It's a Hit Dog that Howls

There are two very talented elected public officials in the Democratic Party. There also is one who is not yet an elected official, though he may be in the near future. Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el-Sayed of Michigan, New York City mayor Zohran Mandami, and Georgia senator Jon Ossoff.  I very much don't like the first, am not particularly fond of the second, and am unsure of the third. 

All three are "political athletes". However, born in Uganda, Mandami never can be President of the USA and el-Sayed even isn't elected yet. But the Republican Party is afraid of the third, and should be.

 

Completely unforced error by @ossoff.

His conduct here is antithetical to his message. He’s not a man of morals, he’ll throw a female staffer’s name into the media without proof or caution for her to be thrown to the wolves.

And it was scripted. https://t.co/lYUds57kwg

— Jacob Hawkins (@jacobphawkins) August 16, 2026

Senator Ossoff had stated

While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.

MAGAT Julie Kelly with allegedly 911,111 followers tweets "shame on him. What a vile thing to suggest. God forbid a young, attractive woman works her butt off every single day for the president and for the country she loves. (Natalie Harp is paid by American taxpayers, but as a personal aide/advisor to the President, she works not for the country but for Trump.)  CNN pundit Scott Jennings, believed to be on the President's list to succeed Karoline Leavitt as press secretary, remarks "This is quite a message for the Democratic Party to end to young women working in politics. Party of women? Pretty ugly stuff".

Former Bush 43 press secretary Ari Fleischer calls Ossoff "a bottom feeder" who "should be ashamed". Ex-GOP congressman Peter Meijer of Michigan, who believes the truth is actionable, tweets "just say the thing you're saying and take the resulting defamation sit on the chin like a man".  Prominent MAGAT congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna calls the Senator an "sexist arrogant jerk".  White House communications director Steven Cheung bleats "Jon Jackoff," or as Trump called him "Pee-wee Herman," "has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics".

A business owner contends Ossoff is a "sweeb" who is"an entitled, trust fund do-nothing". Roman Catholic nationalist Greg Price ("St. Michael the Archangel, Defend us in Battle", "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum") argues that Harp's role, "according to extremely online leftists," "means that she must be sleeping with her boss. In most cases, you'd think a male Senator making a comment like that about a female staffer would be considered sexist, but I guess it's okay if it's the Democrat Party's new favorite mediocrity.". 

Republicans get an A for effort trying to turn attention away from Ossoff's criticism of Trump by pretending that the Senator was attacking a woman. Republican wokeism is a sight to behold.

Of course, Ossoff wasn't condemning Ms. Harp. He said of Donald "He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar."

As John Oliver would say: "excellent."  Ossoff slams Trump for his kingly aspiration of a ballroom. He refers to travel with Natalie, a coup for a guy who once stated "when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy," and who is the star of the Epstein files, which he has moved heaven and earth to avoid releasing. And he takes a swipe at Trump for being given a jet by the Qataris, which may eventually cost the taxpayers 41 billion dollars. All in the space of 22 words.

Ossoff didn't say that the 80-year-old who has boasted of his sexual prowess is having an affair with the 34/35 year-old Harp. He didn't claim that even though, as revealed by "Regime Change" co-author Jonathan Swan on CNN, the aide

has written him numerous letters that she's left for him, including one that says,"You are all that matters to me" or some version of that. It raised the eyebrows of the Secret Service during the campaign.... 

Some of these letters that were left in some of his private quarters...Ssusie Wiles asked, "where am I" upon learning about the letters.

"Nothing to see here, folks. Move on." At least, it appeared there was nothing to be seen here, nothing particularly controversial in Jon Ossoff's remarks, even though Natalie's "Most Favored Aide status was confirmed when it was Harp, and not Karoline Leavitt or Marco Rubio, who was asked to share the beverage cart that covertly transferred the president from one plane to another" in Turkey.

But, alas, now I've been persuaded by the deluge of attacks from Republicans upon Senator Ossoff for a remark which, with no hint of self-awareness, they complain is "sexist" or "misogynist".  It's as if they themselves believe that Trump is indulging his sexual thirst in his relationship with Ms. Harp. It's also as if they know that they should be very concerned about one particular senator from Georgia.

 

Release the Epstein files and then we can have a serious conversation about young women and the creeps who stalk them. Until then, and unless you cut loose the adjudicated sex criminal in the WH, sit this one out. https://t.co/cHuk1WwEtu

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 18, 2026

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