Considering the recent Democrat freakout over the ‘economic narrative‘, which included a request for corporate media to circle the wagons, their desperation is starting to make sense.
Patrick Murray is a notoriously partisan pollster from Monmouth University {use searchbar}. Leftist favorite Murray puts the spin in spin-master when it comes to media polling and narrative engineering.
The Monmouth engineer recently released a heavily spun poll warning the communists and leftist Democrats, showing checkbook issues are the top concern priority for Americans – far beyond any concern about the COVID madness.
Keep in mind, Murray skews polls in extraordinary ways; however, yet even Monmouth cannot avoid seeing that 29% of leftist Americans are very concerned with inflation, while only 18% are concerned with COVID [pdf here]. Monmouth’s polls are always skewed with responses from the DNC base, so consider that result amid their own tribe. Democrats are twice as worried about their household bills and inflation as they are worried about Omicron or any variant therein.
This explains the massive freakout in the backrooms of the White House and DNC at the moment. Their economic policy chickens are coming home to roost.
“Concerns about inflation have taken center stage in discussions around America’s kitchen tables. And, as one would expect, many are placing the blame squarely on Washington,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. (link)
When you ignore the public spin Murray puts on the polling (Republicans horrible etc), the bottom line is devastating for Democrats. This aligns with a recent Wall Street Journal survey showing that Latinos are flocking to the Republican Party, and there is now an even 50/50 split amid Hispanic voters.
“One year after giving Democratic House candidates more than 60% of their vote, according to polls at the time, the Journal survey found that Hispanic voters are evenly split in their choice for Congress. Asked which party they would back if the election were today, 37% of Hispanic voters said they would support the Republican congressional candidate and 37% said they would favor the Democrat, with 22% undecided.” (link)
Keep in mind the MAGA movement, which has overtaken the traditional GOP, is an assembly of the blue-collar working class. The MAGA coalition is not about race, creed, national origin, special interest grouping, or what you do in your bedroom. The MAGA assembly are aligned in common purpose on commonsense Main Street economic issues.
America First is Main Street first, while AOC sheeple and their champagne socialist base promote economic outcomes favorable to Wall Street and corporate multinationals. It doesn’t matter how much they use cognitive dissonance to deny that, the economic outcomes are in your face every day.
When it comes to inflation, the AOC ‘Build Back Better‘ program has the direct consequence of making things worse. They cannot reverse the impacts of leftist policy on energy pricing without changing their structural energy policy – and that ain’t gonna happen.
There’s only about 45 days left (+/-) before the next round of massive inflation hits the country at a retail level. As the raw material and wholesale price increases hit the retail level, the next wave of compounded increased prices will hit harder -and be more steep- than all preceding increments.
Contract terms for payments inside the supply chain are net 30, net 60 or net 90 days, depending on the industry and sector. As those prior contracts were delivered, a massive number of new purchase order fulfillment agreements were written without defined prices, because the raw material and processing costs were changing too fast to be quantified.
Those ‘undefined pricing’ contracts and agreements are going to carry the full weight of increased raw material, energy and transportation costs, and those prices are going to stun many of the recipients.
If the leftists in the political establishment are worried about checkbook economics and grocery store conversations today, you can well imagine that worry turning to fear as soon as the next wave of reality hits the kitchen table.
Our current Stalinist masters are the ones counting the votes. The opinions of the proletariat does not matter now, perhaps it never did.
As ever, the purpose of a poll is to shape opinions….
After what happened last time, I doubt people are going to be sitting on their hands with the midterms. You can expect EXTREME federalism when it comes to local engagement. Project Veritas will be the least of these dimwits’ concerns when people are swarming your polls and counting centers recording everything you do in and around it. Yeah, not gonna be a good time for the DNC next year…..
I have been involved in our tiny town’s (2500) LED and council meeting. So glad to be friends with and close to our LED!
You gotta start somewhere!
Start at home!
Catherine Austin Fitts would approve.
Agreed!
There is NO law recording the events in precinct polling places, outside or the entrances.
The Communists are scared shitless right now because the MAGA people are getting involved in local politics like never before seen. Hell, in Colorado the MAGA people took back like 10 school boards. They are so scared they have the FAKE NEWS saying that MAGA people getting involved at the local levels is dangerous.
Yes, it’s why they call us domestic terrorists…
Because we are “exposing/terrorizing” their base and face of lies.
The Terrorists are the ones overtaxing us, which causes mandatory price increases at every level.
Taxation is theft. The original taxation was for purpose of paying for war time costs, period.
Repeal the illegal 16th Amendment which does not abide the US Constitution nor the limited power of authority allowed the federal government in the Compact it was created.
Sixteenth Amendment The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
This was passed and finally first enacted in 1913. The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment was the direct consequence of the Court’s 1895 decision in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. Under this approach, the Court found it possible to sustain a corporate income tax as an excise measured by income on the privilege of doing business in corporate form.
Time to take back the country form the treasonous traitors.
Exactly 💯
Great reminder where the ability to fund these globalists, Communists and Nazis comes from, the,”… taxes on incomes…”
In the film below, Aaron Russo sets about to find out if there is a law that requires Americans to pay income tax-this is the focus of the documentary, and he ends up also finding out about the bankers setting up the private Federal Reserve. At 2:10, he shows a quote from US District Court Judge James C. Fox saying that the 16th amendment was not ratified by a sufficient number of states.
Aaron Russo’s
America: Freedom to Fascism
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HXx6oWdIHvgr/
Great video. I watched this a few years ago.
Libby…People who DO NOT STUDY HISTORY will ALWAYS repeat it and by NOT following the Constitution, AS WRITTEN, OUR country has gotten away from us. Time to get in the trenches and go hand-to-hand with this morons…Look in the eyeballs and take ’em down!!!!
Correct!
Economic terrorism!
please volunteer to be an election observer.
and please, please vote. primaries are very important.
Yes!
Primaries are the only reason that I’m registered Republican, otherwise, I’d be an Indy.
I register voters whenever I can-at the Republican booth at the county fair, at our elections if I can fill that position, my monthly Repub mtgs.
You would not believe (or maybe we treepers would) the number of people who register to vote as Independents and have NO IDEA that if they register as an Independent, they can’t vote in in the primaries. NOT A CLUE!
Every single person I have told – changes their registration to a party affiliation – just think about all those Indies registering by checking a box on a driver’s license or Covered CA-Obamacare application-
There is a serious lack of education about voting and our government in our country.
