Donald Trump angered a lot of Florida voters today by unnecessarily attacking Governor Ron DeSantis:
“Now that midterms are over, and a success,” Trump began, “NewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican, were just average—middle of the pack—including COVID, and who has the advantage of SUNSHINE, where people from badly run States up North would go no matter who the Governor was, just like I did!”
https://resistthemainstream.org/trump-takes-a-big-shot-at-desantis-ron-desanctimonious-is-playing-games/
An “average” Governor? Nonsense. Until today many Florida Republicans were hoping DeSantis would stay out of the 2024 race because they love how he governs and refuses to be bullied by the press. He is like Trump when it comes to pushing back on a corrupt press, but DeSantis is more deft at it than Trump. DeSantis attacks on substance as opposed to acting like Triumph the Insult Dog.
I have been a defender of Donald Trump. I voted for him in 2020. As I have written before, a friend of mine in the intelligence community who briefed Trump, Obama and George W stated emphatically that, in contrast to the media portrayal of Trump as disinterested in the intelligence briefings, was the most engaged and asked the most pertinent questions of all the Presidents he had briefed over the years.
When it came to domestic and foreign policy, Trump generally was exemplary. The economy was strong. He delivered on his promise to reduce unemployment in the black community. He staunched the inflow of illegal immigrants flooding the southern border. Most importantly, he made the United States energy independent.
On the foreign policy front he reduced U.S. military adventures overseas, fostered a genuine relationship with North Korea and got them to stop firing missiles towards Japan, was respectful but tough with China, and brokered the opening of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. In the face of widespread opposition from Middle East experts and pundits, Trump delivered on a promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He did something all of his predecessors had promised to do but never delivered.
Trump’s ability to improve relations with Russia were handcuffed by the phony claim ginned up by the Clinton campaign that Trump was colluding with Putin. That is a true tragedy for the world. The people of Ukraine would have been in a better place today if Trump had been free to work out a deal with the Russians.
The bad? Trump played a character on television as a business executive with a gift to select talented people to run business ventures and to fire incompetents. When given the reins of government in 2017, President Trump did a generally terrible job of selecting competent, loyal people for key positions. The list of disasters on this front is long–Jeff Sessions, Tony Fauci, Bill Barr, Reince Preibus, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, CIA Director Gina Haspel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense “Mad Dog” Mattis.
It remains to be seen if Trump is just trolling and entertaining himself by torturing the media or is serious about running again for the Presidency. I do not think there is anything he can do to alter the views of the anti-Trumpers. Trump is vulnerable if his opponents decide to focus on his role in producing the ineffective MRNA vaccines. The evidence of vaccine injury is mounting and I believe that going after Trump for failing to hold the pharmaceutical companies in check and ensure the safe health of the American public could be a fruitful line of attack.
Trump got away with attacking Little Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz in 2016. Insulting a beloved Governor like DeSantis is plain stupid and counter productive. The political situation in the United States, even without a Donald Trump, is going to be chaotic over the next two years. Trump’s verbal assault on DeSantis just adds to the discord at a time when most voters want peace and tranquility.
There will be no peace , we are so divided and rotten starting at the top. We have no statesman in this country that can effectively lead us ,and bring us together. This generation has to pass , and pass it will , the system is broken and beyond repair. The question is what will emerge from the rubble ? What kind of system of government will there be , or will we even be?
Exactly, this “… a time when most voters want peace and tranquility.” is the reason things are are FUBAR (wanting peace and tranquility, rather than engaging in the fight which is upon us), and if the public goes back to sleep, we will smash straight into tyranny faster than a SATAN-2 missile.
The Cabal (AKA ruling “elite”) is also desperate to strip support from Trump and push it to DeSantis, as they doubtless view him as more pliable than Trump (might even have more dirt on him, or at least new dirt b/c Trump’s dirt has been out and hardly anyone cares).
Dear friend Devin,
I am really sorry for the political situation in US. A country that if were compromised with real partnerships, development, peace and social justice would take the entire US population to an exemplar life standard and would help the rest of the world as well.
I imagine all the world united in a common target: stop violence and turn this world a better place to live with food, schools, medicines, housing and safety. This crusade I consider realistic if the people rise up and start demanding actions in this direction.
In contrast, I know that, considering the level of manipulation and ignorance (fed by the corrupted press) of the people around the world, we will have a long way to construct this dream. But I believe!!!
Believing with you!!👍🏻🙏🏻
No leaders, not even one?
https://youtu.be/wGNxHMFjigA
Right on! Took the words right out of my mouth.
Trump, Biden…. symptom of a failing state – 340 million people and this is the best we can do. Trump was vulgar and brash – popular with the “forgotten” segment of the population (uneducated white) as a counter-balance to the “educated” tech-overlords who are making senior positions two years out college at Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google and retiring at the age of 30 with multi-million $$$ packages, free to travel, buy whatever they want and most importantly feed on websites like our world in data dot org – where they can use statistics to beat down the Trump crowd on every issue that matters.
Like everything else in America – it has become black and white, North and South, split down the middle, like these midterms. In such an atmosphere, I think it is impossible to govern for anyone because the whole 2-party system is designed to keep pragmatic, intelligent and honest people from running for any position of power. We truly live in a political (and economic) prison.
A 3rd party would be nice. For example, maybe you are pro-abortion but anti uncontrolled immigration. Who do you vote for? Maybe you are pro free healthcare but also fiscally conservative and see a way to take 1/2 of the military budget and redirect it into the free healthcare program. Add to that being pro 2nd amendment. Who do you vote for? There are many people caught in these conundrums and like me, they simply decide not to vote. Why? Because some of us feel that our vote should be given to people we feel actually represent us, instead of voting for the lesser of two evils.
This is why I think there is a segment of Americans infatuated with Putin. Don’t get me wrong, they are not infatuated with Putin himself, they are yearning for the idea of a strong leader who brings their country back in as little as 20 years, like Putin did for Russia. This is why Make America Great Again appealed to 50% of the population. Unfortunately, it turns out that if you want to MAGA, you have to make hard but intelligent choices.
I liked that Trump “stuck it” to the Europeans. They have been looking down their noses at us for the last 20 years and they looked down their nose at Don the Con but at the same time enjoyed peace and protection of our military paid for by our taxes. They talked about us as savages because we don’t have free college and free healthcare like they do, forgetting that our military budget is what kept them safe, freeing up their own economies to pursue green policies and free everything – easy to do when your military budget is 0.5% of your total budget. So, when he told them that, they hated him. Turns out he was right, just like he was right on a myriad other issues. However, an effective leader also knows how to present himself and his agenda – something Donnie just didn’t have the class to do.
In any case, I think DeSantis should run and he may even win. It would be nice to see a more polished and younger person in the White House.
Desantis is Wall street/Corporatism, Trump is Main street/the people, thats the difference, you choose
Trump is pro people? The guy who lives in a Palm Beach mansion, married to a former model and has his own plane? The guy who dropped the taxes on the rich and on the corporations? When will this stuff ever stop? When will Americans stop looking at the ultra rich (TV personas) as the protectors of the poor and the working class?
What a superficial analysis.
Unfortunately the only kind of person that can take on the system at all has to have a lot of money. See Perot.
It’s not even about Trump necessarily. Trump himself is a just meme to own the libs.
The significance of Trump is that it shows the working class in America that they need a strong leader to articulate what MAGA really is. Without a toxic male at the helm, that man with the IDGAF attitude, MAGA will remain listless, much as the militia movement and the Tea Party were before.
Randolorian, good mention of Perot, who was willing to bankroll his efforts.
Well Trump definitely didn’t bankroll his own campaign, not a single dime, it was all just a grift for him to bank donations. Everything he ever did was a grift. Even all the cash he took in to finance ‘stop the steal’…he hasn’t used any of it, it’s still in the bank, his personal piggybank, just like his grifter charity. He hasn’t sent money to elect Repcons this election either…even McConnell called him out for it….
He has not and Will not support or champion the benefit of the common worker or man. His tariffs killed jobs and literally killed our farmers, but the Dept of Agriculture and Sonny Perdue gave the farmers around $80 billion so they would still vote for him and they did.. ! He cut major taxes but ONLY for the richest and the mega Corporations who now pay zero taxes and WE are the dumb suckers making up the difference. That’s not MAGA, it’s the opposite.
DeSantis is much more collegial. He’s even vetoed Repcon legislation and it was the right thing to do. His election ads were full of how he opened up the State and saved everyones’ jobs. What he didn’t say was that HE was the one who shut down the State… ! ! No-one made him or forced him to do that, there was no mandate from the White House or CDC to put the State in Lockdown…he did that all by himself… ! ! And then took the credit for opening it back up… ! That’s having your cake and eating it… :-} Very clever…he should announce he’s running before Trump does… ! He has a much better chance of winning… than anyone else..as long as he gets off the WOKE crap…
USA protected europe from WHOM? russia?? you think russia was a threat to germany?
LOL
have you read no history? Do you remember East Germany at all?
Why do you think Stalin kept germany as two States?
steven…. Europe needs no protection from Russia. Putin is always willing to trade with whom he always respectfully calls ‘partners’. Even after the Crimea Sanctions, Russia still honored their trade contracts with Europe, because that is International Law. And many US Corporations still did business actually in Russia. The US took west Berlin, USSR took East. USSR wanted the Americans walled off from itself. The US created NATO and conflated in order to subjugate Europe under it’s control. All these years, Europe, even before EU, was a vassal state of a defacto US Empire. As is everywhere which hosts a US base. Some 800 globally. The costs of all those bases / presences is that our bridges are falling down and we have the worst school education standards and healthcare outcomes in the Western world….we’re too broke paying for the Industrial Military Complex under the guise of ‘Defense’ than to focus on domestic agendas like excessive homelessness and military veterans who served their country, having lousy healthcare and living in the woods. This, is not civilized….
Anglo man is spot on.
Right on the money AngloMan well put.
“Stalin kept”, of course
West Germany suddenly violates common cause and overnight bans the common German currency, forcing all the German population (3/4 wessies) rush to the Soviet sector to purchase everything USSR (destroyed by the total war unlike USA) could produce for all the cash the nation held. East Germans were prohibited to buy things in West shops, which do not take German currency anymore. Until East Germany emergently built internal borders, including the infamous Berlin Wall to stop the draining.
The exactly same economic vampirism, that was imposed upon Russia in 1992, when all ex-USSR states banned the common Soviet currency, yet Russia was told to keep it afloat, alone, and produce everything for nothing.
Similar effect if by other means USA achieved today by making USD their primary export good, and exporting but only inflation while importing comodities and valueables.
In 1954 West Germany was told to onky reunificate on NATO terms and never on neutral out-of-block terms, as was negotiated in 1945.
Stalin did it, sure, the man who was already dead.
https://books.google.ru/books?id=jrN8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=harrison+wagner+the+decision+to+divide+germany&source=bl&ots=rfyUofYrL9&sig=ACfU3U04yD9mn_UtZDFQBVPvD799aL8quA&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9_cew3qf7AhXGmYsKHaApDIY4ChDoAXoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
What works in domestic politics will get you burned in foreign policy. DeSantis still needs exposure amd experience to the skills for international politics, because somebody is going to have to pull our collective butts out of the Biden junta international dumpster fire…before its too late.
Can’t believe how quicky folks forget Trump’s incredible foreign relations accomplishments.
DeSantis in VP perhaps or Cabinet. But who fills his shoes in Florida then? Won’t the Dems just double down to steal it back? Too big to leave it red. Can Maga afford to loose it?
sorry that is bullshit.
i live in europe and the usa doesnt protect us it bring all the of the wars in the world and now to europe. the usa is the biggest danger for the world
I don’t feel very protected in Europe. If anything, I feel that US war mongering has bought local elites and we are in far more danger because of the US. My preference would be for all US troops to go home. By the way, I did support Ronald Reagan’s approach in the 80s and am not anti US. Americans would be better off if they brought their empire to heel too.
What functional armies do Europeans have at this point? It is nice to sit in some Amsterdam coffee shop, smoke weed, talk about University and travel abroad where your only worry is who you are going to hump tonight, while at home you have free healthcare and free college and you can be in college until you are 40 without the need to graduate and actually get a job.
All this is paid for courtesy of not having to spend money on military needs plus former colonial wealth base and current positions in international trade based on former colonies being still actively exploited. How did Lloyd’s get to become the largest insurer pool? Why is London the world’s financial center? Why is Netherlands the world’s diamond market? How did Brussels become one of the most expensive places in Europe?
EU could not even solve a “basic” war of “savages” like Yugoslavia, I remember Solana flying in and out of Sarajevo and Belgrade and Zagreb almost daily with nothing. I remember Dutch soldiers being tied to street posts by the Serbs. It took Billy Clinton to untie that knot, yes, with military power, power that the EU kingdoms could not project and still cannot. Let’s face it, EU is a joke in any potential war situation and the world is always in a potential war situation, as you can see. The only reason Europe felt safe to go about its life starting in 1945 to this day is US military protection financed by the US taxpayers.
That is precisely the point. Europe needs to grow up and stand on its own feet.
It will not do that whilst Uncle Sam is operating as a Protector but in reality is the Overlord. Just as a child only grows up when they leave home.
The current imperial role of the US damages both Europe and the U.S. I am with Trump on all of this.
But the US is not protecting Europe out of the goodness of its heart. At root, it is an Empire, even if the majority of Americans do not believe that or desire it.
Right now, the Empire is starting to unravel though. It will get interesting.
NATO – Russians out, Germans Down, France in.
Stephen,
Historically, there is no Europe, so what happens when it stands on its own feet? History has an answer and it bloody rhymes.
