C.I. on David Hogg

From C.I.'s "The Snapshot" on Thursday:

This is from Ava and my "Media: Death of the sitcom and/or death of the Democratic Party?:"

People of color are not stupid.  And that was especially driven home in this YOUTUBE video to David Hogg.

 

 

 

Who is David Hogg talking about replacing?  People of color especially are concerned when a White man starts talking about replacing members of Congress -- and for good reason.  

David needs to be having a conversation but it's been days since his announcement and he's still not eager for a conversation that reaches beyond the White world.  DSAers want AOC to be the next president but they've yet to make any efforts to atone for what they did to the country and the Black community in 2024.  The sitcom's just fine and not going anywhere.  But maybe the media should hit hard on their other beloved trope: The Death Of The Democratic Party?  If certain self-proclaimed players are unable to listen to minority populations, the party's going to do even worse in 2028.

Elements of DSA want to take over the Democratic Party.  The reality is that, if they want AOC as the presidential nominee in 2028, they need to be talking to the Black community which is not as stupid as the White community.

DSA and MAGA share The Politics of Destruction -- which is why so many people can flip from one group to the other -- Tulsi Gabbard, Jimmy Dore, Jackson Hinkle, etc etc.  

They want to destroy the system.

It's easy for White people to feel that way -- and White-identifying pocs.  

They've been spoiled all their life.  

Spoiled for centuries basically.

Not true for Black Americans.  

We've had to fight to end slavery, we've had to fight for basic rights after slavery, as late as the 1960s the Civil Rights Movement was still ongoing and though that movement did so much, it did not bring about equality.

While spoiled White DSAers sat on their asses and plotted to take down the system, Black Americans had to fight daily for the system to open even a little for us.

So when you start your nonsense about tearing everything down -- again, no difference between DSA and MAGA -- we are going to stop and say, "Woah."  Because the system you are spoiled on is one we're still fighting for our rights in.  And when you talk about your idea of the future, you don't talk about anything concrete or anything that assures us that we will be part of such a system.

David Hogg is just another vain White person.  Vain?  White men with that awful hairdo -- think Gavin Newsom -- are narcissistic  and that's why they continue to believe it's a cool and sexy hairdo when it's ugly and repulsive and should remain with Carrot Top.

David Hogg has taken to slamming James Carville.  Slam away.  I do.  It's the only way you'll ever get his attention.  He's a bean counter who has been overpraised for years (Betsy Wright, as we've noted her for decades, never got her due and she's much more responsible for Bill Clinton getting elected President than James).  But if you're going to slam James be prepared for the return slam.

He hasn't given it yet to David, so I will.  David keeps going around repeating a line about how James' last successful election came before he was born.

Yes, it did.

And that's still one more success than David's had.

Davis is 25.  I supported his run and celebrated it.  I thought he would work with the DNC, take a moment to learn some things and improve the party.  Instead, months after being elected, he's now alarmed many with his plan to primary Democrats in Congress.  

That's really not a DNC job.  And it is alarming many.  The video Ava and I highlighted resulted in more words from David.

More words.

But no response. 

In "The David Divide" above, they play David's reply -- again, not an actual response.

It's appalling.  A White man -- of 25, no less -- thinks he's going to educate the Black community?  He thinks we need him to tell us how we could be participating at the local level?  As though we don't know this, as though we aren't already?  White Messiah, thank you, for your tone deaf reply that is racist and insulting.

This is why David should have kept his mouth shut and listened.  He thinks he has all the answers but he can even respond to basic questions.

He tries to bury us with words that never address anything. 

He preaches slogan and we're not idiots.

After they play David's words, the first onscreen response is from Hooks who types, "all I hear are Justice Democrats, DSA talking points."

Hooks is exactly right.

And this week, Ava and I again noted that the DSA did not have the Black community and does not speak for the Black community.  Their inability to communicate with the Black community is one of the biggest reasons that they are a failure.  For those late to the party, Justice Democrats is a Socialist front created by Kyle and Cenk, it's better termed Justice Socialists because that's what they are.  But they knew Justice Socialists wouldn't get enough support so they tried to trick the people instead by dubbing it "Democrats."  

We're not idiots.  We hear what you're saying and we're not taken in by the sloganeering.  We're fully aware that you're trying to put one over on us and we're not buying it.

David started this and has some time now to clear up what his aim is.  He's insisting it's not about replacing older members with younger members.  Then why, in all the time since he went public on this in April (this month), have they not updated their website:

Leaders We Deserve invests in candidates who reflect our generation and its values matching them with the resources they need to run strong campaigns, win, and change the face of power. Think EMILYs List for young, progressive courageous candidates. 

You're failing on every level, David.  And we're not giving our hard earned gains to back you as a leader when you can't even be honest and you can't even reply to actual questions with real examples.

Clearly, I was wrong to have backed you for your current positions and as you continue to create more of a mess and especially as you continue to alienate Black Democrats, I really think you need to step down from your DNC position because nothing you are doing at present is actually helping the party.  We need control of both houses.  You've offered nothing to demonstrate how your goals are going to help us with that.  

As one member of the House Black Caucus said to me over the phone last night, "It really would be a White man, wouldn't it, who at the age of 25 would think he knew better than the whole damn party?"

Yes, it would.

Yes, it would.

David, maybe you'll be of value in other ways or later in life.  But at present, you're a recent college graduate and that's basically it.  Maybe gets some life under your belt and work on communicating?  At present, we can't afford you and you're not offering much of value.  I don't say that with glee.  I was rooting for you.  But this was your mission that you announced and you've yet to find a way to communicate your goals in a way that isn't racist or insulting.

