Mildred's Oldest Son
6 hours ago
Well, how did the last two SECDEF 4-stars work out for the USA, especially Austin?

Laocoön of Troy Mildred's Oldest Son
6 hours ago
Don't forget Mattis.

The upside about having 2 SECDEF 4 stars from Republican and
Dem administrations is that we've proven that course from each side and it's dramatically failed every time. It just doesn't work. The truth is that the statuatory prohibition for General Officers as SECDEF was a wise one and departing from that design invites disaster. As a nation we need to shelve that option.

SECDEF needs to be a civilian. Period. The Generals and Admirals must subordinate themselves to that civilian leadership.

The CJCS is the President's primary military advisor, but he has no command authority. He has no troops to command. That too is a wise choice. No more Milley's calling up some PLA generalissmo and writing checks he can't cash. His job is to give the President his best military advice and then shut the flock up and let the Prez direct a course of action.

I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the Federal Bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all Americans. Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending. They will work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to “WE THE PEOPLE.” Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026 - A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence. I am confident they will succeed!

Turnout is roughly the same as it was four years ago, but it’s casting some suspicious vibes among many about the 81 million votes cast for Joe Biden. The pandemic election was arguably fraught with shenanigans, including midnight vote dumps with unverified mail-in ballots. That's why the Republican National Committee and the party's activist wing did an excellent job of having a legal brigade ready to file lawsuits and challenges on voting processes this time. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a prime example, where voters were illegally turned away, leading to a challenge and a judge extending the early voting period. On the county's last day of early voting, the lines were long, and the locations were still understaffed, but everyone who waited cast their ballot. Trump eventually won the county, another first for a Republican since 1988.

Once again, Trump won virtually all the bellwether counties, like in 2020, but Biden won then.

Disgraced Propagandist
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2004 Kerry - 59M
2008 Obama - 69.5M
2012 Obama - 65.9M
2016 Clinton - 65.9M
2020 Biden - 81.3M
2024 Harris - 66.4M

Somebody needs to go to jail for this.
10:29 AM · Nov 6, 2024

Nathan Hughes
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Obama got 69M votes.
Kamala got 68M votes.

But they want us to believe Joe Biden somehow got 81M votes and won, despite losing nearly every bellweather county?

They raided our homes and sent us to jail for asking where those extra 13M votes came from.
4:19 AM · Nov 7, 2024 //

And it’s not insane, tin foil hat stuff—a Chinese student in Michigan illegally voted, but the vote will count because there’s no mechanism to flag these fraudulent ballots. And we all know he wasn’t the only one, but the pandemic is over, and voter integrity measures were passed and enforced this time, for the most part. //

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That thing that never happens just happened again.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Two women, one of them a USPS carrier, were arrested last week for attempting to illegally cast over a dozen ballots in Mesa County, Colorado, after stealing the ballots from the mail.
10:22 PM · Nov 11, 2024

In my estimation, Elon Musk is easily one of the most influential people in Western Culture, equal to, if not more so, than Donald Trump. He is a man who is taking us into the future by rectifying quite a few problems here in the present, be that our lagging behind on becoming a space-faring species, or the fight against censorship and the protection of our human right to free speech.

Musk's business and ideological aims align with the right, and as it so happens, that's the side Trump is on, and so logic would follow that Musk and Trump, two men of vast influence and vision, would find themselves allied and working together. //

But if you take a step back and look at what Musk is actually stating, you'll start to realize that the influence they think Musk is spreading isn't his. He is not the source, merely a recipient like many other people.

In truth, Musk was, like many other people in the Western world, "red-pilled" by experience, leftist incompetence and hatred, and a drive for success that was being hampered by leftist entities. //

Take, for example, this post he made on Tuesday where he was commenting on the head of NPR, Katherine Maher, and her infamous words about the need for censorship.

“I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done,” Maher told a crowd during a speech.

This prompted Musk to ask a simple question.

"Should your tax dollars really be paying for an organization run by people who think the truth is a 'distraction,'" he asked. //

There is no ignoring Musk like they ignore us, but Musk is just saying what we're saying, and if they hate what he has to say that much, then what does that say about their attitudes toward you?

