Why should anyone listen to people who behave like infantile toddlers?
The modern face of the Democratic Party.
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For decades the Democratic Party and the left (I repeat myself) have used public demonstrations to garner support for their agenda. A bunch of protesters would gather in some public place, holding preprinted signs and demanding “action” for some leftist cause or another. The propaganda press would then give the protest loving coverage, advocating the cause nationwide as something that “must be done.”
For decades these protests have had some success. They forced the public debate to move in the direction the protesters wanted, and almost routinely resulted in legislative or executive actions that they supported.
All this has changed. The recent protests against the Trump administration’s effort to deport illegal immigrants, often devolving into violence, rioting, and looting, have done nothing to shift Trump’s policies. More important, they have done nothing to convince the public to their cause. If anything, all polls indicate these protests have been counter-productive, that the public has shifted even more strongly in its support of Trump.
The picture to the right, a screen capture from the video below, I think illustrates beautifully why these protests have failed so spectacularly. It shows a woman insanely trying to stop an ICE vehicle carrying captured illegals by grabbing the bus’ front grill. As she does this she starts screams madly, first by shrieking “Let my people go!” and then “Don’t kill me!” as the vehicle begins to accelerate. Eventually ICE officers pull her away, but then she tries to grab the side of this bus as well as two others that follow, all the while continuing her mindless screeching.
She is quite large but she's not going to stop a Chevy 550 ICE bus.
The screaming harpy is finally thrown to the ground at 3:15 mark.pic.twitter.com/6TVcKWcfPT
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 15, 2025
It is obvious from this video — sadly quite typical of the behavior of these leftist pro-illegal immigration protesters — why the protests have failed so magnificently. This is infantile behavior. It matches that of a two-year-old screaming on its back as it pounds its feet and fists on the ground and demands its way, without logic or thought. “I WANT! I WANT NOW!”
Nor is this woman unusual. Democratic Party politicians themselves have recently matched her effort, repeatedly interfering with law enforcement officials and getting themselves arrested.
- Senator Alex Padilla (D-California) crashes press conference and is forcibly removed, arrested
- NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by federal agents at immigration court
- Federal authorities arrest two judges, in escalation of Trump immigration crackdown
This is only a sampling. There is also the numerous times Democrats at all levels have loudly called for violence against Trump, Republicans, and anyone who disagrees with them.
Thus, this childish and brainless behavior is not merely coming from the rank-and-file of the left. It permeates its entire mentality, from the bottom to the top.
None of this has any rationality to it. All of it is emotional hate, magnified by a complete lack of reasoned thought. Above all, it provides the objective public no reasons to support Democratic Party causes. If anything, it gives everyone proof that Democratic Party policies are bad, have little merit, and are based on empty and out-of-control emotions.
Also a party of screaming toddlers
This pattern has been obvious now since 2016, when Trump won his first election for president. Then we saw endless fake scandals and investigations against Trump and his allies that only caused his support to grow, while support for the left steadily dwindled.
In response the Democrats have only doubled down, ramping up their infantile behavior. During Trump’s first term the whines and complaints were loud and annoying and almost always based on lies and slanders, but involved little relative violence. Since then however these tantrums have increasingly evolved into violence, including two assassination attempts against Trump and numerous riots across the country.
Has that ramp up worked? Of course not. All evidence shows this infantile behavior convinces no one. The public supports Trump, and that support continues to grow because while there may be valid reasons to disagree with him at times, overall his policies do make some reasonable sense. And what the Democratic Party offers in opposition is absurd, frightening, and above all, has the mentality of a spoiled brat.
Until this changes, expect more defeats for the Democratic Party and its leftist supporters.
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Ilya was never the same after the V’ger incident
Simple: they’re trying to normalize political violence.
directorblue: And my point is that this tactic is failing spectacularly.
Two possibilities for what we’re seeing: 1) the present-day progressive movement is more feminized than its left-wing predecessors of ages past; 2) SSRIs.
Richard M: I hate acronyms. What the heck is “SSRIs”?
Mr. Z.,
SSRI’s
“Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors.”
Refers to the broad class of (2nd generation) anti-depressants most commonly in use & prescribed the past 30 years.
Stuff like prozac, paxil, zolft, etc.
While these are very ‘safe’ drugs from an over-dose perspective, they are not innocuous and truth-be-told have been over-prescribed to people in general, and pre-18-year-olds in particular, and have been implicated in pushing people otherwise predisposed, ‘over-the-edge,’ to be polite.
“directorblue: And my point is that this tactic is failing spectacularly.”
But they, at least some of the more vocal and clinically insane among them do not care.
You WILL live in THEIR reality.
But in spite of that clinically diagnosable insanity America is now going in the correct general direction.
And here I offer evidence to back up my assertion: https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/19/ken-martin-democratic-national-party-infighting-weak-whiny/
Keep going.
SSRI = Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, the most common type of antidepressant medication used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, and other conditions.
In America, SSRI prescriptions have exploded in recent years, especially among young women – during COVID, they positively exploded. Increasingly, we really are a doped up nation.
Dancing Pigeons
“Ritalin” (2010)
https://youtu.be/eGbucSjSLDw
3:18
RZ: I hate acronyms. What the heck is “SSRIs”?
I believe that acronym refers to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (think Zoloft, Lexipro, and other sorts of antidepressants). You know, the kind of thing that Leftist Millenials and Z’ers eat like Skittles by the bag before Black Blocking up for a night of casual violence.
Hey, remember when the LAPD was great a cracking skulls? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Jeff, very good reference.
**Robert Pratt
June 19, 2025 at 3:02 pm
Jeff, very good reference.***
Indeed!
I think this short video sums up the depraved, desperate and treasonous invasion perpetrated by the Democrat leadership in order to dominate politics for the foreseeable future and what is in fact right and correct and what is not. Everyone knows it:
https://youtube.com/shorts/fN49ShVGGEI?si=C2pI1BCYoY-Qo8IA
The Democrats and these wackadoodle indoctrinated blue haired wack jobs spewing their emotions all over the street DO NOT CARE!
As far as they are concerned you live in their world, and you should stop denying it and get on board with the program!
And the program is more like a Jim Jones suicide pact.
Gary / Robert Pratt–
I totally missed that! Yes, great obscure cultural reference.
I don’t think they’re trying to normalize political violence, I think they’re looking for the martyr/cause celebre for this cycle to up the violence. They haven’t yet progressed past the level they reach in the 2020 Summer of Love. They need a new George Floyd, patron saint of Fentanyl, as the rationale to turn the amplifiers to 11.
this is a direct result of the mothering of America.
I am glad Dad is back in charge. Republicans seem like the fathers in America.
Wayne,
Mr Wright gets all the credit!
Roald Dahl tried to warn them with his book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Veruca Salt was a spoiled brat who ended badly. Violet Beauregarde wasn’t much better behaved. Augustus Gloop and Mike Teavee were fixated, just as the Democrats are with Trump Derangement Syndrome (apparently no known cure), and also came to bad ends. Which child listened to Willy Wonka? In the book it was Charlie, but in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory even Charlie strayed, at the insistence of his grandfather, [*** SPOILER ALERT! *** SEE THE MOVIE BEFORE FINISHING THIS SENTENCE] only to redeem himself in the end.
The leadership used to keep their own noses clean, but the failure of the masses to succeed seems to have made the leaders try it themselves, thinking that they might make better martyrs. Instead, we are seeing who are the children in the room.
Democrats do not seem to learn. What is it that the IQ tests are supposed to measure? Isn’t it the ability to learn, because the scores compare the same age cohort? Maybe they are unlearning as they get older, which would explain so much.