A new piece from a New York Times (!) columnist gets to the heart of the matter. It hit me hard, since I too have gotten in trouble for telling the elites something they didn't want to hear.
You're finally coming around. The Orange Man can be a blustery a$$hole on twitter, but he went out of his way not to throw his political opponents in prison. And maybe that was his mistake. Never forget that the CIA and FBI started a counter-intelligence operation against a sitting president. Which we now know was predicated on total horse crap. Made up out of whole cloth. They forced his attorney general to recuse himself over nothing, and basically hijacked the justice department for the entire presidency.
Any one of those actions is outrageous and should have landed them in federal prison for decades. Instead, the Biden administration has the balls to hit their leading political rival with over 100 felony charges, all of dubious legal merit. It's breathtaking actually. This is Russia in 1917.
You might personally hate the Orange Man. But the left has given us no choice but to defend him. And you are correct about one thing - they have all totally exposed themselves. From Mitt Romney to Chuck Schumer, it's finally clear that the game is rigged and all of the major players are on the same team.
Is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to rise up against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. Trump chose the latter. So do I. So should you.
With every indictment, always timed after a Biden corruption disclosure, voters move towards Trump. Because it becomes clear it’s not exactly about Trump, but because he is standing up for our rights. Like Paul of Tarsas Trump is an odd choice as the messenger, but he is it. The only one with the willingness to call it as it is, and suffer whatever they throw at him. Of course I also recognize the Dems are probably doing all this to make sure Trump is the candidate. Assuming he will lose. Hmm what if. What if he wins. The head explosions would make 2016 seem mild.
It's not the people on the right who can correct all of this. We are already pushing back. We pointed out the absurdity of the Russia hoax years ago. It's middle leaning leftists who have a sense of decency who need to push back against our country turning into a totalitarian nightmare. And that's not hyperbole. The out of control DOJ is running around indicting anyone who ever talked to Donald Trump. They're indicting his freaking attorneys for giving him legal advice. This is as close to void as you can go without pushing back folks.
But we need moderates like Alex to take a stand. They need to say "I might personally hate the orange man. But I love living in a free country, and if that means supporting the Orange man against obvious tyranny than so be it."
All of these clowns in government are getting rich from this. All of them. Once you have a parent who weasels their way into the house, senate or a key cabinet position your family has it made for generations. Life just got set to easy for you. And that's so freaking wrong that I don't even have words for it. They hate Trump because he had the audacity to try forcing them to stop selling American interests for their own personal interests. Ever wonder why we're so quick to get into crappy trade deals that obviously hurt the US? Because we have elected or appointed officials who personally benefit from those decisions.
We have to push back. Hard. And right now. We won't get a second chance at this.
It is, quite literally, college educated white women who hold the fate of the nation. They are oh so sensitive that they could never vote for Trump. Quick, my fainting couch. But FJB showers with his daughter, his son does hookers on video, they sold the country, bring dope into the White House, celebrate trannies showing their tits on White House lawn, but Trump!!!! College educated way beyond their intelligence.
And our British friends in the Mi6. Dont believe for a second that Chris Steele was not sstill a contract agent of British intelligence -- a hired gun, in service of globalist and imperialist ideals, of which Trump was clearly against. Anyyone who is against that, be it Vivek or RFK or that pansy Bernie Sanders -- a total fraud and limp wrist -- would be attacked by the same suspects -- the intelligence community and regime lawyers.
If you call this coming around, I ask to what. Using an article penned by David Brooks (A never Trumpet elitist still somehow masquerading as a Republican) to say he understands Trump supporters. Alex still believes the NYT is the paper of record. His political analysis is puerile. He needs to say in his free speech lane and away from Republican politics. And while I am (maybe was) A Republican, I don't want Trump again. Revenge is not a vision for the future of our fountry.
It's quaint that you think there is some middle ground for us to take with the Democrats on the Trump indictment issue. There is no middle ground. They are wildly abusing the rule of law. Full stop. I love that your position is that Trump going after the obvious lawbreakers would be "revenge". What would you call the travesty that the Biden administration is engaging in right now? The ONLY way to push back on this is to elect Trump. Anything short of that is capitulation to the lawless far left.
And who on the Republican side would you like to see in power? Mitt Romney? The ghost of Mccain? Isn't it funny that the last two pre-Trump Republican presidential candidates totally turned on Trump, even though he delivered tax cuts, a conservative supreme court, and end to Roe v. Wade etc. Remember that time McCain spent years fundraising with the promise to end Obamacare, and Trump gave him the opportunity. I remember, he was the deciding vote to keep Obamacare. These guys are all disingenuous hacks. There are no Republicans or Democrats. There is only the uni-party. This is all Kabuki theater. They all sell out the country while pretending to fight in public.
AMEN A THOUSAND TIMES JOE!!!! YOU NAILED IT! Whether you like Trump or not, he is our ONLY HOPE to end the Deep State. If the Deep State gets Trump, us regular guys have lost their only champion. There will be no second chance.
Every time hacks like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, etc. had the opportunity to actually do the things they campaigned on, they fell in line with the uniparty and screwed the rank and file.
Yes, he might not be able to clean out all the mess but he understands the govt bad apples (who so out maneuvered Trump that the swamp thrives) If he just protected free speech and got rid of regulatory agency capture, we’d be living in a different country!
Look, (Joe) the fact that all the elites have their gun barrels pointed at Bobby ALSO should tell us something.
IMHO, given the choice, the elites would rather have Trump because he can be thwarted in office.
Meanwhile loads of folks who listen to Bobby’s unfiltered interviews tend to say this: I may not agree with everything he says, but I’d vote for him.
NO. Any attempt by RFK to oppose the deep state will put him square in their crosshairs - and he will not be able to withstand it like Trump can. Plus, although he has his issues with the CIA (for obvious reasons) I don't think RFK is really that anti-big government/deep state.
They refused RFK's request for Secret Service protection. He's already in their crosshairs for just announcing his run for President. I agree he wouldn't be able to take the abuse Trump has for 6 years.
It really doesn’t matter who the Republican nominee is - the swamp will, as you say, put them in the crosshairs. Look at Romney - as limp wristed and in bed with the elites as he is, they still turned on him as the presidential nominee. Same with GWB as a candidate and as President - even while we were attacked & at war. Wars the elites wanted - they still went after him. And yet both turned on Trump early. GWB should know better, but he was and is swamp also. Swamp über alles.
I am not saying take a middle ground. I despise Mitt Romney and always have. McCain was part of the Swamp, but I did not realize until his Obama are vote. I think the left's obsession with Trump is disgusting and evidence of a mass psychosis. I know that all of these ridiculous indictments are unfounded, unfair, and a demonstration of the raw power of an out-of-control executive branch. I am outraged by this treatment of Trump. My comment was criticizing Alex's political analysis. But my ground is that I want someone else (not any Democrat the current cabal would nominate, and not Trump). I just don't believe Trump will fix the swamp. He had his chance and failed. I want someone who will succeed, and not someone out for revenge. Trump is a narcissist, not a savior. I will continue to push back. Just not your way.
