President Donald Trump’s administration brought its bid to purge the federal workforce to the Supreme Court on Monday, challenging a judicial directive to rehire thousands of fired government employees.

The Justice Department asked the high court to block a March 13 order by San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge William Alsup for six federal agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary — meaning recently hired — employees dismissed as part of Trump’s campaign to downsize and reshape the government.

The judge faulted the administration for improperly terminating en masse the probationary workers and cast doubt on the justification presented by the government that the firings were the result of poor employee performance.

Probationary workers typically have less than one year of service in their current roles, though some are longtime federal employees serving in new roles. They have fewer job protections than other government workers, but in general can be fired only for poor job performance.

The actions by the judge represented a significant blow for a high-profile effort by Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy.

Unions, nonprofit groups and the state of Washington claimed that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management exceeded its authority for the mass firings. Alsup, an appointee of Democratic former President Bill Clinton, agreed.

“It is a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” Alsup said at a hearing.

Alsup’s ruling applied to probationary employees at the Defense, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Energy, Interior and Treasury departments.

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Newsom’s idea of problem-solving is to trot out the progressive platitudes and boring bromides of the Left Coast elite.

The following is an excerpt from the new book, Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All.

One crisp autumn day in 2023, residents of San Francisco awoke to find their city transformed. Almost overnight, the city by the bay had become virtually unrecognizable. Street corners and plazas previously crowded with homeless encampments and open-air drug markets were clear, and the trash heaps, piles of feces, tainted needles, soiled mattresses, and ragged tents were gone. Storefront windows that had long been boarded shut now shone. All the crude graffiti, scummy debris, and filth were replaced with painted murals, brand-new flower boxes, and colorful new crosswalk markings. Freshly pressure-washed sidewalks — the forgotten pathways through the city — now gleamed.

After decades of failure and $24 billion squandered in the previous five years on statewide strategies aimed at ending homelessness, San Franciscans witnessed a bona fide miracle: their city (or at least the downtown) was golden once again. Perhaps most shocking of all, the homeless population had vanished, and no one seemed to know where they went. How could a problem that plagued authorities for decades be solved overnight?

The closer that residents looked, the more unsettling the answer became: large concrete barricades and steel fences had been erected downtown, and the formidable police presence could best be described as a “shock and awe” campaign. Stranger still were the cheering crowds waving giant Chinese flags on long poles while acrobats and Chinese dance troupes performed on the sidewalks. Hundreds of blood-red lanterns were strung above the streets.

And it was certainly ironic that the leader who unabashedly touted the cleanup of San Francisco that day, Gov. Gavin Newsom, was the very same career politician who had failed the city for so long. Chinese President Xi Jinping was there for the Asian-​Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held at the St. Regis Hotel on Nov. 10, 2023. And Newsom was locked in, ready to prove he was a serious player on the global stage. His lucrative and long-standing business relationships with Chinese apparatchiks gave him an affinity for China that most politicians do not possess.

As Chinese Premier Xi Jinping’s rocket-proof armored vehicle made its way through the freshly cleaned streets of San Francisco to the St. Regis Hotel, throngs of pro-Beijing activists heralded his arrival. As it happened, the activists were United Front operatives on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and had been bused in from their stations embedded across the United States. In Newsom’s California, the paid CCP foot soldiers assaulted American human rights activists protesting Xi’s arrival with impunity.

Critics mocked Newsom’s preparation for Xi, calling it a “convenient scurryfunge,” and likened it to frenzied teens rushing to clean up after a house party before the parents returned. Newsom admitted as much. “I know folks say, ‘Oh, they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town,’ that’s true,” he said, “because it’s true.”

So, the streets were sanitized, but where did all the criminals, drug addicts, illegal migrants, and homeless people go? Did the cleanup also magically lift them from their predicaments? Of course not. It turned out that, on Newsom’s orders, most of them were merely rounded up by police and herded, like cattle in a rotational grazing loop, to other parts of the city.

The transformation of San Francisco was so striking, not because of how sudden it was, but because of who Gavin Newsom is. For more than twenty years, Newsom claimed that he was trying to fix the problems of crime, drugs, and homelessness in San Francisco and across the state. And on his watch, those problems only got worse. Why? Because, under ordinary circumstances, Newsom cannot fix those problems. His ideology prevents him from doing what is necessary.

