And if it is time to cut Trump loose, defenders of the American tradition of culture and governance face two questions: What does this say about the state of America today? And, Who could we support? I’m not writing off Ron DeSantis. I like a lot of what he’s said—and done. People are pointing out that he hasn’t got rich in politics, yet, and that must mean something. On the other hand, there seems to be little to no doubt that DeSantis is the Establishment pick for now. That’s concerning. It probably means that the Deep State and the Big Money people think they can “work with” him.
I’m a gay man who grew up in the 70s and was scared after the Anita Bryant crusade against homosexuals.
The pendulum has swung so much in the other direction now that it’s become a destructive affirmation of gay people. I’ve always believed that once gay marriage became federalized that the further destruction of the family will be almost complete.
Marriage is a biblical institution and the more one is separated from God the easier it is to reject and discard the significance of the marriage bond as ordained by God.
Some may not understand my reasoning but I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman and the less sacrosanct that is the more likely the personal and psychological deterioration of unnecessary numbers of people.
I'm glad you get it. This isn't about a "crusade against homosexuals" as people. It's about preserving basic societal institutions that are necessary to our well being.
I live in FL. DeSantis is a magnificent gov. Keep in mind though that the FL legislature is 75% Republican and the state has a $21 billion surplus. DeS gets what he wants politically out of Tallahassee and he can spend that $21 billion at will. That's a recipe for success. He will have none of that in D.C.
In 2024, he needs to sit back, let Trump annihilate Washington, and then move in and rebuild from Trump's shambles.
Trump's major weakness has always been his obtuseness and stubborn unwillingness to learn from his mistakes (or even admit them!). He offers nothing. However, Mark, you are missing the main point here. NO GOP candidate - assuming they can overcome the rampant cheating in the usual swing states - can change anything in DC. The Deep State on the Potomac cannot be changed from the inside.
I get where you are coming from M. Wauck. And you are right about your concerns of civilizational suicide that is the logical consequence of the LGBTQA+1 etc. agenda. Yet politics, and the tools God chooses to use, are not about the perfect, but about the good enough. Mr. Trump has many flaws, but he has many strengths, and has spoken and effectively acted on the truth as he sees it so many more times. I am an ardent pro-lifer. And the overturning of Roe v. Wade is a result that did not come all at once and took 50 years of hard work and Mr. Trump's standing tall in the breach. Just like the fact that we didn't get into this hole all at once means we are not going to get out of it all at once. And we have to work with the best options we have at the moment of choosing. Millions of aborted children will stand with Mr. Trump when he is presented for judgment after life. We can stand with him while he is still with us and in the fight. (BTW, thank-you for your hard work for all of us. Your writing is an important part of each of my days, and I often share it with others.)
Looks like everyone has pretty much said what I have to say. Regardless, I'll type a few lines.
Trump was a Democrat most of his life, right up until the time he came down the escalator. So his stance on Gays is no surprise. He has republican instincts but, overall I think he's rather middle of the road socially with a libertarian/free market bent. I like him for all the reasons people have stated here. I've been disappointed in his performance after his election "loss". The thing that pisses me off the most are his refusal to admit he was wrong on the vaccines. I think it exposes a flaw in his character. Given that I will vote for him again because I don't vote for a person, I vote for who is gonna screw me least.
CTH has been on DeSantis for awhile. He's setting himself for a primary run against Trump and, if I had to decide today, I'm not sure who I'd vote for.
I've stated here before - DC is gone, GONE. People like DeSantis need to stay in the states and that's where I wish he'd stay. He can do more there but, apparently his ego is driving him toward DC. Looks to me like he's going to try and split the baby - cozy up to the RNC-types yet, try and stay true to the persona he developed in FLA. Good luck Mr. DeSantis. Look what happened to Trump. DC will destroy him just like they did Trump.
