Matt Walsh
2024-07-25 02:05:07 UTC
If theres one indisputable strategic advantage that Democrats possess, its
that they dont really have a political party in the traditional sense. They
have a cult.
The slogans come down from on high, and overnight, the yard signs go up: No
human is illegal, Black Lives Matter, defund the police, and so on. Theyll
invent quasi-religious explanations for events they dont understand or dont
want to understand, and then theyll use the entirety of corporate media and
academia to present those explanations as fact. Hurricanes are caused by
man-made climate change; therefore we need environmental justice. Black
people go to prison because of systemic racism; therefore we need DEI, and
so on. Anyone who dissents is immediately cast out of the collective.
If you want to create a stable, functioning country, this kind of mindless
collectivism is obviously counterproductive. But Democrats goal isnt to
create a stable or functioning country. Their goal is to mobilize and to win.
They dont have time for internal debates or self-doubt of any kind. They
move quickly.
Over the past two days, this machinery has turned into overdrive, following
the coup that dethroned Joe Biden. Already, were being told by every
mouthpiece for the Democrat Party that Kamala Harris is their presumptive
nominee. Shes locked up all the delegates without earning a single primary
vote from an actual voter. And on top of that, the media tells us, Kamala
Harris is setting fundraising records left and right.
In fact, shes raised tens of millions of dollars in just 24 hours via
ActBlue, the Democrat Partys major fundraising platform. Watch:
So this is the biggest online fundraising day that the party has seen in more
than 20 years, according to that report. In other words, even Barack Obama in
his prime cant top what Harris just achieved. Sort of like how Biden
supposedly got more votes than Obama in 2008, now Harris is already bringing
in more cash than Obama. And by the way, since that report has aired, Harris
has apparently raised tens of millions more. She clocked in at over $80
million in total donations in 24 hours. Her campaign claimed that nearly
900,000 donors gave money to the campaign on its first day of existence. And
the suggestion is that pretty much all of this money is coming from
grassroots donors, via the ActBlue platform.
Were meant to conclude here that all of these grassroots donors were
holding onto their money until the split second that Joe Biden left the
ticket. And immediately, as soon as Joe Biden was out, all of these donors
pulled out their credit cards with the intent of giving money to Kamala
Harris campaign. They didnt even wait to see if shed win any delegates or
if there would be an open convention. They just donated, straight away.
Suddenly, the candidate who didnt even make it to the Iowa caucuses when she
ran for office in 2020 is now overwhelmingly popular among everyday
Democratic Party donors. Thats how big of an albatross Joe Biden was.
Whats not mentioned in that news report or any of the reports like it
are the many questions that have been raised about how exactly ActBlue
collects money.
A year ago, the investigative journalist James OKeefe looked into the
fundraising platform. He spoke to several supposedly grassroots donors who,
according to ActBlue, have donated a lot of money to political candidates or
causes hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases. OKeefe also crashed
one of ActBlues meetings at a hotel in Boston. Heres what he found:
OKeefes reporting obviously raises the question of whether money from
wealthy donors including potentially foreign donors is being laundered
through supposedly grassroots ActBlue donors. In response to OKeefes
coverage, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to the Federal Election
Commission, demanding the agency investigate alarming reports of widespread
fraudulent donations by ActBlue. The FEC responded by stating that ActBlue
does not require a card verification value number for online donations,
which increases the risk of fraud. So the idea is that some fraud may have
occurred, but no one really knows.
There are some other reasons to doubt the fundraising numbers were hearing
today. For example, ActBlue has publicly pledged to match 900 percent of
donations to Harris campaign in recent days. So at the moment its not
exactly clear how much money is being rerouted to Harris from ActBlue itself,
in the form of matching donations. (ActBlue is a vast fundraising apparatus
that can allocate money across its various campaigns). What we can be certain
of is that theres very little oversight of fundraising platforms like this,
as one Kari Lake adviser, Caroline Wren, just pointed out. Watch:
In a country with a functioning system of elections, wed have absolute
confidence that every ActBlue donation matches up with an actual person, who
actually donated that amount. But the truth is we cant have that confidence
after seeing reporting like OKeefes. Were being lied to so often, by so
many sources, that its difficult to have confidence in pretty much any
aspect of our elections at this point. And thats especially true in an
election like this one, where the coronation of Kamala Harris is so over-
the-top and artificial that its actually hard to watch.
