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Yet in Michigan, no gains were made in the Supreme Court and of course the governor, AG and SoS. Plus, our legislature shifted to Democrat led. So for the first time in 40 YEARS, in the middle of record inflation, after effects of shutdowns and Covid mandates, Afghanistan, illegal immigration, etc. the Dems control the government. How is that even remotely possible?
The devil seems to be running the world. Everyone sees it, feels it, etc; but, we’ve become docile and afraid. The election shenanigans are no longer the exception, but the rule and the honest Americans are feeling powerless to stop the “devils” machine - it’s been going on in the rest of the world forever.
We must trust in the Good Lord above, He is our only hope and our salvation
I trust in God. The GOP? Not so much. Do you realize that big pharma has MORE than 2 lobbyist for EVERY PERSON in Congress, showering them with cash for favorable legislative votes. This doesn't even cover all the other lobbyists from all the other big corporations and industries, like oil/gas. Even if the GOP ends up with any majority, I have little hope they'll use it to help "We the People". It's all theatre.
As a fellow CA resident in metro burbs ... I’m thinking there are more conservatives in CA than are recognized. Even here there is an undercurrent of thinking, non masse-formed people everywhere.
The voter scales have been weighted on the Dem side for so long that no one thinks to look closely into elections here.
Newsom also survived recall bc there were too many GOP and other candidates opposing him. Republicans are not lockstep like Dems, there is room for differing views. Unfortunately, including RINOs. Elected Dems will publicly support even the d***l if they were told to, or they are booted out.
We lived in California for a long time. We voted for Trump, and against Newsom in the recall. Didn’t make a bit of a difference, of course. This summer we finally got fed up with government banning (no gas stove, furnace or car, no grilling steak in your own back yard), homelessness and endless mandates. So we sold our house (just as the market crashed) and moved to a red state. The weather is worse, but we are left alone, everything is cheap, and no masks or vaxx mandates.
The Republican Party both here in California and nationally is a collection of grifters, not leaders. They don't want to work to make things better, they are just suckered fish on the big old American capitalism shark.
We have homeless EVERYWHERE. Yet the people in power use them as weapons against the electorate. Drugs everywhere, crime up, school kids locked out of class for over a year, yet the Republicans make no large gains. They aren't even trying.
I don’t know, maybe it’s partly their fault, but maybe it’s hopeless. People elected Fetterman after all, and a dead guy. I think that the democratic electorate is of such low quality that persuading them to vote for Republicans is impossible at this point whatever one attempts to do.
If there is hopelessness, then the Republicans should offer Hope. They don't, all doom and gloom from the GOP.
Of course, big problem out here is money. All the dot.com guys are beholden to the Deep State (not a conspiracy, shocker!) so the Repubs would have to grassroots everything. I don't think they have that wherewithal in them.
I like that you are not giving up. I hope people will fight back, but I don’t see how. We lived in the Bay Area, and everyone around us was either fully on board with the agenda, or, in some cases, foreign and not completely aware of political intricacies beyond a vague idea that voting for Republicans is not what good people do.
Exactly! California has a legislative supermajority and Dems have controlled it for 30 years uninterrupted...actually, almost for 50 years if you look at the overall picture. Republicans can't get a foothold. In the recent election the Dems swept all the top jobs. The elections in CA are so preordained as Democrat that most people don't vote or pay attention. Many barely know who the (dumb) governor is. They don't care. California is hopeless and many other states are attempting to emulate California's results. it's depressing.
Say what you will, but I believe the elections in CA are truly rigged. We're in SoCal, Orange County to be precise, and we know lots and lots of people that vote Red. We're so ready for a good change!!! And we haven't yet been persuaded to abandon ship... at least we don't feel God calling our family out of CA yet. So, yes working at LOCAL posts, even it it's only school board or school council. We need to stay and fight!!!
However I also believe the most followed conservatives’ giddiness over pre election polling turned into “we’re coming for [revered] Fauci and his family” messaging which should have been - “we will get to the bottom of this” and not project jail and impeachment in everyone who forced jabs.
Even I was slightly offended altho I knew that was not literal. It was a bridge too far and probably lost votes in the last 2 weeks.
Because the fix is in. There has been cheating in elections for years. However the country was in the middle now with extreme right and left and more people shifting right the elections are being manipulated and cheating is the norm. In florida where DeSantis went after harvesting florida shines a bright deep red. Should have happened in more states so either people outside of florida are still suffering from covid derangement so all the republicans left the north and moved to florida. Possible bc traffic is unbearable!! Anywhere and everywhere in florida.
Florida was the only state that instituted election reform laws. However, it is interesting to note that in Long Island, NY, where a lot of rich liberals live, the vote went completely red across the board. Like Florida's Dade County (Miami) and Leon County (the capital), these liberal strongholds went completely red. Why? Because there was no cheating in FL or LI (they took LI for granted as Dem) and the red wave was visible as a result. There is no doubt in my mind this red wave was national and was hidden by calculated cheating. When two of the most liberal strongholds go completely red, don't try to tell me that voters from across the political spectrum are not pissed off with the Bolsheviks and all voted red as a group. We need a do-over.
Think of it this way. In 2020, we saw the election stolen as described above. If there were enough legitimate votes across the spectrum to elect Trump in 2020 then how many MORE were there voting red in 2022 as a result of all the ridiculous tomfoolery of the last two years. Does anyone really believe that 2 years of Biden's disastrous administration didn't convince even more voters to vote red, especially in a mid-term election? Everyone knows the answer to that including the Dem voters. After 2 years, everyone was pissed (except for the baseline of Dem-idiots who will vote dem no matter what). This is why we saw the Dem strongholds in Florida and Long Island go completely red. All this talk about Trump being offensive and causing the red wave to not happen is BS. This is a RINO false narrative. The red wave did happen, thanks to a lot of Democrats who had enough and joined the wave. The Democratic black box cheating made it appear the red wave didn't happen. All you got to do is look beneath the surface. For example, when have you ever seen voters vote for a Rep governor and then split their vote for a Dem senator? Doesn't happen. Yet this is what we are suppose to believe in this election where even when the Rep won the Gov race, the Senate race went to the Dem, and not just by a little either. People don't split their votes like that. Biden HAD to keep control of the Senate in order to keep control of the impeachment process. He knows we are coming for him and if he had lost the Senate, he knows he would be convicted in an impeachment. And the counts of the ballot dumps in these races shows the work of the black box cheating that was going on.
Interesting and depressing. I don't have confidence that enough Republicans (and others too) will ever rise up en masse to demand that such things be investigated and brought to light. There would have to be an enormous uprising of rage over all the election fraud.
Why is it that the Right only realizes weve been HAD after the crime has been committed. We need to realize that the Democratic machine is a well-funded, well-oiled criminal organization who have ONLY dirty tricks in their baskets — because they cannot win any other way. They will stop at nothing to win!
We need to learn to be several steps ahead of them and be proactive (in my humble opinion)
The problem is the Rep Party is controlled by the RINOs. They are uniparty fellow travelers with the Bolsheviks and their only interest is in maintaining the status quo where they are in control of the party. They are threatened by Trump and the populist movement in the party.
We DID realize it after the 2020 election but hardly any election law changes got made in the meantime. Florida shines. I'm sad that Texas no longer represents what a RED conservative state looks like. Abbott won over Beto (thank goodness) but Abbott wasn't the best pick in the primary, by far. He talks alot but that's it. I blame Trump for endorsing Abbott, rather than West or Huffines, both of whom spoke about stopping the illegal border invasion and eliminating property taxes. Abbott's a puppet who thinks he has a chance at being President.🤣
We need more Republican Governors in these states but the Dems are better at cheating and have their pawns in place. Look at AZ the person in charge of election integrity ran for governor and didn’t refuse herself of the duty to certify her own race. 🙄only in a liberals mind is this ok.
happens on both sides Diana. In GA Kemp was overseeing the counting when he was running for governor too. He won with a small margin from Abrams (we guess he cheated, but are now glad he did. maybe the powers that be knew Abrams would be disastrous)
and with stuff like that is going in AZ where one candidate oversees the counting. This happened in GA with Kemp so I think Abrams might be right that it was stolen from her the former time, but GA was so lucky she was not the gov because she would have caused a disaster. She gave up on gov position thank God.
