to ourselves. It’s this naivete that has allowed American society to become so selfish, callous, rude, and entitled. For years there’s been little to no effective pushback on freeloaders, thieves, whiners, and socially maladapted people who make life miserable for everyone else. 

The young track runner in the video below may be counting on this state of affairs to get her out of what appears to be plain old assault. Collin Rugg posted this video on X showing a moment from a high school girls’ track competition. In the video, two runners are going around the track close together. The clip appears to show one runner, Alaila Everett, repeatedly hitting her fellow runner on the back of the head with a baton: 

What really happened? It’s impossible to say with certainty, but the baton strike sure does look intentional. But according to a tearful Everett, it was an accident. In an interview with a local television station, Everett claims she was merely pumping her arms and did not intentionally hit her fellow runner Kaelen Tucker. For her part, Tucker says she got a concussion when Everett’s baton struck her head. 

In the interview, a crying Everett said she didn’t do it on purpose, and she’s upset with Tucker for not acknowledging her (Everett’s, the one with the baton) “mental” feelings, which are also hurt. 

What do you think? To this writer, Everett doesn’t seem very believable. It does look like an intentional strike, and Everett’s later news interview does come across as a bully who turned on the tears to get out of trouble. At this point, no one can say. 

But opinion on X/Twitter is not running in Everett’s favor:

What say you, WokeSpy Readers?

News

Deranged Trannies Target Female Victim of Trans Abuse

We talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome in a comical way, usually. Oh, we mean it. People who exhibit TDS really do seem deranged, but we often toss that label off laughingly. These people aren’t really crazy, are they? 

Yes, I think they are. But not “crazy” in the way we usually think of when we think of mental illness. These people are not suffering from schizophrenic hallucinations. They’re not manic depressives off their medication, blowing their life savings on a gambling or shopping binge. It’s not that kind of crazy. 

It’s worse. 

Look at the behavior of the entire Democratic Senate during Trump’s address to Congress. Every single one of them refused to stand or applaud for a 13-year-old boy with brain cancer who was honored with a membership in the Secret Service. We’ve never seen anything like this before in modern times. 

Look at the scowling leftist women bedecked in pink “for women” who voted, every last one of them, against a bill to protect girls from the invasion of privacy and the danger of being hurt by “trans girls” (boys and men) playing on their sports teams. That’s right. The “feminists” voted against protecting girls from larger, stronger boys in school sports. 

This is a kind of “crazy” that’s not normal mental illness. In my opinion, a great number of these deranged leftists have something called a Cluster B personality disorder. You know these “disorders” by common names like pathological narcissism, emotional instability (borderline personality disorder), and psychopathy. 

I think we’re seeing this kind of character disorder in the video I’m going to show below. It features a woman and a man (he wears makeup and claims to be a woman) who are lying about and publicly abusing Payton McNabb. McNabb is the young woman who was severely injured in a high school volleyball competition because a strong young man calling himself a “trans girl” was allowed to play as a girl. He spiked the ball into McNabb’s face so hard she is left with partial paralysis on her right side. 

Here’s the video with the woman and the “trans woman.” They target McNabb, and call her a “perpetrator” because McNabb filmed a “trans woman” barging into the ladies’ bathroom. You know, that place where men don’t belong. For her “sin,” McNabb has now been kicked out of her sorority. 

Payton McNabb herself shared the video on her X/Twitter feed. 

Take a good look and listen to these two. The vocal fry, the mannerisms, the smirking stare into the camera by this deranged man. In my view, you’re looking at serious personality disorders in these people, and in the people who share their views. Something is desperately morally wrong with grown men putting on makeup and targeting young women for shame, and calling them “perpetrators”, because these young women are objecting to actual abuse. 

Here’s what X/Twitter users had to say:

Woke Spy readers, I usually write in a light or sarcastic tone of voice, but in this article I’m giving it to you straight. I have unfortunate personal, family, and professional experience with people who have these personality and character disorders. They are not merely and only irritating or obnoxious, they are often very dangerous. Look for the signs, and watch your back.

Big Cities

Conduct Unbecoming: NYPD Detective Writhes on Stripper Pole in Rap Video

Are there any grownups left in America? Or, more to the point, are they any grown-up women in public life? 

Something has happened to so many prominent women in media, politics, or in any other sphere where they have a public presence. It’s as if the concept of adulthood is no longer operable. Behaving, quite literally, like a sassy teenage girl has become “new normal” for a noticeable number of prominent women. 

