On Friday, failed vice-presidential candidate and hard-Left Minnesota Governor Tim Walz endorsed radical activist David Hogg, who made himself famous after the 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting, to be the Democratic National Committee’s Vice Chair.
“David Hogg represents exactly the kind of bold, dynamic, and courageous leadership our party needs right now. He has a unique ability to connect with the American people and to speak to the strengths of our party. I couldn’t be happier to support him for DNC Vice Chair.&#8221;
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David Hogg represents exactly the kind of bold, dynamic, and courageous leadership our party needs right now. He has a unique ability to connect with the American people and to speak to the strengths of our party.
I couldn’t be happier to support him for DNC Vice Chair. <a href="https://t.co/sHlX2fmUmD">pic.twitter.com/sHlX2fmUmD</a>
&mdash; Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1877751497284325617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In early December, Hogg, 24, told reporters he was considering running for a top leadership position in the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He <a href="https://x.com/davidhogg111/status/1864756688764703107">stated</a>:
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I think we need a new generation in the DNC, if this election has taught us nothing else. I think we need an intergenerational coalition as a party. &#8230;. the thing that I&#8217;ve realized more than anything is that we have a number of problems in the party, but I think the main one overall is that we would rather live in a comfortable delusion than an uncomfortable reality. And I think what the party needs to do is open its eyes and take its fingers out of its ears basically. 
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Asked what the “delusion” was, he replied:
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I think it&#8217;s that we can just surround ourselves with people that agree with us a lot of the time in terms of the party leadership and also within the party itself and think that&#8217;s just who we need to be talking to constantly, instead of listening to people who don&#8217;t agree with us. Not that we inherently agree with them, but I think so much of the issue that we have as a party right now is a fund &#8211; a kind of condescending tone that we have in a number of ways where we&#8217;re seen increasingly as elitist, as out of touch. And I think there are real conversations that we need to have. And we also need to have &#8211; help more, not just young people, but people from normal backgrounds run for office. 
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He then praised Walz, saying, “I think Tim Walz was actually a great example of this, of running as a teacher and gaining all the experience that he had to out &#8211; massively outperform, even in a Trump-held district, right?”
Hogg has a history of outlandish statements and self-promotion; in June 2022, he accused Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of avoiding him because Hogg “triggered” him, writing in a later-deleted tweet, “Rubio staff said I can&#8217;t meet with him or his staff because I &#8216;trigger&#8217; him. I just wanna have a conversation. Please meet with me @marcorubio I just want to figure out how we can stop these things from happening. We have to end the continuous debate and find what we can agree on.”
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“No one said such a thing, Rubio&#8217;s Chief of Staff Michael Needham responded to Hogg. “As for the meeting, you must be confused as we had a 2p meeting scheduled with you. However, since you are lying and clearly using this all for self-promotion, that meeting is now cancelled [sic]. &#8230; the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.”
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Also, the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.
&mdash; Michael Needham (@MikeNeedham) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeNeedham/status/1534934071427706882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In August 2018, Hogg claimed that the “NRA is pulling strings to increase gun sales in a record low year.” He was immediately fact-checked:
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There have been about 1 million more FBI background checks, the most reliable indicator of gun sales, this year than last year and this year is on pace to be the second-best in the history of NICS. So, no, gun sales are not experiencing a record low year. <a href="https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu">https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu</a>
&mdash; Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1032794832903843840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In September 2020, Hogg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/david-hogg-apologizes-for-condemning-violence">stated</a>, “The use of violence to acquire political power is deeply rooted in imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy[.] I personally refuse to believe that the use of this same violence will ever create nonviolent systems of government that represent and support everyone.” He later apologized but added, “Let me be clear what I am NOT trying to do is tell BIPOC people how they should react to violence directed at them by the state. It’s not my place or any white persons to direct or criticize the way BIPOC people choose to defend themselves against this violence from the state.”
Hogg was accepted to Harvard University despite getting only a 1270 on his SATs. “The bottom 25% of students admitted had an average score of 1460,” Business Insider <a href="applewebdata://0CB7A4F1-65E5-4553-8D3B-B711F7A2BEDA/v">noted</a>.
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75% of Harvard students score over a 1470 on their SAT with the bottom 25% averaging just over 1400. You really need over a 1470 to be considered.
David Hogg’s SAT score was 1270.
He was denied to UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Irvine, where a 1240 places you above average. <a href="https://t.co/wfpQkHOCxA">https://t.co/wfpQkHOCxA</a>
&mdash; Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1076599973008080896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) endorsed the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, who supports the hard-Left anti-Semites of his party and is a devotee of DEI policies, to head the Democratic National Committee.
Schumer’s disingenuous behavior vis-à-vis Israel has been on display for years. <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387909" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boasting</a> that his last name closely resembles the Hebrew word “shomer,” which means to guard or protect, Schumer has bragged of his support for Israel despite his consistent betrayals of the Jewish state. He only voted against Barack Obama’s approval of the Iran nuclear deal after he knew it would pass without his vote; he was silent as vicious anti-Semitic actions took place across American universities (“A recent congressional report shows how he texted then-Columbia president Minouche Shafik telling her to keep her head down as the noise is only coming from Republicans,” JNS <a href="https://www.jns.org/the-shomer-who-isnt-watching-out-for-the-jewish-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>); he refused to bring an anti-Semitism bill to the Senate floor; and he brazenly tried to interfere in Israeli politics by declaring elections should be held to oust Prime Minister Netanyahu, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/schumer-calls-for-end-of-netanyahu-led-government-in-israel-ebcb15c1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> last March, in the middle of Israel’s desperate war against Hamas, “At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.”
“As one of the best state party chairs in the country, Ben possesses all the qualities Democrats across the country are looking for in our next DNC Chair,” Schumer <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/02/schumer-wikler-endorsement-dnc-chair/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> of Ben Wikler. “He’s a tenacious organizer — one of the best organizers in the country — a proven fundraiser, a sharp communicator, and able to reach out to all segments of the Democratic Party. Most importantly, he knows how to win.”
Wikler has “called on Democratic leaders to give a larger platform to the anti-Israel wing of the party, arguing that the DNC made a strategic error by rejecting speakers from the anti-Israel &#8216;Uncommitted&#8217; movement at the convention last year, according to Jewish Insider,” The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/schumer-pick-for-dnc-chair-is-soft-on-anti-israel-radicals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “In June, Wikler presided over the Wisconsin Democratic Party’s biannual convention, where members voted for a resolution to call for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and to axe any reference to the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7 that sparked the Israel-Hamas war.”
