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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is at a Pilates Core Jubilee in preparation for the start of college football.
We get it — the word has gone out among Democratic politicians that what voters want from them is a fighter. Of course, most prominent Democratic politicians have very little contact with regular voters anymore. They’ve confused Opinion page hyperbole from The New York Times with the will of the people and are acting on that.
All this has gotten the party is a small, loudmouth navel-gazing club made up of people who pop off at press conferences or on social media, then head for friendly sources to read the reviews. After enduring several months of Jasmine Crockett belching f-bombs like a village idiot with Tourette Syndrome, we’re now suffering through some male Dems who are desperate to prove that there’s still some testosterone left in their party.
We’ve been chronicling the sad efforts of ultimate soy boy Gavin Newsom trying to do social media better than President Trump. He’s still at it, because the aforementioned NYT Opinion section keeps telling him that he’s killing it. They’re willing to let him “fight” right up until the primary voting begins in early 2028. At that time, they will remind him that he isn’t a Black woman.
Yesterday, we saw doughy Illinois Governor JB Pritzker put down his sandwich long enough to tell Trump not to come to Chicago to slow down the murders. He held the press conference in front of a Trump building, which someone told him would be cool. It wasn’t. And Trump, being the President of the United States and everything, will go wherever he damn well pleases in this country.
Now, Chicago teachers’ union house pet and Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to leg-hump the #resist hashtag to get some attention. This is from Rick:
The most unpopular mayor in the history of Chicago and the most incompetent mayor in the U.S. today is spoiling for a fight.
Not figuratively. Brandon Johnson has visions of blood flowing in the streets of Chi-Town that would improve his standing among the radical leftists who control the city and mark him as a bona fide player in the national “resistance” to Donald Trump.
“The guard is not needed,” Johnson told NBC News. “This is not the role of our military. The brave men and women who signed up to serve our country did not sign up to occupy American cities.”
Johnson doesn’t believe that creating a climate of law and order, where companies come to Chicago rather than flee the city, is important.
The National Guard has a history of being deployed to quell violence in cities (LA riots, anyone?), which Johnson would probably know if he weren’t a public school teacher.
These low-T offerings from Dem clowns are nothing but laughable. If anyone one of these tough guys had to stare down Trump they would be drowning in flop sweat, tears, and a couple other things I dare not name here. They’re all so effete that they seem like they’d cry if they missed a QVC housewares sale.
The only upside to watching this posturing is that the Dem media hasn’t been paying as much attention to Jasmine Crockett or Squeaky Ocasio-Cortez.
So much racism and misogyny over there.
The End of An Era: A Bittersweet Goodbye to Our Fearless Leader Paula
In case you missed it, today is the last official day on the job for our managing editor Paula Bolyard. Here is the farewell post that she penned yesterday. I’ve known about this for almost three weeks and am still processing it. We have a very familial atmosphere here at PJ Media, especially among those of us who have been around for a while. We are serious about the work, but we spend a lot of time on Slack bantering about our families and personal lives. We’ve been talking A LOT about birds lately. Long story. Anyway, it’s Paula who has been at the helm as this environment really began to flourish. We’ve been working together for 13 years, and I will sorely miss that. It’s the friendly back channel banter that I will miss most of all, however.
Yes, we will stay in touch, but she’s going to be busy with her grandchildren and traveling with her husband. If, in a few months I text her and the reply is, “New phone, who dis?” I won’t be surprised.
While the loss of Paula will really sting, the transition will be exciting because my friend and podcast partner Chris Queen will be our new managing editor. If you had polled all of the writers here about who we wanted to take over, Chris would have been the unanimous choice.
I was in the Tucson airport in March of 2019 when Paula texted me that Townhall wanted to keep me on after it had acquired PJ Media. I’m a bit of a wildcard, so I wasn’t sure about anything. I called her from the TSA line to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. A few weeks ago, I was sitting at a bar in the Tucson airport, on my way to see Mr. and Mrs. VodkaPundit. I got another text from Paula, and we had a long conversation about this exciting next chapter for her. Each one of those phone calls cost me a little extra in airport beer, but I did appreciate the bookend vibe.
Thank you, Paula, for always having my back. OK, if I keep going on I’m going to start sounding human. Paula knows I’ll miss her. I’ll leave you with this:
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