The now-former head of the Arizona GOP was caught on tape trying to bribe Kari Lake to quit the Senate race. He’s former because Lake said she’d release the rest of the tape if he didn’t quit and he bailed out.
In case you were wondering the real reason we lost in 2022.
I’ve been pretty sure for a while that they cheated Lake out of a victory in 2022, now I’m very sure of it. Clearly, the Establishment GOP (still mostly owned by McCain people, though not for long, it would seem) worked with Democrats to sabotage Populist/MAGA candidates in Arizona all up and down the ballot. And when sabotage wasn’t enough to do it, they turned a blind eye to (and maybe helped?) Democrats do some last-minute box stuffing. It can’t be emphasized enough that most of our recent defeats have been because of treason.
The good news is that the old GOP fades away ever more rapidly. Most GOPers now signing on for Trump is proof of this. They still might not like the Populist/MAGA base, but they’re afraid of it. Sure, they also still hope for a miracle turning back the clock, but the smarter among them know that isn’t happening. It is either go Left and work to transition minors, or go MAGA and resign oneself to no longer being able to rake it in from corporations. We’ve already lost most of the GOPers we’re going to lose – the last bits of Never Trump will become Only Democrat over the next 10 months as they find that all along they wanted to be disarmed soyboys with a strange love for Hamas. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
We are not 100% sure what we’re gaining in return…but there are some hints that as the old line GOPers move left, black and Latino people are starting to move our way. Who knew that getting rid of some officious jerks would work out like that? I know of plenty of hard working black and Latino people who are ready for a GOP vote; and now we can talk to them because we’re not longer committed to lower corporate taxes, forever wars and figuring out how to lower labor costs for the Chamber of Commerce. In this, guys, Abbott’s busloads of illegals to blue cities has been a stroke of genius. It is really opening some black and Latino eyes as they see these guys get off the bus and into hotels, free food and free phones. They say the “Great Replacement Theory” is a bit of rightwing, racist conspiracy-mongering…maybe, but right now black and Latino Americans can see it in the flesh.
Speaking of Abbott, his defiance on the border issue is also beautiful. It is the perfect set up for us – either the border remains closed by the Texas National Guard, or Biden forces it open so that illegals can flood through. Either way it is a political win for us – and a massive political win.
To be sure, some are convinced that the damage is already done. That is, Democrats are willing to take the loss on immigration in 2024 knowing that these illegals will never be forced out and they, and their children, will become reliable Democrat votes. This supposition is based on the idea that as soon as the MSM shows one family of crying illegals being sent back, there will be a groundswell of opposition to deportations and that will be that. I’m not sure – in fact, I’m pretty sure it won’t go like that at all.
Oh, make no mistake about it – if a future GOP President starts to deport, the crying illegals will be on TV. All over the TV. It’ll be 24/7 Crying Illegals. All of whom were all set to become brilliant doctors who will cure cancer as they pilot the first ship to Mars. But I just don’t think it’ll work. CNN is getting beaten in the ratings by the History Channel. The Los Angeles Times just had to axe more than a hundred employees. The MSM just doesn’t have the oomph it used to have – and even the people still watching/reading it don’t really trust it. And at the end of the day, everyone outside the fever swamps of the Left knows we can’t take in 20 million people. It just isn’t possible. We don’t have the money, space or jobs for them. They have to go back.
So, if we get a GOP President and deportations start up, I expect to hear the shrieks from the Left…but the busses heading down south, as well. And the majority of the American people grimly determined to see it done.
Blogs For Victory 
It warmed my heart to see Texas tell the Supreme Court to pound sand on the razor wire decision.
They’re a bit of a showdown down there from what I’ve heard.
*having a bit*
It’s about time.
OTOH a recent study showed one of the greatest problems in the country. That is, that the demographic running the country not only thinks there is such a thing as “too much freedom”, they think that this is a problem in the United States.
“Elites are three times more likely than all Americans to say there is too much individual freedom in the country. Astonishingly, almost half of the elites and almost 6 of 10 ivy leaguers say there is too much freedom.”