Democrats are also starting to confront something uncomfortable: Those ads highlighting Harris’s past support for taxpayer-funded transgender prison surgeries? They were a killer. For proof, just look at the 538 chart tracking Harris’s favorable ratings, which were rising until October 1, when she was high on vibes, and then started to sink the very week Trump and his MAGA allies started putting serious money behind those trans ads, which were absolutely inescapable on TV and streaming in the closing weeks. “I talked to so many people in the barbershop who asked about that ad,” [Richmond Democrat Mayor Levar] Stoney told me. “I get that it can be difficult to talk about those issues, but there was room for the campaign to respond to them. Why didn’t they? Because once you don’t respond, people start to believe it’s true.”

The ad was true though, as we documented back in mid-September after the Trump/Harris debate, where Trump was widely mocked on Twitter by journos and Democrat movers and shakers alike who were incredulous over the claim and thought it made him look like a fruitcake. Amazingly, it was CNN of all places that first broke that story - just two days before the debate.

It has been a real eye-opener to watch the left go from smug confidence that Kamala was preordained to be the 47th president of the United States to the depth of despair as Donald Trump racked up 312 electoral votes and a popular vote victory to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to be elected to non-consecutive terms.

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Just an absolutely unreal graphic showing Trump's gains in Texas-Mexico border counties since 2016. Starr County, population 65,920 and 97% Latino, shifted 75 PERCENTAGE POINTS in Trump's direction. https://texastribune.org/2024/11/06/donald-trump-near-sweep-texas-border-counties/
10:58 PM · Nov 6, 2024

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Trump increased his support in 49 of 50 states.
4:42 PM · Nov 7, 2024 //

So, what caused this seismic shift? A sane person would say that the Democrats suffered from a spectacularly horrible candidate, a repulsive agenda for America, or both. But if you are a Democrat activist, you blame "right-wing media." //

Michael Tomasky, the neo-communist editor of The New Republic, has the same view. Trump won because right-wing media overpowered the truth. //

It's really hard to know where to start on this bullsh**. To a large degree, conservative media has emerged organically because we were shut out of mainstream media. It is very difficult to find anything more than a token center-right voice on any of the networks, major papers, or cultural magazines. The Atlantic fired the pseudo-conservative Kevin Williamson. The New York Times staff ran Bari Weiss off, even though she was only mildly conservative depending on the sunspot patterns. NBC fired Megyn Kelly. My old blog project, RedMaryland, had a deal to provide a mainstream conservative viewpoint to the Baltimore Sun's editorial page, we were booted thanks to a faux issue drummed up by Media Matters. Movies like Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?" (see This May Be the Most Absurd, Telling Exchange in Matt Walsh's 'What Is a Woman?') and "Am I a Racist?" (see Matt Walsh's 'Am I Racist' Uses Major DEI Figures to Expose and Lampoon It As the Racist Grift It Is) get no media promotion. Leftist media continues to dominate ratings. //

The real question is, how can so much leftist media have so little impact on political discussions?

As Stephen Miller observed, Rogan is not conservative. Jordan Peters is not conservative. Our YouTube and Rumble channels rely on viewers, not George Soros or some other leftist billionaire, to survive. Here at RedState, if you don't read us, we don't get paid. //

What makes us different than the media owned by the left is that we deeply believe in what we write, and monied interests don't control us. Our writers and influencers are not a collection of paid-for twinks. The extremes to which the Biden administration went to silence us through coopting Meta and pre-Elon Musk Twitter gave us credibility that no leftist outlet will ever have because it demonstrated that the establishment feared our message. The authenticity of our message cuts through the clutter because it has the ring of truth.

The left can't compete because they don't have very many ideas, and those ideas they have cut against human freedom and autonomy. But if Kamala can drop a billion is leftist money on a losing election, those same donors can drop another building out another version of Air America radio network. //

Not Mao
8 hours ago
"...Let Trump Win" No. He earned it completely. No one "let" him do anything. He paid in blood, sweat, and tears. He reengaged old-fashioned politics, USA style. No one "let him win". He kicked their commie asses. He will continue to do so with the support of the American people. The sleeping giant has awakened again, Admiral Yamamoto. I'd sell any commie stock muy pronto. Next order of business is to take out the Chinese Communist Party of the People's Republic of China, the same way Ronald Reagan took out the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Chairman Xi and his minions are far too smart not to see what's coming. Their time of murderous totalitarian evil is ending, setting the Chinese people free and removing a huge malignant cancer from the planet. //

Captain Sweatpants
9 hours ago
Also, for all of the talk about Trump losing the popular vote before, everyone knows that is not what wins the election.

