DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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So Andy Burnham is coming for Number 10. The Manchester mayor—who has spent the last decade cosplaying as a northern everyman while racking up spending pledges like a teenager with a stolen credit card—is about to knife Sir Keir Starmer and claim the crown.

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I am not making this up.

Note to self: Do not approach police who have drawn weapons unless specifically instructed to do so, and then move very slowly.

(I thought rabbis were supposed to be smarter than that….)

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

How shallow does your life have to be such that ‘a straight ally for LBGTQWXYZ Jews’ is a major accomplishment?

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Biden-appointed, of course.

We need to talk about name standards for federal judges.

Yes, you read that right. The judge’s name is “Sparkle Sooknanan.”

What Judge Lando Calrissian meant to say is that the Trump administration is not allowed to use updated citizenship data to check the validity of voter rolls.

NavyMatters

Helicopters are generally recognized as the best ASW platform above the surface; another submarine being the best ASW platform below the surface, of course. Unfortunately, this leads to the widespread mindset that every ship must have helos embarked for ASW.
The problem with the concept of helos on every ship is that the aviation element of a ship is shockingly expensive. A helo needs a flight deck (something on the order of 80ft x 50ft), hangar (another 80ft x 50 ft), dedicated weapon magazines, fuel storage, maintenance shops and parts storage, pilot and maintainer berthing (and food, water, etc.). The extra 160ft x 50ft of ship size means more power is needed to move the ship which means bigger engines which requires more ship size which … You get the idea.

Another problem is that helos are only sporadically available, being notorious for needing maintenance at inconvenient times.

Sure, there’s a penalty to be paid for putting helos on every ship but, really, what’s the alternative since we need ASW? Well, one alternative is ASROC (anti-submarine rocket). ASROC began back when submarines still had to get fairly close to their target in order to attack. Today, submarines can attack with torpedoes or missiles from far beyond ASROC range (vertical launch ASROC has a range of around 12 nm). What’s needed is a much longer range ASROC, perhaps on the order of a hundred miles. Given that we have thousand mile cruise missiles I can’t see any problem with developing a hundred mile ASROC.
In the past, ASROC used arm launchers, box launchers, and common VLS cells. The flexibility in launch mechanism means that some kind of suitable launcher can be placed on any ship tasked with ASW.

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A Brooklyn café posted on Instagram that it refunded a purchase made by Rep. Dan Goldman, saying that it doesn’t serve “genocide enablers.”

“Do you see how it doesn’t taste like genocide juice?” the post by Poetica Coffee read. “Or are you still having a hard time telling the difference?”

In the post, the coffee shop included a photo of Goldman at the Lorimer Street location of their five Brooklyn spots. “Too bad we didn’t recognize you right away or we would have turned you away,” the post said.

The caption on the post said Goldman’s money is “probably coming from AIPAC anyways” and told Goldman never to come back. The post was accompanied by the song “F— You” by British singer-songwriter Lily Allen.

Jewish community leaders immediately condemned the post, which was deleted when Poetica Coffee deactivated its account Monday.

Proglodyte virtue-signaling has consequences.

A Navy SEAL once told me the secret:

Two to the body, one to the head
Always leaves the target dead.

Priorities USA Will Spend $30 Million To Define JD Vance and Marco Rubio (Elena Schneider/NOTUS)  God forbid people should make up their minds without the benefits of a Narrative.

Trump keeps bringing up the number 22 (NBC News)  No, NBC keeps bringing it up.

Why Trump has been attacking the Supreme Court, with 3 key rulings ahead (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)  Although not as much as Democrats and their lakeys in the Narrative Media.

How MAGA Undermined the Military (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

What if we covered Trump’s age the way we covered Biden’s? (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  Because Trump is obviously senile the way Biden was. It’s not the age, it’s the incompetence.

“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid (Anna Maria Barry-Jester/ProPublica)  Demcrats don’t like competition for power grabs.

Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats (Casey Michel/New Republic)  Kleptocrats like Democrat politicians?

The MAGA stars freaked out by their own movement (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Or at least that’s what they want you to believe./

Exclusive / ‘The president seems to revel in chaos’: Cornyn goes his own way (Burgess Everett/Semafor)  You want chaos? Try any Blue state.

Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show (Associated Press)  “Permitted”? Are they under the delusion that the DEA can stop all drugs if they only want to hard enough?

