Circle the calendar! Jon Stewart is right about what Dems must do

Reminds you of Animal Farm, doesn't it? The Social Democratic/Democratic Socialist Revolution is less than 72 hours old, and already the pigs are fighting over who should be leader. 

By tradition, Senator Chuck "Charles" Schumer (D-NY) should become Senate Majority Leader. Walt would love to be a fly on the wall when he tries to persuade Senator Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed (D-MI) to vote to restore aid to Israel. 

But is it going to happen? Might the Dimocrats smarten up and not go back to the future?

Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show (Yes, it's still on Comedy Central), pleaded with the Dems on his The Weekly Show podcast to avoid going down the same rabbit hole again.

Doubling down on past remarks to avoid another impeachment fiasco, he said, "Job one of this opportunity is to tear down the obstacles and old way of thinking that got us into this mess. Someone has to meet this moment and they have got to show -- and this moment is not, 'oh, we get to impeach everybody,' like fuck that. Like, you have an opportunity to actually govern. Do it. Take it."

America's Most Important JewTM said that Democrats could, in effect, govern the country if they remove seniority from leadership. "One of the first things you need to do," he said, "is remove that system of seniority from Democratic politics. It is a bullshit system and it needs to go. 

"And they're already like, 'Chuck Schumer deserves a lot of credit for putting together this…' Chuck Schumer fought tooth and nail against half of these fucking people! And even if he didn't, he does not understand the urgency of the moment and what the future demands. I truly believe that."

Mr Stewart previously cautioned his party against pursuing an impeachment of the President Trump, warning that it would just become a theatrical showdown with little substance or results. "We've already shown there's no accountability. What I want to see is a full government effort on rebalancing this economy. 

"This is about triage and the corruption of that family -- fucking let them drain us like they think they’re gonna drain us. Wall it off so it doesn’t infect the rest of the economy and spend a total government effort at rebalancing labor versus capital with real ideas

"I don’t want to see a fucking five-act performative play of House hearings. I just don’t want to see it. I don’t want to see everybody having the opportunity to pantomime accountability because you know they’re actually not going to bring it."

While Mr Stewart said he welcomed investigations, he added that he believed that the Donald would "run out the clock.... You want to do some investigations into some shit, that's great, but on the triage list of what's wrong in this country, it is, I'm sorry, sir, you're gonna have to stay in the waiting room because this guy just got shot and it sounds to me like you just have a sore throat. Do the shit that is actually killing people right now!"

Sounds to Walt as if Jon Stewart is finally getting over a severe case of TDS. But will Senator Chuck and the rest of the Dimocratic leadership take whatever medicine is helping Mr Stewart. Walt doubts it. Lifetime pct .987.

Note from Ed.: The source for the quotes is Breitbart News, 6/11/26.

One last comment on the mid-terms

The result of the mid-term elections should be a cuationary tale for the Republicans. Some have already said you can't go wrong underestimating the stupidity and gullibility of the average American voter. But that's not the lesson Walt hopes DJT and his party will learn. 

The underlying lesson is that you can't pretend that voters have somehow become enlightened and that public opinion is not what the pollsters say it is. Occasionally they make a major goof, as in 2020, but analysis over a lengthy period of time will show that most of the time their predictions are correct. Just like Walt's. Lifetime pct .987.

Is it too soon to say "I told you so?"

Apparently a lot of Americans never heard of FAFO. If you were one of them, buckle up, because you're gonna find out... soon!

Where's the silver lining?

The markets have opened and the numbers flashing across the screen are surprsingly green. Perhaps there's a sense that, business-wise, the nation will go back to normal under Dimocrats. Walt wouldn't bet on it.

Meanwhile, White House staff are cleaning up the debris from the watch party. Republican politicos and operatives are running as fast as they can away from ground centre. Work on the triumphal arch has ceased. And so on. 

There's no point in my giving you the latest seat or vote counts. You know what happened. What's harder to know is why. I'll give you a quick thought on that, as well as a guess as to what will happen next. There's got to be a silver lining somewhere in these very dark clouds. 

Throughout the mid-term elections campaign, President Trump kept telling American voters, "I'm not on the ballot," then urging him to vote as if he were on the ballot. And that's what they did. The usual gang of Dimocrats, leftist loonies and TDS sufferers (including more than a few Republicans) voted against him.

