There will not be a Democrat as President of our nation for at least 20 years if not 30. The damage done to America is nearly irreparable and will likely require the kind of surgery to fix that leaves one maimed for life.
Trump is not a Republican. That's what many do not understand. That's why both parties hate him. He is not even a politician. He is dismantling the deep state and exposing everything that has been covered up for decades. He is the face/leader of this movement. The rest is up to us.
Spot on. I think that Trump should rename the Republican Party the American Party, because that’s what the new MAGA party represents. Plus what’s left of the Dems will have to run against the American Party forever, and by definition anyone running against the American Party will be anti-American. Like the Democrats.
And get rid of the dumb Republican elephant mascot once and for all. The American Party needs a fierce screaming eagle to be its symbol.
I believe it's all coming. Or I really hope. The more that is exposed, the more people will start to see and wake up and move out of their mental prisons. Especially when all shit about child trafficking starts coming out. That will be a big unifier. I can't wait for Hollywood to crumble. And I'm saying this as a great movie lover. It's done. Here's a good breakdown of just the past week: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/wins-come-all-day-under-president-trump/
Chuck Schumer, at least, is beginning to get it. Defending waste, fraud and abuse is stupid. And doubtless there are lots of Phants with their hands in the till, waiting to be exposed. This could be a nonpartisan Sport and maybe it will be.
It cannot be a "non-partisan sport" because the corrupt Deep State is over 90% Democrat just like the Washington swamp. Swamp creatures don't turn each other in but do exactly what they're doing - attack the fumigators of the swamp who happen to carry the Repub banner. The disruptors are not what's passed for Republican lately but big tent problem solvers led by a businessman. For the first time in decades, actions to save the Republic (a land with Rule of Law) are occurring. Previous RINOs probably couldn't even define Republic let alone defend it. They conserved NOTHING.
The Republicans didn't choose the elephant as a mascot, it was popularized by cartoonist Thomas Nast, who also gave us the modern image of Santa Claus. Part of the reason was tied to President Grant, and a Civil War saying about being in combat described as "seeing the elephant." The donkey is actually a jack-ass, and wss used as a slur against Andrew Jackson, who embraced it and used it in his campaign.
I like the elephant. It is a lovable animal and, at their best, Republicans are lovable. There are also some Democrats who are lovable, and they are welcome to come on over.
This is his last term. It's interesting to speculate who will lead Republicans in 2028. Trump is a moment in time. I didn't support him in any primary, but wholeheartedly did in the General, and do now.
He would call it the “American Party” but we MAGA have no need to change our name away from Republicans. We are after all, a Republic, and common sense actions from our party are popular across nearly all demographics. What will the D’s rename themselves though, after all the fallout is over. Pray tell, when will the fallout for the D’s and the Uniparty end? How many agencies are there? This could go on for years and years. And with each passing year, Social Security will become more secure, for more generations (as it was designed) - and aging voters will reward the party that delivers this.
Yeah. One of the hardest things for many to understand is how Trump has, effectively, created an entirely new political party out of the carcass of the Bush/Neo-Con Republican party. For those of you who have long been calling for a third party, you can stop now--the Trump Republicans are it.
The old Bush/Neo-Con GOP no longer exists as a party, only as a bunch of whiny failures who long for the old days. Trump recreated the rotting carcass of the GOP into something new & much better. This is the first time in years that Republicans happily voted FOR a person & platform instead of casting a vote AGAINST the agenda of the other party. It’s not a 3rd party, it’s a completely overhauled new model for the future. The carcass is gone.
We should be very happy that RFKjr closed 3rd party effort and aligned with the new GOP. Our system is not really designed to allow 3rd parties to be outright winners.
To make a difference, they should consider not having a candidate, but aligning, in each election, with the major party they see including and supporting what they deem most important. 1-3 points can be impactful in close elections. And, to attract these votes, major parties would need to become more transparent, which would be good.
Agree. The rest is up to us. The question is how will we be successful. What leaders can take on the mantle to sustain this momentum. We must ensure that our government is serving the people, doing the functions assigned by the Constitution.
The coalition around Trump is young and getting younger as witnessing with the DOGE team. I call it the Common Sense party. I feel that JD will be very ready to take over in ‘28. Meanwhile, ‘26 midterms are very important to maintain the majority to codify the Trump EAs.
He is more Libertarian. This makes me very happy and all things considered, I'm happy I voted for him. I still wouldn't spend a minute in a foxhole with him or Obama. Both would try to convince you to pop out and take a look. Obama would want himself to survive because he can't imagine a world without him in it. Trump is easy, he is just a straight out more important than you. Let the hate rain over me now for not being anybody’s butt boy.
i wasnt born and raised in the US but immigrated here , as a result i did not have a build in political alignment , i spend the years that i was not a citizen to observe and learn about both parties and it became obvious to me that voting would not be about picking the better party but the lesser of 2 evils so when i got naturalized i went to the vooting booth cast a republican ticket and then went to the bathroom to vomit .
Trump was the first president that had me excited because he wasnt a politician and he wasnt part of the good old boys club and of course the way he was attacked by both sides and the way he handled it .
I agree here. Don't leave it up to a Republican congress...just like Dems they have one very insurmountable obstacle... a paycheck and family to support with their Republican-ness.
As misguided as this is it lies as the root of much of this turmoil. If you like what you see with Trump...ACTIVATE! Go after your congressman, don't require that every detail go your way and most importantly, be informed.
Thanks for the reminder. Ms Kathleen has a definite point but... you know what just occurred to me? Mr McConnell is playing the part of the young man -- Eddie, I believe? -- who clung to the dead Comet at the end of Atlas Shrugged.
Maybe I'm the first to tell you, but America doesn't have a revenue problem. We are already overtaxed to the point where young couples are suffocating and cannot afford basic essentials bc the hidden tax of inflation was Biden's biggest destruction.
We have a SPENDING problem, and if you dopes would back Musk to rid ourselves of things like $136B to Pakistan for building schools when not one gets built, then we can get somewhere.
There will be issues as things change, but I'm not so sure that low taxes will hurt the real poor. Many people are on the dole because they can be. There are generational poor families who teach their kids how to work the system so they never have to get off the dole. If communities are allowed to decide how to deal with their own set of 'the poor', that is better than a federal system that takes from lower income states and gives it to higher income states that generate the poor and propagate a parasitic system.
More isolationist, less "free" trade -- exposing the fact that the trade had never been free. Fewer war pigs supporting Lockheed Martin. Remember B-1 Bob? But we still have problems, including ridiculous farm state agricultural entitlements. Want to really test your congresscritter? What does he or she say about ethanol? It didn't even make Project 2025!
GOP are less open war but the funding of war equipment that's still strong within the GOP look at their proposed budget more money for dept of defense.
Trump is no longer a Republican, except in name only. And neither am I. This is National Populism now. Check out this brilliant essay recently published by N.S. Lyons which postulates the death of the Long Twentieth Century, assault Trump and MAGA (w/ Tea Part roots) has waged against the weak-gods ‘Open Society’ of past 80 years (which has pluses but lots of minuses) and now the rise again of Strong Gods. A pretty good take on where we are at in our current history, and how we arrived here. Ever wonder how Dick Cheney and Chuck Schumer ended up batting for the same team? Read this essay to find out. This essay also folds well into 4th Turning theory (Howe & Strauss) if you’re familiar with it.
Trump is a "Republican" alright, he has just redefined what that means... And by doing so, has brought a whole bunch of new people into the party, including me. But yes, it is now a Nationalist Republican Party, as opposed to the Corporate Globalist Neo-Con party of Bush. No wonder they hate Trump so much!
that was a most eye-opening essay. We truly live in an interesting time. If God grants me another thirty years, i think I'll look back in wonder. This period of time will be a whole chapter in history books.
"A whole new chapter in history books"? But if we don't get a new generation of historians with the honesty and insight to write that chapter well, it will be a lousy chapter full of "racist," "fascist," "misogynist," et al.