In the span of about two weeks, the corporate press went from claiming that
Joe Biden is totally fine, to full-on pretending that Kamala Harris is the
next Barack Obama. Of course, when he ran for president, Obama earned more
than 5% support in his home state. He didnt drop out before the Iowa
caucuses. And Barack Obama, for all his many faults, didnt cackle like a
character from The Wizard of Oz at every opportunity. Say what you will
about Obama, but he actually had something called charisma, and Kamala Harris
doesnt. And up until about 15 seconds ago, everyone in the media
acknowledged that. Thats why they fought so hard to keep Biden in the race.
But youre supposed to forget all of that now, because the orders from Nancy
Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Alex Soros have come down. And therefore, now we
get cable news segments like this:
As nauseating as that clip is, its the norm now. Theres plenty more like
it. All across the corporate press, self-described journalists are falling
over themselves to pretend Harris is the second coming of their messiah. For
example, a senior reporter with CNN broke this news over the weekend:
One person familiar with the VP yesterday: Through all her calls at
the Naval Observatory, Harris wore a hooded Howard University
sweatshirt, workout sweats and sneakers. They got pizza and salad for
dinner. She went with her favorite topping: anchovies.
In response to that groundbreaking bit of reporting, a supervising producer
with the BBC responded:
The Howard sweatshirt is an important detail here. For Harris, this
is about where she came from as much as what lies ahead. Howard is
the first place she looks for when Air Force Two lands in Washington.
This is what we can expect for the next three-and-a-half months. After the
debate, the corporate press did everything they could to destroy Joe Biden so
they could replace him on the ballot. They were vicious. Now that the
replacement has arrived, theyre reduced to reporting on what shes wearing
and the kind of pizza shes eating. Theyre completely harmless all of a
sudden. This is how the collective operates. Theyre ruthless to their
enemies. Theyre shameless about promoting their allies. Principles like
integrity or fairness simply do not matter to them.
They dont matter to Democrats on Capitol Hill, either. Theyre also
convinced theyve found the next Obama. Heres one of the more dystopian
clips youll see. Watch as Chuck Schumer (D-NY) explains that Kamala Harris
was chosen by a bottom-up, grassroots process as opposed to, you know,
party elites working behind closed doors to oust the candidate who just won
15 million votes in the primaries. And then, when Chuck Schumer is asked by a
reporter about this preposterous claim, and he doubles down on it:
The word gaslighting is overused, but theres really no other way to
describe this footage. The Democrats leader in the Senate who just a week
ago was telling us he supports Joe Biden now says he supports Kamala
Harris. And hes claiming the voters want her to be the candidate, even
though party elites like Chuck Schumer just did everything they could to
prevent the voters from having any say in the process of selecting Kamala
Harris.
The truth is, Chuck Schumer understands that most voters see Kamala Harris
for what she is: A diversity hire who was chosen because Joe Biden insisted
on picking a woman, even if she lacked any kind of charisma or
accomplishments. The more they tell you that Kamala Harris is some kind of
transformational, once-in-a-generation figure, the more theyre revealing
that they dont believe any of it. Its all an act. Theyre protesting too
much, as the saying goes. All the astroturfed TikTok videos trying to make
Kamala Harris look cool and interesting are just as unconvincing.
And the effort looks all the more ridiculous because Harris is running
against Donald Trump, who, like him or not, is one of the most
transformational political figures in American history. Hes genuinely a
compelling person. And he just had one of the most iconic moments of any
public figure in American history, when he survived the assassination attempt
in Butler, Pennsylvania and then immediately raised his fist in the air, face
bloodied, as he told the crowd to fight.
But as overt and patronizing as all of this lying may be, the fact remains
that it might work. Republicans would be making a grave mistake if they
underestimated the potential for Kamala Harris to win the next election.
Already, weve seen the lengths that Democrats and the corporate press are
willing to sink, in order to boost her candidacy. And they keep getting more
and more desperate with every passing hour. Theyre rolling out every dirty
trick in their arsenal, and they arent done yet. In fact, now theyre even
using the assassination attempt in Butler against Trump.
Last night, The Washington Post reported that the Secret Service is telling
Donald Trump that he has to change the way he campaigns:
Secret Service officials encouraged Donald Trumps campaign to stop
scheduling large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big
crowds after the assassination attempt on the former president in
Butler, Pa., according to people familiar with the matter. In the
aftermath of the shooting, agents from the Secret Service communicated
their concerns about large outdoor rallies going forward to Trump
campaign advisers. Trump has held hundreds of outdoor rallies since
launching his first presidential bid. They have become something of
a cult favorite among his most passionate fans, with tailgate parties
in parking lots, vendors lining open areas near the rally and large
parades of traffic, often with gargantuan pickup trucks.