Stephen.. regarding “The current imperial role of the US damages both Europe and the U.S. I am with Trump on all of this. ”
You give trump credit for something he just didn’t understand. Of course, he never had any foreign policy skills ever, he was just a rapacious landlord and casino bankrupter. His simplistic view was that EU was ripping off America by not contributing enough to NATO. He couldn’t understand that the financing by America is what kept all our bases there, subjugating EU to our incessant fearmongering and poking of the Bear in order to remain relevant. And enforcing the disarmament of Germany some 80 years later. Of course, like good little poodles, they all happily engaged a little in our unnecessary regional wars of choice. Oddo is absolutely correct above, elucidating that EU does not have they War Budget the US has. So they have universal free education, free or mostly subsidized health, 6 weeks minimum paid vacation, 4 day work weeks. They consider that a little more civilized. Who’s going to attack them..? Not Russia, not China, not Turkey. Not ISIS even though the US trains and equips them as ‘moderate takfiris’ including Al Qaueda and all of it’s groups….useful fools, the enemy of my enemy is my friend… but that hasn’t worked out that well in the last 5 mid-eastern countries we’ve smashed for no good reason, no treasure, a lot of blood and instilling generational US hatred. Cost US trillions and all we have to show for that loss is 80% of Syrias oil that we are stealing EVERY day…
As Memei points out, the U.S. is the biggest war monger in the world, has been for a very long time. Europe needs protection from U.S., not from Russia. By setting up Russia as the bogeyman, the U.S. has created a false need for “protection” when in reality it is the U.S. that is the real threat to Europe. Where once it helped build Europe up after WWII, now it is destroying it, through it’s despicable globalist elite proxies (e.g. WEF, EU technocrats, etc.). Europe is systematically being deindustrialized and its people will rue the day they believed the BS that the U.S. is spewing….
“For example, maybe you are pro-abortion but anti uncontrolled immigration.”
That was Bernie Sanders. One of the main reasons he was destroyed. HAD to be destroyed. He was only prominent politician in my lifetime that was truly anti-immigration. *
Check out the face of Ezra Klein at :30, he just can’t believe what Bernie is saying. Ezra is a proud neo-liberal globalist, openly embraces the term, is as right wing as you can get on the issues that most concern the destiny of a nation-state, and yet he is a considered by roughly half of our poputlation to be a left wing radical commie type, because he is what they call these days, woke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0
The MAIN reason Bernie was destroyed was because he had MMT people in his camp, and that him a DANGEROUS REVOLUTIONARY!!!
Lmao … Apologies for the caps, but this all such a joke. Bernie the Milquetoast was, bar none (!) the greatest threat to “the Beltway swamp” there ever was. Imagine that.
If you want change, if you want to take your country back, you must take on banking power, but pouring through threads like this one over the years, from both the Red and the Blue teams, no one ever does.
Or wants to. Banking power is after all, very, very scarry. What everyone seems to want, is their own slightly nuanced version of the status quo. And what the people want, they shall recieve, as we do live in a democracy, or so they tell me.
*You can’t stop immigration by building a wall, regardless of how high it is or who pays for it. As a New Deal Democrat, and therefore the most extreme leftist in the world (!), I’ve known since I was a teen that the idea of building walls is a canard, put out by those that desperately want immigrants to pour over all borders unchecked, to lower labor costs.
Or better yet, to eliminate borders all-together, much like the Europeans have done.
Hardly Economics 101. More akin something you might learn in a 9th grade history class, if your an reasonably able student that can connect a few dots, which I was … for the most part.
The only way to tightly control immigration is to make it unlawlful to hire immigrants, period, until your nation-state has achieved a semi-permanent status of full and gainful employment, the operative word being gainful.
I wonder if Bernie was anything more than a fraud. Here he is asking someone who used to work for him, ‘who is paying you?’ implying that he is a Russian agent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWXChBQW4T4
If you really want to control immigration you need to remove the incentive to come here. Best way to do that IMO is to make real investments in 3rd world countries instead of these IMF loans that they can never quite pay off.
“I wonder if Bernie was anything more than a fraud.”
I wonder same. There is no doubt is he is now, he’s a total cuck, but was he always? I’d like to think not, I think someone got to him in 2020, but I could be wrong. He was as I said, always a milquetoast, and too, throughout most of his political career, a staunch backer of the MIC, he was never what I would call, virulently anti-war, bought into the whole RussiaGate nonsense, and certainly suffered as much as any Democrat, from Trump derangement syndrome.
“If you really want to control immigration you need to remove the incentive to come here. Best way to do that IMO is to make real investments in 3rd world countries instead of these IMF loans that they can never quite pay off.”
Agree, that is part of the equation, which I think Bernie touched on in his interview with the right wing neo-liberal globalist and radical commie Ezra Klein.
It’s all about the banks, the beating heart at the pernicious evil that is not only rotting out my country, but the entire planet.
If you can’t muster the courage to take on the private global banking cartel, which apparently no one can excepting China of course, where the banks work for the nation-state, and not against it, then your’re just making noise.
If Russian conspirologists are worth notice (which i don’t know. In 2016 the guy was one of two sources who predicted in Trump victory; in 2020 the guy was still singing odes to Trump, who was absolute lame cuck duck by then. The guy has some wits but also susceptible to wishful thinking) it was 2018 not 2020 when “they got to Sanders”
https://abrod.livejournal.com/1312066.html
I wonder if Bernie was anything more than a fraud. — Randolorian
The party model (red or blue, take your choice) is for firebrands to stir up the excitable elements of the party base, then the primaries funnel those voters to the mainstreamcandidates backed by party donors…
Larry,
You praise his achievements and then you say it is time for him to go. Conservatives, as opposed to Republicans, are more than tired of so called statesmen that would not respond to the attacks on them. We love that he returns the favor and goes after those that attack him, the “Main Stream Press” for example. Look at where he grew up and their attitude on responding to confrontations.
Would you rather have someone that fights back or someone like George Bush that gets called Hitler and just takes it. McCain did not use any of the information he had on Obama because he wanted to take the high road. Same with Romney.
Yes there are many times it might seem brutish, but it was necessary, and the reaction to it by the MSM, liberals, and even RINO’s was so enjoyable because he got under their skin so often. It was rather enjoyable to see this and seeing people get so upset because he stated the obvious. Yes, stating the obvious can seem harsh, but it gets the point across.
Maybe there was/is a method to his madness. How could he accomplish so much, at home and internationally, while fighting the DS, MSM, the Globalists, and even the Democratic (sic) controlled Congress is if he was so bad? We live in Texas, but love DeSantis, and so appreciate what he has done there. We have some family and friends there and may move there when we retire. Abbott was okay, but we wished he would be more like him. The thing with DeSantis though, is he has yet to prove himself when he has all the tools of the government and the MSM, and the Globalists attacking him and undermining him everyday on everything he does. He experienced some of it, but the rest of the Florida State government pretty much supported him.
I am still wondering what the PEADS and the Executive orders Trump signed were and why they were written.
The world is screwed if we keep going down this path that Russia and China are bad and the US cannot do anything wrong. People need to research and study real history and how we got here, not what is presented by organizations and people that only what their perspective learned.
I really enjoy the show while he is in office.
Just a different take on Trump.
Additional thought:
What if this between them is part of a plan?
Can you absolutely rule that out? I say no, because there are too many strange things going on around us here and in the world at large.
interesting thought!
Sorry, but no baby murder for me. Don’t be barking up that tree. The only reason unrestricted immigration sounds like a good idea is because the native birthrate is so low. Abortion, contraceptive, and sexual liberation in general is the reason for that.
Mr. Johnson, I agree with you 100%. It may be time for president Trump to help the MAGA movement as a citizen and an advisor and donor. Sadly, I am seeing chinks in his armor and wish he never had to face the disgusting American corrupted system of politics and media. With that being said, it seems Governor DeSantis is now positioning into a much more formidable candidate than the president that I so love.
De Santis will become stronger if trump continues to attack him. Trump’s personality is polarizing. De Santis can be unifying. Sadly, Trump’s bull in a china shop lack of sophistication is serious headwind for his policies. He lacks the calm focused confidence we need in leadership. He never had the high ground and he is more like a back alley dog fighter. What he did during his time on the stage was great. I don’t think he will “sell” another time around. Time for a new brand. If MAGA’s are true patriots, they will embrace principles and policies, not a single personality.
Your still not getting it. It’s Trumps “job”. He took a grass roots populist movement that would have brought America back to its Constitutional Authority & demolished it. There were two 2 vying populist movements, the Bernie Sanders socialist, which Hillary Clinton smashed, and Donald Trumps job was to smash the Conservative Tea Party/Libertarian populist movement. They both did “their jobs”.
Trump was a New York liberal/Dem turned Republican? Yeah ok…Their “jobs” were to make certain the status quo remained in place. Division. The untouchables remain untouched. Hillary Clinton never saw a hour behind bars, and interesting how the “FBI raided his house” (pics & films please) and he’s brought back into “the news” & maybe “he’ll run again” blah blah. They’ve always worked for the same bosses.
I finally understood in my heart and mind a simple phase a fellow YouTuber used to quote:
“When someone shows you who they are…believe them”…
That is why, for the good of the MAGA movement, Trump needs to hand the reins to DeSantis, playing the role of kingmaker so we are not divided! It’s time for Trump to realize that we need a unifying leader, not one who is divisive. Don’t get me wrong, love Trump’s fight and spirit (voted for him in 2016 and 2020) but it’s time to move on…
Trump and DeSntis represent the same team in theory, EXCEPT for those deep state politically entrenched RINOs and their owners…er, donors. It looks like DeSantis is being courted by Conservative Inc. to be their guy to split the 2024 base and suck in donations, dethrone Trump, and get back to Congressional get rich and powerful “business as usual”. DeSantis is the new play nice good guy “Face” and Trump is the same old pain in the DS butt bad guy.
Politics is not that much different than WWF wrestling, just a HELLUVA lot more lucrative. Is it kayfabe or is it real? Let’s see who gets smoked out into the open, who switches sides, who gets body slammed, and who is still standing at the final bell. We might discover we have far worse frenemies that ride in on “our side”. Buckle up MAGA, we’re in for a bumpy ride.
There is a very simple answer to this one, Larry. Trump is a stand-in for a movement, a fusion of nationalists, populists, evangelicals, libertarians and conservatives. There is an attempt underway by a faction of conservatives in the Republican party to replace him in the hopes of co-opting that movement and replacing him with a more “palatable” figurehead. One that subordinates the populism to pragmatism, replaces nationalism with globalism, and establishes an accomodationist conservatism that can live side by side with its master, the liberal order.
Trump knows this: he is married to the nationalists and the populists and has made common cause with the evangelists, and whatever these renegade conservatives do they cannot win without his base.
His base knows this as well, and will not follow anyone it has not chosen for itself. Desantis included. And if these “conservatives” don’t like that, they can go start a new party.
We are not going back to the days of the faux populist. Period. And if that means another 20 years in the political wilderness, then that’s what it means. And a lot of the members of this coalition are watching what is going on in Arizona right now while “respectable” Republicans avert their gaze. You know, the ones that think they can lead us. The ones who are saying nothing about what is going on in Arizona right now. Because, you know, it takes a week to count votes because of the desert sun.
Never again.
Trump is ultimately about Trump
The MAGA movement is a cause people can rally behind but it is at its core to make Trump not America great. In many ways he was much better President than Obama GW Bush, Bill Clinton etc. because he was ineffective and could not be used by the Deep State. His ego was too big.
Larry has defended and championed Trump for years and for that – plus my feeling that Trump sometimes lacks artfulness in his put-downs (as he did in this case) – I would never fault him, but I nevertheless agree with Lucas. DeSantis is a very good governor, albeit one who greatly benefits from having a conservative, more activist Republican legislature which makes it much easier to implement the social policies for which the governor’s become beloved.
Since the MSM, Jeb! Bush, George Bush, Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, David Frum, the Lincoln Project (SMFH, sheesh) and just about every long-standing NeverTrumper, PLUS Rupert Murdoch’s NeverTrumper publications especially the globalist warmongers at the WSJ, are pushing DeSantis, something stinks. I think it’s fair to judge DeSantis by those who back him. But is it fair to hold it against outsider Trump for the many backstabbers in his midst, even from his own party?
Many conservatives are sick and tired of feckless, do-nothing Republicans who roll over and play dead (e.g. Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, etc.). Like Lucas said, we’re now wise to the game plan. I wish Trump were more clever in his put-downs because the NeverTrumpers use his petulance and vanity as their excuse to dislike him, BUT what they really and truly dislike are his policies – yet won’t readily admit it. Globalists here in the US don’t care if our middle and working classes are decimated by illegal (and even some legal) immigration, the free flow of drugs across open borders, transference of manufacturing to the very lowest bidders, forever wars of no honest national interest, etc. It’s the New World Order, which includes greater wealth for those that allow it to happen. After all, how is it that some mere politicians can become fabulously wealthy, easily in the upper 5% if not higher???
As Communists used to say, “to kill an initiative, we must organize and head it.”
“if you can’t beat it – lead it”
This too was invented by commies??? Same day they invented a wheel and a sliced bread perhaps.
The catch phrase is attributed to Suvorov, to von Bismark, to Macciavelli…
…yet never a specific document with a apecific quote was found.
https://esirnus.livejournal.com/84264.html
Still, those three are the names believed to be inventors of it. And i wonder, was von Bismark a commie?
Really, dudes, communists themselves did not claim such omnipotence and omniscience as their sworn enemies so for them…
He is his own worst enemy at times.
Very polarising sort of chap. Agree 100% with this assessment.
As far as an outsider is concerned of the two De Santis is a statesman in that he states why things are or what things must be and why. Both are brave and confident but I cant remember De Santis having a melt down. Trump and twitter is oil and water and should never be mixed together. Both can achieve and hold their ground in any media scrum about outcomes expected.
Having said that and your analysis, the Republicans cant complain going into the Primaries and a Lake training role as VP would be pretty unstoppable if she gets up that is. A set up for a generation perhaps.
Arizona who knows?
Its pretty lean on the democrat side of the ledger from what I can see.
time for mr. warp speed to retire. i believe this is the issue that really hurt the republicans during the midterms which noboby wants to talk about. If the republican candidate was for the jab; think that made many people stay home.
