Let’s Talk About Trump

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

The midterm clusterfark has drawn plenty of hot takes and instant analyses that range from insightful to self-serving to unbelievably stupid. But now that we have gotten past the initial blasts of the flamethrower, perhaps we should take a breath and sit down, and think about where we are as a movement and what we need to do as a party for 2024. There’s a lot to talk about, from procedural questions like how we intend to cope with the new world of extended mail voting to substantive imperatives like how we must repeal the 19th Amendment as it applies to single, liberal women who vote for their Democrat Daddy in appalling numbers. We need to ask questions about candidate selection, money, issue choices, and a bunch of other stuff. And we need to answer the question of what to do about Donald J. Trump.

My DMs and texts and chats and super-secret Townhall VIP email (Join with promo code KURT for a discount!) exploded – I mean, they went the full Nagasaki – during the 24 hours after the election, and most of it was along the lines of “I am so done with Trump!” It was not just a few people, and it was not only on back channels (Twitter was alive with Trump-roasting). It was a lot of people, and most were pretty damn hardcore. These were not Never Trump sissies or establishment shills – those losers don’t get to talk to me. These were people who, unanimously, were grateful for what Trump did.

But while Trump, like many others – RINOs, pundits, us voters – own a hefty share of this Jeffrey Toobin Zoom call of an election night, it’s all a little too simple, a little too easy to think that we’re good to go if only Trump gets up and goes. Trump is not the GOP’s only problem. It was out of touch with most voters before he took over – hell, that’s why he was able to take over. And the problems with the GOP that led to Trump will not be fixed even if Trump vanishes tomorrow.

But Trump presents problems and we need to face them. Before we go further, we need to be clear because some folks are a bit sensitive when the subject of the ex-president comes up. Get over it. He works for us. We owe Trump nothing. He’s a politician. He owes us. I don’t care if he resents his unfair 2020 defeat any more than I care when a teenager whines that something is unfair. Life is unfair. No one was more unfairly maligned than DJT – I wrote a book defending him against the barrage of lies he endured. But I expect politicians to get it done, every time and every day, with no excuses, and the operative question is always, always, “What have you done for me lately?”

If a politician wants a friend, he can buy a beagle, and if he demands a pass when he starts to fail to cut it, here’s a gold watch and a handshake, enjoy your retirement. Trump was a great president in many ways. The economy boomed. We were energy-independent. We were at peace. He got the Middle East to make peace. And the Supreme Court – no establishment guy would have stuck with Kavanaugh as Trump did. Someday some iconoclast historian is going to look back and say, “Damn, I can’t believe how much Trump accomplished in the face of the full-scale assault by the establishment.” He saved America, or at least put off our fall a little longer.

But let’s not minimize his failures in failing to win this last midterm, and they are failures and they are just more in a line of them. He postures as the head of the GOP, and congratulations, Don – that means you get the blame when stuff goes sideways just like you get the credit when you win. In 2018 we lost seats, a lot of them. He gets a big piece of that demerit. In 2020, he lost the election – yeah, I know about the rigging issues because I lawyered in the aftermath, but the fact is that Crusty O’Senile is in the Oval Office and Trump isn’t, so Trump lost. And in 2022, well, we are still mopping up that mess. No, it’s not all his fault, but some of the fault was his. He picked some candidates who either lost or ran far behind what they should have gotten. He collected a ton of money and then spent barely any of it. He injected dumb drama into the election by hinting that he would announce the night before, issuing stupid nicknames for Ron DeSantis while we were busy trying to win, and did not slack off even after the disappointing loss. His cringe insecurity about DeSantis – and he should be insecure – is embarrassing. All that stuff hurt us in the midterms. And his rumblings afterward about how great he did with his picks were tone-deaf and infuriating. He can be exhausting – I know because many people tell me they’re tired of Trump drama.

That’s a fact, like it or not.

But the idea going around that all we need to do to get our Republican mojo back is to banish Trump is demonstrably wrong. It’s too convenient, and it puts off the deep and searching personal inventory we need to do as a party to figure out how we can start to get the checks in the boxes that have Rs next to them >50% of the time again.

