Nothing tells me McDaniels and the rest of the RNC are playing for first place. They got their record fundraising pot so they gauge voter enthusiasm on dollar amounts and that is a fools errand.
Great article, but perhaps a little heavy on the abortion angle. Rs are going to have to figure out positive pro-life messaging that does not turn off voters.
Scott Adams came up with a theory why that statement is true. The system in place is the one that got all the republicans elected, too. They are not really motivated to worry about the republicans that were screwed by that system.
I would like to add that they have gotten used to the idea that Dems cheat. It’s who they are. Sad, sad, sad.
Kentucky looks like it leads the nation, Tanto. Cameron got 626,000 votes. Other Republicans down ballot got 783,000 votes. 781,000 votes, 752,000 votes 734,000 votes. That's just not possible.
Very sadly, IMHO last night's results don't bode well for repubs as the dems have shaped abortion as a vote driving issue and they control the ballot boxes as in 2020.
The problem from last night I think is not just abortion, which is troubling in and of itself. It’s also that most of us who vote Republican don’t think much of the Republican Party or its corrupt leadership. Hard to get enthusiastic for an organization that hates its voters. So you got low turnout. It’s not complicated. Treat people like crap and they vote with their feet. Just my two cents.
I concur fully. And while I can sympathize with people’s abhorrence with our feckless Republicans, not voting at all is tantamount to willful suicide in my book.
What needs to be different across the board is people not just voting, going home and expecting miracles but after voting, to stay involved and actively working to get what we need done - to be a thorn in the side of your Representatives. It’s still a crapshoot as they barely listen anyway, but far better than putting a Demoncrat in there who’s guaranteed to make your life a misery.
I don’t disagree. But my wife and I have done just that. And it’s extremely frustrating. The RINOs are a cancer. They pull strings from behind the curtain. They aren’t moderates. They are a fifth column for the Democrats when it suits them.
We need a third party. Whatever happened to the Tea Party? Trump should have started a MAGA party, probably a better name would be Patriot Party. The Republican-RINO party has roots too deep to dig up and will not change. Why should conservatives participate at all?
Or America First- The Tea Party lacked enough Patriots. This time around, all the Rhinocrats have been identified, and America has never had a clearer choice for the next election.
It’s not all we’ve got—there’s tons we can very effectively do if we get involved with (and even ourselves replace) the RINO’s in the county, state, and national RNC party apparatus.
The problem is, the RNC raises money (from us), and then sits on this cash and doles it out only to RINO candidates (as McConnell horribly did); or it doles it out to good patriotic candidates—but cripples them with requiring a certain amount of obedience when they get to Washington in return for the money (see recent example of John James, of Michigan).
We need to break the RNC’s grip on the money. Tell everyone to donate ONLY directly to strong candidates themselves, NOT to the RNC— and tell your Congressmen what you are doing. We need to flood our good House and Senate folks with money. And not just the ones from our state. Even $10 or $5 to a guy like Byron Donald’s—multiplied by just one million patriots is ALOT of money, and will liberate our Congress from the RNC / RINO’s grip.
The money is all they care about. Ronna is bad news. And a lot of the alternative people that come forward get co-opted by the system, aka bought off. Like Harmeet Dhillon. Seemed like a fire breather. Nope- just another RINO.
The only difference between Republicans and Democrat- Commies is that the RINOs kill you more slowly. But they advance much of the same agenda. Trump couldn’t get a wall built when the GOP controlled both houses. 🤷🏼
I’m not saying give up. I’m saying that the incumbent ossified system is not where change will emerge. We have to build outside the system and force change. So, RFK Jr was interesting for about 15 minutes because here’s a guy on the Left who is for freedom of speech and bodily autonomy. But then he starts with the climate change and the other tin foil positions and he disqualifies himself to centrist and right wing voters. But If we got a populist movement from the center left that could work with MAGA on basic issues like fiscal responsibility, the border, the trans nonsense, and de-weaponizing government, we could kick the crap out of both established parties. The 20% of hard left Commies, no you won’t get them. But the RiNOs will come because they do t actually stand for anything but lining their pockets.
