The US Democratic Party: A Descent into Madness, Badness, and Danger, By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Picture, if you will, a grand circus tent, once a beacon of inclusivity, now a chaotic funhouse where dissent is a sin, and the ringmaster wields a cancel button instead of a whip. Welcome to the modern Democratic Party, where, according to recent tales of betrayal and cover-ups, madness reigns, bad behaviour festers, and danger lurks for anyone who dares question the script. Two explosive stories, one from a disillusioned insider and another from the White House's inner sanctum, paint a picture of a party so unhinged, so morally bankrupt, and so perilous to cross that it might as well be a villain in a dystopian novel. Buckle up for a satirical romp through the Democrats' house of horrors, where the only thing scarier than the truth is the party's reaction to it.
First, meet Lindy Li, a former Kamala Harris campaign advisor and Democratic National Committee fundraiser who, like a hero in a Kafkaesque nightmare, decided to pull the plug on her membership in the Democratic Party's cult, er, tent. Li's crime? Daring to point out the "stench of loser" wafting from the party after Harris's spectacular election flop. For her honesty, she was rewarded with a digital guillotine: boycott campaigns, "unblock-unfollow" crusades, and a loss of 40,000 social media followers in four days. Some even called for her deportation, because nothing says "party of inclusion" like telling a critic to leave the country.
Li's real sin was asking where the $2.5 billion in campaign funds went. Why, she wondered, were millions spent on five-star hotels for staffers while the campaign tanked? Why was $500,000 funnelled to Al Sharpton just before he interviewed Harris? These are questions any sane person might ask, but in the Democratic Party, curiosity is heresy. "In the cult, you can't ask questions," Li told Piers Morgan, likening her exit to escaping a fanatical sect. The party's self-proclaimed "social justice warriors" turned on her with venom, hurling racist slurs and branding her a traitor for questioning their "goddess" Kamala. Li, who raised tens of millions for the party, was shocked to find that diversity and tolerance are just bumper stickers, scratch the surface, and you'll find a mob ready to burn you at the virtual stake.
The Democrats' response to Li's defection reveals a party not just mad, but downright unhinged. They claim to champion decency, yet their attack dogs unleashed a smear campaign that would make a tabloid blush. They preach fairness, yet squandered billions on luxury and influence-buying while their candidate crashed and burned. Li's rightward shift isn't just a personal pivot; it's a warning that the Democratic tent is shrinking faster than a bad sitcom's ratings, pushing away anyone who values common sense over cultish devotion. This is a party so bad it alienates its own MVPs, and so dangerous that questioning the budget gets you labelled a "communist spy."
Meanwhile, across town, the White House has been staging its own tragicomedy, starring an aging president whose staff have been playing hide-and-seek with his mental decline since Day One. According to a bombshell Wall Street Journal report, Biden's aides formed a protective bubble around the 82-year-old commander-in-chief, shielding him from public scrutiny and even his own cabinet. The script? Limit press conferences (Biden hosted fewer than any modern president), reschedule meetings for "good days," and keep briefings shorter than a TikTok video. When Biden stumbled, literally on Air Force One's steps or figuratively with gaffes, staffers swooped in like stagehands fixing a botched scene.
The absurdity is almost too rich to parody. Meetings were pushed to later in the day because Biden struggled outside a six-hour window ending at 4 p.m. Cabinet officials like Janet Yellen and Lloyd Austin were ghosted, with one giving up on scheduling talks after repeated rejections. A voice coach, Hollywood's Jeffrey Katzenberg, no less, was hired to polish Biden's raspy whisper, while staffers curated his news clippings to hide the public's dismal view of his performance (a 70-year low in 2024). Even during a gruelling interview with special counsel Robert Hur, Biden forgot key details, including the year his son Beau died, leaving aides scrambling to salvage the optics.
This isn't just bad governance; it's a dangerous charade. The Democrats propped up a president whose "bad days" dictated national policy, all while gaslighting the public about his fitness. The tight ring around Biden, led by loyalists and even First Lady Jill Biden (who reportedly shushed press questions to protect him), ensured no one saw the full extent of his haze. The party's obsession with optics over reality endangered the nation, ranking power over accountability. When donors and pollsters were cut out of the loop during Biden's doomed re-election bid, it was clear: the Democrats weren't just mad enough to ignore the obvious, they were bad enough to hide it and dangerous enough to think they'd get away with it.
