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| Margaret Chase Smith-Joe McCarthy |
'Margaret, you look very serious,' McCarthy said with half-amused condescension. 'Are you going to make a speech?'
'Yes,' she answered evenly, meeting his eyes without flinching. 'And you will not like it.'
This was June 1, 1950. And as they say, the rest is history. But there is, of course, more. As the story goes...
"Four months earlier, Joseph McCarthy had stunned the nation by claiming he possessed a list of communists secretly working inside the U.S. State Department. The number kept changing—205, then 81, then 57. The inconsistency didn't matter. Accuracy was irrelevant. What mattered was fear, and fear was spreading like wildfire across America."
Sound familiar? Inconsistency, inaccurate, fear spreading throughout the country. Margaret Chase Smith was there to tell the Senate and the American people that Joseph McCarthy was a fraud, a con artist who had completely misguided the U.S. population with his scare tactics on communism. Fast forward to 2026, when Donald Trump holds a similar U.S. population in a different kind of fear that promises horrific reprisals to anyone who doubts or denies the will of his administration.
This is what had happened [compliments Facebook] to prompt Margaret Chase Smith to enter the Senate chamber and give her speech attacking Joe McCarthy, but without mentioning his name...Teachers had been fired without evidence. Writers were blacklisted based on
rumors. Civil servants lost their careers because of anonymous accusations. In McCarthy's America, accusation alone was enough. Guilt no longer required proof. Due process had become a luxury the nation could no longer afford—or so everyone believed."
Chase was a freshman Republican from Maine, elected just two years earlier and she was the only woman in the Senate. The Senator gave Joseph McCarthy the benefit of the doubt, in advance, by asking for proof of what he claimed. Nothing. Even in a private conversation between the two, McCarthy produced nothing. In many of Donald Trump's thousands of lies, he has been asked repeatedly for evidence of his accusations and affirmations but he has none and depends on the American public taking his word. Most of his minions do.
Here's more..."she watched her colleagues—powerful, experienced senators—freeze in terror." They were scared beyond belief that Joe McCarthy would make one of them his next target and ruin their career. Her description, 'mental paralysis and muteness,' with some speaking privately but never in public. This is the most accurate description of the Republican Congress under Donald Trump that I have seen. And you have to understand that Margaret Chase Smith had no protections as a junior Senator. Completely vulnerable. |
| Roy Cohn - Joseph McCarthy |
"She simply stated fundamental American principles and exposed, with surgical precision, what fear was doing to the country.
Fear has gripped the United States, especially since Donald Trump's second term in office, with bogus arrests and innocent deaths, primarily orchestrated by top aide, Stephen Miller. Could the person to expose Trump be an insider, someone working close to the Oval Office lunatic, who has the facts, which Margaret Chase Smith didn't have? Or is it more likely to be someone from the past who has been viciously denigrated by the White House maniac and is looking for retribution of their own?
There are, of course, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who could make the
There has never been an election in American history to equal the importance of Tuesday, November 3, 2026. GET OUT THE VOTE! Joe McCarthy was chasing communists. Donald Trump is chasing dictators. We got rid of McCarthy. You know who is next.
"Russia is building a network of secret drone bases within striking distance of NATO, with storage for a thousand attack drones at a single site."
To start, it would appear that Dufus Rump's love affair with Kim Jong Un has been rekindled, but if Trump thinks Vladimir Putin is coming to the party, he needs to think again. Taylor reports a Russian drone, loaded with explosives, was found at the Leipzig airport. The White House maniac has been trying to dump NATO for some time now with this being our current position...
"Western planners are quietly admitting they have no real plan for NATO’s nightmare scenario, a coordinated Russian and Chinese strike on two fronts, at the very moment Trump has hollowed out the alliance that exists to prevent such a surprise attack.”
I have been writing about the fact that both China's Xi and Russia's Putin must be keeping
their eye on the fact that Donald Trump is exhausting the U.S. munitions supply on the Iran War, and now both are probably completely giddy that Trump is shunning the very allies that could help him defend the U.S. against aggression. You have to wonder what they are waiting on. Taylor says Trump is pissed at South Korea because they wouldn't support him in the Iran War, calling Kim and North Korea "unthreatening and respectful."Xi - Trump -Putin
"The questionnaire asks pointedly whether the allies have been 'publicly supportive of US foreign policy priorities.'”
They don't just have to support us, they also have to call all their friends and neighbors and tell them about the fact that they are supporting the U.S. Whose imbecilic idea was it to embark on a PR program right in the middle of a war that most of America's allies oppose?