You’ll remember the dancing TikTok nurses from the days of the alleged pandemic. We the public were to believe two contradictory things at the same time: that hospitals were overrun with Covid patients, and also that the nursing staff had the time to produce choreographed amateur dance videos about vaccines or “social distancing.”

It’s metastasized like a cancer. Take a look at the video just put out by some prominent Democrat female politicians. All at once, it’s silly and immature and girlish and performative, but it’s also aggressive and meant to communicate hostility. Look at them dance and gyrate and punch the air with their fists. Some of the women in this video are in their 50s for heaven’s sake. 

“Choose your fighter” indeed. 

Or how about Democratic TX Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who comfortably spews racism against whites in public nearly every day, talking in a deliberately affected “ghetto” accent? 

Is she going for the thug life, or the pimp life, or the ho life? Again, this is a fully grown woman elected to Congress. 

You don’t have to be a politician these days to act unprofessionally and then wonder why everyone is disgusted by your behavior. Melissa Mercado is a New York City police detective. I warn you, the video below is lewd. She’s featured in a rap video in which she’s stripped down to a bikini, writhing around a stripper pole, and making bedroom eyes at the rapper as he encourages her to “shake that ass.”

This is a police officer? This is a professional? It doesn’t matter that she did this off-duty. Way back in the ancient past (so 15 years ago), we understood that professionals with serious jobs had a duty not to bring the organization, governmental office, or business into disrepute. That’s long gone. 


Let’s see what people on X/Twitter had to say. Standards have fallen so low that even some sensible conservative commentators say it’s all fair play. 

The original poster can’t understand why anyone would judge this cop negatively. 

Others take a more traditional view:

The cultural problem is summed up here:

News

Biden White House to Blame for STRANDED Astronauts

Many of us have been stuck in places without a quick way to get home. If you’ve ever had to bunk down in an airport overnight after a cancelled flight, you know how desperately you just want to get home. But what if you were literally lost in space with no rocket to book a ride on? 

American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t actually lost. We know where they are, it’s just that where they are is low-earth orbit in outer space. The International Space Station is their precise address. Like the crew and passengers on The Minnow from Gilligan’s Island, Wilmore and Williams were expecting a short trip but ended up with a “vacation” that has no definite end in sight. 

The two rocketed to the ISS in June of 2024 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission. But Boeing’s troubled Starliner craft (does the company have any craft today that aren’t troubled?) broke down and NASA decided it was too risky to put humans on the ship for a ride back down to earth. Among other problems, the large capsule’s thrusters malfunctioned and the spaceship has been leaking helium.

Boeing competitor SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, also produces space capsules to transport astronauts up and down, and the company is a NASA contractor like Boeing. For the past eight months Musk has made it clear that he would be happy to send the Crew Dragon capsule up to rescue the stranded Americans, but for some reason that has not happened. 

We may know, now, what that reason was. Wait for it because you’re going to be shocked: Butch Wilmore said Musk’s offer was “rebuffed” by the Biden White House. That’s in keeping with a Democratic administration that doesn’t seem to care about human lives enough to plan a military withdrawal without subjecting U.S. troops to deadly terrorist attacks. 

Musk himself is confirming this, stating on X/Twitter that the Biden White House “refused to allow it.” Now, President Trump has given the go-ahead and the astronauts are expected to return by the end of March, 2025. 

Let’s take a peak at the reaction online:

This one seems likely:

“Cat Ryan” asks good questions:

Entertainment

Simpering Starlet “Honors” Prostitutes at Oscars, Because of Course

We’ve long called prostitution the world’s oldest profession, but somehow in the first part of the 21st century it’s been elevated to one of the most prestigious. At least, for the left half of the country, and that includes the celebrity class. 

At the Oscars on Sunday night, yet another actress unknown to anyone above the age of 26 was catapulted to the stars when she won the best actress award for her portrayal of a hooker with a heart of gold in the movie Anora. In Hollywood, all hookers have hearts of gold, naturally. Julia Roberts glamorized selling sex for money in the immensely popular movie Pretty Woman 35 years ago. The message was that prostitutes are pretty and sweet, and one day a gorgeous Richard Gere will come along and make an honest woman out of each and every one. 

In Anora, actress Mikey Madison plays a Brooklyn prostitute swept off her feet by a handsome young Russian entrepreneur. His Russian family doesn’t want him marrying a call girl (can you blame them) and predictable hijinks ensue. So there’s not much of a change in formula for the Hollywood hooker-goes-good story, except that the hookers don’t have to travel so far to get to “good” anymore. 

