DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
“Schumer: Trump Is Clearly Demented And Needs To Step Down.”
Yes, it’s a fake headline. You could put the name of any Democratic officeholder in there, and it would still be a fake headline. Despite the fact that Trump is clearly demented. Just days after calling Tim Walz the R word, he calls Somalis living in Minneapolis ‘garbage’. This is 3 am-in-the-dementia-ward stuff. Trump spends most nights pumping out this insanity on Truth Social, then falls asleep at official meetings during the day. I’ll use a Truth Social mainstay here: TRUMP IS CLEARLY DEMENTED! HE IS AN ONGOING THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY!! HE MUST BE PUT ON A GARBAGE SCOW AND TOWED ENDLESSLY AROUND THE HUDSON UNTIL HE DIES!!!
My point, and I do have one, is that any elected D who fails to call out his unfitness for office is also unfit for office. We can start with Delaware’s own Posse Comity of Coons, LBR and Sarah. Chris, perhaps you heard this during your Bearded Marxist dalliance: ‘If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.’
I can’t, for the life of me, understand why the D’s and, yes, the media, refuse to break out the megaphones on this, and state the obvious. I do know that those who are part of the problem need to be primaried.
Rethugs ‘Win’ In Tennessee, Socialist Elected Mayor Of Jersey City. From The Downballot:
Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn 54-45 in Tuesday’s special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, a victory that represents a 13-point underperformance for the GOP compared to Donald Trump’s 60-38 showing here last year.
Republicans acknowledged that a victory alone would not alter the reality that the political environment has moved sharply against the GOP this year, and there may be worse to come.
“If our victory margin is single digits, the conference may come unhinged,” one unnamed House Republican told Politico just before Tuesday’s election. Let the unhinging begin.
Progressive Democrat Mikie Sherrill easily won the race for governor. Socialist Zohran Mamdani won the race for New York City mayor in a landslide.
That trend continued in Jersey City last night as voters rejected the old guard Democratic party and elected a Socialist liberal to the office of mayor.
Former Governor Jim McGreevey was once considered a front-runner (kinda like Chris Coons is now) as he attempted a political comeback. He outspent councilman James Solomon 2-to-1 in this race and had the backing of much of the Democratic party machine.
As polls showed Solomon leading in the day’s up Tuesday’s election, many party bosses abandoned McGreevey and either endorsed Solomon or stayed neutral.
This sends yet another message that is troubling to many mainstream Democrats: the socialist faction of the party is taking over. (Actually, it’s the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. But why quibble?)
Addressing supporters who had gathered to watch returns and cheer him on, Solomon said: “Now the mission is clear, and the work begins tonight. And the work we have to do is making Jersey City affordable. So I say tonight, an affordable Jersey City starts now.”
Once considered the front runner, McGreevey ended up losing in a landslide to the progressive socialist Solomon 68% to 32%.
President Trump on Tuesday downplayed the cost-of-living pains being felt by Americans, declaring that affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody” as his political edge on the economy continues to dissipate.
In remarks during a cabinet meeting, Mr. Trump railed against Democrats who have championed the issue, which helped the party secure several off-year election victories last month and is likely to be a defining topic in the midterms next year.
After ticking off what he claimed were trillions of dollars of investments and other economic accomplishments, Mr. Trump called the issue of affordability a “fake narrative” and “con job” created by Democrats to dupe the public.
“They just say the word,” he said. “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. They just say it — affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything.”
RFK Jr.–Guns Don’t Kill People, Pills Do:
In similar fashion, Kennedy is now using his post as the highest-ranking US health official to spread the claim that psychiatric drugs are a key cause of mass shootings at the nation’s schools and beyond. The idea, essentially, is that antidepressants and other meds may inadvertently turn people into killers. There is no scientific evidence to support that theory—and extensive research indicates it is untrue. Nonetheless, Kennedy announced at a recent Turning Point USA event that “massive studies” of the theory are now underway at HHS. The HHS press secretary, however, declined to answer any of my specific questions about this purported research effort, and threat assessment and mental health leaders I spoke with voiced sharp skepticism.
DOJ To Sue Delaware And Five Other Blue States:
The Justice Department on Tuesday sued six Democratic-led states — Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington — over their refusal to turn over their statewide voter registration lists.
“States that continue to defy federal voting laws interfere with our mission of ensuring that Americans have accurate voter lists as they go to the polls, that every vote counts equally, and that all voters have confidence in election results,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon for the Civil Rights Division said in a statement.
But the DOJ’s requests have alarmed experts who warn the department’s demands for voter data could ran afoul of state and federal laws, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice.
Wonder if the illegally-serving Julianne Murray will have a hand in this. Remember, kids, DOJ is now officially a criminal enterprise. Haven’t heard many D’s talking about that either.
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