Trump fights, but they fight harder
It’s time to admit the #Resistance is winning. Donald Trump’s MAGA loyalists have been outclassed by their liberal adversaries on every front. We might disagree with their politics, but that doesn’t mean we can’t applaud their unyielding passion and remarkable courage in the face of adversity.
Kamala Harris’s alt-stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, traveled to Denmark this week for Copenhagen Fashion Week. Most people would never get invited to such events, but Emhoff is a former “model” and yarn influencer who knows the industry. Most people would have been too scared to post a political message on their Instagram accounts, but Emhoff persisted like the American soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy.
“Copenhagen day 1,” Emhoff posted, fearlessly, while prancing around the streets of the Danish capital. “Fuck ice and anyone who thinks anything they are doing is ok.” In the accompanying video, Emhoff is seen showing off a T-shirt with a multi-layered political message so powerful it could potentially derail Trump’s otherwise inevitable third term.
“The Wrong ICE is Melting,” the shirt read. To drive their point home, the designers included an image of an angry polar bear sitting on an ice cap. Sophisticated observers immediately recognized Emhoff’s fashion statement as a double-barreled condemnation of immigration enforcement and climate change skepticism. Emhoff’s resolve was compounded by the fact that she openly suffers from climate anxiety—a real ailment afflicting millions.
Nevertheless, Emhoff persisted. Mere hours after promoting the edgy apparel, she authored a second Instagram post that included photos of her enjoying the fashion week festivities and getting ready to chow down on a tasty Danish hot dog from one of the city’s legendary pølsevogne, or “sausage wagons.”
On the home front, the anti-ICE resistance in Minneapolis has thrived under the command of Will Stancil, a boy-faced professional activist with four university degrees. Conservatives have tried unsuccessfully to make fun of him. “Yall are pussies while he’s a lion,” wrote Hasan Piker, the Maoist beefcake influencer. Stancil was recently profiled in the Minnesota Reformer, which captured the now-iconic image of Stancil blowing a whistle and filming on his phone beside his even more iconic Honda Fit.
Stancil’s car was even featured in “The People’s Will” by Jackson Lee Sargent, the unforgettable protest anthem that has already racked up more than 1,150 views on YouTube since its release on Jan. 22. “You can hear the cry in the breeze / As Odin blows a righteous freeze,” Sargent croons. “A Honda Fit leads the charge / The wills a city [sic], it’s growing large.”
A 40-year-old man with 12-year-old features, Stancil has rallied the resistance with his verbal tirades against ICE officers and his prolific posting on Bluesky, the social media app for joyless libs. “Alright ICE 8:30 AM you and I have a date,” he wrote on Wednesday morning. “Do not come here. If you do come here, we will find you, we will watch you, and we will make you leave.”
Hours later, Stancil recounted “a stressful little chase where we chased a car on to the highway while a journalist in the backseat literally typed out his story in case we got arrested.” Amid it all, he still managed to find the time and muster the audacity to denounce Bari Weiss at length for ruining CBS News.
Stancil wasn’t the only liberal activist taking a principled stand against Weiss’s efforts to salvage the dying business. Philip Bump, the opinion columnist who valiantly embraced irrelevance after leaving the Washington Post in protest, made his feelings known—in case anyone was wondering, which they weren’t. “I need a job and I would not take a job working for Bari Weiss,” he said with immeasurable conviction.
Bump isn’t totally unemployed. He’s a contributor to MS NOW, the network formerly known as MSNBC, but that probably doesn’t qualify as a real job given the new company’s financial situation. Bump’s followers on Bluesky showered him with praise for having the moral fortitude to turn down an offer from CBS even though he desperately needed a job. The journalist was forced to clarify that his principled stand, while deeply courageous in theory, was purely hypothetical.
“Oh, I think some people are reading this as my saying I was *offered* a job there,” Bump wrote. “I was not!”
Before leaving the Post to pursue virtuous unemployment, Bump was best known for writing several dozen columns about Trump’s fascist war on democracy. He also threw a noble tantrum before storming out of a podcast interview in 2023 when the host suggested Joe Biden might have been tangentially involved in his crackhead son Hunter’s foreign business shenanigans.
