Wednesday Morning Rant

Conversion

This week, PJ Media published an article about the DSA and its clearly-stated plans for revolutionary overthrow of American institutions. The article is typical of those like it. It highlights some of the more radical attitudes and ambitions that are mainstream in the DSA and calls it out for what it is - that is, mostly old-school communism with some contemporary post-modern progressive flair. It also laments the state of the youth and speculates as to the appetite for this kind of revolutionary communism in American popular politics.

As is normal for these kinds of articles, the author calls out how the new resurgence of revolutionary ideology on the Left is not well-loved by various older/traditional players on the Left. Many of the traditional hatchet-men and current marginalized politicians on the Left are worried, as they well should be:

Give credit to more sensible Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman and old Clinton hand James Carville who see the DSA slipping into the DNC like a skinsuit, and recognize the danger...

The danger isn't hard to recognize. It has a great big red flashing arrow reading "DANGER" pointing right at it. What is astounding is that many seem to be surprised by it.

How can men like Carville - or even those on the right (pseudo or otherwise) - be surprised by these developments? The PJ Media article touches on it, albeit as a simple lament:

The advantage we hold -- at least for now -- over the DSA, is that they have spokesweasels like Romer going to TV, actually trying to sell a radical agenda wholesale instead of piecemeal. Today's voters won't have it, but what about tomorrow's voters, the ones who were never taught American history or civics?

This is why those generations are not taught anything recognizable as history or civics. This was the point. This is why the Left did their Gramscian March. The March has been grinding on for decades, designed to bring us to where we are now.

The core issue - and it's one that has been obvious for at least a decade, even for those only paying casual attention - is that the March has to end eventually. If they spend decades subverting, capturing and refocusing institutions, they must take their gains at some point. The March depends on a stage of final conversion. In that final stage, they collect their winnings and use them to formally do away with the old system and replace it with the new one. Once most means of effective opposition are destroyed, they must formalize what they built. The Long March must be followed by the Rapid Conversion.

The sticking point is the question of when. Not everyone in the coalition will be on board at the same time and universally agree that the time to attempt Conversion has come. The last time it seemed to come up in earnest was under Obama, and the non-Conversionists won that round. The March continued, albeit a bit a faster. The drive to Conversion was accelerated, but Conversion was not attempted. There is a generational issue at play, as well, in that the people to whom they've promised Conversion will eventually demand it. When that time comes, the Marchers have to deliver and become Conversionists or they will be destroyed by the Conversionists they so carefully bred. The conflict over Conversion must occur because first a plurality and then possibly an outright majority will demand it if the March was successful. It will be brutal and violent and filled with infighting, but it will have to happen no matter what. It's the logical end state of the March.

Carville and those like him believe that the Conversion should for now remain where it has always been: in the future. Those in this camp believe that the March is not yet done, there is not yet enough control to pursue Conversion, and that attempting it now is high-risk and may result in defeat and it is reckless for the entitled Party youngsters to conflate their privileged status with actual power when the Marchers are still the rightful shot-callers. The DSA and those like them believe that those like Carville are fuddy-duddy Boomers who don't know what time it is, that Conversion needs to happen now or it will fail because the March is finished and is increasingly subject to outsider threats by regressive sub-human wreckers - and besides, they're owed it. The Marchers promised Conversion, and it's time to deliver - or else.

I don't know which camp is correct, but it was obvious that they had to reach this point. The Marchers spent decades cultivating radical, amoral (at best) monster babies and their efforts brought stupendous success. They got an entire generation of monster babies, and it was a mega-generation at that. The Millennials are a radical generation, lovingly crafted by the Marchers to be aggressively progressive - and it worked. The Marchers developed them and promised them victory. Now that they're middle-aged, the Millennials are moving into positions of real power and as they move up, they want to realize what they were promised - and they have the extra motivation of an aggressive push from below by their even more radical (if numerically smaller and much less monolithic) younger cohorts.

The March is not yet quite in the rearview mirror, but it is in its endgame. Conversion will be attempted, and the only remaining open questions are "when" and "will it work?" I don't know, but I think Carville is whistling past the graveyard and knows it. He and his kind spent decades promising Conversion - and their monster babies are getting tired of waiting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:10 AM

Comments

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1 G'morning again.

I'll let the art thread know this one has gone live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 29, 2026 11:11 AM (O7YUW)

2 Ha! I knew the second I posted a story it would trigger the Rant.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 11:12 AM (ueR9s)

3 Willowed:

I just started watching, so perhaps it was said earlier, but pleading the 5th is NEVER a good look.

Who pleads the 5th? Mafiosi.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

4 I still think Socialism will be our second threat. The first and more pressing are the Islamists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 11:16 AM (jehhT)

5 Hugh Hewitt is now aware that these people are somewhat extreme, and bear further watching and some small amount of hot air. So we got that going for us.

Posted by: I really haven't settled on a nic at July 29, 2026 11:17 AM (yBGaa)

6 This week, PJ Media published an article about the DSA and its clearly-stated plans for revolutionary overthrow of American institutions.

Attempt to fuck with the Constitution and you will have 1. declared war on the American people and
2. opened up a can of whoop ass that will extend to your entire bloodline*.

*Young children included.
You go after mine, I go after yours.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 11:17 AM (ueR9s)

7 Excellent and insightful essay today, Mannix. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2026 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

8 It is worth remembering that the Boomers were similarly divided between the radical left and the majority of more conservative people. The radicals all got jobs in academia, media, and politics, but their world view got demolished by Reagan. Most Boomers became stockbrokers, got mortgages and kids, and in general, became propagators of traditional Americanism. I am hopeful something similar is brewing.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

9 Tough but fair.

https://tinyurl.com/3jpk54ac

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 29, 2026 11:18 AM (ndZc7)

10 I don't think the rise of the DSA and guys like Neville Singham being investigated are a coincidence.

It takes money and resources to fund a march and what we've learned recently about Cuba and Singham, which is shorthand for the CCP, it seems pretty clear a lot of the DSA momentum is do to foreign funding.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 11:19 AM (viF8m)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:19 AM (2YhKe)

12 Ignorant populace is more easily led around, manipulated and taken advantage of. Appeal to emotion, unable to think for themselves. Compliant and begging for scraps from Benevolent Big Brother.