As the excess death toll mounts and more info about how toxic these jabs come out in the next 2 yrs; i believe that trump will become more and more damaged goods who may face legal action from jab damaged plaintiffs in the future if he is not careful.
i believe the support of the jabs is why oz lost. I would not have voted for any candidate regardless of party if they had a pro jab stance.
https://www.news4jax.com/health/2021/02/15/dr-oz-says-fully-vaccinated-people-can-do-things-that-other-people-cant-do/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/conservative-candidates-take-note-desantis-dominated-florida-these-reason/
I subscribe to lawyer Robert Barne’s locals.com show and he claims he helped, along with others, to broker an unofficial deal with DeSantis and Trump for VP. Barnes says this is the GOP Establishment, DeepState, and media trying to get to Trump because they know how to bait him. It’s working. DeSantis is being polite because these people gave him so much money for his re-election.
When Trump first used “DeSantimonious” Barnes claimed it was in reference to these people trying to turn DeSantis against him. It looked like a warning shot. Now he needs to drop it because the folks behind this are only using DeSantis as a battering ram against Trump to divide them. Trump is misinterpreting it.
Barnes works with pollster Richard Baris who I also subscribe to, and a deep dive into the data and polling does not show DeSantis can carry the Rust Belt. Trump still polls higher than other Republicans plus 2 over DeSantis. The Sun Belt is not the Rust Belt. It also shows that 25-30% of the coalition in the Republican party will not vote for the Republicans unless it is Trump. They won’t vote for going back to the Bush-Ryan-Romney Republican party. It’s not a winner. Yet this is what the GOP wants. They are not populists but corporatists.
DeSantis as VP for Trump helps Trump and it also helps raise the profile of DeSantis nationally. I am not going to allow this to get to me.
Besides does anyone know what the foreign policy of DeSantis is? I don’t. Did a single Republican, other than JD Vance ever run on not continuing money for Ukraine or on war? Or even on “lockdowns.” Could that be why there was no Red Tsunami? Sarah Palin said we should continue funding this war. I refused to vote for Rubio because I already where he stood because he’s a NeoCon and I am a Republican. I voted for the Libertarian.
Trump is the only one out there talking about peace or negotiating.
Barnes is a great storyteller. But there is absolutely no unofficial deal for Santis to run as Vice President. And that is not how politics works anyway, except maybe in Barnes’ imagination. What you are seeing is the breakup of the Republican coalition that got Trump elected. Guess which part of that coalition didn’t come out to vote for the midterms? If the party organs don’t show loyalty to the party leader then guess what? The party faithful don’t show loyalty to the party organs. It’ll be the same in 2024. Get ready for a decade of Democratic presidents. Not so bad really. More corrupt than conservatives but still a pretense of populism left in them.
Kirk :
I don’t believe you because I don’t think Barnes would lie about something like that, which I think is being implied with your post.
Kirk, Republicans voted in record numbers this time. But they don’t harvest or even manufacture ballots like Democrats do. There’s a good reason why some states and/or jurisdictions permit ballot harvesting, third-party production of mail-in ballots, and refuse to clean up voter rolls. What we saw this mid-term is the result. All of these inexcusable delays in tallying are part of the degradation that’s overtaken our electoral process.
Trump did not get the message: The Voters were repulsed by extremists in both parties
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2022/11/09/angry_voters_deliver_split_decision_nixing_red_wave_584435.html
https://sputniknews.com/20221110/drag-on-our-ticket-ex-rep-paul-ryan-disses-trump-after-midterm-red-wave-fails-to-materialize-1103995806.html
The Republican Party has long been split between the populists/libertarians and what was called The Rockefeller Wing. Today, it’s basically the same via RINO and MAGA. The problem is that if we’re disunited, we lose, every time. Clearly, the Republican dial needs to be turned toward populism.
Matt Gaetz, in a tweet, put it perfectly: “McFailure”. RINO management of the overall Republican mid-terms didn’t produce the expected wave. Very telling is the 6 million Republican vote advantage, and yet the results in seats at the table didn’t materialize. RINOs are attacking Trump, as the fall guy, and Trump lashed back, unfortunately at the wrong person.
IMHO, DeSantis is midway between RINO and MAGA, just about where the R party needs to be to unite and win. It also helps a lot that he has some real leadership qualities. Trump’s inability to pick a quality inner circle of advisement, exhibited over and over during his Presidency, leaves me (and many others) with a vote of no confidence. Trump’s attack on DeSantis will be seen as the ultimate cause of his future failure. His future value will be in carefully targeted endorsements, continue to take a lot of heat from Lying Media Scum (hit the wrong target), and be remembered and revered as the man who re-awakened American Populism.
A major future R strategy must be to attack the D money machine. The D money machine basically buys votes by giving stuff away that’s not theirs to give. This alone warrants the strategy to move the R party away from RINO towards MAGA. The Washington gravy train needs a major haircut. Will RINOs go along with that? I doubt it.
good comment!
You write:
“On the foreign policy front he reduced U.S. military adventures overseas, fostered a genuine relationship with North Korea and got them to stop firing missiles towards Japan, was respectful but tough with China, and brokered the opening of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. In the face of widespread opposition from Middle East experts and pundits, Trump delivered on a promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He did something all of his predecessors had promised to do but never delivered.
“Trump’s ability to improve relations with Russia were handcuffed by the phony claim ginned up by the Clinton campaign that Trump was colluding with Putin. That is a true tragedy for the world. The people of Ukraine would have been in a better place today if Trump had been free to work out a deal with the Russians.”
So on a little thing like wars between great powers, Trump has a record better than any president to date – the very thing this site is supposed to be about.
Does DeSantis have that in him? Does he even believe in that? And the way he and Biden cozied up. it looks to me like he is the alternative to Trump being put forward by the Imperial Establishment. Maybe I do not understand him – but so far he is no Donald Trump.
Keep up the great work! I always look forward to reading what you have to say – even when I might disagree with you on occasion.
I write to elicit informed comments from people like you. The quality of most of the comments is outstanding and informative. Keep it up.
Larry… regarding your colleague who gave intelligence briefings to 3 presidents… there are very few who gave the daily briefings to several Presidents… would your colleague be Ray McGovern. He writes often at http://www.Consortiumnews.com
I’m intrigued you stated that Trump devoured the daily briefing. All of the the parties involved, it seems, have described the complete opposite, no written materials because he wouldn’t read them… mostly big pictures or graphs, but he would soon lose interest and just leave. Executive Time they called it…he’d go and watch his ratings on Fox or get inspired by something Fox Analysts said. They stopped bringing files because he always wanted to keep them. This has been the narrative for years now, by all his handlers. Including published memoirs. What changed….?
DeSantis is a globalist. He’s just the anti-Woke version of Obama. Even so, he will do nothing substantive to put an end to the woke agenda.
I would love to be proven wrong.
you will not be proven wrong. guy is just another elitist, yale, harvard, the whole nine yards. a lawyer who doesn’t practice law but goes into government and never leaves.
When DeSantis was a member of the House of Representatives, he voted for the TransPacific trade agreement. There was no surer sign of globalist alignment than that, showing his colors as a supporter of globalist transnational corporations, functionally driving home the death blow to the right of the US to support the national interest. Contrast the policies of President Trump and his trade representative and Commerce Secretary with that sodden compliance with globalist wishes.
I am not a Trump Fanboi, differing with him on various foreign policies, in particular with his craven toadying to Israeli pressures (moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, and outright recognizing Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights of Syria [are you similarly in favor of Turkey annexing parts of the territory of Syria?]). Too much uncritically listening to Jarrod Kushner and his wife, Ivanka, née Trump, Daddy’s little girl, to be any kind of honest broker for the Middle East; maybe he thought the Jevvs would get off his back if he did these things? Well, that didn’t work out too well, did it? Or appointing Bolton? Come on, man. How about Col. McGregor instead of that hideous war-mongering troll?
Well, I guess we’ll see if the GOPe can drive a stake through the heart of MAGA nationalism just as they did with the Tea Party via the Splitter Strategy that worked at that time. Whoopie Doo…
Benjamin Franklin, when asked what sort of government had been devised for These United States at the conclusion of the constitutional convention, responded, “A republic…if you can keep it”. Whoops, after the Illinois Ape and the Radical Republicans got through with their War of Northern Aggression, they put paid to that. Sorry, Mr. Franklin.
The election only confirmed that America no longer functions as a homogenous entity, the country’s not only split, it’s fully polarised, there are the two camps and nothing in between them, no shades of the one or the other, in then past the country could decide ‘no abortions but …’ or ‘immigration yes, but …’ and both camps will settle for it, today that’s impossible, compromise isn’t doable because the shades of either camps are no longer there, and yet it’s a compromise that’s always needed and had always been there when the great Republic was at ease with herself and not clustered into two rigid hating each other gangs.
The only way to win in an election for any of the two camps is to cheat, that’s exactly what the Dems did when the Donald got de-throned two years ago, and very likely did again this time, it would also explain why without exception all opinion polls predicted a sizeable win for the GOP, which the election didn’t deliver, the polls didn’t cheat, the count that matter did.
Trump is a leader, not a team player. Trump’s companies are controlled by himself, as the father, and his children, his subordinates. That’s the only way Trump knows how to operate.
Trump refuses to be just one of equals. So he must go. How? We will see.
Trump is an obnoxious, loud-mouthed narcicist who actually keeps his promises, which is why there’s a segment who loves him. I can’t stand him but I’d vote for him over all others. Which is kind of the point.
Here’s test #1 to see where the Republican Party will go:
“Alaska Senate Race Headed to Runoff Election Between Kelly Tshibaka and Dirtbag Lisa Murkowski”
RINO Murkowski’s efforts to pass the ranked choice voting in Alaska killed one R seat in the House (Palin) and now gives her the opportunity to go back. That thing needs to be defeated, and we’ll soon see where the money and the talk flows.
How can we trust Trump who locked down the country, paid for the jab, allowed the EUA, and funded the democratic cities and states to lock down with easy money and no consequences. Even if he was on our side he was so stupid as to be manipulated. His personnel choices were people who would undermine what he stood for.
Unfortunately I don’t see DeSantis standing up to the war lobby but doubt he’ll get the chance anyway. The communist coup plotters won’t allow a fair election.
Larry you didn’t address the biggest weirdness in The Donald’s remarks re: De Santis, “who didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors.
What?! De Santis was one of the FEW governors, D or R, who didn’t close up. Where does Trump get the idea that he did?
I voted for Trump in both 2016 and 2020. But he disappoints and disappointed me a great deal. Yes I hate his stance of the ‘vaccine’, and after being challenged by his own supporters, doubled down on his support.
But above all, his handling of the fraud in 2020 really made me mad. Have you read Patrick Byrne’s account of his meeting with Trump, accompanied by Mike Flynn and the incomparable Sidney Powell? this was at the White House in December 2020. They presented him with an easy and effective (and legal) way to go after the fraud in the worst States, and esp. the worst counties in those States.
And what did he do? He listened, liked their idea, and then let his Chief of Staff and some other snakes talk him out of it. And lost the White House to this Thing, this creature of Soros’.
And lastly…I’ll be brief, he refused to let someone else run the election protests other than his buddy Rudy Giuliani. “No, no I have to stay with Rudy”. Well Rudy was not sober enough to do much of anything.
So, ‘no Trump no more’ for me. The Dream ticket (IF THERE IS AN ELECTION in 2024) would be De Santis/Gabbard.
I was appalled when I read his book. Byrne nailed it and the reaction of Trumps team was shameful and reeked of incompetence and indifference.
Trump and Co let them do it then rolled over. This was a major disappointment.
The only thing that could get me to support Trump again is if I think he would be totally vindictive, out for revenge and do a scorched Earth on the beltway. But I have my doubts.
I know analysis are everywhere but looking at this simply:
Iowa and Florida did the hard work to clean up voting. They had blowout victories.
Guam doesn’t have voting power. Thus not worth frauding. They had a blowout victory. Iowa had tons of abortion, and leftie fear campaigning; The result was to turn redder.
It’s the fraud. Any state organization not interested in doing the hard local work to clean it up simply isn’t interested in winning.
> Trumps…. reeked of incompetence and indifference.
Indifference, perhaps. Incompetence?..
You assume he wanted to win.
…and to be the fall guy for everything that happens on his watch.
This insanity that goes today in everything from economic to “free doublespeech” in Facebook/Twitter to creeping WW3 – why would Trump want to be the fallguy?
Why waking dead Biden was made a president after Trump? Could it be because he was the waking dead and that made him a natural hate sponge, when every Dem politician hoping to have future carreer passed the bucket? Could it be Trump was permitted in 2016 exactly because the deep state expected s-t really hit the FAN those years, so they needed an outside to point the finger at? The outsider “marred” in “Russian collusion” so whatever bad happens during his tenure is blamed on Moscow.
Crazy? Perhaps.
However, who was the guy who elected Trump, Manafort?
And whom else did he elect?
Well, he elected the infamous Yanukovich of Ukraine.
The guy, who is lauded as “pro-russian” despote closing Russian-language TV stations, subduing Ukraine to EU regulations and never doing a thing for Russia, nor Russians, nor Russia-leaning Ukrainians.
But when, as it had to be on his watch, Ukrainian economic would collapse on EU treaty (the one that Yatzenyuk and Poroshenko desperately sought to avoid later), the crescendo of “Putin did it” MSM would’ve been there to conveniently explain.
Why would Trump want to be a figurehead when collapse (and maybe pitchforks) come?
Won’t it be more beneficial to him to sit the crisis over in “prime critic” chair and make it all fall upon Dem president, so he could come to powet after the storm?
And, didn’t you notice Yeltsyn’s Russia and Yanukovich’s Ukraine were testing grounds for politician tricks later used in USA domestically?
FGB3… apparently you don’t live in Florida. I do. DeSantis closed all bars, restaurants, hotels and ‘non-essential businesses. Everything. When they were gradually re-opened, tables were seperated 6ft, even more, plexiglass barriers erected, no groups of 3 stools, a physical bar was taped off to customers, table seating only. The list goes on…we were definitely shut down, everything but food stores and gas stations.
