Author name: Josh Slocum

Oh, Jasmine Crockett, the lady who brings the hood to the House (of Representatives). The Democrat House Rep. from Texas has delighted “viewers” for more than a year with what you could call her “ratchet,” ghetto style of delivery, often while she bellows from the lectern about how awful white people are. 

There’s no reason anymore to point out the hypocrisy of elected officials, because they are not bothered by their own double standards. They know they’re using them, and they don’t care. They actually believe they and their favored demographic are entitled to favorable treatment that others don’t get. They don’t see their actions as hypocrisy, but as justified because they are Very Important People. 

With narcissistic people like Crockett, their inflated entitlement and self-regard is balanced by a lack of actual empathy for anyone who is not them or a member of their inner circle. In Crockett’s case, those lowly outsiders are her constituents and the American taxpayer. 

Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has suggested sending a check back (of up to $5,000) to American taxpayers after his team’s work rooting out excess and fraudulent government spending. President Trump appears warm to the idea. 

Not Crockett. Here she is on ABC News. The anchor asks Crockett if she would support giving taxpayers a break by returning some of that money to ordinary Americans who paid it in. Her response? After a disquisition on how Trump is a “liar,” Crockett shows a haughty disdain for the idea of giving back some of the money snatched from American pocketbooks. She claims that “there’s no money” for such a refund, and that the only reason Americans got a relief check during Covid was “because we were living in different times.”

It doesn’t add up. How is it possible that, after finding billions in savings from wasteful programs, that the feds don’t have the money? What do the times we’re living in have to do with the amount of cash on hand? 

LibsOfTikTok brought the story to X/Twitter, noting that Crockett is the very same House Rep. who has repeatedly agitated for so-called “reparations” for black people. Apparently black American citizens in 2025 are owed a break on their taxes—she thinks they shouldn’t pay any at all—for a system of slavery they’ve never experienced that ended in the middle of the 19th century. 

Not only that, but she appears to think that a $5,000 refund to working families is chump change. “I don’t know what that will do for you,” she said. 

You can probably guess how X users responded, but here’s a sample:

We Americans have a famously short memory; we “forget” news items that are barely two days old. Think you’re immune to that? Are you sure? Try this: do you remember that President Donald Trump suffered two assassination attempts in the summer of 2024? Sure, you might be saying, “of course I remember that,” but that question prompted you. In the immediate aftermath of the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, people online were widely remarking how it “felt” like the attempted murder had happened “a long time ago” when it had only been a few days. 

It seems likely that this is because the 24-hour media/news cycle—which itself is fairly recent, having only become “a thing” in the 1980s with the advent of cable news networks—runs so rapidly now that major events become “not news” in mere hours. We’re so pegged to what we see on our screens that it’s not out of bounds to question if our capacity for memory using our brains has been degraded. 

Given that, it’s probably a heavy lift to ask even older readers to remember this: The federal Department of Education was only created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. Did you know that? Had you forgotten? It’s true. If you were born in 1950, you spent all your school years in a world that had never heard of a federal “department of education.” Somehow, you learned the three Rs, didn’t you? Somehow, American children managed to get an education without a building in D.C. directing how it was provided. 

This “forgetting” is probably part of why so many people have reacted negatively to Trump’s pondering whether to abolish the Dept. of Education. They think, incorrectly, that it’s a fundamental institution that has been there since the beginning of time. But not only is it fairly new, it’s made an absolute hash out of American public education. Mandate after mandate from D.C. has been handed down to local schools forcing them to let boys play on girls’ sports teams, reversing the purpose of Title IX. So called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) directives from Washington have forced local public schools to foist Marxist race-baiting on students, crowding out basic literacy and math skills. 

Well, the times they are a’changing. For now, there’s still a Department of Education. But thanks to a recent executive order from Trump, there is no more DEI. Here’s the Department alerting the public that it’s flushing this woke poison down the drain. 

Here’s an overview of the online reaction. 

“Dana” doesn’t seem to understand that states can take over what the federal government has kept to itself; she falsely believes that this means colleges will close. 

Most users are happy with the news. 

“Dominus” raises a good point. Will the exiled bureaucrats just find some other way to exercise their ugly craft?

Several X users have made. . . risqué jokes about their level of excitement around this development. The following is tame. 

Liberals are immune to irony. There’s no other explanation. Take former Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. On January 29, an American Airlines regional flight collided with a military blackhawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.. Tragically, both craft plunged into the Potomac river, and there were no survivors. According to the most recent reports, 67 total people are dead. 

Freshly out of a job, Buttigieg seems to still be working for the ousted Biden administration. He’s on social media blasting President Donald Trump for his response to the aviation accident.

The irony is palatable; Buttigieg is incompetent, always was incompetent, and has no business at all criticizing the Trump administration’s response to the recent plane crash. Parachuted by Biden into the role of Transportation Secretary with no experience behind him but being the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg could not be relied on to even show up to major disasters involving the nation’s transport infrastructure. 

Remember the massive train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in February of 2023? A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed. Thirty-eight cars went off the tracks, and some of them contained toxic chemicals. Making matters worse, authorities burned some of them off, leading to a huge plume of toxic smoke that forced local residents to evacuate. Despite the media’s lack of coverage on the details at the time, locals started posting videos showing thousands of dead fish floating in contaminated rivers after the accident. Years later, the state’s natural resources department admitted that at least 38,000 wild animals were killed by the toxic cloud. 

Where was Transportation Secretary Pete? Nowhere to be found for weeks after the disaster. People on the ground were furious and didn’t buy his excuse that he waited to visit until after the most important responders had done their work. Overall, his tenure as Transportation Secretary got mixed reviews, with some praising what he did with the budget he had, while other commentators pointed to numerous transportation disasters—train derailments, near-misses at airports with planes nearly colliding—on his watch.

Ex-Vice President Mike Pence took aim at Buttigieg taking two months’ of “paternity leave” from his job in the middle of crises after Buttigieg and his male partner adopted newborn twins. “When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months’ maternity leave whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways,” ABC News reported Pence saying. 

However history may eventually view his tenure, the American people don’t seem to think very highly of Buttigieg or his Monday morning quarterbacking over Trump’s response to the Jan. 29 plane crash. Here’s a sampling of reaction on X/Twitter. Be warned: they’re not being kind or politically correct about it. 

Tee-hee: