The Party of AOC and Rashida commemorates Fidel yesterday, demands reparations for Cuba just like Abdul El-Sayed does for the Indians lol

 Abdul El-Sayed is not a member of DSA. No, no, no. His policies just closely mirror DSA's.

 

The lunatic whom Democrats want to be governor in Wisconsin, Executive Chef (!) Francesca Hong of the Madison chapter of DSA, wants to cancel "colonialist" Thanksgiving lol

But she has canceled the tweet instead lol.

Chef Francesca oddly finds Culvers acceptable fare, except when there are too many old white people in there.

If she sounds a little crazy, she admits she was diagnosed bipolar in 2006-2007 when she was 18.

She went to the university but dropped out in 2009 and got a job as a dishwasher. 

She rose from dishwasher to "executive chef" at the restaurant with lightning speed, between 2009 and 2011, and was so good at it that that restaurant closed in 2016.

She and her husband then started their own restaurant. 

But evidently she found it easier to succeed as a radical politician from Madison from 2020 than in the restaurant business and in marriage.

Apparently both their restaurant and their marriage were casualties of the pandemic.

Just think of the conflagration she can make out of Wisconsin. 

 

Because some of them are communists, including Abdul El-Sayed

 Why Michigan voters are hearing ‘communist’ as they vote Tuesday

... Democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, who took down Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., in a Democratic primary in June, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account on the platform now known as X. There she included calls to “seize the means of production” and a quip that the now-candidate wiped her hands on an American flag. Trump seized on the latter tweet in a recent interview with CNBC.

Chevalier has since told MS NOW that she is not a communist. She called the focus on her past commentary a “distraction.” ...

This story fails to mention Abdul El-Sayed's proposal for the federal government to take a 50+1 stake in AI.

Most of the coverage of El-Sayed instead emphasizes that he says he's not technically a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, just as Chevalier insists she's not a commie.

 

Pete Buttigieg wants to go back to 1876

 

 

Pete Buttigieg's Case Against ‘Return to Normal’

Jonathan Martin, Politico

... There’s a risk that there’s an unspoken Democratic assumption that we’re trying to take us back to … I don’t know what, is it 2012, is it 1992, is it 2021? Whatever it is, we can’t go there. We shouldn’t try, we shouldn’t want to. What I really worry about is if we win — or when we win in November, which I’m working hard to make sure I support — is there this kind of muscle memory in the party? This powerful inertia that immediately puts us in the mode of “reverse the damage”? And I’m trying to purge my vocabulary of anything with the prefix of re- in it, anything with the word “back” in it. I don’t think now is the time to be talking about Build Back Better. Build Better — I don’t want to even talk about “back.” ...

 

This idiot Scott McKay calls Haley Stevens Heather, doesn't call on Michigan Republicans even at the last hour to vote for her in the Democrat primary to save Democrats from themselves

That's the only way this works, unless you just want to rest on the platitude that you can vote yourself into socialism but you’ve got to shoot your way out, which apparently he does.

Today is election day. These people have been silent until now.

The socialists are serious. No one else is.

If you can't bring yourself to vote for Stevens, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that you would ever pull a trigger. 

 You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics

... [Hasan] Piker is also stumping for Abdul El-Sayed, who is now as much as a 15-point favorite over the more establishmentarian Heather Stevens in the Michigan Senate race. El-Sayed comes from an accomplished academic background and has apparently made a lot of money based on the properties he and his wife own, but we don’t know how he managed it. He’s an avowed DSA socialist whose speeches and pronouncements contain open rejections of the American founding and way of life, and it doesn’t seem to bother Michigan Democrat voters in the least. 

Because Michigan Democrats, like Wisconsin Democrats, are now made up of a majority of lunatics who think that abandoning American culture, economics, and politics and putting people like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed, not to mention Darieliza Avila Chevalier and Zohran Mamdani, in positions of power will create something better. ... 