At his core, Newsom embodies the sinister progressive vision that has seeped outward from California and now threatens every American, whether they live in the cities, suburbs, or even remote rural locations. The progressive vision for America maintains that crime should be made legal; jails should be emptied; dangerous drugs should be freely available; borders should be opened; illegal aliens should be given amnesty and free health care and interest-free loans.

More than any current politician, Newsom has executed the progressive vision across his city and state with swiftness and precision. Every problem he encounters, Newsom addresses in typical performative progressive fashion: convene a commission, appoint a czar, hold a press conference, and ultimately, just throw more money at it. The result of his decades-long reign in California has been abject failure.

Compounding Newsom’s ruthless drive to enact the failed progressive vision is his boundless and selfish ambition. Despite his policy failures, he has amassed personal success, thus incentivizing his current course. For an unimaginative political creature who sprang from the loins of California’s corrupt Democratic establishment, Newsom’s first response to a problem has always been to trot out the progressive platitudes and boring bromides of the Left Coast elite. It’s pure reflex.

Newsom has learned that actually solving problems is not necessary for personal success in a one-​party progressive state like California, where an endless geyser of bad policy spews forth schemes of extreme permissiveness and dysfunction. For Newsom’s political opponents desperate to tackle the perennial problems of crime, drugs, and homelessness, Newsom’s enforced leniencies are not just policy failures; they are existential crises as criminals inevitably gravitate toward his sanctuaries of lawlessness.

Progressives identify innumerable “root causes” for crime and homelessness, including some combination of economic factors, racism, predatory capitalism, mental illness, drug addiction, broken families, illegal immigration, climate change, or even all the above. Newsom’s solutions have nothing to do with the problems. In fact, progressive policies tend to mask the problems, at best, and more often make them worse.

Newsom and his Left Coast mentors did not only spawn the failed progressive vision for America. They also abetted the infiltration of America by the CCP, which is now waging unrestricted warfare against US citizens via fentanyl, TikTok, intellectual property theft, massive hacking enterprises, subversion in academia, social unrest, and other methods of what our adversaries in Beijing call “disintegration warfare.

McFadden and Crabtree, The Federalist

By J.B. Shurk

“This town is now as nervous as it’s ever been.”  That’s Congressman Chip Roy’s assessment of the mood in Washington, D.C., since President Trump’s return to the White House.  It’s one of several dozen refreshingly blunt descriptions of American politics in Ned Ryun’s new documentary based on his book, American Leviathan.  The documentary is available to anyone with an Internet connection, and it is nothing short of a declaration of war on the administrative state.

I highlighted Ryun’s book when it came out last September for several reasons.  First, it is a remarkably clear description of the ideas, people, and events that led us to this unique moment in history — when the inevitable clash between the authoritarian bureaucracy and the constitutional Republic has come to a head.  There was nothing “natural” about this process.  The vast and unaccountable administrative state did not arise from the U.S. Constitution; it is a repudiation of the Constitution.  The unelected bureaucracy does not reflect the wishes of the American people; it is the polar opposite of representative government.  No matter how many propagandists defend Big Government as “our Democracy,” the ever-growing Leviathan is thoroughly authoritarian in disposition.  It jealously guards its expanding powers and despises American citizens who insist that legitimate government comes only from the consent of the people.  It is such an unnatural beast that it must spy on Americans, censor their speech, and intimidate them into submission merely to maintain control.  The administrative state is “government by coercion” and the antithesis of limited government and individual liberty.

Second, Ryun is a rather unique political operative in that he “walks the walk” every bit as much as he “talks the talk.”  He is an effective warrior when it comes to getting Republicans elected, but he is also a tireless critic of the Deep State.  Those qualities are often mutually exclusive in high-stakes American politics where a person’s clout is usually directly proportional to his willingness to sell out personal principles.  Washington’s political machine — the Frankensteinian monstrosity composed of equal parts malevolent bureaucracy, corporate blackmail, academic blacklisting, news media gatekeeping, Intelligence Community skulduggery, and rank influence peddling — tends to scoop up “true believers” and recondition them into compliant cogs of the permanent government’s hive-mind, collectivist “Borg.”  Ryun is a rare political player who refuses to be “assimilated” or transformed into another D.C. “drone.”

