Democrats: A party so filled with hate it can’t even cheer a child because Trump introduced him
In the next day or so you will hear a lot of analysis of Trump’s speech yesterday to Congress, both good and bad. The bulk of that commentary will focus on what Trump has or has not accomplished, for good and ill. Some will talk about the overall foolish behavior of many Democrats, who refused to applaud anything Trump said (something Trump predicted would happen near the start of the speech), with one Democrat getting ejected from the building for heckling the president and refusing to stop.
During such speeches presidents usually tout their past achievements and future goals. With each proclamation, the members of that president’s party will repeatedly give him a short standing ovation, with the opposition party usually sitting quietly. This fake theater is one reason I generally don’t watch such events, relying on reviewing them after the fact to save a LOT of time.
Another tradition during these speeches is for the president to invite several ordinary citizens to attend in order to honor them in some way. At these moments, when the president introduces the citizen, the entire room would routinely stand and cheer, because these individuals are generally not party partisans, and the ruling president and his party usually have nothing to do with that person’s particular achievement.
Last night however was starkly different, and the screen capture below captures the one moment that demonstrates so fully the utterly bankrupt nature of the Democratic Party. One of the private citizens Trump invited to honor was a 13-year-old boy, DJ Daniel, who five years ago was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given only six months to live. Five years later he is still alive and healthy, and proudly wears a police uniform frequently in public because of his dream to be a cop someday.
Trump had nothing to do with DJ’s survival. All Trump was doing was giving the kid some well-deserved recognition for his courageous fight and moral stand. And yet, even for this utterly non-partisan moment, the Democrats refused to stand, with many sitting silent with their heads bowed, looking quite sullen.
To put it bluntly, they are so filled with hate for Trump and Republicans that they can’t even cheer a teenage cancer survivor, simply because the boy was introduced by Trump.
How incredibly stupid and petty. That hate is so all-consuming that these Democrats can’t even realize how their ill behavior and rudeness is going to be perceived, and worse it is going to be seen and noticed by everyone. It surely isn’t going to convince anyone to reject Trump and vote Democrat. No, what it will do is offend every decent human being in America, and only drive one more nail into the coffin of this racist, brainless, and very wooden-headed party.
About a decade ago, in writing one of my many columns describing the growing bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, I predicted one possible hopeful future. I thought that if the Democrats became so devoid of new ideas — other than the belief that only they should rule and anyone who opposes them is evil — they might end up driving all their supporters to the Republicans. That is the situation now. There is no sane reason to support the Democratic Party, because they provide no sane reason to do so. All they have is hate and emotion, something that does not in the end provide good leadership (as we saw so clearly during Biden’s one term as president).
The problem is that if everyone switches to the Republican Party we will end up with a one-party state, and a democracy cannot function successfully as a one-party state. In the end either the republic falls, or that one party breaks apart into competing forces.
“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all
the inhabitants thereof.” Photo credit: William Zhang
My prediction was that once the Democratic Party finally failed and the Republicans became the only viable choice, a new party would grow out of that Republican Party to replace the Democrats. That new party might even co-opt the dying Democratic Party, reinvigorating it with new blood and good ideas, giving us once again competition for power within our constitutional republic.
I think we are now seeing the first stages of this process, and though appearing very ugly and depressing at this moment, it is eventually going to be a good thing for the nation. Either the Democrats wake up and stop acting so mindlessly hateful, or they will die. That is their choice. Sadly, it now appears they are choosing the latter course.
What will rise from those ashes however will be a good thing, because I can promise you that the Republicans are no savior. We need competition in politics, if only to keep both sides honest.
Fortunately, it does appear that the fundamental culture of America is going to force this to happen.
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Take a look back at the so-called “Era of Good Feelings,” that period of time after the collapse of the Federalist Party in which the Democratic-Republican Party ruled with little in the way of opposition. The D-R’s elected five straight presidents before the Whigs managed to elect William Henry Harrison. If a Republican Party dedicated to MAGA manages that feat, we could be well on our way to truly saving this Republic from the progressive swine that have held sway since at least 2008 (or as far back as 1996, perhaps).
