Opinion
Recently, I found my travel hampered by an expansive if thinly populated demonstration around the North Carolina State Capitol and General Assembly. Pravda (a/k/a the Raleigh News & Observer) proclaimed the demonstration attracted “thousands” of protestors when, in fact, it was perhaps 500.
It wasn’t really a demonstration, of course. It was a temper tantrum. Yes, a nationally choreographed, collective hissy fit about …well … everything.
There were “Trump is a felon” signs, “Democracy not fascism” signs, and, obviously, signs demanding prison for Elon Musk. (My, how the mighty have fallen.)
After all, we have to put all those “fascists” in jail to protect “democracy,” right?
Donald Trump’s political Blitzkrieg has leftists in a tizzy, especially when he throws a feint by bragging he will buy Greenland or take back the Panama Canal.
If the cries of the deep state were to be believed, we are amid a “constitutional crisis” (which, in truth, really means the left is in crisis because we are returning to the constitution).
When in doubt…
I’ve especially enjoyed watching leftists invent reasons why DOGE shouldn’t be allowed to do the job constitutionally delegated to the Executive Branch. Perhaps funniest of all was the Associated Press which, without a shred of irony, whined that Elon Musk is “using one of the world’s most powerful information platforms to sell the government’s talking points while intimidating its detractors.”
Maybe we should believe them. After all, the press and social media platforms spent the entire Biden administration becoming experts on the topic.
Mostly, however, they fall back on that ever-useful tactic of the leftist playbook: When in doubt, lie.
At this point, lying leftists aren’t even bothering with plausibility. “An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government,” posted Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on X.
Lawsuits by 14 Democrat state attorneys general call Musk “an agent of chaos.”
Ask any leftist and they will tell you Musk’s claim that $50 million was earmarked by USAID for condoms to Gaza is false. What they will not tell you is, according to the Associated Press:
- “Officials said the Trump administration stopped two $50 million buckets of ‘aid’ for Gaza via the International Medical Corps, which included: family planning programming including emergency contraception; sexual healthcare including prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs); and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. [Emphasis added]
That’s not $50 million for condoms in Gaza. Speaking generally, it’s actually more like $100 million.
Better still, “At Oval Office, Musk Makes Broad Claims of Federal Fraud Without Proof,” proclaimed The New York Times, apparently with a straight face.
However, according to “Just the News”:
- “The entire article hinged on a relatively brief exchange between reporters and Musk and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. The copy was riddled with flippant editorialization, such as a line describing Musk as ‘an unelected appointee with vast reach across the government’ after quoting his own criticism of the federal bureaucracy as an ‘unelected, fourth, unconstitutional branch of government.’
- “The article largely takes issue with the fact that Musk did not provide reporters with screenshots, receipts, and documentation for general claims about the pervasive nature of federal fraud at that exact moment. While he did not provide such materials in person, he directed reports to DOGE’s X account, where his aides have posted such materials available to the public.”
Apparently, the celebrated journalists of The Gray Lady dug so deeply into the issue that they missed not only DOGE documentation, but also a newfangled service called Google.
Also from “Just the News”:
- “The [U.S. Government Accountability Office] report from September 2024, for instance, warned that ‘the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud alone.’ In fiscal year 2023, it found $236 billion in improper payments across 71 programs.”
On the upside, we should celebrate the apparent effectiveness of Obamacare in : While auditing Social Security, Musk discovered 17 million recipients who made age 100, and fully 12 million who have lived to the ripe old age of 120 or more. (Still smarting from being ejected from the White House press pool, the Associated Press insists that most of the centenarians are not getting checks.)
Elsewhere, DOGE and Lee Zeldin, the new administrator for the EPA, canceled a $50 million grant made during the Biden administration for “environmental justice” by an organization advocating “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.”
Indeed, Zeldin located $20 billion in taxpayer funds that Biden & Co. deliberately squandered before leaving office in an exercise one Biden appointee dubbed “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.”
The “gold bars” being “tossed” were, of course, purchased with your money.
In the Department of Housing and Urban Development alone, DOGE helped HUD Secretary Scott Turner recover $1.9 billion “misplaced” by the Biden cabal. It’s safe to say that barring a few elites, HUD money has never been “misplaced” into your bank account.
Oh, and did I forget to mention the $4.7 trillion (yes, trillion) in untraceable U.S. Treasury payments because deep state bureaucrats decided that account identification codes were “optional”?
Desperate Dems
Increasingly desperate leftists, with no saleable agenda for the American public, now want us to believe that every aviation crash in the 38 days Trump has been in office are somehow his fault. Of the Delta Airlines crash in Toronto, Schumer said: “Trump’s doing massive layoffs at the FAA – including safety specialists – and making our skies less and less safe.”
