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The Broadside | Nancy Pelosi Tells Republicans What She Really Thinks of Them

I’m continually amazed by how openly hostile Democrats are toward anyone outside their party. And how diametrically opposed our worldviews are.

AUSTIN, Texas – Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested that “30%” of Republican voters will never vote for Democrats because of their racism, sexism and homophobia. 

Speaking at the 2024 Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday, Pelosi was pressed by podcast host Kara Swisher on why the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump is so close.

“There are people who will never be, shall we say, inclined to support Democrats because of – they just have a different orientation toward women, people of color, LGBTQ, you know, they just are not ever going to be there,” Pelosi said. “So, say that’s about like 30% or something like that… of the Republicans. 

This is just sloppy thinking, typical of the progressive movement. “[T]hey just have a different orientation …” Ackshully, Nance, it’s YOU who have a “different orientation” toward those tribes you’ve created. Don’t forget that you and your party started this by pushing abortion, gay marriage and minority supremacy. Before you, our culture was quite stable.

Then, she just throws out a completely made-up “30% or something like that” of all Republicans. I know that both sides speak in generalities, but if you’re going to accuse your opponents of having a “different orientation”—a progressive term if there ever was one—then be factual.

“But here’s where I think we have to be as respectful and understanding as possible,” she continued. “There are people who are concerned. They have fear of globalization. They saw the factory down the road move overseas. They’re fearful of innovation. Their father is a truck driver, and now they’re gonna have auto-“

“Autonomous truck,” Swisher interjected.

“Yeah,” Pelosi replied. “And so the innovation, globalization, and they include immigration… So, understandably, these people have a concern about the future for themselves, but also for their children.”

Isn’t that generous and sensitive of Nancy, handling those with a “different orientation” with kid gloves? “Respectful and understanding as possible” … *spit* … as she led two sham impeachments and tore up Trump’s State of the Union behind his back on national TV.

She says we have “a fear of globalization” as though that’s silly, but then says, we “saw the factory down the road move overseas.” Well, yes. The factory down the road put everyone in that factory out of work so that the owners could reduce costs. Such contempt for flyover country.

And we’re “fearful of innovation.” No, we’re not. We’re fearful of government mandating such debacles as EVs which are unsustainable and a total scam. We’re not stupid—the energy to charge those vehicles has to come from coal or, better yet, nuclear energy. But the progressives are in thrall to Mother Earth, not everyday Americans.

It’s a way for ultra-rich liberals like Pelosi to get even richer, like she does trading on insider information from her position in the government. Don’t lecture me about how the rich “do not really want to pay taxes or have any regulation of clean air, clean water, any of that.”

Considering you and your liberal pals create the taxes and regulations from your perch above us all, I think we should be concerned.

She’s right that we have a “different orientation.” But it’s clear that she thinks we’re wrong in our view and she and her progressive Marxist troops are right in theirs.

And we do the same.

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Daily Broadside | Chicagoans Kick Lightfoot to the Curb

One of the things you’ll come to realize if you pay attention to politics long enough is that progressives — overwhelmingly Democrats — ruin everything they touch. Everything.

Public grade schools and high schools? Check.

Universities and colleges? Check.

Music and visual arts? Check.

Religion? Check.

Race relations? Check.

Sports? Check.

The Miss America pageant? Check.

The Boy Scouts? Check.

The military? Check.

Late night comedy? Check.

Classic books? Check.

Marriage and family? Check.

Free speech? Check.

Light bulbs? Check.

This is especially true of cities that haven’t elected a Republican or a conservative (there is often a difference) in years. Think of Detroit, Baltimore, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. All basket cases resembling third-world hellholes with homelessness, violence, urban decay and vacant city centers.

Enter Lori Lightfoot, the FIRST BLACK FEMALE LESBIAN mayor of Chicago, and now the FIRST BLACK FEMALE LESBIAN MAYOR of Chicago to lose reelection. According to the Daily Mail,

Following her concession speech, a reporter asked her if she was treated unfairly because of her race and gender, with Lightfoot answering: ‘I’m a black woman in America. Of course.’ 

The race card. And the misogyny card. And probably the unapproved sexuality card, too. If that’s all true, then how did she get elected four years ago? Did Chicago replace all its voters?

I’m sure it had nothing to do with the increase in violent crime by 52 percent over the course of her tenure.

Under Lightfoot, Chicago has seen soaring crime rates, which became a theme of her opponents’ criticism. In 2021, homicides in Chicago rose to their highest numbers in 25 years, outpacing other crime-ridden cities like New York City and Los Angeles. 

