I was overjoyed by the response to yesterday's piece, the Top Ten Dumbest Things Said By Democrats...Tuesday. Lots of great reaction in the comment section and online at my @Radioblogger page on X. I had no intention of making this a running series yesterday, nor do I have any intention on doing so now. But with all of the confirmation hearing performances featuring a host of Trump nominees - Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe, Pam Bondi, Chris Wright, Sean Duffy, I had enough material to make another top ten list before Noon. And then Joe Biden mumbled his way through Jon Meacham's farewell address. 

I might end up making this a weekly feature on my Duane's World podcast in the future, but for now, I've got to go where the news goes, and on Wednesday alone, Democrats far and wide demonstrated that vice-like grip on tone deafness that warms my heart about the future of the republic for a long time to come. 

The list of possibilities were like the visibility in Southern California south of the fire line - virtually limitless. But after careful review and analysis, this has to be the top ten dumbest things uttered by a Democrat...Wednesday.

#10

Gavin Newsom - the Straw Man slayer

The beleaguered California governor, whose own credibility is still burning out of control with only around 14% containment, offered up a challenge to the President-Elect.



Set the false bravado aside for a second. We'll come back to that. It's a straw man argument. There is literally no one in the country - left, right, or center, who is criticizing the first responders. The police, fire, National Guard, medical team, mutual assist workers, all of them are being treated like the heroes they are, by everybody. Former Tonight Show host Jay Leno was spotted working a food line serving firefighters rotating off the lines of the fires still burning in the Southland, dishing out piles of protein before rotating back into action. As for the entire leadership chain of those first responders - whether it's the fire chief of L.A. County who is concerned about negatively branding the homeless, instead referring to them as our unhoused neighbors, or whether it's L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, whose tortured smile seems to now be her resting Bass face, and especially if we're talking about Newsom himself, there's a long line of people offering criticism, and for very good reason. 

Back to the false bravado - Every time Newsom is on camera these days, he sort of looks like a California used car salesman version of Muammar Gaddafi. The Late Robin Williams summed it up perfectly back in 2011 with this excerpt from one of his stand-up comedy films. 



Newsom is the governor of what used to be the most powerful and important state in the Union, and despite the image he's desperate for you to see, he's a small, insignificant, petty tyrant who is losing control over his personal brand. He's pathetic.

#9

Karine Jean-Pierre - I can't respond to every random person out there

Yes, but what if that random person is the spokesperson for your administration's Department of State?



This was supposed to be KJP's farewell, her melancholy coda in which she hopes she's long remembered by young lesbians of color who aspire to be a lying imbecile like she is and make a career out of it. Except there was actual news today - the Trump effect resulting in a purported peace deal that might finally release American hostages as soon as this weekend. 

Matthew Miller, the spokesperson at the State Department, gave credit to the Trump team for assisting in the last week to get the deal done during his final press conference before turning things over to Marco Rubio's team next week. Once KJP actually opened her briefing up to questions, she was peppered about her position maintaining that Biden gets all the credit, which does not comport with what Miller at State just said. Her reaction was that this was some total rando person, and she can't be held responsible for keeping track of everything people say. Everyone in the Brady Press Room looked at each other and sunk a little in their chairs as the reporter replied, "But he's your colleague."

#8

Mazie Hirono - I'm listening to you...now

The confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi to be the next United States Attorney General was truly spectacular from beginning to end. Personally, I never want to find myself at odds with Ms. Bondi. She is not afraid of anyone or anything. She is as fierce of a prosecutor as we've sent to DOJ in decades. If I'm one of the woke DOJ careerists still hanging in there to see if I can ride it out for a few more years, after Wednesday's performance I'm getting that resume put together and circulated in a righteous hurry. 

Democrats all lined to up to take their whacks at her in the Judiciary Committee, and she clear-cutted them like California should have done to old growth forest ten years ago. With regards to Mazie Hirono, it really was never a fair fight. 



Oh, yes, Bondi went there. Different nominees employed different strategies over the past couple of weeks while making the rounds around the Senate office buildings. In Bondi's case, she and her sherpa made contact with every Senator, and every Senator offered to meet with her, save one. Yes, that singleton would be the Senate's chief simpleton, Mazie Hirono. Bondi was not about to let that fact escape attention. 

Again, you have to wonder who Hirono's target audience for such a lame line of questioning is. She certainly doesn't have to justify a no vote to her constituents in Hawaii. It's a deep blue state. MSNBC doesn't even bring her on very often as a guest, because she's too dumb for Joy Reid. Not only did she not convince any of her colleagues to change their expected votes, she didn't even convince any of their staffers. I'm not even sure the janitors buy her argument at this point. It's stunning she ever passed the bar, even in the Aloha State.

#7

Adam Schiff - Yes, but what about Liz Cheney? What are you going to do about Liz Cheney? 

Democratic stupidity can sometimes be showcased in a one-word answer. Other times, in Kamala Harris' case, it can result in a full-paragraph palindrome, beginning somewhere, hitting a brick wall in the middle, and doing a u-turn and ending right back to where she started. 

But just like the M16A4 rifle that can be set to burst mode, sometimes, stupid is reflected in three-round rapid-fire succession. This is Adam Schiff against Pam Bondi. Again, not really a fair fight. 







This went on for seven minutes, and it was all cringe-inducing, and made the very junior senator from California from the minority party look like the lying weasel he is. He's this Senate class' Mr. Irrelevant. But these three back-to-back hits sure looked and sounded a lot like Chevy Chase in the attic during National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.



Having Pam Bondi call him out for rising crime stats in California and reminding everyone that Schiff was censured for his behavior and statements in the House was a beautiful sight to behold. 