Trump has said that he never campaigned for the popular vote, he campaigned for the EV. Trump said he would win the popular vote if he campaigned for it.

Well, this time Trump campaigned for the popular vote. When Trump was doing campaigning in NYC and in states where he was way behind, that was what Trump was doing.

And, the media laughed at him. //

USA_Proud Sam F. Jackson's favorite wor
7 hours ago
One extremely beneficial side effect of Trump campaigning in 'Deep Blue areas' like NY, NJ, and the like, is the massive swing in Legislative districts across the entire state(s) towards the GOP. While US House incumbents are very hard to displace, as typically only 5-10% get removed from Office each election cycle, one of the biggest issue is for them to face strong opponents in Primary and General Election. Many Democrat incumbents face a lackluster GOP candidate, as no Strong one wants to spend over a year in a losing battle. I believe that the recent GOP gains can free up dozens of Conservative GOP members to 'take the plunge' and decide to run for US House against Democratic incumbents. The MSM general consensus that Legislative GOP candidates supporting Trump were damaging their campaign has been shown to be untrue, as exhibited by dozens of DEMOCRATIC legislators in October and up to Election Day putting on ads describing how they 'Voted with Trump'. //

Romeg Captain Sweatpants
6 hours ago edited
Donald Trump 'lost the popular vote' in 2020 due to the Democrat machines that control the vote counting process in EVERY SINGLE ONE of the LARGEST PRECINCTS in EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Swing States in which they are located and in which ALL of them contributed OUTRIGHT counterfeit ballots and the ballots of ineligible voters to the election totals.

ANYONE who actually believes that Joe Biden received 81,000,000 votes is either a total Democrat toady or dangerously delusional.

This time, however, due to the depth and breadth of Trump's MASSIVE victory in which he had gains in EVERY SINGLE STATE but Washington State was simply too big to rig. That fact, combined with more diligent control over the vote counting process made Trump's victory an inevitibility. //

Larry Arnold
6 hours ago
The Left had a Joe Rogan. It was Joe Rogan, until they chased him out of the Left and California.

He isn't the only one, by a long shot. Red State et al are full of former Democrats. And it's not just media; RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard spring to mind.

Heck, President Donald Trump was a Democrat until the Left chased him out of New York.

There are numerous reasons for this Trump success. I would say it shows the power of authenticity. Some might not prefer Trump’s blunt, even at times crude style, but no one could honestly say that the billionaire sounds or looks fake. Or addled. Or lost.

Stacked against an opponent who read everything off teleprompters and dodged questions completely or with incomprehensible word salads punctuated by defensive giggles, the familiar executive seemed safer.

Trump also had his own record as proof of accomplishment – strong economy and job growth, enhanced defense posture, reduced taxes, and energy independence, among others.

The Harris campaign organization, which was actually the Biden campaign with a few Harris cronies grafted on, was saddled with the administration’s record of incompetence – inflation, poor job growth, the globally mortifying Afghan exit, and creating, allowing, and even facilitating the open southern border with 10 million-plus illegal-crossers.

She also placed far too much trust in the abortion issue, which she ironically called reproductive rights. Trump easily defused that by pointing out, accurately, that’s now a state issue.

The incumbent vice president attempted to frame herself as an agent of change. But then, on national TV, she was asked what she would have changed in Biden policies. Clueless, she paused, then said nothing came to mind. //

A burst of initial party enthusiasm for Harris that was actually relief over Biden’s departure faded quickly. Like Republicans after their 1964 drubbing by Lyndon Johnson, Democrats are calling now for a thorough campaign autopsy.

Trouble is, the would-be party coroners were all complicit in causing the campaign’s terminal condition.

Republicans need to be wary, though, of over-confidence. Nothing is permanent in U.S. politics. Only four years after Democrats’ decisive 1964 landslide, they lost four of the next five White House elections.

