There’s a certain way Democrat leaders are speaking in recent days, and they’re all expressing some variation of what the party’s national committee chair said this week: Democrats “cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore.” Posted on 08/27/2025 6:44:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There’s a certain way Democrat leaders are speaking in recent days, and they’re all expressing some variation of what the party’s national committee chair said this week: Democrats “cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore.”
Everyone should interpret that to mean Democrats are out for blood, literally.
That’s in no way an overstatement, not least because Democrats spent a significant portion of the last election season openly fantasizing about legally murdering Donald Trump (and then ultimately shrugging when he was actually shot). There’s simply no other way to explain it.
To be sure, here’s what Democratic National Committee head Ken Martin said in full: “I’m sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight. We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore. We’ve got to stand up and fight. We’re not going to have a hand tied behind our back anymore. Let’s grow a damn spine and get in this fight, Democrats.”
First, it’s preposterous to claim that Democrats are in an electoral rut because they’re so nitpicky about rules or because Republicans have dominated them by cheating. To the contrary, Republicans are the ones who were still campaigning like it was 1998 after Democrats figured out how to harvest ballots from even the most apathetic, low-info voters with their mail-in and drop-box schemes. And when the party wasn’t sure that would work in 2024, Democrat election administrators attempted to keep the leading Republican presidential candidate’s name off voter ballots.
To the extent that Democrats are too trifling when it comes to rules and process, it’s that they’re constantly trying to change them.
Second, is there some recent political episode I missed wherein Democrat opposition to Republicans was so lacking in effort that you had to wonder if they were even awake? Because I’m old enough to remember when a Democrat U.S. senator literally flew to Central America in an attempt to retrieve a foreign national who had been deported by the Trump administration and was credibly accused of being both a violent Latin gang affiliate as well as a woman abuser.
I can also recall Democrats refusing to cooperate with federal authorities on removing violent criminal aliens from the interior; Democrats suing the administration for firing useless bureaucrats; and Democrats threatening to block government funding because the president was actually doing the things he was elected to do.
So, when party leaders assert that it’s time to up the ante, there’s no logical conclusion to draw from it other than that they’re eager and ready to cross the point of no return. There’s nothing left but that. They’re that desperate and they’re openly admitting it.
Again, it’s not like it wasn’t just last year that the current president was nearly assassinated twice. Democrats have done their best to black out those memories, and for obvious reasons. Those events didn’t reflect too well on them.
They keep using the “knife fight” metaphor. It’s safe to assume they no longer mean it as one.
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I’m going to start carrying pikes disguised as teepee poles in my pickup truck in case I accidently run into a peaceful far-left liberal riot.
See my tagline.
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Them long green ones they sell at the nursery for saplings are already sharp, long and stout, and legal.
“”Everyone should interpret that to mean Democrats are out for blood, literally.””
Yes, but.... communists are always out for blood, literally. When are they ever not? Even when they’re in the losing seat, they will stop at nothing to get back into power. Our biggest mistake would be to underestimate them, our enemy, literally.
“1998 after Democrats figured out how to harvest ballots”
I question everything about an article when a stupid statement is made. In school in the ‘50s I read about ballot harvesting...but not by that name. Starting in 1964 I saw up close and personal ballot harvesting in the near NW side of Chicago. Again in local races in 1965 and many elections after that.
We called it impersonation and other terms... voting in the name of a dead person, voting in the name of of mover, voting in the name of the apathetic. It wasn’t until motor-voter that there was impersonation of a non-citizen. It was the way motor-voter was implemented by FEC/HAVA that so many non-citzens were place on the voter rolls and available for impersonation.
“Contract with America” framework to win over people
History, Yes, Gingrich played a role. But the primary role was the religious right pro-lifers who registered to vote millions of people who had not previously participated in the electoral process because they did not want to be involved in such a dirty activity.
Those voters never voted prior to ‘94. The US Senate sold them out in ‘95-96 and they did not vote in ‘96. The #1 goal of Karl Rove was to convince enough of them to vote in 2000 that Bush jr could win, which Rove did succeed in doing.
“When was this supposed time when they were playing by the rules?”
They’ve been playing Calvinball, which involves spontaneous rules that are never the same twice. Of course establishment GOP and media never call them on it.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Calvinball
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