Posted on 11/04/2026 1:46:30 AM PST by nikos1121
Do not be distraught, and do not worry. God is watching over this nation, and nothing unfolding today is outside His providence.
Like many of you, I watched the polls and the media spin leading into this week predicting a blue wave. But we must remember the fundamental reality: Donald J. Trump was not on that ballot. Midterm dynamics are an entirely different animal, and the knee-jerk panic on our side is completely unwarranted.
When you look at American history with a cool head and an understanding of executive power, a hostile Congress has often been the exact crucible that turns a strong leader into a legendary one. In our own lifetimes, four presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Clinton—achieved some of their most sweeping, enduring triumphs while facing an opposition-controlled Capitol Hill.
In temperament and governing instinct, Trump has always shared a kinship with Harry Truman: a blunt, plain-spoken brawler who bypassed the polite, useless chattering class to fight for the common man. Truman faced the hostile 80th Congress, took his case straight to the American people, and forged a legacy that history still reveres.
Capital Hill has flipped but it doesn't tie Trump's hands—it frees them. Here is why this outcome could actually make him a far more lethal and impactful president:
1. Eliminating Intra-Party Friction
When a president holds paper-thin majorities within his own party, he burns endless political capital begging moderate holdouts, squishes, and self-serving backbenchers to stay in line. The infighting is exhausting, demoralizing, and produces watered-down compromises.
When Congress flips to the opposition, that internal burden evaporates overnight. The scrimmage line becomes clear, clean, and external: the White House versus Capitol Hill.
2. The Power of the Negative (The Veto Pen)
Without a compliant legislature, the President’s primary domestic weapon becomes the veto. Overriding a presidential veto requires a strict two-thirds supermajority in both chambers—a threshold the Democrats cannot touch.
That leaves the opposition with two choices: either craft common-sense, bipartisan bills moderate enough to earn his signature, or waste their time passing hollow messaging bills that will die a swift death at the Resolute Desk. The gridlock stops their radical agenda cold.
3. The Forced Pivot to Pure Executive Action & Foreign Policy
Historically, when a president is boxed in domestically, his focus shifts to the domains where executive authority is absolute and unchallengeable:
Trade and Tariffs: The executive branch retains broad, unilateral statutory power over tariffs, supply chains, and national security trade actions—requiring zero congressional approval.
Geopolitics and Defense: Free from haggling over bloated domestic spending packages, a commander-in-chief directs his personal energy toward international diplomacy, energy dominance, and border defense, where presidential discretion reigns supreme.
Deregulation: Real dismantling of the administrative state happens through executive orders, agency oversight, and cutting the bureaucratic red tape that strangles American business.
4. The Truman Model vs. The Triangulation Precedent
An executive with an opposition Congress holds all the cards. If they want to govern, they must come to him—much like Newt Gingrich’s Congress was forced to deal with the White House on welfare reform and balanced budgets in 1996.
If instead they choose endless oversight, political theatrics, and partisan investigations, it will backfire spectacularly. It allows Trump to do what he does better than anyone in history: campaign against a "do-nothing," obstructionist Congres
The Bottom Line my friends is this:
Legislative business-as-usual in Washington may pause, but the real levers of executive power do not. A hostile Congress forces an administration into a leaner, sharper, purely executive posture—relying on the veto, trade leverage, foreign affairs, and administrative directives.
It strips away the legislative noise and sets the stage for an undeniable legacy.
Stand fast. Keep the faith. Our best years are still ahead of us.
Me neither. My dad is a Viet Nam Vet. He called about 20 minutes ago and is madder than a wet hen. Said he can’t believe all the chit he went through and the buddies he lost fighting “Communist Aggression” only to see Americans elect them all over the country. He’s pissed!!!
Samuel was just as perplexed when the Israeli people demanded a King.
How did that work out for them?
Pardon me but that’s BS. The country is fvcked. It’s full of cat-ladies, muslims, empty-headed socialists and die-hard communists and the aging boomers sit on the sidelines watching it happen. Gens X&Y are clueless and angry and that’s a bad combination.
I see no solution until after a collapse. Hold your gold, silver and lead. Bad times, very bad times are ahead and it’s a particularly bad time to be old.
You’ll see.
Gird your loins. Our world is about to become much more dangerous. Prepare to defend yourselves.
Despair?
We’ve lost elections before. We will win again some day.
The next two years will likely just be a performative mess. Impeachment. Hearings. Lots of speeches. Lots of extreme legislation. None of it will pass.
I will say that the next government shutdown will be epic.
Watch the cabinet turn over significantly in the next three months.
Trump will finish up his term with a bunch of second string appointments who will await confirmation for years.
Look at Gold. Gold knows what’s up.
But I love this country and while I have Faith in God's Will and plan it is hard to see the US at a fork in the road and thinking the road to oblivion is a valid option.
But again you are correct.
The challenge is to take it all in context and *NOT* be Lot's wife.
Really?
I thought “our beautiful bunker buster bombs” took care of that last summer (2025.)
If Trump had come out and done a “Cuban Missile Crisis” speech with some proof about the renewed Iranian plan, that would have been cool. People would have supported that.
Instead he comes out and says it will be wrapped up in a couple of weeks.
He messed up badly on this one. And he still refuses to present any evidence other than “they wanted a nuke.”
