Posted on 11/01/2022 6:19:34 AM PDT by weston
Almost as fast as the dropped the search for the SCOTUS leaker story.
Kari Lake War Room
@KariLakeWarRoom
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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors spent over two years calling anyone who questioned their competency “conspiracy theorists.”
Now at the scene of their latest failure they want us to tone “down our rhetoric.”
Don’t lecture us. Do your jobs.
“Can anyone deny that this is at least criminal neglect, if not the murder, of a human being?”
It really saddens me. My heart breaks for these little ones.
They have no voice.
Shem Horne
@Shem_Infinite
Watching all the people that pretended to support Trump now throwing him under the bus reminds me of why it was nearly impossible for him to fill his staff with people that weren’t constantly trying to sabotage him. The rot in the GOP runs deep.
The good news is they are mostly all getting it out into the open right now so he should have a much easier time identifying them for his next term.
4:36 PM · Nov 10, 2022
Russ Vought on WAR Room, nails it...
WSJ article on WHY NOTHING EVER CHANGES in DC, with the GOP!
>>> Cultural fights are political opportunities <<<
[ And American voters appear ready and willing to join the battle ]
Excerpt: (last paragraph)
The realignment that is now occurring within the Republican Party is forced by an insistence that cultural issues be foremost on the agenda, and it will create a profound tension until the party elites decide to demonstrate real leadership that is oriented toward results on these issues. Successive events—President Trump’s electoral improvement with black and Hispanic communities, Glenn Youngkin’s victory in Virginia, and, most recently, the recall of three school board members in liberal San Francisco—are dismantling the tired political consensus that cultural issues are political losers. There is a significant political opportunity to be grasped if this realignment occurs, as ordinary Americans across the country thirst for a movement willing to keep their families, their schools, and their communities secure from the overreaches of the progressive, secular left. And for Christians seeking to bless their nation through participation in the political process, an unapologetic concentration on cultural issues as a priority can only come as good news.
https://wng.org/opinions/cultural-fights-are-political-opportunities-1646311292
And for Christians seeking to bless their nation through participation in the political process, an unapologetic concentration on cultural issues as a priority can only come as good news.
All well and good, but the problem is, who will want to work for him? Even those that would love to, won't be willing to take the arrows that will come with it. This is how the Deep State works, folks.
Rising serpent
@rising_serpent
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How come Trump gets the blame but Ronna McDaniel
gets to keep her job?
Morning, sweetie!
This is no way to count elections.
It is too hard on us old folks but maybe it’s part of the plot to kill us off.
McCarthy is Ryan is Boehner is McConnel is GOPe is Uniparty is Chamber of Commerce is K Street is MIC is Potomac Fever is same ol’ same ol’.
Maga congress critters HAVE to publicly state their opposition to McCarthy as Speaker NOW!
Whomever becomes his replacement will come AFTER he’s gone.
A little more to make on worry, sorry sweetie.
Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
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REPORT: Washoe County, Nevada Election Livestream GOES DARK OVERNIGHT – Back Online This Morning.. -GWP
NOTHING TO SEE HERE...
This tells me it was just a gimmick for votes. Aren’t they going to appeal?
Election Wizard 🇺🇸
@ElectionWiz
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BREAKING: The Biden admin has ceased accepting applications for federal student loan forgiveness after a court rejected the plan
Glenn Beck
@glennbeck
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I am not going to engage in the “Trump vs DeSantis” fight conservatives are having. I am a big supporter of both men. And I urge you to not engage in this. This is what Democrats want. And unlike the Democrats, we are blessed to have TWO great fighters on the side of freedom.
Just like my dream!
I told you it was prophetic.
A wonderful tribute to a wonderful man. You were blessed to have him in your life.
Dementia is horrible. At first, when my mom would come in and out, she called and asked me if it was true that her brothers were dead. I affirmed it, and she said it was so scary not to remember things, and she hoped it never happened to me. 😔
It’s good to remember the man that your FIL was, and he is now whole again. 💕
I hope by the time you read this post you have gotten some sleep and are feeling much better.
The fraud that stole the 2020 election was in cities in certain States, targeted by the dems so Trump would lose electoral votes.
The Absurdity of the Blame Trump Campaign
In an Election Day interview, Donald Trump quipped something to the effect that if his endorsed candidates won on Tuesday, he should get all the credit, and that if they lost, he should get none of the blame. As Trump surely knew when he made the joke, what would actually happen on election night was always destined to be the exact opposite. From the moment the polls closed, the media pundits and establishment Republicans eager to dispatch the former president from the stage were working frantically to ensure that where Trump’s endorsed candidates lost, he would get all of the blame—and where they won, he would get none of the credit.
But this predictable attempt to make Donald Trump the scapegoat for closer-than-expected midterm election results is highly misleading, and an oversimplification in the extreme.
The results of Tuesday night’s elections do not tell an easy story for those looking to pin the blame on Trump.
Many Trump candidates—including J. D. Vance, Ted Budd, almost certainly Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, potentially Blake Masters, and possibly (after the runoff) Herschel Walker—will have won their races in highly competitive swing states despite most being outspent by tens of millions of dollars.
