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The message from Trump is very simple:

FAFO.

The message is clear and I hope the mental illness known as transgenderism gets the message as well-get back into the bathroom of your birth.

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Yes. Should we replace MAGA with FAFO? The first is a declaration. The second is a call to action.

Perhaps we combine them: MAGA-FAFO

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I like it. Great minds...

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I put it on X and pinned it. To find my account go to r e v m a d o g 1948. If you're interested that's also my Gmail.

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Sounds good to me.

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The first people to deport should be the Republicans in Congress.

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RINO's. There are some good Republicans. There are NO good RINO's.

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Who are the good ones in your book? I want to see if my list compares similarly to yours. The real issue is not whether members are good or not, but whether they are willing to go to work and fix things. Mr. Trump should insist that congress stay in session without any recesses until they get the remodeling of the government done.

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It looks like the turtle from Kentucky is the Republicans senile old man

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Yes, and Turtle's wife makes more money than Jill.

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SHE CAN BE PICKED UP BY THAT SAME GARBAAGE TRUCK. DONE!

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KICK his old ratty self to the curb..... A GARBAGE TRUCK WILL BE ALONG SOON!

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First people are Dem members. Second set is GOP members. Except for a few members of the GOP who have supported Mr. Trump, the rest are worthless as Dems are. All the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders in the world are not going to get congress to fix their mess.

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Deport them to a North Korean prison.

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Old time Senators and Representatives haven't gotten that message yet. Time to implement FAFO on THEM.

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We will need to primary recalcitrant Senators and other RINOs.

Keep you powder dry, MAGA-ites. Battle is just joined and not over yet.

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Yep, it is going to take a while. A lot of damage has been done.

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11/27/24: Amen, William. And have a satisfying, memorable, pleasant Thanksgiving (Trump being the Numero Uno reason). As for the poll, how is it possible to describe, even indirectly, Newsom as "competent"? (Continued below)

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Competently evil, I guess. And a Happy Thanksgiving to all of us who have survived four years of a Pedophile Presidency paying millions and millions of borrowed dollars to censor the Internet during a harrowing epidemic while the back-up Veep was getting soused possibly every day of the week (being married to a nanny-banger will probably be her alibi in the "authorized biography)". What FILTH!!! We are free! WE MADE IT!!!

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I for one am not tired of winning! Just think, if the Republicans didn’t control the House DJT would be immediately impeached for speaking with foreign leaders before his inauguration. It should be obvious that the world has been rescued from utter disaster with the election of DJT and a Republican Congress.

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…and that, by the mercy and grace of Almighty God.

No two ways about it.

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Sure feels like a new day is dawning!

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Reminds me a bit of that verse about "mercies are new every morning."

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THANK YOU, LAWSYO, WE ARE HAPPY EVERY MORNING NOW!

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I'm pretty sure when he said "You're going to get tired of so much winning", he wasn't talking to us.

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Never underestimate the RINOs.

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Lets wait until the end of his term to make that judgement.

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OR....next month. LOL

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The Democrats and the RINOs that organized all the hoaxes and lawfare need to be punished. The commies in the universities need to be defunded and sued. The bureaucracy needs to be trimmed. The illegal migrant hoard needs to go home. The biggest obstacle to Trump’s agenda will be RINOs besides whatever booby traps the Dems have prepared. 2026 we need to kick out the RINOs. But it does feel like we will make more progress this time and that Trump knows the ropes better after the last 9 years of Swamp hell.

MAGA.

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“ The Democrats and the RINOs that organized all the hoaxes and lawfare need to be punished.”

I wholeheartedly agree that there must be consequences for the flagrant and egregious abuse of the law sooo many people in government have unashamedly been guilty of perpetrating. The lack of those consequences - their “getting away it” time and time and time again - has been one of the single most demoralizing aspects of the last decade-plus.

Some heads, many heads, and quite big heads, need to roll.

My sincere hope is that there is a team already established in TRUMP 2.0 that has already been working on doing just that.

