Posted on 09/04/2025 5:34:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Seven months in, Trump has curbed illegal immigration, steadied the economy, and scored foreign policy wins—while Democrats flounder without a counteragenda.
Trump’s greatest achievement within six months was simply ending illegal immigration as we had once known it—without “comprehensive immigration reform” or any other rhetorical trickery.
It remains difficult to find, much less deport, the 10 to 12 million illegal aliens who entered in the last four years.
Those who helped break the law, by design or indifference, now believe it was moral to destroy federal immigration law but immoral to uphold it.
And it is still unclear whether Joe Biden’s handlers deliberately sabotaged their own border for political and demographic purposes out of sheer orneriness or utter incompetence.
Many of the left’s cherished totems—massive Green New Deal subsidies, the diversity/equity/inclusion industry, biological males competing in women’s sports, and the USAID revolving door—are either comatose or in their death throes.
The historic drop-off in military recruitment reversed shortly after Trump took office.
Republican voter registration is up, and Democratic registration is down.
Abroad, Trump finds remarkable successes.
For now, there are pauses in the fighting between India and Pakistan, Egypt and Somalia, Cambodia and Thailand, Rwanda and Congo, Serbia and Kosovo, and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Much credit is due to Trump for brokering ceasefires.
Iran will not get a bomb in the next four years—as seemed likely when Biden left office.
The Middle East’s current most grotesque terrorist cadres and states—Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis—are far weaker than they were when Trump entered office in January.
There is at least some engagement in envisioning the outlines of a ceasefire in Trump’s inherited Ukraine War.
The rub is finding the degree of ordnance necessary to convince Putin that increasing Russia’s casualties to more than one million will endanger his own
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The democRAT strategy is to block President Trump from making things better.
VDH ping.
“And it is still unclear whether Joe Biden’s handlers deliberately sabotaged their own border for political and demographic purposes out of sheer orneriness or utter incompetence.”
Its not unclear…. It was entirely by design
They did it intentionally, as an act of war.
No, it's not, Professor.
But denial is still a river in Egypt.
“If I Were The Devil": A Warning to America From Paul Harvey
Democrats religiously BELIEVE that immigrants would eventually achieve amnesty and citizenship and they would vote Democrat all their lives.
They would have lots of babies who would grow up and vote Democrat too.
The Rats have abandoned their most faithful followers: Blacks. Jews are next.
Another great analysis by VDH!
“And it is still unclear whether Joe Biden’s handlers deliberately sabotaged their own border for political and demographic purposes out of sheer orneriness or utter incompetence.”
Its not unclear…. It was entirely by design
That it has so institutionalized excessive executive orders, ad hominem lawfare, lower-court usurpation, state nullification of federal law, and federal intervention in higher education, the energy industry, and the nation’s open spaces that their own legacies empowered Trump and now will boomerang upon themselves—as the public applauds the karma.
What ever will the Dems do, if all the lying, cheating and stealing thay have done for 20+ years falters. Oh my.
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I knew he was gonna kick ass...but he has even exceeded those expectations for me.
Its literally something big every week.
Biden deliberately sabotaged the border for political and demographic purposes ....
not out of sheer orneriness or utter incompetence....... It was entirely by design.
Getting votes was more important than the safety and security of American families.
“some engagement in envisioning the outlines of a ceasefire” is a desperate but cool stretch of rhetoric
-——Its literally something big every week.-——
It is a magnificent plan executed to perfection.
I wonder, how long was it in the making and who contributed the intelligence required to provide the precise locations to strike to achieve the greatest success?
Even more difficult to find ALL the 40-50+ million that are here. But that is what needs to happen, no matter how difficult, or how long it takes.
DEPORT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM
Trump astride of the daunting problems of the times brings to mind the Frank Herbert “Dune” series of science fiction works.
The sandworms are central to the desert ecosystem of the fictional planet Arrakis, the story’s main setting, and to the culture of its inhabitants, the Fremen. Sandworms live underground and excrete a substance that becomes the all-important drug called spice, and the Fremen ride them like giant sandy freight trains.
One of the prominent players early in the series is Paul Atreides. Muad’Dib is the Fremen name of manhood adopted by Paul Atreides, and he becomes the most heroic of sandworm riders.
Could Donald Trump be our version of Muad’Dib?
I have never been able to understand why Jews support democrats, the most antisemitic people in U.S. politics (apart from muslims, of course).
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