Democrats spend millions helping ‘ultra-MAGAs’ win primaries
“I fear for our democracy if the Republicans were ever to get the gavel. We can’t let that happen. Democracy is on the ballot in November,” said Democrat House speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this year, echoing similar sentiments expressed relentlessly by the party’s elite.
It turns out Republicans are so dangerous Democrats are spending millions to help them win.
The ruling party has spent a fortune – $US44 million so far – elevating and supporting the most ardent supporters of Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, elections which determine which GOP candidates will stand against Democrats in the November midterm Congressional and gubernatorial elections, in the hope they’ll be easier to beat than moderates.
Such sums are more than any major US political party has spent meddling in the affairs of its opponents, with well over three months still to go.
In California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Maryland, among the biggest US states, the Democrat Governors’ Association and a gaggle of Democrat-aligned political action groups have bought prime-time television advertisements to tip the scales in favour of so-called ‘ultra MAGA’ Republicans, in elections where there is no Democrat on the ballot.
It’s a risky strategy – Hillary Clinton mentioned Donald Trump as much as possible throughout the 2016 Republican primaries, seeing him as the easiest candidate to beat.
In Illinois alone Democrats put down US$35m to smear moderate Republican mayor Richard Irvin and boost the chances of state senator Darren Bailey, whose campaign bus is emblazoned with Bible verses, making the race most expensive non-presidential election in US history, according to Open Secrets, which tracks campaign financing.
Bailey won and will face off against billionaire Democrat governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, whose family own Hyatt hotels, in the governor’s race.
In Pennsylvania, which narrowly voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the campaign of Democrat state attorney-general Josh Shapiro, who’s running for Governor in November, spent almost $1m to help Doug Mastriano, who attended the January 6th riots at the Capitol building in 2021, clinch the Republican nomination.
“I’m going to have to send him a thank you card,” Mr Mastriano told LNP, a local Philadelphia news outlet, after seeing the Democrat advertisements.
The US$7 million Democrats spent in Colorado and California – unsuccessfully, Mr Trump’s loathed RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) still won there – was about US$4m more than Republicans spent on themselves according to the Colorado Sun.
Hypocritical? Yes, Democrat surely wouldn’t bankroll candidates they really believed were a threat to democracy.
But playing political hard ball is nothing new in US politics, and Democrat hardheads may have a point.
Donald Trump’s sour grapes after the 2020 election cost the Republicans not only two Senate seats in the January 2021 run-off elections, but their potential Senate majority, reducing the GOP’s red chamber headcount to 50.
Republican Glenn Youngkin won Virginia’s state election in November, against the odds, in a race the former president stayed well clear of, allowing the former hedge fund executive to talk about school curriculum rather than the 2020 election.
Will he or won’t he has quickly become when will he, even though no candidate has signalled a presidential bid so early in the US political cycle.
The former president, no stickler for convention, declared himself the 45th and 47th president while playing golf as far back as January, and has repeatedly hinted he intends to run, just shy of triggering campaign finance laws which would place restrictions on his US$100 million political donations war chest.
“Well, in my own mind, I’ve already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore. In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision,” Mr Trump told New York Magazine in an interview published last week.
“Do I go before or after? That will be my big decision”.
Democrats will be sincerely hoping it’s before, wanting nothing more than the final three months of the midterm election campaign to be about the findings of the January 6th commission, which has already cast the former president’s actions, criminal or not, in a bad light, drawing almost entirely on former supporters and family.
Republicans would much prefer to be talking about 9.1 per cent inflation, the spread of far-left ideology into school curriculums, and the millions of refugees streaming across the southern border than relitigating the 2020 election and declaring their loyalty to Mr Trump.
Even Republicans appear to be tiring of the former president, according to a recent Sienna poll that found 47 per cent of them wanted another Republican to run for president in 2024, compared to 49 per cent who wanted Mr Trump.
A highly polarising, 78-year-old Mr Trump, as he would be in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, potentially fighting sedition charges and obsessed with the 2020 election, might not be the ideal Republican candidate to win let alone heal a divided nation.
To be sure, Democrats, in the midst of the highest inflation in 40 years, under the leadership of a man that more than half the nation believes is mentally unfit, remain the underdogs this November.
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Dems’ ‘deplorable’ double standard on offensive speech
First the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton, called patriotic, God-loving conservatives who make up half the country a “basket full of deplorables.” Then, in May, President Joe Biden compared those who oppose abortion and support the MAGA movement to extremists. And on Tuesday, the president fondly reminisced about having lunch with a former segregationist while a US senator.
If that’s not hideous enough for Democratic apologists, on Monday while addressing a crowd in San Antonio, First Lady Jill Biden compared Hispanic and Latino Americans to breakfast tacos, prompting a sharp rebuke from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
“NAHJ encourages @FLOTUS & her communications team to take time to better understand the complexities of our people & communities. We are not tacos. Our heritage as Latinos is shaped by various diasporas, cultures & food traditions. Do not reduce us to stereotypes,” the organization wrote in a tweet Monday.
