The following article, Diaper Rash Politics for Eric Swalwell, was first published on The Black Sphere.

Eric Swalwell paid for childcare with campaign money, and America briefly wondered which child needed watching. After further review, the answer was obvious. It wasn’t his kids. It was Eric.

No parent who has ever watched this man’s social media output believed otherwise. The TikTok scolding. The rehearsed outrage. The sanctimony delivered with the emotional stability of a sugar-crashing preschooler denied a second juice box. If maturity were a prerequisite for public office, Swalwell would be ineligible for a library card.

So when campaign finance records revealed that Swalwell had spent more than $200,000 in donor money on “childcare,” including direct payments to his wife, the story practically wrote its own punchlines. This wasn’t a scandal. It was a receipt-backed diagnosis.

According to Federal Election Commission filings reviewed by Fox News Digital, Swalwell reimbursed himself for childcare expenses from 2019 through 2025, with over $22,000 spent in just the final quarter of 2025 alone. More than $6,000 of that money went directly to his wife. (foxnews.com)

Democrats would like you to believe this is normal. That it’s progressive. That it’s “supporting working families.” But no working family in America gets to Venmo their spouse using other people’s money and call it civic virtue. That is not family support. That is laundering adulthood.

Eric Swalwell is not a man burdened by responsibility. He is burdened by being Eric Swalwell.

This is a grown man who once dated a Chinese intelligence operative, a fact that would have ended any Republican’s career with the subtlety of a meteor strike. Swalwell, however, was not removed from office. He was promoted to cable news loudmouth and Democratic scold-in-chief. The message was clear. In the Democrat Party, incompetence is not disqualifying. It is branding.

Readers of TheBlackSphere.net will recall this pattern from “Trump: Democrats’ Moving Target,” which documented how Democrats weaponize outrage selectively while excusing their own behavior as long as the offender votes the right way. Swalwell is not an exception. He is a mascot. (theblacksphere.net)

The childcare excuse is especially rich given Swalwell’s public persona. This is a man who lectures Americans about responsibility while outsourcing his own. Who talks endlessly about “norms” while stretching them until they resemble Silly Putty. He did not merely blur the line between personal and campaign expenses. He trampled it wearing Velcro sneakers.

Democrats insist the FEC allows childcare expenses under certain circumstances. That is technically true. It is also morally hollow. The law was intended to prevent parents, especially women, from being locked out of political participation. It was not designed to subsidize the emotional support needs of a congressman who behaves like a hall monitor with a Twitter account.

Swalwell’s defenders point to advisory opinions. Conservatives point to common sense.

And common sense says this: if your job performance resembles a tantrum, maybe the childcare reimbursement isn’t about your kids.

Look at Swalwell’s record. He has been on the wrong side of virtually every major issue of the last decade. Border security. Crime. Inflation. Energy. Foreign policy. Free speech. Each time reality contradicts him, he doubles down, puffs out his chest, and records another scolding video as if America is grounded and he’s the disappointed camp counselor.

Democrats by nature have a talent for being wrong. Swalwell elevates it to performance art. The eunuch is the human embodiment of failing upward, loudly, and on someone else’s dime.

The most revealing part of this scandal is not the dollar amount. It is the entitlement. Swalwell never considered that maybe childcare is a personal responsibility. He assumed, reflexively, that someone else should pay. That assumption is the ideological backbone of modern Democrat governance.

When Democrats say “the government should help,” they mean “other people should cover my tab.”

California families are drowning in costs. Housing. Gas. Food. Taxes. Childcare. And here stands Eric Swalwell, angling for the governor’s mansion, quietly reimbursing himself for the privilege of adulthood. He is not solving problems. He is submitting expense reports.

This is the same state where Democrats lecture small business owners about payroll compliance while running deficits that require creative accounting just to keep the lights on. Swalwell fits right in. He is a walking budget overrun with opinions.

And let’s not skip past the marital payment issue. Paying your spouse with campaign funds is not just tacky. It is textbook self-dealing with a Hallmark card taped on top. Democrats would lose their minds if a Republican did this. Panels would convene. Ethics lectures would rain down. With Swalwell, the story is treated like an awkward parenting blog entry.

The reason is simple. Democrats protect their own, especially when those own represent the party’s true spirit: arrogance without competence.

Eric Swalwell represents Democrats perfectly. He is loud, wrong, sanctimonious, reckless, and convinced that the rules are for other people. He scolds America like a parent while behaving like the child he wants subsidized.

The childcare reimbursements were not an accident. They were an admission.

Swalwell cannot manage himself without supervision. And rather than seek maturity, he sought a line item.

This is why voters are increasingly rejecting Democrats. Not because voters are mean. But because Democrats keep asking adults to take guidance from people who cannot be trusted with a credit card and a bedtime.

Eric Swalwell did not misuse campaign funds. He revealed exactly who he is.

And America noticed.

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