For all the focus on central government in the West, it’s amazing what shit people can get away with at the local level if they’re not watchful, like this example out of Deep Red Montana.

Such things can and should be defunded, especially when they’re simply jobs for farcical people like that to fail up to. In fact the Left is basically in shock at how many things are being defunded and others that can be…

Those would be courts like the Federal DC district court where a third of all federal judges were born outside the United States:

The concept of foreign-born judges is a newer phenomenon in this district. In addition to the 15 main judges, the D.C. District has 10 older, senior judges who still occasionally hear cases in the district. This group, nominated as far back as Ronald Reagan the 1980s, were all born in the U.S. But starting in 2014, former President Barack Obama appointed Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan, born in Kingston, Jamaica. She was in the U.S. by 1979, attending George Washington University. Before sitting on federal court, she had no experience as a judge. Chutkan is overseeing the legal challenge to DOGE’s work to slash excess government spending. Obama also appointed Judge Amit P. Mehta to the D.C. court. Mehta also had no previous experience as a judge.

The rest of the foreign-born were put in by Biden – or more accurately by the very Left-Wing staff that controlled him. Obama strikes again. He really did learn the lessons of Saul Alynsky as to how to undermine civil society. Naturally it’s to those D.C. Judges that the Left are making appeals against many actions by the Trump Administration.

There have also been some big changes in the White House Press Room, which deserves a post of its own, but of which the following is the latest and possibly funniest.

Why funny? Well Zero Hedge is a financial website that often pushes some pretty hairy stories about the financial markets. The site’s slogan is “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”, but critics have often said it should be “Has Predicted 100 out of the last 2 recessions”. But the real kicker here is that the owner of the site, who writes much of the in-house content, uses the pen name “Tyler Durden“, which is the anarchist character (and the primary protagonist/antagonist) of the famous film Fight Club.

As a result it’s going to be great to see Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt call on “Tyler Durden”.

Which leads to this lengthy story from Zero Hedge by an Indian immigrant to the US who warns, India: It’s Worse Than You Think:

I had first returned to India with the idea of improving it, but after 11 years, I realized that India was a sinking ship, with worsening and increasingly shameless corruption, degraded people, and a society that was falling apart. I had never met an honest bureaucrat or politician. I applied to emigrate to Canada and my application was approved in a record three weeks.

Zero Hedge do tend to sensationalise things, but this is an Indian-born guy making these points, of which just a few (I don’t recall any Indian immigrants in New Zealand exhibiting any of the following, so perhaps this is culture at work, from which they, like the writer, escaped?):

  • People who showed respect appeared to have meekly accepted a lower, subservient position. Kind people had to hide their compassion, for being nice was seen as a weakness.
  • You are either higher or lower — therefore, you are either abuser or abused. Equality is impossible. A visitor learns very quickly that saying “please” and “thank you” is seen as a sign of weakness and is reserved for those who wish to demean themselves.
  • Doing your job may be seen as effeminate by those above you. If you can shirk your responsibilities, you’re considered macho.
  • Street smarts are highly valued, and criminals who evade justice are celebrated. A relative of mine, brimming with pride, once told me that he would never pay rent for the house he had rented. He had bribed the local authorities to make it impossible for his landlord to throw him out.
  • When someone in a society without trust is cheated, he rarely seeks justice against the cheater. Instead, he cheats others. Men abuse women, women abuse children, and children abuse animals. Animals attack whatever they can. Higher-caste Indians abuse those in lower castes, while lower-caste people fight with other lower-caste people to determine who is superior. It is a perpetual cycle of mistrust and arbitrariness.

Plus a lot more observations. Scary. Perhaps the four key things to be remembered are those which would impact any FTA we might have with India:

  • A complex web of arrogance, egotism, servility, casteism, tribalism, and magical thinking drives this behavior.
  • In India, I have rarely seen someone in authority take the initiative to solve a problem he was responsible for.
  • The institutions left behind by the British have been hollowed out, becoming purely predatory and sadistic. (I have never (I am using the word advisedly) had a contract honored in India. When you bribe, you must do so skillfully.)