Lastly, I wanted readers to mentally prepare for what would happen after President Trump won in November.  There were fifty days between the publication of Ryun’s American Leviathan and Trump’s victory, and while those crucial days required all of our efforts to make sure that he would, in fact, be re-elected, I knew that we would have no time to waste once he succeeded.  That’s where Ryun’s efforts really stand out.  His book is meant (1) to wake up those who have been sleeping during the century-long transformation of the American Republic into a tyrannical bureaucracy, (2) to re-energize those who have been fighting the good fight for most of their lives, and (3) to lay out the blueprint for restoring the Republic and destroying the Deep State.  I wanted readers to spend time before the election thinking about what would come next because winning was only “Step One” of a much larger operation. 

Something that should be clear six months after American Leviathan came out in print is that President Trump and his closest advisors have long been preparing for this war against the administrative state.  They weren’t just running a political campaign the last few years; they’ve been planning their return to Washington, D.C., in meticulous detail.  From the moment the news media cartel was forced to announce Trump’s victory, those plans became active operations.  Critical personnel choices were announced.  Executive orders were finalized.  Litigation strategies were put into motion.  It is no coincidence that many of Ryun’s recommendations for “slaying Leviathan” are now official White House policy.  The Trump administration embraces American Leviathan’s proposition that the only way to save the Republic is to disembowel the unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy.  

While Ryun’s book is an excellent resource for American minds desperate to break free from a century of bureaucratic hypnosis and Deep State conditioning, his documentary provides a kind of real time snapshot of the Trump administration’s ongoing “Leviathan hunt” today.  Among many interesting contributors to the film, Congressman Roy and Senators Jim Banks, Rick Scott, and Marsha Blackburn offer insightful perspectives regarding Trump’s impact on Establishment Washington, and Jeff Clark, Mike Davis, Steve Cortes, Bradley Watson, and Rachel Bovard provide excellent analysis of the many conflicts playing out publicly today.  Every speaker is strikingly candid about where all this is heading — a showdown between two incompatible systems of government from which only one may survive.

Senator Banks says plainly that the Deep State’s animus toward President Trump originates with the “three most dangerous words” he uttered during the 2016 campaign: “Drain the Swamp.”  As soon as then-candidate Trump identified the administrative state as not only an affront to the U.S. Constitution but also a threat to the American Republic, he became public enemy number one for the bureaucratic “blob.”  The Russia collusion hoax, the Mueller Inquisition, the farcical impeachments, the endless lawfare, and the ridiculous investigatory witch-hunts all arose because Donald Trump directly attacked institutions that have governed almost absolutely for over a century while avoiding serious public 

In front of huge crowds, Trump called out agencies and bureaucrats by name and promised to rein in their out-of-control harassment of the American people.  The administrative state, having long exercised the constitutionally delegated powers of the Executive Branch while thumbing its nose at the elected president, correctly worried that Trump would reclaim legitimate Executive authorities that it had illegitimately usurped decades ago.  For a hundred years, America’s permanent ruling class has operated a state within a state in which the president is treated mostly as a figurehead and recognized as “chief executive” in name only.  In this absurd “Bizarro World” where low-level bureaucrats are quasi-kings and the three branches of government retain meager residual powers, the Constitution is a document that just gets in the Deep State’s way.

In Ryun’s documentary, Congressman Roy pulls no punches against the administrative state while laying well-deserved blame at the feet of lawmakers.  In lauding Elon Musk’s work to expose and eliminate government waste, fraud, and abuse, Roy says the American people have to hold Congress accountable.  “Because you’ve been searching for the enemy, and the enemy is right in front of you.  It is us.  It is Congress.  We’re the ones that continue to fund the very things” that enable the Deep State.  “We’re begging you to save us because we’re that bad.”  That’s a rather direct plea from a sitting congressman for the American people to rise up and demand an end to America’s unconstitutional bureaucracy.  In calling for the “slashing and burning” of Leviathan, Roy argues that DOGE shouldn’t stand for the Department of Government Efficiency but rather the Department of Government Elimination.  That’s a theme throughout 

ther theme is that Americans can win this war against the administrative state.  Rachel Bovard acknowledges how difficult it is for any country that has gone so far down the path of bureaucratic tyranny to survive.  But then she notes, “Every day this country does something that no-one has ever seen before in the history of the world.  If there is anyone who can shake off the shackles of bureaucratic statism, it’s us.  It’s America.”  

