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David Hogg’s Implosion at the DNC Is Totally Underway Matt Margolis

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.

What Jasmine Crockett’s Comments on Abbott, Among Other Things, Says About Democrats When you’re enamored with a fake hood-talking woman from an elite prep school. by Tom Knighton

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.

The AOC Train Wreck is Coming, and it’s Going to Be Spectacular Nationwide rallies are spurring “Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 2028” whispers, and it’s already clear: the CIA couldn’t do a better job of discrediting the American left Matt Taibbi

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:

Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocks Texas’s wheelchair-bound governor Abbott as ‘Gov. Hot Wheels,’ then keeps digging By Monica Showalter

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.”

Tim Walz, Minnesota’s manic Marxist governor, has the reverse Midas touch By Eric Utter

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

Contrast the competence of an Elon Musk with the staggering incompetence of Minnesota’s manic Marxist governor, known as Tampon Timmy Walz, here in Minnesota.

Walz did nothing as his largest city burned, helping to foster the nationwide George Floyd riots.

His wife said she enjoyed the smell of burning tires coming through their windows.

Walz somehow managed to turn a $16 billion surplus into a $6 billion deficit in no time flat.

The self-described knucklehead managed to tank Minnesota’s pension fund for public servants based on his public gloatings over Tesla’s leftist terrorism-induced stock plunge, before he was forced into a pathetic backtrack.

He presided during the horrendous Feeding Our Future scandal yet somehow has been untouched and untainted by it.

He has overseen the collapse of Minnesota’s education system, the state’s test scores plummeting like the temperature on a cold January night in Bemidji.

“Minnesota Nice” is a thing of the past, which I can attest to personally. Many of the state’s drivers are angry, impatient, rude, or downright dangerous, passing people on ramps and flipping the bird to others, whom they deem guilty of some made-up indiscretion. (This is particularly true in the Twin Cities metro area.)

Liberals, progressives, and LGBTQ activists own big city governments and incessantly push their causes, everyone else be damned. Have a “Trump” yard sign? If so, in many Minneapolis neighborhoods it’s just a matter of time before it is vandalized or removed.

Some areas of the Twin Cities are trending toward Muslim majority, and Students for Palestine run rampant on the University of Minnesota campus, while Muslims’ call to prayers echoes from loudspeakers in Ilhan Omar’s old district.

And yet, even this ‘diversity’ is not enough for governor Walz. He has vowed to make Minnesota a sanctuary state for abortion, a sanctuary state for children’s transgender procedures (including genital mutilation), and now a sanctuary state for criminal illegal aliens.

The land of 10,000 lakes is certainly not a sanctuary state for traditional Americans, or those whose politics are to the right of Chairman Mao. This is evidenced by the many who have fled Minnesota for states such as Texas and Florida, where sane governors preside.

If Chairman Walz has his way, the North Star State could eventually be left devoid of anyone but leftist members of the LGBTQ community and practicing Islamist Muslims, most of whom tend not to venture too far from the Twin Cities, which would leave Minnesota’s 10,000-plus lakes relatively uncrowded.

AOC, Walz, Wu — these nuts are the future of the Democrats?! By Douglas Murray

https://nypost.com/2025/03/20/opinion/aoc-walz-wu-these-nuts-are-the-future-of-the-democrats/

This was the week I became convinced that Don Lemon is an undercover MAGA operative. The former CNN presenter was on Bill Maher’s podcast the other day and was asked about the dire outlook for the Democratic Party. Which way should it go?

“People love AOC” Lemon ventured. “People love Jasmine Crockett. People love Eric Swalwell and the like. I think the Democratic Party should put people out there who the people want — who they’re asking for.”

Maher begged to differ. People do not want these people, he pointed out. But Lemon continued to insist otherwise.

Personally I suspect the only person who ever even pretended to love Eric Swalwell was Chinese spy Fang Fang, who Rep. Swalwell was banging the other year. But that’s a detail.

As I say, the only explanation for Lemon’s statement (other than it being a characteristic brain-fart) is that Lemon is secretly working to keep the MAGA movement in power for the foreseeable future.

Because it is only if the Democrats swing to the hard left that they can make sure the Republicans continue in power unchallenged.

The Insanity In Washington

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/02/21/the-insanity-in-washington/

We’ve noted before that Democrats and progressives are, with some exceptions, of course, mentally imbalanced. What we’ve seen in the first month of the Trump administration, though, is appalling. The political left in this country needs an intervention before it goes completely mad.

We say this because:

