Author name: Josh Slocum

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. 

LGBTQ+

Wisconsin Triples Down on Woke Insanity

“Hey there, little birthing person. How would you like to take a ride in my ‘vette to paradise?”

Sound romantic? No, it doesn’t. But if you’re leftist and woke, that’s the kind of language the pure and morally correct think you should be using to describe the people in your family. See, the left has decided a bunch of contradictory things about the birds and the bees. To be a good leftist comrade, you must somehow reconcile these things in your head:

  1. Trans women (men) are women, and trans men (women) are men. 
  2. Biological sex isn’t real. At best, it’s some kind of gray spectrum. 

As the “Human Rights Campaign” insists, “When we say women, that word always includes trans women. There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it. A woman’s gender identity is her innermost concept of being female. A trans woman’s gender identity doesn’t define or caveat her womanhood, it simply describes her journey to womanhood.”

Didja hear that, bigots? Men in pantyhose are women because we say so. To underline the point, they included a demonstration photo of a “transgender woman” who is absolutely in every way a woman. 

If you think you’re seeing a male brow ridge and facial structure, and if you go even farther and think you’re seeing a man, that just shows how sexist and transphobic you are. Is that clear? 

While the normal majority in America is rejecting the culture-wide psychotic delusion called “transgender ideology” that we’ve all been living under since at least 2015, the blue states are holding out. They don’t seem to grasp yet that they’re tilting at windmills, and one of those wind blades is going to come crashing down on their lunatic project sooner than they think. 

Last week Maine’s leftist governor Janet Mills grabbed her “girlboss moment” telling President Trump to his face that Maine had no intention of following his lawful executive order. That order instructed states to stop allowing boys and men into girls’ and womens’ sports immediately, or lose all federal funding. Mills’ response? “See you in court.” 

Trump’s response? “I look forward to that. This should be a real easy one.”

Now, Wisconsin has decided that humans are no longer to be described in human terms. In legislation related to the 2025-2027 budget, lawmakers are recommending removing all references to husbands, wives, and pregnancy, and replacing them with. . .I don’t know what you’d call this. 

—Remove wife/husband, and substitute “spouse.”

—Remove the word mother, and substitute “inseminated person.”

—Remove the word “paternity,” and substitute the word “patronage. 

That last one is so stupid it must be underlined. The root Latin word that both “paternity” and “patronage” come from is the same! It’s a masculine word, “paternus,”  that means “of or relating to a father.” Why is “patronage,” then, better than “paternity?” Because the goal isn’t to be “respectful of people with other gender identities.” The goal is to dehumanize people and control the rest of us through enforced sterile, inaccurate, and insane language. They love doing this. 

Both LibsOfTikTok and Elon Musk himself could barely believe it. 

Let’s see what ordinary American bigots on X/Twitter thought. 

Eamon is right on the nose. 

Left-wing extremism, tax

TikToker Threatens Musk’s Life, Brags About Back Taxes-IRS Found Her!

“Spare the rod and spoil the child.”

Whether you take this literally or not, it is not merely a “saying.” Modern permissive and indulgent parenting may not credit this, but never saying no to a child, never putting a limit on what you will do for them, and never making them pay a price for antisocial behavior, will actually spoil that child. 

A spoiled child isn’t merely a kid who’s not sufficiently grateful for a treasure trove of Christmas presents. Truly spoiled children grow up into narcissistic and exploitative adults. They remain “spoiled children,” but they’re old enough to do bigger damage in the world. A child who never experienced consequences for breaking the rules, stealing what wasn’t hers, or defying legal or social conventions, will become an adult who exploits others, parasitizes her friends, and breaks the law without a care. 

We’ve got at least two generations of spoiled children—Millennials and Gen Z—under our belts in America now. The obvious rise in narcissistic, abusive, attention-seeking behavior on every screen and device we look at shows it. Many of these children-in-adult-bodies aren’t ever going to grow up. No, they’re not going to “get a real world lesson when they get into the workforce,” because they’re now the bosses of the workplace. We’re stuck with this.

Lawlessness among allegedly respectable adults has become “new normal” at the highest levels. New Jersey Governor Chris Murphy felt comfortable and confident taunting Immigration and Customs Enforcement on camera a few weeks ago, daring them to “come get” what seemed to be an illegal alien that Murphy said he wanted to move into his extra apartment so she could evade detection. 