And there is yet more stupidity, compliments of Hegseth...GOP congressman Don Bacon: Pete Hegseth "Stupid as Hell"
"Another bullet point poses the query, “Has the country shown alignment with the US approach to [be] ‘strong, clear, and quiet?'” a reference to a phrase used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in May."
And just last week, China's Xi, who is a major Iranian trading partner, flat rejected Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ threat where he vowed “tremendous economic consequences” against countries that continue to do business with Tehran. There's more...
Tehran also condemned the US president’s economic threat, with the Iranian Foreign Ministry warning that those who order or implement the levies “are liable to prosecution and punishment.”Tehran called the threat the "other side of the coin of war." And CNN analysts commented...
Several analysts told CNN they were skeptical that Trump’s claims would have the desired impact on an Iranian regime that has withstood oppressive economic sanctions from major world powers.Let's take a quick look at the countries Donald Trump has alienated, and why...
There is only one thing scarier than Stephen Miller, himself, and that is the possibility that, with Donald Trump's health crisis, the Oval Office lunatic could put Miller in charge of the U.S. government. I have been posting on how scary Dufus Rump's closest advisor is since the administration's first term. This sort of thing was done with Joe Biden in easing him out of the spotlight when it was obvious he was having trouble with dementia. Biden, on the other hand, was not the raging maniac that is Donald Trump.Mr. Burns or Stephen Miller
Daily Beast political analyst David Rothkopf...
"believes the president is preparing to shift power to one of his most loyal sycophants.
"Rothkopf argued that one of the president’s most trusted aides—not Vice President JD Vance—could take charge of the White House if Trump can no longer handle the job; he identified that person as Stephen Miller."
Let's face it, Trump falling asleep on the job is enough to get anyone fired; but of course this can't happen. He could be impeached, and I covered that in a recent post, "How Democrats can take back Congress and the White House by the first quarter 2027." But that isn't what this is all about. Rothkopf is proposing, perhaps, the most daunting idea for this country's future since George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984. Yes, that is precisely where I think we could be headed under the control of Stephen Miller.
In 2021, Stephen Miller was branded an "Extremist" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, where you can find the best documentation of hate groups in the United States. Here is SPLC's take on Miller...
"Stephen Miller is credited with shaping the racist and draconian immigration
policies of President Trump, which include the zero-tolerance policy, also known as family separation, the Muslim ban and ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Miller has also “purged” government agencies of civil servants who are not entirely loyal to his extremist agenda."
Nosferatu or Stephen Miller
The SPLC and The Daily Beast believe both Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, together, have fomented hate in the administration...
"Stephen Miller, the highly influential advisor to President Donald Trump, is the end result of a shadowy network made up of racist organizations and PAC’s designed to push a white nationalist worldview from the fringes into deep inside the White House."I did a post back in 2025, "Are you prepared for armageddon...Donald Trump's death?...REVISITED," where I considered what could happen if Trump died. It is worth reading again but here is the way I wrapped the whole thing up...
"And this whole boondoggle won't come to an end until Trump's Cabinet and other doormat bootlickers start their own infighting, which will bring down the government. J.D. Vance has become president, Mike Johnson V.P. Both are borderline smart and think they can control Trump's gang. But this inept crew of morons erupts into dissention, with Stephen Miller ending up as their leader. Miller, who is a white nationalist, decides to round up all Blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, anyone non-white, and put them in a concentration camp. Then Kristi
Noem calls and says, 'Let's move them to Alligator Alcatraz.'"
Golum or Stephen Miller
Rothkopf says the two Minneapolis murders, "where two U.S. citizens—Renee Good and Alex Pretti—were fatally shot by federal immigration agents," somewhat muted Miller temporarily, but he is back in Trump's saddle again. And it isn't unusual to have an acting president, the author points out...
“We have had multiple times in our history—after Eisenhower’s heart attacks, when FDR was in his declining health at the end of his term, when Woodrow Wilson was bedridden after a stroke—where other people did the job of president," according to Rothkopf.
I don't know the full story, but I dare say the people involved in those incidents were nothing like Stephen Miller.
And when DB contacted the White House for comments, Trump's imbecilic White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said...
“David Rothkopf is a far-left loser who clearly suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain...
Then he added the unbelievable,,,
"President Trump’s sharpness, unmatched energy, and historic accessibility stand in stark contrast to what we saw during the last administration when Democrats and the legacy media intentionally covered up Joe Biden’s serious mental and physical decline from the American people. President Trump is the sharpest and most accessible President in American history who is working nonstop to solve problems and deliver on his promises.”
