Democrats are very popular these days among college-educated whites, writes Ruy Teixeira on Substack.The bad news for the party is that such voters constitute a large part of the progressive left, which seems to have less and less in common with the rest of the country.
Mr. Teixeira uses data from Echelon Insights to highlight differences of opinion:
America is not the greatest country in the world vs. America is the greatest country in the world.By 66 percent to 28 percent, strong progressives say America is not the greatest country in the world. By 70-23, Hispanics say the reverse and working class voters as a whole concur by 69-23.
Racism is built into our society, including into its policies and institutions vs. Racism comes from individuals who hold racist views, not from our society and institutions.Strong progressives are very, very sure of America’s systemic racism, endorsing the first statement by an amazing 94-6 margin. But Hispanics disagree, endorsing the second statement that racism comes from individuals by 58-36, as do working class voters by 57-33.
Hard work and determination are no guarantee of success for most people vs. Most people who want to get ahead can make it if they’re willing to work hard.Strong progressives don’t evidence much faith in upper mobility, endorsing the first statement on the questionable efficacy of hard work by 88-12. Hispanic voters, on the other hand, embrace the view that hard-working people are likely to get ahead by 55-39, as do working class voters by 55-40.
Case in point: the reaction of House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., to reporters when asked about the consequences of Joe Manchin squashing efforts to further harm the nation’s economy by passing additional legislation to address the non-existent problem of anthropogenic global warming, aka “climate change”: “We’re all going to die.”
Which begs the question:
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, if you want to meet the people really running our country, catch this absolutely must-see segment of Tucker Carlson Tonight:
Here’s the juice: 2020 wasn’t an election; It was a coup by Progressive politicians and unelected bureaucrats to overthrow America’s government. Frankly, only Trump’s SCOTUS appointments, Darth Bader hanging on to her seat like grim death, Joe Manchin, occasionally Kyrsten Sinema and their own overreach have thus far foiled their plans.
In a related item, The American Spectator‘s Josh Hammer strongly suggests it’s well past the time Americans collectively demanded…
It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to describe just how bad President Joe Biden is at his job. Comparisons to Jimmy Carter are pervasive, but trite — and too flattering to Carter. Perhaps a more apt (and dark) analogy, given how civic strife has reached a fever pitch, is James Buchanan, historians’ typical consensus pick for worst president ever.
Indeed, to fully capture the absolute horror that is this senile near-octogenarian’s presidential swan song would be a Herculean task, better suited for a David McCullough–style biography than a column. But for present purposes, and despite the difficulty of narrowing down from such a vast sample size, consider a few examples from recent months.
In late March, in a combative speech in Warsaw, Biden veered off-script and announced that Russian kingpin Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” There is a sordid history of such meddlesome talk when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, encapsulated by John Bolton’s shockingly candid on-air admission to Jake Tapper this week that he has “helped plan coups d’etat.” Biden, in Poland, thus explicitly called for regime change against the long-standing leader of a nuclear-armed hegemon. As the writer David P. Goldman immediately pointed out, multiple generations of Cold War-era U.S. presidents knew to never so explicitly provoke the Kremlin. The White House immediately — and implausibly — attempted to walk back, and downplay, Biden’s clarion utterance.
In May, for the third time in under a year, the White House similarly had to walk back a Biden claim about the U.S.’ willingness to go to war to defend Taiwan against a possible — perhaps impending — People’s Liberation Army invasion. During a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Biden was asked point-blank if Uncle Sam would defend Taipei if Beijing invaded. Biden answered “yes” — botching the actual commitment the U.S. made in the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, under which the U.S. is merely required to provide prophylactic defensive resources to Taipei, not to actually defend it in the event of an invasion. A mealy-mouthed White House statement tried to walk it back, but the damage was done. Biden had also made virtually identical comments last August and October; turns out the adage about not being able to teach an old dog new tricks is true.
This week, Biden touched down in Israel for the first Middle East trip of his presidency. Upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport, Biden stepped off Air Force One and quickly asked his aides, “What am I doing now?” Shortly thereafter, Biden stumbled his way to a microphone and pronounced his desire to “keep alive the truth and honor of the Holocaust.” The following day, during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Biden alluded to a “list” of preapproved — and presumably friendly — reporters that his team had prepared for him beforehand. This was less than a week after an embarrassing flub back in Washington, when Biden read off a teleprompter, Ron Burgundy–style: “end of quote, repeat the line.” And that was just a few weeks after the president fell off a stationary bicycle.
These are not mere frivolous “gaffes,” the sort of thing one can laugh off. These are horrific misstatements with harrowing diplomatic and geopolitical implications, at best, and indications of a palpable senility, at worst. There is something very, very clearly wrong with the president of the United States. Even the New York Times, which for former Biden boss Barack Obama functioned as Democratic Party Pravda, ran a recent piece entitled, “At 79, Biden Is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency.” A mere three days later, Michelle Goldberg, a reliably progressive columnist for the Gray Lady, entitled her own column “Joe Biden Is Too Old to Be President Again.” (READ MORE: No, No, No. Down With the Biden Ship You Go.)
