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You Are Paying for Jasmine Crockett’s Car |
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett declared in February that the government is "not in the business of giving out money."
Donald Trump’s proposal to send Americans $5,000 checks from the government’s DOGE savings prompted her comment, which should have included a caveat. Crockett meant to say the government is not in the business of giving out money to you. Fat checks to her, though? Those are just fine.
According to House disbursement records, the self-important lawmaker has billed the public nearly a thousand dollars per month for a car since taking office, another 20 grand for housing, and an additional $2,670 for Congressional meals as the cherry on top.
“Honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you,” Crockett also said in February. Maybe we’d all feel that way if we received her level of welfare.
Read more, including disclosure on other lawmakers bleeding you dry for their fancy cars, here.
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Turns Out Letting Noncitizens Vote Is Illegal |
The New York Court of Appeals handed Democrats a major loss on Thursday, striking down a law allowing noncitizens to vote.
New York’s City Council passed the law during the de Blasio administration despite the state’s constitution clearly limiting the right to vote to American citizens. The policy’s supporters argued the state should afford the city’s 800,000 green card holders voting rights regardless of what that document says. The court rejected that argument six votes against one.
Even Joe Borelli, one of the plaintiffs who challenged the law, knew how preposterous his case was. “We file some lawsuits that are stretches,” he reportedly said after the decision. “This one was, from the beginning, an open-shut case.”
Only true radicals, and possibly aspiring election cheaters, could disagree. The majority of the court’s liberal judges took this case’s conservative side. Read more.
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Carville: Urbanist Dems “So Godd*mn Stupid” |
Democrat strategist James Carville may be starting to see the light.
Carville urged “urbanist” Democrats to “apologize” to rural Americans for being “so godd*mn stupid” on Thursday, blaming Kamala Harris’s humiliating 2024 defeat on the coastal Left’s belief that all she needed to do to win was appeal to out-of-touch city voters.
“Some of [the Democrat Party’s] more urbanist members and commentators lived in a folly of a world that we could exist and win elections by just concentrating on large urban areas,” Carville reflected.
He also added that “large swaths of rural America, they feel like the Democratic Party doesn’t see them” while lamenting the liberal mindset that people in cities are “the most progressive, self-righteous, moralistic people in the world” while rural Americans “are just, you know, fat, lazy and stupid.”
The former Clinton aide’s message is deeply true. Regular people have flooded away from the Left because they can sense its leaders despise them. It will be amazing to see Democrats forget that reality again in 2028. Read more.
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Was Kamala Harris Drunk on the Job? JD Vance Thinks So. |
How will history remember Kamala Harris?
Will her claim as America’s first black, or maybe Indian, and female vice president define her legacy? What about her place in the record books as the presidential nominee with the fewest primary votes?
Those labels give the former Willie Brown girlfriend a pretty impressive résumé, but they pale in comparison to her most glorious title: public speaker. Harris’s oratory skills are so profound that her successor, current vice president and far less articulate JD Vance can only listen in awe. Vance is so blown away by Harris’s communication abilities that he speculated on Thursday that he could only dream of matching her prowess with the help of some good old-fashioned liquid courage.
“I think I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions,” the current VP said in an interview with Vince Coglianese. He also speculated that she must have had “four shots of vodka before every meeting.”
Read more here and watch the Vice President’s comments here. |
These Girls Got in Trouble for Not Wanting to Share Their Locker Room with a Dude |
A pair of Wisconsin parents have filed a civil rights complaint after their children’s school allegedly forced their daughters to share a locker room with a student with a penis and punished them for refusing to expose themselves in front of him.
The complaint, backed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, claims Westosha Central High enthusiastically allowed a male student to use the girls’ locker room before physical education periods. This led to many of the space’s other occupants being late to class because of time-consuming lines forming outside the area’s closed stalls since the girls did not want to get naked in front of a dude.
The school allegedly told the concerned students "not to worry about it" and that blocking the boy from using the girls’ room would be “bullying.” Got that? In this twisted reality, the girls are the bad guys for wanting to feel safe. Their grades suffered after class instructors repeatedly marked them late because of the extra time they needed to change. Read more.
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Coast Guard Secures Unprecedented Cocaine Seizure |
Kristi Noem announced the Coast Guard’s seizure of over $500 million worth of cocaine on Thursday, a record amount secured south of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is the most cocaine ever captured in a single four-month Coast Guard cutter deployment, including over 22.5 tons of the drug plus another 50 pounds of marijuana.
Cocaine is commonly produced in Colombia and trafficked by sea to Mexico and the United States. Coast Guard cutters typically deploy for two-month stints and seize a small fraction of the amount brought back on Thursday.
Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard’s acting commandant, celebrated the triumph by warning the cartels that “We own the sea, not you. We will find you out there, and we will take you down before you reach our border.”
Tens of thousands of Americans die from cocaine-related overdoses each year. Read more.
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Say Goodbye to the Education Department |
Donald Trump signed an executive order kick-starting the dismantling of the Department of Education on Thursday, saying, “We're going to eliminate it, and everybody knows it's right."
