The Democratic National Committee (DNC) appears to be doubling down on crazy in Minneapolis this week with calls to pack the Supreme Court and other extremist priorities. For voters who have repeatedly shown that they want to move to a more moderate center, you are left like Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets when his character, Melvin Udall, who declared, “Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here.”
As many know, I was raised in a politically active, liberal, Democratic family in Chicago and worked much of my life for Democratic candidates and campaigns. This week again reminded many of us how far the party has moved from its more centrist history. That includes another call to pack the Supreme Court with liberals to force or ratify sweeping political and social changes.
The meeting started in a signature fashion.
Lindy Sowmick, treasurer of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) spoke to the delegates after DNC Chairman Ken Martin asked her to recite the land acknowledgment. Sowmick asked the delegates to think about her works: “As Democrats, I ask of every one of you to not allow land acknowledgments like these to simply be the checking of a box – be curious, ask questions, ensure our native neighbors are heard and work in partnership with your Indigenous communities.” Sowmick then declared:
“The DNC acknowledges and honors the Dakota Oyate – the Dakota people – who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis. The Dakota cared for the lands, lakes and the Wakpa Tanka – the ‘Great River,’ the Mississippi River – for thousands of years before colonization. This land was not claimed, or traded – it’s a part of a history of broken treaties and promises. And, in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress Indigenous peoples’ cultural and spiritual history.”
From there, it was a free-for-all, including a fierce fight over a resolution to condemn Israel. Martin strangely forced a divisive debate, where he and others pushed through a resolution that only called for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, which was denounced by others. After passing the resolution, he then moved to rescind it as an act of unity. It left many wondering what the purpose of the exercise was in forcing a debate and then withdrawing the passed resolution.
Delegates continued to show how out of touch the party has become, including one assuring delegates that the public really does not care about carjackings and migrant crimes despite the polls. Another insisted that today the nation is worse to live in than during the pandemic.
Laurence S. Zakson is a DNC member from California and a partner at Reich Adell & Cvitan in Beverly Hills. He and others called for Congress to act on changing the size of the Supreme Court due to the alleged partisan agenda of the majority and the failure to reach correct decisions. It is the same playbook that Democrats have used in the last two elections to pack the Court with liberals.
Some on the left have even called for the Supreme Court to be “dissolved.” That rhetoric has been matched by Democratic leaders. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer previously declared in front of the Supreme Court, “I want to tell you, [Neil] Gorsuch, I want to tell you, [Brett] Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stated that she wants to impeach all six of the conservative justices. She was immediately joined by other Democratic members. Previously, she admitted that she does not understand why we even have a Supreme Court. She asked, “How much does the current structure benefit us? And I don’t think it does.”
Other members, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have called for packing the Court with additional members to immediately secure a liberal majority to rule as she desires. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., RI) has assured voters that Vice President Kamala Harris will support the packing of the Court with a liberal majority.
Polls show the public understands that such moves are madness. Some of us have discussed the expansion of the Supreme Court for years, but there is a difference between expanding and packing. This is court packing in its rawest and most dangerous form.
It is one last pitch for crazy in an already over-stocked nation.
Thank you for your vision and thoughts professor, it really does help make a better day – and clears the haze of our current cultures’ fogs.
Sometimes our thoughts get so obscured through complex paths of irrational, propagandized, “values” that we forget to take a breath and re-view from a positive, HUMAN and individual perspective. In case we forgot:
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. . . . ”
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
The headline I saw was that the DNC doubled down on putting men into women’s locker rooms and showers, and depriving young women of scholarships and other opportunities they have worked their whole lives for.
So the Dem party now is for erasing women, they are pro-war and pro-crime, and they are pro-human trafficking and drug trafficking across the southern border, they are anti-energy independence. In brief, they are wrong on every issue. And they lack the intelligence to move to the center where they might have better electoral prospects. Bill Clinton showed them the way in the 1990s, and they are too blind to see it.
OMFK, they are gone. It is a car careening down a hill (radical liberalism) and they ripped out the brakes (the moderates).
Trump needs to get Thune and Johnson to offer up a bill to ban expanding the Court. If the Dems oppose the bill let the Republicans pack it, if they support the bill it will be harder for them to pack it when they do (sadly) come back into power.
Also, offer up a bill to make the filibuster the law otherwise they will get rid of that the first time they have 51 senators. It is only due to the courageousness of Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema.
Why doesn’t Trump’s DOJ list them as a terrorist organization?
