The Potemkin Party

Weren't we all puzzled when during Biden's ‘Very Dark’ and ‘Divisive’ inauguration speech he injected the phrase White Supremacy? If Biden was not a submissive tool of the Southern Poverty Law Center, he'll do until one comes along. TD

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"There’s no question that the Democratic Party has become a lawless and unethical enterprise run by, and maintained for the benefit of, the most rotten people in the country."

"America’s real insurrection is a long-term project of the country’s Democrats. It appears to have hit some snags, however. Maybe, as their carefully constructed facade begins to crumble, we’ll be able to save our republic after all.

"The power and influence of the Democratic Party over the past two to three decades has been built on appearances. The legacy media, of course, are committed comrades and make it appear as if today’s party of the left is no different than it was in the days of John F. Kennedy. In truth, though, it is far more radical, blatantly anti-American, and outright corrupt.

"We began to see how a party that’s disconnected from normal Americans has been able to stay in or close to power when the Department of Government Efficiency discovered last year that Washington created a taxpayer-financed slush fund in which nongovernmental organizations are lavishly subsidized for the welfare of insiders. Not all NGOs are profligate, but far too many have been “fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly,” says University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds.

"These activities line up snugly with the Democrats’ agenda, which is why they protest too much — their means for virtually printing money and consolidating political power was in danger.

"Just under the surface of the fetid swamp, the NGO shell game funnels taxpayers’ dollars “through multiple layers, with various entities handling and redistributing it” to the favored “groups and people who back those who are directing the funds. It’s a virtuous rather than vicious cycle – or virtuous at least to its participants who reap the benefits.”

"Media outlets, the ones that “report” and “analyze” the news as if they’re the marketing and communications wing of the Democratic Party, have also benefited from taxpayers’ “contributions” to the federal leviathan.

"More recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury for wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and “knowingly” combining, conspiring, confederating, and agreeing “with persons known and unknown to the grand jury to commit concealment money laundering.”

According to the indictment, the SPLC’s “stated mission included the dismantling of
white supremacy and confronting hate across the country.” But behind this charade, donor “money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance.”. . . More...

The California burrito hospice; California fraud is as in-your-face as it gets.

 Mike McDaniel - American Thinker  

Were it not for the Trump Administration, none of this would have been exposed, and California politicians are working to make it illegal for journalists to expose fraud and other crimes.

"We’ve known for some time that Minnesota is one of America’s leading producers of fraud, costing taxpayers untold billions. But we’re now learning California is greatly surpassing Minnesota, and the hapless communist, Tampon Tim Walz, in the fraud sweepstakes.

"But how can this be? Despite both states being ruled by Democrats, which means Islamist/Marxists these days, California’s population is much larger as is its budget. California’s immigrant population, barely legal and completely illegal, is substantially larger and more diverse than Minnesota’s. California is not limited to lavishing fraud on a single immigrant population like the Somalis. Minnesota’s legislature is not entirely infested with Democrats, certainly not to the degree of California’s, so California Democrats simply have far more need of allowing fraud for vote-buying, their campaigns and personal enrichment than Minnesota and far more opportunities. One might also reasonably argue that California politicians have a longer history of criminality than Minnesota’s, hence more experience at committing crimes and avoiding consequences.

"We’ve heard of stunning levels of California hospice fraud for some time now. Hospice fraud? How does that work? Very easily and profitably, apparently. Thus far, Vice President JD Vance’s fraud taskforce has suspended federal funds to around 500 of California’s supposed hospice providers and more will doubtless be suspended soon." . . .  More...

Victoria Taft: I Did Not Have California Burrito Stand Hospice Centers on the Old Check List Today   . . . "Here's the usual weekly fraud list, give or take: 

• High-speed train over-spending and under-delivering.
• Homeless billions gone missing.
• COVID unemployment billions going to state prisoners or Nigerian princes.
• Free spending for illegal alien trans surgeries quadrupling Medi-Cal (Medicaid) costs.
• Paying non-profits to riot.
• Laws forbidding voter ID.
• Spending other people's money for unfettered illegal immigration.
• Dispensing FireAid money to political friends.
• Fake day care centers with Maybach-driving owners.
• Hospice "companies" with no or living patients.

