and race-shaming voters!
My friend Mark came to our bi-weekly breakfast in his new Tesla. All-electric vehicles are now cool for Republicans because … Elon Musk. “I was playing Kid Rock in your honor,” Mark jibed.
Such is the abuse up with which Blaska must put for voting Libertarian instead of Trump — or Kamala, for that matter. We take consolation that now that Trump won, American elections are honest again and losers can concede. Funny how that works.
On behalf of the bitter enders on the other side, Dave Zweifel of Madison’s Capital Times concedes nothing. Kamala Harris lost because:
Unfortunately, she was a woman and a black one at that. His voters deny that had anything to do with it, but the facts are pretty clear.
So clear are the facts, apparently, that the editor emeritus does not feel compelled to present any. Like Trump’s claim of a stolen election four years ago — plenty of theories, just no evidence.
Feelings, whoa whoa whoa
Not facts! We do know— for a fact — that the Wisconsin my old boss disparages as racist twice chose Barack Obama. Just this week the woman-hating electorate voted for one Tammy Baldwin for U.S. Senator. For the third time. Maybe helped that she gave the cold shoulder to Joe Biden when he campaigned here in Madison WI, when he was still a candidate. BTW: Trump won a majority of white women, nationally.
For good measure, the editor emeritus quotes, not Democrats like Ruy Teixeira or even Rahm Emanuel, but the publisher of The Nation magazine, Katrina vanden Heuvel. The pro-Hamas magazine that says “Sex workers are trying to warn us about Project 2025.” (Um, maybe we were pre-occupied.)
Dave betrays another attribute of the victim culture, a refusal to take responsibility for one’s Fk-ups.
Maybe Democrats beat themselves
What is remarkable about Dave’s piece, headlined “He’s a monster, but we elected Trump anyway,” is the absence of the barest hint of introspection. Even today’s Sunday New York Times — which just a week ago went gaga for Kammy — took stock, with a clarifying dose of castor oil. A sampling:
• “Harris failed to read the room”
• “Democrats walked into a trap Republicans set for them”
• “The Democrat(ic) blind spot that wrecked 2024”
• “Will Democrats finally pay attention to the working class?”
Tune in next week! In “How Democrats helped Trump,” Ross Douthat blames the Joe Biden bait and switch:
Kamala Harris … was just not the candidate that a political party would put up if it took its own rhetoric about the existential stakes of the election seriously.
However belatedly, NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd holds “A wake for the Woke.” (Print headline)
The party embraced a worldview of hyper-political correctness, condescension, and cancellation. It supported diversity statements for job applicants and faculty lounge terminology like “Latinx” and “BIPOC.”
“When the Woke police come at you,” Rahm Emanuel told me, “you don’t even get your Miranda rights read to you.”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Maybe Dave Zweifel is just playing to his base. Like U.S. Rep. Richie Torres, D-NY, says, “Trump has no greater friend than the far Left.”
49 responses to “More Democrat(ic) rending of garments”
Agreed. I was really angry when Dave Zweifel blamed Harris’s loss on racism and sexism–just like the “ladies” of The View, and Rachel Maddow had previously done. No wonder they lost. They don’t get it….
Does Zweifel read your blog?
If he does, he wouldn’t admit it.
I sent him the link
They stood with Dick Cheney.
May that stench follow them the rest of their lives.
No NIKKI, no Pompeo in the next administration. So far, so good.
Zweifel’s statement is exactly why the hard left lost. They think they know how anybody to the right of them think.
They’re arrogance, snobbish attitude, and name calling led to these election results.
My family’s long history of voting Dems is gone. The values are more in the middle.
Squire: You must mean “rending” of garments (an allusion to a Hebrew mourning custom).
I noticed that as well while I was in morning (sic). 😉
Mark: Clever pun. It’s possible AOC is being careful to not rip any of her designer duds to shreds.
“Rent” is the past tense of “rend” but I may have used it incorrectly nonetheless. You get the Platinum Subscriber of the Week award.
Heyyyyy…!!! that’s mine!
This election was simply a “cry in the night” by “marginalized majorities” to be “seen”, and “heard”, the “great un-woke”. The great masses of diverse and complex individuals, whose color, sex, sexual proclivities, etc., are not the sole defining factors of their lives. Progressives just need to “internalize their biases”, and “center their thoughts” on “inclusion in an intersectional community” or face “self cancellation”.
Unhappiest and biggest loser in this election… Obama.
He presided over the “Resistance”, he showed no class by remaining in DC. He launched the Crossfire Hurricane BS and the lawfare by lawless prosecutors and DA’s.
Obama has always had contempt for the Constitution because it brilliantly hobbles wannabe autocrats. He turned DC into Chicago and wrecked both. Barack directed Joe to go Far Left and now he can’t avoid seeing how much he, the media, the pollsters and the pundits are wrong and rejected by so many.
Happiest campers post election? The Bidens. They knew Kamala was worse than an empty pants suit and they had scores to settle with the Obamas, Pelosi and the party apparatchiks. And their revenge must be sweet.