It is a very sad state of affairs
I am registered independent knowing full well I cannot participate the primaries unless I wish to change my afilliation on voting day which I can do here in Iowa. However, Iowa uses a caucus system that I think is crap. So I don’t bother. Bonus… I get almost n0 campaign mail and and no campaign calls. But I vote in every election otherwise.
Voting in primaries depends on the state. Some states have open primaries and anyone can vote in one of the primaries; some states allow independents to vote in either primary and other states don’t register by party, so primary day is based on whichever party you want to influence.
This information is not secret and if a voter lives in a closed primary state, one would think the voter would understand the rules after one election cycle. If they still don’t get it, their too dumb to vote and should stay away from the voting booth. Uninformed voters are a curse to this nation.
I remember when independants became a “thing”, and unfortunately the ‘image’ created in the mind had a powerful draw for many.
I really think it was another con/disinfo manipulation, to muddy the waters,..
Do you know, Nationally how many registered Republican voters there are?
Did you know the RNC doesn’t, either?
NO ONE does, because about 1/2 of States do not record voters party affiliation.
Always bear this in mind, whenever you hear some talking head say “We are roughly a 50/50 nation, with slightly more registered Democrats.”
You’ve heard that, many times. But there is NO way that can be said with ANY certainty, and yet they repeat it with absolute certainty.
And notice, just as Brandon got just 10,000 more ballots in those key states; if you want to fudge #’s, you don’t get greedy, you give yourself “just enough” to win.
Like “SLIGHTLY more registered Democrats”
Given not just the known ballot fraud, but HOW it was carried out by concentrating the fraudulent ballot dumping in the large metro areas,…
and given that MANY states are red EXCEPT for the large metro areas,..I don’t think we should believe either the “50/50” b.s. or that some States believed to be blue or purple, really are.
Same!!👍
In Az, and many other states, there is a time limit, I THINK its 30 days before an election, and you can’t change registration after that.
And, are you happy with what my dad called “the druthers”?
As in I’d,…DRUTHER have that.
After the caucuses by both parties, are you happy with the choices your given, or do you feel like the choice they have given you is between tweedle dumb, and tweedle dumber, the lesser of two weavils, Uniparty-D or Uniparty-R?
If your happy with your choice, if you believe a MAGA candidate comes out of the caucus, for you to vote for, then fine.
However, I submit, if you find yourself very disatisfied with the choices on the ballot, doesn’t that mean maybe you should participate in those crap caucuses, instead of letting others decide your druthers for you?
As in, if you think its crap, get in there and CHANGE it, instead of just standing outside and carping?
Just random thoughts,…
Devices capable of recording were prohibited in many of the polling places here in MN this past November.
The vote is our voice. Protect it by any and all means possible.
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decided everything.
True to a point.
But no matter of that, we cannot simply quit, lay down and commit political suicide.
If we lose and die, we have to do so fighting to our last breath!
Don’t dare give up no matter the seeming impossible odds.
What if George Washington would have assumed a passive course of action?
In my opinion, voting IS committing political suicide. At some point we have to realize that this insanity (doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results) is not working!
I will say again: If you wait until you have nothing left to lose, you generally have nothing left to win with either!
Which I why democracies suck.
Good think we don’t live in one, and never have!
Its a Democratic REPUBLIC we live in.
And those who don’t vote, decide most of all.
The dead vote, the illegal aliens vote, the multiple voting vote…..
Anybody that votes according to what they see in the polls is lazy and stupid.
I have been telling people to tune out since the 60’s. No news, especially not local news. No print or radio.
Pearl harbor day baby!
I will not start the revolution, but I am ready, willing and armed. I will vote and be vocal, but I am a reallist… if they cheat the vote, there is no republic, only anarchy
Well, its reasuring that you and trevor, and others are prepared,…
WHO, exactly do you propose to shoot? CNN?
All Dems,..all politicians,…all buerocrats,…?
Force of arms, in rare instances has been used to prevent a conmunist takeover, however the ‘anti-conmunists’ had control of the government, including LE and the military.
WE don’t have such control, THEY do.
And, the A-C’s were willing to do “whatever it takes” and therefore resort to the same kinds of tactics as the conmunists, including extrajudicial killings and “disappearings” by death squads.
And where do you draw the line? Politicians, sure.
Journalists, of coarse.
Teachers, without a doubt.
I recall hearing about a young boy in France, during the revolution, where they fed aristocrats to the guiotines, eventually running out of aristocrats.
This boy, although a peasant, had a mom that insistes he learn to speak “proper” French. He was out on the streets, someone heard him pronounce a word as only an aristocrat would, he was siezed and fed to the guiotine.
WHERE do you start, and where do you stop, if what your proposing is to kill every conmunist in the country?
And if not, exactly what do you intend to do with the cartidges and arms?
The Stalinist term works. Many labels work.
I believe ultimately that ‘Demonic methods, goals
and “The fruit” borne
of them’ is how they will
will judged.
Satanic works also….
Bull. Next time we will be counting the votes in all the swing states. Like in Virginia, they will not be able to cheat in red and swing states and the blue states don’t matter.
But I thought the Dims provided relief at the gas pump by opening the reserve and lowering gas prices an average of two cents a gallon… for a few days…thank you for looking out for the average American!
Most of that oil went to China and India
Because they pollute less…oh, wait a minute…
That was relief to CHINA, who has been feeling an energy pinch, lately..
So thats where the petroleum was sent.
“What about Climate change,..won’t releasing that and sending it to China contribute to greenhouse gasses?”
“No, cause just as the virus distinguishes between grocery stores (hates and avoids) and beauty parlors etc. (loves and congregates in) carbon dioxide only contributes to climate change, if its produced in U.S., western europe, or Australia.”
The Democratics and Decepticons incompetence and ignorance sometimes gives me comfort.
But hopefully us as collateral damage won’t be life-ending as they self-destruct.
The Country’s heading into its second only era of economic Stagflation, a Democratic specialty. This is going to be rough but like all hardships in life it’s also going to be a blessing in disguise. It’s going to paralyze the Democrats ability to Print money and coopt countries, organizations, and people. We’re not a little banana republic – China’s not going to be able to come along and subsidize their operations.
See, you can’t Print your way out of stagflation, that’s the source of the problem. Biden thinks he can (and all the dumbass bureaucrats) but they can’t (gone to the well to many times). Like I said it’s going to be rough, he’s going to give us a Crash we can’t get out of utilizing Monetary Policy. Another President might be able to utilize some sort of Productivity oriented Work-Fare but mostly it’s going to have to work itself out naturally according to all the Laws of Economics.
That’s where he’s taking the democratic party, Oblivion. And as the consequences of this spill out over the Globe it’s tough to describe how despised Joe Biden and his democratic party are going to be.
