Miss Democracy's Christmas Eve Scandal Sheet

Christmas Eve Special Edition | A scandal sheet from Miss Democracy.

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Our Dearest Fellow Citizens,

‘Tis the night before Christmas, and whilst families across our fair nation prepare for tomorrow’s celebrations, this author finds herself compelled to report on matters most troubling. For what good is a holiday devoted to compassion and mercy if one turns a blind eye to those who mock such virtues?

This week has provided no shortage of material. Let us examine the evidence.

The Windmill Vendetta

On Monday last, whilst you were wrapping gifts and trimming trees, the Department of the Interior announced it was suspending five offshore wind projects. The stated reason? National security, if you please.

These projects represent billions in investment, thousands of employments, and sufficient electricity to power millions of households. Yet suspended they are citing concerns from what the announcement termed “the Department of War.”

Now, dear reader, even those unfamiliar with governmental nomenclature may find this curious: the Department of War ceased to exist decades ago. One wonders whether the administration has discovered time travel, or whether perhaps, dare one suggest, the justification rings somewhat hollow?

More troubling still: a federal judge recently declared a related suspension effort “arbitrary and capricious” and “contrary to law.” Yet here we are, three days before Christmas, with the same policies enacted anew.

The markets, never fond of uncertainty, responded with their characteristic panic. But one cannot help but observe the timing. Three days before Christmas? Really?

A Most Fortuitous Arrangement

Let us turn our attention to matters of influence and access.

Multiple wealthy benefactors have been reported as donors to the President’s proposed White House ballroom among them, Mr. Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia. How civic-minded! How patriotic!

And then weeks after these generous donations, an announcement emerged: Nvidia would be permitted to resume certain advanced chip sales to China. Under an arrangement requiring the company to remit twenty-five percent of such sales to the United States government.

Is there documented proof of quid pro quo? Not in the public record, dear reader. But the optics perform gymnastics most spectacular.

Critics and economists have noted, with increasing alarm, that such arrangements bear uncomfortable resemblance to what one might call, if one were being uncharitable, a protection racket. “Cronyism” is the polite term. This author prefers “pay-to-play politics.”

When success in American commerce depends less upon innovation and more upon one’s proximity to power, we have strayed rather far from the principles of free enterprise, have we not?

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Evidence

This past weekend provided entertainment of the most absurd variety.

The Department of Justice released documents pertaining to the late Mr. Jeffrey Epstein. Among these materials appeared photographs, including one featuring the President in company with Mr. Epstein and the convicted Miss Maxwell.

By Sunday, that photograph had vanished from the government website. Poof! Gone! As if by Christmas magic!

Only after considerable public outcry did the photograph reappear, accompanied by explanations about “an abundance of caution.” Never mind that the stated concern, protecting victims, made little sense, as no victims appeared in the photograph itself.

Two lawmakers have threatened contempt proceedings over the handling of these documents. One can hardly blame them.

The lesson, dear reader? Transparency, in this administration’s vocabulary, apparently means “we’ll restore it after you notice it missing.”

Blood in the Water

Some matters defy even this author’s playful tone.

Reporting describes United States military conducting what are termed “double-tap strikes” operations wherein a second attack follows an initial one. Lawmakers have pressed for video footage of such operations. The administration has declined.

According to Reuters, twenty-two such boat strikes occurred in 2025, resulting in eighty-seven deaths. Officials maintain these operations target drug trafficking. Critics suggest they may violate international law regarding the treatment of survivors.

Which makes most peculiar indeed the President’s recent decision to pardon Mr. Juan Orlando Hernández, former President of Honduras, convicted in American courts of drug trafficking and firearms offenses.

One conducts lethal operations ostensibly to combat narcotics trafficking, whilst simultaneously pardoning a convicted drug trafficker. The contradiction is not merely apparent, it is glaring.

A Reckoning of Rhetoric and Reality

This administration speaks often of Christian values. Of compassion. Of protecting the vulnerable. Let us examine the year’s record:

A forty-three-day government shutdown, the longest in American history, ended only on November 12th, after acute disruptions to services and severe strain upon federal workers and travelers.

Over 620,000 deportations since January, with the Department of Homeland Security removing previous guidance that had limited enforcement actions near churches, schools, and hospitals. One now raids houses of worship. How very... Old Testament.

Government social media accounts posting imagery of shackled detainees as if human suffering were content to be consumed. The cruelty, it seems, is both the point and the performance.

And the domestic ledger? The Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” shows resources reduced for the lowest-income households whilst delivering substantial tax benefits to the highest earners including approximately one trillion dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent over the coming decade. The largest cuts to nutrition assistance in the program’s history were enacted to fund this largesse.

To summarize: take from the poor, give to the rich, raid the churches, post the suffering online, pardon the drug trafficker, conduct the boat strikes, hide the evidence, suspend the wind farms, collect the corporate tribute.

Does any of this sound remotely like the teachings of the carpenter from Nazareth whose birth we celebrate tomorrow?

The Gift of Clear Sight

Since ‘tis the season for giving, this author offers you a gift: permission to cease pretending.

Cease pretending “national security” is always invoked in good faith.

Cease pretending public policy is untouched by private influence.

Cease pretending transparency means “we reposted it after you complained.”

Cease pretending any of this represents the Christian values so frequently proclaimed.

Whatever you celebrate tomorrow, Christmas, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice, or simply time with those you love, remember: the stories we tell of compassion, justice, and welcoming strangers are not merely stories. They are summons to action.

As you gather with loved ones this holy night, spare a thought for those who cannot gather due to deportation. For children who hunger because nutrition assistance was slashed. For federal workers who spent the holidays furloughed during the longest shutdown in history. For the families of eighty-seven souls killed in boat strikes conducted without full transparency. For the thousands whose employment in renewable energy was suspended three days before Christmas on invented grounds.

Then ask yourself: Are these our values? Is this who we wish to be?

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Miss Democracy reports from within the halls of power, exposing hypocrisy wherever it may be found. Her identity remains unknown, precisely as she prefers. The opinions expressed are entirely her own.

The 50501 Movement continues its work organizing democratic resistance. We invite you to join us on the twentieth of January, 2026, for the “Free America Walk Out” in partnership with the Women’s March. For liberty and justice ought to be extended to all not merely to those who can afford ballroom donations.

Consider this your holiday invitation to support organizations providing legal assistance to separated families, sustaining the hungry, and advocating for those this administration deems disposable. Whatever your faith tradition or absence thereof, we can unite in this truth: The present state of affairs is not right.

Happy holidays, dear readers. May we remember that the stories we tell this season of refugees finding shelter, of light overcoming darkness, of justice and liberation are not merely stories. They are summons to action.

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Key Sources

• Interior Department press release on suspending five offshore wind projects (includes “Department of War” wording): U.S. Department of the Interior | Press release U.S. Department of the Interior

• Reuters on the 25% fee tied to Nvidia H200 chip exports to China: Reuters (Dec. 9, 2025)

• Reuters on DOJ restoring the removed Trump photo in the Epstein files database: Reuters video (Dec. 22, 2025)

• Reuters on the boat-strike video, 22 attacks / 87 deaths, and questions about follow-up strikes: Reuters (Dec. 5, 2025)

• Reuters on scrapping guidance limiting immigration arrests near sensitive locations: Reuters (Jan. 21, 2025)