Ezra Klein is just another trickster, a stand-in for the Democratic Socialists of America

 Christopher Nolan's Trojan Horse

... Now we need those who would remake this world. 

Do Michigan auto workers know that the UAW, which has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, also endorsed anti-auto Democratic Socialist Claire Valdez in NY-7?

 How the UAW abandoned auto-workers to back radicals 

... The UAW is no longer all about building cars. The union, desperate to build its shrinking ranks, has been adding members in all kinds of professions and trades, including signing up some 100,000 people who work in higher education. That group, which includes post-doctoral researchers and adjunct faculty members, now constitutes more than 25 percent of UAW membership, according to the Detroit Press, and has led, not surprisingly, to a significantly more progressive and activist union profile.

This is why the union’s 2022 changes to its election process, intended to “give a greater voice to rank-and-file members,” has instead empowered an ever-more radical constituency of university teaching assistants. UAW’s resulting leftward lurch made headlines recently in New York’s Democratic primary contests, where democratic socialist Claire Valdez won her race to represent New York’s District 7 in Congress. Valdez had previously worked at Columbia University as a program assistant in the visual arts department, where she joined the UAW. The union boasted, “UAW Region 9A mobilized thousands of members across NY-07 to help deliver a victory for New York’s working class.” 

Here is what we know about Valdez: she went to the exclusive School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where tuition runs about $60,000 per year. Also, she hates cars. Her campaign embraced the normal lefty litany: abolishing ICE, Medicare for all, universal rent control and so forth. But one distinctive item was her promise to “fight to redirect federal dollars toward public transportation, walking, and biking” and “reverse the proliferation of surface highways.”

Do UAW workers on Detroit’s assembly lines know that their union’s favored candidate hates automobiles and wants to shut down federal highway spending? Is that in their best interests? ... 

DSA is Antifa

 

DSA Plan: Abolish ICE, Borders, Prisons & Senate

Megan Romer, Fox News Sunday

 

 

 

Harold Meyerson: Late-stage American capitalism is the father of the fascist Chinese Party-State

Except Meyerson can't bring himself to use the word fascist, let alone Party-State.

"State capitalist power" is his polite euphemism for fascist power, which leftists who want to be taken seriously still must use apparently, ever since George Orwell said in 1944 that fascism had become a meaningless term, you know, like the words man and woman.

He stops short, too, of saying that there is something suicidal built into the West.

The conservative Oswald Spengler identified that something as Christian theology. He said it was the grandmother of Bolshevism, which is probably why Meyerson doesn't mention it! Don't wanna upset the fascists, the Christians, AND the true believers all at the same time.

But the fact remains that the heirs of Christianity in America have sold the rope to the Chicoms which they will use to hang our children after they are finished impoverishing them. 

Meanwhile Utopia still exists for Meyerson, in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, cold, wet, snowy, and dark NATO nations which rely on the American nuclear umbrella for their security.

   

Commies EVERYWHERE! 

... there is no such communist power [like the USSR] today.

There’s China, a Leninist-verging-on-tech-infused-Stalinist state capitalist power, but it boasts no virtually ideological adherents either in the States or abroad, and certainly not within the Democratic Socialists of America. It does have spies, and thugs who intimidate dissidents in the Chinese diaspora, but it lacks any support within the actual American left. To be sure, China’s rise to economic world power was fueled by offshoring American companies, but they went to China at the prompting of Wall Street as a way to boost their profit margins, Chinese labor then being dirt cheap. In other words, it was our leading capitalists, rather than any American socialists or communists, who sold out the industrial Midwest. ...

Yes, unfortunately

 Alex Karp: CEOs Bragging About AI Layoffs Will Create Backlash That Makes Bernie Sanders Look Moderate

I'll bet he ate Hitler Ice Cream when he was a kid

 Giridharadas: DSA is Social Democracy, "Not Gulag Socialism"—Center-Left Ideology That "We Can Have Nice Things"

...This is not gulag socialism ...