“On Wikler’s watch, the Wisconsin Democratic Party in 2021 updated its platform to call itself the ‘party of diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ urged the decriminalization of ‘dangerous drug use,’ and called to ‘reimagine policing and criminal justice,’” the Beacon pointed out. “In August 2020, Wikler said the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake during an arrest attempt should be ‘investigated, tried, and convicted.’ Wikler called the shooting a ‘symptom of the deadly disease of white supremacy and racism.’’
Blake had pulled a knife on police before he was shot.

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Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who the FBI said was killed after committing a New Year&#8217;s Eve terror attack in New Orleans has donated to Democrat politicians over the years, Federal Election Commission <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=jabbar%2C+shamsud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> shows.
On May 7, 2020, Jabbar gave $15 through ActBlue, listing his job as “consultant” for “EY” (likely Ernst &amp; Young) and his address as Fresno, Texas. The contribution says it was to the Action PAC (now called the Grassroots Law PAC), which that cycle spent $100,000 supporting Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and another $100,000 supporting Jaime Harrison, who is now chair of the Democratic National Committee and at the time was a Senate candidate in South Carolina. 
In 2014, Jabbar gave $5 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, listing his job as soldier for the U.S. Army and his address as Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Jabbar was reportedly born in the United States and was an American citizen, but had an ISIS flag when he rammed his truck into a crowd, killing at least 10 and injuring at least 35.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-orleans-terror-suspect-had-isis-flag-several-other-suspects-in-case-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI said</a> “He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to have been rented and we are working to confirm how the subject came into possession of the vehicle.&#8221;
&#8220;An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,&#8221; the FBI&#8217;s statement read.
“Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle,” it added. “Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. The FBI’s Special Agent Bomb Technicians are working with our law enforcement partners to determine if any of these devices are viable and they will work to render those devices safe.”
Two men who attempted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-would-be-assassin-was-democrat-donor-with-criminal-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assassinate Donald Trump</a> in separate incidents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-ransack-home-of-20-year-old-suspected-shooter-who-donated-to-liberal-org-on-bidens-inauguration-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">both</a> also donated to Democrats through ActBlue.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee</a> wrapped up the year with a December 31 X post sharing some of their favorite moments from 2024, but the Republicans responded to that by delivering a quick reality check.
Using @theDemocrats account on X, the party posted four photos along with the caption, &#8220;Some of our favorite moments from 2024.&#8221; One photo showed President Joe Biden wearing his usual aviator sunglasses despite being on the set of a late night comedy show. Another showed the president with members of the U.S. Olympic team. The last two showed Vice President Kamala Harris, first helping First Gentleman Doug Emhoff with a tuxedo and then waving as she stepped onto a rally stage.
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Some of our favorite moments from 2024. <a href="https://t.co/HWm3CzFDQT">pic.twitter.com/HWm3CzFDQT</a>
&mdash; The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1874211765963063509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The @GOP responded with just one photo, showing the final electoral map at the end of the 2024 election. The caption was equally simple: &#8220;Our favorite moment from 2024!&#8221;
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Our favorite moment from 2024! 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/OB3F5ZRRBa">https://t.co/OB3F5ZRRBa</a> <a href="https://t.co/3DrQz0uyJN">pic.twitter.com/3DrQz0uyJN</a>
&mdash; GOP (@GOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1874216939595378996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s rapid response director Jake Schneider replied with a screenshot of the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s front page, the morning after the election. The photo showed Harris, standing alone. The headline was a single word: &#8220;TRUMPED.&#8221;
&#8220;My favorite,&#8221; Schneider said.
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My favorite <a href="https://t.co/S9AUQxR1FO">https://t.co/S9AUQxR1FO</a> <a href="https://t.co/VUW0w0dZOz">pic.twitter.com/VUW0w0dZOz</a>
&mdash; Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobkschneider/status/1874216915855704518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Another responded by sharing a series of video clips, adding the caption, &#8220;Don&#8217;t forget these!&#8221;
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Don’t forget these! <a href="https://t.co/cOqrFBfWCT">pic.twitter.com/cOqrFBfWCT</a>
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The first video featured television&#8217;s Judge Joe Brown, speaking with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, and answering the question that plagued many throughout Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; abbreviated campaign: &#8220;Who is Kamala Harris.&#8221;
Brown, clearly not a fan, referred to the Democrats&#8217; installed candidate as a &#8220;fraud&#8221; and said that her image had been &#8220;carefully crafted&#8221; to obscure the substance within.
The second video showed Harris complaining about the fact that Starbucks cups had white lids, mainly because if she wore lipstick and she was in a meeting where she was the only woman, getting lipstick on the lid was embarrassing.
The third was another clip of Harris explaining why the Biden administration had given TPS (Temporary Protected Status) to Haitian migrants — a move that resulted in a number of small towns struggling under the influx.
The fourth showed Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) warning people before Biden was ousted from the 2024 race that there was not a consensus among Democrats to support Harris in a bid to replace him as the nominee.

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After being slammed by the Left for her critical comments regarding the way the Kamala Harris campaign blew through billions of dollars, a powerful fundraiser for the Democratic Party who was a member of the DNC finance committee announced she was leaving the party, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-powerhouse-fundraiser-announces-exit-from-democratic-party-following-attacks-its-like-leaving-cult?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> it a “cult.”
Lindy Li, who publicly stumped for Harris, appeared on Fox &amp; Friends Weekend, where she stated, “I think, unfortunately, the Democratic Party has the stench of loser written all over the party.”
“This past week has been harrowing for me,” Li <a href="https://x.com/PiersUncensored/status/1869495101241626871" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Piers Morgan. “This Saturday, I went on Fox &amp; Friends and I said that ‘Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.’ As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock, unfollow campaigns. I lost 40,000 followers in four days. People have called me the w-word, I don’t know what we’re allowed to say, but you can fill in the blank.” Urged by Morgan to say the word, she continued, “They called me a whore, they called me the c-word. They asked for me to be deported. &#8230; All these so-called Democrats, the party of inclusion, the party of diversity? Masks off. And it’s even worse, because they pretend to occupy the moral high ground.”