Stacy Abrams will be back, just like Beto. Running for office has become a cottage industry for them. Abrams was broke....look how much $$$ she has now. It wasn't from sales of her steamy novel, either.
yes I read an article about that, too. I also read some of beto's posts, sounded like a person on the brink of depression. Office has become an income gathering. It is high time someone looks at the faucets of money and stops the spill. But who is going to do that? Courts? Is there anything not corrupt in this world?
The fix very well may be in, and lots of shenanigans going on (ballot harvesting, week long counting, etc.) don't pass the sniff test. That being said, this election should not have been close yet it was. Our side needs to face some hard truths:
1) Lots of people (probably the majority) actually like what happened over the past two years. They like lockdowns, masking, and vax mandates. These are cowardly, timid people who will happily give up freedom if it means they feel a little safer, even if the safety is an illusion. This is a huge problem that is getting worse not better, if it doesn't turn around soon the country is doomed.
2) Despite the popularity of Trump's policies, many (maybe most) people don't like Trump personally. They see him as an arrogant buffoon who doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. We all know this type of person in our lives, obnoxious, overly opiniated, boorish, and crude. Most of us avoid these types of people as they are unpleasant to deal with. Rightly or wrongly, Trump is seen the same way (and the way he went after DeSantis and Youngkin completely unprovoked last week is making me see their point).
Unless our side deals with these two problems, we will permanently be in the minority. Complaining about stolen elections (even if they actually were stolen!) just makes it worse as it makes us look like crybaby sore losers.
I would agree with the first opinion, judging from what I am seeing here in Michigan. About Trump, the media has made Trump the man many perceive him to be. Because of his “out there” personality he derived a loyal following starting out campaigning. I saw him at a rally in 2020 and he was none of those things. He gave us hope when there didn’t seem to be much. His rallies were something I will never forget. And anyone who can run successful companies and still get the blue collar workers, the elite disdain says more about him then what the media spouts. However, I do not understand his haste to run for president, but I do agree with Counselor Childers that he should if he wants.
Agree 100%, however perception is reality unfortunately, rightly or wrongly.
Honestly, what was your opinion of Trump before 2015 when he announced his run based on his media behavior and image? Was it a prudent, sober thinker with deeply held principles? Or was it a buffoonish World Wresting Federation-type cartoon character always hawking something? I'm willing to bet it was the latter.
However, since then Trump won us over with his commitment to conservative principles and obvious love for the country. Most people don't follow politics they way we do though, and they still see Trump as the buffoon. He's made no real effort to reach these people and makes it worse by shooting off his mouth without thinking. I get it as it's always worked for him in the past, but when you need 51% (including lots of political illiterates) sometimes a behavior change is warranted. He needs to really consider this as now he's even driving away supporters (such as myself) with his ill-timed antics.
I wanted to see Ben Carson win the nomination. He was already out when the Michigan primary rolled around. So I voted for Ted Cruze. My nephew, mid 40’s and a cop was all in for DJT. Then my sister in CO stood in line for hours twice to see him in rally’s there. She was all in. I still wasn’t convinced, but Carson supported him after he left the race, and he gave a list of SCjustices he would nominate and I liked that. I was not going to vote for Hilary. And I would not go 3rd party as did that with Ross Perot and gave the race to Clinton. I was not on the DJT bandwagon but when I went to our rural twp hall to vote, the place was packed, many blue collar friends with MAGA hats on. I have never felt so exhilarated after voting and I have voted in every election since I was 18. I didn’t expect him to win, but I felt good about voting for him.
I was anti-Trump in 2016. I could've (held my nose) and voted for 16 of the 17 GOP candidates who ran, but not Trump. (I ended up taking a part in the Gary Johnson campaign after Trump was nominated.)
In 2020, however, I was all in. Despite his boorish, crude narcissism, I heavily supported Trump. We went to his rally in Tulsa, and after the steal, I went to a Stop the Steal rally (which ended up being just another GOP steal itself.)
But enough is enough. Trump is not at all a hero - he's in bed with Big Pharma. He's in bed with whomever goes to Mar a Lago to kiss his ring - no matter how transparently dishonest and establishment they are. (Kevin McCarthy, I'm looking at you.)
I get that the politically naive see his rough demeanor and wrongly think he's an outsider. He isn't. He's just a conman playing the part of "Spoiler" to convince the average voter to vote one more time. Just because he's despised by all the wrong people, doesn't make him right.
Right up until he started slamming DeSantis and Youngkin, I honestly would have voted for him if he were the nominee. Not anymore. Even if it were Biden/Harris vs. Trump, I'll sit it out.
Why all this Trump bashing? He's the best President in my lifetime. He said what he would do and then he did it, through great adversity. I judge him on his accomplishments, not his personality. I like his personality anyway.i dont see him as you do. He's the only person I can listen to for hour and not get bored.
And he wasn't downing DeSantis when he said De-sanctimonious . It means NOT Sanctimonious! But you just let the MSM tell you what it means.
He was playing with the press and I'm sure there is no animosity between Trump and DeSantis.
You don't understand what Trump is doing with the press. The minute he's not pulling their chain, they'll be all over him.
I think you misunderstand his "touting" of Warp Speed. It was a good idea, taken over by DeepST Leftists. It's they who want to kill us, not Trump. Had he been able to rightfully take office in 2020, he would have seen that proper testing be done.
He said, take the vaccine IF it's been tested and is safe.
I found that in Politico
when fox and nbc were only reporting that he said take the vaccine. By the way, there is no vaccine, so he was giving warning in that way.
Uh...no. The race was only "close" because the black box cheating is designed to keep the Dem vote count just a little above the Rep count. Furthermore, they can't exceed the total registered voter roll as that would obviously reveal the steal. It's got nothing to do with your two points. Sure, the dem-idiots who depend on gov't freebies will always vote dem no matter what. But the last 2 years of OBiden BS gov't has done nothing but turn many many Democrats red in the ballot box as demonstrated in FL and Long Island. This was a national movement that could only be covered up by the black box cheating.
Secondly, characterizing Trump as a crude, obnoxious buffoon is the standard RINO narrative they promote to break up the populist movement in the party that threatens their power. To the contrary, Trump is very popular and the exaggerated caricature of him is an MSM and RINO narrative. Blaming the Republican Party's ineffectiveness on Trump is a deflection. The Rep Party's ineffectiveness is an intentional policy of the RINOs who only want to protect their power as fellow travelers with the Bolsheviks. They are traitors to America. Full stop .
"...Complaining about stolen elections (even if they actually were stolen!) just makes it worse as it makes us look like crybaby sore losers..."
Really?? I just have to add this. This is a typical Bolshevik tactic to intimidate the opposition to sit down and shut up. BS! This is allowing the opposition to set the terms of the debate and this has to stop. You think I'm going to shut up because someone calls me "crybaby"? Hell no. We are not the losers. The Democrats are the losers because they HAVE to resort to stealing votes just to get elected. I'm going to stand up and shout to everyone that the Democrat Bolsheviks are thieves, liars and evil communists. This is what we have to do to win. WE have to set the terms of the debate, call out the enemy for their evil and make them defend their position! We have to stand for what is right. Don't tell me to shut up.