Perhaps they were stunned that Trump was using a child who survived cancer as a political prop while slashing pediatric cancer research that will guarantee more children die young.
>It wasn’t long ago that this blog reported on a new United States Congress-approved spending bill that made devastating cuts to pediatric cancer research funding. This despite the fact that the resources available to childhood cancer researchers are already severely limited, with less than 4% of all federal funds for cancer research going to those studying pediatric cancers.
> Now, a proposed policy change by the National Institute of Health (NIH) threatens to shrink those resources even further.
Read all about it:
https://pcrf-kids.org/2025/02/27/an-uncertain-future-new-nih-policy-endangers-childhood-cancer-research/
Imagine, if you will, if Biden did that. You’d all be foaming about the hypocrisy.
“The Democrat party remained totally mute and robotic for the most part during Trumps speech as per orders by their floundering leadership. Much like the BORG who they resemble more and more as time goes on as they are forced to reveal themselves for all Americans to see. ”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/a-positive-hopeful-and-crushing-speech
Some very minor edits:
Fourth paragraph: ” his dream is to be a cop someday”
Third paragraph after photo of House chamber: “going to be perceived”
Fourth paragraph from end: “co-opt the dying Democratic Party”
I watched the entire speech, and the only time I became concerned was when Trump first talked about letting the Greenlanders decide whether they wanted to join the US, but then ended up saying that we would get Greenland “one way or the other”. That sounds kind of ominous.
Obama was far from my favorite, but this all started with that shout we all remember. Not cheering the child cost them
Of course in Parliament they’re always snarling.
Some very minor edits:
Fourth paragraph: “his dream is to be a cop someday.”
Third paragraph after picture of House chamber: “going to be perceived”
Fourth paragraph from end: “might even co-opt the dying Democratic Party”
The only part of the speech that gave me pause was when he first stated that the Greenlanders have the right to decide whether they want to join the US, bu then said we would get Greenland “one way or the other”. That sounds kind of ominous.
Some very minor edits:
Fourth paragraph: “his dream is to be a cop someday.”
Third paragraph after picture of House chamber: “going to be perceived”
Fourth paragraph from end: “might even co-opt the dying Democratic Party”
The only part of the speech that gave me pause was when he first stated that the Greenlanders have the right to decide whether they want to join the US, bu then said we would get Greenland “one way or the other”. That sounds kind of ominous.
Andi, Edits all fixed. Thank you.
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Robert writes: “All [the Democrats] have is hate and emotion, something that does not in the end provide good leadership (as we saw so clearly during Biden’s one term as president).”
This is correct, but they also have an *ideology* that the adhere to, and it does explain a lot of their behavior. For them, America never *was* a great country, let alone can become a great country again, and they see the American Experiment as nothing but an unbroken horror show of conquest, subjugation, and exploitation, cf, the alternate interpretation of history outlined in The 1619 Project.
As for their failure to applaud any of the guests in the Capitol last night, by their lights, the police and border patrol agents are not selfless civil servants who risk their own lives to protect the innocent but brutal oppressors of the people and upholders of the racist / cis status quo. Moreover, how could anyone applaud a child who wishes to join the ranks of such brutal oppressors? The horror.
Finally, in the Democrats’ grand project to replace the current population of the United States with “better” people, why should anyone be concerned about a little “collateral damage” (as happened in the case of Laken Riley) when the future of the Peoples Revolution is at stake? Indeed for some of the Democrats, such deaths — as in the case of abortion — are sacramental, and they give focus and meaning to their cause.
All this considered, it is little wonder that the Democrats were not pleased by anything that Donald Trump said or did last night, and at least they acted in concert with their core beliefs.
with less than 4% of all federal funds for cancer research going to those studying pediatric cancers.