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“When I dare to utter any criticisms of the goddess Kamala Harris, I get ostracized,” she said. “Me, after having raised tens of millions of dollars for the party. And I’m being called a grifter, when all along, all these years, I’ve said on TV, I’ve said to the press, I’m a conservative Democrat. &#8230; My donors are pissed. &#8230; Why did we spend millions of dollars on five-star hotels for campaign staffers? Why did we spend $500,000 essentially bribing Al Sharpton moments before he interviewed Kamala? These are legitimate questions, but no, in the cult, you can&#8217;t ask questions. And leaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It&#8217;s terrifying. I don&#8217;t want to be a part of this craziness anymore. They&#8217;re accelerating my rightward shift.&#8221;
Mentioning people calling her a &#8220;communist spy,” she stated, “They&#8217;re calling me a spy for the regime that killed my great-grandfather and these are the people who call themselves the social justice warriors. They&#8217;re going headfirst into racism anytime someone dares to disagree with them. I want to be a part of the team that says men are men and women are women and men shouldn&#8217;t play in women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
“They&#8217;re shrinking their tent,” she said. “They&#8217;re basically pushing me to bring my tens of millions of dollars that I&#8217;ve raised and can continue to raise to a different team that treats me better, that treats me with common decency.”
“I was actually surprised, not entirely shocked, that they failed to address where the billions of dollars went,” Li had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg95EyX7-A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation. &#8220;Let’s bear in mind that it wasn’t just a billion dollars; it was two billion, because they raised a billion through the campaign and another billion through the SuperPac. So where did that two billion dollars go? So we know so far that millions went to celebrities, went to private jets, to ice cream &#8230; it’s astounding. So how can Americans believe that the Democratic Party can properly handle taxpayer funds if we can’t even handle a campaign? there has to be a serious accounting and a serious post-mortem, not just slapping each other on the back and congratulating each other. &#8230; I have a duty of care to my donors, who gave millions of dollars, and it wasn’t easy for them to give; some of them were paying in installments. It was a sacrifice for them.”

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Martin O’Malley, the Biden administration’s Social Security Commissioner, partied with union members in Florida days before signing a contract preventing managers from reducing telework compared to the COVID era, The Daily Wire has learned.
The American Federation of Government Employees <a href="https://www.afgec220.org/">Council 220</a>, which represents 27,500 employees of the Social Security Administration (SSA), held its Caucus Conference in Fort Lauderdale from November 12-15. The conference is where government employees plot how to extract as much as possible from management. But O’Malley, the top manager, was in attendance, drinking and singing songs with attendees, who praised him, according to materials obtained by The Daily Wire.
On November 27, O&#8217;Malley signed the agreement with the union locking in telework through 2029. Two days later, he resigned from the agency in order to run for chair of the Democratic National Committee. That means the former Maryland governor signed a contract that he would not have to live under, but other managers would. The giveaway to the union could give him cache with party activists that could help him secure the DNC gig.
Edwin Osorio, the council’s vice president, posted a picture of him out on the town at the conference, captioning it “Had a great night hanging out with the greatest commision[er] of Social Security ever had!” Video shows O’Malley regaling attendees with an Irish ballad on his guitar, crooning about “drink[ing] ourselves stupid.”
Mike Watson, a political influence researcher at the conservative-leaning Capital Research Center, said the dynamic raises questions about whether the deal was in the best interest of taxpayers and those who depend on Social Security, or whether it represented a bargaining table with both signatories on the same side.
“O’Malley partying at the AFGE conference is just a particularly vivid way to show what was already true: Unions elect their bosses, who then side with them in negotiations, while taxpayers are left out in the cold,” he said.
He said that even staunch labor activists recognized that the give-and-take between management and labor in private companies wouldn’t work in government, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt writing that “the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”
Social Security commissioners’ terms can last longer than one presidential administration. Andrew Saul, O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s predecessor, had been set to lead the agency through 2025. But Biden fired him and installed O’Malley at the <a href="https://www.afge.org/media-center/publications/the-government-standard/government-standard-janfeb-2024/ssa-leadership-change-is-victory-for-workers/">behest</a> of the union, who objected to the fact that Donald Trump had initially installed Saul.
Council 220 president is Jessica Lapointe. An online photo shows her posing with a sign that says “Vote Kamala.” Lapointe&#8217;s <a href="https://www.afge.org/article/the-activist-jessica-lapointe-social-security-administration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">job</a> at the Social Security Administration is to help people who don&#8217;t speak English get Social Security checks.
The Social Security Administration <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/SSA-AFGE-Agreement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">union agreement</a>, obtained by The Daily Wire, is structured as a resolution to various years-old “grievances,” meaning O’Malley could have signed it earlier, but did not. The agreement doesn’t just lock administration employees into a level of work-from-home flexibility that began with a global pandemic, but it takes away management’s historic rights to dictate work terms.
The grievances claim “disparate treatment of or disparate impact on unspecified minority and/or disabled bargaining unit employees. The Grievances are dated: February 11, 2015; February 11, 2016; April 24, 2017 (amended January 31, 2018); June 27, 2018; October 9, 2019; March 23, 2020; and June 21, 2021.”
The union agreed to drop the grievances in exchange for doing away with existing language that management “will determine the number of scheduled telework days, if any, eligible positions, and percentage of employees permitted to telework,” and replacing it with “Each Deputy Commissioner will adhere to the current number of telework days, eligible positions, and percentage of employees permitted to telework as of the date of this agreement until October 25, 2029.”
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It changed “Management has sole discretion to change, reduce, suspend, or eliminate approved telework day(s)” to “temporarily change.” That means that the Trump administration, which has suggested it wants to bring employees back to the office, could try its hand at “temporarily” eliminating telework for a period of multiple years, though that would probably lead to a legal dispute.
Also remaining in the memorandum of understanding is “Management also has sole discretion to change, reduce, or suspend approved telework day(s) for any employee due to the employee&#8217;s performance.” The Trump administration might be able to construe that as applying, for example, to all but the most exemplary employees.
The Social Security Administration did not respond to questions about the appropriateness of its leader appearing as a celebrated guest at a union conference, and then signing a long-term contract on his way out the door. It also did not say how much taxpayer money went toward the Florida union conference.
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Taxpayers pay the salaries of employees during hours that they engage in union activities, a practice known as “official time.”
“If I were attempting to combat government inefficiency and waste,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;I would absolutely target for elimination the practice of using taxpayer money, rather than members’ dues, to pay union officials conducting union work.”
Social Security Administration employees are tasked with getting checks to the elderly and disabled. But as they partied in Florida and sought permanent remote work, there were indications that work was not getting done. Disabled people have to wait more than <a href="https://www.ssa.gov/securitystat/disability-processing-time">half a year</a> for employees to make a determination, on average, if they are eligible for Social Security.
It&#8217;s possible O’Malley did not agree to give up management rights earlier because President Joe Biden didn’t think telework was a good idea — raising the prospect of whether the goal was simply to sandbag the agency under the Trump administration. The Biden administration spent $120 million renovating Social Security&#8217;s headquarters, even though it is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-6-of-feds-work-from-an-office-full-time-and-some-arent-working-at-all-audit-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">91% unoccupied</a> because of telework. In 2022, Biden used his State of the Union address to call for a return to the office, and his chief of staff repeatedly pressed Cabinet officials to do so.
