Kamala’s F____ Rebrand

Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

After blowing through $1.5 billion to lose an election, Kamala is back. And wants to run again. 

“I am not done,” Kamala Harris declared. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones.” The terrible polls won’t be stopping her because “if I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office – and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here.”

Kamala’s previous presidential campaign foundered when she couldn’t explain what the Harris-Walz administration would do differently than the Biden-Harris administration. This time around she can’t explain how she would run any differently in 2028 than she did in 2024.

107 Days, her campaign book, blames everybody and everything else for her defeat, including the Biden team, racism, sexism and only having 107 days in which to figure out who she was.

470 days later and counting, Kamala Harris is still claiming that Biden was “competent to serve” and couldn’t explain what she would have done differently except that we have to “do better”.

The only notable difference a year later is that Kamala has taken to swearing on camera.

The 2024 version of Kamala pitched “joy” while the 2025 one has taken to saying “F__” a lot.

“Are you f_____ kidding me? This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from now!” Kamala ranted on Jon Stewart’s podcast. “I’m not going to be distracted by, ‘Oh, does the guy have a big f_____ hammer!?’ What about those babies?”

While Kamala appeared somewhat inebriated in that podcast, this seems to be her new brand.

On her book tour for 107 Days, she screamed that “to have some level of concern and care, if not basic f____ curiosity for other people” only to have her audience break into wild hoots and applause at the F-word.

“Right. I’m just like, ‘f___ it!'” Kamala showed off on another podcast.

At a Hollywood event about ‘misinformation’, Kamala claimed that “we are living history right now” and then shouted, “these m______” are crazy.”

The old Kamala used word salads, the new Kamala uses obscenity salads. She nerves herself up, shouts an obscenity into the microphone and then starts laughing at her perceived naughtiness, like discussing a sex scene in an Oprah book club, as the audience cheers.

Adding an F___ here or there doesn’t actually make Kamala any more coherent, but it distracts the audience from the senselessness of what she’s saying. The more she swears, the less you notice the random non-swear words that she arranges into a sentence like a broken chatbot.

But the carefully calculated Fs are another symptom of her hollowness. Rather than figuring out how to talk about the issues voters care about, Kamala tinkered with her personality again.

Voters, she has been told, are angry and value authenticity, they’re drawn to outsiders, and Kamala Harris decided to give them authenticity in spades by sounding angry and throwing out occasional curses. “’Oh, does the guy have a big f_____ hammer!?’ What about those babies?”

The voters wanted authenticity, but she misheard that as obscenity.

This is what Kamala was doing during those 107 days. Rather than understanding voters, she went into a hall of mirrors, played with her hair, adjusted her personality and then brought out celebrity guests. When that personality didn’t work, she tried on another one and another one. Elections are a costume party in which she dresses the part in the hopes of getting the job. That’s why we met Kamala the prosecutor, Kamala the social justice advocate, Kamala the wine aunt and Kamala the party girl, the one person we never met and never will is the real Kamala.

And there may not be a real Kamala. While we know there is a real Obama, the one we only occasionally see peeking through the angry cracks in his studied routine, there’s every reason to think that she’s all surface, a living hall of mirrors with no self deeper than the one we see. Kamala can’t relate to voters except by shapeshifting into another ‘relatable’ version. If you don’t like Kamala 3.0, try Kamala 4.0 who drinks on camera and says “F____” sometimes.

And if that one doesn’t work, well there’s at least 1,000 more days to go until 2028.

The new F___ Kamala isn’t any more appealing than the old one, but she is tapping into the fury of her base, the Hillary base, of upper middle class liberal women who hate Trump, but have no real strong political views beyond imitating whatever is popular on their social media feeds.

They instinctively recognize that Kamala, like Hillary, is one of them, having long ago sacrificed any hope for a normal life on the altar of ambition, who also tries to keep up with a pop culture that she’s too old for and who are frustrated that their non-existent talents are never sufficiently recognized after being promoted several levels above their actual competence and usefulness.

Kamala is relatable to them, but to no one else, and to a party whose base is already sliced so microscopically thin that it hardly exists outside of a few downtowns, bedroom communities and college towns, that’s not the best strategy. The only reason that Kamala, like her old peer and rival Gavin Newsom, got anywhere, was the willingness of some very rich people in the Bay Area to fund their ambitions. But $1.5 billion later, the Bank of Kamala is permanently closed.

And so Kamala is angry. The anger is slopped all over 107 Days: a book so toxic that it made a candidate that everyone in her party already hated that much more unelectable because it revealed that she’s not really angry at Trump, but at everyone in the party who didn’t do enough for her. Kamala resents Biden, his inner circle, Obama, and just about everyone in her party.

Democrats hate their party also and that gives them a limited common ground with Kamala. It allows her to go on tour while blaming some nebulous group of insiders for not propping her up and that’s where the relatability falls apart. Dems are angry because they believe that their party didn’t fight hard enough while Kamala is angry that they didn’t pander to her hard enough.

When Kamala shouts “F____”, she’s mirroring their anger, but not the real reason for the anger, and yet she’d like to harness that anger all the way through the primaries and to the nomination.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, even more of a chameleon than Kamala, who got started in politics by watching VHS tapes of Bill Clinton speeches and adopting his mannerisms (right down to chewing his lip during times of emotion) and then adding obvious echoes of Obama and Trump into the mix for a shapeshifting goulash, has now also started trying to sound very angry.

Unusually, Gavin’s got a point.

By 2028, Dem voters will be up to a boiling pitch of fury. Every nominee will be raging, throwing out “F____”s like the vulgarity store was having a Black Friday sale and trying to mirror their rage. Kamala, Newsom, Buttigieg and AOC, their faces red, their fists clenched, their feeds emojied will bestride the stages of New Hampshire and the caucasus of Iowa and scream.

As Joe Biden, who by then may well be dead or institutionalized, once told Obama, “it’s a big F____ deal.”

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Be Careful What You Wish For!

By Rich Kozlovich 

Editor's Note: This is an updated version of an article I published on June 20, 2023 which seems to be even more applicable now. RK

Going into the 2020 election the left, AKA, the Democrat party got what it wanted. Destroy the economy to get Trump.  Prior to this they came after the President with every lunatic claim they could muster to smear and destroy him, but his personal life was an open book, and a not such pretty one at that but everyone who voted for him knew it,  so that didn't work!  Then they tried impeachment, which some are still attempting to pull off, their impeachment claims fell like a ton of manure, and it fell right back on them, and as more information comes out, the manure is falling on a lot more people with the stench reaching very high levels of the Obama administration.

That left the economy.  Unfortunately for them, it was humming along so nicely they couldn't attack Trump on the economy without looking even more insane than before.   But then the nation faced one of the biggest political and scientific scams to hit the nation ever.  The coronavirus scam!  With this scientific fraud they managed to crush the economy and destroy a lot of lives, and waste trillions on their pet schemes, and create a system for voter fraud that would have never floated without the covid scam.  

But as the old saying goes - "be careful what you wish for!"  This all came back to haunt them, and Trump was elected again.

A Machiavellian principle.

Machiavelli's book "The Prince" made some amazingly simple, yet brilliant observations.  He showed the only thing the common people really want.  Security!  People want to be fed, housed, and furthermore, they want to feel secure in their ability to continue to be able to house and feed their families. Democrats have obviously worked hard to take that away from them, and the nation didn't feel secure at all, and that wasn't forgotten at election time.   How much more so will all this Democrat/leftist inspired, promoted, and funded violence impact both the 2026 midterm and the 2028 elections?

When the invertebrates in the Republican party ran McCain and Romney for the presidency, and conservatives stayed home in droves my conservative friends were aghast. I explained to them why.

It was clear these faux conservatives were taking the nation to exactly where the Democrat left was wanting to go, just a bit slower.  The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans was the Democrats wanted to take all your money, all your freedom, and control every aspect of you life, and do it right now.  The Republicans were willing to wait a week or two.  They were all undercover Rockefeller Republicans, just like Richard Nixon.

Conservatives had finally come to two conclusions.

1. They were no longer going to support the Republicans who were not truly conservative.
2. They felt the only way they could change the system was to allow the lunatic left to take over completely. That way the nation could see just how insane and corrupt they really are.

Now that’s happened, the Rockefeller Republicans, RINO's, Main Street Republicans, the Pravda media, and the those suffering from the Trump Derangement Syndrome are swirling the drain, and the alternative media along with MAGA base is in ascension.

There are some areas that will always have large segments of the population that will embrace leftist insanity, and there are states that are totally dominated by the left.  All these states are going to face the consequences of their own leftist dystopian policies.   They wasted trillions of dollars to offset this coronavirus fraud, and now they expect the federal government to bail them out of the unsustainable spending practices that have gone of for decades, like California's railway to nowhere where billions have been spent over these many years and not one mile of rail has been laid.  The federal government isn’t going to bail them out.  

Millions are migrating out of these states, along with many businesses, both small and large, in order to avoid total bankruptcy, all of which is destroying their tax base.  They had the right to do whatever they wanted regarding spending and taxation. The rest of the states have the right to expect them to face the consequences of their actions.

What's more, in five years the 2030 census will be conducted, they could potentially lose up to twenty five seats in the House of Representatives.  Which is why they're fighting so hard to prevent all these illegal migrants from being deported.  And that fight is being conducted through "spontaneous" acts of mass violence,  

It's Schadenfreude time, and in no way do I feel sorry for these people!

Year after year they looked down their noses at conservatives, constantly claiming conservatives were greedy, uncaring, selfish, racists and stupid. But they, the leftist, were pure of heart, righteous and brilliant. In short, they were far better morally and far smarter people with a clear understanding and vision as to how the world should function with all their virtue signaling.   Their problem isn't just their vision, it's the application of that vision, and while history has shown they're always sure, it's also shown they're rarely right. 

Now let them virtue signal themselves out of their mess.   Except for one thing. Those who've been in the forefront of all these leftist schemes are well off, and people with skills. They can afford to move to a state with conservative values and sound economic principles in place in order to avoid facing the consequences of their stupidity, leaving the least able to fend for themselves on their own.

Do I feel sorry for those left in these states who are unable to leave for various reasons? For the most part, No! When you talk to them about these issues they spout the same level of weirdness and low information ignorance as the rest, and they're just as arrogant in their ignorance as the rest.

Being ignorant is the norm, it just means we just don't know, and since there's just so much information about everything in the world, we're all in some state of ignorance. But that's fixable with learning. Stupid on the other hand is different. The stupid are the ignorant who refuse to learn.

Life is hard, but it’s really hard when your stupid, and stupid can’t be fixed. It can only be crushed.

The Upside to the L.A. Riots

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: 

In days gone by the left would throw their hissy fits, burn down whole sections of the cities in which they live and the media would excuse their disgusting behavior, and these invertebrate  politicians, from both parties, would bow to their demands, instead of arresting them, and throwing them in jail... for long periods of time. 

One nitwit in Ferguson was setting fires with Molotov cocktails and decided to burn down the Seven Eleven right near where he lived, and then he discovered he didn't throw it in the Seven Eleven....he threw it into his house.  All upset the called the fire department, who was fighting fires set by dimwits just like him all over the city, and was told there was no one available, and they would get there when they could.

His response?  That was sure evidence of racism in the city fire department.  How can you reason with anyone that mentally retarded, emotionally unsound, philosophically corrupt, and blatantly stupid?  

This riotous insurrection, rebellion, revolution, etc., has done the nation a favor.  It's exposed just how vile the left is, and who is the real base for the Democrat party.  Here's what one writer calls the mascot for the Democrat party.   Does anyone besides me think that's just a bit......to put it as kindly as I can...... bizarre?  Does anyone besides me think she's not the exception among Democrat party members?  Does anyone besides me think this is going to be a huge negative for the Democrats during the 2026 midterms?  

Governor Newsome seems to think the founding fathers would have been thrilled at these rioters burning down the city, attacking the police and destroying property.  And they would have been outraged at the activation of the National Guard to stop it.  He must have missed history classes on those days when they discussed Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. 

Kurt Schlichter in his article today, On the Upside, Gavin Newsom Is Toast, he says:

 

Los Angeles is a burning wasteland where communist agitators and Third World peasant invaders loot and pillage with the tacit approval of California’s Democrat overlords while the regime media describes the chaos as a joyous, peaceful, and spontaneous manifestation of anger at President Trump for daring to enforce duly enacted laws, but there is an upside. Every cloud has a silver lining, and in this case, the silver lines are running through the prissily pampered hairstyle of Governor Gavin Newsom. The best part of all the recent brick-tossing, Mexican flag-waving, and Apple Store-looting is that this ridiculous man now has absolutely zero chance of ever being president.

 

He says Newsome, the Bouffant Buffoon, is an empty suit who took the sewer that was San Francisco and made it worse, turned the Golden State, which was already sliding down hill, and made it worse with:

 

Hordes of ravenous hobos wander California’s streets, littering them with needles and their droppings. Criminals pilfer our stores, invade our homes, and terrify our citizens. Schools teach kids they can switch genders but not how to read. 

 

The productive citizens, along with companies large and small are leaving en masse.   The looters destroyed this LA family-owned jewelry store, which wasn't near the "protests", it was just blatant looting, and the Democrat party is directly responsible for that.   Over thirty three percent of the nations welfare bums live in California because of the gross corruption, incompetence and "coddling of these semi-human savages". 

 

And it isn't just in California, 3 Million Americans are fleeing these leftist controlled "utopian  sanctuary states", over three million in the last four years.  

 

Newsom has an amazing resume, both personal and public, all negative!   Yet this is what he wants to bring to the nation by becoming President of the United States, and somehow he thinks all this is playing into his favor for his run for President.  It ain't, he's toast, and he's not going down the drain by himself.  As the nation sees this playing out, and how it's spreading to other cities, this riot has exposed the Democrat party for the vile and evil entity it is, and he's taking the Democrat party down with him.  Just ask little Chuckie Schumer. 

Election 2028: Democrats Have a Lot of Baggage, Part I

"One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason." - Thomas Sowell

By Rich Kozlovich   

 Democrat theme song for the 2028 election sung to the tune of Perry Como's Let Get Letters song.  

We have baggage, we have baggage, we have loads and loads of baggage. Dear (Nominee to be named) would you be so kind and raise my taxes, bring immigrants who hate me to be my neighbors, increase regulations, end the Constitution, and censor the ones I hate best. 

Michael Moore has been quoted as saying, “I am the center. I am the mainstream now of the Democratic Party”.   So, the Democrat election strategy will be rude, crude, and stupid?  What could possibly go wrong? 

Since Bakke, the experiment has gone horribly wrong. We got riots, we got legalized theft, we got reparations, we got cities burning, we got DEI, we got streets telling us how much BLM. Now we’ve got a lovely new statue in Times Square. And how did Americans of any color prosper from all that? No one did. No one improved, no one produced anything of value, and no recipient of this largess managed to elevate not only their own lives, but the lives of others. Instead the entire tenor of the country got dumbed down and became incompetent. And because it is impossible for some people to change for the better, we got Crockett et al, mouthy, angry, and ready to body slam.  J.C Raines

New York is under the total control of the Democrat party, and New Yorkers are so pleased with their performance, they're fleeing the state and taking $14 billion dollars with them.

 

The black vote was almost monolithic when it came to elections.  All  for the Democrat party, and for years, but now those who voted for Trump are telling Van Jones they'd do it again.  Without reservations. 

 

In California the vote for leftists is automatic, and universal.  In one county:

 

73.2% of Marin voters actually thought that John Kerry was fit to lead the country. In 2008, unsurprisingly Obama won by 77.77 percent, the same percentage that voted for Hillary in 2016. However, in 2020 and 2024—both of which were elections with mail-in ballots only, Marin went stratospherically to the left: Biden got 82% of Marin’s votes in 2020 and Kamala got 80.6% of the votes in 2024............

 

And that's the type of incompetence they're voting for in Marin County.  And what have they discovered.   The Democrats are just as incompetent as conservatives keep saying they are.  Now, they're getting what they deserve....good and hard.  

 

California is is debt for spending vast amounts state Medicaid dollars on homeless housing, and he's not in jail, imagine that, and he's getting support for a run at the Demoncrat nomination for President in 2028.   Apparently he thinks America should look like California, while being the world's fourth largest economy, ....." with a GDP of more than $4.1 trillion, could be on the brink of insolvency."   And Californians haven't figured out these insane policies Newsom promotes are at fault?  But it won't matter, they would vote for these nitwits all over again.   Imagine that!  Schadenfreude.

 

Joe Biden was completely lost for four years, and the Democrats and their myrmidons in the media knew it.   Yet the heaped scorn on anyone who declared otherwise. It was dereliction of duty at the highest level.

 

Anyone with no agenda and half a brain knew the latter and has known since Biden first ran for president. And all indications are that his cancer developed over time. So, where was the Surgeon General for the last four years? Where was the cabinet? What did they know and when did they know it? And who was running the country while Biden was sleepwalking through the presidency?

 

It's impossible for his cabinet not to have recognized his dementia, and one  witnessed what we all saw through what they insisted were our lying eyes.  One Secret Service agent claims Biden would get lost in his White House closet.   

 

....the guy literally stumbling around in the White House residence couldn’t find his way out of his own closet,” Hawley added. “The president of the United States.”

 

This is a scandal greater than anything that happened during Watergate.

 

Reports regarding the state of the economy?  They lied, it turns out the Labor Department claims hundreds of thousands of Biden jobs were fake.  Hundreds of thousands!  It clearly have to have been a coverup by the Labor Department, and the entire Democrat leadership.  

 

They lie constantly.  According to them Trump was Russian puppet and traitor and the Steele dossier was valid.  Kavanaugh was a rapist, Jussie Smollett was lynched, you're children had to be kept out of school for two years to end covid.  Everything they touted about covid and the need for everyone to be vaccinated was either an outright lie, or a misrepresentation of the facts, and you can keep your health plan under Obamacare.  

 

Joe Biden is as sharp as a tack, the economy under his administration was booming, and any increases in your bills is an illusion.   Liz Chaney was a paragon of integrity rising above politics,  and Republicans are weird, because America needs as many illegal immigrants as possible, and if you disagree you're a bigot.   Trade with China is good because it keep their slaves-labor factories open. 

 

Alternative energy is settled science, cutting government waste and fraud is a danger to "our democracy, and any flaws in America's education system can be fixed by pouring more money into the teacher's coffers.  The Deep State is apolitical, and there's no white genocide taking place in South Africa.   Here's the complete list offered by Charlton Allen, it's not "nearly exhaustive."  

 

Four years of scandal, tyranny, and disaster.  COVID Mandates, mass illegal immigration, wasted trillions of programs that were bound to fail, but make their cronies rich, ignoring the law in favor of "social justice", and a broad embrace of DEI over competence, and the consequences for this will never be totally overcome any more than the consequences of the stupidity of the Nixon and Carter years. 

 

Halfwits, nitwits, misfits, dipsticks, and meritless pinheads.  

A vile cesspool of destructive self interested corruption.

Democrats, Republicans, the Media, and The 2026/2028 Elections.

By Rich Kozlovich 

When push comes to shove the Democrats always march in lockstep, and assume ramming  speeds on their issues.   Historically the Republican’s would go all wiggly and then cave.  They don't fight, and one of the reasons why is getting a solid consensuses among Republican politicians is like herding cats. 

Normal Americans have been abandoned by the party and I really don't know what many of them, like Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, and others of that ilk actually stand for, all of whom I think can easily be classified as the McCain Cabal.  Whatever is the driving force behind their actions, conservatism isn't the foundational values they embrace.

For the most part Republican's haven't really been conservatives, they talk the talk to get elected, and once that happens the fail to walk the talk.  They've been invertebrates who gutlessly go along in order to avoid being attacked, and the reason why is they're clueless and unable to intellectually defend conservative positions, and would do almost anything to avoid being attacked by the media. ... until now.   Truth be told, the real honey badgers of the Republican party have been the women.  Now the men are finding out it's really cool to be tough, smart, challenging the left, including the media, who they feared like death itself in the past.  

But the times are a changing as the Pravda media has not been all that hot on history, facts, or truth, especially where it’s in conflict with their political prejudices, and now is circling down the drain, and some will be out of business soon.  The alternative media is ascendant!  Now the lies, corruption, and truth be told, the treason of the left is no longer being hidden behind the arrogant sneers and smirks of the Pravda media.  Transparency is ascendant, truth is ascendant, guts is ascendant, and glory follows guts. 

Here’s the way I see it now. In 1963 the Congressional Record published the 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America. Goal number 15 was, “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States”.  They captured one party in it’s entirely, and the other among the leadership, but that leadership is changing. 

About 15 years ago or so…. probably closer to 20… they did a breakdown of the make up of the Republican party. Approximately 35 percent were Rockefeller Republicans, mostly the North Eastern leadership, 5 percent were Ron Paul Republicans and 60 percent were Reagan Republicans. But that’s changing as the leftist Rockefeller Republicans numbers have diminished dramatically, the Ron Paul Republicans are blending with the Reagan Republicans. 

So, let the Republicans fight it out among themselves until the Thom Tillis faction becomes extinct, and let the Democrats stay true to who they are, and watch them dwindle in numbers. The may vote in lockstep, but they have no leader, they have no agenda except for hidden agendas they dare not publish, and they have no solutions.  

Here's their agenda that's known by their actions.   Attacking Jews on American campuses, destroy Israel, uncontrolled immigration, promoting transgender athletes, promoting the murder of the innocent unborn, carving out special privileges for select groups, attacking Christians, and unrestrained spending and borrowing, their entire election strategy for 2026 and 2028 is to attack Trump, use a corrupt judiciary to thwart his efforts to save the nation economically, socially, domestically, and internationally, and be rude, crude, stupid, and violent.  With AOC and Jasmine Crockett being the current voices of the party, what could possibly go wrong? 

If You Think the GOP Is Screwed Up, Check Out the Democrats - You may feel terrible about being a member of the Republican Party because it’s the stupidest party in American politics until you remember that the Democrat Party exists – and no, the Libertarian Party is not actually a party; it’s the motley crew of pot-addled sophomores holding forth in the dorm suite common area at 2 a.m. of American politics.  

For all the failures, foibles, and follies of the inept GOP, the current Democrat Party is much, much worse off. I mean, just look at them. They’re treading water in a swamp of narcissistic mediocrity, abandoned by former allies like the working class, controlled by over-credentialed echo-chamber neurotics, and in thrall to a coalition of sexually confused neo-Marxist weirdos, losers, and mutations............

There Is Nothing Democrats Will Not Ruin - Is there a place in the country better off because Democrats have control over the local or state government? I mean, I guess if your hobby is getting pregnant so you can have an abortion, living in Chicago or Boston is a plus, but not if you’re a fan of things like not being robbed or shot. Otherwise, only slumlords and progressive “organizers” thrive in a world controlled by the left. And if you want to get your kid an education, forget about it. There is nothing Democrats can’t ruin, and there is nothing even potentially good they will not ruin.............

Anybody notice what's happened to San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf?-  It's well known that San Francisco is a urban disaster area, what with malls moving out, hotels shutting doors, conventions moving to other cities, thieves looting retailers with impunity, little shops fleeing, and entire districts full of homeless drug addicts looking like Dante's seventh circle of Hell.  But has anyone asked what's going on at Fisherman's Wharf, the city's most famous tourist destination? Sure, it's known as a tourist trap. But everyone likes to try its famous Italian and seafood restaurants at least once. Now it's a ghost town:..........

No sane person can believe those who are making noise to become the 2028 Democrat nominee: Cory Booker, AOC, Pete Buttigieg, Rahm Emanuel, Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett, Josh Shapiro, Andy Beshear, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, and now it appears Beto O’Rourke is making noise for the nomination, can push their party back into control of the Congress or the White House. At least not without voter fraud on a massive scale, at which they’ve been expert.

My prediction for their 2028 nominee?  As of right now, I think Rahm Emanuel has the best shot.   

Several Democrats Already Lining Up for 2028

It’s never too early to start preparing for a herculean task. 

By Tim Donner | May 15, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Even though the 2028 presidential election is more than three years away, the contours of the Democratic competition to succeed President Donald Trump are already beginning to take shape. Of course, the outcome of the 2026 midterms will have a significant bearing on how the race for the White House is ultimately framed, but in politics, it is never too early for Democratic politicians to begin planning for the herculean task of running a 50-state campaign.

If Trump winds up with what most agree is a successful second term, will the left try to look for a candidate who can emulate the most broadly appealing policies of the outgoing president while disengaging from core Democratic issues? If Trump’s approval is low as he prepares to leave office, will the Democratic Party base its campaign on doing what it has already done three times, namely, vilifying the MAGA agenda no matter who ends up as the Republican opponent? To what degree will the approaches of various Democrats depend on the identity of the next Republican nominee? For example, if it’s JD Vance, the focus might be on whether the country really desires a third exhausting go-round with MAGA. If it’s a popular sitting or former governor, like Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin, or a prominent senator such as Tom Cotton of Arkansas, it may require different strategies and tactics.

“The energy that people are feeling now and the demand that Democrats are trying to meet for voters may not be the same demand in four years,” Democratic strategist Dan Kannien told The Hill.

Casting a Wide Net

It is not difficult to determine which politicians are testing the waters for a presidential run by looking at the travel schedules of prospective candidates. At the same time, many of those with an interest in the highest office in the land will likely conclude that such an ambition is out of their reach. The field of potential candidates will be winnowed out as presidential wannabes conduct their own polling about the viability of their candidacies.

The fault lines are already developing between hard-core leftists, traditional liberals, and moderate factions within the party. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose presidential ambitions have been particularly transparent, is trying desperately to posture as more of a moderate than his thoroughly progressive record would indicate. Much like Joe Biden’s sudden transformation on open borders as the 2024 election approached, Newsom has now announced a crackdown on the Golden State’s widespread homelessness, a problem routinely attributed to his governance.

On the unapologetic far left sits Illinois’ full-figured Gov. JB Pritzker, who has been spoiling for fights with Trump since the 2024 election as he defends, seemingly to the death, the rights of illegal immigrants. From the safety of his reliably blue state – though it provided Kamala Harris a shockingly small 5% margin of victory – Pritzker has called for “mass protests, mobilization, and disruption” against the Trump administration, bellowing that “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.” He is putting all his progressive eggs in the basket of radical opposition to Trump and his allies.

Among more traditional liberals, Gretchen Whitmer, the highly attractive two-term governor of Michigan, has taken the opposite approach to Pritzker. She even visited Trump in the Oval Office, an unthinkable act to the progressive left. And when the president visited the Wolverine State in April, she greeted Trump with a hug, shared the stage with him, and worked with him to secure funding for an Air National Guard base in her state.

Pete Buttigieg, the silver-tongued transportation secretary under Biden and first openly gay presidential candidate, appeared before a crowd of more than 1,000 people in Iowa – the site of the first primary contest – on May 13 and offered up relatively vague criticism of the president: “We are being tested on nothing less than whether the United States of America is in fact the freedom-loving people that we believe and know ourselves to be.” Not sure what exactly that means, but it sounds good. In saying the Democratic Party needed to offer more than just opposition to Trump, he added that “we need to be in touch with our first principles, what we would be doing if we were in charge.”

Yes, There Are Some Moderate Democrats

In the relatively moderate wing of the party sit two governors, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Andy Beshear of Kentucky. Shapiro was thought in many circles to be the ideal running mate for Harris but was passed over in what many speculated was a bow to anti-Israel sentiment among progressives. At least on paper, Beshear has been the most impressive of rising Democrats by virtue of twice being elected in ruby-red Kentucky, where Trump won by 30 points in the last election.

Another moderate testing the waters is Ruben Gallego, a newly elected senator from Arizona, who recently visited the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. The fact that Gallego has appeared on Fox News with a balanced, bipartisan view on immigration indicates he is out to win over centrist voters from both parties.

Kick Back and Ditch the Matrix

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, projected in some Democratic circles to be a follow-on to Barack Obama, has said he will not run for president in the next cycle. Yet earlier this month, he delivered the commencement address at Lincoln University, a historically black university in Pennsylvania, and is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the South Carolina Democratic Party’s prestigious Blue Palmetto Dinner on May 30.

Then there is Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, who crisscrossed the nation in March, evidently testing the waters for 2028. Walz did himself no favors during the 2024 campaign, fibbing about his background, trying too hard to project masculinity, and often appearing frenetic.

Of course, no list of presidential hopefuls would be complete without Bernie Sanders, but the peripatetic Democratic Socialist will turn 87 years old in 2028. And after their experience with Biden, it seems the last thing some Democrats would go for is another octogenarian. Plus, the party already ran Bernie off in 2016 and 2020, fearing he was too far to the left to win a general election.

As the old song goes, “It’s a long way to Tipperary.” No one yet has an inside line on which Democrat will rise up and meet the moment. It could be a progressive, an old-time liberal, or a moderate. But much will rest on the record of Trump, who will not be on the ballot in 2028 for the first time in a dozen years. In that sense, Republican politics will likely play an outsized role in who the Democratic Party selects as its next presidential standard-bearer.

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And You're Suggestion Is?

By Rich Kozlovich

Over recent months were seeing what's become an obsession with leftists, Democrats, RINO's, and the weak minded criticizing everything Trump says and does, and truthfully, I think he likes it as it gives him the opportunity to snark them. 

One of the unending memes among the Trump Dementia Syndrome crowd is how he's vile because he's been too accommodating to Putin who has been killing women and children in his attacks on Ukraine, in his efforts to get a peace plan put in place.  Yet, I think Zelenskyy got what he deserved, and everyone knows what a vile man Putin is, and everyone also knows he’s a reality that must be dealt with.  These critics never answer how he should be handled.  

But it really doesn't seem to matter what the subject is, the pattern's the same.  They claim his tariffs are going to destroy America, in spite of the fact all these nations are doing exactly what Putin said they would do.  Come to him wagging their tails to Trump, and headline after headline bears this out.

I’m not a knee jerk approver of Trump, which I find to be true among my conservative friends.  I think the Canada thing is insane, I think the Gulf of Mexico thing is foolish, yet how can anyone not recognize what he's accomplished, in both terms, but nothing like he has this term. These critics suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and that can’t be qualified as anything less than a mental disorder.

I've seen someone call Trump's cabinet a bunch of lemmings, toadies, yes men, sycophants, and mouth pieces for Trump, and I have to ask why?  Is he supposed to have picked those who agree with him or disagree with him?  Is he supposed to pick those who are philosophically opposed to his agenda, backstabbing him at every turn, or should he have picked believers in his agenda?  That was a failure from his first term he wasn't going to repeat again.   

The cabinet isn't an advisory board, they're hired help, and while it's their job to give their views on the agenda, once the President makes a decision, it's their job to salute and say yes sir, carry out his orders, or find other employment. 

Trump isn’t damaging America’s standing in the world, he’s repairing the damage of the Obama/Biden administrations by slapping them upside the head and letting them know there’s a new sheriff in town and they better get their acts together or else, and they are.   And truth be told, I don’t care what the rest of the world thinks, as they’re either enemies, leaky vessels as allies, or leeches, and we owe them … Nothing!

The western world's leaders are divided into three groups. The Winston Churchill’s, the Neville Chamberlain’s, and the Vidkun Quisling's, who are traitors that blend in well with the go along to get along crowd.  Everyone loves the Chamberlain’s, they’re go along to get along guys.  Everyone hates the Churchill’s, who just can’t seem to get along. At least until the go along to get along crowd’s failure to deal with what’s going wrong hits the fan.  Then, all of a sudden, they discover they need a Winston Churchill to be the answer, and they hate it, and they hate him. 

And no matter how successful a Churchill may be, they just can’t stop shooting arrows at the Churchill’s. Why? He’s not one of them, and that’s the only thing they’re any good at, criticism, not problem solving.  The Democrat party, epitomizes the Chamberlain/Quisling philosophical paradigm.  

Go along to get along elitism is a human physiological disorder that’s been ubiquitous throughout human history, and it’s always going to be with us.  Most leaders aren’t leaders, they’re managers who organize the direction everyone wants to go, no matter how foolish that direction may be. 

A real leader is willing to stand up and say: You’re all wrong, and I’m gonna tell you why.  And if they’re successful, they’re hated all the more.  So, that brings me to this.

1. Is there anyone else in American politics that could bring all these nations wagging their tails to cut good deals?
2. Is there any American politician who would have cut into the Deep State as Trump has?
3. Is there any American politician who would have taken such a strong stand against illegal immigration and deportation?
4. Is there any America politician who would challenge the corrupt out of control federal judiciary?
5. Is there any American politician who would have taken on public and higher education for a major fix?
6. Is there any other America politician who would have managed to cut billion of dollars in wasted and corrupt spending as he has? 

And that’s the tip of the iceberg as in this article by Andrea Widburg points out, and all done in less than four months.  If so, please tell us who it is. As it is, there are three choices.

1. Democrats who are blatantly insane like Cory Booker, AOC, Buttigieg, Rahm Emanuel, Kamala, Jasmine Crockett, Josh Shapiro, J.B. Pritzker or Andy Beshear, who are all now testing the water to see how hot it is.
2. RINOs, who are almost as insane, none of whom are even thinking of running in 2028.
3. Or, a false conservative who will buckle at the first sign of trouble, and I don't see any of them willing to put themselves into that meat grinder, as they know they can't survive a history search from the alternative media. 

So, I'm asking these mentally and intellectually challenged TDS patients to name who they think is best qualified to lead America to social, economic, and international stability.  Oh, wait, I know. Karl Marx!

With Cory Booker or AOC, Will Dems Cross the Rubicon in 2028?

One thing seems increasingly likely: Democrats have no plans to move toward the center. 

By Graham J Noble | Apr 20, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Although the latest media buzz suggests Kamala Harris is losing her grip on presidential nominee prospects for 2028, no one should count her out. There are those within Democratic circles who believe the party will be unable to sideline her despite the disastrous (but “flawless,” according to some) 2024 campaign. Still, Harris enjoys only a narrow lead over three other progressive Democrats in a recent poll of voters likely to participate in the 2028 presidential primaries. Former Transportation Director Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have emerged as strong contenders, but another potential competitor is also very much in the mix. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is not ruling out a 2028 White House bid and is polling competitively with the other three top “maybe” candidates.

The progressive publication Zeteo, in collaboration with Data for Progress, recently published a survey of likely Democratic primary voters that gauges the 2028 field of Democrats. Harris is a maybe since she is considering running for governor of California, the primary election for which will take place in June of 2026.

When included in the list of potential candidates, Harris leads with 18%, with Buttigieg at 14%, and both Ocasio-Cortez and Cory Booker tying for third at 12%. Without Harris, the pecking order is Buttigieg (17%), plus Cory Booker and AOC tied at 14%. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz round out the top five at 10% and 7%, respectively.

Four additional Democrats whose names are often mentioned in conversations about the next presidential election are all adrift in the single digits. They are all state governors. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania came in at 6% in the survey. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and the fabulously wealthy governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, were favored by just 4% of likely primary voters, while Kentucky’s chief executive, Andy Beshear, received only 2% support.

Cory Booker Eyeing the White House?

Sen. Cory Booker, who these days seems to be in the habit of making statements that bear no resemblance to reality, says he’s focused on his 2026 re-election bid. He hasn’t closed the door on a 2028 campaign, though.

A mid-April Echelon Insights poll has Booker at 11%, behind Harris at 28%. Buttigieg and Ocasio-Cortez tie for third place with 7%. But this poll is more encouraging for Cory Booker – who gained nine points since the same poll in March – than it is for Kamala Harris, who lost five points since the last survey.

Booker’s polling bump appears to be a reward for his recent 25-hour filibuster on the Senate floor. The stunt was almost entirely dedicated to ranting wildly about Donald Trump and the much-touted but as yet unsubstantiated “threat to Democracy.”

Elected Democrats have not yet figured out what the rest of America – probably including most Democratic voters – have known for some time: If your entire platform is dedicated to smearing one person and hoping the people will hand power over to you based on nothing more than how much they have been convinced to hate and fear that specific person, you have a problem. Cory Booker appears to be entirely consumed by his disdain for President Trump. Like all his fellow 2028 Democratic potentials, however, Booker has offered nothing in the way of positive, constructive policy.

In 2028, focusing on that one man, who will not even be on the presidential ballot, is a losing strategy. In fact, once the 2026 midterms are over – unless Democrats win control of the House – Trump-bashing will no longer be a viable campaign strategy at all.

According to an April 17 Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics/The Hill poll, 31% of California’s likely voters would pick Harris, the Golden State’s former attorney general. That might be a tempting prospect for Harris when measured against her realistic chances of becoming the next president of the United States.

No More Room for Moderates

All the leading Democratic candidates share a common dedication to the same radical progressive agenda that American voters roundly rejected in 2024. The party is showing no signs of considering a move back to the center. On the contrary, as things presently stand, in April of 2025, it appears the Democratic Party will field the furthest-left presidential candidate in its history, three and a half years from now. That holds true whether the eventual nominee is Harris, Booker, AOC, or Buttigieg.

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There’s a long way to go yet, and perhaps a lot of Democratic voters are hoping that someone will emerge from right field to steer the party back to rationality.

Now, a handful of prominent Democrats have chosen a new hill to die on: the return to the US of an MS-13 gang member and suspected domestic abuser who was recently deported to El Salvador. That they would dedicate themselves so firmly to bringing back a deported illegal alien with known ties to one of the most vicious gangs in the Western hemisphere – a man whose American wife applied for a restraining order against him – shows just how far the party has fallen.

Not only are these Democrats entirely adrift from the sentiments of most Americans, but they are now interfering in the domestic policy of a foreign country. The spectacle of it is jaw-dropping. And Cory Booker is now all in on this outrageous attempt to bully the government of El Salvador into freeing an El Salvadoran citizen from prison and sending him to a country he has no authorization to enter.

The former illegal alien in question, Kilmar Ábrego García, is now outside the jurisdiction of any US court. Nevertheless, Booker intends to travel to El Salvador to lobby for García’s return. It’s all about the publicity, of course, since neither Cory Booker, the US Supreme Court, nor President Trump himself has the authority to demand García be sent to America.

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By bestowing the 2028 presidential nomination on any of their current leading candidates, Democrats could be crossing the Rubicon. History shows that no political movement or party survives a romance with extremism to move back to the mainstream. Sometime before the start of the presidential primary season, Democrats have what could be, for their party, a life-or-death decision to make.

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My Gazette, Kamala Harris

By Rich Kozlovich Tags: My Kamala Harris file,

 Let's talk about Kamala.  Normally you would think anyone who performed as badly as she did in the 2024 election would be political burnt toast.  But, this is the Democrat party, a party of radicals who are the best weapon for the Republicans when they're talking.   And they have a ton of baggage to carry into the next election.  Why?  Because they claim they didn't lose because of their views and policies.  Nooooo, they lost because Americans are so stupid they didn't understand what they stood for.  Not to mention America is filled with a bunch of misogynist racists, Nazis, homophobes, and xenophobes.  So, they're doubling down on everything.

 America is not a sinful racist mess, but a great experiment as the only multiracial, self-reflecting, and self-critical democracy in history that did not—yet—descend into tribal chaos and violence. - Victor Davis Hanson

Kamala's campaign took in one billion dollars and ended up $20 million in debt, spending a million to get Oprah to appear with her, with LaBron only getting a piddling $50,000 for his sham endorsement.   Just who America needs to run the economy.  Right?  An incompetent political hack, who has been begging donors for cash.  

As for future funding for the whomever they Democrats pick, they have a massive corruption/legal problem with ActBlue.  How that plays out is yet unknown, but someone is going to jail over all this, who it will be and how far this investigation goes will be interesting to watch.

Let's start with her performance during the 2024 campaign, one where she was so unpopular in her own state she never lasted to the first primary.  Below are 36 reminders of who Kamala Harris was, who she is, it's who she will be in 2028.  And according to Joe Biden, she was a major player in all that went on during his administration.  Wow!  Now there's an endorsement for you.

1. Kamala Harris' Attempt to Pander to Male Voters on Late Night TV Goes Over Like a Lead Balloon 
2. Dems Will Not Like What an Ex-MSNBC Political Analyst Just Said About the 2024 Race 
3. Dem Strategist Rips Apart Kamala's 2024 Message
4. Kamala’s ‘Charm’ Blitzkrieg Fails Miserably
5. Kamala's Attempt to Look Like a Crisis Manager Just Imploded
6. Breathtaking: Kamala Just Cut Trump's Closing Campaign Ad for Him 
7. Kamala Did Not Just Say That on The Weather Channel 
8. Even This Liberal Reporter Called Kamala's Colbert Interview 'Painful'
9. Kamala's North Carolina Lie
10.  Breathtaking: Kamala Just Cut Trump's Closing Campaign Ad for Him
11. 'Absolute Nightmare': New Polling Out of Michigan Has Arrived
12.  Are We Shocked About This Damning Internal Poll for Kamala?
13. How Romney Just Delivered a 'Blow' to Harris' Campaign 
14.  JD Vance: This Is How I Knew the VP Debate Went So Well
15.  Wait, Trump Is Beating Kamala...With Arab Americans?
16. Kamala Harris' '60 Minutes' Interview Was Worse Than CBS News Wants to Let
17. Kamala Just Gave the Wrong Answer on 'The View'
18. Kamala's Latest Atrocious Border Crisis Answer
19. Kamala’s ‘Charm’ Blitzkrieg Fails Miserably
20. Dem Strategist Rips Apart Kamala's 2024 Message
21. Kamala anchors herself to Biden policies that voters hate
22. Kamala Harris on What She Would Do Different from Biden: ‘There Is Not a Thing that Comes to Mind’
23.  Strikeout: Fails to Show How She Would Be ‘Change Candidate’ in 3 Straight Interview
24. Kamala Implodes During CBS News Interview 
25.  60 Minutes Edits Harris to Make Her Sound Intelligent
26.  Falsely Claims She Was ‘Elected’ in Primary
27. Kamala’s Worst Interview Yet: Bombs on 60 Minutes
28. 60 Minutes ‘Train Wreck’: Lies, Rambling, Word Salad 
29. Whiplash: Now She Positions Herself as Joe Biden’s 2nd Term
30. Incoherent on Ukraine War
31. Kamala Harris is good for nothing
32. Trump has a stellar economic record, Kamala Harris has an execrable one. So why are voters mixing them up?
33.  Saboteur: Joe Biden sings Kamala’s praise, calls her a ‘major player’ in everything he’s done as president
34. Takeaways From Harris' 60 Minutes Interview
35. ‘Explains’ Retreat from Far-Left Policies with Word Salad
36. ‘Illiterate’ Harris Mocked as ‘Dumbest Candidate’

 Before and during the campaign she was disrespected, even by many in her own party.

1. Honey ... You SUCK at This: Kamala Feigns Sincerity, Importance in Staged Call to Florida Mayor
2. How Biden Responded When Asked Whether DeSantis Should Take Kamala's Calls
3. Sore Loser: Humiliated Mark Cuban Deletes Pro-Kamala Tweets
4. The Morning Briefing: This Biden Guy Doesn't Seem to Be a Big Kamala Harris Fan
5.  Joe Biden Keeps Wrecking Kamala's Media Days
6. Bitter Joe is undercutting Kamala
7.  Joe Biden Keeps Wrecking Kamala's Media Days 
8. 'Total Humiliation': Based on This Report, Kamala Expected Firefighters Union Endorsement  
9. Oops: Jim Cantore Inadvertently Sinks Kamala's 'Selfish' Ron DeSantis Narrative in Five Seconds Flat
10. So I'm not the only man who doesn't get Kamala

As Salvatore Babone noted:  Simply put: no one likes Kamala Harris. No one even feels bad for not liking her.

No matter who the Democrats run in the midterms in 2026 and the Presidential election in 2028, they will have some very real baggage to overcome.  Especially since they don't see all they've done that's been an abject failure, and have decided they're going to double down on those policies, schemes, and machinations.   

Of course in California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington, just to mention a few states they're destroying, where the citizens seem to like the social disaster, high taxes, and no real law enforcement going on in their lives so they'll keep supporting their own destruction.

1. So Now Haitian Migrants Are 'Chopping Up' Animals In Springfield, OH
2. Biden Defense Secretary Fumed Over Israel’s Assassination of Hezbollah Leader
3. Democrat Candidate in Crucial Swing District Supports Amnesty for Millions of Illegal Aliens
4. New Massachusetts Gun Control Law Still Faces Opposition
5.  CBS News Busted for Editing Kamala's '60 Minutes' Interview
6. Biden Takes a Blowtorch to Obama in New Book
7. CBS News Has a Scandal on Their Hands
8. How FEMA Has Turned Into a DEI Disaster
9. Flashback: Here's What FEMA Officials Said About Faith Organizations Helping Illegal Alien
10. A Reminder of Biden's Disastrous 'Vetting' of Afghans 
11. Walz Thinks the Electoral College 'Needs to Go.' Here's What the Harris Campaign Had to Say About That.
12.   High School Students in This Blue State Will Stage a Walkout to Protest Trans Students in Women's Sports.
13.  What's wrong with equality of outcome?
14.  The opposite of truth is not just lies, it is chaos 
15. Problem-solving, from bums to bucks
16.  Group of Illegal Immigrants Tie Up, Assault Woman in Affluent Neighborhood As They Rob Her Home  
17. Kamala Harris and the ‘Fair Share'
18. Court Responds to Haitian Group Seeking Criminal Charges Against Trump, Vance Over Pet-Eating Claims
19.  Saboteur: Joe Biden sings Kamala’s praise, calls her a ‘major player’ in everything he’s done as president  
20.  Recent Events Force Us To See The Reality Of Today’s Democrats
21.  Kamala Harris and the ‘Fair Share’
22.  “This Is Not the 1950s” Explains Woman Who Got Her Start in Politics by Sleeping With Married Man
23. Oakland decides to clean up graffiti -- by fining the victims

James Seigfreid compared the Democrat party's process for picking candidates equivalent to walking into numerous mental health institutions all over the nation and rounding up patients at random saying:

 “ok-you’re running for this office…you there in the bow-tie…you’re running for this office”.

He called it “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on steroids, and if it wasn't so apt and pathetic, it would be funny.

Here's the link to my entire Kamala Harris file, which will include this article, and it's not pretty.