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Errors, Lies, and State-sanctioned Murder

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As recently as late June 2022, then-State Progressive-Democrat Representative James Talarico (TX) sent this letter to then-President Joe Biden (D).

The errors: one is Talarico’s claim of a constitutional right to abortion. There is not, nor has there ever been, such a right. There was, via Roe v Wade, a Supreme Court ruling that women should be able to obtain abortions up to the third trimester. There is no clause in our Constitution that says so, and while Supreme Court rulings carry the weight of law until modified or rescinded by the Court, or until corrected by legislation, they are not amendments to our Constitution. (This Supreme Court ruling, further, has been rescinded by Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization.)

Another error is his claim that pro-life Americans (whom Talarico disparages as anti-choice) are taking advantage of undemocratic loopholes to press for mechanisms for preventing abortions. There’s nothing undemocratic about following the laws of our land, which include Talarico’s so-called loopholes, which are nothing more than areas within laws that allow some things to be done that otherwise would be illegal.

Another is characterizing efforts to preserve the lives of babies as somehow radical.

The lies: one is the claim that pro-life Americans are a minority. A large majority of Americans oppose abortion in most forms. A larger majority of Americans oppose murdering babies in the womb.

Another lie is one of omission. This is the claim that the pro-life movement is threatening our most basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What Talarico has cynically omitted from this claim is that abortion does not just threaten those most basic rights, it prevents unborn babies even from having their own most basic rights to their own lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness.

The state-sanctioned murder is that of babies in Talarico’s Federally sanctioned and provided abortion facilities.

This is how far the Progressive-Democratic Party has fallen. This is how far the Texas Progressive-Democratic Party has sunk.

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H/t: @ralflongwalker

Closet Socialist

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And sub rosa racist, in addition to his religious bigotry. That’s Progressive-Democratic Party candidate for US Senator from Texas, James Talarico. As recently as 2020, Talarico made his racism and socialist bent crystalline. He

described capitalism as an “oppressive system” that’s associated with white supremacy and climate change.

Capitalism is oppressive, and the primary alternative to that is the Progressive-Democratic Party—and Talarico—and Party’s recent enthusiastic embrace of the socialism of the Democratic Socialists of America. That overt embrace post-dates Talarico’s remarks, but he’s done nothing since to indicate he disagrees with his Party on that.

And: tying capitalism, which gets its strength and its legitimacy from the simple fact that it’s the only economic system that, on the one hand encourages voluntary participation in exchanges, and on the other hand, makes those participants—all of them—better off after the exchange than they were before the exchange, to the blatantly unequal—falsely so, immorally so—relationship among a supposedly oppressor race and supposedly intrinsically inferior races is nothing other than the manufacture of a race beef where none exists. And that is disgustingly racist.

Naked Extortion

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This is the new fund-raising technique of the Progressive-Democratic Party—new for Party, but a much older mechanism for other families. The not very veiled threat comes from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D, NY):

The era of unbridled corruption visited upon the country by the Trump cartel will soon come to an end[.]

Then,

Expected targets for House Democrats include companies that have made large donations to Trump or Trump’s projects and those tied to Trump’s family members or children of the president’s senior aides, including Steve Witkoff and Howard Lutnick.

The threat made explicit: Cooper Teboe, a Silicon Valley donor adviser and Progressive-Democratic strategist said it straight out:

His advice to companies who’ve been publicly cozying up to Trump and ignoring Democrats: “Get right with God.”
“You’re going to be totally f—ed next year or you’re going to figure it out this year and you’re going to make amends—and amends are going to be much more costly than they were previously[.]”

Companies are starting to pay the vig:

Meta Platforms and others are writing big checks for [Progressive-]Democrats ahead of the midterms, according to people familiar with the matter, a counterbalance to the tens of millions they gave to the White House ballroom and Republican initiatives.

Companies like Paramount Skydance and Kalshi are accepting Party-designated consiglieri—excuse me, Progressive-Democrat advisors—into their management teams to “help” them run their businesses.

Nice company ya’s got there. Be too bad if somethin’ was to happen to it.

Believability

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The Wall Street Journal spent several column inches and a potful of pixels writing about how Michigan’s socialist Progressive-Democratic Party candidate for Senate, Abdul el-Sayed, is trying to walk back some of the heat he delivered in the primary.

In the last week, the fiery progressive distanced himself from Hasan Piker after the controversial left-wing streamer suggested that American Jews’ support for Israel could put them at risk. El-Sayed in a Fox News interview also cast himself as focused on kitchen-table issues—not the culture war.

The short and sweet of it is this.

El-Sayed spoke from his heart when he was campaigning and hobnobbing with Piker. Now he’s just covering his political behind and tossing his colleague under the bus.

El-Sayed’s words today are not believable.

Money Laundering and Elections

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Non-profits organized and licensed as 501(c)(3) entities get donations to them characterized as tax deductions, and they are prohibited from engaging in any form of political campaign for or against a candidate. Non-profits organized and licensed as 501(c)(4) entities, on the other hand, are allowed to engage in political campaigns, including direct partisan politics.

So far, everything’s jake.

However.

Quite a number of 501(c)(3)s sent all of their donations to 501(c)(4)s explicitly to help fund politicians’ campaigns and to allow their donors’ donations engage in those direct partisan politics. That’s strictly, narrowly legal.

Here are three examples, though, of something more nefarious.

  • Democracy Matters Foundation provided 96% of its 2024 expenditures to its affiliated(!) 501(c)(4), Democracy Matters, some $31.38 million
  • Guarantee Our Votes Project spent just 0.2% of its $13,919,873 on 2024 legal and office expenses; the remainder went to donations like $13.85 million to America Works USA
  • America Votes Education Fund in 2024 gave $20,748,002 to its 501(c)(4) affiliate(!) America Votes. It claimed a token $532 in office expenses and $274 in fundraising expenses that year, and it had no paid employees

Should that sort of thing be legal? It looks like money-laundering to me.