Turns out, the historical profession itself is another one of those American institutions in dire need of a complete overhaul.
I'm in my 60's too and thought the same thing! But yes, please God, let the Democrats go the way of the Whigs! And God save the Republicans and Conservatives from straying from MAGA principles once they get a taste of power.
Since the days of the Whigs, the two parties have acquired official status through the primary system. Multi-party systems greatly increase the power of minor parties. And "ranked choice" voting, though rationally justified, arouses paranoia about the process. Just taking the top two candidates raises the possibility (and reality) that one of the two major parties will not field any candidate at all. Which party wins could well wind up being controlled by whether one party has two major candidates. That is way too random, and subject to "mischief".
As far as I can see, the only way out is for voters (in primaries) one and only one second choice.
Trump is no more a Republican than McCain or Romney were. He had to run as GOP to get elected, just like those other two, but he's a different breed altogether. I agree, though, the GOP will cave, surrender, placate the left, shame themselves...anything to give the crazies the victory. There are fewer RINOs in Congress this time around for Trump, but not a huge difference.
There is going to be a new budget vote soon, where Congress is going to have a big fucking spotlight shined on how they vote and the pork they support. Including which agencies they vote to allocate $ funding to, and how much. Congress is going to have to defend controversial spending in a way they never had to before. I’m curious to see whether we see a new, clean budget proposed or if it will be the same ‘ol Continuing Resolution (CR) budgeting we’ve seen the last 15 years. CR’s is long-loved by the Uniparty and how we got into the federal debt mess we have now. Because CR’s never reduce spending, they only increase the status quo spending by X%. I hope DOGE AI is applied to the next budget. Let’s lay it all out where Congress is allocating funds. Open the curtains and let in the sunshine!
we should take heart. Although the last four years have been hell in many ways for many of us, we are now way better off than we would have been otherwise. the deep state overplayed their hand, and now they are out of power. And now, thanks to Elon, Trump, and DOGE, conquering the Federal deficit seems plausible. Bobby Kennedy is the secretary of health and human services, and Kash probably will clean up the FBI. And the list goes on. So lets savor the victory. The future is much better than it might have been, and we should be thankful, despite the hardships.
Yes. I think many of us are so traumatized by what has gone down over the past eight years, we’re afraid to relax and enjoy this current state of victory and exposure of the evils. I take heart in Joseph’s statement to his brothers, who tried to destroy him: “What you intended for evil, God has used for good.” (Genesis 50:20) When the Biden administration took power in 2020, it looked like evil had triumphed. However, if it were not for the past four years, Trump would not have had the kind of support he now has to enact these measures to drain the swamp.
Unfortunately, I believe you are right that we had to have the last four years for the far Left to rush through all of their crazy ideas and show the normal people that they really are nuts, and very dangerous. They now see that the Deep State is real and can very easily be weaponized against regular Americans who did nothing wrong, which has never happened before and I think has been deeply frightening for a lot of people. It certainly has for me. The illegals overrunning the country are also deeply frightening to Americans who are scared of the criminality and rightly angry that their money is going to illegals who are destroying their communities. I hope that there is enough strength left in America to turn it around and get back to our real roots and values.
I think we’ve all learned this lesson: we can’t sit back and expect the government or pundits to fix things for us. We got so lazy, and allowed ourselves to fall asleep.
Right now we’re seeing the Left, and the “useful idiots” who believe their narrative, ramping up yet another attempt to condemn and cancel this new administration and us who support it.
I hate having to engage such people online, because they tend to want only to rant, and don’t study the facts. But I do think it’s on us, now, the grassroots citizens, to speak back more boldly, stand firm on the ground we are taking back, and shine the light of truth where they are working to incite fear and lies (again).
Deborah, perhaps like you I also have been a silent observer on online forums until very recently. I agree with your sentiment that as the America 1st party, we need to have more outreach. Rules that I made for myself is to never post a purely negative response, to focus on common areas, to express empathy whenever I can, and to be certain to praise the good endorsed by my “opponents”.
I wholeheartedly agree. I think of the virtues: patience, self-control, humility, courage, kindness.
James Madison wrote, “I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no forms of government can render us secure.”
I would add to this list of virtues “courage.” If we dare speak out to those who are working to incite fear and distrust of the Trump administration, we’re likely to put ourselves in the line of fire. I think we’re at a place in this battle now where we must be willing to stand firm and speak out. Trump certainly has done this for us.
“So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors. . . . Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.” (Ephesians 4:25, 26)
normal people trust neither side. I hope you all know this. If they save us all money and stop the nonsense, super. But we are in wait and see times now.
Patrick, I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “normal” people.
Are you saying that most thinking people recognize that neither side of this battle is completely trustworthy? If so, I agree. No human being is completely trustworthy. We must not put our whole trust in any leaders or administration.
However I think we can and should make judgments about whom we can most trust, here. Some criteria for this are (1) who tells the truth, based on actual facts and events, as opposed to making accusations based on undisclosed sources and heresay? (2) who is willing to open the books to the public for scrutiny? (3) who is willing to meet with we the people to discuss policy and strategy, unscripted and unedited?
If we compare the Biden administration to what we’re seeing now with Trump at the helm, the difference is night and day.
Yes, Godfather I is the true classic, maybe the greatest movie ever made. But Godfather II was still pretty damn good. Hopefully, that is what we will get in '28.
Agreed. The Democrats attempted to find their 21st century voice in Identity politics and Critical Theory. This attempt has failed spectacularly. This attempt was preceeded by the failure of the Democrats 20th century voice "Eat The Rich." If the Republicans dont screw up they probably have 12 years to institutionalize change.
The progressive income tax instantiated eat the rich. The wealth creation engine of the capital markets trumped class warfare. And in the end aspirations trump victimization.
At this stage it appears the Democrat label is dead when it comes to national office. What will be interesting to see is how long the outrage at the government grift can be strung out. If it’s done right, and strings pulled long enough over enough agencies, the Democrat party name (and Uniparty!) may never recover and a new ‘Bull Moose’ type group may arise instead, in its place. At some point, I think an assassination attempt will be made on Trump or Musk. Which if it does occur, would only ‘help’ to keep the outrage at Democrats continuing.
This is no longer the Republican Party by any stretch of the imagination. It is MAGA. It is RINO ironically by definition. But you know, fuck the old weak, decrepit neocons of yesterday. They are indistinguishable from the Schumers and Pelosi’s of the world. The single ruling class that for so long robbed us of our future. Their time is done. They are facing down an enemy in Trump and Musk that they have no capability of dealing with on any level.
An assassination attempt now would martyr either/both men and make it so there simply wouldn’t be a democrat party. It would just be a bunch of mentally ill transsexuals and child rapists.
I can only wish this to be true. But many of our voters think of Government as Santa Claus and will vote for the goodies. The Democratic Party has been, for the past ninety years, the Party of Free Shit, and it will always have a constituency.
It doesn’t hold up either. Because even amongst the welfare class, they can look now and see that the free lifestyle they have earned by simply existing as an American pales in comparison to what they could have if the government wasn’t a wallet in a transexuals fever dream.
People really don’t understand the amount of change being enacted. An American sovereign wealth fund alone is mind blowing and I feel insanely stupid for not having seen it coming. It should have always been here. Americans should have always benefited from it.
Arabs do this and they do it well in SA, UAE, etc… it pays off and actually tends to remove people from the welfare state.
This I fear is the next test: How much morality remains amongst the "normies" (gotta come up with a better term for the Rest of Us, but it works for now) with God having been so thoroughly expunged?
If history is any indication, the crazies will take the house and the senate in less than two years. They haven't shut off their mainstream media propaganda machine nor even turned the setting down, still injecting fear and hysteria into the sheep 24/7. Until the entire bowel movement is dead I will count them very much alive. They can't give up. There's nothing else to turn to. The USA is their last stand on Earth. If they are beaten here, they can be beaten anywhere else in the world, and they know it.