There is evidence that telework has been abused by Social Security Administration employees. In the most <a href="https://oig.ssa.gov/news-releases/2024-09-27-former-social-security-administration-employee-sentenced-for-fraudulent-telework-emergency-childcare-and-medical-leave-schemes/#:~:text=Markham%20was%20paid%20his%20full,telework%E2%80%9D%20on%20official%20SSA%20time.">sensational case</a>, an employee ran a home inspection business while he was supposedly working from home for the agency, and having his mom occasionally send emails from his account was enough to get away with it for three years.
“The Biden administration clearly seems to be trying to bind its successor from making reforms that Trump and his allies promised,” Watson said.

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Far-left activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/david-hogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Hogg</a> is reportedly considering running for a top leadership position in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) because he believes he can fix the party&#8217;s problem of talking down to voters.
Politico reported that Hogg has told reporters that he is “seriously considering” running for DNC Vice Chair.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/david-hogg-quits-progressive-mypillow-competitor-two-months-after-launch">failed pillow salesman</a>, who has made a name for himself by aggressively calling for taking away American&#8217;s Second Amendment rights, appeared on CNN Thursday morning where he addressed the report.
&#8220;Well, honestly, I&#8217;m considering it because I think that, one, obviously, I think we need a new generation in the DNC, if this election has taught us nothing else,&#8221; Hogg said. &#8220;I think we need an intergenerational coalition as a party.&#8221;
He claimed that as he has traveled the country, he realized that the party has &#8220;a number of problems.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think the main one overall is that we would rather live in a comfortable delusion than an uncomfortable reality,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think what the party needs to do is open its eyes and take its fingers out of its ears basically.&#8221;
He said that Democrats only want to talk to elitist Democrats and that the party has an issue of talking in a &#8220;condescending tone&#8221; to others.
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David Hogg says he is &#8220;considering&#8221; running for a top leadership position in the Democrat Party because he wants people to take the party seriously again and because they&#8217;ve become arrogant
Every Republican and conservative will be praying this happens 🤣😂 <a href="https://t.co/6hCAFigXkF">pic.twitter.com/6hCAFigXkF</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1864793459321704579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2024</a></blockquote>

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True to form, the Democratic Party’s 2024 foreign policy platform is as full of historical revisionism as one would predict.
Its contents range from artful dodging to outright untruths. Most importantly, the platform is divorced from the actual Biden-Harris foreign policy record of the last four years.
The most blatant omissions are on Afghanistan, found in a section absurdly titled “Leading with Diplomacy and American Values.” The platform gives a single cursory mention to the withdrawal, stating that the White House “ended America’s longest war” and led the “largest resettlement effort since the Vietnam War.” That’s certainly one way to describe a humiliating retreat that left Americans trapped behind enemy lines, killed 13 military heroes, ignored clear intelligence warnings, and unleashed a historic humanitarian disaster. A subsequent section touts the Biden-Harris administration as a “strong advocate for the rights and opportunities of women and girls.” Did they already forget about the millions of women and girls they relegated to Taliban rule?
The platform’s discussion of Iran is Orwellian, touting the administration’s &#8220;aggressive diplomacy&#8221; to &#8220;defend against Iran.&#8221; In other words: relentless appeasement, unchecked attacks on troops and diplomats, ransom payments, and billions in sanctions relief for the leading state sponsor of terrorism. No U.S. presidency has done more to enrich and embolden the regime, and it’s not even close.
Then comes Russia. The platform argues Democrats have successfully helped Kyiv “defend its territory.” Don&#8217;t they know Russia murdered its way through Ukraine under its watch? We all remember how Biden and Harris set the stage for Putin’s invasion with the “minor incursion” gaffe, repeated weapons delays, desperate diplomacy, and their refusal to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
The Middle East section does its best to be all things to all people, paying rhetorical lip service to Israel while nodding to Palestinian grievances. Most incredibly, the platform touts Democrats’ supposed defense of Israel at the United Nations. Is that what they meant by restoring funding for UNRWA’s terrorism, legitimizing the anti-Semitic Human Rights Council, and letting anti-Israel resolutions pass in the Security Council?
To no surprise, the platform also avoids a clear stance on deterring the Chinese Communist Party. Instead, it discusses the need to “manage” our “most consequential strategic competitor,” avert “a costly spiral to conflict,” and “identify new areas where the United States and China may be able to work together.” Forget a theory of victory — we all know this is a euphemism for accommodation and appeasing the CCP. And to remove any wonder as to whether Democrats view the PRC as America’s top security threat, the platform also clarifies that “there is nothing more important than addressing the climate crisis.”
Is it even worth discussing its absurd border claims? The platform outrageously claims the White House took “decisive action to secure our border” and “decreased illegal border crossings.” Even progressives know this is a farce. Biden and Kamala willfully abetted illegal immigration and fueled border chaos.
Regarding Latin America, the platform argues the Biden-Harris Administration “strengthened ties with key allies across the Hemisphere.” But their only new friends seem to be Left-wing authoritarians like the FARC (delisted as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the Blinken State Department) and Maduro, who has enjoyed sweeping sanctions relief, freed relatives, and political cover for his sham election.
The platform also boasts of “historic investments” in military capacity – quite a claim from a White House that sought to cut the Pentagon’s buying power. The Biden-Harris Administration has made our military budget its smallest since World War II. And lest we forget, Kamala has even acknowledged that she “unequivocally agree[s]” with the goal of reducing the defense budget.
Americans should be outraged at these distortions, which neglect the war and chaos that have spread across nearly every theater under Biden and Harris. Our national security is clearly weaker under their leadership. Americans know we are less safe and that Kamala would only accelerate the foreign policy failures of the Biden presidency.
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Morgan Ortagus is the Founder of POLARIS National Security and host of &#8220;The Morgan Ortagus Show&#8221; on SiriusXM. During the Trump Administration, she served at the Department of State as the Spokeswoman for the United States of America.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Day One Of The 2024 Democratic National Convention

The Democrat Foreign Policy Platform: Don’t Believe Your Own Eyes

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I know you didn&#8217;t stay up to watch Joe Biden last night.
Joe Biden didn&#8217;t stay up to watch Joe Biden last night. 
Last night was Joe Biden&#8217;s funeral, and it had to be awkward for him. Many people have wondered during the course of their lives what it would be like to be present and sort of alive, observing their own funeral. They would get to see all the orations about what a wonderful person they were. Yet no one really actually gets to give their own eulogy at their own funeral.
