BloggeRhythms

This morning, the thought that keeps circulating is the different perspective gained from David Asman’s interview of the successful Hispanic businesswoman on Fox Business channel yesterday and her quote that: “We didn't come here to give what we earn to you."

Her simple, direct, posit leads to the further question of what if there are more entrepreneurial types crossing the border each day, and the left is actually building the Republican voting base? It’s a given that the administration doesn’t know who the illegals are, the border authorities don’t have the manpower resources or funds to properly depose these arrivals and has no idea whatsoever of their intentions.

And although Soros funds may be providing the wherewithal for numbers of illegals to pay Coyotes for border crossing assistance, since no vetting is performed, how is it known that illegals aren’t using resources of their own, want new opportunity or to escape oppression and won’t succeed here all over again, which would lead to their voting Republican?  Just like the Hispanics in Florida. 

Thus in the left's case as usual, stupid is what stupid gets.

Moving on to sensing of unrest among the left, is commentary from barb Bill Maher who is generally ahead of oncoming trends. Talking about a recent Florida visit, he said, "Florida is home to all the old people in America. I was just in Florida. I've been there a few times since this started. The atmosphere is just different. I'm not moving to Florida. I'm not promoting Florida. I'm just saying AOC just went to Florida and had a good time without a mask on. … The atmosphere was just night and day from California, which was gloomy and the Andromeda strain was out there. And you went to Florida and I'm just saying- yes, there are different factors… but basically, they stayed open and went on with life and didn't do a helluva lot worse and maybe did better."

He next took on Supreme Court Justice, Sotomayor’s “wild assertions about COVID, like claiming over "100,000" children were currently in serious condition at hospitals with the disease and that COVID was a "blood-borne virus."

"They were all listening to NPR," quipped Substack journalist Bari Weiss and that she's "done with COVID."

"Exactly," Maher replied. "I mean, that's really ignorant for a Supreme Court justice. So don't be the ‘We’re the people who believe in science,' but you don't have the facts! I read this before, like 41% of Democrats last year thought that over 50% of people who got COVID were hospitalized. It was less than 1%."

"But I'm sorry, if you're watching cable news all day, right? That's what you're gonna think," Weiss said. "There is misinformation and not just on podcasts and the internet. It's also on cable news. I think the biggest thing to me about the Democrats is… the Democrats is supposed to be the party of the little guy… You know what the Democrats are now comfortable with, or seemingly comfortable with? A two-tiered system in which the haves get to go into a restaurant, laugh with their friends for hours and the people serving them are masked and wearing gloves. Where they get to walk, as AOC did, at the Met Gala while in the background the staff looked like they were in 'The Handmaid's Tale.' I mean, this is, this is a look that is unbelievably detrimental to them."

"And jobs," Maher added. "The people with, you know, the consulting jobs, whatever bulls--- they do, they get to say at home and order the food out and do s--- by Zoom and whereas the working-class people who are breathing their s----y air all day. It's going to create class resentment. I mean, it looks like the liberals are always suggesting sacrifices they themselves don't have to take part in."

So, there seem to be indications of chinks in what has been quite solid support of any and all leftist administrating up till now. Along with critique of the “two-tiered system in which the haves get to go into a restaurant, laugh with their friends for hours and the people serving them are masked and wearing gloves.”

In response, Reader rjona posted: “Bill Maher is what the Dems used to be during the 70s. In the 60s the Dems couldn't pass civil rights legislation. It took Republicans to get it passed. John Kennedy, if he were alive today, would have been seen to the right of Trump and been long cancelled...same with Bobby Kennedy.”

Reader lastsaneamericanclub added: “Maher is a liberal. Not a moderate liberal but a outspoken, matter-of-fact liberal. Yet he keeps calling out the Biden administration for their extreme policies. That fact speaks volumes about how radical this administration really is."

Rumblings from Maher perhaps might be indicators of underlying unrest elsewhere amongst the left as noted in an article by Christopher Cadelago, Laura Barron-Lopez and Sam Stein yesterday @politico.com/new, who write: “Biden’s chief of staff started strong and earned plaudits. But, increasingly, he’s under scrutiny for the state of the presidency.

“As Joe Biden limps into his second year in office, a common criticism has emerged among fellow party members: his top advisers are too insular, rigid and self-assured.

“At the center of it all is Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain.

“For months, moderate Democrats in Congress have complained that Klain is overly deferential to their liberal colleagues, to the point where some members and Hill staff privately said he needed to be replaced. With Biden’s domestic agenda stalling out, the Covid pandemic lingering and inflation rising, second guessing of his leadership is now coming from a wider swath of the party and even some corners of the administration.

“The president was elected because we all thought he was going to be good at governing,” said a House Democratic lawmaker, who spoke candidly about Klain on condition of anonymity. “He was going to govern from the center, he was going to work with Republicans. And to have a chief of staff that apparently has decided that he’s going to be Bernie Sanders, I think that's confusing. It’s just not helpful.”

So, here we have a very possible happenstance where the duly elected President of the United States is a centrist, quite willing to work with opposing political leadership, solving the nation’s problems, but his Chief of Staff, Ron Klain is not, nor is his Press Secretary, Jen Psaki. And between the two of them, they are setting the national agenda whereas a senile, memory-lapsing, incompetent chief executive cannot.

The situation is remindful of Woody Allen’s 1971 movie Bananas where in a tiny Latin American nation the hero, Fielding Mellish, a bumbling New Yorker becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

In a classic courtroom scene, Mellish tries to defend himself from a series of incriminating witnesses. Although one of the witnesses does provide testimony favorable to Mellish, it’s delivered in Spanish a language Mellish doesn’t’ speak. The court clerk, when asked to read back this testimony, replies with an entirely different, wholly unfavorable rendition which doesn’t help Mellish whatsoever.

Considering Biden’s behavior in general, the Bananas comparison isn’t that far out of the realm of possibility at all.

That’s it for today folks.

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