We are either a Nation of Laws, or we are not.

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Seems to me like Trump has done more for America since the 2024 election outcome was known than that silly Democrat bench-warming Biden has done since he was elected for office in 1972.

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Hah! True.

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We both hope for the same but what will likely happen is they will go after a token number of bad actors and the rest get off. Hope Im wrong.

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Universities need t/b taxed on their endowments, and take first loss on student loan defaults…..

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For sure. Makes you wonder what exactly those billions in endowments actually are for. Higher ed needs to get rid of tenure first and be able to remove bad professors. Cut their fed grants until they do so.

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I don't wonder any more; I worked 22 years at one of those "higher learning" sausage factories. The huge endowments are to get a building or residence hall named for the giver.

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YES YES YES! WILL YOU WORK ON GETTING THAT PLAN ACROSS????

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Someone, maybe multiple someones need to be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to prison. This HAS to happen. If not, what really changes?

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Just give it a minute before we get too f ar ahead of ourselves, TRUMP has not taken over the office just yet.... WE WILL GET THERE AND HE WILL GET IT ALL DONE! AMEN.

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I’d like to see that punishment start in states with RINO senators but a real Republican (MAGA) party to get the RINO senators to clean up their act, and give their party the incentive to primary the RINOs

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Agreed. His biggest obstacle will be congress who knows that cutting agencies and programs will draw the ire of voters impacted by the cuts. This is where we find out if congress can grow a spine or not. The entire country knows this and is watching. Going to suck to be a member if congress and resist the Trump cuts.

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Yesterday, I said that Trump might have made the Mexican president an offer she couldn't refuse. However, : Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum fired a warning at incoming U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over his threats to impose tariffs because of the ongoing immigration and drug trafficking issue. “A tariff will be met with another tariff in response and so forth until we place common companies at risk,” Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning news conference. The comments were part of a letter that Sheinbaum read out loud and said she would be sending to Trump. That’ll do it-a strongly worded letter-Trump Announces 25% Tariff on All Products From Mexico and Canada Until Illegal Alien Invasion is Stopped, Will Impose Additional Tariff on China Over Fentanyl. Let the games begin!!

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Mexico needs all those US companies with factories in Mexico to stay where they are. They desperately need those jobs. She can do little in the way of hurting the US but Mr. Trump can hurt Mexico dramatically. She knows it. If she really wanted to help her country she would go to war with the cartels.

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Completely agree-the cartels are co-rulers,

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The cartels also have significant influence with the swamp.

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She can't as the cartels own her party.

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The even greater threat - not mentioned but always present - is a 25% tax on all remittances sent from the US to Mexico by those with valid green cards as we did with money to Cuba.

Remittances to Mexico amount to around $50 billion per year the Mexican government doesn't have to spend on social welfare programs for its citizens. They, effectively, are drafting off of US taxpayers given that Mexican citizens in the US get free education, medical and often housing and welfare.

Trump threatened it last time but didn't impose it. He will this time if they don't cooperate in good faith.

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Correct. This is one of the reasons Mexico hasnt helped close the border. They want the dollars sent home to familes to continue. This should have been stopped completely last term.

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Realistically, I doubt that putting a special tax on remittances woulds be legal. After all, the people sending that money worked for it, and they should not be taxed differently, based on their nationality.

Besides, during Trump's first term the Mexican government DID cooperate with immigration control. True, it took a little arm twisting, but I'm sure it can be done again.

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If they are sending moneys home, that is their prerogative. I dont think it should be taxed. The thing is, they need to have WORKED for it. If it was handed to them by the taxpayer, then no it should not be leaving the US. Maybe show a W2, work ID or something. Or check to see if they are on Medicaid, SNAP, or the half dozen other welfare programs.