Trump is still haunted by Hoover’s failures (Zachary Basu/Axios)  Because, as we all know, the mid-readers at Axios know exactly what Trump is ‘haunted by’, even if he doesn’t.

Trump Is Melting Down and Threatening Jail Time Over Reflecting Pool Disaster (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  At least that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Transcript: Krugman on Trump Mental Breakdown and a Nation in Decline (New Republic)  The Man Who Is Always Wrong is right at home in the Narratie Media.

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Does she have any friends that aren’t black? Wouldn’t that be racist?

I wonder whether they’re all dying their hair blonde as well.

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It’s for the children….

Babylon Bee.

And he’s just the guy to do it.

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Of course, every service needs a ‘mess dress’ uniform, even though people quit dressing for dinner in 1960 when JFK took off his top hat.

If they’re going to use the Star Fleet swoosh, they ought to consider using the Star Fleet uniform. It’s only fair.

I can’t wait to see Trump in one….

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She may have been the worst VP of all time, she may have been shellacked by Donald Trump, but somehow Kamala Harris is still making our days over here by dropping in and tossing us random word salads when we least expect it.

Behold this monstrosity spewed forth on Don Lemon’s show….

“I really, truly believe this. We we each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and and and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb.”

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I read this book when it first came out in 1973, and thought it intresting fiction but somewhat far-fetched; typical dystopian literature.

Look at the news, and you realize that it represents Biblical-level prophecy.

Enoch Powell is sitting somewhere shouting “I TOLD YOU SO!”

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You can’t make this shit up.

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They want your face. It will be called safety. Verification. Age assurance. A small step to protect children. But strip the language away and the demand is plain: before you may speak, post, or read, you must first prove who you are. And the only way they’ve figured out how to do it is with your government ID, or with your face held up to a camera that decides whether you are old enough to be trusted. This is the deal now being written into law on three continents, and you are meant to accept it quietly. Don’t.

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said a man with direct ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tried to enter the United States with the Iranian national soccer team during the World Cup.

“When we started doing the research on him, he had only been put in place since 2022, and we didn’t allow him to board the plane,” Mullin said in a TV interview Sunday. “The guy trying to get on the plane yesterday had direct ties to IRGC.”

The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) called Mullin’s allegation “an outright lie.”

“The claim that an official representative of the Iranian football federation attempted to board a flight to enter the United States yesterday and was prevented from doing so is an outright and undeniable lie. This claim is so unfounded that those who made it are well aware that such an incident never occurred in the first place,” FFIRI said.

“It is regrettable that a senior U.S. official has resorted to spreading false statements and misinformation in order to justify restrictions imposed on members of the Iranian national team delegation,” FFIRI added.

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The Renew Europe parliamentary group has asked European Parliament President Roberta Metsola to consider possible sanctions against two Members of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group over comments posted on social media following a recent vote on policies concerning the return of irregular migrants.

The request comes after a week of heightened political tensions in Brussels. The European Parliament approved new measures aimed at strengthening return mechanisms, an issue that continues to divide the chamber’s political groups.

Following the vote, several conservative MEPs were recorded chanting “send them back” in the hemicycle. Shortly afterwards, Swedish Renew MEP Abir Al-Sahlani, who was born in Iraq, posted a video on social media saying that she had never felt so unsafe inside the European Parliament.

The reaction of some conservative lawmakers sparked a fresh controversy.

All it takes in Europe is for some Special Snowflake to ‘feel unsafe’ and you’re going to jail.

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I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences to an extent, but I stopped long before these people did. If San Francisco was nuked tomorrow, the world would feel a weight off their shoulders. ??

This isn’t technology, this is a mind virus. New York wants a couple basis points so they can maintain their lifestyle, Los Angeles wants a bit of your attention so they can feel famous, SF wants to come for your inner life and pimp you out and mediate every interaction and there’s not even a so.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state-funded scholarship program that awarded financial aid based on the race of college students. The Democrat-controlled court followed the precedent laid out by the United States Supreme Court in finding that Gov. Tony Evers and the state were violating the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.

Two of the most liberal justices, however, wrote a concurrence denouncing the bar on the use of race for such scholarships.

If Democrats are able to pack the Supreme Court as demanded by many party leaders, this concurrence is an example of the likely changes that a packed court will bring in reversing anti-discrimination and other rulings.

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Will climate litigation now become the most lucrative game on the planet after AI and the World Cup? The so-called “climate-vulnerable” communities, the small island states and other developing countries are dancing a resilience-and-reparations tango with renewed vigour.

