Democrats double down

Democrats in America are doubling down on political correctness (“woke”), vindictive opposition to patriotism and sound economics, and even treason. This goes beyond the “media meltdowns” that started when media personalities realized that Donald Trump would win the election. Now they are trotting out failed personalities as Presidential candidates (including Vice-President Kamala Harris in a rematch!). They also are defending a likely traitor and running with a possibly mendacious personal attack on a Trump nominee. While this is happening, the Censorship Industrial Complex has met to plan how they can censor their users some more. This is the antithesis of how Democrats took back the White House in 1992 and even 2008. It bespeaks either delusion, militant spite, or both.

Whom are Democrats promoting in 2028?

Most of the evidence of this vindictive and deluded attitude by Democrats comes from one of their worst allied media organs, The Hill. Since when has The Hill become a haven for leftist conspiracy theories? Definitely since the election, and likely since the January 6 Event. This morning’s home or “front” page tells the tale.

To begin, Amie Parnes, yesterday morning, listed possible Democratic candidates for President in 2028. Leading the race, incredibly, is Vice-President Harris. Either no one wants to blame Harris for running a horrible campaign, or Amie Parnes is trying to hide it. The typical excuse is that Joe Biden had set the tone for the race, and Harris couldn’t repudiate him. Anyone else in her position absolutely could and should have, for his policy failures are legendary. But Harris did not, for two reasons: she shares his ideology, and her own mental capacity is limited. For that matter, her appeal was limited, beyond her (mostly female) media shills.

Then Parnes exhibits this gem:

Harris showed that she could run an impressive campaign even in the short time she was in the race, according [to] those pining for another run.

Or according to Parnes, more likely. An impressive campaign? Blowing $1 billion on celebrities who are either no-shows or make only brief remarks? Letting your headliners upstage you when they do show up? Impressive, all right – but not the way Parnes thinks.

A series of failed governors

Democrats also are talking about four governors, all of whom are failing or barely passing. They are Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.), Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), and J. B. Pritzker (D-Ill.). Josh Shapiro couldn’t even deliver his State for Harris. Of course, some say he didn’t, to spite Harris after she passed him over for Vice-President. But plenty of commentators living in Pennsylvania blame his own woke politics and policy failures for that. In fact, Democrats lost nearly every State-wide race they ran in Pennsylvania, including now-defeated Sen. Bob Casey Jr.

Gavin Newsom is obviously the worst failure as a Democratic governor. He has made his State so unattractive that U-Haul charges two and a half to four times as much for a one-way rental moving out of California as moving into it. Even after so many have fled, several California counties “flipped red.” The only reason Democrats flipped two House seats is that the Republicans involved were no better than they, and voters split their ticket.

Gretchen Whitmer will go down in history as the governor who exceeded her authority during the “p(l)andemic.” And J. B. Pritzker openly declares his intention to shield illegal immigrants from deportation. Someone needs to remind him why Donald Trump is still ahead in the popular vote by 2.4 million votes. (California, Oregon and Washington State are still dawdling on vote counting.)

The bottom of the barrel

Parnes mentions two other candidates who have drawn the interest of Democrats or have announced intentions to run. One is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. If Parnes is to be believed, the SecTrans “is polling ahead of the pack.” If that’s among Democrats, then one can only pity them. Lay aside his lifelong embrace of the Alphabet Soup lifestyle (and he might not even be the first!). Examine his record. Joe Biden appointed him SecTrans because he said he liked trains. But after one train spectacularly wrecked, he was nowhere to be found until far too late.

The other is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Now she is Constitutionally old enough to run for President. If she did run, she would be the youngest candidate ever. (John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he ran; AOC is 35 years old as of today.) Youth isn’t her problem – after all, Emperor Augustus was only 18 when he formed the Second Triumvirate after the assassination of his grand-uncle Julius Caesar. Her problem is her ideology. She formed the infamous “Squad” which has done more to pull the Democrats leftward than has anyone else. In the recent dust-up about Rep. Tim “Sarah” McBride demanding to use women’s restrooms, AOC was on McBride’s side.