For someone who calls this site “worthless” it seems that our Gigi just can’t keep herself away. It’s another sign of a simple mind that she gets fixated so easily.
Let’s audit Kamala Harris $1.5 billion dollar campaign
Let’s give the Dems a win. Trump and the Rep Senate can pack the court right now! LOL!
Yawn… try using with little gray matter you have
And yet the Democrats refuse to give a land acknowledgement to a people who have documentation and archaeological evidence showing they were in their land more than 3500 years ago. I write, of course, of ancient Israel and her descendants, half of whom live in the modern State of Israel and almost half of whom live in the United States.
Something seems to be happening in Iowa.
Yesterday Democrats flipped a Republican state senate seat in a special election by 10 points.
Trump carried that district by 11 points in 2024, so a 21 point swing.
Last January the Democrats flipped another Republican senate seat in Iowa that Trump carried by 21 points.
I’m sure there is nothing to worry about.
“Something seems to be happening in Iowa.
Yesterday Democrats flipped a Republican state senate seat in a special election by 10 points.
Trump carried that district by 11 points in 2024, so a 21 point swing.
Last January the Democrats flipped another Republican senate seat in Iowa that Trump carried by 21 points.
I’m sure there is nothing to worry about.”
Yes Gigi, I’m sure that the party represented by the insanity in this article is absolutely on the verge of taking control of the federal government because they managed to flip a couple of local elections. Hope springs eternal!
I think you are right
I’m pretty sure that the people who vote in “local” elections are not permitted to vote in federal elections.
So obviously there is nothing to worry about in 2026.
“I think you are right
I’m pretty sure that the people who vote in “local” elections are not permitted to vote in federal elections.
So obviously there is nothing to worry about in 2026.”
Yes Gigi, the political forces and the electorate that shape a local election always reflect on national trends. This has never not been the case. Hope springs eternal!
Democrats should get used to only winning local elections, given that the party is being rapidly reduced to rump, regional party with no national influence. I’m sure that a few more land acknowledgements will fix things right up though. That, and some more tampon dispensers in the boy’s bathrooms.
I agree.
Democrats can only win “local” elections.
Thankfully the voters in “local” elections are not permitted to vote in federal elections.
So, absolutely nothing to worry about !!!!
“I agree.
Democrats can only win “local” elections.
Thankfully the voters in “local” elections are not permitted to vote in federal elections.
So, absolutely nothing to worry about !!!!”
I see that you haven’t done anything to improve your truly shocking reading comprehension problem.
What you didn’t post.
Drey’s victory breaks a GOP supermajority in the state Senate, giving her party more power despite its minority status in the body. In particular, the extra Democratic vote, which will bring the margin in the chamber to 33 Republicans to 17 Democrats,
And according to the NYT, The Hill and Just The News, the Democrat party has lost, so far, 2.1 million voters while the Republicans gained 2.4 million voters. The NYT noted the elector map is shifting significantly toward Red states for more House seats and Blue states losing.
Then there is the money issue. Democrats are still paying off Harris’s failed campaign. You know, the one where she/they spent $1.5B in 107 days and still lost. Democrat fundraising is lacking while their donors are asking themselves why would they throw away good money on bad policies.
NotReallyaFarmer is clutching at straws here.
He seems to have plenty of straws to clutch, so maybe he really is a farmer after all
Who knew ?????
“NotReallyaFarmer is clutching at straws here.
He seems to have plenty of straws to clutch, so maybe he really is a farmer after all
Who knew ?????”
You’re desperately trying to claim that a couple of irrelevant local elections in Iowa are somehow harbingers of a national trend, and yet you accuse others of clutching at straws? Your lack of self awareness continues to amaze.
You are absolutely correct.
A couple of irrelevant local elections cannot possibly indicate a national trend
We all know that the voters in “local” elections do not have the right to vote in national elections
Nothing to worry about.
“You are absolutely correct.
A couple of irrelevant local elections cannot possibly indicate a national trend
We all know that the voters in “local” elections do not have the right to vote in national elections
Nothing to worry about.”
Again, have you tried reading to actually comprehend? Or are you just a spastic moron who doesn’t even know what she’s going on about? All signs point to the latter.
Who is clutching at straws? Read it for yourself,
The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
Democrats alarmed over new data showing voters fleeing to GOP
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5462604-voter-registration-shift-democrats/
NYT warns election map moving away from Dems, with implications for 2032
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/nyt-warns-electoral-college-map-shifting-away-democrats-reducing-chances
“Florida and Texas could gain a total of five congressional seats, while Idaho and Utah are expected to each add a seat”
Note the likely losses for CA and NY. IL, MN and PA could lose a seat each.
