Author name: Josh Slocum

Big Government

Devil In the Blue Hair Terrifies Congress With Squawk Noises

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“And when you shut the government down, people don’t get paid. And maybe if none of us got paid if the government shut down some people on the other side of the aisle would feel differently.”

Thus spoke Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat, naturally. The longtime Congress-creature is best-known for her histrionic tantrums whenever the C-Span cameras are rolling. This time she was going off about the possibility of a government shut-down over the now-annual-and-boring tug of war about the budget in Congress. As this goes to press, news just came in that the House and Senate finally passed a bill to keep the government open, which Biden then signed.

DeLauro will be happy, but what about the rest of us? As a liberal, DeLauro is out of touch by definition with what the majority of the country thinks about the government. Now, we haven’t conducted a poll, but it’s a fair guess that at least half the voting population would cheer if the D.C. pigs got their trough taken away and sent home over Christmas. “Keep civil servants and politicians getting paid!” is not a rallying cry that works on any normal human who doesn’t collect a paycheck taken from other people’s money. 

But it’s not politics I want to draw your attention to, but style. Batshit crazy style. Take a look at Rosa over the years. 

As of press time we can neither confirm nor deny the veracity of rumors speculating that DeLauro may be a missing link to the Skeksis of Dark Crystal renown. 

DeLauro has a bee in her considerable bonnet over Elon Musk, as is the case for leftist crones generally. Shaking her shoulders and fairly spitting during her Congressional tirade, DeLauro derisively accused the tech billionaire of responsibility for the then-looming government shut-down, ejaculating “President Musk!” in fury at the podium, practically shaking as she spoke.

Watch the embarrassing performance below:

Elon caught wind of the speech – firing back “When they said ‘DC swamp creatures,’ I thought it was just a metaphor.”

Aaaaand it looks like Twitter/X users beat this writer to the punch. 

Gelflings, beware.

Media

Ratings Bloodbath at MSNBC Eats Into Maddow’s and Reid’s Paychecks

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The Germans have a word for every emotion, don’t they? Today’s article is brought to you by the word “schadenfreude.” It’s the delicious sensation of enjoying the misfortune of others. It’s a bit close to the concept of sadism, but schadenfreude need not be that wicked; it’s generally something you feel when someone gets the comeuppance they deserve. 

That belated comeuppance has made an appearance in the MSNBC newsroom. After losing a shocking and actually unprecedented number of viewers after Trump’s election—MSNBC lost about half its audience, had only 17,000 viewers in the key demographic—the uber-liberal cable offshoot of the big peacock is finally letting some of the consequences roll downhill onto its overpaid anchors. 

Take Rachel Maddow, who went from normal high school student to angry lesbian in just a few short years. Her show lost 43 percent of its audience overnight after the presidential election November 5. As a result, network bosses took a look at their bottom line and decided to cut her pay from $30 million to $25 million. She isn’t going to starve on that salary, of course. But her high rate of pay is odd to begin with: Maddow now only does one hour on MSNBC per week. Nice if you can get it. 

It doesn’t stop with Maddow. Prolific Twitter/X news purveyor Collin Rugg reports that queen of wigs Joy Reid will have to agree to a pay cut if she wants to keep working for the network.

Right now Reid is making $3 million a year to lie about Trump and castigate white people every evening from her studio chair. 

What do the people say? 

This guy says he has the details. 

Kamala Harris
Democrats

Kamala Harris: Booze, Drugs, or Dumb?

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The reason that people get shingles later in life is down to a vexing characteristic of the chickenpox virus. It goes dormant, hides, then pops back up again. The varicella-zoster virus can sit around for years before it decides to flare up again in mid-life to old age, and the shingles it produces are usually much worse and more painful than the original bout of chickenpox. 

Vice President Kamala Harris has gone from chickenpox to shingles. Americans have had to endure the infection for the past four years (her vice presidency), but after losing the 2024 presidential race to Donald Trump she has reactivated (the shingles). OK, the analogy isn’t perfect—it’s not quite as painful listening to her muddle through words because we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. There’s just more than a month to go before she leaves the White House finally, which is probably what makes it bearable. 