Bottom line - Looking toward DC is a fools' game. The Left never gives up. They never relent and never stop. You can try and live your own life but they will eventually get around to you. If not you, your kids. I don't know what the answer is but, when I really, really think about it I can only see many bad things in America's future. We're being flooded from the south. Our borders are open and will be for at least another two years. Our economy is being undermined to a degree such that it will not recover in the sense we want. Socially we're being undermined too. People are fighting back here but the Left will just push somewhere else. They take victory where they can, fall back when they need to and then counter-attack. The political left has learned from American military defeats (e.g., Vietnam, Afghanistan). They relentlessly attack across generations. A friend of mine who spent time in Afghanistan told me the Afghan's have a saying, "You have the watches, we have the time". That is the American Left in a nutshell. They're evil.
Anyway, sorry for the scattershot post. God bless.
Spot on! There is this strange insanity on the Right that the Dems will suddenly become honest in 2024 and not steal the election. Even if the GOP wanted to address seriously election fraud - and they don't - they can do nothing about fraud in the 6 key swing states. Unless the army intervenes à la Pinochet, the way to resist the Left is to keep things tight at the local, ground level until the storm passes.
My answer is that electoral politics as we have normally understood it is over for the forseeable future.
First, Trump was a disastrous failure as president, and there is no evidence that he learned anything from his failures. Whatever you think of what he tried to do, his personnel choices were catastrophically bad. That wasn't the only reason for his failure, but it was a big one. I don't know, really, if Trump could have succeeded, but any chance of success depended on the earliest possible purge of the Justice Department and the three letter agencies of any trace of the political opposition. That might have provoked an impeachment, but it's hard to see how that could have been worse than what eventually happened.
Under no circumstances will I ever vote for any candidate who will be eighty years old in his term of office. To do so is simply to install a figurehead. Trump is not electable and would not be in charge of his Administration f he could somehow be installed in the White House. Which he can't be.
At present, the people in charge have made it clear that Trump will not be inaugurated in January 2025, and that whatever has to be done will be done. There is no possibility of electing Trump. I don't know that he could be legitimately elected, but if somehow he were, that election would be nullified or stolen. The question from our perspective is this: Would it be better for us for Trump have a second stolen election, or to be jailed before the election or removed in a coup d'etat, or would it be better to have the election stolen from someone else? Would an election stolen from De Santis drain the government of more legitimacy than an election stolen from Trump? We have to start thinking like revolutionaries. The worse, the better.
My view is that De Santis can do more good as Governor of Florida than he can in a hopeless run for the White House. There is no obvious successor to Trump, but given the GOP's actual prospects in a Presidential election that may not matter all that much.
I believe that the entirety of government obstructed, slow walked, denied and/or cancelled President Trump’s choices for key positions within his administration for most of his administration. If the deep state has the power to do that, especially do it long term, how will anyone be successful in countering key elements of the corrupt uniparty? Who could have been elected from the “Republican” choices on stage in 2016 that could have done better than Trump? Who could have built a stronger more diversified base and fulfilled that many campaign promises as completely as Trump. I think the strategy now is to look at who and how he was opposed, from the moment he walked down the Trump tower stairs, to determine how those obstacles can be removed such that a candidate is able to win and bring sanity back to this Country.
I have no answers. I still have huge problems figuring out what sources to put any faith into. I read from a lot of different views. I still have trouble believing that there are people in the government that will sacrifice Americans to further their personal gains. And I am truly shocked that family could/would undermine public policy to oppose him.
They are two of his biggest problems. Neither serves his interests or ours. Neither care a whit about the average American and Kushner only cares about his golden calf.
I have mixed feelings: I understand and endorse your argument about sexuality, male and female, family and the foundation of culture. I agree that the slippery slope is not just real, but we're already almost to the bottom.
But on the other hand, there is a real need for alliances with people who agree on the need to set limitations on the government and to roll back the security state. And also a need to be clear-eyed about the composition and limits of that alliance.