As Ryun says at the end of both his book and documentary, the solution is simple: “Break the State.  Drain the Swamp.  Restore the Republic.”  In a hundred years, there has never been a better time.

Back in the Vietnam War era, many protesters on college campuses were proud Democrats who chanted slogans about “peace” and “love.” They flashed the peace sign and railed about the war and police brutality while professing support for “free speech.”

Never mind that the Vietnam War was escalated by a Democrat President and ended by a Republican President, these protesters claimed that they were “non-violent” and that the federal government, and especially Republican politicians, were trying to limit their freedoms.

Flash forward to today and the political world has totally changed. Democrats have become the pro-war party. For example, the only part of President Donald Trump’s recent speech to Congress that Democrats applauded was his statement about support for Ukraine. Under President Joe Biden, nothing was done to end the war in Ukraine, only prolong it.

Democrats hate President Trump’s outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his attempts to end the Ukraine war. They continually slander President Trump and claim he is “Putin’s puppet.” Of course, the truth is the antithesis of these ludicrous charges by warmonger Democrats. No President has been tougher toward Russia than Trump. The difference is that Trump wants peace and Democrats do not.

Trump has been a lightning rod for unhinged Democrats since the day he descended the golden escalators and announced his first presidential campaign. The epidemic of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” has never subsided.

In the 2016 campaign, there were multiple instances of violent Democrats attacking Trump supporters at his rallies across the country. In the 2020 campaign, leftists attacked police, burned buildings, and committed detestable violence in the “summer of love,” which was inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

One of those incidents occurred in Washington D.C. after President Trump delivered his acceptance speech for the Republican Party’s 2020 presidential nomination. A mob of leftwing protesters surrounded many Trump supporters, including U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and his wife.

Paul said the angry mob was “shouting threats to us, to kill us, to hurt us.” He claimed the mob represented “the new Democrat Party.” Paul credited Metropolitan Washington D.C. police officers for protecting his wife and him and saving their lives.

Sadly, unprovoked leftwing violence has only gotten worse in recent years and is reaching an apex today. Violent Democrats who hate unpaid Trump adviser and billionaire businessman Elon Musk have started attacking Tesla dealerships and destroying individual vehicles owned by average Americans. This violence has been the subject of jokes by leftwing celebrities, such as late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

It has become so dangerous that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a public service announcement to warn Americans “of nationwide incidents—arson, gunfire, and vandalism targeting Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations in 9+ states, linked to political grievances.” The warning also urges Americans to display “vigilance and awareness around Tesla locations.”

Fortunately, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced charges against several individuals involved in the Tesla attacks, calling them incidents of “domestic terrorism.”

Musk is flummoxed by the intense hatred. In a Fox News interview, he called his enemies “deranged” and claimed it must be “some kind of mental illness.” In fact, Musk is facing the type of crazed opposition that Trump has dealt with since he launched his presidential campaign in 2015.

The hate directed at Musk is not just from lunatic protesters or lame late-night “comedians,” he is also being assailed by Democratic Party “leaders,” such as former New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who labeled the billionaire a “Nazi” during a recent CNN interview. In response, Musk said, “I’ve had enough. Lawsuit inbound.”

Bowman is not alone as former Democratic Party Vice Presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, recently threatened violence against Trump supporters. On a podcast with California Governor Gavin Newsom, Walz claimed that “I could kick most of their a…”

Not to be outdone, leftwing commentator Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC’s The View, said that Democrats are at “an existential crisis right now. We need to meet energy with energy…Let’s fight them the way they fight.”

Well, Sunny, Republicans are not burning down cities or attacking car dealerships. Republicans are not engaging in hateful behavior like the employee of the Chatterbox Jazz club in Indianapolis. On March 14, a club employee threatened a Trump supporter with a baseball bat and threw the patron out of the establishment. Her crime was being “a Trump supporter” who proudly wore “a Trump hat” inside the club.

Another tactic of the left is “swatting,” which targets the homes of conservative media personalities. In these despicable cases, in which at least 12 have occurred in recent weeks, a hoaxer calls

the local police department with a phony claim of distress or violence inside the home. The police respond, expecting to find a potential hostage situation or crime of violence. Instead, they wake up an innocent conservative media personality who may be mistakenly injured or killed in the encounter.

