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Democrats

Analysis: Michigan Democrats Become Party of Corporate Welfare

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A review of business incentive deals approved by Michigan’s Democratic government trifecta reveals the party’s rhetoric on corporate welfare doesn’t match reality.

“Taxes are much higher than they need to be because Michigan politicians continue to finance one of the most expensive corporate welfare programs in the country. Lawmakers could afford to cut the state income tax significantly if they would just stop lavishing select businesses with taxpayer subsidies,” the Mackinac Center for Public Policy noted in its October 2024 “Blueprint for a Brighter Future.” “Instead of authorizing $4.5 billion in corporate incentives during a single legislative term, Michigan could have eliminated businesses taxes for everyone. Taxing all businesses to redistribute the proceeds to just a few is unfair and ineffective,” the MCPP reported.

In 2023, the year Democrats took over majority control of the Michigan Legislature, taxpayer funded corporate subsidies skyrocketed from less than $1 billion the year prior to well over $4 billion. The total has since swelled to about $4.6 billion in the current term that runs through Jan. 8, 2025, with additional bills pending in the lame duck session that could push that figure to $11 billion, the Mackinac Center reports. A breakdown of lawmakers who have voted in favor of the spending between 2001 and this year shows 61 Democrats approved 100% of business incentive deals, while a dozen Republicans have approved none.

Read the Full Story at The Midwesterner

Democrats, Media

CNN’s Scott Jennings Ruffles Feathers in Televised Chicken Coop

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You could be forgiven for thinking that you’re hearing audio recorded from inside a chicken coop.

Former George W. Bush advisor Scott Jennings, now a contributor to CNN, has an uncanny ability to ruffle feathers and elicit frustrated clucking from his co-panelists by simply stating the plain truth in a calm voice. 

Jennings remarked that it only made sense for Donald Trump to pick cabinet members and staff who had the ability to carry out his policy objectives. This was just too much for the liberals (every other person at the table). In the now-typical teenage-girl fashion that allegedly grown-up professional women use to communicate to the public, the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell squeaked out, “He literally said he was going to exact vengeance!”

They just don’t get that Democrats are not the only people who are allowed to hold political power. Jennings responded with, “You still don’t understand how you lost.” Rampell? She did the head-swivel and snarked, “Don’t say ‘me’. I’m not a Democrat. I’m a journalist.” 

No, Miss Rampell, you are not a journalist. You are a teenage girl in an adult woman’s body playing journalist in a costume at the Democrat Community Playhouse known as The Washington Post. To be fair, it’s only a few days since the election, and the Democrats have not completed the grieving process yet. But the Catherine Rampells of the world are going to soon learn that girl-boss sassery is over. Indignant clapbacks are not going to keep the left in business much longer. 

Maybe Rampell thinks we don’t remember, but she was one of the WaPo employees who signed a letter condemning the paper for not endorsing Harris. She sure seems like a Democrat to me.

The other women on the panel couldn’t take it either. “Scott! Scott!” was a common verbal ejaculation. Host Abby Phillips jumped in to say, “He [Trump] did run on vengeance.”

One suspects Democrats and media will soon learn another lesson: “consequences” is not a synonym for “vengeance.” Right now, they’re still in shock. The news has had a liberal tilt for decades, but it has been so out of control for the past ten years that most leftists now believe they are entitled to do anything they want—anything at all—with no pushback. They treat any criticism of their actions, or any refusal to go along with them, as an act of abuse against them. 

Let’s see how X/Twitter users reacted to the clip. 

Democrats

Tim Walz Didn’t Even Win His Home County

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History will forever debate whether the Democrats’ decision to usurp President Joe Biden with Kamala Harris cost them the 2024 Presidential Election – though to be fair, they were probably going to lose regardless.

In my opinion, Biden should have stuck to his guns as a transition candidate, allowing Harris to announce her presidential campaign long before the President debated Donald Trump on CNN, and exposed his mental fragility. But he didn’t. And the party was forced to promote a radical left candidate who did not win a primary on a manifesto where her only policy was the fact that she “isn’t Donald Trump.”

