One week after the blue typhoon, the buyer’s remorse has yet to fully set in. But the euphoria of “sticking it to Trump” will quickly fade as the fever dream voters who cast their ballots for “affordability” begin waking up to the reality.
It will be a painful awakening. Kind of like the closing scene from The Graduate, when Benjamin “rescues” the young bride Elaine from the church. They run from the ceremony and hop a city bus, Benjamin holding Elaine’s wedding gown train as they exuberantly make their way through to the back seat. Their triumph slowly fades into anxiety as they silently process what they’ve just done — and meet the uncertainty of what’s next.
Buyer’s remorse will prove very expensive to those who voted and those who didn’t in this month’s midterm elections.
“I think that, first of all, people are going to realize that they [Democrats] really didn’t offer any actual constructive ideas of how they were going to improve the economy,” George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley told Sean Hannity. “The economy is actually doing very well; it’s gasoline prices that really proved to be horrendous for this election. But the Democrats don’t have much to offer here.”
Actually, the incoming legislative regime has plenty to offer: investigations, impeachments, tax hikes, attacks on law enforcement, gutting the Constitution. What they can’t deliver, of course, is affordability, as they showed following the disastrous 2020 election.
The new radicals are looking to purge the old radicals. An online petition is “urging” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. (the imitation Obama), to leave the race for Speaker of the House in the new Congress. As of Monday evening the petition drive had topped 1 million signatures, according to the Democracynow.org.
“Jeffries has faced mounting opposition over his pro-Israel interests and continued acceptance of corporate PAC money, including from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC,” the leftist site reported. “Several incoming progressive Congressmembers have not yet decided on whether to support Jeffries for House Speaker.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faces the same resistance from the new faces of the far-left Senate. Senators-elect Peggy Flanagan, Troy Jackson, Abdul El-Sayed, Juliana Stratton and Adam Hamilton have said they will not support the nearly 76-year-old Democrat’s return as Majority Leader. Schumer thinks he has enough votes. If the establishment Democrats’ rigging machine is humming like it so often has, he will. But the left’s congressional red-green alliance doesn’t have any room for Jew-supporting Jews, and smells blood in the water.
“Last week’s election sent a clear message: voters want new energy and leadership that’s ready to fight for them. Senate Democrats shouldn’t answer that by handing Chuck Schumer a coronation,” Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of the radical group Indivisible, told Newsweek. “The last two years have shown [Schumer’s] part of an old era of politics that voters just put to rest.”
The train wreck is set.
Between the left’s brutal internecine battles, the witch hunts against their political enemies, and big government spending proposals, the congressional session ahead promises to be brutal for affordability in particular and the 250-year old republic in general.
Still, as bad as it will likely get, it could be worse. To put the brave, new world of leftist rule in perspective, here are some things that are just as bad or worse than the radical reign of terror in the offing.
10. Shigellosis — a sexually transmitted stomach bug that causes, vomiting, stomach pain, and bloody diarrhea.
9. Clicking on a “shirtless” video link featuring Jordon Hudson to learn the horrific truth that it’s a shirtless Bill Belichick standing next to a fully-clothed Jordon Hudson.
8. You could be forced to listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” on repeat between now and Dec. 26. This one’s no picnic either.
7. Catching the bouquet at an Omar family wedding reception.
6. Serving as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s lone pallbearer.
5. Drawing and Quartering. Ye olde brand of capital punishment has fallen out of favor over the last several centuries, perhaps because it is so gruesome. The process includes some intermediary steps. First, the doomed is dragged by horse (the drawing) to the gallows where he is then hanged. But not until dead. You’ve got to save some for the live disemboweling, the burning of the entrails, and then the eventual beheading. The quartering occurred when the lifeless body’s limbs were each tied to a different horse and pulled apart as the steeds galloped in different directions.
The sonic version of drawing and quartering is this.
4. Taking a cross-country road trip with Kamala Harris.
3. Cleaning up after Australian Hyrox world record holder Joanna Wietrzyk after she runs with the runs. Hey, go hard or go home, am I right?
2. Showing up at Abdul El-Sayed’s Muslim Brotherhood halal mixer wearing a “LGBTQ Jews for Jerusalem” T-shirt.
1. Gratuitous Nudity Week on The View.