The political philosophy of those advocating for the consolidation of power in the hands of a few (these same elites, BTW) are those in favor of expanding the size and scope of federal authority and having a massively powerful Central Authority in charge, which is why they object to individual freedom. Now they are finally admitting it.
Works every time. Ok, maybe “works” is not exactly the right word.
The illegal migrant caravans that came to the US, and are currently headed here, are simply the new Democrat slave ships. The Establishment class has just brought in their new crop of slaves, which Gerry Nadler confirmed the other day by saying “who is going to pick our crops?”. And I think this is how the GOP should frame this issue. We had to liberate Democrat slaves in 1865, and we will have to do it once again in 2025.
We had to liberate Democrat slaves in 1865, and we will have to do it once again in 2025.
Gotta figure out a way to make that fit on a bumper sticker.
This is a serious question. I keep reading about all these “Republican millionaires” promoting illegal immigration because of their need for cheap labor. Can anyone provide any confirmation of this?
Because when I think of “cheap labor’, particularly what I would expect from illegal immigrants from poverty-stricken nations, I don’t think of the kinds of workers who would work in tech, or skilled manufacturing, or any of the industries I associate in my mind with “rich Republicans”. Aside from a few agricultural industries like beef and chicken processing I don’t know how “cheap labor” from other nations is going to be important to “Republican millionaires”.
Does anyone know what this is supposed to reference? Is there really a push by a handful of “Republican millionaires” to promote and defend illegal immigration?
I think we need to dismiss the term “Republican” when speaking of these people. These “chamber of commerce”, “endless wars” Republican millionaires still want to control the party and illegal immigration has always been a part of their agenda, but that wing of the party is dead, over with, gone. Republican voters are no longer aligned with the Bush, McCain, and Romney donor class as evidenced by Nikki’s lack of voter support, so there will be some weird things happening in the GOP as the America First wing takes over.
But if you want to see weird, wait until Democrats lose in November. That party will fracture and implode. Their entire “leadership” is ancient, and they don’t have much of a young bench. Plus their identity politics and endless grievances will serve to undermine any hope of them coalescing in the short term. It could be a long drought for Democrats.
Cluster, you repeat the assertion, about “Republican millionaires”, that “illegal immigration has always been a part of their agenda,”. I’m not challenging that, or trying to be argumentative, but just trying to understand what this is based on. As I asked in a very recent post, what is the confirmation of this? I’ve always thought of the Republican Congressional weakness on the issue as more squishiness than agenda, as a lot of wealthy Republicans in individual states have been pretty strongly in favor of strong borders and I never perceived Trump’s border position as one of the things that the Never Trumpers held against him.
IMO, Chamber of Commerce Republicans have always looked the other way in respects to illegal immigration to appease their donor base, ie: agriculture including field work, packing plants, slaughter houses, etc., service industries including casinos, hotels, cruise ships, etc., and the myriad of corporate maintenance jobs including construction, building maintenance, janitorial maintenance, etc,, etc.
They will always talk tough about the border, but the constant flow of cheaper labor going back 40 years, has always benefited their donors. Just my opinion.
I understand the importance of cheap labor in these areas, and I have certainly noticed the ethnic component in most who work there. I just question the assumption that these are industries owned primarily by Republicans. We’ve certainly seen the radical leftist identity of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
I’m not saying that the common perception of millionaire Republicans supporting illegal immigration is false, just that I haven’t seen anything to back it up other than generalizations.
If cheap labor is the issue, I don’t understand why “millionaire Republicans” don’t push for a new version of the old Bracero Program, which was an organized guest worker program. It had problems, mostly with Americans not honoring the contracts with the workers, but it was an example of the ability to provide work for unskilled labor and benefit the American industries which need it, without breaking the law.
mRNA Vaccines Contain Prion Region, May Be Linked to Prion-Like Diseases
Even though information like this and other dangers of the drugs has been coming out for years now, the government is still not just pushing the drugs, advertising the drugs, promoting the drugs, but is making injection of the drugs a condition of approval of several kinds of visa and residence applications.