ALL the handouts that Biden has given the illegals need to be taken away. No hotels, no free food, no ATM cards. Start the remain in Mexico back up. Those seeking Asylum are supposed to seek it the first country they come to, not go 2-3 or 6 THOUSAND miles away to come here No parole app. That is a total boondoggle and total fraud. No leaving their own country on a freaking plane and flying to the US. No flights to where you want to go after with NO ID, and using arrest warrants for ID is beyond stupid. Start auditing the NGOs. We shouldnt be paying to have illegals helped to be brought here.

Everyone who came here illegally needs to go home and start over the right way. No hearings 3-5-10 yrs out. The taxpayer (you and I) are dry. No more handouts. Social Security is going to go bankrupt in less than 10 yrs. I havent see anything on medicare/caid. If you didnt pay into the system, you dont need to be on it. Yep, I have now lost my empathy and sympathy. That is ALL on the Demorats. I hate being a cynic.

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He needs to do it regardless. 25% on green card, 50% if green card is not present. And 75% if any taxpayer paid benefits have been received.

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I heard a good interview yesterday about tariffs that focused on Europe. Europe levies a 100% tariff on all automobiles from the USA which is why you don't see a GM in Europe, yet they are aghast when we mention tariffs to protect our markets as they have. Same for Mexico, Canada, China, et al.

The argument that tariffs are "hidden taxes" is only true if the economic system in which they are levied doesn't change in response to it. That is rarely the case.

Marketing is about creating and offering alternate solutions to existing demand. Tariffs energize that little engine called entrepreneurs. That's why we're reading Substack this morning instead of the newspaper.

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Yep, and they tax other goods of ours. They were also aghast that Trump wanted them to pay into NATO what they promised rather than the US carrying it all.

We need to get our own financial house in order and stop paying for everyone else until that happens.

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Statesmanship and diplomacy. Those are list arts in our government today.

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"Getting Iran to sign the Abraham Accords is next."

Not good enough. Those bastards need to be gone...period. There is no negotiating with ultra violent, religious fanatics.

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Amen. That regime and all its tentacles must be thoroughly vanquished and the people of Iran freed, once and for all, from their decades of oppression.

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Personally, I'm all for 'The Crusades, 2025 Version'.

😇

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The last ones ended prematurely. How about a Crusade Czar?

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🤣🤣🤣 I bet the Democrats don't have THAT on their BINGO cards!?!

Didn't they see that in Project 2025???🤔 🤣

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IDF is probably using the lull to update their phone directories…..

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Your right. Another agreement will stop nothing with Iran. Im not a fan of regime change but im open minded when it comes to dealing with Iran. Take away Irans funding of terrorist orgs and you end Hamas and Hezbola.

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Something feels very different now compared to any time in the last eight years. My opinion:

1) Trump is definitely not messing around. He does not care what the swamp wants, says or leaks. He does not care what the media reports. He is free of all the guardrails and restraints that were present during his first administration. Now he’s not yet president so the lawsuits haven’t started yet, and they will. But he no longer is going to play nice to get along and be liked. He almost seems to relish is being the contrarian or bad guy. He is definitely giving the middle finger to all his antagonists, but in a more direct and consequential way, via policy and not tweets. His brushes with death seem to have helped him to better ignore the unimportant noise and focus on the goals he has set.

2) The country seems to be (with a few exceptions) taking a sigh of relief that the woke crap is now going down in flames and the rats are running away from it. Even some slightly less crazy democrats that would have never uttered a word of dissent are now talking about how the democrats went too far.

3) Trump is using the knowledge that he gained from term one to better protect his operation. No transition help from the gov”t, no fbi background check help, no big media leaks.

4) My word of warning to his administration: these rats will not go quietly. There will be all kinds of manufactured distractions and made up scandals. They have lots and lots of money available to wreak havoc and they will try and try and try. Stat alert and on your game.

Obama talked about transforming the country. Schumer talked about transforming the country. Well, they are going to get transformation, just not in the way they imagined.

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And it's a good different this time.

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Lots of freedom when the president cannot run for reelection. And Trump is smart and learned many of the Blob tricks first time.