Yeah, we know, it's final solution socialism.  

 

Yeah, 10-12 for the moment, but Carville is right, the Anti-Semites have to go from the Democrat Caucus, including AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Bernie Sanders

But don't kid yourself that the Republican Party is a morally superior alternative anymore.

J. D. Vance already has no anti-semitic enemies to the right in the Republican Party.

Everything forbidden is becoming permitted. 

 

Larry Sabato: We're Talking About 10-12 Democratic Socialists Out Of 200-230 Democrats, "It's A Small Group"

Colorado District One victor over Diana DeGette: Melat Kiros: Gaza "Genocide We Are Complicit In With Our Taxpayer Dollars" Is "A Defining Issue" Of 2026 Campaign

Ocasio-Cortez Endorses El-Sayed in Michigan Dem Senate Primary 

Carville on Democratic Socialists: It's Time To Negotiate A Schism, "I'm Not In That F*cking Political Party"

Carville: Democrats Should Not Seat Avila Chevalier In The Democratic Caucus

 

No good deed goes unpunished in the Democrat Party: Diana DeGette, House leader for the public option in 2009 instead of the Senate's Rube Goldberg Obamacare, defeated in primary after 15 terms

 

 It was Speaker Nancy Pelosi who abandoned the House progressives in 2009, bowing to the Senate plan.

DeGette was progressive before progressive was cool, but now you have to pass the anti-semitic litmus test, as her opponent has, to be a real progressive.

 

 DeGette loses reelection bid to DSA challenger in major upset for Denver-based House seat 

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) lost her reelection bid to former attorney and current Ph.D. student Melat Kiros, marking the third time a democratic socialist has scored an upset in a competitive House primary this cycle, according to Decision Desk HQ. 

Kiros, who studies at the University of Denver, defeated DeGette, who’s served in Congress since 1997 — delivering a major blow to the Democratic establishment despite the fact that DeGette herself was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. University of Colorado Regent Wanda James also ran in the Democratic primary.

... Kiros was fired from her law firm after she wrote a letter directed at U.S. law firms on her Substack in November 2023 in which she disputed the notion that it was antisemitic to call for the state of Israel to be eliminated or criticize Israel’s government.

The former lawyer has also received criticism for declining to say whether or not a 2025 firebombing in Boulder, where protesters calling for the release of Israeli hostages by Hamas were injured, was an act of antisemitism, saying in a recent interview with 9News, “I don’t know what was in the heart of the perpetrator.” ... 

 

 

 

This housing bill will not help people become homeowners by freeing up existing supply

 House passes affordable housing bill, sends it to Trump’s desk

The U.S. House voted Tuesday night 358-32 in favor of a sprawling housing package designed to lower costs for homebuyers and increase supply. ...                                       

The broad bi-partisan support for the bill tells you it won't do much for very many people anytime soon.

But expect the politicians to brag on it as silly season ramps up. 

A key provision of the bill caps institutional investor ownership of single family homes at 350 from here on out.

Investors already owning single family homes, however, at whatever level, are grandfathered in. Blackstone, for example, owns approximately 58k such homes. It is thus prevented from buying number 58,001 under the bill.

That means that the approximately 530k+ homes currently owned by institutions, which is only about 4% of the single family housing rental pie, will not be forcibly sold into the market.

About 87% of the pie is individual investors who own in the neighborhood of 1-5 homes. There will be no change mandated there either, which is where most of the available single family housing stock is. 

There are 46.4 million renter-occupied housing units in the United States in the first quarter. Of those, approximately 11.3 million are single family homes. That means that the number of owners of those rental homes ranges roughly between 9.8 million and 2 million individual investors, probably living in a rich suburb right near you.   

The bill does prevent umbrella companies from owning multiple small entities created by individual investors to beat the 350 cap, with stiff penalties, so that is good.

The problem is this bill entrenches the status quo of the rich preying on both ends of the housing spectrum.