They talk about “Freedom and Liberty!” and you can’t even smoke in a fucking bar. Clown World

Posted by: Common Tater at July 29, 2026 11:19 AM (nOmcn)

13 >>>>>I still think Socialism will be our second threat. The first and more pressing are the Islamists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
*******
The towel heads are also the biggest threat to socialism, except the commies don't quite see it yet.

Posted by: Cosda at July 29, 2026 11:20 AM (zj7mM)

14 due

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 11:20 AM (viF8m)

15 I'm' sorry to admit that I agree with you Joe.
The marchers feel the time isn't ripe but the proles are impatient.

Will the proles role out the guillotines?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2026 11:20 AM (NnhvP)

16 Give credit to more sensible Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman and old Clinton hand James Carville who see the DSA slipping into the DNC like a skinsuit, and recognize the danger...

HA!!

Call for credit to Carville, shortly after he recommends the Dems hanging their hats on David Hogg.........

BWWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:20 AM (2YhKe)

17 Conversion will be attempted, and the only remaining open questions are "when" and "will it work?"

2020 was the first attempt to do that. They wanted a complete collapse of the economy worldwide and civil conflict. That's why they were grooming red cadre military guys like Milley, et al. They'd swoop in as the strong men and install a 'temporary security' government. 2020 was an attempt at a neo-marxist revolution.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 29, 2026 11:21 AM (diia5)

18 I hadn't seen this photo before.

https://tinyurl.com/ytj3cw6h

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 29, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

19 Carville is going to stroke out one day on live tv. That I might watch over and over again. The clips I see of him... he seems to spit a lot when ranting, which is a turn off on top of his slithering hideous looks.

In the past I wondered what on earth Mary Matalin saw in him. It wasn't his striking good looks to have a blazing political argument then make-up sex. Then the thought of sex and him made my brain blank out like the old midnight tv test pattern.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 29, 2026 11:21 AM (hzuYO)

20 What turning are we in? Or more immediately, should I look out the window to see what chapter of Revelation we're in?

Hi everyone!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 29, 2026 11:22 AM (OsdBI)

21 Mannix kicks ass today!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 29, 2026 11:22 AM (7W4by)

22 The March is not yet quite in the rearview mirror, but it is in its endgame. Conversion will be attempted, and the only remaining open questions are "when" and "will it work?"

You know who else tried a conversion before its time? Beer Hall optional.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

23 As if Hogg wouldn't be first in line to jump on the DSA bandwagon.

Carville is a f*cking moron who's time passed a LONG F*CKING TIME ago.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:23 AM (2YhKe)

24 Mannix kicks ass today!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 29, 2026 11:22 AM (7W4by)

He can't.

He's not a cop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:23 AM (2YhKe)

25 Do any of these monster babes have big hooters?

Oh wait, monster babies...

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 29, 2026 11:23 AM (QUhXt)

26 The marchers feel the time isn't ripe but the proles are impatient.

Will the proles role out the guillotines?

The proles have houses and boats. This isn't pre-Revolution France, where the proles were starving, and the rich were exempt from taxation.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

27 How do they intend to get the muzzle part of the coalition to convert to an atheist, materialist view?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 29, 2026 11:24 AM (XvL8K)

28 I hadn't seen this photo before.

https://tinyurl.com/ytj3cw6h
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 29, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

My daughter did not have to do that.

She wore a gaiter and stood 10 ft. apart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:24 AM (2YhKe)

29 There will be a split, I think, but then I'm an optimist and believe a massive, bloody civil war is the best case scenario.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 29, 2026 11:24 AM (xcxpd)

30
Oh wait, monster babies...
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 29, 2026 11:23 AM (QUhXt)

I'm listening........

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 29, 2026 11:25 AM (2YhKe)

31 The problem I have with the Fauci grilling is that it's kind of like how they handled Hitler. They put it ALL on ONE GUY. So he's the fall guy. In reality, Fauci is just another puppet, working for larger, darker forces, who escape being exposed. When I hear Republicans say it was all to feed Fauci's personal megamania and bank accounts, it's just disgusting.

Ask, "Why are the Dems so unanimously on Fauci's side?" Their states were harmed more than red states! Fauci was part of a REPUBLICAN administration! Why aren't they trying to pin this on TRUMP!?! This is a MEDICAL matter, right? [sarc] The answer is because they work for the same puppeteers that pulled Fauci's strings, and Trump is their worst enemy.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 29, 2026 11:25 AM (ovdkm)

32 You know who else tried a conversion before its time? Beer Hall optional.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:22 AM

And he almost made it work. Fortunately he let his ego start running things.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 29, 2026 11:25 AM (0N4FZ)

33 Carville is a f*cking moron who's time passed a LONG F*CKING TIME ago.......

No, he's not a moron. He's an amoral functionary, but he knows how things work, and he sees a very bad end for the left if they go with the commies.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

34 Carville is probably just upset because he's one of the ones losing his gravy train spot if the DSAs successfully take over the DNC.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 29, 2026 11:25 AM (aJQbY)

35 Hopefully, when the DSA achieves power, I can obtain a position of rank like Inspector General of the Labor Camps. Be good to get my stethoscope wet again.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci, The Angel Of Death 2 at July 29, 2026 11:26 AM (qC81n)

36
No, he's not a moron. He's an amoral functionary, but he knows how things work, and he sees a very bad end for the left if they go with the commies.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

Again, as he recommends David Hogg to lead the DNC.