No leadership is more corrupt in the country today than the Democrat Party…the faux Russian’ dossier which Hillary and her henchman inflicted on the country, causing 2 years of distraction and a $50 million bill…then there are the faux impeachments - Trump knew that Biden was dealing corruptly in the Ukraine and it’s all coming out now….then there’s the Biden crime family- payoffs from China, etc….and more locally Democrats have been arrested in Connecticut and New Jersey this week for election fraud, mostly using mail-in ballots…. Shall I go on?
THE PROBLEM is the Republican Party, as constituted in DC.
IMAGINE how different a world it would be had they supported Trump.
That can make one almost delirious with joy in even contemplating!
We’d have had a secure border, been on a more solid financial footing, peace in the Middle East with Iran and the Palestinians sidelined once and for all. We would be wholly energy independent and an exporter to boot, lifting other countries out of economic hazard. You could have your stove and gas powered cars! We could have had ALL of that and so, so so much more EXCEPT the DC Republican Party have been traitors to every single conservative cause they ever lied about supporting.
We are where we are because THEY betrayed us - period.
You are on target Tanto. The GOP is never going to indict Biden. They are worried about the optics again with indicting a feeble old man. Its a lost cause designed to raise money, nothing else. Biden and his spawn will walk. The RNC is again run by hapless RINOs who think the way to winning is thru the middle. How many elections do we have to lose to prove that wrong? We need to face it, the party is run by RINOs. You will never see a cohesive conservative message with the SNL crowd running the show. The party had record fundraising going into this election and failed miserably. I still say advertising money does not buy votes, at least in the GOP.
Those 22Dems are the smart ones. She and the Squad are tearing apart the Dem party and they will ultimately have to deal with the issue down the road. The censure will increase the cults fundraising I suspect, but those 22 Dems did their party a favor by voting against her hate. Troubles me that the entire House didnt vote to censure. Wonder why not?
Your right. The GOP is all show and tough talk and zero else. Totally toothless party. My wife gets upset when I tell her this but we conservatives have a much bigger problem than just the Dem party. We conservatives are represented by a party that doesn't know how to win, and they don't want to learn either. Rona McDaniel might be a nice woman, I have no idea, but yet we struggle with a dysfunctional message and keep losing and yet she keeps her job. Where do you see that in the private sector? Hire a new RNC chairman and tell them they have one election to show defined results or they will be fired. Hire a proven winner, not just a nice person who promises nothing. In previous times Garland, Mayorkas, and Wray would have been impeached and charged with sedition. Why not today?
Democrats are the party of "me", country be damned. Today the media says the GOP came up short in yesterday's elections because of the abortion issue. I can live with that. So can millions of children yet to be born. If Democrats are the party of killing our future, then what kind of a world are we heading into?
And also on the bright side— two of the worst RINO’s, Ken Buck and Kay Granger, have announced they are not running for re-election in 2024. Both of them were in the group of 20 hardcore RINO’s who held out against Jim Jordan.
And as you, PM, pointed out yesterday, that new Congressman, Rich McCormick, who partnered with MTG on that censure, looks like a pretty good guy.
Now, if there could be a credible alternative fundraising entity for true Republicans, that would divert serious money from the RNC, that would be a gigantic blow to the RINO’s “power structure”. I’ve wondered if Trump’s PAC could be that, but I think it has to spend the money on Trump.
Excellent idea, Gal, Tea, Freedom, Patriot, America First-all would work-but until fraud is acknowledged, we can't win. Last night, KY was stolen-Cameron got 626k-Bashear,693k. Republicans down ballot-783-780-752-734K. That's simply impossible.
However, this happened at the state level which is what we wanted with Roe v Wade being overturned.
Did we really want the voters in the states to decide, or did we just want to be on the correct side of the issue?
Be careful of that for which you wish.
Tanto is right. The voters of Kentucky opted for the devil they know over the buffering turtle's protegé. McConnell absolutely loathes the voters, so they stayed home. I can't say I blame them.
I can blame them. The outcome is what matters, not the reasons. I don’t vote for anyone but myself. I see it as a moral duty, paid for with real lives.
