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Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

August 22nd<\/sup>, 2024<\/i><\/p>\n

Vivek Ramaswamy was on CNN yesterday bemoaning the fact that Kamala Harris was smearing seventy million GOP voters as \u2018weird.\u2019 Even CNN has to fact-check that, noting that Harris had called Trump and Vance weird, which they are. For that matter, Vivek Ramaswamy isn\u2019t exactly a poster boy for normal himself, but moving on…<\/p>\n

I spoke to a Trump supporter yesterday who ranted about how Democrats were taking adrenochrome from the bodies of dying babies to keep Biden and the rest young. I pointed out that Biden didn’t look particularly young, and he retorted that Biden would be dead if he wasn’t taking the stuff. Branes. Smart. Logically he runs circles around us all.<\/p>\n

Now, adrenochrome actually does exist. Its a result of oxidized adrenaline; 3-hydroxy-1-methyl-2,3-dihydroindole-5,6-dione C9<\/sub>H9<\/sub>NO3<\/sub><\/a>).<\/sub> It doesn\u2019t come from the blood of babies, Christian or otherwise.<\/p>\n

And as far as prolonging life goes, it\u2019s kinda the opposite: it\u2019s rated extremely toxic, and if taken orally will make you very, very sick and in all likelihood kill you. It would explain why you never hear of Qanon types, who believe morals are something to be inflicted upon others, actually taking the stuff themselves. Ivermectin is safer, but drinking or injecting bleach and shining black lights up your ass are still bad ideas. Add adrenochrome to that list under \u201cEvolution in Action.\u201d<\/p>\n

The adrenochrome conspiracy theory came from the bowels of the Qanon conspiracists, and it is nothing more than an update of the Blood Libel. They\u2019ve updated the villains of the piece (elites, Democrats, international bankers) but they mean \u201cJews.\u201d \u201cDrinking the blood of Christian babies\u201d sounded a bit medieval for their tastes, so they took a sinister-looking chemical name (and one not usually found in babies) and made it generic babies, and sat back and waited for the pogroms to resume.<\/p>\n

Yes, Harris was calling Trump and Vance weird, and not Republican voters in general weird. But there’s a lot of them that fit that description. Not seventy million, but millions, at least. There are tens of millions of normal decent Republicans. They\u2019re pretty easy to spot these days: they\u2019re either already \u2018never-Trumpers\u2019 or they are openly expressing doubts about Trump and his policies.<\/p>\n

Last night the Democratic convention finished its third night with the formal selection of Tim Walz as the vice presidential nominee. Coach Walz is almost ridiculously homespun middle American, straight out of Garrison Keillor\u2019s Lake Wobegon days. Last night may just be the night that Democrats took \u201creal America\u201d back from the Republicans. Only with the Republicans the down-home pose was a vulture capitalist trying to sound like a hillbilly, but with Walz, it\u2019s the real deal. He really is the local coach, the guy who helps change your tires and pulls you out of a snow bank, the neighborhood \u201cGood Sam.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Trump was snarling to aides that he \u201chates all of them\u201d \u2013 Harris, Walz, the Clintons, and Biden. Ann Coulter, who for some reason doesn\u2019t live north of the wall in Game of Thrones, made a spectacularly pathetic effort to smear Walz\u2019s kids, calling them \u2018weird\u2019 for crying with pride at the convention last night.<\/p>\n

Even the entertainment showed the richness of the Democrats versus the paucity of the Republicans. \u201cRocking in the Free World\u201d, a favorite of Walz\u2019s, was played with the full blessing of Neil Young, who has stridently complained about Trump\u2019s appropriation of the song. Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Sheila E and Maren Morris all brought the house down. Oprah spoke to loud cheers. Compare with the RNC, which had a couple of D-listers and played music over the vociferous objections and cease-and-desist orders from the creators of said music. Not just weird\u2014sad.<\/p>\n

But it was Bill Clinton, at 78 obviously not drinking many babies but still strident and clear, who came up with the most stunning stat of all, one that will outlive the warm glow of the convention and change the political and economic landscape of the campaign over the next ten weeks.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump back about 15 years ago said \u201cI don\u2019t know why, but the economy always does better under the Democrats than it does the Republicans.\u201d It was one of those extremely rare instances where he was describing an irrefutable fact accurately.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true. Wages go up, production goes up, and for America\u2019s plutocrats who have more money than they do common sense, yes, the markets go up as well. Everyone benefits under Democratic economic policies. It\u2019s been that way since 1933. Even government spending is better\u2014the last two presidents to produce a balanced budget were Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton. Over nine out of every ten dollars in the national debt come from Republican policies and misadventures.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t many politicians around who understand economic matters better than Bill Clinton. He is arguably the smartest president we\u2019ve had\u2014not the best judgment, perhaps, but definitely smart.<\/p>\n

In his speech, he said he encountered a stat that he couldn\u2019t believe. He had to double check it. He had to triple check it. He was absolutely stunned.<\/p>\n

When he recited it, I was equally stunned. I\u2019m nowhere near Clinton\u2019s level of knowledge and expertise, but I read and I pay attention. This was something that floored me.<\/p>\n

Clinton said, \u201cSince the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear, I checked this three times; even I couldn\u2019t believe it. What\u2019s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over 98% of all new jobs were created under Democratic administrations. That is extraordinary.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have almost all the major issues on their side\u2014abortion, individual freedom, reining in corporate greed, supporting the workers and the poor. But if they want to make serious inroads into the decaying support Republicans get, they need to recite this fact\u201450 out of 51 million jobs\u2014over and over. Nothing demolishes the myth that Republicans are better for the economy more thoroughly than that one.<\/p>\n

Tonight: Harris accepts the nomination. If the evening goes as well as the first three have, this election is hers to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryan Zepp Jamieson August 22nd, 2024 Vivek Ramaswamy was on CNN yesterday bemoaning the fact that Kamala Harris was smearing seventy million GOP voters as \u2018weird.\u2019 Even CNN has to fact-check that, noting that Harris had called Trump and Vance weird, which they are. For that matter, Vivek Ramaswamy isn\u2019t exactly a poster boy for … <\/p>\n

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