The real Stephen Miller
Rothkopf ends with...
“If [Trump] were incapacitated and they had to invoke the 25th Amendment, that would be another story. But that’s not what I think is going to happen here. I think, you know, you may have a slow decline, and you may just have more memos or more decisions going to Stephen Miller, or going to somebody else who’s sitting outside the Oval Office.”
So, there is a chance we aren't destined for the oppressive rule of this federally endorsed hit man. We'll watch Donald Trump's decline and see.
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| Alito - Roberts - Thomas |
"To start, Garrison showed a segment of the speech where Trump repeatedly attacked the intelligence of former CNN host Don Lemon, saying that he has 'the lowest IQ on television.' At one point during this bit, Trump said, 'But I know what I'm saying,' to which Garrison said he could not 'figure out what on earth that's in reference to or what it's supposed to mean.'"
Garrison judged Donald Trump on two points, both of which are scarier than hell when you are talking about the person that sits in the Oval Office. He said...
"One is that he's saying things that make no sense. And two, he seems unaware that he said it."
If this was a Democrat in the White House, the Republicans would have found a way to haul
Michael Wolff, Trump's one-time biographer says he "will probably never hear the tough truth about his latest 'bombed' speech" because "his team has consistently done everything they can to protect his ego from reality." The "reality" Wolff is talking about, of course, is Donald Trump's fight to become a dictator, and the American public's response to maintain our democratic ideals in anti-Trump demonstrations all across the United States. People are fed up and finally becoming very vocal about it.
But there is nothing more frightening that what the Oval Office maniac said at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD). When talking about running for president again in 2028, he said "I’m gonna do it." Here's what he said...
“I'm pleased to announce my intention to, and this is somewhat of a scoop, my intention to run for a fourth term as president of the United States."There's more from Independent...
Folks, this man is serious
"He then brought out a 'Trump 2028' red cap and put it on.
"Trump has continually made comments hinting at a third term in office, but an amendment to the Constitution prohibits anyone from serving for more than two terms."
The fact that Dufus Rump has had smoke blown up his butt since he reentered the White House for a second term is why he makes comments like the above. It's like flying on a magic carpet for him, just an illusion up there in the clouds, while the world below is headed for disaster. You can attribute this to an insane combination of insiders around him who respond to him with only what he wants to hear, and a Republican Congress that is too afraid to question anything he says.
Sorry, but I do not understand this, because as far as I know the adage that 'there is strength in numbers' is still valid; when a dictator threatens, the masses turn to their fellow Americans in numbers that can bring down this autocrat. Ever heard this?...Ancient Saying: “The strength of the wolf is in the pack.”
Another reason this country is mired in Donald Trump, his Trumpsters and Republican dufuses are the apathetics, defined as "not interested or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive." AI says that there is no way to measure the number of apathetics in the U.S. today because apathy is a temporary state of mind or feeling rather than a fixed demographic. Voilà, does this mean we might expect this passive group of citizens to wake up suddenly in time for the 2026 election, bringing the Republican Party to its knees?
"how financial ties to the Trump family and the social media platform could be
Bingo! The answer to Trump's succession is Donald Trump Jr., a numb-nuts if there ever was one. Here's more clarification from Last where he argues...
motivating the business decision [for succession].
"that Trump Media & Technology Group — the parent company of the president's Truth Social platform — has moved to launch a new product giving subscribers access to posts before they go live in the public feed, calling it potentially 'the greatest trick in the history of insider trading.'
"It would give Trump and his family access to information before it's released to the public, and allow them to sell off that information — all tied to market manipulation, social media platforms and stock trading, Last wrote. And it's complicated."
The question now is, will Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg join the fray? Both are gullible and greedy enough, but I can't wait until I hear the response from the Republican National Committee. This is the kind of thing the GOP does at election time.
General Public: Roughly 19% to 20% of all American adults self-identify as MAGA supporters.Republican Base: Up to 62% of registered Republicans identify directly with the MAGA wing of the party.
About 12% of political independents and 3% of Democrats also embrace the label.Here is a further breakdown using limited demographics...
Demographics: Self-identification is highest among very conservative voters (73%), military veterans (62%), union members (60%), and older Republicans aged 65 and older (59%).
Political Action: The primary aligned fundraising and super political action committee, MAGA Inc, holds a war chest of more than $400 million.