Why is the federal government giving out ANY research money. I’m pretty sure “fund research” is not in the Constitution.
It also means that the never ending funding drives (St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital is running one this week) for research, not DC middlemen, are worthwhile causes. I’ll even happily put up with the never-ending pinkness of Breast Cancer Awareness (not research for a cure, but “awareness” – is anyone NOT aware, yet?) if taxpayers stop funding breast cancer research.
How many billions have been spent by the feds on Alzheimer’s research? And how much of that was funneled into amyloid plaque research – which was all based on a fraudulent paper – because of grant approving committees thought that was the right choice? Centralized control creates system wide failures.
That was an easily incinerated straw man.
Just one example: Harvard’s endowment fund hit $53 billion last year.
We continue to give these universities and colleges vast amounts of tax money. They continue to spend it on 6-figure DEI administrators and Marxist indoctrination of their students from day one, while encouraging antisemitism on campus and shutting down the speech of anyone to the right of Stalin.
Meanwhile D. Messier implies Trump and the people who voted for him want to kill sick children. Nope. I don’t believe a word you say. Can only shake my head in wonder.
The other thing is, the story doesn’t say funding is cut. It says overhead is capped at 15 pct. Should actually free more of the allotment for research.
To Doug M.
The problem is that–while only folks deep in the weeds know about the research cuts–anyone could see the failure to applaud…that left a mark –the Donald bet on exactly that response–and the DNC gave him an easy win.
There is an old saying I heard from a political apparatchik:
” When you’re explaining–you’re losing.”
What I saw last night was a Democrat Party that is flailing, obsessing over details and losing credibility as they do so … because they view the fundamental flaw behind every action they take as a feature and not a bug.
That flaw: that no problem can be solved unless it is solved their way, by their leaders deciding what to do – defining “community” and even “democracy” as falling in line behind them as though they are the omniscient and infallible founts of wisdom in our society, They refuse to heed the words of Mr. Callahan: a man’s got to know his limitations.
And they, in the process, have led millions to fall into line and make themselves vulnerable to the failings of those all-too-human leaders. More and more of those millions are realizing that such blind trust has led them away from finding the solutions they need.
Even funding for cancer research … instead of finding more reliable ways to assure that funding, lazy Democrats want to make it subject to the whims of politics and bureaucrats because government can coerce the funding they desire. A lot easier than persuading their neighbors to voluntarily contribute to it and keep doing so … that is, as long as those who value research over another crisis du jour run the government.
(And that is true, even though Gary is right that the legislation in question is reducing overhead allowances, which can result in more funds getting in the hands of the actual researchers. What the gov. giveth, the gov. can take away after the next election.)
They can’t understand that the American people are weighing them and finding them wanting, because they are stuck in a box of self-righteous condescension that sees any dissent from their One True Way as based in ignorance, avarice and/or malice – after all, they just CAN’T be wrong, in their eyes, for they are the Nice People™ and Smart People™.
Until they forsake their self-righteous certitude, Trump’s right – we can’t say anything that will change their closed minds. We need to move on, and develop our own resources and capabilities to solve the problems around us – while also changing laws so that they are focused upon what government actually can do for us: securing our unalienable rights so we are free to solve those problems – and free of the threat that those laws will be turned against us by a future Leftist government.
“How incredibly stupid and petty. That hate is so all-consuming that these Democrats can’t even realize how their ill behavior and rudeness is going to be perceived, and worse it is going to be seen and noticed by everyone. It surely isn’t going to convince anyone to reject Trump and vote Democrat. No, what it will do is offend every decent human being in America, and only drive one more nail into the coffin of this racist, brainless, and very wooden-headed party.”
Robert,
I think you are coming close to understanding the people all around me. There is nothing I can say to convince them of the things that they feel. To them, global climate change is going to kill us all by 2032, 2028, 2014, 2000, or some other year, unless we do the bizarre things government tells us to do, such as California’s plan go all electric by the year 2035.
