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JUNE 2, 2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

NEW YORK IS SINKING, AND NO ONE WANTS TO THROW IT A LIFELINE,  FROM JUST THE NEWS:   The Internal Revenue Service this week released more troubling data for New York, with the federal agency showing more high-earning taxpayers leaving the state.  Tracking returns filed in 2019 and 2020 showed that 479,826 people left New York for another state or country in those years. Over the same timeframe, just 231,439 people moved to the state. That means the state suffered a net loss of 248,387 residents.  And, of course, those people took their money with them. The IRS figures show the moves generated an economic exodus of more than $19.5 billion.  New Jersey and Florida were the biggest beneficiaries. More than 84,500 people moved from New York to New Jersey and took $5.3 billion. By contrast, only 37,127 New Jersey residents moved to New York and brought $2.2 billion in income.  The numbers were even starker between New York and Florida. Over the two years, 71,845 New Yorkers flocked to the Sunshine States and took $6.4 billion. Meanwhile, 26,902 former Floridians moved up north. Those individuals had a combined income of $1.2 billion.  Wirepoints, in its analysis, noted New York suffered the worst net loss of income of any state, with the $19.5 billion representing a 2.5 percent decline in adjusted gross income. The independent nonprofit research firm said New York lost $1 trillion in income through population losses since the beginning of the century.  A state run by leftist Democrats, and dominated by America's most influential city, New York City, which is falling apart.  New Yorkers try to be optimistic, then go to the polls and vote for the architects of the disaster.

June 2, 2022       Permalink  

THE SIGNS ARE GROWING – DEMS FACE DISASTER – OVERNIGHT:  And of course we're very sad about that.  We wish our Democratic friends the best, and please stop laughing. 

California is now a Democratic problem.  From Hot Air: 

Politico reports on another reasons for Democrats to worry about the upcoming midterms. In deep blue California the number of ballots being returned in primaries is looking low so far.

After this week’s break in the primary calendar, seven states will hold elections on Tuesday. In the biggest of them, California, Democrats are already looking at some troubling early turnout numbers: So far, only about 2.2 million Californians have returned ballots. That’s less than a third of the total early vote at this point in California’s recall election last year.

Primary turnout is traditionally a poor indicator of general election turnout. But Paul Mitchell, a leading political data expert in California, says Democrats have reason to be concerned this year.

Mitchell, who works with Democratic campaigns says everything that can be done to make voting easier in California has been done. And yet, it looks like many Democrats just aren’t feeling motivated right now. He sees that as a potential cause for concern, at least when it comes to congressional races this fall.

At the top of the ticket, it probably doesn’t matter. I would expect the Democrats to be the top vote getters in all these statewide primary elections. And unless something goes awry, they’re probably all going to have easily beatable Republican opponents, and those races are not going to be competitive.

Where Democrats do need to worry is those competitive congressional districts…

If there’s nothing interesting on the statewide ballot in the 2022 general and voters aren’t enthusiastic, just like they are here now in this primary, then, in those kinds of elections, Republicans could win some of these seats…

Democrats nationally need to be looking at California and saying, How do we kind of jolt the electorate into caring about this election cycle and turning out?

COMMENT:  I'd like to see a somewhat more scathing analysis – that the Democratic Party offers very little to voters these days, that it is essentially leaderless, that it is heavily racialized, and that most of its policies are rejected by the American people.  I'd like to see political reporters ask Democrats from different generations whether it's time for a new party..or are they waiting for friends of the Squad to tear down the Kennedy Center before addressing their party's future.

The election is five months away.  There's plenty of time for many political jolts.  But one thing is clear – the morale of this nation is beginning to resemble the darkened American spirit of the Jimmy Carter years.  Then we had a Ronald Reagan who lifted up the nation.  Anyone like that today?  Send us emails.

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JUNE 1, 2022

STACEY, WE HARDLY KNOW YE – OVERNIGHT:   You all know Stacey Abrams.  Stacey is running this year to be governor of Georgia.  Now, she's tried this before, and lost by 50,000 votes.  She then claimed that the election is stolen by voter suppression and that she'd actually won.  Many believed her.  They called her "Governor."  She believed it. 

