The most important thing is to implement policies which will enable these to continue long after he is out of office. Otherwise, they will be reversed and we will go back to a system where there is no accountability to the voters run by an “elite” in DC.
Things that must be done to keep us from reverting to a pre-Trump system with trillions in fraud and abuse:
1. Voter integrity
2. School choice
3. Tax reform, perhaps a flat tax or consumption tax
4. Ending withholding tax at the legislative level which will show people the amount of money they are having taken from them. No one will vote for a system if they see the true size.
I agree: this will happen if (a) the Commerce Clause is restored to the design, and (b) withholding's end will wake people up to the X% that is being taken from them at the point of a gun. There was a tea party for a low percent. Now we are 10-20-30-40 times that.
The commerce clause is one of the most abused clauses in the whole constitution. Everything that DJT is doing, is giving the supreme court cover to bring us back to a more originalist framework. That is the unspoken part which I think is extremely important.
Spot on. But I think the most insidious problem we have is properly educating our children. I truly believe this is the root cause of what we're seeing
History is the best cautionary tale. When you don't learn history (or are taught false history), you neither have a future....nor a past. It's all planned. This is also why they change definitions, change nuance and create euphemisms of inversion (gender affirming care), etc.etc
A big part in the decline of America and the slow stripping of our liberty is what happens when kids don't know how to measure freedom. The true measure of liberty is how much freedom you have to make your own independent decisions...even if they're awful decisions.
For two generations schools have destroyed the yardstick by which freedom can be measured
I've always been right of center, but when I became self-employed and had to write a check to the IRS every quarter I became an absolute libertarian when it comes to taxes ... it's insane what I pay. And if I short the government? Penalties and interest kill me.
Funny how that happens, isn't it? When the government is taking more than 50% of your money, who really owns that business? It's no wonder people don't want to bother with it anymore. I'm in the same boat....
I'd like to set up term limits so that you get a set number of years. No more congressmen running for senator or president. Once you're done, you're done. The fact that most of our senators were also senators 40 years ago is outrageous.
1. Eradicate bureaucracies, which are the real oligarchies. Elections don't matter while they exist.
2. End federal subsidies for... anything, including to states. They're a way of coercing behavior that the feds can't constitutionally coerce. Not to mention state-run media and education.
3. Voting integrity
4. Formally eradicate "economic asylum".
5. Change the metrics: No more GDP (at least replace it with 'per capita'), start producing "inequality" data that is after-tax and after-benefits instead of pre-tax and not annualized.
While we’re at it, I would also suggest a “Joe Friday” law to regulate advertising of pharmaceuticals: no actors; no jingles; no parties, sports, testimonials, animations, etc. Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts.
It is one thing to believe the government to be "inefficient". It is quite another to see how corrupt it is with our tax dollars to the point of stealing them in inventive ways. Will we learn that 5% of the federal spending has been stolen or 50%? Given how people come to Washington financially comfortable and leave rich would lead me to believe that it will be 50%.
A former Department of Defense insider, Steve Simoni, says it's "no surprise" DOGE has set its sights on the Pentagon for its next bout of uncovering "waste, fraud and abuse," and predicted Monday that the Elon Musk-led group will uncover "all kinds of wasteful spending" in the process.
"It's actually sending shockwaves through the department right now," the Allen Control Systems CEO told FOX Business.
"When I was at the Department of Defense, we were spending $10,000 on HDMI cables that were ‘ruggedized’ when we could have purchased them for $20 or $30 at Best Buy… We need to get more efficient with our spending, because there's a massive threat of drones that are proliferating on the battlefield right now, and the new administration, Secretary [Pete] Hegeth knows this."
Completely! Such angry people with TDS and now MDS, but pay attention to the depth of the grift - totally pissed but also hopeful. This is our only chance to right this utter mess. More! Keep the relentless pace: the liberals suck not know where to act next. Bravo!