Following through on that pledge will require help from Congress. All Senate Republicans plus another seven Democrats would have to back a bill to completely remove the agency. In the meantime, the president’s order bans programs receiving department funds from advancing the DEI agenda Republicans are fighting to kill. It will not affect services like student loans, Pell Grants, and Title I, which assists school districts for children from low-income families.
The White House argues that the department’s responsibilities can be delegated to the states to save taxpayers money and improve the country’s education.
The department “has taken more than $3 trillion from the American taxpayers since its inception in 1979, and what have we had as a result of that investment in our children’s education?” Karoline Leavitt asked before the signing ceremony. “Declining test scores in reading, writing, and math. Proficiency levels at record lows for eighth graders, for fourth graders, at every level in every state across this country. That’s why this president is returning education back to the people.” Read more.
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Conor McGregor is ready to make Ireland great again.
The longtime MMA star announced his bid to become his nation’s president on Thursday, sharing an Instagram post of himself in a green “MAKE IRELAND GREAT AGAIN” hat and pledging that if the Irish people elect him, “we will SAVE IRELAND TOGETHER!”
McGregor’s announcement, just days after his St. Patrick’s Day White House visit, centered around his pledges to curb mass migration and run a government that prioritizes its citizens rather than foreigners. If recent American history is any indicator, his message could be a winning one.
Read more, see McGregor’s statement, and catch up on his White House visit here. |
“F**k Donald Trump”: Naked Kennedy Center Employee Lets His Rage Hang Out |
“Queer artist and educator with Celtic roots” Tavish Forsyth lost his job at the Kennedy Center on Thursday after tweeting a 35-minute video of himself laying in bed naked and advocating for more drag shows at the taxpayer-funded performing arts center.
“F**k Donald Trump and the Kennedy Center,” the meager-framed grown man said as his genitals dangled in front of his audience. We’re not too prideful to admit that writing that sentence made us feel a bit ill.
Much of the chilling monologue centered around Forsyth’s internal debate on whether quitting the job to avoid association with the president was his best option, but he did not have to contemplate the decision for long. The Kennedy Center booted him from his contract position shortly after his post hit the internet. It garnered a whopping six likes in its first 24 hours.
We cannot in good faith recommend watching the basically pornographic video, but if you must, you can do so here. Otherwise, feel free to simply read more. |
There’s Nothing Sleazy About a Burner Phone… |
Everyone knows Gavin Newsom is desperate to be president. The man literally did a presidential debate when he wasn’t even running. He longs for the Oval Office like a smoker craves his 5 o’clock Marlboro red. It’s all he thinks about.
As we reported on Wednesday, one of Newsom’s pre-campaign tactics is to distance himself from his party’s 2024 insanity and create a brand defined by relatability, common sense, and the idea that unlike many of his party’s leaders, he is not completely off the rails. We see this through his willingness to engage the other side, rejection of the notion that people who disagree with him are inherently immoral, and specific repudiation of the phrase “Latinx,” which liberals have finally realized is politically suicidal to embrace.
Expect Newsom to continue this attempt to reshape his image all the way until 2027 when he officially announces his bid for the White House. He’s playing the long game, and he knows he’ll need all the time he can get to chip away at the greaseball reputation he’s spent years diligently earning.
There’s a reason the public views him that way. A story from earlier this week serves as a useful reminder.
The California governor is reportedly giving his state’s most powerful tech oligarchs burner phones, the kind criminals use to keep their communications under wraps, so they can secretly converse with him without risk of detection.
According to Politico, “roughly 100 leaders of state-headquartered companies have received a curious package in recent months: a prepaid, inexpensive cell phone… programmed with Newsom’s digits and accompanied by notes from the governor himself.”
“If you ever need anything,” a note to one of the CEOs reportedly read, “I’m a phone call away.”
Sounds steamy.
Have you ever heard of anything more sketchy? If you discovered your wife had sent burner phones to swaths of men as Newsom has, you’d probably assume the worst. What could the slick-haired Democrat and these business leaders be discussing that they’re so concerned about going public? We’ll let your imagination run wild coming up with guesses. We feel comfortable assuming it can’t be good.
Regardless of why Newsom is dishing out his secret burner phones, the whole fiasco exposes his aforementioned public image improvement campaign as a total and complete fraud. From a policy perspective, the governor’s top-tier treatment of his state’s most powerful people shows that he exists to serve them, not you. How would he react if Joe from Bakersfield also asked for a secret and direct line to his office? You know the answer.
This, of course, also means the story is a political catastrophe in Newsom world. Regardless of how many podcasts the aspiring president produces, the burner phenomenon will serve as a thorn in his campaign’s side for as long as it remains afloat.
“So, Gavin,” it’s easy to imagine a debate moderator asking. “Why should regular people trust you to serve their interests when you’ve spent your term as governor going out of your way to give the powerful access and influence an average citizen could never dream of?”
Even a slick talker like Newsom will be hard-pressed to find an answer that will satisfy even a tiny fraction of undecided voters.
Sure, he’s done with “Latinx.” But he’s still the same standard politician as always. |
March 21, 1947: Harry Truman orders loyalty checks of federal workers. Fears of communist penetration of the government prompted the move, which led to FBI investigations into roughly 4.5 million employees. Fewer than 400 wound up fired. Dwight Eisenhower extended the vetting to all government workers six years later, and the orders remained in effect until the 90s. |
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