You left off Dudley Do-Right on the poll. Snidely Whiplash is currently the PM of Maple Syrupada.
Yes, primary the crazies. Make them work. Give them the same treatment conservatives get, but twice as hard. That’s how you deal with terrorists, which is what these people are. Enough with the race baiting garbage. The time for guilt ended a long time ago. America elected a Black Communist as POTUS twice. It’s not a racist country, and it’s not a very smart country either. We need to fix the latter issue. And I think we are heading in that direction. Ignore politics and politicians at your own peril seems to be the message. Because while we are busy with our lives and aren’t watching, they are messing everything up. You can’t leave the cookie jar in the hands of the Cookie Monster.
I am all for using the primary as a strategy to weaken the bite of the elected democrats but I stubbornly hold on to the notion that if we used Trump's power and inertia of his landslide win to actually change election laws that the illegal bullshit the Democrats pull to change election outcomes would vanish and they would suddenly only win a small fraction of their races.
It is still going on and it is still placing dozens - if not hundreds - of leftists in all level of local, state, and national elections that would have otherwise lost.
I just looked it up on wiki 🙄. This is the longest entry I’ve seen there. But the last para caught my eye and I can easily see this very much coming in to play in DJT administration:
Standing
The standing of the VRA was questioned in the 2023 case, Arkansas State Conference NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, launched by the NAACP to challenge the redistricting maps on the basis they diluted black votes. While many previous challenges of redistricting under the VRA had been brought by groups like the NAACP or voters within the state, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in November 2023 in a 2–1 decision that a strict reading of the VRA stated that there was no room for private rights of action, and only the United States Attorney General has standing to bring up these challenges. Such a ruling, if upheld, has a significant potential to upend many existing and current redistricting challenges under Section 2 of the VRA, according to legal scholars.[185]
Yes, I understand there are turf issues with elections across states and a Federal action can’t fix them with one move but that is not a valid excuse for doing nothing. We can work to enact Federal procedures and restrictions and migrate them to state level versions that I believe voters will accept.
There are too many loopholes the Dems capitalize on to steal elections. Close those gaps and refine the loose ends in each state.
Congress created the Voting Rights Act and they can change it.
LBJ and the 1965 Congress gave us headaches from which we still suffer.
There’s a lot riding on these next two years, and not just what the Trump administration is able to get accomplished, but equally as important will be how it is accomplished.
The view from 40,000 feet at the scope of destruction and devastation the Dems and Biden/Obama administrations have wreaked upon the country and the world is breathtaking, and prioritizing the right battles to wage first is of critical import.
We’ve got our work cut out for us, not just in righting the wrongs, but setting the ship of state on a steady course to keep the momentum going in the right direction. But the enemy never sleeps and will fight tooth and nail to obstruct, disparage and defame all our efforts toward that end.
Trump and his teams will need all the wisdom and skill God can provide to navigate us out of this hellhole the Uniparty Party has made out of this country.
There will be pain, wailing and gnashing of teeth, but there will also be freedom and Liberty and Justice for all once again.
The question is: will the people recognize that, and hold together through the bloody battles that are to come until it can be accomplished?
Fmr Dem Rep. Rose: GOP House Majority Will Need Consent of Hakeem Jeffries to Get Anything Done’
She’s right, you know. 220-215-Mike lost 38 on Plan B-34 on Plan C. Hakeem is on record that he will not help get Mike reelected- if Mike loses 3, Dems have the majority. Hakeem for speaker? The Rinos best step up and smell the roses, or we’re in for a dog and pony show again. Looking for perfection in an imperfect world is a fool’s game.
We’ve got two years to get a lot done. That includes everything Trump promised but also includes moving both parties farther to the right. We need to primary every RHINO and all Democrats with the possible exception of one or two. I never thought I’d say this, but John Federman could be an exception. In the meantime, trust no one. The real work is just beginning.
So much to do. So little time. The Trumpster will have to accomplish as much as possible early without causing too much pain to the populace.
There was a railroad branch line abandonment program years ago. Burlington Northern published a map of all of the rural branchlines they were closing. It pissed off the whole state of North Dakota and they couldn't abandon any. They then abandoned a few and only a few complained. They then went on a multiyear program with only a few at a time. Some result eventually, but a different tactic. The Dems will magnify the pain felt by every employee impacted by a deep state abandoned bureau. My advice is to concentrate on the 20 percent important and then pick them off one at a time.