Translation: Because the Secret Service is unable or unwilling to do their
job of protecting Donald Trump, theyre going to hamstring one of his
campaigns most important assets. Theyre essentially threatening Trump, when
you get down to it. Theyre saying if he holds another outdoor rally, they
cant protect him.
Supposedly, the Secret Service simply doesnt have the ability to make sure
that 20-year-olds with AR-15s dont get into perfect firing positions 140
yards away. Its just not possible. Therefore, Trumps whole campaign
strategy needs to change. And by the way, theres no reporting from the
Washington Post about Kamala Harris having to hold indoor events. Apparently
this request is only for Donald Trump maybe because hes the only candidate
who can draw large enough audiences to justify these outdoor rallies.
From now until election day, the Trump campaign is going to have to be as
disciplined and focused as possible to overcome all of these efforts to
undermine Trump and promote his opponent. As Ive said before, it would be a
mistake to hit Kamala from the left, for jailing so-called low-level
offenders when she was the A.G. of California or whatever. Even playing into
her status as a DEI hire shouldnt be overdone though it is a fact about
her that we should talk about.
The core problem with Kamala Harris is not how she was installed by party
elites, or how she handled truancy and marijuana use in California. The core
problem with Kamala Harris is that shes promised to be a rubber-stamp for
every single bad idea that so-called progressives have had for the past
decade from defunding the police, to decriminalizing illegal immigration,
to eliminating private health insurance, to allowing illegal aliens to access
taxpayer-funded public healthcare, to passing a Green New Deal, to banning
offshore drilling and fracking, to abolishing ICE, to allowing terrorists to
vote.
Kamala Harris supported all of these proposals, as terrible as they are, not
because she thought about them in any great detail. She cant think at all.
She supports them because, like Joe Biden, shes listless and completely
unprincipled.
If Republicans communicate that simple and obvious fact to voters, then none
of the inflated fundraising numbers or corporate media hype will matter. The
Democrat collective will be exposed for what it is: ruthless and totally
disingenuous. And collectively, in November, they will lose.
that they dont really have a political party in the traditional sense. They
have a cult.
The slogans come down from on high, and overnight, the yard signs go up: No
human is illegal, Black Lives Matter, defund the police, and so on. Theyll
invent quasi-religious explanations for events they dont understand or dont
want to understand, and then theyll use the entirety of corporate media and
academia to present those explanations as fact. Hurricanes are caused by
man-made climate change; therefore we need environmental justice. Black
people go to prison because of systemic racism; therefore we need DEI, and
so on. Anyone who dissents is immediately cast out of the collective.
If you want to create a stable, functioning country, this kind of mindless
collectivism is obviously counterproductive. But Democrats goal isnt to
create a stable or functioning country. Their goal is to mobilize and to win.
They dont have time for internal debates or self-doubt of any kind. They
move quickly.
Over the past two days, this machinery has turned into overdrive, following
the coup that dethroned Joe Biden. Already, were being told by every
mouthpiece for the Democrat Party that Kamala Harris is their presumptive
nominee. Shes locked up all the delegates without earning a single primary
vote from an actual voter. And on top of that, the media tells us, Kamala
Harris is setting fundraising records left and right.
In fact, shes raised tens of millions of dollars in just 24 hours via
ActBlue, the Democrat Partys major fundraising platform. Watch:
So this is the biggest online fundraising day that the party has seen in more
than 20 years, according to that report. In other words, even Barack Obama in
his prime cant top what Harris just achieved. Sort of like how Biden
supposedly got more votes than Obama in 2008, now Harris is already bringing
in more cash than Obama. And by the way, since that report has aired, Harris
has apparently raised tens of millions more. She clocked in at over $80
million in total donations in 24 hours. Her campaign claimed that nearly
900,000 donors gave money to the campaign on its first day of existence. And
the suggestion is that pretty much all of this money is coming from
grassroots donors, via the ActBlue platform.
Were meant to conclude here that all of these grassroots donors were
holding onto their money until the split second that Joe Biden left the
ticket. And immediately, as soon as Joe Biden was out, all of these donors
pulled out their credit cards with the intent of giving money to Kamala
Harris campaign. They didnt even wait to see if shed win any delegates or
if there would be an open convention. They just donated, straight away.
