Evan @DiggyGraves

@BethPat46648795 @JesseBWatters So if you’re born here but live your entire life in England or France or the Netherlands that makes you just as American as you or I? Get out of here

@avidseries “Let the adults pick your candidate for you, lest you pick someone they don’t control.”

Lindsey Graham refused to block Biden's radical judicial nominees. He encouraged the Senate to get as many through as possible. This was in 2023. Trump complains about judicial rulings while endorsing Lindsey Graham, who himself is responsible for the lawlessness.

South Dakota voters are getting ready to vote out John Thune. This RINO is ripe for a primary.

ThePersistence @ScottPresler

5 months ago

I’m hearing from voters across South Dakota that they are beyond angry that Senator John Thune is on vacation, instead of fully funding DHS/ICE, & passing the SAVE America Act.

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@DantePicante17 @DefiyantlyFree She is one of the worst on here

@Peoples_Pundit @barnes_law Fitzpatrick is a known RINO who wins because A. the GOP in bucks county guilts us into voting for him, and B. Boomer moderate dems will vote for him based on name recognition.

This is going to be the standard response from the libs who at the very least passively allowed this to happen if not directly participated in it. “Yes. That was bad. But it wasn’t really that bad. And bad things happen to every group so 🤷. Now let’s carry on while keeping this lesson in mind.” Where “carrying on” means continuing to do the exact same thing with no consequences at all and no incentive or enforcement mechanism to actually return to merit based parity. It’s necessary to keep pushing.

Paul Novosad @paulnovosad

8 months ago

It's understandable that white men in certain industries (esp. academic humanities and the creative industries) feel resentment that their race/gender closed doors for them. But guess what—this is now a universal experience! Every non-white non-male group has also gone through

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This is one is actually kinda true. It's yet one more thing about America that Europeans don't really quite understand. Europeans seem to by constantly aware, in the back of their minds, of all the other European nations their surrounded by, and what those other, slightly different, cultures might think about X, Y, and Z. And a lot of them speak two or three different languages, the tongues of those close-packed neighbors. What they don't have a firm grasp on is what it's like to be American. Because America is not a European country. We're not packed in next to six different cultures that we've had alternating alliances and wars with for the past 1500 years. We're in a great big wilderness with lots of elbow room. We don't have to care what our national neighbors think, because we don't really have any. We have a failed state run by narco-gangs to the south of us, and a few cities full of socialists huddled against our northern border to stay warm, and that's it. We don't speak languages other than English, because there's no one to practice with, and anyone in America who doesn't speak English isn't worth having a conversation with. So we hang out with other people like us, in our big, spacious, largely-wilderness country, and we do our own thing. Just like our ancestors, who moved here because they didn't like busybody neighbors telling them what to do, and not do. That's how we like it. It's not that we are literally unaware of your existence. We just don't think about you that often, because you're on the other side of the planet, and we don't see you every day. We understand that European countries are all up in each others' business, and everyone gets to have an opinion on everything, and yell it at everyone else at the top of their lungs. We just find it extremely arrogant that you try to apply this to us. You think it's extremely rude that we don't what the neighbors think, but you aren't our neighbors. Your opinions are as distant to us as those of Sumatra or Singapore or Malaysia are to you. And, sure, you can say you have to care, because our politics effects you, but that's because you asked for it to effect you. Every time you have a major war, or even a minor one, there's a significant percentage of your population that tries to beg, or rationalize, or guilt-trip us into either fighting it or paying for it. You don't actually need us to defend you from Russia, because stout and determined as the Russians are, they suck at logistics, and anyone who sucks at logistics sucks at warfare. They haven't even been able, in four years, to conquer their former colony, because we let those guys have a bunch of our obsolete GWOT gear, and some money that their corrupt politicians mostly hoovered up. You could easily restrain whatever territorial ambitions Russia has, all by yourselves, if you just got out of the cuck chair, remembered who you are, and beat your plowshares back into swords. I think a lot of you kind of resent us, and I understand why. People are only grateful for gifts up to the point that they feel they can repay. If they can never repay, then they must rationalize that they are owed. We're richer and more powerful than you, and you need us, but it doesn't have to be that way. You don't actually have to need us. You just need to get rid of your parasitic bureaucracies and get busy building stuff again. Your ancestors were warriors and inventors and explorers, but now, from the great distance that we see you from, it looks an awful lot like you just sit around and regulate each other all day. There is no perfect set of laws that makes everything fair for everyone. There's no pot of gold at the end of that particular rainbow. The only real purpose of your whole experiment in unified bureaucratic governance, and busybody totalitarianism, is to give you a feeling of moral superiority. But you don't actually need a feeling of moral superiority. You could have feelings of technological, financial, and cultural superiority instead, if you just got over the collective trauma of WW2, stopped telling each other in loud voices that the will to power is inherently bad, and actually applied yourselves to something real. I understand that you resent being vassal states. I would too. And I'm not in love with the whole idea of an American empire, because I don't think that for the average American, the juice has actually been worth the squeeze. Sure, there's lots of people who say we have to maintain the empire, but the reasons they always give seem to boil down to, "to defend ourselves from people who hate us because of all the empire-building" , and "so we can do more stuff to maintain the empire". Feels a bit like a treadmill. And no, it's not our empire that makes us wealthy. We were wealthy and innovative and successful long before we had one. And back then, our federal budget was balanced, too. The indifference of the average American on the street to your opinion of us is frankly the only healthy thing about our relationship. And if you could start to emulate that, look to yourselves, take back your countries from the bureaucrats, and see to your own people instead of an endless stream of strangers... well, you wouldn't need us anymore. Healthy relationships aren't based on need.