I think you've pointed out a very valuable tactic, Jake, that would be very successful in many situations. But I fear our present situation does not leave time for an incremental approach. We need a "full court press", and "on every front", to truly break the back of the Marxist Left.
Therefore, it can't be just up to one man, Trump. If the State and Country Republican Executive Committees across the country had more MAGA than RINO involvement, they could step up to the plate and play a big role in identifying more "commonsense" liberal candidates in their area to primary the hardcore Marxist Democrats.
It’s very tricky and uber political. I’ll trust the Trmpsters instincts. You’re very right that the Dems will pounce on every move to try and derail MAGA.
It's Pierre Poilievre eh, not duh. Learn your Canadian eh.
Now on to the matter of finding democrats who aren't rat shit crazy, we'll have better luck if we search Saturn looking for Martians. Still, it's better to change politicians as often as you change underwear regardless of party afiliation. Everyone benefits from fresh air.
Americanize the Canadians or democrats? The former are just fine, ice rednecks who guzzle maple syrup and ride moose while chasing Polar bears and Eskimo Women.
A Canadian was visiting Alaska. After a few comments about the mild weather and Alaska's lack of any sports, he was asked by the locals if he'd ever tried the Alaska tough guy challenge.
He expressed interest whereupon he was told he simply had to drink a gallon of hooch, kill a Kodiak with his bare hands then have sex with an Eskimo Woman.
Accepting the challenge he immediately downed the entire gallon of hooch then bravely strode out the door. Twenty minutes later he was back, missing an ear, cloths shredded and covered in claw marks. Upon re-entering the joint he loudly demanded, "bring out this Eskimo woman I gotta kill .
The latter, you'll have better luck trying to pet a polar bear after it's been mollested by a Canadian.
They could teach us a few things, also. Watching Poilievre in the Canadian Parliament is very entertaining; obviously in that setting it's important to speak well and have your facts ready.
Well, we tried in the War of 1812 but it fizzled. I think they have done a better job of invading us. From hockey players to entertainers (Shatner, Mike Meyers, Ackroyd, Ryan Reynolds, Bieber, etc.) Canadians are everywhere.
Good morning Don. I opine the Donkey 🫏 Party has become a barnyard of refuse. It and it's propaganda arm, the Pavlovian lap dog legacy media could make some strong coffee and wake up, but it will not. It knows not how to do so. It it a party well versed in duplicitous behavior not in the best interest of American citizens and the preservation of our Constitutional Republic. And, it's constituency includes the unelected bureaucracy in the federal government as well as many state, county and city governments throughout the USA. The implementation of the MAGA, MAHA , AMERICA FIRST policies will be an uphill battle in the Congress and the Courts. The Donkies are partisan, dictatorial and America last devotees.
Clear skies and 86 degrees Fahrenheit the forecasted high today.
Their biggest hurdle is having over two hundred years of bad habits to break.
As I pointed out yesterday, the democrats would have retained control of the house by a wide margin in 1860 but decided to rebel instead. Republicans suffered a net loss in the house and the union party was pro slavery and anti session. They could have boxed Lincoln in and made him ineffective. They read the writing on the wall that slavery was going away but rather than seeking a masterful solution they chose to hang on to tradition.
I agree. Trump must continue his social media outreach and his presence on podcasting to not let any strings be broken with the army of believers he has built. He can't let the left take advantage of the distractions they are certainly planning for the first two years.
Trump will cancel every Obama program he can get his mitts on and make Obama a more visible enemy and cripple his string pulling. Bomb a couple of his mansions, too in honor of his late chef. A limp wrist doesn't need mansions. Being light in his loafers is magnetic enough.
“Readers may believe I am being too harsh in my assessments . . .” As Harry Truman said “If you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen.” Give them Hell, Don.
It is a huge concern that our House majority is hanging by such a thin thread. Hakeem Jeffries would be a disaster as Speaker. He would also be 3rd in line for the Presidency, after JB Vance. Which would make the security situation for Trump and Vance really dangerous.
This idea of primarying Democrats is brilliant and could very realistically succeed. We truly have been almost exclusively focused on the RINOs, and have just sort of "ceded" the ground the Democrats currently occupy. Don is right, a MAGA Republican is not going to be able to win in the deep Blue districts. But we absolutely COULD replace a hardcore flaming Marxist with a more reasonable conventional liberal.
Even "entrenched" Democratic Congressmen in urban areas have become extremely vulnerable on illegal immigration and skyrocketing crime. Identify Democratic primary challengers who will represent urban dwellers that are frustrated and fed up with far-Left Democrats who refuse to fix these problems.
