How The Democrats Screwed Up The Election

They got caught lying too many times. Yes, politicians — both Republicans and Democrats — are liars. There is not a more indisputable fact on planet Earth (and will be indisputable on Mars as well) but when it came to the Democrats, they broke the cardinal rule: you can sheer a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

I lived in San Francisco during the pandemic and bartended for work, it was an absolute nightmare. There was a new rule every week about mask and glove wearing, a new hoop that we had to jump through under the guise of what was responsible for everyone and that it was our duty to comply with all of these rules because if we didn’t — we were told that we were inconsiderate, selfish, bad people — and always with big brother looming over us threatening shutdown if we didn’t comply.

Between 2020 and 2022, I watched my rights and freedoms dwindle at the hands of politicians who spoke to the dangers of Covid — that they didn’t acknowledge when it came to their own personal freedoms.

The gyms closed down. Then they would re-open the gyms and give you a glimpse of hope that things were getting better . . . only to shut them down again, crushing gym owners and gym goers — yet there were city owned gyms that were being used by city employees. YOU couldn’t get a haircut . . . but Nancy Pelosi could — though let’s be real, when the marching orders of your governing electorate are stressing that our circumstances are life or death and getting a haircut could kill you — it is permissible for old lady politicians who are well past their sexual prime to get their hair styled — even when everyone else can’t.

Schools closed down, kids suffered, and suicide rates skyrocketed.

Every week there was a new discovery about Covid that ended up not being true — remember the ‘it stays on surfaces for 24 hours’ and Biden’s line that ‘if we all quarantined for two weeks the disease would go away?’ The crappy cloth masks that everyone was required to wear didn’t even stop the spread of the disease, and the ones that did prevent it — N95’s — weren’t required wearing. I grew up believing that people in Texas and Florida are weird and crazy . . . boy they must have been laughing their ASSES off at us during the pandemic. If people were told to put a baseball bat on the ground, put their nose on it and spin around three times before leaving their home — most people probably would have done it.

Who can forget Gavin Newsom’s tyrannical Thanksgiving measures that he imposed on Californians as he went to Mexico to celebrate. Rules that involved — literally — gathering outside only (in late November) and using the restroom inside if and only they were frequently sanitized. We were also told to put our masks on immediately after eating (outside mind you) and keep singing and shouting to a minimum — I’m not making any of that up. Yet we saw him eating at The French Laundry — one of California’s premiere restaurants — maskless with a multitude of — would you guess it? — lobbyists, and taking smiling, maskless pictures at the NFC championship game when he himself had imposed strict mask wearing rules for the event. It’s almost like they were thinking, “what else will these idiots comply with? Let’s see how far we can stretch it!”

London Breed was caught partying without a mask on when indoor mask mandates were being enforced, and when confronted about it said:

“No one has been more conservative about protecting themselves than I have, not just because I want to set an example, but because I don’t want to get Covid. I was eating and I was drinking and I was sitting with my friends and everyone who came in there was vaccinated, no, I’m not going to sip and put my mask on, sip and put my mask on, sip and put my mask on, eat and put my mask on.” This was the response of the mayor of San Francisco when she got caught bullshitting her constituents.

Sadly, San Franciscans didn’t see it fit to re-elect her this election cycle.

As businesses around me shut down and people quarantined, I watched San Francisco turn into a ghost town.

The Democrats were exposed on national television for trying to pass off a presidential candidate as mentally and able bodied when it turned out he was no longer capable of engaging in a debate where one needed to defend the merit of their ideas — he couldn’t. And I’m not even talking about the merit of either candidates ideas — in this context I don’t care who has the better idea — the point is that in this regard he wasn’t able to — cognitively. Yet before the debate, that’s who the Democrats were going to push onto us.

Kamala Harris said that she had been to the border . . . except when pressed on the issue — she hadn’t. She went on The View and we watched her personality change and her vernacular become similar to that of the hosts. What could we believe about what she said? Whatever it was that she wanted to us to believe at the time.

The Democrats had every cool celebrity that they could muster come out and play songs and tell you that you should vote democrat, but it turns out that if you actually want to persuade and move people, you might actually have to act in congruence with what you say, because in today’s day and age, when everything that you do and say is visible in the public eye, we can see when things aren’t adding up.

It turns out that, if you want people to vote for you, when you speak, you should do it in a way where we believe you. And if you want us to believe you — believe it or not — maybe a do as I say not as I do policy won’t work very well.

It turns out that, if you completely ignore the rights of a huge base of — people — who also happen to live in — The United States — namely men and make them feel like they don’t matter . . . it could backfire.

It turns out that when every legislation, political act and speech is justified through the guise of some sort of racial discrimination, misogyny, or fill in the blank label — people might get sick of this.

It turns out, that when you’ve broken our trust and we find it hard to believe what you say, we might actually prefer the guy who we believe when he says something — even if what he says is often unpalatable.

It turns out that when inflation is high and the economy’s bad, you pretend like nothing is wrong, and the main rallying cry of your campaign is that the person you’re running against is Hitler . . . even your voting base might start to think about checking the other box.

I watched the late night hosts after the election. Jimmy Kimmel, former Man Show host who’s schtick was selling menscriptions as a rallying cry to an older standard of men twenty years ago, cried on national television about Donald Trump being elected president . . . why? Because like the other two late night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel understands who butters his bread — and he likes the way his bread is buttered now — and after the three of them gave their somber speeches about how “we’ll make it through these next four years,” and blah, blah, blah — they left the studio that they shot their shows in and went back to their mansions and penthouse apartments and slept like babies — just as tone deaf to working class people’s problems as the party they champion — at least two of them did it with a modicum of self-respect — but none of them seemed to question, acknowledge or come to grips with . . . why?

People got skinned . . . and they remembered.

Welcome to four years of Trump.