It Is Right and Proper to Laugh at the
Suffering of Journalists
Townhall.com,
by
Kurt Schlichter
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
2/12/2026 6:40:23 AM
If it's wrong to spend a week celebrating the misery of your opponents, like that of the scores of just-fired Washington Post hacks who are crying like teenage girls learning there are no more "Twilight" movies coming, then I'm incredibly, totally, enthusiastically wrong. The former journos/current drive-thru operators still have not shut up about the WaPo's mass layoffs, and I am taking unmitigated delight in their pain. Their suffering energizes me. Their tears nourish me. Their humiliation fuels my joy. Hey, maybe democracy dies in darkness, but as long as the WaPo dies, I'm good.
I would tell them to learn the code, but that's old and cliché.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mobyclik 2/12/2026 7:22:45 AM (No. 2067649)
Thanks Kurt, for putting my thoughts in print. I particularly like the last three sentences. Nothing like Karma.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Echohawk 2/12/2026 7:46:11 AM (No. 2067658)
Because of DOGE, the number of federal employees has dropped to the same number as when President Johnson was in the White House back in 1966. Presumably, those laid off have gone home to look for jobs in the private sector. That means they're no longer getting the Washington Post home delivery. So, Jeff Bezos has had to fire even more reporters. Win-win.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 2/12/2026 7:46:22 AM (No. 2067659)
" One of our great advantages is that our enemies just don't understand us"
Also that they are amazingly stupid and incompetent. The only job requirement for Leftists is loyalty to the cause, and that seems to be true for most Leftist organizations, especially in government. One of the reasons that Trump won was that the Bidet organization was incompetent from the top on down and it was obvious to the voters.
Further, that blind loyalty precludes adaptation to reality to the point that most of them cannot even perceive reality, let alone respond to its challenges.
"I've never been a fan of the idea of conservatism without the concept of retribution."
But the funny thing is, Conservatives are not serving up retribution. For the most part, we are just watching Leftists place a noose around their necks and jumping off the tipsy chair they were standing on. Even Trump is not acting with intent to hurt the Left, only to hold them accountable and to get things working the right way. The outcomes were predictable. Our amusement at their fate is not retribution, just pleasure that the scales of justice are FINALLY being balanced. And yeah, with a bit of schadenfreude. Maybe quite a bit more than a bit. If people can't appreciate and celebrate long delayed justice then justice will not be strongly sought. Seeing the Left pay the price for their actions is the satisfaction of our job well done.
What is amazing is their unyielding refusal to learn from their numerous and obvious failures. They double down like someone with a gambling addiction, even now as they are going broke and falling into massive "debt". Maybe both behaviors are manifestations of a similar psychological disorder? When you look at the descriptions of a Gambling addiction, a lot of it lines up with Leftism. We often tease that liberalism is a psychological disorder. Maybe, clinically, it is.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
billa57 2/12/2026 7:57:57 AM (No. 2067666)
Hardly! They are co conspirators in the coup. They have not suffered anywhere near enough. May justice hit them on the head like a hammer.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
privateer 2/12/2026 8:14:56 AM (No. 2067674)
Great column! Hilarious and true. This sentence got me thinking, FTA: 'One of our great advantages is that our enemies just don't understand us, which is why Trump is able to run circles around them and slip out of their snares time and time again.' Our President really is the Roadrunner to their Wile E Coyote. Except they're evil, and Wile E is just hungry.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/12/2026 8:27:19 AM (No. 2067684)
When MSNBC fires Rachel Maddow I believe it might bring an orgasm to this old 83 year old.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/12/2026 8:47:00 AM (No. 2067700)
Bezos has done a necessary job, so I am reluctant to point out the obvious. He is still paying five Climate Change experts for writing absolutely nothing of value. Maybe they needed some extra time to pack up their Voodoo Dolls, chicken bones, dartboards, Ouija Boards and whatever other tools of the trade they use.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
walcb 2/12/2026 8:55:50 AM (No. 2067703)
"Time to laugh our tails off at the suffering of the fired Democrat transcriptionists of the Washington Post." Right there with you, Kurt.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chagrined 2/12/2026 9:57:04 AM (No. 2067734)
Wow! Talk about something that needs to catch on throughout the rest of the Enemedia!
I agree with Kurt. Ridicule these fools, especially since they're spending an inordinate amount of time whining about how they were wronged. Kurt has the perfect opening. FTA: "just-fired Washington Post hacks who are crying like teenage girls learning there are no more "Twilight" movies coming. . ." Oh how droll!
Maybe one day, we'll get to ridicule all the absolute idiot Democrats who are finally arrested, prosecuted and jailed for their skullduggery through the decades. Sign me up for more, especially if some Rinos are included.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thefield 2/12/2026 9:57:30 AM (No. 2067736)
Only left wing nuts. Relatives no matter what polital persuasion are exempt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/12/2026 10:07:38 AM (No. 2067740)
My morning dose of Schlichter! Thanks, Kurt - I needed that.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/12/2026 11:17:22 AM (No. 2067781)
For me it's the BEST HUMOR in my day. The more the merrier!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kafka2 2/12/2026 1:16:52 PM (No. 2067849)
To answer the question, yes, it’s okay to have no sympathy for the propagandists, who claimed to be journalists, who lost their jobs. They brought it on themselves.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 2/12/2026 2:41:14 PM (No. 2067873)
Yes, it is. "Journalists" have caused much grief and harm to this nation in recent decades. Bad things happening to them is cause to point and laugh.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 2/13/2026 7:19:42 AM (No. 2068048)
Two words for them: Keystone Pipeline.
The shoe is now on the other foot and they expect everyone to feel sympathy for them, despite the fact that they had no problem telling the pipeline workers to go find other work.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chefrandy 2/13/2026 7:21:12 AM (No. 2068049)
Coining a phrase from a certain ex-POTUS, "...put some ice on it."
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