Absolutely. Obama went low.
Netflix please please give us “House of Cards: The Bidens”.
“Happiest campers post election? The Bidens.”
Not outside the realm of possibility that a quid pro quo with (say it with me) President-Elect Donald Trump for DementiaJoKe and Hunty pardons might have been discussed.
All the otherwise useless rent-seeking seat-stuffers in the soon_to_be_defunct JoKe, who were summarily kicked to the curb, wanted payback, am I right?
The Gotch
“Unhappiest and biggest loser in this election… Obama.”
Bravo Indigo November Golf Oscar!
Trump’s Landslide Victory Signals THE DEATH Of Obamaism
It’s almost too much to take……..almost…….
The Gotch
Don’t forget the other Obama. It was assumed that all Michelle had to do was wave her magic wand over Kamala to ensure her election.
Democrat women are shaving their heads and buying guns.
It’s a new generation of Manson girls.
And tattooing themselves blue so their Lefty pals can identify them as safe.
They are thus screwed (politically) blued and tattooed.
Pierced, tatted, combat-booted, butchy, blue-haired, skanky, sloppy phat Lefty wymym claiming they’re going to (gasp!) “withhold sex” might just be the emptiest threat EVAH!
The Gotch
And the right-wing goes nuts overhearing the word “fascist”. I give Dementia Don 6 months. Then all you smart mouths will be singing a new song. Once he gets all the pardons done and gets out of all the lawsuits, he’ll be playing golf and leaving all of you to suck wind.
I guess I’ll save money on my dates by not having to stop and buy a 5 lb. bag of flour.
Wonder how Nikki H. feels now that Dementia Don kicked her to the curb.
Kacklin’ Kamala’s one key demographic win? Unmarried wymyn
Still wondering if >56% of Lefty wymyn have diagnosed mental health…um…challenges? Wonder_No_More
Zweifel? He’s (heh!) eternally haunted by a recurring dream of William T. Evjue, as the Ghost Of Christmas Past, mercilessly lambasting him for rendering the Crap Times into a weakly (sic) insert they can’t even give away.
The Gotch
I guess this means Dave won’t return to Mr. Zwiffle for his old job back?
Saying Lefty’s best laid plans went awry would be the understatement of the decade, but now there’s This?
Dean Phillips Takes Victory Lap After Biden/Harris Defeat.
Guy has a point, am I right…?
The Gotch
Dean should have followed Bill Ackman and supported Trump, or at least left the Democrat party. Bernie too. Now they just look like losers who bet on the wrong horse.
Or remained true to their principles.
True. Their principles being “Never Trump”.
“Now they just look like losers who bet on the wrong horse.”
Or losers who changed horses in midstream, One Eye.
““Never Test The Depth Of River With Both Feet” – Warren Buffett
The Gotch
A (IMO) superb explanation of despicable Lefty’s EPIC FAIL:
“Of course, it was obvious that Joe Biden was in decline. Republicans saw it clearly in 2020. I still maintain that the plan (likely without the knowledge of Joe, Dr. Jill and their staunchest supporters) was to give him a year in office before his health issues had progressed sufficiently enough that he could be forced out and VP Harris installed as the historic first female black(ish) President with all the glory, honor and regnal adoration that would involve and everyone who questioned her competence was both racist and sexist.
“But as the health progressively got worse, the realization that the Vice-President really was an empty suit set in and they were stuck. Articles began appearing about how she wasn’t being given much to do and that her massive unpopularity was confusing.
“So the decision was made to just keep the President under wraps and enlist KJP and the advocacy media to cover for him while engaging in lawfare against Trump to ensure he wouldn’t be the Republican candidate. It didn’t work.
“Making sure that no one could challenge Biden – after all, if he beat Trump before, he could do it again – they kept up the President’s same drumbeat they did in 2020 (racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and NationalAbortionBanProject2025HitlerNaziFacist).
“And then came the debate. Panic ensued, they couldn’t run Biden and they couldn’t ditch Harris without upsetting the loudest Progressive voices and offending their captive African-American voters. Biden and his
250 word limit
Gotch, you got cut off. Who was the quote from?
The Dems lost because they’ve lost perspective and common sense. Most people want controlled, legal immigration, not the wide open border. Most people could care less if Joe wants to pretend he’s Josie, but balk at minors being allowed to irreversibly transition, often without parent’s consent. We all want an equal shot, but reject equal outcomes. And on and on. Sadly the Democrats are so arrogant they’re blaming everybody else but themselves for the loss. I predict they will now double down on their extremism and rhetoric. To make a change would be to admit a mistake and Lefty’s not known for self awareness enogh to do that..
“Gotch, you got cut off. Who was the quote from?”
Read it in its entirety HERE
The Gotch
That’s more like it.
Hurrumph
Y’all see our new border czar? Wow.
