When I read this report from the Washington Free Beacon, I was momentarily tempted to officially double-ban the already banned commenter “A Friend” on general ethics principles. This jerk had the gall to keep insisting that the Times is a respectable and reliable source of news and analysis despite Mt. Chimborazo-size heaps of evidence to the contrary. Now, the paper apparently doesn’t care who knows just how stupidly biased it is.
In past years, EA (and its less active and now Dead on the Web predecessor, The Ethics Scoreboard) would issue a list of “The Dirty Dozen” candidates on the ballot in approaching elections that were, by any reasonable measure, unfit for elected office. I always made a point of dividing the election blacklist evenly between Republicans and Democrats; it wasn’t hard, and wouldn’t be hard to do for this election, either. Policy positions usually weren’t the criteria, unless a particular position was especially dangerous or per se revolting. I haven’t checked if advocating “reparations” would get someone on the list; as I recall, no. “Defunding the police” is so idiotic that I now believe it would justify blacklisting, but in the past, my threshold for stupidity was higher: it took something like that GOP moron who asserted that the female body knew that rape wasn’t legit so it would not permit a pregnancy after non-consensual sex.
Here is the list of things that would not get a candidate on the list, as last stated in 2024:
Or membership in a particular political party. In short, the criteria was ethical, not partisan. In 2024, the “Dirty Dozen” became the “Untrustworthy Twenty,” because the quality of our elected officials and the candidates for office have, amazingly, gotten ethically and intellectually worse. Lauren Boebert was on the list, because she is a screaming embarrassment to democracy, the Founders, her state, the Congress, her sex, height and just about everything else. So was Mitch McConnell and Byron Donalds, President Trump’s favorite black Republican.
However, in 2026 it seems naive to even try to assemble a bipartisan blacklist when one entire political party has made it clear as quartz that its mission is to undermine our government for the foreseeable future, beginning with a repeat of the unethical impeachments and contrived investigations they have employed since 2016 to prevent the elected President of the United States from governing.
The Democratic Party has devolved into an unethical party, top to bottom, and it has corrupted a dangerous number of Americans. In a sane society, a party that has chosen to die on such metaphorical hills as open boarders, “good discrimination,” aka. DEI, the climate change scam, the Epstein files, allowing trans women in women’s sports, refusing to enforce “reasonable” theft, demonizing Israel and Jews, packing the Supreme Court, enforced viewpoint conformity in universities, turning the military into a sensitivity and social justice cult, permitting unassimilatable cultures to flood the country with the results we are seeing in Europe, and more would be trailing the Green Party in membership and support. But this is the Age of the Great Stupid, and Democrats leaped at the chance to be its engine: all the better to gain the power to crush dissent and opposition.
1. Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias!
2. She’s right: Anderson is reprimanding her, arguing with her, and acting as if he is personally invested in electing a lying, pro-terrorist, anti-Semite to the U.S. Senate because…well, Trump. CNN doesn’t even try to disguise its bias.
3. This woman was supposed to be a “rising star” in the Democratic Party? How hard is it to say, clearly and precisely, what’s the matter with El-Sayed? “I refuse to endorse a flagrant anti-Semite.” Too tough? So she says, “I haven’t cast my vote yet!”? She’s a babbling fool. Who cares what candidate someone this dim endorses?
4. Democratic State Rep. Karen Whitsett also announced that she is endorsing Mike Rogers, who is running against El Sayed. Good…let’s see if a black woman gets the same treatment as Stevens. Will James Carville call her a “used condom”?
5. Cooper claims that because El Sayed “agreed with her” regarding the PAC’s anti-Semitic ad, there was no reason for Stevens to endorse his opponent. But what Stevens demanded was El Sayed’s public rejection of the ad’s claim that Israel was at fault for the price of groceries. He wouldn’t do that because El Sayed is courting the Jew-hating vote. Why is Anderson Cooper assisting him in this careful tight-rope trip? Because he, and CNN, want the Democrats to win control of the Senate, that’s why.
Democratic Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens finally had enough of the anti-Semitic communist who narrowly defeated her in the Democratic Senate primary, Abdul El-Sayed, and endorsed his GOP opponent Mike Rogers over the weekend. That bold act of principle, triggered because Abdul El-Sayed refused to disavow an anti-Semitic campaign ad by an extreme progressive PAC, is causing the now almost completely corrupted Democratic party (and its brainwashed supporters) to expose its ethics rot.