See, they’ve been given what the kids call an image “glow-up.” When was the last time you heard a woman who sells her body called a “prostitute” or a “hooker?” My guess is that it’s been at least six or seven years. In that time, the euphemism treadmill caught up with the subject matter, and since then, they’ve been called “sex workers.” This linguistic shift was pushed by the woke left, who spent a few years going around bellowing that “sex work is work!” The Marxian idea was to see prostitutes as just another part of the good proletariat slaving away and being exploited by capital. 

Everyone bought in, everywhere. Look how the movie review sites describe Anora. Here’s the blurb from Rotten Tomatoes:

“Mikey Madison (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn. . .”

By contrast, Julia Robers still gets the old-school treatment on IMDB, which scandalously calls her character a “prostitute.”

Unsurprisingly, dewy-faced Mikey Madison stood at the podium to accept her award and did the simpering starlet act we’ve come to expect. Oh, how I never dreamed a girl from Los Angeles could rise to these heights, she cooed. 

But that wasn’t the sick-making part. As most people who pretend to be other people for a living do, Madison veered off into praising the hooker class whom she portrayed. 

“I also just want to again recognize and honor the sex worker community; I will continue to support and be an ally,” she oozed. 

The sex worker community? Prostitution should be “honored?” Well, it is Hollywood in 2025. 

Let’s see how X/Twitter users reacted. Spoiler: they weren’t pleased. 

News

Zelenskyy Demands, Trump Throws Him Out, the American Public is Over it

By now you’ve seen and heard the meeting that shot around the world online. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to the White House to visit with President Trump and Vice President Vance, ostensibly to finalize one of Trump’s deals. 

The agreement was to have been this. In exchange for past and future U.S. military support in its war with Russia, Ukraine was to have agreed to give the U.S. half of any money it got from Ukraine’s natural resources. These included rare earth minerals (crucial in high-tech manufacturing) and proceeds from the sale of oil, natural gas, and similar materials. 

So far, the U.S. has given hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and artillery to Ukraine. Trump claims it’s between $300 and $350 billion, though many news outlets put the number closer to $182 billion. It’s impossible to know the truth; Trump may be wrong or exaggerating, but he may also know something the public does not. Regardless, every figure is massive.

But whatever it is in that range, it’s a huge wad of cash, all of which came from the pockets of regular Americans. Trump and Vance emphasized this to Zelenskyy during the meeting in the Oval Office, which was called to finalize not only the minerals deal, but to cement a peace process between Ukraine and Russia. 

Zelenskyy’s performance crashed the entire deal, peace and all. Nothing like this exchange has been seen in American politics in living memory. From walking in to the oval office in his “playing war” costume while everyone else wore suits, to addressing the Vice President as “JD” and baiting him, Zelenskyy was the illustration next to the dictionary entry for “biting the hand that feeds you.”

Both Trump and Vance had had enough, and warned him with raised voices that he was a guest in the United States, and that it did not help his cause to come in ungrateful, demanding, and rude. 

Here’s just some of that exchange. “I think it’s disrespectful for you come into the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.” And that was just the start. 

Zelenskyy remained combative, folded his arms across his chest like a scorned child, and was eventually kicked out of the White House with the lunch in his honor canceled. Trump said “he can come back when he is ready for peace.”

Democrats, of course, are running to comfort the grasping leader of a foreign country who has treated America like a piggy bank. But Zelenskyy is losing the American people, among whom he has a dwindling number of “friends.” Citing a Harvard poll from this week, the X/Twitter account End Wokeness posted these lopsided pie charts. 

In response to the question “Do you want Ukraine to continue the war against Russia or negotiate a settlement with Russia?” – 61% of Democrats, 80% of Republicans, and 73% of Independents said “negotiate a settlement.” A majority of independents (53%) backed Trump announcing direct U.S.-Russia negotiations to end the war, while 85% of Republicans did. 40% of Democrats did too.

Twitter users are divided between liberals and conservatives as always. You’ve got typical Democrat responses like this one:

But the majority of users are posting things like this:

News

Fired Federal Workers Want You to Cry a River Over Them

Did you ever get fired? Your faithful correspondent did, and from my first job aside from a paper route. At 15 I got hired at Kaybee Toys (remember?) to stock shelves and run the register. The dress code required ties for men, and I didn’t have any extra money to buy one, so I showed up at work without a tie. 

My boss told me I needed one. I decided to get an attitude and tell him it was unfair because I didn’t have any money yet and maybe they should provide one. He told me to get my jacket out of the locker room and punch out for the last time. I did what most people in those days did after getting fired–I felt like a fool and went to nurse my wounds in private vowing never to be such an idiot again. 