I can’t wrap my head around this - you think Trump failed, while acknowledging allllll that was stacked against him, yet you want someone “better” who will succeed?! As if acquiescing in any way, shape or from with this Marxist/leftest bully media/establishment mob will usher in “success”?! In what world does anyone other than Trump even stand a fighting chance?! Please, tell me!
Then what do you suggest? It’s one of the most complicated, disgraceful times in government history in the world…. He’s shed light on the roaches, phonies and grifters who like DC to keep finding both sides crummy pet projects etc
Unfortunately, the actions that NEED to be taken are drastic and will be viewed as "revenge" or any other pejorative the left wants to sling regardless of what is actually done or who does it. NO other republican nominee will ever do what must be done.
Justice is revenge by society - an attempt to punish an wrongdoer for his crimes against the society. What differentiates them is a set of processes that order the determination of guilt and the rights of the accused are protected. As long as Trump - or whomever replaces Briben - follows the processes and protects rights, we can defend him & reasonable people will agree. The swamp media will never agree so just build that in.
Trump’s Supreme Court is our last and vital line of defense. Name a Republican President who came close on Supreme Court appointments. The right bitched about Roe v Wade. Rightly so. Trump court reversed it. Everyone focuses on the trappings of Trump, but it’s the policy and outcomes that matter.
Why on earth would you tell anyone to stay out of “your “ politics? Now who sounds juvenile or puerile… if one lives in the real world, one cannot dismiss that DT has not gone off to retire any time soon… face it. Revenge is what we see 24/7 now in all aspects of politics and with so many ridiculous, uneducated, power hungry politicians… many of whom never had a real job after 22… career politicians are the WORST… Alex made valid assessments. Why take it so personally? Not helping
Trump was not up to the job and should be a figure of the past. It is beyond frustrating that this man, who forgot most of his promises when he got in office, appointed a slewful of his enemies to positions in his administration, and generally was led around by the nose by the Republican establishment, could be the GOP frontrunner. Arrrrrgh!
Trump was not up to the job? He appointed 3 Supreme Court justices. The economy was good , no double digit inflation. Energy was affordable because he eliminated onerous regulations and we didn't have to rely on the whims of Saudi Arabia. He put fair tariffs on China. He reduced the illegal immigrant numbers. Imagine how much more he could have accomplished if he didn't have the never Trumpers helping the Democrats. Do you have someone in mind who is up to the job?
I agree. His first mistake was letting Fauci take the lead. It became the Tony Fauci show 24/7. Another mistake was putting Pence in charge. Pence has no backbone as we can see from his campaign so far. He is a milquetoast RINO, no one is interested in him.
When Cuomo said he was going to run out of hospital beds, Trump had 2 military ships converted to hospitals and fully staffed. They were never used. Cuomo could have put elderly nursing home patients that didn't have covid on one ship instead of putting them back in nursing homes to die. When they said they were low on ventilators, Trump had American companies manufacture them. When Trump wanted to ramp up production of antibiotics and other commonly used drugs, he found out they weren't manufactured here anymore. When he mentioned some doctors had success with Hydroxychloroquine, the media shouted he was going to kill people with it. When he suggested that schools should open in the fall, they accused him of wanting to kill children and teachers. When he said covid was like the flu, they mocked him.
You nailed it. pence is just another do nothing bureaucrat like 80+% of dc. fauci was the guy who failed on aids, h1n1, sars, mers & pretty much everything else he worked on-why should we expect anything better for coivd?
DeSantis's campaign is already falling apart. Their latest attack is on his wife. She raised money for the victims of hurricane Ian and the media is asking, where did the money go. DeSantis did a great job for the state of FL after the hurricane. He had bridges fixed within days. He handled covid better than any Governor in the country. This is precisely why the media will savage him. If they can't find anything, they'll lie like they did and are doing to Trump. DeSantis is a great guy and a family man. He served his country. These are all the things the left hates and they will tear him apart.
Great post Alex. I wasn’t going to vote for Trump, but after everything ‘they’ have thrown at him, I will. Regardless how we may feel personally, he truly loves America, perhaps more than anyone else running.
"Trump now polls even with Joe Biden even though the economy is far stronger than it was six months ago."
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This is a Biden-level lie.
The simple fact is that the Swamp can't afford to lose control of the power because they're already so far over their skis. Trump barely scratched the surface of Swamp Shenanigans and they are TERRIFIED that he will uncover the rest of it. They will throw him in jail before they allow him to reveal what they're really up to.
The problem with bringing a federal criminal conspiracy charge consisting entirely of acts that are not themselves criminal - all of them directed through the channels of politics, government, speech and law - is that it massively, abusively expands the criminalization of politics. Who knew all this time that "save democracy" meant "criminalize sweeping new categories of political conduct."
I agree. There is absolutely no frigging way Biden is roughly even with anyone, much less Trump. Biden has wrecked this country and more people realize it than don't realize it.
I'd say less than half. Another Biden-level lie is that they're really polling even. I'd say actual Biden supporters are rare, and the numbers favor Donald Trump. Hugely.
Do you SERIOUSLY believe Trump is more narcissistic than Obama or Clinton or Biden? He simply tells the truth while they manipulate people. You like that? His exaggerations make him look like a boy Scout compared to these evil people and being authentic revealed them. And no, the economy is not better. You shouldn't pick your candidates by how likeable they are. There is nothing more dangerous than a smooth, manipulative asshole like Barack Obama.
In some ways yes. He is also buffoonish and mendacious, even when he does not have to be. As i said elsewhere, I'd rather spend a week in ahot box with an insurance sales man than listen to Trump. But he is actually trying to accomplish something and fix the mess the other 3 Plus Bush! created
He is seriously NOT as mendacious as Democrats here period. He is in fact a BAD liar unlike them. Buffoon? I guess you might say that on the odd occasion, but he's no dummie. And hands down Trump is more entertaining than they are. At any rate, he's exposed this corruption and if we have any brains at all, we'll stop piling on him and hold these people accountable. And we can't do that if we keep picking on Trump for idiot small things. You are listening to the fake news who leaves out half of whe he says. Like CHarlottesville.
Oh bologna. Nobody knew what we were dealing with that early. He figured it out pretty early that we couldn't shut down the country long. Lots of people died and had he NOT closed things down at least for a bit, they would have crucified him. He had no choice. Think about it.
Trump is a combination of a NYC salesman and an actor. He acts and sounds like several sales guys I’ve worked with from the NorthEast. What people label as buffoonery or narcissism is just NYC sales to me, even if he is narcissistic and a buffoon.
What differentiates him is he has held 90 minute press conferences with hostile media types (like Acosta) & held his own. I can’t think of a slick politician from either party who can do that. Vivek maybe?
He also brings out the worst in his opponents in both parties. That alone is worth it. We’ve always known there were RINOs who claim to be on our side but are really working against us. Every cycle there was the same group of squishes who take out ads as “Republicans for <the Democrat>.” Now they’re out as actual opponents we can see. When we can see them, we can identify them and shut them out.
His biggest failing is in personnel selection, and then failure to immediately remove them once identified as incompetent or anti-agenda. I don’t understand this - it was evident by May 2017 that a Pribus and Pence were steering him wrong. And he parted ways with two of his staunchest supporters - Bannon and Gorka.
But he made some excellent choices also - Rick Perry, Rick Grenell to name two. Three good (but so far not great) SCOTUS appointees.
