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Monday's Final Word – HotAir

Tabby days and Mondays always get me down …





Ed: Translation: It’s all over but the shouting.

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Ed: You’d think that city and state resources would be applied to a sex-trafficking operation this brazen and insidious. In Gavin Newsom’s California, you’d be wrong. 

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New York Times: The Blade was an eight-minute drive from the University of Southern California, and yet another universe. Parents pushed strollers past the trafficked girls as they took their own children to school. Amid boarded-up storefronts were a few that catered specifically to the trade: a smoke shop with the banner “free Magnum condom with any purchase” and a lingerie store named — in cursive — Sluts. Figueroa seemed to be the one street in all of Los Angeles where nobody ever honked: Customers waited politely, as if in line at a drive-through, to peruse the menu and take their pick.

Over the years, the Blade had become much busier than when Ana started: more girls, more customers, more traffickers idling in their Hellcats and Porsches on the side streets, watching to make sure their girls didn’t hide any money and didn’t snitch. Ana had seen the Blade expand from three main intersections of Figueroa to more than three miles. She had met girls brought in from the East Coast and the Deep South, and there sometimes seemed to be four times as many minors as before — easy to spot by their over-the-top makeup and unsteady gait. The police helicopters Ana used to notice hovering overhead with search lights seemed to become infrequent. Eventually, she said, they disappeared completely.





Ed: Where is Newsom? Making b***job insults on Twitter directed at a Republican governor. I kid you not …

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Ed: No, it looks like Newsom needs to pay more attention to the degradation of his own state rather than obsess over the operations of other states. He’s standing by while thousands of young girls get trafficked in the open in his state, and isn’t lifting a finger to stop it. 

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Semafor: Democrats have badly weakened their party with left-leaning ideas and rhetoric, growing only with self-described “white liberals” while losing ground with other voters, according to a new center-left group’s report shared first with Semafor.

The group, called Welcome, consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its broad findings, including that 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is “out of touch.” Most voters, the group found, believe the party over-prioritizes issues like “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change” while not caring about “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.” (Welcome began as a PAC in 2022, then founded a nonprofit with the same name for political research.)

Ed: Thank you, Captain Obvious. It’s not that Democrats “don’t care” about securing the border and prosecuting crime, however. It’s that they literally oppose those policies. Democrats have allowed their Trump Derangement Syndrome to drive their politics to the lunatic fringe, where they are more comfortable with Antifa than with mainstream American voters. 





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Ed: Well, the Democrat grifters are grifting, as usual. This will look good when Crockett gets nominated to run for the US Senate in Texas against either Cornyn or Paxton. That will be a real possibility if she follows through on her professed interest in the nomination, because the lunatic fringe in Houston and Austin will likely put her ahead of Robert Francis O’Rourke, James Talarico, and Colin Allred. And that will make Welcome’s job all that much more difficult.

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Politico: Centrist Democrats have a plan for their party to win again: Talk more about the economy and less about democracy. Reject corporate interests and ideological purity tests. Keep the progressive policies that are popular — like expanding health care and raising the minimum wage — and moderate on issues like immigration and crime. …

The report is less an autopsy of the 2024 election — it spends a scant five pages on former President Joe Biden’s and Harris’ campaigns — and more so an indictment of the party’s leftward shift since the Obama administration and the donors, campaign operatives and progressive advocacy groups the authors blame for putting Democrats in an unwinnable position.

It largely echoes what moderate Democrats have been saying loudly for months — that the party should be running to the center and focusing on kitchen table issues.





Ed: Yada yada yada. How many “moderate” Democrats remain in office? They are in far worse position than Democrats in the 1980s when the centrists formed the Democratic Leadership Conference and shifted the party to the center under Bill Clinton. Centrists were the majority of Democrat caucuses back then; they have mostly been hounded out of office. Just ask Dan Lipinsky, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and more. 

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Ed: How extreme has the Democrat Party become? They’re making excuses for radicals that embrace Nazi iconography — as well as Hitler’s goal of eradicating the Jews. Speaking of which …

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Dan McLaughlin at NRO: “We must remember in a time such as this,” AOC barked, “we are not the crazy ones. New York City, we are not the outlandish ones. New York City, they want us to think we are crazy. We are sane.” Just as it is never a good sign when you have to tell people that you’re not a witch or a secret Nazi, it’s typically not a good sign for the breadth of the appeal of your political movement when you have to deny being crazy. It is fitting that AOC paid tribute to Eugene V. Debs, who topped out at 5.99 percent of the national popular vote in 1912 (dropping to 3.41 percent in 1920 after they gave women the vote).

Nor could she stay on message talking about bread-and-butter issues. At a time when Mamdani’s media defenders are trying to whitewash his fixation on anti-Zionism and blood libels against Jews by arguing that none of this matters to a municipal government election, AOC couldn’t help herself:





To demand an affordable and decent housing, a decent wage, the right to health care that we pay to care for our people instead of the flattening of Palestinians and oppressed people abroad is not a radical act. It is basic and core humanity. That is why the election of Zohran is as important as our cause today. Child care, buses, rent, and our rights! [Emphasis added.]

Ed: She’s nuts, but AOC is becoming the mainstream of the Democrat Party. And really, of the Protection Racket Media, as well. Not to mention the education system …

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Ed: Think that’s just a one-off? Think again. This is an utter disgrace, and it is being promoted by radical teachers and administrators in public schools. 

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Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment: So far, only two suspects have been indicted. Sixteen others tied to the same North Texas Antifa/John Brown Gun Club network are expected to face federal charges in the coming weeks. Separately, they also face state conspiracy and aggravated assault charges.

The walls are closing in on this large Antifa network in north Texas.

Ed: I certainly hope so. Ngo has a longer video embedded on his site from his interview on Newsmax. Be sure to check that out. The new arrest of the anarchist who put out a hit contract on Pam Bondi may provide info on other networks, including funding of these anarcho-terrorists. Time to crack down on them all. 





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Ed: In other news, we have new confirmation that stupidity remains a renewable resource. 

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Ed: See above.

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Ben Dreyfuss at Calm Down: That’s why [Aaron Sorkin’s] shows are full of affection disguised as conflict. THE WEST WING feels like a workplace of genius liberals who adore each other but are exhausted by the world’s stupidity. STUDIO 60 and SPORTS NIGHT apply the same rhythm to television production: clever, likable folk arguing with network producers who are also clever and likable and fundamentally good. By THE NEWSROOM, he’s dropped the pretense entirely: everyone agrees, the bad guys are offscreen, and the entire show becomes a therapy session for decency itself.

Sorkin’s faith is that smart, good people—if allowed to talk long enough—will arrive at The Truth™ together. His stories have no villains because in his moral universe, villainy is a failure of dialogue. Evil doesn’t speak; it just exists offstage to give the good people something to be exasperated about.

It’s both why he’s so comforting and why he drives people insane. The dialogue feels electric, but it’s really just the sound of everyone already agreeing. The topic is meaningless. The rhythm of the back-and-forth is the meaning.

Ed: Ben nails why Sorkin’s films and shows are both witty and utterly contrived. That’s also true of A Few Good Men, which is only really saved by the superb cast and that final courtroom scene … which is also utterly contrived. Sorkin also has the annoying habit of recycling his own dialogue, but that’s nowhere near as lazy as his overall constructs. The American President may be the worst offender of all these, which doesn’t get a mention in Ben’s essay. Be sure to read it when you get the chance. Trust me. (And follow him on Twitter.)





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Ed: Heh. 


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