Churchill use to warn the rest of the world not to pressure Socialism into the United States because the entire world had become dependent on American productive capacity and generosity. If we fall then there’s no-one to come to the rescue.
All of that fall-out will be blamed directly on the democratic party of America, as it should be for stealing the Election and being the vehicle used for this intrusion. Then they can take their rightful place alongside the other monstrous regime of the 21st century the Chinese communist party (who will fall even faster than us without American support).
My biggest hope is that this also destroys forever, the so called news media.
If ever a class of business deserved to be utterly crushed, their corporate corpses burned to ashes and scattered to the wind, it those jackals. All of them.
If not for them, we would be doing just fine.
Amen!
Btw, I love your handle!
Our administration is a bad dog and none of us are going to give it a biscuit!
Right there with you! 😁
Them and the current social media establishment.
A good post, but if I may. Not a little banana republic? No, we are now one of the biggest BRs that exists.
It may be uncomfortable to say so, more uncomfortable to admit it, but on every level we are as bad if not worse than every little BR which we have ridiculed and looked down upon.
In every single way. USA #1. I cannot be disabused of this observation. It makes me sick.
We must face the truth, embrace it and move through it to become what we are supposed to be.
Same with our fears.
And pray!
Your last 2 words!
Amen!
Always.
Without ceasing!
Giving thanks for the blessings yet to come.🙏💓
Amen.
Yeah!
Yes. God is sovereign over history, and He knows what He is doing. Many of us may suffer (and even die), no doubt about it, but after this tsunami of destruction, there will be renewal. Prepare to form alternative sources locally for food, shelter and energy, as many are already doing. We come from hardy Christian stock. We must remain in the presence of the Lord praying continuously as we go about following His directions. We must be ready to love and care for others of our weaker brethren…and always remember that this world is not our home.
Comment of practical/spiritual wisdom.
Thank you!
Thank you for reminding us what matters.
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.”
Like Sundance always says: Live your life. But this time, the D RATS have to be destroyed forever or else they come back, just like they did after Peanut Man Carter almost destroyed us.
the UNIPARTY, composed of D-rats AND Republicons, have to be destroyed forever,…
Fixed it!
I was out hiking today and this song came into my head; this video is from 1943…Kate Smith singing God Bless America….(how far we have fallen).
Did you see where the Philadelphia Flyers removed the statue of Kate Smith. She was their “patron saint” for the Stanley Cup. Said she sang racist songs from the 1930’s. Nuts.
From growing up in Louisiana, an equal banana republic…Edwin Edwards twice and again…equal to Chicago and New York
I know!
Even now apparently…John Bel Edwards is flexing his tyrannical muscles.
He’s not related, but s….t.
New Orleans dem voters pushed him through the conservative bloc of the rest of the state.
As a young man, I had to deal with the mob-ruled sheriff of Jefferson Parish. But I did and got the necessary business done.
Good! I’ve gathered from our previous conversations you are not a man to sit on your hands when something needs doing.
Ur right!
I hate to be crude…
But f……k everything out of order.
I think mungrel and rah and I should have been brothers!
Amen amen
Yes, stagflation is coming.
I agree with Sundance that this will get worse – and once this really gets going it will keep feeding on itself. What he talks about are purchase orders – but, many companies have prices locked in under contracts. Just wait until these contracts expire>>>higher costs >>> higher prices. But, there are also union contracts! And remember, often labor costs can be the highest cost of many things sold. Wait till those expire>>>higher labor costs>>>higher prices. This is all just getting started.
ZipZoom: Just the tip of the iceberg.
I remember 16% inflation from the Carter years and how long it took to get that nonsense worked out.
Unfortunately this “New” Monetary policy of make believe, embraced by the Uniparty Political elites, says that they CAN print unlimited $, without end or “cost”,…
So, while you can’t print your way out of stagflation, they WILL try, which will dig the hole much deeper.
And it’s extra special nice that the wonderful new higher labor costs are there forever. 🙂
It’s the nature of inflation to spiral out of control quickly. No one wants to be left holding the bag, so they forecast future costs on the high side and adjust their prices today accordingly.
The 70’s inflation spiral was only tamed by jacking interest rates into stratospheric territory and crushing the economy. The current brain trust doesn’t even have that option, so deeply in debt are they already and can’t cover the interest. The “plandemic” may well be simply the cover story for the death of the US petrodollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Exactly, I think this rampant inflation is cover for destroying the currency and ushering in crypto currency tied to social score. It is wrong to think they don’t know what they are doing, they most certainly do.
100 seats, 100 years.
Carter didn’t take the democrats into oblivion so I doubt that Biden will either. The lure of free stuff is too strong for some people to resist. Like fish, they never look beyond the goodie to the hook underneath.
Carter Biden is a TERRIBLE comparison to make.
I remember Carter, terrible POTUS, but nothing like as bad as Brandon.
And at some point, we will look back on 16 percent inflation, wistfully, longingly and refer to it as “the good old days”.
I don’t say this lightly but if what you say is indeed true and I do believe it is.
I honestly do welcome it, short of an all out for sure civil or real world war
I don’t see any other way to cleanse the country.
I’ll suffer just to see destruction of the leftist stronghold and it’s enablers.
Nobody wants it of course but it’s high time for a good purging that’s devastating enough clean this mess up.
Ages at the time of the signing..
Betsy Ross, 24 Alexander Hamilton, 21 Nathan Hale, 21 James Madison, 25 Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Hancock, 39 James Monroe, 18 John Marshall, 20 John Adams, 40 Paul Revere, 41 George Washington, 44
It is time
Sy:
I posted a list on this site of the names and ages of the political assassins in American history and received enormous abuse, but the conclusion is the same – efficacious political action is the province of the young. Old people grump, young people do like Rittenhouse and act.
Something will have to motivate America’s young to act. At present, they are quiescent or violent anarchists.
The welfare state is stable, for the moment. The $trillions being mindlessly dumped into government handouts by Democrats strongly teaches us that they understand the powder keg upon which they sit. When the welfare runs out, the walls come tumbling down. Not until then.
Post Bolshevik/antifa/Lies takeover:
Any powder keg evaporates soon after property owners can defend person and major property with headshots (preferably on video for good citizens’ clearance).
Protest all you like but stay on the street and don’t commit any major felonies…
Something will have to motivate America’s young to act. At present, they are quiescent or violent anarchists.
My, my, such a sweeping dismissal of an entire generation.
I submit for your consideration: One Natalie G. Winters at the National Pulse. I think she may even be 20 by now. One of the most brilliant researchers and investigative reporters ever.