I remember when Trump grabbed a rainbow flag from someone in the front row of a campaign event in 2016 and held it up to the crowd. Somehow he still managed to overturn Roe. He also said to an interviewer in 2016 that he would be in favor of appointing Supreme court justices that would overturn Obergfell. As always with Trump I'm going to wait and see.
Is it time to cut loose the Republican Party? The GOP is painted into a corner. The GOPe has attacked Trump and MAGA candidates. They allowed the Dems to attack MAGA with impunity. And yet Trump polls ahead of GOP candidates up and down the ballot. Love him or hate him (right now I am totally shocked at how unfocused and out of touch with the base Trump is), but the GOP loses without him. Richard Baris has the bad news:
It's Trump who's Establishment, embedded w. RNC, has no choice if he wants to maintain cash flow to Trump/Kushner family members and girlfriends. Trump won in 2016 because he won Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. via millions of white, former Obama voters. That will never happen again. Trump and Jared merged finances w. RNC in 2019 via Winred. Jared was de facto President, ran 2020 campaign, cancelled tv ads for Rust Belt stated in Oct. 2020, is still in charge of Kushner/Trump political empire which is staffed w. open borders globalists such as Chad Wolf who in 2020 said 'white supremacy is most lethal threat to US.' The single reason lockdowns succeeded is because a man elected as a Republican enabled them, decreed 'emergency government,' went on tv after '15 days to slow the spread' and ordered 'social distancing' for another 4 weeks, the month of April 2020. Trump 2016 voters elected him because they knew something like this was awaiting them and they wanted him to stop it. But he didn't. The only Americans who knew lockdowns were wrong and who objected to being arrested for walking in the park were Trump voters. But we were gagged, we were told "but Trump supports this." In April 2020 Trump called DeSantis and said, "Ron these pictures of your people on the beach look terrible." DeSantis said he's not going to change anything. Trump on tv brutally criticized Ga. Gov. Kemp for opening up his state a tiny bit. As Marc Morano observed, if Hillary had been elected and ordered lockdowns, they wouldn't have gone beyond two weeks because right of center voters wouldn't have been gagged, would've protested the inhumane brutality especially against children.
It's over. The America I have known and mostly loved for more than eight decades is finished. The Uniparty has a remarkably easy job of taking over completely. All they have to do is find a key issue in peoples minds, associate their rival with that issue, and people will abandon him. Everybody has a pet issue. It's so easy. There is no indication that Trump embraces sodomy as the preferred lifestyle. With the Covid outbreak he was cautious, and listened to the doctors. All my trusted doctors pushed me to take the vaccine. I didn't, and people I knew died from it. People who followed Trump's advice, and it wasn't easy finding a doctor who would dispense those effective medicines, lived. My trust in the experts has broken down, and I now have zero trust in the government.
It has become apparent to me that President Trump is the only adult in the room. As such, he is irreplaceable. Putin exists. You deal with him. I remember a press conference where afterwards Trump and Putin talked civilly, and shook hands. The media was scandalized. How do you engage diplomatically with such a vile person? How else do you deal with him? Shoot him down?
Trump cannot invite people to dinner or have a party without a scandal irrupting. The terrible thing is he engages with all elements of American society. The Democrats are more efficient. You disagree and you get thrown into the Washington Gulag, you get treated worse than an animal and forget about a speedy trial. The French kings had their 'lettres du cachet' for permanently incarcerating those they didn't like. We have the FBI.
I am possibly the only one left in America who stands in awe of President Trump. Everybody else finds issues where they would have handled the situation better. I am also in awe of his willingness to continue to put himself on the line for us, when he could so comfortably withdraw. I ascribe it not to his ego and a desire for the Presidency, but to his ego and refusal to give up when faced with an intractable situation. Fortunately for him, everybody is probably correct when they say a comeback is politically impossible. He will not have given up the fight, and can retire with a good conscience. Poor America.