Revealing of the Biden character, besides his chronic lying, is the quiet but obvious undermining of his replacement’s campaign by inserting himself all fall, as if his discarded persona could help.

Joe and Jill can now claim until their deaths that they would have done better on Nov. 5, should anyone care. The good news from such pettiness is we are now forever free politically of both Bidens and Harris.

Last month, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance said he worried about the U.S. government bond market in the early stages of a Trump presidency. Because of Biden-Harris spending, the U.S. is adding about $2 trillion to the national debt every year, he said, and “The only thing that makes that serviceable is that interest rates are still pretty low.” If interest rates go much higher, say to 8 percent, “that can become a huge spiral that could take down the finances of this country.”

Vance said that international investors and foreign countries — beneficiaries of globalization — could try to take down the new Trump administration by selling U.S. government bonds, which would cause interest rates to rise sharply.

"Holy Toledo. Oh, my goodness gracious," Enten declared. "These are the types of groups that you would have never thought that Donald Trump would have gained so much support among eight years ago."

Plus, it was the best GOP showing with age 18-29 year olds in 20 years, black voters in 48 years, Hispanics in 52+ years, he explained.

(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten
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Trump's mandate:

1. More states (49 + DC) swung in his direction vs. last election than anyone since 1992.
2. Best GOP showing w/ age 18-29 in 20 yrs, Black voters in 48 yrs, Hispanics in 52+ yrs.
3. Coattails: best GOP showing in House popular vote in prez year since 1928.

9:33 AM · Nov 8, 2024

Let's not forget this point that Enten also made about the exit polls and just how well Trump did with Latino men, the best for a Republican candidate since they started exit polls in the 1970s and ten points better than Kamala Harris. //

anon-2hhh
21 hours ago
The fact that so many demographics gravitated towards Trump is a testimony to the power Free Speech (internet, talk radio, X) has over Propaganda (MSM).

Carey J anon-2hhh
21 hours ago
And so it was that the trillion dollar propagaanda complex was defeated by ronin memelords. //

Highlar75
18 hours ago
To me there seemed to be 2 big turning points in Trump's campaign with messaging, demeanor, and everything: his pick of JD as his running mate and the first assassination attempt on his life. After this, his messaging became decidedly more on point, policy oriented, more positive and he seemed to actually be enjoying his time on the campaign trail. I think it was a wakeup call for him, that he really accepted from the Man upstairs to become the serious candidate we all wanted and needed him to be.

Gili Cohen @gilicohen10
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SCOOP: Qatar has conveyed to Hamas representatives on its soil - You're no longer welcomed here. More details on this major change - tonight at @kann_news
9:58 AM · Nov 8, 2024. //

While the Democrats preached fear about Trump, the reality is that bad actors fear strength and take advantage of weakness. They've had weakness with Biden and Harris for four years. They know the strength is coming back, and they're now backpedaling in the face of it.

Some like Townhall's Katie Pavlich are calling it the "Trump Effect."

We're likely to see a lot more of this as people realize sanity, and the real adults, are going to be back in charge in January.

But there are already good signs in the wake of the sweeping Republican victory, as illegals in a massive caravan traversing our neighbor to the south have reportedly started to abandon it and turn back:

The caravan, which began earlier this week in southern Mexico, included approximately 3,000 migrants seeking asylum or economic opportunities in the U.S.

It's telling that one woman who wasn't deterred by Trump's win name-checked CBP One as giving her hope:

Speaking to Reuters, another Venezuelan migrant, identified only as Jeilimar, explained that she hopes to secure an asylum appointment via the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's CBP One app before Trump takes office in January 2025.

"With God's favor, I'll get that appointment," she said. //

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_
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MX is bussing migrants straight to the U.S. border for their CBP One cell phone app appointments.

Roughly 1,300-1,500 migrants are allowed into the U.S. every day via this Biden program.

Trump previously told me he will terminate it immediately upon taking office if he wins. //

anon-x8p1
15 hours ago edited
If she really wants asylum she must apply in the first neutral country she crosses. We share no border with Venezuela.

So this is a failed application from the get go. Apply in any contiguous country or register at the closest US embassy office. Get in line. We'll get back to you.