Yes, there are plenty of useless millenials. But there are outstanding patriots in that generation too.
They were educated properly.
It’s the economy stupid!
Those mooks never learn.
Lol…
They should be fleeing the country in fear…
Especially if they had to look directly in an armed USMC…well…you know!
They would never see one…
Angry bees….
Oh gosh, I actually know what angry, biological bees and hornets are. Hellfire!
So just for you, and I’ve got to know that you know this, but for a reminder and USMC blessing:
EAGLE GLOBE AND ANCHOR:
“Gimee that eagle, globe and anchor,
Gimme that eagle, globe and anchor,
Gimme that eagle, globe and anchor,
It was good for dan dailey
It was good for smedley butler
It was good for Chesty Puller
And it’s good enough for me
It was good at Iwo Jima
It was good at Guadacanal
It was good at the frozen chosen
And it’s good enough for me.
————–
I am going to assume you know the USMC second motto, but some would swear it should have been….
Feet in the mud! 😁
Bless you, Marine brother, and may God bless you for your faithful service.
Semper Fi always and forever!
“Goodnight Chesty wherever you are.”
Lights out.
Paris Island.
Never forget!
Thank you my brother. The proudest day of my life was when I EARNED the Title US Marine. The saddest day in my life was when I told my daughter, who wanted to follow in the footsteps of her father and grandfather, no to her request for my blessing to attempt to become an Officer in my beloved Corps. Broke my heart to say no, but I could not abide the thought of her being part of the “other” side if and when things turn hot. She would have made one HELL of a good officer. She is born a leader. It’s a shame that I will never get to see her in the uniform or lead Marines. One more thing the Marxist scum stole from me.
Oh, the Angry Bees I was referring to are not the biological ones, but the ones that yell COVER DOWN as they zip by…..you know the deal.
The Democrats start with the advantage that government employees are now mostly their voters.
Obama gave out huge raises to bureaucrats at the height of the 2009 recession, and thereby bought the loyalty of the government clerks for a generation.
But whatever you pay such whores, they feel the effect when they have to spend those frivolously-earned dollars during massive inflation. Because the value of a $ is meaningless to them, they cannot see the reason for any cost increases. I’m sure the imbecile bureaucrats are now ranting about the greed of the oil companies. Twas ever so.
Just an FYI on the Patrick Murray poll. I just did the math on the unweighted sample he used.
The demographics of the respondents in his poll break down thusly:
34% Democrat
42% Independent
24% Republican
All the best. 🙂
Let me throw this out there…could these spin masters be doing a rope a dope of some kind?
If you mean, is there bad news for us somehow hidden in their poll – that would be no.
Every poll for the last 8 months has been bad news for them, full stop.
Thanks for the info!
sundance/Admin:
FYI: James Golden/Bo Snerdley mentioned the Conservative Tree House’s site or especially the phrase “Safari Rules” on his WABC radio broadcast today. Nobody has mentioned it in this article’s comments but it might have been posted in an earlier article. It was a cursory reference but it shows CTH is becoming more known for good reasons. It is a clever and accurate phrase.
Cursor to 28:30 (Just after Steyn’s segment)
https://wabcradio.com/show/bo-snerdley/
Good catch.
It’s always good to see CTH bylines on stories in badblue news, too. It’s a frequent occurrence and probably really helps expand the site’s already considerable reach.
I checked back on the WABC site after I read your post and realized the 28:30 cursor instruction had to be loaded with James’ “Oh Canada” section (3rd down on the left)
Apologies to anyone seeking to hear the reference. I was new to the site.
10-4
Nice!
It was Rush’s show where I first heard lucianne mentioned during hanging chads, and at lucianne, many years later, where I first encountered links to CTH and got hooked immediately, not long before the DJT escalator ride.
And I agree that kudos for the Treehouse are increasing in lots of places these days.
P.S. I hardly ever even glance at lucianne anymore – they are eeyore central.
Was at the early stages of work career in the 1st stagflation needed to hang on for next 10% wage increase which still trailed prices going up. Now on a fixed income with government manipulated low interest rates stagflation #2 I think will be tougher. In #1 interest rates for savings were relatively equivalent to inflation rates. Now inflation is wild and savings pay zero. That’s how the government confiscates your money.
Now what to do about no money readily left to tax…
Unrealized gains on assets. That will do it. /s
Do you really imagine TBTB eliminated pensions and steered everyone into 401K’s without a plan to harvest all that the fruit once it ripened?
I forsee a tax on “excessively high” 401k’s. Will probably start the tax at any 401k with more than $750k in it. Either that or do something with some sort of calculation about “how much is enough to live on each year” times your life expectancy (a figure which is probably about to plummet between the clot shot effects, suicides, and oceans of incoming fentanyl), and then tax everything over that at 40 percent a year.
Silly ant. Should been a grasshopper. Amirite?
Buy dirt. Dirt you can grow food on. Buy it using a fixed rate 30 year mortgage before the rates go up.
And get out of cities.
Tick tock.
They WILL go after retirement funds; IRA’s and 401k’s, have already ruined Roth IRA’s.
ALL that $, just “sitting there”,..HOW can they resist.
Like Sutton, they go where the $ is.
Me too.
Exactly our situation, Puzzled. Sound money does not exist anymore. Cutting our cloth to our resources is getting a weensy bit harder. Financial repression is an insidious thing which has made a mockery of prudent savings.
Even worse. We paid social security and medicare taxes on post-income-tax income. That is, we had already paid income taxes on our SS and medicare taxes.
Then in the 80s, they decided that 50% of our social security would be taxed if “combined income” (a funny calculation that you can find at the irs.gov website) is above $24K. Then in the early 80s, they decided that it would be 85% of social security that would be taxed if said combined income was above $34k.
None of those two numbers (24K and 34K) are indexed for inflation.
The average SS income in 2022 will be $1657/month or almost $20k/year. Which is not enough to live on, so if you have any additional income (investments, working) over 4K/year, then you pay taxes on 10K of your 20K SS income. And if you earn over 14K/year then you pay taxes on 17K of your SS income.
That’s the AVERAGE SS income. If you’re slightly above average, you’re screwed. And if you’re way above average, you’re buggered.
Now tell me if ANY politician has talked about this insidious tax on seniors. ANY.
Sorry, had combined income wrong.
If you earn 14K/year above SS income, then 50% of SS income (10K) is taxed.
If you earn 24K/year above SS income, then 85% (17K) is taxed.
This for the AVERAGE SS income of $20K/year or $1657/month.
As to definition of buggered – I will leave it up to you research its original meaning.
