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The Media Desperately Tries To Turn Mediocre Kamala Into A Star
If there’s one indisputable strategic advantage that Democrats possess, it’s that they don’t really have a political party in the traditional sense. They have a cult.
The slogans come down from on high, and overnight, the yard signs go up: “No human is illegal, Black Lives Matter, defund the police,” and so on. They’ll invent quasi-religious explanations for events they don’t understand or don’t want to understand, and then they’ll use the entirety of corporate media and academia to present those explanations as fact. Hurricanes are caused by man-made climate change; therefore we need “environmental justice.” Black people go to prison because of “systemic racism”; therefore we need DEI, and so on. Anyone who dissents is immediately cast out of the collective.
If you want to create a stable, functioning country, this kind of mindless collectivism is obviously counterproductive. But Democrats’ goal isn’t to create a stable or functioning country. Their goal is to mobilize and to win. They don’t have time for internal debates or self-doubt of any kind. They move quickly.
Over the past two days, this machinery has turned into overdrive, following the coup that dethroned Joe Biden. Already, we’re being told by every mouthpiece for the Democrat Party that Kamala Harris is their “presumptive nominee.” She’s locked up all the delegates without earning a single primary vote from an actual voter. And on top of that, the media tells us, Kamala Harris is setting fundraising records left and right.
In fact, she’s raised tens of millions of dollars in just 24 hours via ActBlue, the Democrat Party’s major fundraising platform. Watch:
So this is the biggest online fundraising day that the party has seen in more than 20 years, according to that report. In other words, even Barack Obama in his prime can’t top what Harris just achieved. Sort of like how Biden supposedly got more votes than Obama in 2008, now Harris is already bringing in more cash than Obama. And by the way, since that report has aired, Harris has apparently raised tens of millions more. She clocked in at over $80 million in total donations in 24 hours. Her campaign claimed that nearly 900,000 donors gave money to the campaign on its first day of existence. And the suggestion is that pretty much all of this money is coming from “grassroots” donors, via the ActBlue platform.
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We’re meant to conclude here that all of these “grassroots” donors were holding onto their money until the split second that Joe Biden left the ticket. And immediately, as soon as Joe Biden was out, all of these donors pulled out their credit cards with the intent of giving money to Kamala Harris’ campaign. They didn’t even wait to see if she’d win any delegates or if there would be an open convention. They just donated, straight away.
Suddenly, the candidate who didn’t even make it to the Iowa caucuses when she ran for office in 2020 is now overwhelmingly popular among everyday Democratic Party donors. That’s how big of an albatross Joe Biden was.
What’s not mentioned in that news report — or any of the reports like it — are the many questions that have been raised about how exactly ActBlue collects money.
A year ago, the investigative journalist James O’Keefe looked into the fundraising platform. He spoke to several supposedly “grassroots donors” who, according to ActBlue, have donated a lot of money to political candidates or causes — hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases. O’Keefe also crashed one of ActBlue’s meetings at a hotel in Boston. Here’s what he found:
O’Keefe’s reporting obviously raises the question of whether money from wealthy donors — including potentially foreign donors — is being laundered through supposedly “grassroots” ActBlue donors. In response to O’Keefe’s coverage, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission, “demanding the agency investigate alarming reports of widespread fraudulent donations by ActBlue.” The FEC responded by stating that ActBlue “does not require a card verification value number for online donations,” which increases the risk of fraud. So the idea is that some fraud may have occurred, but no one really knows.
There are some other reasons to doubt the fundraising numbers we’re hearing today. For example, ActBlue has publicly pledged to match “900 percent” of donations to Harris’ campaign in recent days. So at the moment it’s not exactly clear how much money is being rerouted to Harris from ActBlue itself, in the form of “matching donations.” (ActBlue is a vast fundraising apparatus that can allocate money across its various campaigns). What we can be certain of is that there’s very little oversight of fundraising platforms like this, as one Kari Lake adviser, Caroline Wren, just pointed out. Watch:
In a country with a functioning system of elections, we’d have absolute confidence that every ActBlue donation matches up with an actual person, who actually donated that amount. But the truth is we can’t have that confidence after seeing reporting like O’Keefe’s. We’re being lied to so often, by so many sources, that it’s difficult to have confidence in pretty much any aspect of our elections at this point. And that’s especially true in an election like this one, where the coronation of Kamala Harris is so over-the-top and artificial that it’s actually hard to watch.
In the span of about two weeks, the corporate press went from claiming that Joe Biden is totally fine, to full-on pretending that Kamala Harris is the next Barack Obama. Of course, when he ran for president, Obama earned more than 5% support in his home state. He didn’t drop out before the Iowa caucuses. And Barack Obama, for all his many faults, didn’t cackle like a character from “The Wizard of Oz” at every opportunity. Say what you will about Obama, but he actually had something called charisma, and Kamala Harris doesn’t. And up until about 15 seconds ago, everyone in the media acknowledged that. That’s why they fought so hard to keep Biden in the race. But you’re supposed to forget all of that now, because the orders from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Alex Soros have come down. And therefore, now we get cable news segments like this:
As nauseating as that clip is, it’s the norm now. There’s plenty more like it. All across the corporate press, self-described journalists are falling over themselves to pretend Harris is the second coming of their messiah. For example, a “senior reporter” with CNN broke this news over the weekend:
One person familiar with the VP yesterday: Through all her calls at the Naval Observatory, Harris wore a hooded Howard University sweatshirt, workout sweats and sneakers. They got pizza and salad for dinner. She went with her favorite topping: anchovies.
