Dems Make a Case for One-Party Republican Rule, At Least for a While

Dems Make a Case for One-Party Republican Rule, At Least for a While

Stephen Kruiser 

    

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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Swithinng felt that most potato mashes had toxic colonial origins. 

If it seems a bit one-note here at the Briefing this week, it's because the future of the Republic warrants it. 

Here we are with another variation on the theme "The Democrats Are the Worst People Since the Nazis and Jimmy Kimmel  Fans." There's just so much fuel for this fire in the lead-up to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. It would be a dereliction of my duty if I weren't pointing out every bubble in the cauldron of evil that is the present-day Democratic Party.

I grew up during the Cold War in Barry Goldwater's Arizona. There were maybe five Democrats in the state when I was in the third grade, and three of them probably voted Republican but wouldn't admit it to their families. Still, we managed to elect Democrats because one-party rule was anathema to us.

Being of Polish descent, I had a lot of family who were oppressed during the heyday of the Soviet Union. My grandparents would frequently travel to Poland and tell me how awful thing were there. I grew up with a healthy dislike of a single ideology controlling the government. 

Because I'm willing to evolve, I have decided that this great Republic doesn't need the services of the Democrats right now. 

In a true bipartisan (or multi-partisan) way of governing, competing ideals are the grist for the mill that produces a better society. This is how the whole thing got started here in the United States. It was never intended to to turn into a two-party competition — George Washington warned us about the perils of political parties in his farewell speech — but here we are.

Watching the Democrats proudly display their delusion and denial during the confirmation hearings this week has brought me to a place where I can easily advocate for the Republicans being in charge for quite some time. Bear in mind, I always find problems with the way Republicans do things; I'm just saying that the worst Republican in Congress is exponentially better than the best Democrat. 

Also, there is no "best Democrat."

Let us look at Pam Bondi's Senate hearing to become our next attorney general.

Matt details here Bondi's exchange with California mediocrity Alex Padilla. Read the whole thing. Here's a fun part of that:

The confrontation escalated further when Padilla turned to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. He pressed Bondi for her interpretation of the clause, hoping to catch her off guard. However, Bondi remained calm and composed, stating that she wasn’t there to do his "homework.”

“Senator, I'm here to answer your questions,” she shot back. “I'm not here to do your homework and study for you.

Our own Sarah Anderson has some excellent examples of Bondi's awesomeness here.

The Democrats have been advocating for one-party rule for a long time now. It's because they're big government people who have sexual fantasies about what the Soviet Union might have accomplished had all of the ungrateful freedom-loving people not got in its benevolent way. 

Relevant: Now More Than Ever, Congressional Democrats Are Criminally Unserious People

After what I've seem from the confirmation hearings the past couple of days, I am now a full-throated advocate of one-party Republican rule in the United States, no matter how flawed the party is. Once a functional component of how we do things here, the Democrats are now a dangerously delusional threat to the Republic's continued existence. 

There's no place for that.

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Apocalypse Now, In LA--Here's the extended X-post by Shellenberger