Depends on how the Trump term goes.... but ---if they keep going---and they will---after something bad happens (cause we're ALL human) and each successive President is true and honest and not captured, as our Republic is a living breathing thing....than yes , we can have good leadership whether Republican or Democrat or something new.
The Democrat party should be retired frankly. I'm about to read Uncle Toms Cabin-haven't yet- but I understand Uncle Tom's a heroic character - not the sell-out he's mistakenly and widely known for today- due to the minstrel shows response to this black man of intergrity, as depicted by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The racists in the south would't have it (Democrats) back in the 1850's. Hasn't changed much with them. God speed Mr Trump and Co. Their hearts are in the right place that, and's why he was spared in PA. 🙏
The “GOP” is gonna lose plenty of elections because there are still too many of them that don’t have their brains on straight and believe in fake social conservatism. I just think there’s not too many of those GOP left. It’s mostly MAGA and God willing all will be MAGA eventually. America First is what Americans want.
I dream of a day when term limits are introduced and accepted by congress. It will be the day when corruption is well and truly flushed out from the system and the idea of a career politician is extinguished.
I dream of the day there was a lifetime ban for people who work in the industry to be able to sit on committees that control them. I dream of social safety net that helps those regardless of health, income or political affiliation. I also dream of an election money where all big money pacs and donors were banned and people were forced to try to recruit unpaid volunteers and all political ads on all news sites and TV were banned.
Concerning political ads, what if there were government run channels that exclusively ran political ads with equal time rules and a schedule published online? That way those interested could tune in to hear the pitches of relevant candidates? Ideally there would be a channel for each precinct, though that would be unrealistic. Perhaps one for each senate precinct with highly populous states adding more.
I disagree on the unpaid volunteers as that prevents a solid chunk of the nation from being able to do a significant amount as they wouldn’t be able to afford being away from work that long. A certain recent national campaign infamously spent a significant portion of the budget on staffing, which may or may not have included payouts for celebrity endorsements and I agree that is wrong. Perhaps a compromise of a cap on the pay for campaign works of state minimum wage +15%?
I 100% agree with you on big money pacs and donors. Let’s add no lobbyists. Some nations as well as some States have a system where candidates get a set amount of tax payer money for the campaign and can accept no donations. Here in the States, those systems are all (to my knowledge) optional and the vast majority of state-wide and national office seekers don’t take that option as big pac money is too tempting.
The Tea Party movement largely rejects the idea of a safety net, except concerning actions for defense department/homeland security. Ironically perhaps, it is Trump mostly, and Tucker Carlson somewhat that convinced me that the positives of a well run safety net system outweigh the negatives. My work experience in healthcare in a half desk job, half patient care role also played a significant role having experienced how much of a pain it is to find cheaper medication deals and get insurance to get in line with the provider’s treatment plan even when the insurance nominally covers the treatment.
I’d like to modify your ban for people working an industry to sit in committees that control them. 1st, let’s specify that the reverse of regulating committee->industry executive board needs strong regulation to avoid corruption. This pattern being observed is one of the major reasons for many to support RFK jr who alleges that food and pharma companies are allowed to poison us by promising comfy jobs to the regulators at the FDA. Some experience in running a company in an industry is needed lest you have rules that have no bearing in what reality in the field is like. I would propose a set number of committee seats for business executives, perhaps 2 that must be from rival companies, as well as set seats for other levels of the industry including middle managers, low level workers, and some seats for those with 0 affiliation with an industry.
I agree with you on everything you said. I am a lifelong conservative, more tea party than republican, and now MAGA. You and I have more common ground than I would have expected, but am glad for it. I am making multiple posts for readabilities sake. I would love to get your input on the following ideas.
Get off social media. Look at your family, your happiness, your friends, your joy, your job, your economics. This is God. The visible, working lens through which we see God everyday. Those are the optics that move mountains and advance civilizations.
Are you living the American Dream? Are you working towards it? That’s all that matters. Optics is bullshit made for NPCs susceptible to psyops.
Look to God. You don’t need a religion. Just a belief in more than you.
I have a dog and a house and a job. Car's paid off and I've traveled the world twice. I find everyone is really the same except in these chat rooms when folks take on personas.
The left has a long history of chasing utopian fantasies and trampling on the well being of ordinary people. Jacobins to Soviets; now Woke Collectivists. All equally corrupt by nature. Do as we say, not as we do…
Everywhere I keep hearing of the political left as utopians. They are dystopians. Their ideas, their actions, and their outcomes are all dystopian. The last four years have been a dystopian nightmare and all of our lives became a painful ordeal. Now everything feels hopeful and like we can breathe again. Maybe we really can make improvements to all those intractable problems that seemed inevitable, and shed the constant sense of dread and oppression and degradation of the recent past.
You are correct. However, lefties have a pathological need to be thought of as good people, so THEY THINK they’re utopians working for the common good. That’s the joke.
Utopia is what is promised, a better just and equitable world. And it never materialises. So they just move the goalposts further down the road. Those empowered remain empowered and for the rest it becomes all wretch and no vomit. You never get there…
This is a sincere question. Yes, there was a global pandemic caused by a virus, not a political party. What beside that made life so awful for you and yours.
There was a plandemic not a pandemic to get rid of one man! Orchestrated by the CCP,Fauci and the democrats! It was literally an attack! And with 48 bio labs in Ukraine there surely would’ve been another! But Putin stopped it!
Trump is firing on all cylinders. This man largely transformed the GOP and now Mitch McConnell is voting alone against Trump nominees and nobody cares. He beat numerous corrupt legal cases that had corrupt prosecutors and Judges against him. He has neutered the main stream media. He has caused the total self emulation of the Democratic Party. The biggest concern is the only 2 million voters less than Trump voted for Harris. THAT is a LOT of stupid people. The silver lining is that this stupidity to a significant degree skews towards older voters who like Feinstein, Biden, McConnell have fewer days ahead. Another silver lining is that younger males skew right leaning, and they significantly offset the usual very far left leaning young females and single females. If the GOP delivers before the midterms they can pick up seats in both the House and Senate. Today the Democrats have no viable leader. They are not learning from election results. The heads of the DNC are crazy. The loudest mouths in the Democratic Party are crazy. A lot more will be revealed by DOGE which works in Trumps favor as well as the GOP favor. Which is why judges are trying to slow the progress of DOGE. If Trump and the GOP keep up the pace or preferably increase the pace things should work out okay. But medium and long term those crazy Harris voters are a danger to the Republic until their numbers are reduced significantly.
"The biggest concern is the only 2 million voters less than Trump voted for Harris. THAT is a LOT of stupid people." -- I think "ignorant" and/or "brainwashed" are better descriptors than "stupid" because they get their "news" from legacy media, which are the REAL mis/dis-informers.
I get your point. For me stupidity is laziness. Many blindly believe what the legacy media tells them or what their Democratic Party tells them is fact/truth. That takes a lazy mind. One must make an effort to be a truth seeker.
There a big rally in Boston Common yesterday to speak out against Trump
“We will not obey”
“Not my President”
These liberals are beyond pathetic. I hope they double and triple down on their moronic moonbat progressive politicies.
Report came out in the Globe today, Boston schools are a year and a half behind.
Two MA high schools saw a 20% drop in attendance when the recent ICE raids started. 20%! If you don’t think illegals are a drain on the system you are delusional.
Democrats destroy everything they touch, everything, and people have finally have had enough.
Wonderful article I love your stuff. As trad religions break down, people seek meaning and community and unfortunately this is a new religion. Not sure if they are attacking other people so much as performing what they believe to be their tribe. Sadly, the revolution always eats its young. Some of the older people singing protest songs horribly off key are like a Monty Python sketch. Amazing and helpful, while they are distracted the needed disruption is getting the right things done.
It is only a few weeks until the elections in Germany. Hopefully Trump's moves to end the Ukraine war and thereby expose the corruption of both the German and EU politicians will get through to the German voters in time (despite their efforts to double down on censorship with a sense of urgency!). Here in Australia the election date has yet to be announced.
