Democrats never learn, do they?
Despite a sound electoral thrashing just last month, they seem determined as ever not to learn a darned thing as they face at least two years in the political wilderness. They fail to read the room time and again and seem to not realize that mocking everyday Americans is one loser of a tactic.
Take, for instance, this tweet from the official X account of the Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee, which has Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), who’s been in Congress since 1988, as its ranking minority member:
It all started with an article in USA Today in which it was reported that Americans spent a record $10.8 billion online on Black Friday. While leftists apparently looked at the headline and concluded that any stories or real-life accounts of everyday Americans struggling to afford life in the Biden economy were bunk, there’s more to the story than is conveyed in the headline.
Many shoppers are choosing the buy now, pay later (BNPL) option, with BNPL sales accounting for $686.3 million in online sales, Adobe said. Consumers are expected to make $864.1 million in online BNPL purchases this weekend, the firm estimates.
The buy now, pay later option is a modern-day layaway program. It allows those of us on a budget to purchase the items we want, then pay for them in installments or in a lump sum once we have the funds. That’s what happens when you want to give your family a nice holiday, but the president and his party have made such disastrous economic decisions that your wallet is now decidedly lighter than it used to be.
“Journalist” Paul Brandus, who goes by “West Wing Report” on X, posted a screenshot of that USA Today article and added a nasty swipe at anyone who dared to travel or spend money over Thanksgiving for having the gall to complain about high prices:
Record air travel, holiday shopping busting records, stock market at all-time highs. The economy is “the worst ever,” some Pollyannas whine
Yep, it’s now “whining” to say that you’re struggling economically and to plead with your government to make common-sense choices to ease the burden.
Not to be outdone by the smug, condescending Paul Brandus, the geniuses behind the “Ways and Means Democrats” X account took things even further by snarling, “And here we were thinking y’all couldn’t afford eggs!”
Oh, it’s all fun and games with these people. They’re having a good laugh at struggling Americans, but struggling Americans got the last laugh in November at the ballot box.
Newsflash: For those of us who don’t breathe the rarified air of Paul Brandus and the House Democrats, the whole idea of Black Friday is to chase the limited-time bargains offered by retailers, which allows us to afford things we might not normally be able to. Of course, they don’t want us to have nice things, do they?
Also, if the price of everything is higher this year, of course the total amount spent is going to be at record levels. Did none of them ever take a basic economics class?
There’s a reason Oxford University Press just chose “brain rot” as its word of the year, as it was an affliction demonstrated so amply this year by the Democrat Party.
Oxford defines brain rot as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.”
The Dems eventually deleted their snarling, small-minded tweet, but, honestly, how stupid do you have to be to think this was messaging befitting a major, albeit sinking, political party? It just proves that everything is the same as it ever was with the Democrat Party. They instituted disastrous economic policies, were sent packing by voters, and now blame everyone else but themselves. They never learn.