“She and the ‘squad’ started pushing too hard, too fast,” said one Democratic strategist whom Parnes quoted. Then say this for AOC: she’s honest. But honesty about wanting to steal from some for the unearned benefit of others, will not serve.

Democrats defend Colonel Vindman

Also this week, Democrats defended Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman USA (retired), after he accused Elon Musk of acting for Russia. Alexander Vindman, of course, leaked a telephone call between Trump and Ukraine leader Volodymr Zelensky. He also accused Trump of pressuring Zelensky to fire a prosecuting official – for Trump’s own benefit. This same Alexander Vindman tried to discredit a whistleblower, Andrii Telizhenko, who shed light on a ten-year history of U.S. government meddling – under Democratic administrations – in Ukrainian affairs.

Alexander Vindman and his brother Eugene (now Rep.-elect Vindman of Virginia’s Seventh District) are natives of Ukraine. Col. Vindman’s efforts to bring down the one President who has tried to keep America out of war, and to silence someone revealing U.S. government interference in that theater, take on all the appearance of trying to drag the United States into a mutually destructive war with Russia. That constitutes “levying war against” the United States – one of two Constitutionally actionable elements of treason.

Last Wednesday (November 27), Col. Vindman flatly accused Elon Musk of being a Russian asset.

Clearly, Putin has a type. He likes narcissists and egomaniacs that he knows, as a [former] case officer, that he could easily pander to and manipulate to do his dirty work. We are under attack. Russia has been using different levers, whether that’s corruption networks – in this case, it’s influencers, like Donald Trump, like Elon Musk, to really kind of sow discord. And it’s particularly troubling with Elon Musk in this case, because Elon Musk has access to State secrets, he has Top Secret security clearance, it’s possible that some of that is seeping through. Putin has been very effective in playing both Trump and Elon, and he’s been using the richest man in the world to do his bidding. In some cases that’s encouraging him probably to support Donald Trump. That’s not speculation. We see how far in Elon has gone – and then using Twitter [now X] as a disinformation platform. So this is not some sort of far-off, distant threat. This is going to impact our elections. It’s a national security threat. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman USA (retired)

Alexander Vindman has accused Elon Musk of divulging state secrets to Vladimir Putin, and that the real reason he supports Trump is because Putin ordered him to do so. pic.twitter.com/WAFjL3RKue— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) November 27, 2024

Several X users recognized the above as slander and defamation. Elon Musk didn’t threaten a lawsuit – probably believing that he, a public figure, has no such recourse. Instead he raised the stakes:

Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty. Elon Musk

Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 27, 2024

Col. Vindman did reply:

Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?

Let me help you out with the facts: I don’t take/have never taken money from any money from oligarchs Ukrainian or other otherwise.

I do run a nonprofit foundation, the Here Right Matters Foundation, to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s unprovoked attack on Feb 24, 2022. I served in the military for nearly 22 years and my loyalty is to supporting the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. That’s why I reported presidential corruption when I witnessed an effort to steal an election. That report was in classified channels and when called by Congress to testify about presidential corruption I did so, as required by law.

You, Elon, appear to believe you can act with impunity and are attempting to silence your critics. I’m not intimidated. Col. Vindman

Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?

Let me help you out with the facts: I don’t take/have never taken… https://t.co/E2ieupoiRf— Alexander S. Vindman 🇺🇸 (@AVindman) November 27, 2024

An American patriot? Really?

The next question is whether Col. Vindman would care to assert the above in a public trial. Whether that trial be of Musk for asserting Vindman’s treason, or Vindman for that treason (or for defamation), wouldn’t matter. Reaction to his post was mixed. But yesterday afternoon, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) tried to assert that Vindman was an American patriot.

Message to Elon Musk—The Vindman family embodies patriotism and public service. You know nothing about either. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)

Message to Elon Musk—The Vindman family embodies patriotism and public service. You know nothing about either. https://t.co/3JSr7aivDD— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) November 29, 2024

Message to Sen. Kaine. Alexander Vindman slandered and defamed his President and tried to drag this country into a war not ours to fight. As such he has committed treason and disgraced his uniform. And you disgrace the Senate, or at least your Party Conference, when you so defend him.

