Joy Reid Relegated to Ash Heap of Journalistic History

Oh no!  What can we do now when we need a race hustler with a bad wig?  Who can we go to when we need something stupider than even the Reverend Al Sharpton can express?  How will Rachel Maddow know what new anti-white talking point is in vogue.  Oh Joy, we hardly knew ye!

Let the Joyous word be spread.  The wicked dumb witch now is dead.

 

NY Post Headline: MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s lefty show as network makes major shakeup

Tom’s World – 23FEB2025 – Gold Bricks Off the Titanic

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Remember 4 and a fraction years ago during the BLM riots when there were entire city blocks filled with parked charter busses just around the corner from the riot site?

Also, there were Craig’s List recruiting ads for paid “rioters”. Somehow, nobody bird dogged the lead back to the source, not publically anyway. I’ll bet you that the ultimate money source was US.gov very possibly through USAID and a couple of cutout NGO’s.

The analogy used by a senior EPA employee recently was, “throwing gold bricks off the stern on the Titanic”.

Even now, I suspect that if we ever learn the true scale of the corruption, we will be stunned, at least initially. After the initial shock, I think there would then be some public hangings.

So Joe Biden sold his office of the Vice Presidency for somewhere in the $30 million range?

What a small time piker.

($4.7 trillion)

“That’s supervillain scale theft.” I don’t think there is even a word for corruption on that scale because the word has never been needed before.

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 23FEB2025 – Theft on a Cosmic Scale

 

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Excuse me. It was $4.7 TRILLION untraceable.

$4,700,000,000,000

That’s a whole lot of decimal places.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14407689/Elon-Musks-DOGE-Treasury-payments-untraceable.html

There are also other sources, this was at the top of the list and I’m lazy.

$4.7 TRILLION unaccountable. Incredible fraud and graft at that scale. That’s about 5 times the defense budget. That’s supervillain scale theft. Every Democrat in congress during the last 4 years, and likely a sizeable numbers of Republicans as well, should be flogged on the Capitol steps, then stoned by the taxpaying public.

That’s enough one dollar bills laid to end to reach to the sun and back 4.78 times. Theft on a cosmic scale.

No Signs of Winning Fatigue Yet

So, as I was describing it recently, I needed a crisis in my novel to provide some excitement.  I have a faction of the “good guys” go rogue and decide to take over Cheyenne and declare Wyoming a sovereign nation.  Some National Guard troops are called in to defend the State Capitol building.  The rebels surround them and then National Guard reinforcements with heavier weapons encircle the rebels.  Now, I want my protagonist to intercede and defuse the situation.  But how does he get in and how does he convince them?  Getting in is easy.  The siege circles are rudimentary positions within a city so a speeding bullet-proof vehicle is enough to make it plausible and an RPG or two chasing him will make it colorful.

But what can he possibly say to heavily armed mutineers who have lost friends and family and want to lash out at the federal government?  Now that’s the hard part.  I’ve been working something up.  Part of it will play on the fact that many of the rebels were soldiers who served in Iraq like the protagonist.  But that only gets me so far.  The hero is a plain-spoken man so I have to be careful that the words don’t come off too polished and that the persuasion fits the mindset of his audience.  Well, to be continued.

So now Kash Patel is not only the FBI Director but also the temporary head of ATF.  Temporary sounds interesting.  I wonder if Trump’s thinking of abolishing the ATF and passing along whatever functions he deems useful to another department, maybe the DOJ.  And I was amused to hear that Trump wants to visit Fort Knox to see if the gold is really there.  I wonder if he’ll try scraping it with a knife to make sure it’s not just lead covered in gold paint.  We’re definitely getting our money’s worth with Trump.

Now one thing I have been thinking about the last few days is exactly what happens to the economy if Trump does manage to cancel a trillion or more dollars from the federal budget.  That is a lot of money.  First of all, the unemployment rate will increase somewhat by the number of fired bureaucrats.  And a trillion dollars removed from the federal budget will decrease to some extent business activity.  Could it cause a mild recession?  Maybe.  But the truth is that might be exactly what’s needed to tamp down inflation.  And if we are to have recession then the earlier in Trump’s term it happens the better.  And if it is short and mild then the drop in inflation will more than counterbalance the bad news with good.  After all, these unemployed are not factory or corporate employees.  They’re bureaucrats that don’t really add to the GDP in a meaningful way.  They’re more like parasites.  Well, we’re sure to hear from the press how bad it is for the economy to lay off bureaucrats.  It’s almost as bad as laying off reporters and talking heads.

