It’s 2026: Your Race Card Has Expired
Experts agree that the whole point of the election of Zohran Mamdani to be mayor of New York City was so that Nicolás Maduro could feel the warmth of collectivism during his stay in the city.
But is it possible that President Trump orchestrated the whole thing, from Mamdani’s election to Maduro’s vacation so that the two collectivists could discuss justice and the arc of history together, all friendly like?
Think back over the last year and wonder. There was the USAID corruption reveal and then the Iran bombing rain and then the drug boat demolition derby and then the DSA mayor elections and then the Somali child care corruption reveal and then the Maduro removal from Venezuela for safer climes. Were they all related?
I’ll tell you what 2025 has done for me. First, it has confirmed me in my belief that all government is corrupt from stem to stern. Second, it has taught me to fully understand the Race Card. The point of the Race Card is simple. It makes you and me shut up, especially when raising the obvious point that all government is corrupt. This was brought home to me by our new Seattle mayor Katie Wilson, who said:
I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers.
I can’t believe she said that. And Katie had “Somali Immigrant Iffy Abshir” help introduce her at a ceremony last Friday.
Katie, honey. Your Somali Race Card is a “tell” that Somali corruption is running rampant in nice liberal Seattle, just like it is in Minnesota.
Hey, Mayor Katie! Check your smartphone! Your Race Card is over the limit.
Politics is simply gifting your supporters with tax money and grants and government regulations so that the grateful supporters will contribute to your next campaign. The only downside is that the supporters come to expect the grift, and demand it continue. Thus we can understand the agony of educated liberals in the USAID community when Elon Musk started messing with their mess kits.
Here’s an example of government in action. Mayor Mamdani has just announced the formation of an Office of Mass Engagement.
The office will work within City Hall and across City agencies to strategize, coordinate, and execute on engagement that reaches the masses of everyday New Yorkers.
Do you see the point? Mamdani is creating gubmint jobs for activists, in particular for the activists that worked on his campaign. It’s about nothing but Jobs for Activists.
What came out as clear as can be in the pivotal year of 2025 is this. The point of the Race Card and the Oh The Children Card is to shut us up.
To repeat: the whole point of the Race Card is to stop you from criticizing the policies of liberal government. Because if you do, you’re a Racist. Or children are going to starve.
But racism and starving children have nothing to do with the case.
Every ruling-class functionary needs a simple way of silencing critics and preventing any serious analysis of the ruling class’s policies. That’s what the Race Card has done for the last 50 years. It’s supposed to shut you up. And hey, it’s worked, up to now.
The other side of politics is to bury your enemies. That’s what Jack Smith and Tish James and Fani Willis are all about. And by the way, don’t you dare criticize Tish or Fani, you Racist.
You know something else that I am observing? Our Democratic friends and their willing accomplices in the media are not that good at playing the Race Card. Not anymore. It’s a bit weak to whine about race and poor helpless Somalis when the fraud is so blatant and so widespread. And it is pathetic for regime media types to whine about unqualified twentysomething YouTubers doing the job that they, like Bartleby the Scrivener, would prefer not to do.
We know why this ruling-class decline happened. It happened because of Affirmative Action and DEI. The Democrats are not sending us their best anymore. And it shows.
It seems to me that we have an opportunity: a mission, if we accept it. That mission is to create a new Narrative, that all government spending is corruption and grift. Yeah, maybe it helps people occasionally, but that’s just an accident. The whole point of government spending is to grift the ruling class’s supporters. And that is all.
So when our liberal friends accuse us of being racist towards helpless Somalis, we say: Sorry, ma’am. Your Race Card has expired. Check your smartphone.
Or we say: Sorry, I don’t understand. The Somalis get billions of dollars in spending and they all vote Democrat. That’s got nothing to do with race; that’s just corruption as usual. Maybe you can explain the race angle to me, dear liberal friend, because, after all, you are educated and I am ignorant.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/it_s_2026_your_race_card_has_expired.html