The Decline of the DNC II

[selmaborntidefan]

He was a token/DEI hire. By this I mean he represents gun violence victims. That’s fine but he should have other qualifications.

This infatuation with celebrity needs to go. We all already have one party thunderstruck by a clown. I’m willing to grant Hogg some grace because he’s so young and idealistic, but both he and Trump need therapy.

I should’ve made it a ceremonial job.

You know, like vice president unless they head honcho dies.
😂😂😂😂

 

[Huckleberry]

Hogg Wild

All power, no principles, and the problem with our politics.

thedispatch.com

From Jonah Goldberg (discussing David Hogg as well as Trump):

Hogg Wild
All power, no principles, and the problem with our politics.

I can’t stand David Hogg, the elvish progressive activist who was recently elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. From his introduction to the public during the heinous 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (where his anti-gun outrage was entirely understandable), he has always struck me as the kind of precocious kid who knows exactly how to impress a certain kind of middle-aged lefty. He’s exactly what young people are supposed to be like in the eyes of a certain kind of affluent blue-bubble oldster. Full of invincible righteous arrogance and supreme confidence that the way you “effect change” is through performative protest, Hogg seems like he was bioengineered in a vat to impress Ivy League admissions officers and intern coordinators at Greenpeace.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

he has always struck me as the kind of precocious kid who knows exactly how to impress a certain kind of middle-aged lefty.

Basically, Eddie Haskell.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I can't link it because of one word, but if you'll do a search of Slotkin and woke, you can find the article, and I'll pull a few quotes that are cleaned up for TF.

Here's the thing, if Slotkin could get the Democrats to go along with it, it would work enough to move them in the right direction. But if you've followed this three-dimensional "we barely tolerate each other" party for the last 60 years, you can see some immediate problems in the execution of such a plan.


Slotkin’s plan lays out why she thinks Democrats suffered sweeping setbacks last year, including focus groups of home-state voters who she said described her party as “weak and woke.” It defines success as winning a number of upcoming battles, including at the Supreme Court.

Now, this would be the same court I've been told the last four years needs expanded and is a rogue court that nobody should be listening to unless, of course, I hate their politics, right???

Most immediately, she said, Democrats could secure a court victory in the most high-profile deportation in recent history by forcing Trump to obey an order in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration.

So Slotkin actually thinks, "Let's side with the illegal and have him returned and that will make Trump look bad"? All Trump will have to do is bring him back, do the process, deport him again, and what exactly are the Democrats going to say? (I'll give you a hint - it starts with the letter "r").

Among other ideas, Slotkin proposes a Democratic “shadow Cabinet” made up of ranking members on congressional committees to aggressively bracket Trump’s own Cabinet.

I think Trump's Cabinet is mostly a disaster, but I'm not sure what this is supposed to do.

She said Democrats should stop using the term “oligarchy,” a phrase she said doesn’t resonate beyond coastal institutions, and just say that the party opposes “kings.”

Absolutely. I basically said something similar on here the other day. "Oligarchy" is like when the average brain dead conservative says "socialism", which just means, "Stuff I don't like." Woke and DEI are the same. This point is correct.

retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism,

This will last only until the first not white/not male/not straight athlete protests the Anthem for attention, and it will then splinter the "patriotic Democratic" coalition. They've tried this time and time again, and it never works because they cannot let identity politics go.

Find something economic - and run on it. SOMETHING. Find a candidate willing to lie his or her tail off like Bill Clinton and promise a middle class tax cut that you then reveal after the election was a lie to get elected. Then you can always say, "Well, what about when Trump lied" since that's what'll happen anyway.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916485088293900466

Schumer on the Democratic response to Trump's shakedown of Harvard: "We sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions."



Well, that should take care of it. Sigh.

 

[JDCrimson]

The Republicans are corrupt. The Democrats are inept. Recent polling bears out both these facts.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916485088293900466

Schumer on the Democratic response to Trump's shakedown of Harvard: "We sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions."



Well, that should take care of it. Sigh.

This made me laugh out loud. He pulled this strategy straight from the GOP playbook. Jim Jordan should sue.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

NEW: California Democrat state senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced SB560, a bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud below an amount of $25,000. It would also prohibit prosecutions for attempted welfare fraud and would prohibit someone from being charged w/ perjury if they are subject to prosecution for welfare fraud.

Smallwood-Cuevas represents a large chunk of Los Angeles County, including Mar Vista, West LA, Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Century City, Playa Vista, and part of downtown LA.

SB560 is scheduled for a hearing next Monday on May 5th.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916972570399936966

Here's a link to the bill: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB560/2025

 

[jthomas666]

NEW: California Democrat state senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced SB560, a bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud below an amount of $25,000. It would also prohibit prosecutions for attempted welfare fraud and would prohibit someone from being charged w/ perjury if they are subject to prosecution for welfare fraud.

Smallwood-Cuevas represents a large chunk of Los Angeles County, including Mar Vista, West LA, Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Century City, Playa Vista, and part of downtown LA.

SB560 is scheduled for a hearing next Monday on May 5th.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916972570399936966

Here's a link to the bill: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB560/2025

This is just a stupid idea on damn near every level imaginable. Now if you wanted to do something like this and actually make a statement, then decriminalize something that is investigated/enforced by an agency that has been stripped of workers by DOGE, and claim that the goal is allow those people to focus on real criminals and tax evaders.

But it would still be a stupid idea.