He's a f*cking idiot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:26 AM (2YhKe)

37 The ignorant have always voted, especially since women started voting. Now the totally ignorant, men and women raised in the public indoctrination centers some still call schools, will be voting. I don't see a happy ending since these people (2-3 generations, at least) have been taught nothing but communist jibberish all their lives.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2026 11:27 AM (g8Ew8)

38 Id love to comment but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline.

Posted by: LASue at July 29, 2026 11:27 AM (BQm4n)

39
Read one of your kids' US history textbooks, you'll be shocked.

Pretty much the whole of US history was enslaving blacks and killing indians, and when Our Bastard Ancestors weren't doing that,

they were abusing women.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 11:27 AM (iJfKG)

40 Get organized now.
Find out who your friends are, and who you can trust.
These clowns think they can win and if they do, each person must decide if they are going to surrender or not.
I chose to fight.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 29, 2026 11:27 AM (2WIwB)

41 Give credit to more sensible Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman and old Clinton hand James Carville who see the DSA slipping into the DNC like a skinsuit, and recognize the danger...

This is like older generations bitching about younger ones, unwilling to admit the obvious: that these young monsters are of their own making. Guys like Fetterman just thought his party's radicalism, like ending whiteness, was never going to be apply to him. He never had a complaint until they began trying to prod him into a cattle car.

Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 29, 2026 11:27 AM (2BasP)

42 Van Jones of all people is calling DSA too extreme.
And the lunatic left is now calling Van Jones a right winger.

What a time to be alive.

Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:28 AM (81vU3)

43 Thx Joe
The funny thing is that Carville and there ilk cannot admit that this Dem Socialist revolution is what they were pushing for since the 60s. What they're pissed about is they're not controlling it . You're old Jimmy Boy, so is Hillary, Bubba, DWS, etc. . The revolution not only devours its children , it pushes the elderly aside and lets them be eaten by wildlife

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 11:28 AM (BlDDt)

44 https://tinyurl.com/ytj3cw6h
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 29, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

My daughter did not have to do that.

She wore a gaiter and stood 10 ft. apart.
Posted by: Sponge
--------
My son wore a cloth mask... with a slit in it and a cloth cover over the bell of his tuba.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 29, 2026 11:28 AM (tcU3L)

45 Rand Paul will now move for criminal contempt charges against Fauci.

Reporters have been jailed for far less.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 11:28 AM (dtajH)

46 It helps to know who we are fighting.

>>Researchers say the nonprofits under scrutiny engage in a dynamic known as "narrative convergence," echoing the propaganda of foreign adversaries. In a new report, the Network Contagion Research Institute, based in Princeton, N.J., documented how the Democratic Socialists of America sent delegations to China, Cuba and Venezuela and then, upon returning to the United States, deployed slogans at protests that mirror the anti-U.S. rhetoric of those governments.

https://tinyurl.com/mf2v22fe

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 11:28 AM (viF8m)

47 Why does the DSA message resonate?

Because the vast majority of Republicans offer nothing.
No alternative message.
They do nothing.

Because we don't have leaders*, we have managers.
They didn't "come up" through America--they were born in the C-suite.
Their loyalty is to their caste, not to their country.

* except Trump. And oh how much they hate him for that.
So much of their seething hatred is born from exposing that they'd rather safely manage the decline of America than take a stand, any stand at all, to protect and save her.
Look at where their passion flashes, where their blood shows:
It's never for America, for her people, for you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (3cUTc)

48 How do they intend to get the muzzle part of the coalition to convert to an atheist, materialist view?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
_______

I should add that they've already converted mainstream protestants, but I don't think the same tactics have any chance of success with the muzzies.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (XvL8K)

49 46 Rand Paul will now move for criminal contempt charges against Fauci.

well I hope so

because no, I am NOT OKAY

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (j+aD2)

50 and the rich were exempt from taxation.
Posted by: Archimedes

I point to NYC and disagree.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (NnhvP)

51 Rand Paul will now move for criminal contempt charges against Fauci.

—

LOL

Posted by: DC Judges and Juries at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (81vU3)

52 46 Rand Paul will now move for criminal contempt charges against Fauci.
----
So nothing will happen?

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (tcU3L)

53 Van Jones of all people is calling DSA too extreme.
And the lunatic left is now calling Van Jones a right winger.

He's always been one of the smartest lefties. I know, it's a contradiction in terms...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

54 Carville is 80. He does not recognize his own party, but cannot switch teams this late in the game.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 29, 2026 11:30 AM (wrEn7)

55 And the garden gnome has left the building.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)

56 Van Jones of all people is calling DSA too extreme.
And the lunatic left is now calling Van Jones a right winger.

What a time to be alive.
Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:28 AM

Van Jones is and always has been one of them. He's just smart enough not to be saying the quiet part out loud too soon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 29, 2026 11:32 AM (bFu5X)

57 Fauci pleads Fifth with 'zero legal justification' as critics erupt and demand contempt charges

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

58 Carville is 80. He does not recognize his own party, but cannot switch teams this late in the game.

He's far too old to care about the money or power. At this point, he's trying to protect what he sees as his legacy, and he knows that if the young and gormless take charge, the party he worked to build will be utterly destroyed.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

59 In Wisconsin, a DSAer is leading the Dem
Nomination for Governor. You’ll be shocked to hear this but she’s a non-white immigrant who hates everything about America.

Posted by: DC Judges and Juries at July 29, 2026 11:32 AM (81vU3)

60 46 Rand Paul will now move for criminal contempt charges against Fauci.
----
So nothing will happen?
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM

*nods sagely*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 29, 2026 11:33 AM (bFu5X)

61 Van Jones is and always has been one of them. He's just smart enough not to be saying the quiet part out loud too soon.

He's actually said that he's moved away from some of his more radical positions. Age and experience often do that.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

62 Article IV Section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Feds may have to curtail the insurrectionists.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 29, 2026 11:33 AM (rJ48h)

63 Rand Paul will now move for criminal contempt charges against Fauci.
----
So nothing will happen?
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (tcU3L)

YEP!

Posted by: Lord God King Boasberg at July 29, 2026 11:33 AM (2YhKe)

64 Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

The difference is the old standard-bearer of Democratic socialism was old, ugly, angry Bernie Sanders almost incoherently screeching about "Wall Street." He was like the frowning, scowling, smelly uncle screaming at trees that nobody wanted to invite to family events.

