One thing I dislike immensely about Republican punditry, specifically as it relates to internal dynamics, is their tribal narrative engineering. The example from Breitbart about President Trump’s discussion of the next Speaker of the House is a case study.
Take out Matthew Boyle’s woven narrative; and remind yourself that Boyle is writing from a position of DeSantis advocacy; read just the direct quotes from President Trump about the risk of House Speaker if the party doesn’t align to support Kevin McCarthy, and the position is pragmatic.
Essentially, if not Kevin McCarthy, and the House vote is dependent on Democrat support, the result will likely be worse.
Just the Trump quotes: “I think it’s a very dangerous game that’s being played,” Trump said. “It’s a very dangerous game. Some bad things could happen. Look, we had Boehner and he was a strange person but we ended up with Paul Ryan who was ten times worse. Paul Ryan was an incompetent speaker. I think he goes down as the worst speaker in history. We took [out] Boehner—and a group of people, some of whom are the same, and they’re very good friends of mine. All those people are very good friends of mine.”
[…] ““Think of it—we ended up with Paul Ryan. Boehner was like Winston Churchill compared to Paul Ryan,” Trump said. “Boehner wasn’t perfect—nobody’s perfect—but Paul Ryan was a disaster for the Republican Party. That’s what we got. Now we have to live with him. He’s destroying Fox and he’s destroying the New York Post. We got to live with this maniac. This guy, Paul Ryan, couldn’t have gotten elected in his own area of Wisconsin. I went with him after I won the election and we had a tremendous crowd of people and they booed him off the stage. You remember that? They booed him off the stage. This guy is now telling Fox what to do.”
[…] “Look, I think this: Kevin has worked very hard,” Trump said. “He is just—it’s been exhausting. If you think, he’s been all over. I think he deserves the shot. Hopefully he’s going to be very strong and going to be very good and he’s going to do what everybody wants.”
[…] “Now, I’m friendly with a lot of those people who are against Kevin. I think almost every one of them are very much inclined toward Trump, and me toward them. But I have to tell them, and I have told them, you’re playing a very dangerous game,” Trump said. “You could end up with the worse situation. I don’t even want to say what it is, but I could tell you it’s a worse situation. You could end up with some very bad situations. I use the Boehner to Paul Ryan example. You understand what I’m saying? It could be a doomsday scenario. It could be. You could end up with somebody who would be a disaster like Paul Ryan was.” (LINK)
I see absolutely nothing ‘controversial’ in those statements.
President Trump is correct. The conservative House took down John Boehner, the creepy and emotionally unstable 60-year-old sitting at the end of the bar who hits on your 21-year-old daughter. What came next was Paul Ryan, the current brother-in-law to radical SCOTUS Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the Wisconsin politician married to a Democrat lobbyist.
Ryan then blocked any effort to hold the FBI accountable for their role in the 2016 election and the promotion of Russiagate. Then followed that obstruction with an intentional effort to lose the 2018 midterm election, while announcing his own resignation.
Kevin McCarthy might suck, but at least he sucks in a controlled environment.
I’m not a fan of Kevin McCarthy, few would dislike him more than I; however, in the final analysis who else has put their name in the hat and is going to -or could- get the entire Republican caucus on their side?
The GOP only has a five-vote House margin.
It takes a simple majority to confirm the House Speaker.
What other method, candidate, representative or alternative position is there to take?
That is the $64,000.00 question, but each year, we are given the choice of take this or the Dem’s are worst. I have been voting since 1976 for the lesser of two evils and am pretty much done with our system and a choice of McCarthy or nothing.
Solutions? None. We are done.
I hear you, but the difference now is we HAVE PRES. TRUMP AS OUR AVATAR!
“Once you see the strings….”
yep, lesser of two evils is still evil. we need a political divorce. a tax strike. everything else is just putting someone in who wants to preserve the corrupt institutions.
We are done at the DC federal level. NO GOP Potus will be able to achieve anything against the RINOS, Dems and DS. The attention should switch to the states level and building strong Red states that will be able to circumvent the Swamp in DC and act as islands of sanity when the US falls apart.
