Unfit to Print: DEAD ON ARRIVAL
GOP balks at weaponization fund & major domino falls in MN fraud scandal
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Today we’re covering the DNC’s horrendous 2024 autopsy, Republican resistance to Trump’s payout plans for victims of government lawfare, and sentencing for the woman who kicked off the Somali fraud scandal.
DEAD ON ARRIVAL
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) finally published the autopsy it commissioned after the 2024 election on Thursday.
The DNC initially planned to bury the report forever, with Chair Ken Martin arguing it did not meet the party’s standards for publication. But CNN apparently forced his hand after informing the committee it planned to publish portions of the report anyway.
Naturally, the initial secrecy sent Democrats into a speculative frenzy. Progressives wondered whether the report had been shelved because it defended the party establishment’s support for Israel over Gaza, or because it urged Democrats to abandon their support for transgender issues.
The actual explanation turned out to be much funnier: the DNC hid the report because it was embarrassing garbage.
The autopsy avoids critical examination of any of the actual issues that led to the party’s failure in the 2024 election. Instead, it whines about the White House not properly preparing Vice President Kamala Harris to become the nominee and the amount of time she had to build a campaign — even though her polling numbers got worse as Election Day neared closer.
The report notably does not mention:
Inflation, Bidenflation, gas prices
The party’s facture on Israel and Gaza
The assassination attempts against Donald Trump
Podcasts as an important campaign medium
Catholics, Christians, evangelicals, or ‘religion’
White men
The Make America Healthy Again movement
It also is really light on:
The party’s support of unpopular transgender issues like women’s sports, bathrooms, or gender transitions for prisoners. It briefly mentions the they/them ad against Kamala but fails to properly explain why it was so effective.
Immigration and the border. The only mention of ‘border’ is in the context of whining that Harris was labeled the “border czar.”
Climate mandates, which it merely describes as causing “anxiety” with voters
There is a brief mention of “80-20” issues but not what those issues are
The report also bizarrely alleges that the media environment — including the mainstream, corporate media — is too right-wing for Democrats to be able to properly compete.
Martin released a statement following publication of the report:
“When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime. Not even close. And because no source material was provided, fixing it would have meant starting over, from the beginning – every conversation, every interview, every data set,” he wrote. “I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards. I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on it.”
That may be the most honest thing to ever come out of a DNC chair’s mouth.
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