What may get overlooked, though, is her decision to pick Tim Walz – something she said happened while sleep deprived (is this a politically correct term for “drunk”?)

There are big names within the Democratic Party; Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Gretchin Whitmer, for example. She was not short on options. Yet, in an election where her opponent was clearly targeting blur collar males, she chose a bizarrely flamboyant governor who was hardly known outside of his own state.

Walz is not relatable to any man who doesn’t spend their life obsessed with leftist ideology. His most high-profile moment was calling J.D. Vance “weird”, who then turned out to be the more normal of the two by a longshot.

Walz’s unrelatability cost his ticket votes. Not just nationwide, but in his own state. In fact, it cost him in his county, which the Democrats lost by 1.3 percentage points.

The poor performance led to speculation on social media.

For many, Walz just simply isn’t relatable.

Democrats, Entertainment

All In The Family’s Rob Reiner Still a Meathead 50 Years Later

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If you’re of a certain age, you remember watching All in the Family when it aired on primetime. The show featured a working class white family living in Queens. Archie and Edith Bunker were the parents, and their daughter Gloria and her husband Mike lived in the townhouse with them. 

When I was a kid growing up in a Democrat household (don’t worry, I got better), loudmouthed and blunt Archie was the hero we loved to hate. He was conservative and crotchety. He had little time for complaints from racial minorities about mistreatment; for Archie, it was a lot of whining from people who didn’t have it nearly as bad as they claimed they did. 

He didn’t like his son-in-law Mike, either, a long-haired, mustachioed, long-in-the-tooth hippie who banged on about vegetarianism, social justice, and those bad capitalist fat cats. There was a reason Archie called him “meathead.”

Show creator Normal Lear was, though very talented, your standard-issue Hollywood liberal. Middle-aged, working class, white Archie Bunker was supposed to be the scapegoat of the show. We were supposed to laugh at him with pity, never with him. Instead, daughter Gloria and her meathead husband were positioned as the “truly caring” people that normal and good Americans could identify with. 

I used to watch the show the way I was “supposed to.” And then I grew up and got into middle age and I’ll tell you, I can’t stand meathead either. To me, Archie Bunker was the real hero of the show. It may even be true that Archie Bunker was the inaugural character who launched 50 years of insult and degradation by liberals against white conservative American men. You’re hard pressed to find a single father figure or major male character in a comedy show who isn’t portrayed as a selfish, stupid oaf who can’t figure out how to run a washing machine. No, it’s his “better half,” his much more clever and with-it wife, who makes all good things happen. 

All of that is a long wind-up to point out that it looks like Normal Lear wrote Mike Stivic/Meathead to mirror the actor Rob Reiner who played him. Reiner has become one of the most deranged uber-progressive-liberals in Hollywood, and at his advanced age he continues to bedevil social media users with pious stupidity like this: 

The reader will pardon me while I steel myself against picking up the bourbon. 

What’s he on about? Democrats literally cannot and will not tell you what a woman is if you ask. Conservative commentator Matt Walsh proved that with his wildly successful documentary, “What is a Woman.”

And what does Reiner or any other liberal in Hollywood care about birthing babies? The only babies they like are those that get aborted before they have a chance at life. It’s really just too much. There are words for men like Rob Reiner—and they’re accurate—but those are too colorful for Wokespy.

Let’s see how X/Twitter reacted to Reiner’s bathos:

This one’s extra funny even if it takes a minute to get it:

https://twitter.com/TheOnlyDSC/status/1853583778486030562
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 30JAN10 - Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times, USA is captured during the session 'Redesign Your Cause' of the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2010. Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Monika Flueckiger
Democrats, Media

NYT Writer Spins False Sob Story About Woman Who Induced Own Miscarriage

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Let me tell you a tragic story about a woman who lost her baby due to a miscarriage. It’s every mother’s worst nightmare, the thought of losing her precious baby before it’s even born. Making it so much worse, the grieving mother was set upon by vicious right wing police who arrested her on manslaughter charges. The final insult was a prison sentence. 

Thank God for the kind heart of one lawyer who offered to help this woman for free. Her conviction was overturned, and she was released to go back to mothering her living children. 

At least – this is the kind of nightmare that Democrat voters want to prevent.

