Just astonishing – MSMers who slander Trump on the regular are still so obsessed with him that they’ll make up stories of being close to the man. Look, if I don’t like a man, I stay away from him. Why in heck would I want to spend my time with or fussing over someone I don’t like? But these insane liars seem to feel some need to be TDS 24/7. It is clinical by now.
We’re getting more immigration sob stories – this one related to an India guy here for 20 years on a temporary (!) visa who was allegedly sad that he couldn’t get home to see momma die. But if you dig into it, you see that it is Indian bureaucracy which is the ultimate source of the lag time on paperwork…what he’s really upset about is that the USA wasn’t basically waiving all the requirements because India’s bureaucracy has been massively downhill since the end of the Raj.
And, of course, we used to just waive it all – GOP, Democrat, didn’t matter. Come on in! Take an American job! Live the life that an American family was supposed to have! Trump changed all that. And now we’re supposed to weep bitter tears over it. But, guys: if you immigrate, you are living kith and kin. That’s the thing about this. He wasn’t forced to miss his mother’s death…he abandoned her twenty years ago. His choice. His desire. His result.
I admit that I did have some concern that the sob stories would work. That is, as Trump ramped up deportations the sob stories would convince the American people to abandon the project. I’m really rather impressed at how well we’re all handling it…the usual comment on the sob stories range from “good” to “deport them all”. I think we’re at last fed up with this – the idea that we’re the world’s refuse tip and everyone gets to get in here, wreck our world and demand we feel sorry for them. Nothing doing. I’ve got the solution for every foreigner worried about mommy – go back home and look after her. We’ve been lied to just a bit too often.
And that gets me over to political prognostication. Sure, its a mid-term with our guy in the White House. The normal snap-back from a Presidential year is a thing. It happens almost all the time. But not all the time. Some times intervening events give the White House party the win. Back in 2002 it was W riding high in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Here in 2026, I think we also have a deeply disturbing, national event which will help shape the November vote:
Democrats are insane.
Remember that Clinton – and even Obama – would pretend to a moderate view. Neither of them were in any way moderate, but they could pretend. They would speak the sweet, soft words while the Maoism was deeply buried in the bowels of Democrat think tanks and other institutions. Not any longer – the crazies are out in force. It is said that Barney Frank – now on his death bed, and do say a prayer for him – has warned the Democrats they are going to far Left. If Frank is saying this – and he’s pretty kook Left, himself – then you know its gone ’round the bend. They are seriously committed – I’ve seen the ads! – to stopping ICE. They want impeachment on Day One. They are openly opposing the Laken Riley Act. People are already turned off…and Trump and the GOP have combined about a billion dollars to put all of this front and center starting after Labor Day.
As long as Trump remains firm and the economy continues to improve (and its already on fire – the MSM isn’t reporting it but we’re surging), then I think we can win…definitely hold the Senate and 50/50 we hold the House (it is such a narrow majority that just a couple votes breaking different ways might decide it). I rooted around and found my posts from early August, 2024 on X…yep, I was saying Trump was going to win. Why? Objective factors. Not polls! I was looking at things like voter registration trends…and they almost all favored the GOP. The still almost all favor the GOP. If Trump is as unpopular as the MSM makes out, the GOP would not be gaining these new voters. Simple as.
We’ll find out soon enough!
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous quote, “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” has been posted here many times, but there’s now a fourth mind category: mindless twits who complain about the price of gas as if it is the most important political dynamic in all of history, and the thing that will almost certainly lead to a Democrat victory in November. YCMTSU!!!
It is especially weird after 2024. Harris’ pollster admitted after the election that there was never a day when she was in the lead. Even the most Trump-friendly polls showed a surge for Harris which simply never happened. Nobody moved towards her. At best, she merely prevented a Trump landslide which keeping Biden might have wrought. Yet we were told starting in August and right up to about 5 pm Eastern on election day that she was in good shape.
This means the entirely MSM plus punditry plus polling was either lying, or just idiotically repeating what liars told them. You’d have to be a complete idiot here in 2026 to follow along with their views. And yet, there they go – Right pundit after Right pundit saying we’re doomed…and unless Trump does X, Y or Z, no chance! And, of course, X, Y or Z is something that would actually be politically suicidal for Trump and the GOP…almost like the Doomers are being paid to Doom and try to stampede the GOP into destruction.
almost like the Doomers are being paid to Doom and try to stampede the GOP into destruction.
Exactly. As the panic increases, so does the frantic and desperate effort to generate something—ANYTHING—to try to turn the tide. “Kings” appeals to some—it’s a short word, catchy, easy to remember and chant, and it lends itself to visuals—but it’s also kind of a quick IQ test, and its appeal is limited to those already in the hive.
