Imagine having a billion dollars or your own money, several billion more from others, and every major media outlet except one using every resource at their disposal to prop you up, favorably lie about you while ignoring your own lies and faults. You still lose an election to someone with a fraction of those resources. You might want to find a reflective surface and stare at it before assigning blame for your loss to anyone outside of that mirror. Democrats are not. They are broken, and they are broke – two truths that are very much connected.
Under normal circumstances, Kamala Harris's and Tim Walz's embarrassing campaign would be studied and taught as a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about running for office, as they are the perfect examples of what not to do. But to learn from a mistake, you must first admit you made one, and the Democratic Party Industrial Complex is not only unwilling to admit they made mistakes, it might be incapable of doing so.
When you find yourself in a hole, the first rule of life is to stop digging. The Democratic Party, however, seems to be part shovel company. They can’t stop digging because they don’t believe they’re in a hole; everyone else is. That’s the only conclusion you can really draw when you hold the people you’re asking for support from in complete contempt, which is what Democrats do.
Aside from being broken people, which Democrats undoubtedly are after the election, they’re also broke. The Harris/Walz campaign set giant piles of money on fire, seemingly to watch it burn—for example, a reported $20 million on musical performances at campaign rallies.
It’s unclear where the money went. Many of the musicians have denied being paid to perform, and honestly, they are likely telling the truth because they’re rich and wouldn’t think to ask for money from a candidate they support. But they don’t ask for money in their everyday lives. They have people—agents and managers—who do the asking or demanding. The actual “star” probably has no idea what they do.
No musician will show up and just perform, at least not a wildly famous and successful one. They have a sound guy, a guitar guy, and people who do lighting and make-up (yes, it’s true). Some have dancers and stylists, not to mention the countless positions none of us can even fathom, all of whom have to travel to the venue for the performance. Those people aren’t cheap.
And the celebrity isn’t going to eat those costs. They may not be getting an appearance fee, but they own production companies that administer the pay for everyone, and they get paid. Oprah didn’t get an appearance fee for her wasted town hall with Kamala, but her production company was paid $1 million to put on the event. There was no way that event cost $1 million to put on – it was a studio rental with a few hundred seats, a stage, and some TV screens for celebrity Zoom calls, along with the crew to run the actual event for 90 minutes. What could that possibly cost, a quarter to a half million? Maybe it did cost a million, but if it did, it was only because they made it cost that much.
Oprah’s company got a check. It’s a business. If it got a million and it cost $750,000, then Oprah made $250,000. Not in the form or a check to her, but the company she owns made a profit. Same for all of these celebrities.
None of it was necessary, and all could have been avoided by simply putting forward a compelling candidate or allowing the one they offered to speak to the public like a normal human being about the things the public cares about. But Kamala was so crazy, not to mention such a horrible candidate unable to speak to people like a normal person, that Democrats couldn’t do that.
Now, after blowing through that billion dollars, they’re $20 million in debt and still trying to raise money to pay it off. They’re pretending it’s to “continue to fight for candidates in tight races,” but they’re going to pay off their debt first. Well, after the fundraisers take their cuts off the top. If there’s anything left over after all of that, and the bonus payments to party employees, the remaining Harris/Walz campaign infrastructure may well toss a couple of bucks to ongoing campaign fights.
Of course, by the time these people raise $20 million from the corpse of Harris/Walz (if they ever do), the remaining campaigns will likely be over, and they’ll just divide the rest among themselves. They’re evil, not stupid.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.