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I am optimistic that Mr. Trump can make cuts to the size of our government but Im also realistic. Except for a few Trump team members in Congress, does anyone see a bunch of enthusiasm from the country club GOP there? And what about the Dems? After all, isn't it the goal of government to be as thrifty as possible? Right. But sadly this will once again be a right vs left political fight instead of cost cutting. Most of the same players are there from Mr. Trumps last term. Same resistance with a few new faces. I have no confidence in Mr. Johnsons leadership in the House and less in Mr. Thune’s in the Senate. Without real aggressive support I don’t see big changes ahead. Congress created every single out of control department and agency so they are the real problem here. Perhaps members of congress will be seen in a new light come mid-terms based on their support or lack of support for Mr. Trumps cost cutting. Let’s hope they get it.

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Excellent display of wisdom.

Defund NPR!

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Oh please oh please let me set the charge in the basement of that building! Spoken in my best Hogan's Heroes voice.

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They can not fill retiree positions and move responsibilities elsewhere. Slow reduction but nothing unions can do about it.

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THE CALVERY HAS ARRIVED!! When you peel a 4 year old scab off it's going to be painful but worth it in the end. Look how beautiful!!

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I suspect you mean the CAVALRY. The Calvary is not a mobile object.

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lol...true

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"a plan that breaks from U.S. tradition against deploying troops domestically but which legal"

Carefully worded. Note the use of "tradition" instead of "law". The Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of troops against civilians, except in response to armed rebellion ( read "insurrection").

But illegals aren't US citizens, a fact the article apparently omitted.

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Peace through strength. Every good parent understands this concept and it works.

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I don’t see Trump getting enough credit for the enhanced Congress which will strengthen his hand . The man knows how to build!

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Imagine what The Other Don is able to accomplish AFTER he is sworn in! 2025 is off to a great start, and we it hasn’t even begun yet…

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On Tuesday, he <Stuart Varney> said, “ If you didn't get the message yet, you've certainly got it now, a dramatic transformation has arrived.

The dramatic transformation wIshy-washy Varney sees is the eradication of Barrack Hussein Obama's fundamental change to America that has taken place over the last 12 years+.

We are RETURNING TO NORMAL. Life with the American Dream is coming back if we can keep it.

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I've never loved normal so much. I am waiting for some sort of normal to come to Canada once we boot out Justin.

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Justin should finish his education first, then find a good barber.

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He is set to have some woke UN job, probably.

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Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary says Trudeau has lost the majority and is on his way out. He also said the likely successor would more conservative and business friendly. We can hope.

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Yes, O'Leary is a bit slow on that. Justin lost the support of the majority of Canadians around the time of the truckers' protest. Poilievre will be our next prime minister.

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Well for for your sake and the sake of your fellow countrymen I hope it's soon. I think the world will be better off too.

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There are parts if normal that need to change. Normal was ever increasing taxes and growing government. Normal was defending Europe via NATO who doesn't need defending. Normal is creating federal programs that have no sunset date. Lots of things about normal need to change.

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FEEL-GOOD COLUMN of the Day!! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Is anyone here planning on attending any inaugural events in DC, or in your own hometown?? 🤔

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We will definitely be watching the festivities from the comfort of our living room with our Stars & Stripes proudly flying

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I'll put on all my marching band cd's and let'er rip with the decibels. Ending up with Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Amen and amen.

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What fun!

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Definitely going to Kamala's swearing in as village garbage collector!

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Your garbage is going to pile up in your driveway.

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I have attended one. It was cold and rainy. And as you know it is outside. When is was over, I ambulated to the nearest exhaust system for the Metro and warmed my feet.

Party time in DC. Lots of overserved people who should have been in their hotel rooms napping.

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Yeah, that is what I am thinking. But then I think that DJT literally took a bullet for us and I can't brave a little inclement weather?...🫤

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Yes! He took ONE and missed TWO.

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Here in middle tennis shoe, January 20th is like the warmest day on the Tundra. Brrr. But you know DJT will drop by red states to thank us, so I'll just bask in the fumes of AF1 when that happens.

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