Posted before I saw yours..lesser of two evils..all we’re left with.
Nope. Not even close. Politics reduced to this by criminal activity — VOTE STEALING, Ballot Harvest unlawful violation of rights. We haven’t yet tried to use law enforcement or “actual fighting” — which appears to be coming.
Not done, politics over yes… read dec of ind again, read why we have 2A. Militia is yet to enter the fray.
This is the history of the Republican party : always voting for the lesser of two evils.
Chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.
Ask any Jewish person.
“This is the history of the Republican party : always voting for the lesser of two evils.”
Good people do that every day in their personal lives.
Democrats and their voters have a different set of values.
This just tells me what I already know: politicos of all stripes coordinate behind the scenes.
“Nothing is what it seems.” More true than anyone can imagine.
Exactly! With the exception of PDJT, I would like the opportunity to vote for a candidate who is NOT the “lesser of 2 evils”. The R wing of the UniParty has so few who actually stand for America First.
And speaking of Paul Ryan and Kiddie-porn Ketanji, what are they working on next?
Make President Trump Speaker. Or…do not…then we are stuck with Mc whatever.
I’d prefer to just trust Pres. Trump.
the wise thing to do
AMEN to President Trump!
Then put the Brunson bros in the Cabinet.
Yep – that’s the way to go. Then as speaker he can impeach Biden and Camala then he becomes the president as he would be the third in line – legally. Like he said in the past, “I will be your president for 10 years”
The house might impeach, but the senate being dems wouldn’t .
Then vote for your militia officers.
What happens if we go Speaker less? I see no downside given that the GOPe speakers have been working against us for them for some time. Fact is that we don’t have a majority in Congress anyway. Let’s just expose that fact by having Romney, Collins, etc vote with the democRATS for the new Pelosi. Then at least we know who the enemy is, rather than getting stabbed in the back again and again by the person we elected.
Unfortunately the DC crowd have a herd mentality.
To put it in a more crass way, during Jan 6th (which WAS NOT AN INSURRECTION) when people tried to enter the House Chambers, EVERYONE PANICKED LIKE HEADLESS CHICKENS even though there were tens of times better protected than the average American! Heck, they had layers of Protection at their disposal.
Bear in mind during the “Peaceful yet fiery” protests Police protection was disrupted for hours for the average American.
What does that have to do with my comment?
To be more succinct, without a Speaker, the DC Crowd of Republicans will fight for power as a SLIM MAJORITY is still a Majority in the house.
You forgot to factor in the fact that the slim majority depends on a score or two of RINOs.
We have no majority.
We are kidding ourselves thinking that.
All that any RINO they elect will do is stab us in the back when it’s most important.
Just like they did after the 2020 election and on January 6th.
Just imagine how they will act when the “Real Insurrection” begins.
The real insurrection was voting in joint session to certify a KNOWN fraudulent vote.
So you give the speakership to Hakeem Jefferies? S-M-R-T
No, they stole it fair and square.
Do you expect any difference if we put a RINO in the speakership? My … what hopium.
That’s like saying you’d rather face the firing squad without a blindfold so you can see the bullets coming.
Oh … so you’re admitting the outcome will be the same?
“The GOP only has a five-vote House margin.”
That probably was by design so you support the RINOs.
Not much use when 13 GOPers vote for the “Gay Marriage” protection Act or shoo-in the Dems’ budgets.
I saved you,” cried that woman
“And you’ve bitten me, even why?
And you know your bite is poisonous and now I’m gonna die”
“Oh, shut up, silly woman,” said that reptile with a grin
“Now you knew darn well I was a snake before you brought me in”
Al Wilson at his finest — Trumps famous tale.
I’ve been playing that record constantly since the days of Bill Clinton.
I Guar-Own-TEE!!!
Sadly, Trump’s take on this is the very one espoused by MTG. She met with Trump at Mara Lago a day or two before the “ceremonial vote” for speaker a few weeks back. She was peddling fear-porn that the Dems will elect Liz Cheney [eye-roll] if they didn’t all agree to vote for McCarthy. Ridiculous.
