Democrats are Funny

While the Democrat convention itself may be a hilarious parody perfectly suited to modern American politics, we need to keep in mind that it masks a melancholy possibility which cannot be allowed to become reality

Democrats are Funny

Ray Tomlinson must the most hated man in Philadelphia right now.

For those who don’t remember, Tomlinson was the man who sent the first email message ever, back in 1971, thereby providing American politicians with a whole new way in which to embarrass themselves, as well as the country at large.  And here we are in 2016, having a huge laugh at the expense of the Democrats as they hold their national convention, which isn’t even over and has already turned into a massive clown show.

There’s nothing that sets the tone for a political convention like the release of thousands of embarrassing emails sent by national committee members that openly show just how low the average IQ in your party really is.  Seriously, it’s like senior Democrats still haven’t clued in to the fact that emails are recorded on servers, and servers – which store those emails for long period of time – can be hacked by sufficiently skilled and motivated people.  For a party supposedly driven by hip young technologically savvy millennials, they still haven’t gotten down the concept of treating email like it’s being recorded (which it, in fact, most likely is), so you need to be discreet when sending them.  It’s as if they took their clues from their standard bearer and stored the servers unsecured in a private bathroom where any Romanian kid with a laptop could get at them.

Oh what fun the Wikileaks email release was, too.  In their own words, we saw senior Democrats collude with Hillary’s people to steal the election from Bernie Sanders.  Then there was the proof positive that the media and the Democrats very much collude with each other to present a fraudulent narrative to the American people, which validates every accusation in recent years that the media are just an arm of the DNC.  We also got to see senior Democrats make fun of gays, blacks, and Hispanics, referring to gays as “homos” and describing fundraising pitches to Latino groups as “taco bowl outreach.”

But the funniest part – the absolutely most hilarious, amusing, rollicking stream of entertainment – was seeing all the corruption being put out in the open, all of the illegal fundraising arrangements and the like which top-level Democrat officials were using to launder funds to Hillary’s campaign.  Nothing says “ha ha funny” like political parties flagrantly breaking the same kind of campaign laws that they routinely demand for everyone else.

But wait, there’s more.

How funny is that former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (who wasn’t even allowed to speak at her own convention) was forced to step down because of obvious, proven corruption…and was immediately picked up by the Hillary campaign?  I have to admit, the Democrats don’t seem to be working very hard to dispel the whole “crooked Hillary” theme with which Trump has been hammering them.

But what about the convention itself?  I mean, surely we can all appreciate the irony of seeing the Democrats – who constantly screech about how horrible walls and photo ID are – building a wall around their convention site and requiring all entrants to produce photo ID before they can pass the gate?  Remember when the Democrats told us that photo IDs were racist because black Americans were simply unable to obtain them for some obscure, generally disarticulated reason not really understandable to people with IQs above room temperature?  Even though black Americans routinely use photo IDs to drive, cash checks, buy lottery tickets, open bank accounts, buy cigarettes and alcohol, get medical treatment, and a great deal else?

And there is so much else.  No American flags, but Palestinian flags all over the place?  Really?  And then you had half the convention walking out during Clinton’s speech.  Nothing says “party unity” quite like that.  I doubt Clinton’s campaign will be very quick to grab “Lock her up!” as their new bumper sticker slogan, either.  Major Democrats like Wasserman-Schulz and Nancy Pelosi have been getting booed by their own state delegations and you have the open, very public feud between two Democrat candidates for the senate seat from California (one black and one Hispanic), each wildly accusing the other of racism while competing for Obama’s imprimatur on their candidacies.  The whole thing is in disarray, a messy self-immolation being played out before the American people in real time.


The Democratic National Convention of 2016 serves to highlight what has long been known about Democrats in general, and their leadership in particular, which is that they are boorish, incompetent, entitled buffoons who couldn’t make a hotdog stand profitable if it were sitting outside of a stadium hosting the world championship of Starvation Ball.  The thoughtful observer can see what is going on inside the doors at Philadelphia, and immediately understand why Detroit, Oakland, Baltimore, and every other city which Democrats have controlled for decades are in shambles.  Democrats have the anti-Midas touch – everything they lay a finger on turns to garbage.

Unfortunately, the only not funny thing to come out of all this is that Hillary still has a better than decent chance of winning this election, through a combination of low-information voters who want to keep the welfare flowing and sore loser establishment Republicans who can’t stand that their career politicians of choice didn’t win the GOP nomination.  While the Democrat convention itself may be a hilarious parody perfectly suited to modern American politics, we need to keep in mind that it masks a melancholy possibility which cannot be allowed to become reality.




By Tim Dunkin