Posted on 08/08/2026 12:22:58 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
Non-college voters, the base of the MAGA movement, are abandoning the GOP.
MAGA's net favorability is -22 pts (down 28 pts) with them. Trump's now at -19 pt net approval with them. Dems actually lead in the race for Congress with them.
This is what blue waves are built on.
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Big time!
Ayn Rand saying that decades ago and it’s almost infinitely worse now.
I remember the red wave that was supposed to happen the last time. I am still waiting for it.
“Just another BS story written by assh*les.”
Yup. Fiction written to (they hope) make diminish Trump in voters’ minds.
Like the story yesterday or today that the sweetener in Diet Coke can cause dementia. Of course, the sweetener in all diet drinks is the same. But Trump’s drink of choice is Diet Coke. People then are supposed to take the (il)logical path that Trump has dementia.
And, he would have lost if there had been no third candidate.
They are not going back to the rats
They are abandoning the thune party
Bingo
I have heard “why bother? They are not getting shyt done with the majority”
There is no successful argument against that. Because they are right
They will just unplug and stay home
Classic psy-op that unfortunately works on the weak-minded, ill informed and poorly educated. There’s a lot of those.
If the inflation is 8 percent for the year => the prices go up. Permanently.
Even if the inflation rate goes to zero for the next 10 years straight (which it never does), the prices still remain elevated at 8 percent. They NEVER go down.
This is why what BOTH Trump and Biden did during Covid was so deadly.
They just printed money. Gave away trillions. Expanded the money supply. I'm thinking they doubled the amount of dollars in circulation. YMMV.
By doing that immediately, but just briefly, everyone seemed to get by before the prices started to rise. WHILE the Biden Admin did the second part of the double whammy: SHUT DOWN the whole economy for two years.
The result is the hyperinflation we are seeing now.
I won't even talk about the illegal insertion of 20 million foreign hostiles to demand-push prices up, especially of low income housing, even more.
What you are seeing now was and is completely predictable.
The hyperinflation we are seeing now WILL NOT BE FIXED until we take up Milei/Argentine austerity measures. Read about Milei; he knows what he is doing. It may require financing from the World Bank or other agencies like it. It may require re-indexing the dollar 100-to-one as was done in France in 1960 and similar reforms with the German Currency Reform of 1948.
Trump and Congress need to STOP spending.
Trump is not the right guy to undertake austerity measures.
If I asked you, 'Who is the guy in the history of the whole human race who came back from the most extreme personal bankruptcy ever recorded, and survived it, ultimately becoming filthy rich again, as if it never even happened?' Would you say, DJT?
You would be right if you did.
So this guy in the WH, as nice as he is, may not be the best choice for restoring our currency. He believes in financial reincarnation, like a Hindu from Queens. He sees going bankrupt as a technique, a tactic, in organization of one's personal finances.
Real people don't have that option. They can't financially 'reinvent' themselves if their personal finances go bad.
Anyway the inflation we are seeing now is starting to make the agonal sharp turn upward and accelerating now to the point where it may not be recoverable.
Certainly if ANY WORLD ECONOMY is capable of earning its way and producing its way out of this mess, it is ours, BUT I would not be whimsical and careless and count on that happening.
We are in SERIOUS TROUBLE.
This may be one of the main reasons why the Communists have taken this particular time to become so hyperactive and vocal. They have masterfully executed Cloward-Piven and feel as if it may be time to strike.
Our inflation is a symptom only of a much, much worse, possibly terminal disease, in our economy. The end game is when our currency becomes worthless and the life's work of hundreds of millions of persons is burned up and rendered valueless as if destroyed in a forest fire. And that could happen as soon as within 12 months or less.
That is what we are looking at RIGHT NOW.
Things are going to start getting very non-linear very soon.
PS the key statistic is our Debt-to-GDP ratio, which is now 1.25 or 125 % or thereabouts, if I am not mistaken. Get on Google and Wiki and see how many countries on earth are at that level or higher. It's not many. Google about what happens when that ratio gets much higher.
Then look at Congress, and see what they are doing to lower that ratio. You will be disappointed, but not surprised, to find out that they are completely IGNORING this and not even talking about it. They shout down and ridicule anyone who brings up the issue.
But do they know what socialism is? Or what communism is? The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, 35 years ago, so the younger generations have no memory of the Cold War.
Daniel Henniger made this point on The Journal Editorial Report this afternoon, with reference to President Trump's denunciation of Communism. It may not be very effective if so many people have no idea what Communism is.
I also think doing tariffs during a bad economy was NOT a good idea, I know NOTHING about economics but one of the main reasons why Trump won again was because people wanted a return to what they had in his first term, a thriving economy. Yes he did tariff, but only China, he didnt tariff the world. I think he should have waited for the economy to improve before imposing tariffs, I know its his favorite word but we end up paying the cost of those tariffs
The burrito article - see what you think ?
Summertime polling is VERY unreliable. A large chunk of the country is on vacation and not answering polls. Plus internet polling is unreliable.
The Iranian war against us started in 1979. We just ignored that whole “Death to America” thing while the Iranians shipped IEDs and other weapons that killed and maimed US soldiers during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The same sweetener is in all diet sodas, plus a number of other low calorie foods. You think everybody has dementia?
Which few people here seem to understand.
Trump got a lot of principled people from the left and the center to vote for him; maybe they really believed that he was the president for peace.
Because of this war in Iran, a lot of people have buyer's remorse; it shouldn't surprise anyone here that they are looking for a candidate with more integrity than Trump.
But this is all there is to politics here. (Just blame the other guy.)
Check the inflation numbers in 1979 vs today.
He slammed the border shut and is deporting illegals. That alone rates a 3rd term in my book. All the rest is gravy.
I hate to agree with you. I just sold my business and taking a huge pay cut for much less work to stay under the radar for taxes and get every welfare program I can. Screw it. Me saving the government a few bucks so we can giver untold billions to illegal aliens and freeloading turd world invaders is something I’m not willing to do anymore. Trump has been the only president I voted for and not against the other guy. But with the GOP willing to do everything to shut him down screw the jerks.
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