Five Quick Things: The Increasing Performative Stupidity of Our Friends on the Left

"Today’s progressive playbook rewards those who can deliver the most implausible argument with the straightest face."

The American Spectator 

 "Part of that desire is my increasing distaste for politics as it’s currently practiced in this country. And there’s something in particular that I can’t stand. I’d call it out if I saw it from Republicans, but I don’t… really. I’ve seen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie do this at times, but not that often. But on the Left, it’s non-stop."

Democrats stood on the House floor and chanted “shame” at Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy as
 parliamentary procedure was ongoing after California Rep. Adam Schiff was censured Wednesday.

. . . "This is of a piece with the ridiculous Elissa Slotkin’s argument that passing the bill would ensure Democrats could never win any election anywhere in America. (RELATED: Maybe Shut Up, Elissa)

"Schumer knows that putting extra safeguards in place to stop foreigners from voting in American elections and to encourage clean voter rolls won’t do anything whatsoever to retard the ability of eligible voters to vote. He knows that when Georgia passed some commonsense election integrity reforms in 2021, amid a great deal of caterwauling from his party, voter turnout in 2022 was quite high for a midterm election.

"He knows these things, but he doesn’t care.

"This is more an example of performing for stupidity than performative stupidity, of course, because Chuck Schumer thinks Democrat voters are rubes who can be lied to without consequence.

"But there is stupidity in it as well, and it’s this: by insisting that every warm body, and some cold ones, get ballots, Chuck Schumer is suppressing his own political clout — because the skew in the electorate that you get from an “expansion” in the eligible-voting population makes the Chuck Schumers of the world obsolete in favor of the AOC’s and Zohran Mamdanis of the world.

"Schumer doesn’t do the feigned ignorance thing. He leaves that to others. Instead, he does the too-smart-by-half thing. And if you know what time it is, you realize too-smart-by-half is still stupid." . . . More...