Yesterday I was talking to a woman who is absolutely convinced that Trump is already messing with her Social (In)Security and she will lose her house when the checks stop coming. There was no convincing her otherwise, as she felt without any doubt that it was already in the works. I have no idea where she got this from; it is not any of the bizarre things that I have heard that Trump or Musk are doing to we Americans, but there it is. She felt doomed, and there is no stopping her doom. There is also no stopping her feeling of doom.
The “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is not a joke, it is real and it hopelessly infects a lot of people.
I am surrounded by it and there is nothing that I can do about it, short of moving to a state with less of it.
“There is no sane reason to support the Democratic Party, because they provide no sane reason to do so. All they have is hate and emotion, something that does not in the end provide good leadership (as we saw so clearly during Biden’s one term as president).”
We have also seen it in California. Homelessness is everywhere, with camps small and large scattered throughout my county. I drive past them almost any time I go anywhere. They are ubiquitous. Many of them move, especially after a fire burns them out, but some of the largest seem to be permanent. Next to streets, in freeway clover leaves, in parks, and under the airport approach. Vehicled homeless park on the street, as long as there are no “no parking” signs.
The recent Los Angeles fires occurred because of the hideous leadership of the elected Democrats. Californians fear for their insurance coverage for the same reason. Some insurance companies have already left the state, and my insurance company is not accepting any new policies.
Stores and restaurants are closing due to the increasing crime rates. The Democrats declare that the rates are not climbing, because people are giving up calling the police anymore. The police do nothing other than take a report for insurance purposes, but reporting the crime to your insurance company just gets you dropped from their coverage. The police are screwed every way to Sunday, so we really cannot expect much help from them, as the cities, counties, and state don’t support them at all.
My favorite gas station was robbed by someone crashing a car through the doorway, a few months ago, making it seem as though my neighborhood may be becoming similar to Oakland.
I won’t even get started with that third world disaster, Oakland.
So some idiot 87-year-old senile Democrat shaking his cane at President Trump while shouting for him (Trump) to get off his lawn is to be expected, when reality eludes them. (Was that Nancy Pelosi drinking from a large bottle of liqueur?). Those Democrats will let anyone into the House chamber, such as teenagers in tee-shirts, trying to resist.
These people are not sane. They truly feel that if they feel it, then it must be true. They are the very definition of schizophrenic: “a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion.”
They would expect me, if I were to suddenly feel feminine, to use the women’s restroom, for being a woman. But if I succumbed to their fantasy world and did as they expected, I would undoubtedly realize, while in the stall, that I didn’t really know what a woman feels like and I might have only been suffering from a heavy lunch and am actually masculine after all, then I would not be a woman trapped in a man’s body’s they insist, but a man trapped in a woman’s lavatory!
These Democrat true believers (true feelers) will follow whatever nonsense comes out of their leaders’ mouths, no matter how absurd or stupid. One of our Supreme Court justices cannot explain what a woman is, and thus, neither can millions of Democrat true believers. And I doesn’t matter to them! It does not matter to them that men are now able to control women in harmful ways. It does not matter to them that they are re-segregating the races. They do as their superiors tell them to do, and they believe whatever their superiors tell them to believe.
“I think we are now seeing the first stages of this process …”
I don’t see anything even remotely like this happening anywhere near me. The remaining stores have many of their goods locked up, and if we want one, we have to find an increasingly rare employee to spend time away from someone else who wants something in another locked shelf. It just gets worse, with no salvation in sight. The Democrats put up with this degradation of society, and we cannot expect them to abandon their favorite political party just for a little convenience, liberty, and freedom. They feel safe and secure with their precious Democrats.
The only positive thing I can think of is that it appears that President Trump has undergone a very large change during his four years of sabbatical and persecution. He is back with a vengeance, making the Democrats look like idiots.