Then you never saw beyond what the media wanted. You did not see him go down to help Louisiana residents who were flooded by torrential rains. This was before he was ever elected. He got truck loads of supplies to be sent down to the poorest sections that were most affected. He passed out water and meals. Sure it was a photo op but the media mostly ignored it. He went to Afghanistan very quietly Christmas Eve to visit the troops. The actual soldiers loved him. Who quietly helped lay wreaths on the graves at Arlington. He gave Jennifer Hudson a place to live, all without fanfare. He tried to fulfill every promise he made as president. Ask yourself why a man who funded much of his own campaign, who did not take a presidential salary but donated it every quarter. He didn’t have to do any of these things, but he did. These are not the actions of a buffoonish narcissist.
I am exhausted after this election, I am in no mood to start speculating on what DJT or DeSantis may do.
You are right in that things are a disaster, like I said the election should not have been close but it was aside from a few exceptions.
Either elections across the entire country were hacked (very unlikely and zero evidence) or people like this (my point #1) or think the alternative will be worse (my point #2). There is no other explanation.
And in line with the mess I just heard Russian rockets crossed over into Poland killing two. I don’t see how this is a winning narrative and the swing states are riddled with election issues. There are 13 reps in the house need to come up all democrat for the republicans to lose the house. I bet the 13 are flip democrat. I’m going on Biden smugness on as votes come in democrats will come up victorious and the president secretary reinforcing this narrative bc it’s ok to take one month to count ballots.
Wow, been reading this thread. All I can say is there sure does seem to be a lot RINO narrative being pushed here. As Rep we are doing exactly what the Bolsheviks want: tearing each other down. Which is funny cuz you don't see the Don and Ron doing that, now do you?
As someone who fled Michigan last year, the paradigm shift was obvious at the peak of COVID-mania. I knew Michigan was doomed when Gretchen relaxed the obedience mask requirement in 2021 and yet over fifty percent of patrons at the local Costco, Kroger, and Whole Foods still insisted on wearing them. Fearing that schools would insist on masks in Fall 2021 and possibly even vaccination, we made our move south.
Michigan's core economy is the medico-industrial complex. Creating and treating sick people is Michigan's comparative advantage, not building cars.
It's particularly evident in the tri-county area where the vast majority of economic development is led by mega-hospital systems. Sixty years ago it was 'The Big Three' and the various industries that supported them as suppliers. Now that the Michigan auto industry is effectively dead, the medico-industrial complex has replaced them. Thus, the fealty to masks, vaccines, DEI, gender affirming care, and abortions.
BCBSM was one of the most aggressive businesses in Michigan to push COVID vaccines and gleefully fired several hundred non-compliant employees. The people who work for these companies and the medico-industrial complex tend to be card-carrying progressives who are current with their boosters and loyal to the narrative.
BCBSM and the medico-industrial complex are probably the state's biggest paid advertisers, Thus, Michigan's media is wholly in their pocket. What "they" want is what "they" will get.
Parenthetically, Gretchen's future post-governor is not in politics. Gretchen will undoubtedly follow in Dan Loepp's footsteps as the $30M a year CEO of BCBSM.
Thanks, I am from just north of Detroit, 14 and Gratiot area. I left in 1982 really, for Ann Arbor, but more fully in 92 when i came out to Oregon. It's nice for me to hear someone from MI speak in a way that chimes with me, I was raised with folks who did not have so wide and realistic a view of goings on wrt the insurance industry there. (Industry says it all, like the the medical industry we also are suffering from now, so many cogs). Members of my extended family worked at BCBSM and in hospital financial management. I was just a kid, but what they were engrossed in certainly had nothing to do with health, (even the jobs seemed unhealthy, for the stress). We've literally inflated things, made them bigger, more cumbersome, more fragile, with this industrial view. Both sides of the scales are out of balance (hey thats a balance just not one we want), companies too big, nanobits too small. The money master controls its slave. But I digress....thanks ejsmith
I had never considered this being north of that area in the rust belt area of the tri cities. We have Dow here in next door Midland, a conservative bastion for decades, now pretty blue, along with the cities of Saginaw and Bay City. Saginaw, has a large hospital complex, as does Midland and a lesser one in Bay City.
I hear you about voting fraud and it definitely happens but what makes me mad is that the red wave should've been so far out that cheating at that level would be impossible. I didn't want close wins, in the current situation, I wanted undeniable wins everywhere like DeSantis got. There should've been few close races. Really, what the heck is it going to take for people to wake up, bread lines, war on our land? Just saw O'Reilly's daily take is 2 very difficult years coming. IDK, you think people will be ready then?
I thought Trudeaus lawyer dropping would do it, but gone from view...i do wonder how he is doing, not sure if stroke or fainted. Will folks even notice. They are broken in ways, it's getting more than painfully obvious and hard to watch, oh that psyop is a gift that keeps on giving for us trying to observe it...best Ingrid C Durden
Quite honestly it is so big - so much corruption and cheating - far and wide. Corporations, donations, possibly even other country involvement I don’t believe it would have ever turned red. The only difference is how Desantis changed the laws for voting and cheating. I have little hope we will EVER get out of BLUE.
Note that the computers control it, there is no wave too big to cheat. The computers can literally manufacture or switch votes at will. Or rather, on command.
I don't think we know how many cheat votes can be used. Perhaps even a substantial difference in votes can still be fiddled with, we just don't know. And no one will find out.
Exactly. And I keep wondering why Republicans never figure out what the crucial states are and work hard to counter what will happen in those states. They don't recruit and support strong candidates.
Listened to Ron Armstrong from SUM. He doesn’t sugarcoat anything. He says we need to fight like the Dems and start yesterday for the 2024 elections. It’s a great thought but Conservatives by nature don’t fight like the behind the scenes cabal that the Dem party is a front for.
The stage was set for Michigan for decades. It was a well known secret among the political world that the MiGOP was corrupt, a fact I was rudely introduced to in our fight against lockdowns in 2020. After the 2016 election, white women went nuts, egged on I am sure. Pink pussy hats and women going to DC to demonstrate against Trump’s inauguration. The media couldn’t get enough of it. I know because Liberal women I knew were all over social media. Shortly thereafter, there was a petition drive to get a new redistricting law on the ballot using a bipartisan committee to do the census redistricting. One of my friends was adamant about it, and I believe she really thought that was why Trump won Michigan. I looked into the group funding the petition drive and it had leftist ties that weren’t hard to find. It made the 2018 ballot. Along with it were a legalized marijuana initiative proposal and a same day voter registration proposal that went completely unreported. The Liberals turned out massive voter turnouts on the big college campuses across this state. The marijuana industry contributed heavily to getting this proposal passed and to Whitmer, Nessel, and Benson’s campaigns. All 3 proposals passed and all 3 were elected. Was there corruption in the election? Who knows but it was really convenient when the pandemic dropped and we were locked down. Marijuana stores and PP stayed open though. Because women’s rights to safe health care was essential according to Gov Whitmer.
The pandemic was dropped to screw the election with mail in ballots in places such as Michigan where 7 million applications for absentee ballots were mailed out in June. Because everything was locked down including all gov’t offices, computer signature verification was employed. SOS Benson was charged with failure to correctly perform her duties but it went nowhere. On election night Michigan shut down counting ballots. They boarded up windows and threatened poll challengers. Election computers were connected to outside sources, this was proven. Ballot drops were shown via camera footage. Many of us went to bed with Trump comfortably ahead and woke up to his lead almost gone. No one could believe it. When the Michigan election was called for Biden no one could believe it. A U.S. senate race went to the Democrat incumbent who campaigned not at all. The Michigan SC flipped to Liberal, something that would be telling in the months to come. But the down ballot races remained typical for most areas of Michigan. Despite piles of affidavits and video footage the AG refused to do an investigation of election corruption. The Michigan Legislature assigned a committee to investigate who ruled, “nothing wrong” here and certified the election. Come up to 2022. Michigan, because of Whitmer received unbelievable amounts of covid monies, which mostly disappeared. Roe v Wade was overturned in June and promptly appeared a Constitutional ballot initiative that not only was abortion up to birth but parental rights given up in their children’s health care. A voter initiative also showed up and miraculously made it to the ballot, as did an extension of Legislator’s tenure. The bipartisan committee redistricted the state and made some obviously odd redrawn lines, ultimately putting larger cities in all favored Democrats. Many of these were surrounded by rural areas, but the idea is always to turn urban areas and surrounding suburbs into Dem strongholds. The MiGOP, along with money from Betsy DeVos got Tudor Dixon on the primary ballot for governor, then promptly got all kinds of crossover voting. She was 20 percentage points ahead of the next two very popular contenders. Almost as soon as she secured the GOP nomination, the RNC quit fundraising for her. She was likable and in two debates wiped the floor with Whitmer, but few saw the debates. She received a bus two weeks prior to the election which she gamely traveled all over the state. Meanwhile, Whitmer pounded the abortion issue in wall to wall television ads. Dixon had virtually none. The RNC and Michigan GOP deserted virtually every grass roots candidate in place at the state and National levels. The Michigan Legislature was flipped to Liberal. None of it unexpected if you followed what was going on. Add in the redistricting and you have the mess Michigan is in. Long, I know but an explanation which might be what did not surprise here.