But even then, Bernie probably woulda been the Democrap nominee in 2016 -- if he didn't take a dive for Hillary.

The newer gen of Dem socialists are younger, mostly better looking, more dynamic, with generally more positive messages, and much more media-savvy. Of course this is a much better "pitch" to voters.

It also comes at the right time when the country is staggeringly wealthy and there's an entire younger generation of over-educated but under-qualified "downwardly mobile elites" who want the CEO's salary but don't want to work for it.

The old decrepit wing of the Democrap party will cling to power until it's ripped from their dying hands. But that day is coming. The GOP has a good oppotunity here, but the odds that they will blow it are high.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 29, 2026 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

65 He's actually said that he's moved away from some of his more radical positions. Age and experience often do that.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:33 AM

True, but it's too early to trust him, even a little.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 29, 2026 11:34 AM (bFu5X)

66 58 Fauci pleads Fifth with 'zero legal justification' as critics erupt and demand contempt charges
Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 11:32 AM (RHGPo)
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You demand contempt charges
You'd settle for a stern reprimand
You'll get Fauci giving everyone the double-barreled middle fingers then grabbing his crotch before he walks away scot free.

Posted by: ballistic at July 29, 2026 11:34 AM (oqH4h)

67
He's actually said that he's moved away from some of his more radical positions. Age and experience often do that.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

He's a self admitted communist. He's only throwing shade that they're moving suddenly and rapidly to full on Marxist communism.

He's on board with a more slow 'boil the frog' roll.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:34 AM (2YhKe)

68 Standard liberal media totally ignoring the Fauci hearing.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 29, 2026 11:34 AM (n5tGW)

69 Free Willy!

Gas station's dino gets stolen, released back into nature near Yellowstone

https://tinyurl.com/ms5ayn7y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 29, 2026 11:35 AM (ndZc7)

70 Rand Paul will now move for criminal contempt charges against Fauci.
----
So nothing will happen?
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 29, 2026 11:29 AM (tcU3L)

YEP!
Posted by: Lord God King Boasberg
__________

This is why I kept saying the hearing should have been held somewhere other than DC.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 29, 2026 11:35 AM (XvL8K)

71 While Fauci was around when Trump announced “Operation Warp Speed”, it is also known that Fauci got Pfizer to delay their September availability of the “clot shot” till after the November election, so Trump wouldn’t get the credit.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

72 Van Jones has been one of the few leftists that I could say I disagree with him but I can reason with him.

He’s for govt run health care, $30 minimum wage all that shit. But he’s not in the abolish all prisons and police camp. I think guys like him genuinely are like what the fuck is wrong with you people? Like you can be left wing but still understand that having no police and no prisons is straight up retarded.

Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:36 AM (81vU3)

73 Make no mistake. The messaging about the DSA will "evolve".

Right now Democrats are simply calling them extreme.

Check back a little later when it's "they might be extreme but they have a message and are getting traction, we would be crazy to ignore them"

Then "what might seem extreme to us is not extreme to people who have grown up very unhappy in capitalism. They have only seen inequality and they want better things for all."

Then - "you know, at one time, the dominant parties thought Civil Rights was extreme. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective."

Etc etc etc and on and on and yawn and yawn

I already have the whole movie in my head. That's just the next few. There are 6 to 8 more beyond that but it might depend on how well the op is going, and if the jolt to the left is getting traction.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 11:36 AM (3SZh8)

74 Van Jones is a liar

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 29, 2026 11:37 AM (wOO3z)

75 Like you can be left wing but still understand that having no police and no prisons is straight up retarded.
Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:36 AM (81vU3)
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Every position of the far left is straight up retarded.

Every. Single. One.

You have to have the IQ of a rutabaga and the world perspective of a fruit fly to be a leftist.

Posted by: ballistic at July 29, 2026 11:37 AM (oqH4h)

76 Van Jones is a liar
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 29, 2026 11:37 AM (wOO3z)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Bill Maher at July 29, 2026 11:37 AM (2YhKe)

77 Because the vast majority of Republicans offer nothing. No alternative message. They do nothing.

Bingo! They are mastere at complete Radio Silence. Even if they were inclined to fight, the leftists captured the “high ground” long ago in Academe and the major propaganda outlets. Throw in Hollyweird and Music, and the kids are exposed 24/7/365 to a veritable firehose of bullshit from the Womb.

It’s amazing things aren’t worse than they already are

Posted by: Common Tater at July 29, 2026 11:38 AM (lNeWt)

78 74 Make no mistake. The messaging about the DSA will "evolve".

Right now Democrats are simply calling them extreme.

Right later: "I love the DSA. It's much better than Cats. I'm going to see it again and again."

Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 29, 2026 11:38 AM (2BasP)

79 Senator Paul REMOVES Fauci’s Unruly Attorney from Hearing Room – AUDIENCE BREAKS OUT IN APPLAUSE!

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 11:39 AM (RHGPo)

80 I'd like to point out that the Glock 30 is a fine firearm legal in most US state.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 29, 2026 11:39 AM (xcxpd)

81 Carville and company's only concern is who on the Democrat side has their hands on the levers of power. It really doesn't matter what the DSA would do with it. It's that Carville, etc. would lose their ability to tell people what to do, and more importantly, grift for themselves.

The rise of the DSA types is bad for the country, but in a perverse way, it couldn't happen to more deserving people than the Democrats.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 29, 2026 11:40 AM (QaH55)

82 Van Jones has been one of the few leftists that I could say I disagree with him but I can reason with him.

He’s for govt run health care, $30 minimum wage all that shit.
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No, I'm sorry. Anyone *stupid* enough to believe in a $30 minimum wage can't be reasoned with. I mean that single position is pants-on-head retarded. It invalidates anything "reasonable" that might come out of his mouth.

Posted by: Crusader at July 29, 2026 11:40 AM (TN0g+)

83 "But he’s not in the abolish all prisons and police camp."

