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The Democrat Party is purging the old folks.

Democrats' generational tensions reach boiling point in House primaries

A growing number of young Democrats have launched primary bids against the party's old guard in recent months, underscoring generational tensions that burst into the open following former Vice President Kamala Harris's defeat in November.

Former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) last week drew a primary challenger 50 years his junior in Harry Jarin, who cast the incumbent as representative of "a bygone era." He follows a number of other young candidates who have launched primary bids against veteran Democratic lawmakers.

The trend comes amid renewed anxiety within the party over the issue of age, spurred by new revelations about former President Biden and the recent deaths of several older House members.

"A lot of politicians in Washington, they stew in this environment in D.C., sometimes for decades at a time, and they lose touch with young people and working people and people outside the beltway," Jarin told The Hill.

"I think that's the reason for the sudden surge of primary challengers: We've now spent our whole lives seeing the same Democratic leaders do the same unproductive things in Congress and not actually deliver results."

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The 2024 election also raised red flags for Democrats that young voters, especially young men, are shifting right.

"It's worth noting that Republicans in Congress have definitely had a lot more turnover in the last decade than Democrats have. And I don't know that you could draw a direct line to some of the gains or unexpected dynamics folks are seeing with young voters, but it's certainly the case," said Kaivan Shroff, a Democratic strategist and veteran of the Generation Z group Dream for America.

The conversations have taken on a new sense of urgency in recent weeks with the release of multiple books that have ramped up scrutiny on Biden's health. The public recriminations that have emerged following the release of the books have also played out as the party reels from the recent deaths of three Democrats in the House.

"Six members of Congress have died in the last 16 months, and all of them were Democrats over age 65. So, I mean, I don't see how you can look at the situation and not say, 'Hey, we have a serious problem,'" Jarin told The Hill. "I'm not putting down any of these people or the work that they've done. But we have to be realistic."

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Still, young candidates and activists alike stress age isn't enough to make a winning pitch for the House.

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"It's about efficacy and accountability and being results-oriented," he added. "It's not enough to just say, 'Hey, I'm young and I'm fresh.' It's about being serious. It's about being strategic. It's about being able to take on a broken system and win."

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As 2026 approaches, young Americans are "looking for new conversations," Shroff said.

"If this next wave of young candidates doesn't bring that, then it's the same old, same old."

Here's the trouble with this purge of the Olds: The Olds may be old, but they're not the ones pushing toxic horsehit like "Defund the Police" and "Decarcerate the Prisons" and forcing children to learn fake pronouns and inviting Drag Queens to lecture kindergarteners about anal sex.

That's the Young Dumb Things in the Democrat-Media Party. (Except for San Fran Nan.)

Speaking of the Democrat-Media Party's loss of young men: The DMP has finished its "Speaking with American Men" study -- wow, it took a week and a half, it must be super-rigorous -- and they find that young men are just young liberal girls waiting to be liberated.

I mean: that's the gist. Basically they find that young men want the same thing the Democrat-Media Party's preferred liberal female voters want, and they just have to tweak their messaging to bring them aboard.

Pretty much exactly what we all expected. No changes in policy -- just try to sell young men on permanent status as second-class citizens while talking about drinkin' some brews and watchin' porn.

Thus they determined to explore the heretofore unknown expanses of New Bro-Land, donning pith helmets and native guides to find out about this amazing yet elusive tribe. Politico reports that the $20 million excursion has concluded, and that young men turn out to be just like you and me.

Or something:

"Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong," Hogue said. "Young men also spoke of being invisible to the Democratic coalition, and so you've got this weak problem and then you've got this, 'I don't think they care about me' problem, and I think the combination is kind of a killer. ...

The focus groups found that young men feel they are in crisis: stressed, ashamed and confused over what it means to be a man in 2025. They vented about conflicting cultural messages of masculinity that put them in a "no-win situation around the meaning of 'a man,'" according to the SAM project memo.

Here's a challenge for the Democrats reading this study: Define "man." The problem isn't "conflicting cultural messages," it's that Democrats have endorsed fantasy life over biological reality. They have wrapped themselves around the trans and queer movement to such an extent that Democrats can no longer safely state without reservation that a man is an adult male human based solely on biology....

The rest of this study produces a much more generic set of criticisms that could apply to voters across the spectrum:

They described how the Covid pandemic left them isolated and socially disconnected. They also said they now feel overwhelmed by economic anxiety, making "traditional milestones," like buying a home or saving for kids' college, "feel impossible," an analysis of the research said.

"The degree to which those economic concerns are also impacting how they think about themselves and quote-unquote success of being a man, and living up to their own expectations or the expectations of their family or society," Della Volpe said. "There's another layer of economic anxiety that I don't think I fully saw until now."

In other words: Men are anxious, neurotic, and don't "feel seen" and "feel unsafe."

In other words: Young men are just like the largely-mentally-ill neurotic liberal female voters that the Democrat-Media Party far more enjoys pandering to.

That's the word from Tim Walz's teenaged son, at least:

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz turned to his high school aged son to figure out why President Donald Trump appeals to young men.

Trump made historic inroads with men, particularly those who are young, black or Hispanic, in the 2024 election, causing Democrats to ask themselves why they have lost the demographics in such large droves. Walz said that his son, Gus, explained to him that Trump "understands belonging," and said that the Democrats failed to welcome young men into their movement.