There are two types of people pushing the “Ditch Trump” agenda. The first is folks who have looked at the facts and evidence and believe that Trump does more harm than good. Trump motivates a lot of people who might not participate otherwise, but here’s the hard fact – a lot of people hate Trump and they will never vote for him or anyone with his stamp of approval. For him or one of his endorsees to win, he would need to win an overwhelming number of everyone else in the general election, and from his poor performance in the midterm, there’s no indication he can do that consistently. That’s a legitimate view and not some establishment plot. Paul Ryan, who is a tool, did not make suburban moms and their emasculated husbands hate Trump.

The other kind of people demanding Donald’s defenestration are people who never wanted him in the first place. They include Never Trumpers, who are at best unserious people, and worse, invertebrate traitors shrimping the toes of MSNBC bookers for the chance at a three-minute hit with Joy Reid babbling about “Muh Democracy.” But they also include the Swallow Hard Trumpers, the folks who did not want him but got on the team anyway when he won yet never reconciled fully to him. The idea that ditching DJT will fix all our problems is super-appealing to both groups because it is super convenient. This prescription for a revitalized Republican Party gets rid of their bête noir and allows them to say, “See, I was right all along.” And, of course, the unspoken assumption is that after he goes, these guys would assume their rightful place as leaders of the party. Or re-assume their place, as they are often the same people whose inept leadership created the need for a Donald Trump in the first place. It’s like the climate change commies – “Gee, how lucky we are that there’s this crisis that requires you to do everything we always wanted to do anyway and put us in charge, or else the polar bears will catch fire!” Dumping Donald does not necessarily solve conservatism’s problem, but it sure solves theirs.

Of course, two other groups love the idea of Donald Trump running in 2024. The Trump diehards love it. Some make very good points about why he should run. Again, Trump did some great things and if he is the nominee we should eagerly support him. Other folks are a bit too into him personally. Like Grateful Deadheads following the band from concert to kush-kissed concert, they attend his (often hilarious) rallies, space-dancing to his greatest hits. They never tire of his act, though seven-plus years after he came down that escalator, a lot of other people have. They cannot tolerate hearing criticisms of Trump, whether from enemies or allies. The next two years are going to be very long for them.

And then there are the Democrats. They love the idea of Trump 3.0 because they know how to beat him. They adore the idea of making this a fight over the remaining voters who might vote for him; they have already banked at least 45% of the electorate who never, ever will vote for him. That’s why you see the Twitter bots, those 22-follower accounts that have been repurposed from accusing us of loving Putin, swarming any conservative who dares criticize the ex-president. The Democrats want him to run. That could be a strategic error – it was in 2016. But they sure don’t think it will be in 2024.

The only question that matters to us conservatives is whether we are better off with Donald Trump as a candidate or whether we are not. While he has not said it, some people worry he might go third-party if denied the nod (I doubt this, not least of all because he would have to personally fund it and he is notoriously parsimonious). But some Trump diehards promise to sit out the election if their guy cannot win the primary – they often cannot imagine he can ever lose and attribute all of his failures to establishment conspiracies and cheating, though cheating is kind of baked-in by now and if Trump cannot overcome it in primary good luck doing it in the general. We need to decide whether we think the people threatening to take their ball and go home outnumber the people who might be gettable by a different Republican nominee. 

The Godzilla to Trump’s King Kong is Ron DeSantis, who turned Florida red and annihilated the Democrat Party in the hanging chad state without Trump’s endorsement. One thing is clear from the desperation evident in the Trump Faction’s so far puny attacks on Trump’s rival, like assertions that Heavy D is in a secret conspiracy with Jeb! and Mitch and Ryan and Trump-endorsed maybe-Speaker Kevin McCarthy to return us to the days of cruise ship conservatism because reasons. They are scared of RDS and want to kneecap him now. But the attacks on the popular gov are not getting the same gleeful response as hits like “Low-Energy” got when applied to fungi like Jeb! The difference is that conservatives like DeSantis and despise Jeb!

Should Trump run and remain the GOP standard-bearer? Note that the idea of him instead assuming some sort of kingmaker role has kind of dissipated in the wake of his midterm failure to make many kings. Let’s have a primary and decide! Right now, the polls say he is the number-one choice for Republicans. He should not be pushed out by poobahs and pundits but, instead, he should be vetted by the people. A primary sharpens the eventual winner while testing all the candidates. Trump has to answer some tough questions. What has he learned from his mistakes? Will he screw up personnel again? Does he intend to subject America to years more of Trump drama, and what makes him think voters want that again? What, exactly, is his plan to win key states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan in 2024 (It’s a fair question to ask DeSantis and any other aspirants too)? Here’s the thing – I do not see a clear path for Trump to get to 270 electoral votes in the general as of today, though that can change quickly, so that’s the big question he and every other candidate has got to answer because we cannot afford another term of these communist bastards wrecking our country.