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Evem Orthodox Jews don’t have as many mitzvot to obtemper as Climatistas.

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To tell the truth. it doesn’t take much to cosplay an economst; just look at Pual Krugman, the Man Who Is Always Wrong.

She dismisses the counterarguments — that Net Zero is unaffordable, that the UK cannot act alone, that transition costs will raise the cost of living — as “bad arguments” and dispenses with each in a few sentences, without engaging with the substantial body of academic work that supports them. The audience at Westminster Central Hall was not in a position to push back. Parliament, the media and the public should be. The UK has no shortage of genuine economic expertise. It is past time to insist that it be brought to bear.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

More tenants living in New York City’s least expensive housing units aren’t paying their rent — a trend that risks further destabilizing the city’s affordable housing market.

They realize that the mayor is a Socialist of Color so they quite naturally decided not to pay out money that they can eventually get the actual taxpayers to fork over through some sort of political scheme.

The uptick in rental delinquency isn’t new. It started six years ago, when the pandemic flung the city’s economy into chaos and plunged low-income New Yorkers into dire financial straits. But even as the city has rebounded, rent collection rates in affordable housing remain short of pre-pandemic levels. As costs balloon, landlords say insufficient rental income is threatening their ability to stay afloat.

Of course, in the New York Political world, landloards might as well have Trump Cooties for all that anybody gives a shit aobut them.

The issue has confounded owners and operators of these buildings, many of them nonprofits, which are often celebrated as a model for addressing the extreme dearth of housing options for very low-income people.

And they will stay confounded, brecause reality doesn’t pay any attention to their Kiumbaya fantasies. Markets work even when you don’t want them to, whether you understand them or not.

The New Neo.

In his new book, Suicidal Empathy, Saad unleashes a blistering critique of maladaptively irrational altruism that has gripped our culture. This mind parasite hijacked the empathy module of our progressive elite, leading to a catastrophic miscalibration of moral priorities. The results are everywhere: from coddling violent criminals to protecting rapists to branding self-defense as toxic behavior. We are witnessing a civilization in rapid decline. Lunatic policies are instituted because we prioritize the feelings of ostensibly marginalized groups over The Truth, criminals over victims, and squatters over homeowners. This is not humane; it’s an active dismantling of the pillars that keep us safe and free.

Saad is a professor, but he seems to be very realistic as well. His thesis makes me think of Robert Frost – yes, that Robert Frost. For example, this post of mine from 2019 contains the following thoughts from Frost….

Frost was writing about socialism in 1936, whereas Saad is writing more generally. But the principle is much the same. Empathy – similar to Frost’s mercy – is part of human nature and definitely has its uses. But taken to an extreme, and misapplied, it is dangerous and can lead to either failure of an economic system or cultural suicide or literal deaths, as well as restraints on liberty in the name of kindness.

 

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Canadian citizens never voted in favor of socialized medicine. Why would anyone do that? It makes sense to vote for bad health care for other people, if you’re a sociopath or a leftist. But why would anyone vote for bad health care for themselves?

The Canadian government may not have cared about health care, but it cared a great deal about power. So they simply seized the health care industry, using men with guns. Just kidding, of course. They didn’t seize the health care industry. They regulated it. They couldn’t pass laws, so they passed regulations that were impossible to satisfy (or even understand). This made the entire health care industry so inefficient that after a while it didn’t work, forcing the government to step in and save the people from the rich corporations who were ostensibly to blame. Obamacare is based on a similar model. Works every time.

Baby mamas have a lot to answer for … but they won’t.

Babylon Bee.

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While some problems caused by California’s one-party government get significant press, there’s one major issue that’s virtually ignored: The state’s 911 system is dangerously outdated, and the attempt to update it has already cost taxpayers $502 million with little to show for it.

California has an analog emergency warning system from the 1970s. There is broad agreement that the current system puts Californians at risk. Gov. Gavin Newsom proudly announced in 2019 that California would update its system.

In a 2019 press release, Newsom’s office explained some of the failures of the current system. At the time, there were 13 system outages a month on average. Newsom’s office said federal regulators estimated that speeding up average emergency response times by a single minute could save 10,000 lives each year.

The project is clearly necessary, but its cost has been astronomical, and progress has been sluggish. In 2019, Newsom asserted that the project would be completed by 2022 and cost approximately $132 million. He also explained that the project would be managed by a little-known governmental entity called the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES). With a name like that, Newsom cannot duck responsibility for the failure that has followed.