He’s a mixed bag, and time will tell if he manages to get these bogus charges dismissed or be acquitted.
Good points - but part of my point is that I do not have to like him to agree with some of his policies (as someone else said if you agree 100& with any party you are not in a party you are in a cult.) But I will point out his flaws.
I will repeat what I said sometime before "of all the people to rip off the mask of the Establishment, it had to be Trump. We can't win." but on further reflection, maybe he was the only one who could.
Nothing wrong with pointing out his flaws, or the flaws of any candidate or office holder. We can agree or disagree, and that's free form debate - what's missing from most dialogue today. We used to go to the tavern every week and discuss what was going on over a drink or a meal. Now we meet online. It's the dialogue that helps us see other points of view and understanding of other people.
I had strong disagreements with Trump over a few things - signing the first COVID relief bill, 80% of it was Democrat wet dream pork. Not following through with his threat to upend the "Blue Slip" system for judges & US Attorneys. Keeping Obama holdovers, and then keeping them far longer than most new Presidents. Not putting his foot down over the military leadership and forcing the top brass to resign if they will not follow orders. Not calling out Paul Ryan for wall funding. etc etc.
Yes, I do. Narcissism is required, but Trump's vastly exceeds Obama and Clinton. He is also petty, thin skinned, intellectually incurious, and erratic. I did vote for him twice. Will not do so again.
Trump, like most of us, thought the CDC were real honest scientists. Mike Pence was in charge. It was a mistake but everyone thought COVID was a major threat. Pres could not take the chance.
I think Trump suspected something was wrong around June 2020. That’s why he brought in Dr Scott Atlas to be his personal representative on the COVID task force.
Yes, Obama did like to talk about himself. However, that is minor compared to Trump whose rallies are essentially a list of grievances and wrongs he has perceived he suffered. Trump also treats everyone who served him poorly - Barr, Sessions, Kelly, Mattis, Prebius among others. Heck, he even trashed Kayleigh a few months ago.
You are correct about the narcissism. However those mentioned have a veneer that is meant to mask it from those not paying attention to actions and only listening to words. Yes he believes it because he still believes in the facade of his class.
Trump is an obnoxious blowhard but he's a genuine obnoxious blowhard. He doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Biden is corrupt and has dementia. He's screwed up country with overspending and lunatic policies.
I'm beyond caring if the NYTimes--or anyone else--has an epiphany and embarks on public soul-searching. I suspect the entire NYTimes management is on vacation at Martha's Vineyard or the Hamptons, which is the only way this column made it into print.
Brooks is stumbling in the dark toward the truth but he is wrong to identify "educated meritocratic elites" as the problem. He gives them too much credit. The current so-called "elites" are no longer meritocratic or educated. They are credentialed mediocrities who have achieved their positions of power and privilege in a non-meritocratic system that rewards people based on race, gender, sexual proclivities, and obsequiousness to the prescribed ideology. Trump supporters do not dislike these "elites" because the "elites" are superior; they despise them because they are such obvious frauds. Truly educated people question everything. Those in our current "educated" class have largely become toadies of orthodoxy and prisoners of their own delusional sense of self-importance.
Brooks' op-ed is written like a parent talking to a child about why hitting someone is wrong and the kid not getting it. And the comments section is like an exercise in Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Make no mistake, when push comes to shove, they will ignore every single law or election rule or Constitutional Amendment in order to ensure Trump doesn't win again. Whatever tiny amount of reflection is going on right now will be swallowed up by the raging TDS as we get closer to the election.
Sam Harris told you everything you needed to know when he said he didn't care if Biden had dead kids in his basement, Trump had to be stopped.
There’s no coming back from the Democrats’ weaponization of the federal justice system. And it's possible there's no coming back for the Democrats period. They rig elections, spy on opposing campaigns on falsified grounds, cover up their own brazen corruption while indicting their opponents on wildly stretched interpretations of the law, condone the burning of cities when it suits their ideological needs. They've crossed the Rubicon.
As I wrote a few days ago, this is late-stage government stuff. In the history books, this is right about the time that the "supreme leader" dissolves congress and assumes complete authority. (For the good of people, of course)
I am not at all sure a Pinochet and some helicopter flights are not the ONLY way out of this mess. It's nice to talk about the Constitution, and all, but no one's really been enforcing that for well over a century.
Bingo. - “May you live in interesting times” is an out of control freight train that needs to be derailed. The question is - Will the white hats ride to save the day? Or is it too late?
Terrified. It’s beyond belief that we lived to see these days of Fibbies talking to one another ( that horrible psycho !) about taking Trump off the table… and the DOJ? Joker Bragg… million dollar bail for one and a walk for another… people going to jail for 1-6 but not for threatening and harassing SCOTUS. The hypocrisy is unfathomable
Brooks only admitted to maybe insufficient elite sensitivity to the peons. He didn’t go anywhere near their complete trampling of the Constitution in their unending lust for power. He seems to think they just need to make the virtue-signaling more believable.
How many of the "privileged" class in D.C. and New York have ever run a business, worried about meeting payroll, worked 80+ hour weeks, or even just making enough to pay the rent and buy groceries? Most hard-working Americans are too busy making ends meet to worry about what Trump posts on social media - they just know that he understands common people better than those who spend their summers in the Hamptons or Martha's Vineyard.
My business is open today because Trump understood the need for EIDL and PPP support very early on during the pandemic. No other President would have sense that and ensured it was rammed through Congress as expeditiously.
Brilliant piece Alex, and boy do I hate Brooks. I had that PBS pussy sussed years ago. When Trump first ran for the Presidency, I thought he was a joke. With my Masters of Political Science in hand, and sitting firmly on the right, it became obvious what Trump was up to. His strategy was and remains exceptional. He speaks the language of the average Joe, and I love it.
I beg to differ with the assumption that the uneducated like Trump and dislike/hate the "educated class" and the "professional class" . I have two university degrees and graduated at the top my class in each. My three sons all have two university degrees and have performed exceptionally well in their business careers. We all dislike the elites, Biden and the Democrats. We all voted for Trump and will vote for him again if he is the Republican nominee. We dislike his personality, street fighting and inability to shut up. But considering the abuse he is taking from the Injustice Department and the Democrats (Sorry to repeat myself), the treatment he is getting from turncoats like Pence and the fact he did a very good job running the country for four years under very adverse conditions, we will take our university degrees and vote for him again.
"Fuck with the bull, get the horns. Trump’s not the bull. The voters are the bull. Trump’s the horns."
That's why, if Trump wins the (R) nomination, there's no question I'm voting for him, even though he disappointed me with how he got rolled by the deep state during covid. Hope he learned his lesson.
And, c'mon, stop pretending Trump is particularly obnoxious. He's no more obnoxious than most politicians are off camera/mic, so there's no real character issue there. He's just less of a phony.
I think Trump IS particularly obnoxious. I remember listening to him (ages ago) talk about his athletic prowess. It's a study in narcissism. And he's pretty crude in how he talks about women.
However, what many of us have learned in the last few years is that we'd rather have someone who openly brags about grabbing women by the p---- than someone who pretends to be kindly and (in addition to being corrupt, authoritarian, and totally captured by corporations) is super creepy. Those hair-sniffing videos... gag.