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger

Ghostwriter in a Hurry; Pity the hack who works for Gavin Newsom.

 Ghostwriter in a Hurry - The American Conservative   

"The memoir has been praised for its literary qualities, for its humility, for its honesty. It possesses none of these things. It is a pastiche of introspection; unconvincing and shallow, like Newsom himself. "

 "Let’s start with the acknowledgments, usually the best place to begin in a political memoir. Here the author admits that he is less composer and more collaborator. Although his name appears on the cover and the story is his own, the real work of compilation is done by a shadow army of ghostwriters, developmental editors, line editors, copy editors, and fact checkers. No one feels any compunction about this arrangement. It is just the way the business works. The writers and editors offer their services, the author accepts, and everyone who participated in the project gets half a line of thanks. Most people know you can’t judge a book by its cover. Only those in publishing understand that you must consult the acknowledgements.

   "Gavin Newsom is cognizant of this industry dynamic, and it suits him well. The governor of California is one of the most forthright fakers in American politics. He proudly declares in the acknowledgements of Young Man in a Hurry that he did not write his memoir. Instead, he “enjoyed the privilege” of hiring Mark Arax, a literary nonfiction journalist in California, to do the work for him. The idea was to produce something classier than a campaign book. Arax’s role “went beyond mere ghostwriter,” Newsom says. “He asked for one thing: that the memoir would go where it needed to go, no matter how personal and wrenching, and I agreed.”

   "That’s a big promise, especially coming from a guy who is eyeing the White House in 2028. Pity that Newsom doesn’t deliver. Young Man in a Hurry fails on its own terms. It is neither personal nor wrenching. Worse, neither author nor writer seems to understand how badly he has blundered. Nor, I should add, do most reviewers. The memoir has been praised for its literary qualities, for its humility, for its honesty. It possesses none of these things. It is a pastiche of introspection; unconvincing and shallow, like Newsom himself. 

   "The problem of authenticity is one with which Newsom has struggled ever since he got into politics. His family is one of the most venerable in San Francisco, and he spent much of his childhood gadding about the world with the Getty children, whose family trust his father administered. His first political assignment was an appointed position, courtesy of Willie Brown, another friend of his father’s. Almost every position has occupied since has owed something to his family name and connections. Newsom does not deny nor downplay any of it. But he insists that he has known struggle too. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother had to work three jobs just to get by. He claims that as a child he was gangly, awkward, and afflicted by undiagnosed dyslexia. When he grew up, he became aware of a painful duality within himself that he has spent years attempting to understand." . . .More...

: "Donald Trump will launch a 'revenge' attack on the White House media when he confronts them in person at a Washington dinner on Saturday night...

 Althouse   . . . then flee before there can be revenge..."

"Leaving because [the] press have nothing worthwhile to say isn't "fleeing", it's treating them with the contempt they deserve." Greg The Class Traitor 

Emcees today

"Trump will leave the White House Correspondents’ Association event after making his speech, so he will miss the presentation of press awards—one of which would be certain to embarrass him. He has told aides he has no intention of still being in the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton when the Wall Street Journal is honored with the Katherine Graham award for its scoop about a bawdy letter Trump allegedly wrote for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday card.... Mentalist Oz Pearlman is performing this year, replacing the usual comedian and avoiding a potential Trump roast."

"From "Trump’s Plans for ‘Mic-Drop’ Media Confrontation Are Leaked/The president is planning a rage-fueled moment at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner" (Daily Beast).

"Donald Trump will launch a 'revenge' attack" — why is "revenge" in quotes? The article doesn't have Trump or anybody else using that word.

"They've replaced the comedian with a mentalist? What's the thinking there? Could a mentalist tell me? I don't blame Trump for walking out before the mentalist, but it seems like they picked a mentalist so Trump wouldn't leave, so he wouldn't need to withstand the horrors of comedy. In any case, he's sure to bring the comedy to his own speech." . . .