Math is hard when you’re a kid. My kids – ages seven and eight – are learning math. Some days are good, others not so much. By the time you’re an adult, however, you should have it down. If you still have to take off your shoes to count higher than 10, someone failed you in life along the way. They failed you big time. Oh, and you’re likely a Democrat.
In the morass of all the news stories about just how broke the country is and how we’ll never, ever get out from under the crushing national debt, there are still things that make me laugh.
I love seeing stories where Democrats promise to “protect Medicare and Social Security” from those greedy Republicans. They never actually say how it is that those mean GOPers are planning to “rob” either of those programs because that would be a pretty neat trick, since they’re both beyond broke. That’d be like coming away with a bag full of money from robbing a vacant lot where a bank stood 30 years earlier. That would be a neat trick.
But some people, mostly Democrat voters, love going to town hall meetings to scream, “Keep government’s hands off my Medicare!” They really don’t understand how or when the program was created, nor do they have the foggiest idea how it is paid for or how it works.
The panic Democrats instilled in seniors any time a Republican mentioned the idea of changing Social Security for people under 40 – doing something crazy like allowing people to invest a tiny percentage, like two to three, of their own money into the stock market has always been met with shrieks. “THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE IS TOO VOLATILE” or “THIS IS A PAYOFF TO THEIR RICH DONORS!” they always yell.
When President George W. Bush suggested allowing this in the mid-2000s, Democrats freaked out. The Dow was around 10,000 then; now it’s almost 50,000. Do you think your “Social Security Trust Fund Account” saw that kind of growth over that same period of time?
But Democrats “protected” you from that horrible, horrible fate. Make sure to thank them in the voting booth next November.
There are, sadly, people who do think they’ve been protected by Democrats this way. Weirdly, Democrats like Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went from being wealthy to being incredibly super-rich in that same time period through the stock market. Very few people would have had the level of return that Nancy conned her way into, but no one has anything, thanks to her.
Democrats seem fine with this. They don’t do math very well, even basic addition and subtraction.
This level of ignorance of basic things benefits Democrats in immeasurable ways. U.S. Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14 raises millions of dollars each year because of her high profile and her ability to whine about how she’s “being targeted by the GOP” and “please help her fight back!”
The GOP has no shot at all in New York’s 14th District – AOC has won with 78 percent of the vote in 2018, 71.6 percent in 2020, 70.6 percent in 2022, and a real squeaker with just 69.2 percent in 2024. At this rate, AOC will lose to a Republican by 2144!
Still, every week she’s out there shaking down dumb Democrats to go further into credit card debt so she can live like royalty off their money.
Remember stories of how former U.S. Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) was paying his “wife” to take care of their kids? That money was coming out of campaign funds. Why? Why not? Your illegal alien nanny, your wife, your degenerate kids, siblings, sycophants, whatever – toss them all on the payroll. Like the Bidens, it’s less of a career and more like a family reunion.
They all do it because they all make the rules that govern themselves. Go out to dinner, talk about the campaign for a minute and boom: out comes the campaign card. Want to go somewhere, even Europe? Have your campaign set up a fundraiser for ex-pats there and it’s all covered. It doesn’t matter that your opponent doesn’t stand a chance or the other party isn’t even going to put a name on the ballot against you, raise the money and live the dream.
You can’t just steal it; it has to be “legitimate,” but they get to define what that word means.
And in their wake is a long list of suckers. The best cons are the ones where the marks don’t even know they’ve been taken, and the Democrat donor class is the very definition of that. Their math and civics teachers owe them a refund.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has 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.