Category Archives: Big Government

Democrats Brought Down Spirit Airlines by Blocking Merger

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The damage inflicted by the Biden Regime continues to unfold. Spirit Airlines has fallen out of the sky — stranding passengers and putting 17,000 people out of work — in a mighty blow against economic freedom by moonbats like the farcical former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who blocked a necessary merger.

Current Secretary Sean Duffy is not pleased:

In contrast, Marxist Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) ought to be delighted:

Green stars all around for Democrats.

On a tip from Jack D.

German Bill May Prevent Conservatives From Buying Property

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All aspects of Big Government are potential vehicles for tyranny — even Germany’s Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development, and Building.

Brussels Signal reports:

On April 2, construction minister Verena Hubertz (Social Democratic Party, SPD) presented the new “Bill on the Modernisation of Urban Planning and Regional Planning Legislation”, promising easier new builds and safer cityscapes.

Sounds nice, but buried deep within:

The new bill, should it be adopted by parliament in its current form, would give German municipalities a right of first refusal to buy up properties that are about to be sold to people who would use them for “activities directed against the free democratic basic order…”

“Activities directed against the free democratic basic order” is Liberalese for “countermoonbattery.”

The bill also clarifies that these activities would not have to be illegal for the municipality to step in…

The intended target is probably the largest opposition party, Alternative für Deutschland, which opposes the ongoing displacement of the German population.

In the past, the label of “anti-constitutionality” has habitually been applied to the AfD by mainstream politics and media. SPD especially has repeatedly pushed for labelling AfD “anti-constitutional” with the goal of banning the entire party outright.

As American Democrats would put it, AfD is a threat to Our Democracy.

Observers are warning that the new law may set the stage for political “ideology tests” for real estate buyers – as the municipality could use its right of first refusal to buy up properties that right-wingers would be interested in acquiring.

You do not need to be a student of German history to see where this is heading.

On a tip from abcanc.

Gavin Newsom Floats Compulsory Service

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The draft has not been in effect in the USA since 1973. However, top Democrat presidential prospect Gavin Newsom might reinstitute compulsory service.

The New York Post reports:

Politico’s Jonathan Martin asked Newsom whether the US should adopt compulsory military service or some form of volunteer obligations.

“Volunteer obligations.” Liberalese is a strange language.

“I think we have to look at ways we can frame a responsibility to serve for a year, 6 months minimum — year, 18 months,” said Newsom, who did not serve in the US military.

Moonbats like Newsom are not known for advocating American military strength. He may have something in mind other than building the armed forces.

Newsom did not outline a specific proposal or limit the idea to military service alone.

Remember Obama’s threat to create a civilian national security force the size of the entire US military?

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. - Barack Obama

Maybe Newsom is thinking along the same lines. With Democrats, bad ideas never die; at best, they get shelved until sufficient political leverage can be achieved to impose them.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Disturbing Follow-up on Peanut the Squirrel

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Peanut the Squirrel is gone but not forgotten. Judicial Watch keeps his memory alive while reminding us that a government overgrown enough to kill our pets is a frightening government indeed.

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation initially failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Law request, but finally coughed up documents:

The incident report from the raid on [Pine City, NY resident Mark] Longo’s home shows that 12 law enforcement personnel were involved in the October 30, 2024, operation to seize Peanut and [a raccoon named] Fred.

The records also show that Peanut was decapitated for rabies analysis after a wildlife biologist who seized the animal from Longo claimed to have been bitten on the thumb.

However, killing Peanut and Fred for rabies testing had evidently been planned all along.

This isn’t just about pets. The incident report…

…notes that both animals were “seized and transferred to [redacted]” on October 30, 2024. They also note that a firearm, model CT4-2A (which is a semi-automatic 9mm AR-15 style rifle produced by Delta Level Defense) was seized and sent to a lab on October 30, 2024. The form lists the “value” of the animals and firearm as “$0.00.”

The brush with Big Government was no fun for Longo:

“They treated me like I was a terrorist. They treated this raid as if I was a drug dealer. They ransacked my house for five hours,” Longo told the New York Post.

Fortunately, it is still possible to escape from the anarchotyrannical dystopia moonbats have made of New York, as many have been proving, including Yours Truly. But if liberals consolidate power over the federal government, it won’t just be squirrels who are in real trouble.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Big Government Record-Keeping Technology

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The federal government costs Americans $6.9 trillion in fiscal year 2024, comprising 24% of gross domestic product. This demonstrates the level of efficiency we get for the money:

Welcome back to the early 20th century.

