Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 6, 2025
DON SURBER: Trump is lapping Democrats.
Related:
Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this. pic.twitter.com/mzR7l5k1OW
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 6, 2025
Oft evil will shall evil mar.
Plus:
Democrats are terrified of DOGE and Musk because they have never witnessed this degree of competence. It looks alien to them.
I mean that literally. People with experience see in DOGE a process that is necessarily messy but 100% on target in terms of speed, talent, and energy…
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 6, 2025
WELL SAID:
How Steelworkers (or any number of other industries impacted by trade, politics, corporate takeovers, dispassionate & disconnected hedge fund owners & mergers) felt 40 years ago.
And ever since for that matter. https://t.co/mfnTJrahOL— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) February 6, 2025
Related: Smashing the Rice Bowls.
I MEAN, SHE’S NOT WRONG:
Why the hell should anyone pay taxes again after the criminal way our government has stolen from us to fund Democrat campaigns and gun control? You Republicans better get a big set of brass balls and abolish the IRS in addition to every agency not authorized under Art 1 Sec 8.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 6, 2025
Related:
There is a US agency, with a $50B budget, that was redundant to our US State Dept, but with next to zero oversight or transparency, funding all sorts of ridiculous and partisan projects and allies.
Democrats are defending this up to and including the threat of violence.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 6, 2025
According to the Columbia Journalism Review, USAID supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society organizations in 30 different countries.
No wonder the news all sounds the same.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 6, 2025
DON’T GET DISTRACTED: THEY’RE NOT. CDR Salamander: The Chinese Arctic is an Actual Thing.
THIS IS GOING TO MAKE THE USAID CORRUPTION LOOK LIKE PEANUTS: Elon Musk’s DOGE agency gains access to Medicare, Medicaid payments.
CELEBRATE:
The American people endured a century-long psychological operation meant to turn them into leftist cattle, and broke through an election system rigged from top to bottom against them to elect the most right wing leader in Modern history.
The impossible is what Americans do best. https://t.co/C4V0RN80Fh
— KG (@interstatejuche) February 6, 2025
“YOU WANT PENISES IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS AND I’M NOT GOING TO HAVE IT!” Nancy Mace Goes Nuclear on Democrat Who Accused Her of Using a ‘Slur’ During Committee Hearing.
I think Americans are tired of kowtowing to “communities” and their definitions of “slurs.” That sort of stuff has exploited people’s good faith intent to be nice, and now people think these language police aren’t operating in good faith themselves.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:
Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other" pic.twitter.com/5CzzZT0i2H
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) February 5, 2025
CHARLATAN’S CAREER HEADS SOUTH: The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi: The race guru’s research center will close. You spelled “race grifter” wrong.
HOW THE SCAM WORKS:
1️⃣ Gov-funded NGO gets a USAID grant for something vague like “strengthening education.”
2️⃣ That NGO dumps millions into a DAF (Donor-Advised Fund).
3️⃣ The DAF isn’t required to disclose what the NGO told them to do with the money.
4️⃣ But somehow, every hyperpolitical…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 5, 2025
February 5, 2025
SO FAR, INDEED:
This USAID could be the single greatest government corruption story so far.
Fixed it for you.
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) February 6, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Donald Trump, libertarian president?
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE FLYERS ARE TREATED LIKE CRAP NOWADAYS: Airports Have a Strange Effect on Human Behavior. Here’s Why.
THREAD: Why DOGE went after USAID first.
WELL, YES. MOST OF THE OPPOSITION TO TRUMP AND SUPPORT FOR THE DEMOCRATS TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN GOVERNMENT-FUNDED PROPAGANDA AND ASTROTURF: “I don’t know that people are tired of protesting or tired of needing to be upset about one thing or the other out there in the political world every damned day. I think a lot of people who are just keeping quiet actually like what Trump is doing.”
JOHN LUCAS ON LEADERSHIP: “President Trump has now been in office for just over two weeks. Anyone notice a difference yet?
MORE KETCHUP FOR THESE FRIES, PLEASE: New Research Reveals How Lycopene Revitalizes Brain Health and Fights Depression.
ELON, TAKE THE WHEEL: Tesla’s Latest Deal: Let It Drive, Get Cheaper Insurance. In a few years, this deal will be standard with all insurers.
ICYMI: MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — Why elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms.