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‘Level Of Jackassery’: James Carville Outraged At Dems Over 2 ‘Stunningly Stupid’ Moves
Daily Caller ^ | February 06, 2025 | Jason Cohen

Posted on 02/06/2025 9:37:33 AM PST by Red Badger

Democratic strategist James Carville condemned his party on Thursday for pursuing agendas that he argued are disconnected from the concerns of everyday Americans.

During the “outrage of the week” segment on his “Politics War Room” podcast, Carville expressed frustration with New York Democrats pushing for pet bereavement leave and with the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) gender rules discussed at its Saturday Winter Meeting.

“For my outrage, these are … two things that Democrats have done that are so unmoored to what anyone in the country thinks or feels like. It’s almost impossible. The first one is some Democrats and progressives in New York are advocating for bereavement pet leave,” Carville said. “Okay, so in other words, if your cat dies, you get three days of paid leave. Does anyone even know, like in rural America, like where I grew up, how many dead animals?”

“In the entire history of the United States, let me tell you something — a sentence that has never, ever, ever been uttered: ‘Well, Martha, Fido died, so I can’t bale a hay today.’ I mean, come on,” he continued. “I mean, please, just think of how — and fortunately, no one’s going to overly publicize this, although the right’s using it in some places — just how clueless you sound to people who are agrarian. It’s like, you know, you’re living on a different thing. Life and death on a farm is something that happens every six hours. I mean, my God.”

Democratic New York City council members sponsored a bill in October to enable New Yorkers to utilize their sick time to take care of their pets.

During the DNC meeting on Saturday, outgoing DNC chair Jaime Harrison appeared confused by his own party’s policies on gender inclusivity, struggling to explain that “in order to be gender-balanced” the party must elect “one male, one female, and one person of any gender,” for the party’s vice chair position.

Carville read from an article in The Atlantic about the situation, which reads, “Speaking to the Democratic National Committee, which met to select its new leadership this weekend, the outgoing chair, Jaime Harrison, attempted to explain a point about its rules concerning gender balance for its vice-chair race. ‘The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.'”

“Did I just read this? Of course I did. And do you believe this? Of course you do. Because that’s the level of jackassery that — now, does any Democratic candidate? No. I don’t even know if [newly elected DNC Chair] Ken Martin himself actually [believes it]. But they do it,” Carville said. “And it’s like there’s a plant somewhere in ‘progressive’ America that just sees how many jackass stupid things that they can embrace. It’s stunningly stupid. Both of them.”


TOPICS: Government; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: carville; corporalcueball; democrats; dnc; jackass; jackassery; newyork
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To: packrat35

You mean... they haven’t yet?


21 posted on 02/06/2025 10:07:39 AM PST by paudio (NEW MATH: 45=47)
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To: blackdog

Bereavement Leave is primarily intended for attending or arranging funerals and dealing with all the complications associated with death. It’s never easy or cheap. I have had to deal with it twice in the past 3 years. Sure ... I could have taken vacation time, but I’m glad my employer has a reasonable BL policy.

For people.

Pets? Sorry ... it’s entirely different.


22 posted on 02/06/2025 10:10:59 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

‘The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.’”

This MUST be condensed into an ad for whatever races are next
!! :)

As for pet days...if my lil buddy, my cat Spaghetti..not if but when he dies, I’ll take a personal day if I’m in the dumps.

Little fat cat is 16 and still acts like a kitten.

He napped on me for the 5 years I was home recovering from a pretty dam bad head injury.

I know he’s not human :) I know he’d forget my face in two weeks :)

It’s what he means to me that matters.

But it’s MY VACATION DDAY...giving people days off is crazy!!

BTW, I don’t have kids for personal reasons and I finally moved on from the depression over it in my 40s.

But this is just another way to get across the point that kids aren’t necessary.

Trust me, I make the best of life and my nephews/nieces and grand ones, but kids are Everything.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.


23 posted on 02/06/2025 10:13:52 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Red Badger

Let them keep going on this stuff. It’s like buggy whip makers continuing to manufactureg thousands of buggy whips a year and deluding themlselves into thinking that even though more and more cars are being bought that everyone REALLY loves buggy whips so we’ll just keep making them.


24 posted on 02/06/2025 10:14:19 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: paudio

the only way the Democrats turn this around is if they lose in midterms biggly, at which point sanity will return.


25 posted on 02/06/2025 10:14:37 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Red Badger

Carville gets it. He always has.


26 posted on 02/06/2025 10:19:22 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: Red Badger

James is one okra short of a satisfying gumbo.


27 posted on 02/06/2025 10:20:30 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: NorthMountain
My point is that your employer will accommodate any great-good employee when a personal crisis occurs. Your work product paves the road. Pets, people, or anything else.

Now if your work product sucks, then you will only be accommodated with official policy, which in and of itself is a flag to go find a job somewhere else.

28 posted on 02/06/2025 10:23:57 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Red Badger

i watched the dnc meeting

my takeaway was the smart people did not want the job


29 posted on 02/06/2025 10:28:48 AM PST by joshua c
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To: ComputerGuy; All
I became a Democrat operative because Democrats are easier to fool than Republicans.

J. Carville
30 posted on 02/06/2025 10:29:53 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: rlmorel

I’d love to have a beer with him! He’ll always be a leftie, but he’s good at it, likeBill Clinton was. Not like the current loons running his party.


31 posted on 02/06/2025 10:31:27 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Red Badger

he won elections

but he is not woke enough for the current bunch of wokesters


32 posted on 02/06/2025 10:32:09 AM PST by joshua c
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To: joshua c

Good point—sorta the Gresham’s Law of politics.

If you reach a critical mass of loonies the sane people just run away....


33 posted on 02/06/2025 10:32:37 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: bigbob

Heh, I think he would be a lot of fun to have a beer with, especially after he gets a few into himself!


34 posted on 02/06/2025 10:34:08 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Red Badger

The Demon-rat Party is the party of single cat ladies. To them, their cat is their family.


35 posted on 02/06/2025 10:34:19 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Red Badger

The DNC is too woke for Carville?

Hooda thunkit?


36 posted on 02/06/2025 10:34:48 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: packrat35

i think they are past the progressives

i think the collectivists(socialists/communists) have taken control

and because of their no dissent policy

any one who speaks out gets dogpiled


37 posted on 02/06/2025 10:37:19 AM PST by joshua c
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To: joshua c

Progressives are communists


38 posted on 02/06/2025 10:39:34 AM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Red Badger

an amendment to the bill

make Peanut Day a state holiday


39 posted on 02/06/2025 10:40:32 AM PST by joshua c
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To: joshua c
make Peanut Day a state holiday ...

And, for those of you who woke up allergic to nuts, we shall hastily make the next Pee Nut Day a national Dash for the Rash Cash Day!

40 posted on 02/06/2025 10:58:10 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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