The more the Dems complain about DOGE investigations the more convinced I am that they have committed tremendous fraud in the departments and agencies they most want to protect. The Department of Education is one of the first that comes to mind.
They need to continue the messages on a local level with the same methodical focused plan. The stem cells of the cancer need to be killed or it will grow right back.
I can relate to the anger that you’re experiencing. And it’s nice to see all the cockroaches scatter when the lights go on. But I’m not surprised by what they are uncovering.
100%. In order to have a real impact and change direction of the country (and even the current world order where the US is losing influence and power) the status quo must be disrupted. President Trump excels at disrupting the establishment, but was hand cuffed in his first term by well meaning but wrong headed advisors and the Russia Hoax. This time nothing is going to stop him or even slow him down. He's breaking down conventional wisdom, and setting a new course. That's badly needed, and what the left and it's entrenched bureaucracy fears the most. President Trump needs to stay the course and expand his focus to get the biggest impact possible, and keep his opponents off their game.
So this is how much the SBA cared about all the business that went out of biz during c19 and those who lost their jobs. Selfish mother fuckers. I have zero sympathy for them. It'd be different if they cared...but they don't.
You'd think every single employee would be there when she showed up. Bunch of entitled cry babies. NOBODY on earth except a federal employee would be able to get away with what they've been doing and then getting a more than fair 8 month severance
They’ll break some things, make mistakes but this is so much better than the last 4 years. I am willing to look at the results and judge that instead of all the ridiculous preemptive whining by the media and activists. If the war in Ukraine ends and the bloodshed stops, Trump’s remarks will be quickly forgotten.
I agree but I think we have to be cognizant that sequencing is paramount. My biggest fear is that normies are going to have a hard time following all this.
Its like albums that are masterpieces: Every song is perfect and in perfect order, otherwise it wouldn't be a masterpiece. Every song sets up the next one.
Masterpieces take time, and we are in the process of witnessing it. We've just become spoiled because everything is happening so fast, in a mere few months.
The reason timing is important is because the message is not intended for us; its intended for moderates. Without them we can not effectuate change. Therefore they've built a digestible chunk machine for maximal absorption and impact in that demographic
I think Trump is waiting for just the right time to cause maximal damage. The ones with the "loudest" guns are going to have the biggest "buck"....and they're not braced for it.
I think its all planned and to be done in a strategic sequence. If not it both dilutes the impact of the info drops, BUT also subsequent chess moves.
He's drawing them out to see who squeals the loudest before he lays down the hammer by simply using their moves to go on offense rendering them defenseless trying to defend the indefensible
I knew going in all of Trump's foibles and character flaws, and still enthusiastically voted for him. I know he is an egomaniac, but the guy took a bullet, faced imprisonment, and gave up a cushy life to take on the deep state. As a middle class New Yorker in my mid 50s, I am sick to death of watching the status quo never change. The illegal immigrant, sanctuary bullshit was the final straw for me. If he blows it all up, at least he tries. I'm a registered Democrat, but fully on team Trump now.
There isn't a single president who hasn't been an egomaniac. If they weren't they wouldn't try to be the most powerful person in the world.
Trump just wears it on his sleave. And much of it is more manufactured/exaggerated by the misleadia because he is a existential threat to the establishment than by his own behavior.
Trump is doing what has been needed for a long time, and is a breath of fresh air after the worst administration in my 75 years. Seeing the left go apoplectic confirms his direction.
I just hope he can accomplish most of his agenda in the first 2 years before GOP loses control of the House with their slim majority. Of course, if he keeps going at this rate, we may have an unusual occurrence and continue to retain control of all 3 branches of government.
Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen says the media push to report "Trump's approval is underwater" is simply not true; it is reporting on the worst polls out of a list of good to great ones in order to slam him (this is confirmed by Byron York's reporting that the Democratic strategy is to lie hard and long about Trump's approval so they can push the polling down and then pounce on him at midterms with negatives). He is, in fact, continuing to gain approval and those who believe he is on the right track are gaining numbers.