Florida is an anomaly and I’m not sure it isn’t being set up for something. There were different tactics employed by different states as far as I can tell. It was a telling point that Florida seems to be the only state to clean up election laws. It was something Kari Lake promised to do in AZ. They were not going to let her win. If it had been a Republican SOS, running for governor, running her own election so to speak, the Dems would be screaming bloody murder. But nary a peep in the case of AZ. It seems we quite often compare if it was a Republican doing the corruption how it would be called out, but it never happens.
Great comment, Laurie. As always, I thank you for the time. I think that you nailed the MI GOP's complicity in an incestuous relationship quite well. All told, it doesn't bode well for Michigan or this country with a GOP that is gutless and possibly knee-deep in it.
Sigh. Very insightful detail, thanks for laying it all out. The Republicans are so supine I've had to wonder if they are ALL (i.e. all parties) in on the scam, playing out their different roles in this criminal enterprise we call our government. Depressing to read all the increasingly sordid detail.
Prion disease from the jabs, and or the inability to think new thoughts, as many jabbed are not physically ok anymore. Dying people cannot think new thoughts, in general, lack of energy.
All of you (even those of us in Florida) should read this and plan for how to implement it, as a way to counter the Dem tactic focused on ballots. In warfare, a new weapon only works until the opponent figures out its vulnerabilities and exploits them. Get to work in your locality:
How Wisconsin Streetfighters Disrupted a Democrat Ballot-Gathering System
"The Wisconsin team proved, in this election, that adding even a small amount of friction – removing thousands of phantom names and identifying several hundred thousand incorrect addresses — has a massive impact on the ballot-gathering system.
"Our Wisconsin election heroes applied Fractal Programming technology, funded by Mike Lindell, at scale to find and challenge phantoms. The process is explained at www.Omega4America.com."
What's even worse is being in a state that has been SOLIDLY red for 60 years (Oklahoma) and watching the progressives take over the cities (Tulsa, OKC, Norman). We had a very "Red Wave-ish" election (Gov., US Senate, US Reps all in GOP hands), but that 's not the story in Tulsa or OKC, where the progressives made in-roads to our DA and State House.
It's super depressing to see the writing on the wall and look forward to a Blue Oklahoma at some point in the near future.
By running photogenic soccer moms who avoid all issues at all costs.
They know they can't openly advocate for abortion in pro-life Oklahoma, so they run stealth campaigns to appeal to an electorate that oh-so-desperately want to be seen as hip and progressive.
Buy local and/or buy small too whenever and as often as you can ..... even just doing it a few more times than you do now .... it all adds up and helps move money from the big guys and gals to the smaller operations. I really think even a small shift of money to local and/or smaller operations may bring surprising power back to the people and to the big guys and gals so that they can tell the federal government and the World Economic Forum to bug off because it is hurting their bottom line. *** Update added .... I forgot about the cash issue ... love the comment on using cash more often ... doesn't have to be a big change .... little changes by even a small percentage of people really add up (just ask any PTA/PTO leader :) ) ..... every time I use cash, I love that it is more money that stayed with the local and/or small business and less money for the big credit card processers who seem to have such a big influence on our federal government. Definitely worth the extra effort to go to the bank to get cash I think. Thanks everyone for the encouragement!
As an aside, I ordered a Ron DeSantis coffee mug. To my delight, it was made by HF Coors in the USA. I just happened to notice because I have a set of HF Coors dishes that I love - free of lead, etc. Thought that was very cool of his campaign. They could have made lots more money going with cheap Chinese-made mugs.
Yes, no more Chinese schwag, not easy to avoid. Read a really good book on one familys journey to deChineseify their household, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Without-Made-China-Adventure/dp/0470379200 its probs at your local library, or local bookseller, good read, even humorous, but goes into the nitty gritty of having kids, birthday parties, all without Chinese goods.
Connie I went looking for it on the Ron DeSantis campaign site and it looks like they've shut down the "shop" function. Basically, when you bought something from there, it was a political donation (so maybe there were rules about selling the stuff after the election was over?). It was the "Cup of Joe" mug for $25. I wish I had bought a bunch more of them for gifts ha ha (thankfully bought an extra for my sister-in-law). Direct message me if you want me to send you a pic.
Yes, but how many of true Conservatives rush over to Walmart, Target and other ‘superstores’ or use Amazon when they could be supporting small local businesses? These chains did all they could to profit off the fake pandemic and support heinous liberal causes.
doing my best to de-walmart. Only going there if nothing else is available. There are not many small businesses here anymore although I am in small town GA. But doing what I can.
I cancelled AMZ when they cancelled Parler. But will admit to using the easy button a few times, like when my friends daughter registered at AMZ for her baby shower and asked for a bunch of things I did not have time to hunt down elsewhere. Have found Thriftbooks is a good substitute for books and music (yeah I still buy CDs, I am old), but not 100%, some titles are only on AMZ. Boycotted Wal Mart for over a decade due to a host of reasons. But it is a PITA since I have also dropped Target due to transgender issue. Multiple trips for what used to be a one stop shop. Switched to Menards for cleaning products but they are not 100% 'clean' either; enforced the mask mandates while others just ignored them. But know of no local source for some things, especially everyday items like HBC, paper products, etc. But doing my best!
Walmart wasn't open here and it still isn't back to what it was, 24 hours. Was actually a pain since you could always go there late for something if it was urgent. Only time I used them.....
Philosophically, I agree. But, here in Southern California, most of the brick and mortar stores were forcing masks on me and, I’m sure, would have required being jabbed to be a customer if they could have figured out a way around HIPPA laws. So, they’re in the same group as Bezos is, to me.
We have been an oligarchy of corporations, special interest groups, and influential individuals for a while now. Cite Princeton study 2014 ' US not a democracy but Oligarchy'. (suppressed on Google, surprise, surprise)
“.... the wealthy few (DAVOS) move policy, while the average American has little power....When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias (corruption) built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it.” ....
stopped ordering from amazon and now ordering from the companies that make the stuff. Very good results with my main hobby - Buffalo puzzles ! what a difference in service. If you thought amazon gives service think again.
I’ve don’t the same when I can. We use Vitacost for food items and I use abebooks, although someone said AMZ owned them. Doing what we can where we are.
I try to order directly from the companies as well. In general, I've found them to be very good and responsive so perhaps a great many of them prefer that to selling via Amz.
yes and I think even ebayers prefer to do business directly, I have a yarn company in turkey that I found on ebay and I have since years orderer directly there, without ebays pockets being filled. People deserve their money without having to pay an intermediant licking the pot
In days gone by if a kid mowed a lawn or watched the neighbors kids for an evening, they would typically be paid in cash at the end of the job. Using that cash to buy something would then trigger the pain-centers in the brain... "I had to work for this. I don't want to waste that time." Using a card from the wallet has a lower visceral pain response. And when using things like Apple Pay on a phone or a gas-station key fob, the transaction occurs with something that isn't even associated with money or work, thus a lower pain response and less friction in the transaction.