And you know this how?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 29, 2026 11:40 AM (DZ9Lv)

84 If you didn't listen to the end of the questioning there was a very interesting question brought up near the end.

Does Bill Gates still have a security clearance?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)

85 ALL HEROES REPEATEDLY PLEAD THE FIFTH THAT IS HOW YOU KNOW THEY ARE HEROES H9TR BIGOT!

Posted by: Blue-haired Nose-ring AWFL at July 29, 2026 11:40 AM (rbvCR)

86 Like you can be left wing but still understand that having no police and no prisons is straight up retarded
——-

Get it in your head. They aren’t going to get rid of prisons. They are going to empty them to make room for people like you.

They aren’t going to get rid of the Police. They need somebody to arrest people like you.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 29, 2026 11:41 AM (lNeWt)

87 Commies lie. Full Stop.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 29, 2026 11:41 AM (wOO3z)

88 I think the DSA is unorganized, a bunch of disparate factions with different agendas. They're not really organized, at least not yet. I understand that some "Socialist Democrats" like AOC and Bernie identify with them, but I doubt rank and file DSA members would have them.

Still a threat. But they seem more likely to fight among themselves and the Democrats right now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 11:41 AM (jehhT)

89 78 Because the vast majority of Republicans offer nothing. No alternative message. They do nothing.
___

But we'll be ready with our guns if they try and take 'em! Unless there's a good football game on...

Posted by: True Conserfatives at July 29, 2026 11:41 AM (qUkBO)

90 Van Jones is and always has been one of them. He's just smart enough not to be saying the quiet part out loud too soon.
--
Van Jones does not disagree with anything the DSA says.

He just disagrees with the "when" they are saying it.
Same as all Democrats.

As noted above, in 6 months, when their message "evolves" he'll be singing their praises.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 29, 2026 11:42 AM (3cUTc)

91 Senator Paul REMOVES Fauci’s Unruly Attorney from Hearing Room – AUDIENCE BREAKS OUT IN APPLAUSE!
Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 11:39 AM (RHGPo)

He had 6 other attorneys there assisting......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:42 AM (2YhKe)

92 He's a self admitted communist. He's only throwing shade that they're moving suddenly and rapidly to full on Marxist communism.

He's on board with a more slow 'boil the frog' roll.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:34 AM (2YhKe)

If older known Democrats start approving too openly and too quickly, it can look inorganic.

Also if the operation fails and the country rejects DSA wholesale, then they all approved it and have nowhere to go from there.

Having people like Jones and Carville distancing gives them plausible deniability as these first months of the operation get rolling. The DSA is what every single "made" Democrat wants for America. Remember they laughed while our cities burned. They have tried and succeeded at jailing and killing people who merely disagree with them.

The calls for communism are already inside the house.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 11:43 AM (3SZh8)

93 But he’s not in the abolish all prisons and police camp."

And you know this how?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 29, 2026 11:40 AM (DZ9Lv)

He’s said it multiple times and has said the idea of no prisons is stupid. Recently he compared it to a turd in punch bow of ideas.

Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:43 AM (81vU3)

94 Right later: "I love the DSA. It's much better than Cats. I'm going to see it again and again."

Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 29, 2026 11:38 AM (2BasP)

Tea out the nose

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 11:44 AM (3SZh8)

95 Like you can be left wing but still understand that having no police and no prisons is straight up retarded.
---
The issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution.

And any position, policy or statement--no matter how absurd, contradictory, or stupid--will be taken as long as it advances the revolution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (3cUTc)

96 Does any really care what Carville has to say? Dude’s 80 years old and hasn’t really been “in the game” for a while. He pops up on podcasts and shit but he’s long gone from active Democrat politics.

Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (81vU3)

97
The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years on student loans, acquired a certificate for some useless field but no useful work habits and now bitch about oligarchs on platforms built by oligarchs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (O0L8i)

98 No, I'm sorry. Anyone *stupid* enough to believe in a $30 minimum wage can't be reasoned with. I mean that single position is pants-on-head retarded.
——-

Ironically enough, without tens of millions of illegal aliens having driven down wages for decades, the de facto minimum wage would be around that, with no legislation necessary. Labor is subject to supply and demand too.

Young people need to realize their support of open borders means they cannot afford to live in their own country. The left is meticulous about redirecting justified anger and rage precisely where it doesn’t belong.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (lNeWt)

99 Not sure why Rand Paul thought it was a good idea to release the email files before the hearing...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (diia5)

100 >>I think the DSA is unorganized, a bunch of disparate factions with different agendas. They're not really organized, at least not yet. I understand that some "Socialist Democrats" like AOC and Bernie identify with them, but I doubt rank and file DSA members would have them.

I think they are fairly organized. They tune their messages slightly depending on location, blue states vs red states, but they are all basically on the same page.

This is a foreign funded operation. This is China and the malignant countries in its sphere which includes Venezuela, China and likely Iran funding an insurgency in our elections. They've been seeding it for years with people like Karen Bass and Govenor Jazz Hands in Minnesota and now, probably largely thanks to Trump hitting back at them, is go time.

Politics is just war by other means.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (viF8m)

101 Whether it's the Conversion or Operation Warp Speed at work, this full-scale exposure puts them in their riskiest position.

Posted by: t-bird at July 29, 2026 11:46 AM (oSFyF)

102 And what is she running on?

Let's quote her.

"Abolish the Senate."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 11:46 AM (AdHga)

103 Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (81vU3)

The point isn't Csrville. The point is the party line. Which the entire party is mysteriously all on.

A mystery!

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 11:46 AM (3SZh8)

104 The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years on student loans, acquired a certificate for some useless field but no useful work habits and now bitch about oligarchs on platforms built by oligarchs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (O0L8i)

And the unions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:46 AM (2YhKe)

105 >>>This is why the Left did their Gramscian March. The March has been grinding on for decades, designed to bring us to where we are now.

This why you should strongly consider homeschooling, if it is at all in the realm of possibilities for your family.