A criminal complaint against an Iranian agent and two U.S. citizens charged with plotting to assassinate Donald Trump and other enemies of the Iranian regime was unsealed Friday. //

jester6
a day ago edited
Just skimmed the indictment. The alleged illegal activities go back over a year. The alleged conspirators have been in communication with FBI informants, have been surveilled and maybe even searched using sneak and peak warrants for most of 2024.

There have been rumors about foreign assassin teams for a few months, but pundits in the MSM have been dismissing them as "unsubstantiated" and "without evidence."

So for those keeping score, the DOJ (via Jack Smith) can drop a boatload of unsubstantiated material detrimental to Trump shortly before the election. But the same DOJ needs to keep an indictment of potential assassins under until a few days after the election. //

DonttreaDonme
a day ago
Is it interesting that the secret serviceleft gaping holes in protection of Trump while knowing these threats existed? It seems interesting.

As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant is expected to be certified as President-elect on January 6, 2025, and inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The Government respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy, //

MINUTE ORDER as to DONALD J. TRUMP: The Government's 278 Unopposed Motion to Vacate Briefing Schedule is hereby GRANTED. All remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule are VACATED. By December 2, 2024, the Government shall file a status report indicating its proposed course for this case going forward. Signed by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan on 11/8/2024.

“For all you stupid f*cks out there that still believe military service will be voluntary. Remember Germany 1936.” //

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Yesterday an inappropriate X post related to a mandatory draft was reposted on the Selective Service Agency’s X account. We are investigating this incident to determine how this happened and are proactively taking steps to prevent this from happening in the future. The reposted… Show more
10:25 AM · Nov 7, 2024. //

DaveGinOly in reply to inspectorudy. | November 7, 2024 at 4:17 pm
A POTUS’ authority to conduct the business of the United States (executive authority) is delegated down the chain of command. A POTUS can rescind that authority from any non-compliant agency, agency office, agency official, or employee. Those so divested of authority to act in the stead of the POTUS would no longer be able to access government networks or classified documents, authorize spending/purchasing, nor to conduct any government business. They will still be employed, they will still be paid. But they will only be able to twiddle their thumbs. Congress will have no say in this. An attempt to meddle with the POTUS’ authority to grant/rescind delegations of executive authority would be a violation of the separation of powers. //

CommoChief in reply to inspectorudy. | November 7, 2024 at 4:44 pm
Yep. Reassigned to Ice Station Zebra in the Arctic Circle to help count snowflakes as part of an ‘interagency TF’. They can always resign instead….

Merchan might throw out the conviction due to the Supreme Court ruling that a president has “at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.”. //

retiredcantbefired | November 7, 2024 at 6:10 pm
Why won’t Merchan uphold the conviction and then sentence Trump to as much prison time as he can pile on?

Hasn’t that always been the aim? //

TargaGTS in reply to retiredcantbefired. | November 7, 2024 at 6:23 pm
He could do that. But, because immunity claims are immediately appealable. He can sentence Trump to prison but that sentence would immediately be stayed by an appellate court pending appellate review. In fact, had SCOTUS issued their presidential immunity opinion prior to trial starting, that immunity claim as applied to the facts of this case would have had to have been settled prior to the trial starting. The thought process is, if someone is immune from prosecution, it’s not enough to keep them out of prison. It must be a prohibition on the process of the prosecution itself. //

PrincetonAl | November 7, 2024 at 6:14 pm
Merchan isn’t going to do anything for Trump’s benefit. He would do this for Democrats benefit.

The strategy would be rather than having this thrown out on appeal in NY, complain about the Supreme Court and throw it out pre-emptively. A NY state Court loss does the Democrats no good.

This would allow them to further attempt to undermine the Supreme Court and the immunity decision (which was a very reasonable one)

If he does it, that is why. //

Hodge | November 7, 2024 at 9:26 pm
The conviction was a political gambit to influence the election, and indeed almost every single one of my Democrat friends mentioned at least once in every conversation, so arguably it did have some impact.

However, it didn’t have enough impact; Trump won.