TheFrenchie @ML3democrats

9 months ago

Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you? It's worse than you think.

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If you take away the rhetoric of people seeing everything the President does through an “F Trump” filter, at his core, here is what he’s actually trying to do: -Stop poison that has killed 100,000 Americans a year from coming into this country - Securing the border and removing those illegally in our nation that take away resources from those here legally as well as those respecting the immigration process. - Aggresively trying to stop or slow wars that unavoidably drain our resources - Stop other nations from taking advantage of us from unbalanced trade deals done by former administrations who don’t understand how business works. They only knew appeasement - Prove that effective and supported law enforcement can dramatically decrease crime in major cities. You don’t need more programs that only serve to create more of an industrial complex. You just need enforcement, accountability and justice. - Ensure like in other nations that Americans and Americans alone, dictate what happens in our nation through a fair and honest voting process. - Ensure no nation attacks us in our home soil or injures our interests globally - Get Americans back in the workforce by having other nations invest back in the US and getting the able bodied off government assistance is designed for those who truly need it. The other side is trying to stop him from doing it because it exposes how feckless they have been. Not because what he’s doing would be bad for the country. I get it. He’s a flawed man. He’s moving too quickly for some people’s tastes who are used to being strung along or watching Dems and republicans play kick the can down the road. Yet despite all of his imperfections and character shortcomings; when I take my emotions out of it, I objectively believe his desire is to move past distractions and put Americans first at home and abroad. Though I agree that he’s a lot of things I am not a fan of, he wants us to win. Because if we win, he wins. And the guy loves to win.

@DefiyantlyFree You are out of your depth lady

2028 was always going to have a vicious primary fight where there would be no low too low for the Never Trump chicken hawks. But it’s only 2025. Looks like the play is to give Democrats the House, get Trump impeached, and use that to take out MAGA.

@LauraLoomer If Trump simply did the the things we all voted for him to do - mass deportations, protect American labor, reignite American industry, advocate for the People ahead of corporate interest, dismantle the corrupt bureaucracy, etc. - we would never lose another election again.

@catturd2 You have lost the plot buddy

I remember well the night of the last Presidential election. Trump’s victory represented the greatest redemption arc of my lifetime, and it felt like we all played a part. The energy was unmistakable. It was as close to a revolution as most of us will get, a true democratic rebuke of an out-of-touch, corrupt government. It was only a matter of time before we turned the country around. And for a brief second it felt like we might. The markets soared, companies promised new jobs stateside, and DOGE uncovered waste and fraud daily. But the dream suddenly soured. Almost out of nowhere the administration pivoted from policies aimed at generational prosperity to those associated with perpetual poverty. 15-year car loans? 50-year mortgages? $2,000 stimulus checks? Hardly the stuff of a Golden Age, unless you own banks that finance this stuff. And as prices once again rise, the President is insisting we are better off than ever. It’s insulting to so many, especially after living through the laughable denials of the previous administration. I’m one of the biggest Trump supporters on this planet, and I say this out of genuine concern: this is a recipe for defeat not only in the midterms, but for 2028 and onward as well. I don’t want to be a panican, but I also don’t want to piss away the last chance we have to turn this country around. The President desperately needs people to be honest with him about the situation on the ground. His victory last November feels like a thousand years ago, and the statements coming from his staff are unrecognizable from the usual D.C. claptrap they supposedly ran against. Millennials and Gen Zers are hurting, and together they represent the largest voting bloc in this country. They will remain so for years to come. There are better ways to make life affordable, and young people want and deserve an economy that allows them to flourish; once they acquire a taste for free shit there will be no going back. The American Dream will be officially dead, and millions of voters will forever associate MAGA with its decline.

I don’t know who is advising congressional Republicans on strategy right now, but it is whoever it is has an IQ barely approaching room temperature. Republicans right now have no accomplishments, no plans, and no vision. Why on earth would anyone be excited to go vote for them 12 months right now? Trump needs to ditch the foreign policy crap and focus all his attention on the domestic economy, which is still not working for the majority of people. Right now he looks weak and rudderless. Be mad all you want, but it’s the truth. Newly minted college grads can’t find work and are saddled with debt. Where is their path to the American dream right now? Who is giving them a vision of a future worth fighting for? You cannot have a viable country or future when half your country and all its young people are locked out of the economy and locked out of ever owning a home or much of anything beyond next month’s streaming subscription. Does anyone in Washington care about this? Anyone at all? Republicans had better wake up, because right now their nightmare is only beginning if they don’t start making massive changes.

@BretWeinstein Based Weinstein

If the ads are hurting Trumps ability to negotiate a good trade deal, then 100% that’s America First. The tariffs have not led to any MEANINGFUL price increases across the board and they are the basis for negotiating fair trade deals. Most importantly, they are laying the groundwork for reshoring industry. What don’t you understand? It’s called the rust belt for a reason. Our industry left us because we let it. Think of all the jobs lost. How tf does it not benefit America to fight tooth and nail to bring that industry back? Not to mention the national security implications of a weak manufacturing base and global suppliers for all the most important shit. Or should we all just work service and finance jobs?

DEAR TRUMP TEAM @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @RapidResponse47 @JDVance @GOP @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune Well written and presented in its entirety. This is VERY representative of the common sentiment I receive daily.

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LOL 2.5%. As Bessent said when they began implementing the tariffs: most if not all of the tariff will be absorbed by other forces, including the suppliers themselves. Only a small percentage will make it to the consumer. I will happily take a 2.5% increase - assuming it’s even the result of tariffs at all - given the massive benefits that tariffs give us in the America First context.

@RepFine Enjoy the ratio midwit