I am very optimistic in what concerns individual Americans. On a political level it depresses me that so few seem to grasp “Perfect is the enemy of good”, a quote usually attributed to Voltaire. Trump may not be equipped to fix things, but nobody else will even try. Another French writer and exponent of liberty Frédéric Bastiat who would turn 219 years old this week said that "Everyone has a God-given right to life, liberty, and property", but that "Politicians’ sense of superiority drives them to implement socialism". He further stated “Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God” I fear we will not see a mass spiritual and moral revival that might have a chance of restoring us our government in the not too distant future, and in the meantime, with Trump out of the picture, let me again quote Bastiat. "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."
I don't think anyone is expecting the perfect over the good. I think it's more that people just want a GOP pol who puts them and the nation first and carries through on his promises. As of today, the wall is unbuilt, the Swamp is brimming over and Hillary is still free.
Yes. Preferring basic, LCD morality--like not surrendering your children to sexual slavery--to full on in yo face decadence is not expecting the perfect over good. It's pretty much a bare minimum for civilized society.
I agree with you on Putin. We have been conditioned to hate him. Think about how long their Orthodox Christian faith was in hiding during the soviet period and look how it has sprung back to life. Putin had a hand in this. The Russian people have a strong Christian faith that goes back to the days of the Greek Orthodox tradition of the Byzantine-Roman empire. The problem with the USA returning to it's Christian faith, morals and tolerance is "diversity." We have so many people who have come here who do not adhere at all to the tenets of our foundation, have no appreciation for the principals of our constitution and are actively working against what most of us readers here believe to be our traditions and principals. Diversity is weakness when the barbarians have come through the gates.
I was quoting the media, my intention being that adults conduct diplomacy with the leaders of the world that exist, and if I wanted to go into details I would have further stated that Trump showed great skill in dealing with North Korea by understanding that the culture of the country required that their leader be shown great respect. Making points with our rotten media would not allow for any diplomatic understandings to occur.
Someone asked Tucker Carlson if he would endorse Trump or DeSantis in 2024. Tucker's answer was wonderful. And pure Tucker. I'm not as optimistic as Tucker that it'll all work out well, but a lot is going to happen between now and 2024.
I also agree that A LOT is going to happen over the next two years. Lately the word Revolution has been bandied about on this blog. Revolutions are only partly made. They are also forced by historical circumstance. I sense that events will soon scramble the current state of affairs, overwhelm our plans and prognostications, and, for good or ill, throw up new potentialities. In short, even beyond perennial levels of uncertainty, as things are going, all bets are off regarding where we will be by 2024.
As Lenin said: “There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen.”
Agreed. We all do it, but trying to predict outcomes for two years time is a waste of time. There will be many interesting events before that date arrives, and I suspect the world will be a very different place.
Trump is between a rock and a hard place, or rather, he is in a deep deep hole. If he says he was duped into the Covid hoax (but remember, he did put in millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine for therapeutics, wonder what happened to those?) he looks weak, gullible and foolish and if he is waiting to get back into office to let it rip on the perpetrators, he will have waited too long, De Santis is going to do what he should. He should have done the statesmanlike thing and not jumped in again. He is only going to muck it up for all of us now, and do a discredit to his great work. "Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold'em..." I guess they're not playing that song at his parties....
The Donald has been consistent all along in his cluelessness regarding the homosexualist party. He develops real estate. He loves everybody. Very smart. No wisdom. Needs to retire.
I’m a gay man who grew up in the 70s and was scared after the Anita Bryant crusade against homosexuals.
The pendulum has swung so much in the other direction now that it’s become a destructive affirmation of gay people. I’ve always believed that once gay marriage became federalized that the further destruction of the family will be almost complete.
Marriage is a biblical institution and the more one is separated from God the easier it is to reject and discard the significance of the marriage bond as ordained by God.