So, we can safely say that the majority of these morons--oh, I'm sorry. ignoramuses--areLaura Loomer
Republicans; no surprise there. The 3% Democrats could include people like John Fetterman, but we've known for some time the unbalancing of his scales. And speaking of unbalanced, the person exclaiming MAGA ignorance is none other than Donald Trump close ally, Laura Loomer, outright liar and conspiracy theorist. However, what worries me most about the above is that "MAGA Inc, holds a war chest of more than $400 million."
But back to Loomer and what she has to say about her own people, at least those on the same side of the fence that she is. Here is her scenario...
“I’m starting to realize many things, and one of those things is I really don’t actually like a lot of the people I have met in the GOP over the last 12 years,” Loomer posted on Wednesday. “Some of these people are so ignorant to me. They mock me for saying there’s Russian propaganda on social media and some of them even accuse me of being an Israeli spy for calling out right wing Jew hatred. Some of these people are literally ret—. Some are just paid off. Either way, I don’t like what I’m seeing.”
I cannot speak for the above charges but let me enlighten you with some of Loomer' past goodies...
She posted material questioning the official account of 9/11 and suggesting government complicity linked to missing Pentagon funds, saying it was an inside job.
She spread false claims that Kamala Harris hid or fabricated her Black heritage.
She promoted baseless narratives regarding undocumented immigrants registering en masse to vote, alongside the false Springfield, Ohio hoax alleging Haitian immigrants were eating household pets.
She advocated speculative theories regarding the sudden death of political figures like Senator Lindsey Graham.
"Professor Stanley Unwin [from Harvard] told reporters. 'Quite frankly, we have been stunned by the utter stupidity of these people. Collectively, the sample of participants managed not to even score a total of one. Thus making our control example, a registered intellectually challenged amoeba named Cody, smarter than the entire group."To this, Donald Trump responded...
"Meanwhile Trump took a break from fomenting World War 3 to tell reporters. 'This is fake research. My people are smart. They're real smart. They're the smartest. Fact. Everyone says so."
Okay, the above NewsBiscuit site has no factual validity because it is an entirely fictional, British satirical news website. I use it because it becomes more applicable when you compare NewsBscuit content and the measure of the brains of MAGA members. I asked AI if MAGA members were stupid and here is the answer I received...
"No, MAGA movement members are not inherently stupid; rather, the coalition consists of millions of individuals with diverse backgrounds, education levels, and rational motivations driven by personal, economic, and cultural values."
Got it. The above explains the general makeup of MAGA, which I do not question. What I cannot understand is just how ignorant can the individual be who solidly supports a raving maniac who is racing toward dementia, has no idea what he is doing, but at this point isn't really responsible. That's right, Donald Trump has completely deserted reality and has been in his own little world for some time. Those responsible for this are the Republican Congress, a gathering of idiots who don't care about their country, just power.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Bernie Sanders |
Colorado: Political newcomer Melat Kiros defeated 15-term establishment incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the state's 1st Congressional District.
New York: Backed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, progressives had a massive primary night. Darlisa Aila Shioalier ousted incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th District, Claire Valdez won the primary in the 7th District, and Brad Lander dominated the 10th District.
Pennsylvania: Self-described Democratic socialist Rabb won a closely watched U.S. House primary in Philadelphia, defeating an establishment-backed rival.
New Jersey: Senator Bernie Sanders-backed candidates secured notable nominations, including Adam Hamawy in the 12th District and Analilia Mejia.
New Mexico: Secretary of State Maggie Tuloo Oliver won a highly contested Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor, advancing to the November ballot.
California: State Sen. Scott Wiener advanced in the jungle primary for a highly prominent U.S. House seat. Meanwhile, Randy Villegas secured a runoff spot in the Central Valley aiming to face an incumbent.
My wife and I received an email from Bernie recently with this headline...
"I understand why many of you in the last week are feeling anxious, angry, and upset..."Then he continued..
"In this unprecedented moment in American history we, as progressives, are engaged in many struggles."
There's even more...
"Not only are we trying to defend and improve democracy against those who want to move us toward authoritarianism; we're trying to create an economy that works for all of us and not just billionaires; we're trying to create a public health care system that guarantees health care to all; we're trying to stop U.S. weapons going to the extremist Netanyahu government and end a genocide in Gaza; and there is the not-so-small matter of trying to save our planet from the ravages of climate change so it is habitable for our children and our grandchildren."