I agree with Matt Gaetz, she was promised something by McCarthy, in return for her MAGA bonafides. I’ll bet McCarthy promised to waive (or pay for) her nearly $1M fees imposed by Pelosi for not wearing a mask, etc. + committee assigments and a Biden investigation.
Personally, I think it stinks. But at least MTG is getting a deal out of it, and might hold his feet to the fire.
Oh yea, and McCarthy refuses to allow a vote of no-confidence to replace him, in the house rules.
McCarthy is anti Trump. He stated Trump incited an insurrection with his words, which was utterly false. I firmly believed when McCarthy said that, as I do now, that in some way he’s working with Dems trying to prevent Trump from running again.
Many of President Trumps closest allies advised him not to do the rally, including his own son Don Jr.
Bad advice by DonJr. Many advised against Boston Tea Party, 1770’s. Nobody thought “shot’s fired” at Lexington and Concord was a “good thing” (at the time Apr 1775). There wasn’t a long line to sign Dec of ind and certainly after the fact it didn’t appear to pay off for most of the signers.
Lets arrest the real criminals of j6 — on capitol hill — knowingly certifying a fraudulent vote — 18 USC 241/242 and treason as well if the purpose was to take out a legitimately elected president in the interest of “foreign” entities and against the interest of Americans and America (The U.S.).
Much like picking the sharp-shooters for your own firing squad.
Hate to see these words under me, but McCarthy is probably the least worst realistic option out there at this time. There’s easily 30+ Rino’s who’d vote for ANY D over a MAGA R. Sad, lousy fact of it.
What I hope Goetz & Co are trying to do is extract concessions from McCarthy and other R leaders that avoids the internal party food-fight while getting some accountability, securing some sacrificial lambs from D’s for their abuses and some structural changes to the system that help the cause of liberty before acquiescing to McCarthy as Speaker. A negotiation tactic. Because their hand isn’t strong enough to win. But they could bust the hands of a whole lot of other players at the R table. Which is what I believe is really going on.
*Gaetz
Good thinking about getting some deals hammered out from others running as Speaker.
Where will you find RINOS with an honest word for you. LOL!!!
The thing I – and likely many others – hate is to be faced with a choice where “less worse” is a positive situation. The illusion of choice.
And the beat goes on.
“ I hate ….to be faced with a choice where “less worse” is a positive situation.”
….
Kevin McCarthy is a lot better choice than Nancy Pelosi.
I’m glad we won the house.
The fact we get to choose a Majority Leader is a positive situation for TRUMP…
I agree with Trump’s and understand the logic about McCarthy.
He is “less worse” than many other Republicans.
Don’t bet your life that he’s better than her. LOL
“Illusion” is the WORD.
My questions then are: why come out in support of McCarthy right now, if that is the plan? Have all of the deals been made by Biggs, Gaetz, and MTG? By throwing support behind McCarthy, did Trump get someone else as RNC chair?
Don’t Hold Your Breath.
A lot better of the people we might prefer to be speaker would get less votes than mcCarthy …
Then what?
Then what?
Address the underlying vote stealing and destruction of rights. We go down a very bumpy road either way.
In given conditions of today, it really doesn’t matter who is speaker — what matters is why is Trump not in WH and how do we get reliable elections while executing treasonous criminals (brandon) and “merely jailing” the felons (hunter). There are enough trials in both parties and in every state.
I also think that Trump mostly got what he wanted from McCarthy in the past.
Their working relationship wasn’t bad. I don’t know how McCarthy would be if he reversed that.
However, nothing that has happened so far has turned him to be openly against Trump. I think McCarthy realizes Trump’s influence on the party so whether Trump wins the nomination in 2024 or not….I don’t think mcCarthy turns on Trump.
As I stated before, mcCarthy did challenge some maga Trump endorsed candidates in the primary….but Trump’s candidates won so I don’t think Trump holds the primaries against him.
McCarthy is a “put his finger to the wind” type of guy.
I am sick to my stomach when I read this.
And that shows you still have integrity WSB!
#MeToo
Thank you, Sundance.
