As the midterm elections loom in less than three months, voters had better get used to terms like “cherry-picked” and “taken out of context.”
Those are the standard replies of Democratic candidates caught saying indefensible things in past online posts.
Recently, podcasts from 2023 of Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed surfaced in which he called football part of a “toxically masculine culture.” He also said that historical violence in America such as “destroying Native Americans” and the “trans-Atlantic slave trade” are “echoed in the ethos of football.”
Michigan fans might remember his words when their Wolverines face Ohio State’s Buckeyes on the gridiron. If they forget, Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate candidate, can remind them via campaign ads.
In 2024, Mr. El-Sayed is shown saying “fireworks suck,” along with clips in which he argued that the Second Amendment should be replaced with a constitutional right to health care.
When CNN asked about these statements, his campaign replied, “Abdul is the former captain of his high school football team, loves Michigan football on Saturdays, and celebrates the Fourth of July with fireworks like the next Michigander. Cherry-picked comments from old podcasts don’t reflect his beliefs today.”
Indeed, the “old podcasts” were in the Bronze Age of 2023-2024. Conversely, Democrats constantly bring up America’s sin of slavery, which a bloody civil war ended 151 years ago, as if it were yesterday.
Texas U.S. Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico is backpedaling from comments about hating Christianity, God being “non-binary,” six genders, and finding barbecue disgusting and veganism more appealing. That was just old stuff, he says.
In a recent online photo, Mr. Talarico is draped in a Texas flag shirt, posing with a rack of ribs in front of his mouth. So, are the “Beyond Meat” people making ribs now, or what?
Mr. Talarico’s disingenuous culinary ploy to fool Texans would actually work well in a campaign ad – for his Republican opponent, Attorney General Ken Paxton.
It’s right up there with the much-mocked shot of 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis poking his little, helmeted noggin out of a tank turret to show off his masculine appeal against genuine war hero George H.W. Bush.
Perhaps the richest mine of all for opposition Republican ads is the Hasan Piker trove.
The online “Twitch” influencer campaigned with Mr. El-Sayed and other leftist Democrats like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Wisconsin gubernatorial nutcase Francesca Hong, who wanted to cancel Thanksgiving and abolish prisons and police. She lost by less than 1% to a slightly less nutty leftist.
Mr. Piker is an anti-American racist (against white people). He’s also an Islamist who in 2019 said America “deserved 9/11, dude, f*** it.”
When asked about this, Mr. El-Sayed commented that it was “dumb,” and continued campaigning with Mr. Piker.
Mr. Mamdani, in whose city nearly 3,000 were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamist terrorist attack, called Piker’s words “objectionable and reprehensible,” but has kept Mr. Piker in his entourage.
Thanks to the internet’s bottomless feed, Mr. Piker’s foul-mouthed rants just keep popping up.
In an undated video that came to light this past week, Mr. Piker proclaimed, “We’re going to keep bringing immigrants into this country on purpose. Just so they can f*** your sister, and then maybe even your daughter. We’re going to destroy the white race, b*tch!”
The party of tolerance and inclusion seems to have no trouble with stuff like this. Remember, it’s ancient history.
Since 2020, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, has appeared multiple times on Mr. Piker’s podcast.
On Aug. 9, on ABC’s “This Week,” host Jonathan Karl asked her if Mr. Piker should play a role in the progressive movement. She declined to disavow Mr. Piker, pivoting to concern about how Democrats need to appeal to “young people.”
She also tried to put distance between previous comments that she and other leftists made earlier, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying, “I have a local city councilman that has this saying: ‘Woke 1.0 was crazy'” and that it’s “not rhetoric that we would use today.” She then laughed. Ha ha ha.
Oh, OK then.
So, trashing and censoring people who questioned the bat sandwich theory of origin, the lockdowns, masking and forced injections, and all the ruined lives, was just something we can all laugh about now.
Wokeness also entailed smearing conservatives and Christians as “Nazis” and “fascists” and relentlessly pushing transgender insanity.
On a May 2024 podcast with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, the pro-Hamas Mr. Piker said the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Israelis was a “direct consequence” of President Donald Trump’s pro-Israel policies and the signing of the Abraham Accords. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez responded, “10,000%.”
The Democratic socialists who are taking over the Democratic Party will be busy in the next few weeks, pretending to be harmless patriots. Don’t believe them for a minute.
They are still anti-law enforcement, want open borders, a government takeover of health care, socialist economics, unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth, lopping off children’s sex organs, gun confiscation, no voter IDs, and more subsidies for the free-stuff army.
But all those bizarre comments they made over the years? Just cherry-picking.
One more thing. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s joking about Woke 1.0 is clearly part of an effort to recast herself for a wider electorate.
This is not only dishonest and self-absolving. It should send a chill. It implies there will be a Woke 2.0.
This column was first published at the Washington Times.
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