Exactly right! It's the same thing they did during the election. MSM polls showed Harris with a lead in September and early October. But Rasmussen always should Trump ahead - and that's exactly how it ended.
And the Harris campaign even came out afterwards and admitted that their internal polling NEVER showed her with a lead. It was all a LIE by the MSM to try to shape opinion.
Jerry, I know voting is a state controlled issue but if there’s some way that Trump could unleash DOGE on voter roll integrity in this country, we would gain seats. Clean out the swamp in D.C. and muck (“musk” - Heh) out the stables in voter rolls. (Or maybe Trump could give Kathryn Englebrecht’s “True the Vote” some help.)
And, Alex, as far as Trump - Bring. It. On. I’ve said this before here but in the beginning Trump was 17 out of 18 of my choices in 2016. Now, I’d walk over hot coals for the guy. He has backbone, loves the country and has vision. It’d be great to have a tough as nails philosopher king as president but I’m happy to just have the patriotic tough as nails part who gives a damn about the country and about the citizens who live here.
I'm tired of giving away billions to illegals, Ukraine, and on and on. I'm glad Trump is putting an end to the Ukraine insanity, but deportations aren't happening fast enough. I live in Idaho and this red state wants to give amnesty to illegal workers and save the dairy industry. It's a lie that only Democrats want illegal workers; Republicans want their cheap labor, too! Also, where are the JFK, Epstein files? Happy RFK Jr is in, and waiting to see where things end up with DOGE.
The most important thing is to implement policies which will enable these to continue long after he is out of office. Otherwise, they will be reversed and we will go back to a system where there is no accountability to the voters run by an “elite” in DC.
Things that must be done to keep us from reverting to a pre-Trump system with trillions in fraud and abuse:
1. Voter integrity
2. School choice
3. Tax reform, perhaps a flat tax or consumption tax
4. Ending withholding tax at the legislative level which will show people the amount of money they are having taken from them. No one will vote for a system if they see the true size.
There are more, but this is a start.
Judiciary has to return to blind justice. Our legal system has become an instrument for illegality.
Nothing else really matters without it.
This more than anything but all these Obama appointed judges know why they’re there.
They don't like to be impeached though.
I love your list.
BUT the most important thing to do is DESTROY the State.
It is the foundation of the Swamp and will take care of 90% of the bullshit we've experienced in the last 30 years.
Repeating some guru’s opinion:
Don’t particularly like what Trump says and how crassly he says it
But I like what he DOES (most of it)
And am amazed at how simple and quick he makes it seem…
Well this shit isn't hard, he's just replacing nonsense with common sense.
Its that straightforward
I agree: this will happen if (a) the Commerce Clause is restored to the design, and (b) withholding's end will wake people up to the X% that is being taken from them at the point of a gun. There was a tea party for a low percent. Now we are 10-20-30-40 times that.
The commerce clause is one of the most abused clauses in the whole constitution. Everything that DJT is doing, is giving the supreme court cover to bring us back to a more originalist framework. That is the unspoken part which I think is extremely important.
5. Secure borders and a better immigration system.
Spot on. But I think the most insidious problem we have is properly educating our children. I truly believe this is the root cause of what we're seeing
History is the best cautionary tale. When you don't learn history (or are taught false history), you neither have a future....nor a past. It's all planned. This is also why they change definitions, change nuance and create euphemisms of inversion (gender affirming care), etc.etc
A big part in the decline of America and the slow stripping of our liberty is what happens when kids don't know how to measure freedom. The true measure of liberty is how much freedom you have to make your own independent decisions...even if they're awful decisions.
For two generations schools have destroyed the yardstick by which freedom can be measured
I've always been right of center, but when I became self-employed and had to write a check to the IRS every quarter I became an absolute libertarian when it comes to taxes ... it's insane what I pay. And if I short the government? Penalties and interest kill me.