I just want to say to every American who voted for Trump that maybe you are not just saving America but maybe saving the world! The Fake News MSM is melting down around the western world but it gets through slowly to low information persons still consuming MSM.
Thank you to every American who turned out to vote and who voted for Trump. May God reward you for your small act on behalf of humanity!
Sasha, I think this one has to be your best yet. I wonder how many liberals have the balls to listen/read your articles, and of those that do, how many of them have awakened as a result. Yoru content is undeniable and so well articulated. I'm amazed at the nature of the pushback of the people in the little videos you enclosed in your piece. I've never heard such illogical, irrational, nonsensical assertions. They come across as brainwashed members of a cult that appear to be spellbound and hypnotized. However, the glass half-full is how transparent they are. The more extreme they get, the more the public sees who they really are.
I can answer that question in my experience as one liberal (sister) has read articles such as this I’ve provided her and definitely has not been awakened; to the contrary, she sees injustice everywhere from the right yet none from the left. I, like Sasha, am a recovering liberal and apparently my sister thinks I’m brainwashed and in a cult, and is determined to make me see the error of my ways. Like Sasha, once you’re away from it you see that party for what it really is, but there is no convincing some people who are so deeply entrenched that they actually believe they have moral superiority. It’s sad, but as their party so emphatically declares, there’s no going back, at least as far as I’m concerned.
As long as they continue to think Trump/Musk is the problem, and not Schumer/Pelosi et all, they continue to try to dig their way out of the hole they're in.
In 2008 and the years immediately previous, Barry Soetoro, the half-Kenyan, half-white Hawaiian, reinvented himself as Barack Hussein Obama, an American black man. As if anything in his personal history had anything to do with the Hood or growing up in it. And the Democrats, and many others, ate it up. He is still considered "black". As is Kamala Harris, a similar mixed-race, non-American "black" woman . The MSM's characterization revealed that skin color meant much more than socioeconomic status. A large privileged part of the Democratic Party has been waving the bloody shirt ever since, and even pushed the theme to gender and sexual extremes. But, and finally, it didn't work in 2016, it worked only with chicanery in 2020, and it did not work in 2024. Racialist politics is now Over, except in certain congressional districts, and if Trump continues to hold 42% approval ratings among black men, those politics may be over there, too.
As to Jane Fonda, I still have my (never deployed) Hanoi Jane urinal sticker, and will never consider her as anything other than another privileged leftist behind a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.
So now the Left cries "fascist" and "Nazi" for Trump and Elon daring to take on the Administrative State, for confusing "democracy" with "bureaucracy." For me, it has always been personal freedom, personal responsibility, and strict constitutional limitations on the functions, power and size of government, particularly our federal government. Press on! Prosperity awaits our country. All of us deserve to be Free again.
If Racism was really over why are congressional districts so blatantly about it? Some of the worst states in the south blatantly hope the 14th amendment (which protects birthright citizenship and against racial gerrymandering) is repealed so they can dilute 30% of the base.
As I get older, as intermarriage continues, the concept of "race" seems less and less valid. We are getting browner. Why should it make any difference? And, as the generations pass, gerrymandering on the basis of notional "race" makes less and less sense.
But and on the other hand, I have always thought that a multiple congressional district state should have its districts drawn so that the sum of the boundary lengths is smallest. Nice, compact districts, grouping together cities and counties whereever possible.
GOP dont believe in that look at Nashville cut up into three because its city strong blue and they dont believe they should have a voice in government.
When Obama was elected, although I didn't support him, I did wish him well because I thought it marked a symbolic end to a stain on our history. Instead, he chose to pour gasoline on the dying embers of racism and redirect the flames.. I could never understand why he did that. He said he wanted to be transformational and so he was but not in a good way. He was good at the negative and a lot of the hate present in the Left is on him.
Who remembers when Trump used "You Can't Always Get What You Want"as his walk off song after his nomination acceptance speech at the RNC convention in 2016?
LOL!!! That was an epic troll on the "Republicans" and I was laughing my ass off!
There are still a few RINOs left, but they won't last long. It's the MAGA party now!
THIS line here is the brilliant one: "Trump was never the Titanic. He was always Carpathia. Maybe that wasn’t the ride some people wanted. Maybe it isn’t perfect."
I tried to explain to an old friend from my grammar and high school days that voting in the presidential election is NOT about liking the candidate, it's a CHESS MOVE. In chess, you have to look further ahead than your next move - you need to look at the next 10 moves. And some people just can't get that because they are so fixated on disliking Trump.
Sasha with your clear thinking (in my nurses training it used to be called “critical thinking” about a patient’s needs and condition) you cut through the fog-and you dont parrot anyone. I applaud your incredible courage. Most of all you Love Truth. You exemplify what Bannon recently said in an interview: you have to be willing to go to “prison or be killed”. You were sent to the cyber gulag along with many others, especially the past 4 years. Jesus said, unless you fall into the ground as a grain of wheat, you will never sprout into life and full purpose. You were in the ground for a long time, slowly germinating, and now you have come forth. It’s almost as though Trump and Co. are resuscitating the dying flicker of a dead horse. You have your hands on the heart, CPR. Keep going. You put eloquently into words what I cannot articulate. It is a gift to those like me. Thank you. God said to Ezekiel: what do you see? “A valley full of dry bones” God said, “say to them…” and they came together…a mighty army.
There will not be a Democrat as President of our nation for at least 20 years if not 30. The damage done to America is nearly irreparable and will likely require the kind of surgery to fix that leaves one maimed for life.
I hope you are right, but I’m in my 60’s and I’ve seen republicans blow opportunities far too often
Trump is not a Republican. That's what many do not understand. That's why both parties hate him. He is not even a politician. He is dismantling the deep state and exposing everything that has been covered up for decades. He is the face/leader of this movement. The rest is up to us.
Spot on. I think that Trump should rename the Republican Party the American Party, because that’s what the new MAGA party represents. Plus what’s left of the Dems will have to run against the American Party forever, and by definition anyone running against the American Party will be anti-American. Like the Democrats.
And get rid of the dumb Republican elephant mascot once and for all. The American Party needs a fierce screaming eagle to be its symbol.
I believe it's all coming. Or I really hope. The more that is exposed, the more people will start to see and wake up and move out of their mental prisons. Especially when all shit about child trafficking starts coming out. That will be a big unifier. I can't wait for Hollywood to crumble. And I'm saying this as a great movie lover. It's done. Here's a good breakdown of just the past week: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/wins-come-all-day-under-president-trump/
Chuck Schumer, at least, is beginning to get it. Defending waste, fraud and abuse is stupid. And doubtless there are lots of Phants with their hands in the till, waiting to be exposed. This could be a nonpartisan Sport and maybe it will be.
Schumer getting it? I think not. In spite of the anti-Semitism of his party.
It cannot be a "non-partisan sport" because the corrupt Deep State is over 90% Democrat just like the Washington swamp. Swamp creatures don't turn each other in but do exactly what they're doing - attack the fumigators of the swamp who happen to carry the Repub banner. The disruptors are not what's passed for Republican lately but big tent problem solvers led by a businessman. For the first time in decades, actions to save the Republic (a land with Rule of Law) are occurring. Previous RINOs probably couldn't even define Republic let alone defend it. They conserved NOTHING.
But be sure to leave the honking Jackass as the perfect symbol for Democrats. A true tribe of Jaskassism.
A demon with horns and a tail would be a better symbol for the Dems.
I don't think that is fair to the demons.
Dem leaders are the demons but their brainwashed followers are the jackasses. So both symbols are appropriate.
I could agree more. Long may the Screaming Eagle fly
Is it a coincidence that the USA Hockey goal song is Free Bird? I think not. 🦅
The Republicans didn't choose the elephant as a mascot, it was popularized by cartoonist Thomas Nast, who also gave us the modern image of Santa Claus. Part of the reason was tied to President Grant, and a Civil War saying about being in combat described as "seeing the elephant." The donkey is actually a jack-ass, and wss used as a slur against Andrew Jackson, who embraced it and used it in his campaign.
