Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Once upon a time, the Democrats' actions may have aligned with the working family

 "...Democrats are the only party fighting for working people like us, fighting to lower the prices of housing, gas, groceries and healthcare."

My phone number was issued to me by a bargain-basement, economy provider. It used to belong to somebody whose cyber-footprint suggests that they are 50 years-old and work as an "an administrative assistant" at a non-profit that exists to employ those with "vision impairment, deaf or hard of hearing, mental health conditions, intellectual disability, acquired brain injury, autism spectrum disorder, physical disability, and specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia or have  experienced other barriers to employment". 

Her on-line footprint lists at least three aliases, possibly to dodge being dunned by debt collectors. I know that when I first got the phone that I got LOTS of messages addressing her and demanding that she call back. I did a reverse look-up and they were debt collectors. I continue to get texts intended for her. Some of them offer subsided health insurance. Some offer to pay her auto insurance.

Recently, I started getting political texts that address her by name. The Democratic party is struggling with budget issues and mass SMS messaging is dirt cheap. The quote at the top of this essay is snipped from one of those messages.

Evaluating the talking points one-by-one: 

  • And just who do you mean by "...working people like us..."? The writer is almost undoubtedly a slacker, "community activist" and probably lives in her mother's basement.
  • Lower the prices of housing? Blue cities have the highest housing prices in the nation. The Green Extremists are trying to cram families into sardine cans and the old, Elites squash new construction to protect the value of the houses they own.
  • Lower the price of gas? Michigan Governor Whitmer's first official act after taking office was to demand that legislature raise Michigan's tax on gas by 45 cents/gallon. They don't care how much people have to pay for fuel. The Green Extremists hate oil and wish gas cost $100 a gallon.
  • Lower the price of food? The Progressives forced farmers to slaughter cattle and chickens over traces of bird flu. Progressives doubled the price of a dozen eggs via "cage free chicken" mandates. Progressives want to outlaw fertilizer.
  • Lower the price of healthcare? Progressives love regulation. Hospitals and small health practices are drowning in over-regulation. The ointment used to treat the rash caused by Shingles costs $700 after rebates. The same type of 4% Lidocaine lotion costs $10 at Walmart or Amazon. Just another case of the Democrats protecting their donation cash-cows.

3 comments:

  1. The commies are serious. They aren't screwing around anymore. They're going for all the marbles here, I think.

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    1. And the problem as I see it is "It's the ECONOMY STUPID" scenario where Epstien's Fury War causes plenty of cheap shots that hit the voters' pockets hard.

      The Presidents party generally does a tad poorly in Midterms. Our idiot war for Israel is making that far worse.

      Normally the wierdo commies get laughs around here.

      Some folks are not laughing as their BS Promises sound less bad than what we're seeing at the Gas Station and Walmart.

      We Kulaks are in trouble.
      Kulak Noun
      a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century the kulaks resisted Stalin's forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.

      Now just add anybody with the ability to "hire labor" to this list, aka as the Socialists call "Da RICH".

      Can you say "Enemies of the people" not today, it's flowers and charming words for them.

      LATER

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    2. Honest messaging would be:

      -Democrats demand tax-payer funded genital mutilation of minors under the title of "Gender Affirming Care".

      -Democrats demand that landlords provide housing at prices less than the cost of debt-service, maintenance and property taxes, thereby ensuring that maintenance will not be done.

      -Democrats demand multi-tiered justice systems where you have no venue for redress if you don't belong to today's most-favored-group.

      -Democrats demand that "pre-crime" be treated more harshly than actual crime. They believe that "thought-crime" is real.

      -Democrats demand the end-of-oil.

      -Democrats demand that every person on earth be given equal claim to US hospitality.

      -Democrats demand that every culture be honored and respected, even though some cultures are measurably inferior to others in terms of economic and justice outcomes. Aztec sacrifices, anybody?

      -Democrats demand that everybody believe that diversity always strengthens us. Obviously, they never attempted to build anything with lumber that did not conform to minimum standards of dimension and straightness.

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