The revolution will not be gentle, and the counter-revolution will unleash those same decades of pent up anger upon the little commie larpers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2026 11:46 AM (dK+Kv)

106 He’s said it multiple times and has said the idea of no prisons is stupid. Recently he compared it to a turd in punch bow of ideas.

Posted by: Chaos

Oh, well, he said it. And Bill said he didn't have sexual relations with that woman.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 29, 2026 11:47 AM (DZ9Lv)

107 Not sure why Rand Paul thought it was a good idea to release the email files before the hearing...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (diia5)

Because he knew nothing was going to happen. Why not?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 11:47 AM (2YhKe)

108 Van Jones is and always has been one of them. He's just smart enough not to be saying the quiet part out loud too soon.

He's actually said that he's moved away from some of his more radical positions. Age and experience often do that.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

He explicitly said that being a father is what started to push him away from the radical left.

That's why they hate people having babies. It's why TaySway is now persona non grata. It explains an awful lot, really.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 11:47 AM (AdHga)

109 This is a foreign funded operation.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (viF8m)

A fact distinct from the DNC in what way

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 11:48 AM (3SZh8)

110 Not sure why Rand Paul thought it was a good idea to release the email files before the hearing...
Posted by: weft cut-loop
____

He was still going to plead the 5th, regardless of when they were released.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 29, 2026 11:48 AM (XvL8K)

111 Not sure why Rand Paul thought it was a good idea to release the email files before the hearing...
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Yo show those who read the main street media are stonewalling.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2026 11:48 AM (NnhvP)

112 it is reckless for the entitled Party youngsters to conflate their privileged status with actual power when the Marchers are still the rightful shot-callers.

When you educate people into stupidity, as the Marchers have done, you get stupid people. And not just stupid people, the worst kind of stupid people--stupid people convinced of their own brilliance. (See: Obama, B.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 29, 2026 11:49 AM (CHHv1)

113 But we'll be ready with our guns if they try and take 'em! Unless there's a good football game on...
Posted by: True Conserfatives at July 29, 2026 11:41 AM (qUkBO)

Or if it means giving up that really sweet job. Or having to do things when it's really hot or cold outside.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2026 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)

114 How will they get Democrat Senators to advocate for getting rid of the Senate? They will, but it will be pretty weird. $$$ I expect.

The leftists hate the Senate perhaps more than the Electoral College. First things first, is their mantra I’m sure. They might be getting a bit over their skis.

That’s why Jones is sounding the alarm. Communists, after sll, are just Socialists In A Hurry

Posted by: Common Tater at July 29, 2026 11:50 AM (lNeWt)

115 100 Not sure why Rand Paul thought it was a good idea to release the email files before the hearing...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM

Because he knew Fauci wouldn’t answer anything and he made Fauci look really guilty by pleading the 5th, especially with the pardon. I think it was pretty smart, except that our betters in the MSM did not give it coverage - because they were all in on the Fauci Lionizing Train.

If anyone on the left was capable of original thought, it would be rough right now. Their whole existence is just not real- hating on the mouth breathers is how they felt superior and that just vanished. Luckily for them, they don’t think for themselves so they can remain blissfully ignorant in their blue hair world.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 11:50 AM (Wmg4n)

116 >>A fact distinct from the DNC in what way

Degrees. But clearly the powers that be don't think the DNC is getting things done. And they aren't. As much as we bitch about the GOP, and for good reason, the DNC is a complete failure led be old people who are falling by the wayside.

They clearly have decided to take things to the next level and go full communist.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 11:51 AM (viF8m)

117 *Does any really care what Carville has to say?*

Comic relief.
Even Shakespeare used it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

118 Because he knew Fauci wouldn’t answer anything and he made Fauci look really guilty by pleading the 5th, especially with the pardon. I think it was pretty smart, except that our betters in the MSM did not give it coverage - because they were all in on the Fauci Lionizing Train.

they can't keep a lid on this.

they'll try, but they're already failing.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 29, 2026 11:51 AM (j+aD2)

119 105 The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years on student loans, acquired a certificate for some useless field but no useful work habits and now bitch about oligarchs on platforms built by oligarchs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (O0L8i)

And the unions.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at

Yes! The unions are the original communists. They are insane. Really.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 11:52 AM (Wmg4n)

120 The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years on student loans, acquired a certificate for some useless field but no useful work habits and now bitch about oligarchs on platforms built by oligarchs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (O0L8i)
_______

Depends which working class you are talking about.

The "civil service" working class -- people in government working blue-collar type jobs -- are big on DSA because DSA is basically Very Big Government.

When you work for the government, you want a avaricious, ever-expanding government because that's who pays your salary and gives you raises. DSA is your ticket to that.

The working class that rejects DSA is the same kind of working class that's been gravitating to MAGA: private-sector working class that sees Very Big Government as a threat to their livelihoods and freedoms.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 29, 2026 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

121 In Wisconsin, a DSAer is leading the Dem
Nomination for Governor. You’ll be shocked to hear this but she’s a non-white immigrant who hates everything about America.

Posted by: DC Judges and Juries at July 29, 2026 11:32 AM (81vU3)

And what is she running on?

Let's quote her.

"Abolish the Senate."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 11:52 AM (AdHga)

122 Sure, boss.

@LeadingReport 4m
Sen. Rand Paul intends to hold Fauci in contempt.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 29, 2026 11:52 AM (diia5)

123 Democrats have been pushing white guilt, hatred of producers, hatred of America's past, hatred America's Founders, tribalism, hatred of men, hatred of Christianity etc...etc...to advance their agenda for decades.

Sis they not expect their children to take it all seriously?

Posted by: 29Victor at July 29, 2026 11:53 AM (0MjtC)

124 There is no greater destructive force in the country than the teachers unions.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 29, 2026 11:53 AM (wOO3z)

125 eadingReport 4m
Sen. Rand Paul intends to hold Fauci in contempt.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

As he has pled the 5th, has he refused his pardon as well?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2026 11:54 AM (NnhvP)

126 He’s said it multiple times and has said the idea of no prisons is stupid. Recently he compared it to a turd in punch bow of ideas.