Except it didn’t happen that way. But New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof, from whom I cribbed this story, thinks that it did. 

So does the Washington Post.

And so does Esquire Magazine, which used the Washington Post story about Patience Frazier, the woman in question.

If those were the only articles you read, you would think that’s what happened, too. And millions of Americans will see only these headlines and conclude that, yes, evil Republicans really do want to punish women for innocent miscarriages. How could they not think this, when the most popular news aggregator serves them this? 

But X (Twitter) has something different: community notes. Community notes is a feature added to X after Elon Musk bought the company. It allows X users to challenge the premises of a post and actually correct incorrect information with facts. Let’s take another look at Nicholas Kristof’s post with the community note included. 

That’s a horse of a different color. Not only did this “miscarriage” occur six years ago, well before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Miss Frazier deliberately induced a miscarriage by taking illicit drugs, among other activities. When she got the stillbirth she wanted, she buried the baby in her backyard quietly. 

Reasonable people can still disagree over whether what Frazier did rises to the level of manslaughter, and over whether it’s a good idea to allow the state this much leeway to investigate circumstances like this. But facts are facts: Frazier was not “oppressed” by Republicans, or by anyone. Roe v. Wade had nothing to do with the death of her baby; Miss Frazier did it. 

Let’s sample the social media reaction. 

Nathaniel asks a question that clearly could never occur to a liberal. 

Democrats

Democrat Mayor Defends Viral Argument With Trump Supporter

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A Democrat mayor in Pennsylvania defended his actions after footage emerged of him getting schooled by a Donald Trump supporter at a protest on Tuesday, Oct. 29.

Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk claimed to be “concerned” that the protest would interfere with “EVERYONE’S access to the ballot request and drop off” in a statement on X after a video clip went viral.

In the video, Tuerk could be heard arguing with a Trump campaign employee. His concerns surrounded access to voting facilities near an intersection.

“What we’re trying to do right now is make sure that people can access the election office,” Tuerk said to another employee. In response to a question on what could be done to address the situation, the Democrat replied, “Well, this is the question. So, how do we get to a solution where people can – where people who ..cannot easily walk to a poll and get here to drop off ballots.”

Campaign officials replied that it had been widely advertised that the street would be closed, including on a social media post released by the city. “You put out a press statement yesterday – the city did – saying that this entire block was closed,” he told Tuerk. “On Apple Maps, you know what it shows? It shows this entire intersection closed. Look it up.”

Many had praise for the campaign employee.

Others called it a desperate attempt by Tuerk to disrupt the protest.

Kamala Harris
Big Government, Democrats

Gun-Grabbin’ Kam Kam Claims It Is Trump Who’s Going to Take Your Guns

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If you’re a black American, especially a black American male, you’re probably used to being lectured by your “betters” about who you vote for. Prominent Democrats have a history of believing they own the black vote. President Joe Biden famously said that if you didn’t vote for him, you “ain’t black.”

Earlier this month, Barack Obama was caught on tape lecturing young black men and implying that they were sexists for being reluctant to vote for Kamala Harris. (Check out this report where black men push back against Obama’s paternal patronization). 

It doesn’t look like the pushback is making much difference for the Dems. Down to the electoral wire, Democrat nominee Kamala Harris—she’s actually talking to the media!—is saying she just can’t understand why any black person wouldn’t vote for her. As the current headmistress of what’s informally known among conservative blacks as the “Democrat Plantation,” Harris wants to convince black voters that a vote for Trump is a vote to have their constitutional freedoms taken away. 

Podcast host Shannon Sharpe put the question to Harris: why do some blacks “revere” Donald Trump? Harris affected to be perplexed (or maybe it was not an act) at how any African American could cast their ballot for a man she says, without evidence, will “terminate your constitutional rights.”

She really does say that Trump has claimed, in his own words, that he will “terminate the constitution.” That is a lie. Trump has never said any such thing. It’s also a good example of the phenomenon of projection and reversal, where the evil-doer accuses her targets of the very things she herself is doing. 

And she said, without a hint of irony, “But the First Amendment [will be gone]. The Second Amendment. I’m in favor of the Second Amendment. I don’t believe we should be taking anybody’s guns away.