We’ve got five months till the middle of October and the traditional time for revealing the latest October Surprise. But by that time, gas prices will have stabilized and be back to the $3.00 range, the Strait of Hormuz situation will have been resolved for months, Iran will no longer have any nuclear material and might even be back in control of the citizens, and the Democrats will be facing an election with gerrymandered districts reshaped to eliminate their advantage and voter rolls vastly improved. Even without the SAVE Act, things will not be looking good for them.
That will mean even more escalation of frantic efforts to regain lost ground, and even wilder Agenda Media stories. However, the Agenda Media are taking some hits these days. Suddenly the Right is punching back, and you know there will be some hesitation and flinching when some hack tries one of the old tricks, like the one pulled on Trump that resulted in him telling a talking head to her face that she is a disgusting person.
An example of this is the Democrat governor of Connecticut comparing immigration enforcement to Jim Crow oppression.
His comments are so bizarre, so historically inaccurate, so blatantly designed to try to stir up hatred and resentment of the administration, they only reflect the growing panic of the Left as it realizes it has to start ramping up its rhetoric if it has any chance to save Democrat votes.
These people don’t even try to be coherent.
Some insight into how these “movements” get started–related to Mark’s comment about “Doomers are being paid to Doom and try to stampede the GOP into destruction.”
A previously low-profile figure with credentials adjacent to (but not fully inside) an established institution adopts a single repeatable phrase aimed at a clearly named villain. They feed the phrase into a long-form podcast circuit. An army of clippers, sometimes paid, sometimes ideological, sometimes both, chops the long-form into hundreds of short videos. A monetization layer runs in parallel, ensuring virality converts to income before the moment passes. Within roughly two years, the movement produces an institutional outcome that would have taken a decade in the pre-algorithmic era.
If there is paid amplification it is possible to leapfrog the old model of developing a message: “Hustler’s University” paid affiliates a 48% commission to repost his clips. Thousands of accounts pushed the same source material into the algorithm simultaneously, and the algorithm read coordinated posting as engagement signal
I think of the single-issue thing as a kind of IQ test, but I think the people complaining are already in the D fold so they are not changing anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous quote, “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” has been posted here many times, but there’s now a fourth mind category: mindless twits who complain about the price of gas as if it is the most important political dynamic in all of history, and the thing that will almost certainly lead to a Democrat victory in November. YCMTSU!!!
Says the guy who once wrote a post here on B4V titled “Inflation and Gas Prices,” then preceded to talk about inflation and gas prices.
Here, this may be helpful:
https://blogsforvictory.com/?s=gas+prices
Normally your comments are not worth the time it takes to respond, but this time I have to thank you for making my point. And if you don’t understand the difference between a post 14 years ago on how inflation works and the mindless twit who posted last week that the spike in gas prices is the most important political dynamic at play right now, then you’re not half as bright as I gave you credit for.
You gave him credit for being bright? This is the guy scolding you for “preceding” to write an article about the title of the article.
And BTW, that quarter (90% silver pre-1965) that I mentioned in that post in 2012 was worth a little more than $5 then. Today, even with the temporary spike in gas prices (I paid $4.57/gallon yesterday for unleaded regular), that same quarter will buy 3 gallons of gas with a few pennies left over. And don’t even get me started on pennies.
2012 was a fun time on this blog. Mark was taking a sabbatical, and Cluster and I shared writing duties with Matt and another guy whose name I can’t remember. We were 4 years into Obama’s destruction of the American Dream, and there was no lacking of things to write about. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Back when Obama was President, gas prices were only one of many areas of vulnerability for his administration. Today, gas prices are all you’ve got, and, as Mark noted, by this fall, the current spike will be a distant memory. and getting back to your point, such as it was, there doesn’t seem to have been any discussion here about gas prices in the last 14 years.
I like how Obama was interviewed claiming we have to stop Trump from weaponizing government against his enemies…the man really has no shame at all. Just a completely rotten liar from start to finish.
Trump is the normal guy. The sane guy. The intelligent guy. The educated guy.
I think more and more Americans are coming to the realization just what a fabricated bill of goods Obama turned out to be. I hope history judges him accordingly.
Maybe “history” will unearth his college transcripts, and the receipts for who paid for his college years. I don’t care about a birth certificate—I think it’s obvious that he was born in Kenya and more obvious that it didn’t matter, never mattered, and that the whole birther thing was concocted by the Left to distract from the real problems of his mystery years and to generate conflict and a chance to paint the Right as racists. His mother was a citizen when he was born so he was a citizen, period. More than that, he was a natural born citizen, due to being born to someone who was a citizen. So none of that is relevant, other than an example of the skill of the Left in creating chaos and conflict to divide and conquer.