Never mind that layoffs at the FAA were unrelated to safety inspections; never mind that the crash was in Toronto under Canadian air traffic control; never mind that even Delta CEO Ed Bastian said FAA cuts would not impact safety, or that Trump is actually planning to increase the number of FAA inspectors. Schumer proves yet again that there is no lie a leftist won’t tell to defend his ideology.
When all else fails, kill the messenger…
Citing dramatically increased death threats from The Voice of Tolerance and Diversity, Elon Musk just had his security detail deputized by the U.S. Marshalls Service, presumably enabling them to carry firearms across state lines. CNN says Musk’s detail rivals that of the President.
Good thing. In fact, let’s hope Musk’s security is better than Trump’s in Butler, PA. Even beyond death threats, leftist hyperbole likening Trump and Musk to “Nazis” and “fascists,” calls to assassinate Musk exposed by “Libs of TikTok” (to which Musk stoically replied “Everybody dies, but not everybody lives”), and even though Musk noted last year that two people tried to kill him within 8 months, the entirety of the effort to drain the swamp depends on two people: Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Lest you believe danger comes only from the lunatic fringe, consider that Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA) recently told CNN that Musk is “harming the American public in an enormous way, and what I think is really important and what the American public want, is for [leftists] to bring actual weapons to this political bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.” [Emphasis added]
Garcia also used another common leftist tactic when he displayed to Congress a picture of Musk, calling it a “dick pic,” which he reaffirmed in the CNN interview. The tactic? When you don’t have a cogent argument, start slinging names.
As I’ve documented in previous blogs, leftists consider murder to be an acceptable policy instrument. Unfortunately, I vote Donald Trump for winner of the contest called “Most Likely to Suffer an Assassination Attempt by a Leftist Nutcase.” Number two on the list is Elon Musk.
He who laughs last…
A friend recently mentioned that his son gets laughs from watching leftists on MSNBC come completely unhinged. And yes, I too have enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude. But I wouldn’t laugh too hard quite yet.
Mike Shelby, formerly of military intelligence, writes “Forward Observer,” a service analyzing threats to America, be they foreign or domestic. Shelby has been describing how the various “black block”-clad miscreants can’t quite seem to get it together like they did in 2020.
Shelby also notes that USAID, which is being decimated by DOGE, has been a big source of funding for anti-American leftist organizations. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News:
- “[T]he USAID was a slush fund, first of all, for left-wing projects around the globe, like gender surgeries around the world, diversity, equity and inclusion policies, crazy Green New Deal climate scams, and every other lunatic left-wing project that is bankrupting this country.
- “But, even beyond that, it was funding an army of left-wing activists, these NGOs, nongovernmental organizations, NGOs[sic]. They get billions and billions of dollars, and they use that money to then infiltrate corporate America, to then infiltrate the public sector, to then resettle, for example, at taxpayer expense, millions of illegal aliens into this country, to drive racist equity policies, to drive radical left gender policies.
- “And so what we have learned is this mammoth, left-wing power structure, plus left-wing media, wasn’t organic. It wasn’t created naturally. It was funded by taxpayer dollars. And that is why they are screaming and screeching so loud now, is because President Trump is cutting off the slush fund to the organizations that hate and hurt America.”
On the upside, DOGE is dealing the left a huge setback. On the downside, the left never gives up. Leftist lynch mobs might be smaller, but count on their response being more dramatic. Right now, we are seeing lawsuits, inflammatory rhetoric, and attempts to block ICE deportations (including doxxing ICE agents).
But given a conservative Supreme Court, many if not most of the lawsuits will fail. Given Tom Homan’s vow to deport violent illegal aliens and prosecute anyone who stands in the way, radicals trying to prevent deportation of MS-13 and tren de aragua killers will ultimately fail. And given Trump’s mission to neutralize transgender radicalism, men claiming to be women will no longer dominate women’s sports.
What happens then? What happens when neo-Marxists trying to destroy American society face utter defeat? My money says we will see a reprise of the violent radicalism inflicted in the 1970s by the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army, Red Army Faction, and their ilk.
After all, few animals are more dangerous than a wounded leftist.
Another Democrat Gun Grabber Calls for Political Violence, This Time with ‘Actual Weapons’
About Paul Valone
Author F. Paul Valone has been kicking leftist tail for twenty-eight years. Alarmed by the U.S. House passage of the “assault weapon” ban in 1994, he decided to take action. Finding no suitable organization, he organized a rally leading to the creation of a 501(c)(4) organization, Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC), which remains North Carolina’s primary and most successful gun rights group to this day.