Keep clutching at those straws man !!!
You have so many straws to clutch that I am almost convinced that you really might be a farmer after all.
Keep your head in the sand and deny the reality of the situation. It is people like you and all the other annony morons who are bringing the Democrat party down. They want you out of their party. But, hey! Just keep what you do and keep on bringing the Democrat party even lower.
Hopefully, moderate or the centrists the good professor mentions, will leave the Democrat party and form their own party. After you and your kind kill what remains of the Democrat party, if you try to join the new party, they with give you the old Heisman, and tell you under no uncertain terms, “NO!”
Keep on clutching !!!!!!
If any party is going to split it is the Republicans.
I seem to remember Elmo talking about a new party.
You are living in a fantasy land.
“Keep on clutching !!!!!!
If any party is going to split it is the Republicans.
I seem to remember Elmo talking about a new party.
You are living in a fantasy land.”
Gigi, your party is dying before your eyes. Even your house organ the New York Times admits it.
“Keep clutching at those straws man !!!
You have so many straws to clutch that I am almost convinced that you really might be a farmer after all.”
Yeah, the freaking New York Times is calling out how the disastrous Democrat party is flailing and losing voters by the millions. Gigi, if you clutched those straws any harder you’d absorb them into your body.
New York Times ???????
What a joke.
That leftist libtard rag has no idea about the truth.
Everything they publish is leftist lies.
Anyone who believes their propaganda is an idiot.
“Anyone who believes their propaganda is an idiot.”
A list that would include you. I love it when you self immolate, Gigi.
Too bad it’s such a short clip – the part just before that is just as appropriate.
Thank you professor for, once again, pointing out how disconnected the far-left wing faction that has taken control of the Democrat party. This is yet another example why so many people are leaving the Democrat party, while the Republican party gains.
Seriously Democrats, you have to take back your party from the stupid and crazy if you want to be a viable, electable party again. Running on “We are NOT Trump!” or the hate and rage is not a winning hand. Just look at the comments on the good professor’s blog by all the various annonys. Those are the people you need out of your party. Or, walk away from them and form a new party with emphasis on traditional Democrat platform.
I loved the part where that women said let’s give back the land to the Indians.
😂 ok, but no wheels nor metal.
There’s iron in your words, Dust
Upstate, there’s crazy and then there’s crazy smart. My spidey-senses are telling me they want us to feel so confident in their “apparent” dive into irrelevance that we won’t see their secret weapon coming. In my opinion, that secret weapon is rigging the election. If Republicans don’t put a full court press on ensuring election integrity, it won’t matter what the net gain/loss is for registrations.
This quote is often attributed to Stalin, but it really doesn’t matter who said it, or if was ever said by anyone. The quote itself is profound and worth repeating:
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Upstate, that was me. I neglected to finish clicking the buttons.
OLLY,
Got ya!
Actually, in the latest Gabbard bombshell, it is suggested the “burn bags” have information concerning possible election corruption in 2020. That proves to be actual facts, we could see election reform.
These Democrats may not really believe their own bs. They merely stand against anything the opposition (conservative leadership) attempts to lead with. These are not leaders or critical thinkers.
“These Democrats may not really believe their own bs. They merely stand against anything the opposition (conservative leadership) attempts to lead with. These are not leaders or critical thinkers.”
The problem for America is that the Democrat foot soldiers absolutely do buy the BS. Witness our trolls here. And as we’ve seen, it doesn’t take much to nudge one into picking up a sniper rifle. This party is an existential threat to the future of the Republic.
The Democratic Party knows this is statement is a fallacy: “Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here.”
The Democrats are the ‘big tent’ party for a reason. As in Democrats know a tent allows for flexible and almost limitless inclusion of craziness.
“Democrats know a tent allows for flexible and almost limitless inclusion of craziness.”
Judging by the quotes cited by Turley, they also know the correct procedure for maximizing the crazy in that tent: stretch it as much as possible with humongous volumes of hot air, then quickly pack in as much crazy as possible until the seams begin to split.
“Any land acknowledgement in the Great Lakes region must acknowledge that the Iroquois stole land from the Chippawa as part of the Beaver Wars. And, that led the Chippawa to take land from the Dakotas.”