No wonder the Party of Government hates DOGE so much. The light it shines keeps revealing that almost anyone would spend our money better than the Swamp.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Why Jamie Raskin Is So Worked Up About DOGE

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Drain a swamp and you can’t expect the slithering slimy things that have been lurking therein to like it. Even among the many Democrats raging against Elon Musk for exposing the waste, fraud, and abuse at USAID, Jamie Raskin stands out:

Raskin has even announced a class action suit against Trump and Musk to cripple DOGE.

This could be what has Raskin so worked up:

Sarah Bloom-Raskin held powerful roles as deputy Treasury Secretary and a Federal Reserve Governor—both very clear conflicts of interest, considering her husband sat on the Oversight Committee while she held those positions.

Mrs. Raskin’s Treasury activities may include at least $1.5 million worth of graft.

Relax, Ratskin. An Obama-appointed judge has prevented DOGE from exposing what has been going on at Treasury — for now.

Immigrant entrepreneur Magatte Wade responds to Ratskin:

On a tip from 100 Bravo.

Doomed Democrats Panic

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Outside the Treasury Building last week, when prominent Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Maxine Waters openly sided with waste, corruption, and unaccountability against taxpayers, the cringe-inducing scene was emblematic of a party entrenched in opposition to the public:

As Gerry Baker puts it:

It was a tableau for the ages, one example of the many strange battle lines the Democratic Party has chosen to defend these past few years: illegal migrants over citizens, teachers unions over parents and children, criminals over victims, men-turned-women over girls.

At least they are consistent. Democrats always side against regular Americans.

Government is supposed to exist for the people, but the DOGE process has laid bare what we have long suspected—that at scale, it exists first and foremost to further the interests of the permanent bureaucracy and their like-minded friends who dominate almost all our major institutions.

What DOGE is doing to the Swamp needs to be extended by the rest of us to the entire liberal establishment:

The accountability DOGE can bring needs to be emulated in other areas of public life where these interests have long dominated, immune from responsibility: radicalized higher education, failing city governments, intellectually corrupt media and entertainment companies.

That would spell doom for Democrats.

Smelling their own extinction, they have succumbed to panic, committing political suicide by defending the indefensible USAID. Ed Morrissey comments:

You know who loves USAID and its unaccountable structure? The progressive Academia elite that run it and other less-than-responsive federal bureaucracies. Why? It appeals to their elitism, and the flow of money without accountability allows for massive manipulations and social engineering. …

You know who hates USAID and other less-than-accountable federal bureaucracies? Everyone else. Almost literally.

They do still have the support of federal bureauweenies. At a rally yesterday outside Capitol Hill,

Hundreds of federal workers gathered for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) “Rally to Save the Civil Service.”

Rep Maxine Dexter (D-OR) was there to present her party’s pitch to the public:

The Trump Administration caught them by surprise when Musk switched on the kitchen light with his USAID revelations. Rather than retreat under the stove by pretending they didn’t know what was happening to our money, the roaches wag their antennae belligerently. The instinctive reaction is to grab a can of Raid.

Democrats still have the entertainment industry to promote their public image. But as the respective responses to Donald Trump and Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl made obvious, that won’t be enough.

On tips from Varla and Justin Truedope.

HHS Spends Vast Fortunes on DEI

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Critics snigger that to rid us of extraneous departments, Trump is creating another department, which like the rest will be staffed with bureaucrats. But as entrepreneurial genius Elon Musk’s involvement attests, the return on investment will likely be massive — especially when you consider how much of our money the other departments have been spending perniciously. Take for example HHS:

The Department of Health and Human Services — with a budget surpassed only by the Pentagon — employs 294 DEI staffers at an annual cost of $38.7 MILLION.

No DEI staffer could fail to make America a better place by going away.

[The $38.7 million] doesn’t even include another $29.4 million in payroll for seven Offices of Minority Health embedded within various HHS agencies!

It also doesn’t include this:

Variations of the term “equity” appear an astonishing 829 times in the department’s 2025 budget request to Congress, impacting hundreds of millions of dollars of spending programs.

In the name of DEI, HHS has been spending vast fortunes to tear the country apart by implementing identity group favoritism.

Let’s hope Pete Hegseth puts a stop to this nonsense at the Department of Defense. With most other departments, it will probably make more sense just to burn down the whole thing.

Stand by for the media to shriek that laying off hordes of useless bureauweenies is racist due to disparate impact. This will be a result of aggressive discrimination against whites in federal hiring, as Biden made explicit with Executive Order 13985.

On a tip from R S.