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Democrats betting on the lowest common denominator
It seems odd that a party led by geriatric elitists like Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, etc. is still known as the party of America’s youth. Part of this, of course, is due to the leftist control of our educational system. This is very important, because Democrat policies on inflation, immigration, foreign policy, energy production, etc., etc., etc., are universally destructive to the interests of young people. But the Democrats keep trying. From today’s National Review, check out the “youth outreach” programs at the DNC last week:
Chicago’s hottest club this week was the Democratic National Convention, where Gen-Z TikTokers, Olivia Rodrigo stans (like fans, only more obsessive), and social-media influencers gathered to support presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Nearly 200 stars were in the United Center’s “Creator Lounge” this week, a zone with an open bar and string lights, reserved exclusively for influencers.
“Hotties for Harris,” a warehouse party thrown at the DNC by and for certified Brats, was the Gen-Z hot zone. In one corner sat a musty couch with a “Property of J.D. Vance” sign lying on top of it, a reference to the (very) false claim that Vance had sex with a couch, circulated online by Democrats after Donald Trump announced his vice-presidential pick. There was merchandise galore at the event, including “Hotties for Harris” bucket hats and tank tops and free condoms that read “F*** Project 2025.” GIFs of Kamala Harris dancing were projected, signs that read “Tim Waltz [sic] Got Me Laid” were hung, TikTok dances were danced, and feminist mini-golf was played. A gumball machine distributing the morning-after pill read “Plan B, nom nom nom.”
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Being a hottie for Harris specifically means that you are “having fun, we’re dancing, we’re listening to fun music, we’re partying, we’re having a good time. We’re having conversations about reproductive health care and what it means to have freedom in every aspect of our lives,” Mariana Pecora, spokeswoman for Voters of Tomorrow, said. Hot people at the DNC also got to play arcade games, like “whack a weird policy,” and “abortion access skeetball,” the Daily Mail reported.
Please read the whole thing. It really is remarkable. Just astounding.
Who are their target for such inanities? Surely not just fools. Surely they expect to have an impact on large numbers of people. Is that possible?
I’m trying to imagine this in the 1980s, when I was in college. I would think that my generation would have laughed them off the stage. But maybe not, I guess.
These “influencers” are mostly in their early twenties to mid-thirties—an age when most people are busy raising kids and trying to work a job. This seems so foreign. Like watching young adults without the “adult” part.
What on earth has happened to us?
My goodness.
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You answered your question:
They are the party of one, and only one, freedom: Freedom from responsibility.
Unfortunately, we have a lot of people in America that are looking for a new mommy or daddy. A mommy or daddy that will pay their bills, relieve them from making any decisions, and will provide everything they need without having to make any effort to provide for themselves.
Except they don’t get that the Dems and their keepers really want a slave/serf economy and culture and nothing resembling freedom. And said keepers don’t intend to be the serfs or slaves. I’ve guessed that they all think they will be in the Inner Circle and continue not contributing or making anything.
I’m not gonna make it to the election. I cannot stand the level to which the fakery and hype on the Democratic side is spewing.
Is it supposed to read “It seems odd” and not “It sees odd”?
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This is actually a good idea.
I just saw Democrat Big Shot Operative Jim Messina on Fox News. He said that 80% of swing voters want the government to stay out of abortion. He likes abortion.
Dang it. You’re right.
I fixed it. Thanks very much.
The problem is, there is so much government interference in life, it’s hard to take total initiative for a lot of people.
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It would help if the Fed hadn’t blown up the price of everything including shelter. Shelter affordability is down 85% since Biden came into office.
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Of course, for them, that’s a feature, not a bug. Once they make shelter unaffordable to many/most people, who else but “The Government” can “afford” to provide it FOR them?
One thing I’d like to know about Nancy Pelosi. She seems pretty strange every time she’s on TV. Do you think she can act normal without a camera in front of her? Etc.
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Does she act normal WITH a camera in front of her?
What i’m interested in is where she gets the new face she has every time she’s interviewed.
Seriously. Isn’t she really strange? What is she like around her family and her relatives? Is it just the way you behave when you are really old? She always sounds so perfectly over- canned all the time.
She’s a Lizard Person.
Democrats bet on every thing in an election. Lowest common denominator, lying, stealing, cheating, buying, promises, deals, arresting people, lawfare, rigging, etc. it is just how they roll.
And Nancy Pelosi swallowing their pets whole.
I remember Democratic women calling themselves “nasty” back in 2016. When they call themselves bitches and brats, I believe them.
Very few hotties though. And what’s a pretty girl who’s disgusting on the inside?
They seem fixated on J. D. and the couch. I wonder what they would make of my old running mate Redneck Bob’s memorable phrase that he was “so horny the Crack of Dawn wasn’t safe.”
That’s what they do. If you blurt out one thing that they can twist into something that they think makes them look good they never drop it. It’s so tedious, but that’s what they do.
And administer corporal punishment.
I keep thinking back to the “Life of Julia” commercials (2012, I think) that presented the government as the ultimate substitute for marriage, family, friends, and community. The “Life of Julia” commercials have now been rather thoroughly scrubbed from the record because the commercial made a little too clear for too many people the Leftists’/Democrats’ goal of replacing marriage, family, friends, and community with government.
And if you oppose that, you’ll be sneered at for toxic masculinity.
They would probably say it’s violent/threatening because Dawn identifies as asexual.
I always thought that the photo used in the OP made Chuck and Nancy look like morticians in a horror film. Perhaps there’s a reason I think that.
I think the embalmer did a great job. They look almost life-like.
Chuck needs a pitchfork.
Or a flying silver ball with blades.