But like varicella-zoster, today’s Kam-Kam is a more virulent “strain.” Or, an even drunker strain. Harris is the queen of word salad, hauling out the exact same lines in every interview. When asked a direct question about anything, from gas prices to foreign policy, Harris would repeat some non-sequitur about the “hopes, dreams, and ambitions of the American people.” Former Fox News anchor turned podcast host Megyn Kelly is probably the foremost commentator on Harris’ glossolalia. This 53-second clip is worth your time.

Observers have long speculated on whether Harris has a problem with booze, or perhaps prescription drugs. What explains her inability to respond normally to straightforward questions? Others have asked if she has some sort of executive function disorder (aside from her incompetence as vice president). The woman’s affect and speech patterns are that bizarre. 

How do we explain her nails-on-chalkboard “consolation” video to her supporters after losing the election? She sounded like your old college friend leaving drunk voicemails at 1:30 a.m. with her “don’t you ever let anyone take your power from you” message. 

She’s at it again, and it’s getting harder to find plausible non-alcoholic excuses. Check out this recent clip from C-Span, including the trademark cackle. 

Dreams and ambitions, baby. Let’s see what X/Twitter had to say. 

Family resemblance:

This guy thinks it’s just old-fashioned dumb. 

Family resemblance II:

This one has alliteration. 

LGBTQ+

The Socially Predatory Pretend to Be Birds With Broken Wings-Don’t Be Fooled

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There are predators all around us. Human predators. We find it easy to recognize danger in wild animals like wolves and bears. Well, most of us do. If you’re looking for exceptions just scan the news for stories about wildlife encounters in Yellowstone National Park. Every year dozens of tourists (at least) seem to believe they’re at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone instead of the real thing. Human visitors try to get up close and personal with grizzlies and bison, and they pay the price.

But people have a much harder time recognizing predators of their own species. Despite our obsession with the true crime genre, the majority of everyday people seem largely unaware of when someone is wearing a “mask” of gentility and respectability. Predatory people try to blend in with “normies” for obvious reasons: it’s easier to snare a target who can’t see them coming. Serial rapist and killer Ted Bundy crafted his image with the use of props to appear unthreatening to his female targets; he drove a VW bug, which was supposed to make people think he was a “square” who liked sensible and economical cars. You know, like a professor. He also hobbled around on fake crutches, like a bird feigning a broken wing. 

Socially predatory people have found a boon in the modern transgender mania. Men who are up to no good figured out that they can fool plenty of people—particularly empathetic women—into believing they’re soft and gentle by wearing makeup and acting in a way that they think makes them appear feminine and non-dangerous. 

Take trans activist Jeffrey Marsh. He wears sparkly makeup and talks in a simpering, lispy falsetto when he records his seemingly endless social media messages about “trans rights” and what terrible bigots parents are who don’t accept their child’s declaration of being born in the wrong body. Indeed, he’s very, very keen to talk to such children alone without their parents’ knowledge. 

Marsh clearly believes that his sparkle-uncle-aunt-drag routine will lull the gullible into thinking of him as safe and warm, and he’s probably right. But there’s an important lesson here: if someone goes out of their way to present themselves as loving and cuddly, it may be a disguise for less savory motivations. 

It’s impossible to tell how many people are fooled by this act, but it’s clear that many are. Take a look at one of his latest videos where he encourages people to cut off their pro-Trump family members. Marsh is adept at what’s called the “narcissistic reversal.” That’s when someone who bullies or mistreats people presents himself as the actual victim. Marsh is a master, co-opting the sensible advice about how to protect yourself from abuse and bullying by presenting himself and people like him as the victims of social bullies. 

I don’t know about you, reader, but every danger flag in my gut stands up at full-mast when I watch and listen to Marsh. Let’s see what X/Twitter users have to say. 

That last tweet was a good question. How does anyone fail to see through this?

Woke

Woman Goes for Karen Of The Year Over Trump’s Person of The Year

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Most people who aren’t on the left have given up on mainstream media. MSNBC’s unprecedented and huge ratings loss after the election is an extreme example, but the flagship papers and network/cable shows that have been household names for decades are teetering on the brink. Years of lying—not merely bias, but direct lying—to viewers whenever the topic or person is “right-wing-coded” are finally, deservedly, catching up. 