The fix is clearly in.
The doddering dolt from Delaware currently boasts a 38.7 percent average job approval rating in the oft-cited RealClearPolitics average, placing him a whopping 17.2 percent underwater. That 38.7 percent number is historically low for this juncture of a presidency, in the modern history of opinion polling. Perhaps that abysmal statistic is partially explained by another historic number: the 9.1 percent annualized consumer price index inflation increase last month, itself a four-decade high. And inflation is hitting extremely popular foods very hard: Eggs are up 33.1 percent annually, butter 26.3 percent, and chicken 18.6 percent. Average national gasoline prices are now at an all-time high. Joe Biden, the onetime hardscrabble “working man” from Scranton, Pennsylvania, has overseen catastrophic inflation, disproportionately harming the very lower- and middle-income voters his political party purports to care about.
At this point, with even the Times turning on him, Biden is not going to be the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2024. The only relevant question is whether he should resign right now. He should. Because as dangerous as Kamala Harris would be as president, she would at least be mildly less likely to let her tongue slip us into World War III.
Here’s the juice: If anything, Hammer understated…
…just how bad Biden really is. Fact is, Joe’s so far ahead in the race to be America’s worst President ever it’s not even worth pondering who’s second. More importantly, neither Jimmy Carter nor James Buchanan ever knowingly appointed the mentally ill…
…to positions of importance, let alone oversaw a family criminal cartel…
…which continues selling out the country for Communist cash. Hat tip to Speed for the nausea-inducing photo of the two psychos above.
“Joe Biden was faced with a multiple-choice question about Mohammed bin Salman:
A. Son of a bitch B. Our son of a bitch C. Son of a bitch we don’t really need
President Biden seems to think that the answer is “B,” that the Saudi potentate is a necessary evil — a reliable partner, at least in the short term, in a world distressed by high energy prices that are contributing to (but that are by no means the sole cause of) destructive inflation. That inflation rate in the United States is now just a little bit north of 9 percent, and while Joe Biden is about as sharp as a doorknob these days, the fog isn’t quite thick enough that he doesn’t know how bad all those “double-digit inflation” headlines are going to be for him if the rate ticks up nine-tenths of one percentage point.
…One necessarily makes allowances for necessary evil.
But who is to say that an alliance with the Saudi regime — a groveling alliance at that — is, in fact, necessary?
If you want to make a case for a grand strategy of using the Saudis and the other Gulf Arabs as a cat’s paw against the ambitious ayatollahs in Tehran, then that might be something worth considering; it is, in fact, a strategy that Washington has pursued in a desultory fashion for years, and the Biden administration has, in its halting and tepid way, continued pursuing it, trying to persuade our Gulf allies to work toward more integrated cooperation against the Iranian nuclear threat.
But the Biden administration is not really orchestrating a grand alliance against Iran. President Biden has, in fact, just voiced his personal re-endorsement of the nuclear-weapons agreement negotiated by the Obama administration with Tehran — a deal that empowered the Iranian regime rather than constraining it. In the process, he’s blasted the Trump administration for walking away from the deal, calling the decision a “gigantic mistake.” Joe Biden’s focus is not on the Middle East but on gasoline prices in the United States, one of the most painful expressions of the destructive inflation that threatens the electoral prospects of Biden’s party in this winter’s midterm elections and beyond. Biden had, in fact, promised to isolate the Saudi regime back when he was running for president, and turned tail on that promise only in the face of domestic political pressure. He now hopes to persuade MBS to increase Saudi oil production, being too much of an economic illiterate to appreciate that the Saudis do not actually have much capacity to increase outputand that their doing so would be likely to have only a very small effect on U.S. gasoline prices.
There is a country that has the ability to ramp up petroleum production in a way that would be significant for the United States: the United States.
The United States is, in fact, already the world’s largest petroleum producer. For perspective, if the United States were to increase its oil output by 10 percent, Saudi Arabia would have to increase its output by 28 percent to match the increase — and would have to increase its output by about 35 percent to match the total U.S. output. That’s simple-enough arithmetic: A relatively small change to a bigger industry may have a larger total impact than a relatively large change to a smaller industry.
But the United States also has serious constraints.(All artificial and Progressive-imposed!) It does not have very much “spare capacity” as the industry typically defines it — untapped resources that can be brought online within 30 days and sustained for at least 90 days. And its total refining capacity has been declining for years, for a variety of reasons: Expensive and cumbrous regulations have made some U.S. refineries unprofitable, Democratic talk about eradicating fossil fuels in toto has scared off capital, and subsidies for biofuels have encouraged some refineries to convert to those subsidized fuels in search of better profit margins.