This is not occurring to MSNBC hosts or leftwing podcasters, as conservatives are targeted in these types of dangerous incidents. FBI Director Kash Patel said that his agency is investigating these events, which he labels “morally reprehensible” and vows “will not be tolerated.”

There have been few Democrats denouncing the “swatting” episodes or the attacks on Tesla dealerships. Instead, many Democrats are upset at their party leaders for not doing enough to stop the Trump agenda.

One leading Democrat, one of the party’s biggest stars and a potential U.S. Senate or presidential candidate, is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She represents the anger of many Democrats today. In a recent speech, she called for a Democratic Party that will “brawl for the working class” and “fights harder for us.”

At rallies nationwide, Ocasio-Cortez is receiving tremendous support from Democrats who do not want bi-partisan legislation or cooperation with President Trump. They desire confrontation, but, sadly, too many disturbed Democrats have gone beyond political debate and turned to violence.

Jeff Crouere

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
― Thomas Sowell

“People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
― Thomas Sowell

“There’s only been one time in our history a president has refused to carry out a judicial order. And that was Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Civil War,” John Yoo, a former legal counsel in the George W. Bush White House said. “It’s almost something that really should only happen when the existence of the country is at stake, because if presidents don’t obey judicial orders, then they deprive the judiciary of their primary means for carrying out their decisions.”

Isn’t the existence of the United States at stake now? We had no borders until a month ago. Violent gang savages, left in the United States DELIBERATELY by our last government, threaten innocent citizens. The Biden regime arrested political dissidents and lawlessly raided the homes of its chief opposition (who still managed to win). They censored citizens through social media and imposed medical experimentation on the police, military, little children and millions of other American citizens. They are ruining the currency through hyperinflation and rigging elections.

And you say the United States isn’t threatened? If we don’t override these lawless judges by any means necessary, there is no more United States, you clueless RINO.

Michael J. Hurd

The other day, this headline from Elizabeth Nickson’s Substack appeared on a website I visit daily: “’Give Us Back Our Fu**ing Money.’ How Washington Stole Everything.”

Breitbart ran the following headline the same day: “Kyle Busch Threatens Opposing Driver: ‘I’m Gonna Wreck His A**!’” As reported in the article, that was the mildest of the NASCAR driver’s profanities.

A post covering the appointment of talk show host Dan Bongino to the position of FBI Deputy Director included an obscenity-laced rant Bongino wrote in 2022 after that agency’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. You can read it here.

These headlines aren’t unusual nor are the commentators from all parts of the political spectrum who now freely weave profanity in their reporting. In 2021, for instance, the popular Megyn Kelly said, “I (expletive) love the swearing.” Media personalities Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson routinely toss around profanities during their interviews with guests.

Some celebrities also show an affinity for what was once considered crudity. Robert DeNiro lost the respect of many of his fans for the F-bombs he spat out at Trump. Novelist Stephen King left X in November because it was too toxic, but returned on Feb. 20, saying: “Just wanted to say that Trump is a traitorous, Putin-loving dips**t! Goes double for Elon!” King apparently missed the irony of his own toxic words.

Given our propensity for four-letter words, it should come as no surprise that America leads the world in swearing. A 2024 analysis of 1.7 million English-language tweets show that our nation ranks far ahead of the closest runner-up, Great Britain, in our use of profanities.

Wordtips, the blog that conducted this study, tells us, “Swearing has become fun again,” and “that just means we’re going to be exposed to more of it and that’s going to normalize it, and so people have become inured.” Mental Floss sums up what some contend are the advantages to cussing: “[L]etting curse words fly has been linked to everything from intelligence and honesty to an increase in our ability to tolerate pain.”

If obscene language is acceptable, why do so many editors and bloggers still use the grawlix, those symbols like %#, for swear words rather than the word itself?

Plenty of people I know never or rarely curse, but I have a friend who routinely constructs a string of obscene words, some of them vivid and disgusting, when we’re alone. When we’re around my grandkids, those same words never make an appearance. So, if cursing is so swell and dandy, then why do parents and almost everyone else attempt to protect children from vulgarities? And do we really want our four-year-old declaring, “I hate fu*#ing broccoli and I’m not going to eat this s%#t?”