Throughout her tenure, the mayor has been blasted for her poor relationship with law enforcement, as the city’s police department lost a significant number of officers in recent years amid the rise in crime.

Vacancies in the city are up to 30 percent as businesses flee the crime, along with other disastrous metrics.

Ultimately, there was a 59 percent increase in murder citywide when comparing the 9th week of 2023 to the same time-period four years ago, which is right when Lightfoot was heading to a runoff with Toni Preckwinkle.

The four-year change also shows a 27 percent increase in robbery, 31 percent increase in theft and a massive 270 percent increase in the number of motor vehicle thefts.

In addition to rising crime – Lightfoot has overseen vacancy rates of nearly 30 percent after flagship stores on the Magnificent Mile bailed.

Huge brands like Macy’s, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Gap, Uniqlo and Timberland have all fled large premises since Covid shutdowns and ensuing riots. 

Some of the stores were also victims to the series of mass looting incidents that plauged major cities in 2021 and 2022.  

Many were driven away by soaring crime and violence, with the vacancy rate on the once tony shopping strip rising 10-fold since 2016, when it sat at just 3.6 percent, to the current 30.1 percent vacancy rate. 

The Magnificent Mile’s vacancy rate was under five percent just six years ago, according to NBC Chicago. 

So, ackshully, furreal!, Lightfoot getting the boot wasn’t due to any of these metrics but the fact that there are tens of thousands of racists and misogynists and homophobes in the city.

This really is MAGA country.

Leftists ruin everything they touch, then blame everyone but themselves when they suffer for it.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | 57 Amazing Things the Left Demands We All Believe

Daily Verse | 2 Samuel 12:22
“I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.'”

Thursday’s Reading: 2 Samuel 15-18

Thursday and the last day of March. The weather around here is starting to improve with temps up and snow nowhere in sight.

Is it too much to declare, once again, that we live in the age of the bizarre, the irrational, the strange, the distorted and the insane? I find myself shaking my head in disbelief at the nutty declarations that emanate from those in power or influence on the left.

Men can be women.

All white people are racist.

Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy.

If you love your country, you are jingoistic and xenophobic.

If you disagree with someone’s progressive ideology, you’re a hater.

Diversity is our strength.

President Trump colluded with Russia.

You can’t know what a woman is unless you’re a biologist.

There is no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation.

Masks prevent the coronavirus from spreading.

Transgenders, lesbians and gays are oppressed.

Black people cannot be racist.

Joe Biden will unite the country.

2+2=5

Michael Brown said, “Hands up, don’t shoot!”

Children must be taught about transgenderism in grade school.

Covid-19 vaccines prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Joe Biden received 81 million votes in the 2020 election.

America was founded in 1619 and slavery is central to that story.

You’re transphobic if you don’t date transsexual women.

Critical Race Theory isn’t taught in schools.

Synthetic beef will defeat climate change.

There’s an epidemic of white cops shooting and killing unarmed black men.

Silence is violence.

Masculinity is toxic.

Women can be men.

Abraham Lincoln was a racist.

The Russian war in Ukraine is the cause of high gas prices.

Women are paid less than men.

A man claiming to be a woman should use the women’s bathroom.

Joe Biden will conquer Covid-19.

Climate change is real.

Parents complaining to school boards are terrorists.

The mainstream media is objective.

Trump put children in cages.

White Americans owe black Americans reparations for slavery.

Printing more money will bring down inflation.

Israel is an apartheid state.

Abortion is a human right.

Enforcing our southern border is racist.

The mainstream media is harder on Democrats than Republicans.

Socialism has never been implemented properly.

Mounted border patrol agents whipped migrants illegally crossing our border.

The people crossing our southern border are the poor and desperate.

George Floyd is a saint.

Words are literally violence.

Iran is trustworthy.

Trump said that there are very fine people among white supremacists.

Eliminating cow farts will defeat climate change.

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock because of white supremacy.

BLM protests were mostly peaceful.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified to be on the Supreme Court because she’s a black woman.

January 6 was an armed insurrection.

The biggest terror threat in this country is white men.

ICE detention facilities are “concentration camps.”

Liberals are tolerant.

It literally never stops. I’ll bet you can add your own to my list. The cultural Marxists are hell-bent on tearing apart traditional notions of morality, rationality, patriotism and responsibility. And they’ve made great progress which, in a twisted way, validates their identity as “progressives.”

I feel like I’ve been made to live in an insane asylum.