Just gonna leave this here:
“Elections have consequences” – Barack Obama
“I guess the foot’s on the other hand now” – Ted Striker
” ‘“Trump has no greater friend than the far Left.‘ ”
A heapin’ helpin’ of truth in that there; to wit:
Centrist dems “Identity Politics” is “ABSOLUTELY KILLING US“
Money Quote: “Democrats spend way too much time TRYING NOT TO OFFEND ANYONE rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face […] I HAVE TWO LITTLE GIRLS, I DON’T WANT THEM GETTING RUN OVER ON A PLAYING FIELD BY A MALE OR FORMERLY MALE ATHLETE, BUT AS A democrat I’M SUPPOSED TO BE AFRAID TO SAY THAT.” HoR Seth Moulton (D-MA) (bolds/caps/italics mine)
Moulton’s reward for his “brutally honesty“?
Echoing nearly all of the LaLaLoopyLoonyLeftyLand Left, Salem city Councilor Kyle Davis: “I’m not looking for an apology from [Moulton], I’m looking for a resignation.”
The Gotch
And so, it begins. First, it’s the “recess appointments” Ramming his people through without confirmation hearings. Blocking judges from being sworn in. trump pre-drafting executive orders that will all be signed at once. All this before he even takes office. Project 2025 and the Christian Nationalists are doing well. Dementia Don fed all of you a lie that he’s not in bed with these guys. You can sit back and gloat now, but will you take responsibility for what’s coming down the road? You may not like what the country looks like in 4 years.
Doubtful Dick. I already like what I see. Can’t wait for the next 4 years.
You like Little Marco as SOS? The same guy who is terrified of rump? One year and that tiny nit wit is gone. Dementia Don couldn’t keep people the first time around. What makes you think it will be any different now?
Yo Kooter, pretty gosh darn funny seeing generational imbeciles being effortlessly whipped into a comically hilarious froth by their handlers, am I right?
Anywho, their handlers should be ashamed of themselves…playing games with dimwitted children….
One more thing…DementiaJoKe and Kacklin’ Kamala…YOU’RE FIRED
The Gotch
In 2023 the federal government hired 85,000 new employees. Because everyone likes more bureaucrats.
Hell, it took 16 Escalade loads of tactical swat people to invade Mar A Lago and 10 county environmental cops to successfully capture PNut and Fred.
Because competence.
Despicable Lefty still foists real REAL scary lies about the big bad future, it’s been proven they work on the undiscerning, the intellectually prepubescent, and the dim-witted; proof positive of it here at The Werkes.
What we HAD in the last 4 years but WON’T in the next 4; from ethicsalarms.com:
*Key political appointments based on color, gender and ethnicity rather than merit, talent and experience.
*Not firing agency and department heads who have proven to be incompetent.
*Empowering a purely partisan committee to stage a years long hearing aimed at vilifying and imprisoning members of the opposing party.
*The DoJ threatening and intimidating dissenters in local school board meetings.
*The POTUS impugning the integrity of the Supreme Court
*Actively pressuring public forums to censor opinions and posts that oppose its policies
*A POTUS in serious cognitive decline being manipulated and shielded by unelected officials, and a public is deliberately deceived about his condition.
*The justice system being politicized in an effort to eliminate a political rival via “lawfare.”
*A POTUS nominee debating another Party’s presumptive nominee and then withdrawing from the race after comically botching it.
*An POTUS candidate nominated by the President’s party without any primaries or democratic processes at all.
*A political party attempting to block the opposing party’s nominee from the state’s ballots.
*A POTUS nominee refusing to hold a press conference during the campaign.
Face it Lefty: The Electoral College/Popular Vote/the House/the Senate AND the Reality-based Universe juuuuuuust aren’t that into you!
The Gotch
Hold those thoughts as you watch Musk, Vivek, RFK (brain worm guy), and the heads of America First run things. You will still be fiddling about Biden while watching the chaos that you knowingly voted for.
Elections (heh!) have consequences: MSDNC (sic) HEMORRHAGING_VIEWERS_SINCE_ELECTION_DAY; Sheds MORE_THAN_HALF_OF_PRIMETIME_AUDIENCE
Heartbreak…
The Gotch
Joe retired and Harris lost. All you do is talk about them. What are you afraid of? We should be hearing about Dementia Don and his merry band of d-bags and how great they are going to be. But that’s something you don’t believe will happen. Talking crap won’t make the future brighter for the gop. Half of donnies picks will be gone in 12 months. The people that worked for him 4 years ago all said he’s a moron. You got your guy so now STFU and tell us about how great things will be.
DementiaJoKe did NOT retire, he was ousted in an undemocratic soft coup, and undemocratically replaced with the comically inept, empty suit Kacklin’ Kamala, who didn’t lose…she got PASTED.
Maybe (say it with me) President-Elect Donald J. Trump can find a place in his administration for former Bi-Polar bares OC Shane Waldran; Secretary of LOSERS, perhaps?
Like both DementiaJoKe and Kacklin’ Kamala, Waldran GOT FIRED. Couldn’t say why; the midgets of the midway are perfect in their last three (3) games, their offense is well rested with their only scores being field goals, and Caleb William’s has had a lot of time to relax…on the turf…those nine (9) sacks & all.
The Gotch