Some may not understand my reasoning but I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman and the less sacrosanct that is the more likely the personal and psychological deterioration of unnecessary numbers of people.
I'm glad you get it. This isn't about a "crusade against homosexuals" as people. It's about preserving basic societal institutions that are necessary to our well being.
I live in FL. DeSantis is a magnificent gov. Keep in mind though that the FL legislature is 75% Republican and the state has a $21 billion surplus. DeS gets what he wants politically out of Tallahassee and he can spend that $21 billion at will. That's a recipe for success. He will have none of that in D.C.
In 2024, he needs to sit back, let Trump annihilate Washington, and then move in and rebuild from Trump's shambles.
Trump's major weakness has always been his obtuseness and stubborn unwillingness to learn from his mistakes (or even admit them!). He offers nothing. However, Mark, you are missing the main point here. NO GOP candidate - assuming they can overcome the rampant cheating in the usual swing states - can change anything in DC. The Deep State on the Potomac cannot be changed from the inside.
I get where you are coming from M. Wauck. And you are right about your concerns of civilizational suicide that is the logical consequence of the LGBTQA+1 etc. agenda. Yet politics, and the tools God chooses to use, are not about the perfect, but about the good enough. Mr. Trump has many flaws, but he has many strengths, and has spoken and effectively acted on the truth as he sees it so many more times. I am an ardent pro-lifer. And the overturning of Roe v. Wade is a result that did not come all at once and took 50 years of hard work and Mr. Trump's standing tall in the breach. Just like the fact that we didn't get into this hole all at once means we are not going to get out of it all at once. And we have to work with the best options we have at the moment of choosing. Millions of aborted children will stand with Mr. Trump when he is presented for judgment after life. We can stand with him while he is still with us and in the fight. (BTW, thank-you for your hard work for all of us. Your writing is an important part of each of my days, and I often share it with others.)
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Looks like everyone has pretty much said what I have to say. Regardless, I'll type a few lines.
Trump was a Democrat most of his life, right up until the time he came down the escalator. So his stance on Gays is no surprise. He has republican instincts but, overall I think he's rather middle of the road socially with a libertarian/free market bent. I like him for all the reasons people have stated here. I've been disappointed in his performance after his election "loss". The thing that pisses me off the most are his refusal to admit he was wrong on the vaccines. I think it exposes a flaw in his character. Given that I will vote for him again because I don't vote for a person, I vote for who is gonna screw me least.
CTH has been on DeSantis for awhile. He's setting himself for a primary run against Trump and, if I had to decide today, I'm not sure who I'd vote for.
I've stated here before - DC is gone, GONE. People like DeSantis need to stay in the states and that's where I wish he'd stay. He can do more there but, apparently his ego is driving him toward DC. Looks to me like he's going to try and split the baby - cozy up to the RNC-types yet, try and stay true to the persona he developed in FLA. Good luck Mr. DeSantis. Look what happened to Trump. DC will destroy him just like they did Trump.
Bottom line - Looking toward DC is a fools' game. The Left never gives up. They never relent and never stop. You can try and live your own life but they will eventually get around to you. If not you, your kids. I don't know what the answer is but, when I really, really think about it I can only see many bad things in America's future. We're being flooded from the south. Our borders are open and will be for at least another two years. Our economy is being undermined to a degree such that it will not recover in the sense we want. Socially we're being undermined too. People are fighting back here but the Left will just push somewhere else. They take victory where they can, fall back when they need to and then counter-attack. The political left has learned from American military defeats (e.g., Vietnam, Afghanistan). They relentlessly attack across generations. A friend of mine who spent time in Afghanistan told me the Afghan's have a saying, "You have the watches, we have the time". That is the American Left in a nutshell. They're evil.
Anyway, sorry for the scattershot post. God bless.