Suddenly, the candidate who didnt even make it to the Iowa caucuses when she
ran for office in 2020 is now overwhelmingly popular among everyday
Democratic Party donors. Thats how big of an albatross Joe Biden was.
Whats not mentioned in that news report or any of the reports like it
are the many questions that have been raised about how exactly ActBlue
collects money.
A year ago, the investigative journalist James OKeefe looked into the
fundraising platform. He spoke to several supposedly grassroots donors who,
according to ActBlue, have donated a lot of money to political candidates or
causes hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases. OKeefe also crashed
one of ActBlues meetings at a hotel in Boston. Heres what he found:
OKeefes reporting obviously raises the question of whether money from
wealthy donors including potentially foreign donors is being laundered
through supposedly grassroots ActBlue donors. In response to OKeefes
coverage, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to the Federal Election
Commission, demanding the agency investigate alarming reports of widespread
fraudulent donations by ActBlue. The FEC responded by stating that ActBlue
does not require a card verification value number for online donations,
which increases the risk of fraud. So the idea is that some fraud may have
occurred, but no one really knows.
There are some other reasons to doubt the fundraising numbers were hearing
today. For example, ActBlue has publicly pledged to match 900 percent of
donations to Harris campaign in recent days. So at the moment its not
exactly clear how much money is being rerouted to Harris from ActBlue itself,
in the form of matching donations. (ActBlue is a vast fundraising apparatus
that can allocate money across its various campaigns). What we can be certain
of is that theres very little oversight of fundraising platforms like this,
as one Kari Lake adviser, Caroline Wren, just pointed out. Watch:
In a country with a functioning system of elections, wed have absolute
confidence that every ActBlue donation matches up with an actual person, who
actually donated that amount. But the truth is we cant have that confidence
after seeing reporting like OKeefes. Were being lied to so often, by so
many sources, that its difficult to have confidence in pretty much any
aspect of our elections at this point. And thats especially true in an
election like this one, where the coronation of Kamala Harris is so over-
the-top and artificial that its actually hard to watch.
In the span of about two weeks, the corporate press went from claiming that
Joe Biden is totally fine, to full-on pretending that Kamala Harris is the
next Barack Obama. Of course, when he ran for president, Obama earned more
than 5% support in his home state. He didnt drop out before the Iowa
caucuses. And Barack Obama, for all his many faults, didnt cackle like a
character from The Wizard of Oz at every opportunity. Say what you will
about Obama, but he actually had something called charisma, and Kamala Harris
doesnt. And up until about 15 seconds ago, everyone in the media
acknowledged that. Thats why they fought so hard to keep Biden in the race.
But youre supposed to forget all of that now, because the orders from Nancy
Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Alex Soros have come down. And therefore, now we
get cable news segments like this:
As nauseating as that clip is, its the norm now. Theres plenty more like
it. All across the corporate press, self-described journalists are falling
over themselves to pretend Harris is the second coming of their messiah. For
example, a senior reporter with CNN broke this news over the weekend:
One person familiar with the VP yesterday: Through all her calls at
the Naval Observatory, Harris wore a hooded Howard University
sweatshirt, workout sweats and sneakers. They got pizza and salad for
dinner. She went with her favorite topping: anchovies.
In response to that groundbreaking bit of reporting, a supervising producer
with the BBC responded:
The Howard sweatshirt is an important detail here. For Harris, this
is about where she came from as much as what lies ahead. Howard is
the first place she looks for when Air Force Two lands in Washington.
This is what we can expect for the next three-and-a-half months. After the
debate, the corporate press did everything they could to destroy Joe Biden so
they could replace him on the ballot. They were vicious. Now that the
replacement has arrived, theyre reduced to reporting on what shes wearing
and the kind of pizza shes eating. Theyre completely harmless all of a
sudden. This is how the collective operates. Theyre ruthless to their
enemies. Theyre shameless about promoting their allies. Principles like
integrity or fairness simply do not matter to them.
They dont matter to Democrats on Capitol Hill, either. Theyre also
convinced theyve found the next Obama. Heres one of the more dystopian
clips youll see. Watch as Chuck Schumer (D-NY) explains that Kamala Harris
was chosen by a bottom-up, grassroots process as opposed to, you know,
party elites working behind closed doors to oust the candidate who just won
15 million votes in the primaries. And then, when Chuck Schumer is asked by a
reporter about this preposterous claim, and he doubles down on it:
The word gaslighting is overused, but theres really no other way to
describe this footage. The Democrats leader in the Senate who just a week
ago was telling us he supports Joe Biden now says he supports Kamala
Harris. And hes claiming the voters want her to be the candidate, even
though party elites like Chuck Schumer just did everything they could to
prevent the voters from having any say in the process of selecting Kamala
Harris.