In a July 13, Benzinga article, the Bern said, 'American Society Is in Decline,' Calls for Grassroots Movement. "Decline," in my estimation is the understatement of the century. Bernie is a nice guy and never was one to diss others, even his opponents, so you have to take "Decline" with a grain of salt. Donald Trump has obliterated democracy in this country, has sent the economy in a downward tailspin with prices for groceries and gasoline skyrocketing. People can no longer afford to eat or leave the house.
The Vermont Independent doesn't blame Democrats for doing nothing, which they haven't, but offers this strategy, which bites the Dems in a positive way...
"But in the midst of our many struggles, we cannot simply remain on the defensive. The answer to all of this is not simply to bury our heads in the sand or wallow in despair."
Here's the answer...
"It is to continue fighting back as we did in New York City where we won three
House seats last month, in Colorado where we elected Melat Kiros in a race against a long-time Democratic incumbent representative, as well as many other House victories this year in New Jersey, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California and more."
Don't be afraid of Progressives. When you find out what their mission is, equality for all. and if you are not in the wealthy class--millionaires, billionaires--yet still wouldn't like to see impartiality on the social scene, in the marketplace and in politics, then maybe you need authoritarianism. That would be someone telling you every move to make, what you can say, what you can buy, how to raise your kids. (Sound familiar?) This list goes on and on. Now let me leave you with a definition of Progressive that I hope you will read, at least once...
In politics, a progressive is someone who advocates for social and economic reform through government action. The movement focuses on reducing inequality, protecting the environment, expanding civil rights, and ensuring that large corporations and the wealthy pay higher taxes to fund public programs.
Historically rooted in the early 20th-century, progressive politics prioritizes active government intervention to correct societal wrongs and protect vulnerable populations rather than relying on the free market. While often used interchangeably with "liberal," modern progressives generally distinguish themselves by pushing for more aggressive, structural changes to the economy and healthcare system.
Peace!
McConnell opposed Obama with every move the President made and stonewalled an administration that could have put the U.S. on the right track for years. I called McConnell a racist, "The most despicable U.S. politician ever," back in June 2019, and I have never changed my mind. Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt, a longtime GOP insider who has served as a political strategist for George W. Bush and John McCain..."resulted in an era characterized by routine filibuster usage, historic government shutdowns, and the unprecedented blockade of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in 2016."
"declared Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 'one of the greatest villains across America’s 250-year history.'”
He goes on to say...
"Americans cannot trust carefully curated assurances from political allies whose first instinct is to protect an institution, a party, or a reputation — particularly when those assurances come from people who have no credibility whatsoever."Schmidt expands the above to include Scott Jenning, as well as Senate Majority Leader John
"not only is it highly unlikely that McConnell was capable of having such a conversation, noting that “an 84-year-old who had CPR performed on him before being put in an ambulance has a roughly six percent chance of ever walking out of a hospital,” but Americans have no reason to believe leaders who are unwilling to give a straight answer to who won the 2020 election."
Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear asked for the second time to release information on his hospital confinement that began on June 14, and hasn't been seen in public since. Beshear sounded like he was almost pleading...
“Let’s end the crazy speculation,” Beshear wrote on social media. “Just tell us what’s going on.”Beshear, of course a Democrat, and is seen as a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.It has been weeks since Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, has spoken out. Everyone, including Republicans, thought it was particularly strange that Chao flew to China just days after her husband went to the hospital. Even more so that she set up a meeting with China's Vice President during her visit. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as boisterous as ever, even without her congressional seat, labeled Chao a Chinese spy. Here's the scenario...
Apparently keeping China happy is more important that her husband's health. But there is a report from a medical source that appears to be credible...
Elaine Chao meets with Chinese V.P.
In a statement, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America backed Chao’s unexpected trip. “Chao said maintaining stable U.S.-China relations serves the interests of all parties, and expressed the willingness to continue making efforts to promote practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China.”
Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, appeared on CNN to discuss the situation. Asked what the June 14 EMS call indicates about how serious the episode was, Faust said: “When we hear that, we often get a call like that saying we have a patient coming to the hospital receiving CPR. And what that means is that their heart has stopped, and if CPR does not work, we will have to pronounce them dead.”
Faust noted that only about a quarter of people who experience cardiac arrest survive to the hospital. He was clear that he was not speaking to McConnell’s case specifically.
Faust and his hospital are located in Boston, which broaches the question, 'why don't we have a report from George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C. where McConnell was admitted? And here is yet more mystery...
