Take It From a Former Hollywood Liberal: Giving Up the Democratic Party Won’t Hurt as Much as You Think

 Daily Signal  

"Like Maxine Waters and the elites at Harvard who were not just arsonists, but sociopaths celebrating gangbangers hitting innocent white truck drivers in the skull with cinder blocks." . . .

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaks to reporters at a protest in Los Angeles on June 14, 2025.

Dear Democrats in Los Angeles, Mind if we have a little heart-to-heart?

Oh, I hear you. “You’re a Trump supporter. You don’t have a heart.” No, I’m not offended. If I can deal with high school friends who think I stink like sweaty socks from a boys’ gym locker because of my politics, I can deal with you. After all, I was you.

Yes, I was a Hollywood liberal. What’s more, I know what a lot of you were feeling deep down as you watched rioters torch and trash your city, attack your officers, shut down your freeways while waving the flag of a foreign country. Worse, I know there’s a check in your soul when you watch your Democrat leaders egg on the violence.

"Why? Because I’ve been there.

"Let me let you in on a little secret. Maxine Waters, the Los Angeles Democrat congresswoman, did more to make me a Republican than Rush Limbaugh.

"It’s 1992. The trial of the officers charged in the Rodney King beating was underway in Simi Valley. Day in, day out, Waters and other Democrats were pouring gasoline all over the LA Basin. “No Justice! No Peace! No Justice! No Peace!” Justice did not mean a fair trial with a jury reaching a reasonable verdict. Justice meant all four LAPD officers being found guilty. Anything less, Auntie Maxine implied, meant war.

" 'What are you doing?” I shouted at the TV. “You’re going to blow this whole place up!”

"Sure enough, the verdict came down. The match Waters lit flicked onto a city she’d saturated with fuel and rage. By the time the riot was over, 52 Angelenos were dead, over $1 billion in damage had been done, and countless businesses lay looted, gutted, and destroyed." . . .

Are you someone who stands for little kids getting their sexual organs destroyed, but won’t stand for a little kid with cancer? Someone OK with Jews being attacked in Westwood with the Democrat elites siding with the antisemites?

. . ."My hunch is many of you realize the “D” no longer reflects who you are and are wrestling with the distasteful fact that you’re more in line with the party you have long hated. I tell you again. I’ve been there. When I switched my registration, I felt I was filing for divorce from my old self. Trading in my Redskins jersey for a Cowboys jacket. My hands were shaking like Luca Brasi was holding a gun to my head.  

"And then? “That didn’t feel so bad.”

Biden Doctor’s Refusal To Answer A Single Question Blows Up The ‘Doctor-Patient Privilege’ Excuse

 The Federalist 

"“It defies belief that while the American people questioned President Biden’s cognitive and physical abilities, the physician to the president and other medical professionals told us there was nothing to worry about,” Williams wrote." . . .

"Joe, we'll just say not to look back, we want to look forward!"

"Joe Biden’s White House doctor refused to answer a single question during a congressional interview on Wednesday, raising more concerns about efforts to conceal the former president’s decline while in office.

"According to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., Biden physician Kevin O’Connor pled the Fifth at his previously scheduled deposition with House lawmakers. The revelation came a day after the Trump administration waived executive privilege for O’Connor to sit down with members of the committee for the transcribed interview.

"According to a House Oversight Committee official, O’Connor did not simply plead the Fifth on questions related to doctor-patient privilege, but on any and all prospective queries posed by lawmakers.

“ 'The American people demand transparency, but Dr. O’Connor would rather conceal the truth,” Comer said in a statement. “Dr. O’Connor took the Fifth when asked if he was told to lie about President Biden’s health and whether he was fit to be President of the United States. Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a coverup from happening again.”

Democrats aa they are

 

 NY Post; Former Houston mayoral appointee rages at flooded Texas girls camp for being 'white-only'   

The former Houston mayoral appointee who raged at a flood-ravaged Texas girls camp for being “white only” has been humiliated on a fundraising page — with many only paying the smallest amount possible to let them leave abusive messages of outrage.