Jester Naybor is correct. The Democrat leadership truly believes that their solutions are the correct solutions, and if they do not produce the desired result, then more of the solution must be applied. For example, they did this with Keynesian Economics. It didn’t work during the Great Depression, but they pretended that it did during WWII. With that false reassurance under their belt, they tried Keynesian Economics several other times, with no success. Finally, they chose to apply a couple of trillion dollars worth of it during Obama’s Great Recession, where it failed spectacularly, so spectacularly that zero percent interest rates and even quantitative easing failed to produce results. “Build back better” is an even larger attempt at Keynes’s disproved hypothesis.
Democrats just don’t learn, and we know what that means on the IQ scale. As you wrote, Robert: “incredibly stupid.”
Edward wrote, “I think you are coming close to understanding the people all around me.”
I understand these people quite well, and have for more than four decades. Remember, my career has gone from the movie business, to teaching in leftist colleges in NYC, to being a science journalist, to being a space historian attempting to get books published in the leftist publishing field. And I grew up in New York within the kneejerk leftist Jewish community.
I have argued with these people for decades, and like you generally don’t bother discussing these issues with them directly anymore.
HOWEVER, and it is a big one, these people are not really the targets any longer. Most are older from earlier generations. The people who are listening and are becoming dominant in the electorate are younger and fresher and more open minded. And they impacted November’s election significantly.
There is hope, Edward. Trump is showing us that. Don’t give up yet.
“Perhaps they were stunned that Trump was using a child who survived cancer as a political prop while slashing pediatric cancer research that will guarantee more children die young.”
Research that guarantees children die young should be slashed.
Eisenhower Farewell Address
January 17, 1961
The Scientific Technological Elite bit
https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU?t=566
Apologies for the multiple posts. When it seems that my post was not accepted, I thought it was my error and resubmitted. Thank you for explaining; I’ll be more aware if that situation recurs.
YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER! BUT KEEP PAYING.
“And what is the issue? The president cutting off the funding of the corrupted USAID by denying it $2,000,000,000.00 of your tax dollars. And you must realize that a percentage of these billions going out of the U.S. treasury is funneled back into the pockets of the Democrat party machine in order to further fund their Leftist Socialist agenda in America and the world. ”
Know the game, play the game, win the game.
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/you-are-not-the-father-but-keep-paying
To be clear, what the administration cuts impacted was so-called “indirect” expenses incurred by these institutions, not the expenses of the actual research activity.
From the AP story yesterday:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-nih-medical-research-funding-cut-indirect-costs-e7629d0d45d141b2ac47c54550411aff
I don’t know why Democrats are so angry. It’s not like they’re a bunch of satanic pedophiles.
Edward, Robert —
I think that Edward pretty well describes the problem that we are confronted with (I would again suggest that political ideology does play a significant role in such aberrant thinking), but in practice what can be “done” about it? Like it or not, the hand-sitters in Congress that we saw the other evening actually do represent a large segment of the American population from all of the blue states and districts that elected them. Alas, this is an inevitable consequence of a functional representative democracy.
The question, I believe — and I’ll direct this one to Robert as an historian — is how do societies that have undergone the kind of wrenching upheavals that ours has (effectively a cultural civil war) successfully adjust to their new circumstances, and how do those on the losing side “adjust” to suddenly finding themselves out of power and adhering to a belief system that no longer works? I think that I can see historical parallels in such things as Reconstruction after the (first) Civil War and our effort to reconfigure the existing societies of Germany and Japan at the end of World War II, but these are very imperfect analogies. Hopefully, we will do better at nation (re)building here than we did in Afghanistan and Iraq.
True enough, Trump and his allies are doing every thing that they can — from closing our borders to eradicating government mandates for DEI and transgender ideology — to make real, on the ground changes, but what about “winning the hearts and minds” of all of those people who still haven’t gotten the memo? Like the origin story of Juneteenth, word of the November election has apparently not yet reached the frontiers of Oakland or Portland.