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Team Algae and Filth has been busy at work, supported by CNN, ABC and various leftist media, in an attempt to grow algae back in the DC reflection pool, and cut out the newly installed lining. A few arrests have been made by DC park police.

Yes, these folks are that unstable.  Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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Just sayin’….

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And rightly so. This case is different from most “corporate policy” cases in that the employees were not resisting the robbery but rather defending themselves against assault & battery, which is a positive right in law.

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I am most enjoying the reactions to visitors to the United States for the World Cup games. But it’s also still fun to mock hateful anti-American leftists.

Many of us have mocked institutions (often “educational” institutions), and individuals for beginning meetings, events, and presentations with “land acknowledgments” that “acknowledge” that the event is being held on land “stolen” from some “indigenous” peoples.

But we mock the “land acknowledgments” because they never include an offer to return the land to the peoples from whom the land was supposedly stolen.

I suppose the defenders of such “land acknowledgments” could note that since the occupying institution has occupied the land for an extended time, returning the land to the peoples from whom the land was “stolen” would be impractical.

OK. But, former President Obama doesn’t have that excuse with respect to his recently constructed and just-opened Obama Presidential Center.

I want to know why they made it as ugly as possible.

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Commenter “Kate” linked to this thread on “X” by John McWhorter, about Karmelo Anthony and his motives for stabbing Austin Metcalf. I had read the thread last night; it’s long, so I’m just giving the link here and discussing some excerpts.

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The folks over at the BBC, notorious for their objective and totally truthful reporting, took one look at the skyline of Houston and thought, “That can’t be right. Houston has mountains. We should add some mountains to this skyline.”

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What’s left out of the headline, of course, is that Mohamed Hussein is part of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Governor Greg Abbott designated as a terrorist organization.

He really thought he could waltz into the Texas Republican convention as a member of this terror group and find acceptance.

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If you immigrate, you must assimilate and do so as soon as possible. If you don’t want to embrace Americanism then you don’t need to come to America. Common sense.

Truth.

The War Zone.

Researchers conclude the nuclear-powered cruise missile almost certainly uses a direct-cycle engine that spews radioactive material throughout its flight.

Babylon Bee.

I like it. It has texture, and scope. If Trump starts wearing an eyepatch and a duster, we’ll know.

The Real Reason Trump Never Stops Talking About Voter Fraud (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, voter fraud it TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE, so that CAN’T POSSIBLY be the reason.  But we mind-readers at the NYT will be happy to share what we know is going on in Trump’s supposed brain.

‘Humiliation’: Donald Trump battles claims his Iran deal is worse than Obama’s (Financial Times)  Because, as we all know, the Magic Negro couldn’t POSSIBLY have made a deal that was anything less than perfect.

Trump jokes he’ll blame Vance if Iran deal doesn’t work out (Julia Manchester/The Hill)  But we’re still trying to puzzle out what he REALLY meant….

JD Vance Is Going to Eat This Turd and Love It (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  That’s the Bullshitwark—always keeping it classy.

With Gushy PBS Approval, Eddie Glaude Likens MAGA to KKK With ‘Evangelical Twist’  MAGA is the New Nigger.

The right-wing media revolt against Trump’s proposed MOU with Iran (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)  Normal people believe it when they see it. The Narrative Media see it when they believe it.

Why Trump’s Iran agreement could be a tough sell for Republicans: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)  Because we say so. That’s good enough for you proles.

Trump’s pitch to voters: “I love the inflation” (Vox) Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at Vox know what even Trump doesn’t know.

Top Democrats demand Rubio briefing on Iran deal (Andrew Solender/Axios)  I guess they don’t believe the Narrative Media any more than the rest of us.

Why Trump is sabotaging his own nominee (Cameron Peters/Vox)  Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at Vox know what even Trump doesn’t know

Trump Demanded Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender.’ He Got a Surprise Instead. (David E. Sanger/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, we mind-readers at the NYT know when he’s surprised and when he isn’t.

Trump’s Deal With Iran Opens New Rifts in G.O.P. (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at the NYT know what Republicans are thinking even when they don’t.

Trump’s SAVE Act obsession ties Senate in knots (Mike Zapler/Axios)

Republicans fear Trump is hurting their chances. He can’t understand why. (Politico)  Because, as we all know,  we mind-readers at Politico know what Republicans fear and what Trump doesn’t understand better than anybody else.