Bottom line: people that use cash tend to be more intentional with their spending. More intentional == more likely to shop local.
On top of that, even debit cards incur a fee to the merchant, between 2-6%. Using cash keeps more of the transaction value in the local monetary ecosystem, instead of lining the bankers pockets in some far off city.
I came across these concepts in Dave Ramsey's videos on cash/debit/credit and the idea of 'friction' when shopping. Highly recommend them. Big companies spend a lot of money researching out how to reduce friction to boost their bottom line.
Yep. And do you have any doubt that is the tip of the iceberg? But just like with the stolen elections, we will likely never know the truth.
I do find it interesting how little coverage this has gotten on MSM or MSM Financial channels. They all likely had their grubby hands in the cookie jar. And if I had to bet, they were forewarned and were among those lucky few who extricated their funds in the days leading up to the implosion.
Thank you for your support of Kari Lake. I’ve been volunteering on her campaign since day one. This is an unfair and consequently devastating and unacceptable loss for we the people of Arizona and this country.
Need to get to work on your state reps and senators. Make their lives miserable if appropriate or encourage the ones who are actually moral and decent people who put liberty first.
Thank you Susan Mullen... standing by Kari from day one, you are a true patriot warrior 💗 ... I pray Kari fights this overtly public steal! Has it ever been more obvious that we are strategically organized as a country by an oligarchy controlled government? These DAVOS ELITE have limitless funding via their massive NGO’s, unelected bureaucrats and a unified cabal of 30 pieces of silver bought and the sold pseudo elected “leaders” in office... not to mention the overt FTX crypto-Ukraine-Biden money laundering scandal..... how more obvious can it be given basement swamp dwelling hermits and a cognitively jab injured compromised stroke victim are media heralded as great election wins? God Help us 🙏🙏
There is so much more to this FTX thing than we can even imagine. This company was formed in 2018. In 2019, they were at $89M. In 2020, they were more than $500M. In 2021, they were more than $1.2B. And then reach over $10B in 2022?? That seems like Clinton math to me. Remember when Hillary invested $10,000 and it ‘became’ $100,000? 😳
I don’t know anyone on this planet who could grow a company that fast and that large without lots and lots and lots of help, nefarious ways and over the top deceit.
I listened to a podcast describing all this and how deep this runs. It’s worth a listen if you have the stomach for it.
Interesting that the Times is able to contact this guy 2 days after he "flies off" to Gilligan's Island (or whatever) and is granted an interview - this guy probably has NO fear at all. But an article by the Times that NEVER utters a syllable suggesting he's a criminal of any sort, or even that he is a "bad" guy?
Wonder what all the people who have been duped by him are thinking right now? Probably NOT wishing him 'sweet dreams'.
The media needs a swift kick in the democratically (and pfizer) funded backside.
they probably know where he is, because they will be able to see where the sponsor money for their 'interview' came from. Is anyone still reading that rag?
"Voting harder isn’t going to cut it. We have to build. The existing system will collapse. It’s not a matter of if, but when. When that happens we need to have Christian infrastructure in place to fill the power vacuum. The Amish have had it right this entire time. Their communities are growing and thriving. They will continue to do well. We must become a form of neoamish, building sovereign communities and families away from Babylon. Technology is okay and a good tool. It’s something we can use to our advantage to communicate, build, and engage in commerce with one another.
We are the new pilgrims. We must move to deep red states, push them further right, build, and secure a future for our families. Forget politics at the national level. That rigged game is over. Focus on state and local elections, not what is going on in DC.
Conservatism has failed. It has been trying to conserve a country and a culture that is never coming back and has long been gone. The future of the West depends on those of us who are going to build. Build our own infrastructure, our own families, our own communities, our own parallel economy, and our own strongholds of deep red states. We’ll build a wall around the borders of those states if that’s what it comes to. We need to accept exile from Babylon and get to work."
Agree with most of this, but we cannot forget national politics until we divorce our infrastructure from it. We MUST refuse all federal dollars. That's the control lever, giving all the other illegal and unConstitutional policies teeth.
The 10th amendment and federalism in a moral society are key, but first we need to ween ourselves off the gov't money.
"They suggest that state legislatures should enact a “State Sovereignty and Federal Tax Funds Act,” known as an “escrow” law. Federal taxes would be required to go into a special fund controlled by the state government. Once they calculate the actual constitutional federal spending, the state would only send that percentage of funds to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Remaining funds would go toward state expenditures that were reliant on federal funding, or be returned to taxpayers." They also suggest eliminating the Federal Reserve.
"We MUST refuse all federal dollars." 33T in debt and sky-high inflation due to QE and printing - won't last much longer - especially as other countries move away from the dollar...
I have come to the same conclusion. Conservativism has failed. I truly thought that there were millions of true Americans just waiting to vote these clowns out of office. But no, after Afghanistan, inflation, covid tyranny and on and on and on, but no. The citizens of this "country" (any nation that can't control it's own borders is not truly an independent nation anymore) decided that this insane unlawful government is exactly what they want. I KNOW there was vote fraud but I don't believe that it is the only reason this turned into nearly a demoncratic victory. And I don't believe that Trump helped, in fact he hurt the cause imo.
Have to agree in the sense that those who call themselves "conservatives" have failed to conserve a single thing. I don't think Conservatism in itself failed, but that it was co-opted by corrupt crony capitalists (Ryan, Boehner, McConnell, McCarthy, National Review, ad nauseum) who portrayed themselves as Conservatives but actually weren't. These people fooled us into thinking being pro-multinational corporation was the same things as being pro-free market. They aren't.
In addition, these same people were also libertarian rather than conservative on social issues. They insisted we surrender on traditional marriage, gay rights, and a host of other issues claiming that these were side issues that would drag the party down. It was not until the state demanded the right to actively promote homosexuality and mutilate our children's bodies, that people started revolting. These same alleged "conservatives" didn't say a word about it until they were forced to, even then their criticism was muted. They are not Conservatives.
It's not "Conservatism" that failed, but people we allowed to lead us that called themselves conservatives. The last real conservative was probably Ronald Reagan though despite his mistakes, he actually believed what he said. He was also the last Republican to have a successful presidency which is no coincidence.
Thank you for a clarification. I get very frustrated and emotional about it all. In the Navy I was willing to die for this country during it's various wars. Now I ask myself "Who's country?" Die for this gangs of demonic clowns? Not me. It's very personal and hurtful watching it torn apart.
Agree...Though I admire what Trump did for the country...his behavior only made the Trump haters hate him even more...and that spread to the GOP and undecided. He can be SO Presudential when he wants to be. See his last Ohio rally. He is his own worst enemy.
Yup, and the fact that so many refuse to see this is a real problem. You can love his policies, even love the man personally, and still realize he's a loose cannon. When someone dares mention this they get attacked, called RINO's, sell-outs, and worse.
There's a faction of Trump supporters that are just as bad as anything on the left with an "ends justifies the means" mentality. Trump encourages this with his reckless behavior such as his unprovoked attacks on DeSantis and Youngkin. It's ugly no matter which side is doing it.
The problem is that we need to convince the great mushy middle, the people with no real political philosophy or principles. They may like the results of Trump's policies, but they don't like his behavior. Understandably, in all fairness.
There was really good R turnout, just not in all the spots we needed. Anecdotally, my entire family voted R in Florida, even though it was probably meaningless in the big scheme of things given how overwhelmingly the conservatives won. But we all made it a point to vote - it was a vote of confidence in DeSantis and a rejection of Covidianism. Just wish that had happened everywhere. And I agree with you that Trump didn't help in some areas. I have family in other states who would vote R except when it comes to Trump (not that I agree with them necessarily).