In response to that groundbreaking bit of reporting, a supervising producer with the BBC responded:
The Howard sweatshirt is an important detail here. For Harris, this is about where she came from as much as what lies ahead. Howard is the first place she looks for when Air Force Two lands in Washington.
This is what we can expect for the next three-and-a-half months. After the debate, the corporate press did everything they could to destroy Joe Biden so they could replace him on the ballot. They were vicious. Now that the replacement has arrived, they’re reduced to reporting on what she’s wearing and the kind of pizza she’s eating. They’re completely harmless all of a sudden. This is how the collective operates. They’re ruthless to their enemies. They’re shameless about promoting their allies. Principles like “integrity” or “fairness” simply do not matter to them.
They don’t matter to Democrats on Capitol Hill, either. They’re also convinced they’ve found the next Obama. Here’s one of the more dystopian clips you’ll see. Watch as Chuck Schumer (D-NY) explains that Kamala Harris was chosen by a “bottom-up, grassroots” process — as opposed to, you know, party elites working behind closed doors to oust the candidate who just won 15 million votes in the primaries. And then, when Chuck Schumer is asked by a reporter about this preposterous claim, and he doubles down on it:
The word “gaslighting” is overused, but there’s really no other way to describe this footage. The Democrats’ leader in the Senate — who just a week ago was telling us he supports Joe Biden — now says he supports Kamala Harris. And he’s claiming the voters want her to be the candidate, even though party elites like Chuck Schumer just did everything they could to prevent the voters from having any say in the process of selecting Kamala Harris.
The truth is, Chuck Schumer understands that most voters see Kamala Harris for what she is: A diversity hire who was chosen because Joe Biden insisted on picking a woman, even if she lacked any kind of charisma or accomplishments. The more they tell you that Kamala Harris is some kind of transformational, once-in-a-generation figure, the more they’re revealing that they don’t believe any of it. It’s all an act. They’re protesting too much, as the saying goes. All the astroturfed TikTok videos trying to make Kamala Harris look cool and interesting are just as unconvincing.
And the effort looks all the more ridiculous because Harris is running against Donald Trump, who, like him or not, is one of the most transformational political figures in American history. He’s genuinely a compelling person. And he just had one of the most iconic moments of any public figure in American history, when he survived the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania and then immediately raised his fist in the air, face bloodied, as he told the crowd to “fight.”
But as overt and patronizing as all of this lying may be, the fact remains that it might work. Republicans would be making a grave mistake if they underestimated the potential for Kamala Harris to win the next election. Already, we’ve seen the lengths that Democrats and the corporate press are willing to sink, in order to boost her candidacy. And they keep getting more and more desperate with every passing hour. They’re rolling out every dirty trick in their arsenal, and they aren’t done yet. In fact, now they’re even using the assassination attempt in Butler against Trump.
Last night, The Washington Post reported that the Secret Service is telling Donald Trump that he has to change the way he campaigns:
Secret Service officials encouraged Donald Trump’s campaign to stop scheduling large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big crowds after the assassination attempt on the former president in Butler, Pa., according to people familiar with the matter. … In the aftermath of the shooting, agents from the Secret Service communicated their concerns about large outdoor rallies going forward to Trump campaign advisers. … Trump has held hundreds of outdoor rallies since launching his first presidential bid. … They have become something of a cult favorite among his most passionate fans, with tailgate parties in parking lots, vendors lining open areas near the rally and large parades of traffic, often with gargantuan pickup trucks.
Translation: Because the Secret Service is unable or unwilling to do their job of protecting Donald Trump, they’re going to hamstring one of his campaign’s most important assets. They’re essentially threatening Trump, when you get down to it. They’re saying if he holds another outdoor rally, they can’t protect him.
Supposedly, the Secret Service simply doesn’t have the ability to make sure that 20-year-olds with AR-15’s don’t get into perfect firing positions 140 yards away. It’s just not possible. Therefore, Trump’s whole campaign strategy needs to change. And by the way, there’s no reporting from the Washington Post about Kamala Harris having to hold indoor events. Apparently this request is only for Donald Trump — maybe because he’s the only candidate who can draw large enough audiences to justify these outdoor rallies.
From now until election day, the Trump campaign is going to have to be as disciplined and focused as possible to overcome all of these efforts to undermine Trump and promote his opponent. As I’ve said before, it would be a mistake to hit Kamala from the left, for jailing so-called “low-level” offenders when she was the A.G. of California or whatever. Even playing into her status as a DEI hire shouldn’t be overdone — though it is a fact about her that we should talk about.
The core problem with Kamala Harris is not how she was installed by party elites, or how she handled truancy and marijuana use in California. The core problem with Kamala Harris is that she’s promised to be a rubber-stamp for every single bad idea that so-called “progressives” have had for the past decade — from defunding the police, to decriminalizing illegal immigration, to eliminating private health insurance, to allowing illegal aliens to access taxpayer-funded public healthcare, to passing a Green New Deal, to banning offshore drilling and fracking, to abolishing ICE, to allowing terrorists to vote.
Kamala Harris supported all of these proposals, as terrible as they are, not because she thought about them in any great detail. She can’t think at all. She supports them because, like Joe Biden, she’s listless and completely unprincipled.
If Republicans communicate that simple and obvious fact to voters, then none of the inflated fundraising numbers or corporate media hype will matter. The Democrat collective will be exposed for what it is: ruthless and totally disingenuous. And collectively, in November, they will lose.
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