El-Sayed has refused to disavow his previous statements against Israel. He has evaded questions about his support of the Muslim Brotherhood. He tried to bury social media posts about 9/11 suggesting that the U.S. deserved the attacks, and he has a long record of sucking up to open fascist Hasan Piker. Then the Rebellion released its ad that was roundly condemned by Republicans and the endangered species of decent Democrats. When the candidate adamantly resisted, Haley Stevens’ fiancee, announced that he cast his would his vote for Mike Rogers. Even then, Stevens gave El-Sayed a chance to disavow the ad, and his response was to tell her to stay away from a so-called “unity event” featuring, among others, Ethics Villain Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who was substantially responsible for inflicting Joe Biden’s Presidency on the nation.
So she endorsed Rogers, which was the ethical, responsible, courageous and right thing to do.
Now she’s under attack by her own party. Chuck Schumer called her endorsement of Rogers “a despicable betrayal.” Nancy Pelosi called it a betrayal and a “horrific endorsement.” Mayor Mamdani called it a betrayal since he also is in favor of wiping out Israel. Pramila Jayapal called the endorsement “a despicable betrayal,” and “unforgivable.” James Carville, classy as ever, called Haley Stevens “a used condom.” Most of Stevens’s staff resigned in protest, with a public statement essentially saying that if the US needs to put anti-Semites in the Senate to stop Trump, it was worth it. The Michigan Democrat Party has kicked her out.
Integrity is not “in.” This is your Democratic Party in 2026.
Stooping to new depths in its pimping for the Democratic Party, the New York Times framed the story as sour grapes from a defeated candidate and an ego clash:
I ran across two essays just as I was prepping for a rare, in-person live seminar for young lawyers focusing on basic non-legal, life-competence skills essential to the effective and professional practice of law. One of those is understanding the importance and the power of culture. We all have a responsibility to care for the various cultures we swim in: a bad culture will corrupt us; a good culture will ennoble us and make us more successful and virtuous. If you can’t change a culture, you have to get out. The upcoming election is about, about, other things, what kind of culture our nation will have. People who don’t understand culture (or who don’t make the necessary effort to know what their culture is, like Malcolm Gladwell in his recent book) create problems for everyone, especially themselves.
That infuriating video above prompted a racist substacker named Max Remington (maybe) who describes himself as an “America First, isolationist, unilateralist, shameless nationalist, and post-Christian radical right-winger” to post this long essay. It’s lucid, more-or-less well-written, and provocative, but also displays the logical and ethical fallacies typically embraced by racists who are made stupid by their bias. I know them well: my ex-Marine law school room mate was a racist (and anti-Semite) much like this guy. My room mate got himself killed, but I have another racist friend with similar views, and most of my Greek-American relatives on my mother’s side were racists, including Mom.
In response, another substacker who goes by Sensurround Q Catgirl (or maybe that’s her real name) wrote this essay. Its main theme is that Max “provides absolutely ZERO evidence that race is the cause of the behaviors he’s describing.” “He provides statistics,” Catgirl continues. “He describes experiences. He identifies behaviors he finds objectionable, but then he makes an enormous logical leap from observing behavior to attributing that behavior to race.”
She’s right, Max is wrong
Watch the video, and read the essays.
I’ve got to get ready for my seminar…
One more reason why Americans voting for most Democrats in these mid-terms is evidence of serious mental and ethical incapacity.
It is also evidence of how ignorant of our system of government these “migrants” are. Congress can do very little to restrict immigration enforcement, even if it has the votes: yhat tricky Separation of Powers thingy. Imagine setting out on a journey without having accurate information about the likelihood of your being allowed into the country you are heading for.
Morons. And the United States has too many home grown morons as it is.
Well, I didn’t see this coming.
Because Pope Leo XIV is an American citizen and because he’s an unethical and arrogant SOB, he just became the first Pope ever to vote in a U.S. election. Leo, aka Robert Prevost, mailed an absentee ballot to Will County, Illinois. The clerk’s office has confirmed that “Robert Prevost is on the list of individuals who requested a Vote by Mail ballot.”
Why did the leader of a foreign nation vote in an American election, the very epitome of a leader of another country engaging in election interference? Because he could, that’s all. It is legal, because American legislators never considered this combination of factors occurring. “It is legal!” is also the rationalization (#4. Marion Barry’s Misdirection, or “If it isn’t illegal, it’s ethical“) being used by the cheating Democrats and their drained-of-ethics followers to shrug off their Senate candidate in Alaska trying to game the state’s ranked choice voting system by recruiting another Dan Sullivan to confuse voters. The Pope is a Democrat, so, naturally, he has the same set of values. “Because I could” was also Bill Clinton’s explanation in his autobiography for why he sexually exploited a star-struck female intern while he was President. “Because he can” is also the answer to the question, “Why does a dog lick his balls?”
