15 Oct We Hate You! Vote for Us!
One of two things is going on right now. Either the Democratic establishment and the mainstream media (yeah, yeah, I know…same thing) are intentionally trying to undermine Kamala Harris’s campaign, or these two (interconnected) groups really have no idea what “normal” people think, act, or even are like.
Last week, former President Barack Obama spoke at a campaign rally for Harris in Pittsburgh and promptly reminded everyone, everywhere why we don’t miss him. Currently, polls show Donald Trump making some headway with black voters, who, as Obama rightly noted, don’t seem as enthusiastic about Harris’s candidacy as they did about his. Imagine that. While the polls generally show little difference between black men and black women in their enthusiasm for Harris, Obama, apparently, understands these things more innately than mere mortals and thought it necessary to lecture his “brothers” (his term, not mine) about how they need to do what he tells them to do. If they don’t, of course, he will be as disappointed with them as he has been with the rest of the nation’s voters for most of the last 15 years.
“And you are thinking about sitting out?” the Lightworker asked his audience. “Part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
Yeah. That’s it. There is no reason not to vote for Kamala unless you’re a sexist. Or a racist. Or…whatever.
I’ll hand it to him, though. Obama knows how to get men enthused: tell them that they suck and are bigots unless they do exactly as you and the rest of their political betters tell them to do.
Almost immediately on the heels of this brilliant ploy to win back men to the Harris camp, a guy named Jacob Reed, in conjunction with “Creatives for Harris” (a “volunteer collective” working to help elect the Vice President), released a long campaign ad called “Man Enough.” Reed, whose day job is writing hilarious jokes for the uproariously hysterical Jimmy Kimmel, actually thinks that the weird, caricatures of men depicted in his ad will appeal to male voters. Farmer guy, motorcycle guy (who looks a LOT like this guy), weightlifter dude, and Gaia knows who else all blather on about how they’ll vote for Kamala because they’re “man enough” – man enough, for example, “deadlift 500 lbs. and still braid the sh*t out of my daughter’s hair.” Because that’s exactly something a real person would say. Only in the precincts of Hollyweird (and its affiliated political and media milieus) would anyone think of the men in the ad as “manly,” much be convinced by them to vote for Harris. As the inimitable Matt Taibbi put it:
Look, I love the Village People. They were a great band, one of the best camp acts of all time, and one of the funniest burns ever on uptight America. But I don’t think it’s an accident this is what came out when “Creatives For Harris” (a group whose first webpage prompt reads, “I Represent An Affinity Group And I Need Creative Assistance”) took aim at what they think it “means to be a man” in middle America. The “White Dudes For Harris” model of self-flagellating beta-male, standing mute and service-ready with Gimp-style ballgag in its mouth while the Kamala-led DNC drums fingers on its head, has been subsumed in postmodern idiocy for so long, it only understands maleness as a collection of stereotyped identity markers.
Over the weekend, Republican Vice Presidential nominee (and Ohio Senator) JD Vance appeared on the New York Times podcast “The Interview” and was asked, among other things, about the connection between the purported housing shortage, illegal immigration, and Donald Trump’s plans to deport most illegals. The Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro told Vance that roughly 1/3rd of construction workers are Hispanic and that “a large proportion are undocumented.” She then asked: “So how do you propose to build all the housing necessary that we need in this country by removing all the people who are working in construction?”
Vance responded incredulously:
This is one of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society is it gets us in a mind-set of saying we can only build houses with illegal immigrants, when we have seven million — just men, not even women, just men — who have completely dropped out of the labor force. People say, well, Americans won’t do those jobs. Americans won’t do those jobs for below-the-table wages. They won’t do those jobs for non-living wages. But people will do those jobs, they will just do those jobs at certain wages.
Being (rightly) called deranged, however, was not enough to dissuade America’s “newspaper of record” from taking another shot, this morning, at making its case that illegal immigration is vital because it enables us all to live like kings – Louis XVI, presumably – while the canaille do our dirty work:
[T]he farm value of milk has been dropping since the 1970s, if you adjust for inflation. For consumers picking up a gallon at the supermarket, this is a blessing. It’s the reason long-term inflation for store-bought milk is roughly half that of other foods in America. But for Peter, it’s a tragedy….
Over the years, Peter and his family have found ways to manage the declining value of milk. They’ve built fences out of recycled oil pipes, used brewers waste for cow feed, rented fields to grow their own alfalfa. They hedge the price of milk in futures markets and purchase revenue insurance. But the biggest cost that they can control is the cost of labor. And the productivity of his dairy — and of almost every successful dairy in America — now depends overwhelmingly on immigrants….
The Idaho Dairymen’s Association estimates that 89 percent of the state’s on-site dairy workers are foreign-born. Nationally the number may be closer to 51 percent, according to a survey published in 2015 by Texas A&M. And research by academics in New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Vermont suggests that the majority of these immigrants are undocumented.
Note that in both cases here, the Times’ storyline isn’t about immigration at all. Rather, it’s about “educating” presumptive Trump voters about how this underclass of semi-slaves makes their lives so much easier and their milk and houses so much cheaper. You stupid, proles, the folks at the Times scold us, you think you’re against illegal immigration, but without it, we’d pay twice as much for our housekeeping, lawn care, and other necessities of life! And not only do they assume that conservatives will see the issue through the same lens they do – that “the little people” are mere commodities whose sole purpose is to make our/their lives easier – but they also believe that the only reason anyone might vote for Trump is that they don’t understand this already, that pointing it out can push them from Trump to Harris.
In his Wall Steet Journal column yesterday, Gerard Baker noted that the Democrats’ contempt for average Americans is nothing new but that “[w]hat’s different this time is the openness with which the contempt is expressed. He’s right. It’s so blatant and unapologetic this time that one might conclude, as Baker does, that the Harris campaign is desperate. Alternatively, one might conclude that the ruling class is growing further out of touch with the country class, that someone in the ruling class is pretty sure that Harris isn’t fit to be president, or some combination of the two.