But Joe Biden did just that last night.
The overriding feeling you get from watching the DNC is that these people are so pathetically fake — so fake. Last night was supposed to be a unifying tribute night to Biden  as they shuffle him off his mortal coil. In fact, Biden showed up to give a speech, and then they put him on a plane and shoved him off, saying, “Get the hell out of here.” And they sent him to California.
Remember, that guy is still the president until January. So I have no idea who&#8217;s running the country. You have no idea who&#8217;s running the country. Apparently, it simply doesn&#8217;t matter who is running the country at this point.
But the idea was that he was going to speak in prime time. They were going to give him his gold watch. They were going to give him a big round of applause for his wondrous leadership after having stabbed his candidacy to death and left it bleeding out on the floor. They were going to talk about what a wonderful president he has been. It would be a night of warm feelings and hot, flowing tears, and it would just be an emotional, resonant, and incredible night when he “passed the torch.” 
In reality, it was the sad spectacle of an old man being shoved off a cliff and forced to celebrate as he himself was shoved off the cliff.
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It&#8217;s like the main character in “Darkness at Noon,” sitting in the cell after having confessed to his crimes on behalf of the Communist Party. That is basically what happened to Biden last night. He had to embrace the party at last and feel the joy. Then, they packed him into an ice box and shipped him off by train to California, where he is on vacation again.
It was, once more, that feeling of fakery that pervades this entire enterprise.
The American people are unhappy with the direction of the country right now. There&#8217;s not a single poll in America that shows fewer than two-thirds of Americans thinking America is moving in the wrong direction. Democrats are in charge of the government. They are in charge of the White House. They&#8217;re in charge of the Senate.
So if you believe the country is moving in the wrong direction (and two-thirds of you do), everyone might want to consider why that is. When a country is very unhappy about the economy, foreign policy, and elitism of critical race theory, the intersectional Democrats — the people who say a boy can be a girl and vice versa and then simultaneously say that if you speak differently, you ought to be ousted from public life —  does slapping a Kamala Harris Happy Face sticker on this bag of crap work? That is their policy proposal? Does that make anyone feel any better?
The entire thing is phony. The entire thing is fake. From soup to nuts last night, it was all phony, it was all fake, up to and including Biden&#8217;s speech at the very end. The entire celebration was supposed to culminate in Biden giving a warm speech about Harris and about him being a heroic figure. Cincinnatus retiring to his farm, George Washington giving up command, and so on.
Instead, they shoved him off beyond prime time. He started speaking last night at 11:30 p.m. in the battleground states — in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia.  He spoke for 48 minutes.
The Democrats tried to pretend that it was about Biden, and it really wasn&#8217;t. It was about shoving him off the cliff as fast as possible.
Ace pollster Nate Silver admitted <a href="https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1825733562164736054">on X</a> that “you&#8217;ve gotta be pretty naive to think the prolonged DNC tonight is for any reason other than diminishing Biden’s visibility.”
That is exactly right.
It doesn&#8217;t matter what the face of the clock says of the Democratic Party. It just matters what the machinery, the workings of the clock, are. They switched out the face of the clock for a different face of the clock. It is the same exact machinery underneath. Biden was always a machine politician. Now, Harris is a machine politician. It&#8217;s the same exact machine, but you&#8217;re not supposed to feel the fakery.
So the question is: Who would be that gullible? That is the question for 2024. Just who is that gullible? Who is going to be taken in by all of the sloganeering about Donald Trump being a threat to democracy and being such a deep, abiding, and terrible figure in American public life? To the point one just continues on with these crappy policies that have wrecked America fiscally, are setting us on a path to economic ruin, have set the world on fire in terms of foreign policy, and have opened the door to Russia, China, and Iran?
Who would be that gullible? Who would be gullible enough to believe what they are selling? Because it is a sales pitch, and it is a bad sales pitch at that.
The sales pitch, of course, begins with fake “joy, joy, joy, joy, joy.” There&#8217;s something peculiarly sinister about people saying that there is just “joy” everywhere.
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It is one thing to say, “Vote for our candidate. Our candidate’s better than the other candidate.” It&#8217;s another thing to say and be enthusiastic for the Democratic candidate because they&#8217;re excited Biden is out now. It is another thing entirely to pretend Harris — one of the most scripted, manufactured, non-genuine politicians in American history — is a representative of “joy,” that the awful awkward cackle she unleashes when asked a difficult question is not a cackle; rather, it is an expression of her inner child. She, like Peter Pan, is youth. She is “joy.” She is a little bird breaking free from the egg.
She is a representative of “joy.” You should feel the “joy.” And if you don&#8217;t feel the “joy,” it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re bad. It&#8217;s because you&#8217;re mean; it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re cruel. Maybe a little racist. That&#8217;s why you don&#8217;t feel the “joy.”
That is the Democratic Party platform at this point. 
Whoever buys this crap is stupid. Whoever buys this crap, pretends it&#8217;s about the “joy,” and embraces the “moving forward” is a rube and a sucker and being played like a fiddle.

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Crews put up more fencing outside of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-convention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Convention</a> (DNC) in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> after protesters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protesters-breach-dncs-wall-before-first-speaker-takes-the-stage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke through</a> the outer security perimeter on Monday.
Between two rows of already-installed barriers around where the breach took place near the United Center, workers placed a third line of fencing early on Tuesday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/20/politics/dnc-protests-day-2/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN</a>.
Forbes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR944D50nD4&amp;list=RDNSWR944D50nD4&amp;start_radio=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> video of the installation in action.
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Many of those demonstrating on the streets of Chicago are voicing objections to the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas terror group in Gaza.
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protesters-breach-dncs-wall-before-first-speaker-takes-the-stage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Monday — the first day of the DNC — how some protesters tore down sections of the outer &#8220;wall&#8221; around the United Center, but failed to get through a second fence line.
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DNC protesters attempted to breach a second security fence protecting the United Center after breaking through the first line but were unsuccessful. <a href="https://t.co/E8aK7rMod5">pic.twitter.com/E8aK7rMod5</a>
&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1825656626818187716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Police Superintendent Larry Snelling <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlSGEz3Qwk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters</a> on Tuesday there had been <a href="https://apnews.com/article/democratic-convention-chicago-protests-war-gaza-f064683535bbbe93231d31ecc2dbafc7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13 arrests</a> on Monday, including at least 10 related to the breach.
The arrests revolved around instances of criminal trespassing, resisting and obstructing, as well as aggravated battery of police officers, Snelling added.