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Apocalypse Now, In LA

Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

For more than a decade, the media, Democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 1776 but rather in 1619 with the beginning of slavery, whose effects are felt more strongly than ever. The original colonies and the expansion of the Western frontier depended on the extermination of indigenous people and theft of their lands. And our crimes against nature have resulted in apocalyptic climate change, which requires radical changes to the way we live our lives. The consequences of this self-hating Woke ideology can be seen today in catastrophic fires, mass evacuations, and burned rubble of Los Angeles. So-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned of but in truth wished for: the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest. I’m not suggesting that Democrats consciously sought to destroy Los Angeles. The entertainment industry professionals in Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and Pacific Palisades, who voted overwhelmingly for California’s progressive Governor, Gavin Newsom, and LA’s radical Left mayor, Karen Bass, thought they were voting for social justice and sustainability. They didn’t imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down. And yet that’s what their votes resulted in. Over the last 24 hours, the evidence of gross mismanagement and incompetence by Newsom and Bass has only grown more overwhelming. On January 2nd, a full eight days ago, the National Weather Service urgently warned of extreme fire conditions. To drive home the point, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office held a press briefing warning of impending catastrophe. On that day, Newsom and Bass should have called out the National Guard. They should have had planes and helicopters circling over Los Angeles spotting fires and putting them out immediately upon detecting them. They should have issued emergency warnings to residents. And they should have used various methods to spray water, including mobile sprinkler units alongside normal firefighter hoses, to wet down vulnerable areas. Instead, the following day, Karen Bass flew to Ghana on a frivolous junket. And Gavin Newsom only called out the National Guard yesterday, seven days later than he should have. In truth, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Newsom and Bass should have constructed two to three times more water reservoirs than Los Angeles has in order to deal with fires of that magnitude. Newsom and Bass should have not only built water recycling and desalination plants, like they have in Israel, they should have built them with excess capacity so that, in an emergency, those plants could have pumped fresh water to supplement the water in the reservoirs. And instead of emptying the prisons and jails, subsidizing rampant homelessness, eliminating penalties for breaking the law, and allowing addicts the mentally ill to camp everywhere and start fires, Newsom and Bass should have cracked down on the rampant disorder and violent crime, all of which has skyrocketed under their misrule. It now appears that at least one of the fires was started by a homeless man. Whether or not that’s the case, over half of all fires put out by the Los Angeles Fire Department are started by the homeless, which has diverted the agency from doing what it should have been doing, which was preventing catastrophic fires, including by putting them out as soon as they started. Why didn’t they? Why did Newsom and Bass make so many catastrophic errors? Part of the reason is that they are self-centered and craven politicians, typical of the people who hold office in California. They claim to care about society’s victims; in truth, they care only about themselves and their self-image. Newsom, Bass, and other California politicians are uninterested in doing a good job and instead obsessed with their own personal promotion. For that reason, they have long been focused like a laser on playing politics rather than governing effectively. Another reason is that they are beholden to affluent, radical Left environmentalist and social justice donors who live in places like Marin County and Hollywood. These are the same people who bankroll radical Left groups like the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, who have successfully blocked desalination and water storage plants, the proper clearing of flammable debris in forests, and effective management of landscapes around housing development, for over 45 years. Before that, the same groups and financial interests halted the expansion of nuclear power, which is the perfect energy source for desalination. And these are the same people who demanded that homeless encampments be allowed to spread throughout the city and that addicts and the mentally ill be given free housing with no strings attached. All of these things were done in the name of saving the environment, social justice, and saving black lives. The result of them was the destruction of the environment, grotesque injustice, and the disproportionate loss of black lives, including from violent crime, which increased 15% since Newsom took office and grew to be 31% higher than the national average. For decades, Hollywood cranked out movies and TV depicting the exhaustion of natural resources and climate as causing the apocalypse. Yesterday, some reporters and scientists blamed climate change for the lack of rain in LA. That’s ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and dry years. Destroying civilization turned out to be expensive, not cheap. Californians pay the highest taxes for the most expensive gasoline, electricity, and water in the nation. Under Newsom, we spent $24 billion to increase homelessness by 40%. Both ancient wisdom and modern psychology teach us that one can understand a person’s motivation by the consequences of their actions. California’s Democrats, progressives, and politicians lied when they said their highest priority was protecting the people of California. They lied when they said they cared about social justice. And they lied when they said they cared about protecting the environment. Instead, what they cared about was destroying the civilization they had long ago decided was evil. All civilizations require a story. The story that built Los Angeles and California was one of human progress. The story that destroyed it was of human sin. For decades, progressives, Democrats, and the news and entertainment media preached that civilization was evil and doomed. Slavery, indigenous genocide, and climate change were proof. And now, as the city of angels smolders, it’s clear that progressives reaped what they sowed.

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Apocalypse Now, In LA

Apocalypse Now, In LA

by John Hinderaker in California, Democrats, Gavin Newsom

As fires continue to destroy Los Angeles, the incompetence of that city’s leadership, along with that of the State of California, is coming into focus. It is almost incredible that anyone could do as bad a job as Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom have done. Many instances of their incompetence have come to light, but Michael Shellenberger takes the broad view, explaining how progressive politics inevitably led to the current disaster. Please do read the whole thing:

At the micro level, the Democrats’ futility would be funny if its consequences were not so tragic. This is the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, with a quote for the ages: “I don’t know how water gets to the hydrants.” She also says she didn’t know that the Santa Ynez Reservoir held no water. It has been empty since 2009:

Much more will be written about the incompetence of Democratic Party officials in the months to come, but some disasters are so complete that they speak for themselves. Will the Los Angeles fires contribute the public revulsion against the Democratic Party that we saw building last year, and that culminated in the election of Donald Trump? In a word, yes.

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