My first thought was the Swamp had permeated Virginia's drinking water. On second thought. all the Virginians wanted was to keep abortion safe, legal and rare. Keep the faith, Surbs. The media has gone all out to present last night as a victory for Democrats. Just a skirmish, not even a battle.
As soo many of know here, elections now seem like Kabuki theater.
We vote, but does it really matter, as we are fully aware the “game’s afoot”, as Sherlock would say.
If we don’t get rid of mass mail-in voting we are on a fool’s errand, maybe not everywhere, but most assuredly where it counts (pun intended).
While sending abortion back to the states was without question the right thing to do, it has galvanized the Left and only served to create yet another hurdle for Republicans which we need like a hole in the head in these times.
And after just watching the 100’s of thousands of Americans march and riot in the streets celebrating barbarity and savagery, I mean, there’s no bottom after that.
We’re being LITERALLY invaded every single day now for 3 years and Republicans in Congress seems to feel no urgency whatsoever in unequivocally shutting down the border as an absolute National Security priority?
The economy is hanging by a frayed - and fake - thread, and could go bust at any minute, and our Representatives still can’t seem to make the case to the American people the danger we are in by our reckless spending.
It’s 12 months to the day until the next election, and our candidate is in the midst of a all out persecution, fighting not just to be re-elected, but for his very life.
All I can say is, pray without ceasing, and may God have mercy on the USA.
And, while I wholeheartedly do believe in miracles, what are we doing to deserve even one?
I know I sound all “gloom and doom”, because our current state of affairs appears so daunting, but I do cling to these hopes:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts..”
As well as when Abraham tried to negotiate with God about sparing Sodom and Gomorrah: “peradventure there be fifty righteous… And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
I cling to the hope that Lord finds at the least some fifty righteous here and He will give us another chance.
Unfortunately this is the root of the issue. Are there “fifty righteous” anymore in our country? I believe these elections show us the hearts of most Americans. For the most part these voters believe what the Democrats do and align with them. Just look at the response to the horrible massacre in Israel. The abortion vote is another indication of the state of their hearts, siding with the murder of innocent children. Our institutions, schools, colleges and churches have almost all fallen to humanism and relativism where there “is no truth but your own”. We have lost the battle for the hearts and minds of America and thus, unless we have a mighty move of a merciful God, next November’s election will look just like this.
"There are not enough of them to elect Trump president." Byron York... A man who has never taken a risk in life.
Um, Trump had 74M votes in 2020 and the state republican party's in GA, WI, and AZ willfully allowed their state election laws to be violated regarding mail-in ballots after hours. Swamp creatures or pusillanimous cowards, you pick.
Just a note. The former chairman of the Georgia Republican party is under indictment for questioning the 2020 election. Brian Kemp and the SoS Raffensperger are the ones who refused to look into it.
What is truly mind-bending too, one of the pegs of Jack Smith’s persecution of Trump in the Jan. 6th trial is his claim that Trump, by seeking to gather evidence to substantiate his claims there was fraud perpetrated in the 2020 election, in itself constitutes “a conspiracy to commit fraud”!!
I mean seriously - so if you are collecting evidence to prove a claim that somehow makes you guilty of the claim itself???
Watching Letitia James and Judge Engoron dominate the headlines is like watching the inmates run the asylum. The country's legal system is swirling down the drain. For God's sake, somebody call a plumber.
Me thinks the judge doth protest too much.The more one sees and hears from the judge more one realizes this prosecution is a cheap b-movie with a co-starring female persecutor seeking stardom.Lovelace in Deepthroat comes to mind.Great post with reasoned reservations about msm attention and intentions.Poll could use A and B.
". . . 22% of black voters and 44% of Hispanics now support Trump but don’t fall for it because a voting bloc turns around about as fast as an ocean-going tanker ship."
True, but we live in interesting times, Don. We have already witnessed many events which no one, even you, could have predicted. I'm not sayin' blacks and Hispanics will turn to Trump in large numbers, but as the kids said in Angels in the Outfield, it could happen.