And finally, what does our increased use of once-obscene language in our conversations and in the public square say of our culture? Does it elevate our social and civil interactions, or is it one more sign of crudity in our increasingly ragtag civilization? Does it add or subtract to the dignity of the human person?

Some public commentators recognize and honor these concerns. Newsmax contributor and radio talk show host Jennifer Kerns has said:

My goal is to have a show that moms can listen to as they drive their kids to school, therefore it’s got to be clean … we have conservatives, families and religious audiences tuning in. I feel a higher calling in my career to live up to Christian standards. It’s easy not to curse on-air—it just takes some creativity and an impeccable vocabulary.

My mother agreed absolutely with this stance. I don’t remember the circumstances – perhaps I said some word that was never spoken in our house – but Mom sat me down and explained that people cursed because they were angry or ignorant, and lacked the vocabulary and temperament to better explain themselves. That was long, long ago, but the conversation stuck with me.

Language is infectious, which means I do curse from time to time, mostly when I’m alone. But I don’t like that in myself, and I don’t want to die someday with the last word from my lips being some stupidity like “s%#t,” so I’m always working on self-censorship.

If it’s a choice between joining a culture of crudity or heeding my mother’s wise advice, Mom wins hands-down every time.

Jeffrey Minick

LAS VEGAS, NV — After several Tesla vehicles suddenly exploded into flames at a Las Vegas facility, Democrats blamed climate change as the most likely culprit behind the detonations.

Shrouded in the thick, black smoke of burning electric vehicles, Democrats issued remarks at a press conference to underscore the existential threat posed by climate change and the need to reduce carbon emissions.

“The Trump and Musk administration has done nothing to tackle the climate crisis, and now we’re seeing the consequences,” said Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. “It is a sad day when climate change is so bad that it causes instantaneous combustion of a particular brand of vehicle. Curse you, Donald Trump, for bringing this upon us!”

Walz emphasized the urgency of the climate crisis with a recent scientific study showing that if America doesn’t reduce its climate emissions, thousands more Tesla cars will likely explode.

At publishing time the Las Vegas police had just released surveillance footage of climate change dressed in black and throwing a Molotov cocktail./s

The Babylon Bee

The husband of former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) allegedly bilked taxpayers out of more than $20,000 in a COVID loan scheme and used the money for his “personal benefit and enjoyment,” according to the DC US Attorney’s Office.

Cortney Merritts, 46, was charged in a federal indictment Thursday with two counts of wire fraud related to allegedly fraudulent applications he filed with the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 that allowed him to collect – and never repay – government funds from the pandemic-era Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Merritts received an $8,500 EIDL loan from the SBA for his moving business in July 2020 after certifying that his company, Vetted Couriers, had six employees and generated $32,000 in gross revenue the previous year, according to the indictment.

This nasty Commiefascist racial supremacist lost her seat in Congress in 2024. Now her husband will be indicted and charged with defrauding the federal government for tens of thousands in SBA “loans.” How does it feel, leftists? To be held accountable, maybe for the first time in your sorry, entitled lives? Hopefully this is just the beginning, and big fish like the Clintons, Obamas, Cheneys, McConnells, Faucis and Bidens will not be spared.

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Any day now, I expect a leftist Soros Obama Biden judge to declare, “Trump may not upset any Democrat ever again.”

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The massive trimming of the IRS have insiders projecting the federal government will see a dip of nearly 10% in projected revenue in the coming year, The Washington Post reported.

Good! Let’s abolish the IRS and the income tax. Let’s close most government bureaus and put mega-bankrupt Medicare/Social Security on a path to privatization. Huge tax cuts and even bigger spending cuts. America will soar like never before. Trump and Musk are pointing us in the right direction.

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We have lived in a bizarro world in which up is down and in is out for so long, it can start to seem normal. Of course billions of dollars in taxpayer funds have been going to America’s most vicious and determined enemies. Of course career politicians making $174,000 a year becomes a multimillionaire in short order, and no one thinks twice about it. Of course Joe Biden’s was an autopen presidency in which nameless leftist wonks were making key decisions of state: you wouldn’t want Old Dementia Joe making those decisions, now, would you?