Clarification: what I meant by, "particularly", was his obnoxiousness relative to other politicians; not how they APPEAR, but how they actually ARE.
I mean, look up the stuff LBJ said and did. Look up JFK and the white house interns and what he made them do to him and his friends. We all know about Clinton. Biden, well, there's more than hair sniffing -- why isn't the fact he regularly swam naked in front of his female secret service agents a bigger deal? Or, that (according to her) he showered with his daughter? These aren't obnoxious behaviors -- they're utterly degenerate.
So, why is Trump commenting about women throwing themselves at celebrities, undoubtably and unfortunately true, a bigger deal than THAT? It's not.
Basically I agree! I hope I made that clear in the second paragraph.
Personally I would love a choice between a crude narcissist who doesn't seem to have a good handle on administration on one hand and a corrupt puppet of our agencies on the other, but - and I'm speaking here as a former Dem - I will admit that I'll take Trump if it means getting Biden and company out of there.
ok, will do! I'm not even sure I need to, since the one I remember pales in comparison to what I've seen from the WH in the last 3 years. But given the way his "fine people" comment was mis-represented, I can imagine that the p--- one was as well.
With the #metoo movement, you can bet any woman Trump grabbed by the p----- would have come forward. And Joe not only sexually assaulted Tara Reade but also used to shower with his daughter Ashley. Plus all the hair smelling. Trump may be crude but he's not as creepy as Joey B.
Maybe Brooks is trying to keep himself relevant. What he said is correct, but I suspect the messenger. After this last indictment, I told my husband, "Well, I guess I'm voting for Trump" We agreed to donate some money to the campaign. Good job, Smith, you pushed me off the fence. As for the documents, I can't believe that is even considered serious. This was a dispute between the Federal Archives and a former PRESIDENT. Happens all the time. The boxes in Delaware and Pennsylvania ARE and issue. Non-presidents should not be stuffing documents in their pants and removing them from the archives. Although with the volume of documents, I can't imagine how a senator or vice president removed them: lots of trips with things stuffed in pants or some collusion with an archivist??? Where's the indictment for Joe? Getting a pass again??? Must be nice to be a Democrat and get away without any accountability.
Permanent DC knows they've thrown down the gauntlet and that if Trump wins, everything they've done and said will come back to haunt them. He won't appoint a useful idiot like Barr, he'll appoint someone who actually believes in the Constitution and equal application of the law. They are terrified.
I'll add, they are also terrified because they know Trump has nothing to lose now. If you've been charged with everything, what else can they do? The murderer on death row doesn't care about another death sentence when fighting for his life.
The establishment of both parties - aka the swamp - and the 3 letter agency bureaucrats - aka the deep state - who have been enriching themselves on the backs of the rest of the country have to be terrified that the gravy train will stop and that there will be consequences for their destruction of constitutional liberty in the US.
We are surrounded on all sides by an elite that doesn't even make an effort to hide how corrupt they are.
1. A media that every day fails the basic test of reporting without bias based on who the subject is.
2. A justice department that gives a pass to the protected class (including criminals who burn down our cities) while using "shock and awe" (their words) to go after people who protest.
3. A Republican party that shows its scorn for the people it depends on for its votes.
4. A Democrat party that manipulates it's constituencies by claiming such things as "voter id = voter suppression", while failing to carry out basic functions of government like protecting people from crime and educating children in useful life and vocational skills
5. A military that has made defending the nation it's secondary purpose, while elevating concern for every disaffected victim group as its primary mission
6. A bureaucracy that constantly seeks to expand it's powers to micro-manage our lives without clear legislative authorization.
7. Elected officials who increase their net worth by $millions in a few short years, on salaries under $200k/year.
This list just scratches the surface. I could write pages of this.
Just exactly what is it the elites done for us lately?
He’s absolutely right. I was thinking of voting for another Republican but not now. My family and I are so sick and tired of the corruption within the DNC while they accuse Trump over and over again. I’m all in for Trump.
There are some "what appear to be" good Republican candidates Kathleen BUT there is only one that truly KNOWS where all the bodies are buried and KNOWS and HAS THE STRENGTH AND GUTS to fix it.....and that's Trump. If the Biden administration has done nothing else constructive, it has proven what Trump said and what he consistently shared with us about what was really going on is true. This has been one very expensive learning curve for this country. As far as the other candidates.......we need Vivek, Scott, and Haley serving with him and we must retain control of the House and majoritize the Senate.
I don't agree with everything Ben Shapiro says, but his recent take on Trump: "mud doesn't stick to him because the guy is made of mud" is pretty funny.
I have an old friend who gives me some insight into the current views of the Dem/Lib world I'm no longer in, and even after everything I've seen over the last few years I still find it shocking. He's thrilled - as in, let's throw a celebratory dinner thrilled - that Trump was indicted again. The fact that the current admin is indicting its primary political opponent is just not part of the framing. There's nothing that Biden can do that would ever make him as bad as the orange man.
"You don't understand," explained another friend, talking about emails and documents: "if Trump does the same thing that Hillary does, he should be indicted because he's a BAD person. She shouldn't be indicted because she's a GOOD person. It's pretty simple."
You're finally coming around. The Orange Man can be a blustery a$$hole on twitter, but he went out of his way not to throw his political opponents in prison. And maybe that was his mistake. Never forget that the CIA and FBI started a counter-intelligence operation against a sitting president. Which we now know was predicated on total horse crap. Made up out of whole cloth. They forced his attorney general to recuse himself over nothing, and basically hijacked the justice department for the entire presidency.
Any one of those actions is outrageous and should have landed them in federal prison for decades. Instead, the Biden administration has the balls to hit their leading political rival with over 100 felony charges, all of dubious legal merit. It's breathtaking actually. This is Russia in 1917.
You might personally hate the Orange Man. But the left has given us no choice but to defend him. And you are correct about one thing - they have all totally exposed themselves. From Mitt Romney to Chuck Schumer, it's finally clear that the game is rigged and all of the major players are on the same team.
Is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to rise up against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. Trump chose the latter. So do I. So should you.
Exactly! I would rather vote for someone else, but should Trump become the candidate, I will vote for him again.
Some have described Trump as an idiot. But I would vote for an idiot before I would ever vote for a turnip.
You already did. How's thT working out?
Are you saying I voted for biden*? Not bloody likely!
With every indictment, always timed after a Biden corruption disclosure, voters move towards Trump. Because it becomes clear it’s not exactly about Trump, but because he is standing up for our rights. Like Paul of Tarsas Trump is an odd choice as the messenger, but he is it. The only one with the willingness to call it as it is, and suffer whatever they throw at him. Of course I also recognize the Dems are probably doing all this to make sure Trump is the candidate. Assuming he will lose. Hmm what if. What if he wins. The head explosions would make 2016 seem mild.
If I could create a bot to do nothing but click "like" on this post incessantly for a thousand years, it would still be inadequate.
It's not the people on the right who can correct all of this. We are already pushing back. We pointed out the absurdity of the Russia hoax years ago. It's middle leaning leftists who have a sense of decency who need to push back against our country turning into a totalitarian nightmare. And that's not hyperbole. The out of control DOJ is running around indicting anyone who ever talked to Donald Trump. They're indicting his freaking attorneys for giving him legal advice. This is as close to void as you can go without pushing back folks.