What matters is his history from about the age of 18 onward, from the mystery years in college to his links to admitted domestic terrorists, and his background going back to birth of immersion in radical anti-American Leftist rhetoric and emotion. So hopefully “history” will be able to finally strip away the clutter and show the facts.
Trump is the normal guy. The sane guy. The intelligent guy. The educated guy.
And the guy targeted by PRESIDENT Obama, who was still in office, colluding with Hillary Clinton and the DNC and the FBI and the CIA and a genuine Russian agent plus another foreign agent to lie to a federal court to get permission to spy on American citizens while using federal agencies against Trump to try to rig a presidential election.
Childers has a great analysis of this crisis—well worth reading
From the Childers article is this quote from a Dem advisor:
“Democrats must “build a message predicated on values rather than reactions,” the NDSMC author fretted, “lest they doom themselves to a future of perpetual minority status, forever living in the shadow of the MAGA right.” But what screamed from the pages was that the author had no suggestions for a message. Not one.”
This is a candid admission that the party is going to continue depending on emotional appeals to amorphous FEELINGS (“values”) which is, in its turn, an admission that they have to do this because to base an appeal to voters on the actual structure of Leftist governance would be a non-starter. And of course there was no suggestion for a message, because they would have to encourage Dems to examine the so-called “values” that have been driving them, and that would be very very dangerous.
One whole category of Dem “values” exists solely as a variety of pejoratives to be attached to Donald Trump. It’s really just one “value” of blind ignorant hate, but it does have several different voices—Cheeto, King, pedophile (this is a new one) rapist and felon are favorites—but they are all basically the same surly sense that Trump is somehow bad and that hating him is all anyone needs to posture as having a political position. Another Dem “value’ that would not hold up well under examination is that of attacking law enforcement officers to enable criminal activity. Seen in a bright light, it’s a pretty crappy “value” and one that a lot of people might not be happy to claim once defined, but unexamined it provides a lot of energy to a certain segment of the party.
Looking at recent “protests” these seem to be the key “values” of the Left right now. Oh, there is that of genocide of Jews, and defending Iran’s ability to nuke us at will, and of course that important “value” of killing inconvenient children if they have not reached a certain age, but when you get right down to it there is no “value” of Democrats that can stand up to scrutiny. So naturally, the general IDEA of “build(ing) a message predicated on values rather than reactions” might sound smart, superficially, even the author of the piece has to admit it’s going to be tough to find such a message.
And no matter what that message might eventually be, it will still be reactive, because the Dem base is so degraded politically speaking that it has no foundation in actual politics. (Which I started pointing out here, decades ago, when I started challenging Lefties to explain their political philosophies and never got a coherent answer that didn’t sound like a sound bite from a Miss America interview—“well, I believe, like, you know, things should be, like, you know, like FAIR and everything, and mean people suck…” That was before they were gifted with the Ultimate Target of Hate, DJT, who let them stop pretending to be FOR anything and let them just be AGAINST.)
The rock and the hard place for Dems is the harsh reality that most Americans are not really hardwired to accept collectivism, and collectivism is the heart and soul of Leftism. And this means an ongoing need to find ways to camouflage this ugly reality. They have expended so much energy on Trump hatred that, literally, no human being can ever generate anything to compare or compete with it. Let’s face it—a movement that is so degenerate and desperate it has to resort to attacking Erica Kirk has jumped the shark, admitting that it just doesn’t have any gas in the tank any more. It will never be able to get the kind of venom and vitriol stirred up for JD Vance or Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis that has kept it afloat for the last few years.
It’s stuck with “values” and to find any that are not foul and disgusting and nasty would mean a complete reversal of everything the Left stands for.
We just saw a perfect example, although it’s been deleted. Try to wrap your head around the mindset of someone who impugns your integrity, calls you a liar and a fool, and then doesn’t understand why you don’t want to engage them in a “conversation.”
There is also the delusion that coming here to insult people can be called a “conversation”. I remember some trolls complaining that they had been cut off from “conversations” they thought they were having with some members of the blog, when there had never been any such exchange of ideas or hint of friendly dialogue, just one-way snarling and spitting and insults.
And their concrete proposals are downright insane…and now, for the first time, there is a political force – Trump and the MAGA GOP – actually willing to fight it out with them. Other than mere insanity, this is why they’re so discombobulated: we’re not supposed to be eliminating the last Democrat House seats in Tennessee and South Carolina. The old GOP would never dream of pressing it’s advantage…the MAGA GOP insists it be pressed…and just tossed out 6 Indiana Republicans who apparently didn’t get the memo back in November of 2024.
This account of Dem reactions in two different statehouses to what boils down to “something we don’t like” seems to summarize the Democrat Party today.
After the recent SCOTUS ruling that it is not constitutional to draw Congressional districts based on race, some states are quickly starting to correct their racially-defined districting. Naturally, the party that depends on racial division and discrimination is, shall we say, not happy. Not happy in a wall-kicking screaming display of “not-happy”.