Snelling also said police had a conversation with the Secret Service and the location where the protesters had broken through was &#8220;fortified&#8221; to prevent another breach.
The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3126692/chicago-denies-operational-security-failure-dnc-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Chicago Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brandon-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Johnson</a> denied there being an &#8220;operational failure&#8221; and rejected the notion that more police should have been placed where the breach happened.
“Protecting the First Amendment right. That’s what we’ve done. We’ve done that,” Johnson said. He then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-dem-mayor-lashes-out-at-republicans-after-far-left-protesters-disrupt-dnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that the &#8220;extreme&#8221; Republican Party is a &#8220;failure.&#8221;
The first day of the DNC featured speeches from former Secretary of State and failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, First Lady Jill Biden, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and others.
President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, who was pressured by allies to end his 2024 bid, rounded out the lineup with remarks touting his record and promoting Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> to be his successor.
As he delivered his remarks, Biden appeared to go off script when <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1825747000509284840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talking</a> about trying to reach a cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and securing the release of hostages.
&#8220;Those protesters out in the street. They have a point,&#8221; Biden said, adding that &#8220;a lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.&#8221;
Among the protesters, one man was <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1825621756796629030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen holding</a> a sign that read, &#8220;End Israel, stand with Hamas.&#8221; Another man appeared on Fox News and <a href="https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1825752470779289685" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said he supported</a> October 7, the date of Hamas&#8217; attacks on Israel.

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At the beginning of the year — before it was clear that Kamala Harris would replace Joe Biden on the ticket — the Washington Post ran an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/kamala-harris-quit-biden-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> entitled, &#8220;For the country’s sake, Vice President Harris should step aside.&#8221; The editorial called Harris a &#8220;colossal failure&#8221; and specifically criticized her for &#8220;cackling&#8221; at strange and unsettling moments.
Around the same time, in April, a CNN panel also discussed whether Joe Biden should ditch Kamala Harris. And again, they didn&#8217;t just discuss her job performance. They also cited her frequent, Joker-like cackling as one of the reasons she&#8217;s so unappealing to voters. Watch:
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April 26, 2024. CNN roundtable discusses how Kamala Harris may actually be dragging Biden down in his bid for re-election.😂
They discussed the fact that people don&#39;t like her, including swing voters, and that her voice is annoying.🤣 <a href="https://t.co/sukcAwalTY">pic.twitter.com/sukcAwalTY</a>
&mdash; MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1816924782581150171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Even the feminists on the panel conceded that Kamala Harris has issues &#8220;communicating&#8221; with voters. This was an unusual moment of honesty that came about because at the time, Democrats were still fantasizing about swapping Kamala Harris out for a candidate that voters might actually like.
Of course, that opportunity came and went following the coup that took down Joe Biden. And as a result, these types of discussions have mostly disappeared from places like CNN and the Washington Post. Criticizing a woman&#8217;s tendency to cackle at inopportune times is considered sexist when she could become the first female president. 
But the underlying issue never went away. Just because the press doesn&#8217;t want to talk about Kamala Harris&#8217; cackle anymore doesn&#8217;t change the fact that most people think it&#8217;s extremely off-putting. It still projects the image of an airhead or a day drinker, rather than a competent presidential candidate. And obviously she can&#8217;t bring herself to stop doing it, no matter how many times they&#8217;ve probably tried to tell her to knock it off. So the Kamala Harris campaign needed to come up with some kind of solution to the problem. They had to find a way to put a positive spin on their candidate&#8217;s behavior, especially if they were going to accuse the other side of being &#8220;weird.&#8221;
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Over the past few weeks, it&#8217;s clear what solution they came up with: They&#8217;ve decided to rebrand Kamala Harris as the candidate of &#8220;joy.&#8221; Instead of disturbing voters, we&#8217;re now led to believe that her laugh is a completely normal and healthy sign of how happy she and her supporters are. And so, just a few months after the corporate press told us that Kamala Harris&#8217; laughter was one of her biggest liabilities, there&#8217;s been an incessant drumbeat from the media to convince us that it&#8217;s somehow an asset.
There have been about a million contrived articles to this effect. Rolling Stone for example <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/kamala-harris-joy-politics-fight-fascism-1235082079/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> that Kamala Harris has adopted the &#8220;Politics of Joy,&#8221; which is apparently the &#8220;Best Way to Fight Fascism.&#8221; As Rolling Stone put it, &#8220;History shows that joy and mockery are key to taking down existing or would-be authoritarian regimes.&#8221; (Never mind the fact that the Nazis <a href="https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1825372169238642974">set up</a> an organization called &#8220;Strength Through Joy,&#8221; which would seem to be a factoid from history that contradicts Rolling Stone&#8217;s thesis.)
Meanwhile The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/11/kamala-harris-tim-walz-campaign-joy-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, &#8220;Democrats’ joy is unconfined as Harris and Walz take upbeat message on tour.&#8221; The article quoted Tim Walz as saying, &#8220;Thank you, Madam Vice-President, for the trust you put in me but, maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy.” For its part, Salon ran a similar <a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/08/19/why-joy-matters-kamala-harris-hopes-happy-women-can-defeat-donald-and-magas-male-rage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a>: &#8220;Why joy matters: Kamala Harris hopes happy women can defeat Donald Trump and MAGA&#8217;s male rage. &#8230; Kamala Harris bets the election on women&#8217;s joy. Donald Trump stakes his hopes on men&#8217;s anger.&#8221;
To illustrate the point even further — just in case the other ten thousand articles didn&#8217;t drive home the message enough — The New Yorker&#8217;s latest cover featured Donald Trump and JD Vance looking forlorn, going down on a rollercoaster. Meanwhile Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are going up the rollercoaster, and they&#8217;re waving their hands around with a gust of wind behind them.
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The New Yorker&#39;s latest cover: <a href="https://t.co/xiriF1Xp5E">pic.twitter.com/xiriF1Xp5E</a>
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I don&#8217;t know how many roller coasters the editors of the New Yorker have been on, but the fun part is going down. That&#8217;s when you get all the momentum and everyone goes crazy. That&#8217;s when the theme park takes your photo and you share it on social media and everyone says, &#8220;Look how joyful that guy is at the theme park.&#8221; On the way up, there&#8217;s supposed to be anticipation. It&#8217;s also supposed to be a lot slower going up than going down, because of the laws of physics. 
But the New Yorker is willing to suspend the laws of physics and the rules of good cartoon-making to play their small role in the media-wide rebrand of Kamala Harris&#8217; cackle. 
They are willing to completely debase themselves for the privilege of selling this narrative that no one believes.