Exactly zero of the mainstream media refrained from lying about Donald Trump and the Republican Party since 2016 (yes, it goes back farther, but this was the jumping point for extremity). Every one of them republished the “fine people on both sides” hoax about Trump. Every one of them called him a fascist dictator while the Democrats in power actually locked down American citizens and tried to force them to take experimental and and dangerous “vaccines.” It’s called “narcissistic reversal”: turning around and accusing your blameless opponent of the wicked behavior that you yourself are actually doing. 

So it comes as a shock to see this cover on Time Magazine, juxtaposed with Trump’s mugshot:

One genuinely does not expect even the most storied news publications to be capable any longer of commenting reasonably on Trump, his allies, or any Republican politician or voter. Is change in the air? Maybe, but the next trick the left will pull is to make a big deal out of Time putting Adolf Hitler on its cover in 1938. All the better to say, “See? Trump is a Nazi!”

One such might be this woman, as good an avatar for the average female leftist as you’re going to find. She’s got it all, the aggressive and deliberate effort to be as unattractive as possible, the big Look At Me Glasses, and the hectoring nag directly at the camera. 

Karen—let’s call her that—is very disappointed with Time Magazine. 

“In a year when we had Taylor Swift, Kamala Harris, and Gisele Pichot, you chose the most repugnant vile human being to ever walk the earth as your person of the year,” quoth the Karen. 

The most? The absolute most, Karen? Even worse than the man who actually killed 6 million Jews? 

Let’s see if X/Twitter agrees. 

Election

Is Kamala Harris on Her Own Drunkapalooza Tour?

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You know how Aunt Cindy always shows up at the family Christmas dinner trying to pretend she’s not drunk when she is? Even when she promises she’s only going to have “a couple glasses” of wine? 

Our favorite Vice President and failed presidential nominee looks like she’s thrown caution to the wind. It seems like Kamala Harris has decided, “Screw it; Imma drink what I want.” Is she actually intoxicated? No one can say for sure, but what do you make of this performance at a D.C. Christmas party? 

Harris is well-known for being awkward and stiff; no one would accuse her of being able to think or speak quickly on her feet. In practically every professional or candid video you find her in, the woman is either repeating memorized script lines with robotic intonation, swapping out accents to suit the audience, or, well, looking and sounding drunk as hell. Remember this post-election video?

As podcast host Megyn Kelly said, Harris sounds like every drunk girl at 2 a.m. who ties one on and leaves her friends “encouraging” girl-power voicemails she won’t remember in the morning. 

This latest clip continues what appears to be Harris’ . . .what do you call it. . .new “look” or personality? Standing at a lectern at the dinner, Harris seems to be having trouble making her legs work. She bounces up and down and sways in a way that makes her look like she’s wearing polio braces on her shins. 

She’s trying to make a funny about what to do when you’re invited to dinner at a friend’s who is not a very good cook. There are plenty of great jokes in the premise, but Harris just can’t pull them off. It probably doesn’t matter that she didn’t get any laughs since the woman adds her own laugh-track to every appearance. Yes, the famously jarring cackle made a Christmas appearance. 

Let’s see what X/Twitter had to say about Benny Johnson’s find. 

Oh, dear. 

Party on, Kam-Kam:

From this guy’s lips to God’s ear:

Big Cities

The Truth About the “Unhoused” is Not so Sympathetic

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Remember the song you were taught in grade school about hobos and their magical destination? 

In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
There’s a land that’s fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night

Folk songs often make, well, folk heroes out of people in society that most of us don’t really want to deal with every day on our doorstep. Robin Hood may be exciting to watch as he goes after King John’s money on the screen, but if you were among the king’s taxation staff you would probably see Robin Hood a bit differently. 

The Big Rock Candy Mountain’s friendly and easy-going hobos were probably never the mainstay of what we now call the “unhoused” population. One of the most enduring modern myths about “the homeless” is that they’re just like you and me, it’s just that they fell on hard times. Maybe it was a medical bankruptcy. Maybe they lost their job and found themselves on the street, right? 