Now Stacey is running again.  She assumes she will win because the people of Georgia, in their guilt, will make up for the past sin that denied Stacey her destiny.  And it is well understood – you agree, don't you – that the governorship will be a mere steppingstone to the White House, which is Stacey's true place in history.  I mean, does anyone dissent?

Of course, like any mortal, Stacey has a few problems.  First, she's never done much.  Okay, we can ignore that just to bask in her glow.  But second, she has these views on things.  I'm sure it's all a misunderstanding.  See what you think.  From Fox: 

Stacey Abrams serves as a board member of a UPS family foundation that awards millions of dollars to professors and scholars who advocate anti-capitalist and prison abolitionist views, Fox News Digital has learned.

Abrams, who is taking another shot at running for Georgia governor, is currently listed as a board member at the Seattle-based Marguerite Casey Foundation, a private grant-making foundation named after Marguerite Casey, the sister of UPS founder Jim Casey.

The far-left foundation has repeatedly voiced support for defunding and abolishing the police.

Abrams, who has tried to distance herself from the hardline rhetoric of the #DefundThePolice movement in the past, has received at least $52,500 in income from the foundation, according to her financial disclosures.

Abrams's campaign told Fox News Digital last week that Abrams, who joined the foundation's board in May 2021, does not hold the same views as the foundation.

So why is she on the board?  I know.  She likes the way UPS delivers packages.

In December, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation announced the recipients of the 2021 Freedom Scholars Awards, which gave $250,000 to each of six professors who are "leading research in critical fields including abolitionist, Black, feminist, queer, radical, and anti-colonialist studies."

The $1.5 million annual award, established in 2020, "counters the limited financial resources and research constraints frequently faced by scholars whose work supports social movements," the foundation said.

One of the professors who received an award was Robin D. G. Kelley, who teaches African American history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has argued that capitalism is inherently racist.

In a February NPR segment, Kelley said, "The secret to capitalism's survival is racism."
"So any true liberation has to be anti-capitalist," he said. "There's no way capitalism can save us. And even if you could create a capitalism that's somehow non-racial, which of course, is impossible - but let's say in theory you can do that. We still have deep exploitation and inequality produced by it."

During the same NPR interview, Kelley said his "goal" growing up was to be a "communist for life."

"I was involved in a study group organized by the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, AAPRP, and we'd study Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Angela Davis, I mean, Kwame Nkrumah. So this was outside the classroom. This is where I got the real education," Kelley said.

"I wanted to be a communist for life. I wanted to make revolution," he continued. "And it's like, of course, you've got to be a historian to be a real good communist, not the other way around."

During another segment of the NPR interview titled, "There are no utopias," Kelley argued that a truly communist country has never existed throughout history.

"I'm the first to say that what we think of as state socialism or communism has been a disaster," he said. "I'm the last one to defend what actually becomes, in the case of Soviet Union, for example, not socialism at all, but state capitalism that's redistributive. That's what the Soviet Union became. And China's the same thing. China did amazing things in terms of being able to raise the basic standard of living. But China is a state capitalist neoliberal society. We don't have a communist country anywhere in the world. We've never actually had one. It has never happened."

COMMENT:  Okay, we get the picture.  Our Stacey is on the board of a Red group.  And she got on that board in 2021, a year ago.  This wasn't some college membership left over from her youth.   She wasn't an 18-year-old misguided student when she joined. 

Stacey symbolizes the Democratic Party's greatest problem today.  Its left wing has accepted Marxism without apology.  And it expects us to accept it as well.  The leftists know they'll have much of the press and university faculties behind them.  The fact is that, yes, Stacey Abrams is considered in the front rank of Democratic presidential prospects, having done virtually nothing to justify her nomination.  And now this, serving on the board of a far left organization.

So what will happen?  An election will happen in November.  We hope Stacey Abrams is defeated, and the GOP will do everything to make that happen.  But if she wins, look for a "Stacey 2024" campaign to begin, and the left will move that much closer to the ultimate power.

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