History suggests that any such effort at “reconstruction” in the blue districts will be met with opposition* — recall the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, from which the Democrats will no doubt reprise their role from the 19 and early 20th centuries — but what did we glean from successful attempts to change cultures and ways of thinking in Germany and in Japan, and how were (most) of their populations persuaded to give up their belief in fuhrers and emperors and, critically, their own innate sense of cultural superiority? Or, as happened toward the end of the 19th century here in the United States, does the participation of different regions and sectors of society in some kind of a national enterprise such as the Spanish American War and, later, World War I finally bring a renewed sense of national unity and purpose? [As an aside, the earlier revolution in communications, cf, mass market periodicals, radio, and, later, television seem to have occasioned a growing national consensus. Cable news, the Internet, and the smart phone, on the other hand, seem to have brought us nothing but unbridgeable division — a “silo” society, where everyone believes that God whispers the truth in their ear.]
*With Rep. Al Green as its poster child.
At this moment, however, we remain a *very* divided country, and the people — and their beliefs — that Edward talks about are not simply going to go away. How, then, can we begin to rebuild our society and convince people that their accustomed way of relating to reality and to other Americans no longer is operational?
Robert Zimmerman,
“I have argued with these people for decades, and like you generally don’t bother discussing these issues with them directly anymore.”
Well, I tried again on Tuesday, with the same results. If I keep trying, expecting different results, I risk falling under the definition of insanity that is most often attributed to Albert Einstein.
As you have seen with my past arguments here on BTB, I have not learned any techniques, tactics, or emotions to change any liberal’s mind. They do not pay any attention to people who are not their “respected” leadership, be that Democrat-approved politicians, Democrat-approved scientists, or Democrat-approved media (news, social, other). When this leadership changes, often or always without notice, the latest fantasy that their followers are to parrot, then their followers change quickly, as though the previous fantasy had never existed. Trump is hated evil, and always has been. Musk is hated evil and always has been. It is OK to disrupt the State of the Union Address and always has been.
When once again I have convinced myself that I have another argument to try, I will try again. Despite the hopelessness of it all, hope springs eternal.
I have been arguing since college, when I first ran into such thinking, but back then liberals were not so adamant about shunning or cancelling anyone who disagreed with them, but their claim that they were intolerant only of intolerance was not true then (it turned out that “intolerant” meant: disagreed with them), and even more not true now that they no longer pretend to be tolerant people. Liberals have made major changes, over the decades, the most major ones have happened since the year 2008, when their hatred became overt and when they started using all the powers of government to punish their enemies. That is when government took sides in earnest in American politics.
Come to think of it, the hatred started showing sometime after Obama turned on the Boston police after his friend Gates cried racism and after the Great Rose Garden Beer Bust, at which the police officer was the disdained outsider.
I believe that it was more than just attacking Trump with false charges and convictions that turned the tide against these liberal policies. When the FBI started recording license plates of those attending PTA meetings and school board meetings at which someone disagreed with the powers-that-be, Americans became frightened of the government they had believed to be benevolent. The history of that includes the schooling at home, due to the Wuhan flu panic and teachers refusing to be in the same room as children, in which the parents saw the evils being taught to their children by those same teachers. The panic induced by Democrats from the Wuhan flu may have been the foundation of their own downfall — if they fall.
“The people who are listening and are becoming dominant in the electorate are younger and fresher and more open minded. And they impacted November’s election significantly. There is hope, Edward. Trump is showing us that. Don’t give up yet.”
I agree. Especially the young women, who are beginning to realize that they are being victimized far more than women have ever been victimized before. It used to be that a man should never strike a woman, but these days it is Democrat policy that men are allowed to beat the hell out of women, just so long as it is during a sporting event. So far, just so long as it is sports. Who knows how or when that will change, without notice.