Posted by: Chaos at July 29, 2026 11:43 AM (81vU3)

Doctrinaire communists never lie. I mean, look at Obama, that man always told the truth about everything.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 29, 2026 11:54 AM (rbvCR)

127 119 they can't keep a lid on this.

they'll try, but they're already failing.
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 29, 2026 11:51

Bless you, Elon Musk.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 11:54 AM (Wmg4n)

128 Millennials are not middle-aged. Xerr like my children in the 40s are. Millennials are in their 20s with their useless gender grievance studies degrees.

It ain't gonna happy, yet.

They have to take over 3/4 of the states and do an Article V Convention to gut the existing Constitution.

Nope. Not going to happen yet.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 11:54 AM (qFwJc)

129 Not sure why Rand Paul thought it was a good idea to release the email files before the hearing...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM

Because he knew Fauci wouldn’t answer anything and he made Fauci look really guilty by pleading the 5th, especially with the pardon. I think it was pretty smart, except that our betters in the MSM did not give it coverage - because they were all in on the Fauci Lionizing Train.

If anyone on the left was capable of original thought, it would be rough right now. Their whole existence is just not real- hating on the mouth breathers is how they felt superior and that just vanished. Luckily for them, they don’t think for themselves so they can remain blissfully ignorant in their blue hair world.
Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 11:50 AM (Wmg4n)
________

Agree and I think the whole thing was basically a big dog-and-pony show to embarrass Doogie Houser and break cracks in his armor. Rand Paul is no dummy. He knows that any real punishment for Doogie is wishcasting. But Rand despises this dingleberry -- and rightfully so -- and wants to see him embarrassed and squirming like the worm he is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 29, 2026 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

130 Horde Lawyers:

So he plead the 5th for future crimes not covered by the pardon. But did he put the pardon itself at risk for not answering anything?

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 11:57 AM (Wmg4n)

131 Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle accident.

ugh my heart today.

Flyers journalist (and tangentially cousin of a good friend) Jason Myrtetus just announced his cancer has recurred and is inoperable. He's a young-ish guy. With a family. Outside estimate is 2 years.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 29, 2026 11:57 AM (j+aD2)

132 How many people in the country wanted open borders?

How many wanted rampant widespread election fraud?

What people want and what they get are two very different things.

Yes we got Trump thank God, to roll back a shit ton of other stuff no one seems to have "wanted", but the idea that "well no one wants this stuff" will save us is living in a jazzed up fantasy land.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 11:58 AM (3SZh8)

133 131 I mean I would have to think one of the 6 lawyers he had would not be steering him wrong. Right?

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 11:58 AM (Wmg4n)

134 Yes the Boomers grew out of Marxism thanks to forming families, homeownership, societal trust and good parenting. Do the current arrested development crew have any of these?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 29, 2026 11:58 AM (bX16E)

135
Depends which working class you are talking about.

__________

The second; blue-collar workers. Civil Service drones deserve no pity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:58 AM (O0L8i)

136 Embarrassed and squirming like a worm is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at July 29, 2026 11:58 AM (2Ez/1)

137 just the visual of him sitting there smug with an army of lawyers

I'm sorry you can't out-message THAT

Dems are evil.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 29, 2026 11:58 AM (j+aD2)

138 Yes we got Trump thank God, to roll back a shit ton of other stuff no one seems to have "wanted", but the idea that "well no one wants this stuff" will save us is living in a jazzed up fantasy land.
Posted by: ...

They sheeple may or may not want this shit. Who knows. They'll do whatever it is their overlords command so long as it punishes us. They want us dead.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 29, 2026 12:00 PM (wOO3z)

139 @130 Piper, no the pardon is the pardon for crimes committed between 2014 and 1/25. His taking the Fifth today can be used for a contempt or obstruction charge because he is immune to prosecution for the period in question and can't incriminate himself .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 12:00 PM (BlDDt)

140 The DSA is mainstream Democrat, just more up front with what they really are.

Posted by: steevy at July 29, 2026 12:01 PM (YwEeS)

141 I've been asking for a couple days how it made sense for Fauci to be allowed to fund bio weapons research in China of all places.

I think we are going to get an answer.

>>WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told The Post that a longtime CIA employee will allege an ongoing “deep state” conspiracy to cover up the origins of COVID-19 during a public hearing Wednesday.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3fn8jw

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 12:01 PM (viF8m)

142 If everyone regardless of the exact beliefs and methods, seems to agree that the "DSA" is going to take over a major party - then that leaves only the opposition in question.

And as an opposition party, Republicans have not been living their best life, but once a generation lead by a TV personality.

That means we know two things. Democrats are about to become much more open about being a communist party. And two, if past (and current, looking at you SAVE) performance is an indicator of future success, Republicans aren't gonna put up a whole lot of a fight.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 12:02 PM (3SZh8)

143 The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years on student loans, acquired a certificate for some useless field but no useful work habits and now bitch about oligarchs on platforms built by oligarchs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (O0L8i)

Could you fit that on a bumper sticker?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

144 140 The DSA is mainstream Democrat, just more up front with what they really are.
Posted by: steevy at July 29, 2026 12:01 PM (YwEeS)

Yes... With the exception of getting rid of the Senate they are on board with all of the DSA stuff...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2026 12:03 PM (d5iT3)

145
Could you fit that on a bumper sticker?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

__________

DSA: Democratic Slackers of America

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 12:03 PM (O0L8i)

146 Do the current arrested development crew have any of these?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 29, 2026 11:58 AM

Well, they've got unnatural hair color, full sleeve tattoos, tackle box faces, college debt, useless degrees and Howard Zinn.

Posted by: So they've got that going for them at July 29, 2026 12:04 PM (2Ez/1)

147 143 The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years on student loans, acquired a certificate for some useless field but no useful work habits and now bitch about oligarchs on platforms built by oligarchs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (O0L8i)

Could you fit that on a bumper sticker?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

Get a bigger car.

Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 29, 2026 12:04 PM (2BasP)

148 "Abolish the Senate"

I'd assume there are some current, sitting Democrat Senators who'd not be too happy with that sentiment.

DSA will have to overcome that.

Unless those Senators decide to join in. And that goes for the GOP as well. I'd figure on any number of them joining up with the DSA if meant keeping their cushy job.

Maybe all of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 12:05 PM (jehhT)

149 Nude Fauci.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 29, 2026 12:07 PM (W2Pud)

150 Get a bigger car.

Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 29, 2026 12:04 PM (2BasP)

Likely unpossible, unless I can find a 1970 Lincoln with suicide doors, which I would.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2026 12:07 PM (dK+Kv)

151 Could you fit that on a bumper sticker?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

Socialism is more important than your needs

Posted by: Kindltot at July 29, 2026 12:07 PM (rbvCR)

152 143 The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years on student loans, acquired a certificate for some useless field but no useful work habits and now bitch about oligarchs on platforms built by oligarchs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 11:45 AM (O0L8i)

Could you fit that on a bumper sticker?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

DSA: Unemployable. In debt. Infuriated.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 12:07 PM (AdHga)

153 DSA: Democratic Slackers of America
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 12:03 PM (O0L8i)

Dumbass Slackers of America

Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2026 12:07 PM (Oy/m2)

154 heh. Comey saying he was illegally surveilled by Trump. Oh, that's rich.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 29, 2026 12:08 PM (n5tGW)

155 Nude Fauci.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 29, 2026 12:07 PM (W2Pud)

Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Fauci at July 29, 2026 12:08 PM (dK+Kv)

156 Things are proceeding as we have foreseen.

* wing flaps in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at July 29, 2026 12:08 PM (0sNs1)

157 An excellent post.

I'm old(er) and view Carville as just trying to keep riding high on his War Room persona & antics of yesteryear. He, Bill & Hillary, George Stephanopoulos, many other old American heads still floating around are done governing anything & anyone - unless they're sending big money.

Fetterman is from PA, had young parents who worked for their success. He attended great schools, married a woman who came with her mom & brother to the US illegally, & they now have 3 kids in private school. But ALL in their household routinely interface with 'common' people.

Millennials are a different, crafted species altogether. In institutional power, they may have deeply progressive views on climate change, economic inequality, and social justice, but their methods will shift toward policy, legislation, and bureaucratic management. Much of their political focus may be structural reforms to affordability & family support systems & rewriting internal rules of governance & corporate culture instead of tearing it down.

But their children will also be quite different governing:
👉Generation Alpha: The Radical Trajectory

And a radical Conversion WILL happen, radically.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 29, 2026 12:09 PM (LL19j)

158 What about Barbra Streisand's butt?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 29, 2026 12:10 PM (Cqx++)

159 None of this amounts to a pot of piss because nobody is ready to engage in the level of violence required to shift the tides.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 29, 2026 12:10 PM (3oLiU)

160 I need a clarification on Republicans and not fighting. If you vote republican you are part of the party. Where is it not the obligation of all Republicans to fight?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 12:10 PM (abScH)

161 Fauci got a blanket pardon for things up to the date of the pardon. Put aside the robo-pen issues and assume it's a valid pardon.

Because he has a pardon Fauci can't plead the Fifth so he has to testify truthfully. Paul could set him up with a perjury trap. Or Fauci would need to sing like a canary.

But hold on -- Fauci might argue that Joe's pardon is only for federal crimes so he still has exposure on past crimes and needs the Fifth. This gets into the weeds, and I'm not a criminal lawyer.

Paul's next move is to hold Fauci in criminal contempt and jail him until he testifies. This happens to journalists who are protecting their sources.

I'll take the bet that no judge will interfere in this.

Going to jail is for contempt is Fauci's best move.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 12:11 PM (dtajH)

162 None of this amounts to a pot of piss because nobody is ready to engage in the level of violence required to shift the tides.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 29, 2026 12:10 PM (3oLiU)

That's what I said!!

Posted by: Jay Jones, who wants to kill kids to change minds at July 29, 2026 12:12 PM (AdHga)

163 "The real working class in this country want nothing to do with the DSA. The ones who are attracted are the college grads who partied for four years "

Working Class of all ages outnumber College Grads by 2 to 1.

The big shift is how the Leftists have driven the white working class out of their historic home in the D party. It's why Trump's been elected three times

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 12:18 PM (dtajH)

164 @130

>>So he plead the 5th for future crimes not covered by the pardon. But did he put the pardon itself at risk for not answering anything?

There is no precedent of testing the limits or contours of a Presidential Pardon, so he's under no jeopardy.

But that does not mean the limits of his pardon should not be challenged.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2026 12:35 PM (XV/Pl)

165 Those in this camp believe that the March is not yet done, there is not yet enough control to pursue Conversion

Actually, for some number of them, they think the Conversion is already done. They wanted to halt the train at the last stop. They just wanted to knock down enough of the old to get to that point, then they wanted to get off. These are the people that idiots claim are "red-pilled" because they only want gays and not trans-folk - like JK Rowling. They're still socialists or Progressives, but they didn't want the full Gramscian March. And most of them don't realize that once they get the train going to the stop they desire, it has to keep going - going back to their stop will eventually bring them right back here some time in the future. It has to. That is the purpose of the journey.

Posted by: GWB at July 29, 2026 12:36 PM (kU0PQ)

166 Anyone *stupid* enough to believe in a $30 minimum wage can't be reasoned with.

Or 15. Anyone who has lived longer than that should realize from experience that all you get out of that is the $75 Happy Meal and the $10 can of Coke.

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 29, 2026 12:47 PM (3/XaG)

167 This is excellent. It describes exactly what is going on and what has been going on for the last two generations. We are seeing actual socialists become elected. I also wonder when we'll reach the point they think "time for the Revolution".

Posted by: Rick67 at July 29, 2026 02:52 PM (3dP4i)

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