Spot on! There is this strange insanity on the Right that the Dems will suddenly become honest in 2024 and not steal the election. Even if the GOP wanted to address seriously election fraud - and they don't - they can do nothing about fraud in the 6 key swing states. Unless the army intervenes à la Pinochet, the way to resist the Left is to keep things tight at the local, ground level until the storm passes.
Good post. What is it they say about Marxism? "You may not be thinking about Marxism, but Marxism is thinking about you."
My answer is that electoral politics as we have normally understood it is over for the forseeable future.
First, Trump was a disastrous failure as president, and there is no evidence that he learned anything from his failures. Whatever you think of what he tried to do, his personnel choices were catastrophically bad. That wasn't the only reason for his failure, but it was a big one. I don't know, really, if Trump could have succeeded, but any chance of success depended on the earliest possible purge of the Justice Department and the three letter agencies of any trace of the political opposition. That might have provoked an impeachment, but it's hard to see how that could have been worse than what eventually happened.
Under no circumstances will I ever vote for any candidate who will be eighty years old in his term of office. To do so is simply to install a figurehead. Trump is not electable and would not be in charge of his Administration f he could somehow be installed in the White House. Which he can't be.
At present, the people in charge have made it clear that Trump will not be inaugurated in January 2025, and that whatever has to be done will be done. There is no possibility of electing Trump. I don't know that he could be legitimately elected, but if somehow he were, that election would be nullified or stolen. The question from our perspective is this: Would it be better for us for Trump have a second stolen election, or to be jailed before the election or removed in a coup d'etat, or would it be better to have the election stolen from someone else? Would an election stolen from De Santis drain the government of more legitimacy than an election stolen from Trump? We have to start thinking like revolutionaries. The worse, the better.
My view is that De Santis can do more good as Governor of Florida than he can in a hopeless run for the White House. There is no obvious successor to Trump, but given the GOP's actual prospects in a Presidential election that may not matter all that much.
I believe that the entirety of government obstructed, slow walked, denied and/or cancelled President Trump’s choices for key positions within his administration for most of his administration. If the deep state has the power to do that, especially do it long term, how will anyone be successful in countering key elements of the corrupt uniparty? Who could have been elected from the “Republican” choices on stage in 2016 that could have done better than Trump? Who could have built a stronger more diversified base and fulfilled that many campaign promises as completely as Trump. I think the strategy now is to look at who and how he was opposed, from the moment he walked down the Trump tower stairs, to determine how those obstacles can be removed such that a candidate is able to win and bring sanity back to this Country.
And Jared and Ivanka?
I have no answers. I still have huge problems figuring out what sources to put any faith into. I read from a lot of different views. I still have trouble believing that there are people in the government that will sacrifice Americans to further their personal gains. And I am truly shocked that family could/would undermine public policy to oppose him.
They are two of his biggest problems. Neither serves his interests or ours. Neither care a whit about the average American and Kushner only cares about his golden calf.
Trenchant.
I think we already knew this about Trump.
I have mixed feelings: I understand and endorse your argument about sexuality, male and female, family and the foundation of culture. I agree that the slippery slope is not just real, but we're already almost to the bottom.
But on the other hand, there is a real need for alliances with people who agree on the need to set limitations on the government and to roll back the security state. And also a need to be clear-eyed about the composition and limits of that alliance.
Any student of history knows that rampant, overt homosexuality is always present when a civilisation is in terminal decline. We are there.
Because this is especially so among the elites and their wannabes.
I remember when Trump grabbed a rainbow flag from someone in the front row of a campaign event in 2016 and held it up to the crowd. Somehow he still managed to overturn Roe. He also said to an interviewer in 2016 that he would be in favor of appointing Supreme court justices that would overturn Obergfell. As always with Trump I'm going to wait and see.