Trump was always a prix fixe menu with no substitutions; you cannot have a Trump owning the libs without him also tweeting about Rosie O’Donnell. He saved our country in 2016. The idea that 2022 was all his fault is nonsense. It was only partly his. There were plenty of other malefactors and plenty of unrelated screw-ups that we need to identify and address in the next 24 months (particularly adapting to the new mail-in extended voting model). Trump should not be exiled by the establishment or the commentators just because a lot of the same people who never liked him anyway still want him gone. If he does not run, he should either bow out because he wants to bow out, or he should be tossed out by Republican primary voters at the ballot box. If he gets the GOP nomination, everyone should support him in the general. If you are a Nomination Denier, go subscribe to the Dispatch.

Trump will probably announce 2024 soon, and then we will see if his support is wide and deep or wide and shallow. But regardless, the GOP is going to have to answer the Trump question sooner rather than later.

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SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow

“and what we need to do as a party for 2024…” The elephant in the room is the BIG CHEAT. I don’t care what strategy you use or what candidates the big city dem election apparatus will still determine the outcome in their favor!!! If republicans can’t win with 40 year high inflation, $5/gallon gas, open borders, the most unpopular president in history, and ramping crime statistics everywhere, then they can’t win in the current “environment”. Until fair and free elections are in place across the country, VOTING DOES NOT MATTER… Chip

Winchester
Winchester

Exactly. I read a statistic the other day that any elections that take over a day to call usually end up going to the Democrats over something like 80% of the time. And why is it always the elections that can make the difference when it comes to control of the Senate/House? We are technologically advanced, yet it takes 4 days to “count” electronic votes. This all mysteriously started right around the introduction of mail-in voting and electronic ballot machines. Democrats always seem to find those last minute votes, just enough to win an election, but not raise eyebrows. It will not stop.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

The only way to get a brief reprieve from this reality would be generous use of the heart attack gun, but it would have to be requisitioned from the CIA and they’re on the other side.

Iggy
Iggy

Its over the inmates are running the asylum.

Iggy
Iggy

It’s racist to call for votes to be tallied on election day ,don’t you know homeys need extra time yo.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

My opinion as a lawyer is that any time it takes more than a day to count the votes, everyone responsible should be hanged…Let’s make the punishment fit the crime…

cricket
cricket

“Until fair and free elections are in place across the country, VOTING DOES NOT MATTER…”

It hasn’t mattered for a very long time, perhaps never did. It is an illusion of ‘choice’. When a people ‘think’ and ‘believe’ what they are ‘told’, that they are ‘free’, they will not fight their chains.
Fair and free elections will never be in place across the country.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

And ours was criminally changed in secret in 1787. Eurobankster mafia/secret societies already in charge by then.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Voting doesn’t matter even with perfectly fair elections, Charlie Brown.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Agreed. Liberty and .gov are mutually exclusive.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Obviously, but Schlichter would be attacked by his insider friends if he talked about that Elephant in the room…..

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

What a tool.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Colonel Useful Idiot reporting for duty, sir.

cricket
cricket

What I’ve noticed is that they are perpetually pairing Trump with DeSantis and the propaganda will only get worse here on out to the next round of phony elections. Endless newsie tidbits, Blah Blah Blah, about Trump dissing DeSantis every way he can or “news” about DeSantis being unfit for the Presidency, has handlers of foreign origin and other polls supposedly saying no one wants him whatsoever, not even his ‘party’. Tainting anyone they don’t want by ‘association’ and connecting them to Trump. MAGA (is only ‘Make America Great Again’ not a blind Trump devotee cult member). They are afraid of that word, because their goal is obvious…the opposite, they are sellouts to the money.
It’s all to preemptively brainwash and cause a huge division in the Republican party. It is still obvious that a huge portion of the population still believes in right vrs left, Dem and Repub. My guy vrs your guy. DeSantis is no fool. He knows the cheating system is still intact and nothing had been done about it. He did a lot to fix Florida and fix the loopholes and massive cheating, but there is still more work to be done. He also made the statement he was only running for Gov now and not the Presidency. So we shall see. Frankly, he’d be very foolish knowing he’d go through a raking over the coals, worse than Trump just to get nominated and that cheating, lying and corruption are the establishments ways of who really run the US and world. The guy ain’t stupid.
Any ‘good’ Trump did was only nominal & temporary and totally undone within the first few weeks of O’Biden, if not first few days. He mixed friendship with business and erred greatly.