Everyone is focused on Biden. He's even running ads with people giving him credit for lower health care costs. I believe and Don's column yesterday suggested Biden ain't going to be the guy. He is too toxic and the democrats know it. I've no idea who his replacement is going to be but I just can't imagine the Democrats letting be the nominee. Dr. Jill will be pissed. Perhaps a woman scorned will out the culprits. Now wouldn't that be fun. Alas I dream. She'll take the payoff.
Emerald Robinson is reporting there are 18 states reporting voting machine issues and ... wait for it... Kentucky and Virginia are among the 18. It's not just the mail in ballots. The machines are also corrupt. Dominion sued everyone who suggested the the machine's validity (see Fox News and Sidney Powell among others. ) Georgia activists are trying to get back to paper ballots but Kemp and Rathesperger will quell that effort.
I think the states control their own elections, including an election for federal offices?
(Haha, so the blue states could obey the shutdown of the election, but the red states will still hold the Presidential election and Trump will win in a nearly unanimous vote.)
I like the way you think for sure, but a Presidential election is a federal election so they could declare martial law or whatever excuse (see Zelensky) and call it off.
The ballot initiative was a confusingly written mess, with tons of out of state money behind it. The loss was upsetting of course - but it will be modified in the future - Ohio is destined to become a first trimester abortion state, which seems to be consistently where the electorate is in many cases. They also just approved medical marijuana which is just a precursor to legalizing it for recreational use, as its utility for medical purposes is pretty much non-existent. Look for a small slowdown in industrial investment as Ohio becomes the latest state to eliminate roughly 10% of its workforce as unemployable due to their inability to pass a drug screen.
More telling is the GOP failing to take back the governorship in Kentucky, with a very pro-Trump candidate losing pretty handily, and the Only Fans sexy candidate winning in Virginia. Until the GOP decides where they are between Trump and non-Trump - big dark leftist money will come in and win these races.
Poll answer: They both suck. In a just world these two clowns would have been disbarred for their actions and antics. But if we ever lived in such a world it was destroyed long ago. As far as (s)elections are concerned TINVOWOOT. I’ll continue to dutifully fill out my ballot, but I have no illusions that it will make a positive difference in my life. The Republic is dead. Long live the Empire...
Nothing is going to change until people return to GOD. That is simple history. Every nation that turns away from GOD begins to act in the self interest of individuals. Politicians can become wealthy by serving the money changers. They ignore GOD, they ditch morality and they destroy future generations.
It's time for GOD's people to humble themselves and seek him.
Trump 2024.
But we have to solve the election fraud issue. It’s a thing. And if not fixed, which looks unlikely , the outcome is predetermined.
And the GOP doesn’t want to solve it. They have a vested interest in the status quo, which means better to lose to Dems than win with Trump and MAGA.
Nothing tells me McDaniels and the rest of the RNC are playing for first place. They got their record fundraising pot so they gauge voter enthusiasm on dollar amounts and that is a fools errand.
Agreed, Reddog.
MTG just laid it all out-worth a read-https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-weighs-gops-complete-trainwreck-performance/
Great article, but perhaps a little heavy on the abortion angle. Rs are going to have to figure out positive pro-life messaging that does not turn off voters.
Agree, LuAnn, but to be fair, the pro-death party poured a lot of money into it. That's about all they've got left to draw any voters.
Well we know that their voters are going to run out of babies who will eventually vote.
That's the definition of the Uni-Party.
What you say makes sense to me.
Our own party actively working against us.
Never ceases to amaze and infuriate me.
It sure is looking that way.
“And the GOP doesn’t want to solve it.”
Scott Adams came up with a theory why that statement is true. The system in place is the one that got all the republicans elected, too. They are not really motivated to worry about the republicans that were screwed by that system.
I would like to add that they have gotten used to the idea that Dems cheat. It’s who they are. Sad, sad, sad.
Kentucky looks like it leads the nation, Tanto. Cameron got 626,000 votes. Other Republicans down ballot got 783,000 votes. 781,000 votes, 752,000 votes 734,000 votes. That's just not possible.
How does a red state have a blue gov?
Votes were switched, probably like PA. Q is What is the Gop going to do about it?
GOP will do nothing.