Meanwhile, disaffected Republicans and conservatives (not necessarily the same people) failed to heed Walt's advice to hold their noses and vote the straight GOP line. They simply stayed home.

So now we're left with a Democrat-controlled Congress. [Notice he didn't say "Democratic". Ed.] And the proverbial "lame duck" President. 

We have two months, more or less, before the most vicious political war since Reconstruction begins. In that time, both parties will be plotting strategies -- revenge for the Dimocrats and survival for the Republicans -- and, in the case of the Republicans, building bunkers. 

Expect a flurry of pre-emptive pardons, for which the lickspittle meeja will vilify President Trump, overlooking the fact that he will be doing nothing more than Demented Joe Biden (or his autopen) did two years ago. Heads will roll at RNC HQ, and it's not impossible that a cabinet member or two will feel an unpleasant chopping sensation at the back of their necks. (Hello, Pete Hegseth! The Iran war was your idea, wasn't it?)

Speaking of Mr Hegseth, once the new Congress starts "work" in January, the first thing to expect is a flurry of investigations into alleged corruption and malfeasance in every corner of the Trump administration. You think we didn't have enough investigations in the first two years of the second Trump presidency? Just wait! Revenge is the name of the game, and, since another attempt to impeach the President is likely to fail, all the minions and super-minions become targets.

Next will come a flood of attempts to legislate the undoing of most of the things that President Trump or intends to do using his executive powers. The Trump tariffs will come under attack, and rightly so, but that doesn't mean that America will suddenly embrace free trade with Mexico and/or Canada or any other country. Going back to the days of FDR, the Dimocrats can be just as protectionist as the so-called party of big business. The one glimmer of silver lining is that Canadian booze might be available again in US bars and liquor stores.

The problem for the Dimocrats (and for the country) is that any bills that make it through Congress can and will be vetoes by President Trump is he doesn't like them. Breitbart News reported on Monday that if the Democrats captured the majority in both houses, "I guess I'll become Mister Veto." He went on to say, "And then at some point, we’ll probably make deals. That's what’s happened. I mean, this...wouldn't be the first time you’ll have a president, and he won’t have the House or the Senate. They’ll be sending stuff up. You veto it, and eventually, after a month or two of getting all vetoed, you know...they come over, and you make a deal."

Last night, a White House official said the mood there was "defiant". In a statement to BN, the official added, "A final note here: regardless of how today plays out, President Trump's resolve to stop the Radical Left is only going to become stronger. Buckle up!"

Indeed. The next two years is going to be a rough ride for the politicians of both parties, and consequently rough for ordinary Americans who will be the meat in the political sandwich. The silver lining is that the "meat" -- folks like you and me -- will realize what a horrible mistake they made yesterday, and elect, as successor to DJT, another Republican. Lifetime pct .987,

If you'd rather not live in Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine or the Islamic States of Europe...

Another politically incorrect mascot gets the axe

So, farewell then to The Don [not to be confused with The Donald! Ed.], the mascot of University of San Francisco sports teams for nearly a century. 

What's wrong which The Don? To understand why the pencil-mouistached, green-hat-wearing mscot has gone the way of Chief Wahoo and the Fighting Irishman, you have to know that USF is a privately-owned Jesuit school. So? For the last two decades, the leading religious figure and apostle of wokeism was none other than Jorge Bergoglio, the Jesuit who called himself Pope Francis. See the connection?

But you don't have to take Walt's word for it. Hear USF President Salvador Aceves, who put the institution’s new mascot choice -- a wolf [Seriously? Ed.] in context thus:"With new leadership at USF and in Dons Athletics, we believe the time is right to revitalize our image and embrace a new mascot, one that is known for its intelligence, endurance and ability to work cooperatively in its pack."

Ummm, but he didn't say what was wrong with the Don. The New York Post revealed the real reason for The Don's dethronement. Seems the usual gang of snowflakes, Karens and loony leftists gave "upsetting colonial history" as their reason for the push to end the association. They got barely 400 gullible students to sign a petition demanding the change, the modern "Catholic" school governors caved, and so The Don is gone.

Footnote: The Don's origins go all the way back to 1932 -- some four centuries after the Spanish colonial era -- to Don Francisco de Haro, the first mayor of Yerba Buena, which ultimately became San Francisco. Not exactly your evil conquistador type.

