And you thought last week was a whirlwind.
I saw a quote a couple of days ago. It was from Jamie Raskin, the horrific Democrat congressman from Maryland who has turned his entire political career into a crusade against representative democracy and the U.S. Constitution by way of attempting to persecute the current president of the United States. Raskin was commenting on the blizzard of executive orders and presidential directives emanating out of the Trump White House which are systematically deconstructing the edifice of “Our Democracy,” the woke kakistocracy that his party has built into the federal government, and he had this to say…
“It’s been overwhelming sensory overload.”
Raskin isn’t exactly a wordsmith, and it’s not that memorable a quote to be sure, but I noted it nonetheless because it’s very, very rare that someone like Jamie Raskin would tell the truth.
And he was telling the truth this time. Donald Trump and his team are overwhelming Raskin and the rest of the discredited Democrat political class with what Trump called a revolution of common sense.
Those executive orders and directives are the meat of it, of course, but it’s more than that. The entire culture of the American government is being ripped out at the root and rebooted, and it’s so fresh and overdue that it’s even having an effect on the culture at large.
I could give you a million examples, but unlike in Raskin’s case, I’d rather not drop some overwhelming sensory overload on our readers. So, as is customary for these entries, I’ll just limit these examples to five.
1. I Don’t Care, Margaret
You saw this. Everybody saw it.
Margaret Brennan, the Democrat propagandist disguised as a CBS News anchor who already utterly disgraced herself as a debate moderator last year, wishes you hadn’t seen it. She’s no longer a viable journalistic personality for a national news channel and it’s only a matter of time before CBS unloads her just as they unloaded her more successful colleague Norah O’Donnell.
“I Don’t Care, Margaret” is now part of the cultural lexicon. It’s a perfect encapsulation of this moment. It even has a rather marvelous logo…
This administration is going to generate so many quality memes. https://t.co/c9HJQ0ZYss pic.twitter.com/4eyM0YZTUV
— Josh Daws (@JoshDaws) January 26, 2025
“I Don’t Care, Margaret” cuts away all of the piddling objections to a return to commonsense culture, politics, and economics and lays bare the fact that we have been on the wrong path for the better part of 20 years, if not this entire century. It’s a not-so-polite way of saying, in Barack Obama’s words, elections have consequences.
And it applies even outside of the political realm, because cultural shifts — and we’re in the midst of a massive cultural shift right now, without which the electoral shift wouldn’t have been possible — have consequences, too.
I’ll pause this and pick it up down the page. You’ll see why.
2. Horrific Plane Crash Kills 67. Government Bureaucracy Could Be Both the Assailant and the Ultimate Victim.
Trump had a press conference Thursday morning following an atrocious plane crash in the Potomac River Wednesday night which killed 67 people. An American Airlines jet flying into Reagan National Airport from Wichita was on approach and collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter on a training mission that somehow managed to fly directly into the plane’s approach path. Everyone aboard both aircraft perished.
And the president was absolutely pissed, and he didn’t pull any punches.
Trump calls out FAA’s DEI push to hire people with “severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.” pic.twitter.com/OUijOzIwmX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 30, 2025
It turns out that the air traffic control tower at Reagan was “understaffed” on Thursday night. And this was initially blamed on the new president.
Except the tower has been understaffed for a long damn time. And why? Well…
Did you know that 3,000 top-performing applicants for air traffic controllers were REJECTED by FAA for being white? pic.twitter.com/OsENBuvvlO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 30, 2025
There are 3,000 capable professionals around the country who aren’t air traffic controllers and can’t have helped direct that helicopter out of the way of that jetliner because the FAA, under previous Transportation Secretary Gay Mayor Pete Buttigieg, refused to hire them.
They’d rather have unqualified crazy or impaired people, particularly if they happen to have some alternative pigmentation. Knowing that a job like that of an air traffic controller tends to carry with it a high rate of turnover, would you think that DEI hiring policies would lead to a better, or worse, staffing situation?
You get the impression Trump has more information about this crash than the public when he goes off on DEI in the wake of it. Lots of people reacted to his rather caustic tirade by complaining that he was “politicizing” the crash, which is rich since for 20 years Democrats never even let the bodies of victims of mass shootings get cold before demanding everyone forfeit our Second Amendment rights and of course that isn’t “politicization.”
Trump usually doesn’t go off half-cocked when he comes on this strong, though. He’s constantly accused of it and then something comes out which validates him.
So when he rips into DEI following that plane crash, you know it’s a function of something pretty nasty.
There is a story out there that has it that the copilot aboard the Blackhawk, which should not have been anywhere near its location when it was hit, was a female who had the controls and was being evaluated by the pilot at the time. I don’t know if that’s true or if it’s relevant. What I do know is there should never, ever be a helicopter in the approach path of a commercial jet a few hundred yards from one of the busiest airports in America, and virtually everything about the system that allows such a disastrous mistake needs to be thoroughly re-examined.