Very sadly, IMHO last night's results don't bode well for repubs as the dems have shaped abortion as a vote driving issue and they control the ballot boxes as in 2020.
The problem from last night I think is not just abortion, which is troubling in and of itself. It’s also that most of us who vote Republican don’t think much of the Republican Party or its corrupt leadership. Hard to get enthusiastic for an organization that hates its voters. So you got low turnout. It’s not complicated. Treat people like crap and they vote with their feet. Just my two cents.
I concur fully. And while I can sympathize with people’s abhorrence with our feckless Republicans, not voting at all is tantamount to willful suicide in my book.
What needs to be different across the board is people not just voting, going home and expecting miracles but after voting, to stay involved and actively working to get what we need done - to be a thorn in the side of your Representatives. It’s still a crapshoot as they barely listen anyway, but far better than putting a Demoncrat in there who’s guaranteed to make your life a misery.
Frustrating but for now it’s all we’ve got.
I don’t disagree. But my wife and I have done just that. And it’s extremely frustrating. The RINOs are a cancer. They pull strings from behind the curtain. They aren’t moderates. They are a fifth column for the Democrats when it suits them.
We need a third party. Whatever happened to the Tea Party? Trump should have started a MAGA party, probably a better name would be Patriot Party. The Republican-RINO party has roots too deep to dig up and will not change. Why should conservatives participate at all?
Or America First- The Tea Party lacked enough Patriots. This time around, all the Rhinocrats have been identified, and America has never had a clearer choice for the next election.
I come from a multi-party system. I like it.
No difference between the two - the result is the same - genuine Democrat, or one that lies and claims to a Republican?
It’s not all we’ve got—there’s tons we can very effectively do if we get involved with (and even ourselves replace) the RINO’s in the county, state, and national RNC party apparatus.
The problem is, the RNC raises money (from us), and then sits on this cash and doles it out only to RINO candidates (as McConnell horribly did); or it doles it out to good patriotic candidates—but cripples them with requiring a certain amount of obedience when they get to Washington in return for the money (see recent example of John James, of Michigan).
We need to break the RNC’s grip on the money. Tell everyone to donate ONLY directly to strong candidates themselves, NOT to the RNC— and tell your Congressmen what you are doing. We need to flood our good House and Senate folks with money. And not just the ones from our state. Even $10 or $5 to a guy like Byron Donald’s—multiplied by just one million patriots is ALOT of money, and will liberate our Congress from the RNC / RINO’s grip.
The money is all they care about. Ronna is bad news. And a lot of the alternative people that come forward get co-opted by the system, aka bought off. Like Harmeet Dhillon. Seemed like a fire breather. Nope- just another RINO.
The only difference between Republicans and Democrat- Commies is that the RINOs kill you more slowly. But they advance much of the same agenda. Trump couldn’t get a wall built when the GOP controlled both houses. 🤷🏼
I’m not saying give up. I’m saying that the incumbent ossified system is not where change will emerge. We have to build outside the system and force change. So, RFK Jr was interesting for about 15 minutes because here’s a guy on the Left who is for freedom of speech and bodily autonomy. But then he starts with the climate change and the other tin foil positions and he disqualifies himself to centrist and right wing voters. But If we got a populist movement from the center left that could work with MAGA on basic issues like fiscal responsibility, the border, the trans nonsense, and de-weaponizing government, we could kick the crap out of both established parties. The 20% of hard left Commies, no you won’t get them. But the RiNOs will come because they do t actually stand for anything but lining their pockets.
To NOT vote, is to vote for the opposition. "Not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent at this juncture."
No leadership is more corrupt in the country today than the Democrat Party…the faux Russian’ dossier which Hillary and her henchman inflicted on the country, causing 2 years of distraction and a $50 million bill…then there are the faux impeachments - Trump knew that Biden was dealing corruptly in the Ukraine and it’s all coming out now….then there’s the Biden crime family- payoffs from China, etc….and more locally Democrats have been arrested in Connecticut and New Jersey this week for election fraud, mostly using mail-in ballots…. Shall I go on?
No. Everything you say is true. But that’s a separate real problem from the real problem for Republicans.
THE PROBLEM is the Republican Party, as constituted in DC.