“Deplorables,” “extremists” and “tacos” are just a few insults and smears lobbed at fellow Americans by Democrats in Washington — when they’re not calling conservatives and Trump supporters “racist,” “sexist” and other “-ists,” harming the cultural fabric of our nation and widening divisions.
But if you recall, the left and their sycophants in the establishment media were perpetually “outraged” and offended by virtually everything former President Donald Trump said, including his tweets, which set their collective hair on fire.
Talk about glass houses.
What’s become evident in modern American politics today is that Democrats can dish it out when it comes to insults and inflammatory rhetoric, but they can’t take it when something offends them.
In those cases, they opt for more name-calling, “canceling” those who hold different viewpoints or all-out censorship, a political tool used by totalitarian regimes like China to suppress dissent. This was evidenced by Vice President Kamala Harris’ calls for Twitter to ban Trump from the social-media network during the 2019 Democratic presidential debate — a gross violation of free speech — and unprecedented in American history.
Harris said Trump’s tweets were “irresponsible” and “erratic.” But she said nothing of her current boss glorifying lunch with racist segregationists on the White House lawn last week during a congressional picnic, which disturbingly included shoutouts by Biden to the late Sen. James Eastland, a former Democrat lawmaker from Mississippi who “often spoke of Blacks as an inferior race,” according to The New York Times.
Never mind that Biden’s second-in-command, Kamala Harris, is the first African-American female vice president in history, or that his former boss, Barack Obama, is also black. Or that black voters helped deliver the presidency to Biden in 2020.
At minimum, Biden’s words were tone-deaf and racially insensitive. At worst, they were disqualifying for him to hold any elected public office.
Nevertheless, the left despicably calls fellow Americans (if they vote Republican) “racists,” “terrorists” and fill-in-the-blank atrocious smears, no matter how damaging their extreme rhetoric hurts the country and divides us, while getting offended themselves by virtually everything — including perfectly normal things like a woman calling herself a “mother” versus a “birthing person.”
Take last week’s heated exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges during a Senate hearing about the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to reverse Roe v. Wade and whether men can get pregnant.
Bridges repeatedly referred to “people with a capacity for pregnancy,” versus women. When Hawley pressed her on this and whether abortion rights were a “women’s issue,” she stunningly accused the lawmaker of being transphobic and cultivating violence against the trans community. “The Democrats say what they really think: Men can get pregnant and if you disagree, you are ‘transphobic’ and responsible for violence,” Hawley tweeted Tuesday.
And yet the mainstream media told us for years while Trump was in office that he was a “white nationalist,” a “racist” and a “madman” unfit to lead the nation. This is the same media that told voters to elect Biden, who continues to fondly reminisce about his chummy relationship with racist segregationists in 2022.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/17/dems-deplorable-double-standard-on-offensive-speech/
******************************************************Authorities Yet to Arrest Anyone Over More Than 50 Pro-Abortion Attacks
Since May 8, pro-abortion radicals have attacked pro-life institutions nationwide, but authorities have yet to make a single arrest.
So far, the “Summer of Rage” announced by pro-abortion groups has seen more than 50 attacks on pro-life groups, according to Catholic Vote.
Attacks by pro-abortion groups have left a trail of smashed windows, graffitied walls, and firebombed buildings from Alaska to Florida. Some pro-life groups have been attacked multiple times.
Northern Colorado pregnancy care clinic Life Choices saw its entire stock of baby clothes burn after a Molotov attack.
Life Choices, a member of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), has helped more than 27,000 women and families over 37 years.
“We’ve pretty much lost everything but our ultrasound machines,” said Kathy Roberts, the clinic’s director.
Some pregnant women don’t want abortions, she said. And many Christian pregnancy care centers are eager to give these women another option.
Despite the attacks, there have been no arrests at federal or state level, pro-life leaders say.
The NIFLA, a group that trains, protects, and equips more than 1,600 pregnancy care centers across the country, said it knows of no cases against even vandals, its vice president of legal affairs Anne O’Connor said in an email.
“While we are unaware of any arrests related to these incidents, we know that in some cases, the FBI is investigating potential hate crimes and violations of the FACE Act. In others, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been brought in to help,” she said.
The FACE Act was originally signed by President Bill Clinton to protect abortion providers.
Efforts ‘Appreciated’
It creates penalties for attempts to injure or intimidate people to prevent them from obtaining or providing “reproductive health services.” It also punishes attempts to destroy reproductive health service facilities.
Centers provide reproductive health services too and are now benefitting from the act’s provisions.
