Posted on 11/15/2025 2:25:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Kamala Harris’s memoir gives you little idea of what she believes. John Fetterman’s is better.
Earlier this week everyone piled on congressional Democrats, or furiously defended them, over the government shutdown and its end. It was the longest in U.S. history, 43 days, and utterly pointless. When it was called I thought of Albert Brooks in “Broadcast News,” who asked, of a different predicament, “Does anybody ever win one of these things?” No, not the administration, not its opponents, not federal employees, not the country. Shutdowns are a trauma without meaning.
All this had me thinking about an aspect of the Democratic Party’s recent divisions. Its main split isn’t only between left and way-left but between those who don’t seem to know why they’re in politics and those who do. The latter are often socialists, who have the advantage of an articulable belief and are driven by it.
I spent the week reading two memoirs. Kamala Harris’s “107 Days” is about her 2024 presidential campaign. Its title is her defense: She only had 107 days to win, and it wasn’t enough, so she lost. John Fetterman’s “Unfettered,” is about his political life so far. They are strange books in different ways.
In Ms. Harris’s memoir any guiding political philosophy is absent, which is odd in someone who wished to occupy the nation’s highest political office. You should at least go through the motions. Mr. Fetterman does come alive on the subject, but mostly when he’s talking about Republican stands he agrees with.
Ms. Harris’s book is insistently shallow, almost as if that were a virtue, a sign of authenticity. The epigrams she presents at the beginning are weird. There is a quote from an Italian software engineer named Alberto Brandolini: “The amount of energy necessary to refute bull— is an...
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“We hate Trump” seems to be the official party platform.
If all those Trump haters don’t want their tariffs rebate, send them to me. I will give them a good home.
What Do Mainstream Democrats Stand For?
I’ll sum it up: ( )
Sheeeeeyit. What’s a mainstream demonicRAT?
“What Do Mainstream Democrats Stand For?”
Sexual perversion, looting the Treasury and stuffing the ballot boxes?
The Democrat Party is a satanic death cult.
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Themselves.
Hell if I know. And they don’t either
What do demcommies stand for? Death...of everything except them and their perversions.
Don’t believe there are any “mainstream” dems. However, the only thing every one of them stands for is CONTROL!
Piggy got rich because she has a firm grasp of the obvious. Any MAGA 8th grader could have written this book report. She puts the dumb in blonde.
Power, Money, Control. The same as everyone else in DC.
Communism.
Next question...
The stand for “our democracy” which, of course means “their democracy.”
In their democracy they are just in charge and you obey. All policy, if you can call it that, is geared to insuring that remains the status quo.
Which stands for "their bureaucracy."
Themselves and power grabs.
The Revolution.
They’re all about Biblical values. Whatever the Bible says is good, they are against. Whatever it calls a sin, they are for.
What is a “mainstream Democrat”? Who would be an example of one? John Fetterman?
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