IMAGINE how different a world it would be had they supported Trump.
That can make one almost delirious with joy in even contemplating!
We’d have had a secure border, been on a more solid financial footing, peace in the Middle East with Iran and the Palestinians sidelined once and for all. We would be wholly energy independent and an exporter to boot, lifting other countries out of economic hazard. You could have your stove and gas powered cars! We could have had ALL of that and so, so so much more EXCEPT the DC Republican Party have been traitors to every single conservative cause they ever lied about supporting.
We are where we are because THEY betrayed us - period.
The GOPe comes awfully close.
And yet people still vote them because Orange Man bad.
My senses are exactly your words.Stop pissing on my leg while telling me its raining.
You are on target Tanto. The GOP is never going to indict Biden. They are worried about the optics again with indicting a feeble old man. Its a lost cause designed to raise money, nothing else. Biden and his spawn will walk. The RNC is again run by hapless RINOs who think the way to winning is thru the middle. How many elections do we have to lose to prove that wrong? We need to face it, the party is run by RINOs. You will never see a cohesive conservative message with the SNL crowd running the show. The party had record fundraising going into this election and failed miserably. I still say advertising money does not buy votes, at least in the GOP.
When you win sometimes you really have to beat the crap out of your opponent.
But on the bright side, Tlaib did get censured last night. So there's that.
Unless she and the squad are busy removing tar and feathers, it means nothing but increased funding for the Commie Squad.
I watched it last night on C-SPAN. Bush won the Histrionics of the Year award. At least the squad convinced 22 Democrats to vote against her..
Those 22Dems are the smart ones. She and the Squad are tearing apart the Dem party and they will ultimately have to deal with the issue down the road. The censure will increase the cults fundraising I suspect, but those 22 Dems did their party a favor by voting against her hate. Troubles me that the entire House didnt vote to censure. Wonder why not?
This censure is as harsh as finding A.G. Holder in contempt of congress.Same results.
Your right. The GOP is all show and tough talk and zero else. Totally toothless party. My wife gets upset when I tell her this but we conservatives have a much bigger problem than just the Dem party. We conservatives are represented by a party that doesn't know how to win, and they don't want to learn either. Rona McDaniel might be a nice woman, I have no idea, but yet we struggle with a dysfunctional message and keep losing and yet she keeps her job. Where do you see that in the private sector? Hire a new RNC chairman and tell them they have one election to show defined results or they will be fired. Hire a proven winner, not just a nice person who promises nothing. In previous times Garland, Mayorkas, and Wray would have been impeached and charged with sedition. Why not today?
Hopefully, all the Democrats who give a damn about this country will wonder the same thing.
Democrats are the party of "me", country be damned. Today the media says the GOP came up short in yesterday's elections because of the abortion issue. I can live with that. So can millions of children yet to be born. If Democrats are the party of killing our future, then what kind of a world are we heading into?
Tlaib needs to get Tlaid. Maybe assign someone on Death Row. Give them a one year reprieve.
And also on the bright side— two of the worst RINO’s, Ken Buck and Kay Granger, have announced they are not running for re-election in 2024. Both of them were in the group of 20 hardcore RINO’s who held out against Jim Jordan.
And as you, PM, pointed out yesterday, that new Congressman, Rich McCormick, who partnered with MTG on that censure, looks like a pretty good guy.
Now, if there could be a credible alternative fundraising entity for true Republicans, that would divert serious money from the RNC, that would be a gigantic blow to the RINO’s “power structure”. I’ve wondered if Trump’s PAC could be that, but I think it has to spend the money on Trump.
Excellent idea, Gal, Tea, Freedom, Patriot, America First-all would work-but until fraud is acknowledged, we can't win. Last night, KY was stolen-Cameron got 626k-Bashear,693k. Republicans down ballot-783-780-752-734K. That's simply impossible.
Is there actual evidence of KY being stolen? Or just hunches?
Gotta be- could be the biggest story of the election, if some investigative reporter will just get it out.
Yes - troubling.
However, this happened at the state level which is what we wanted with Roe v Wade being overturned.