Common Cents
Common Cents

Please re-read the comments shown above. The people on TBP get it, even if you and the writer of this article do not. The ONLY issue is election integrity. Without that, any talk of DeSantis – Trump, or any other issue is a complete waste of time.

No Voter ID + Mail In Ballots + Ballot Harvesting = Corrupt Elections

There is NO OTHER ISSUE.

keann
keann

In all sincerity – Ron DeSantis is my Governor, I voted for him BUT Governor DeSantis ran against 3 time trifecta (Dem, Ind, Repub) loser Crist AND he made sure as Governor, thanks to a republican State legislature to clean up the voting shenanigans that allow fraud and abuse. Cleaning up the potential for election fraud and abuse is key to republican wins in the future as Florida proved. To paint Ron DeSantis as the savior of the republican party is premature.

cricket
cricket

Not painting DeSantis as anything. No man is or will be savior to ‘save’ the US. So don’t read into what I wrote. What I said was the shenanigans and propaganda already began to divide. I’m not for Trump, nor for DeSantis. Frankly, votes do not matter. They will install whom they please.

Jack Russell
Jack Russell

Stalin said it is who counts the votes who decides an election. I heard Steve Quayle say “It is who handles the votes who decides the elections.” No cheating in states that required ID for some reason. The NWO is trying to bring down the US. If it goes, the rest will fall in line.

Maxda
Maxda

I agree with all the others noting election fraud. If we even continue to have national elections, a Republican will never win again. The smart move for DeSantis is probably to let Trump be a clown and walk into another fake election while he fortifies Florida and prepares for session.

Boogieman
Boogieman

First step is, stop with the left / right paradigm. It’s really not me against my neighbor, it’s me against unelected bureaucrats who would kill me and people like me if we don’t fall in line. I hope that no one thinks this is happening by sitting politicians. No ,this is happening through a well oiled machine that wants to steal my birth right and make my country they’re own. They want to accelerate our demise so they can continue with the destruction of our people. This outside influence working through all to willing bureaucrats are the point of contention and what must change. You can’t vote these people out and no one person can change that. I see it as almost a fight or flight situation. Either we fight by getting involved and taking back what is ours by any means possible or we retreat into our own collectives and watch the world burn from the comfort of our camps. Neither is a good choice but a choice we will all be forced to make.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Ron Paul Institute agrees with you on disregarding our difference to form a coalition of the unwilling:

Conservative Candace Owens Crashes Ukraine War Party


Divide and conquer is the essence of rule by a tiny minority. United we stand against internationalist power grabbing. A billion vs. a thousand? Game over. The enemy of my enemy is my . . . brother in arms. Maybe not my friend. So what? Fight together, bow to each other, and go back to leaving each other alone.

Rise Up
Rise Up

There will be no “comfort of our camps” when Civil War 2.0 gets going in 2023.

Boogieman
Boogieman

Whom pray tell will start this civil war in 2023, You? and whom will you be fighting, them? Who is them? It may well be over due, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. FED vs State vs State won’t be happening either.
It’s more likely they get us into WWIII and all bets are off after that. Tribe up and prepare for some perils times. Having a camp with like minded folks is good strategy no matter what happens.

Mountainrat
Mountainrat

I wager you will not get a answer to your questions.

CrossingTheRubicon
CrossingTheRubicon

Honestly I think the CW happens by accident when the federal checks bounce. Then the population fights amongst itself for the remaining wealth.

Boogieman
Boogieman

I call that a riot, we have already seen what happens when the Ubangi’s get upset. They tend to burn down they’re own neighborhoods. Civil war, that’s a whole different animal. I don’t want nor wish to kill my neighbor over a rogue, unscrupulous Government who has lost it’s charter. My fight lays with those who have infiltrated the halls of power and are working on destroying me and mine, both of them at the government and private sectors. WEF to name one entity, followed by the CDC, George Soros and his organizations, Black Rock, Bilderberg’s and many others. They are the true architects of our destruction.

