RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/after_papal_election_liz_cheney_demonstrates_how_trump_continues_to_live_rent_free_inside_her_head.html

With Pope Leo XIV’s election in the Vatican, politicians and world leaders of all kinds moved to deliver their congratulations, extending their best wishes.

But then there’s Liz Cheney, still dreaming of Donald Trump over anything else, even a papal election.

She actually tweeted this:

It’s always all about Trump with her, isn’t it?

Instead of congratulating the new pope, she tried to compare President Trump to him unfavorably, the one all full of ‘grace, humility, mercy, and faith’ and the other full of ‘depraved cruelty, corruption and shame,’ none of which is remotely true. The two might actually become friendly which would probably give Liz the vapors.

The whole post stinks because it’s focused on who’s the more famous one. Things like this are irrelevant to all but the most fevered swamp-dwellers, keeping score of whose status is more important.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/05/09/lets-face-it-dems-have-always-been-dark-woke/

By now, you’ve probably heard the term “dark woke.” It’s supposed to represent a new, edgy, gloves-off messaging strategy among Democrats.

But what’s new about this? Democrats have always taken the low road.

A recent New York Times feature says “As liberals try to get their groove back, some party insiders say Democratic politicians have been encouraged to embrace a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters who have responded to President Trump’s no-holds-barred version of politics.”

An article posted on Yahoo News claims that “While traditional Democrats may still be pushing the idea of reaching across the aisle and finding a way to bring a fractured country together, this online faction is taking the gloves off and going ‘Dark Woke.’”

It’s all supposedly a response to Donald Trump’s abrasive personality.

But who are they kidding? Are we actually supposed to believe that Democrats were polite and deferential before Trump? That they were the ones reaching out to the other side for compromise? That they were the champions of civil discourse?

That’s how Democrats are routinely portrayed by their patrons in the media. But it is laughably detached from reality.

This is the party that, back in the 1960s, attacked a Republican presidential candidate with an ad showing a girl picking petals off a flower only to be obliterated by a nuclear bomb. Ronald Reagan was routinely on the receiving end of vicious attacks from Democrats. In 2003, Charles Krauthammer coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome” to describe the unhinged hostility Democrats had for George W. Bush.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/04/kamala-harris-is-as-cringey-and-vapid-as-ever/

Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ favourite wine aunt, has made a surprise return to the spotlight. In a speech to an audience of Democrats last week, in her hometown of San Francisco, she attacked President Trump on what was his 100th day in office.

Judging by the speech, it seems Harris has learned nothing from her epic defeat to Trump in last year’s presidential race. She seemed as incapable as ever of offering a cogent, unifying message for a party that is now in disarray.

Instead, she went heavy on meaningless platitudes – ‘the one power that must not fail’, she said, before a long dramatic pause, ‘is the voice of the people’. And she continued to indulge progressives’ fantasy that they are the good guys, the people who fight for truth, justice and the American way. In truth, we all know they are the lunatics who support things like tax-payer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal migrants.

None of this should be a surprise. Harris perfectly embodies the Democratic Party’s derangement, and its abandonment of the American working and lower-middle classes. She is a deeply unserious figure incapable of offering much beyond the ‘progressive’ pieties of the day.

The highlight of her otherwise banal speech was a bizarre ramble about how elephants – ironically, the symbol of the Republican Party – stick together and protect their own. Other than that, Harris dutifully spewed predictable right-on criticisms of the first 100 days of the Trump administration. She slammed the tariff policy, the deportations of illegal migrants and gang members, and the showdowns with Ivy League universities.

If you live in a blue bubble, which her audience almost certainly does, you would no doubt agree with her dystopian portrait of life under Trump. But if you live in the reality-based community, which many Americans clearly do, you would be far more understanding of what the new president is trying to do.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/24/is-david-hoggs-implosion-at-the-dnc-is-totally-happening-n4939188

I previously predicted that David Hogg’s days as DNC Vice Chair were numbered. And it looks like I’ve already been proven right. According to a new report, the Democratic establishment is scrambling to contain this loose-cannon, know-it-all kid who wants to spend $20 million on an intraparty civil war.

“A week after Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg unveiled a controversial plan to back primary challenges to longtime party incumbents, anger at the activist-turned-Democratic leader is only intensifying among party officials,” reports NOTUS. “These Democratic critics say their fury at Hogg has grown amid what they see as his ill-conceived and insufficient efforts to make amends for his planned primary campaign — a campaign that, they say, threatens the DNC’s neutrality and its capacity to fight back against President Donald Trump.”

At a DNC retreat last month, officers — including Hogg — finalized updates to the party’s neutrality pledge and other reforms. While Hogg actively participated in the discussions, a senior DNC official noted he stayed silent when the neutrality agreement came up. Just three weeks later, Hogg announced plans to challenge primary candidates, fueling internal backlash. Although party leaders say the neutrality changes were in motion before Hogg’s announcement, they could help address growing frustration with him. 

According to the article, some Democrats are reportedly floating the idea of forcing Hogg to choose between continuing his campaign or stepping down as DNC vice chair, with suggestions that the party may even consider changing its rules to make that happen.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/what-jasmine-crocketts-comments-on-abbott-among-other-things-says-about-democrats/

Rep. Jasmine Crockett seems to be trying to compete with AOC for the title of dumbest Democrat in the House of Representatives. I didn’t think I’d live to see the day that AOC would find someone she could win when comparing intelligence with someone else outside of a special needs classroom, but here we are.

And really, the last few days haven’t been great for the Texas Democrat.

It wasn’t made any better by her referring to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is in a wheelchair, as “Governor Hot Wheels.” Her backpeddling explanation for what she supposedly meant didn’t make a lot of sense, of course. It also seems like BS since she’d supported its use previously to describe Abbott.

Then there was the videoed assault on a reporter trying to ask her questions in a hallway open to the public. She’s tried “explaining” that away, too. She’s never at fault, of course, and why would she be?

See, what we need to understand about Crockett and many of her fellow leftists is that, quite simply, they can do whatever they want to anyone on the right.

https://www.racket.news/p/the-aoc-train-wreck-is-coming-and

From the New York Times Sunday article, “As the Left Looks to 2028, It Waits on Ocasio-Cortez’s Big Decision.”

As Democrats find… their party’s popularity at a generational low, progressives are also staring down the prospect of a post-Bernie future… The 83-year-old Mr. Sanders has signaled that he does not intend to run for president again. The question now is who will lead the network he built from scratch into the next presidential election…

Virtually everyone interviewed said there was one clear leader for the job: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Hoo, boy. Making Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a.k.a. Vogue’s “Consummate Power Dresser”) the face of a left populist movement is the latest episode of the longest-running television show in history, How Will the American Left Screw Up This Time? It’s an instant entrant in the Hall of Fame of Bad Ideas, on par with a Hitler bobblehead day promotion or training orangutans to pack flatware. This will not end well:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/rep_jasmine_crockett_mocks_texas_s_wheelchair_bound_governor_abbott_as_gov_hot_wheels_then_keeps_digging.html

Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas is fairly new on the job in the House, but already being touted as the Democrats’ great presidential hope for 2028.

She’s young, she’s pretty, she offends Republicans, much as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, lately seen sporting mom jeans stuffed over her increasingly stout figure, once did in her heyday.

The New York Times has been particularly solicitous of this Hollywood-style big buildup, calling Crockett “an influential surrogate of the Kamala Harris campaign,” and cited her “stardom,” and claiming she’s “one of the party’s most effective communicators.”

Others have called her “the unquestioned leader of her party.”