Did we really want the voters in the states to decide, or did we just want to be on the correct side of the issue?
Be careful of that for which you wish.
Tanto is right. The voters of Kentucky opted for the devil they know over the buffering turtle's protegé. McConnell absolutely loathes the voters, so they stayed home. I can't say I blame them.
I can blame them. The outcome is what matters, not the reasons. I don’t vote for anyone but myself. I see it as a moral duty, paid for with real lives.
“...this happened at the state level which is what we wanted with Roe v Wade being overturned.”
Exactly right. Let the states decide.
Well they decided in Ohio and not everyone likes it.
I don’t like it one bit, either. That’s democracy.
If people are immoral, they will vote for immoral laws.
Trouble is I sense greater numbers of immoral voters were more motivated to go to the polls.
My first thought was the Swamp had permeated Virginia's drinking water. On second thought. all the Virginians wanted was to keep abortion safe, legal and rare. Keep the faith, Surbs. The media has gone all out to present last night as a victory for Democrats. Just a skirmish, not even a battle.
Yes and Republicans now have to deal with it.
As soo many of know here, elections now seem like Kabuki theater.
We vote, but does it really matter, as we are fully aware the “game’s afoot”, as Sherlock would say.
If we don’t get rid of mass mail-in voting we are on a fool’s errand, maybe not everywhere, but most assuredly where it counts (pun intended).
While sending abortion back to the states was without question the right thing to do, it has galvanized the Left and only served to create yet another hurdle for Republicans which we need like a hole in the head in these times.
And after just watching the 100’s of thousands of Americans march and riot in the streets celebrating barbarity and savagery, I mean, there’s no bottom after that.
We’re being LITERALLY invaded every single day now for 3 years and Republicans in Congress seems to feel no urgency whatsoever in unequivocally shutting down the border as an absolute National Security priority?
The economy is hanging by a frayed - and fake - thread, and could go bust at any minute, and our Representatives still can’t seem to make the case to the American people the danger we are in by our reckless spending.
It’s 12 months to the day until the next election, and our candidate is in the midst of a all out persecution, fighting not just to be re-elected, but for his very life.
All I can say is, pray without ceasing, and may God have mercy on the USA.
And, while I wholeheartedly do believe in miracles, what are we doing to deserve even one?
I know I sound all “gloom and doom”, because our current state of affairs appears so daunting, but I do cling to these hopes:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts..”
As well as when Abraham tried to negotiate with God about sparing Sodom and Gomorrah: “peradventure there be fifty righteous… And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
I cling to the hope that Lord finds at the least some fifty righteous here and He will give us another chance.
As I always say, pray much. 🙏
Unfortunately this is the root of the issue. Are there “fifty righteous” anymore in our country? I believe these elections show us the hearts of most Americans. For the most part these voters believe what the Democrats do and align with them. Just look at the response to the horrible massacre in Israel. The abortion vote is another indication of the state of their hearts, siding with the murder of innocent children. Our institutions, schools, colleges and churches have almost all fallen to humanism and relativism where there “is no truth but your own”. We have lost the battle for the hearts and minds of America and thus, unless we have a mighty move of a merciful God, next November’s election will look just like this.
"There are not enough of them to elect Trump president." Byron York... A man who has never taken a risk in life.
Um, Trump had 74M votes in 2020 and the state republican party's in GA, WI, and AZ willfully allowed their state election laws to be violated regarding mail-in ballots after hours. Swamp creatures or pusillanimous cowards, you pick.
Just a note. The former chairman of the Georgia Republican party is under indictment for questioning the 2020 election. Brian Kemp and the SoS Raffensperger are the ones who refused to look into it.
What is truly mind-bending too, one of the pegs of Jack Smith’s persecution of Trump in the Jan. 6th trial is his claim that Trump, by seeking to gather evidence to substantiate his claims there was fraud perpetrated in the 2020 election, in itself constitutes “a conspiracy to commit fraud”!!
I mean seriously - so if you are collecting evidence to prove a claim that somehow makes you guilty of the claim itself???
Makes my head swim!
Brins to mind comic [Pogo],we have met the enemy and he is us.