Sade Perkins — who condemned Camp Mystic in an ill-timed rant, just hours after dozens of people died there in a devastating flash flood Friday — is described as “courageous” on the page, which asks supporters to donate for her “protection, legal support, and recovery.”

It states she needs money for help recovering “from the reputational and emotional harm she’s enduring.”

“Sade Perkins is being publicly targeted for telling the truth,” claims the ill-fated Givesendgo page set up by supporter Marian Hills." . . .

'Vile' Newspaper Cartoon Mocks Texas Flood Victims, Sparks Immense Backlash

  . . . Beyond the violation of basic human decency involved in publishing maliciously driven political attacks in the middle of an unfolding tragedy, the cartoon is just as offensive for its vacuous logic.

The knee-jerk liberal conceit that the Trump administration's budget cuts somehow contributed to the Texas disaster has no basis in fact. (Even a Texas Democrat had to point out that Trump's first federal budget won't go into effect until October.)

Those Marxist Democrats

  Issues & Insights  It goes unsaid that Mamdani's minions likely are those Keffiyeh-clad Hamas supporters rioting in the streets, oblivious of the fact that Hamas murdered, raped, and beheaded Israelis. The Jewish settlers who were enjoying life and hoping to be left alone with their families, un-raped and un-beheaded. TD

"In 2022, then-Senator Marco Rubio noted that a “bunch of Marxist misfits” were among those “who sadly today control the agenda of the modern Democratic Party.” Today, there are few real centrists left in the Democratic Party, as Mamdani shows."

"What will the Democratic Party’s 2028 platform look like? The way things are going, no one should be surprised if it looks like a manifesto written by a couple of bitter, revolutionary 19th century Germans.

"Marxism is no longer on the Democratic Party fringe. It is taking it over.

"We see this in the unpleasantness of Zohran Mamdani, the recent winner of the New York City mayoral primary.

"The callow Mamdani describes himself as a “Democratic Socialist.” Fact-checkers, who seem to never fact check the incessant claims by the media and Democratic politicians and operatives that President Donald Trump and other Republicans are fascists, say he’s no communist.

"While he might not be a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, several of his known positions are inarguably in line with Marxism.

"Like Karl Marx, the privileged Mamdani, who calls himself a “BMW Bolshevik,” sees the world through the lens of class struggle. The platform of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which he is a member, “fights” for “the abolition of capitalism” as well as the “social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure,” two Marxist principles that Mamdani supports.

"Mamdani is also promising “free stuff” for New Yorkers, from bus trips to child care; proposes to freeze rents (to stick it to those greedy capitalist landlords, no doubt); wishes to “shift the tax burden … to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods“; and says there should be no billionaires, though he hasn’t said what he’d do with the 123 who live New York City.

"There has been some light pushback from within the party. A few Jewish Democrats in Congress have been “raising concerns about” him, says The Hill. But many in the party are aligning themselves with Mamdani, even Bill Clinton, whose “third way” policies melded ideas from both the left and right, and by today’s standards was an ultra-conservative Democrat.

"With a couple of notable exceptions – the New York Times and Washington Post editorial boards – the media have largely leapt upon the Mamdani express. The hard-left British Guardian seems happy to report that “many Democrats from across the ideological spectrum believe” Mamdani “might offer a roadmap for winning back the voters they have lost touch with.” Salon says Mamdani is “good for the world.” The New Yorker tries to make “The Case for Zohranomics.” The Wall Street Journal insists Mamdani is “a charming and exuberant young man who raps about his beloved Indian grandmother” and “displays an Obama-like magnetism that attracts young people” and “some old ones, too.”

"Regrettably, Mamdani is not the sole Marxist Democrat who has traction." . . .More...

