No lack of self-regard

Boston Globe: "The hubris of the democratic socialists - The Democrats’ left wing might be more persuasive if they didn’t dismiss their critics as corporate tools." 

Same vibe

Twitchy: "Desperate Measures for Desperate Times: Dem Primaries Magically Become a Blue Wave."

Damn, those Democrats really dominated [checks notes] the Democrat primaries.

The children of rich parents

Emphasis on the "children" part: "The DSA’s Leaders Are Tireless in Their Avoidance of Honest Work."

Exhibit A: estrogen-drenched Gustavo Gordillo

Gordillo is thus, in his own way, an ideal ambassador for Democratic Socialism, insofar as he perfectly embodies the sorts of people who seek power from it. Some other biographical details about Young Gordillo that didn’t make it into the interview:

• Gustavo went to Yale to learn his Democratic Socialism — more specifically, he majored in literature and returned there after graduation to get an MFA in sculpture.
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• He has never held an actual job; he claims membership in the IBEW Electricians Union Local 3 — for that essential touch of working-class cred — but as it turns out, has never worked a day in his life. (He was fired from his apprenticeship after failing to show up for work and classes.)
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• That’s okay though, because he managed to squeak by: He made a passionate speech to his local DSA about how The Man had oppressed them, and they voted him a $95,000 sinecure.
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• Even if had that fallen through, Gustavo wouldn’t have to worry about making rent — he lives in a $1.5 million two-story Brooklyn condo purchased for him . . . by his father

Ladies and gentlemen: This is your modern DSA, embodied.

I guarantee this guy never opened the hood of a car in his entire life but he has the gall to pontificate about the working man.  He's a theater kid, a pretender.

You love to see it

Fox News: "New York Times loses defamation suit, ordered to pay $9.25M to former Alabama basketball player - Jury finds Times defamed Kai Spears in a 2023 report that wrongly linked him to a fatal shooting."

I've said it before but, unfortunately, this is the only way the mainstream media learns.

"Greetings fellow Africans"

Townhall: "Abdul El-Sayed Latest Attempt to Pander to Voters Is Ridiculous, Even for Him." 

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NY Post: "Morgan Stanley picks Dallas for expansion outside NYC — stepping up Wall Street exodus following Mamdani election: ‘Wake-up call’." 

The President runs the executive branch

This "crazy" concept was just recently affirmed by the Supreme Court.  But the courts are full of "YOLO!" Hawaiian judges who just make stuff up out of thin air: "Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Plan to Move FBI Out of Hoover Building." 

Profile in courage

NY Post: "Hakeem Jeffries’s bid to win over Supreme Court-packing lefties is just pathetic."

Those are his principles and, if you don't like them, he has others for pandering purposes.

In other news: murder is bad

Not the Bee: "UK Home Office prints guide to teach migrants not to rape women and kids."

Reddit is a sh-thole

Outkick Sports: "WNBA fan subreddit bans posters from using Sophie Cunningham's name after defense of women's sports."

Reddit is a hivemind of left-wing wokeness and censorship wielded by tinpot dictator mods.  Now they're banning the second most popular girl in the WNBA.

Let's not always see the same hands

Townhall: "Guess Why This 'Outstanding Refugee' Was Arrested in Minnesota." 

They just want the money

Washington Post editorial: "Mark Cuban bests Ro Khanna on wealth taxes - The congressman has a peculiar solution for taxing start-up founders."

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) supports his state’s billionaire tax proposal on the ballot in November. Texas businessman Mark Cuban had a question: What about founders of promising start-ups who are billionaires only on paper?

Khanna’s solution was revealing. Hint: It would create another tool for government control.

You would think that when faced with such a glaring flaw to your cash-grab scheme, you would at least pause to consider whether it's a good or workable idea in the first place.  But the Democrats want - they need - that sweet billionaire money so they need to dream up a new angle.  So the big brain idea is to allow paper billionaires to borrow against the government putting their future stock windfall up as collateral.  Sheer insanity.

Today’s advocates of wealth taxation have offered a series of bad explanations for how the foreseeable problems would be addressed. Khanna’s is only the latest. If your tax requires the government to start giving out special loans to pay itself, maybe it’s not a good tax in the first place.

Right now early polling is showing the billionaire tax would pass which doesn't surprise me because people love it when taxes are paid by "other people."  Especially those Richie Riches.

Big shift

PJ Media: "The Registration Bloodletting the DNC Doesn't Want You Reading About."

Stories like these make me wonder if it's really true that the Democrat Party was propped up on USAID money and illegal foreign donations through ActBlue.

Some people did some things

NY Post: "Ex-Mamdani campaign staffer makes outrageous claim about hateful NYC synagogue attack where attacker yelled ‘f–k the Jews’." 

WNBA in a box canyon

Bravo Blue: "Rules for Radicals? Whither the WNBA? - Sophie's choice -- Honesty and candor over cowardice"

The WNBA has graced us with the latest manifestation of far-left lunacy and penchant for self-destruction. For any who may not yet be in the know, in one fell swoop two former NBA players have shined a 1,000,000+ lumens spotlight on the conundrum that exposes the hypocrisy of the deranged leftists who pollute the WNBA. They accomplished this by following the left’s bible, Saul Alinski’s Rules for Radicals. Rule 4 provides: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

The WNBA bigwigs recently had a meeting to answer the question "what is a woman?" and came out with an equivocal press statement saying they were still searching for an answer.  This was a dilatory tactic and they are currently hoping the whole issues just goes away.

Spoiler alert: it's not going away.  The reason why is that too many people are invested in the drama of the pretzel logic.  There's no way out: either you allow biological men into the WNBA or you don't.  Watching them squirm over that simple proposition is just too much fun.

I beg to differ

Washington Post: "The Jason Arday scandal isn’t as simple as DEI gone wrong - This isn’t the first time a university has dug in to protect an obviously flawed professor."

The author of this article starts with the premise that, since other universities protect their faculty, it's not really DEI at work in the Arday scandal.  Yeah, you go with that.  When universities put out glowing press releases about how they've hired the first Native American professor, you know DEI is at work.

Right, Liz Warren?

Haha Newsom

PJ Media: "The Dems' Great White Hope Just Got Humiliated in Michigan."

This dude is so unctuous and people are starting to notice.

Oh, I believe it

Townhall: "You Won't Believe What This Former SPLC Exec Was Just Arrested For."