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Goodnight, ed! 😴
Good night, Lorrie !!
AMEN
The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
The purpose and goals of President Trump are plainly visible by his actions and consistent: He is for the benefit first of the common PEOPLE of this country, then of the PEOPLE in the rest of the world. It is validating, even to our battered conservative skepticism.
The methods of his leadership are amazing. I still don’t get HOW he does it, or HOW he is able to get so much momentum going, but every day the momentum is growing. Everyone and every organization has their eyes opened every day — just by watching him. Even those who hate him, are biased against him, and want to see him gone — cannot ignore him. He lives rent free in their head, and they come around to seeing the universal principles by which he is operating. He hammers actions based on truth from one direction, then another, and they cannot mount an organized opposition against him.
President Trump is transparent in his words and actions. He is consistent in what he says, what he does, and what he asks/demands of others. His promises are bold and he keeps them like no other president has. He is making massive, nearly overnight changes, not only in our country, but in the world. It is amazing that he is able to accomplish so much when there are so many snakes in the grass. This second term, he is weeding them out faster and choosing like-minded servants who multiply his effectiveness. No U.S. president has ever faced so much organized resistance and treason than President Trump
He has chosen to use his intellect and every skill he has to do what is right. He has tremendous faith that he can make a difference in this world. He has a confidence and courage such that he doesn’t care what others think, yet a humility to know he has to do it with the help of like minded people. Those people are the “common” people, and he ridicules those who think they are not common.
He believes people are basically good. He believes that God is real. He believes that healthy people are happy people, and they need to be able to create wealth freely for their labor, and have the freedom to spend their money on what is good for them.
He believes the United States, with its Constitutional Republic, is the best environment in the world to enable and give opportunity for people to be happy and prosperous.
He believes that we can be a light for the world, but we must demand that the rest of the world respect us and our right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
He believes the enemy of our country are the stupid, greedy American people who have been selfishly taking advantage of this country; who betrayed the trust and obedience of its people; and who diverted the people’s wealth for their own selfish gain, at the expense of the principles of this country. He’s not going to allow that anymore.
He has cultivated and focused the family of MAGA. Identifying those people whose goodness, industriousness, trust, and obedience have been taken advantage of and abused. He has opened our eyes to this abuse, and to the rights of freedom and self determination that have been quietly stolen from us.
He has rekindled the same healthy distrust held by our founders of government and men with too much power. He has recultivated the desire to reclaim our freedoms and rights, and is empowering us with a hope and pathway to reclaim our spiritual and economic freedom.
He wants the US to be a light of hope on the hill for all people. He will negotiate win/win agreements with those nations and countries who respect us; who respect the principles and intent of our Constitution. If you do not respect us, however, we are not going to let you take advantage of our goodness, or share in our wealth at our expense. If you as a nation are treating your people badly, you are going to be treated less favorably by us, until you show that you value your people as much as we value ours. He believes that nations who treat their people well will also be good economic neighbors with us.
He is convincing those who are very wealthy (most of whom truly earned their money), that the best economic soil in which to build wealth is in a constitutional republic, which supports the ability of the common man to earn wealth in proportion to his efforts. The economic engine of the United States is the human spirit freed to enjoy the fruits of honest labor, and that engine has more natural and raw horsepower than any other governed economy.
The Trump Train seems to be remarkably aligned with universal principles of Truth, which reflect the will and design of our Creator, and are the best standard by which we should live. These same principles were what our country’s founders used to declare independence, and framed into the Constitution of this nation.
Our founders believed that a nation should preserve the right and freedom of an individual to seek, understand, and live by God’s principles. They believed that free individuals working together in humility would make a stronger nation than a government which dictates its will on the people. President Trump professes and seeks to lead and restore this nation back to these same principles.
These principles resonate deeply within all human beings, down to our DNA in every cell, in our spirits, and produce fruit that “miraculously” multiplies. Because we follow universal principles, we see the snowballing acceleration of momentum on day 93 of the 2nd year of the 2nd term of this very stable genius in the history of the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2025.
Amen
Today is another opinion day at SCOTUS, and that means another Callais watch. Callais is the only case left from the October argument list. The case challenges a provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act that been used to create congressional districts in which a group that is a racial minority in the state is a majority in that district.