An irony is that these younger and fresher members of the electorate were indoctrinated all their lives in the liberal ways of the world, and it took physical danger to drive them away from the party they had believed to be on their side. They may not be so open minded and probably still believe strongly in the global warming climate change that will end the world in 2032. Those of us who have survived a dozen or so ends of the world have grown to be somewhat more skeptical than this latest voting generation, which may be why California’s Democratic leadership does not plan to go all electric until a few years after the most recent predictions of the end of the world.
However, I do not yet see any hope in California, unless the Democrat leadership releases their voters from their fantasy-based worldview and directs them to accept reality once again. It is not San Jose State women that refuse to play against volleyball teams with men on them, it is the other college’s women’s teams that refuse to play against San Jose State while they have that man on their team.
Edward writes:
“As you have seen with my past arguments here on BTB, I have not learned any techniques, tactics, or emotions to change any liberal’s mind. They do not pay any attention to people who are not their “respected” leadership, be that Democrat-approved politicians, Democrat-approved scientists, or Democrat-approved media (news, social, other). *When this leadership changes, often or always without notice, the latest fantasy that their followers are to parrot, then their followers change quickly, as though the previous fantasy had never existed.* Trump is hated evil, and always has been. Musk is hated evil and always has been. It is OK to disrupt the State of the Union Address and always has been.”
Can anyone read this paragraph and *not* think of George Orwell’s 1984?
On thinking more about this speech, I realize two things.
First, President Trump said that he could say nothing that would get applause or a cheer from the Democrats in the room. He was wrong. When he mentioned the huge amount of our treasure that we sent to Ukraine for their war with Russia, the Democrats applauded happily. Trump went further, implying that the Democrats favor war and death. He was jabbing the Democrats all night. Since they had announced in advance their intentions at the speech, they clearly deserved these knocks, and possibly more. But more importantly, Trump did not start chiding the Democrats until after the dishonorable Al Green was ejected from the chamber. His first jab at them was written in the speech, that he could not get applause from the Democrats, but it was almost true. Except that Trump’s examples were that they would not applaud any of Trump’s achievements; they did applaud one of Biden’s: supporting a forever war. I would say that Trump had nothing good to say about the Democrats, except for:
Second, President Trump was not gibing the Democrats all night. He thanked them for their support in the unanimous approval of his nominee for Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.. The Democrats remained silent for that one, too, which is surprising, since they supported him.
Hummmm. Here is a “respected D leader” who was apparently trying — if not to actually change his position — to at least make an attempt at nuance:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/gavin-newsom-trans-people-sports
This didn’t seem to go over very well. Once again, have the Ds become so confirmed in their ideology (or “perfectly possessed” by it as Father Martin might say) that even their leaders are no longer allowed to deviate from it?
How, then, can we begin to rebuild our society and convince people that their accustomed way of relating to reality and to other Americans no longer is operational?
Milt, I think we start by – respectfully but firmly – confronting them with the logical fallacy that their accustomed way is built upon:
It is neither hateful, nor uncaring, nor selfish to test that logical fallacy against one’s own insights and common sense – no matter what they proclaim to duck their responsibility as free people to question it.
Do not let them lead you into the weeds, with simplistic sound-byte examples of the “good” things you threaten if we rejecting it. They are straining at gnats while swallowing camels to duck their responsibility, and preserve their comfortable status quo that is dividing us and driving this nation into decline.
Keep the focus on this fallacy. Then, go from there, with the rest of the story …
https://thenayborhood.substack.com/p/cutting-to-the-chase
Unlikely: “Hummmm. Here is a “respected D leader” who was apparently trying — if not to actually change his position — to at least make an attempt at nuance:”
SELF CONDEMNED: 20 YEARS IN THE POLITICAL POWER DESERT
The Democrats going for broke over the last 4 years of the Joe Biden / Nancy Pelosi / Charles Schumer guidance pandering and forcing their insane more Globalist / U.N. oriented agenda on America and the world has in fact left them broke and broken. They have successfully in real terms destroyed the Democrat party.”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/self-condemned-20-years-in-the-political-power-desert