Hopefully nobody ever believes that casting a ballot is meaningless. Never believe the polls, never take anything for granted and if the elections are going to be stolen make them do it each and every time. But I understand your perspective.
So, are you saying that if your voting precinct is in a blue area of the country and you are not in favor of that sort of government you should not bother to vote or something else?
Your candidate is not going to win when you live somewhere where one side and one side only will keep harvesting ballots until their side wins.... So what's the point of voting when what matters is how many ballots you harvest or create???
Your candidate is positively not going to win if you don't vote. At this point you are saying that whomever has the best methodology for altering the numbers will win the elections. If that is the case, skip the voting and let's just have a technology battle to see who will have superior election hacks. Thought you would be a bit more rational CS.
"At this point you are saying that whomever has the best methodology for altering the numbers will win the elections." You nailed right there... That's blue states summed up... You are NOT going to vote your way out or get the results you want by voting harder and you won't change many mindsets...
It was because you all made sure to go out and vote that that huge conservative result happened in Florida. Continue your mindset because it is important and keeps Florida free.
The failure of the Conservative message is the only likely reason for the vote splitting that went on. Agree some funny business went on in some states, but that is not the whole answer. I cannot even imagine voting for a D in this current environment yet it appears that I am in the minority, and lots of folks did just that, vote for candidates on both sides. https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2022:_Split-ticket_voting_in_statewide_elections
Well, me too, but there seem to be more low information voters out there than I realized. I have run across an occasional person who smugly will say, 'oh I am an INDEPENDENT, I don't vote the party, I vote the candidate. Heck, 20 years ago I may have voted for a D or 2. But ever since 2008, the lines have become very clear. Independent to me means "guess you don't pay much attention." I get that the R party has plenty of issues, but a 3rd party vote in most races is a vote for the D's. I used to see a fair number of Green Party candidates back in the day but they are very rare now. None this year even in the primary on my ballot. Guess the D's paid them off, not that they differ much nowadays anyway.
We can’t separate like that. Our sole purpose on earth is to share the gospel and live it out in front of unbelievers. Communes won’t help others find their way to faith in Jesus. We will be unknown and just weird to them.
I agree we must be witnesses of the Light of God, but this world has now become so depraved that you must protect yourself from being conformed to its standards. Protecting children, at this point, is a primary goal.
I, no longer, want to listen to lies, immorality and excuses from pagans or those masquerading under the guise of religion. So, I’ll excuse myself from them to protect my own soul and sanity.
“But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.”
FYI: Most of the world is getting fed up with toxic western wokeness and see through our sham elections... What the wokesters at home think will be increasingly irrelevant...
I have only read a little bit about the gab guy lately. Could you describe more about why he's distasteful? I think a lot of us really haven't followed it much
He makes some statements against Jews and about things like replacement, or male/female roles that rub people the wrong way. I don’t like or agree with some of the things he says (I also think conflating some of the Jewish people in positions of power with average regular people is wrong, and a lot of those are barely nominally Jewish, kind of like saying Pelosi and Biden represent Catholics, but that is a whole other discussion I guess). But I think he’s got some things right and I also admire him for his refusal to back down even when banks and other companies refuse him service because of his views.
I used to be on Gab a lot after Parler was shut down (I particularly admire Torba for his savvy in avoiding the same fate, by not being beholden to Amazon, Apple etc.). But there was too much trolling and people just spouting off nonsense and vitriol. I prefer civil and reasoned discussions, so Substack seems to suit me better on that score. But I do like some things that Torba has said and done.
If you are on GAB and he is in your feed, expect alot of "jew rants" - either blatant or subtle without mentioning them by name but everyone knows who he is talking about... Maybe if he spent less time ranting on them, GAB would be further along with his ideas of a parallel economy that they can't cancel... Parler apparently is also getting into data services and other back-end stuff that's needed...
The anger and disappointment with what’s going on in AZ (and in our own government) is only tempered by my trust and faith in Almighty God. So much corruption and deceit. Katie do-nothing Hobbs has been smug throughout the election cycle while anyone could see that Kari Lake is the far better candidate. I see our country as a nation in decline. But God has a plan and I’m keeping my eyes fixed on Him. Meanwhile I pray for truth, righteousness and justice and that we will all join in the fight between goodness and morality vs. evil and depravity.
Consider that, regardless of the AZ outcome, Kari Lake is young, energetic, and propelled by honesty and truth. Should she so choose, she has a long and brilliant political career ahead.
Hobbs, on the other hand, is a hack. And will always be a hack.
She and other conservatives will have NO future if election interference isn’t stopped NOW. This will be the 2nd fraudulent election - if left unchallenged. There will be no future for honesty and truth.
Again, everyone must look at California as what they want to create all over the country. There are a few "token" Republicans elected here and there, but in general California is a done deal, dominantly Democrat forever more. There are laughably few R's in office. And MOST Californians just don't care and don't pay attention to a damn thing that happens here in terms of politics. 40 million people and perhaps 30% vote. Things are just the way they are and people accept that like drones. Whatever conditions exist, these people do not connect those conditions with politicians or policies. Democrats have destroyed this once majestic state. Addendum: All the Democrats in charge lead pretty nice lives here, though. They don't ever suffer the consequence3s of what they create.
Only repentance can save us. Half the country now behaves like pagans in the decline of the Roman Empire, like the 'fun loving' people of Sodom and Gomorrah, like any uncivilized civilization of history--in action, intention, and behaviors.
It is lauded, indoctrinated, celebrated. Sin is now a relative term at best and a taboo word at worst.
I still have a hard time understanding why Trump potentially running gets people excited. He's part of the problem. Anyone that pushes the clot shots is wholly unqualified and should be in prison.
Trump had no clue they were designed to injure or kill. He would have been eviscerated if he had not helped clear the way for them. At this point it’s unlikely anyone in government will speak the truth about them because they are all in too deep. Frankly we are all in too deep. Look at the millions who took them without doing their own research...you think any of them are qualified to run after making such a poor decision? Even some of the great scientists and doctors who started warning us took them. If that’s your purity test then good luck finding candidates. Three quarters of the country is disqualified. 
It's a nice story but Trump will not reverse his position on recommending the clot shot even as that cat has been out of the bag for months, esp. in Florida where Trump lives.
Trump was out of office months before the Vaxx was released. Even after it was well known the Covid Vaxx was a clot shot, Trump continued to claim he was the proud father of the Covid shot and never talked about what everyone else knew about the high risk of death and disability.
No, it's not the end. It was well known early on they had a death safety signal, and he still bragged about rolling out the vaccine. Jesus folks, wake up!
I agree! If someone like me could understand the safety signals in the fact sheets, Trump could have too. It still blows me away as to why there was never a focus on treatment instead of prevention.
Not quite. Trump was out of office months before the Vaxx was released. Even after it was well known the Covid Vaxx was a clot shot, Trump continued to claim he was the proud father of the Covid shot and never talked about what everyone else knew about the high risk of death and disability.
It's always the same with the pro-Trump TDS-ers. "It's not his fault, if he would've opposed the vaxx, the media would've destroyed him." WHINE WHINE WHINE.
If that were true, then Trump is a pussy
They're like those helicopter moms who make excuses for their kid's criminal behavior.
With the exception of Ron Johnson, in Wisconsin, every politician is. Because none of them are coming out, speaking the truth. Not even DeSantis in Florida. His surgeon general has made some statements not recommending it, but nobody is speaking about what’s happening so that this disqualifies every existing politician currently in office from running for higher office. 
Trump didn't manufacture the jabs. You want to blame someone? Blame Pfizer and Moderna for making a lethal shot and then lying about it's efficacy and safety. Then blame Biden for mandating these jabs.
I don’t blame him for his early ignorance in promoting the deadly ‘warp speed.’ So many were tricked, cajoled or frightened over the lies. But, I do blame him for continuing to push his promotion of it after all the dust settled, even to this day. That is heinous.