I can always count on you to cut through the fat and drill down on facts.
I have faith in President Trump.
So do I and always have! It is what it is and what else are you going to do? We can’t stomach another Paul Ryan(shudders) Thank you Sundance.
Your faith might be misplaced.
I don’t think it is.
No.
It’s not.
Steve,
your caution may cost us the “path out” or the low cost solution.
People who cannot trust enough to have a coach, an advisor, or a leader can’t get too much done outside of family and self help.
They ain’t talking “faith” like “jesus faith”: just belief in A man with A plan like normally goes to a legitimate moral principled leader.
I trust President Trump.
That is all.
McCarthy has the votes, if he agrees to certain provisions, basically not making deals with Democrats and then not letting House members read the text ahead of time.
If he agreed to these provisions, that let them oust him as Speaker if he gets too cozy with Democrats, he will have the votes.
Why should I care if Democrats get the Speakership if the alternative is that Kevin McCarthy will sell out Republicans?
You bring it up when Mitch McConnell does it, or John Boehner does it, or Paul Ryan does it, but not when McCarthy does it.
What do you imagine will happen if a democommie gets it?
What happens?…. looks a lot like what is going on right now… and that continues until we are “enough is enough” ready to move on law enforcement.
The problem a lot of people have when interpreting PDJT is,
they take him literally,
when they should be taking him seriously.
“Tribal narrative engineering”. I like it…….. Trump saying Boehner is a “strange person” is even better, and the way Trump shreds Ryan is tops. Never forget Ryan is related to the radical Ketanji Brown. I’m sure they discuss at holidays how to neutralize Trump and all of his America First initiatives.
There ought to be a built in mechanism in congress
( without the speakers control )
to be able to swiftly
change speaker
by vote of the majority party. ( not both parties).
As a means of accountability,
the term of the speaker should not be held at 2 years …it should be pending the condition of satisfactory performance, on a weekly basis,
actions ( not words ).
[ and committee assignments / campaign funds should not be leveraged to gain house party votes ]
[ instead of a ‘resigned’ Ryan miss holding a seat until end of a 2 year term…and stalling legislations brought forth by the majority …tyrannicaly holding the house in hostage via censoring / suppressing…( which is also still done today with reporters on faux.etc. ]
Love thy neighbors
What is more apparent to Americans and anyone else watching this unwind? What?
Do they see sunlight on the very dramatic deep state dismantling of US political institutions and traditions?
Or……..
Do they see clearly how impotent Republican Conservatives have become?
Does anyone see how shamefully toothless and clawless Conservatism now is?
New handle, huh?
Complicit. Complicit conservatism is the word I think you were looking for.
Click this posters name.
Does anybody else have a handle that redirects to a “ server cannot be found”?
Does anybodys handle even redirect when you click it?
bot
This is what I got –
This site can’t be reached
gfys.now.com’s server IP address could not be found.
gfys? Really?
Well, we do kinda look like Daniel in the lion’s den. Pssst… Daniel wins.
The US is starting to smell like my Despotic Rotting Commie Kanada. Make McCarthy write down his priorities and hold him to it. China Mitch neutered Congress until Sept anyway. He got a spending bill through which is not allowed. For a frail old filthy Gimp, Mitch sure can wiggle. FILTHY LIBERALS are everywhere. God bless America.
Yeah, Sundance sorry, this isn’t passing the smell test and you know it deep down.
I’m pretty disappointed with quite a few conservatives these days. Pres Trump still to this day is a supporter of the vaccines and everything that transpired to date. This is a very hard one to square and I’m not willing to suspend my disbelief.
Also where in the heck is Jim Jordan these days?
Without a doubt we need someone that isn’t swampy as house speaker and McCarthy is oozing swamp in plain view, now we have Sundance stating this is better than the option. Speechless I am.
I agree with you 98% of the time but this is most certainly not one of them.
I’m absolutely appalled with DeSantis’ behaviour since the Mari raid so no I’m not a DeSantis fan boi.
