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The Real Baltimore
Kim Klacik is a Republican running for Congress in Baltimore, and she has a few things to say. Warning: pearl clutchers should have pearls handy before watching this campaign ad:
While Nancy makes selfie-videos of her $30 a pint designer ice cream, Kim Klacik is shaking up her old home town. Sometimes the revolution that arises is not the one the elites were staging. A race worth following. Donate here.
As you were.
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Bet your interests would be served by her admin nonetheless.
I teared up for a second and wanted to reach into the screen and hug the dude, tell him how sorry I was. I thought for a second she might.
Don’t hate the playah, play the game.
Oh, hey, look who Larry O’Connor was speaking with.
This is amazing. She’ll be hitting 6 million views in just a few minutes, probably by the time I hit the “Comment” button…
The president, again:
On Laura Ingraham:
And on The Five:
And she beat out Michelle Obama:
I told my wife about this, briefly describing the video and saying she was beating Michelle Obama for number of views. Her reply was, “That must be some red dress!”
My favorite part. I have found strength to go on.
Rush played the audio on his show today. That probably helped it go viral.
Interestingly, KimKBaltimore exudes a joy and spirit that could not be present in anyone as selfish and bitter as M.O.
When you see them side by side…the contrast is striking.
The Black voters rejecting is going to be the biggest political divorce from an abusive spouse…
May G-d touch their hearts and help them find the truth of their value, made in G-d’s image, and discover their best path.
Good advice from Gutfeld there. Will the R’s pick up on it, though?
I think you have to mention solutions in your ad.
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Former Republican, Larry Kudlow friend, and regular CNBC contributor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ran against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary. “She received 7,393 votes (19.5%), finishing in second place over 53 points behind Ocasio-Cortez.”
Except for a few countries that grew out of a tradition of trust and openness found in Northern Europe, I think most places around the world view government as a sort of a family kleptocracy. I think even a very high percentage of Republicans in Congress simply see the job as a path to make themselves and their families rich.
Very corrupt Congressman William J. Jefferson was just barely defeated by 1,814 votes (49.54% to 46.83%) in a congressional district that voted 72% for Obama. Then that one Republican who defeated him decided to vote for Obamacare in at least one procedural vote. It didn’t help. The Republican was defeated 33.47% to 64.59% in the next election in 2010.
Speaking of Obamacare, Artur Davis used to hang around Ricochet after being the only black Democrat congressman to vote against Obamacare. He was a Republican from 2012 until 2015 and again from 2016 until 2017, moving back and forth between Alabama and Virginia also. He’s back to being a Democrat once again, and he hasn’t posted on Ricochet in years.
I don’t think that’s necessary at this point.
You don’t need to highlight why the R is a better choice… right now, the hurdle is reminding them that they HAVE a choice.
And this is an intro ad. It is not going to be all of her campaign.
Let’s see what else she has in getting herself out there. Town Halls, campaign meet & greets, interviews with local media… all of these should be part of her campaign. She’ll have plenty of opportunities to share her solutions.
I loved the ad. Re the red dress, my thoughts were that it was the “power” dress since she couldn’t do the red tie thing….and….then I imagined me in that red dress, with my grandmotherly body wearing it, trying to walk in those heels after wearing men’s combat boots for 20 years, followed by 20 years of sandals and Rainbows. With that image in my mind my only thought was, “you go, girl!”
I noticed that too. I only saw one pile of trash bags, and they weren’t torn apart. No doubt if there was garbage strewn everywhere, the Democrats would accuse her of planting it.
Great ad! I don’t know if it’s enough to get blacks to vote for her, but I’d be interested to see what percentage she does get, and compare that to the last election . . .
To all,
Here in Florida, Laura Loomer and Anna Paulina Luna took the Republican primary in Congressional District 21 and 13. It would be incredible if, with Klacik, all three made it to Congress. It would be the Republican Anti-Squad Squad. Laura would get in AOC’s face in two seconds.
To dream the impossible dream.
Regards,
Jim
Not everybody can move out. Some people get left behind. I don’t feel right abandoning them.
Astute woman, that Mrs. Arahant.
As was explained to me by a black coworker. The blacks owe the Democrats and big government for saving them from Jim Crow laws. It is why most blacks are against federalism since every state in the union had Jim Crow laws against blacks.
Huh? What the? Jim Crow laws? Every state? Blacksplaining?
Good morning… 8.1 million views.
It was not really a choice. It was work related.
Did not get into it too much. Disagreeing with minorities at work is a trip to HR and maybe out the door. Just happened to be in the room while the discussion happened.
Reminds me of being on a city bus once in Arizona and hearing two guys – at least one of whom had apparently served in the military during one of the Gulf Wars – talking about how Saddam Hussein wasn’t really dead because gas would be $12/gallon if he was, and how Bob Marley was such a huge international political figure and influence(r). (There was a third equally dumb subject, but I don’t remember what it was.)
Which also fits with an argument I’ve heard from some muslims/islamists that Osama Bin Laden didn’t really attack the US, because Bin Laden is/was such a powerful man that, if he had, the US would be nothing but smoldering ruins. Therefore, Bin Laden did not attack the US. QED.
Also reminds me of Dennis Prager occasionally relating a story about visiting some radio corporation HQ where focus-group surveys were being conducted, and noting that there were either no black people or no white people – I don’t remember which – in some survey group he saw. He was told that they didn’t “mix races” because they had found that in a mixed group, the white participants would not openly disagree with the black participants, lest they be considered racist. And that was like 20 years ago, or more!
Sorry to rain on the parade here but I think we have to give serious consideration to the possibility that Blacks vote Dem because they by and large are (or have been up to now) sympathetic to the Dem’s general political world view: more government, more spending, and the explicit acknowledgement that continued racism is largely responsible for unequal outcomes. I don’t think it’s a messaging issue or that inner city Blacks are “low information” voters or somehow being duped. Those are always the reasons given when voters don’t vote the way they’re supposed to and it’s rarely the case. Those were the reason’s the Left tried to use to explain the Trump and Reagan presidencies and they are no more valid when applied to the inner city support for Dems.
So to combat explicit racism, they vote for the party that has been – and arguably continues to be – the most explicitly racist over time?
No, they vote for the party that has identified a scapegoat for their failures. A scapegoat that undoubtedly bears some of the blame in some cases. The fact that that same party uses its position of trust to shaft them time and time again doesn’t penetrate because the party apparatus as successfully stigmatized information sources that would report on that. By and large.
What? Democrats created Jim Crow. Only when Northern Democrats joined the long-standing position of the GOP minority in Congress did it begin to change.
Part of my argument too.
I won’t pretend to know the answer to that question. I was mainly reacting to what I saw as the conventional wisdom in this thread that inner city Blacks are being duped or tricked by Democrats. Bottom line: I don’t think the average inner city Black is any more or less irrational in their voting behavior then the average schmo in any other voting demographic. I think the policy differences and world views are real and substantive.