Doubling Down On Stupid--Just Because

Yesterday Don Surber ran a fairly interesting post that began with a discussion of Zhou’s disastrous “voting rights” speech in Georgia—a speech so Baidan-esque that Zhou accomplished the seemingly impossible: embarrassing even many Dems. As Surber puts it:

In other words, he delivered the boiler-plate Democrat argument in the 21st century: you stink.

But Biden has been talking shit for as long as I can remember.

The purpose of the speech was supposed to be to pander to a certain constituency, the kind of people who think a vax ID should be required to buy food but no ID should be required to vote. Standard Dem fare. But Zhou—just because he’s Zhou—decided to take the occasion to enrage his political opponents and disgust any fairminded people who heard about it. Surber is of the view that, coming on the apparent collapse of any sort of agenda the Zhou regime could be said to have, this speech could mark the point at which Dems seriously decide that it’s time to remove Zhou. Surber sees the problem as Kama Sutra:

How do Democrats dump Biden and Kamala?

His idea is, if the Dems can somehow remove Kama Sutra and put some plausible new Veep in place, then Zhou can be pushed out, too.

To me, this isn’t a serious scenario. Zhou isn’t about to go anywhere, and even if he were inclined to, Dr. Jill wouldn’t let him. Nor is Kama Sutra going anywhere. Further, if Kama Sutra could be pushed out, that would leave a 50-50 Senate—and zero incentive for the GOP to confirm another Veep. If McConnell stiffed Obama on the Garland SCOTUS nomination, he could stiff anyone he wants on a new Veep. Anyway, contrary to Surber’s view that Obama could somehow get Kama Sutra out, and then talk Zhou out of the White House, my view is that Obama is 1) too lazy to attempt that, and 2) lacks the political capital to accomplish that.

Surber concludes with this observation on what happens if the Dems are unable to pull a rabbit out of the hat they’ve been given:

Otherwise, one and done.

Barring a timely death, that’s exactly what it looks like.

Making matters worse—or better, depending on your point of view—is the indubitable fact, now undeniable after a year of this regime, that Zhou and his keepers will simply continue doing politically stupid things. They seem to think that the rule of holes is some right wing conspiracy theory that they can ignore.

And so we’re told that the grand plan for recovering from an impressive series of fails—crowned by the Georgia debacle—is to double down on stupid by devoting Black History Month to a series of executive orders promoting “police reform”. “Police Reform”, like “Voting Rights”, is a Dem euphemism. Whereas as Voting Rights means ‘federalize elections and empower Dem election fraud,’ Police Reform means ‘favored criminals get out of jail free. This is guaranteed to enrage vast swaths of the citizenry but, Dems being Dems, they don’t get that.

John Hinderaker at Powerline addresses the tone deafness of Dems in his own Blue state with regard to crime, but begins his post by noting that concern about crime is definitely not limited to just a few states:

Across America, citizens are up in arms about rising violent crime. In my own state of Minnesota, polls show that crime is voters’ number one concern. And when they say they want the governor to focus on violent crime, they don’t mean that they want him to encourage more of it.

In my own Blue state of IL, gun sales are the highest in the country by a wide margin—that, in the midst of a huge several year long upsurge in gun buying. That alone tells you about all you need to know about public sentiment. Further, polling shows that concern about crime is a top concern across the board for all demographics, and is behind plummeting Dem ratings among prominent victim groups—such as Asians—and especially among Hispanics. It’s no secret that the crime surge has been empowered by Dem pandering to the BLM movement. However, as Steve Sailer has maintained for years—and as polling confirms—neither Asians nor Hispanics have much sympathy for BLM. Especially not in the context of a violent crime wave.

Nevertheless, we’re being treated to headlines and stories like these at Fox today:

Biden planning executive orders on police reform: report

The move is likely to coincide with Black History Month

Fox News ^ | 1/15/2022 | Andrew Mark Miller

President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to push his police reform agenda via an executive order as early as this month.

The executive actions are still being finalized, according to NBC News, but are expected to be rolled out at the start of Black History Month in February as the administration tries to achieve policy goals leading up to the president’s State of the Union address in March.

Reaction is already negative, especially—and predictably—from police:

Law enforcement skeptical of Biden's 'ill-timed' pivot to executive orders on police reform: 'Not sustainable'

My easy prediction: Not only will this utterly tone deaf move fail to slow the Zhou regime’s slide into oblivion, it may well accelerate it. Impossible though that might seem.

As we got to press—I mean, before pressing the “Publish” button—Surber has a new post that follows on yesterdays: Democrats saying Let's Go Brandon. This time, however, rather than floating far fetched scenarios of regime change in DC, Surber is focused on panic stricken Dems frantically babbling about a “reset”. Except that in the NYT story Surber is working from—Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections—the dead giveaway of the current reality is that, while the title of the NYT story uses the word “reset”, the body only uses that word once. On the other hand, it contains no less than seven variations on the word “fail” to characterize their regime.

No less telling is the fact that the NYT quotes Cheri Bustos, a US Rep from my state of IL, who is responsible for that one use of “reset”:

Representative Cheri Bustos, a Democrat from rural Illinois, said Democrats should consider less ambitious bills that could draw some Republican support to give the party accomplishments it can claim in the midterm elections.

“We really kind of need to reset at this point,” said Ms. Bustos, who is retiring from a district that swung to Donald J. Trump in 2020. “I hope we focus on what we can get done and then focus like crazy on selling it.”

What the NYT doesn’t tell you is that Bustos has been a top Pelosi lieutenant. She is Co-Chair of the House Democratic Steering Committee and, comically, was Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2020 election. Not only was she unable to stem the tide of Dem House losses in 2020, she barely held on—almost certainly thanks to the margin of fraud—to her own seat. In 2018 she had won with 62%, which tells you a lot about the mood of the country outside core liberal metro areas.

Anyway, Surber uses Bustos to make his point about Dems whistling past the graveyard of political hopes, with a bit of humor:

Reset appeared once. Democrat Cheri Bustos said, "We really kind of need to reset at this point. I hope we focus on what we can get done and then focus like crazy on selling it."

Bustos's reset is to leave Congress.

She must figure that voters in her district will be in no mood to tolerate another fraudulent election.