Stay classy, Pope Leo!
The Pope didn’t have to vote in our mid-terms, and the ethical, diplomatic and respectable (and respectful) decision would have been to eschew the temptation. I thought Popes were supposed to be good at that.
When I saw the headline on The Ethicist’s weekly New York Times column: “Is It Wrong to Leave My 85-Year-Old Mother Alone on Thanksgiving?” I thought, “Wait, is this the Onion making fun of The Ethicist?” No, “Name Withheld” really submitted that question, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 and teaches philosophy at N.Y.U., really thought it was worthy of publication. The inquirer writes in part,
“…The concern here is that my sibling is going out of town for Thanksgiving with his family. My spouse and I would also like to go away for the first holiday we’ve had to ourselves in a long time! But there’s my mother. She’s pretending our proposed getaway is perfectly fine with her and that she’ll find some way to spend the holiday, but she’s clearly not looking forward to it. I’m torn between thinking, She’s a big girl, she’ll manage, and thinking that my spouse and I should suck it up this year and have Thanksgiving with my mother, and then maybe next year things will be different. I’d appreciate your thoughts.”
What the hell? Mom’s not a “big girl,” she’s an old girl, and at 85, every Thanksgiving, heck, every day could be her last. “Suck it up”? SUCK IT UP????? All the mother has is her family, and her children are choosing to leave her alone in her twilight years on the American holiday that symbolizes loving families.
Here is the brain-dead response from The Ethicist, which I am publishing in all its unethical, incompetent glory:
One doesn’t expect much in terms of intelligence, judgment and taste from a reality TV star, but McCall DePron, who is also an “influencer” so that’s two strikes against her before this conduct (Strike three!), is special. Her whole family is tasteless and clueless or being trained to be. That’s the photo above she posted on Instagram of her clan’s so clever Halloween costumes, evoking, celebrating, mocking, giggling at—I don’t know what to call it—one of the most shattering days in U.S. history
McCall is dressed as Jackie Kennedy the day her husband was murdered while sitting by her side. Her himbo hubby is supposed to be JFK before the front of his head was shot off, and her kids are supposed to be John-John, Caroline, and two Secret Service agents. Caroline Kennedy is still alive and surely thinks this trivializing of the day her world fell apart was a wonderful splash of Halloween fun. And, frankly, I’m alive too. November 22, 1963 was a generational trauma for members of my generation; 9-11 doesn’t come close. The fact that a social media “influencer” is so ethically and historically retarded is yet another cultural canary dying in the mine of U.S. society.
DePron took down her “Happy Halloween!” post that included the disgusting photo. Too late, moron. Attaching “happy” to anything related to that day is signature significance proving a porous brain and rotting soul.
With great sadness I post the following ignorant progressive crap I just saw on a cherished friend and long time professional associate’s Facebook feed. He’s a smart, caring, talented man who was the star of my wife Grace’s “Celebration of Life.” I will owe him forever, but he’s a professional musician and performer who is surrounded by dolts and knee-jerks most of his days, so he has some excuse for believing this garbage…
…since almost everyone he works with, talks to or cares about does. But Christ on a cracker, if I ever post or say anything that stupid, please, PLEASE, somebody come up behind me and cave in my head with a brick.
Don’t make me fisk that junk. “Empathy” has nothing to do with responsible voting in a democracy for any citizen over the age of six. And it’s ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS YOU MORONS!
As I just said, my bubble-dwelling, toxic empathy-infected, MSNOW talking points-poisoned musician friend has some excuse; another Facebook friend, who is a Stage 4 Trump Deranged retired lawyer referenced here before who should know better and once did before his brain asked to leave the building does not. He just posted that Cassidy Hutchinson, the irredeemable “star witness” of Nancy Pelosi’s Star Chamber, the rigged partisan inquiry into the J-6 riot, is a “hero”—you know, for flagrantly lying in her testimony after being coached by vengeance Fury Liz Cheney.
A DC grand jury just refused to indict Cassidy, proving exactly nothing. For any lawyer, regardless of partisan tilt, to call this weak, dishonest, unconscionable woman heroic is evidence of mental illness or creeping dementia. Her EA dossier is here. She’s disgusting. My friend the distinguished retired lawyer is just…depressing.