Maine Governor Janet Mills attended a lunch meeting at the White House recently and confidently stated to President Trump’s face that she was going to defy his lawful executive order. That order instructed the states to stop allowing so called “trans girls” (that is, boys and men) to compete on girls’ sports teams. If they refused to halt this behavior, the government would cut off all federal funding to the state. “See you in court,” Mills sniped at Trump when he told her “you’d better comply.”

This level of open defiance of the rule of law is new in America, and it’s happening almost exclusively on the left. It’s the result of spoiled, narcissistic children in adult bodies. We can’t know how they were raised at home, but we can see that leftists have gotten away with violence, illegal court maneuvers, and defiance of the law for years with pretty much no consequences. 

That’s why women like this exist. Take a look at this woman’s TikTok video and marvel. She affects a girlish manner, inserting the word “like” into every sentence, and preening for the camera, while she calls for the assassination of Elon Musk. The lack of consequences in her life is obvious, as she moves right onto admitting that she has not paid taxes in eight years. That’s because there aren’t enough people to investigate her for her threats or unpaid taxes, she says. 

By the by, readers, your correspondent comes from a family shot through with what are called “Cluster B personality disorders.” These are extreme narcissism, emotional instability, pathological lying, and the like (you know, leftist behaviors). Pay attention to the way she moves her face, pay attention to the “crazy eyes,” and take note of the fashionable “serial killer” glasses. You will often find this presentation in unstable and dangerous people. 

In this case, the consequences might just come. It seems that the IRS did notice, and they believe they have sufficient staff to investigate:

Let’s see what onlookers had to say. 

OK, this one’s funny. 

Big Government

Ratchet Rep. Crockett Thinks You Can’t Use a $5,000 Refund

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.”

https://twitter.com/ValuetainmentTV/status/1892978669779345699

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:

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Big Government, LGBTQ+

Colorado Bill to Require False “Gender Identity” Recorded on Death Certificates

If you ever had a doubt that woke leftism is a true cult, this story out of Colorado will put those doubts to rest. HB25-1109 is the kind of lawmaking you only expect to see on the other side of Alice’s looking glass. The bill makes it a crime to “misgender” someone on a death certificate. In other words, the bill would require grieving families, funeral directors, and doctors, to lie about the actual sex of a deceased person on the official government document certifying their death. 

LibsOfTikTok brought the news here: 

First, a quick lesson on how death certificate preparation works. There are two portions: biographical information, and medical information. The funeral director (or the family, if they complete the task) fills out the biographical portion. This includes things like mom’s maiden name, what industry dad worked in, where the person was born, etc. The medical portion is the spot where the doctor or medical examiner describes the cause and manner of death and notes any diseases or injuries before signing the document and making it legal. 

HB25-1109 instructs those preparing the death certificate to mark the sex field—male or female—according to whatever “gender identity” the dead person claimed in a written set of instructions or similar documents. So, if a man named Jack Collins decided he was really a woman named Jackie Desiree DeMoore, the family or funeral director would be required by law to mark his sex as “female.” 

This misguided bill pits family members who disagree against each other by allowing subjective claims and opinions to override the actual reality of the dead person’s sex. Worse, the reliability of objective government records of death would be destroyed. Death certificates cannot be used to do medical research on the causes of death and the effects of disease by sex any longer, since no one will be able to trust that a record that shows a female isn’t actually a male. 

The bill also:

  • Makes “misgendering” a dead person a crime punishable by up to a year in prison, a $1,000 fine, or both. Does a grieving mother who refuses to say her son was her daughter deserve this? 
  • Forces the state registrar (the official record keeper) to amend death certificates to show the incorrect sex if the deceased’s kin shows a document outlining that person’s so-called “gender identity.” So the state will be rewriting reality and history. 
  • Makes it illegal for the state registrar to mark the altered certificate as “amended.” This means no one can know that the sex was falsified, and it will be hard or impossible to establish a deceased person’s actual identity. 

The reaction on Twitter/X was about what you’d expect. People are over this nonsense. 

Media

Trump’s Stephen Miller Gives Nursery School Civics Lesson to CNN Anchor

The left is having a very hard time accommodating the reality of a conservative electoral sweep and a national tilt to the right. To put it in mental health diagnostic terms that leftists would understand, they appear to have an “adjustment disorder”; that is, they’re having great difficulty adjusting to a new political world. 