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Speaking of over-selling the narrative, Tim Walz has taken to wildly gesticulating and prancing around at every rally he attends. It&#8217;s maybe the most unnatural display of fake sincerity by a vice presidential candidate since John Edwards was around. But Tim Walz has to do it because the rebrand states that Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign is joyful now, so he has to play along. Watch:
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Omg, I love his enthusiasm. It’s contagious! 
Let’s go, <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tim_Walz</a>! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HarrisWalz2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HarrisWalz2024</a> <a href="https://t.co/YkWoElcYkJ">pic.twitter.com/YkWoElcYkJ</a>
&mdash; best of kamala harris (@archivekamala) <a href="https://twitter.com/archivekamala/status/1824909011012944254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It was, what, a year ago that Donald Trump saying &#8220;fight like hell&#8221; was supposedly evidence that he&#8217;s a violent insurrectionist who belongs in prison. Now we have Tim Walz repeatedly telling his supporters to &#8220;fight.&#8221; And they repeat the chant back at him. And this time around, it&#8217;s supposedly a sign of &#8220;joy.&#8221; Not only is it not criminal, it&#8217;s something to celebrate. And then Tim Walz starts clapping and waving his arms hysterically.
It&#8217;s obviously choreographed and disingenuous, but they keep doing it at every single rally and public appearance. So we get tons of images of Tim Walz like this one:
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Walz is literally &quot;light in the loafers.&quot; He is the epitome of every foolish white male portrayed in recent TV sitcoms and DEI commercials. <a href="https://t.co/qO0TMi2ZTS">pic.twitter.com/qO0TMi2ZTS</a>
&mdash; Stone Age Paterfamilias 🌲🪓 (@PaterFamilian) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaterFamilian/status/1825483550189031854?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s the &#8220;goofy guy&#8221; who helped create the gay club at his high school, before he&#8217;d go on to require that tampons were distributed in boy&#8217;s bathrooms. Nothing to see here. He&#8217;s just &#8220;joyful,&#8221; along with the rest of the Democrats. 
In order to buy that Democrats are now the party of joy, you don&#8217;t just have to overlook how fake and thrown-together this whole act is. You also have to ignore what Democrats are saying and doing. You have to set aside all of the examples of the Democrat Party going out of its way to spread guilt, resentment and fear. 
For instance, you&#8217;d have to completely overlook the first page of the DNC&#8217;s 2024 platform, which amounts to an apology for the existence of America. The very first thing they do — before they get into how they&#8217;re going to institute price controls and raise the corporate tax rate and so on — is recite a land acknowledgement.
<blockquote>The Democratic National Committee wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial. &#8230; While we meet in Chicago, we also recognize and honor the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. We acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.</blockquote>
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The 1st page of the 2024 DNC platform is an apology for America&#39;s existence: <a href="https://t.co/5ITI2OwkyS">pic.twitter.com/5ITI2OwkyS</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1825549883014885732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In case you&#8217;re wondering, yes, this land acknowledgment was copy-pasted from <a href="https://www.chicityclerk.com/land-acknowledgement-resolution-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">somewhere else</a>. You can find those same tribes, in that same order, all over the Internet. Whoever put this in the DNC platform has no idea what the Ho-Chunk or Wea tribes were. And for that matter, the person who wrote this land acknowledgement in the first place has no idea either. The point of this document is not to celebrate these tribes. It&#8217;s not to condemn conquest, either, since these tribes weren&#8217;t the first ones to exist on this continent. The point is to condemn the United States for existing, and to instill guilt in as many Americans as possible. That is not joy. It&#8217;s a pretext for the destruction of our civilization.
Of course the destruction of civilization also entails a complete breakdown of law and order, which we&#8217;ve also seen already during the DNC. The Washington Free Beacon&#8217;s Joe Simonson <a href="https://x.com/SaysSimonson/status/1825690306269872368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> early in the evening that scores of people were filing out of the DNC because of how dangerous it was becoming outside: &#8220;Insane security failures. People are turning around and leaving. All because of fear about protests. Clown show.&#8221; 
Meanwhile, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Brent Scher <a href="https://x.com/BrentScher/status/1825683576177754433" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> that people were &#8220;getting trampled&#8221; and &#8220;jumping over barriers&#8221; during the panic. He reported that one floor delegate called the situation &#8220;absolute chaos,&#8221; and that the DNC is &#8220;the worst event I&#8217;ve ever been to.&#8221;
Outside the United Center, Left-wing agitators were destroying fencing and clashing with police. Watch:
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Another gate has come down and protestors are officially flooding the first barrier protecting the United Center and the DNC | <a href="https://twitter.com/FrontlinesTPUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FrontlinesTPUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/hh8T9dsEMu">pic.twitter.com/hh8T9dsEMu</a>
&mdash; Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) <a href="https://twitter.com/sav_says_/status/1825648380900684285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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At the DNC in Chicago. This is disturbing. They’re completely driven by hate. <a href="https://t.co/71fEKyFuJF">pic.twitter.com/71fEKyFuJF</a>
&mdash; Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1825612897097236502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Instead of condemning any of this, Joe Biden said last night that a lot of these protesters have a &#8220;point.&#8221; 
You may remember that there weren&#8217;t rows of boarded-up buildings during the RNC in Milwaukee. Riot police didn&#8217;t fight with protesters who tore down security fencing. No one spat on the cops. Those are scenes that are reserved for the party of joy. When you&#8217;re joyful, you destroy property and attack the police. 
You also invite a bunch of speakers to the DNC to explain, one after the other, why you should be irrationally fearful at all times. That&#8217;s what happened last night. Steve Kerr — the same coach who refuses to bad-mouth China because the NBA makes a lot of money there — claimed that it&#8217;s &#8220;dangerous&#8221; to speak your mind in America today. A state senator warned that Donald Trump would inevitably &#8220;weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents.&#8221;
Imagine that. Andy Beshear said that Donald Trump and JD Vance don&#8217;t believe in the concept of freedom. Joe Biden himself screamed his way through every single debunked hoax he&#8217;s repeated before — the &#8220;very fine people&#8221; hoax, the &#8220;suckers and losers&#8221; hoax, the &#8220;dictator on day one&#8221; hoax, and the &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; hoax&#8221; — all to incite as much division as possible. And so on. All of this is supposedly joyful, we&#8217;re told again and again.
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One of the reasons Democrats are pushing this message so aggressively, even though it&#8217;s obviously false, is that it helps reframe the national political debate. Just by talking about &#8220;joy,&#8221; and by baiting their opponents into responding to this fraudulent narrative, Democrats are distracting from a series of problems they have — including a historically unlikable candidate with Venezuelan politics. So even a debate over whether Democrats are really &#8220;joyful&#8221; or not, indirectly, does help them out.