But we need moderates like Alex to take a stand. They need to say "I might personally hate the orange man. But I love living in a free country, and if that means supporting the Orange man against obvious tyranny than so be it."
All of these clowns in government are getting rich from this. All of them. Once you have a parent who weasels their way into the house, senate or a key cabinet position your family has it made for generations. Life just got set to easy for you. And that's so freaking wrong that I don't even have words for it. They hate Trump because he had the audacity to try forcing them to stop selling American interests for their own personal interests. Ever wonder why we're so quick to get into crappy trade deals that obviously hurt the US? Because we have elected or appointed officials who personally benefit from those decisions.
We have to push back. Hard. And right now. We won't get a second chance at this.
It is, quite literally, college educated white women who hold the fate of the nation. They are oh so sensitive that they could never vote for Trump. Quick, my fainting couch. But FJB showers with his daughter, his son does hookers on video, they sold the country, bring dope into the White House, celebrate trannies showing their tits on White House lawn, but Trump!!!! College educated way beyond their intelligence.
You absolutely nailed the hypocrisy of the left with this. Well done.
I agree, but are there any “middle leaning leftists who have a sense of decency” left? I fear we have become too polarized.
Middle leaning leftists, also known as traditional liberals & sometimes independents seem to be flocking to Bobby Jr
Let's hope so.
Great post!
And our British friends in the Mi6. Dont believe for a second that Chris Steele was not sstill a contract agent of British intelligence -- a hired gun, in service of globalist and imperialist ideals, of which Trump was clearly against. Anyyone who is against that, be it Vivek or RFK or that pansy Bernie Sanders -- a total fraud and limp wrist -- would be attacked by the same suspects -- the intelligence community and regime lawyers.
If you call this coming around, I ask to what. Using an article penned by David Brooks (A never Trumpet elitist still somehow masquerading as a Republican) to say he understands Trump supporters. Alex still believes the NYT is the paper of record. His political analysis is puerile. He needs to say in his free speech lane and away from Republican politics. And while I am (maybe was) A Republican, I don't want Trump again. Revenge is not a vision for the future of our fountry.
It's quaint that you think there is some middle ground for us to take with the Democrats on the Trump indictment issue. There is no middle ground. They are wildly abusing the rule of law. Full stop. I love that your position is that Trump going after the obvious lawbreakers would be "revenge". What would you call the travesty that the Biden administration is engaging in right now? The ONLY way to push back on this is to elect Trump. Anything short of that is capitulation to the lawless far left.
And who on the Republican side would you like to see in power? Mitt Romney? The ghost of Mccain? Isn't it funny that the last two pre-Trump Republican presidential candidates totally turned on Trump, even though he delivered tax cuts, a conservative supreme court, and end to Roe v. Wade etc. Remember that time McCain spent years fundraising with the promise to end Obamacare, and Trump gave him the opportunity. I remember, he was the deciding vote to keep Obamacare. These guys are all disingenuous hacks. There are no Republicans or Democrats. There is only the uni-party. This is all Kabuki theater. They all sell out the country while pretending to fight in public.
AMEN A THOUSAND TIMES JOE!!!! YOU NAILED IT! Whether you like Trump or not, he is our ONLY HOPE to end the Deep State. If the Deep State gets Trump, us regular guys have lost their only champion. There will be no second chance.
Every time hacks like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, etc. had the opportunity to actually do the things they campaigned on, they fell in line with the uniparty and screwed the rank and file.
Serious question, would RFK Jr be more effective than Trump against the deep state and in returning to the rule of law?
Yes, he might not be able to clean out all the mess but he understands the govt bad apples (who so out maneuvered Trump that the swamp thrives) If he just protected free speech and got rid of regulatory agency capture, we’d be living in a different country!
Look, (Joe) the fact that all the elites have their gun barrels pointed at Bobby ALSO should tell us something.
IMHO, given the choice, the elites would rather have Trump because he can be thwarted in office.
Meanwhile loads of folks who listen to Bobby’s unfiltered interviews tend to say this: I may not agree with everything he says, but I’d vote for him.
NO. Any attempt by RFK to oppose the deep state will put him square in their crosshairs - and he will not be able to withstand it like Trump can. Plus, although he has his issues with the CIA (for obvious reasons) I don't think RFK is really that anti-big government/deep state.
They refused RFK's request for Secret Service protection. He's already in their crosshairs for just announcing his run for President. I agree he wouldn't be able to take the abuse Trump has for 6 years.
It really doesn’t matter who the Republican nominee is - the swamp will, as you say, put them in the crosshairs. Look at Romney - as limp wristed and in bed with the elites as he is, they still turned on him as the presidential nominee. Same with GWB as a candidate and as President - even while we were attacked & at war. Wars the elites wanted - they still went after him. And yet both turned on Trump early. GWB should know better, but he was and is swamp also. Swamp über alles.
I am not saying take a middle ground. I despise Mitt Romney and always have. McCain was part of the Swamp, but I did not realize until his Obama are vote. I think the left's obsession with Trump is disgusting and evidence of a mass psychosis. I know that all of these ridiculous indictments are unfounded, unfair, and a demonstration of the raw power of an out-of-control executive branch. I am outraged by this treatment of Trump. My comment was criticizing Alex's political analysis. But my ground is that I want someone else (not any Democrat the current cabal would nominate, and not Trump). I just don't believe Trump will fix the swamp. He had his chance and failed. I want someone who will succeed, and not someone out for revenge. Trump is a narcissist, not a savior. I will continue to push back. Just not your way.
I can’t wrap my head around this - you think Trump failed, while acknowledging allllll that was stacked against him, yet you want someone “better” who will succeed?! As if acquiescing in any way, shape or from with this Marxist/leftest bully media/establishment mob will usher in “success”?! In what world does anyone other than Trump even stand a fighting chance?! Please, tell me!
Then what do you suggest? It’s one of the most complicated, disgraceful times in government history in the world…. He’s shed light on the roaches, phonies and grifters who like DC to keep finding both sides crummy pet projects etc
Unfortunately, the actions that NEED to be taken are drastic and will be viewed as "revenge" or any other pejorative the left wants to sling regardless of what is actually done or who does it. NO other republican nominee will ever do what must be done.
The key words here: no. other. Republican.
With that I would agree.
Justice is revenge by society - an attempt to punish an wrongdoer for his crimes against the society. What differentiates them is a set of processes that order the determination of guilt and the rights of the accused are protected. As long as Trump - or whomever replaces Briben - follows the processes and protects rights, we can defend him & reasonable people will agree. The swamp media will never agree so just build that in.
Yup, he completely messed up by anointing and bowing down to King Fauci.
Trump’s Supreme Court is our last and vital line of defense. Name a Republican President who came close on Supreme Court appointments. The right bitched about Roe v Wade. Rightly so. Trump court reversed it. Everyone focuses on the trappings of Trump, but it’s the policy and outcomes that matter.
And anyone who thinks the televised congressional hearings are not theatre has no idea what theatre is.
Thank you. Well said.