Wrong. The overwhelming majority of the homeless are not mere victims of bad luck. They are people with years of drug addiction and/or untreated mental illness. As sad as their plight may be, they are not the only ones bearing hardship. Often their families have given up trying to help them as such people frequently choose drugs and a street life over putting in the work to get clean and on the straight and narrow. 

Billionaire inventor and X owner Elon Musk is not afraid to get to the heart of the matter:

Sound harsh? Cast your mind back 25 years and you’ll notice some words that have been taken out of our modern conversation: vagrant, drifter. We replaced those “judgmental” words with the anodyne “homeless,” which has now been displaced by the even more euphemistic “unhoused.” Notice that the word puts the burden on you and me: it’s society that failed to “house” these people. 

You won’t find any reference to this reality if you try researching online. The Google search engine has a pronounced leftist bias that makes the “homeless” sacred, even cuddly, while making you feel guilty about wondering if they had any hand in their own situation:

These are not “myths.” Anyone who lives in a city–and increasingly in small towns–can attest to the aggressive, drunk, drugged, and often violent state of career panhandlers. 

X user Jeremy Kaufmann (Elon Musk was reacting to his tweet) highlighted this article from the San Franciso Chronicle.

Even the city organ of the most liberal municipality in the U.S. can’t hide from the truth. The Chronicle’s investigation cops to the fact that the “unhoused” are often violent, filthy, and waste the help they’re given while burning every bridge behind them. 

That story was from two years ago, and the mood in the country has changed significantly since then. Americans are tired of being guilted into paying ever more to “help” people who only abuse their trust. The responses to Kauffman’s post show it:

Big Cities, crime

Suspected Health Insurance Assassin’s Family Was in the For-Profit Medical Business Too

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Police caught up with alleged assassin Luigi Mangione less than a week after, they suspect, he gunned down Brian Thompson in broad daylight in front of a hotel in New York City. Thompson, 50, was the CEO of one of the country’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare. 

Magione, 26, an upper class man originally from Maryland who graduated from Penn State, may have been motivated by some kind of resentment against health insurance company practices. Police say someone, presumably Mangione, had inscribed the words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend,” on the shell casings left at the scene after the gunfire. These words are similar to the title of a book that castigates the insurance sector for working to deny payment to patients in need. The title of the book is Delay, Deny, Defend. 

Police caught the suspect at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after someone spotted him and correctly deduced that he was the same person they had seen in CCTV stills of the killer police released to the public. 

It is important to remember that nearly everything about this case is speculative at this point. While police and the public may have some clues about what may have motivated Mangione, nothing is proven, and there is a mountain of evidence behind the scenes that no one in the public has seen yet. 

But the public speculation is that Mangione had some personal resentment toward health insurance companies. Police have apparently found writings, including a manifesto, in which Mangione expressed that he was “frustrated with the health care system in the United States.”

NewsNation has a comprehensive timeline of the crime and the aftermath. 

If Mangione was motivated by malice toward the health insurance sector, one Twitter/X user thinks there may be an element of hypocrisy in the alleged shooter’s motivation. David Petersen posted that Mangione’s family, who are wealthy, own a for-profit nursing home as part of their business Lorian Health Systems. 

Petersen points out that Lorian Health Systems has a poor track record of patient care, with low scores on vaccination rates for residents and staff, plus poor grades on health inspections. 

Here’s a sampling of the online reaction: 

Big Government, LGBTQ+

Hey! Are You Sufficiently Aware of Pansexuality? HHS Would Like to Know

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Lots of people are saying they can feel a change in the air. After the election of Donald Trump and the conservative capture of both chambers of the legislature, people are feeling like it might be morning in America once again. 

Trump has big plans for his presidency. Yeah, he’s promising again that he’s going to drain the swamp, but he’ll have more success this time around with the experience garnered from his first term. After learning bitter lessons about staffing after appointing cabinet members who frustrated his plans and stabbed him in the back, Trump is picking loyalists this time around. 

Half the country’s politicians and nearly all the major media are still devolving into hysterics as they come to grips with the reality that the woke train is about to get derailed. MSNBC narcissist in chief Joy Reid is telling her viewers—few as they are—that the Bad Orange Man is going to resurrect The Third Reich and reintroduce it American-style. I guess she doesn’t remember when she said that the first time around and it didn’t happen.