If the nukes were “really” a threat, the entire infrastructure of Iran would be in rubble. It’s not. They still produce missiles. Drones. Speed Boats. Mines. And they still export their crap to other countries.
Iran is not going to surrender. And we don’t have the will to end them. So this will go on for years.
Nope, Trump mucked this up badly.
“He ran on America First and betrayed it.” “Same as Bush.”
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Yes....sadly.
By my calculations, 28 percent of our population is foreign born.
The children of the foreign born are against deportations.
The number of people not wanting deportations is much higher than 28 percent.
Trump cancelled the green new scam.
He will not pay for sustainable cities.
The foreigners in sustainable and sanctuary cities won’t be able to survive without their subsidies.
Sustainable cities chased out their manufacturing base with cap and trade and AI is making their Silicon Valley obsolete.
The foreign born in these cities are afraid to leave their homes.
They lost their jobs.
They lost their subsidized housing, their SNAP, their medical and transportation.
They lost their banking.
I checked the other day and found that California’s high speed rail boondoggle was proud that they gave jobs to 30 percent of people that were not White American men.
Eighteen years and more than $15 billion later, not a single mile of high-speed track has been laid.
https://hsr.ca.gov/2021/02/02/news-release-new-online-dashboard-shows-diversity-of-high-speed-rail-small-businesses-program/
Trump cancelled DEI.
Obama issued an Executive Order (EO) 13583 on August 18, 2011 to give preferential treatment to everyone except White American men.
The congress critters that won yesterday, won by the vote of the foreign born.
On 11/2/2026 it was reported that Florida bought a Jetson One for the police.
An electric vertical and take-off landing vehicle that can fly you 20 miles in 20 minutes.
Sustainable sanctuary cities are going to die when the affluent move to a much better accommodating city free of high density housing, violence, filth, high taxes, the homeless and foreigners.
Whatever you say.
You mean I shouldn’t buy prayer rug today?
Thanks, last night I was upset, however I think that we got rid of a lot of RINOs and now, we can build up the new America First Republican Party.
FU loser.
That’s what I want to hear!!
We see this EVERY time on FR (and i’ve been here a quarter century) after the GOP loses...the world is going to end!!
Remember after 2008??
The Republicans will never win another election!!
They will make Puerto Rico a state!!!
DC is going to get statehood!!!
The best thing that may come out of last night? Thune will hopefully be kicked to the curb- where he belongs!!!
That's right. Don't disagree respectfully, using facts and reason. Just curse out any critics of Trump.
How did that "winning" strategy work out last night?
That won't happen until we get rid of Israel First Trump.
How many Americans have personally known a jihadist?
That explains why gas prices were more important than voting for a jihadist.
How many Americans have personally known a jihadist?
That explains why gas prices were more important than voting for a jihadist.
g child abuse.
He is blowing up drug cartel boats. Liberals hate that.
Trump sent a team to capture Venezuela’s Maduro. Liberals screeched.
Maduro had control of Smartmatic voting machines.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez picked Obama to be our president using Smartmatic voting machines.
Maduro let his prisoners out to flood the United States and eat cats.
Trump destroyed the radical Muslim regime in Iran that said they would bomb the U.S. with nuclear bombs.
Trump knows that only the U.S. can protect the rest of the world from Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump fired federal workers that were discriminating against White American men.
Trump is withholding grant money from schools that refuse to stop discriminating against White American men.
Trump is deporting illegal aliens and activist legal aliens.
Since January 2025, the Trump Administration has successfully fired 137 far-left immigration judges
Trump won’t allow students in China’s communist party to study in America’s sensitive university labs.
Trump quit funding the fake climate lies, bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
Trump quit subsidizing electric cars.
The liberals gave our cars thinner sheet metal, smaller brakes and got rid of the full sized spare tire.
Trump gave us our natural resources that Obama and Biden put off limits.
Trump turned California’s water back on.
Newsom forced us to let our lawns die and limit our showers.
Trump is going after the communist protest financier Nevel Roy Singham that lives in China.
The 2020 United States presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
On October 19, 2020, Mike Morell’s email to John Brennan said:
“...Trying to give the incapacitated vegetable, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this issue.”
Democrats voted in an incapacitated vegetable, Biden.
Trump is investigating those in the intel community that were running our country during the Obama and Biden years.
In August 2016, Trump met with the Arab leaders and told them to stop funding terrorists.
Obama had been supporting the terrorists from 2011 to 2016 in Syria.
Soros admitted that he used USAID to overthrow Ukraine in 2014.
USAID was the CIA.
Obama overthrew Egypt, Tunisia and Libya in 2011.
Millions of people died from Covid. Trump’s team has found text on Fauci’s old phones that prove Fauci is a terrorist and knew all along that Covid was developed in the Wuhan China gain-of-function lab.
The Democrats tried a coup during Trump’s first term.
The Democrats lied about the Russian Dossier and the Hunter Biden laptop to get Biden elected.
The Seditious Six
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo
Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa
Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.
Told our military to ignore Trump.
DataRepublican on X found a site that documented how USAID and the intelligence community are planning a coup on our country after the mid-term elections.
Senator Elissa Slotkin was in the CIA in Ukraine when USAID led a coup in 2014.
Senator Elissa Slotkin at an Oct. 13 event at the University of Chicago said “I want young people coming out of school to say, ’Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds like fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ’Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent,” Ms. Slotkin said.
Democrats are depending on the 28 percent of the foreign born in our country to overtake our country.
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