INGERSOLL: She's A Doofus Smiling Magnanimously As Rome Burns
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INGERSOLL: She’s A Doofus Smiling Magnanimously As Rome Burns
OPINION
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Geoffrey Ingersoll Editor at Large June 29, 2026 10:16 AM ET June 29, 2026 10:16 AM ET Geoffrey Ingersoll Editor at Large Font Size:Below is State of the Day, a morning newsletter by Daily Caller Editor-at-Large Geoff Ingersoll. Sign up here.
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Greetings, Dear Reader,
We’re going to keep this Monday’s brief and punchy.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “hell hath no fury”?
Do you know how it ends?
THE GREAT DISAPPEARING TRICK
If killing baby Hitler is high up on the list of time machine to-dos, making MacKenzie Scott sign a prenup has to be close behind.
Scott, Jeff Bezos’s ex wife, went viral over the weekend because of her monstrous charitable giving to all the worst actors in lefty activism.
She made roughly $40 billion off the divorce in 2019, and has since given approximately $26 billion of it away (don’t worry, Dear Reader, she remains very much a billionaire). She wants to give the entirety of it away before she dies.
Liberals are simply ecstatic about Scott’s giving, and it’s no shock as to why.
“Almost entirely” might be a bit of an overstatement here on Katie Miller’s behalf. Still, a conservative analysis of her charitable giving would peg somewhere around half of that total going to viciously leftist causes.
Scott herself has explicitly said she wanted to support “racial equity” and immigration and Alphabet People. She gave a half a billion to racial justice groups, including to the “Movement for Black Lives,” which agitates for prison abolition. She dumped money into the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR) and the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). Both of these organizations lobby hard for “voter access,” a euphemism for loose registration and voter by mail processes. She gave ~$50 million to the Trevor Project, an online grooming organization that convinces kids they’re transgender and then encourages them to castrate themselves. She gave another ~$250 million to Planned Parenthood. We all know what they do. I haven’t touched the open borders or climate change organizations she’s given to, but you get the point.
More directly, Scott’s activist spending goes to abolishing police, the borders, modern energy, institutionalizing explicit racism in hiring and college admissions, grooming and castrating minors, aborting babies, and increasing voter fraud.
Basically: Bringing down western civilization.
The other half of her spending went to genuinely good (imo) organizations. Big Brothers and Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, feeding the poor and so on. Which begs the question: Rather than pay people who pay people who pay people to buy housing and food for poor people, why not just invest in companies that do housing and food development?
Too capitalist I guess?
Kleiner Perkins famously invested in Amazon in one of the greatest VC stories of tech history. They gave Bezos $8 million in a 1996 Series A. When Amazon went public the following year, it would have paid out roughly $60 million if they sold right then.
If they held, that sum now would be more like $50-100 billion. Incidentally, about as much as Scott walked away with after the divorce.
The money she’s spending is gone as soon as it leaves her fingers. It goes down the labyrinthine NGO-to-NGO corridor and what comes out the other end, however diluted by nonprofit executive pay, has about a 50% chance of contributing materially to bringing about the end of western civilization.
As for creating tangible, lasting products, those don’t seem to be a major result of the staggering sum she’s spent.
An astute observer pointed out what Carnegie did with a fraction of the funds.
At the very least, the Carnegie buildings remain.
What is Scott building? Nothing that will last.
MORE LINKS
Markwayne Mullin Reminds Jake Tapper What The ‘T’ In ‘TPS’ Means
Good TV.
‘Like Feudalism’: Eurocrats Reportedly Cut AC For Staffers — But Not Elite Officials
Making people work indoors in extreme heat without AC is torture.
This guy can’t win, right?
Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
