One of the worst things about the Biden years – in addition to the whispering Crypt-Keeper-looking serial fabulist who was our Cadaver in Chief, and in addition to his sidekick the Cackling Banality, and in addition to the dudes dressed like women and the skyrocketing inflation and the porous border being over-run daily by illegals, and in addition –
Okay, now that I think about it, there were way too many terrible things about the Biden administration to even narrow down a Top 10 Worst Things list. So let me start again.
One terrible aspect of the four-year plague of Biden-ness that descended on our land was the reversal of conventional morality that came to characterize much of our public life.
When terrorist-supporting radicals harassed and intimidated other students, our universities coddled the radicals and refused to help the students.
When thugs and rioters attacked police and businesses, the politicians forced the police to allow the lawlessness.
When disordered males invaded women’s sports and locker rooms, authorities chastised the women who complained, and gave their trophies and control over their privacy to the disordered males.
All of these cases and many more demonstrate that the old stereotype that conservatives are unfeeling while liberals are the cliched “bleeding hearts” is wrong. Both groups sympathize with others, and we conservatives aren’t bothered by lefty bleeding hearts. We just object to who they’re always bleeding for.
When progressives see a criminal fighting a cop, they side with the criminal. They don’t champion the cause of legal immigrants, but they’ll take to the streets to fight for illegal ones. They prefer shoplifters over shop owners, and squatters over landlords, and subway attackers over a Marine who defends the passengers.
That’s why the last couple of months have been so invigorating for us. After four years of escalating moral inversions, things have suddenly turned right-side-up again. Consider several good-news stories from just the last week:
With Biden in office, sweethearts like “Palestinian” “activist” Mahmoud Khalil seemed to be running woke Ivy League campuses. He has been a high-profile leader of campus protests, a participant in the “tent-ifada” encampment at Columbia, and an advocate for all sorts of Jew hatred and intimidation.
In addition to being a “political affairs officer with UNRWA” – the corrupt, UN-funded entity that has helped Hamas at every turn – he has still been living in campus housing, even though he graduated in December. As recently as last week, he participated in a takeover of a Barnard building.
But it’s a new day, and order is being restored. ICE agents arrested Khalil last Wednesday, and revoked his visa and his green card. When the news came out that the Trump administration is going to deport him, a lefty judge tried to stop that, but reports are that the administration had already moved him to a jail in Louisiana, where extremist NY judges are rightly ignored. Beautiful!
Columbia put out a whiny statement saying that it will not cooperate with ICE agents except where required by law.
And before I could yell, “Take away their funding!” the Trump administration took away their funding. Or at least $400 million of it, in the form of grants and contracts.
New SecEd Linda McMahon came off the top rope, citing the requirement that schools comply with federal antidiscrimination laws, and pointing out that universities have flouted that requirement for too long. “Today, we demonstrate to Columbia and other universities that we will not tolerate their appalling inaction any longer.”
And before I could yell, “More funding cancellations, please!” the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced that, “More funding cancellations are likely to follow.” YES!
The NY Post reports that the Feds “have more than $5 billion in grant commitments with the Ivy League university that are currently under review.” As of Monday, an audit has begun, and I would love to be a fly on the wall in the faculty lounge right now!
The same FAFO process is happening all over the country. At DHS, where some treacherous employees have been aiding illegals by leaking information about upcoming ICE raids, Kristi Noem has started polygraphing employees to catch the insurrectionists. As of last Friday, two leakers have been found, and they’ll be facing felony prosecutions, and up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted.
I’m sure that the talking heads in legacy media are howling about that, but I’m unable to hear them over my laughter.
Amidst the steady stream of illegal immigrants being sent back home, a bad hombre named Diego de la Vega beat Hulk Homan™ to the punch by deporting himself back to Colombia in December. (The country, not the feckless university.)
If you haven’t heard of Vega, he might have done as much damage to our country as any of the criminal deportees you’ve heard about, including Mahmoud Khalil and the various face-tattooed gang bangers of Tren de Aragua.
Because Diego de la Vega was… wait for it… the former Communications Director for AOC!
Which raises a few questions about the Juicy Bootied One (her words, not mine), since it is not legal to hire illegals (duh!). It might be too much to ask for, but how great would it be if Homan’s Heroes burst into Sandy’s congressional office right in the middle of her next “Choose Your Fighter” video and slapped the cuffs on her?
Amidst all of these tales of the scales of justice being properly re-balanced, I have one last one for you. It’s the story of Brad Sigmon, 67, who died last Friday in South Carolina’s electric chair.
Sigmon had been on death row for 23 years, since he beat his ex-girlfriend’s parents to death with a baseball bat. He’d planned to kidnap his ex and “take her away for a romantic weekend that was to culminate in a murder-suicide.” I know: Brad had an unusual take on “romantic.”
Anyway, there’s one thing about his story that makes Sigmon a little different than your garden-variety evil man who needed killing. And that’s his method of execution.
Because while South Carolina’s death chamber is fitted out with an electric chair and a lethal injection set-up, Brad chose Door Number 3: a firing squad. Because Brad Sigmon is old school!
I mean, “was.”
He was placed in the electric chair and hooded, and a white target with a red bull’s eye was pinned to his chest. Then three DOC employees with rifles gave him a 21-gun salute. (Minus 18.)
I hope that his long delayed but well-deserved death gave some peace to his victims’ families, and I like to think that in his last moments, Brad Sigmon did his part to bridge our raucous political divide.
Because he gave us one bleeding heart story that most conservatives can get behind.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 