This rant from Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is worth highlighting not only for its entertainment value, but because it captures a visceral sense of why so many people are turned off by the Democratic Party and their elitist echo chamber. They really do think they're better than everyone else, and they barely even make an attempt to hide it. They take the public for fools, wrongly believing their endless manipulations will simply be believed because, well, they're the Democrats, and they have to be right. And their constant whataboutist justifications for all of their malfeasances, almost always blaming Trump, are unpersuasive and exhausting.
"El Presidente" channels all of that righteous disgust in this direct-to-camera unburdening, which is worth a few minutes of your time (language warning):
I have to do 1 last political rant after Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden. I never want to hear Democrats lecture Americans about having the moral high ground ever again. pic.twitter.com/2hRXHeysma
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) December 2, 2024
On "Special Report" last night, I also didn't mince words about the utterly shameless dishonesty of Biden and his entire team on this subject:
On The Pardon — from tonight’s panel: pic.twitter.com/AWD51ahbAg
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) December 3, 2024
Finally, this is the sort of neurotic superiority complex Portnoy gives voice to in the video above. A man wrote into The New York Times to seek counsel on whether he should basically disavow his own mother – who moved to his blue state to be with her grandkids, who adore her – because she's a Trump voter:
My mother, a two-time Trump voter in Florida, has moved closer to us in a safely blue state. While I don’t know what her vote was in the 2024 presidential election, it wouldn’t have affected the outcome. I strongly oppose Trump, as do my wife and her family, who live nearby. I’m troubled by my mother’s support of someone I consider morally abhorrent and dangerous, especially when she voted in a former swing state. With the result of the 2024 election, my wife and her family are directing their understandable fury at my mother. My wife’s sister said, ‘‘If she voted for Trump again, I’m completely done with her.’’ I expect that the next time they interact it will not be pretty. But my mother is a member of our family, and an invaluable caregiver to our children. She’s pleasant and kind in daily life and moved far from her home primarily for us and her grandkids. And she is my mother, after all.
I’m torn. My wife and her family expect me to brook no compromise and to speak out on an issue that feels existential to them (as it does to me), but because I know that her vote here doesn’t make a difference, I have trouble feeling motivated to admonish her for her past and possibly present support of Trump. At the very least, they don’t think I should expect them to be anything other than completely unfiltered with my mother. I appreciate the sacrifices my mother has made to be near our family and our children, and our kids love their grandma. And she is the woman who raised me. But my wife and her family will be channeling their anger at one of the few Trump voters they personally know. And my mother expects me to intervene and speak up for her or to encourage my wife’s family to be more civil. She sees her vote as a ‘‘personal choice’’ and doesn’t seem to believe that she should be criticized for it.
These people think they're the good guys. I hate to break it to this man, but it sounds like his wife and her family are awful. I'll leave you with Mary Katharine Ham's blunt verdict on this ridiculous "dilemma":
The solution for this is to call these gross people’s bluff and ask them to live their values by giving up the free childcare the morally unacceptable grandmother provides. Ha. What assholes. https://t.co/zIGvG974yN
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 2, 2024