New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer on Wednesday said – from the Senate floor – “At a time when incidents in the air and on the runways in and our airports seem to be increasing, why would we cut the very people meant to prevent them? Simple. Donald Trump and DOGE are doing it like they’re doing so much else, so they can help their billionaire buddies with another tax break.” This is so insane on its face that it needs no comment from us.
Rep. Robert Garcia, California Democrat, said, in reference to the Department of Government Efficiency that is eating away at the fourth, unelected but controlled by Democrats branch of government that the American people want “us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.”
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas believes American voters are “callous & selfish” and a trifle too satanic for their support of DOGE’s work.
California Democrat Rep. Swalwell claims that “no president has had more planes crash in their first month in office than Donald Trump,” which might be true but there’s no reason to check because Swalwell’s comment is nonsensical. He should be embarrassed. In fact, as CNN just reported, “there was a record low number of airplane accidents nationwide” last month.
Margaret Brennan, a “journalist” at CBS and therefore a Democratic Party operative, apparently believes “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide” by the Nazis. Surely nuttier things have been said on national television by network-paid political hacks, but it would be hard to find a better example of lunacy in the media. And, yes, CBS is the network that edited a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris last fall to help make her appear lucid and promoted the criminalization of censorship.
The same job description can be applied to Anne Applebaum, who, writing in the Atlantic, said “suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation.” That’s right: When federal employees’ work product is being audited and their positions are determined to be unnecessary, they’re living under the boot of an invader. She believes that federal workers have been “under instructions to respect the rule of law, venerate the Constitution, maintain political neutrality, and uphold lawful policy changes whether they come from Republican or Democratic administrations” – and that they actually did those things.
The Democrats’ communications department, known by some as the legacy media, has also implied that higher egg prices are Trump’s fault, with blanket coverage of an issue it largely ignored while prices were rising during the Biden years. “No Democrat has offered a coherent explanation of how anything Trump has done in the first month of his administration has had any effect on the price of eggs,” our friend Steven Hayward writes at Power Line. “In short, this is one of the dumbest and most contemptible political attacks of all time.” Which is what we’ve come to expect from a confederacy of the unhinged that has lost its ability to reason.
The Democrats elected a child to be their party’s vice chair. David Hogg might be 24-years-old, but he has the temperament of a toddler who has been told “no.” It’s hard not to picture him wearing one of those little boy suits that have shorts rather than trousers. While he is a successful – and shameless – self-promoter, he brings nothing but deranged, puerile anger. Which is probably why he was elected to that post.
And then there are the incessant chants, caterwauling and braying from the left that seems unable, and probably even unwilling, to stop its descent into madness.

How Tulsi Gabbard Won Over Skeptics with Help from Vance, Cotton, and a Lot of Phone Calls By Audrey Fahlberg

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/how-tulsi-gabbard-won-over-skeptics-with-help-from-vance-cotton-and-a-lot-of-phone-calls/

Ahead of her Thursday confirmation hearing, Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation math didn’t quite add up as a crucial pair of on-the-fence Republican senators continued to telegraph their concerns about her unorthodox national security views and fitness for the role of director of National Intelligence through the press. Gabbard’s prospects improved on Monday when Susan Collins (R., Maine) came out in support of her nomination, leaving just one major roadblock to her ability to clear the Senate Intelligence panel’s closed-door vote Tuesday afternoon – swing vote Todd Young (R., Ind.).

Enter Vice President JD Vance. The former Ohio senator made a critical decision to spend his weekend in constructive conversations with Young, a former Marine Corps Intelligence officer who left Gabbard’s confirmation hearing feeling uneasy about her views on national security leaker Edward Snowden.

In Young’s telling, the vice president was instrumental in helping the Indiana senator get written assurances from Gabbard – a former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate — about her views on national security matters and whistleblowers. “Frankly, he seemed to be effective on his end in getting from me the sort of concessions that were required to get to a yes,” added Young. “He delivered for me, and I’m grateful for that.”

Republicans Love Trump’s Top White House Picks — Dems, Indies Not So Much: I&I/TIPP Poll

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/12/02/republicans-love-trumps-top-white-house-picks-dems-indies-not-so-much-ii-tipp-poll/

Americans overall have a very favorable response to President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to staff his new administration, but they still appear to be in wait-and-see mode when it comes to some of Trump’s selections to help lead his White House. And it’s very much a political thing, the latest I&I/TIPP shows.

In the latest online national I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from Nov. 27 -29, 1,411 adult registered voters were asked the following short question: “Do you approve or disapprove of Donald Trump’s handling of his presidential transition?”

Despite the the irregular and at times bitter 2024 presidential election, a solid majority of 54% said they either “approve strongly” (30%) or “approve somewhat” (24%) of Trump’s transition and early selections to run his administration. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.7 percentage points.

A sizable but still-smaller 38% said they either “disapprove strongly” (10%) or “disapprove somewhat” (28%), while another 8% described themselves as “not sure.”

Jewish Plot To Participate In An Election And Oust Pro-Hamas Marxist Gasbag Succeeds By: David Harsanyi

https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/26/jewish-plot-to-participate-in-an-election-and-oust-pro-hamas-marxist-gasbag-succeeds/

Jamaal Bowman lost his congressional primary race yesterday by 17 points, and all his allies in D.C. and the media decided to blame the Jews.

Now, it’s true that a large contingent of Jews who reside in Westchester County got together and, using their free will, decided to vote against a rape-denying Hamas apologist. But let’s not underplay the fact that Bowman was also a truther, a racist, and a fire-alarm-pulling clown.

Bowman, it seems, didn’t even know where his district was located. “We are gonna show f—king AIPAC the power of the motherf—ing South Bronx,” the former middle-school principal yelled to a small crowd at one of the most cringe-worthy political rallies I can ever remember watching. Red-diaper baby Bernie Sanders, one of the most popular politicians in the Democratic party, was on hand to tell the small crowd that the Democratic primary was “one of the most important” in American history.

Bowman’s district isn’t in the South Bronx, by the way. His rally was five miles outside his district.

In any event, most leftists blamed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for Bowman’s fortunes. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who put on some kind of wild pogo dance at the Bowman rally, has accused AIPAC of being “a right-wing insurrectionist-supporting, pro-Netanyahu lobbying organization.” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes claimed that Bowman’s race was in a “dead heat” without AIPAC’s involvement, which is a ludicrous conjecture considering Bowman was down 17 points before AIPAC ever ran an ad.