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Democratic Deadpool | by Duane Patterson – HotAir


After being in this business for thirty years, if I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times by Democrats. If X happens, or this or that person gets elected, people will die. You’d think this tactic would be reserved for the most extreme of issues or candidates, but with today’s Democratic Party, it’s not the final arrow in their quiver, it’s often times the first one they reach for in order to convince you to not do something. 

Remember when Mitt Romney ran for president in 2012? This was a couple years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. Romney, who certainly would never be mistaken with Donald Trump on many policy points, had campaigned that he would repeal the measure before it got a chance to take root. And for that, we were reliably told by Democrats, people would die. 

Jonathan Alter, then of Politico and a contributor to NBC News, went there.

That is not an exaggeration. That is not crying fire. It’s a simple fact. If you have pre-existing conditions and you are thrown off of health insurance, or if you get sick after you or your spouse loses the job, you’re not going to go to the doctor as soon, your cancer or disease is not going to be caught as quickly, and your odds of dying are much, much increased. So Obamacare will save, literally, thousands of lives.

Romney himself was accused of killing a woman after the company he once ran, Bain Capital, acquired a company, downsized the staff, leaving an alleged former female employee without health care, ultimately leading to her demise. Priorities USA ran that ad, and even hard lefty pundits at the time like Jonathan Chait admitted that ad went too far. But that didn’t stop the Obama campaign from keeping the suggestion alive, even if they didn’t used the exact language. 

Climate change has been going to kill us as long as I’ve been an adult. The global ice caps were going to melt, the seas were going to rise, the hole in the ozone layer was going to cook us to a crisp, and that’s before it was going to lead to more hurricanes, more floods, more droughts, more wildfires, and more ice storms. None of these calamities, by the way, are statistically higher than they’ve been in recorded history. The only thing that’s increased is the hyperbolic rhetoric of doom and gloom if Republicans are elected. 

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the effort to end net neutrality in terms that suggested it would kill us all. Leaving the Paris Accords was also going to be fatal. And the 2020 Election? Civilization itself was at stake. 

The COVID pandemic – vaccines, mask mandates, all of that was going to kill us, because Donald Trump was either for or against it. It didn’t really matter which side he took, exactly, just that Trump was going to kill us all. 

Which brings me to the “debate” over the OBBB – the one big beautiful bill, on track to be signed into law by the President on July 4th. 

You’d think by now, the warning in the Chicken Little parable about using the ‘sky is falling’ line one too many times would have signaled that perhaps Democrats, whether in office or in Resistance media, need to go back to the drawing board for another way to convince people of the efficacy of their argument. 

Nah.

And that’s just the leaders of the Democratic Party in both chambers of Congress. On July 1st, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that his Department was officially done with USAID’s work doling out federal taxpayer money in foreign aid, and that aid would resume, but only through review by senior staff at the State Department, and only based on actual need as it relates to the national interest of the United States. In short, we’re no longer in the business of funding hundreds of NGO’s started up by relatives of elected Democrats to be used as slush funds. If an NGO is legitimate, it will be renewed and funded through a different channel. It’s practical and necessary reform that CNN’s Boris Sanchez outlined this way. 14 million people could die. 

Nick Kristoff of the New York Times is on that bandwagon, believing the damage is already done, that people have already been killed because we stopped throwing money out the door hand over fist. 

Much of the nonsensical debate over the One Big Beautiful Bill is the charge by Democrats that it’s going to throw millions off Medicaid, which of course by extension means killing them. This is from California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Newsom, of course, opened up California’s sanctuary state’s arms to people who immigrated to this country illegally, enrolling them into Medicaid. The Golden State suddenly, as a result, has upwards of 6 billion dollars in deficit to show for it, and funnily enough, is seeking bailout money to cover what just the welfare for illegals program is costing – $6.2 billion. But Democrats won’t admit the people removed from the Medicaid rolls under the OBBB are illegal immigrants. It’s you and me Trump and the Republicans are essentially pushing off the cliff, their rhetoric suggests, and of course, the children. 

Then you see stories like this out of the Denver Post.

A lawsuit, you say? Filed against the government to prevent them from sharing Medicaid data with ICE, presumably to protect illegal immigrants from being identified, located, and deported? Pardon me, but just for clarity, doesn’t this confirm that the rapid influx of enrollees on the Medicaid system are in fact people not legally entitled to receive those benefits? Doesn’t the fact that this lawsuit exists implode the Democrats’ narrative like Fordow after a dozen bunker busters? 

Hakeem Jeffries used his “magic minute” – privileged floor time upon conclusion of debate for the reconciliation bill, turning the minute into a three-hour plus Cory Booker filibuster special. 

Democrats keep talking about how Trump and the Republicans are killing people, but what about Jeffries putting members of his own party into a coma? Check out Ohio’s Marcie Kaptur, who has represented the 9th District since the days of the Soviet Union. Sleep deprivation is very bad for you, especially if you’re elderly.

How bad at optics are today’s Democrats? This bad. After noticing that 142-year-old Kaptur was doing the Biden, head bobbing in and out of consciousness and drooling on her pink suit, she got tapped out. Someone on their side of the aisle was able to recognize it didn’t look good on TV behind Jeffries’ left shoulder. There are 212 Democrats in the House of Representatives, Kaptur being one, Jeffries being another. That means there are 210 other Democrats that are presumably available to sub in for the onlooker position for the C-SPAN viewing audience. Who did they bring in? Tim McBride. 

Yes, that’s right, Tim McBride, the at-large representative from Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, who friends call Sarah because he’s presenting himself as a transgendered woman, got the call. The party that used to bill itself as the party defending women’s rights apparently now believes that when times get tough, things are at their bleakest, people are going to die, the best man for the job is the dude pretending to be a woman.  

Much can be said about the Republican Party, their thin majorities in the House and Senate, and how hard-fought the reconciliation process has been this year. But they have the latitude to engage with different factions, different ideas, and alternative approaches mainly because there really is no meaningful opposition from the Democratic Party. If the left has nothing substantive to offer other than hating Trump, it’s an open backfield, policy-wise.

Today’s Democrats are panicked because they’re losing thousands of what they perceive would eventually be voters with Trump’s crackdown on immigration, and they’re saddled with their biggest rising star, Zohran Mamdani, being an antisemitic Marxist. The people who once ran the party – Pelosi, Schumer, Steny Hoyer, Joe Biden, have aged well past their shelf life, and the new blood seems only to be excited by those embracing Jew hatred and transgender rights. They’re just not a serious party at the present time.

People will die, Democrats tell me. I’ve voted Republican my entire life. I live in a state where presumably climate change will eventually bring about a wave big enough for me to surf to Denver. I’ve survived cancer three times. And yet, I’m still here. I haven’t succumbed to the left’s predictions of impending doom. One day, something will get me. Of that, I’m fairly confident. But the ‘we’re all gonna die’ hysteria? I’m over it, and thankfully, it appears a ton of Americans who voted for what Donald Trump has delivered the last six months are not buying the alarmist rhetoric, either. 



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