And the peasants and the media's flying monkeys swoon (UPDATED)

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This one’s typical of the “objective journalists’” reaction to Mrs. Light Bringer’s moving harangue from the alter:

Van Jones Says He Had ‘Spiritual’ Epiphany After Obama DNC Speeches

CNN host Van Jones was completely blown away by Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, saying he hadn’t realized he’d been living in a “spiritual desert” until they spoke.

After the former first lady’s address in Chicago, CNN’s Anderson Cooper said her speech was “probably the most effective, powerful political speech I’ve ever heard.” Jones, who once served in the Obama administration, then upped the ante with praise that cast the event in quasi-religious terms.

“I didn’t know how much I missed them,” Jones said of the Obamas. “I miss them. I miss that. I miss hearing that.”

“Biden did something important last night, and he transferred the machinery of the party to Kamala Harris,” Jones continued. “The Obamas renewed the magic of the movement. That’s what they were transferring. And they did it beautifully. They did it powerfully.”

The former president “used nostalgia in a beautiful way,” Jones said, distinguishing it from the kind of nostalgia behind Donald Trump’s slogan “make America great again.”

“He reminded everybody of the best things about our families, about our neighborhoods,” Jones said of Barack Obama. “That was beautiful. And then Michelle, she wasn’t doing the minister role. She was really doing the coaching role.”

He praised the former first lady for speaking about “the affirmative action of generational wealth” and for saying “the whining on the left needs to stop.”

“This was a masterful act of leadership,” Jones concluded. “It was a sacred task. They took it on well. It was like an oasis—I didn’t realize I had been in a spiritual desert until they created that oasis on that stage. And they did a beautiful job tonight.”

UPDATE: If it weren’t for their double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

Michelle Obama wore nearly $3K pantsuit to DNC while touting her parents were 'suspicious' of the wealthy

Michelle Obama wears $1,690 Monse blazer, $890 trousers to deliver Democratic National Convention speech

What a number of us on this blog have been saying all along

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awfuls against trump

Rick Moran, PJ Media:

There's Only One Thing That Truly Unites Democrats: Hatred of Donald Trump

Rick Moran

The Democrats are going to be tough to beat in 2024. They are as unified behind Kamala Harris as the Republicans are behind Donald Trump.

Republicans are unified behind an agenda and a personality. But Democrats are unified not behind any grand ideas or exciting personalities. Democrats are unified by their hatred of Donald Trump, the same as they were in 2020 and 2016.

For eight long years, Democrats have not been running on any ideas worth mentioning, unless you call promising everyone more goodies an "agenda." They certainly haven't been running behind any scintillating personalities. Instead, their hysterical fear and hatred of Donald Trump has served as a uniting expedient. And the more hysterical the hatred, the more united they get.

It's like the stories parents tell their children to get them to behave. Trump is the bogey man and he'll come get ya if you don't join us. Otherwise, it's the threat that Trump will (choose one) "destroy democracy," "steal the election," or "enslave all minorities."

I confess to not watching the Democratic convention. It's more boring than most conventions simply because we all know exactly what they're going to say. Judging by the polls, the American people are tuning out the hysterical hate, also. 

“Until we defeat Trumpism there’s nothing else that really, really matters,” Rep. Ro Khanna of California told reporters after a delegate breakfast on Tuesday. “And if we don’t defeat Trumpism, we’re going to be in a world of hurt, because there could be years of Republicans in charge.”

democrat's platform

About all those jobs created under Biden/Harris; uh ...

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Jobs Report Revised DOWNWARD by 818,000 Jobs

CNBC:

The U.S. economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than originally reported in the 12-month period through March 2024, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

As part of its preliminary annual benchmark revisions to the nonfarm payroll numbers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the actual job growth was nearly 30% less than the initially reported 2.9 million from April 2023 through March of this year.

The revision to the total payrolls level of -0.5% is the largest since 2009. The numbers are routinely revised each month, but the BLS does a broader revision each year when it gets the results of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.

Tax unrealized capital gains at 25%? Democrats say "YES!"

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It’s a fun concept, and Harris/Biden supports it. Your IRA or investment account shows capital gains one year, and poof! — the tax man cometh to take a 25% bite. The next year, market fluctuations being what they are, those gains are reversed, and your account is worth less (or worthless); don’t expect the tax man to reappear at your door with a wheelbarrow of dollars to make up for it, because the New World Order is unburdened by what has been.