So, now the question is, what is the best path for the Democrats in winding this thing up? Trump will not run again and this makes the exercise rather pointless. Further, there seems to be some reason to believe that when this case reaches the Federal appeals level it will be exposed as legally insufficient, and keeping it in the limelight may more publicly expose questionable decisions and actions by the key players.

So, it may be better for Merchan to toss the whole thing, while blaming the Supremes for protecting Trump. The Democrats like to claim that the court in in the bag for Republicans, so that would play nicely to their base as an excuse while allowing Merchan to continue as a judge without any picky picky investigations into his conduct.

Don’t be fooled by Democrats’ uncharacteristic acceptance of election results. It’s their only move right now. //

Earlier on Wednesday, the shrews of “The View” rehearsed the same talking points. “When the person you voted for does not win, you do not say the system must be broken or that it was rigged. You say, ‘It is what it is,'” said Sara Haines. “Unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won,” added Ana Navarro.

Of course, they “acknowledge that he won.” After their QUESTIONING ELECTION RESULTS IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY rhetoric from the past four years, what the heck other choice do they have? Their “we accept the results” posture started about five minutes ago — or, more precisely, the moment Trump questioned the results of the 2020 election. Before that, Democrats had for decades questioned pretty much every other election they had lost, which were all freer and fairer than 2020, by the way.

2016 is still fresh in Americans’ minds. Here are three minutes (of many) of Democrats calling Donald Trump an “illegitimate president” after that election and saying the contest was “stolen” from Hillary Clinton:

Democrats did the same thing in the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, and then again when Bush beat John Kerry four years later, to the point of stalling the Electoral College vote certification. Democrats even spun up a wild conspiracy theory that Karl Rove had colluded with voting machine manufacturers to change vote tallies. Jerry Nadler and other Judiciary Committee Democrats called on the General Accountability Office to investigate whether the machines were used to steal the election.

In 1960, after Hawaii’s governor had initially certified the results for Republican candidate Richard Nixon and a recount was underway, Democrat John F. Kennedy arranged for “alternate electors” (gasp) to be appointed. Sound familiar?

In 2018, Stacey Abrams insisted she had won the race for governor of Georgia against Brian Kemp even though she had lost. There are more examples where these came from. //

Not only did they insist, against all evidence to the contrary, that the 2020 election was the “most secure in American history,” but they also vilified anyone who disagreed as an “election denier.” They labeled Trump a Nazi, a tyrant, and an insurrectionist, and his followers the same.

So they’ve really backed themselves into a corner on election results now. What choice do they have but to concede in 2024?

That’s not the only, or even the primary reason, Kamala Harris and her supporters conceded the election on Wednesday though. They also admitted defeat because they got whooped. Unlike the 2020 election, the margins in 2024 weren’t razor-thin. Trump beat Harris in a landslide.

Bearsblow
a day ago
Riddle me this...

Biden 2020 - 81 million votes
Trump 2020 - 74 million votes.

Trump 2024 - 72.5 million votes AND COUNTING
Harris 2024 - 67.8 million votes and counting.

My point? Trump will receive nearly identical numbers in both the COVID election and this more normal election and yet when we say they stole 2020 we're election deniers? How does a party lose 14 million votes in 4 years without trump adding more? They ALL stayed home?

They didn't just cheat a little in '20. They cheated on a grand scale that's all but undeniable.

For this reason Trump should seek to crush the left for 4 years. Make them rebuilt from rubble that will take decades to do.

Stealing 4 years doesn't scratch the surface of what's been done. The damage is nearly incalculable to this country.

I'm not religious but thank GOD for yesterday!

Long before Trump’s audacious rhetoric, rallies packed with fervor, and tweets that lit up the internet, the GOP had a blueprint for reaching minority voters. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t invented in 2023, or 2024. Go back a few decades, and you’ll find that Reagan and Jack Kemp had already planted the seeds. Their strategy? Think less “Build a beautiful wall” and more “Build opportunity and wealth.”

Jack Kemp was more than just another politician; he was an ex-NFL quarterback turned congressman who believed that economic empowerment was the great equalizer. His vision was straightforward but revolutionary for the time: break the cycle of government dependency and create opportunities for people to own their future. And he didn’t just whisper these ideas in a phone booth. He took them to the streets, addressing minority communities directly with speeches that resonated beyond typical party rhetoric. In a 1979 talk to the International Longshoremen’s Association, Kemp laid down an argument that felt as relevant then as it does now—why minority communities and the GOP shared more than they realized.