Another user has pointed this out far better than CNAV can, with a link to a damaging story about Vindman from two years ago. That story gives full particulars of Vindman’s complicity in the first impeachment of Trump, his baseless lawsuit against Trump after the Senate declined to convict Trump, and his founding of a company to collect war profits. This is not the Here Right Matters Foundation; it is Trident International LLC, of which Vindman is CEO. (Source: Fox News.)

The Democrats have equally despicable allies

Besides everything the Democrats have done, they have their allies in the media. Sometimes those allies do more than “melt down” when Democrats lose elections.

Take, for example, the story in The New York Times about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. The Times, yesterday, saw fit to reproduce a six-year-old email to Hegseth from his mother. By her own admission, Penelope Hegseth sent it in the context of her son’s then-pending divorce. The Times even reproduced the full text under a separate link.

CNAV deems the repetition of that text pointless. It is the screed of someone who might have had her own unsavory role to play in a nasty divorce. Such a person throws off on the other person, and that is what this text reveals. Toward the end, she even says she doesn’t want an answer – the equivalent of “Don’t you dare talk back to me! End of the discussion!”

The Times, after cherry-picking excerpts from the email, then admits that Penelope Hegseth, in a telephone interview with the authors of the article, disavowed the email. Oh, she admits sending it, but she’s sorry she sent it and takes back everything she said.

According to The Hill, Trump’s communications director accuses the Times of obtaining the email illegally. The Times said they got it “from someone with ties to the Hegseth family.” Hm-m-m-m. His ex-wife? Who can tell?

The Censors

Last, consider this story from Luke Rosiak at The Daily Wire. Apparently, shortly before the election, hundreds of social-media industry insiders convened at a “Brand Safety Summit.” The sponsors: ByteDance (TikTok), Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Alphabet (Google, YouTube), and Snap (Snapchat). Conferees spoke of honing their thought-police techniques, to make sure not a peep disputing The Narrative would reach users. They also spoke of how to keep advertising revenue away from platforms that allow counter-Narrative content.

This sort of behavior is legally actionable. Such legal action has already destroyed the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), after they blackballed The Daily Wire. Well, it’s back – under a different name, the “Dentsu Coalition,” named for a charter member of GARM.

Ironically, the summit’s opening speaker, Gary Vaynerchuk, told the assembly what was wrong with its basic premise.

Rob Rasko: What would [you] do if [you] were in charge of brand safety?

Gary Vaynerchuk: It’s not your job to ensure that everyone feels safe!… All I hear is people complain about what they’re scared of. If you’re so scared of your child being on TikTok, you should delete TikTok off the [fornicating] phone, because you’re their parent. And so I think we need to be very careful and take a step back on all this safety stuff.

Spoken by one whose parents grew up in the Soviet Union – as Vaynerchuk pointed out. His clear message: “Look in the mirror!” His fellow conferees didn’t, and obviously ignored him.

After the election, of course, many leftists left X, with Rob Reiner being the latest. (After announcing he had committed himself for treatment, he deleted his X profile.)

Summary

Donald Trump and the Republicans won a decisive victory, with their votes spread out over more regions than ever before. That was the landslide. After such an event, the losing Party does well to re-examine its policies to learn why it lost its appeal. Republicans did that after 1976, and gave us Ronald Reagan. Democrats took a little time to do it after 1984, but in 1992 they gave us Bill Clinton. (Who even governed as a establishment Republican after losing the Congress in 1994.)

But now they show no sign of looking in the mirror, and have no intention of moderating. They promote the least attractive candidates, defend a traitor, and (through their shills) make puerile ad hominem attacks. At the same time, the Censorship Industrial Complex is determined to carry on, not caring if anyone can compare them to the old Soviet Union (and the Third Chief Directorate of the Committee for State Security).

When you’re in a hole, stop digging. The Democrats seem bent on digging their collective grave.