And if your really lucky you can live in Minnesota and pay state taxes on it as well. As an added bonus to living in the frozen tundra you also pay property taxes through the nose! Not to worry though Taxing timid timmy our tinpot dictator is doing his best to squander our rainy day fund on his stupid ideas. Meanwhile the boy wonder mayor was re elected to preside over carjack nation.. Yep Stanley, we are in a fine mess!
Wasn’t that the ONLY state that voted for native son Mondale over Reagan?
I know many LEGAL immigrants from Mexico and they are livid over what is happening at the border. They are flocking to the Republican Party in droves, both because of the immigration issues AND because of the absolute moral rot that defines the Democratic Party. These are people who value life, family, traditional values, and a just and moral society. That is why they came here and they will not support a party that is openly hostile to all of those things! The GOPe should wake up and smell the coffee…there are MILLLIONS of people looking for an alternative to the Democrats and they do NOT simply want Leftist-Lite!
The GOPe will never wake up and smell the coffee. They got theirs and are sitting pretty right now.
Best if we all get involved at the local level. Do outreach to those communities who have been ignored by the GOPe and show them that on the local level, we welcome them and value their votes.
The communist racist democrats have walked away from all those they once held captive. And we need to make sure those voters know they are part of the party and matter. Not just for one election cycle or two, but for all time.
Yes the communist racist democrats hold all the blue cities. But if we start chipping away at the base they’ve abandoned and let word of mouth and our deeds work for us, it could turn into a wave they will never stop.
Agree! Luckily the MAGA revolution within the GOP has been drinking buckets of that coffee for at least a year now.
There are so many good young MAGA candidates, all fighters, popping up everywhere it’s getting hard to keep track. I’ve only managed to properly research a handful of them to know who is really on the train and worth small $$ support. Lots of work to do over the winter….
The MAGA people need to get rid of Liz Cheney and that Romney woman, both of whom (I assume) are doing the damnedest to make sure the red tide will be minimal in the upcoming mid-terms.
The RNC never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
The RNC “plan” which they are still following, was developed as part of the “2012 autopsy report”.
Says “Demographics is destiny” and so they must embrace amnesty, or go the way of the whigs.
Really stupid crap probably produced with input from kevins room mate.
The Republican Party does not like Trump supporters and I am sure hates Latinos who do not support Dems as they must be Trump supporters or blue collar workers who do not have enough money to pay them off. Ditto blacks who support Trump. The Republican Party should just go away…blacks do not trust the Republican Party and now I know why; I do not trust any of them either. They are worthless scumbags.
I do have this to say about the Dems; they do not fight against people who want to support them, they co-opt them and welcome them into the fold and corrupt them afterwards. Now that is intelligent in a way. I am so sorry to have lost all faith in the Republican Party and wish they would just all resign and go away so that MAGA could take control for all the American people…
If wishes were horses than Boot Edge Edge would ride…
The RINO elite will not just go away. But they will run away when they get enough (figurative, political) kicks in their rear quarters from the grass roots.
They do not need to resign as they will all be replaced in the next five years. Take it to the bank.
This ^^
vikingmom: Also important are the millions of “Unaffiliated” voters, which now includes many of the most thoroughly fed-up former Republicans.
I’m one. I’m not re-registering R for a primary.
Pres trump was a wrecking Ball to the established way of grafting the system through Uniparty tactics. The Republicans hated him more than the dems and still do. He told or threatened to tell all their secrets. No one should trust any Republican without litmus tests to ensure they are MAGA, that includes new found members to the R side of the aisle.
Ayn Rand said Republicans and Demonrats are just opposite sides of the same wooden nickel. I trust President Trump, not the party.
Agree. I was delighted when Bannon flummoxed a couple by asking whether they would vote for McConnell as speaker. Smart!
Test questions for MAGA/RINO
Was there massive election fraud in 2020?
Are their ANY Covid mandates, mask or vax, that you support?
Is Climate Change a threat to National Security?
Is “Center Body Mass” a term of physics, or astrophysics?
Bic or Zippo?
any others you can think of, to differentiate between a RINO poser, and an America First MAGA Candidate?
20 years ago I said legal Mexican immigrants were a plus because they have our values and will eventually vote with us. No one believed me.
Yea I love paying for Mexicans to come here and crap out 5-6 kids a piece while working White families can barely afford one kid. Boomers like you are responsible for the condition this country is in and it is unforgivable. I can’t wait til the last boomer finally croaks.
Well alrighty then sonny.
Wow! You are obviously young and uneducated to the facts of the world. I hope you develop some grace and maturity one day. And be ready for your grandkids to spew the same vile, ignorant garbage at you.
— George W Bush
I’m glad to see at least a bit of confirmation that the country is finished with Covid Derangement Syndrome.
Patricia Weir: Depends on where you live. Los Angeles is clinging to Covid like a warm teddy bear. The State of CA, LA County and City of LA cannot let go of Covid. It’s their favorite source of coercive power and the greatest of all excuses for goverment failures, which are legion.
Gov Hairdoo, once he “beat” his recall went full tyrant…Extend his Executive Order and travel to Mexico for Thanksgiving…probably flew private! SanFranNan and the rest of the Oligarchy are living like it’s 1929…or 1999!
Some serious correction is comming…don’t know what…
Hope this Christmas holiday is “gentle and mild”
Suspect Q1 2022 may bring some “4th Turning turmoil”
Product 19 is the majority of advertising on radio in LA county. The masking is at as high a ratio as a year ago. Hispanics and Asians slap those things on like it’s a biowarefare going on. These people are the biggest p’s I’ve ever lived around.
interestingly here in CT yesterday our COVID positivity rate was 8% the news
was all over it the highest rate since Jan 2020 today it went down to 4% at least
our Governor said the important matrix is the hospitalization rate which is ok
for now not overwhelming anything so we stay at the status Quo for now.
IMO the globalists are all getting their marching orders “ lockstep”
Omnicon. Omnicon.
Here in Canada and the U.K. ( I just checked in with today’s Daily Mail)
The horse is dying, it has been flogged to near death. Yet they keep beating the old nag.
We’ll see but by his fraud is winding down.
It will be all about the economy by Spring.
Cheers!
Well even if the nag dies, use electro shock. This forces muscle contraction and movement. Just Saying, wouldn’t recommend that but I’m just an unvaxxed deplorable. 🤗🤗🤔🤔 What would I know?
blueMA has hair on fire across the state now because one 20-something girl in my county tested for the Moronic Scariant. 🙄
In the meantime I have my very first head cold since a tiny 48 hour one over 2019 Thanksgiving. This one is more of the standard 7-day affair (used to be attributed to a rhinovirus, not a coronavirus, wonder whatever happened to that).