Frank
Frank

If a riot goes on long enough, it will start developing a central nervous system. At some point a person will lots of charisma and few scruples will take charge and become the fearless leader. At that point you start to see the makings of “interesting times” hitting the afterburner.

Note from Nevada
Note from Nevada

Going into the midterms the Democrats seemed confident to the point of being smug. Over and over again late counted votes pushing Democrats over the edge and beating GOP candidates that had held solid leads in poll after poll.
The big prize ,the Senate was won with the results here in Nevada with Cortez-Mastro beating out Laxalt. Cortez-Mastro was always behind in the polls, yet pulled it out with final votes,amazing really.

Lots of promised investigations (Fauci/Covid by Rand Paul) won’t happen, DOJ/FBI abuses etc. Deep state very happy…

Boogieman
Boogieman

Certain politicians knew the fix was in on both sides. These are the one who will sell their soul or have been compromised, useful idiots all of them. I knew in my heart that this was going to happen, so no surprise here. There will be no legitimate investigation of anyone, in short, full steam ahead.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Two bedroom suites of the same whorehouse.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government – The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television and Bullshit ~ P. J. O’Rourke

NtroP
NtroP

I didn’t ‘know’ it was going to happen, but was plenty worried.
The RINO’s are every bit as bad as the communists. They let this happen, probably thrilled with the results. McConnell and McCarthy are evil fucks, and many others, too numerous to name.

Professor G
Professor G

I am staying with the Donald. You can try to reform the Deep State RINOs if you want, but I am not a Republican. I am a Patriot!

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Yeah. Talk all the shit ya want. At the end of the day, you’re voting a Republican ticket…jackwad.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“I’m staying with the Donald” like an abused wife.

Besides, the problem is staying with the system.

Vigilant
Vigilant

What you are is deceived.

Boogieman
Boogieman

The MSM has moved on and have never mentioned the grand steal. Part of the trick is to get people to openly except what they know is wrong. Some of us are uncontrollable and won’t conform, we are they’re enemy. If that is so, then we must act like an enemy and stop feeding at they’re trough. If you don’t get it by now, you may never will, voting is an illusion of choice. Make a ripple locally is about all you can do voting wise. Work to make your local community a little bit better or be a wrench in the wheel at the very least.

DS
DS

You meant to say “their” in the 3rd and 4th sentences.

They’re = they are

Not trying to be a grammar bolshevik, just trying to help… your message was 100% correct though, and I do try to follow the advice you offer. Best regards to you

ursel doran
ursel doran

Trump = Fascinating article on our, and the nation’s, much-discussed subject.

Tragically Trump

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Let’s NOT talk about Trump. That orange fag is never going to go away if you don’t start ignoring him. Bastard’s like Betelgeuse. Every time you mention his name the fucker manifests at a public venue like a poltergeist.

Beetlejuice!

Leah
Leah

Lori Lightfoot: You rang?

Mary Christine

Lol! I’m stealing that, Scrutinizer.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Go and spread my word…or my manure as the case may be. Either way someone benefits. You have my blessing.

ottomatik
ottomatik

The gift of these elections, is the clarity in which we can now observe the turncoats.
All of the RINO’s coming out of the shadows to diss Trump instead of, god forbid, even mentioning, Election Fraud.
There are a lot of them.
A lot.

ottomatik
ottomatik

This fuckin tool is one of them, Ben Shapiro is another, and the list grows each day.
Hero’s of the Republic can clearly be differentiated from the zeros at this time by applying this simple standard: who will talk election fraud vs who will not.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Your yardstick is a pretzel.

CCRider
CCRider

Here’s the deal on your precious vote, Kurt.

Voter Fraud and the Illusion of Freedom – Video

Gadsden flag
Gadsden flag

Desantis is funded by global corporatists.for the sole purpose of disrupting a populist movement (MAGA). Now what?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Now stop giving a shit. But only if you want a constitutional republic, or a limited government whose only responsibility is protecting the individual lives, liberty and property of the people for whom it acts as an agent. Because you can’t get there by voting… PERIOD!
If it’s something else you want, then by all means vote harder. Vote more MAGA you brain dead dupe.

Fetterman's Bump
Fetterman's Bump

…or let’s not.