Trump Blows Through His Iran Red Lines in Justifying Peace Deal (Nick Wadhams/Bloomberg) Because, as we all know,  the mind-readers at Blooomberg know Trump’s red lines far better than he does.

How the stock market became Trump’s most favored adviser (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, we mind-readers at the Washington Poop know who Trump’s most favored adviser is better than he does.

Power and Geopolitics After Trump (Paul Krugman)  The man who has never been right even once in his life lays down the Narrative.

Everyone in Trump’s Cabinet Is Eating Sauerkraut (Wall Street Journal)  Thank God the WSJ has nothing more important to write about.

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After the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal of actually funding and encouraging racist protests, it appears that at least one individual has created his own orchestrated racist incident.

In Chicago (where Jussie Smollett committed his infamous racist hoax), a burning cross was denounced by Mayor Brandon Johnson as a sign of the racism in society.

Johnson, however, refused to address the fact that the cross burning was actually the work of an anti-Trump liberal student.

University of Illinois senior Merlin Lu said it was never intended as a racist symbol, but the question is whether it could still be charged as a hate crime.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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One of Baltimore City’s premier bar and restaurant districts was transformed into a warzone over the weekend, with roaming gangs of underage kids, large unruly crowds, fights, and even a shootout that seemed like a scene from the crime drama The Wire. Urban decay in Baltimore is rampant and is a symptom of failed left-wing leadership, which seems more focused on city-killing progressive politics, DEI, illegal aliens, and climate change than actually providing basic law and order to taxpayers.

Fox Baltimore reports that Fells Point was flooded with hundreds of young people, mostly underage teens, overwhelming parts of the nightlife district known for its local shops, bars, and restaurants.

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The Obama Presidential Center is set to open Friday in Chicago, but several subcontractors who helped build the project say they are still struggling to recover millions of dollars in alleged unpaid costs.

Among them is Adamson Plumbing owner Mike Owen, who said his company is nearly $4 million in the red after years of work on the project.

“That is a hole that no subcontractor, small business can survive,” Owen said. He said the losses have drained company reserves, created uncertainty for employees, and could lead to layoffs.

“Flounder, you fucked up! You trusted us!” — Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman, damned glad to meet you.

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It seems impossible — or just too revolting — to keep up with the financial hanky-panky of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner (gag) Jennifer Siebel Newsom. But thanks to a couple of investigative reporters with stronger stomachs than I have, let’s see if I can’t put everything you need to know into one easily digestible column.

I love it when other people do my dirty work for me, so let’s get started.

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For generations, Democrats have portrayed themselves as the party of ordinary Americans – factory workers, waitresses, truck drivers, police officers, construction workers, and middle-class families trying to get ahead. Yet one of the most striking features of modern American politics is how often Democrat leaders, activists, and media allies seem genuinely baffled by the very people they claim to represent.

The latest example comes from Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse, whose reaction to President Trump’s appearance at a packed UFC event on the White House lawn last weekend revealed a familiar pattern among America’s cultural elites. To tens of millions of Americans, UFC is simply entertainment. It is competitive, exciting, patriotic, and increasingly mainstream.

To Hesse and myriad other journalists and political commentators, however, its popularity seems to require explanation – as though they are studying the customs of a distant tribe.

That reaction says far more about elite America than it does about UFC fans, and few institutions better embody elite opinion than the modern Democrat Party.

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Democrats are far more likely to say they’re “ashamed” to be Americans than are other U.S. adult citizens, results of a new national survey by The Economist/YouGov reveal.

With the nation’s 250th anniversary less than a month away, the survey conducted June 13-15 polled Americans’ views on their country.

When asked to rate how “proud” they were to be an American, 60% of U.S. adult citizens said they were either “very proud” (42%) or “somewhat proud” (18%).

While 20% of all adults said they were either somewhat (12%) or very (8%) “ashamed,” nearly twice as many Democrat citizens (38%) said they were ashamed, including 12% who reported that they were “very ashamed.” Only 40% of Democrats said they were at least somewhat proud to be Americans.

Another 22% of Democrats said they were “neither” proud nor ashamed to be Americans, on par with the 20% of all U.S. adults who voiced no opinion, one way or the other.

Democrats were also much less likely to think that America has been “a force for good in the world.”

I know how they feel—I’m ashamed that Democrats are Americans too.