We need to take the energy and momentum that we put into electing Trump into a new comprehensive plan to go after defeating the Marxist Democrats that are in office. We ABSOLUTELY CAN WIN at this.
As others have pointed out, removing opportunities for election fraud is super important, and by itself could begin to turn even California and New York Purple. Create a new Cabinet position for Election Integrity, and appoint a dynamic leader.
Most of us have seen those maps of the country with the sea of Red that supported Trump. There is one version of that map that shows how COUNTIES across America voted, and that is stunningly nearly completely Red. Democrats are really limited now to controlling urban areas on the two coasts and in a few major metropolitan areas like Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Philly, etc. Let's go after them. WE CAN DO THIS, FOLKS!
It's imperative that the RINOS understand that if they eff up the SOTH election and affect the acceptance of the 2024 elections they should end up on a list with their lefty brethren ; as someone once said " Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country " . NO EXCEPTIONS , the bickering and backbiting can wait until after the House and Presidency are secure .
I voted for Don Cherry. I love those wild suits. I was told by a Canadian that the reason why Canadian men wear crazy colors is so that they would be easy to find when they're stuck in a snowbank.
You left off Dudley Do-Right on the poll. Snidely Whiplash is currently the PM of Maple Syrupada.
Yes, primary the crazies. Make them work. Give them the same treatment conservatives get, but twice as hard. That’s how you deal with terrorists, which is what these people are. Enough with the race baiting garbage. The time for guilt ended a long time ago. America elected a Black Communist as POTUS twice. It’s not a racist country, and it’s not a very smart country either. We need to fix the latter issue. And I think we are heading in that direction. Ignore politics and politicians at your own peril seems to be the message. Because while we are busy with our lives and aren’t watching, they are messing everything up. You can’t leave the cookie jar in the hands of the Cookie Monster.
12/27/24: My write-in vote for the poll is Clinton Jaws, the coolest thing in Canada since the last Ice Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltT1xyT3alE&t=1s
“The fall of Bush and Bowman should convince Democrats to show some sanity next year.”
That’s not possible since Democrats seem to have intra psychic ataxia and are unable to think clearly.
I thought it was cranial rectalitis that plagued the left.
That's just a symptom they are being judged by God. The root cause is hypopisteo leading to moralis absentia and autoexaltation.
DT That sounds like it came straight from Monty Python! Very Good!
I am all for using the primary as a strategy to weaken the bite of the elected democrats but I stubbornly hold on to the notion that if we used Trump's power and inertia of his landslide win to actually change election laws that the illegal bullshit the Democrats pull to change election outcomes would vanish and they would suddenly only win a small fraction of their races.
It is still going on and it is still placing dozens - if not hundreds - of leftists in all level of local, state, and national elections that would have otherwise lost.
Their best strategies are (1) Cheat, and (2) Lie
Except that election laws are state-mandated, so federal laws (I think) can only apply to federal elections (presidential, congressional).
I'd love to hear from any lawyers here what *can* be done at the presidential level to enact/ enforce election laws because we surely need it!
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Of course! I should have thought of this. 🤦♀️
I just looked it up on wiki 🙄. This is the longest entry I’ve seen there. But the last para caught my eye and I can easily see this very much coming in to play in DJT administration:
Standing
The standing of the VRA was questioned in the 2023 case, Arkansas State Conference NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, launched by the NAACP to challenge the redistricting maps on the basis they diluted black votes. While many previous challenges of redistricting under the VRA had been brought by groups like the NAACP or voters within the state, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in November 2023 in a 2–1 decision that a strict reading of the VRA stated that there was no room for private rights of action, and only the United States Attorney General has standing to bring up these challenges. Such a ruling, if upheld, has a significant potential to upend many existing and current redistricting challenges under Section 2 of the VRA, according to legal scholars.[185]
Thanks for the useful info, Gail.
Yes, I understand there are turf issues with elections across states and a Federal action can’t fix them with one move but that is not a valid excuse for doing nothing. We can work to enact Federal procedures and restrictions and migrate them to state level versions that I believe voters will accept.
There are too many loopholes the Dems capitalize on to steal elections. Close those gaps and refine the loose ends in each state.
Congress created the Voting Rights Act and they can change it.
LBJ and the 1965 Congress gave us headaches from which we still suffer.
Agreed. See the comment I just posted in reply to Don’s comment.
Best synopsis of the political landscape I have seen in a while.
There’s a lot riding on these next two years, and not just what the Trump administration is able to get accomplished, but equally as important will be how it is accomplished.