One of my unjabbed friends is staying in close communication to see how it progresses. Thanks to the commenters here, I have a pulse oximeter which, though a bit erratic, is averaging in the safe zone. I don’t have either of the wonder drugs (could never get them here in a blue state), but I do have all the supplements including Quercetin and am dosing them all high right now. No fever, no loss of smell/taste, no breathing problems, just the usual sneezing and dripping a person has dozens of time in a lifetime…
My Vitamin D max dose protected me for a long time, but last week I spent at a family member’s helping him after an operation. It was stressful until we were sure he was on the road to recovery. I think my immune system scheduled a relaxation after that point. Often happens that way – I used to catch a cold as soon as I landed a new job…
In a way my friend and I are both rooting for me to come out recovered from the FauxChiVirus with immunity – we consider that the jackpot. But I think the chances are the highest that this is just the common cold.
I got it the Sunday before TG. Of course just as I was to drive 400 miles to visit friends. It was a short one and the first I’ve had in over two years. No biggie.
Well, surprise, surprise – woke up this morning to loss of smell ability. Also taste, but that was very shortlived. Still can’t smell.
Got a rapid-antigen (not PCR) test home delivered. It was positive.
I have finally joined the Freebloods – Natural Immunity!
I knew that after sharing this with my close unjabbed friends, I’d want to get in here and share with my CTH family!
I’ve been hoping for this for quite a while!
Cold symptoms mostly gone but still some fatigue and muscle aches.
Herr Doktor isn’t finished with it. Today’s utterances from this malignant murderer include telling people to ask for the papers of anyone who might be showing up for Christmas, and intimating that force will be used for those who don’t “volunteer” to to be good little lab rats in his horrifying experiments.
He seems to have taken Old Man Biden at his word when he said Fauci is president. He’s nothing but a terrorist by any sane definition.
In a way the stealing if the election the installation of an empty headed buffoon whi is being used by his Marxist handlers to push Marxist policy through may be biting them on the arse. The experiment is failing. Yes the media will do all it can to save the brand and the fourth branch of government will go after patriots. And yes they double down on policy even after being exposed as harmful. But they are losing ground politically. This could be very interesting.
And the current Media is dying. Look at CNN, big changes are likely coming.
US government I-bonds are paying 7.12% which is calculated at 2 times inflation.
You can purchase 10,000 per calendar year.
No interest if cashed in the first year.
Lose 3 months interest if cashed between 1-5 years.
After 5 years no loss of interest.
probably that’s still less than 1/2 “true” inflation…
It beats keeping the money in US treasury funds.
This Democrat economy sucks, the American people should be able to invest their money and earn a return off it. Currently your money is stolen before you can even try to utilize it for earning potential. There has been a drastic change since Biden got in, liquidity relative to working and earning money to reinvest is almost non-existent, while prices and taxes are through the ROOF at every level.
Firstly, that rate was established a while ago. Secondly, I believe that rate will increase if inflation increases.
Why would I take their word for what the inflation rate is and any return based on that number?
Because you are a smart man, RF, who knows he’s not dealing with honest “brokers”. That’s why you wouldn’t.
There’s a simple solution …
Forgive all student debt. Then, zero-out everyone’s credit card balances … then, place a moratorium on rent collections (again).
Why? Because Climate Change poses an imminent Health Crisis! Suspend all constitutional Rights and start OBEYING NOAA’s climate bureaucrats. Because … “science”!!!!
The destruction of science is key to their (commies) plan. If reason and science are destroyed, man’s ceases to exist. For the record, I am a retired physics teacher.
Ya know, it dont take a rocket scientist to figure out when people cant buy food, they aint gonna be happy with you. Demonicrats are digging a really deep ditch to bury themselves in.
I believe the ditch is intended for us.
Idiots make all sorts of plans based on “perfect world” projections where everything unfolds without resistance.
Real life requires you to plan around most things going wrong.
In short, the Leftists have been in such an isolated bubble shielded from any consequences that they’ve not had their actual plans stress-tested… and that is why their collapse is inevitable.
They ain’t seen hangry yet….
😁 Love it and SF!
Exactly 💯
“hangry”
“It’s what’s for supper”
“Is it soup 🍲 yet?”
Not yet…but very soon.
In reading this article, something came to mind.
I recall an incident from the English Civil War. English roundheads (parliamentarians)
had surrounded some royalists holed up in a castle or walled manor house. The stalemate dragged on a good period of time. Then, one day, a retainer or man-at-arms of the nobles mounted the wall and called down to the soldiers “throw me up a leg of mutton and I will throw thee down a lord”.
I don’t think they’re panicked at all. Everything is going according to plan. It won’t get real for them until we pull out the long guns and stop waiting for the Lord to return. I’m all for both. I’d like to go out in a blaze of glory, personally, not that it will matter to anyone really. I’d just like to trade stories with other Patriots when we get to heaven about how we really kicked their @sses on our way out. /s
Amen Sister! At my age and with my life experience, these whining jackals will have their hands full for a moment or two and then achieve my final victory and now down at the feet of my Savior!
Preach it! I will not go out in a blaze of glory, They will. We are going to win.
It is good to see some positivity on this site for a change.
I find that I am a different generation than most treepers. I expect to make things happen, instead of waiting or praying.
I was born on pearl harbor day…
Went to one of my banks today. They are starting up with the mask BS again. The teller kept telling me I had to wear a mask. I kept telling her I would not. The manager came over and took care of everything for me. I was prepared to close my account over this. I didn’t want to but I would have.
I went to a credit union today and none of the tellers were wearing masks. I wore a mask because I am still getting over surgery.
Hope you get healthy soon. …but the mask won’t even stop the common cold, and it will concentrate disease vectors near your face.
Science.
The problem is people like Mitch McConnell, who is covering for the Democrat’s inflationary budget, is watering down any Republican zeal. Without Trump on the ballot a lot of MAGA voters may sit out.
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! Mitch is a Democrat Infiltrated Sapper. He is carrying out his mission as ordered. A statue of him will be erected in Beijing.
Exactly 💯
That’s what his wife[Communist China 🇨🇳 asset] promised him.
McConnell isn’t squat— it’s the R senators who continue to bow at his feet. They are ALL perverse.
My own very unscientific conclusion, based on personal experience, gives me hope. My father, niece and friend, all Biden voters, have started to openly push back against the covid narrative, and focus attention on pocketbook issues. None are pleased with the current administration’s policies. In addition, every single one has also expressed their fear over rising crime, especially in their own communities. I will not go out on a limb and chalk them up as new conservative voters, but I can definitely see every single one of them sitting out the 2022 midterms.