The Callais challengers claims this violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. If the Court strikes down this provision of the VRA, one expects there would be a lot of lawsuits challenging districting in which these minority-majority districts were created. This could really upend all the redistricting being done in several states, and not just in blue states.
Callais is not only the one case from the October list that has not been decided, but Justice Alito is the only justice who has not written a majority opinion from October. Make of that what you will.
Sean Spicer recently claimed in “The Huddle” podcast that the Callais decision has been written, that the racially-defined district provision has been struck down, and the liberals are slow-walking their dissents to make it too late for the states to redistrict. No one else appears to have heard this rumor. However, Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist just revealed that the liberals in Dobbs slow-walked their dissents, so Spicer’s claim may be accurate.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/18/explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release/
Opinions start at 10 EDT. Live-blogging at http://www.scotusblog.com (not affiliated with the Court).
(And in case you’re wondering, Roberts probably does have the authority to threaten to release the majority opinion and tell the dissenters their dissents will be published later. But it would take character and backbone to stand up to the liberals….)
Wethal…In your experience, is this a common thing re delaying dissents?
Or..Is this something new/specific to this particular Court?
Thanks!
I think it’s fairly new, but then so is the leaking.
Even liberals like RBG and Breyer had respect for their colleagues and for Court traditions. RBG and Scalia were personal friends.
Waited for the pun/limerick/joke at the end…and it never came.
LOL! Gotta keep you on your toes!
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
The U.S. Supreme Court hears one case today, Blanche, Acting Atty Gen vs Lau, about aliens, including those who have committed or been convicted of certain crimes being ineligible to be admitted to the U.S. and subject to removal.
Here is a link to listen to the audio, expected to go live at 10:00 a.m. east coast time:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/
The question before the court is “Whether, to remove an LPR (lawful permanent resident) who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government must prove that it possessed clear and convincing evidence of the offense at the time of the LPR’s last re-entry into the United States.”
as a side note – Thank You to the Treepers who gave some great advice on how to track down and eliminate the constant take-over of being able to visit, read, comment on this site. It appears it was definitely on my end, and followed their ideas and was able to eliminate a spam site that was somehow embedded itself for whenever I accessed this site, but eliminated that from notifications settings on the Chrome browser page. THANK YOU Treepers! Free at last!
Approximately 80,000 federal employees live in Fairfax County, Virginia. That’s about one in ten of all registered voters in the county, and close to two in ten of all those who actually vote.
The answer is to move some of these federal agencies the hell out of DC into other areas of the country, preferably to cities that such a move won’t change the state’s or congressional district’s red makeup.
I have been wishing they would do this for years. There is absolutely no reason why all these departments and agencies need to be crowded together in DC, the most corrupt place in the country. Spread them out into the red states, where supervisors and employees are much more likely to be sensible Americans, rather than raving communists.
Gavin Wilde [1] identified as unnamed wiitness 2 [2] in recently declassified Ukraine Impeachment testimonies, his ties to Eric Ciamarella [3] and Peter Strzok are well knwn.
Wilde played critical roles inside the intelligence community in
[1] Gavin Wilde | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
[2] Unmasked: Secret ‘Witness 2’ was anti-Trump intel officer pushing Russiagate, Ukraine impeachment | Just The News
[3] Eric Ciaramella | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Virginia’s redistricting ammendment passed as expected ( ≈ 90K votes or 51.5-48.5%)
Court cases incoming…
Hakeem Jeffries gloats about the VA redistricting and threatens FL….
Best comment:
Just learned the deputy Colorado SOS under Jena Griswold is out of Perkins Coi. I recall SD saying PC has or had a dedicated NSA terminal. Anywho, Griswold drove off several regular CO State employees when she first took office. Now we know why. Assume PC pretty much runs the CO SOS office.
JMO.
Bean counters and lawyers have their place in war.
But when fighting large numbers of fanatics, aka japs or IRGC, they must not be the determining factor.
Gather info on the bad guys in country, who/where/when, and get on with their destruction.
The good iranians and our end-the-bad-guys-brings-stabilization objective demand it.
Time is on the bad guy’s side …… ammo is on our side ……. limit the delay and bomb-bomb-bomb the bad iranians.
Delay in hours, okay ……. delay for days, not good.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Vince Langman
@LangmanVince
This guy gives the best analysis on the Iran conflict I’ve seen in the media!
Video linked….