The view from 40,000 feet at the scope of destruction and devastation the Dems and Biden/Obama administrations have wreaked upon the country and the world is breathtaking, and prioritizing the right battles to wage first is of critical import.
We’ve got our work cut out for us, not just in righting the wrongs, but setting the ship of state on a steady course to keep the momentum going in the right direction. But the enemy never sleeps and will fight tooth and nail to obstruct, disparage and defame all our efforts toward that end.
Trump and his teams will need all the wisdom and skill God can provide to navigate us out of this hellhole the Uniparty Party has made out of this country.
There will be pain, wailing and gnashing of teeth, but there will also be freedom and Liberty and Justice for all once again.
The question is: will the people recognize that, and hold together through the bloody battles that are to come until it can be accomplished?
“A Republic…if you can keep it.”
Pray without ceasing. 🙏
Fmr Dem Rep. Rose: GOP House Majority Will Need Consent of Hakeem Jeffries to Get Anything Done’
She’s right, you know. 220-215-Mike lost 38 on Plan B-34 on Plan C. Hakeem is on record that he will not help get Mike reelected- if Mike loses 3, Dems have the majority. Hakeem for speaker? The Rinos best step up and smell the roses, or we’re in for a dog and pony show again. Looking for perfection in an imperfect world is a fool’s game.
THE BATTLE NEVER ENDS
We’ve got two years to get a lot done. That includes everything Trump promised but also includes moving both parties farther to the right. We need to primary every RHINO and all Democrats with the possible exception of one or two. I never thought I’d say this, but John Federman could be an exception. In the meantime, trust no one. The real work is just beginning.
Happy New Year!
So much to do. So little time. The Trumpster will have to accomplish as much as possible early without causing too much pain to the populace.
There was a railroad branch line abandonment program years ago. Burlington Northern published a map of all of the rural branchlines they were closing. It pissed off the whole state of North Dakota and they couldn't abandon any. They then abandoned a few and only a few complained. They then went on a multiyear program with only a few at a time. Some result eventually, but a different tactic. The Dems will magnify the pain felt by every employee impacted by a deep state abandoned bureau. My advice is to concentrate on the 20 percent important and then pick them off one at a time.
Rince and repeat process with RINOs. Maine and Alaska Senators for instance.
You won't elect a MAGA Republican in ME. And could wind up with a lunatic Dem.
AK maybe could be improved.
Krushchev said the Russians would bury us in 1961. We thought he meant soon, but he was predicting the long game. Unfortunately, his plan is working.
Don, another great post with so many Surberisms.
I think you've pointed out a very valuable tactic, Jake, that would be very successful in many situations. But I fear our present situation does not leave time for an incremental approach. We need a "full court press", and "on every front", to truly break the back of the Marxist Left.
Therefore, it can't be just up to one man, Trump. If the State and Country Republican Executive Committees across the country had more MAGA than RINO involvement, they could step up to the plate and play a big role in identifying more "commonsense" liberal candidates in their area to primary the hardcore Marxist Democrats.
It’s very tricky and uber political. I’ll trust the Trmpsters instincts. You’re very right that the Dems will pounce on every move to try and derail MAGA.
is your cat getting senile or just on vaca? that was such an easy poll.
But, but, at least Sgt Preston would bring a dog with him that would not bite everybody in sight.
Well—I did consider Justin Bieber.
Anything to get him to go home and STAY.
Probably too late to send Diddy's child bride back to Canadia.
Me too
We deserve an occasional easy poll - besides the winners were only in the 60 percentile!
It's Pierre Poilievre eh, not duh. Learn your Canadian eh.
Now on to the matter of finding democrats who aren't rat shit crazy, we'll have better luck if we search Saturn looking for Martians. Still, it's better to change politicians as often as you change underwear regardless of party afiliation. Everyone benefits from fresh air.
We have to Americanize them
Americanize the Canadians or democrats? The former are just fine, ice rednecks who guzzle maple syrup and ride moose while chasing Polar bears and Eskimo Women.
A Canadian was visiting Alaska. After a few comments about the mild weather and Alaska's lack of any sports, he was asked by the locals if he'd ever tried the Alaska tough guy challenge.
He expressed interest whereupon he was told he simply had to drink a gallon of hooch, kill a Kodiak with his bare hands then have sex with an Eskimo Woman.
Accepting the challenge he immediately downed the entire gallon of hooch then bravely strode out the door. Twenty minutes later he was back, missing an ear, cloths shredded and covered in claw marks. Upon re-entering the joint he loudly demanded, "bring out this Eskimo woman I gotta kill .