The Biden supporters I know foolishly thought they would still get Trump policies without Trump.
Some admitted that Biden was problematical, but that someone better would follow. Several cited President Trump’s bad behavior and racism, but cannot provide examples.
These types must feel the pain for any meaningful change in viewpoint . When they are presented with cold facts, they just talk over the presenter. They are like toddlers who put their hands over their ears when informed that its bedtime.
No offense but I hope they reap what they sow. Idiots.
I know people like that. All texting me now saying they will never vote Dem again. I just say “I’ve told you this for years. Too bad you didn’t listen because now the reps are infiltrated by the left and we have almost nobody to vote for as the commie laws you’ve so stupidly voted for for years are taking root.”
I then usually tell them I hope they experience what they voted for personally.
I’m done being nice.
Biden is going to start a war so we will all unite around him and the Dems will win again..
Not likely to go to war over Ukraine and MAGA voters generally feel that Ukraine can pound sand.
I feel most Americans are now anti war after the Iraq and Afghan disasters. We want a strong military for defense but don’t want to be the world police
Well yes. What teenager dosnt dream of dying in a slavic country in order to…well theres…and theres…and uh…because we must..uh..Well dammit boy ya gotta die sometime and the bankers gotta make a living.
Indeed if they should be sent anywhere, it should our southern border, rather than the Ukraine’s
A popular cadence we used to sing during my early days in the corps;
“IF I die on the Russian Front, bury me with a Russian C***….
LMAO!
I was in the Air Force, Strategic Air Command,.
We had a saying in my group of buddies: Peace is our profession. Annihilation is our goal.
Not as catchy as yours by any means, but we always got a kick out of it.
Gallows humor is like that.
I like yours better!
Why would you want a cold before you die?
Cold doesn’t rhyme with front…
Nobody is going to unite around fighting on Russia’s doorstep.
FJB and the horse he rode in on.
“Wag the Dog”
… Scripted by Demo☭rats.
I agree war is the Dem go to solution! Or at least this Dem regimes go to! When you can’t lead, then distract!
Although GB was supposedly a Rep and got us into War too! Another unwinnable mess that made us look weak. Not because of our fighters, but because of who controlled them.
However, absolutely no one I know, OR WOULD EVER WANT TO KNOW, will ever unite around this, this, this…. oops at a loss for a word that won’t get me thrown off describing the current resident and his policies.
But no doubt war will happen and it will unite exactly nobody.
JMHO of course! God Bless!
Well, now that you bring up GWB, and since we are talking “go to” play books, one certainly exists for so horrifying a country that it unifies- a la Gulf of Tonkin incident and, of course, 9 11 (thanks to Brennan, Bush, and the Saudi agent who housed a couple of the terrorists).
What “foreign attack” would that be this time? Isn’t it obvious from the whole Uranium 1 deal, which featured the exact same key players as the RussiaHoax – Mueller, Podesta, Clintons?
“Russia Russia Russia” nukes an American city?
Watch Sum of All Fears and your imagination does not have to stretch very far. . . Klaus Schwab is the new generation Nazi organizing behindthe scenes. Xiden is a Feckless President.
Do we have a Dr. Jack Ryan around? And some old school ex Communist with back channels who doesn’t want to see WWIV level his country?
Sorry to say, but Operation Northwoods indicates that the 4th branch of government would stop at very little to preserve and expand its power. Not to mention the current psychological warfare being perpetrated on the foundation of a biological warfare attack by the CCP and its American 5th column allies proves that the enemy feeds off death.
Nessum Dorma? I hope that’s true, but we are in God’s hands, for sure.
We can certainly pray for such an ending to come to evil men.
So, if that FF attack does happen . . . you heard it here first: It was the MIC and the globalists who orchestrated it, not the Russians. Don’t believe a word the MSM or the intelligence agencies say. Scum sucking liars.
Pray I’m wrong.
It’s Biden. Even at this, he will likely fail.
How did that work out for Lyndon Johnson?
Reading over the all the comments on this, Littleflower, I have to agree that no one wants or will rally around another war, particularly in the Ukraine. BUT that doesn’t mean that Biden (or rather his advisors who are doing his thinking for him) won’t get us into one just to distract from the absolute mess he’s gotten us into. Also, a new war would be very divisive which is also a gain in the anti-American play book these jokers are using.
Well, duh. Carville is right again, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
I love the $16.00 hand crank can opener advert that appeared as soon as I scrolled down to the comments.
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And NONE of them are prepared…
“Mayday!,Mayday! This is Captain Joe Biden. My B17 is on fire and in a flat spin over the Potomac.Mayday! Mayday!”
Naturally, the GOPricks will f**k it up like they always do. It is part of the plan afterall.
They will, but not after 2022. It really is looking like 60 to a 1oo seats, Trump as leader of the house, Biden and Kamala impeached, and Trump as President until 2024 when he is again elected. The pain he is going to dish out to the deep state, the Demoncrats, the media, and social media is going to be delicious.
You’ve been reading the Devolution site again?
Biden and Kamala will be impeached only if the democrats manage to keep the House. Trump wouldn’t be President with their impeachment. The Presidency would be taken up by Pelosi or who ever was Speaker of the House at the time. If there is a GOP speaker after the 2022 elections there won’t be an impeachment – the democrats will make sure there aren’t enough votes.
And after the count they will be destroyed because this time we will be doing the counting.
Not going to worry about polls.
They men nothing these days.
No offense, Sundance but our side needs to stop using hyperbolic words like “panic” or “desperate” or phrases like “they got destroyed!!!” when referring to the DNC/MSM scum. They don’t panic and they don’t get desperate or embarrassed. They simply huddle up and come up with another “event” or another set of lies that they think their useful idiot voters are more likely to believe. We have got to stop underestimating these hateful people. They are evil, they have no shame, and they will never stop trying to turn America into a third world shit hole, whether they win elections or not.
Laughing at them is more powerful anyway.
Yep. Look at their meltdown over “Let’s go Brandon”! Totally hysterical.
Sundance, remenber your Jim Cramer article ?
Yeah, well, he’s going to be eating those words and watching what little credibility he had go
down flames. And he’s not much of an influencer these days.
it will be fun watching him get ridiculed for that. Almost want to use my inactive twit account to troll him.
I was studying the globalist scum back in the 1990s all their “thinktanks” were spouting about how the next century will be the Chinese century and China will be the world’s next superpower.
To do this obviously America must be taken into of the equation, which is what is in progress now.
When, and I say when purposely the American people take back their country maximum priority must be given to the complete destruction of Satan’s main weapon otherwise known as The Federal Reserve Banking System.