I live in Florida.
I was in the Philippines in Jan-Feb 2020, we literally were on the last plane out. No one knew what was going on, everyone was afraid and paranoid. The CDC was the only source of information, even I respected the lock downs, the masks and precautions. We could have easily been dealing with a vert deadly disease. Precautions were not unwarranted at first.
DeSantis figured it out early in the game and reversed the measures. I cannot fault him for that. I fell for it at first, we all did.
The state did provide the vaccines but forced no one. The info on the vaccine dangers was unknown at the time but still DeSantis refused to allow vaccine passports in Florida.
You walk a fine line in these circumstances and I judge DeSantis and handling it well or better than anyone.
He never required or forbade anyone. Pretty much the right compromise.
Alex Thrace… Agreed. I live in Florida and UK. Of course I was unable to reach UK. You are right about masks, restrictions and lockdowns. With a deadly airborne virus that’s infecting and killing millions around the globe, all of the above help minimize the spread and transmission. Surgeons have worn masks for over 80 years, because masks work. Asian countries are used to masks due to their air quality. The UK still has WW11 air-sirens war mentality… keep calm and carry on, wear masks, lockdown is a temporary inconvenience. (They paid everyone 80% of their wages so bills would still be covered and business wouldn’t collapse) China is still in lockdown because they don’t yet have a viable vaccine. If Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine actually worked…they would have been using it…they are no dummies when it comes to scientific medical technologies.
I agree that DeSantis, did the responsible thing by locking down. And instigating masking. And giving businesses the ability to deny the un-masked heavy breathers. I also think he did a very responsible job of carefully, gradually re-opening. A lot of folks miss that when a pandemic is prevalent, many will die, unless precautions are taken…and the general public just does not have the necessary acumen to determine what is safe in societal epidemic transmission. Blustering cowboys and macho men getting their preferred info from irresponsible sources, died from it. So did many seniors. Kudos to DeSantis..he did a much better job handling Covid than Trump did….as you said.. pretty much the right compromise…. but trump was in denial so he wouldn’t look bad.. but he he did anyway. DeSantis rules….
Agreed. I didn’t know he shut down originally so good for the commentator to set me right. But after it became pretty clear that Covid was not the 2nd coming of the Plague or even the Spanish Flu, De Santis relaxed, as did most of us to figured it out.
But you know…it was a strange thing. At the outset in NYC especially the virus was hell on wheels. It really was killing people and that set the stage for the restrictions. Then it just “faded” but that didn’t matter to the Authorities who were being run by the Deep State.
The lady governor in South Dakota was the only one I recall who never shut down, period. What a great person she is! Some people call the virus a bio-weapon and maybe it was, but it is becoming more obvious that the REAL bio-weapon is the mRNA “vaccine”.
I repeat what I said about Trump. He threw us all under the bus. I don’t know who got to him but someone did. He defense of the claim that the election was fraudulent was so weak – no facts just repeating it was stolen.
He could have done what Powell, Flynn and Byrne told him and he’d be in the Oval Office right now. Guaranteed. Read Byrne’s account all of you Trumpistas.
https://www.deepcapture.com/2021/02/how-djt-lost-the-white-house-chapter-3-crashing-the-white-house-december-18/ It was this story that decided me then and there against Trump.
Whereas with De Santis the guy can speak in complete sentences, stay on point, and is very very disciplined. I like him. Esp. his stance on the whole School wackos. So I think he’s the real deal. I trust him. Just intuition at base. Whereas there was always something about Trump that was not quite right. Not quite right.
“moved the embassy in the cancer state to Jerusalem”. How is that good ? Another servant of the one regime that is the biggest threat to humanity that ever existed. Yes, very good.
DeSantis too. Where is the one who will not bend the knee?
He can’t help himself.
His presidency , despite being crippled by the Russiagate lies, achieved a number of worthwhile goals. His legacy is very good.
However , like all the Mr. Wonderfuls , including Biden , he has a huge ego and is hypersensitive to any perceived criticism . Being surrounded by a bunch of yes persons has never helped.
Corn Pop was one bad dude. Seems like Trump feels the same about the Florida Gov.
Excuse me for putting in my two cents worth. I’m not a Floridian (neither is Trump ) , not even an American.
Hi from your AUKUS ally in the south seas.
Trump has 2 key characteristics to note:
First, he is a successful businessman who understands things like marketing. I am not sure whether he holds any of the values he purports, but his view seemed to be that if he adopted policies that made most people better off and more secure, they’d vote for him. And they did. He managed to articulate what most people wanted from government.
The second characteristic is narcissism. He’s on the extreme end of that scale, and goes full juvenile at any slight. This is not only a weakness, but ultimately dangerous to the cause as he’s not likely to bow out gracefully, and more apt to go full scorched earth if rejected. Example: he blamed his wife for the Oz endorsement. Childish. Meanwhile, all the GOP gains are because of him.
Trump attacks, but doesn’t know how to fight effectively. The only reasonably good pick he had was Flynn, and he was the first one the deep staters went after. DeSantis seems to be able to build support without pissing everyone else off. Trump s always in your face, you’re for him or his enemy, and he never makes mistakes, it’s always somebody else’s fault.
Trump, bieng an opportunist, hit the right nerve at the right time. Now the problem is he isn’t going further, and may end up setting the whole movement back a few decades if he can’t find some thread of humility and acknowledge that his time has passed. Imagine a Desantis/Gabbard ticket in 2024. Yeah, I know she has some baggage, but on balance brings a lot to the table. I’m looking at the longer game here.
If Trump goes nuclear, we’re probably all screwed. I fear if he senses he’ll lose the nomination, he’ll try to destroy DeSantis. He’s already sending veiled threats. Even if he gets the nomination, he’s stuck as he won’t be able to get enough independents and moderate Democrats to overcome the cheating. It’s a tough call for the Dems as to whether to indict him or not. He may be more useful to them as the bull in the china shop.
I encourage all to read up on narcissists. It’s scary stuff.
Every time I decide to close my eyes, pinch my nose and vote for Trump, he’d do something so stupid and petty as attacking DeSantis. Trump really feeds on drama and strife.
Governor DeSantis is being run by the Pilgrims Society out of the pirate City of London. The evidence is overwhelming for anyone who wants to honestly look.
Larry, here is the answer to your question from Sundance of “theconservativetreehouse dot com.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/10/president-trump-fires-back-against-ron-desantis-con-inc-and-coordinated-narrative-midterm-effort/#more-239644
In politics we are not dealing with angels, nor expect angels to be leading men and women, as the authors of the Federalist Papers understood so well. It is pointless to debate or dispute the nature of men and women engaged in politics, since they are definitely not angels.
What is then important is to know, identify, and support the individual who in American politics today has stood alone and defied the combined strength of the Deep State and swamp creatures — the Uniparty and the ruling class who together have jettisoned the constitution and degraded the republic into a rogue state — and the Globalists of the WEF in putting together a coalition of patriots that might breathe back the ideals of 1776 into the deflated republic.
Here we come to your blog, as I do, in large part because we hope, as I believe you do, that Russia under Putin prevails over the combined effort of the collective West under the U.S. driven by neocons in their proxy war in Ukraine to bring regime change in Moscow and dismantle the Russian Federation in their design for a one world borderless rule-based NWO.
We see in Putin led Russia a coalition come together of the Eurasian countries plus the BRICS+ to defeat the neocon led scheme of unipolar American hegemony and the imposition of the WEF globalist agenda of depopulation and deindustrialization.
We are not naive in believing that this coalition of anti-globalism is driven by leaders who are angels, nor that they do not have conflicting interests of their own as Modi of India does with Xi of China, or Saudis with Iranians. But we support this anti-globalist anti-neocon coalition at this moment in history, because we need this coalition and its leadership (Putin and Xi and Modi and the rest with them) to defeat the axis of the Empire of Lies, the Perfidious Albion, and the WEF driven by the ghost of the thousand year Reich.
Similarly, many American patriots support, as I do from Canada, the one man, Donald Trump, whom the swamp creatures, the neocons, the Globalists in unison want to eliminate so their rape of America can continue unabated and unimpeded. This coalition never relented for a moment since Trump announced his 2015 bid for the presidency to destroy him; they shackled him in the Oval Office by denying him his choice of men and women to serve him in his Cabinet by the role of the Senate to Advice and Consent in making appointments; the RINOs in the Senate did not take a recess during his term in office so that he could make a recess appointment; the House twice impeached him; they appointed a Special Counsel to go down the rabbit-hole for nearly two years chasing the Russia-hoax; they ran a 24/7 media campaign of smear and vilification. This is all history that should be readily recalled, but now seems forgotten.
But Trump stared them down and yet remain standing, and as ever determined to fight them. If he remains unrelenting, why are those in the ranks of the patriots suffering from a Trump fatigue when abandoning him while the battle gets hotter will only give fuel to the swamp creatures, the neocons and the globalists?
It does not matter how good a governor of Florida Ron DeSantis is, if he is going to be a willing tool of the anti-Trump coalition between now and 2024.
And if the argument is that Trump cannot win in 2024, then similarly neither can Ron nor any other Republican in an election that will get assuredly rigged by those who did the rigging in 2020 and likely did in part the 2022 mid-term.
Larry
Give us a break.
Do you actually read your contributions. Obviously not.
Obviously not.
Don’t disagree with anything you say, in fact I would vote for Trump again -it’s just that I think our best chance is to UNIFY – Trump and DeSantis need to be united, that is assuming the DeSantis is the real deal. I will vote for whichever one prevails. And maybe a Trump/DeSantis or Trump/Gabbard or DeSantis/Gabbard ticket?
doesn’t matter. democrats have a lock on things. with social media and mainstream media they will just convince enough people that voting Republicans is doom n gloom……until no one can afford food, gas, keep up with their extra curricular activities than people will just vote democrat. they give away so much stuff for free so there’s that.
What did BIden tell us (he is like those people you hate who blurt out the surprise ending of movies) “You’ll have to be patient and wait days or a week but it will turn out all right”
If the election was thrown then the republicans will get neither house. Let’s see if this happens.
How was it thrown? Tech billionaires have the best programmers on the planet on tap. If they know how to rig electronic vote tabulation in an undetectable manner we are through. Then there is the old fashioned way of forging mail ins and or delivering brimming boxes of votes from Alzheimer nursing homes.
An intelligent person would do so in a scatter shot way variable way to throw off any suspicions — sparing De Santis would have been useful.
I am waiting but will not be surprised if the republicans get neither house. Then it’s good bye USA nice knowing you.
It’s happened Brad. The Dominion machines were never challenged. They were used in this election! On the national level nothing has been done to address the fraud that was obvious in 2020. With total control of the News Media, the cabal/deep state/elite – call them what you will – there are literally millions of Americans who have no idea what happened on the night of the 3rd of November. No idea. I know, because I watched the videos of the polls’ workers putting up poster boards on the windows. Plus the mules that were used with the mail in ballots scam. Et cetera. Millions maybe over 50% have NO IDEA.
With this kind of ignorance created by control we never had a chance in the Mid-Term. And the cheating that has occurred this time around will pass unscathed just like in November 2020.
Now back when Trump was President he had all kinds of options about how to deal with the fraud and he did nothing. He kept the over-the-hill, functional alcoholic Giuliana as head of his effort to address the fraud. You should read Byrne’s account and how Sidney Powell tried to work with Giuliani’s team and was appalled at the disorganization.
Trump could have declared REAL election interference and evoked the Executive Order that gave the president extraordinary powers to deal with the propaganda ministry of the News Media. This was another coup d’etat and required drastic means to address. Trump was strangely vague about the whole thing. Very strange.
So here we are with a bunch of Democrats in the House and Senate just like the last two years, with a zombie in the White House, and the Deep State running amok thru the streets of America destroying her. At this point there is no hope in saying anything. It’s done. It’s cooked. We’re FVCKED (pardon my French). It is total FUBAR.
Pretty ironic too. There’s this one President who is competent, rational, smart, disciplined, and who loves his country and for that matter, God. And guess what? He’s the president of what used to be our old adversary, the USSR. Ironic eh?
We are living thru some very ominous times Brad. It’s not going to get better for the USA. At least not till the People get the picture despite their TVs. Like when they are poor and have nothing to lose anymore. That’s always when you get a true revolution – when people finally realize that they have nothing left to lose by being mad as hell and acting accordingly.
I know Larry wants intelligent commentary (in his own word) but I’m sorry, I’ve got nothing.
Oh well, something comes to mind: if Trump is the answer god only knows what the question might be.
The Trumpet’s mistake was killing for Israel to keep terrorism alive … to make a buck = His problem: How to bring the assassinated back to life for the empire to survive
I’m absolutely shocked you would attack Trump and defend Desantis. First, Desantis is Obama 2.0, but the republicans version. He’s an elitist through and through!! He went to Yale for his undergrad degree, while also joining one of the oldest fraternities in the USA, and is obviously a Skull and Bones member. It becomes obvious because he went to Harvard Law after Yale. The Clintons (both went to Yale), Bush’s (both sr and jr went to Yale), Obama (Harvard law), which is the obvious training ground for the elite. The elite aren’t just democrats as Liz Cheney so obviously pointed out with her endorsement of democrats this election. Two wings but same bird.
Second, Desantis rode on the coattails at the height of Trumps presidency, and was a relative nobody in Florida and certainly nationally. Trump not only endorsed him during the Republican primaries but also CAMPAIGNED for Desantis. Trump literally created Desantis, Trump shared the stage with him, and helped him get where he is today. These are undeniable facts! Had Trump supported his Republican rival who had more money, was better known by a long shot, and was the likely winnner until Trump endorsed Desantis. The question shouldn’t be why Trump is upset with Desantis, which should be obvious to anyone paying attention, but rather, where the hell has Desantis been in defense of Trump? Desantis has been mum on the stolen election, we never see him defend Trump publicly, or at all! The real question YOU and everyone with a brain should be asking is why isn’t Desantis showing ANY loyalty to Trump after everything Trump has done for him?