Jim
Jim

Trump brought us the myocarditis-inducing clot shots and pushed them in rallies long after the negative effects became known. DeSantis refused to order them for children on the state’s dime and does not recommend them for anyone under 50. Trump allowed the lockdowns to happen in 2020 without lifting a finger to stop them. DeSantis reopened his state early. In other words, DeSantis gets shit done, DJT talks a good game but can fumble the ball when push comes to shove.

While I voted for DJT in 2020, I would not support him over DeSantis in the primary, though I would still vote for him in the general if he was the nominee.

Ooze the other one

“Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. We’re so glad you could attend.”
– Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Karn Evil 9” from the album “Brain Salad Surgery.”

Trumpeter

It is not that I can’t imagine him losing… DeSantis is a cuck. Look who is bankrolling him. The billionaire said he supports DeSantis to Tampa down all this populism and get the Republican party back to business as usual.
Good heavens, the Bush family and Paul Ryan support him! He must be looking out for us regular folks… Cuckservatives! Well I am not voting for that **** anymore. I held my nose and voted for Ford and Dole and McCain and Romney. The only two times my guy got a chance the big club GOP fought the base tooth and nail. Republican means BETRAYAL. Only DJT has fought for me, everybody else (among Presidential contestants) talks big and then goes back to business as usual.

Let me assure you they have no intentions of ever including you or your interests in their agenda. As for me I will vote commie before I ever vote cuck!

Trumpeter

Ps, he won decisively because he has fixed the broken election system. State the plan for Ron to fix the crooked vote in all those other states, in time for ’24.

ottomatik
ottomatik

I’m open to the possibility DeSantis is playing games with the RINo’s and is still MAGA.
Taking their money and drawing them out.
Cautious, but open to the possibility.

Common Cents
Common Cents

For the Republicans to win, the RINOs need to be on board. DeSantis may be able to get them on board, but Trump NEVER can. Calling Jeb “Low Energy” and Cruz “Lyin Ted” is scorched earth policy. People never forget that and never forgive stuff like that. Those people will NEVER support Trump, but they may be willing to back his policies and actually vote for DeSantis. The difference this time is that DeSantis MUST be the one driving the train and the RINOs are just on board as passengers.

In any event, none of it matters as long as there is No Voter ID, Mail in Voting is allowed and Ballot Harvesting is allowed.

bucknp
bucknp

Melania bleeds from her eyes gentlemen.

DS
DS

Doubtful — he signed a Florida anti-semitism law in Isntreal, for crissakes

alice d. millionaire
alice d. millionaire

there aren’t direct parallels between the counter- culture revolution of the 60’s and 70’s and trump’s movement, but there’re some

Like Grateful Deadheads following the band

when the main ingredient to make LSD became difficult to get, and the feds throwing in jail those who were still making it, so those advocating its use eventually just disappeared like a fart in the wind

the 21st century saw altering election laws, banning fair elections, using fear, adding a negative stigma to voting as elections were designed, and not having elections to be held on one day

Trump’s followers will go down in history after the ’24 general election loss to the Dems as the acid heads

Have a Good Trip

Anonymous
Anonymous

Kurt, you need to lay down the Crack Pipe and breath!!! Most of President Trump’s endorsed canadates WON!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t understand the sudden push to throw President Trump under the bus.

Mary Christine

I don’t know but maybe with this kind of support Trump will be back in 2024.

bucknp
bucknp

His “supporters” don’t get it, never will. scratching the bald head fake disguise 🙂

bucknp
bucknp

Where are Ivanka and Jared these days? Either talkin’ trash to the State of Israel or comforting gays. Both were supportive of gay agendas while advising daddy.

Iggy
Iggy

Fuck 2024 And fuck this country.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

…and the horse they rode in on?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I can’t even bring myself to read anything from Schlichter anymore. I’m with HSF on him.

Scot
Scot

So, what Kurt is saying is a lot of establishment RINOs have his email address. Most of Trump’s candidates won, despite RINO sabotage.
DeSantis turned Florida red by removing a significant portion of democrat fraud. Not even close to all of it, but enough to make a huge difference.

Kurt was one of the “vote harder” crowd. He’s trying to push his failure for taking fraud seriously onto President Trump.

awoke
awoke

You’re asking for self reflection of the party (statistically) of old white men. That might have been all that mattered even 50 years ago, but times have changed.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

The old white men still labor under the delusion that ballots are counted more or less fairly.