And speaking of the media, I’ve noticed that some of the left media shills are starting to wake up again.  They’re trumpeting that all the DOGE activity has angered the American people and like a sleeping giant they are awakening and demanding that USAID be allowed to waste the billions of dollars that Joe Biden earmarked for them.  Oh, well played.  Yes, the American people are incredibly strong advocates for voluntary medical male circumcision in Mozambique or mental health support for Venezuelan LGBTQ+ youth or “Safe Mobility Offices” for migrants in Latin America.  People are crying out to protect these critically important programs and the bureaucrats employed to spend these funds.

But the top news in the last few days are the various environmental slush funds that Joe Biden squirreled away just as he left office.  Ten billion dollars deposited in a commercial bank account for theft at a later date and two billion dollars in a PAC overseen by that legendary champion of environmental stewardship Stacey Abrams.  Now that’s world class robbery.

So, the hits keep coming and most conservatives say they’re not tired of winning yet.  Good.

Tom’s World – 22FEB2025 – DOGE, Blessed Be Their Name

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I think it amusing/horrifying that the DIMs have finally identified their base principle, their hill to die on that MUST NOT be breached. DOGE has revealed the nature of that principle. And it is not DIE, open borders, green energy, climate change, transgender, etc., etc.

The hill that that they have chosen as the location for their apoplectic battle is the continuation of graft and corruption on the $trillion dollar scale.

Example from yesterdays news- Though it’s difficult, I’ll try not to get too pejorative here but that FAT ***** Black Georgia “woman”,Stacey Abrams, was in the news. DOGE (blessed be their name) uncovered that a PAC formed by Stacey a couple of months ago for environmental justice received a $2 billion (read $2 thousand million) grant from the nightmare Biden admin.

Understand that this PAC was 2 months old and had no employees and had a capitalization of $100 before the grant. Also understand that the grant had no conditions, no oversite, no monitoring, no auditing.

That precisely is the base principle of what the Dims have become and will “die” to protect.

How Miserable They’ll Be

How much damage can Donald Trump do to the Left in four years’ time?  Well, a normal Republican president spends his four years basically trying to hold his own against the Deep State while all the Democrat cabinet officers take a four-year hiatus working in well-funded NGOs and cushy media jobs.  And when the Democrats get back into the White House, they’ve had four years to map out the next wave of progressive boondoggles.

But Donald Trump is not your father’s Republican.  He’s taking a wrecking ball to the US federal budget and firing everyone in sight.  And as for those well-funded NGOs, well he’s defunding them.  USAID was the first place Elon Musk went with DOGE.  All those government funded think tanks and color revolution incubators are going to dry up without the millions and billions of dollars of federal slush money to fund their depravity.  And even a bunch of left-wing “media” sites are going to be feeling the pinch without federal dollars.

And this time around even the mainstream media is hurting badly.  CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico and many others are laying off journalists and reporters by the hundred.  There probably won’t be any spots opening up for unemployed CIA, FBI, NSA and other directors on their staffs and even less place for all the generals and colonels about to find themselves pounding the pavement.

And the same goes for lobbying jobs for defense contractors, banks, green energy scammers and pharma companies.  The SEC and the FDA are going to crack down on the shenanigans, the green energy gravy train will be shut down and the DOD is going to be cancelling multi-billion-dollar weapons system contracts instead of starting new ones.

Put all that together and it spells disaster for the Left’s recession-proof game plan.  In fact, it also spells disaster for Washington DC in general.  Guess what happens to the national capitol if hundreds of thousands of jobs are cut and a trillion dollars is pulled out of the budget?

RECESSION!

Now, what would that look like?  It would mean the laid-off bureaucrats would disperse across the country like cockroaches looking for jobs they were qualified for.  But that’s the problem.  They’re really not qualified for anything useful.  They’re federal bureaucrats.  They have no skills and they’re used to being unaccountable to management.  No one would or could hire them.  Their resumes are radioactive and they have the mark of Cain on their foreheads.  Chances are they’ll end up in fast food or prostitution.

At the same time a reduction in the number of workers in DC will take its toll on the local businesses that support them; restaurants, clothes stores and gay bathhouses.  Just as the rest of the country will be benefiting from an economic upturn, the Greater Washington area will be plunged into economic stagnation.  Property values will plummet and crime will spiral out of control.  Knowing President Trump’s penchant for quick decisive action, I predict he will move his team to a new capitol at Mar-a-Lago and let the old capitol sink back into the swamp where it came from.

But seriously, we’re about to get a four-year vacation from IRS audits, antifa and BLM rioting, foreign wars, LGBTQ innovations (pronouns, rainbow paraphernalia, etc.), mask-wearing bureaucrats and runaway energy prices.  Four years of peace and quiet without the Left stirring up trouble will be like heaven itself.  Sure, I’m exaggerating how perfect the relief will be but still it’s going to be plenty good.  And one of the best things about it will be how miserable they’ll be.

How can you beat that?

22FEB2025 – Quote of the Day

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

George Orwell