r/Gutfeld

Two days before July 4th, Brad Smith posted a video series on LinkedIn celebrating America’s 250th birthday. “As an American company, we believe we have a responsibility to understand where we have been, learn from it, and help make real for others the opportunities created for us.”

Here’s what Microsoft has made real for others lately: roughly 20,000 jobs cut last year. Nearly 9,000 US employees offered “voluntary” retirement this spring under a Rule of 70 formula – age plus tenure – that conveniently targets the company’s older American workers. And per this week’s reporting, thousands more layoffs landing next week across Xbox, sales, and consulting. All while pouring $100+ billion into international AI infrastructure.

Now the timing. Companies that are actually proud of being American – the flag makers, the ones staffed with veterans – have been celebrating this anniversary for months. Microsoft discovered its patriotism 48 hours before the fireworks. And not with a national campaign, not a single TV spot. One executive’s LinkedIn post. You don’t reach the American public through LinkedIn. You reach the press and the professional class – the same audience about to read next week’s layoff coverage.

Then watch the videos. They’re entirely about what other Americans did. Founders in Philadelphia. People who “faced uncertainty and made choices.” If Microsoft were proud of its own American story, it would celebrate its own workers – the people who actually built the place. That’s a hard video to make when you’ve spent 18 months walking tens of thousands of them out the door.

So my read: this is air cover. A feel-good history series rolling out “throughout July” – the exact month the layoffs land. Microsoft times its cuts to the fiscal year, which starts July 1. The flag imagery arriving the same week is not a coincidence. It’s a cushion.

The series says history is made by people, in moments, through choices. True. In America’s 250th year, Microsoft’s choice was thousands of pink slips, timed to the fiscal year, wrapped in red, white, and blue.

That’s not celebrating America. That’s borrowing it.

And I'm not talking about Johnny Joey Jones... this time. It's over 100° & Tyrus is wearing a long sleeve hoodie w/jeans. He's sweating through his shirt under his moobs. The other guys couldn't wear shorts like Joey?

You know it's hot when Kat needs a fan.

Anyone else notice Greg has a black eye tonight?

Has anyone told kat to shut the F up about love island? She is killing the show . Even on tv you can see they are annoyed by it, whether its a bit or not its made my respect level for her drop a lot. Put one of those hotties on there or speedy compagno id take her any day. I gave kat a chance but she is on my nerves as of late

It’s gotta be Detroit Tigers right? I don’t see him wearing a mariners hat or a yankee hat.

Every day Tyrus has a shirt that says "Monsters do exist", does he now own a t shirt company with that slogan ?

What happened on this week’s Wednesday show, when Gutfeld actually pushed back at a remark Kat made and totally shut her up. 😀He said something to the effect that we can’t talk about that, we can’t talk about what we said in the green room….. having tuned in late, did I miss anything ??

The latest posts mention an old injury, then why has the rubbing migrated to his arms lately? Sounds made up

It seems that Tyrus and Kat were falling on their fat faces tonight so they went with the “louder with wild arm gestures is funnier“. On the whole, tonight’s show just sucked

Funniest I've laughed in three years at Kat. Greg spoke for all us. Stop hijacking segments about Caitlin Clark getting throat-punched to talk about your Love Island bullshit, Kat!

This is the official spot to appeal to Greg to advocate for getting rid of Kat and Tyrus. I’m part of a significantly large number of Greg fans they refuses to watch his show because he chooses to have these two nit wits on his show daily. Plenty of people deal with cancer, fire her. This business is about the bottom line and viewerships.

They were both on the Friday show. They both claim to be libertarians. Kennedy is funny and fun to listen to. She does a lot of great impressions. I can’t ever remember thinking that Kennedy was annoying. We fast forward through Kat quite often.