Thirdly, Desantis isn’t battle tested! He’s in Florida a primarily Republican state, which would be easy for any Republican, I mean, freaking Jed Bush was governor of Florida! Desantis has had it incredibly easy ever since Trump set him up. Now, to act like he would be a great president when he’s been running a state that leans heavily republican is absurd! He has no real political experience other than running a state that already leans HEAVIlY Republican and clearly doesn’t have the highest of standards as Jed Bush was governor there! Going from a state that loves republicans to a national stage and running a country that isn’t very divided isn’t something he has any experience doing, even at the lowest level.
Desantis is owned by the elite, trained by the elite, and he’s a lawyer, which make the worst politicians because they have no moral fortitude, and can rationalize anything, which is why he’s the perfect guy to divide the Republican Party.
The elites know the only way to defeat Trump is from within because they couldn’t do it with Hillary or Biden. Desantis will sell his soul because that’s what lawyers do. It’s why they’re prosecutors one minute, and the next, they’re opening up a private practice and defending/protecting people who committed the sane crimes they locked other people up for committing. Lawyers are primed for being corruptible, which is why so many American politicians are attorneys!
Trump is attacking Desantis because he knows Desantis is now working for the elites that you fail against when it comes to Russia. Trump didn’t say it, but the reason why the media suddenly jumped on Trump from
Fox to the New York post, is because Trump proved to be very successful with his endorsements, and no politician has even remotely come close to the win percentage Trump has with his endorsements! The elite are legitimately scared, hence the sudden barrage of unfounded and absurd attacks reminiscent of 2016! They know Trump has got a lot of people into office that support him and will give him an incredible amount of influence in the coming elections. It should be glaringly obvious the elite are so scared now that they are going so far as using fox etc to try to discredit Trump after his 70%+ win percentage with his endorsements since 2016. They call him a failure without all the key elections being called! All signs point to serious fear from the establishment, so much so, we even have liz Cheney telling establishment RINOs to vote DEMOCRAT! You seriously don’t smell the fear seething out of the establishment’s pores?!
Desantis has no sense of loyalty abd he’s proven it time and again with how he’s treated Trump after all Trump did for him. On top of that, everyone in the establishment has been stroking Desantis ego and telling him they’re going to support him and he’s the future (wink wink) but with the condition that he betrays Trump and runs against him, so to sow serious division within the Republican Party.
Desantis is nothing but a conjured up tool, a nobody prior to Trump, who succeeded under Trump, and got his footing up Trumps presidency. But, the limelight, the establishment whispering him sweet nothings, and the idea of becoming president has superseded any semblance of appreciation or loyalty towards the man who got him there, Trump.
It’s not far fetched, and actually, quite factual, that without trump doing what he did, none of us would even know who Desantis is right now!
But again, Desantis is the pawn the elite are using to conquer Trump from within. They know they can’t do it with the democrats because lord knows they tried, and even after stealing the election, even with Trumps continual claims of election fraud, Americans support him! And in numbers that aren’t supported by the fake polling and stolen elections. Just look what happened in Maricopa county where 25% of the dominion voting machines suddenly stopped working in the largest county in AZ and a very republican county. Yet, a judge refused to grant the republicans an extra three hours to vote (odd the democrats didn’t care! And Hobbs didn’t campaign nor debate Lake, as if she knew she’d win no matter what) even though in states like Pennsylvania in the sane Election Day voting hours were extended because they ran out of ballets, but in AZ the judge said no and the democrats seemed totally unconcerned! Need I say more?!
Desantis has no problem playing the “intelligent” politician, which really means, he’s an establishment guy, won’t speak his mind or heart, and that’s what gets Trump in trouble, but it’s also what people love about him, he’s authentic!
You’re really going to bring up the vaccine issue and Trump wheb Truml has long been vocal about his distrust of vaccines. If he didn’t go along with it he’d have been JFK’ed or they would have called him a mass murderer for not doing it. They faked so many of the numbers that he would have been screwed had he not gone along with it.
If you claim your sources said he was who he was during his briefings, which I have no doubt is true, then you have gotta know that Trump clearly knows what’s going on, but like much of the time, he can’t blatantly say it like we all wished he’d do.
But, if you don’t see how Desantis is being used as a pawn solely to get establishment Republicans backing into the drivers seat, with the two wings same bird scenario we’ve seen for decades, I don’t know what to tell you! But, as someone as knowledgeable as you are, you should know better, and you should see the strategy being employees right now, and see Desantis blatant lack of gratitude and defense of Trump as a clear sign of him being out to get Trump!
This is Trumps last shot at president, and Desantis has a long political career ahead of him if he so chooses, so why is he not defending Trump?! The man that got Desantis foot in the door?
Never trust those who show zero loyalty to those who went out on a limb to help them! Desantis isn’t about America. He’s about the establishment! And it all ties back to him going to Yale and Harvard! The breeding ground for the elitist pawns.
Also, Trump didn’t choose the best oriole to surround himself with because the political game is far different and far more cut throat than the business game. If Trump gets elected for a third time, and it’s not stolen, I’m certain he will fair much better with his political circle. Remember, his presidency was the first time acting as a politician, so cut the guy some slack! Unless you think you could have done better considering all the obvious forces acting against him for 4+ years!
Larry .
Get rid of this.
You have a problem with free speech? Or only when you disagree & have zero counter argument?
Thank you, Mary! And yes, censorship is for fascists and those who hate free thought. And, you’re spot on! When people attack the person, or attempt to censor them, it’s guaranteed they have no legitimate retort, and are insecure, so they insult or censor. I appreciate you!
Trump had a successful tactic in 2016. He repeated this tactic in 2020, and failed, seemingly because of election fraud.
That means as long as election fraud lurks in the back, it will not matter who will be the candidate.
Get basic things clear first.
As a follower of politics for decades, Stalin’s statement that it’s not about the votes, it’s about who counts the votes is just as true today as it ever has been. Elections are won and lost at the county level, not the state and not the federal levels. Back in history, the Christian Coalition was the the first to recognize this and worked to organize counties. It worked with great success. Politics is ignored at county level and very easy to organize. The problem they had was that they couldn’t organize in enough states to be effective quick enough and so they got co-opted by folks who ran as coalition candidates but quickly showed they voted with the swamp. Kind of like candidates in deep red states that run as Republicans, but surely aren’t. Trump had an amazing chance when he won in 2016 to use his base in every state and county to organize them to clean up the system. Didn’t happen. Had one more chance after the 2020 election to do the same. Didn’t happen. When you don’t understand and fight the “rules” you can’t win on a cult of personality. Trumps opponents used this against him yet once again. They deeply funded Trump candidates in the primaries. They knew they controlled the rules of voting. Hence they got what they wanted. Trump candidates lost. They know Trump will not give up. They are counting on Trump running and losing . They want him to run. I predict a lot of his “legal issues” will go on the back burner for a while.
Larry, I would encourage you to read this:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/10/president-trump-fires-back-against-ron-desantis-con-inc-and-coordinated-narrative-midterm-effort/
and give us your take on it.
Sundance’s view of DeSantis seems diametrically opposite to yours.
Interestingly, I believe both you and Sundance live in Florida.
You Americans complaint about your political situation but let me say you have a system with true representatives, separation of powers a separate election for the executive branch and because you are a federal country you have the senate elected by the states that can control the insanities of parlamentarism.
In my country we have an olygarchy of political parties, the election is for a party with a list of people whose merit are soft lips for asskissing to the party leader, when the president of government is elected by a coalition of minorities in the parlament, has all the powers without any control, is the same that in Franco,s time, unity of powers separation of functions
Not just America but other countries that are a Federation ; Russia or Germany or Canada , all Federations , also Australia. Yep that’s me.
You may be interested to know , or not, that I hitch hiked , autostopped, in Spain in 1977.
Had never seen a machine gun before and the police and others carried them everywhere. Outside banks , government buildings. You could not even discuss the name Franco.
Still managed to smoke a bit of weed. Days of youth.
summer 77 I did hitch hike in Southern France there was still a difference in the beaches
Um, Trump endorsed 183 candidates. 174 won.
Ah Juan, i see you’ve bought the propaganda like so many Americans.
Yes, the US has a structure as you describe— checks, balances, representatives etc– but that design isn’t anything like reality.
No, the reality is what you experience: an Oligarchy of corrupt, career criminals who quickly compromise and control any elected official they didn’t put there. The US for all practical purposes is a criminal cartel masquerading as a nation state.
Larry,
You praise his achievements and then you say it is time for him to go. Conservatives, as opposed to Republicans, are more than tired of so called statesmen that would not respond to the attacks on them. We love that he returns the favor and goes after those that attack him, the “Main Stream Press” for example. Look at where he grew up and their attitude on responding to confrontations.
Would you rather have someone that fights back or someone like George Bush that gets called Hitler and just takes it. McCain did not use any of the information he had on Obama because he wanted to take the high road. Same with Romney.
Yes there are many times it might seem brutish, but it was necessary, and the reaction to it by the MSM, liberals, and even RINO’s was so enjoyable because he got under their skin so often. It was rather enjoyable to see this and seeing people get so upset because he stated the obvious. Yes, stating the obvious can seem harsh, but it gets the point across.
Maybe there was/is a method to his madness. How could he accomplish so much, at home and internationally, while fighting the DS, MSM, the Globalists, and even the Democratic (sic) controlled Congress is if he was so bad? We live in Texas, but love DeSantis, and so appreciate what he has done there. We have some family and friends there and may move there when we retire. Abbott was okay, but we wished he would be more like him. The thing with DeSantis though, is he has yet to prove himself when he has all the tools of the government and the MSM, and the Globalists attacking him and undermining him everyday on everything he does. He experienced some of it, but the rest of the Florida State government pretty much supported him.
I am still wondering what the PEADS and the Executive orders Trump signed were and why they were written.
The world is screwed if we keep going down this path that Russia and China are bad and the US cannot do anything wrong. People need to research and study real history and how we got here, not what is presented by organizations and people that only what their perspective learned.
I really enjoy the show while he is in office.
Just a different take on Trump.
From the other side of the world what I loved about Trump was the theatre. He would pick his time, make an outrageous statement and suddenly the headlines were all about Trump, again.
Consider today. There’s a by-election which may, or may not, prove important. There’s a war raging in Ukraine. Immigration? Health care, including Covid? The whole woke silliness? And what are we talking about? Trump, again.
What I loathed about Trump is I think he is a Zionist stooge. Why else would he move the US embassy to Jerusalem? Why else would he sabotage the Iran deal? Why else reverse the recognition of Cuba?
Wake up, America. You’re being played like a piano.
I think the problem with Trump from the beginning of his administration it was Pride.
Pride comes before disaster, and arrogance before a fall. When you make a mistake you
recognized it and corrected or don’t do it again. Who knows the future of United States anymore under the collective Marxist leadership of today. God help our families. Thanks for your writings.
When Trump left office here in Florida where I live:
-gas was $1.79 a gallon
-unemployment was the lowest ever seen and wages were climbing (Florida has been notorious for high unemployment and ridiculously low wages).
-mortgage rate was at 3 percent and our housing market was robust
-Federal income taxes were the lowest I’ve seen in years (particularly after Obama)
-war was not on the horizon
I could not have asked for a better situation
Gov DeSantis did shut down the state at the start of the covid hysteria but only for 3 months. I don’t know about other counties in Florida but in mine the police pretended not to notice if a bar or restaurant was open illegally. Life here was somewhat bearable.
I don’t think a Trump/DeSantis ticket is doable. I’ve heard that if both candidates are from the same state then they can run but they lose their state’s electoral votes, somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.
Ego in play Larry? I thought Donald Trump did well as President, apart that is for his choices for Cabinet positions and other administrative offices. He is however a bit too divisive, the United States would be better if Mr DeSantis ran and won the Presidency. Even so Washington DC needs a major clear out, far too many elected representatives are corrupt and on the take.unless that happens any new President will struggle, you need honest people in office.
Lots of discussion re Pres Trump.
Reply in short:- there are many europeen countries who would love to have him as leader.
hello Larry
reading all {well almost all}of the responses today one thing stood out.the responses had one thing in common,NOTHING.After reading them and giving them thought i realized icould not form a general opinion of what i read.it is so complicated it defies sorting out.IMHO this is America.we are forced to cherry pick from the deluge of data to avoid information overload.this is not conducive to rational conclusion.we are doomed.
P.S. iam not the sharpest tack in the box but a hammer can make me useful.
Well, I think you’re a lot sharper than you admit, you do have a hammer, and you absolutely nailed it.
American culture no longer rests on any broadly accepted ideas about who we are, where we are headed, and what we need for the trip. Hence the bewildering array of thoughtful and not-so-thoughtful opinions here, and the lack of reasonable answers from our creaking and corrupt political institutions. And it seems to me that appropriate political institutions cannot even arise while such fundamentals are in doubt.
Of course, you can kill folks who disagree with you, but they’ll certainly try to kill you back, so that’s just the Highway to Hell — tho I am sure many will take that road in coming years. If anyone wants my advice, better to keep your head down and your eyes open for the next 2 or 3 decades, while others with bigger ambitions and littler brains kill each other off. Once we are back to basics, we’ll have a better idea of who we are, where we’re going, and how best to get there.
If this sounds defeatist, all I can say is, Have at it my friend — but do be careful.
Trump is about Trump. I loved candidate Trump in 2016. President Trump betrayed me in most every way he could, whether by plan or under pressure. It really doesn’t matter why. Trump will betray us again. He’s poisonous to rational, reasonable politics and drives moderates from the polls into the hands of the anti-American Democrat party. And about the Republicans in general? They threw away a once in a generation chance to overthrow the liberal-socialist-destroyers amid the chaos that the Democrats have made of America and more. It turns out that Most Americans do want our 2nd Amendment, yes, but a wide majority also want access to safe abortions. The Republican establishment is wrong-headed or doesn’t want power. Thanks.