Mobile homes in parks are not considered single family homes under the bill. They are considered multi-unit commercial real estate. Private equity investors are notorious for buying up these parks full of affordable housing and jacking up lot rents on approximately 4.3 million homesites to the moon. Up to 12 million mostly low income Americans live in such parks.

The bill eliminates the mobile chassis rule for new manufactured homes, marginally reducing their cost. But imagine parking one in one of those parks and being unable to move it while the landlord holds a rent gun to your head. There are other provisions in the bill to help these existing park owners, and the mobile home owners who live there to borrow more to pay the greedy bastards.

11.3 million hostages to the rich on the front end, 12 million on the ass end. 

The bill had passed in the U.S. Senate 85-5 on Monday. 

Since the beginning of the 21st century in the United States, growth of renter-occupied housing continues in the ascendant while growth of owner-occupied housing continues south.

We still live with the deleterious effects of the Great Recession, when more than 6 million residences were completely foreclosed in the United States, and this is the best our elected representatives can do almost two decades on. 

Congress is already getting Mamdanied as this goes to Trump for his signature.

 

 

 

When electing a socialist mayor has weightier consequences than many people had first imagined

 Three New York Democrats backed by Mamdani win House seat primaries; 2 incumbents lose

... Brad Lander defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in the 10th District; Darializa Avila Chevalier bested Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th District; and Claire Valdez won the primary for the 7th District, where Rep. Nydia Velázquez is not seeking reelection. ... 

The Democratic Socialists of America organization backed Chevalier and Valdez.

A year ago, the DSA’s efforts helped Mamdani stun the local and national political world by soundly defeating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, and months later in the general election.

“It’s not just a question of electing more Democrats. It’s a question of electing better Democrats,” Mamdani said Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. ...

Still can't spell it

MAMDAMI-MANIA: Socialists Took City Hall. Now They're Aiming at Congress...

How do you spell Mamdani?

DC's Mandami Moment? Frontrunner for mayor is avowed Socialist...

 

... Janeese Lewis George, proudly affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America ...

Now do the U.S. Mail

 Mamdani: We're Being Told A City-Run Grocery Store Is Implausible While Spending $500 Million A Day To Kill People In Iran

Ohio political strategist is essentially correct that Democrats need to rediscover the New Deal, but seems blissfully unaware that the implication would be a drastic tax cut for 98% of the American people

 

Democrats Need the New Deal, Not Socialism

Brendan Frasier, The Hill

 

The word "tax" comes up only one time:

 

 ... When I asked her why she called herself a democratic socialist, she listed ideas like raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding childcare, paid family leave and strengthening labor protections. I told her that these are not socialist positions. These are social capitalist policies. ...

 

In 1936, 98% of earners made less than $4,000 a year. The tax on that was effectively 3%, or $120. 

 

The average income was far less, about $1,000 a year. The tax on that was effectively 0% because of the $1,000 personal exemption.

 

Revenues were raised by soaking the rich, leaving the rest of us alone.

 

Democrats should by all means revive the New Deal. They'd win in a landslide. Unfortunately, most of them seem to be leftists, not Democrats.

 

Dhey no speaka da language. 

 

 

Rasmussen poll finds the socialist future predicted by Tucker Carlson in 2018 is nearer than when he first believed

 A little Bible lingo for the Christians out there lol.

Rasmussen Poll: 51% of Young Voters Back Democratic Socialist for '28

Hey, I thought young people were going all MAGA?

Re-read Tucker here, or here. He was already highly critical of the feckless Trump in December 2018, who can be nothing but a transitional figure.

I first said Trump was a transitional figure in July 2018. I just didn't know how long the transition would be. And I still don't. 

But merely transitional he must be. There's no there there. He has no vision thingy, but he does have plenty of people still trying with all their might to pour their vision into him.

The reason is simple. He's empty, and their attempts simply underscore it.

Old man Trump is not attracting a movement like Reagan did. That's what really ticks off the anti-Boomer Cons.