Refining capacity matters because our cars, trucks, and electricity plants do not run on crude oil — they run on refined fuels. What consumers need is not lots of crude oil but lots of gasoline, diesel, heating oil, etc. Consumers also need those refined fuels to be close at hand.The Biden administration and the Obama administration before it have put a boot on the neck of pipeline construction and other infrastructure projects necessary to bring fuel from the places where the refineries are to the places where the people are. So great are the disincentives at play that much of the gasoline produced by Gulf Coast refineries ends up being exported to nearby Mexico: There isn’t enough pipeline to get it efficiently to consumers in the Northeast urban centers, and the Jones Act — a protectionist policy meant to serve the purposes of union bosses and politically connected interest groups that were very big a century ago but no longer quite exist — makes it economically impractical to serve coastal cities by means of tankers.
In the course of his 50-year political career, Joe Biden has made it clear what he believes in: not much, and nothing that is not subject to immediate renegotiation following the slightest shift in the political currents. Biden presents himself as a moderate and centrist, but he is hearing footsteps on his left and is not about to do anything to encourage ramping up petroleum production in Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and other parts of the United States blessed with rich energy supplies — not if doing so puts him at odds with the ideologically narrow environmentalists and the well-connected green-energy grifters who dominate the Democratic Party culturally and financially. The energy endowments of the United States are a gift of nature, and our inability to make full use of them is unnatural — it is artificial scarcity created by bad policy and unrealistic ideology.
It was the regime of Mohammed bin Salman that murdered Jamal Khashoggi and that continues to commit other atrocities. And American green ideologues are, with their imbecilic sentimentality, helping to sharpen his knives.
So really, the right answer is: C. MBS is a son of a bitch we really don’t need. If he appears at the moment to be a necessary evil, it is only because Washington has, through years of bad choices, made him seem like one…”
Here’s a second shot of the juice: The point Williamson makes is America DOESN’T HAVE an energy problem. Any issues with Americans easily accessing dirt-cheap energy are purely the result of perverse Progressive policies promoting their pursuit of perpetual power and profit. Groveling…
…and bowing…
…to backwards Bedouins is simply one of the byproducts.
Turning from pandering Progressives to courageous Conservatives, Best of the Web wonders if we’ve just witnessed…
The resignation of hundreds of Virginia state employees is emerging as a Reagan moment for Governor Youngkin. Like air traffic controllers 40 years ago, Virginia state employees have been reminded that they serve the people — and if they refuse to do so, they’re free to find jobs elsewhere.
On May 5, Mr. Youngkin announced that on July 5, the Old Dominion’s workforce would return to doing their jobs in person, face to face with the citizens who pay their salaries…
Those of us who have learned to stop worrying and love the couch during Covid-19 have two options if our company wants us back in cubicles: market our talents on LinkedIn or start a business and be our own boss.
Three-hundred Virginia employees chose options along those lines when the rules went back into effect. The state soldiers on with a smaller government until those positions need to be filled, if they ever do.
Go Glenn, GO!!!
Then there’s this septet of items specifically selected for inquiring Conservative minds:
Reading this report, two thoughts immediately came to mind: First, “MAY have cost lives“?!? “MAY” our ass!. Second, out of the hundreds, two were primarily responsible for permitting the carnage: The officer responding to multiple reports of shots fired outside the school who had the opportunity to drop this dude, approaching the building decked out in black and carrying…
…and lost it ’cause he requested permission to take the shot; And the inexcusably inept…spelled “c-o-w-a-r-d-l-y”…chief…
…who put the safety of himself and his subordinates above the lives of 4th graders. Sorry, but that just doesn’t hack it in our world.
“A transgender woman incarcerated at a women’s only prison in New Jersey has been moved to another facility after impregnating two female inmates earlier this year, according to a local report.
Demi Minor, 27, was transferred last month from the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adult offenders located in Burlington County, Dan Sperrazza, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Corrections (NJDOC), told NJ.com.
Sperrazza said Minor, who is serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter, is currently the only woman incarcerated at the facility and was placed in the vulnerable unit. He couldn’t comment further on Minor’s housing situation due to NJDOC’s privacy policies, the paper reported…”
We’ll never cease to be amazed anyone trusts the likes of Mr. Minor regarding the truthfulness of his…”transition”. This is akin to Will Thomas, the University of Pennsylvania’s poster child for psychosis, claiming to be a woman, yet in possession of a full set of male genitalia which still reveal his interest in the opposite sex when observing them naked in the locker room.
It’s Romans 1:21-25 friends, it’s Romans 1:21-25.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Tucker details the very curious case of Ray Epps and the January 6 “insurrection”.
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Jesse Watters highlights the perils and hypocrisy of AOC going rogue. This is what happens when an idiot determines her election to Congress somehow imbued her with intelligence she’s never possessed.
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As the hosts observe, the only thing about which Kommielaa is unburdened is an overabundance of grey matter.
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