No country can long endure...
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ISWYDH
-------------- Posted on 05/01/2025 5:27:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump’s counterrevolution presses on—quietly, methodically, and morally—while a flailing opposition offers only chaos, debt, and deflection in response.
Despite the media hysteria, Trump’s counterrevolution remains on course.
Its ultimate fate will probably rest with the state of the economy by the November 2026 midterm elections. But its success also hinges on accomplishing what is right and long overdue—and then making such reforms quietly, compassionately, and methodically.
No country can long endure without sovereignty and security—or with 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants crossing the border and half a million criminal foreign nationals roaming freely.
The prior administration found that it was easy to destroy the border and welcome the influx. But it is far harder for its successor to restore security, find those who broke the law, and insist on legal-only immigration. Trump is on the right side of all these issues and making substantial progress.
Everyone knew that a $2 trillion budget deficit, a $37 trillion national debt, and a $1.2 trillion trade deficit in goods were ultimately unsustainable.
Yet all prior politicians of the 21st century winced at the mere thought of reducing debts and deficits, given that it proved much easier just to print and spread around federal money. As long as the Trump administration dutifully cuts the budget, sends its regrets to displaced federal employees, seeks to expand private sector reemployment, and quietly presses ahead, it retains the moral high ground.
The elite universities have long hidden things from the American people that otherwise would have lost them all public support.
They deliberately sought to neuter Supreme Court rulings banning race-based preferences by stealthily continuing their often-segregated policies on campuses, from admissions and hiring to dorms and graduations.
They have taken billions of dollars from autocracies, such as communist China and Qatar. And they have partnered
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The left can be expected to interfere with Trump’s goals although they may take the day off today to celebrate May Day.
VDH ping
So, even our most prestigious universities seem to have no real moral compass. Accordingly, as long as Trump retains the high ground, the public, too, will demand either reform in higher education or a cessation of federal support to it.
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-------------- What Trump has revealed was what we all suspected - the scale of the corruption. This wasn’t some ward boss skilling a couple hundred off an account for his wife’s birthday. This was a system to provide the looters and scammers with generational wealth, the kind of eff you money that changes the whole way you live - which requires personal wealth north of $30M, with $50 - $100M providing a better margin of comfort. That requires being a principal in some sort of scam like a USAID funded NGO. Anyone with a brain could have suspected what was going on. With the flood of immigration and NGOs funded to enable all of that we kind of knew, but it took DOGE to bring home the receipts.
An excellent reminder from VDH that, often, a sign of progress is when the enemies of America lose their minds.
There is the 11 million count for illegal aliens that has been used for the past 30+ years. It must have some hidden significance, like in Freemasonry or Scientology.
Actually the news was giving the commies some free advertising this morning about all the planned May Day protests against Trump. Of course they steered clear of explaining the significance of the date.
I will argue that the total number of illegal aliens who have entered the USA in the last decade is not only unknown but unknowable.
The 11 million number is usable as an agreed template but is actually meaningless. There are no records providing a count.
Then I will argue that getting rid of 11 million illegal aliens is virtually impossible. The sanctuaries will never enforce laws against employers or land lords or politicians or organizations harboring and protecting the illegals.
A tremendous deportation effort is presently underway but the numbers of criminal illegal aliens being removed is numbered only in the thousands. That effort is being strongly resisted by the sanctuary legal systems that value the presence of the illegal criminals over the law.
I see no way to reach even a million deportations much less 11 million. To accomplish the deportations, the sanctuaries must be destroyed. That’s the only way
VDH always hits the nail on the head.
HOW MANY ARE GETTING HOUSING?
SNAP?
MEDICAID?
Lots of sources for numbers.....
President Trump has already recognized those and is cracking down on "sanctuary" cities and states with laws that have been on the books for decades. If he can get the Supreme Court (Roberts) to do it's duty...
“But its success also hinges on accomplishing what is right and long overdue—and then making such reforms quietly, compassionately, and methodically.”
Nothing works as well as getting up on stage with a chainsaw as a metaphor for quiet, compassionate and methodical reform. Elon Musk, with his impulse to grandstand, was a big mistake.
For reforms to be longlasting, the changes must be popular enough to be kept by the next administration. That means the economy must be booming before 2026 midterms, or President Trump will be a lame duck during the last two years of his term, and the last two years of his term will be so conflicted by an oppositional Congress that voters will be desperate for change—the assumption being that anything might be better than this.
Fingers crossed.
ping
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