Scott Kesterson of BardsFM said this is a battle between the American freemasonry and the Illuminati for the souls of the sheeple. I think he’s right. Given that both are luciferin, I dont have a dog in this fight and hope both destroy themselves and the systems they have created. As far as Trump or Gov Ron go it’s ‘The Apprentice’ on roids and another construct brought to you by Phyzer. Enjoy! For the record Trump lost me with the obscene vax pimping and De Santis lost me with SB2006 which empowered state to come to my house and arrest me for refusing a jab. No, America will not be saved by neither of these Jesuit clowns, and as we just witnessed ‘selections’ are a farce, so where does that leave us? As for me and my house we will follow the Lord and focus on local issues, I mean literally with in 200 yards! The rest of the world can go to hell.
The fact that Trump brought up c0v1d-1984 really annoys me. Does this guy just not get it yet?
I am not ready to chalk this up to Trump’s petulance and ego. I think that, as in almost everything he says there is a purpose and a point which needs to be made, much as some might not want to hear it.
Trump kept Hillary out of the White House, delayed the rise of tyranny which is now manifesting in the US and completely exposed the the evil deep state for those who dared to look. I give him a pass on his appointments, because the box of DC chocolates from which he was allowed to choose was full of stale crap way past its sell-by date.
Despite the best efforts of the deep state, he won the election handily in 2020, and the Uniparty/ Deep State Axis had to blow their cover to steal it from him. After watching them blatantly steal the 2022 midterms, I have no doubt that Trump was the last Republican President. We may get a RINO here and there in the future to fuel the two party illusion, but the US is a de facto one party state now.
Maybe Trump realizes this and plans to run a doomed, suicide campaign against the state, because despite all of his flaws, he knows the Powers That Be fear him most of all because he is outside their control. Any of the conventional Republicans, including Desantis, can be co-opted or compromised. Maybe Trump is trying warn off the flavor of the moment by giving him a little taste of what will come in a Presidential campaign and telling him to get more experience and perspective before he decides to take it to the next level.
Maybe Trump is saying, “Don’t be hasty, Ron. You’re good , but you’re not that good…yet. I got this. Just watch me, and see what happens to me, because it will happen to you if you run. It might not be what you want for you and your family right now, or ever.”
This article hits in this..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/going-far-left-rinos-joining-forces-back-ron-desantis-effort-dethrone-president-trump/
DeSantis likely has an unholy alliance in work – power is very attractive and the world’s “evil-elite” place some delicious things in front of people like DeSantis
The U.S. was never energy independent. U.S. oil production peaked at 13M bpd (vs 12M today) as we consumed 19M. If you listen carefully to the buisiness leaders, they will say, ‘North American’ energy independence because apparently, Canada is part of the U.S.
Larry:
I didn’t disagree with your leading post at all. I do think Trump is vulnerable to the vaccine. It was his baby, and he’s proud of it. So he can’t admit it’s a failure. (I have a sister and a friend hospitalized due to it. One was forced to keep her job.) I think he was led around by the nose too much resulting in little change. I agree that people worked diligently to prevent him from being successful on certain issues. I remember Hilldawg publicly stating they could work around him and they did. If DeSantis is a true believer in the maga platform, it will happen to him too. Or if he veers off course in an area should he get to the WH, the knives will come out for him too.
On the other hand, DeSantis does not have Trump’s marketing skills and Trump does not have DeSantis’s political acumen. So I don’t see why they don’t help each other to ensure maga wins. Trump would only have one term and wouldn’t have to worry about re-election freeing him to have more leeway to clean out Swamp Critters lurking in permanent positions aka what is called the DeepState. He’s in charge of that branch and could reduce the number of positions and transfer some of those people out. Pat Witt said they had plans to fix a lot of that had Trump won.
Trump is a clown and should go away. I loved candidate Trump, especially when he eviscerated Jeb Bush. But, with the firing of general Flynn, things headed south quick.
Here’s Miss Mercer’s take
https://www.unz.com/imercer/ron-desantis-delivers-first-principles-in-action/
I’ve always thought Trump was a dumb attention seeking, insecure psychopath always ready to sell his country and his children for ill-gotten shekels
His choice for people he picked for main positions in his gvt were typical for a cowardly, mentally weak bully that he is
I still celebrated when he won over Hitlery
De Santis seems a honorable, brave, intelligent and strong man the exact opposite in every way to the orange clown with child bearing hips- no wonder the but-hurt fat clown is trying to deflate his status
Answering Bill Wade’s Question:
“I’ve heard that if both candidates are from the same state then they can run but they lose their state’s electoral votes, somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.”
Trump just has to change his residency. This was the situation with Bush/Cheney 2000 when Bush was governor of Texas and Cheney was residing in Texas. Cheney moved out of the state.
thanks Lois! I guess Trump could move to New Jersey, lol.
Sorry to be on a rampage this morning but here’s something else to read:
Liz Cheney would ‘find it very difficult’ to support DeSantis because of Trump similarities
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/liz-cheney-would-find-very-difficult-support-desantis-because-trump-similarities
Voter-wise, Trump is maxed out. There is not a swing or undecided voter in all 50 states who will tip to him. His constituency can only get smaller, not bigger. He is toast.
The only thing left for him is Republican Party wrecking ball. Faced with this, he can either exit stage right or take everyone down with him. Bet on the second.
Trump served a purpose in 2016. With that said his choice of people around him was amazingly poor. One of the things that people really say they love about him is the large number of judges he got in. Don’t ever forget that Mitch fast tracked those nominations. Can’t imagine that Mitch has America’s best interest at heart. Answer one question. Did the Swamp get smaller, bigger or remain the same size after four years of Trump? Electing someone who is a leader isn’t enough per se. They have to know how to navigate the bureaucracy and how to prevail. Trump didn’t.
Trump never had a chance to navigate – the waters were invested with mines from day one. McConnell & Co. were laying those mines daily.
Mr. Johnson, Larry, Trump is attacking DeSantis, because he recognizes the danger: DeSantis is his most formidable potential opponent. He is in fact the only serious hope for a political overturn in the USA, and if that fails, secession will become inevitable. Back to Trump POV, DeSantis, both as candidate and, eventually, as President, would erase the memory, or if you will, legacy, of Trump, because he will allow good people to grow as his side, since he is not a narcissist.
The potential of the DeSantis can be easily understood if you just roll back a few days to your own November 8 analysis, and what exactly lead to that. I do not know exactly the timing at you wrote it, but I strongly suspected you were then under the influence of not only factor A, but also factor B; A being the fact you have been living under the rule of DeSantis, and B being the early results of the midterm elections, including and foremost a strong switch to Republicans in Florida – which had no equivalent elsewhere.
I dare to be presumptuous enough to say that that early skew in the elections input led you to an overestimation of the political change, and then the wrong conclusions. Try to tell an unintelligent person – or even worse, a person who is eager to downgrade others in order to feel better about himself – that in classical logic, when the antecedent is false, it no longer matters of the consequent is false or true, you can no longer call that inference a mistake.
You do a great job with your blog. I too would might have become in my youth an analyst for my government, but by then it was already noticeable that we were no longer independent. Then again, the same could be said about your country, doesn’t it, in the sense of the head of the state being detached and unaligned from its body?
Consider this perspective from “Sundance,” via the Conservative Treehouse. Bannon considers him one of the “smartest guys”:
* * * * *
“The Democrats and professional Republican class both want to see the populist movement destroyed for the same reason Mitch McConnell wanted the Tea Party destroyed in 2010. The assembly of the united middle-class and blue-collar base inside the Republican Party, essentially the broad MAGA movement, represents a Main Street threat to Wall Street control of the GOPe.
“There are trillions at stake.
“As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ megadonor and Citadel hedge fund billionaire, Ken Griffin, openly admitted recently the Wall Street goals are (1) stop the populist movement and (2) get the Republican Party back in alignment with the multinational “corporate world.” These are the same goals of the Republican leadership in Washington DC and the same goals as the corporate media who serve as the public relations firms for Wall Street.
“The collaborative group, which includes the entirety of the funding mechanism and management behind Ron DeSantis, viewed the 2022 midterm election as an opportunity to reset the Republican Party away from the populist MAGA influence. The strategy was to roll out of the August DOJ Mar-a-Lago targeting, directly into a nationally rebranded DeSantis operation and then lead up to the 2022 midterm election.
“Anything that can cast Donald Trump as a negative would be enhanced, and anything that would cast the MAGA movement as a positive would be diminished. In part, this is the intent behind the delayed positive election results from key MAGA races in CO, WA, NV and AZ, combined with emphasis on the negative -albeit controlled- election ballot outcomes from Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Read more at:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
Well Trump is simply pointing out that DeSantis’s victory is only “just the beginning” and there’s still bigger issues coming up ahead for conservatives to tackle, and for DeSantis not to “overindulge” in his victory celebrations and mingle too heavily over with the RINO’s, Fox News, etc…
Of course, on the other hand, one could also say “Well hey the man just won an election, let him at least have *some* time in the sun to enjoy and celebrate!”
Also Trump got upset over DeSantis’s comments about “being interested only in just being a state governor at this moment”. Well, quite possibly perhaps behind Trump’s earlier support for DeSantis he was envisioning a bigger future role for the Florida governor actually, and so became disappointed now over DeSantis’s apparent/current “lack of ambition”.
Larry, you need a bit of backstory on the Trump/DeSantis spat. I suggest the following to get filled in:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/10/president-trump-fires-back-against-ron-desantis-con-inc-and-coordinated-narrative-midterm-effort/
In PA the establishment GOP denied support for Mastriano, and with OZ actively worked against. All because these two men had a Trump endorsement. If GOPe wants Desantis fine. Just don’t expect me to waste time voting for him . We are now a solid blue state due to petty politics of GOPe. As for Trump go away or be a SOB by starting a new party. There is no worthless political party in the world like the GOP. Poor Desantis for being their new projected Reagan like darling.
Great Synopses
https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1560643541092761604
I liked Trump a lot, especially when he destroyed Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz in the primaries. I’m tired of establishment Republicans and the Old Guard. I wanted someone to shake up Washington D.C. Trump did that, but I think he didn’t go far enough. And yes, I agree, he listened too much to the Neocons who brought in terrible candidates who undermined his policies. I am also disgusted that that Trump had no oversight of Fauci and his gang of crooks. Bannon said that when he was on the staff, they were told that Fauci was untouchable. Anyway, it is easy for me to criticize when I am not in D.C., where frankly the office of the President is just a token and the real power lies with the Oligarchs, the Federal Reserve and the Deep State. I like DeSantis and wish him luck. I think Trump will never be allowed to run again. The powers behind the curtain don’t want anyone to delay their plans. And frankly, we’re looking at a massive economic downturn in 2023 and maybe even a World War…..Final note: and our recent elections were fraught with nonsense..Who really believes that Slingblade won in Pennsylvania? What a joke!
Not a bad assessment, but to claim that Trump made the US energy independent is a hard ply of the facts. Anything can be viewed as a success given a short enough time period. With continual growth any dependence on finite resources will only lead to their exhaustion. US oil was once bubbling up to the surface (Pennsylvania) and now we’re going a mile underground to get it. There’s an obvious trend here. Pushing the narrative that we can increase our energy strengths through exhausting energy “reserves” is a sure way to hit the wall harder. ALL WARS ARE ABOUT RESOURCES.
Speaking only for myself, I would choose DeSantis over Trump because of the “vaccine” issue. It’s as if Trump never read the vaccine feedback. Unprecedented death by an experimental vaccine, mandated by public coercion: a violation of human rights. Trump’s reaction was like his reaction to ANTIFA beating the hell out of his own supporters in 2015-2016: it’s the price of being my supporter. Suck it up. Then there is the man who loves flattery and praise. He could have found better people to work for him by picking from a hat.
Bottom line, Trump is disqualified by being wrong, wrong, wrong on the issue of vaccine slaughter and torture. Human life trump’s Trump. DeSantis has the right moral compass.
I know the Republicans are far from perfect. But they are not anti-white. If white Americans don’t start paying close attention, they are history.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/11/10/more-thoughts-on-the-stolen-2022-election/
Dr. Roberts is wrong. Republicans are anti-white. If White Americans don’t stop voting for Republicans, they are history. If you cannot defend your race proudly, you will not survive.
WHY IS DONALD TRUMP ALIENATING HIS FLORIDA BASE?
https://sonar21.com/why-is-donald-trump-alienating-his-florida-base/
Larry and Noel seem to be advancing the same weapon to try and take Trump out, i.e., the shot.
But Trump will be the Republican nominee because he is the best Pitchman and because he is hardcore. Winners are always hardcore. Losers are always pussies and that captures what Republicans are at their core, pussies.
Another employee asked Musk how he plans to deal with attrition at Twitter.
“I don’t know how to answer that, but I can tell you it’s about being hardcore,” Musk said, according to a person who witnessed the meeting. “A small amount of exceptional people who are highly motivated can do better than a smaller group of high achievers with moderate motivations. If you can’t perform hardcore, then Twitter is not for you.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-floats-bankruptcy-possibility-224502142.html
Musk is a winner because he is hardcore. I sure like what he is doing at Twitter so far.
From: MI Spooks
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 9:01 AM
To: MI Spooks; Jimmy Giles
Subject: Re: Debate Takeaways
The Neocon kikes would rather lose with Bush than win with Trump. This is becoming so apparent that it wouldn’t necessarily take a deal to cause Trump to start “walking back” closer to Bush in an attempt to make himself acceptable to the Super PAC Kikes.
Trump is now just another politician incognito and therefore his chances of success are much enhanced. Think McCain and Romney on steroids, i.e., a ‘pitch man’ (you nailed Trump from the very beginning with this moniker) who can win by being able to sell ice cubes to Eskimos.
Those Super PAC Kikes now know Trump will cut a deal, any deal to become president. IOW, Trump is about nothing more than getting his sorry ass elected. Is he willing to cut a deal with the devil to do that? Of course.