We should reject the premise. Spreading joy isn’t the job of the president in the first place. The president has a lot of responsibilities, but that&#8217;s not one of them. We don’t look to the President to find out what emotional states we should be experiencing. But even if we did — even if we accepted this strained, artificial attempt to reframe Kamala Harris&#8217; obvious weakness — then we certainly wouldn&#8217;t look to the modern Democrat Party for joy. As the DNC has already demonstrated, they are without question the least joyful political party that has ever existed.

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The DNC is beginning.
Do you feel the joy yet? This campaign is a forced march. It is Mao&#8217;s Long March.
But, on Monday, we are going to get “unity.” They&#8217;re going to attempt to obscure the fact they took the president of the United States — the actual nominee — out back and beheaded him politically. They&#8217;re going to try to make you forget they put him in hospice care and shot him up with a little too much morphine just to ease his passing. They&#8217;re going to forget about all that. They&#8217;re going to give him the gold watch, wheel out his corpse, and then pass him out the back door.
We&#8217;ve already had some indicators of what the DNC is going to look like: You can get a free abortion at the DNC.
No, I’m not kidding.
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/17/us-news/free-abortions-vasectomies-will-be-available-to-dnc-attendees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post:</a>
<blockquote>Attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago will have the opportunity to get a free abortion or vasectomy just blocks away from the event — and vasectomy appointments are filling up fast. … Medication abortions are reportedly available on both days, with vasectomies being exclusively offered Monday, according to The New York Times.</blockquote>
Don&#8217;t let me get in the way of you Democratic men sterilizing yourselves. If this is what you choose to do, then let me not be any obstacle to you removing further generations of your family line.
In addition to the mobile clinic, another group called Americans for Contraception is going to erect an 18-foot tall inflatable intrauterine device (IUD) named “Frieda Womb.” Get it? They&#8217;re freeing the womb of babies.
Idolatry takes many forms.
The actual schedule for the DNC lineup starts Monday night, the theme of which is called “for the people.” That’s hugely ironic, as literally no one voted for Kamala Harris.
Feel the joy yet?
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So, the actual president of the United States, Joe Biden, Dr. Jill, and the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak. I love they&#8217;re just shuttling Hillary to Monday night, saying, “Ok, everybody whom we hate and want to go away on the stage: Hillary Clinton, come on up!”
There will also be a welcome from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has locked all of the medicine cabinets at the local CVS to make sure nobody steals any of the medications.
Tuesday will be “a bold vision for America&#8217;s future,” featuring former President Obama — because, when you think “forward,” you think of the president who left office in 2016. Michelle Obama is going to speak as well because she is a black woman and that means that she must speak, according to the laws of intersectionality. “Second Gentleman” Doug Emhoff will speak, but not his nanny. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker will give the night’s welcome from the rotund.
Wednesday’s theme, “a fight for our freedoms,” will feature vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, who shut down the entire state of Minnesota for COVID and the funding of rioting.
Sure. That&#8217;s what I think of when I think of freedom.
What they really mean is “freedom to schtoop.” Former President Clinton, who is very much into the freedom to schtoop, will speak, as will Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has presided over more transportation failures over the course of the last three and a half years than any time in modern American history. No one even noticed when he went on paternity leave because he’s so incompetent.
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You have to feel sorry for the other members of the Biden cabinet. Their big sin is not being gay.
Imagine being Gina Raimondo, the Secretary of Commerce, who is likely thinking, “Why don&#8217;t I get to speak?”
“Well, Gina, you are straight. So that&#8217;s going to be a ‘no’ on that.”
Thursday’s “for our future” theme will be the night Kamala Harris accepts the convention&#8217;s nomination for president. Other speakers will include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who will be pitching his new book, “Anti-Semitism: How I Did It”; House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries; and former President Carter&#8217;s grandson, Jason Carter.
That’s great. Go ahead; bring up specters of the past like Jimmy Carter.
Axios reported, “The stairs at the delegate entrance will say ‘History Is In Your Hands’ — a quote from Biden&#8217;s Oval Office address on July 24. As delegates arrive on Monday ahead of Biden&#8217;s speech, digital signage in the United Center will say: ‘History is in your hands’ and ‘Spread the faith.’”
By “spread the faith,” they do not mean Christianity or anything Biblically-related. “Spread the faith” means 18-foot statues of IUDs.
And, of course, the DNC will feature pro-Hamas demonstrators from the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, to which Harris wishes to appeal. The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dnc-uncommitted-arab-american-palestinian-gaza-93f9edb25a602c95ee226bd2645e4298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> reported on Saturday:
<blockquote>During a campaign trip to Michigan last week, Harris met with Abdullah Hammoud, the 34-year-old mayor of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb that has the largest number of Arab Americans of any city in the United States.</blockquote>
On Sunday, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/18/kamala-harris-met-secretly-with-radical-antisemitic-dearborn-michigan-mayor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Breitbart</a> followed up the AP’s reporting, explaining she&#8217;s in the backroom negotiating with the pro-Hamas crowd: 
<blockquote>Vice President Kamala Harris secretly met last week with the radical, antisemitic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, in an effort to court Muslim- and Arab-American voters. The meeting was reported by the Associated Press, buried within an article published on Saturday about the so-called ‘uncommitted’ group of voters, particularly in Michigan, who are trying to push the Democratic Party into an openly anti-Israel position.</blockquote>
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On the evening of October 7, the day Hamas murdered over 1,200 Israelis, Hammoud <a href="https://x.com/AHammoudMI/status/1710826757803196880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted:</a>
<blockquote>Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable.</blockquote>
Jillian Kay Melchior, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-radicals-who-plan-to-shut-down-the-dnc-for-gaza-story-starts-atlanta-2020-protests-777d7717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>:
<blockquote>The anti-Israel crowd has united with radical environmentalists and antipolice activists who have spent years honing unlawful tactics, which include setting up encampments, vandalizing property, brawling with the cops and “de-arresting” their comrades—physically intervening to prevent an arrest, including by pulling someone away from the police. They spent the last school year sharing their peculiar expertise with college students, and they’ve been core participants in this summer’s protests in New York City and elsewhere.</blockquote>
If Republicans are confronted by pro-Hamas protesters, they tell them they&#8217;re jerks and a waste of oxygen. But if pro-Hamas protesters go up to Democrats, the Democrats immediately begin kowtowing to them and asking what they can do to make them feel better.
The DNC: as American as apple pie.

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