Beth
Beth

“Let’s talk about Trump…”

No, you fraud, let’s talk about the GOP, who hates their own voters and has been betraying us for years (which is the reason for Trump in the first place). Everything about the GOP — from the politicians, bureaucrats, party apparatus and pundits — is fraudulent. They work against us while masquerading as our representatives. Any pundit hand waiving about Trump at this late hour is a total fraud. And I see this snake is yet again shilling yet another book. Enough already with these fraud grifters.

Boogieman
Boogieman

Well said, Short but sweet – Thanks Beth

DS
DS

Agreed — but she seems to need to read Uncola’s trump = judas goat series of articles, as well.

bucknp
bucknp

So Kurt is writing another book? I don’t know much about the guy. And I’ve heard Trump has a new one in the make , Mommy Said I Can Do No Wrong.

TampaRed
TampaRed

funny story that you’ve probably heard but relevant as trump is to the other repubs as the spy plane is to the other planes —

ursel doran
ursel doran

Trump = Fascinating article on our, and the nation’s, much-discussed subject.

Tragically Trump

Matthew Clark

The real value of President trump, and the reason that many people hate him, is that the reaction he provokes in the political hierarchy reveals their corruption. Indeed the whole political, and economic system, is revealed as being run by a bunch of self serving, incompetent crooks. I do not believe President Trump will reverse the general decline in the United States ( a decline surpassed by my country of Canada under the immature, superficial Justin Trudeau) but he could very well be the person to reveal how to end that decline. He could do this by further exposing the rot of the government, the bureaucracy, and the corporate vultures benefitting from government coercion. With all their presumptions, and assumptions gone, the public might get serious about fixing their nation.

TampaRed
TampaRed

good comment–as a buddy of mine said,trump is a disruptor —

bucknp
bucknp

corporate vultures benefitting from government coercion

Maybe just a hate thing toward Trump peeps saying Trump benefited greatly in investments in those corporations that “developed” the various jabs, Pfizer comes to mind…maybe not.

Despite campaigning on the pledge of “taking on big businesses,” Trump own shares in big pharma companies including Pfizer, Merck, Celgene and GlaxoSmithKline; retailer Walmart, and consumer goods firms Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. He also hold stakes in a variety of multinational oil companies like Shell, Chevron and Exxon Mobil.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferwang/2016/11/29/trumps-stock-portfolio-big-oil-big-banks-and-more-foreign-connections/?sh=1476ce2464ed

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

-Walter Scott

Sensop

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bucknp
bucknp

While I did not witness this, I was told three morons walked my county road on Jan. 6 plinking within the ROW with ARs, a “protest”. Needless to say firearm discharge within public ROW’s , even in Texas, even on county roads is against the law , laws provided by those the peeps put in public office. That’s why game wardens bust people trying to shoot deer from a public ROW and a frequent occurrence when deer season rolls around like people gone mad.

I cannot see the fucking road from my abode , thankfully, yet careful planning since I’m into disguises. May as well make my place the least visible as possible. Anyway, why I say keep the powder dry not only for the radical left but the radical right as well. TrumpTards around here should be eating crow and are brain damaged so beware.

bucknp
bucknp

I found an article from Nov. 13 updating circumstances in Arizona’s gubernatorial “election” interesting.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/republican-kari-lake-narrows-gap-in-arizona-governors-race-01668393422?mod=mw_more_headlines

Democrat Katie Hobbs holds narrow lead with about 160,000 votes left to count

Lake has never led in the race but insists that she’ll take the lead as early ballots dropped off at polling places are added to the tally. She won a majority of the 99,000 votes reported in Maricopa County on Sunday, but it’s not clear if she’ll be able to narrow the gap with the roughly 160,000 remaining to be counted statewide.

Lake is one of the most prominent election deniers running for office this year. Her supporters have been highly critical of the protracted vote count in Arizona, but it is nothing new in a state where the overwhelming majority of people vote on ballots they receive in the mail. Maricopa County officials reported that a record number of early ballots were dropped off at the polling place on Election Day, delaying the count while officials verify they’re legitimate.

Ballots dropped of on election day and Ms. Lake has narrowed her opponent’s lead. Interesting.

Updating it seems the other wing of the bird of prey “won”.

bucknp
bucknp

Anyone called in to Sean Hannity last ten days?

Bear Claw
Bear Claw

Voting, meh, Carlin was right.

Mr. Operation warp speed will just sign the first trillion dollar spending bill placed before him again.

Only one congressman voted no on that bill. He should run.

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