Put these stories together, and the Democratic Party emerges as a three-ring circus where madness, badness, and danger perform in perfect sync. In one ring, we have the cult of Kamala, where loyalists like Li are excommunicated for asking basic questions about billion-dollar flops. The party's "inclusion" mantra is a hollow chant, drowned out by the howls of cancel mobs who'd rather burn bridges than build them. In another ring, Biden's handlers stage a farce of competence, rearranging schedules and censoring news to prop up a president whose stumbles were a global punchline. The Democrats' moral high ground is a crumbling stage, their claims of compassion and diversity exposed as props in a poorly written play.
What makes this party so dangerous to know? It's their refusal to face reality. They lash out at truth-tellers like Li, cloaking their hypocrisy in righteous jargon while wasting billions on vanity projects. They shield a faltering leader from scrutiny, risking national stability to save face. This isn't just a party in disarray, it's a machine that punishes dissent, buries accountability, and thrives on delusion. As Li put it, "They're shrinking their tent," and it's hard to argue when the exits are crowded with defectors fleeing the chaos.
So, what's a weary citizen to do in the face of this Democratic debacle? Maybe take a page from Lindy Li's book and run for the hills, clutching your sanity and your wallet. Better yet, grab some popcorn and watch the circus implode as more insiders realise the tent's on fire. The Democrats may think they're the heroes of their own story, but to the rest of us, they're the villains, mad enough to believe their own hype, bad enough to betray their own, and dangerous enough to keep the show running despite the collapsing stage. In the immortal words of Li, "I don't want to be part of this craziness anymore." Can we blame her?
"Kamala Harris campaign advisor Lindy Li announced she's leaving the Democratic Party over its continuing shift toward woke radicalism and intolerance of dissenting viewpoints.
Li, a DNC Finance Committee member who was tasked with overseeing the Harris campaign's finances, explained Wednesday on Piers Morgan's "Uncensored" that since pointing out the "stench of loser" hanging over the Democrat Party in the wake of Kamala's resounding defeat, she's been targeted for harassment and canceling by her former peers.
"As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock-unfollow campaigns. I lost 40,000 followers in four days," Li said. "They asked for me to be deported…so all these so-called Democrats the 'party of inclusion,' the 'party of diversity' — masks off."
"And it's even worse because they pretend to occupy the moral high ground. At least with Republicans, they are who they are. But with Democrats, they pretend to be so loving and caring and embracing of diversity."
"But all of a sudden, when I dare to utter any criticisms of 'the goddess' Kamala Harris, I get ostracized. Me, after having raised tens of millions of dollars for the party."
Li also pointed out that Democrat fundraisers are also upset with the party for wasting billions of dollars only to wind up with a historic loss by Kamala.
"My donors are p***ed. They raised $2.5 billion across super PACs in the campaign," she said. "It's my responsibility, it's my duty of care to ask what the hell happened with that money. Why did we spend millions of dollars on 5-star hotels for campaign staffers? Why did we spend $500,000 essentially bribing Al Sharpton moments before he interviewed Kamala?"
"These are legitimate questions," she continued. "But no, in the cult you can't ask questions. And leaving the Democrat Party, or even questioning leaving the Democrat Party, is like leaving a cult. It's terrifying."
Li went on to say that she left the party as a result of its hypocrisy and harassment.
"I don't want to be a part of this tent. I don't want to be apart of this craziness anymore," she said. "They're accelerating my rightward shift. It's crazy. And honestly, they're shrinking their tent. They're pushing me to bring my tens of millions of dollars that I've raised and will continue to raise, to a different team that treats me better and treats me with common decency, that doesn't call me a communist spy."
"These are the people who call themselves social justice warriors? They are going headfirst into racism anytime someone dares to disagree with them. I don't want to be a part of this nonsense anymore. I want to be a part of a team that says men are men, women are women and men shouldn't play in women's sports," Li added.
"White House aides covered up President Biden's apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, shielding the aging commander-in-chief from the public and even rearranging his schedule after scatterbrained performances, an explosive report revealed Thursday.
The lack of access to the nation's oldest-ever president has been well known in Washington — with Biden hosting the fewest large press conferences in modern history and frequently descending into gaffes at the podium when he appeared — but how much the White House made up for the haziness had until now been hidden, according to aides, Democratic lawmakers and donors who spoke with the Wall Street Journal.