“Although violent acts against life-affirming pregnancy centers and medical clinics are on the rise, we appreciate the efforts of local and national law enforcement to maintain order and safety in our communities,” O’Connor said.
She also condemned violence against any human being.
Many of the attacks have come from the radical group Jane’s Revenge, which has called for escalated attacks against pro-life groups after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
No one knows the exact structure or numbers of Jane’s Revenge, but the group has conducted attacks across America.
“We will hunt you down and make your lives a living hell,” its online page reads. The group has announced that it is at “war” with pro-lifers, and that it is willing to take their lives.
Jane’s Revenge isn’t the only group behind attacks. Some attacks were by unaffiliated people.
Nationwide Violence
Some pro-life leaders have described the months after the leaked Supreme Court draft on Roe v. Wade as the “pro-abortion Kristallnacht.”
Pro-life leaders including Roberts say they are concerned about repeat attacks because of the lack of arrests.
“There is some concern,” she said. “We were actually threatened again by phone. And there are groups that want to pursue continuing to harass different centers.”
Roberts has hired 24-hour security guards after the attack. It is expensive, but she estimates the damage the clinic suffered will cost $250,000 to repair.
She added that the series of pro-abortion attacks might be enough to raise the cost of insurance as well.
“That has been at the top of my list of thoughts,” Roberts said. “It would be very possible for that to happen.”
Despite the uncertainty and risk of more attacks, Roberts said her clinic has to keep working to help pregnant women.
“We cannot ever let a bully on the block stop us from doing a good work,” she said.
Firebomb attacks like the ones that hit Roberts’ clinic are only solved 21 percent of the time, according to crime statistics.
The Epoch Times contacted the Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs, but has not yet received a response.
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Gender quotas bite the Australian Labor party hard
If racial discrimination is bad why is discrimination in favour of women good? Why should we not select the best person for the job on all occasions?
According to The Australian over the weekend, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Queensland Labor government is set to ‘force’ (politely nudge?) three of its male MPs to resign so they can balance out the gender quotas in preselection.
What is it they say? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The alleged looming threat of coerced resignation is being made in line with the Labor Party’s ‘Affirmative Action policy’ – also known as gender discrimination when viewed in the daylight. How else could you describe a policy that advocates hiring and firing based upon gender (no – wait – do they mean ‘biological sex’?) instead of merit?
45 per cent of Labor preselection have to be women. No, Labor haven’t worked out how to define ‘women’ yet, but that won’t stop them writing policy referencing women.
The Australian names the potential unlucky gents as Jim Madden, Mark Furner, Stirling Hinchliffe, and Peter Russo. That’s four, but in the case of gender equality, the more ‘women’ the better.
‘All male MPs are affected by the Affirmative Action rule – all should be aware of that,’ said one MP.
Which begs the question, why does Anthony Albanese exist?
With all the quota girls padding out Labor’s ranks, it remains baffling that they chose a – how do we hear it phrased by the Left? Oh yes. A ‘stale, pale, male’ to lead the party… There is no point arguing on merit, experience, or hard work – as Labor have established, it’s all about the chromosomes in 2022, and Albanese has an errant ‘Y’ that no amount of Women’s Weekly makeovers can fix.
Unsurprisingly, several of the male MPs waiting for the ‘shoulder tap’ have chosen not to criticise the policy and instead insist that they are ‘hard working’ and ‘concentrating on their electorate’. It’s almost as if Labor MPs want something outdated like ‘merit’ to come to their rescue. Why are they fighting against the ‘greater good’? Do they ‘hate women’? Is that why they refuse to do the manly thing and step aside?
Kate Flanders, Labor Party secretary clarified the situation.
‘The rules are there to change the culture and they have we have a very proud record of increasingly female representation in the Parliament. It is about moving the culture forward and identifying great women who want to run in those winnable seats and so that is certainly something we will be aiming to do in the 2024 round.’
That said, the rule insists on 45 per cent so, when push comes to literal shove, three blokes are going to get shoved.
Meanwhile, in the real world, most women despise the very notion of ‘gender’ policies that reduce women to statistical requirements. It is a system that parachutes unqualified women into positions at the expense of more suitable candidates. At the same time, the women who deserve their roles are forever tarnished with the ‘quota girl’ suspicion.
It’s lose-lose for women, underpinned with a bit of extra resentment from men who (quite rightly) feel that it is wrong to award someone a job because they make the office ‘look right’ to meet some arbitrary virtue goal.
In this case, the Labor men deserve what they get. The party was happy to push ‘gender quotas’ as an election-winning (allegedly) campaign – so they have to live with it. Or retire with it, as the case may be.
As an aside, when are the media going to start calling out ‘positive discrimination’ and ‘affirmative action’ for what it is – racism, sexism, morally bankrupt and outdated discriminatory garbage…?
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/gender-quotas-bite-labor-hard/
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