Funny how that happens, isn't it? When the government is taking more than 50% of your money, who really owns that business? It's no wonder people don't want to bother with it anymore. I'm in the same boat....
And term limits for members of congress
I'd like to set up term limits so that you get a set number of years. No more congressmen running for senator or president. Once you're done, you're done. The fact that most of our senators were also senators 40 years ago is outrageous.
Totally with you, True.
As to #4, well, we can dream.
1. Eradicate bureaucracies, which are the real oligarchies. Elections don't matter while they exist.
2. End federal subsidies for... anything, including to states. They're a way of coercing behavior that the feds can't constitutionally coerce. Not to mention state-run media and education.
3. Voting integrity
4. Formally eradicate "economic asylum".
5. Change the metrics: No more GDP (at least replace it with 'per capita'), start producing "inequality" data that is after-tax and after-benefits instead of pre-tax and not annualized.
BOOM.
Election integrity can go along way in preventing a return to the horrors of the past 4 years.
I'd also add 5: Limit the Commerce Clause :-)
Remove exemption from liability for vaccine manufacturers!
I’ve said that for years—if I were President I’d end withholding tax as my first act.
While we’re at it, I would also suggest a “Joe Friday” law to regulate advertising of pharmaceuticals: no actors; no jingles; no parties, sports, testimonials, animations, etc. Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts.
Exposing all the wasted tax dollars with more to come is a great start. Doing what should be the rule and not the exception.
Its just crazy. The Left is soooo full of hate. Goodness wouldn't that get old?!
If it wasn't so damn fun making fun of them i might go crazy. I have this crazy kind of cognitive dissonance going on:
On one hand I'm stoked the corruption and grift is being revealed. On the other hand I'm FUCKING PISSED!
Is anyone else experiencing this?
It is one thing to believe the government to be "inefficient". It is quite another to see how corrupt it is with our tax dollars to the point of stealing them in inventive ways. Will we learn that 5% of the federal spending has been stolen or 50%? Given how people come to Washington financially comfortable and leave rich would lead me to believe that it will be 50%.
Exactly.
A former Department of Defense insider, Steve Simoni, says it's "no surprise" DOGE has set its sights on the Pentagon for its next bout of uncovering "waste, fraud and abuse," and predicted Monday that the Elon Musk-led group will uncover "all kinds of wasteful spending" in the process.
"It's actually sending shockwaves through the department right now," the Allen Control Systems CEO told FOX Business.
"When I was at the Department of Defense, we were spending $10,000 on HDMI cables that were ‘ruggedized’ when we could have purchased them for $20 or $30 at Best Buy… We need to get more efficient with our spending, because there's a massive threat of drones that are proliferating on the battlefield right now, and the new administration, Secretary [Pete] Hegeth knows this."
Completely! Such angry people with TDS and now MDS, but pay attention to the depth of the grift - totally pissed but also hopeful. This is our only chance to right this utter mess. More! Keep the relentless pace: the liberals suck not know where to act next. Bravo!
The more the Dems complain about DOGE investigations the more convinced I am that they have committed tremendous fraud in the departments and agencies they most want to protect. The Department of Education is one of the first that comes to mind.
They need to continue the messages on a local level with the same methodical focused plan. The stem cells of the cancer need to be killed or it will grow right back.
I can relate to the anger that you’re experiencing. And it’s nice to see all the cockroaches scatter when the lights go on. But I’m not surprised by what they are uncovering.
YES!!
As long as the left is running around with their hair on fire, we know that Trump is right on track.
100%. In order to have a real impact and change direction of the country (and even the current world order where the US is losing influence and power) the status quo must be disrupted. President Trump excels at disrupting the establishment, but was hand cuffed in his first term by well meaning but wrong headed advisors and the Russia Hoax. This time nothing is going to stop him or even slow him down. He's breaking down conventional wisdom, and setting a new course. That's badly needed, and what the left and it's entrenched bureaucracy fears the most. President Trump needs to stay the course and expand his focus to get the biggest impact possible, and keep his opponents off their game.
