One Of Democrats’ Biggest Losers Back With Midterm Advice

Former Democratic Texas Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke is really good at losing. He seems to know it. 

“We are in a basketball game right now,” O’Rourke says in a video making the social media rounds. “The refs have left the arena, and the other side is just clobbering the shit out of us, just punching us in the face, kicking us in the nuts.” (RELATED: Ken Paxton Moves To Hold Beto O’Rourke In Contempt For Redistricting Stunt)

There’s no metaphor quite so rousing as ‘imagine you’re being relentlessly kicked in the balls.’ It’s a strange means of winning the audience’s affection, but then again, liberals do enjoy victimhood. And emasculation. 

“And we’re kind of throwing our hands up and we’re asking the crowd, the people of America, ‘Hey, do you see what’s going on here? This is unfair, this isn’t the rules that we agreed to play by,’” O’Rourke continues. 

O’Rourke sounds just a little sore. He has lost three elections in four years, as the Texas Tribune notes, which would demoralize most of us. 

🚨WATCH: Beto O’Rourke, who lost three elections in a row, goes on a vulgarity-laced tirade.

“The other side is just clobbering the sh*t out of us… kicking us in the nuts.”

“Who cares about the f*cking rules right now? Punch back… and win some f*cking power!” pic.twitter.com/XrjpZ9q9yB

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 13, 2025

This is a pretty apt description of GOP strategy for the two or three decades preceding President Donald Trump’s political debut. 

“Imagine if the roles were reversed” is a valid hypothetical, but bad rhetoric. It projects weakness. Whininess. It says to the listener, ‘Your enemies can do whatever they want to you and they know it.’

Such cries have faded from the GOP, especially in Trump’s second term, as Republicans discover they can do things. You can secure the border. You can stop funding cross-sex hormone injections for minors, or inmates. Albeit with judicial pushback, but that’s to be expected. 

O’Rourke recognizes that the roles have, indeed, been reversed. Liberals are losing their grip on the culture and the institutions. They have resorted to … pots and pans. 

“Who cares about the fucking rules right now?” O’Rourke questions. “Punch back, kick back, dunk over their heads and win some fucking power.”

O’Rourke has been at the “no-nonsense profanity” bit for a while. 

“Can the F-Bomb Save Beto?” Politico Magazine questioned in 2019. 

The past-six-years answer: ‘No.’

Not that constant public rejection will stop him from trying. Nor will it stop other Democrats from aping Beto-style theatrics. (RELATED: SANDOVAL: Jasmine Crockett Defends Large-Scale Brawls In ‘Stank’ Speech)

REPORTER: “If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say?”

REP. CROCKETT: “F*ck off.” pic.twitter.com/Eso9pzVt59

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 25, 2025

“Dark woke,” as The New York Times (NYT) termed it, is a “new attitude” sweeping the Democratic Party. “It’s provocative, edgy and perilously toeing the line of not being too offensive.”

It’s also exhausting and annoying. Does anyone believe O’Rourke’s cursing emerges from a wellspring of genuine outrage? It seems about as authentic as his nickname.

Affect aside, it’s nice to acknowledge the unsaid. Drop the moral justifications. Parties want power. Politicians want power. People want stuff — cheap eggs, cheap housing, to feel safe, to feel good things. The best way for politicians to get what they want is to promise people what they want. 

It’s only a slightly more complex version of this Indian politician handing out cash to a clamoring crowd. 

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