"I love America!" sez El-Sayed. "You lie!" sez McCaughey

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant-governor of New York State. She takes a very dim view of Abdul El-Sayed, the Dimocratic Party candidate for one of the Michigan seats in the United States Senate. So low is her opinion of the would-be senator from Dearborn that she has authored an op-ed piece for publication by the Toronto Sun, warning Michiganders [and Michigeese? Ed.] not to vote for "Doctor" El-Sayed without fact-checking his background and campaign claims. Here's what she wrote. 

"I love America," insists Michigan’s U.S. Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed. Recently, he rallied a crowd in Detroit, interjecting "y'all" frequently as he spoke, putting on an African American accent to suit his audience.

All politicians claim to love America, but when El-Sayed says it, he’s lying. And that’s only one of his lies. His long paper trail of academic writings, before he ran for any political office, shows what he actually believes. 

The consistent theme is that if you're an Arab American, assimilating into American society is dangerous to your health. 

He has a toxic view of white America. Across the U.S., 11 Muslim Americans are running for Congress — overall, a positive sign that one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups is buying into our political values. 

Several of these candidates, such as Arizona's Zuhdi Jasser, are fine people. But El-Sayed is a phoney. As a medical student at Columbia University (he graduated but never completed his residency to qualify to practise), he wrote a string of papers purporting to prove that Arab Americans who blend into American society face numerous risks, from giving birth prematurely to succumbing to suicide. The message is clear: Live in America, but do not become American.

El-Sayed credits virtues of "ethnic density" and Sharia law. 

A 2011 paper of his, published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health , warns of the hazards of "interethnic mating". That is, having a child with a non-Arab. 

Looking at 21,621 births to Arab mothers in Michigan, El-Sayed found Arab women who conceived a child with a non-Arab man had an 18% greater risk of premature births. The article has all the trappings of scientific research, but why research this? Possibly because, under Sharia law, Muslim women are barred from marrying outside the faith.

But assimilation or violating Sharia law isn’t necessarily the culprit. Arab women who had children with non-Arab men tended to be older and more likely to smoke, both differences that could cause higher premature birth rates.

In another study, El-Sayed aimed to prove that living in an all-Muslim community, apart from other Americans, protects Arab women from the discrimination and stress that cause prematurity. He argued that pregnant Arab women in Detroit, living in a dense, ethnically homogeneous enclave, fared better than Arab women in California following 9/11.

Here’s another doozy: A study of suicide among Arab Americans in Michigan. Suicide rates were lower in  Wayne County, where Arabs live in dense enclaves, than in the rest of the state, where the Arab population mixes with other groups. El-Sayed credits the virtues of “ethnic density” and, again, Sharia law. 

Suicide is considered "haram", or forbidden, he argues. Sorry, Doc, but that’s true in most religions, including Roman Catholicism. El-Sayed slyly omitted considering other possible factors, such as the socioeconomic status of suicide victims.

His studies on suicide and premature births are just examples of the pseudoscience he concocted to support Arab Americans living apart in ethnic enclaves rather than joining the American melting pot. This is not thinking Michigan voters should support.

Segregated Muslim enclaves spawn jihadism. In countries like Belgium, France and Sweden, clusters of marginalized Muslim groups have become breeding grounds for radicalism. It’s essential to monitor the threats coming out of these enclaves as far as the U.S. Constitution will allow and to discourage this separatism, not promote it with scientific blather as El-Sayed has done.

Candidate lying on main campaign promise. 

El-Sayed’s been flat-out lying even on his main campaign promise, repeated at every stop: Medicare for All. At a debate on Oct. 8, he was asked if the 210 million Americans with private insurance, mostly through an employer, could keep it. He said, "Yes, absolutely.... If families want to keep their private health insurance, that’s fine by me." False. 

El-Sayed wrote a book about Medicare for All in 2021, explaining that the government would be the only insurer. But as a politician, he finds it hard to tell the truth. El-Sayed still isn’t levelling with seniors, admitting they’d be the biggest losers under Medicare for All. They’d have to compete with younger Americans for access to expensive treatments. With fewer years to benefit, they’ll be told to settle for rationed care. 

Michigan voters need to demand honest answers from the slick-talking, anti-American "Doctor" El-Sayed” before it’s too late.