I like the elephant. It is a lovable animal and, at their best, Republicans are lovable. There are also some Democrats who are lovable, and they are welcome to come on over.
I LOVE the...
SCREAMING EAGLE!
He will call it the "Trump Party."
This is his last term. It's interesting to speculate who will lead Republicans in 2028. Trump is a moment in time. I didn't support him in any primary, but wholeheartedly did in the General, and do now.
Trump thinks he's running for a 3rd term. And he certainly doesn't see Vance as a successor:
Do you view Vice President JD Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee in 2028?” Baier asked.
“NO!” Trump replied.
He would call it the “American Party” but we MAGA have no need to change our name away from Republicans. We are after all, a Republic, and common sense actions from our party are popular across nearly all demographics. What will the D’s rename themselves though, after all the fallout is over. Pray tell, when will the fallout for the D’s and the Uniparty end? How many agencies are there? This could go on for years and years. And with each passing year, Social Security will become more secure, for more generations (as it was designed) - and aging voters will reward the party that delivers this.
"we MAGA have no need to change our name away from Republicans. We are after all, a Republic," -- 100% agree.
We could call ourselves the Worker's Party, in the sense of having jobs in the private sector. We surely are NOT the Government Party.
Yeah. One of the hardest things for many to understand is how Trump has, effectively, created an entirely new political party out of the carcass of the Bush/Neo-Con Republican party. For those of you who have long been calling for a third party, you can stop now--the Trump Republicans are it.
The old Bush/Neo-Con GOP no longer exists as a party, only as a bunch of whiny failures who long for the old days. Trump recreated the rotting carcass of the GOP into something new & much better. This is the first time in years that Republicans happily voted FOR a person & platform instead of casting a vote AGAINST the agenda of the other party. It’s not a 3rd party, it’s a completely overhauled new model for the future. The carcass is gone.
We should be very happy that RFKjr closed 3rd party effort and aligned with the new GOP. Our system is not really designed to allow 3rd parties to be outright winners.
To make a difference, they should consider not having a candidate, but aligning, in each election, with the major party they see including and supporting what they deem most important. 1-3 points can be impactful in close elections. And, to attract these votes, major parties would need to become more transparent, which would be good.
Agree. The rest is up to us. The question is how will we be successful. What leaders can take on the mantle to sustain this momentum. We must ensure that our government is serving the people, doing the functions assigned by the Constitution.
The coalition around Trump is young and getting younger as witnessing with the DOGE team. I call it the Common Sense party. I feel that JD will be very ready to take over in ‘28. Meanwhile, ‘26 midterms are very important to maintain the majority to codify the Trump EAs.
Exactly. '26 looms.
i think 26 will be a re-correction election and the game will continue.
Trump 2.0 seems more libertarian than Trump 1.0. But the lawfare warriors effed with him, and with Elon too, and now they reap the whirlwind.
He is more Libertarian. This makes me very happy and all things considered, I'm happy I voted for him. I still wouldn't spend a minute in a foxhole with him or Obama. Both would try to convince you to pop out and take a look. Obama would want himself to survive because he can't imagine a world without him in it. Trump is easy, he is just a straight out more important than you. Let the hate rain over me now for not being anybody’s butt boy.
i wasnt born and raised in the US but immigrated here , as a result i did not have a build in political alignment , i spend the years that i was not a citizen to observe and learn about both parties and it became obvious to me that voting would not be about picking the better party but the lesser of 2 evils so when i got naturalized i went to the vooting booth cast a republican ticket and then went to the bathroom to vomit .
Trump was the first president that had me excited because he wasnt a politician and he wasnt part of the good old boys club and of course the way he was attacked by both sides and the way he handled it .
I agree here. Don't leave it up to a Republican congress...just like Dems they have one very insurmountable obstacle... a paycheck and family to support with their Republican-ness.
As misguided as this is it lies as the root of much of this turmoil. If you like what you see with Trump...ACTIVATE! Go after your congressman, don't require that every detail go your way and most importantly, be informed.
Thanks for the reminder. Ms Kathleen has a definite point but... you know what just occurred to me? Mr McConnell is playing the part of the young man -- Eddie, I believe? -- who clung to the dead Comet at the end of Atlas Shrugged.
Hès the new Republican party but they are still low taxes, anti-regulation and pro-religious as before.
You see those things as a problem?
Anti-regulation yes and programs require money just saying low taxes will harm the poor.
Maybe I'm the first to tell you, but America doesn't have a revenue problem. We are already overtaxed to the point where young couples are suffocating and cannot afford basic essentials bc the hidden tax of inflation was Biden's biggest destruction.
We have a SPENDING problem, and if you dopes would back Musk to rid ourselves of things like $136B to Pakistan for building schools when not one gets built, then we can get somewhere.
Well, the country has been helping the poor for 100+ years, amplified since 1964. It doesn’t seem to be working.
There will be issues as things change, but I'm not so sure that low taxes will hurt the real poor. Many people are on the dole because they can be. There are generational poor families who teach their kids how to work the system so they never have to get off the dole. If communities are allowed to decide how to deal with their own set of 'the poor', that is better than a federal system that takes from lower income states and gives it to higher income states that generate the poor and propagate a parasitic system.
More isolationist, less "free" trade -- exposing the fact that the trade had never been free. Fewer war pigs supporting Lockheed Martin. Remember B-1 Bob? But we still have problems, including ridiculous farm state agricultural entitlements. Want to really test your congresscritter? What does he or she say about ethanol? It didn't even make Project 2025!
GOP are less open war but the funding of war equipment that's still strong within the GOP look at their proposed budget more money for dept of defense.
100%.
Once every citizen sees the rot in the deep state, they will all be in agreement.
Trump is no longer a Republican, except in name only. And neither am I. This is National Populism now. Check out this brilliant essay recently published by N.S. Lyons which postulates the death of the Long Twentieth Century, assault Trump and MAGA (w/ Tea Part roots) has waged against the weak-gods ‘Open Society’ of past 80 years (which has pluses but lots of minuses) and now the rise again of Strong Gods. A pretty good take on where we are at in our current history, and how we arrived here. Ever wonder how Dick Cheney and Chuck Schumer ended up batting for the same team? Read this essay to find out. This essay also folds well into 4th Turning theory (Howe & Strauss) if you’re familiar with it.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/american-strong-gods
Trump is a "Republican" alright, he has just redefined what that means... And by doing so, has brought a whole bunch of new people into the party, including me. But yes, it is now a Nationalist Republican Party, as opposed to the Corporate Globalist Neo-Con party of Bush. No wonder they hate Trump so much!
Speaking strictly historically, a big tariff is part of original Lincoln republicanism.
BUSH IS NOT nor ever was a ''neocon''!
'Brilliant' is the word for that.
agree, totally.
that was a most eye-opening essay. We truly live in an interesting time. If God grants me another thirty years, i think I'll look back in wonder. This period of time will be a whole chapter in history books.
"A whole new chapter in history books"? But if we don't get a new generation of historians with the honesty and insight to write that chapter well, it will be a lousy chapter full of "racist," "fascist," "misogynist," et al.
Turns out, the historical profession itself is another one of those American institutions in dire need of a complete overhaul.
I'm in my 60's too and thought the same thing! But yes, please God, let the Democrats go the way of the Whigs! And God save the Republicans and Conservatives from straying from MAGA principles once they get a taste of power.
Since the days of the Whigs, the two parties have acquired official status through the primary system. Multi-party systems greatly increase the power of minor parties. And "ranked choice" voting, though rationally justified, arouses paranoia about the process. Just taking the top two candidates raises the possibility (and reality) that one of the two major parties will not field any candidate at all. Which party wins could well wind up being controlled by whether one party has two major candidates. That is way too random, and subject to "mischief".
As far as I can see, the only way out is for voters (in primaries) one and only one second choice.
Those Republicans are being primaried and kicked to the curb or country club.