What will happen if you dont means that you will be attacked from the outside.
There will never be peace anywhere unless Satan’s nuke is destroyed.
Help Wanted:
Urgent !!!
New virus to justify all mail in voting.
Most be very scary looking.
Big bonus !!!
Apply at DNC HQ.
Also must not just look scary, but actually kill people…
Uh…wait…
If they can still cheat us, why does it matter?
They can’t. Where have you been. Virginia showed us the way. We will flood them with election watchers and counter. They have no chance. Payback is a m*therf*cker.
Going to start a war so we can all unite. I hope they send all the transgenders and pregnant women troops over to Ukraine flying the rainbow flag. Or wait, no, this would be a good way to get rid of the patriot troops…put them in the front battle field with offers of free vaccines..no guns allowed…. wonder how long they would survive. And, by the way, shouting climate change.
And we haven’t fought a first world power since WWII. And we probably now have the worst generals on the planet.
No probably about it. They’re all fat, bourbon Generals. They couldn’t walk a battlefield, let alone
fight along side the troops.
Give me a MacArthur or a Patton, warts and all. Those were real soldiers who understood the
pitfalls and pains of war.
Douglas McGregor said last night on Tucker Carlson, if we go to war with Russia in Ukraine, we will lose.
Especially after Biden has gifted Putin with $26 TRILLION dollars as a bribe to stay out of the Ukraine.
There is no way the Republican base is gonna go fight a war for Biden while he robs us blind here, we know the real enemy and it isn’t Putin. Biden can fu+ck off…. America is tired of his lies and thievery.
Stealing our hard earn money and then handing it out to his union buddies. Heck most of the people at his event today were Govt employees and Govt’ union representatives, the guy is a FRAUD.
“This aligns with a recent Wall Street Journal survey showing that Latinos are flocking to the republican party and there is now an even 50/50 split amid Hispanic voters.”
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Second look at Jeb?
Nope, not gonna there, wouldn’t be prudent!
The base want fighters. Jeb’s not that at all.
Trump emasculated him and he’s never going to be
able to live it down.
Jeb was emasculated long before Trump came along. We just didn’t notice.
No.
Duh! People are done with covid but we are just getting started on Gov. overreach and stupidity.
They don’t care. They didn’t steal the presidential election just to play nice with their domestic enemies.
“When it comes to inflation the AOC ‘build back better‘ program has the direct consequence of making things worse.”
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“Don’t forget, I was the visionary inventor of that program — and deserve all credit for it facilitating my Great Reset plan — before having downloaded it into the pea-brains of my useful idiot minions.”
— Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, WorldEconomicForum
God willing, the 22% Undecided Hispanic voters will vote R when push comes to shove.
When $10.00 for a gallon of gas hits, is when Trump gets 75% of all voters including Hispanics and Blacks.
There won’t be enough people in this country for them to use to cheat in the election at that point.
High gas prices? Biden will give Blacks and Hispanics free gas debit cards with $1000 loaded. Problem solved! See how easy that was.
That’s not far fetched.
No, it’s not. I hope I didn’t give them any ideas. LOL
Democrats can only P on Americans for so long before they realize it’s not really raining!
I most certainly hope the Matt Gaetz is Speaker when we take over the House.
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
Spineless RINOs won’t go along with that imo. They’ll retain a do-nothing-leader. All talk. No action.
Democrat politicians can drag Covid out all they want…
but…just look around the next time you are out and about …
Americans are done with Covid. Done, done, done. Finished. They have moved on.
A few lone voices, have long pointed out that hispanics, on the basis of VALUES sgould be in the Republican party base.
Unfortunately, the GOP never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Their ‘genius’ plan, revealed in their post 2012 ‘autopsie report’?
That “Demographics is destiny” and they would HAVE to get behind comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citiisenship for illegals, as “their only hope” .
PDJT’s campaign and policies demonstrated if you don’t treat voters as demographic groups, and you advocate for policies that benefit ALL americans, and then make good on your promises, you will draw votes away from career politicians, FROM all demographics.
Economic Security is National Security
America First
Make America Great Again
led directly to Promises Made, Promises Kept
And if the RNC had run TOWARDS PDJT, and embraced his policies, they would have swept the House in 2018, and the Senate would have been Mitchs nitemare, with a 60 vote majority.
My point is I expect the Republicons to piss away any political advantage this horrible economy SHOULD give them.
Mitch is already working on it, with reports he is making a deal, to eliminate the fillibuster requirement for one time, in order to raise the debt cieling.
Never, never NEVER do they miss an opportunity to screw their base and the American people,…the Congresional Republicons, with representation like that, who needs enemies?
Reminds of an old variation on a popular saying. It goes…
“With fiends like these, who needs enemas?”
The Left is worried about ‘checkbook issues’ only insofar as they want to eliminate checkbooks altogether, replacing them with UBI payments.
But yes, for short-term (midterm election) expedience they must feign continued interest in pocketbooks as pocketbooks still exist. In the medium term, CBDC eWallets with time-sensitive, evaporating ‘money’ will soon relieve the (well-behaving, passported) populace of anxiety over their staple goods. When you own nothing, all that continues to matter are eggs, milk and coffee.
Rest assured though that they will steal the election, start WW3 and/or deliver an even worse pandemic/ lockdown since losing is not an option. Economic cessation lies dead ahead and the Right has done nothing to stop it.
Nobody asked me but my main concern is election fraud and open borders and a corrupt DOJ.
Barring some major changes at the state level, the unfortunate packs of elephants in the room, voting machines and cheat by mail, will dictate the results in 2022 and 2024, not voter anger or sentiment.
These revolutionaries are not simply going to shake hands, say good game and walk away according to the rules.
They have a well-honed strategy from the local to the federal level. An illusion that the little people are in charge.
“Republicans” will be permitted to win a slight majority at all levels but enough RINO’s at every level will allow ruling party victories whenever needed.
I can see the news reports after the elections; Democrats limit the red wave as voters became more serious as the elections approached, concerned that MAGA influence could lead to the hell of the Trump years.
Expect a 52/48 Repub majority in the Senate which is really a 60/40 dem majority due to RINO’s whose votes will be summoned as needed.
The House will look about the same.
Without election reform to throw out the RINO’s, nothing will appreciably change.
The fact that the left isn’t responding to the concerns of leftist voters should show something even more frightening. They KNOW they are driving us to the cliff and they intend to drive us OFF of that cliff. With the loss of trust of the people who supported them for all of this time (withdrawal of consent!) it seems we have almost arrived at the precipice and the majority of the USA sees it.