Why on earth would you tell anyone to stay out of “your “ politics? Now who sounds juvenile or puerile… if one lives in the real world, one cannot dismiss that DT has not gone off to retire any time soon… face it. Revenge is what we see 24/7 now in all aspects of politics and with so many ridiculous, uneducated, power hungry politicians… many of whom never had a real job after 22… career politicians are the WORST… Alex made valid assessments. Why take it so personally? Not helping
I prefer the revenge idea and the inevitable civil war. You should prepare for these likely occurrences.
May be all we’ve got
Trump was not up to the job and should be a figure of the past. It is beyond frustrating that this man, who forgot most of his promises when he got in office, appointed a slewful of his enemies to positions in his administration, and generally was led around by the nose by the Republican establishment, could be the GOP frontrunner. Arrrrrgh!
Trump was not up to the job? He appointed 3 Supreme Court justices. The economy was good , no double digit inflation. Energy was affordable because he eliminated onerous regulations and we didn't have to rely on the whims of Saudi Arabia. He put fair tariffs on China. He reduced the illegal immigrant numbers. Imagine how much more he could have accomplished if he didn't have the never Trumpers helping the Democrats. Do you have someone in mind who is up to the job?
Imagine how much more he could have done if he didn't go along with the Covid Kabuki theater.
I agree. His first mistake was letting Fauci take the lead. It became the Tony Fauci show 24/7. Another mistake was putting Pence in charge. Pence has no backbone as we can see from his campaign so far. He is a milquetoast RINO, no one is interested in him.
When Cuomo said he was going to run out of hospital beds, Trump had 2 military ships converted to hospitals and fully staffed. They were never used. Cuomo could have put elderly nursing home patients that didn't have covid on one ship instead of putting them back in nursing homes to die. When they said they were low on ventilators, Trump had American companies manufacture them. When Trump wanted to ramp up production of antibiotics and other commonly used drugs, he found out they weren't manufactured here anymore. When he mentioned some doctors had success with Hydroxychloroquine, the media shouted he was going to kill people with it. When he suggested that schools should open in the fall, they accused him of wanting to kill children and teachers. When he said covid was like the flu, they mocked him.
You nailed it. pence is just another do nothing bureaucrat like 80+% of dc. fauci was the guy who failed on aids, h1n1, sars, mers & pretty much everything else he worked on-why should we expect anything better for coivd?
DeSantis. Trump was basically not Biden, which makes him look good in comparison. That is not good enough anymore.
DeSantis's campaign is already falling apart. Their latest attack is on his wife. She raised money for the victims of hurricane Ian and the media is asking, where did the money go. DeSantis did a great job for the state of FL after the hurricane. He had bridges fixed within days. He handled covid better than any Governor in the country. This is precisely why the media will savage him. If they can't find anything, they'll lie like they did and are doing to Trump. DeSantis is a great guy and a family man. He served his country. These are all the things the left hates and they will tear him apart.
Then who you want? KAMAL? GAVIN?
Amen. I stopped apologizing for Trump years ago. He had my back (and continues to defend it), so shall I.
Great post Alex. I wasn’t going to vote for Trump, but after everything ‘they’ have thrown at him, I will. Regardless how we may feel personally, he truly loves America, perhaps more than anyone else running.
"Trump now polls even with Joe Biden even though the economy is far stronger than it was six months ago."
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This is a Biden-level lie.
The simple fact is that the Swamp can't afford to lose control of the power because they're already so far over their skis. Trump barely scratched the surface of Swamp Shenanigans and they are TERRIFIED that he will uncover the rest of it. They will throw him in jail before they allow him to reveal what they're really up to.
And half the country is CHEERING ALONG.
The problem with bringing a federal criminal conspiracy charge consisting entirely of acts that are not themselves criminal - all of them directed through the channels of politics, government, speech and law - is that it massively, abusively expands the criminalization of politics. Who knew all this time that "save democracy" meant "criminalize sweeping new categories of political conduct."
I mean.....I don't wanna brag, but...............
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/everything-is-an-attack-on-democracy
"Everything is An Attack on Democracy" Sure Looks Like Projection
We have to destroy the Republic in order to SAVE the Republic!
APR 23, 2022
I agree. There is absolutely no frigging way Biden is roughly even with anyone, much less Trump. Biden has wrecked this country and more people realize it than don't realize it.
Trump joked that he is one indictment away from reelection. Brilliant.
i don't think they like their options
biden can't step down because kamala may actually be a hunter biden-level drug addict (it explains a lot, trust me)
they basically have to replace biden with newsom, but then rig the primary so he defeats rfk without making it *too* obvious
all that before they even get to the boss level against trump
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/08/02/waiting-in-the-wings-gavin-newsom-sets-up-presidential-fundraising-sweep/
I'd say less than half. Another Biden-level lie is that they're really polling even. I'd say actual Biden supporters are rare, and the numbers favor Donald Trump. Hugely.
Do you SERIOUSLY believe Trump is more narcissistic than Obama or Clinton or Biden? He simply tells the truth while they manipulate people. You like that? His exaggerations make him look like a boy Scout compared to these evil people and being authentic revealed them. And no, the economy is not better. You shouldn't pick your candidates by how likeable they are. There is nothing more dangerous than a smooth, manipulative asshole like Barack Obama.
In some ways yes. He is also buffoonish and mendacious, even when he does not have to be. As i said elsewhere, I'd rather spend a week in ahot box with an insurance sales man than listen to Trump. But he is actually trying to accomplish something and fix the mess the other 3 Plus Bush! created
He is seriously NOT as mendacious as Democrats here period. He is in fact a BAD liar unlike them. Buffoon? I guess you might say that on the odd occasion, but he's no dummie. And hands down Trump is more entertaining than they are. At any rate, he's exposed this corruption and if we have any brains at all, we'll stop piling on him and hold these people accountable. And we can't do that if we keep picking on Trump for idiot small things. You are listening to the fake news who leaves out half of whe he says. Like CHarlottesville.
He fell for the Corona Scam. Hence, he IS a dummy.
Oh bologna. Nobody knew what we were dealing with that early. He figured it out pretty early that we couldn't shut down the country long. Lots of people died and had he NOT closed things down at least for a bit, they would have crucified him. He had no choice. Think about it.
More buffoonish than Biden? C'mon, man! More mendacious than Clinton or Obama?
Politicians are professional phonies. Don't fall for their talent to obfuscate their reptilian nature and appear kinder or gentler than Trump.
ok i take your point on Biden being a bigger buffoon. But Clinton and Obama were smoother. Still liars, maybe better liars, but definitely smoother.
Trump is a combination of a NYC salesman and an actor. He acts and sounds like several sales guys I’ve worked with from the NorthEast. What people label as buffoonery or narcissism is just NYC sales to me, even if he is narcissistic and a buffoon.
What differentiates him is he has held 90 minute press conferences with hostile media types (like Acosta) & held his own. I can’t think of a slick politician from either party who can do that. Vivek maybe?
He also brings out the worst in his opponents in both parties. That alone is worth it. We’ve always known there were RINOs who claim to be on our side but are really working against us. Every cycle there was the same group of squishes who take out ads as “Republicans for <the Democrat>.” Now they’re out as actual opponents we can see. When we can see them, we can identify them and shut them out.