Trump is no more a Republican than McCain or Romney were. He had to run as GOP to get elected, just like those other two, but he's a different breed altogether. I agree, though, the GOP will cave, surrender, placate the left, shame themselves...anything to give the crazies the victory. There are fewer RINOs in Congress this time around for Trump, but not a huge difference.
this is the same playbook as always. In 2 years after the feeding frenzy crap will even out with not a penny spent on infrastructure
There is going to be a new budget vote soon, where Congress is going to have a big fucking spotlight shined on how they vote and the pork they support. Including which agencies they vote to allocate $ funding to, and how much. Congress is going to have to defend controversial spending in a way they never had to before. I’m curious to see whether we see a new, clean budget proposed or if it will be the same ‘ol Continuing Resolution (CR) budgeting we’ve seen the last 15 years. CR’s is long-loved by the Uniparty and how we got into the federal debt mess we have now. Because CR’s never reduce spending, they only increase the status quo spending by X%. I hope DOGE AI is applied to the next budget. Let’s lay it all out where Congress is allocating funds. Open the curtains and let in the sunshine!
Yep, me too!
we should take heart. Although the last four years have been hell in many ways for many of us, we are now way better off than we would have been otherwise. the deep state overplayed their hand, and now they are out of power. And now, thanks to Elon, Trump, and DOGE, conquering the Federal deficit seems plausible. Bobby Kennedy is the secretary of health and human services, and Kash probably will clean up the FBI. And the list goes on. So lets savor the victory. The future is much better than it might have been, and we should be thankful, despite the hardships.
Yes. I think many of us are so traumatized by what has gone down over the past eight years, we’re afraid to relax and enjoy this current state of victory and exposure of the evils. I take heart in Joseph’s statement to his brothers, who tried to destroy him: “What you intended for evil, God has used for good.” (Genesis 50:20) When the Biden administration took power in 2020, it looked like evil had triumphed. However, if it were not for the past four years, Trump would not have had the kind of support he now has to enact these measures to drain the swamp.
God does work in mysterious ways, as we have always been told. It is kind of exhilarating to live that truth in real time.
amen
Unfortunately, I believe you are right that we had to have the last four years for the far Left to rush through all of their crazy ideas and show the normal people that they really are nuts, and very dangerous. They now see that the Deep State is real and can very easily be weaponized against regular Americans who did nothing wrong, which has never happened before and I think has been deeply frightening for a lot of people. It certainly has for me. The illegals overrunning the country are also deeply frightening to Americans who are scared of the criminality and rightly angry that their money is going to illegals who are destroying their communities. I hope that there is enough strength left in America to turn it around and get back to our real roots and values.
I think we’ve all learned this lesson: we can’t sit back and expect the government or pundits to fix things for us. We got so lazy, and allowed ourselves to fall asleep.
Right now we’re seeing the Left, and the “useful idiots” who believe their narrative, ramping up yet another attempt to condemn and cancel this new administration and us who support it.
I hate having to engage such people online, because they tend to want only to rant, and don’t study the facts. But I do think it’s on us, now, the grassroots citizens, to speak back more boldly, stand firm on the ground we are taking back, and shine the light of truth where they are working to incite fear and lies (again).
Deborah, perhaps like you I also have been a silent observer on online forums until very recently. I agree with your sentiment that as the America 1st party, we need to have more outreach. Rules that I made for myself is to never post a purely negative response, to focus on common areas, to express empathy whenever I can, and to be certain to praise the good endorsed by my “opponents”.
I wholeheartedly agree. I think of the virtues: patience, self-control, humility, courage, kindness.
James Madison wrote, “I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no forms of government can render us secure.”
I would add to this list of virtues “courage.” If we dare speak out to those who are working to incite fear and distrust of the Trump administration, we’re likely to put ourselves in the line of fire. I think we’re at a place in this battle now where we must be willing to stand firm and speak out. Trump certainly has done this for us.
“So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors. . . . Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.” (Ephesians 4:25, 26)
normal people trust neither side. I hope you all know this. If they save us all money and stop the nonsense, super. But we are in wait and see times now.
Patrick, I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “normal” people.
Are you saying that most thinking people recognize that neither side of this battle is completely trustworthy? If so, I agree. No human being is completely trustworthy. We must not put our whole trust in any leaders or administration.
However I think we can and should make judgments about whom we can most trust, here. Some criteria for this are (1) who tells the truth, based on actual facts and events, as opposed to making accusations based on undisclosed sources and heresay? (2) who is willing to open the books to the public for scrutiny? (3) who is willing to meet with we the people to discuss policy and strategy, unscripted and unedited?
If we compare the Biden administration to what we’re seeing now with Trump at the helm, the difference is night and day.
you should be beyond elated.
I sincerely hope you are right!!
I am. After Trump is done, the end of Godfather I will feel blasé in comparison.
Yes, Godfather I is the true classic, maybe the greatest movie ever made. But Godfather II was still pretty damn good. Hopefully, that is what we will get in '28.
When Trump gives Elon the kiss of death and whispers “I know it was you, Elon. You broke my heart.”
Heh heh... that could happen...
could?
Agreed. The Democrats attempted to find their 21st century voice in Identity politics and Critical Theory. This attempt has failed spectacularly. This attempt was preceeded by the failure of the Democrats 20th century voice "Eat The Rich." If the Republicans dont screw up they probably have 12 years to institutionalize change.
Its funny they always said "eat the rich" but they never went through with it. Taxes on the rich has never been lower.
You think the tax pie is finite. When you raise taxes on one group you therefore lower them for another. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
You cannot lower taxes on 50% of workers who already pay nothing, sport.
Taxes back in the 1900s were much higher for the rich and they did just fine.
Why do you care if the wealthy can keep more of their own money? Higher taxes simply means more money government (pre Trump) will waste.
Who's better at investing your money....you or AOC?
I dont pay much in federal taxes and 60% is the same so your only concerned with the richest people and they were fine under the 1900s tax system.
The progressive income tax instantiated eat the rich. The wealth creation engine of the capital markets trumped class warfare. And in the end aspirations trump victimization.
Wanted never enacted big difference
At this stage it appears the Democrat label is dead when it comes to national office. What will be interesting to see is how long the outrage at the government grift can be strung out. If it’s done right, and strings pulled long enough over enough agencies, the Democrat party name (and Uniparty!) may never recover and a new ‘Bull Moose’ type group may arise instead, in its place. At some point, I think an assassination attempt will be made on Trump or Musk. Which if it does occur, would only ‘help’ to keep the outrage at Democrats continuing.
This is no longer the Republican Party by any stretch of the imagination. It is MAGA. It is RINO ironically by definition. But you know, fuck the old weak, decrepit neocons of yesterday. They are indistinguishable from the Schumers and Pelosi’s of the world. The single ruling class that for so long robbed us of our future. Their time is done. They are facing down an enemy in Trump and Musk that they have no capability of dealing with on any level.
An assassination attempt now would martyr either/both men and make it so there simply wouldn’t be a democrat party. It would just be a bunch of mentally ill transsexuals and child rapists.
I’ve said it before on several sites. The Democrats and Republicans are ying and yang. Two sides of the same coin. One cannot exist without the other.
Yeah, but Trump is neither Democrat nor Republican..by traditional definition
That last sentence isn't far too close already?
I can only wish this to be true. But many of our voters think of Government as Santa Claus and will vote for the goodies. The Democratic Party has been, for the past ninety years, the Party of Free Shit, and it will always have a constituency.
It doesn’t hold up either. Because even amongst the welfare class, they can look now and see that the free lifestyle they have earned by simply existing as an American pales in comparison to what they could have if the government wasn’t a wallet in a transexuals fever dream.
People really don’t understand the amount of change being enacted. An American sovereign wealth fund alone is mind blowing and I feel insanely stupid for not having seen it coming. It should have always been here. Americans should have always benefited from it.
Arabs do this and they do it well in SA, UAE, etc… it pays off and actually tends to remove people from the welfare state.
