Trump plans to sell two-thirds of the federal government’s 370 million square feet of office buildings (and cancel over 50 million square feet of D.C. government leases) in an effort to reduce government bloat — he’s also the first President-elect to turn down transition funding from the General Services Administration (GSA), opting instead to be “self-sufficient.” Plagued by decrepit buildings and miserably low occupancy rates, GSA’s D.C. properties are only twelve percent full on average. No department HQ in Washington is more than half full, and 7,500 of these buildings are vacant. Think about that. The government has been hoarding at least 100 million square feet of unused real estate that we could be occupying with gene-drive research labs, AI-powered colossal-statue manufacturers, Moon-gravity simulation sites — really anything but empty cubes for federal paper pushers who don’t even go to work. Do I dare to dream? Friends, I do.

The World Health Organization has been ailing for years, but Trump withdrawing US membership this week finally put it in quarantine, and reaction from the press has been predictable. Namely, “experts are saying” we’re all going to die. But in reality, WHO is now an instrument of Chinese policy, bowing to CCP pressure on everything from its delayed declaration of a global health emergency (until March 2020) to convening a panel on Covid’s origin made up mostly of Chinese researchers, effectively granting China power over what questions could be asked throughout the investigation (in the end, they concluded the culprit was frozen foods). WHO even changed the name of the “Wuhan virus” to “Covid-19” to avoid offending Beijing authorities (they were offended anyway). And all this for the low low price of $1 billion a year in US contributions, compared with China’s $150 million. Thanks, guys, and farewell. We won’t miss you.

At Monday’s inauguration, Elon generated a wave of chatter after throwing up a hand gesture just a little too German for Mein Kampfort. After thanking the crowd for delivering President Trump’s victory, the rocket engineer (oof, not helping his case) gave a gesture saying “my heart goes out to you,” which Elon-deranged Democrats interpreted as “my Fourth Reich is coming for you.” One so-called “historian of fascism” declared — officially — Elon definitely put his hand in the no-go zone, while AOC critiqued the ADL (??) for essentially chalking the episode up to autism instead of antisemitism. Altogether? It didn’t really hit. The “bad optics = fascism” media strategy might have worked 8 years ago (see: “very fine people” hoax). But now Elon himself owns a platform that renders the MSM increasingly irrelevant, and people are kinda done with “everything is Hitler.” Anyway, we have more pressing body language moments to discuss (Zuck — keep those eyes up!)

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