Tweedledee and Tweedle Really Dumb
The characters Tweedledee and Tweedledum came out of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Later, in 1871, they were transformed into Tweedledee and Sweedledum by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, to parody the corrupt Democratic Tammany Hall politicians, headed by William “Boss” Tweed and Peter “Brains” Sweeny, who ran New York as their personal fiefdom. Well guess what? The rolly-polly identical twins are back, this time in the guise of Tweedledee and Tweedle Really Dumb.
We’ll get back to Tweedledee and Tweedle Really Dumb, but let me say that this piece has been sitting unfinished in my draft file since July. So with less than three days to go until the most consequential U.S. election since the Civil War, I figure I should actually finish it. One thing that has happened in the three and a half months since I first decided to write it is that my focus has shifted. I still think Kamala Harris is perhaps the most dangerous and ill-prepared major presidential candidate we’ve ever had, and one of the absolute dumbest, so that hasn’t changed. She has added an even dumber and less qualified person, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as her running mate, so that is one change. But the overall premise of Tweedledee and Tweedle Really Dumb remains.
What has changed, in terms of the focus of the piece, is not how dumb these candidates are, but how dumb, uninformed, and just plain ignorant are the people who can’t or won’t see through their charade and lies and will wind up (if they haven’t already) casting their votes for these frauds.
I was accused in 2020 of denigrating Joe Biden’s voters. The past four years have proven me right, not just about the catastrophe Biden’s term has proven to be, but how millions of people were taken in by him and the Democratic Party’s autocratic selection of him as their candidate. I don’t feel I have anything to apologize for there. Many of those voters have since come to their senses — we can forgive them, perhaps, since they were misled by the state media on some key facts, like the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop and the crimes it revealed — but the majority of them still haven’t seen the error of their ways and are all too ready to be fleeced again. It’s not like the real facts can’t be found. There are so many sources for debunking the lies of the left that in this connected era it is hard to excuse ignorance of the facts.
The bigger issue
It’s low-hanging fruit to quote the nonsensical word salads dealt up by Harris over the past four-plus years. That’s what I originally planned to do in this piece. She truly is Tweedle Really Dumb. But I think there is a far bigger and more troubling issue, and that is how the blatantly bogus campaign points raised by Harris and Walz and the Dems are so readily accepted, absorbed, and trundled out by those on the left. These people think they are so smart, but really this is a classic case of ignorance with impudence.
Does anyone really believe Trump is a fascist, a Hitler, a Nazi, and a threat to democracy? This is the main basis for the Dems’ campaign. The accusations are so ludicrous that no sensible person, with any even basic knowledge of those things, or of Trump, would give them any credence. It’s also a total affront to those who were victims of Naziism. But we see them repeated like Gospel truth by a range of self-avowed Harris supporters across the social spectrum. A kind explanation would attribute their accusations to pure political malice, aimed against the person they see as a threat to their candidate. But like the question of whether the failures of the Biden-Harris Administration and the Dems are the result of mere incompetence or are deliberate, the kind explanation does not apply.
This past week I actually saw one of these sheep with an inflated sense of their own intelligence compare Trump to Zimbabwe’s former dictator-for-life, Robert Mugabe. Who is next, in what passes for these peoples’ minds? Idi Amin? Jean-Bédel Bokassa? Caligula? Will Trump soon be not only rounding up and executing his opponents, but he’ll be keeping their body parts in freezers in the White House basement to serve up at state dinners? And these people consider themselves intelligent.
They accuse Trump of being anti-Semitic when, in counterpoint to Harris, who rejected Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate because he’s Jewish and she wanted to appeal to the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, he has been Israel’s biggest supporter while in the White House, and made the biggest advance in bringing peace to the Middle East with the Abraham Accords.
Harris, like Biden, claim Trump is a threat to democracy, when both were installed by behind-the-scenes and very undemocratic dictate of Dem Party elites. Like Hillary Clinton was installed as the party’s candidate in 2016 to push out the peoples’ popular choice, Bernie Sanders, Biden was installed in a similar fashion in 2020. And Harris was installed as his running mate — I am convinced — as a poison pill to keep him from being either impeached for his crimes or 25th Amendmented for his senility, already visible in 2020. She never won a single vote in either 2020 nor this year, she polled as the least popular Vice President in the history of polling, and in July she was hand-picked to take the top of the ticket by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and James Clyburn, after deposing Biden as the party standard bearer in what effectively was a coup. And they say Trump is the enemy to democracy.
