Anyone Want to Vote for Most Ignorant in Congress? AOC in a Landslide

 The Punching Bag Post  

"When a member of Congress repeatedly demonstrates ignorance about economics, history, and the principles behind America’s founding, voters have every right to question whether that person belongs in high office."

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has never been shy about making sweeping political claims. Over the years, she has become one of the most recognizable voices on the American Left, championing democratic socialism, attacking capitalism, and portraying wealth itself as inherently suspicious. But her latest comments about the American Revolution may be one of the most incredible examples of how shallow and distorted her understanding of history (and life in general) really is.

"Speaking at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics during a discussion with longtime Democratic strategist David Axelrod, Ocasio-Cortez attempted to connect her attacks on billionaires to America’s founding. She declared:

"'I want to talk about how this is in the heritage of our country, because America was founded… you look at Thomas Jefferson writing to Madison in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. And we are declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and power and the state that the voices of everyday people did not exist.”

"I’m wondering how Axelrod kept a straight face. The Democrats are known for their revisionism, but AOC appears to actually believe everything she says – her word is automatically the truth, no matter how much she made up off the top of her head.

This bizarre claim came shortly after another controversial remark in which AOC insisted:

“You can’t earn a billion dollars.”

She later elaborated by saying: “You can get market power. You can break rules… But you can’t earn that.”

"This is a sitting member of Congress confidently lecturing the public about subjects she appears to fundamentally misunderstand (but where she feels free to make up her own bizzarro world version of economics)." . . . More...

Think of the powerful Democrats in Congress who guide this nation and confront America's allies and enemies: Maxine Waters, ex-Eric Swalwell, Jasmine Crockett, Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Al Green, Ayanna Pressley, Rosa DeLauro, Hank (Guam) Johnson, Shri Thanedar, Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal, and, well.so many more who all hate President Trump and everything he does. TD 

LA Mayor Bass is to restoration as Gavin is to bullet trains

"President Trump last week ordered his EPA chief Lee Zeldin to override the L.A. mayor's foot-dragging on reissuing building permits, so fire victims can rebuild. City Hall's ineptitude during the fire was astounding. Mayor Karen Bass deserves credit for returning Malibu to its roots as a Trailer Park."  Argus Hamilton, May 11, 2026

‘Spencer Pratt’s Rhetoric Is Dangerous,’ Warns Karen Bass To The 30 Angelenos Who Haven't Been Stabbed To Death By Hobos | Babylon Bee parody   "LOS ANGELES, CA — Mayor Karen Bass struck back at mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt on Wednesday, warning the surviving Angelenos who hadn't been stabbed to death by a hobo that his rhetoric was dangerous.

"'Spencer Pratt wants to clean up our streets no matter who it hurts, even if it means locking up dangerous stabbing hobos," Bass said to jeers from the crowd. "But not me!"

"Bass went on to explain how Pratt, a former reality TV star, had vowed to "clean up her mess" — a statement she called a literal death threat. "If people start blaming me for the city's problems, they might start stabbing me instead of each other," she said." . . .More...

LA Mayor Promises Full Investigation Into Why She Was Allowed To Become LA Mayor | Babylon Bee again   "LOS ANGELES — In the wake of total devastation brought about by the LA fires, Mayor Karen Bass has promised her constituents she would authorize a full investigation into why she was allowed to become mayor of Los Angeles.

""I have no idea what I'm doing and I need to figure out why people thought I could do it," Bass said in a statement. "This whole thing has really been unfair to me."

"According to new polling data, voters are pointing the finger at each other, assuming that someone else was responsible for voting for Karen Bass. "I didn't vote for her!" said LA resident Jennifer Garner. "Ugh, I bet it was Ben. That guy's the worst."

"Bass previously questioned why any special interest groups would rally around her to become mayor. "This wasn't an idea I had," she recounted. "They came to me and asked me to be mayor. I will not rest until I discover who is responsible for me saying 'yes.'"

"Her office has promised to use every resource at its disposal to find out why she was allowed to become the mayor. The scope of the investigation includes questioning "the elites" about why they chose her and interrogating voters on why they could possibly think she was qualified for the job.

"At publishing time, Karen Bass had reprimanded herself for becoming mayor by suspending herself with pay until such time as the investigation could be concluded."

Los Angeles Voters, The World Is Watching

Issues & Insights   

"The entire California Democratic machine is made of political parasites who should be ridiculed out of public life. Pratt’s takedowns are a good start."

"New York City and Chicago voters made the most injudicious decisions possible electing Zohran Mamdani and Brandon Johnson to be their mayors. Both democratic socialists are inept yet destructive, unserious yet dangerous, demagogues who spew venom and traffic in incendiary divisive rhetoric. Their deranged policies will bankrupt their cities, financially, morally and culturally. Will Los Angeles voters do the same?

Actually, they already have. The question is, will they repeat their mistake and reelect Karen Bass? The current mayor is a Fidelista and a member of the Venceremos Brigade, a Cuban “enterprise that had a goal of encouraging the health and survival of a despotic, evil regime.” She reportedly was the group’s Southern California leader.

Or will voters carry City Council member Nithya Raman, whose “socialism could drag LA” to a “Marxist 19th century” dystopia, into the mayor’s office?

Reality television star and angry Palisades fire victim Spencer Pratt is making a splash as an outsider whose fed-up-with-it rhetoric resonates among many. He’s polling at 22% to Bass’ 30% and Raman’s 19% for the June 2 primary. The fact that Bass and Raman are polling anywhere north of low single digits is not encouraging.

