Black? she billed herself as the first INDIAN-American there when she went to the Senate. If she could get traction claiming to be a Mongolian she'd profess that. What a vapid fraud.
The very dangerous aspect of the lame brained hopey-changey Democratic Party scam is that we need a Commander in Chief in a world full of troubles.
The Democrats are joyfully talking about electing a high school class president because of her gender and her interesting parents, when we need to take our votes much more seriously to elect a Commander in Chief to protect and to strengthen the USA
I never naively dreamed that a community activist could bring America anything but deception and division. But that’s me. I’m a substance over symbolism kind of person. Here's another excellent example of wishful naivety:
"@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know ... This was an attempted modern-day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate." -- then-Sen. Kamala Harris.
Charlie Cooke of National Review concluded this about her/she: “Everything that is wrong with American politics is summed up in Kamala Harris. She’s a weather vane. She’s dishonest. She’s a coward. She’s condescending. And she’s a phony. She’s the answer to no useful or virtuous question.”
I've come to believe that a large percentage of Americans (voters and non-voters) are satisfied with being the victim, so they find comfort in people that they know will provide them with victimhood. I suppose life as an underachieving "victim of the man" is less demanding and more likely to garner sympathy and short-term rewards from those that feast on what they have to sell; their vote.
From what I've seen, candidate Donald Trump threatens their adopted position in life, so they throw their support and admiration toward Santa instead. Except, their version of Santa doesn't even ask them to be good throughout the year in order to get stuff.
You can tell a lot about how someone will conduct themselves in public office from the people that they surround themselves with. Did you hear that former HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge was chosen to be co-chair of the Harris campaign? So, who's Marsha Fudge?
"Not long after resigning as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to become a lobbyist, Marcia Fudge was asked to deliver the 2024 commencement speech at a Cleveland-area high school. When students and their parents got wind of the invitation, they pushed back hard.
Fudge was a longtime friend of former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason. In 2015, when Fudge represented Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, she wrote to a court seeking leniency in Mason’s sentencing after he had pleaded guilty to domestic violence. He had assaulted his then-wife, Aisha Fraser, a beloved sixth-grade teacher in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. The woman needed reconstructive facial surgery for her injuries after Mason had punched her 20 times and smashed her face into the console of a car. The brutal assault took place in front of the couple’s children.
Fudge’s letter did, in fact, lead to leniency for Mason. In November 2017, after just nine months’ incarceration, he was set free. He then went on to murder Fraser, stabbing her while she dropped the couple’s children off at a family member’s home, leaving her to die as he fled the scene. He is currently serving a sentence of 35 years to life.
In her letter, Fudge wrote he was a “good man who made a very bad mistake” and “Lance accepts full responsibility for his actions and has assured me that something like this will never happen again.”
Fudge’s ties to Mason were well known; some believed she helped him get a job at Cleveland City Hall after his release from prison. She has denied those claims.
One of the first things Fudge did at HUD was to violate the Hatch Act by talking about Ohio politics at a White House press conference. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel issued her a warning for violating the statute, which bars federal employees from conducting political activities on official duty and on government property. The violation set the stage for further abominable decision-making.
While at HUD, she oversaw a White House-led campaign to intimidate, delegitimize or altogether sideline appraisers in their gatekeeper role in fair lending. The campaign hinged on a fuzzy notion dubbed “housing equity” and a manufactured problem called “appraiser bias.” The latter is shorthand for a hunch that racism is involved when an appraiser’s value opinion requires a buyer and seller to go back to the negotiating table in a federally backed mortgage transaction.
She was known for making bigoted remarks before large audiences about the nation’s appraisers, generalizing that an appraiser’s skin color dictates his or her level of honesty and competence. (I mention this real-life incident because I've been an appraiser for the past 40 years.)
In March, Fudge and two aides pulled off a well-timed dine-and-dash from HUD. She’s now cashing in as partner and chair of public policy at Taft Stettinius & Hollister. She shuttles between Cleveland and Washington.
So now, Marcia Fudge is co-chair of the Harris campaign. We should anticipate further abominable decision-making.
Philip, Ive been a loan processor for over 30 years, this appraiser bias is nonsense, I know there have been some bad apples that got busted but you have that with anything. What I have seen is changes that have cost the borrower more money. When they said that brokers cant choose what appraisers they send business too but now have to use the Lender AMC it just raised the cost of the reports because now their fee is added to it. And the other frustrating thing is we have seen quality of appraisals go down, I dont know what the vetting system is to work for the AMC but even the underwriters were complaining about the poor quality of the reports and all the corrections needed because they didnt seem to understand how to fill out all the boxes. Weve had appraisals come back a few times with the wrong address on them, dont ask me how that happens, but when the government gets involved with regulating everything goes to crap. I still miss the super pro seasoned appraisers we used to work with. I could rant all day about the stupid changes to our industry since O Blah blah was in office.