It’s been decades since being a newsman or reporter was a working class job, and it shows. Today’s TV “personalities” are as removed from the concerns of the average American as it is possible to be. More than half the country voted for Donald Trump, and the majority is aligned with several of Trump’s policies on expelling illegal aliens and having the government recognize the reality that there are only two sexes. 

You’d never know it to watch mainstream news coverage on NBC, CNN, NPR, or in the pages of the New York Times and the like. The writers and on-camera personalities are not only at odds with majority American opinion, they don’t even seem to be aware that they are. Take someone like CBS anchor Margaret Brennan, who has repeatedly disgraced herself with her hostile, mean-girl demeanor and scoffing at Donald Trump and JD Vance. Her latest move was to react to Vance’s address to a meeting of European leaders—Vance took them to task for surveilling and punishing the speech of their own citizens—by claiming that “free speech” allowed the Nazis to perpetrate the Holocaust. 

Or, take CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who seems to be personally offended on behalf of the numerous federal staffers that Trump has fired as duplicative, incompetent, or obstructive to his agenda. Like most on the left, Keilar seems to be unclear on the fact that a boss has the right to hire and fire subordinates. She seems to want to suggest that Elon Musk, Trump’s pick to head the Department of Government Effiency (DOGE), is somehow out of control, or acting in a way he’s. . .not supposed to? 

Her guest, Stephen Miller takes the nonsense right apart on the air. As if he were instructing a schoolchild taking her first civics lesson, Miller calmly explains, “The way that Article II (of the Constitution) works is that a president wins an election, and then he appoints staff . . .and those staff report to him.”

Undeterred, Keilar keeps going, asking, “Does Elon Musk know he’s not in charge of DOGE?” It’s the kind of disingenuous fakery the Democrats resort to constantly now as they refuse to engage on substance. Miller comes right back: “Again, the president runs the government, and the president appoints advisors. . .and then those staff in turn execute the president’s commands and directions to all the agencies of the federal government.”

Take a look at the video highlighted by Collin Rugg to watch Keilar try to tamp down her frustration as Miller placidly smiles. 

Keilar is staring daggers at Miller as he says, “This is how democracy works, something that we treasure in America.”

X/Twitter users picked up on what was going on: 

Graeme was delighted with the primary-school lesson delivery: 

Alan noted how strange it was for a national news anchor to seem “confused” about the president’s ability to fire federal staff. 

Big Cities, Illegal Immigration

Big Apple Fights to Keep Letting Non-Citizens Vote

Perhaps in five years, or 10, Americans will look back on the period from 2020 to 2024 the same way we look at the Salem witch trials of the 1690s. “How could they have been so nuts?” we might ask. During the Biden presidency, all manner of irrational and frankly insane practices became “new normal.” 

Sterilizing children with puberty blockers and telling boys that, yes, they are girls born in the wrong body, became “normal.” Allowing rioters with Black Lives Matter and Antifa to torch government buildings and shut down cities causing billions of dollars in damage (with no prosecution) became “normal.” 

Guess what else has become normal? In the Big Apple it’s letting people who are not citizens vote. But it’s not just that, which is mental enough. The state is actually fighting in court to keep allowing it. A New York City law went on the books in 2022 that would allow so-called “documented non-citizens” to vote in city elections. It is important to note that the law does not allow illegal aliens to vote. But in practice, it’s obvious that illegals would be waved through without much checking, and it’s highly likely that they’re already doing so. A city that thinks it’s normal and reasonable to let foreign nationals vote in a U.S. city isn’t motivated to check papers carefully. 

And quite obviously, they’re motivated not to check carefully. The Democrats have been pushing for “non-citizen voting,” and they’ve objected to securing the country’s borders, because they want votes from all the non-U.S. people pouring in. We don’t need to do some deep investigation to prove this. The census that occurs every 10 years counts everyone in the U.S., including illegal foreigners. That total number is used for “apportionment,” which is the process of redrawing Congressional districts to reflect changes in population. The Census Bureau is very upfront about this. 

It’s easy to see why New York is fighting in court to keep its non-citizen voting ordinance in effect. According to Politico, 800,000 to 1 million non-U.S.-citizen New Yorkers would suddenly have the right to vote in city elections. What Democrat could resist? 

Elon Musk highlighted the problem with a clip from Fox News. Anchor Brian Kilmeade seemed stunned that the issue was even in question. 