It's foolish to think that the leader of the country had no idea what was going on. Us plebs with a computer and half a brain figured it out rather quickly...
Don't push what could be Democrat-UniParty cabal-written propaganda. They want us to feel defeated, because if we're defeated in our minds, we won't even try winning anymore. Seek your inner Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, George Washington.
Read this and work, or choose another avenue, but *don't* give up.
I somewhat disagree, there is still a path. Its narrow but there is a path. Georgia passed some voter reforms and Kemp won by a wide margin - nearly 10%.
If we could get the right people in place in AZ, WI, MI, PA or even a few of these places we might have a chance. That seems to be a long shot though.
Here’s another possible option. Kemp did nothing when they blatantly stole GA in 2020. Then he did nothing when they apparently did it again in 2022 in the Walker race, though his seat was safe.
Remember Trump pre-COVID? He did what he said he'd do, more so than any other candidate in my memory, and I'm not young, or did his best to, given the Democrat Lilliputian strings tying him down from every direction. Economy, building the wall/legal vs. illegal immigration, rolling back regulations by the *thousands,* peace in the MIddle East, vs. the usual 'discussions about frameworks,' the list goes on and on. He's the only guy who ever verbally and practically fought back instead of rolling over. DeSantis is a more polite version, but he's a copy, not an original, and DeSantis needs big funding, which was the main reason the working-class Trump supporters around me gave for supporting him way early in 2016, before the primary - he wasn't owned by anyone else, and he loves our country. And 2020 was stolen from him, so there's a justice aspect. There are a few other people who would do the same or similar, but not with Trump's name recognition or self-funding capability (Rep. Thomas Massie of KY and former FL state Rep. Anthony Sabatini come to mind). DeSantis had us shut down until summer (even the beaches, an outdoor setting with wind and tons of UV light, during spring break), and businesses failed over it. He made a great recovery from his prior ignorance, but most people were fooled at the beginning.
DeSantis also said that people should make their own decisions on it, and that there should not be mandates for students, etc. And he did an amazing job setting up monoclonal antibody sites all over Florida - until the Biden-lead FDA revoked their EUA which effectively shut them down.
Yes. I am waiting for him to start talking about the actual death and injuries from them. Not forcing them on children is a start but that seems to me a “freedom of choice” issue and they haven’t come fully around to the REAL dangers yet. But maybe I missed that from Dr. Lapado but the risks outweigh the benefits talk.
As much as I agree there is absolutely no way for any mainstream politician to go against the pharmaceutical industry to that degree. Way too much money sloshing around. Nevertheless, giving Ladapo the reins was impressive. Ladapo does not toe the pharma line.
It's not enough to call out what they are doing with FTX. I realized, watching a football game the other night, that *every single ad*, whether it's from an NGO, a PAC, a PSA, or supposedly "private" businesses desperate for ESG approval, is an ad for D talking points. Every one. Conservatives and thoughtful people will say, "look at this bs, Alinsky couldn't do it better," but they aren't loud enough with the counter-narrative. Unless people understand WHY it is bad to let the government regulate crypto, they just won't care. What are the best talking points that might resonate outside of the echo chamber, and how might they be conveyed?
NGOs are a scam. I got involved with one for anti- human trafficking and it’s disgusting how much money they DO NOT spend on what they say they are “fighting” for. You can look up ANY NGO’s finances by their 990s. That’s what they file annually with the IRS, like we file our 1040s.
If you REALLY want to get sick to your stomach look up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You can go to the guidestar website to look them up or ANY NGO. It will be a true eye opener; brace yourself.
But for whatever reason, revealing the lies and corruption and hypocrisy is not enough to sway people to think about alternatives. I'm wondering what is. If 400 private jets to Egypt doesn't cut it, what will?
Your every dollar will be tracked, monitored. Regulating crypto paves the way for cbdc. In this system, only the ultra wealthy will be able to be anonymous.
There has got to be a way to get people to understand that financial regulations hurt them much more than banksters. It's hard because there is a lot of "I don't do anything illegal, I'm fine" and too many people who don't care what happened to the truckers. But this is an important message.
Yes you’re right. There is also a large ostrich contingent. “Oh that could never happen here.” People who just don’t want to face the ugly possibilities and prefer to watch Netflix or focus on their kids’ activities and ignore anything related to politics or government.
I might even focus on those things because the government is basically a malevolent weather system as far as I can tell, but the delusion blows me away.
'They' (who ever 'they' are) are going to take over the country by running incompetent politicians who don't have to campaign but magically win; set up a gigantic investment company run by people who admit they suck at math, play online games all the time, and are drug addicts, so they can regulate a market segment the way they want.
It sounds like a crazy plot, and yet, here we are, living it.
I think we need a defacto secession. Move to deep red states, force separation from the federal gov't using 10th amendment, Constitutional federalism, and refusing all federal money. Create a separate morality-based society. Create a coalition of federalist states to work as a defacto federal gov't.
Add to that money and banking separate from the U.S. gov't. North Dakota has an independent, state-owned bank. A handful of states allow use of gold and silver as money. We need this in every deep red state.
If we can see 100% of the key swing contests in blue counties all take 5-7+ days to count "votes" until finally 100% of the liberals have just enough votes to win, and the courts refuse to correct the policies that do not meet state legislated requirements, we need to remove our obligations to the federal gov't. Good riddance!
Thank you Jeff, I really appreciate your take and ability to make sense of the current circus that is Earth politics in today's age. Thank you for all you do!
I'm glad Kari Lake is going to fight this, but 2020 proved that recount's of the same fraudulant ballots are useless & a waste of time. Especially if they usethe same machines to do the recount. They need a forensic investigation. A human hand done recount inspecting each ballot with human eyes. No machines !!!!
Yet in Michigan, no gains were made in the Supreme Court and of course the governor, AG and SoS. Plus, our legislature shifted to Democrat led. So for the first time in 40 YEARS, in the middle of record inflation, after effects of shutdowns and Covid mandates, Afghanistan, illegal immigration, etc. the Dems control the government. How is that even remotely possible?
Welcome to Californian politics. We have been Dem run for some time. Evil incarnate. The gov does what the devil wants.
The devil seems to be running the world. Everyone sees it, feels it, etc; but, we’ve become docile and afraid. The election shenanigans are no longer the exception, but the rule and the honest Americans are feeling powerless to stop the “devils” machine - it’s been going on in the rest of the world forever.
We must trust in the Good Lord above, He is our only hope and our salvation
Trust the Good Lord above, and our heroic GOP.
Those guys will save us for sure.
I trust in God. The GOP? Not so much. Do you realize that big pharma has MORE than 2 lobbyist for EVERY PERSON in Congress, showering them with cash for favorable legislative votes. This doesn't even cover all the other lobbyists from all the other big corporations and industries, like oil/gas. Even if the GOP ends up with any majority, I have little hope they'll use it to help "We the People". It's all theatre.
True but He does need you to join in the war, there is a role for every child of God.
I did this to make people laugh I hope. The the devil and his minions do not like laughter as it drives away fear like in Monsters Inc.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/s-is-for-states-of-the-u-s-a/
The devil-crats
They are not running anything. They are parasites preventing the world from running
True. The devil has been a pain in the back side since the Garden of Eden, and I do mean that literally as much as anything else.
Yes! I believe this!
As a fellow CA resident in metro burbs ... I’m thinking there are more conservatives in CA than are recognized. Even here there is an undercurrent of thinking, non masse-formed people everywhere.
The voter scales have been weighted on the Dem side for so long that no one thinks to look closely into elections here.
Newsom also survived recall bc there were too many GOP and other candidates opposing him. Republicans are not lockstep like Dems, there is room for differing views. Unfortunately, including RINOs. Elected Dems will publicly support even the d***l if they were told to, or they are booted out.