Is it time to cut loose the Republican Party? The GOP is painted into a corner. The GOPe has attacked Trump and MAGA candidates. They allowed the Dems to attack MAGA with impunity. And yet Trump polls ahead of GOP candidates up and down the ballot. Love him or hate him (right now I am totally shocked at how unfocused and out of touch with the base Trump is), but the GOP loses without him. Richard Baris has the bad news:
https://rumble.com/v1zf9yu-episode-307-inside-the-numbers-with-the-peoples-pundit.html
Cue to 1:47:00 Trump outperforms GOP candidates substantially.
Homosexual 'marriage' was not the beginning of the end, but it represented a capitulation that led to the current demonic moment:
https://tinyurl.com/bdet2zru
If even Kari Lake is playing the identity politics / celebrate homosexuals card, she doesn't get it either.
It's Trump who's Establishment, embedded w. RNC, has no choice if he wants to maintain cash flow to Trump/Kushner family members and girlfriends. Trump won in 2016 because he won Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. via millions of white, former Obama voters. That will never happen again. Trump and Jared merged finances w. RNC in 2019 via Winred. Jared was de facto President, ran 2020 campaign, cancelled tv ads for Rust Belt stated in Oct. 2020, is still in charge of Kushner/Trump political empire which is staffed w. open borders globalists such as Chad Wolf who in 2020 said 'white supremacy is most lethal threat to US.' The single reason lockdowns succeeded is because a man elected as a Republican enabled them, decreed 'emergency government,' went on tv after '15 days to slow the spread' and ordered 'social distancing' for another 4 weeks, the month of April 2020. Trump 2016 voters elected him because they knew something like this was awaiting them and they wanted him to stop it. But he didn't. The only Americans who knew lockdowns were wrong and who objected to being arrested for walking in the park were Trump voters. But we were gagged, we were told "but Trump supports this." In April 2020 Trump called DeSantis and said, "Ron these pictures of your people on the beach look terrible." DeSantis said he's not going to change anything. Trump on tv brutally criticized Ga. Gov. Kemp for opening up his state a tiny bit. As Marc Morano observed, if Hillary had been elected and ordered lockdowns, they wouldn't have gone beyond two weeks because right of center voters wouldn't have been gagged, would've protested the inhumane brutality especially against children.
It's over. The America I have known and mostly loved for more than eight decades is finished. The Uniparty has a remarkably easy job of taking over completely. All they have to do is find a key issue in peoples minds, associate their rival with that issue, and people will abandon him. Everybody has a pet issue. It's so easy. There is no indication that Trump embraces sodomy as the preferred lifestyle. With the Covid outbreak he was cautious, and listened to the doctors. All my trusted doctors pushed me to take the vaccine. I didn't, and people I knew died from it. People who followed Trump's advice, and it wasn't easy finding a doctor who would dispense those effective medicines, lived. My trust in the experts has broken down, and I now have zero trust in the government.
It has become apparent to me that President Trump is the only adult in the room. As such, he is irreplaceable. Putin exists. You deal with him. I remember a press conference where afterwards Trump and Putin talked civilly, and shook hands. The media was scandalized. How do you engage diplomatically with such a vile person? How else do you deal with him? Shoot him down?
Trump cannot invite people to dinner or have a party without a scandal irrupting. The terrible thing is he engages with all elements of American society. The Democrats are more efficient. You disagree and you get thrown into the Washington Gulag, you get treated worse than an animal and forget about a speedy trial. The French kings had their 'lettres du cachet' for permanently incarcerating those they didn't like. We have the FBI.
I am possibly the only one left in America who stands in awe of President Trump. Everybody else finds issues where they would have handled the situation better. I am also in awe of his willingness to continue to put himself on the line for us, when he could so comfortably withdraw. I ascribe it not to his ego and a desire for the Presidency, but to his ego and refusal to give up when faced with an intractable situation. Fortunately for him, everybody is probably correct when they say a comeback is politically impossible. He will not have given up the fight, and can retire with a good conscience. Poor America.
