I am curious to see how DOGE works. There is just so much waste to deal with.
I believe you could balance the budget with the implementation of DOGE.
“unelected agency functionaries”
In other words, the swamp, the bureaucracy. Grows like kudzu and hydras.
Comes with civilization. Practically IS civilization.
However, let’s not give it credit for the Harris debacle. That was engendered by Joe Biden, who picked Harris for a running mate and then changed his mind about being one term. Changed it way too late in the game, and endorsed her moments later. Leave it to Joe to foul things up.
Then, once she was off and running like a loose toddler in traffic, she picked Walz. That’s on her. So is every other choice she made or didn’t, and every statement she made or didn’t. Without extensive cheating at the ballot box, there was no possibility of Americans electing an ex...prostecutor...from CA to the position of commander-in-chief, POTUS. She was already at least two stations over her head, former senator, current veep. And about as charming as Hillary Clinton.
Blame her and blame Biden for putting her out there.
Trump was authentic, passionate, and campaigned all out, with new ideas, and in ways that reached beyond the traditional Republican base. As much as the Democrats deserved to lose, no other Republican could have done it.
Not sure how many people remember it, but I think part of Hillary's proposed national health care plan was to limit the number of doctors - fewer doctors billing the system would (in theory) reduce the annual costs...
The RAT party’s complete abandonment of common sense was finally too much to tolerate.
The mega state periodically does things to force us to spend money. They regularly make whatever refrigerant your air conditioner uses illegal and force you to buy yet another more expensive and less usable one. As a landlord they force me to use a company to do any repairs on my property and that costs literally tens of times more money than if I do them myself. There’s a law. I can’t put on my own roof or fix my own plumbing. The list of money grabbing goes on and on. Don’t get me started on “self-financing” government departments. In Tallahassee there’s a federal, state, county and city EPA. The last two are self-financed. They have written voluminous rules. They can start on any street corner and go in any direction and write expensive code violations. Oh, and they’re dressed as cops, carry guns and make arrests. Not for crimes. But for code violations. To force compliance those violations are defined as “criminal.” So, if you want your “criminal” record expunged you’ll pay the fines and pay for the “offenders’ class.”
The Democrats lost because they tried to play the American people for fools. For three years, they tried to hide Joe Biden’s obvious medical decline, telling everyone “he’s as sharp as a razor” and “he has so much energy, his staff can’t keep up with him.” They would have run him as the party’s nominee if it hadn’t been for the disastrous debate with Donald Trump. They then picked Kamala as their nominee without allowing anyone else to challenge her for the nomination. Even though her approval ratings were lower than Biden’s, they tried to repackage her as a cross between Mother Teresa and Albert Einstein. Everyone knew how inept she was a s the Border Czar, so they simply started telling people “she was never the Border Czar.” They really thought the voters were gullible enough to believe their outright lies.
My theory: they didn’t cheat enough. I assume that, after a lot of soul searching, their game plan will be to manipulate and cheat even better.
it’s very simple, ronna romney rolled over and looked the other way on their cheating in 2020, Lara Trump did not
It’s for the “common” good kommrade, but our betters will still travel in luxury. Dr. Zhivago should be a required movie in every school.
Because the LIED about everything.
The economy - we just didn’t understand how good the numbers they concocted were.
Biden - he’s not demented (ha)
Harris - she hadn’t been to the border, or Europe (?)
Lawfare - complete vengeful, malicious persecution of political opponents.
As the ad said “They us They/Them, Trump is for YOU”
SEVEN POINT FIVE BILLION to build EIGHT EV charging stations.
This meme got me more death threats and media attention in 24 hours than anything my team has ever put out.
The best part?
It did nearly 20 million cumulative plays the night before the 2024 election.
Not sure why Democrats were so mad?
😂😂😘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/XzNaiUARTc— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) November 17, 2024
I agree climate change politics was a big reason for what happened. But to me there is a more basic big-picture reason behind the Democrat behemoth getting routed. For over the years there was one thing i begrudgingly admired about the American left, and it’s that they (for many decades) had a long-term goal and patiently inched ever closer to achieving that goal. They were willing to play the long game in their quest to flip America from a religious & culturally conservative, politically center-right country into a progressive powerhouse.
But human nature is such that as we get close to achieving a long-held dream we can practically taste it and we want it NOW. And so the left became impatient and got greedy. They suddenly pushed much harder and much faster (on not only Climate Change but many other things) until finally Americans started to notice the invisible tide tugging at them, dragging them not only further left but also further away from the shore of common sense and into deeper and more dangerous waters.
Boys in girls’ sports? In girls’ locker rooms? Drag queens reading to children? Sex changes for minors? Illegal aliens welcomed with friendly handshakes by government officials? A former president charged with dubious crimes, called Hitler, nearly assassinated and all because he was pushing back against that tide?
If the left had patiently kept playing the long game i’m not sure anything could have stopped them from eventually achieving their (pipe) dream. But now they’ve blown all that up just when they were both figuratively and literally millimeters away from victory.
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They did it here in michiganstan....
The libs had complete control of the governor, house, senate and supreme court.
All they had to do was give us the couple of items they hate, but our so called bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts would not do for us, and they would be cemented in power for at least a generation.
Instead, they broke a cardinal rule...
Never..NEVER.. go full communist.
And that is what they did here.
They lost control of at least the house.
2 years from now, the governor and the rest of the senate will become ours.
Never go full communist
We don’t need any more theories.
There’s a section of Portland where traffic was bad. What was the solution? CLOSE ONE OF THE LANES ON EACH SIDE. They literally changed the roads in that area from 2 lanes per side to 1.
I want my incandescent bulbs back! These led bulbs cost 10 times more and last 1/4 as long (even though they CLAIM to last longer)