Understatement of the century: (Glenn Beck discussing Texas defying the Supreme Court razor wire decision)
“The Democrats really don’t like this.”
I’m very happy that Texas is telling Biden to go f**k himself. I wish AZ would do the same, BUT we have an illegitimate Ruling Class Governor so ???? But thanks goes to to Kari Lake for exposing the AZ Republicans for who they are … and I’m sure the same people who offered Kari a sweet corporate gig for not running, also are donating heavily to Nikki Haley
Truth is … Trump is the third party candidate that every American has been wanting and waiting for. Someone who finally has the balls to tell both political parties and their benefactors, to go f**k themselves. Trump represents the American people. Democrats AND Republicans represent themselves and their globalist donors.
Daniel Horowitz at The Blaze presents an excellent and persuasive argument for Texas’ right to defy the Supreme Court and the biden Administration.
A great article. Three points especially stood out for me:
The Supreme Court is not supreme over the other branches (only over the inferior courts). The Constitution is supreme.
As James Madison said near the end of his life, “Each [department] must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.”
And, of course, this: In one of his final speeches before his death, Justice Antonin Scalia asked the audience: “Do you think the American people would ever have ratified the Constitution if they had been told, ‘The meaning of this document shall be whatever a majority of the Supreme Court says it is’?”
The question is no longer rhetorical.
Horowitz says It’s true that states are bound by the Supremacy Clause to follow “the Laws of the United States.” But that’s only when the laws are “made in pursuance” of the Constitution. But he stops short of reminding us that there are no laws giving protections to people illegally crossing our borders. There are what amount to de facto laws—that is, actions which have had the force and effect of laws—-but I don’t know of any actual legislated laws to this effect.
Another paragraph that stuck out to me was this one:
Another reason to think the EV fad isn’t going to last long
I read a report a few weeks ago that said in order for the EV market to even come close to the sustainability of the current auto market, over 400 charging stations will have to be built everyday for the next 3 years. And as you and I know, good luck getting across Montana or Wyoming in an EV.
I’ll bet that report stopped right there and didn’t go into what it would take to provide power to those stations.–where and how it would be generated and how it would be delivered.
Braces yourselves … Axios stumbled into real journalism
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/trump-2024-campaign-republican-nominee
That’s a great article and I wholeheartedly hope it is all true. It’s what I have hoped would happen, though my hopes have been balanced with a lot of skepticism. I haven’t been as skeptical of Trump himself as I have been about the polls. I have such a deep-seated distrust of the Agenda Media and most polls that I have feared the polls were not really reflections of what the public thinks but more like herding polls, working to herd Republicans into supporting Trump because everyone else is doing it, and that made me nervous.
Remember the Olden Times before we knew that Idiocracy was going to be seen as a documentary? Here’s the next in line.
Lady Ballers! Sheroes! That was hilarious
I loved the guy with the beard and the pink headband with a bow.
Oregon Democrats consider recriminalizing drug use as overdose deaths continue to surge
Oregon Democrats are backtracking on their support for the decriminalization of drugs after the past several years have not produced the promised results.
Wonder who made those promises and what happens to them that they failed miserably?
Legalizing drugs didn’t reduce use of drugs, state finds
Making drugs easily available has led to problems not just in Oregon but in Colorado as well.
What imbecile could possibly theorize legalizing drugs would lead to less comsumption? I don’t think it will come as a shock to anyone that these demented laws and regulations sit largely around demoncrat run arenas. They’ve sold their souls for 30 pieces of worthless dirt.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/oregon-democrats-consider-recriminalizing-drug-use-as-overdose-deaths-continue-to-surge/?utm_source=daily-usa-2024-01-26&utm_medium=email
The Left is an unending source of funny headlines and this one is a gem:
Legalizing drugs didn’t reduce use of drugs, state finds
At least the morons who decriminalized shoplifting didn’t have the gall to then act surprised when shoplifting escalated.
Some of Malone’s best ever.
I agree. I was just trying to pick one to post
Love the barbed wire one.
And the one of Biden with the stapler, funny on several levels.
I don’t know who told Biden how to wear a hard hat, but I’d like to buy the guy a beer.