The other day, we saw a victory in the ongoing war with the judiciary, this time when it comes to USAID cuts:
Appeals court enables Musk to resume cuts at USAID https://t.co/LvEYwxXwVd
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) March 29, 2025
This author plans to take some time digging much deeper into the avalanche of litigation and questionable rulings that has poured down since Trump has taken office, but for now you know enough: Trump won, and Musk can continue to make cuts to USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Development). That in turn prompted the account for the Republicans on House Committee on Foreign Affairs to post the following:
MAGA 1, Libs 0 pic.twitter.com/0sLwNzic55
— House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority (@HouseForeignGOP) March 29, 2025
If you don’t recognize it, this is the famous Ghanan Dancing Pallbearers, which has been a meme for a while. Apparently at some funeral somewhere in Ghana, these pallbearers danced with a coffin and people have used it as shorthand for people enjoying someone or something's passing, like the Munchkins singing "Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead!"
Honestly, it's only an ‘okay’ use of the meme, with the fake images of Trump and Musk elevating it slightly. We didn’t think it was particularly clever, except for putting those faces in there.
But this led former alleged conservative Bill Kristol to get all stompy foot mad:
Just curious, @HouseForeignGOP: Is the racism incidental or is it the point? https://t.co/t4Ft9ihC47
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 30, 2025
Of course, there is no conceivable way this is racist. We are not sure how he gets racism from that except in a vague ‘black people are tangentially involved so somehow this is racist’ panicked logic we see on the left sometimes. But that’s what Bill is reduced to.
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Look, this author remembers what it was like when Trump first rose to prominence in the 2016 election cycle. We remember some people who just couldn’t vote for him. Some of them, like ‘AG Hamilton’ on Twitter/X were overall conservative in principle and didn’t stop being conservative just because he or she didn’t like Trump. And we have always respected that.
And then there were people who became flaming leftists. Jennifer Rubin used to speak out against extreme abortion laws. Now she calls anyone who opposes any restraint on abortion ‘forced birthers.’
And what we have realized over time is that for many people, politics is very tribal. It’s not really about the issues or the principles. It is ‘this is my side and therefore I will agree with my side.’ It took a long time for this author to understand that, because we aren’t tribal, at all, and we fundamentally don’t understand the tribal mentality. But we can observe behavior and apparently this is what it is about.
And that was apparently why Bill Kristol has basically stopped being conservative or a republican. Bill doesn’t like Trump’s style. Truthfully, this author isn’t a huge fan of Trump’s style (though we have warmed up to parts of it). But the difference is that this author can step back, ignore the style and pay attention to the substance. Trump was always better on substance than his Democratic opponents. And people like Bill Kristol can’t see past the issue of Trump’s style and so he left his tribe behind, and we think he is only a few years away from joining Anti-FA.
In any case, do we have to tell you that Kristol got dragged?
There’s no racism, and you know it. It’s a common meme. Are you being paid for being such a leftist shill?
— Scott (@MIScott68) March 30, 2025
😐 Dude, this is a classic meme celebrating the end of something. You're a racist.
— John (@RealJohnShoe) March 30, 2025
They got so famous they went on Ghana TV. https://t.co/6MpqACDzm8
Classy stuff from “serious” foreign policy Republicans @RepMikeLawler and @RepJoeWilson
— Brendan Hartnett 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BrendanHartnett) March 30, 2025
Accusing them of lacking class is another way of complaining about style.
Seriously? A Congressional Committee posts such juvenile stuff? Have you no shame, sirs? https://t.co/W8VstpOQ24
— FreeCitizen (@BambulaBB) March 30, 2025
As we always say, ‘maturity is overrated.’ Also, 'have you no shame' has been overused so much as a cliche, it has lost all meaning.
Letting our our allies starve, just makes them turn to Russia and China.
— Janet Small (@JaneyTheSmall) March 30, 2025
Seems kind of bigoted to suggest that without our help these foreigners can’t figure out how to feed ourselves. Furthermore, factually, we are pretty sure America is not actually feeding the world, anyway.
Completely horrible and disrespectful to all those people who depended USAID.
— peggy cd she/her🇨🇦 (🧡ally 🏳️🌈ally)🇺🇦 (@56peggy) March 30, 2025
Is this how America wants to be viewed??
Sorry, but providing transgender stage shows in Ireland is not exactly a priority to any conservative, or indeed any patriot who has noticed that we are about $36 trillion in debt and we have to start cutting costs.
Tell me you don't understand the meme without telling me you don't understand the meme. https://t.co/QsVB3q5oU3
— Extremely Careless (@Shanghaibeast) March 30, 2025
We would be remiss if we didn’t point out that some clapping monkeys who follow Kristol these days indicated that they believe it is racism. We will note that no one explained how it was racist, and we think none of them actually know.
Finally:
Now Kristol adds common race-baiting to his posts.
— Tom, Monroe Doctrine Enjoyer (@TisMeThomas2T) March 30, 2025
What a perfect ending to the long, deceit-filled history of his conversion to democrat party money.
Exactly.
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