His biggest failing is in personnel selection, and then failure to immediately remove them once identified as incompetent or anti-agenda. I don’t understand this - it was evident by May 2017 that a Pribus and Pence were steering him wrong. And he parted ways with two of his staunchest supporters - Bannon and Gorka.
But he made some excellent choices also - Rick Perry, Rick Grenell to name two. Three good (but so far not great) SCOTUS appointees.
He’s a mixed bag, and time will tell if he manages to get these bogus charges dismissed or be acquitted.
Good points - but part of my point is that I do not have to like him to agree with some of his policies (as someone else said if you agree 100& with any party you are not in a party you are in a cult.) But I will point out his flaws.
I will repeat what I said sometime before "of all the people to rip off the mask of the Establishment, it had to be Trump. We can't win." but on further reflection, maybe he was the only one who could.
Nothing wrong with pointing out his flaws, or the flaws of any candidate or office holder. We can agree or disagree, and that's free form debate - what's missing from most dialogue today. We used to go to the tavern every week and discuss what was going on over a drink or a meal. Now we meet online. It's the dialogue that helps us see other points of view and understanding of other people.
I had strong disagreements with Trump over a few things - signing the first COVID relief bill, 80% of it was Democrat wet dream pork. Not following through with his threat to upend the "Blue Slip" system for judges & US Attorneys. Keeping Obama holdovers, and then keeping them far longer than most new Presidents. Not putting his foot down over the military leadership and forcing the top brass to resign if they will not follow orders. Not calling out Paul Ryan for wall funding. etc etc.
Yes, I do. Narcissism is required, but Trump's vastly exceeds Obama and Clinton. He is also petty, thin skinned, intellectually incurious, and erratic. I did vote for him twice. Will not do so again.
and yet the Trump years were years of peace and prosperity. We were all better off.
Until he flubbed CV in a big way....
Trump, like most of us, thought the CDC were real honest scientists. Mike Pence was in charge. It was a mistake but everyone thought COVID was a major threat. Pres could not take the chance.
Who did better? COVID is real and people died.
I think Trump suspected something was wrong around June 2020. That’s why he brought in Dr Scott Atlas to be his personal representative on the COVID task force.
Well, if you prefer to be lied to by smooth talkers, have at it. There's no cure for stupid.
You are a cultist. I prefer any R over the deeply flawed Trump.
Can you name any politician who isn’t “deeply flawed?”
Trump is more deeply flawed than most. His deep flaws are Grand Canyon-esque.
Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, Brad Wenstrup, Rob Portman just to name some local guys.
Revisit some of Obama’s speeches while he was president. They were always about him. He is the king narcissist of the presidency, hands down.
Yes, Obama did like to talk about himself. However, that is minor compared to Trump whose rallies are essentially a list of grievances and wrongs he has perceived he suffered. Trump also treats everyone who served him poorly - Barr, Sessions, Kelly, Mattis, Prebius among others. Heck, he even trashed Kayleigh a few months ago.
You are correct about the narcissism. However those mentioned have a veneer that is meant to mask it from those not paying attention to actions and only listening to words. Yes he believes it because he still believes in the facade of his class.
Obama an a-hole…the biggest euphemism/understatement of the millennium.
Yes, I suppose it is.
Trump is an obnoxious blowhard but he's a genuine obnoxious blowhard. He doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Biden is corrupt and has dementia. He's screwed up country with overspending and lunatic policies.
I'm beyond caring if the NYTimes--or anyone else--has an epiphany and embarks on public soul-searching. I suspect the entire NYTimes management is on vacation at Martha's Vineyard or the Hamptons, which is the only way this column made it into print.
Brooks is stumbling in the dark toward the truth but he is wrong to identify "educated meritocratic elites" as the problem. He gives them too much credit. The current so-called "elites" are no longer meritocratic or educated. They are credentialed mediocrities who have achieved their positions of power and privilege in a non-meritocratic system that rewards people based on race, gender, sexual proclivities, and obsequiousness to the prescribed ideology. Trump supporters do not dislike these "elites" because the "elites" are superior; they despise them because they are such obvious frauds. Truly educated people question everything. Those in our current "educated" class have largely become toadies of orthodoxy and prisoners of their own delusional sense of self-importance.
^^ Absolutely spot on.
Agree!
Hunter is a good example of what the "elites" have produced.
🎯🎯🎯
100%. They are credentialed, wealthy, and craven primarily. Education is not required.
"I'm beyond caring if the NYTimes--or anyone else--has an epiphany and embarks on public soul-searching"
Quite agreed.
TRUMP IS: ALL OF US
“They aren’t after me. They’re after you. I’m just in the way.”
Is is making sense now????
Brooks' op-ed is written like a parent talking to a child about why hitting someone is wrong and the kid not getting it. And the comments section is like an exercise in Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Make no mistake, when push comes to shove, they will ignore every single law or election rule or Constitutional Amendment in order to ensure Trump doesn't win again. Whatever tiny amount of reflection is going on right now will be swallowed up by the raging TDS as we get closer to the election.
Sam Harris told you everything you needed to know when he said he didn't care if Biden had dead kids in his basement, Trump had to be stopped.
There’s no coming back from the Democrats’ weaponization of the federal justice system. And it's possible there's no coming back for the Democrats period. They rig elections, spy on opposing campaigns on falsified grounds, cover up their own brazen corruption while indicting their opponents on wildly stretched interpretations of the law, condone the burning of cities when it suits their ideological needs. They've crossed the Rubicon.
As I wrote a few days ago, this is late-stage government stuff. In the history books, this is right about the time that the "supreme leader" dissolves congress and assumes complete authority. (For the good of people, of course)
I am not at all sure a Pinochet and some helicopter flights are not the ONLY way out of this mess. It's nice to talk about the Constitution, and all, but no one's really been enforcing that for well over a century.
Not so much not enforcing it but mostly ignoring it.
Remember when they all said Trump was going to do that?
Bingo. - “May you live in interesting times” is an out of control freight train that needs to be derailed. The question is - Will the white hats ride to save the day? Or is it too late?
I don't know. We MIGHT have exposed it in time. Though dealing with voter theft and a huge socialist bureaucracy makes it pretty dire.
Terrified. It’s beyond belief that we lived to see these days of Fibbies talking to one another ( that horrible psycho !) about taking Trump off the table… and the DOJ? Joker Bragg… million dollar bail for one and a walk for another… people going to jail for 1-6 but not for threatening and harassing SCOTUS. The hypocrisy is unfathomable
And that flagrant election steal will seal the future of our country.
yeah, and i still don't know if anyone has checked that basement
Brooks only admitted to maybe insufficient elite sensitivity to the peons. He didn’t go anywhere near their complete trampling of the Constitution in their unending lust for power. He seems to think they just need to make the virtue-signaling more believable.
How many of the "privileged" class in D.C. and New York have ever run a business, worried about meeting payroll, worked 80+ hour weeks, or even just making enough to pay the rent and buy groceries? Most hard-working Americans are too busy making ends meet to worry about what Trump posts on social media - they just know that he understands common people better than those who spend their summers in the Hamptons or Martha's Vineyard.
My business is open today because Trump understood the need for EIDL and PPP support very early on during the pandemic. No other President would have sense that and ensured it was rammed through Congress as expeditiously.