 

[Huckleberry]

NEW: California Democrat state senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced SB560, a bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud below an amount of $25,000. It would also prohibit prosecutions for attempted welfare fraud and would prohibit someone from being charged w/ perjury if they are subject to prosecution for welfare fraud.

Smallwood-Cuevas represents a large chunk of Los Angeles County, including Mar Vista, West LA, Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Century City, Playa Vista, and part of downtown LA.

SB560 is scheduled for a hearing next Monday on May 5th.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916972570399936966

Here's a link to the bill: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB560/2025

California Dem lawmaker proposes bill to decriminalize welfare fraud below $25K over administrative errors

A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud under $25,000, as well as attempted welfare fraud under $950.

www.foxnews.com

California Dem lawmaker proposes bill to decriminalize welfare fraud below $25K over administrative errors
The bill would require officials to determine whether benefits were authorized as a result of an error


A FoxNews article on the proposal gives a little more information.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

California Dem lawmaker proposes bill to decriminalize welfare fraud below $25K over administrative errors

A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud under $25,000, as well as attempted welfare fraud under $950.

www.foxnews.com

California Dem lawmaker proposes bill to decriminalize welfare fraud below $25K over administrative errors
The bill would require officials to determine whether benefits were authorized as a result of an error


A FoxNews article on the proposal gives a little more information.

Interesting. What the article doesn't address is whether or not these "administrative errors" are punishable by anyone. If there's no fallout for whomever is responsible, then just blame the agency for the fraud and taxpayers don't get their money back. No one goes to jail and kiss that money goodbye. I'm disappointed that FN left this out because they are usually as reliable as "old Faithful."

 

[Its On A Slab]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916485088293900466

Schumer on the Democratic response to Trump's shakedown of Harvard: "We sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions."



Well, that should take care of it. Sigh.

Reminds me of the Kim Jong Il / Hans Blix scene from TEAM AMERICA. I can't link it here because I'd get banninated due to language at the end.

“Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans!

Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas.

Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans?

Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else.

Kim Jong Il: Or else what?

Hans Blix: Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.”

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Reminds me of the Kim Jong Il / Hans Blix scene from TEAM AMERICA. I can't link it here because I'd get banninated due to language at the end.

“Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans!

Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas.

Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans?

Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else.

Kim Jong Il: Or else what?

Hans Blix: Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.”

That film was so underappreciated in its time. As far as I'm concerned, Trey and Matt are the undisputed masters of satire for this day and age.

 

[Huckleberry]

That film was so underappreciated in its time. As far as I'm concerned, Trey and Matt are the undisputed masters of satire for this day and age.

I agree! The Book of Mormon was a musical masterpiece.

 

[jthomas666]

Interesting. What the article doesn't address is whether or not these "administrative errors" are punishable by anyone. If there's no fallout for whomever is responsible, then just blame the agency for the fraud and taxpayers don't get their money back. No one goes to jail and kiss that money goodbye. I'm disappointed that FN left this out because they are usually as reliable as "old Faithful."

It's is my understanding is that the purpose of the bill is to have welfare fraud cases handled as civil cases rather than criminal.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

It's is my understanding is that the purpose of the bill is to have welfare fraud cases handled as civil cases rather than criminal.

I hear what you're saying, but if fraud is a crime, then there has to be some sort of criminal pursuit. Otherwise, call it something else, I guess.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I hear what you're saying, but if fraud is a crime, then there has to be some sort of criminal pursuit. Otherwise, call it something else, I guess.

"Undocumented immigrants"

 

[jthomas666]

I hear what you're saying, but if fraud is a crime, then there has to be some sort of criminal pursuit. Otherwise, call it something else, I guess.

I'm kind of on the same page. But I've been told that the bill is directed at protecting people who are overpaid benefits due to an administrative error--which would make more sense. If that is true, though, they really need to have a LONG talk with their PR department.

If the current law is such that people can be charged with a crime for something they didn't do, then something should probably be done about it--particularly given that the administration has made it clear the it considers due process to be "more of a guideline".

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Native American woman gets a chance to topple Hogg at DNC

Kalyn Free wants new vice chair elections, alleging bias against “women of color.”

www.semafor.com

Again, they are not going to learn anything. We are back to “even if the white guy wins fairly, it’s discrimination.” (I’d be very interested if the party that nominated a Supreme Court Justice who cannot define what a woman is can themselves actually make that definition in this case)

In her complaint, shared with Semafor by a Democratic source, Free argued that she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates,” and asks for “two new vice chair elections.” In February, after several rounds of voting, the race came down to five candidates – Kenyatta, Hogg, Free, and two other women. Kenyatta and Hogg claimed the open spots.

“By aggregating votes across ballots and failing to distinguish between gender categories in a meaningful way, the DNC’s process violated its own Charter and Bylaws, undermining both fairness and gender diversity,” argued Free, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation.

 

[JDCrimson]

So decriminalizing Marijuana and now this doesnt seem like a good combination...

NEW: California Democrat state senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced SB560, a bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud below an amount of $25,000. It would also prohibit prosecutions for attempted welfare fraud and would prohibit someone from being charged w/ perjury if they are subject to prosecution for welfare fraud.

Smallwood-Cuevas represents a large chunk of Los Angeles County, including Mar Vista, West LA, Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Century City, Playa Vista, and part of downtown LA.

SB560 is scheduled for a hearing next Monday on May 5th.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916972570399936966

Here's a link to the bill: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB560/2025