Posted on 02/13/2025 2:48:49 AM PST by Libloather
Forty years ago, a radio personality coined the phrase “jump the shark” in reference to the episode of the sitcom “Happy Days” in which the character Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a live shark on water skis. The term is often applied to dying franchises that turn to sensational language or scenes to try to revive the fading interest of the public. More often, you jump the shark and land in utter obscurity.
This week, the Democratic Party jumped the shark.
For years, Dems and their allies pushed the absurd claim that democracy was about to die if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris was not elected president. The public wasn’t buying it. In 2024, Donald Trump won a majority of the voters as well as control of both houses of Congress.
Rather than examine its messaging, Democrats decided to double down. After the election, politicians and pundits announced a new “constitutional crisis” surrounding the effort to downsize the federal government led by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Kris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, declared this week, “We are on the brink of a dictatorship, and America has never been in a more dangerous position than she is today.”
The same media that carried the breathless accounts of the imminent death of democracy with the last election are now running “constitutional crisis” articles with many of the same “experts.”
Despite Trump repeating that he “will abide by the courts” while appealing opposing decisions, NPR insisted that Trump’s circle has indicated it is “willing to ignore court orders and defy judicial authority.”
During his first term, Trump repeatedly lost cases — as did his predecessor, Barack Obama, and successor, Biden — but he continued to comply with those rulings.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Biden’s Student Loan Boast: The Supreme Court ‘Didn’t Stop Me’
I dont recall hysterics from the right as Biden blissfully ignored the highest court in the land.
Democrats are at their maximum level of uselessness.....and hopelessness.
I’d hate to be one of those judges bucking Trump. They ought to think closely what could be uncovered in their past and present.
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By turning their ideology into a rigid belief system—a fanatical religion, in fact—they've lost the ability to pivot politically when cornered (just like they are now).
Ergo, their only option is to become apoplectic.
“We are becoming a debtor nation where every citizen now shoulders a $106,000-per-capita burden to pay for our out-of-control spending.”
I suspect even most Republicans are simply unaware that the federal government has taken out a loan for over $500,000 IN THEIR FAMILY’S name (assuming 2.5 kids and a dog), and their family is expected to PAY IT BACK (and likely will have to, thanks to Biden also destroying the US dollar over Ukraine).
This is how to COMMUNICATE with voters - give them a number they understand, saying it’s $37T is totally MEANINGLESS to them. But telling them that THEY now owe far more than their house is even worth (in most cases), in addition to what they do owe on their house, cars, credit cards (etc.) - would at least get people thinking right.
So, Elon, RUN SOME ADS based on the above.
AGREED! "Millions," "Billions," "Trillions," don't register to folks.
Tell 'em what it costs THEM.
Apparently, the author doesn’t know we are NOT a democracy. Also, the headline is false, the democrats had no credibility left to exhaust.
Constitutional crisis democracy racism white supremacy democrats always try to pimp things not related to issues but it has the news papery sound to it.
Film at 9:00am noon and 6:00 pm stay tuned comrades.
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