Brilliant piece Alex, and boy do I hate Brooks. I had that PBS pussy sussed years ago. When Trump first ran for the Presidency, I thought he was a joke. With my Masters of Political Science in hand, and sitting firmly on the right, it became obvious what Trump was up to. His strategy was and remains exceptional. He speaks the language of the average Joe, and I love it.
I beg to differ with the assumption that the uneducated like Trump and dislike/hate the "educated class" and the "professional class" . I have two university degrees and graduated at the top my class in each. My three sons all have two university degrees and have performed exceptionally well in their business careers. We all dislike the elites, Biden and the Democrats. We all voted for Trump and will vote for him again if he is the Republican nominee. We dislike his personality, street fighting and inability to shut up. But considering the abuse he is taking from the Injustice Department and the Democrats (Sorry to repeat myself), the treatment he is getting from turncoats like Pence and the fact he did a very good job running the country for four years under very adverse conditions, we will take our university degrees and vote for him again.
"Fuck with the bull, get the horns. Trump’s not the bull. The voters are the bull. Trump’s the horns."
That's why, if Trump wins the (R) nomination, there's no question I'm voting for him, even though he disappointed me with how he got rolled by the deep state during covid. Hope he learned his lesson.
And, c'mon, stop pretending Trump is particularly obnoxious. He's no more obnoxious than most politicians are off camera/mic, so there's no real character issue there. He's just less of a phony.
I think Trump IS particularly obnoxious. I remember listening to him (ages ago) talk about his athletic prowess. It's a study in narcissism. And he's pretty crude in how he talks about women.
However, what many of us have learned in the last few years is that we'd rather have someone who openly brags about grabbing women by the p---- than someone who pretends to be kindly and (in addition to being corrupt, authoritarian, and totally captured by corporations) is super creepy. Those hair-sniffing videos... gag.
Clarification: what I meant by, "particularly", was his obnoxiousness relative to other politicians; not how they APPEAR, but how they actually ARE.
I mean, look up the stuff LBJ said and did. Look up JFK and the white house interns and what he made them do to him and his friends. We all know about Clinton. Biden, well, there's more than hair sniffing -- why isn't the fact he regularly swam naked in front of his female secret service agents a bigger deal? Or, that (according to her) he showered with his daughter? These aren't obnoxious behaviors -- they're utterly degenerate.
So, why is Trump commenting about women throwing themselves at celebrities, undoubtably and unfortunately true, a bigger deal than THAT? It's not.
Basically I agree! I hope I made that clear in the second paragraph.
Personally I would love a choice between a crude narcissist who doesn't seem to have a good handle on administration on one hand and a corrupt puppet of our agencies on the other, but - and I'm speaking here as a former Dem - I will admit that I'll take Trump if it means getting Biden and company out of there.
Please go back and find his actual quote about p_____.
ok, will do! I'm not even sure I need to, since the one I remember pales in comparison to what I've seen from the WH in the last 3 years. But given the way his "fine people" comment was mis-represented, I can imagine that the p--- one was as well.
With the #metoo movement, you can bet any woman Trump grabbed by the p----- would have come forward. And Joe not only sexually assaulted Tara Reade but also used to shower with his daughter Ashley. Plus all the hair smelling. Trump may be crude but he's not as creepy as Joey B.
Maybe Brooks is trying to keep himself relevant. What he said is correct, but I suspect the messenger. After this last indictment, I told my husband, "Well, I guess I'm voting for Trump" We agreed to donate some money to the campaign. Good job, Smith, you pushed me off the fence. As for the documents, I can't believe that is even considered serious. This was a dispute between the Federal Archives and a former PRESIDENT. Happens all the time. The boxes in Delaware and Pennsylvania ARE and issue. Non-presidents should not be stuffing documents in their pants and removing them from the archives. Although with the volume of documents, I can't imagine how a senator or vice president removed them: lots of trips with things stuffed in pants or some collusion with an archivist??? Where's the indictment for Joe? Getting a pass again??? Must be nice to be a Democrat and get away without any accountability.
Permanent DC knows they've thrown down the gauntlet and that if Trump wins, everything they've done and said will come back to haunt them. He won't appoint a useful idiot like Barr, he'll appoint someone who actually believes in the Constitution and equal application of the law. They are terrified.
I'll add, they are also terrified because they know Trump has nothing to lose now. If you've been charged with everything, what else can they do? The murderer on death row doesn't care about another death sentence when fighting for his life.
The establishment of both parties - aka the swamp - and the 3 letter agency bureaucrats - aka the deep state - who have been enriching themselves on the backs of the rest of the country have to be terrified that the gravy train will stop and that there will be consequences for their destruction of constitutional liberty in the US.
They'll send Trump to Dealey Plaza before they ever will allow him back in the Oval.
We are surrounded on all sides by an elite that doesn't even make an effort to hide how corrupt they are.
1. A media that every day fails the basic test of reporting without bias based on who the subject is.
2. A justice department that gives a pass to the protected class (including criminals who burn down our cities) while using "shock and awe" (their words) to go after people who protest.
3. A Republican party that shows its scorn for the people it depends on for its votes.
4. A Democrat party that manipulates it's constituencies by claiming such things as "voter id = voter suppression", while failing to carry out basic functions of government like protecting people from crime and educating children in useful life and vocational skills
5. A military that has made defending the nation it's secondary purpose, while elevating concern for every disaffected victim group as its primary mission
6. A bureaucracy that constantly seeks to expand it's powers to micro-manage our lives without clear legislative authorization.
7. Elected officials who increase their net worth by $millions in a few short years, on salaries under $200k/year.
This list just scratches the surface. I could write pages of this.
Just exactly what is it the elites done for us lately?
He’s absolutely right. I was thinking of voting for another Republican but not now. My family and I are so sick and tired of the corruption within the DNC while they accuse Trump over and over again. I’m all in for Trump.
There are some "what appear to be" good Republican candidates Kathleen BUT there is only one that truly KNOWS where all the bodies are buried and KNOWS and HAS THE STRENGTH AND GUTS to fix it.....and that's Trump. If the Biden administration has done nothing else constructive, it has proven what Trump said and what he consistently shared with us about what was really going on is true. This has been one very expensive learning curve for this country. As far as the other candidates.......we need Vivek, Scott, and Haley serving with him and we must retain control of the House and majoritize the Senate.
I don't agree with everything Ben Shapiro says, but his recent take on Trump: "mud doesn't stick to him because the guy is made of mud" is pretty funny.
I have an old friend who gives me some insight into the current views of the Dem/Lib world I'm no longer in, and even after everything I've seen over the last few years I still find it shocking. He's thrilled - as in, let's throw a celebratory dinner thrilled - that Trump was indicted again. The fact that the current admin is indicting its primary political opponent is just not part of the framing. There's nothing that Biden can do that would ever make him as bad as the orange man.
"You don't understand," explained another friend, talking about emails and documents: "if Trump does the same thing that Hillary does, he should be indicted because he's a BAD person. She shouldn't be indicted because she's a GOOD person. It's pretty simple."
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This shows you how "relative" intelligence is on the left. Its surreal how deeply lost in TDS the average Dem voter's mind IS!
She IS THE BASKET OF you know what
Cannot cannot stand her!!!