Well, the Democrats seem to be laying down to their old tricks, again. I’ve said before and I say again, the Democrats seem to be the Washington Generals of American politics to the GOP’s Harlem Globetrotters. That is, the Dems job is to lose.

30% of this once-great nation is solidly MAGA. But that means that 70% of us are NOT MAGA. Now that the country, no, the world has seen what conservatism looks like – graft, bribery, lying, bullying, economic upheaval, ideology over factuality, famine, pestilence, wars and rumors of wars – one would think all an opposition candidate would have to do is show up and promise something, anything, good.

There are elements from the Democratic party trying to do just that. There are people who see the Dems “strategy” of hiding and occasional “firmly worded letters” play out, failure after failure after failure, and say, “We need to change this. We need to be for the people. We need to do the right thing.” They work to act on that.

Then, the Dems work to sideline those people. The Democratic leadership has lost the House of Representative, the Senate, the Courts, AND the White House. True, they had to make some major moves to make that happen, but when it comes to losing, the Dems are motivated. Now, having seen loss after loss, they seem poised to present more of the same stuff that got us here.

Young people coming up are trying to re-direct the party in an effort to win… something. One of the more prominent and dedicated focuses of Democratic ire is a young man named David Hogg. You might remember the name. He was a high school student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when it was shot to pieces with the blessing of the NRA in 2018.

He became a rather active gun-control advocate, as did several of his fellow survivors. He chose politics as his route to achieve his means and has worked his way up to the role of being one of the five vice-chairs of the Democratic National Committee. He immediately began calling out Democrats who prefer to stick to the tried and true loser, “We’re not them.”

Hogg said he wanted to primary Democrats in “safe” districts if they weren’t interested in taking actual, effective action. He’s quite clear, he’s not trying to blow up the party. He only wants to send a message – AND, perhaps, get some younger blood with fresh thinking in there. As a direct result of his efforts at reform, some of the Dems were spurred to action. Apparently, it was inspiring.

They saw the young David Hogg trying to get the party moving and they – wait, is this right? It looks like the Democratic reaction to Hogg trying to win elections is to remove Hogg as a vice-chair! Yep, that’s what it says. The Dems want Hogg out. He just got elected to the role, but, apparently, trying to win elections is a deal-killer for the Democrats.

So the Dems have declared the election that put him in his role was, somehow, unfair to the women candidates and voided the February election that brought Hogg to his current position. To hear them tell it, it’s all strictly procedural. It has nothing whatsoever to do with his activism. They just happen to hate the activism on it’s own but they would never, ever, heaven forbid, remove a person for following his conscience. “Because we said so.”

I think the Dems answer to the One Percent, the same as the GOP. The Dems are supposed to lose and so lose they do. They pretend to put up a fight, but they lose. And they lose. And they lose some more. The GOP is as popular as head lice but the Dems can’t get traction? That just doesn’t make sense to me. These are professional politicians who managed to get on the national stage, but now, suddenly, they have no idea how politics work?

The Democratic leadership knows what it’s doing. They sideline members like AOC and David Hogg because they get people fired up. They seem to have lost interest in representing the US and their constituents and replaced that desire with greed. As long as the One Percent’s dollars are rolling in, the reform Democrats are out…

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Have you heard that the World Cup will be hosted, partially, by the US in 2026? It’s also being co-hosted by Canada and Mexico. The finals will be played in the US. That should be quite the revenue booster for the US. People will FLOCK into the country so they can watch their favorite…

Well, people were supposed to flock into the country and spend a bunch of their money. The US has become very hostile to non-Americans, particularly non-white, non-Americans. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world, but many of the game’s fans are <shivers> brown. A lot of them are white, too, but they ARE “foreigners.”

Ever since the rampage of destruction was launched by 47 and his minions, the US has become a very unwelcoming place. No decent person wants to be here, even to visit. Now we’re co-hosting an event that’s meant to draw thousands of visitors from other nations.

My guess? Canada and Mexico will do just fine during their turns at hosting. They’ll make lots of money. I suspect people will avoid coming to the US in droves. They can watch the thing on television and spare themselves the hassle of trying to visit. Meanwhile, American vendors of all stripes, people who thought this might be a great opportunity, are, likely, going to miss out on all of the beautiful revenue…

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This was posted by a guy named Paul Rudnick. “The main job of any Trump cabinet member is to deny whatever terrible thing just happened, blamed it on Biden, claim we’re in a ‘Golden Age’ and hint at a “Major Announcement” coming “sometime soonish.”

In one sentence, he managed to describe the current regime’s playbook perfectly…