The latter, you'll have better luck trying to pet a polar bear after it's been mollested by a Canadian.
(Yes, I know that used to be a Texas joke.)
They could teach us a few things, also. Watching Poilievre in the Canadian Parliament is very entertaining; obviously in that setting it's important to speak well and have your facts ready.
Well, we tried in the War of 1812 but it fizzled. I think they have done a better job of invading us. From hockey players to entertainers (Shatner, Mike Meyers, Ackroyd, Ryan Reynolds, Bieber, etc.) Canadians are everywhere.
True story...before or after Hell freezes over?
We've got plenty of experience with RINOs… why not give them DINOs?
They're all CiR's communists in reality.
Good morning Don. I opine the Donkey 🫏 Party has become a barnyard of refuse. It and it's propaganda arm, the Pavlovian lap dog legacy media could make some strong coffee and wake up, but it will not. It knows not how to do so. It it a party well versed in duplicitous behavior not in the best interest of American citizens and the preservation of our Constitutional Republic. And, it's constituency includes the unelected bureaucracy in the federal government as well as many state, county and city governments throughout the USA. The implementation of the MAGA, MAHA , AMERICA FIRST policies will be an uphill battle in the Congress and the Courts. The Donkies are partisan, dictatorial and America last devotees.
Clear skies and 86 degrees Fahrenheit the forecasted high today.
God's blessings to you and your constituency.
Their biggest hurdle is having over two hundred years of bad habits to break.
As I pointed out yesterday, the democrats would have retained control of the house by a wide margin in 1860 but decided to rebel instead. Republicans suffered a net loss in the house and the union party was pro slavery and anti session. They could have boxed Lincoln in and made him ineffective. They read the writing on the wall that slavery was going away but rather than seeking a masterful solution they chose to hang on to tradition.
Historical doesn't necessarily mean inevitable.
I agree. Trump must continue his social media outreach and his presence on podcasting to not let any strings be broken with the army of believers he has built. He can't let the left take advantage of the distractions they are certainly planning for the first two years.
Trump will cancel every Obama program he can get his mitts on and make Obama a more visible enemy and cripple his string pulling. Bomb a couple of his mansions, too in honor of his late chef. A limp wrist doesn't need mansions. Being light in his loafers is magnetic enough.
“Readers may believe I am being too harsh in my assessments . . .” As Harry Truman said “If you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen.” Give them Hell, Don.
It is a huge concern that our House majority is hanging by such a thin thread. Hakeem Jeffries would be a disaster as Speaker. He would also be 3rd in line for the Presidency, after JB Vance. Which would make the security situation for Trump and Vance really dangerous.
This idea of primarying Democrats is brilliant and could very realistically succeed. We truly have been almost exclusively focused on the RINOs, and have just sort of "ceded" the ground the Democrats currently occupy. Don is right, a MAGA Republican is not going to be able to win in the deep Blue districts. But we absolutely COULD replace a hardcore flaming Marxist with a more reasonable conventional liberal.
Even "entrenched" Democratic Congressmen in urban areas have become extremely vulnerable on illegal immigration and skyrocketing crime. Identify Democratic primary challengers who will represent urban dwellers that are frustrated and fed up with far-Left Democrats who refuse to fix these problems.
We need to take the energy and momentum that we put into electing Trump into a new comprehensive plan to go after defeating the Marxist Democrats that are in office. We ABSOLUTELY CAN WIN at this.
As others have pointed out, removing opportunities for election fraud is super important, and by itself could begin to turn even California and New York Purple. Create a new Cabinet position for Election Integrity, and appoint a dynamic leader.
Most of us have seen those maps of the country with the sea of Red that supported Trump. There is one version of that map that shows how COUNTIES across America voted, and that is stunningly nearly completely Red. Democrats are really limited now to controlling urban areas on the two coasts and in a few major metropolitan areas like Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Philly, etc. Let's go after them. WE CAN DO THIS, FOLKS!
It's imperative that the RINOS understand that if they eff up the SOTH election and affect the acceptance of the 2024 elections they should end up on a list with their lefty brethren ; as someone once said " Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country " . NO EXCEPTIONS , the bickering and backbiting can wait until after the House and Presidency are secure .
I voted for Don Cherry. I love those wild suits. I was told by a Canadian that the reason why Canadian men wear crazy colors is so that they would be easy to find when they're stuck in a snowbank.
He's more American than any Democrat
Excellent analysis. Broad and wide-ranging, yet succinct.