"[Gus] is pretty in tune to this, but what he said was, he said, 'dad, a lot of these young guys [aren't] voting on the policy issues.' And he wasn't dissing them, he said they may know the policy issues, but most of them don't. They're doing it because there's a sense of excitement, a sense of thrill in this, it's entertainment or whatever. We all dismiss that. 'Donald Trump's a clown. Donald Trump's rallies [are] a clown' ... But there's a peripheral side of that that's not criminal but is going down the same road of saying 'you've got a place to belong.'" Walz said.

Walz compared the sense of belonging young Trump voters felt to being on a high school sports team, stating that they felt they were part of a movement and belonged.

"If you don't give a kid a place to belong, they'll go flying away," Walz continued. "So while you want them to be involved in sports and music and things in school, because they will go find a group of folks. And I think Donald Trump understands belonging, he understands groups because look at it, he gives them a uniform, the red hat. He gives them some chance, some talking points, whatever, it's not all that different than when we built sports teams in high school. You belong, you're part of this."

Once again, the diagnosis of young men is exactly the same as their diagnosis of young women: they want to belong in clubs and movements and feel accepted.

Sure, young men want to feel accepted, same as anyone. But men have a much, much greater tolerance for going it alone than women do. Social acceptance is not nearly as strong a survival instinct for young men as it is for young women.

But once again, the diagnosis of the Democrat-Media Party is that young men are exactly like young women, because the sexes are exactly identical and all it takes is some pills and a light spot of 10 years of surgery to turn one into the other.

The "Speaking With American Men" report did at least acknowledge the most minimal amount of truth:

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They spent $20m to learn this: "The Democratic Party is missing that we're not going to be able to message our way out of these deep problems men are facing, starting with the fact that they know the Democratic Party doesn't really like or respect them."

Again with this very feminine understanding of men, though: that we want to be "liked." Again, yes, sure, everyone wants to be liked, but it's not about being liked. It's about being officially disadvantaged by US government policy at every turn, from college admissions to hiring to promotion.

But they can only see things in "girl logic" terms. Men just want to be liked, so if we just are a little "nicer" about it, we can continue making them second-class citizens as encoded into US law and they'll accept it.

So much academic excellence.

Graduation Speaker Returns Honorary Degree After Plagiarizing Speech At Elite Women's College

Musician and activist Evelyn Harris returned her honorary degree from Smith College after it was revealed that she plagiarized much of her commencement ceremony speech.

According to Smith College president Sarah Willie-LeBreton, Harris "borrowed much of her speech" without "typical attribution" and decided to give up her degree.
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"Ms. Harris was forthcoming about her choices while also acknowledging that she sought to infuse the words of others with her own emotional valence," Willie-LeBreton said in a statement. "With appreciation for the requirement of academic integrity so central to the values of Smith, Ms. Harris has chosen to relinquish her honorary degree."

"I appreciate those who brought the dissonance of this moment to our attention and am very grateful for the graciousness of Evelyn Harris's decision," Willie-LeBreton wrote.

Two of Harris' bandmates in the cover band Young@Heart defended her actions in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, claiming that "plagiarism works a little differently for us."

"We sing lyrics and play music written by others without explicitly crediting them from the stage, without asking their permission, but often getting the original artist's enthusiastic response when they eventually hear our version," Bob Cilman and Julia van IJken wrote. "We imagine Evelyn may have been doing something similar in her speech and was honoring the words of others."

Why yes, she's a DEI pick. Why do you ask? I'm offended you would even ask that.

Last week, UNC fired a DEI administrator for bragging that she was still doing illegal anti-white, anti-male discrimination "covertly." UNC, under pressure from the state that funds them, supposedly banned DEI.

Well, now another UNC administrator made the mistake of bragging about being a criminal.

You see, Janique Sanders wasn't at all representative of how things work at UNC. She was a rogue administrator whose ideas don't reflect the school. At least that's the story UNC was telling. But here we are a week later and another administrator has just been caught saying basically the same thing, this time at UNC-Asheville. This administrator's name is Megan Pugh.

Newly released undercover video shows a university administrator in North Carolina boasting about DEI efforts still taking place at the school despite state and federal efforts to roll back the policies, prompting the school to sever ties with that employee.

"I mean we probably still do anyway... but you gotta keep it quiet," UNC Asheville Dean of Students Megan Pugh tells an undercover journalist in a video released by Accuracy In Media and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, after being praised for continuing to do "equity work" at the school.

"Keep it on the down low?" the journalist responds, to which Pugh says, "Yeah."

"But, I love breaking rules," Pugh then says.

Megan Pugh is another DEI administrator straight out of central casting.

Boy is she though.

Corporations just aren't virtue signalling their "pride" like they used to:

The "Pride" UK account is angry that corporations aren't virtue signalling like they used to:

Some of these corporations did a quickie one-post acknowledgement of "pride" month, but they have not transed their branding for the entire month.

One of the greatest responses to "Pride" month is from (formerly?) woke videogame studio Ubisoft.

Ubisoft did acknowledge the importance of June in a post advertising their Rainbow Six game. Note that "Rainbow Six" is the codename for a terrorist-killing special forces group, not a group of six gay advocates starting a poetry quarterly.

June is the month in which we... celebrate and promote men's mental health.

So close to Pride Month, Rainbow Six?

SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!?!!

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