DeSantis is an absolute no, so is Kristi Noem. Aside from President Trump, we’ve got few (none, really) options. But this Covid vaccine death rate is exploding in Australia (officially now) and many other countries it is about to become News Item 1, if only we knew. It will soon be the biggest news in the U.S. and President Trump’s refusal to see this and repudiate the whole “vaccine” fiasco will undo him, if nothing else does.
As for McCarthy, if we go with him, EVERYONE, Dem, Repub, Indy, will say, “There they go again, those hopeless Republicans…”. Better to TRY for a break, a new direction, a roll of the dice, than to stand pat or to control McCarthy through secret deals.
Now, that makes better sense than anything else I’ve heard or seen. I trust President Trump’s evaluation, especially on the Boehner evaluation who was horrible and then his total decimation of Ryan.
In this case, the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.
President Trump is being pragmatic.
This fits…
“They say the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don’t.”
How about no devil? Neither the one you know or the one you don’t know?
Keeping my fingers crossed, and praying for only good things to come. Someone, somewhere has to still have a backbone or will grow one when we least expect it. The USA could use a hero to go along with our PDJT. There must be a light in that darkness in D.C. Please, dear Lord, shine it for us all.
I’ve been watching “The Chosen” on Amazon Prime. It is excellent and is just the message we mortals need during our own long time in the wilderness. I highly recommend it.
Go here: https://watch.angelstudios.com/
My wife and I have been watching it since it first came out. It is an AMAZING show! Those people had courage sorely lacking today.
Here is an American Thinker article that perfectly blends themes from The Chosen into today’s darkness…
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/swimming_against_the_current.html
I used to love the thinker, they have great articles. But then they jumped on the bandwagon and started hiding their comments section behind a paywall. That was the last straw for me.
I believe they opened the comments back up.
If you want to comment, you have to pay, otherwise you can only read comments,
I am one to say, “Not bloody McCarthy”, but I follow up with, “If not McCarthy, who?”
It’s who IS the speaker that is important, not who ISN’T.
Blame the RINOs for this predicament.
TRUMP.
Speaker doesn’t have to be a congressman.
NOTHING could be sweeter…
Not rino’s alone:
lots more than rino’s stealing votes and elections.
Your “domestic enemy” operating through fbi, media, courts, states, county election officials, and twitter and other corp entities had a role here.
I’m done plugging my nose. I seek change. Without change, nothing changes.
Somehow the lessor of two evils is always our option. I hate being a Republican. Wonder what it must be like to have representatives with a backbone. MAGA.
“ I hate being a Republican.”
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, gave us the greatest president ever.
What have the Democrats given us?
The Republican Party didn’t give us anything. They are a member of a two party self interested club who constantly try to convince me that they’re on my side. They are not on Trump’s side either.
Compartmentalizing their rhetoric from their behavior is neither functional or healthy.
True, the Right Wing of the Uniparty did not accomplish the election of PDJT.
Republican, Independent, Libertarian, and even some DementoRat voters did.
Just sayin’.
parties are not in the constitution nor “swear members” to protecting the constitution nor have structures for enforcing the law.
Militia does.
military does.
The demonic duo.
I have a problem with supporting RINO snake back stabber McCarthy. Problem is, we don’t know how much worse he can be. If he’s given the gavel we will soon find out. He’s owned and operated by the same corporate and foreign interests as the rest of the establishment elites. He will do nothing to stop the globalist agenda.
I think what President Trump is saying is that he can work with McCarthy and get things done, unlike what happened with Ryan, a total sellout in my opinion.
So, what is ground truth vis McCarthy’s interactions with Biden vis Jan 6?
The only alternative is a real opposition political party.
Pointless, open investigations are smeared all over Charlie McCarthy’s, Paul Ketanji Brown Ryan’s hand picked successor, legislative calender while the democrat hyenas wait their turn to rip the remaining flesh off the republican carcass.
McCarthy’s playing for the DC home team.
Why should we not expect 2 years of head fakes AGAIN?
Yes.
And an explanation, which might be entirely viable, why this wasn’t pursued in 2015.
Really asking what tradeoffs shaped the short versus long term game planning. Which assumptions proved totally out to lunch?
