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Convention puts GOP’s reality on display: Midterm policy agenda is skimpy

Republicans used their midterm convention this week to ask voters to preserve their congressional majorities and let them “finish the job.”

But with few consensus legislative goals, it’s far from clear what job they want to finish.

The two-day convention here centered on painting Democrats as an increasingly socialist party that American voters cannot trust with power while highlighting the GOP’s one major victory on Capitol Hill under President Donald Trump’s second term: the year-old tax-cut package known as the “big, beautiful bill.”

In contrast, there was little talk from the podium of what Republicans might seek to pass with a continued trifecta, and members interviewed on the sidelines shared differing visions of what specific legislation the GOP should pursue in the last two years of Trump’s presidency.

Well, true, the GOP doesn’t have the detailed agenda the Democrats do, which includes

• Impeach Trump, Vance, everyone around him, and investigate them ad nauseum
• Raise taxes
• Restrict legal ownership of guns
• Force Everyone Else into an EV
• Defund the cops
• Defund the military
• Legislation establishing a 32 hour workweek where people get paid for 40
• Government run and controlled healthcare
• Cancel all student debt
• End all cooperation with those horrible Jews in Israel
• Defund ICE, end the border
• End sanctions on Cuba and Iran
• Abolish the Senate and presidency
• End the ability of the Supreme Court to do judicial review
• Let in tons of Muslim extremists and people from 3rd world shitholes.
• Control every citizen

It’s nuts, but, hey, the Dem agenda isn’t skimpy, right?

Oh, and let’s not forget the coming AI apocalypse

Obama and the Dems are suspiciously sounding the ‘AI apocalypse’ alarm — just in time for the midterms

The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax. How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week.

The campaign launch was when Jacob Coxon, a low-level 27-year-old AI researcher, trumpeted his resignation from AI company Anthropic in a Wall Street Journal exclusive last week followed by a viral X thread warning AI will “kill us all.”

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade .?.?. They are gambling with our lives,” he claimed.

His boss, the Democrat-aligned Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, amplified Coxon’s apocalyptic message with a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, followed by a giddy interview CBS aired Sunday in which he essentially called for a one-world government to regulate AI.

He wants “the right combination of governments” to provide “some kind of joint governance [to] control the technology.

Why don’t all those AI companies come up with rules? Oh, right, because the Elites want to codify their positions and make it harder for small companies and startups. Anyhow, Dems are beating the AI apocalypse bandwagon hard, because their voters are complete sheep and do not know any better.

Read: Politico: GOP Midterm Policy Is “Skimpy” »

I mean, the Fish Wrap has seen the huge number of Democrats running as “Democratic Socialists Of America”, right? That the mayor of the city the Times is in claims to be a DSA member? That AOC has long branded herself as a Socialist?

Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists

One by one, Republican speakers at President Trump’s midterm convention in Dallas this week turned to a far-fetched argument with echoes of the Cold War.

Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana claimed, “Next year the communists will be in Congress — that’s what’s so frightening.” Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 House Republican, said implausibly that there had been a “Bolshevik Revolution in the Democrat Party.”

And when Mr. Trump, the ringleader of this new Red Scare, took the stage, he returned — again and again and again — to baseless claims that Democrats were running as communists in the midterms.

“It’s going to be a communist country if they win,” he predicted, one of at least 60 times a speaker at the convention mentioned communism or communists.

It’s baseless, you guys! In practice, what’s the difference between Communism and Socialism? From what we’ve seen in history, the only difference is allowing voting. That’s about it. Granted, it would be better if Republicans called them Socialists, it would have the same impact. The communism tag might have some impact with Boomers and even older Gen X, but, not with the younger folks.

Although this year’s Democratic primary season brought a surge of left-wing momentum, and a handful of victories by democratic socialists running for Congress in Colorado, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, no credible midterm candidate identifies as a communist. And there is little momentum behind any communist movement in U.S. politics at the federal level.

LOL, this is where the Fish Wrap wants to go, semantics.

“Stalin. Mao. Castro. Democrats,” the Republican National Committee wrote on social media last month. “Different leaders, same goal.”

Whether the attacks make a difference in the midterms is still far from clear. Some Democrats have expressed worry that the rise of democratic socialism in their party could play into Republican efforts to cast them as extremists and that constant mentions of communism could blur the lines for some voters. At the same time, Mr. Trump’s overheated language could weaken the force of the argument.

Yeah, because discussing how they want to get rid of all cops and prisons and tax everyone into oblivion isn’t extremist or something.

In some ways, far-left leaders have fed the argument. In 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a leader of the progressive movement and a self-described democratic socialist, praised elements of the Communist Cuban revolution. And Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist who unseated a Democratic congressman in a New York primary in June, once maintained a social-media account that circulated a post suggesting that public libraries should carry more Marxist literature.

Huh. Anyhow, it is a long, long article trying to defend Democrats. Remember, the Credentialed Media is totally not biased.

Most Americans have unfavorable views of socialism, according to polls. Communism polls much worse. And even as Mr. Trump mislabels Democrats as communists, some Democrats have jokingly blurred the lines themselves, referring to the area of New York City where one democratic socialist House candidate won as the “Commie Corridor.”

Remember, the NY Times and all their left wing Comrades try and brand Republicans as White Supremacists. Even when they are black or Asian. Even squishy ones like George W Bush and Mitt Romney.

Read: NY Times Seems Upset That Republicans Are Branding Democrats As Communists »