Kemp’s advocacy wasn’t just political theater. It was practical, rooted in the realities of his time, when America was wrestling with economic stagnation and social upheaval. He argued that conservative principles—entrepreneurship, lower taxes, deregulation—weren’t just talking points; they were tools that could dismantle barriers holding minority communities back. Reagan picked up on Kemp’s ideas and infused them into his 1980 campaign and his presidency, broadening the Republican platform’s appeal.

Fast forward to Trump’s rise. His 2024 campaign strategy included a surprising plot twist: an uptick in support from Black and Hispanic voters. Some analysts were quick to brand this as an unprecedented shift, a result of Trump’s unique ability to connect through a mix of bravado, policy promises, and a mugshot. But if you know your political history, you know Trump’s outreach to minority groups wasn’t entirely novel, his mugshot notwithstanding. It was the resurgence of Kemp’s vision, tweaked for a different era and amplified by digital media. //

Trump’s messaging, while often polarizing, hit on key themes that Kemp had long-before championed: economic opportunity and self-sufficiency. During his first administration, Trump pointed to job growth stats, touted the benefits of deregulation, and pushed Opportunity Zones—policies that echo Kemp’s urban revitalization agenda. Kemp believed that America’s inner cities, neglected by decades of failed policies, needed incentives for investment that would spark real, sustainable growth. Sound familiar? Trump’s version has different packaging, but the song remains the same. //

Now, back to Kemp’s original vision. He didn’t just want minority outreach to be an election-year gimmick. For him, it was about creating a long-term coalition grounded in respect and shared goals. Kemp’s view was that the GOP could be the party that lifted people up—not by expanding welfare but by expanding entrepreneurship. He believed that if people saw that the GOP’s version of economic growth and personal responsibility matched their own aspirations, they wouldn’t just be voters; they’d be champions of the party’s message. //

msctex
10 hours ago
One of the best Political "What If" scenarios there is, revolves around if Reagan had gone with Kemp instead of Bush.

Sabotage msctex
10 hours ago
He was made an offer he couldn't refuse. They shot him anyway.

Sabotage msctex
9 hours ago
Bush was the CIA director. Same arrangement (blackmail) that got LBJ on the ticket with Kennedy. Same follow up plan. Read up on the blood transfusion Reagan got after he was shot. He was never the same.

msctex Sabotage
8 hours ago
Damn, you live up to the name, don't you.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this new report involves the FBI sources who admit that they're worried about Elon Musk coming in and cleaning house as well.

Trump made a campaign promise vowing to create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government. Musk would reportedly lead the effort.

One source tells the Times that cutting waste at the FBI will naturally lead to a massive reduction in staff, because the waste is everywhere in this partisan cesspool.

“When he tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people … if he’s talking about a lot of dead weight,” they said, according to Picket.

“Try to find a person that’s actually working,” they continued, suggesting the FBI is clearly "bloated." //

pat
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Those that agree to testify about FBI corruption, malfeasance and misfeasance and bring receipts, can stay.

On day one of Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency, he canceled the Keystone Pipeline. Since then, he’s waged a war on drilling and energy and has tried to shove a green agenda down our throats. It’s one of the many reasons a Democrat won’t be in the White House come January.

On Thursday, he made a strange but somewhat conciliatory speech where he promised a smooth transition of power to President-elect Donald Trump.

Yet it was only hours before he made a move to defy the GOP nominee and former president INCOMING PRESIDENT and further limited drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. //

But in 2017, Trump signed a tax bill mandating at least two lease sales in the refuge’s 1.6 million-acre coastal plain by the end of 2024. //

Trump reinstated the drilling program in a 2017 tax cut law enacted by congressional Republicans. Even so, no drilling has occurred in the refuge. //

USGS estimates there’s somewhere between 4.3 and 11.8 billion barrels of oil in the coastal plain. Those are huge numbers. For comparison, Alaska’s second biggest oil field, Kuparuk, holds about 2.5 billion barrels.