Color me unimpressed.
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Party Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a bi-partisan rebuke of Florida Republican Dan Bilzerian, one of several Republican candidates in Florida’s 6th Congressional District running in the primary today. Bilzerian, a veteran, has run a bare-knuckles campaign to put it mildly, and his latest campaign ad crossed more ethics red lines than any such production in memory. In the process of attacking incumbent Rep. Randy Fine, one of his opponents in the primary, the ad uses AI-generated images (the one on the left accompanies the ad hominem slur “fat Jew”) and such blatant anti-Semitic rhetoric as “Shylock,” “Jewish supremacist” and “satanic whore” while suggesting that Adolf Hitler’s “opinions” many have some validity after all.
Nice. Stay classy, Republicans.
Rep. Fine is among the most vocal and determined supporters of Israel in its war with Hamas and Gaza. Jeffries and Johnson both condemned Bilzerian. “The hateful campaign being run by Daniel Bilzerian in Florida is blatantly antisemitic and shocks the conscience,” Jeffries said. “People of goodwill regardless of political affiliation must reject his vile attacks on the Jewish community. This cannot and will not stand.” “The vile attack ads against Congressman Randy Fine in Florida’s 6th District are disgusting and should be condemned by all political leaders on the Right and Left,” Speaker Johnson said in a statement the same day. “Antisemitism and outward hatred of Jewish communities have no place in our politics or in America.”
There’s no argument that Bilzerian deserves those rebukes and more, but I see no actual principles involved in the decisions of Jefferies and Johnson to attack him. It’s easy for Jeffries to condemn an outlier and rogue GOP candidate for vile attacks on the Jewish community, and it is also hypocritical. His party has extolled and supported plenty of anti-Semites who managed not to be as brazen as Bilzerian, but their statements and transparent attitudes have been “vile” nonetheless. Indeed, Jeffries’s whole party is increasingly sliding into routine Jew-hate, notably on college campuses.
Ethics Alarms 
And the DSA wants to eliminate the supreme court, the senate and the presidency, leaving only congress to run the country.
Ha. Congress has consistently pawned off their responsibilities for decades, let’s not give them more to delegate to the bureaucratic swamp.
Dan Bilzrerian has resorted to running for public office to get attention. Wow. I can’t believe his campaign had much of a chance. When I looked it up, I found he was running with a predicted 1% chance of winning. I’m shocked it was that high. I always thought of him as an Andrew Tate-type internet personality without the charm of Tate and with gambling instead of online sex peddling. I don’t believe he thought he would win, I suspect this was just an attempt to reignite his ‘brand’.