That title makes it sound as though it is limited to a few Democrats, the ones I will mention in this column. That’s not the case. It’s all of them; every last worthless, anti-American, corrupt, perverted, divisive, accusatory, manipulative, hypocritical one of them. They are some kind of special jackasses who can talk about how they’ll “bring the country together” while calling half the country Nazis, they’ll talk about working across the aisle while insisting they’ll “stop those MAGA Republicans.” I don’t blame them as much as I blame the people who fall for it and vote for them, but I still blame them a whole lot, because I can’t stand any of them. So I thought I’d highlight some of them in various columns before the election, starting with Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware.
I had never heard of Lisa Blunt Rochester until this morning, when I opened by email to see one pretending to be from her. Apparently, she’s a Member of the House of Representatives from Delaware. There are 435 voting Members of the House, most of whom you’ll never hear of because they’re irrelevant back-benchers without any legislative accomplishments. Rochester is one of those.
After a short time in the House, she now wants a promotion to the Senate, since another worthless Delaware Democrat – Senator Tom Carper – is calling it a day.
She has only been in office since 2017 and literally has zero accomplishments – you know you suck when even your Wikipedia page, which you can have staff manipulate and can claim to have “led the fight” for whatever bills you may have co-sponsored, offers nothing as legislative accomplishments. Seriously, all it basically says is she voted to impeach Trump twice and had a viral moment at a committee hearing. She’s been paid $1.2 million over her few years in office, and will get a nice pension, and she can’t even cook up something to lie about on an open-source platform where the word of Democrats is taken as gospel. Pathetic.
She’ll fit right in with other Democrats in the Senate.
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Why will she win? Well, she’ll win the Democratic nomination because the party machinery is working for her. She’s the chosen one. As evidenced by Carper’s existence and Joe Biden having held the job for decades, the party machine in Delaware likes them stupid. Once they tap a candidate, the election is a formality.
She’s also “a woman of color.”
Yep, she’s running on the “I’m a minority, vote for me” platform, essentially. A fundraising email from her, which is really for the Senate campaign of Adam Schiff in California and they’ll split the money 50/50 (even though they’re both basically safe and don’t need the money for anything other than subsidizing their lives as they cosplay candidates), opens with, “Friend, this is the document that granted my great-great-great grandfather the right to vote in 1867. The significance of this is not lost on me – 146 years later, I’m running to become the first woman and person of color to represent Delaware in the Senate.”
There’s a picture of her holding up an ugly scarf with what appears to be a voter registration card printed on it. I assume that’s the document she’s talking about.
It’s from Georgia, and she doesn’t mention that she’s a member of the party that, just a few years later, stripped her grandfather and people like him in the south of that very right through Jim Crow law, poll taxes, etc., after Democrats successfully ended reconstruction and brought back oppression of black people. But why let the facts stand in the way of a good story?
Her email continues, “I carry the story of my ancestors with me every day. It means so much to me that my sister Thea made it into a scarf. The day I was sworn in, I carried that scarf. It was surreal – knowing how far my family, and so many families of color, had come. All the way from being enslaved, to finally getting the right to vote, to being elected to represent the First State. I also carried that scarf on the day of the January 6th insurrection. On such a dark day for our democracy, my scarf served as a reminder that every effort to undermine our democracy has been met with voices of power and reason. And I intend to carry that scarf when I’m sworn in to the Senate.”
Her hands are free to carry almost anything, unincumbered by legislation she’s championing or anything else an effective elected official might carry.
It’s an ugly scarf that she, apparently, never washes, because she’s got it with her all the time. Prop comics always have their best props with them.
That was it, by the way. That was the whole reason she gave to give money to her campaign it doesn’t need – that she’s black and has this scarf. Glossed over is how she’s worth about $10 million and led a pretty privileged life of private schools, schools abroad, and living overseas. Nope, no need to mention that – just that someone in her family tree long before she was born, someone she never met and likely never really thought of as more than a political prop, left a paper trail she’s able to exploit.
Poverty tourism – when a wealthy politician goes and visits a poor area like it’s a zoo – annoys the hell out of me. Frauds and phonies annoy the hell out of me. And people who use things they had no control over, like their gender, skin color, etc., to get ahead annoy the hell out of me.
Lisa Blunt Rochester hits the trifecta.