The realistic POLITICAL move is third party.
But, if we have imminent danger of collapse and “public danger” arises from continuation of present circumstances (vax mandates, lockdowns, stolen votes, unlawful official conduct (verifying or certifying KNOWN fraudulent criminal ballots))
MAKING POLITICAL ACTIVITY INEFFECTIVE IRRELEVANT OR CRIMINAL RIGHT NOW….
Then we WILL necessarily explore “other options” = force or law enFORCEment.
How Democrats solve leadership issues versus how Republicans solve differences is striking.
Nancy stepped down. Hakeem stepped in. Done.
But not our Republicans. Oh no! Then Trump weighs in. Running down Boehner and Ryan accomplished nothing. Nothing. Geez.
The avoid the road to hell one must step on hot coals from time to time. … but one still ends up getting burned.
The sole of the feet are incredibly resistant. My brother and I stepped in hot tar –running across street in summer to go to the beach that was newly being paved (no blockades or warning signs) and when we heard people screaming at us to STOP, we did. Big mistake to stop, feet then got stuck and we had to be pulled out all the while the tar, now adhered to out bareless feet continued to burn. Long story end, we survived, and were up and about walking after a few months. Soles of our feet may be a tad thinner but look totally fine. Moral of the story, once burned you should LEARN 😉
That’s BS. Your opposition to DeSantis and advocacy for Trump is blinding you to the possibilities. All the opponents are saying is say no and have leverage to put someone else in who reflects their values. McCarthy is a shape-changing amoeba
We are blinded by the fact that RDS is not America Fisrt, and is funded by Ken Griffin amongst others, the same cabal that also fund raised for Hussein Odroner, the very same globalist scum that spent millions to end MAGA, and destroy PDJT.
Blinded indeed.
If he is shape-changing, then shouldn’t the discussion really address how to control him?
This is such a weak position. Ohhhh nooooo… if we don’t go with the incompetent borderline-RINO in McCarthy…. This is a position of total fear. Love Trump, however this is exactly how/why he got played by many RINOs he left in positions, ie never drained the swamp! Either go ALL IN to change our GOP leadership —get rid of McDaniels McCarthy McConnell—or don’t even bother. None of them have fought for the #1 issue (BY FAR) which is free and fair elections They’ve all turned a blind eye to the fraud. So they all must go! There are Reps that will fight for election integrity. Without such, who cares who the Speaker is!!
He is exactly correct. Sometimes conservatives (myself included) throw our hands up and lament over our choices. And it reminded me of the drowning Christian story.
God provides for ALL of our need’s
story below for those unfamiliar
A storm descends on a small town, and the downpour soon turns into a flood. As the waters rise, the local preacher kneels in prayer on the church porch, surrounded by water. By and by, one of the townsfolk comes up the street in a canoe.
“Better get in, Preacher. The waters are rising fast.”
“No,” says the preacher. “I have faith in the Lord. He will save me.”
Still the waters rise. Now the preacher is up on the balcony, wringing his hands in supplication, when another guy zips up in a motorboat.
“Come on, Preacher. We need to get you out of here. The levee’s gonna break any minute.”
Once again, the preacher is unmoved. “I shall remain. The Lord will see me through.”
After a while the levee breaks, and the flood rushes over the church until only the steeple remains above water. The preacher is up there, clinging to the cross, when a helicopter descends out of the clouds, and a state trooper calls down to him through a megaphone.
“Grab the ladder, Preacher. This is your last chance.”
Once again, the preacher insists the Lord will deliver him.
And, predictably, he drowns.
A pious man, the preacher goes to heaven. After a while, he gets an interview with God, and he asks the Almighty, “Lord, I had unwavering faith in you. Why didn’t you deliver me from that flood?”
God shakes his head. “What did you want from me? I sent you two boats and a helicopter.”
McFailure should at least agree to a vote for removal when he goes RINO if he wants the job.
But look on the bright side.
Kevin McLuntz has promised to read the Constitution if we make him Speaker.
Lesser of two evils.
You still get evil.
