One thing you have to realize about progressive Democrats is they are raging hypocrites. Ok, maybe that’s a little too broad – to say they’re hypocrites is to point out that they say one thing and do the opposite. That’s true, they do that all the time (see multi-millionaire Bernie Sanders and his condemnations of capitalism), but the rest of the time, they fill with things that are so absurd, so blindly stupid that you really have to wonder if they are too, or they just know their voters are so they don’t worry about it.
The fundraising emails I write about every Monday are just this side of Forrest Gump in their comprehension – the John Fetterman of sales pitches, if you will. But beyond those, Democrats have started to be idiotic in their responses to everything everywhere they communicate.
Look, I expect lies from politicians; it’s kind of what they do. I view them the way Ralphie viewed his father in “A Christmas Story” when he said of his use of obscenities, “He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.”
When it comes to Democrats, at least of late, they are either getting dumber or believing their supporters are and communicating accordingly.
I don’t know which it is, likely a combination of the two, but it is clearly happening.
Ilhan Omar, the brother-marrying, three times married “devout” Muslim (who knew Islam was so sexually liberating to women?) A Member of Congress tweeted out after the Supreme Court decision on Biden’s student loan scam, “So $70k average PPP loan forgiveness is just fine, but $10-20k student loan forgiveness is not.”
Is she really this dumb? It’s possible. I assumed she married her brother as part of an immigration scam, but maybe she was dumb enough to think it was a good idea. Who knows?
What I do know is if she tweeted that in all seriousness, not as an absurd attempt to rile up her supporters, she has about as much of an understanding of how our government is supposed to work as she does appreciation for the country that took her in as a refugee, which is zero.
The case before the Court was not weighing the merits of one policy compared to another; that’s not how the Court works. It was on the Constitutionality of Joe Biden’s actions. The power to allocate money lies with Congress, not the Executive. My 6-year-old gets that. Why doesn’t Omar? Or does she?
Also, why would a Member of Congress be advocating for an action by an Executive that negates the need for a Congress at all? If a president can simply write half a trillion dollars in new spending into existence, why do we need a Congress? Did the Founding Fathers sneak a provision into the Constitution in invisible ink? Nicolas Cage discovered that it reads, “All these checks and balances, these restraints on power and the sharing of said power can be waived should the Executive decide they can get a political advantage out of doing so. In other words, this document is optional when its existence impedes what a politician wants”?
I don’t think they did. I think Congress exists for very specific reasons; reasons spelled out in plain language in Article I. Either Ilhan doesn’t know that or doesn’t care. It really could be, either.
Not to be outdone on the stupid, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chimed in with, “If SCOTUS were serious about their ludicrous ‘colorblindness’ claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged. 70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t touch that - which would have impacted them and their patrons.”
Is she so dumb to think A) legacy is somehow a skin color, B) that the Court could and should rule on matters, not before it?
On both, she really does seem that stupid. On the other hand, people who admire her are definitely that dumb and more.
Finally, does she not realize she’s in the legislative body of our government and is free to write a bill banning legacy admissions if she cares so deeply about the issue? She might not.
I’m not sure who would openly defend legacy admissions, so it would have a strong chance of passing. But doing something about what she complains about would rob her of the ability to complain about it, and half the left’s campaign strategy is to promise to “fix” problems they refuse to address every time they are in a position to do something about it. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t want amnesty or “comprehensive immigration reform” because I don’t want amnesty, but Democrats have campaigned on it for decades and had complete control of government for the better part of the year under Barack Obama (House control and 60 votes in the Senate). They did literally nothing on the issue. There was no vote, no attempt to squat.
Why? Because if they “address” an issue, they can’t campaign on the promise of addressing it. They’d rather have the issue – they want the carrot at the end of the stick to move the horse; they don’t want to feed the horse.
The worst part of all of this is it works on a large number of Americans. Is it the dumb leading the dumb or the evil manipulating the dumb? There is no wrong answer because the end result is the same.
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