From C.I.'s "The Snapshot" on Friday:

David Hogg needs to step down from the DNC.  

His little cat fight with James was sad.

It's no longer sad, David's actions.

They are harmful to the Democratic Party.

I'm seeing the same crowd of bad actors who trashed Kamala and helped put Chump in office backing Hogg on BLUESKY.  

BLUESKY is not the world.

TWITTER was not the world.

Hogg wants to primary a long list of Democrats in office and we're hearing 801 reasons why.  Supposedly it's not about age.  But according to David's website it is and according to many of his supporters on BLUESKY it is.

And these idiots on BLUESKY -- as usual -- don't know a damn thing.

I'm actually for a retirement age for members of Congress and that's nothing new.  I've written of it here for two decades and we've covered it at THIRD for two decades.  At THIRD, we started hitting on it hard with Robert Byrd, who was over 90 years ole and removed as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.  We've noted that the deaths of some members in office result in anew campaigns ahead of the normal election cycle and that if they're dying from age that cost should be probably be billed to their estate.  We've focused on the Senate the most because that's a six year term.  The House is a two year term.  If voters want to send someone at death's door into Congress, that's their vote and their gamble.  

Six years is a lot more to gamble on.  We supported Dianne Feinstein's Democratic challenger because we knew she was too old and would likely die in office, which she did.

This is not a new issue for us. 

But it seems like a new one for his BLUESKY fans who really don't know what they're talking about.

And none of whom wants to note that Sainted Bernie Sanders should have retired long ago.

As long as he breathes, he is their excuse and their hero.  When he stops breathing, that'll probably still be the case.  But for those not working on the Bernie farm, the reality is that he speechifies and accomplishes nothing.  He's someone to be amused by, yes, but the Democrats have repeatedly said no to him on a national run. 

But the Davids attacking Schumer and other Democrats on BLUESKY don't say a word about Bernie.

We're getting to a place similar to the summer of 2024.

We knew Chump would destroy this country.  And smoe of us worked our asses off to campaign for Kamala Harris.  Others worked to defeat her -- others on the left -- DSA and its fake ass 'Uncommitted' 'movement.'

Maybe it's time for you to sit your ass down and shut your damn mouth if you weren't campaigning for Kamala?

Maybe you've enough damn damage for one century?

This country matters to a lot of us, democracy matters to a lot of us.

We've got to win at least one house of Congress in the mid-terms (November 2026).. I want both.  I think both are achievable.

David Hogg is not heping with that.

He's risking that and you have to wonder with the state of the nation right now, with so many lives at risk, White boy can't get his s**t together and wants to risk everything.

He's a blond girl, we get that right?

David's done nothing with his life to garner any attention.  But he's a blond girl.

Many other students were at the same school that got shot up.  Many of them were students of color.

In the '00s, when a child went missing, people began to notice the media coverage or the lack of.  If the missing child was a blond girl, it was wall-to-wall Matt Lauer clucking non-stop.  A child of color?  Crickets. 

And that same racism has benefitted David Hogg.  

But he doesn't want to cop to it.

He's accomplished nothing with his life.  

I thought he'd get involved in the DNC, learn a lot, come back in a year or so with some solid ideas.  Instead, his only idea is the one he's been pimping for years -- kick out the old guys in Congress!!!!

That would apparently make him feel better about himself.  And considering that he looks like Lena Dunham, I can understand his struggle to find some way to feel good about himself.

But, White man, you're putting a lot of lives at risk with your bulls**t.

And Uncommitted and David need to sit this out.

First off, if you've got 20 million to spend on races, you should be using that money for the general election.

Second, you are creating division as we speak within the party -- that's why you need to resign immediately from your DNC office.  That is not what DNC officials are supposed to do.

Third, you're distracting from the very real dangers of Donald Chump.

You want to do your pet cause, go do it in a better election cycle, White boy.

You haven't suffered under Chump.

You're not at risk of deportation, you're not a senior on a fixed income, you're not a Black person or an LGBTQ+ person at risk of being erased and having your rights taken away.

You're not a woman at risk of losing reproductive freedom.

No one is less impacted by Chump's destruction of this country than you are.

Stop gambling with our lives and our rights.

He wants heated, contested primaries with candidates he's going to fund who will rip into the incumbent.

He's stupid and ignorant.

And history does apply here.

We've seen this Tom Hayden style bulls**t before.  

Would Jimmy Carter have been a one-term candidate if John Anderson hadn't run?  Gore in 2000.  We've seen this over and over and we're aware of history.

David has no idea and he's putting us all at risk.

US House Rep Jay Smith is running for re-election and David's Joe Blond is running against him.  To win, Joe Blond destroys him with one charge after another.  Smith wins the primary but is left weakened.  And then the GOP candidate for Congress in that district goes up against a weakened Smith -- probably using many of the attacks that Blond used on Smith (like how the Willie Horton attack on Michael Dukakis actually started in the Dem primary long before Poppy Bush got ahold of it)..  That's how we can lose.

We need to be united.  If this isn't a one-of-a-kind moment in our history, then sure, let's all be David Hogg -- I'll get the knives so we can chop off our noses.

And if this isn't a one-of-a-kind moment in our history, let me know.  I'm doing everything I can online and off to fight back against Chump to the point that I am waking up to run to the bathroom and throw up.  I've got better things to do with my time if this isn't a serious moment in our country's history.

David Hogg needs to immediately step away from the DNC.  If he wants to pursue his idiotic plan on primaries, he can do so, but not as DNC official.  And, no, he can't step 'away' from his group and remain in the DNC.  He has to resign.