Damn straight.
And it's now or never.
Especially since The Left is one big yeast infection right now.
Yup. This is the shit that has to end:
https://x.com/SBA_Kelly/status/1893070684957348301?s=19
So this is how much the SBA cared about all the business that went out of biz during c19 and those who lost their jobs. Selfish mother fuckers. I have zero sympathy for them. It'd be different if they cared...but they don't.
You'd think every single employee would be there when she showed up. Bunch of entitled cry babies. NOBODY on earth except a federal employee would be able to get away with what they've been doing and then getting a more than fair 8 month severance
They’ll break some things, make mistakes but this is so much better than the last 4 years. I am willing to look at the results and judge that instead of all the ridiculous preemptive whining by the media and activists. If the war in Ukraine ends and the bloodshed stops, Trump’s remarks will be quickly forgotten.
The swamp has been deserving of a literal SLEDGE hammer for how many decades now! Draining the swamp is not suppose to be pretty
We need convictions or nothing will change.
I hope they like cock for breakfast.
Cuz that's what's going to happen when crazy-laser-eyes Kash Patel gets his hands on their dirt.
I HOPE we get full unfiltered-unleashed Kash YES!
BREAK EVERYTHING....
into smithereens
Calm down, RG
actually what we'll learn is why he said certain things....so many things about Ukraine are true at the same time
Faster, please.
I agree but I think we have to be cognizant that sequencing is paramount. My biggest fear is that normies are going to have a hard time following all this.
Its like albums that are masterpieces: Every song is perfect and in perfect order, otherwise it wouldn't be a masterpiece. Every song sets up the next one.
Masterpieces take time, and we are in the process of witnessing it. We've just become spoiled because everything is happening so fast, in a mere few months.
The reason timing is important is because the message is not intended for us; its intended for moderates. Without them we can not effectuate change. Therefore they've built a digestible chunk machine for maximal absorption and impact in that demographic
Trump must find one or two recognized names to prosecute and imprison. Finding money is fine, but that money didn’t defraud itself.
Day 36 and the HITS keep coming!
I think Trump is waiting for just the right time to cause maximal damage. The ones with the "loudest" guns are going to have the biggest "buck"....and they're not braced for it.
I think its all planned and to be done in a strategic sequence. If not it both dilutes the impact of the info drops, BUT also subsequent chess moves.
He's drawing them out to see who squeals the loudest before he lays down the hammer by simply using their moves to go on offense rendering them defenseless trying to defend the indefensible
I prefer firing squads today to interminable courtroom dramas tomorrow.
I knew going in all of Trump's foibles and character flaws, and still enthusiastically voted for him. I know he is an egomaniac, but the guy took a bullet, faced imprisonment, and gave up a cushy life to take on the deep state. As a middle class New Yorker in my mid 50s, I am sick to death of watching the status quo never change. The illegal immigrant, sanctuary bullshit was the final straw for me. If he blows it all up, at least he tries. I'm a registered Democrat, but fully on team Trump now.
There isn't a single president who hasn't been an egomaniac. If they weren't they wouldn't try to be the most powerful person in the world.
Trump just wears it on his sleave. And much of it is more manufactured/exaggerated by the misleadia because he is a existential threat to the establishment than by his own behavior.
At least he loves America.
We welcome you with open arms. Welcome to the party of common sense.
Trump is doing what has been needed for a long time, and is a breath of fresh air after the worst administration in my 75 years. Seeing the left go apoplectic confirms his direction.
I don't love everything he says and does....but we are FINALLY on the right track again!
What we've seen so far is pure political aikido -- using the enemy's own actions to destroy themselves.
Trump and his wrecking crew has a method of operating which the Russians call "razvedka boyem" --reconnaissance through battle.