Trump brings new meaning to the term sellout because he’s so good at hype because he has so much money to hype with. The Donald? The better more capturing nickname:
The Pitchman.
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I am openly Pro-White and Anti-Zionist and have been so from the very beginning, non-anonymously.
Jim Giles
Applicant for job as Host at RT
https://youtu.be/8kdf_gCg_VM
P.S. Ms. Simonyan, I would do a better job than https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/crosstalk-escalation-dial:c (Lavelle is too quirky and he has too many guests. I would make it more simple and understandable and more people would watch especially because of my music: https://youtu.be/dQHUAJTZqF0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzOwNdaedvM (Ritter embarrasses himself with such a ‘set’ behind him. I would make him look good at RT.)
As a U.S. Marine told me recently, “All politicians are shit.”
We don’t need politicians. We need genuine leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGNxHMFjigA&t=132s
desantis is an establishment judas goat. trump has many, many, oh so many flaws as a human and a leader, but his clinical narcissism is ironically enough one of his greatest virtues as a president. he is pathologically independent from the power elite, and nothing is more important. if desantis is elected he will be a red-flavored obama.
DeSantis is flawed, granted, but he also just tasted a little 60/40 populism… And personally, I don’t know anyone who isn’t flawed. This is nether a defense, nor hopium. Is it an imperium set-up? It could be. Tulsi carries similar baggage — Ubique.
But you are mistaken, Trump is not independent from the power elite… ask Wilbur Ross.
I’m with CF2 regarding the vaccines. Then Trump called the people who criticized the shots, and those who booed him at a rally when he promoted the shits as “conspiracy theorists.” Something like that. Remember, DeSantis promoted the Covid mRNA vaccines at first too. He even claimed they saved lives. There were tables set-up right inside the front entrance of the Publix supermarkets. I think DeSantis just came around to it earlier; hosted that conference about the shots, where he invited the likes of Dr. Malone and Dr. McCullough. Plus he appointed the best surgeon general we could ask for during this big pharma clot-shot push.
The US Senate makes Trump’s cabinet picks. They are his enemy. I’m surprised you’re making such a blunderous observation. He can fire Mattis, Comey or the first SoS, but the Senate will just send up another globalist neocon neolib bought off stooge.
Desantis is bought off too. He had a choice, and he made it. Don’t worry, people can distinguish between a competent governor who should stay and do his job, and a guy who will abandon that job and do what money handlers tell him. Ron needed to stick to his knitting, and eschew that money. Now, that’s liable to hobble the good he could do in FL. The buyers own you forever.
The US Senate makes Trump’s cabinet picks. They are his enemy. I’m surprised you’re making such a blunderous observation. He can fire Mattis, Comey or the first SoS, but the Senate will just send up another globalist neocon neolib bought off stooge.
Desantis is bought off too. He had a choice, and he made it. Don’t worry, people can distinguish between a competent governor who should stay and do his job, and a guy who will abandon that job and do what money handlers tell him. Ron needed to stick to his knitting, and eschew that money. Now, that’s liable to hobble the good he could do in FL. The buyers own you forever.
Years ago, a rumor circulated to the effect that Hilary encouraged Trump to enter the 2016 presidential race as her foil… Just a strawman rumor, nothing more, but now come admissions the DNC funded well over a dozen “extreme MAGA” candidates who won their Republican primary bids but lost in the general election. Were those races the red wave Republicans expected to surf to an easy victory?
There are many issues on which I profoundly disagree with Trump and the Republicans. However, that does not mean that I can support today’s Democratic Party. Their pushing of all of the woke/trans/BLM crap and their destructive lies about “Russiagate” and “January 6” are simply unforgivable. Along with that, they are the ones who pushed the “vaccine” mandates, school and business closures, etc..
The Democratic Party that I grew up with and supported much of my life no longer exists. It’s become an unholy cult. I believe that there are many former Dems who feel the same way, but they have a hard time with Trump’s bellicosity.
I believe that Trump, for all his faults, loves America. I don’t think the Democrats do at all.
However, Trump is so polarizing that even if he were to be reelected it would not be the best thing for America. Nothing would get done as the Dems and the MSM would be back in “Russiagate” mode with some new “scandal”. Clearly, they don’t need a factual basis to throw the country back into turmoil.
Republicans need to move on with new leaders like DeSantis, Kristi Noem, Youngkin and others who are not so personally polarizing. We need solid conservative “America first” policies calmly articulated and people seen as competent to implement them. That is how we can differentiate ourselves from the insanity of the Democrats. Perhaps Tulsi Gabbard could be brought on board in some kind of unity ticket. What would the Dem reaction be to a Noem/Gabbard ticket (or vice-versa)? Two women running together, one who should fit their alphabet fetish… it might make their heads explode as they grapple with how to dis them.
I believe the broad swath of voters who aren’t rabid left or right simply want honest, competent leaders pursuing common sense policies that bring us to a sense of societal stability and perhaps even renewed pride in our country. There will never be total unity, but competent, intelligent leaders will go a long way to calming things down and moving us in a better direction.
“Trump is so polarizing”
That’s because he has to fight everybody, especially the snakes in his own party.
I think the average Republican is on board with Trump’s policies. But the average controlled Republican in DC is horrified by them, that’s why nothing ever changes.
So I’ll take some bellicosity. Sometimes it is warranted. This is one of those times.
Just remember what they did to the TEA Party and you’ll understand why we need someone who is kind of a jerk at this juncture. And if they succeed at getting rid of him, they really, really, really won’t like what happens the next time.
“He delivered on his promise to reduce unemployment in the black community”
Sorry, but Presidents arent CEOs of national economies. No president rightfully deserves praise or blame for “job creation” unless he’s FDR. His supporters have the political right to credit him, but let’s be honest. He rode a red-hot over inflated fed-pumped and tax-cut driven stock market and record QE to self-congratulation.
His instincts on NATO and N Korea were good, but overall Trump was a foreign policy disaster. He bent over for the apartheidist Zionist colony and easily succumbed to the dual passport neocon leeches he stacked his administration with, polishing his teeth while Assange was sent ignominiously to his doom. Nevermind his “pro Putin” rhetoric and Russiagate, Trump’s actual record re: Russia was the most hawkish of any president in 30 years.
The cold-blooded murder of ISIS-killer Soleimani alone would be enough to see Trump hang were the Nuremburg laws justly applied.
He’s an empty suited life long blue dog democrat and Ed Koch Acolyte with an immigration policy far to the left of Eisenhower and who pushed the GOP leftward on working class issues and (rhetorically) on foreign interventionism–all traditionally left-ish positions….he was only reliably “rightwing” on core GOP donor issues of Israel and Fossil Fuels. Sadly too many of his supporters just dont know enough polical history to properly triangulate what Trump’s politics really are.
Just a madhouse overall and not worth the trouble.
WAAAHHH. By definition this is sour grapes and not even factual
Feel free to name what is “not even factual.”
Larry, I tell you who has DeSantis all figured out.
And that would be Sundance over at The Conservative Treehouse.
At first I recoiled at the thought DeSantis could ever go into McConnell’s den of thieves.
But since DeSantis is MAGA lite at best I decided to do my own investigation.
And it doesn’t look good IMO DeSantis is currently listening and responding to the needs of Floridians for his political benefit.
But sadly I’m afraid that the Uniparty is/has gobbled up DeSantis.
If we can’t beat em’ we’ll make him one of our own. There’s trillions flowing through DC.
Larry, the most telling point you make is that concerning the fake vaccines. The idiotically named Operation Warp Speed isn’t just his Achilles heel, it’s his Achilles ankle, calf, thigh, and arse end. Like you, I supported DJT in both elections with my mouth and money, but no more for me. Unfortunately for him, this operation wasn’t just any old mistake; it was a monumental but entirely predictable blunder (people like Michael Yeadon and Geert Vanden Boshe warned early on and publicly about the extreme danger of inoculation during a pandy). The “beautiful vaccines” (Trump’s own phrase that astonishingly he still spouts today) do not work and everyone with a brain functioning better than Joe Biden’s knows it. Beyond that, the huge increase in reported cancers seems linked to this medical lunacy and the problem promises only to get worse with time. Soon, even Vaxinazis will have to acknowledge this disastrous result of Trump’s decision to forge ahead with Big Pharma’s plan for endless profits. That will put a big hole in Donald’s plan to return to the Oval Office.
Noem = Establishment corporatist who would not protect women athletes on the transgender issue because she’s backed by a corporatist outfit that does transgender surgery; family received corporate welfare
Youngkin = another corporatist and globalist
Tulsi = is great on war issues, but a socialist on many domestic issues
DeSantis did give a great anti-WEF/Davos speech though, but he gave us a new tax and some corporate welfare too.
They all have their pros and cons—just like Trump. No one has the backbone to handle the debt and continued spending. Pick your poison but the GOPe just needs to die. It is not a party of limited government or the real thing in free markets. Democrats are even worse, at least 49 communists. Most are just in the closet. Even the CPUSA in 2016 said on their site they no longer had to run their own candidate because the Democrats were implementing their agenda. It’s gone now but takes a look at their activism page and it’s everything the Democrats run on.
Perhaps it’s time to move to Russia. I envy their 13% income tax and even the 15% one for those making more.
I find this very interesting and I think it gives a fairly good idea of what’s behind all DeSantis, DeSantis
https://waynedupree.com/2022/11/lincoln-project-desantis-video/
Trump has a massive ego which does get in the way of his also massive common sense. That is all I take away from the DeSanctimonious comment. There is also the possibility this is part of a larger play at work that we are not privy to. The only reason I even bring that up as a possibility is because we have watched Trump do that with other situations including many people on the list of “bad” choices Trump has made personnel wise. His first SoS was brought in solely to get the Saudi’s on board with the Abraham Accords. When he succeeded he was allowed to go back to what he does best but to avoid the obvious media mischaracterization of that Trump and Tillerson did the good guy bad guy routine allowing Tillerson to leave with Trump taking the bullet. I could be wrong about that and many of the other “bad” choices Trump made but it flies in the face of reality to believe that Trump can’t identify a good choice for a given job. Makes no sense at all. So getting back to Mr. Sanctimonious, it is not beyond the realm of reason to believe something is at work here too. Otherwise you have to assume as Mr. Johnson has that Trump is just stupid. Really? Were that all our leaders were that stupid. One final thought on DeSantis handling of media. Ron has not seen anything yet and won’t as long as he is perceived to be a rival to Trump. But wait until Ron becomes the frontman for the GOP, whole different ballgame. You think Ron will have a background so clean it survives 6+ years of extreme scrutiny? I sort of doubt it. And Ron wasn’t the first governor to open his state, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem never did lock down but she doesn’t have the PR department Ron has. I guess that was two final thoughts.
The truth won’t set you free.
Bullshit will help your enemies put you in chains.
But the truth will only tell you what you should be doing.
Truth won’t do it for you.
You’ll have to do it yourself.
Today bullshit reigns.
Bullshit on the left.
Bullshit on the right.
And only a handful of people know the truth that is useless unless enough people are willing to fight for it.
In the end the truth that is not backed up by a sword to the belly of the bullshiter is useless.
It is so much easier to destroy than to build.
“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
You have to be thrifty.
Don’t fight the destruction.
Kill the destroyer.
No more destruction.
Don’t try to refute the bullshit.
Kill the bullshiter.
No more having to refute anything.
In 1776 we didn’t invite the British to parley.
We didn’t go “democratic” on the situation.
We killed them.
“You’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough they stop fighting” – Curtis LeMay
At one point or another we are going to have to disinfect. Clean house.
Or else give up and walk meekly into the gas chambers.
Trump is not perfect.
He’s just the best we have.
DeSantis may come after Trump. If he does.
FUBAR as things are, our prospects are pretty miserable.
The normalcy bias makes most people oblivious.
And let’s face it, we don’t seem to have the balls to do what should be done.
So we probably won’t.
The lefto-pukes hate Trump because he’s not a leftoxenomorph.
Many on the right hate Trump because he’s not a RINO and doesn’t belong to the corruptocracy.
That both the lefto-pukes and the RINO hate Trump should tell you he’s the right guy.
The World Trace Center ought to have been rebuilt after we nuked Mecca, Medina and a couple of dozen other pisslim places.
We didn’t.
Instead we put a fagoty contraption in its place that insults us all.
Let’s not keep making the same mistake.
For that same reason Trump has to be put back in the White House.
And he has to govern with balls this time.
And he has to fire his leftoxenomorph son in law and gather a bunch of American patriots freedom dragons around him.
And he has to govern with absolute ruthlessness, like Vlad the Impaler.
And he ought to begin by dismantling the FBI and putting about half its members in jail.
And he ought to burn the Deep State with all the maggots inside.
There’s plenty of work to be done.
Will we?
Will he?
This is not business as usual.
America is dead.
Venezuerica is a rotting corpse.
The worst evil is in charge.
Prospects are lousy.
The future looks bleak.
We failed miserably, we keep failing and it shows.
This won’t be fixed by the usual wanking.
There’s nothing usual about today.
And I don’t think we’re gonna fix anything, at all.
If you have a parachute it may be time to use it.
Otherwise you know what the only box left is.
And here’s an idea: why do we keep bleating about “elekshuns”? What “elekshuns”? How much deja poo would convince us they are diddling us?
And here’s another idea: how much do we really like it for leftoxenomorphs to finger us for sport?
Really. Do we come to the forest to hunt? Doesn’t look like it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The United States occupies and controls Europe. We are not allowed to have an industry anymore as the US demolition of the North Stream 1 & 2 shows. The US cannot take back any industry from China, so the US decided to expropriate Europe’s industry instead. If Europe invested in its own military power, it will be controlled and commanded by the Pentagon. There is even a structure in place for that called NATO. Europe as a great power ceased to exist 1945, it’s now an American colony.
The US Empire will cease to exist just like Europe (UK, Germany, France) and the Soviet Union did. All Empires eventually expire only nations prevail. The future world belongs to China if China can protect itself against the West’s soft power, else it will be the same people that controls the US/Europe that eventually will rule the whole world.
sounds about right!