Where Republican candidates faltered, it was not just those who were chosen by the former president: numerous strong House candidates handpicked by Kevin McCarthy lost races the consultant class had expected to win, including Yesli Vega running against vulnerable Democrat Representative Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, Rhode Island Republican Alan Fung, Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia on the Texas border, and many others.
If Washington, D.C. consultants and establishment leaders are truly looking for someone to blame for the lack of a red tsunami on Tuesday, there are far more suitable candidates than Trump. First among them would be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose allies appear to be behind much of the Blame Trump campaign.
Whatever virtues McConnell may have as a legislative tactician and fundraiser—and they are evidently considerable—the fact is that McConnell failed to use his power over the past two years to shape the political terrain in ways that would support an overwhelming Republican victory. Even worse, he actively undermined Republican candidates at critical junctures.
At no point in the past two years have Americans seen McConnell and other top Republican leaders in Washington pick real and effective fights with the Biden administration. At no point have they managed to focus the nation on controversies that would be politically advantageous to their party. In Trump’s absence, the GOP establishment has reverted to McConnell’s preferred style of opposition, one of passivity and accommodation.
Time and time again, the Senate Minority Leader has proved fundamentally unserious about opposing the overreaches of the radical left. If establishment Republicans believed that the border crisis was the existential national security disaster they claimed in their speeches, nothing about McConnell’s actions in the Senate would suggest they actually believed it. There were no threats of a government shutdown if the border was not restored. There were no real conflicts over spending bills. There was no significant effort to block key nominees or exact a price for the Biden administration’s extremism. Worst of all, there was virtually no effort whatsoever to use McConnell’s considerable power in a 50-50 Senate to set up strategic fights—to force Joe Biden to finish the wall, or to stop the Department of Homeland Security from trying to censor free speech.
Instead, in a Senate that routinely needed Republican votes to pass Democrat priorities, McConnell ensured that Democrats routinely got them with as little fanfare as possible.
Since January 2021, McConnell’s Senate minority has greenlighted some of the left’s most unpopular legislative and foreign policy initiatives—from the $550 billion “infrastructure” package to emptying out America’s arsenals and sending them to Ukraine. Even if he intended to pass the tens of billions for Ukraine, an effective Republican opposition leader would have insisted on including provisions to secure America’s own border in the process. The American people would have rallied to the Republicans’ side.
That would be the kind of leadership that could have forced the media to give some coverage—any coverage—to Congressional Republicans doing something useful.
Instead, McConnell’s theory appears to have been that he could win the Senate majority by default. When asked what Republicans would do if given the Senate majority, he famously replied that he would tell us after they had won. When NRSC Chairman Rick Scott attempted to put forward a positive vision for the party to rally around, McConnell slapped him down.
In retrospect, these appear to have been grievous mistakes. Republican leaders in Congress succeeded only in making themselves effectively invisible and allowing Democrats to drive the subject of national conversation to other issues—abortion, “democracy,” January 6th.
To make matters worse, McConnell actively attempted to sabotage pro-Trump Republicans on the general election ballot, presumably because he believed they would not back him as majority leader, and concluded that he’d rather be leader of a Republican minority than part of a Republican majority with someone else at the helm.
At a pivotal moment of the campaign, just as voters were tuning-in late in the summer and many were evaluating the Republican nominees for the first time, McConnell—who over the years has forced upon us any number of losing milquetoast clunker candidates—decided the time was right to publicly attack the Republican Party’s nominees. He baselessly called into question the competence and credibility of candidates like Masters, Vance, Walker, and Oz—thus advancing the left’s narrative that the GOP’s candidates were weird, fringe, and extreme, doing immeasurable damage to their prospects just as countless voters were forming their impressions. In fact, all of these candidates were remarkably impressive and accomplished people in their own ways. The “candidate quality” deficit is a convenient self-serving and blame-deflecting myth. But voters got the message: even Mitch McConnell didn’t think they deserved to win.
For all the venom hurled at Donald Trump by establishment Republicans since Tuesday night, perhaps the most selfish and shocking act of the cycle was when, in the closing weeks of the campaign, McConnell poured $9 million into the state of Alaska, saturating the state’s airwaves not in an effort to ensure that the Republican Party’s candidate won, but that she lost. McConnell spent those precious resources to bolster RINO Lisa Murkowski against Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka. Murkowski, a McConnell ally, has repeatedly insisted on running in the general election after being roundly rejected by Republican primary voters, and was personally responsible for the imposition of the ranked-choice voting system that foiled Republican voters’ desires this year in the state’s House race as well. McConnell spent big on Murkowski’s behalf, despite the fact that she recently voted to confirm Biden’s radical Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, after she had voted against Brett Kavanaugh. If any Republican candidate deserved to lose, it was her.
What might those $9 million McConnell spent against Kelly Tshibaka have done instead for Blake Masters, Herschel Walker, or Mehmet Oz—all of whom were drastically outspent by their Democratic opponents?
Read more.......
https://amac.us/the-absurdity-of-the-blame-trump-campaign/
Looked at the Q site. Lot of military aircraft in the air around the G of M right now.
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