Thanks Dawn. I do "hope and changie" that people like Fudge (so appropriate) have their wings clipped short. Yes, everything that the federal government "fixes", ends up creating many more problems, and yet, they get credit from the usual suspects for "caring". Malarky!
Did you know that the average age of a U.S. real estate appraiser is approximately 57 years old? I trained my daughter to appraise real estate (commercial). She's a genius thanks to my wife's genes. Seriously. Under-employed. Definitely.
She's so good (graduated with honors from the University of Georgia, graduated in 'readin & writin'), that she now has a client who is a former governor of Georgia. She's his go-to appraiser because she is so thorough with data collection, analysis, and appraisal composition. She actually causes me embarrassment when it comes to report writing. And I have clients who think I'm the best. Then again, my #2 daughter is a MD in Boston, so that kind of keeps D#1 grounded.
Parenting. If done well, what's not to like?
Both of mine are married, wildly successful, and have their own home mortgages, but still no grandchildren.
It’s fair to say that Obama’s wins can be attributed to the Press, but I blame McCain. Not a day should have passed without his hammering the Ayers & Dorn, Jeremiah Wright, and Saul Alinsky associations; and if he was too “high minded” to rake such mud, he could have let Sarah Palin do it for him, instead of putting a muzzle on her. Trump would not repeat such mistakes. Even before he became a candidate, he inflicted serious damage by focusing on Obama’s missing, eventually fabricated, phony-as-a-three-dollar-bill birth certificate. And then he annihilated McCain-like RINOS such as Jeb Bush, after some well-deserved trash-talking directed at McCain himself.
But I'm not sure what evidence there is of a "phony birth certificate." My take -- and the take of historians -- on Obama's place of birth is that he was indeed born in the US but he stated on his book cover that he was born in Kenya because it made him look sexier to the kind of person apt to buy such a book.
In any event, unbridled attacks by "our" guy do make us feel good. It's less clear, however, that they win elections.
I keep hoping that she'll soon be burdened by what has been. But I think it'll be more like "we have to vote for her to see what's in it."
Black? she billed herself as the first INDIAN-American there when she went to the Senate. If she could get traction claiming to be a Mongolian she'd profess that. What a vapid fraud.
I'm hoping we're all unburdened of her by November.
Now that's some hope and change I can fall for.
The very dangerous aspect of the lame brained hopey-changey Democratic Party scam is that we need a Commander in Chief in a world full of troubles.
The Democrats are joyfully talking about electing a high school class president because of her gender and her interesting parents, when we need to take our votes much more seriously to elect a Commander in Chief to protect and to strengthen the USA
That's so 20th Century. We're supposed to all participate in an American reality television series now.
But she did make a poster like Obama’s!
Brilliant piece, great analysis, subtle humor, as usual! Thank you, Glenn.
I never naively dreamed that a community activist could bring America anything but deception and division. But that’s me. I’m a substance over symbolism kind of person. Here's another excellent example of wishful naivety:
"@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know ... This was an attempted modern-day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate." -- then-Sen. Kamala Harris.
Charlie Cooke of National Review concluded this about her/she: “Everything that is wrong with American politics is summed up in Kamala Harris. She’s a weather vane. She’s dishonest. She’s a coward. She’s condescending. And she’s a phony. She’s the answer to no useful or virtuous question.”
I've come to believe that a large percentage of Americans (voters and non-voters) are satisfied with being the victim, so they find comfort in people that they know will provide them with victimhood. I suppose life as an underachieving "victim of the man" is less demanding and more likely to garner sympathy and short-term rewards from those that feast on what they have to sell; their vote.
From what I've seen, candidate Donald Trump threatens their adopted position in life, so they throw their support and admiration toward Santa instead. Except, their version of Santa doesn't even ask them to be good throughout the year in order to get stuff.
You can tell a lot about how someone will conduct themselves in public office from the people that they surround themselves with. Did you hear that former HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge was chosen to be co-chair of the Harris campaign? So, who's Marsha Fudge?
"Not long after resigning as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to become a lobbyist, Marcia Fudge was asked to deliver the 2024 commencement speech at a Cleveland-area high school. When students and their parents got wind of the invitation, they pushed back hard.
Fudge was a longtime friend of former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason. In 2015, when Fudge represented Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, she wrote to a court seeking leniency in Mason’s sentencing after he had pleaded guilty to domestic violence. He had assaulted his then-wife, Aisha Fraser, a beloved sixth-grade teacher in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. The woman needed reconstructive facial surgery for her injuries after Mason had punched her 20 times and smashed her face into the console of a car. The brutal assault took place in front of the couple’s children.