I think it is a mistake to give Trump too much credit. One should not forget that the current war in Ukraine is partly his fault. Trump has had 4 years to drain the Biden-Hunter-Burisma-etc. swamp in Ukraine and change direction there, but NOTHING has happened. He was too busy with his hair and avoiding all the impeachments (for which, by the way, he himself is to blame). Vote out the Democrats – I’d love to! But if that is to be sustainable, Trump is the wrong man.
Listen, we all know what’s going on. The Never Trumpers are floating the narrative that Trump is ancient history and DeSantis is the new golden boy. We’re not buying it.
We haven’t moved on because past experience tells us that if Trump is sent into retirement, we’re back to business as usual. No border walls, back to endless wars, back to money laundering foreign aid into Hunter Biden’s pocket.
In my adult lifetime, there have been only three bona fide agents of change elected at the federal level who were Republican. They were Reagan, Gingrich and Trump. Each one of them were sabotaged from within, by people in the Republican Party.
That tells you without Trump, we go back to business as usual.
you are bang on, nick. part of the reason this election didn’t swing republican is that a significant part of what is referred to as “trump voters” sat it out. the establishment gop thinks we are as dumb as the democratic base. but we watch. we learn. we remember. and we can tell what the “leadership” is up to.
in short, if the gop dumps trump it dumps his voters. that simple. if you are a gop opportunitist, try winning future elections without the trump base. trump is smart to start the bloodletting now, to show both the republicans who rode his coattails into power and the rank and file gop what it means to sideline his base. this election was the perfect demonstration for that.
i believe that part of this “election confusion” going on into the weekend is due to the fact that things didn’t turn out as the establishment expected. the model for deposing trump has been demonstrated as a losing model for the gop. it will take some time for them to come to grips with that.
to the gop opportunitists: you may get your way and remove trump from our future but by god we’ll see to it the gop remains in the minority for another generation.
FYI: I personally cannot stand Trump. His personality, his narcisism, his showmanship. But I can’t think of anyone else I would put in the oval office to safeguard our liberties. That is what the times call for.
Probably because he’s looking at the long game, way past Florida. There are many, such as myself, who would never ever vote for de Santis, but would vote for Trump, especially if the Dems put up their usual trash.
I’m okay with DeSantis like I was okay with Ted Cruz. If either was the nominee, I would have voted for either of them.
Someone perceived as a bible thumper who clutches his Bible and his Constitution and slobbers all over Israel like Ted Cruz, however, doesn’t have a chance in the Great Lakes. People in the South get excited over those things, but it turns people off up here. And without the Great Lakes, the Republican can’t win.
DeSantis is kind of the same. That tough talk works within these bubbles, but I don’t think it works in the rest of the country. He has Zero charisma and there isn’t any charm to his personality to take the edge off. To be, he’s a loser as a candidate for president but I would have voted for him.
But now, however, given that The usual suspects are pushing him, I have no interest in voting for him. I’d stay home.
On second thought, (this has been sitting sideways on me since this morning when I read it and commented earlier) anyone who covets any political office at this time in our history should be suspect! I think by this time next year we may very well be in the most hellish conditions this country has ever been in. Trump woke up forty million deplorable God and family Patriots and we will never bend our knee to tyranny, so I got a question for Trump and De Sanctimonious: are you with us a against us? Personally I’m convinced both are globalist and part of the great reset agenda. Prove me wrong. Neither have spoken against the vax or getting rid of the machines. Spare me the Trump apologist BS about paper ballots and same day voting Trump tries to pimp, he never condemns Dominion or ES&S. DeSantis would have never got in with our either. So unless there really are secret alliances wanting us to hold the line and trust the plan, who are going to swoop in and save America after the near death experience, which is BS, I’ll focus on my own community and hope and pray and watch as this corrupt corporate temple known as America gets brought to it’s knees begging God to save it! It’ll be biblical!
Trump is has liability and a danger both for the Republican party and the USA at large. I believe that the Americans can do better and that Trump is putting his life at risk were it not for the protection of AIPAC. He has been the best friend Israel ever had in the White House. They haven’t given up on seeing him in it again, but soon they’ll be wiser. At this point, powerful forces within the Deep State will wash him away, one way or another. We’ve started seeing some of that with the Mar A Lago incident. Midterms results will only work to embolden these forces and if they can’t deal with him within the confines of the Law, they’ll take him out, just as they did with JFK.
Perception becomes reality regardless of its actual factual truth..the message creates the perception….control the message you create reality and here we are again.. mainstream media bombarding the frequencies with their message. In 2020 the senile predator in Chief did not Garner 81 million votes and when the smoke clears it will become apperent there was probably shenanigans with these past midterms as well. There will be no reversal of the current psychopathic policies and the Deep States fear of the Donald will switch into overdrive…..forming the narrative early in the collective psyche. Radioactive isotopes marking ballots seemed like a great counter to the obvious voter fraud but somehow the plan crumbled and here we are….on the cusp of Hillary’s 2016 promise of war with Russia. What happened? …. someone or something got to him…..so not to go on a tangent but yes….. anything we here about the Donald on mainstream will be suspect In my opinion
Larry, thank you for bringing up the vaccine issue in this post. It has been absent from the midterm talking points, as far as I know. I agree with your points about Trump in general. Husband and I voted for him in 2020, first time ever for a Republican presidential candidate. We both have science degrees so know the difference between science and ‘the science.’
Thanks, also, for this blog in general. It was a relief to find it. I followed your last blog during the 2008 primaries and feared you had gone silent.
You might be interested in the interview Megyn Kelly did with RFK, Jr. recently. He talked about Trump getting captured by the vaccine industry after the 2016 election. There is also a segment about his son, Conor, volunteering to fight in Ukraine you might be interested in. It is a long interview, but her channel has it broken into segments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6K9hup_6M
These boomers just won’t bow out gracefully. Worse than that, they want to skip over Gen X ( who know all the dirt and refuse to believe their lies) and hand off power to broke , clueless millennials and/or senile/stroke victims. They also want to rob Gen X to pay for the green and other scams to recapitalize their failed ‘economy’.
Rand Paul vs Fauci or DeSantis vs Trump. Same dynamic. Old bosses aren’t used to being taken to task. No disrespect to any oldsters here. I learned a lot before the internet made it easier from the old battlers exposing the truth with newsletters and VHS tapes back in the day. Trump is going down with Big Pharma and Israel will be just another ME country before long.
Remember the 2018 commercial where DeSantis dressed his kid in full MAGA and made him say “Make America Great Again” in baby talk? Total cringe. DeSantis groveled, and begged for Trump’s backing. Thanks to Trump’s support DeSantis managed to beat the crack head by a hair.
If DeSantis runs in 2024 we will know one thing. He is not loyal. What power center will he suck up to next to rise to the next level of power? Military industrial complex?
Where is DeSantis on Ukraine? Endless wars? His debate performance against Christ was marginal. Most people thought he lost the debate against Gillum.
Too many people are saying nice things about him on the left. This makes me nervous.
Latest DeSantis rally in Sarasota had 600 people. Trump’s latest Florida rally about 20k. They were held the same day.
I would prefer to keep him in Florida as governor. It will give him time to get rid of all unsolicited mail in ballots in Florida.
I’m also a greedy part-time Floridian Larry. I don’t want to lose a reliable Governor to an uncertain/unreliable seat in the White House. DeSantis has now a new 4 year term in Florida. If he runs for POTUS in 23/24 he has to give up his seat never to return. With Democrat cheats, with unreliable primary ramifications, however it goes, DeSantis is no longer our governor the minute he declares. I can’t have that. And who is to replace him? Electorally, that is? I want him to sit tight. Being in the White House doesn’t help. Presidents aren’t anything anymore. They are run, they don’t run. I really don’t think Presidents run things, the intel and military and campaign interests run them. Trump is a case in point. Now, Trump surely flummoxed their war in Ukraine for four years (another reason they hated him) and a lot of corruptions (Hunter), but look at the destruction in his wake.
We can argue this or that candidate is more palatable (absolutely the case with Trump vs. Hillary), but let’s not kid ourselves. Governors matter in their realm. Presidents mean nothing, not since W. They mocked W, painted his as a moron, an idiot, but there he was, POTUS, two years after starting the worst military debacle EVER.
My humanity also says I hate to see DeSantis, his wife and his children fall into that DC cesspool. I was in DC for my whole life, you can smell the cesspool clear out to Tyson’s Corner. And Trump, I hate to see that, too. Maybe there’s a Republican dark horse?
Thoughtful people are conflicted, Larry, no?
Jim Christian I agree. Do I detect, no spoken out loud but inferred, that the “United States of America” is the problem and the solution is States Rights Sovereign, get government smaller on a more local level. We need a national divorce (see Tom Woods on that).
Jim, I’m one of those who would prefer DeSantis stay here for a full term. It’s just better for him for the reasons you’ve given and better for us Floridians.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1591211874917486594/photo/1
Not a fan of coulter but she nails it here.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1591211874917486594/photo/1
Trump was a disaster with kushner holding court in the white house and trump’s disastrous appt’s to cabinet and white house positions. e,g bolton, pompass, et al
In my mind, he has to go into the wilderness, the sooner the better, but his ego mania prob will not allow that. I see the gopers tearing themselves apart on this but that may not be a bad thing-they have been ineffective for years ever since the cretin mc connell has been in the senate and rona mcdanial, relative of romney, has been in charge of goper nat’l committee.
I do not believe desantis is the answer, looking at his backers and the fact that israel would be ecstatic. Imagine more of establishment rove, jeb bush, paul ryan,et al:(warning, image is from a very pro-trump site)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Team-DeSantis-5-760×1024.jpg
I have my eye on Youngkin but it is indeed early yet.
Larry, your audience may like the story of St. Martin of Tour, the patron saint of US Army infantry, told by a former Naval Academy graduate. Some interesting language and organization come from st. Martin. https://youtu.be/vEnImVpSJ3A
For Spanky:
“The use of conservatism is to prevent change until it becomes harmless.”
-Lord Salisbury, British PM
As for DeSantis, Trump is aware at least instinctually that neocons and Republican elites are setting up DeSantis to be a fall guy. Theyre presenting him as an alternative to Trump and the de facto leader of the “national conservative” controlled opposition neocon-front, and then once he has been used to eclipse and purge Trump, they plan on purging him as well in favor of an actual neocon or a neoliberal whose strings they can control. He’s a malleable steward for the neocon project. Trump doesnt really have a policy project in mind…he ‘s just pissed he missed his chance to beat the real architects of his political assassination: the neocons in his own administration.
i think bill the butcher sums it up quite well. title is self explanatory
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/you-had-a-republic-but-couldnt-keep-it/
Thanks for the link!
Agree, the day they murdered JFK was the final day the republic ceased to be a country of laws.
A bit off topic but very very funny:
http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/11/30-year-old-billionaire-loses-entire.html
This dude lost “his entire fortune”. It’s a crypto currency this “billionaire” founded that regular folks like Tom Brady and his ex-wife put a ton of money into. Other celebrities also got in on the action, is Zelensky a celebrity? . All gone they say, where? You know money, it comes and it goes, where to though, I wonder? 1st prize goes to the person who can tell me where the money went? Nope, he didn’t buy an expensive island or yacht, he musta bought something though, the money did go somewhere, no?
Looks to me that trump, in his childish ego mania, has decided f__K it, if I cannot be the # 1
hero, I am going to burn it all down: now in addition to desantis, he is going after youngkin:
https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/11/youngkin-trump-insult-midterms/
So much for leadership and building an anti-dimo party!
(MY end to the anti-trump rants, Larry)
Yes, yes and yes. Larry, you are spot on again, my friend. So glad I found you, you have made me feel not so alone. This Michael P Ramirez cartoon says it all. Trump must leave. Unfortunately, his ego is so big he doesn’t know what that means.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c7a8430-bef5-4989-8f33-fff33a09b9c5_1404x1020.jpeg
Seriously, ego is a bad thing? Well, be sure to tell that to Xi, Putin, and Kim…bunch of softies there. Oh, surely we have some polished, humble conservative politician that isn’t a RINO to charm OPEC+ out of 2 or 3 milion barrels/day @ $40 to save our economy and Europe. And convince Russia to go home and China that Taiwan isn’t worth keeping.
I guess balls of steel and not sugar coating truth are too unseemly for a dying Republic’s twitter acccount.
I wonder why it couldn’t be a party membership? Like voter will contribute $5 to each party and there won’t be any need for the lobbyists, donors and other scam to please and the elected won’t need to chase the money but concentrate on what they were elected for.
In 2024 DT will turn 78. This is too old to be running the USA IMHO. As for Ron D, I don’t know of any gov of any state that did a better job during the cooph. Average? Wish that was true. The country would be much better off.
Good insight, as usual, Larry. Agree with most of it.. especially the vax part. My wife is a doctor and was a proponent of vaccines… before the 2nd jab gave her pericarditis, which she still hasn’t totally recovered from, and possibly never will. Not over…. Millions of others you haven’t heard about yet.
Anyway, WOW! Reading all these comments… and here I was wondering why the ‘red wave’ didn’t materialized as many expected. Loved Trump’s instincts and most of his policies… like many people, his narcissism and childish responses to criticism turns me off. A bully is sometimes alright if they want what you do. Don’t know enough about DeSantis, but seems like he’s a good Governor for Florida. Dont think either one could win the Presidency in ’24… or any other (R) that I can think of.
I’ve pretty much lost faith in the American election process. I spend most of my time in Turkije (Turkey) and am always amazed at Erdogan opponents saying, ‘just wait until we vote him out’…… uh… don’t think his handlers will allow that any more than Sleepy Joe’s will.
Appreciate you updating us Larry with what you hear by keeping your finger on the pulse.
I’m writing opinion based on experience. I hope to provoke a discussion from other folks. One of my dear retired CIA friends has remarked how much he enjoys and learns from the comments. Thanks for taking time to participate.