It’s hard to explain or understand. Shannon Sharpe vigorously agrees with Harris’ claims, jumping in to say he’s worried that a Trump victory would take away the first amendment’s freedom of speech protections. How is it possible for any conscious adult to fail to see that it’s the Democrats who are cracking down on political expression and freedom? 

The irony of Harris portraying herself as a second-amendment hero couldn’t be funnier. As the NRA documented:

At a September 2019 campaign event, Harris told reporters that confiscating commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms was “a good idea.” Elaborating on her support for a compulsory “buyback” program, Harris added, “We have to work out the details — there are a lot of details — but I do…We have to take those guns off the streets.”

She also supports gun confiscation via buybacks;

On the September 16, 2019 episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Harris reiterated her support for gun confiscation. During a question-and-answer session, an audience member asked Harris “Do you believe in the mandatory buyback of quote-unquote assault weapons and whether or not you do, how does that idea not go against fundamentally the Second Amendment?” She responded, “I do believe that we need to do buybacks.” Making clear that she believes Americans’ Second Amendment rights are for sale, Harris added “A buyback program is a good idea. Now we need to do it the right way. And part of that has to be, you know, buy back and give people their value, the financial value.”

On October 2, 2019, Harris called for gun confiscation during an MSNBC “gun safety forum.” During the event, Harris had the following exchange with MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin. She told him; We have to have a buyback program and I support a mandatory buyback program. It’s got to be smart, we got to do it the right way, but there are 5 million at least some estimate as many as 10 million and we’re going to have to have smart public policy that’s about taking those off the streets.

On October 31, 2019, Harris called for gun confiscation at a public television candidates forum in Ankeny, Iowa. Responding to a question about gun control, Harris answered, “I support buybacks.” 

Lots of people on Twitter are asking the same question. 

Adam Coleman asks another very obvious question. 

Some people remember Kamala’s past gun-grabbing rhetoric:

Ouch:

Democrats

Democrat Strategist Thinks Kamala Harris Talks Like a “Nuanced Intellectual”

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What would you do if we were having lunch and talking about immigration policy, and I said to you, “Let me be very clear. I’m aware of what we need to do in order to do the things we need to do around the important issue of immigration, in America, which is to listen to the American people about their hopes, and dreams, and aspirations, and ambitions, around what we need to do to fix the broken border”?

Or, try this. Say we were riding on a commuter train together talking about mortgage rates, and you asked me what interest rate I paid on my first mortgage. In response, pretend I said, “Look. I grew up in a middle class family. I know small businesses and their hopes and dreams. My mother worked very hard–we knew all the small businesses and how much they meant.”

You might pick up your phone and search out the signs of a stroke and ask me to tell you what day and year it was. Or, you might wonder if I’d been spiking my Diet Coke from a flask of Smirnoff. 

But no! I wouldn’t be having a stroke, and I wouldn’t have been nipping vodka on the train. Instead, I was speaking to you in a new language called “Kamalese.” It’s the native tongue of the current vice president and the Democrat party’s nominee for the White House. Kamalese is a modern creole language that one woman has fashioned from the PowerPoint decks in San Francisco office towers (and, some say, with a little chemical help). 

It’s a variation on corporate and academic-speak. Full of sound and fury but signifying nothing, Kamalese is composed mainly of filler words that do not refer to specific subjects. Instead, the speaker aims to leave the listener somewhere between confused and uncomfortable so they won’t ask any too-specific questions. 

For a gourmand’s sampling of Kamalese, check out this collection from The Conservateur. 

We all know academic and policy-wonk-speak. You don’t say, “Children are going hungry,” you say, “Youth in the United States of America don’t have access to nutritional resources.” You don’t talk about homeless people who die of exposure from sleeping on the streets in winter, you speak of “Unfortunate outcomes of those experiencing homelessness and lack of weather-abatement resources.”

The thing about corporate-speak and Kamalese is that everyone knows it’s a bunch of bullshit. Except Ally Sammarco.