And then, he napped. 

LEAKED VIDEO: Senator Adam Schiff falls asleep LIVE at Pam Bondi hearing in latest humiliation for the state of California

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pic.twitter.com/vH3Sour3Kq

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 15, 2025

In case you're wondering, our other senator, Alex Padilla, was just as bad as Schiff. The stooges we have representing my state are the male equivalents of Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer at their peak - utterly feckless. 

#6

Elizabeth Warren - why isn't there one Republican willing to stand up for women? 

On CNN with Kaitlan Collins, Chief Warren threw shade at Iowa Senator Joni Ernst for reversing course and now supporting Pete Hegseth's nomination. Suddenly, the woman who wants boys to compete against girls in women's sports, who also simultaneously wants to defund the military, and what remains of the military wishes it to woke itself into irrelevance, she wants to be known as the champion for women in the military. It's a ridiculous proposition from a supremely unserious person on a network nobody watches. 

#5

Welcome To Hotel Newsomfornia - You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

Back to California's Governor, who has a message for anyone who wishes to cash out at least the land value of their burned out SoCal experience and get the hell out of here while they can. 

That's right. With the stroke of a pen, not only can you not sell your property in this state if it's in the fire zone, it's a prosecutable offense if you either offer to buy or sell fire-damaged land. It appears that Gavinmeister Meisternewsom has other designs for the future of your property, despite the fact that he doesn't technically have legal title to it...yet. Every day he speaks, it's entirely probable he'd land on a top ten dumb list. That's what happens when you're flailing in order to save your own political neck. 

#4

Chris Coons - Say, do you think Donald Trump can run again in 2028?



Coons, the man who replaced Joe Biden as senator from Delaware when Biden went into the Obama administration as vice-president, is usually regarded as a sensible, moderate Democrat. This was not a sensible, moderate question. He knows the answer to this, and honestly, he knows Pam Bondi knows the answer to this. He just decided that for whatever reason, he needed to spend part of his 7 minutes grandstanding on the dumbest argument Trump haters on MSNBC make, precisely for performative art and have this clip go viral. He apparently wishes to be well-regarded by the fever swamp on the left. I doubt he has any intention of voting for Bondi, even though he knows full well she's qualified, elections have consequences, and presidents normally get deference on their picks. His line of questioning here is beneath him, and he deserves to be mocked and ridiculed for the unseriousness in which it was offered.  

#3

Chuck Schumer - Trust me on fitness. I'm an expert.

Pete Hegseth is woefully unfit and unqualified for the job of Secretary of Defense.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 15, 2025

Few things give me as much personal and professional satisfaction as referring to Chuck Schumer as the Senate Minority Leader. Lord, may that his title remain thus until he's no longer in office. As for the substance of what Schumer said on X, well, this is the same Chuck Schumer from just 10 days ago on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker.

He still cannot say at this stage of the game whether Biden could have gone on for another four years. He can't be the ultimate judge for fitness and qualifications about an 82-year-old disaster of a president literally falling apart at the seams in real time, but he certainly knows for certain about Pete Hegseth, who just so happens to be...a Republican. Someone really ought to tell Chuck to sit this one out. 

#2

Kamala Harris - Insurrectionist



Just in case you need to see what you just heard, here's what she said. 

Our definition of the win is the definition that takes us over a period of time, where part of how we measure the win is are we making progress? How we measure the win is based on the knowledge that it is an enduring fight, and that we must be strong, and that whatever the outcome of any particular moment, we can never be defeated.

If you measure winning by the progress she's making on the box of Franzia Chardonnay in the refrigerator, she's winning. Kamala Harris may only be Number Two for another five days, but she'll remain number two in my heart forever. 

#1

Joe Biden - Democracy, even if we have to force it down your throats against your will

You're going to take this kleptocratic banana republic we have here, one that tries to imprison my political rivals but lands 10% for the big guy, courtesy of the international customers of my drug-addled, perverted and pardoned son, even if we have to force it on you. That's how we remain the beacon of freedom in the world. That, and giving the Presidential Medal of Oligarchy to George Soros after all that sweet, sweet dark money cash has rolled in over the past four years. 

Somehow, tonight's farewell soiree was not exactly a speech that will end up becoming the 86th Federalist Paper. In the end, it doesn't matter how bad of a speech Jon Meacham probably wrote that Biden still couldn't deliver. It's the Nowhere Man speech - making all his nowhere plans, taking credit for his nowhere policies, and resonating with nobody. As for me, I guess deep down, I must confess I liked the speech. Then again, Biden had me at "Goodbye". 

There were plenty of alternate choices. Dick Blumenthal running into a buzzsaw with Pam Bondi after insinuating she had to sit there and answer questions a certain way. She disabused him of that notion with all prejudice and due dispatch. 

There was Mazie Hirono trying to go back to the tired, debunked trope that Trump allegedly said immigrants were poisoning the blood of Americans. There was more of Biden's speech, worrying about an oligarchy taking shape. He's given up on Trump being Hitler. Now, it's Elon Musk that is going to control the world, and it's bad because the left can't fact-check on social media anymore. 

Closing thought - as tone deaf as Democrats have been this week, you have to give it up for Joe Biden for the chef's kiss moment to end the night. 

Guess who was sitting in the Oval watching him deliver these words about playing by the rules and paying their fair share? Hunter Biden, who is rocking an 11-year panorama-sweeping pardon excusing him from playing by the rules and paying his fair share. It's good to be a Democrat...for five more days. 

I promise I am not considering writing up another one of these top ten lists for tomorrow. I'm not. But then again, Thursday has only just begun.