Posted on 04/13/2026 4:53:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It's easy to be a 'Doomer' these days, and while the GOP hasn't been exceptional, the choices have never been clearer.
Although it's far worse for the left than the right, it's difficult to feel positive about the future given the circumstances of today.
While we have a president willing to take chances and look at the big picture, we have other politicians ostensibly on the pro-freedom side that act like risk-averse church mice, afraid of their own shadows and unwilling to implement measures that garner support from most of the electorate.
They are contrasted by the cruel and violent leftists who are already going full authoritarian in some cases, threatening to prosecute and imprison their political opponents for merely implementing settled law.
Except that it can easily be argued that we have no other choice in the matter. Anyone willing to tap into the firehose of filth from the national socialist media can see that the collectivist, anti-liberty side of the political spectrum keeps moving further and further off the rails of decency and is in the deep throes of insanity at this point.
As David Strom phrased it recently: It Is Impossible to Overstate How Deranged the Left Has Become:
The primary difference is that the left is busy arguing that their psychopaths are the good guys. When anti-ICE activists try to run over a federal agent, it is she who becomes the hero. When Luigi Mangione shoots an innocent man, he becomes a rock star and a "moral" man.
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It is going to be a turnout election and the left is fired up. Republicans are going to have to get off the couch and vote.
The author is not much for pep talks.
All politics is local. [T.O.]
Too many on our side only show up for presidential elections. I will be sure to vote against my state senator (n9ot federal) in the primary. He was one of those that made sure redrawing did not get through.
Good advice. Better to fight than spread fear.
“GOP hasn’t been exceptional, the choices have never been clearer.”
That is a muddy oxymoron if there ever was one. After you separate the GOP/right-of-center from the GOPe/uniparty/left-of-center depending on one’s location the difference is stark. A race to the bottom is not going to get voters out, the current Congressional GOPe hasn’t done a damned thing since the BBB was passed (with all the pork trimmings) and the despicable Senate with the head RINO Thune in charge is even worse.
Yes it is a DEI of sorts, ‘didn’t earn it’ is the reason the turnout is almost always low in off years. Recall Hussein’s first mid-term slaughter and the Obamacare mess and why it is still with us and you’ll have your answer. We’ll know in 204 days.
I am not a doomer, but this election is going to live or die by whether the Iran War is successfully concluded within the next several months. If it is still dragging on in the Fall, the Republicans are doomed. Wars are high risk politically. If Trump scores a clear win, the polls will turn around and the Republicans not only will keep the Senate but may keep the House too. Before the War, Trump had a plan and money to spend. Then the war came and it dominated everything. It will continue to dominate everything until it is concluded.
100% agree. I was SO hoping an agreement would be reached when Vance negotiated, unfortunately, no agreement and now Trump will blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
“No Deal! Vance Walks Away From Iran Talks in Pakistan After Tehran Rejects American Requirements for Peace…”
“Blockade of maritime traffic to Iranian ports begins Monday (today)”
Prices are already skyrocketing, gas is $6/gallon in California, high everywhere else as well and food prices will soon follow. As people tend to vote with their wallets during times like this, the Democrats have a good chance of taking the house, senate and POTUS in 2028, and that would be a disaster.
Trump needs to end this fiasco in Iran NOW.
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