In the Tennessee statehouse, Demonstrators yowled, bullhorns blared, Democrats pounded their desks and walked out, troopers removed obstreperous gallery members, and one Democrat Senator climbed on a table and refused to come down.
In one viral clip, during a tussle with a state trooper, Democrat state Representative Justin Pearson screamed “BOY!” in the officer’s face before calling him a “stupid motherf*cker.” It was pure bedlam. (Why would an angry man call another man “Boy”? Can we guess? In what context would this supposedly be insulting? Any ideas? //sarc)
In Alabama, they followed the Jamaal Bowman strategy and pulled fire alarms to try to halt the legislature’s vote. “Mayhem equally ensued in Alabama. In a real-life Shakespearean weather metaphor, Republican lawmakers completed the redistricting vote during a storm evacuation. All the while, Democrat officials screamed gibberish like King Lear, refused to leave the lectern, and pulled fire alarms that blared the whole time. Meanwhile, mandatory evacuation notices lit up everyone’s phones, water began floating lawmakers’ cars away, and floodwaters seeped into the state house’s ground floor, making the hallways look a lot like the flume ride at Walt Disney World.”
As Jeff Childers comments:
The video scenes from the two legislatures were so troubling and bizarre they almost defy description. It was a horrible optics for Democrats. It confirmed everything I described yesterday in the Polycrisis roundup. They acted like panicked, unreasoning zoo animals released into a gang turf war that spilled over into an out-of-control Delta Tau Chi house party.
Democrats displayed no dignity. No professionalism. No soaring rhetoric. No cunning procedural strategy. Just … flinging feces.
This is not the behavior of an organized, effective political party. It smacked of desperation. It was pure mob mania; petulant, childish emotional blackmail— nothing more sophisticated than do what we want or we’ll throw a tantrum right here in the cereal aisle.
I like the one State legislator who’s clearly going for the Malcolm X look…but he went to prestige colleges and before he decided to play this game, he looked like a respectable gentleman. That’s another aspect of this – they’re just faking it for street cred with the kook left. Crocket is another one of these – she actually has perfect diction but chooses to speak like a ghetto rat…which is so sad and I do wonder what her parents think about it: they spent a lot of money getting her a first class education.
Which was really stupid on his part because in the new political environment, had he kept with the respectable gentleman gig he might have risen far…he would have just had to appeal to white middle and working class voters…as it is, he hitched his star to appealing to urban white liberals…in New York and California.
The guy you are talking about is Justin Pearson, the guy who screamed “BOY!” in the officer’s face before calling him a “stupid motherf*cker.”
The difference in the way Democrats and Republicans behave in public is one of the great dichotomies of our times.
They are seriously committed – I’ve seen the ads! – to stopping ICE.
This is so utterly delusional it is hard to imagine anyone buying into this magical thinking. Seriously—start with the concept of “stopping ICE” What the hell does that MEAN?
Let’s say that in some disordered mind this means the person believes it is possible to—what? Make a whole law enforcement agency just go away? Disappear? Stop existing? But let’s say yes, that is exactly the kind of magical thinking this mental giant is experiencing.
Leading to—WHY? What is it about this agency that calls for its erasure? That’s what would lead to the litany of fantasies—-From ICE agents being untrained Gestapo bullies to ICE agents viciously abusing innocent people to ICE agents arresting American citizens, the list is long. And wholly fictional.
But—-work with me here—-once those fictions were dismantled, once those lies were debunked, it would come down to the hard cold truth—that the person simply thinks that when there is a law, with a specific penalty for its violation, this penalty should not be applied. At least not to some people.
In the real world, this would loop around to the “protest” signs of NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. But anyone demanding that ICE be dismantled, dissolved, eliminated, whatever, is stating that well, SOME people are actually above the law. Because that is the only reason to dismantle the very law enforcement agency tasked with enforcing that law.
Oh. Well. It’s not that illegal aliens are above the law, it’s just that the law should not be applied to them. Or something. (They are openly opposing the Laken Riley Act) And here we are sucked even deeper into the fever swamp of Leftist insanity. Because even if there is a serious conviction that we should not have immigration laws to start with, we do have laws about how to change laws. So anyone demanding that that law/rule be broken just to achieve some personal emotional goal is convinced that he is, in fact, above that law.
If you envision the thought process of the Left as a tangled ball of string, and you try to untangle it and impose some order and consistency to it, you find that it is not an actual intact string at all, but has many gaps, some of which can never be spanned, and many places where pieces that clearly are not related are knotted together to make the illusion of a continuous thread. No amount of effort to untangle this knotted mess will ever give you a linear thought process.
But the effort will expose you to rage, fury, and white-hot hatred.