Two political Parties. One Tribe; I’m not in it. My hope is not in either Party. I don’t get to vote on the Speaker. It’s a distraction. It’s all narrative engineering; like war tactics.
When we do get to vote, our vote means little more than a participation trophy; like the “I Voted” sticker I get at the polling station.
If I did get to vote here, I’d vote on the lesser of two weevils. The lesser weevil eats less of my bread.
I am wondering if it matters who is speaker? There is no difference in who is installed as representatives, they all follow what the Uniparty says….
I cannot see a change until these so called elected officials are held accountable
To quote Hillary; “What difference does it make at this point”… (there might be something a bit deeper to that statement, she had no control, she was doing what she was told) ~ just saying
Trump is done. Nice NFTs, though.
Give it up.
The election is two years away.
Is this your only talking point?
I can recommend a nice soothing organic ethically sourced teat cream for that chafing TDS you are so clearly suffering from.
I immensely dislike this game of the “lesser of two evils.” At what point is it stopped being played?
This is a lose-lose situation.
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/your-guide-to-fifth-generation-warfare?
From the article – “And so we rediscover an old piece of wisdom. To paraphrase: “Fifth-generation warfare is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.””
I absolutely enjoyed Trump’s take down of Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is a spineless snake who allowed the Russia Hoax to linger.
Exactly. There is no way I’m going to spend the next two years huffing and puffing about who’ll be our candidate and how he will do. As no-one is fighting election fraud, we know EXACTLY how this will play out. The polls will hype up Trump/DeSantis right up till election night. Then at 10pm, counting will “pause” in the usual suspect swing states, and we’ll wake up to find that the Dems won by another mail-in landslide. Unless voter fraud is fixed, save your energy these next few years. As flyover says, strengthen your local ties, your family, and also learn some good practical skills.
In another Red Wave Landslide Election, Republicans won 300+ House seats–but were only allowed to keep 222.
Kevin McCarthy did everything he could to lose. He even funded anti-MAGA efforts with looted Ukrainian Aid money laundered through FTX.
Now after urging the Big Tech speech censorship of other Republican congressmen, he wants to Speaker?
No.
Shut up Don. Excuse me if I don’t trust your choice in endorsements
I’m sick of “the lesser or two evils is still evil” argument.
In the abstract, it is true. In reality, in this sinful world, it more often than not isn’t very smart.
I would argue that 100% of people who spout that saying ignore it when needed, in their personal lives.
Go with McCarthy, until such time as a more viable individual can be elevated. Force him to make concessions for support.
President Trump gets it, and I support him.
Meanwhile, find, support & elevate a new breed of freedom loving house members, starting in our own individual districts so we can get to a place where these type’s of decisions don’t have to be made. Find candidates who believe our election’s are compromised and actually work to fix it, and we’ll see a dramatic change in the quality of our employee’s.
The America-First newly-elected candidates, who stood up for Trump and were endorsed by Trump, are now put in a very precarious position, as many of them have said they will not vote for McCarthy as speaker. They will now on day one have to vote the opposite of what they told their constituents they would do. Trump had better find a way to bail them out…perhaps a stronger statement.
So its Kevin McCarthy or bust? I guess, but only if that same McCarthy that Trump has endorsed throws in with the Democrats. If he would then, I dont want him anyways.
So, we are supposed to accept McCarthy became Republicans are threatening to vote for a Democrat speaker?
Who? Name names.
I disagree with PDJT on this one.
It is the same game the RINOs have been playing with its base for 40 years: “vote for us, or you’ll get a Democrat”. RINOs are worse than Democrats; at least a Democrat stabs you from the front.
And it’s the same mistake he sometimes makes with endorsements, as he did with picking spineless Oz the carpetbagger in PA. Zero fight, quick flight, when the going gets tough.
Stand with MAGA fighters, and no one else. Kari Lake is Exhibit A from that category.
Mrs. Luntz does not belong on that list.
Not my place to argue with Sundance, but I will note the Boyle is on Gorka’s show a lot, a very Trumpian show.
Kudlow has voiced positive sentiments (vis running for election in 2024) for Sen Paul.