Sammarco is a Democrat strategist and political consultant at ARS Media. And according to her, Miss Kam-Kam actually sounds like a super-smart lady, and we’re all just stupid for hearing word salad.

No. Really:

Oh, dear. Let’s see what other X users had to say. Here’s Mollie Hemmingway:

Aaaaaand here comes Miss Sammarco face-planting even harder:

Carmelita here is just straight-trolling. 

Ha!

Big Government, Democrats

Politico Very Concerned JD Vance Expected to Get Paid for Book Tour

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Uh-oh! That greedy fat cat rich boy JD Vance, Republican Senator from Ohio, is asking for speaker’s fees. Speakers’ fees. Can you imagine? What in tarnation does that boy think he’s doing? More on the speaker’s fees below. 

Vance is not, of course, a fat cat, although he’s certainly wealthier today than he was growing up. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, published in 2016, tells Vance’s story of growing up in dirt-poor Appalachia among a family of drug addicts and abusers. It’s a story of one form of the American dream: small-town hick boy goes to university and makes good. After serving in the Marines, Vance went to college and finished with a law degree from Yale. 

Of course, the Democrats don’t like to see people pull themselves up by their bootstraps because their narrative depends on their constituents believing that it’s not possible. Numerous lefties bashed Vance in recent months, laughably, calling him an elitist because he managed to go to Yale. 

To the extent that the party even nods to working class people any longer, it concentrates on positioning itself as the big government savior for black people. The Dems encourage blacks and other minorities to see themselves as victims who can’t get ahead and must rely on the government to give them special (and sometimes illegal) handouts. The press goes right along with, as seen in this Associated Press headline about a wacky unconstitutional Harris proposal: “Harris announces a new plan to empower Black men.”

Back to those speaker’s fees. Politico believes it has uncovered a major scandal after it “discovered” that Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy publisher drove a hard bargain when negotiating author fees for an in-person program. They wanted $40,000 for Vance, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison backed out, saying the price tag was too high for them. 

Politico seems to think this is out of the ordinary in business negotiations. Without coming right out and saying it, the publication wants the reader to think “that rich snooty JD Vance is just takin’ advantage!” How else do you explain sentences like this?

“Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Vance defended Vance’s speaking fees.”

“Defended?” What law or rule was broken by insisting on a fee commensurate with a best-selling author’s drawing power? 

X/Twitter user John Hasson also found Politico’s concern amusing, which means other people online did too. After all, take a look at what Politico’s “Bureau Chief and Senior Political Columnist” is charging.

Isn’t that interesting? One of Politico’s own charges up to $35,000 to speak himself.

Bizarrely, this didn’t manage to cause an internal scandal.

Social media users are not sympathetic to Politico’s view. 

So does Barack Obama. Guess how much? 

And then there are the Clintons, but that’s somehow different. 

User “some infidel” brings us all back to reality. 

Democrats

Kamala Harris’ Campaign Backtracks On “Opportunity Agenda For Black Men”

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Kamala Harris’ campaign has been forced to make an embarrassing clarification over a policy which conservatives pointed out is racist and unconstitutional.

The Democrats have resorted to desperate measures as polling among Black Americans suggests a notable shift towards Donald Trump. While the Vice President still leads the Republican among this traditionally Democrat-leaning demographic, Trump’s increasing support among Black voters has rang alarm bells for the Harris campaign in a neck-and-neck election.

The situation is so bleak that Barack Obama is offering patronizing lectures towards Black voters, while Harris herself unveiled a policy manifesto targeting African American males. Featuring policies such as $20,000 forgivable loans and the federal legalization of marijuana, critics argued that the policies were racist (the former specifically) and unlikely to be upheld in the Supreme Court.

Rather embarrassingly, Harris’ campaign has now been forced to backtrack on the manifesto, and now claims their racially-specific pandering was actually for everyone, regardless of race!

That’s despite her manifesto being titled “Agenda for Black Men”…. though I guess we do live in a day and age where you can identify as pretty much anything.

Harris and her campaign were quickly ridiculed when the story broke on social media.

Others noted that Harris’ poor performance among Black voters may have been down to the blatant use of ethnicity to win votes.

And at least one reparations advocate wasn’t pleased.


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