Americans should expect that it’s going to take some time for leftists and Democrats to accept the reality of what they’ve lost. And they have lost everything; the White House, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court. They’ve also lost majority support in the public on almost every issue that obsesses them from “transgender” ideology to soft-on-crime policies to coddling and paying for millions of illegal immigrants.
But you can tell that the leftist establishment doesn’t yet believe this is real. They’re trying the same histrionics and absurd accusations against conservative government officials that they’ve been using since they lost their minds over Donald Trump’s first term as President.
The media establishment, for some reason no one has been able to figure out, seems to have no higher priority than wrapping its emotional arms around illegal aliens. We’ve seen the highest number of border jumpers in history under the Biden presidency, and somehow, dangerous young men from third world countries with no papers set Democrat hearts aflutter.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is flapping her Muppet gums about how the price of coffee is going to rise because President Trump issued an ultimatum to Columbia. A few days ago, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, refused to allow two U.S. military planes filled with illegal Colombians from landing in the country. Apparently, he thought he had this option, but he didn’t. Over the weekend Trump threatened immediate tariffs against all Colombian imports, and the country folded like the cheap South American socialist dictatorship that it is. Not only are they “happily” taking back all their countrymen, but the president is sending his own plane to help. All while the price of coffee remains unaffected.
Enforcing boundaries with tough consequences works, but this is a new concept for leftists. ABC’s anchor Martha Raddatz sat down with “border czar” Tom Homan and spluttered in shock when he confirmed that, yes, Americans are going to see military planes deporting illegals every single day. She seemed genuinely disoriented at the very ordinary, standard practice of, well, deporting people who are here illegally. Homan was unflappable and refused to comfort her or tell her that the U.S. is going to be “nice” about the issue. Take a look.
Hollywood stars are having similar difficulties adjusting to the new reality that looks more like normal than anything we’ve had for 10 years. Former Disney child star and recording artist Selena Gomez just learned a hard lesson about being a ridiculous child about protecting illegal aliens. The rich, young singer, who is herself an American, doesn’t see herself that way. In a tearful video full of what the young call “ugly crying,” Gomez whimpered and wiped her eyes over the pain of seeing “her people” treated this way.
Her people? Does she really mean to say that illegal border jumpers and criminals are “her people?” Why are her fellow American citizens not “her people?” To her shock, Gomez’s fans hit back at her online histrionics so hard that she pulled down the video.
Take a look at it here:
The responses on X/Twitter weren’t any kinder to Gomez than her own fans:
It looks like people are getting tired of the “turn on the tears and then film them for sympathy” act that’s become so common among celebrities and woke activists.
With these kinds of theatrics, it’s impossible to tell how much of the emotion is genuine and how much of it is a complete put-on. But it does seem plausible that young starlets like Gomez really are so emotionally damaged that they’re actually moved to tears by things that make sense to the rest of us. There’s a reason the status of “child star” invokes images of exploitation and pushy stage parents for most people. Whether performers like Gomez can come back to reality is an open question.