Fudge’s letter did, in fact, lead to leniency for Mason. In November 2017, after just nine months’ incarceration, he was set free. He then went on to murder Fraser, stabbing her while she dropped the couple’s children off at a family member’s home, leaving her to die as he fled the scene. He is currently serving a sentence of 35 years to life.
In her letter, Fudge wrote he was a “good man who made a very bad mistake” and “Lance accepts full responsibility for his actions and has assured me that something like this will never happen again.”
Fudge’s ties to Mason were well known; some believed she helped him get a job at Cleveland City Hall after his release from prison. She has denied those claims.
One of the first things Fudge did at HUD was to violate the Hatch Act by talking about Ohio politics at a White House press conference. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel issued her a warning for violating the statute, which bars federal employees from conducting political activities on official duty and on government property. The violation set the stage for further abominable decision-making.
While at HUD, she oversaw a White House-led campaign to intimidate, delegitimize or altogether sideline appraisers in their gatekeeper role in fair lending. The campaign hinged on a fuzzy notion dubbed “housing equity” and a manufactured problem called “appraiser bias.” The latter is shorthand for a hunch that racism is involved when an appraiser’s value opinion requires a buyer and seller to go back to the negotiating table in a federally backed mortgage transaction.
She was known for making bigoted remarks before large audiences about the nation’s appraisers, generalizing that an appraiser’s skin color dictates his or her level of honesty and competence. (I mention this real-life incident because I've been an appraiser for the past 40 years.)
In March, Fudge and two aides pulled off a well-timed dine-and-dash from HUD. She’s now cashing in as partner and chair of public policy at Taft Stettinius & Hollister. She shuttles between Cleveland and Washington.
So now, Marcia Fudge is co-chair of the Harris campaign. We should anticipate further abominable decision-making.
Philip, Ive been a loan processor for over 30 years, this appraiser bias is nonsense, I know there have been some bad apples that got busted but you have that with anything. What I have seen is changes that have cost the borrower more money. When they said that brokers cant choose what appraisers they send business too but now have to use the Lender AMC it just raised the cost of the reports because now their fee is added to it. And the other frustrating thing is we have seen quality of appraisals go down, I dont know what the vetting system is to work for the AMC but even the underwriters were complaining about the poor quality of the reports and all the corrections needed because they didnt seem to understand how to fill out all the boxes. Weve had appraisals come back a few times with the wrong address on them, dont ask me how that happens, but when the government gets involved with regulating everything goes to crap. I still miss the super pro seasoned appraisers we used to work with. I could rant all day about the stupid changes to our industry since O Blah blah was in office.
Thanks Dawn. I do "hope and changie" that people like Fudge (so appropriate) have their wings clipped short. Yes, everything that the federal government "fixes", ends up creating many more problems, and yet, they get credit from the usual suspects for "caring". Malarky!
Did you know that the average age of a U.S. real estate appraiser is approximately 57 years old? I trained my daughter to appraise real estate (commercial). She's a genius thanks to my wife's genes. Seriously. Under-employed. Definitely.
She's so good (graduated with honors from the University of Georgia, graduated in 'readin & writin'), that she now has a client who is a former governor of Georgia. She's his go-to appraiser because she is so thorough with data collection, analysis, and appraisal composition. She actually causes me embarrassment when it comes to report writing. And I have clients who think I'm the best. Then again, my #2 daughter is a MD in Boston, so that kind of keeps D#1 grounded.
Parenting. If done well, what's not to like?
Both of mine are married, wildly successful, and have their own home mortgages, but still no grandchildren.
I need to retire.
It’s fair to say that Obama’s wins can be attributed to the Press, but I blame McCain. Not a day should have passed without his hammering the Ayers & Dorn, Jeremiah Wright, and Saul Alinsky associations; and if he was too “high minded” to rake such mud, he could have let Sarah Palin do it for him, instead of putting a muzzle on her. Trump would not repeat such mistakes. Even before he became a candidate, he inflicted serious damage by focusing on Obama’s missing, eventually fabricated, phony-as-a-three-dollar-bill birth certificate. And then he annihilated McCain-like RINOS such as Jeb Bush, after some well-deserved trash-talking directed at McCain himself.
I mostly agree with your comment, Chad.
But I'm not sure what evidence there is of a "phony birth certificate." My take -- and the take of historians -- on Obama's place of birth is that he was indeed born in the US but he stated on his book cover that he was born in Kenya because it made him look sexier to the kind of person apt to buy such a book.
In any event, unbridled attacks by "our" guy do make us feel good. It's less clear, however, that they win elections.
YES!
Double YES!
"I can see Russia from my front porch!" Thousands of people still believe that Palin said that instead of that bung-hole from SNL.