There’s a story in ‘The Independent’ that says that Felon 47 has spent $155 BILLION MORE than Biden had at the same point in his term. This, after firing thousands of workers and cutting off funding for agency after agency in his obviously failing effort to spend less government money. The spending was apparently discovered by the Wall Street Journal. So, where is all the money going to?

Muck and his illegal DOGE claim to have “saved” $150 billion. So far, most of Musk’s “success” has been based in lying. He makes things up, then calls them “savings.” But the spending is real. If 47 is not funding government operations, and sure as shootin’ isn’t paying employees, where has the money gone? Golf? Zooming around a race track? Into his pockets? Inquiring minds want to know…

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I’ve spent time thinking about this and I’ve decided that Bill Maher got played. He went to dinner at the White House. He said he found Der Leader much more amenable in person that he appears in public. It struck me as being akin to taking a tour of a city in some (other) authoritarian country, but being shown only the pretty stuff with all of the lesser stuff bypassed.

China hosted a summer Olympics in Beijing, one of the more polluted cities in the world. In fairness, they had been working the problem since 2008, trying to clean up the air. But just before the beginning of the event, they ordered all of the factories closed for a week and seeded the clouds in order to knock down some of the pollution with rain so the city would appear more pristine than it is, day-to-day, for the residents. It was a carefully curated event.

That’s what I think Maher walked in to, a carefully curated event Felon 47 hoped would translate to a positive review for Maher’s audience. It worked, too. Maher hasn’t demonstrated such gullibility in the past. Doing so now suggests he may have contracted MAGA. He’s clearly in early stages at this point, but the infection advances at a steady rate. I guess it’s no wonder he’s becoming more and more popular on the right. Meanwhile, he’s becoming less and less popular with me…

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Dear MAGA, I know you’re not being told everything there is to know on various subjects, deportation being a big one, so I thought I would help. No, NOT every person deported is a “violent criminal.” We know of several who are not criminals at all. They got swept up in raids based on tattoos. In particular, this man, Kilmar Ábrego García, is NOT in MS-13. Here’s a very important note: even your beloved has admitted in a court filing that deporting him was an error. The lawyers filed that in a sworn motion.

The INSTANT you support stripping due process from him, you’re supporting stripping due process for yourselves. You don’t expect to be deported over some difficult-to-define excuse, that is, despite your tattoos, but once stripping away due process becomes acceptable for one thing, it will be acceptable for ALL things. You can’t celebrate that THAT guy didn’t get his due process, then decry the idea when YOU don’t get due process. It just doesn’t work that way…

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“Viewpoint diversity.” That’s a euphemism the regime is using these days. It means, “think like us.” That is, be wrong about everything. It’s VERY Big Brother. It’s a version of DEI, it’s just the con version: ‘Demand Exclusion and Ignorance.’

I saw a snippet of the letter the regime sent to Harvard University as reprinted in ‘Esquire Magazine.’ That phrase, ‘viewpoint diversity,’ appears in the paragraph that orders Harvard to establish an ideological litmus test to ensure viewpoint diversity and ends with the sentence, “Harvard must abolish all criteria, preferences, and practices, whether mandatory or optional, throughout its admissions and hiring practices, that function as ideological litmus tests.”

That’s some pretty fancy talk from a con. It means, “We don’t want you using the ideological litmus test we pretend you already have and insist that you use OUR ideological litmus test, instead.” Cons have long been conditioned to believe that if they think it, some school somewhere should teach it. Flat Earth? Sure. Laying on of hands, rather than going to the doctor? Why not? Moon landing faked? You bet’cha. Man made climate change? Absofuckinglutely NOT! That’s woke!

In short, it comes down to “teach wrong or get punished.” One of the scary parts? This is likely the same letter Columbia University received and has agreed to. This means Columbia has agreed to ‘viewpoint diversity’ which, in con terms, means absolutely, positively NO diversity of viewpoints is allowed. The con way is the ONLY way. Sticking closely to the conservative ideology means one comes out of Columbia University dumber than when one enters.

It’s essentially a threatening letter. “Nice school ya got, here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it, like, say, losing Federal contracts. And all you gotta do is teach wrongheaded nonsense to your students to keep it from happening.”

I’m glad Harvard said no. I’ve never been particularly impressed by a Harvard degree based on their history of “legacy admissions” and the “Gentleman’s C.” A ‘legacy admission’ means you get in if a parent got in, whether you’re qualified or not. A “Gentleman’s C” is the letter grade one is given if a student doesn’t or can’t do the work but daddy CAN build a new wing on the science building. But Harvard is definitely doing the right thing, here and I applaud their stance.

Felon 47 doesn’t, though. Now he’s threatening their non-profit status. He says they’re not acting in the public interest. If they refuse to tailor their curriculum to regime demands, they MUST be engaging in politics and, therefore, should lose their tax exempt status. No word, yet, on pulling tax exempt status from the churches that march their congregations directly to the ballot box…