Their plot in 2020 was even laid out by one their own in the media, and a similar play book is being followed this year. As egregious as all this is, supporters of Harris and Tampon Tim Walz are unfazed by it. A reasonable person would ask, what is wrong with these people?
The contemporary Democratic Party has more in common with Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall than the Democratic Party of Adlai Stevenson, JFK, or RFK. Party stalwarts loyal to its former tenets, such as Tulsi Gabbard — who has now left the party and joined the Republican Party — and RFK Jr., have denounced the party’s undemocratic reincarnation and are now supporting Trump. Speaking for myself, as someone who mostly voted Democratic through my adult life, I can no longer vote for a party that has betrayed my values, as well as its own. And, should Harris win, I have to question whether I want to remain in a country with so many ignorant people.
I think it is telling that the same party that called people like Dick and Liz Cheney warmongers and worse now embraces them and props them up on the stage to plead Harris’s case. Sheep of a feather flock together, it seems.
We know what Harris says about Trump, but does anyone really know what Harris stands for? It took one of my Australian friends to point out how, when she is asked a question (on the very rare occasions when she has given an interview), invariably her stock response is, “That’s a really good question,” and she then goes on to not answer the question, instead talking around it with a lengthy obfuscation about her alleged middle-class upbringing or how her neighbors valued their lawns or what can be unburdened by what has been. The few supposed policy positions she’s stated, such as not taxing tips or “securing the border,” a joke after overseeing an open border for nearly four years, she stole from Trump. Otherwise, she repeatedly has said she can’t see a thing she’d change from what Biden has done. And hasn’t that been a rousing success.
Don’t forget what got us where we are
It’s important not to get lost in the fog. Don’t forget what the last four years have been like, what got us where we are. If you’re among the 29% of Americans who think the country is on the right track, then that might not matter to you (who are these 29%, anyway?) But if you’re among the 71% who think the country is on the wrong track, what the past four years have been like should matter to you since you’ll be facing another four years not only as bad, but worse, possibly far worse, should Harris be elected.
Rather than detailing each of the failures in the areas that most concern voters — the economy, the border, crime, and the state of our democracy — I’m going to put here links to my posts over the course of the past four years. These should remind you of where things went off the rails and the importance of getting back on them. Read them, digest them, and then, if you haven’t already, go to your polling place and vote on Tuesday. The future of America rests in the balance.
We are soooo f*cked July 29, 2021
It all falls apart August 17, 2021
Ignorance with impudence August 25, 2021
Disgrace August 31, 2021
Stranger than fiction September 16, 2021
Ruining America: It’s by design September 25, 2021
Finally, something that *is* bigger than Watergate February 17, 2022
Twisted up in our own shoelaces February 25, 2022
The dismal state of the union March 2, 2022
Dancing with the devil March 13, 2022
Back to the USSR: America’s media corruption March 20, 2022
Sweeping up the mess in Biden’s brain March 29, 2022
Turning Twitter around: A battle won in the war on free speech? April 26, 2022
Striking thirteen: Where we’ve arrived May 31, 2022
It’s time to break up the FBI August 10, 2022
Nothing matters anymore August 25, 2022
One year later we must not forget: Disgrace August 31, 2022
Nothing to see here July 10, 2023
Covering up the cover -up August 12, 2023
Back posting: The myth of the independent voter September 19, 2023
Don’t believe your lying eyes September 27, 2023
Lessons unlearned October 12, 2023
Redux: The wizard is still dead, but the world has fallen apart January 23, 2024
Who is really in charge in the White House? June 19, 2024
It’s nice to be right, but at what cost? June 28,2024
Treason, by any other name July 5, 2024
Sticks and stones July 16, 2024
The undemocratic Democratic Party August 29, 2024
Featured image, John Tenniel’s illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, published 1871. Scanned from Modern Library. Public Domain.
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