NYC bodega owners worry Zohran Mamdani will put them out of business with city-run grocery store plan

If you think government stores are a good idea, you probably wear a keffiyeh and think Israel first attacked Gaza. President Reagan once said of these people that they aren't ignorant; they just "know so much that isn't so". TD

Rich Terrell

 NYC bodega owners worry Zohran Mamdani will put them out of business with city-run grocery store plan  

. . . “ 'It’s going to be a huge problem. You can’t force us to pay taxes and then be our adversary,” Rafael Garcia, owner of La Economica Meat Choice store on University Avenue in The Bronx, told The Post.

"In some bodegas, about two-thirds of the business is from customers with government-financed food stamps and Garcia said there was no doubt those shoppers would flock to the lower-cost, city-run grocery stores.

"Francisco Marte, the president of the Bodega and Business Association, said at Monday’s press conference: “Socialism hasn’t been successful anywhere in the world. Even China has turned to capitalism. Come on, this is stupid.” Gristedes owner John Catsimatidis, who also spoke at the event at Second Avenue and East 40th Street said, “City-owned supermarkets don’t work. Cities do not know how to run a business.”

"Progressive Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had considered launching a municipal grocery store in the Windy City after a study concluded it was “not only feasible but necessary.”

"But Johnson said he put the plan on hold after companies reached out and asked to join the venture, suggesting a public-private partnership to improve access in so-called food desserts or a public market instead.

"Government-owned grocery stores have been tried in smaller towns in rural America that lost their last grocers — with mixed results at best.

"A town-owned grocery store in 1,400-resident Baldwin, Fla. opened in 2019. The store operated at a loss and closed in March.

"A city-owned store set up in Erie, Kan., didn’t attract enough customers and sales to break even and was forced to change its approach. To lower costs, it leased out the building to a private operator to be the grocer, while the city retained ownership, Governing Magazine reported.

"Not every municipal grocery has gone belly up.

"Another Kansas town, 600-person St. Paul, bought its own store in 2013 after the last supermarket closed and nearest grocer was 17 miles away.

"The government-owned grocer is still operating there, a success story cited by Mamdani." . . 

Zohran Mamdani's government-run grocery stores won't lower prices; The democratic socialist's proposed "public option" reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the market.

 Reason Magazine  

Even if you imagine corruption away, the conceit that New York City bureaucrats can run grocery stores at a lower cost than highly capitalized private firms enjoying massive economies of scale, decades of market experience, and complex supply chains is farcical.

"Andrew Cuomo has conceded defeat to 33-year-old progressive upstart Zohran Mamdani in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary. With registered Democrats making up over two-thirds of the city's electorate, Mamdani is in pole position to be the Big Apple's next mayor, which could spell trouble for New Yorkers struggling with the city's nation-leading cost of living.

"The campaign website of Mamdani, who self-identifies as a democratic socialist, says that he is running "to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers." In addition to offering free bus fare citywide, Mamdani is proposing to rein in "out of control" prices with "a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit." Mamdani argues that "without having to pay rent or property taxes, they will reduce overhead and pass on savings to shoppers."

"If lowering the price of groceries is Mamdani's goal, his "public option" is a poor way to accomplish this feat, especially given the structure of the city's grocery market.

"The grocery market, which includes bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets, and online grocery delivery (like Amazon, Walmart, and ShopRite), is incredibly competitive in New York City, and its market concentration is extremely low. Based on 2016 market share data (the most recent year data are available) from Chain Store Guide, a provider of retail and foodservice intelligence, the New York metropolitan area's grocery market has a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index score, a measure of market competitiveness, of approximately 550 (an index score below 1500 is considered to be competitive).

"Despite the competitive market, food prices in New York City (and the rest of the country) have risen. The cost of food at home, a good proxy for the price of groceries, increased by 27.5 percent between FY 2019 and FY 2023 in the New York City Metropolitan Area, according to an April 2025 report from the Office of the New York State Comptroller using Bureau of Labor Statistics data. However, this price increase was not caused by the city's 1,002 grocery stores focused on "making a profit"—grocery store profits range from 1 percent to 2 percent, Adam Lehodey explains for City Journal—but by inflation caused by federal spending and supply chain crunches." . . .  More...