This I fear is the next test: How much morality remains amongst the "normies" (gotta come up with a better term for the Rest of Us, but it works for now) with God having been so thoroughly expunged?
Nope. When Americans have everything running smoothly We have peace and prosperity, they always vote the Democrats back in. Memories are short.
and vice versa it never fails.
If history is any indication, the crazies will take the house and the senate in less than two years. They haven't shut off their mainstream media propaganda machine nor even turned the setting down, still injecting fear and hysteria into the sheep 24/7. Until the entire bowel movement is dead I will count them very much alive. They can't give up. There's nothing else to turn to. The USA is their last stand on Earth. If they are beaten here, they can be beaten anywhere else in the world, and they know it.
Except nobody who Kamalvoted knows that yet.
Depends on how the Trump term goes.... but ---if they keep going---and they will---after something bad happens (cause we're ALL human) and each successive President is true and honest and not captured, as our Republic is a living breathing thing....than yes , we can have good leadership whether Republican or Democrat or something new.
The Democrat party should be retired frankly. I'm about to read Uncle Toms Cabin-haven't yet- but I understand Uncle Tom's a heroic character - not the sell-out he's mistakenly and widely known for today- due to the minstrel shows response to this black man of intergrity, as depicted by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The racists in the south would't have it (Democrats) back in the 1850's. Hasn't changed much with them. God speed Mr Trump and Co. Their hearts are in the right place that, and's why he was spared in PA. 🙏
Why not say GOP will never lose another election ever again like Hungary.
The “GOP” is gonna lose plenty of elections because there are still too many of them that don’t have their brains on straight and believe in fake social conservatism. I just think there’s not too many of those GOP left. It’s mostly MAGA and God willing all will be MAGA eventually. America First is what Americans want.
I dream of a day when term limits are introduced and accepted by congress. It will be the day when corruption is well and truly flushed out from the system and the idea of a career politician is extinguished.
I dream of the day there was a lifetime ban for people who work in the industry to be able to sit on committees that control them. I dream of social safety net that helps those regardless of health, income or political affiliation. I also dream of an election money where all big money pacs and donors were banned and people were forced to try to recruit unpaid volunteers and all political ads on all news sites and TV were banned.
Concerning political ads, what if there were government run channels that exclusively ran political ads with equal time rules and a schedule published online? That way those interested could tune in to hear the pitches of relevant candidates? Ideally there would be a channel for each precinct, though that would be unrealistic. Perhaps one for each senate precinct with highly populous states adding more.
We have enough unused channels and youtube, rumble and twitch could dedicate whole channel for it.
I disagree on the unpaid volunteers as that prevents a solid chunk of the nation from being able to do a significant amount as they wouldn’t be able to afford being away from work that long. A certain recent national campaign infamously spent a significant portion of the budget on staffing, which may or may not have included payouts for celebrity endorsements and I agree that is wrong. Perhaps a compromise of a cap on the pay for campaign works of state minimum wage +15%?
Paid leaves too much wriggle room for corruption and kickbacks. I think if people want to believe in a election they should work no strings attached.
I 100% agree with you on big money pacs and donors. Let’s add no lobbyists. Some nations as well as some States have a system where candidates get a set amount of tax payer money for the campaign and can accept no donations. Here in the States, those systems are all (to my knowledge) optional and the vast majority of state-wide and national office seekers don’t take that option as big pac money is too tempting.
The Tea Party movement largely rejects the idea of a safety net, except concerning actions for defense department/homeland security. Ironically perhaps, it is Trump mostly, and Tucker Carlson somewhat that convinced me that the positives of a well run safety net system outweigh the negatives. My work experience in healthcare in a half desk job, half patient care role also played a significant role having experienced how much of a pain it is to find cheaper medication deals and get insurance to get in line with the provider’s treatment plan even when the insurance nominally covers the treatment.
I’d like to modify your ban for people working an industry to sit in committees that control them. 1st, let’s specify that the reverse of regulating committee->industry executive board needs strong regulation to avoid corruption. This pattern being observed is one of the major reasons for many to support RFK jr who alleges that food and pharma companies are allowed to poison us by promising comfy jobs to the regulators at the FDA. Some experience in running a company in an industry is needed lest you have rules that have no bearing in what reality in the field is like. I would propose a set number of committee seats for business executives, perhaps 2 that must be from rival companies, as well as set seats for other levels of the industry including middle managers, low level workers, and some seats for those with 0 affiliation with an industry.
I agree with you on everything you said. I am a lifelong conservative, more tea party than republican, and now MAGA. You and I have more common ground than I would have expected, but am glad for it. I am making multiple posts for readabilities sake. I would love to get your input on the following ideas.
Optics. The optics and the economy will sway voters, regardless. We're addicted to the status quo.
Get off social media. Look at your family, your happiness, your friends, your joy, your job, your economics. This is God. The visible, working lens through which we see God everyday. Those are the optics that move mountains and advance civilizations.
Are you living the American Dream? Are you working towards it? That’s all that matters. Optics is bullshit made for NPCs susceptible to psyops.
Look to God. You don’t need a religion. Just a belief in more than you.
I have a dog and a house and a job. Car's paid off and I've traveled the world twice. I find everyone is really the same except in these chat rooms when folks take on personas.
The left has a long history of chasing utopian fantasies and trampling on the well being of ordinary people. Jacobins to Soviets; now Woke Collectivists. All equally corrupt by nature. Do as we say, not as we do…
Everywhere I keep hearing of the political left as utopians. They are dystopians. Their ideas, their actions, and their outcomes are all dystopian. The last four years have been a dystopian nightmare and all of our lives became a painful ordeal. Now everything feels hopeful and like we can breathe again. Maybe we really can make improvements to all those intractable problems that seemed inevitable, and shed the constant sense of dread and oppression and degradation of the recent past.
You are correct. However, lefties have a pathological need to be thought of as good people, so THEY THINK they’re utopians working for the common good. That’s the joke.
Utopia is what is promised, a better just and equitable world. And it never materialises. So they just move the goalposts further down the road. Those empowered remain empowered and for the rest it becomes all wretch and no vomit. You never get there…
This is a sincere question. Yes, there was a global pandemic caused by a virus, not a political party. What beside that made life so awful for you and yours.
There was a plandemic not a pandemic to get rid of one man! Orchestrated by the CCP,Fauci and the democrats! It was literally an attack! And with 48 bio labs in Ukraine there surely would’ve been another! But Putin stopped it!
I can understand your anger if you believe that.
I love to insult the left by calling them utopians.
The Greek root for utopia is “no place”.
I have always considered the brickbat best that doesn't land until later.
Trump is firing on all cylinders. This man largely transformed the GOP and now Mitch McConnell is voting alone against Trump nominees and nobody cares. He beat numerous corrupt legal cases that had corrupt prosecutors and Judges against him. He has neutered the main stream media. He has caused the total self emulation of the Democratic Party. The biggest concern is the only 2 million voters less than Trump voted for Harris. THAT is a LOT of stupid people. The silver lining is that this stupidity to a significant degree skews towards older voters who like Feinstein, Biden, McConnell have fewer days ahead. Another silver lining is that younger males skew right leaning, and they significantly offset the usual very far left leaning young females and single females. If the GOP delivers before the midterms they can pick up seats in both the House and Senate. Today the Democrats have no viable leader. They are not learning from election results. The heads of the DNC are crazy. The loudest mouths in the Democratic Party are crazy. A lot more will be revealed by DOGE which works in Trumps favor as well as the GOP favor. Which is why judges are trying to slow the progress of DOGE. If Trump and the GOP keep up the pace or preferably increase the pace things should work out okay. But medium and long term those crazy Harris voters are a danger to the Republic until their numbers are reduced significantly.
McConnell really looked like an idiot. A complete dinosaur who needs to retire
He is the old Republican Party. I agree he needs to go. He is such a good example of the reason for term limits.