Turley seemed to like the opening statement, which portrayed the land there as under the magnanimous and selfless stewardship of the Amerindian tribes right up to the coming of the violent, immoral, white man. That ludicrous picture completely omits tribe on tribe warfare (that frequently included enslaving the losers) of the kind you reference. It also ignores the fact that there were several waves of Asian immigrants over millennia, each wave conquering (and almost certainly also enslaving) those already here.
““so limiting the Ds to any legal response is already putting the Ds at an unfair advantage.”
This doesn’t even begin to make sense. Have you tried Englishing today?”
The original statement mad perfect sense to me as a clear acknowledgement that if Democrats stay within the confines of the law they are guaranteed to lose. Didn’t you see it that way ;>?
Any land acknowledgement in the Great Lakes region must acknowledge that the Iroquois stole land from the Chippawa as part of the Beaver Wars.
And, that led the Chippawa to take land from the Dakotas.
They really like stuffing their beavers.
And the Dakotas and Chippewas stole it from the Paleo Americans.
Enough of the voting public is on to these crazies now. I doubt they’re going to be holding office for much longer.
The ritual calls to pack the Supreme Court every time a liberal cause fails just proves the Left can barely abide our Constitution and when they’re denied they want to take their ball and go home. Liberal/leftists/Socialists/Communists all hate America as it stands.
As an old guy, I find it interesting to compare the Democratic party now with what it was in my youth. In those days, there were Democrats with whom I had significant differences but who seemed to actually value America as a free country, Adlai Stevenson, JFK, Truman, and before my time FDR. Now all Democrats of any importance are fully nihilist. That is, they reject any facts which clash with their ideology and all human values, honesty, competence, integrity, excellence, beauty, etc. as such. As a result, they fill their psyche with hatred of anyone who disagrees with them in the slightest and hate, fear, and try to destroy freedom and individual rights on behalf of the leftist police state they are so desperately trying to establish. They deserve our complete condemnation.
Well, except for FDR I agree with you.
currently Democrats get more money the WORSE they make it. DEFUND THEM
End Federal Aid to cities, states, non-profits and colleges
Ban Public Unions, the political army.
That will END their reign
The continent of Africa reminds Trump of black people, so he wants to
use nuclear weapons to sink the entire continent into the ocean. Crazy.
“The continent of Africa reminds Trump of black people, so he wants to
use nuclear weapons to sink the entire continent into the ocean. Crazy.”
Gigi, are there any blacks in Africa left after your fellow Democrats stole them all to use as slaves?
hay anon……
MORON comment as usual.
They make the worst tenants. Trump should know.
“They make the worst tenants. Trump should know.”
What about Letitia James? Isn’t she a landlord that lied under perjury to get a more favorable mortgage rate on her apartment complex?
Packing the court is legal. And as long as it is legal it is fair game. The Rs are violating laws left and right, so limiting the Ds to any legal response is already putting the Ds at an unfair advantage.
I just heard a radio story about how Kennedy is actively sabotaging vaccines in the US. That is a radial action. Nothing the Ds are proposing is radical under any definition.
you are delusional and/or on drugs…get help packing court is legal person
“That is a radial action.”
But is white-walled as well? 🤣
“The Rs are violating laws left and right”
I do so love when the left just tosses out bromides without any proof.
“so limiting the Ds to any legal response is already putting the Ds at an unfair advantage.”
This doesn’t even begin to make sense. Have you tried Englishing today?
Packing the court is legal. Right now Trump and the Senate are considering increasing the court by 6 additional members and eliminating the filibuster. This will be presented on the floor next week.
Are you in favor?
This is what happens when your political party is full of spazzes like our Gigi here.
God save the Republic if these loons ever get control of the three branches.
The Republic will be dead by Republican murder long before that.
Poor Gigi, not understanding that having policy disputes is not the same as the dissolution of a country. It’s the sign of a simple mind to catastrophize everything like Gigi does.
Then why is it the Democrat party is trying to get the nation to commit suicide with their crazy policies? Like green energy, pushing us closer to WWIII, pushing for biological males in women’s sports, bath rooms, locker rooms. Pornography in elementary school libraries. Protecting criminal illegals. Cashless bail.
Here is a good example of crazy,
UNREAL. Temecula Valley Unified School District (@TVUSD) is reportedly forcing young girls to fill out a “mental health accommodation” form to declare they have a mental health issue if they don’t want boys invading the girls’ restrooms at school.
The boys pretending to be girls… pic.twitter.com/s0LAUKCX6Y
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 25, 2025
Upstate.
Nuts. Typical of CA. Just look at the governor.
Proof fool? You libs never post any.