I am very optimistic in what concerns individual Americans. On a political level it depresses me that so few seem to grasp “Perfect is the enemy of good”, a quote usually attributed to Voltaire. Trump may not be equipped to fix things, but nobody else will even try. Another French writer and exponent of liberty Frédéric Bastiat who would turn 219 years old this week said that "Everyone has a God-given right to life, liberty, and property", but that "Politicians’ sense of superiority drives them to implement socialism". He further stated “Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God” I fear we will not see a mass spiritual and moral revival that might have a chance of restoring us our government in the not too distant future, and in the meantime, with Trump out of the picture, let me again quote Bastiat. "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."
I don't think anyone is expecting the perfect over the good. I think it's more that people just want a GOP pol who puts them and the nation first and carries through on his promises. As of today, the wall is unbuilt, the Swamp is brimming over and Hillary is still free.
Yes. Preferring basic, LCD morality--like not surrendering your children to sexual slavery--to full on in yo face decadence is not expecting the perfect over good. It's pretty much a bare minimum for civilized society.
I agree with you on Putin. We have been conditioned to hate him. Think about how long their Orthodox Christian faith was in hiding during the soviet period and look how it has sprung back to life. Putin had a hand in this. The Russian people have a strong Christian faith that goes back to the days of the Greek Orthodox tradition of the Byzantine-Roman empire. The problem with the USA returning to it's Christian faith, morals and tolerance is "diversity." We have so many people who have come here who do not adhere at all to the tenets of our foundation, have no appreciation for the principals of our constitution and are actively working against what most of us readers here believe to be our traditions and principals. Diversity is weakness when the barbarians have come through the gates.
Putin is an anachronism: a politician who actually looks after his country's interests instead of those of the globalists. Weird!
I was quoting the media, my intention being that adults conduct diplomacy with the leaders of the world that exist, and if I wanted to go into details I would have further stated that Trump showed great skill in dealing with North Korea by understanding that the culture of the country required that their leader be shown great respect. Making points with our rotten media would not allow for any diplomatic understandings to occur.
1. Politics is all about, What have you done for me lately. Going over to the Dark Side isn't doing anything for me.
2. It's like the old union organizing song: Which Side Are You On?
3. A society that systematically turns its young over to sexual predators is perverted and thus suicidal.
I'll take neither, thanks.
Someone asked Tucker Carlson if he would endorse Trump or DeSantis in 2024. Tucker's answer was wonderful. And pure Tucker. I'm not as optimistic as Tucker that it'll all work out well, but a lot is going to happen between now and 2024.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/17/video-tucker-carlson-is-asked-trump-or-desantis-for-2024-the-response-is-refreshingly-authentic/
I, too, like Tucker’s response.
I also agree that A LOT is going to happen over the next two years. Lately the word Revolution has been bandied about on this blog. Revolutions are only partly made. They are also forced by historical circumstance. I sense that events will soon scramble the current state of affairs, overwhelm our plans and prognostications, and, for good or ill, throw up new potentialities. In short, even beyond perennial levels of uncertainty, as things are going, all bets are off regarding where we will be by 2024.
As Lenin said: “There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen.”
Agreed. We all do it, but trying to predict outcomes for two years time is a waste of time. There will be many interesting events before that date arrives, and I suspect the world will be a very different place.
Trump is between a rock and a hard place, or rather, he is in a deep deep hole. If he says he was duped into the Covid hoax (but remember, he did put in millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine for therapeutics, wonder what happened to those?) he looks weak, gullible and foolish and if he is waiting to get back into office to let it rip on the perpetrators, he will have waited too long, De Santis is going to do what he should. He should have done the statesmanlike thing and not jumped in again. He is only going to muck it up for all of us now, and do a discredit to his great work. "Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold'em..." I guess they're not playing that song at his parties....
The Donald has been consistent all along in his cluelessness regarding the homosexualist party. He develops real estate. He loves everybody. Very smart. No wisdom. Needs to retire.