The media, always invested in the most far-left candidates, have done everything they can to make Pratt look like a lightweight fool, but his loud honesty about the real-life trials of living in Los Angeles — the squalid homelessness, a perpetual public safety crisis, incompetent and unaccountable governance, to name a few of the many difficulties — rings truer every time he speaks. Pratt is the rip-sawing candidate the city needs to wake it from a progressive slumber that’s leading to decline.

Even if he doesn’t win, he’s giving California Democrats exactly the rude treatment they deserve. His artificial intelligence-produced videos are appropriately brutal, portraying Bass as a clown, a comic book villain and an incompetent who lists last year’s fires — which took Pratt’s Pacific Palisades home — as one of her accomplishments she’s running on.

Gov. Gavin Newsom also takes his well-earned lashes as an out-of-touch French royal eating cake, as does former vice president and failed (thanks be to God) presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who is presented as a useless lush. The entire California Democratic machine is made of political parasites who should be ridiculed out of public life. Pratt’s takedowns are a good start.

At What Point Do We Stop Tolerating Bernie Sanders [and his politics of envy. TD]?

 How many of Bernie's voters own Hamas scarves such as we saw on the streets after the Oct 7th murders of Israeli families?

The American Spectator  

"I’m sure as hell suggesting he shouldn’t be the ranking member of any committees, and he absolutely shouldn’t be in control of the politics of the Democrat Party, of which he isn’t even a member."

"The old line has it that you get what you tolerate.

   "It’s a good life lesson which isn’t all that often applied to politics — at least, not in polite circles of our politics. We’ve had tolerance preached to us nonstop since we were children, or at least those of us who are Generation X and younger have, and so the idea that you get what you tolerate isn’t supposed to apply.

   "Somehow, it’s a racist or bigoted idea that you can refuse to tolerate the things you don’t want imposed on you. When, for most of us, it’s really just a question of standards.

   "And you should have standards in your life. Standards are important. Upholding them almost always results in things being better.

   "For example, it’s a standard that you shouldn’t have trash lying around in your yard. Or that you wouldn’t put up with crime in your neighborhood. Or that you wouldn’t share a house with a junkie or a child molester. Upholding those kinds of standards is a stance which immediately and consequentially improves your living conditions — or, better yet, keeps them from declining.

   "But we’re told that tolerance is a societal virtue. And perhaps it is, in the right context.

   "For example, a society should be tolerant of people from different ethnicities and demographics; that part is simple neighborliness.

   "Different cultures? Perhaps less so. Experience has shown us that some cultures will meet high standards for cooperation, productivity, and moral rectitude — and others perhaps don’t.

   "Tolerance isn’t a suicide pact, after all.

   "And what experience has also taught us is that tolerance of certain ideologies isn’t a good idea at all.

   "For example, there is an ideology based on the most indefensible of the seven deadly sins — envy, which St. Augustine called “the diabolical sin”; “From envy,” he wrote, “are born hatred, detraction, calumny, joy caused by the misfortune of a neighbor, and displeasure caused by prosperity.” . . .  More...

Among Democrats on Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wields far more power than New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. But the progressive champions have the hearts of Democratic voters across the country.

Bernie's accomplice: AOC Celebrated Amazon's Pullout; Cuomo Said It Cost 25K Jobs

Uncle Paul's Parodies

Reclaiming The Human Home

 Lars Møller - American Thinker  

"It is to declare, in brick and stone and careful proportion, that we are no longer ashamed of who we are—that we remember the Judeo-Christian roots of our culture and intend to pass them on, not as relics, but as living gifts to the future." 

"Since the slaughter of WWI, Europeans and Americans have waged a relentless campaign against their own civilization. A self-loathing spirit has seeped into every corner of culture, repudiating the Judeo-Christian roots that once gave the West its distinctive shape: the dignity of the person, the sanctity of place, the longing for transcendence. This erasure has been particularly brutal in architecture.

"Modernism, the aesthetic arm of a revolutionary and totalitarian impulse, originally set out to annihilate five thousand years of building tradition. It replaced the classical idiom—streets that invited conversation, façades that whispered continuity, roofs that sheltered memory—with glass-and-steel machines that scream contempt for the very idea of home. However, revolutionary avant-gardists—self-proclaimed “liberators”—were impatient to create a new humanity without special ties and break down the familiar and beloved. Removing the monuments of the past in our cities became for them a matter of sociocultural cleansing—and an ideological imperative.

"Into this wasteland stepped Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020), the philosopher who taught us that beauty is not a luxury but a necessity of the soul. In works such as The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979) and Beauty (2009), and later as chairman of the UK government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, he insisted that the built environment is never neutral. It either nurtures oikophilia—the love of home—or breeds alienation. Architecture, for Scruton, is the art of settlement. It must be scaled to the human body, rooted in a particular place, and generous enough to welcome generations yet unborn. When it fails these duties, it does not merely look ugly; it wounds the psyche, severs the thread of collective memory, and turns citizens into transients in their own cities.

"At the heart of Scruton’s philosophy lies the conviction that beauty and human scale are inseparable. A building should not dominate or intimidate; it should invite. Streets must be “shared spaces” where people linger, children play, and neighbors recognize one another. Traditional vernacular architecture—knowledge passed quietly from master to apprentice across centuries—embodies this wisdom. It respects proportion, uses local materials that weather gracefully, and frames views that connect the dweller to the landscape and to history." . . . More...

. . . "Only when our streets once more speak of welcome, our roofs shelter memory, and our squares invite gathering will we have begun to heal the wound that modernism inflicted. Only then will we cease to be exiles in the very places that we call home. Roger Scruton showed us the way. It is time—past time—to follow." . . .