Campaign 2026

Open Thread

Mark Noonan17 Comments

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!

Open Thread

Mark Noonan26 Comments

Democrats, MSMers and RINOs are all in Campaign Mode. You know – “it is OVER! The GOP has Lost! There is nothing that can stop the Democrat juggernaut in November! Trump has failed!” And they trot out the same polls which got 2024 wrong as proof of it all…spliced together with articles like “you know, I was like totally talking to this construction guy in south Texas and everyone is going to vote Democrat because Trump is deporting the illegals who worked the jobs”. Oh, and guys, the events in Minnesota are seared into the public mind and they all hate Trump for it.

Hey, we’ll see how it comes out – if the American people want the illegals to stay, the boys to keep playing in girls sports and carbon taxes on being normal, then that is what they’ll get. But I have my doubts about that – especially as Team Trump/GOP is already starting to use their vast campaign funds to advertise. Those videos we had of Leftist rioters waving Mexican flags? Yeah, that’s gonna start showing up on the TV…it’ll probably show up a lot for the World Series. Democrats are still for “they/them” and the GOP is for you.

Here’s what it is: the Democrats are playing the Wizard of Oz like hours after the curtain has been pulled back. We know it is all fake. But they keep pushing the buttons and working the controls as if we aren’t right there, watching them lie while pointing and laughing at them. Twenty years ago, the scenes in Minnesota would really have been seared…because there was no force to question the MSM Narrative and no GOPer with the guts to stand up against the Narrative. Now we have X and Trump…it just doesn’t work any longer.

Zeek Akram appears to be a black guy who doesn’t have a problem with MAGA. Personally, I only just recently encountered his account for the first time but he’s been there for six years. Anyways, whoever he is, exactly, he captured the truth perfectly with this:

The old charge of racism just doesn’t work on us. FFS, my granddaughter is mixed race. I don’t know anyone among my friends who doesn’t have at least some mixture added to the cracker. Who do I want my granddaughter to eventually marry? Of course a steely-eyed missile man of supreme courage and good looks with buckets of money…but the reality is that as long as the guy is sober, hard working and kind…we’re cool. Beyond that it doesn’t really matter.

The crucial thing the Groypers don’t get is that you don’t have to be white to be civilized. You just have to be civilized. Thomas Sowell is exceptionally civilized. More so, indeed, than some Groyper moron out there thinking the Jews had it coming in 1933. But the Left also doesn’t get it on the other side…to be civilized you have to be civilized. You can’t be eating rice with your fingers or taking a dump on the street…nor can you engage in “honor killing” of your wayward daughter, nor clog a street with prayer in the middle of the day. It doesn’t matter what skin color the barbarians have…if they are barbarians, they have to be kept out. As I’ve said before, I’ll trade an uncivilized American white person for a civilized Nigerian Catholic farmer any day of the week. I like the Mexicans who live behind my house much better than the drunken white people who used to live there.

I think we are on the cusp of really resolving the race issue in the United States. Sure, for the next few election cycles the Democrats will race-bait in the most cruel ways imaginable. But I don’t think it will work – that, in fact, we’ll start to see a larger and more durable shift of non-white voters to the GOP. In the end, the battle is between the Useful and the Useless. A “studies” professor is as useless as a welfare bum…and they vote the same way. But what does the black working man have in common with the black welfare bum? Nothing. He’s far more like the white working man. The Latino working man. The Asian working man. The key is “working man”. The men and women who actually get things done in the USA are all of one class…color blind and gender neutral. They just want to be able to work in peace, keep what they earn and raise their families in safe neighborhoods. Some of them are poor…some of them are billionaires. But they all want the same basic things…and I think they are about to win, over the next two or three cycles, complete power in the USA.