Just part of Orwell's Newspeak-Innocent is Guilty.
Yes sir, you are correct. Raffnsberger and Kemp are globalist rats.
They are white trash.
Those two are crooked as hell.
Watching Letitia James and Judge Engoron dominate the headlines is like watching the inmates run the asylum. The country's legal system is swirling down the drain. For God's sake, somebody call a plumber.
Me thinks the judge doth protest too much.The more one sees and hears from the judge more one realizes this prosecution is a cheap b-movie with a co-starring female persecutor seeking stardom.Lovelace in Deepthroat comes to mind.Great post with reasoned reservations about msm attention and intentions.Poll could use A and B.
POLL: Not a fair poll.
BOTH should be hung.
". . . 22% of black voters and 44% of Hispanics now support Trump but don’t fall for it because a voting bloc turns around about as fast as an ocean-going tanker ship."
True, but we live in interesting times, Don. We have already witnessed many events which no one, even you, could have predicted. I'm not sayin' blacks and Hispanics will turn to Trump in large numbers, but as the kids said in Angels in the Outfield, it could happen.
Everyone is focused on Biden. He's even running ads with people giving him credit for lower health care costs. I believe and Don's column yesterday suggested Biden ain't going to be the guy. He is too toxic and the democrats know it. I've no idea who his replacement is going to be but I just can't imagine the Democrats letting be the nominee. Dr. Jill will be pissed. Perhaps a woman scorned will out the culprits. Now wouldn't that be fun. Alas I dream. She'll take the payoff.
Emerald Robinson is reporting there are 18 states reporting voting machine issues and ... wait for it... Kentucky and Virginia are among the 18. It's not just the mail in ballots. The machines are also corrupt. Dominion sued everyone who suggested the the machine's validity (see Fox News and Sidney Powell among others. ) Georgia activists are trying to get back to paper ballots but Kemp and Rathesperger will quell that effort.
Trump is not on Trial. The Democratic Party is on trial.
As Kurt Schilichter wrote, "Hope is not a plan of action."
Do not be surprised to see bidet try to emulate piggy bank zelensky and cancel elections for [the good of the nation?].
So much for a “war for democracy”. Cheesh.
Where are the calls for a ceasefire over there, by the way - still waiting.
Soooooooooo aggravating!
I think the states control their own elections, including an election for federal offices?
(Haha, so the blue states could obey the shutdown of the election, but the red states will still hold the Presidential election and Trump will win in a nearly unanimous vote.)
I like the way you think for sure, but a Presidential election is a federal election so they could declare martial law or whatever excuse (see Zelensky) and call it off.
He/They may try but it won't work.
The Supreme Court will step in.
The ballot initiative was a confusingly written mess, with tons of out of state money behind it. The loss was upsetting of course - but it will be modified in the future - Ohio is destined to become a first trimester abortion state, which seems to be consistently where the electorate is in many cases. They also just approved medical marijuana which is just a precursor to legalizing it for recreational use, as its utility for medical purposes is pretty much non-existent. Look for a small slowdown in industrial investment as Ohio becomes the latest state to eliminate roughly 10% of its workforce as unemployable due to their inability to pass a drug screen.
More telling is the GOP failing to take back the governorship in Kentucky, with a very pro-Trump candidate losing pretty handily, and the Only Fans sexy candidate winning in Virginia. Until the GOP decides where they are between Trump and non-Trump - big dark leftist money will come in and win these races.
I am not a fan of abortion at all. I wish it would never happen. But most people can live with 12-15 weeks. I think that's where we are at.
Poll answer: They both suck. In a just world these two clowns would have been disbarred for their actions and antics. But if we ever lived in such a world it was destroyed long ago. As far as (s)elections are concerned TINVOWOOT. I’ll continue to dutifully fill out my ballot, but I have no illusions that it will make a positive difference in my life. The Republic is dead. Long live the Empire...
Nothing is going to change until people return to GOD. That is simple history. Every nation that turns away from GOD begins to act in the self interest of individuals. Politicians can become wealthy by serving the money changers. They ignore GOD, they ditch morality and they destroy future generations.
It's time for GOD's people to humble themselves and seek him.