The truth is, Chuck Schumer understands that most voters see Kamala Harris
for what she is: A diversity hire who was chosen because Joe Biden insisted
on picking a woman, even if she lacked any kind of charisma or
accomplishments. The more they tell you that Kamala Harris is some kind of
transformational, once-in-a-generation figure, the more theyre revealing
that they dont believe any of it. Its all an act. Theyre protesting too
much, as the saying goes. All the astroturfed TikTok videos trying to make
Kamala Harris look cool and interesting are just as unconvincing.
And the effort looks all the more ridiculous because Harris is running
against Donald Trump, who, like him or not, is one of the most
transformational political figures in American history. Hes genuinely a
compelling person. And he just had one of the most iconic moments of any
public figure in American history, when he survived the assassination attempt
in Butler, Pennsylvania and then immediately raised his fist in the air, face
bloodied, as he told the crowd to fight.
But as overt and patronizing as all of this lying may be, the fact remains
that it might work. Republicans would be making a grave mistake if they
underestimated the potential for Kamala Harris to win the next election.
Already, weve seen the lengths that Democrats and the corporate press are
willing to sink, in order to boost her candidacy. And they keep getting more
and more desperate with every passing hour. Theyre rolling out every dirty
trick in their arsenal, and they arent done yet. In fact, now theyre even
using the assassination attempt in Butler against Trump.
Last night, The Washington Post reported that the Secret Service is telling
Donald Trump that he has to change the way he campaigns:
Secret Service officials encouraged Donald Trumps campaign to stop
scheduling large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big
crowds after the assassination attempt on the former president in
Butler, Pa., according to people familiar with the matter. In the
aftermath of the shooting, agents from the Secret Service communicated
their concerns about large outdoor rallies going forward to Trump
campaign advisers. Trump has held hundreds of outdoor rallies since
launching his first presidential bid. They have become something of
a cult favorite among his most passionate fans, with tailgate parties
in parking lots, vendors lining open areas near the rally and large
parades of traffic, often with gargantuan pickup trucks.
Translation: Because the Secret Service is unable or unwilling to do their
job of protecting Donald Trump, theyre going to hamstring one of his
campaigns most important assets. Theyre essentially threatening Trump, when
you get down to it. Theyre saying if he holds another outdoor rally, they
cant protect him.
Supposedly, the Secret Service simply doesnt have the ability to make sure
that 20-year-olds with AR-15s dont get into perfect firing positions 140
yards away. Its just not possible. Therefore, Trumps whole campaign
strategy needs to change. And by the way, theres no reporting from the
Washington Post about Kamala Harris having to hold indoor events. Apparently
this request is only for Donald Trump maybe because hes the only candidate
who can draw large enough audiences to justify these outdoor rallies.
From now until election day, the Trump campaign is going to have to be as
disciplined and focused as possible to overcome all of these efforts to
undermine Trump and promote his opponent. As Ive said before, it would be a
mistake to hit Kamala from the left, for jailing so-called low-level
offenders when she was the A.G. of California or whatever. Even playing into
her status as a DEI hire shouldnt be overdone though it is a fact about
her that we should talk about.
The core problem with Kamala Harris is not how she was installed by party
elites, or how she handled truancy and marijuana use in California. The core
problem with Kamala Harris is that shes promised to be a rubber-stamp for
every single bad idea that so-called progressives have had for the past
decade from defunding the police, to decriminalizing illegal immigration,
to eliminating private health insurance, to allowing illegal aliens to access
taxpayer-funded public healthcare, to passing a Green New Deal, to banning
offshore drilling and fracking, to abolishing ICE, to allowing terrorists to
vote.
Kamala Harris supported all of these proposals, as terrible as they are, not
because she thought about them in any great detail. She cant think at all.
She supports them because, like Joe Biden, shes listless and completely
unprincipled.
If Republicans communicate that simple and obvious fact to voters, then none
of the inflated fundraising numbers or corporate media hype will matter. The
Democrat collective will be exposed for what it is: ruthless and totally
disingenuous. And collectively, in November, they will lose.