Of course, this new taxation system will only be applied to the “thousand billionaires” Harris and her fellow looters like to cite, won’t it? Well, to quote Will Rogers, “the difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets”. The 1913 income tax was enacted and intended to achieve “income redistribution” rather than just revenue; that is still the avowed goal of she who would be queen, and there’s absolutely no reason to think that the looters will stop at just billionaire victims. See, eg, income tax rates and applicability , 1913-2024.

When the unrealized gains tax becomes universal, and it surely will, I wonder how homeowners will feel about paying an additional tax each year on their home’s increased value?

Four more years? We won't last that long UPDATED — do the Bee editors ever grow tired of staying ahead of reality?

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what would you exeect from a department that hired this deranged thief?

Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for 'queering nuclear weapons' as part of radical DEI agenda

Biden-Harris official says, 'Queer theory is also about rejecting... the tenet that nuclear deterrence creates security and disarmament creates vulnerability'

Nair's DEI agenda envisions expanding America's deep secrets to people with foreign connections, claiming those individuals were discouraged from applying as an issue of race bias. 

She said, "U.S. government reports show that qualified applicants with foreign ties have been discouraged from applying to sensitive national security positions and faced barriers to obtaining a security clearance. This is in part due to preconceived confirmation biases held by investigators about certain racial or ethnic groups." 

"Considerable progress has been made in advancing DEI in the nuclear field, but the largest obstacle remains in ensuring that nuclear security practitioners understand how DEI can serve as a tool to strengthen nuclear security," she said in the article. "Greater focus on the intersections between nuclear security and DEI is essential." 

UPDATE: The Bee was on it almost three full years ago

Trump, 1 — flying monkeys, 0

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(Here’s the backstory)

Harris campaign, Whitmer and the media tar the small Michigan town Trump’s visiting Tuesday as racist

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Harris campaign — along with media allies — has made an extraordinary claim, implying Donald Trump’s Tuesday visit to discuss crime and safety in Howell, Mich., is motivated by racism.

And Howell residents are mystified.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also denounced the former president’s coming speech — and suggested the city in the state she represents is racist — Monday at the Democratic National Convention, telling ABC, “Anyone who’s doing a little bit of research might have said, ‘That’s really a bad idea, look at the optics.’ You’re showing up where the KKK was just at the same time you’re in Michigan.”

“The racists and white supremacists who marched in Trump’s name last month in Howell have all watched him praise Hitler, defend neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and tell far-right extremists to ‘stand back and stand by,” said Kamala Harris’ Michigan spokeswoman Alyssa Bradley.

“Trump’s actions have encouraged them, and Michiganders can expect more of the same when he comes to town.”

A Washington Post article boosted this narrative: “Howell has long been associated with the Ku Klux Klanbecause of the rallies Michigan-based Grand Dragon Robert Miles held on a nearby farm in the 1970s and 1980s.”

And Reuters headlined a piece “Trump to campaign in Michigan town with historic links to white extremism.”

By the way, as a former young rabble rouser and Abby Hoffman fan from way back, I know my street theater, and this is exactly what I’d have done were I trying to punk a politician I opposed; and, the media being as gullible back then as it is now, it would have worked:

Around a dozen pallid young men dressed in black held a racist protest July 21 in front of the Livingston County Courthouse. The motley crew held signs that read “White Lives Matter” and shouted through megaphones, “We love Hitler, we love Trump.”

Uh huh.

Oh, Joy! Steven Hayward's updated that classic (sic) Sunday School hymn just in time for the DNC's exit parade

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"I have not seen so many Democrats laugh, smile, sing. I mean, there is a song in the air. I don't know if you can hear me behind me, but there's like a little bit of music playing. People are literally dancing to the tunes in their own head," Reid said.

Powerline:

Feel the Joy

I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy from Kamala’s heart
Where?
Kamala’s heart!
Where?
Kamala’s heart!
I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy from Kamala’s heart
Down in my heart to pay

Chorus:

And I’m so happy, so very happy
With price controls in Kamala’ heart
In Kamala’s heart.
And I’m so happy, so very happy
With price controls in Kamala’s heart.

Verse 2:

And if Biden don’t like it he can sit on a tack!
Ouch!
Sit on a tack!
Ouch!
Sit on a tack!
And if MAGA don’t like it they can sit on a tack!
Ouch!
Sit on a tack and pay!