Melissa and I did a segment for The Spectacle this week on “malicious compliance” within the federal bureaucracy, meaning how the leviathan is responding to Trump’s attempts to bring it to heel by intentionally causing damage to the American people. If it turns out there is any element of that involved in this disaster, I think we can all agree whoever was involved ought to be criminally charged and put away for a long time.
3. The Tucker Carlson–Piers Morgan Interview, Part One
There were actually two of these, as Carlson and Morgan ended up meeting in Riyadh, of all places, to conduct a pair of interviews with each other. Morgan interviewed Carlson for an hour for his podcast, and then Carlson returned the favor for his.
I haven’t seen Part Two as of this writing. But Part One is terrific. Here’s the video, and I’m going to pick up on a little piece of it to finish the point I was making about the cultural shift in this country.
There’s the part in the middle of the conversation in which Morgan asks Carlson whether woke is truly dying or if it’s capable of a comeback, and he references that obnoxious tirade Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop in Washington, unleashed on Trump last week at the National Prayer Service. (READ MORE: Leftist Bishop Budde Uses Bully Pulpit to Beg Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Illegal Immigrants)
Carlson’s response, I think, was correct. He said Budde’s outburst was a net positive because it let the entire country see what Episcopalians have been putting up with for a while, which of course is one reason why the Episcopal church in America is quickly dying.
Carlson blamed the mindset of what he calls “angry middle-aged lesbians” for the rise of wokeness in America. There’s a lot to be said about that. When you find out that 55 percent of chief diversity officers in corporate America are women and 76 percent are white, you realize that wokeness is not and never has been about making things better for the underprivileged. It’s about destroying a society that the woke don’t believe appreciates them for the special snowflakes they are.
And of course, that’s who’s spending the most time caterwauling about not just Trump’s election and inauguration but all kinds of other examples of America rejecting the woke mind virus, from the cancellation of that ridiculous Star Wars show with the space lesbians to Harvard unloading its plagiarizing president Claudine Gay and beyond.
There’s much more in that interview, of course. It bogs down a little when Carlson gets on his anti-Winston Churchill horse, and I’m less than persuaded when he blames Churchill for the current putrid state of Great Britain. That said, his assessment of that country is 100 percent correct. Britain is in abysmal shape and on its current path will not survive long. (RELATED: You Get (and Deserve) What You Tolerate. That Isn’t Good News for the UK.)
Carlson isn’t wrong in noting that allying with Jozef Stalin in World War II was the original sin of the post-war liberal West, a sin which has paid off in an innumerable host of horrors, and he’s also not wrong that nothing about the U.K.’s current condition looks like a country that “won” World War II. I just don’t buy the idea this was Churchill’s fault.
But the rest of it is good and worth watching, and the topic of exactly who controls and promotes wokeness in America is one that needs a lot more examination — especially when we’re going to want to make sure it doesn’t revive after we’ve killed it.
4. The Very Wrong Phyllis Fong
You also surely heard about the inspector general who was bum-rushed out of her office for refusing to accept her firing, right?
Phyllis Fong, who served as Inspector General of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) since 2002, told colleagues last week she planned to resist President Trump’s order firing multiple IGs across different federal agencies.
The act of defiance did not end well. Security greeted her when she showed up to work on Monday and promptly removed her from her office.
On Wednesday, Reuters reported exclusively on the situation.
“Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration,” they relayed, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter.
Fong is a good example of why the IG’s were dumped not just because she decided to reprise Stephen Root’s portrayal of Milton from Office Space. She was absolutely incompetent at her job.
The inspector general is the quality-control officer of a federal agency. The inspector general is supposed to blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, and incompetence. Did Phyllis Fong do much of that at USDA?
Surely you jest.
CBD at Ace of Spades gives a great example of just how terrible Phyllis Fong was at her job…
Just look at the six-year long mess they made of Boar’s Head! The USDA had internal reports of the seemingly total breakdown of that company’s food safety systems, yet sat on their ample, well-fed asses until people started dying from Lysteria infections and they couldn’t keep eating donuts and doing nothing.
Fong’s job was to make sure that the USDA was doing what they are supposed to do! She clearly didn’t do that well, if the USDA was incapable of upholding basic food safety regulations at one of the iconic brands in the American food industry.
The federal government has an awful lot of Miltons. And a surplus of Phyllises, too. Here’s hoping Trump culls the herd of both.
5. We Need New Conspiracy Theories Because All the Old Ones Have Come True
Last comes a couple of gems from Sen. John Kennedy at the Kash Patel confirmation hearing. Kennedy did about the same quality of work in dismantling his Democrat colleagues’ faux outrage over Patel that Markwayne Mullin did during the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearings, but in a bit more genteel style.
This was the more entertaining piece…
Sounds to me like we need to get some new conspiracy theories because all the old ones turned out to be true.
Conspiracy theorists are up something like 37-to-nothing. pic.twitter.com/Dfdy5FpHgt
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) January 30, 2025
And this was perhaps the more substantial bit…
Patel was brilliant at his hearing, and he might turn out to be the most consequential of the Trump appointments, in that the FBI cannot continue to be weaponized as it’s been over the past eight years and more.
The fact that almost half the Senate is so furious over his nomination is highly, highly instructive.
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