You push and you see what happens and then you change your position.
Its astonishing they can't get it. But then again none of them have had to negotiate in their entire lives.
It's so blatantly obvious to those with negotiating experience that it's hilarious.
Concur
The Great Disruptor is keeping everyone off balance for a reason. He learned a lot of hard lessons over the past eight years…full steam ahead, I say!
Has been tempered for sure...just ask his right EAR!
Forcing accountability is refreshing and long overdue.
I just hope he can accomplish most of his agenda in the first 2 years before GOP loses control of the House with their slim majority. Of course, if he keeps going at this rate, we may have an unusual occurrence and continue to retain control of all 3 branches of government.
Harvard poll over the weekend. Not exactly a right leaning poll....to say the least
- 81% favor immediate mass deportations
- 76% favor full-on deep dive into government waste, fraud and abuse
- 76% favor completely shutting down border
- 69% favor no men in girl sports
- 69% favor government declaring only two sexes
- 65% support ending all race-based hiring
- 63% support ending all foreign aid until a complete audit is done
- 63% support tariffs
- 60% support ending government spending even if it's already been passed until there's transparency and accountability
- 60% support direct negotiations with Russia
- 58% support ending all government banning of offshore drilling.
We haven’t seen those numbers since 9/11.
The only way the midterms are lost is if Republicans do what they're best at:
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen says the media push to report "Trump's approval is underwater" is simply not true; it is reporting on the worst polls out of a list of good to great ones in order to slam him (this is confirmed by Byron York's reporting that the Democratic strategy is to lie hard and long about Trump's approval so they can push the polling down and then pounce on him at midterms with negatives). He is, in fact, continuing to gain approval and those who believe he is on the right track are gaining numbers.
Exactly right! It's the same thing they did during the election. MSM polls showed Harris with a lead in September and early October. But Rasmussen always should Trump ahead - and that's exactly how it ended.
And the Harris campaign even came out afterwards and admitted that their internal polling NEVER showed her with a lead. It was all a LIE by the MSM to try to shape opinion.
What a duo and a remarkable, brilliant cabinet. Press on with the pace and the people will stand taller. Go go go!
How can ANYONE support race based hiring? That is literally the road to hell.
"65% support ending all race-based hiring"
If Trump keeps this up and the economy turns around and he can point to closed borders and cutting waste, I think the GOP can retain their majority.
Yes, but Democrats forget fast.
Jerry, I know voting is a state controlled issue but if there’s some way that Trump could unleash DOGE on voter roll integrity in this country, we would gain seats. Clean out the swamp in D.C. and muck (“musk” - Heh) out the stables in voter rolls. (Or maybe Trump could give Kathryn Englebrecht’s “True the Vote” some help.)
And, Alex, as far as Trump - Bring. It. On. I’ve said this before here but in the beginning Trump was 17 out of 18 of my choices in 2016. Now, I’d walk over hot coals for the guy. He has backbone, loves the country and has vision. It’d be great to have a tough as nails philosopher king as president but I’m happy to just have the patriotic tough as nails part who gives a damn about the country and about the citizens who live here.
I believe the last time he was in office was the first time in many election cycles a president picked seats up in co guess and the senate.
Exceeding expectations!
Most exciting time in American politics in at least 44 years!
Go Donny, go!!
Watching Trump go to work, along with DOGE is the most fun I have had in years. All my friends agree this is a great turning for America.
I'm tired of giving away billions to illegals, Ukraine, and on and on. I'm glad Trump is putting an end to the Ukraine insanity, but deportations aren't happening fast enough. I live in Idaho and this red state wants to give amnesty to illegal workers and save the dairy industry. It's a lie that only Democrats want illegal workers; Republicans want their cheap labor, too! Also, where are the JFK, Epstein files? Happy RFK Jr is in, and waiting to see where things end up with DOGE.
I have no objection with anything that he has done to date.