What people didn’t do was a) cry in public b) definitely didn’t cry in public if they were full grown-ups, not kids c) complain on social media about how it wasn’t “fair” to get fired d) talk to reporters about getting fired. Boy, have times changed. The infantilization of American “adults” has been clipping along for at least 20 years. What started “innocently” with 30-year-olds putting their “Harry Potter House” affiliation on their Twitter profiles has ended up just where we grown-ups always knew it would. 

America is a nation of emotionally stunted children walking around in adult bodies. The behavior of the average 30-year-old in 2025 is what we would have expected at 17 in the 80s and 90s. 

The mass outcry—complete with actual tears—over the Trump administration’s firing of government staff it believes are duplicative and unnecessary is a public tantrum we’ve never seen before. It’s become clear that federal employees really do believe they’re entitled to a government job. Leftist media like NPR is, of course, supremely sympathetic, eagerly reporting on every fired worker who got his job back after complaining to some board, or some court. 

But what of the staff themselves? It’s not all of them, of course, but some of the allegedly fully grown federal employees are talking to reporters about how they’ve lost faith in America the country. . .because they lost their jobs. The level of immature emotion, indignation, and exaggerating their unfortunate but personal troubles into a harbinger of a failed nation is something to behold. 

Check out the first woman in this clip posted on Twitter/X by Collin Rugg. She says, “I have cried every day. I think that that’s normal. I have a 15-month-old at home and I’m looking at him and thinking, ‘well what’s this country that we’re now living in.'”

Or take the federal staff in this video. They’re a little less melodramatic, and they may actually have a point that they were working on projects that the government needs, and really earning their paychecks. Many of them surely were; mass firings are a blunt instrument and mistaken or ill-advised firings will surely happen. But when did it become normal to act as though you are legally or morally entitled to your job, and to complain on social media as if the loss of your government job was somehow worse or more distressing than any private sector downturn in labor? 

Leftist politicians, of course, are giving bullhorns and platforms to aggrieved federal employees to screech at everyone about how indispensable they are. 

One thing is obvious-the public isn’t sympathetic. Here are some of the online reactions. 

Collin Rugg himself, who posted the original tweet, noticed the entitlement of government workers:

Race

“Anti-Racist” Woman Looks More Like a Plain Old Narcissist

The term “virtue signaling” has become a part of everyday vocabulary in America. It’s what we say about people who proclaim their political allegiances in a boastful way for the purpose of being complimented. They want to hear how moral they are, how giving they are, how very-much-better-and-kinder they are than other people. 

That matters. For such people, it’s not only that they want to be told they are good, kind, and giving. They want to be told that they are more of these things than anyone else. Narcissism, excessive self-regard, disguises itself as humility. It works on a lot of people because it uses the “reversal” pattern: their behavior seems to be generous, and seems to be kind, so how could it be selfish or wicked? 

This is also how the “big lie” principle infamously articulated by Joseph Goebbels works: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” But why does it work? What is it that makes people believe it? It’s that most people are basically, fundamentally decent. They don’t often lie or misrepresent themselves in a serious way. So, they don’t believe that there are other humans who do these things. If Jane says she really cares, that must mean she really cares, and it would be churlish to think she’s actually pitiless and self-centered. 

Thus, the great number of genuinely pitiless and self-centered people among us go undetected for a long time, or by a large number of people. So it is with the white leftist virtue-signaler. You’ve all seen examples of superannuated baby boomers trying to continue to live in their glory days of youth when they were “fighting for civil rights” or “working for women’s liberation.” Kamala Harris’ speech at the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, the site of a storied civil rights march that ended in police beating black protesters in 1965, is a good example. For Harris and other leftists, they need to maintain the illusion that they “care”, and also that nothing has changed for the better. 

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow shows how absurd this pandering to blacks is when she affects to be disturbed by the firing of black colleague Joy Reid (an unrepentant black racist). Maddow claims there’s something sinister about firing a “woman of color,” all the while pretending that MSNBC didn’t hire three more people of color to replace Reid.

On the everyday level, countless Democrat white women have been competing for praise and adulation by positioning themselves as the most tender, caring saviors of black people. It’s a kind of masochistic narcissism. They claim to be “taking a knee” and “humbling” themselves to “fight racism,” but they’re actually preening and posing hoping to be told how special and good they are. 

Take this embarrassing display dug up by the X/Twitter account “Defiant Ls”. 

The white woman in the video overlays text telling the viewer what she allegedly does “when black women are speaking.” She then puts tape over her mouth and showily takes notes in a spiral notebook. See how GOOD she is? 

Fewer and fewer people are buying these maudlin set pieces. Take a look at the online reaction. 


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