But the interest group with the most to fear is probably the LGBTQ+(and whatever other letters I forgot) set. This strange amalgamation of confused individuals, abusive parents, doctors, and medical policymakers, is scrambling as they realize their project of psychologically and physically mutilating as many children as possible is drawing to a close. Right now the Supreme Court weighing U.S. vs Skrmetti, a case brought by the federal government against Tennessee. Yes, the U.S. government is suing Tennessee to stop that state from protecting children from gruesome sex-change experiments. And from the tone of the questions asked by the court’s conservative justices, it doesn’t look good for the kiddy butchers. 

It looks like some of the gender clowns in our three-letter agencies are having a last hurrah, or a extinction-burst tantrum. Take a look at what the Department of Health and Human Services is posting on X/Twitter. 

What is Panromantic and Pansexual Awareness Day? Why, it’s a day to be aware of people who are panromantic and pansexual. And what are they? People who’ve decided that it’s just too limiting to be merely gay or straight or bisexual. Nay, say they, they are capable of loving “all genders.” There aren’t any “genders” other than man or woman, of course, but that doesn’t stop this lot from naming itself something that sounds like a lonely hearts club for admirers of cookware. 

Let’s see what the general public on X has to say. 

Big Cities, Race Baiting, Race Politics

Manslaughter Charge Against Daniel Penny Dropped – How Did We Even Get Here in the First Place?

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The Daniel Penny subway trial is winding up as of press time, and the jury is in deliberations after the judge in the case dropped the manslaughter charge against Penny. More on this below, but first, how the hell did this trial even happen? How did we get here? 

Millions of Americans are tired of “woke” politics. Race-based grievances, special rights for minority groups, total social censure of non-left voices, and non-step leftist economic policies are a big part of why the country elected Trump this fall. 

Not only has the U.S. lost social and moral cohesion over the past few decades, but we have also lost belief in some of the most fundamental rights that everyone used to agree on. Self-defense is one of them. We’re all used to Democrat politicians trying to chip away at the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and that’s bad enough, but it doesn’t stop there. 

We appear to be losing the belief in our own right to defend our lives and the lives of those around us. How else can we explain the shockingly ignorant public response to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial? Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August of 2020 to help protect the town and its businesses as BLM protesters rioted and set fires to buildings in protest of the police shooting of a black man. Several men attacked Rittenhouse, and he fired, killing two of them. 

The country went insane. Many liberals believed, absent evidence, that Rittenhouse killed “unarmed black men.” The men who attacked him, and whom he shot, were not black, and at least one of them tried to take Rittenhouse’s gun as Rittenhouse lay on the ground trying to defend himself. He was acquitted, but only barely, as the media and politicians almost succeeded in painting the innocent teen as a monster when he was the one under attack. 

The same thing has happened to subway hero Daniel Penny, who is on trial in New York City (the jury is deliberating as this story is written) for allegedly killing subway menace Jordan Neely. The media worked overtime to portray Neely, a mentally unstable criminal and drug user with a long rap sheet, as an innocent and friendly “Michael Jackson impersonator” – as opposed to someone who threatens to murder their fellow subway passengers. This is what they always do when violent black men are pushed back against by their targets. 

Neely entered a subway and started threatening passengers, causing mothers to huddle in fear with their children behind strollers. Penny, a former marine who looks like Errol Flynn, put Neely in a chokehold until police could arrive. Contrary to initial media reports, Neely did not die on the subway, he died later at a hospital. 

Race-baiting, dishonest New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg (the same man who went after Donald Trump in court over “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels), charged Penny with manslaughter. It was obvious from the beginning that black Alvin Bragg intended to scalp a white man, even though he appears to be a hero, not a thug. 

But as of yesterday, presiding judge Maxwell Wiley has dropped the manslaughter charge, leaving Penny to face a charge of criminally negligent homicide. Though the name of the crime sounds worse, it actually carries a lesser sentence than manslaughter.

Penny should never have been arrested, let alone charged. But this is the United States in 2024, and if you’re white, male, or a Republican, a good half the country does not believe you have the moral or legal right to protect yourself and others from assault or murder. 

Let’s see how X/Twitter users are reacting. 


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