McConnell’s office provided its first meaningful update on his condition on June
22, saying he is “continuing his recovery,” “continues to improve,” and is well cared for, while declining to disclose the nature of his illness, name the hospital, or offer any time frame for his return. His staff waited eight days after the hospitalization to say even that much, and only confirmed he would not be voting that week.
There's more...
McConnell’s office would not even confirm whether he was conscious and would not say whether he was on life support. When pressed for clarification, a spokesperson pointed only to a statement released on July 2, saying: “Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.”Laura Loomer, a crackpot by most standards, but still close associate of Donald Trump, says, McConnell was “officially brain dead” and would not be returning to Congress. And, on Sunday, radical right Utah Sen. Mike Lee said that even members of Congress don't know the current condition of Mitch McConnell. As Yul Brynner would have said, "Tiz a puzzlement."Just so you know where all this far-right domination is coming from, it stems from as far back as Newt Gingrich in 1994 when he was architect of "Contract with America," the beginning of Republicans' lust for power. After him came Karl Rove, spawned by Geo. W. Bush, followed by The Tea Party and finally MAGA, Donald Trump's gang of hoodlums that have attempted to take over all facets of the U.S. government. Mitch McConnell has been a key player in this movement during his control of the U.S. Senate
"Republicans still have a massive war chest, Trump loyalists are still winning big, and redistricting efforts are likely to benefit the GOP."
Lake says the expected midterm "blowout " could disappear in this mode of "complacency," this term defined as...
"a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc."
Taken from the above, describing Democrats perfectly, are "unaware" and "smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc." Remember Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC head during Hillary Clinton's run for the White House in 2016? Wasserman Schultz not only helped tank Clinton's run but she was apparently sitting around on a Florida beach while Republicans took over state legislatures and governors' offices throughout the country.
I have never seen such contentment in a party that has been struggling for years to find a
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"Inside a Brooklyn industrial garage turned underground event venue, local leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America urged hundreds of mostly young people last month to avoid complacency."
There's that word again, complacency and you can be assured, the Progressives are not complacent, with their recent wins in mentioned New York, but also in Denver and Philadelphia. This could and should shake up the Democrats that have slowly moved to moderacy over the years, forgetting their base of non-wealthy working Americans. Bernie Sanders has been preaching inequaltiy for his entire Senate candidacy and presidential run. That, I say, is Democratic Socialism, and America had better get used to it.
And looking to the right, one three-time Trump voter said he was "confused and disappointed," and when asked if he feels richer or poorer since Trump took office, that he feels “poorer.” MS Now's Katy Tur asked former Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) what he thought of the governor's comment...“The disappointing thing is not him getting rich,” McCrory told Tur. “The disappointing thing is he got rich on the backs of people who are getting ripped off on high commissions, because that's how they're making most of their money — on the trading of Bitcoin.
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"Democrats are significantly trailing Republicans in national party committee funding ahead of the 2026 midterms, with the DNC reporting about $14.8 million cash on hand compared to the RNC's $125 million war chest. However, many individual Democratic candidates remain highly competitive by out-raising their opponents in key battleground races."
Lake says the Democrats should be worried, even with Donald Trump's abysmal ratings. She says the Iran War debacle could help Republicans in November, but states the Dems cannot...
...rely on Trump administration “missteps” to take back control of Congress in November, but rather must “swell” their turnout at the ballot box.Lake reports, that turnout relies on women voters — and specifically, those women she calls “skippers” and “flippers.” OK, let's get down to what the headline portends, who are these two categories so important to the left...
"Skippers are Democratic voters who did not turn out in 2024. Flippers are disaffected Republicans who could choose to vote Democratic."
Here's the scenario...
“Trump has a serious problem when it comes to women’s votes,” says Lake. Citing a recent New York Times-Siena poll, she notes that nearly two-thirds (66 percent) of women disapprove of Trump’s performance. Another poll showed Democrats with a 21-point lead among women over Republicans. And 60 percent of young women disapprove of Trump as well.
Lake mentions an analysis done by her team showing specific GOP flipping around the country in numbers that are huge, like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, could have made a difference in electing Harris. Lake concludes with...
“We need to reach and persuade these women to turn out, especially if the Iran war actually ends and gas prices fall,” she writes. “Democrats must do the work to mobilize skippers and create flippers. If we want to lock up a victory in November, these women hold the keys.”In the latest figures from the League of Women Voters, 91.3 million women voted in 2024. Here are some interesting stats on women voters...
These are the numbers...now we'll see what the Democrats do with them for November.
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