Musk himself is an immigrant, but he’s a legal immigrant, and he has no love for those who sneak through the border evading the legal process. Reactions to his post on X/Twitter are pretty much what you would expect; Americans are outraged at the electoral shenanigans leftists have pulled right out in the open for years. 

This user points out how everyone really knew all along what was happening, but no one who objected was taken seriously. 

Devon probably speaks for most of us. 

Trump, Woke

Trump Wipes Out Kennedy Center Board Over Drag Shows for Kids

If you’re a conservative, it’s the best of times, and if you’re a liberal, it’s the worst of times. Donald Trump and his administration are tearing through Washington and its institutions like a high-speed steamroller. The president is showing that he means business. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed up by entrepreneur Elon Musk, is making quick work of rooting out wasteful spending and unnecessary staff. 

The big news this week has  been about the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The government bureau is there, allegedly, to help struggling foreign countries, but the kind of help it’s giving through your tax dollars has raised anger and eyebrows. 

Here’s White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt confirming that USAID was spending millions on. . what? Sex changes in Guatemala, for example:

Listen to the entire list of expenditures; it’ll churn your stomach. As of press time, a judge has temporarily halted Trump’s plan to fire the entire USAID staff as an employee union sues. 

And on Feb 7, screech-mistress Maxine Waters, Democrat Rep. from California, nearly blew her wig off during an attempt to “storm” the Department of Education. Take a listen to her and her supporters harassing the unnamed man guarding the doors because the left doesn’t like Elon or accountability. 

And the winning keeps on coming. Also on Friday, Feb. 7, Trump got the left into apoplexy again by cleaning out the board members of the cultural institution the Kennedy Center. LibsofTikTok brings the news:

Trump: At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP! Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP. The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across our Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

Like most arts and culture organizations, the Kennedy Center has gone full woke. In just under 10 years, the most storied artistic houses in the U.S. have decided that children are best educated by men in dresses telling them there is no such thing as a man or a woman. Historians of the future are going to have a hard time figuring out just how a party that claims to “care” for people got behind the mutilation and chemical poisoning of children that they call “gender-affirming care.”

Let’s take a look at the reaction to Trump’s move on the Kennedy Center. 

This user picked up on Trump’s self-appointment head of the board (he does have an ego):

Big Government, Economics

No Tax on Tips and Overtime? Trump Wants to Tame the IRS

It’s easy to get used to how things are in society and assume that, because we’ve never personally known anything different, that things were always this way (they weren’t). We also tend to assume that whatever we do now is the best possible choice we could make (often not true). 

When President Trump first floated the idea of getting rid of the federal Department of Education, Americans were aghast. Why, that august institution-how will we live without it? But the DoE is a fairly recent creation. President Jimmy Carter created the agency in 1979; that’s not even 50 years ago. Millions of Americans born in the 50s and alive today completed most or all of their schooling in an era before anyone thought the federal government was necessary to direct the instruction of grade schoolers in all the states. 

And given the performance of U.S. schoolchildren on measures of literacy and numeracy, no one can make a serious argument that today’s kids are better educated than people who graduated high school in 1978. Those poor scores can’t only be blamed on the pandemic, either. American pupil achievement has been declining for decades. 

Now, Trump is shaking up our ideas about taxation, too. What do you think about an end to the federal income tax? Sound radical? Unthinkable? If you stretch your mind back further, you’ll find that the U.S. never had a federal income tax until 1913. Yes, the world is different and in many ways more complicated today, but that reality doesn’t translate into a “need” for a voracious federal government that takes a chunk out of every dollar Americans earn. There are, in fact, other ways to fund a government. 

Trump has floated the idea of ending the federal income tax before, but in February 2025, he’s not pushing it—yet. He does appear to be aiming in that direction by chipping away at the bottomless money hole that the IRS has become. 

LibsOfTikTok highlighted the news with a clip of straight-talking White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt confirming that, yep, the president wants to slash taxes to the bone. His priorities include ending taxation on tips, ending taxes on overtime pay, re-starting the middle-class tax cuts Trump first enacted during his 2016-2020 term, and more. 

Listen below:

Judging by the comments from X users, a whole lot of Americans like what they’re hearing. 

But for some, it’s not enough. 

And, there are details that need to be worked  out to avoid unintended pitfalls for retirees. 

Big Government

Hasta La Vista, Department of Education?

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. 


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