"The biggest concern is the only 2 million voters less than Trump voted for Harris. THAT is a LOT of stupid people." -- I think "ignorant" and/or "brainwashed" are better descriptors than "stupid" because they get their "news" from legacy media, which are the REAL mis/dis-informers.
Blue states kept counting votes for weeks after the election to make it seem like it was closer than it actually was!
I get your point. For me stupidity is laziness. Many blindly believe what the legacy media tells them or what their Democratic Party tells them is fact/truth. That takes a lazy mind. One must make an effort to be a truth seeker.
Trump destroyed the Bush’s the Clintons the Obama’s and now he’s destroyed the Democratic Party!! It’s been glorious to watch!
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Besides Andy Beshear, Gretchen Whitmore and Sharprio?
There a big rally in Boston Common yesterday to speak out against Trump
“We will not obey”
“Not my President”
These liberals are beyond pathetic. I hope they double and triple down on their moronic moonbat progressive politicies.
Report came out in the Globe today, Boston schools are a year and a half behind.
Two MA high schools saw a 20% drop in attendance when the recent ICE raids started. 20%! If you don’t think illegals are a drain on the system you are delusional.
Democrats destroy everything they touch, everything, and people have finally have had enough.
Wonderful article I love your stuff. As trad religions break down, people seek meaning and community and unfortunately this is a new religion. Not sure if they are attacking other people so much as performing what they believe to be their tribe. Sadly, the revolution always eats its young. Some of the older people singing protest songs horribly off key are like a Monty Python sketch. Amazing and helpful, while they are distracted the needed disruption is getting the right things done.
It is only a few weeks until the elections in Germany. Hopefully Trump's moves to end the Ukraine war and thereby expose the corruption of both the German and EU politicians will get through to the German voters in time (despite their efforts to double down on censorship with a sense of urgency!). Here in Australia the election date has yet to be announced.
I just want to say to every American who voted for Trump that maybe you are not just saving America but maybe saving the world! The Fake News MSM is melting down around the western world but it gets through slowly to low information persons still consuming MSM.
Thank you to every American who turned out to vote and who voted for Trump. May God reward you for your small act on behalf of humanity!
Is there a rising MAGA type change agent in Australia we should be watching?
Sasha, I think this one has to be your best yet. I wonder how many liberals have the balls to listen/read your articles, and of those that do, how many of them have awakened as a result. Yoru content is undeniable and so well articulated. I'm amazed at the nature of the pushback of the people in the little videos you enclosed in your piece. I've never heard such illogical, irrational, nonsensical assertions. They come across as brainwashed members of a cult that appear to be spellbound and hypnotized. However, the glass half-full is how transparent they are. The more extreme they get, the more the public sees who they really are.
I can answer that question in my experience as one liberal (sister) has read articles such as this I’ve provided her and definitely has not been awakened; to the contrary, she sees injustice everywhere from the right yet none from the left. I, like Sasha, am a recovering liberal and apparently my sister thinks I’m brainwashed and in a cult, and is determined to make me see the error of my ways. Like Sasha, once you’re away from it you see that party for what it really is, but there is no convincing some people who are so deeply entrenched that they actually believe they have moral superiority. It’s sad, but as their party so emphatically declares, there’s no going back, at least as far as I’m concerned.
As long as they continue to think Trump/Musk is the problem, and not Schumer/Pelosi et all, they continue to try to dig their way out of the hole they're in.
Sasha, great piece. The D’s have totally lost the script. Time to bring in Hillary or Manchu for a Marie Antoinette let them eat cake moment.
Sasha, your daughter sounds great. It gives me a hope that a young person is saying/feeling this--that "it's slowly changing."
In 2008 and the years immediately previous, Barry Soetoro, the half-Kenyan, half-white Hawaiian, reinvented himself as Barack Hussein Obama, an American black man. As if anything in his personal history had anything to do with the Hood or growing up in it. And the Democrats, and many others, ate it up. He is still considered "black". As is Kamala Harris, a similar mixed-race, non-American "black" woman . The MSM's characterization revealed that skin color meant much more than socioeconomic status. A large privileged part of the Democratic Party has been waving the bloody shirt ever since, and even pushed the theme to gender and sexual extremes. But, and finally, it didn't work in 2016, it worked only with chicanery in 2020, and it did not work in 2024. Racialist politics is now Over, except in certain congressional districts, and if Trump continues to hold 42% approval ratings among black men, those politics may be over there, too.
As to Jane Fonda, I still have my (never deployed) Hanoi Jane urinal sticker, and will never consider her as anything other than another privileged leftist behind a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.
So now the Left cries "fascist" and "Nazi" for Trump and Elon daring to take on the Administrative State, for confusing "democracy" with "bureaucracy." For me, it has always been personal freedom, personal responsibility, and strict constitutional limitations on the functions, power and size of government, particularly our federal government. Press on! Prosperity awaits our country. All of us deserve to be Free again.
"confusing 'democracy' with 'bureaucracy'." -- THAT is exactly it! Sad they don't see the irony in that at all.
If Racism was really over why are congressional districts so blatantly about it? Some of the worst states in the south blatantly hope the 14th amendment (which protects birthright citizenship and against racial gerrymandering) is repealed so they can dilute 30% of the base.
As I get older, as intermarriage continues, the concept of "race" seems less and less valid. We are getting browner. Why should it make any difference? And, as the generations pass, gerrymandering on the basis of notional "race" makes less and less sense.
But and on the other hand, I have always thought that a multiple congressional district state should have its districts drawn so that the sum of the boundary lengths is smallest. Nice, compact districts, grouping together cities and counties whereever possible.
GOP dont believe in that look at Nashville cut up into three because its city strong blue and they dont believe they should have a voice in government.
My friends like to think of themselves as 'the resistance', but in reality they are anti-democratic separatists as I like to let them know.
I'm trying to impress upon them the idea that the MAGA victory is complete, total, and permanent. They can't resist what's coming.
The sound they hear is the sound of inevitability.
I am fine with them being separatists. Keep encouraging them.
When Obama was elected, although I didn't support him, I did wish him well because I thought it marked a symbolic end to a stain on our history. Instead, he chose to pour gasoline on the dying embers of racism and redirect the flames.. I could never understand why he did that. He said he wanted to be transformational and so he was but not in a good way. He was good at the negative and a lot of the hate present in the Left is on him.
Most GOP wanted him to fail just like GOP wanted Biden to fail democrats do the same thing its the only thing to get back into power.
Who remembers when Trump used "You Can't Always Get What You Want"as his walk off song after his nomination acceptance speech at the RNC convention in 2016?
LOL!!! That was an epic troll on the "Republicans" and I was laughing my ass off!
There are still a few RINOs left, but they won't last long. It's the MAGA party now!
I just sent Bernie Sanders a MAHA onesie
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Make America hurt again?
THIS line here is the brilliant one: "Trump was never the Titanic. He was always Carpathia. Maybe that wasn’t the ride some people wanted. Maybe it isn’t perfect."
I tried to explain to an old friend from my grammar and high school days that voting in the presidential election is NOT about liking the candidate, it's a CHESS MOVE. In chess, you have to look further ahead than your next move - you need to look at the next 10 moves. And some people just can't get that because they are so fixated on disliking Trump.
Sasha with your clear thinking (in my nurses training it used to be called “critical thinking” about a patient’s needs and condition) you cut through the fog-and you dont parrot anyone. I applaud your incredible courage. Most of all you Love Truth. You exemplify what Bannon recently said in an interview: you have to be willing to go to “prison or be killed”. You were sent to the cyber gulag along with many others, especially the past 4 years. Jesus said, unless you fall into the ground as a grain of wheat, you will never sprout into life and full purpose. You were in the ground for a long time, slowly germinating, and now you have come forth. It’s almost as though Trump and Co. are resuscitating the dying flicker of a dead horse. You have your hands on the heart, CPR. Keep going. You put eloquently into words what I cannot articulate. It is a gift to those like me. Thank you. God said to Ezekiel: what do you see? “A valley full of dry bones” God said, “say to them…” and they came together…a mighty army.