Presidential staff formed a tight shell around Biden, 82, right after he took office amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with staff immediately limiting his in-person interactions in January 2021.
Biden's meetings were rescheduled due to "bad days" in the early months of his presidency, the Wall Street Journal reported.
But staffers also began making adjustments to daily plans when the president appeared tired or kept stumbling on the world stage — both figuratively and literally.
By spring 2021, meetings were being rescheduled to accommodate for his "good days and bad days."
According to the Journal, a national security official told an aide at the time: "He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we're going to address this tomorrow."
But staffers also began making adjustments to daily plans when the president appeared tired or kept making mistakes on the world stage.
Meetings were often scheduled for later in the day — a fact first disclosed after Biden's debate flop against President-elect Donald Trump, when staff admitted the then-Democratic nominee had difficulty functioning outside a six-hour window that closed around 4 p.m. daily.
Once inside the room with the president, officials were instructed to make their briefings short and to the point. Private discussions with even some of his top cabinet picks, including Treasury Secretary J. Yellen and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, grew more infrequent.
One cabinet official eventually stopped reaching out to schedule talks with the commander in chief after having been repeatedly rebuffed, an ex-aide revealed.
The White House also hired a voice coach, Hollywood mogul and campaign co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, to try to improve his faint, raspy tone.
Other staffers removed negative reports from Biden's stack of news for the day, misleading him about the public's opinion of his job performance — which reached a 70-year low in 2024.
Deputy press secretary Andrew Bates disputed the characterization of his boss.
"President Biden speaks with members of his cabinet daily, and with most members multiple times a week, staying close with them about implementation of key laws and strengthening our national security," Bates said in a statement.
Staffers began making adjustments to daily plans when the president appeared tired or kept stumbling on the world stage — both figuratively and literally.AP
"President Biden leads a modern administration. Cabinet meetings are an important tradition, but the contemporary work environment means they can be fewer and far between."
But the signs had been there throughout his term in the Oval Office: He frequently relied on notecards, was spotted having large directions printed for him, often mixed up the names of foreign dignitaries or other facts and gaffed when he went off-script or ignored his teleprompter.
The president's sit-down with special counsel Robert Hur over what was later deemed his "willful" retention of classified documents also tested his mental stamina.
Biden was the one who reportedly pushed for the Hur interview, per the WSJ, and staffers backed the decision in hopes of showing that Biden was more cooperative than Trump, then his opponent in the 2024 presidential race.
But the interview prep quickly turned into a headache. Preparation sessions took three hours a day and Biden would forget his "lines" and fluctuate in his energy levels, according to the outlet. A transcript posted after the grueling, two-day affair in October 2023 revealed he forgot the year his son Beau Biden died of brain cancer.
A Bidenworld source dismissed the president's hazy recall, telling The Post, "Every person who has ever prepared for a legal interview has forgotten some of the prep."
The ring around Biden was equally tight during his brief and unsuccessful re-election campaign, with staffers fielding questions so much, it surprised donors about their degree of control.
The ring around Biden was equally tight during his brief and unsuccessful re-election campaign, with staffers fielding questions so much, it surprised donors about their degree of control.
The Democratic candidate previously got filled in on his numbers by pollster John Anzalone during his successful 2020 campaign, but by 2024, no survey findings were relayed directly to Biden and were instead passed along through memos to campaign aides.
The withholding of the information particularly concerned Biden campaign pollsters as Trump's numbers began to tick up.
Campaign staff were also concerned that first lady Jill Biden would outshine the president, even during the 2020 primary, according to the Journal.
"The more you talk her up, the more you make him look bad," her press secretary at the time, Michael LaRosa, told the outlet he was instructed by Jill's closest confidant, White House staffer Anthony Bernal.
During her husband's term, the first lady even tried to stop him from going it alone too long at press conferences, fearing he'd be caught flat-footed by questions as the events dragged on.
"President Biden has earned the most accomplished record of any modern commander-in-chief and rebuilt the middle class because of his attention to policy details that impact millions of lives, his active solicitation of diverse opinions from outside experts, everyday Americans, members of Congress and other elected officials, his cabinet, and historians, and because of his determination to fulfill a big-picture economic agenda that realized major priorities Democrats have worked toward for decades," Bates added in a statement to The Post.
"During every presidency, there are inevitably some in Washington who do not receive as much time with whomever the president is as they would prefer; but that never means that the president isn't engaging thoroughly with others, as this president does."
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