We lived in California for a long time. We voted for Trump, and against Newsom in the recall. Didn’t make a bit of a difference, of course. This summer we finally got fed up with government banning (no gas stove, furnace or car, no grilling steak in your own back yard), homelessness and endless mandates. So we sold our house (just as the market crashed) and moved to a red state. The weather is worse, but we are left alone, everything is cheap, and no masks or vaxx mandates.
The Republican Party both here in California and nationally is a collection of grifters, not leaders. They don't want to work to make things better, they are just suckered fish on the big old American capitalism shark.
We have homeless EVERYWHERE. Yet the people in power use them as weapons against the electorate. Drugs everywhere, crime up, school kids locked out of class for over a year, yet the Republicans make no large gains. They aren't even trying.
I don’t know, maybe it’s partly their fault, but maybe it’s hopeless. People elected Fetterman after all, and a dead guy. I think that the democratic electorate is of such low quality that persuading them to vote for Republicans is impossible at this point whatever one attempts to do.
I don't for one second believe Fetterman was "elected".... maybethe same people that "elected" Obiden???
I gather he was at Albright College...........................................
Sorry about that, I couldn't stop laughing.
If there is hopelessness, then the Republicans should offer Hope. They don't, all doom and gloom from the GOP.
Of course, big problem out here is money. All the dot.com guys are beholden to the Deep State (not a conspiracy, shocker!) so the Repubs would have to grassroots everything. I don't think they have that wherewithal in them.
I like that you are not giving up. I hope people will fight back, but I don’t see how. We lived in the Bay Area, and everyone around us was either fully on board with the agenda, or, in some cases, foreign and not completely aware of political intricacies beyond a vague idea that voting for Republicans is not what good people do.
I can't do much from the UK, but perhaps laughter in these dark days might help.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/s-is-for-states-of-the-u-s-a/
I think that Fetterman was what one might call a 'Fetter-accompli' (sic). Democrats go round saying'Bring out your, dead, bring out your dead.'
To vote i mean, it's amazing what the Democrats can do nowadays.
We still live in Ca. Vote red. Know many people who do…. hang in there. What area are you?
Northern CA
Perhaps this may be of use. Best regards from UK.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/s-is-for-states-of-the-u-s-a/
Ohio
Exactly! California has a legislative supermajority and Dems have controlled it for 30 years uninterrupted...actually, almost for 50 years if you look at the overall picture. Republicans can't get a foothold. In the recent election the Dems swept all the top jobs. The elections in CA are so preordained as Democrat that most people don't vote or pay attention. Many barely know who the (dumb) governor is. They don't care. California is hopeless and many other states are attempting to emulate California's results. it's depressing.
Say what you will, but I believe the elections in CA are truly rigged. We're in SoCal, Orange County to be precise, and we know lots and lots of people that vote Red. We're so ready for a good change!!! And we haven't yet been persuaded to abandon ship... at least we don't feel God calling our family out of CA yet. So, yes working at LOCAL posts, even it it's only school board or school council. We need to stay and fight!!!
What should have been a Red Tsunami, was adverted I believe, bc the Demons were doubly-prepared to cheat, cheat, cheat...and then cheat some more!
Agree.
However I also believe the most followed conservatives’ giddiness over pre election polling turned into “we’re coming for [revered] Fauci and his family” messaging which should have been - “we will get to the bottom of this” and not project jail and impeachment in everyone who forced jabs.
Even I was slightly offended altho I knew that was not literal. It was a bridge too far and probably lost votes in the last 2 weeks.
The trouble is when one cheat's that one ch-eats too much and becomes Obese, the future tense of Obama gather.
Obesity one of the cause of Covid 19, a.k.a the 'flu. If one makes and obese person laugh will they die laughing and problem solved?
Anyway perhaps you would like this.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/s-is-for-states-of-the-u-s-a/
Because the fix is in. There has been cheating in elections for years. However the country was in the middle now with extreme right and left and more people shifting right the elections are being manipulated and cheating is the norm. In florida where DeSantis went after harvesting florida shines a bright deep red. Should have happened in more states so either people outside of florida are still suffering from covid derangement so all the republicans left the north and moved to florida. Possible bc traffic is unbearable!! Anywhere and everywhere in florida.
Florida was the only state that instituted election reform laws. However, it is interesting to note that in Long Island, NY, where a lot of rich liberals live, the vote went completely red across the board. Like Florida's Dade County (Miami) and Leon County (the capital), these liberal strongholds went completely red. Why? Because there was no cheating in FL or LI (they took LI for granted as Dem) and the red wave was visible as a result. There is no doubt in my mind this red wave was national and was hidden by calculated cheating. When two of the most liberal strongholds go completely red, don't try to tell me that voters from across the political spectrum are not pissed off with the Bolsheviks and all voted red as a group. We need a do-over.
How they did it....
https://crossroadsreport.substack.com/p/the-secret-to-how-dems-steal-elections
Think of it this way. In 2020, we saw the election stolen as described above. If there were enough legitimate votes across the spectrum to elect Trump in 2020 then how many MORE were there voting red in 2022 as a result of all the ridiculous tomfoolery of the last two years. Does anyone really believe that 2 years of Biden's disastrous administration didn't convince even more voters to vote red, especially in a mid-term election? Everyone knows the answer to that including the Dem voters. After 2 years, everyone was pissed (except for the baseline of Dem-idiots who will vote dem no matter what). This is why we saw the Dem strongholds in Florida and Long Island go completely red. All this talk about Trump being offensive and causing the red wave to not happen is BS. This is a RINO false narrative. The red wave did happen, thanks to a lot of Democrats who had enough and joined the wave. The Democratic black box cheating made it appear the red wave didn't happen. All you got to do is look beneath the surface. For example, when have you ever seen voters vote for a Rep governor and then split their vote for a Dem senator? Doesn't happen. Yet this is what we are suppose to believe in this election where even when the Rep won the Gov race, the Senate race went to the Dem, and not just by a little either. People don't split their votes like that. Biden HAD to keep control of the Senate in order to keep control of the impeachment process. He knows we are coming for him and if he had lost the Senate, he knows he would be convicted in an impeachment. And the counts of the ballot dumps in these races shows the work of the black box cheating that was going on.
Thank you for posting this. Everyone should read it.
Interesting and depressing. I don't have confidence that enough Republicans (and others too) will ever rise up en masse to demand that such things be investigated and brought to light. There would have to be an enormous uprising of rage over all the election fraud.
Let's see what Kari Lake in Arizona and Nevada are able to accomplish if they take this to court.
Why is it that the Right only realizes weve been HAD after the crime has been committed. We need to realize that the Democratic machine is a well-funded, well-oiled criminal organization who have ONLY dirty tricks in their baskets — because they cannot win any other way. They will stop at nothing to win!
We need to learn to be several steps ahead of them and be proactive (in my humble opinion)
The problem is the Rep Party is controlled by the RINOs. They are uniparty fellow travelers with the Bolsheviks and their only interest is in maintaining the status quo where they are in control of the party. They are threatened by Trump and the populist movement in the party.
We DID realize it after the 2020 election but hardly any election law changes got made in the meantime. Florida shines. I'm sad that Texas no longer represents what a RED conservative state looks like. Abbott won over Beto (thank goodness) but Abbott wasn't the best pick in the primary, by far. He talks alot but that's it. I blame Trump for endorsing Abbott, rather than West or Huffines, both of whom spoke about stopping the illegal border invasion and eliminating property taxes. Abbott's a puppet who thinks he has a chance at being President.🤣
We need more Republican Governors in these states but the Dems are better at cheating and have their pawns in place. Look at AZ the person in charge of election integrity ran for governor and didn’t refuse herself of the duty to certify her own race. 🙄only in a liberals mind is this ok.
happens on both sides Diana. In GA Kemp was overseeing the counting when he was running for governor too. He won with a small margin from Abrams (we guess he cheated, but are now glad he did. maybe the powers that be knew Abrams would be disastrous)
Point is, this needs to be fixed. That's an obvious conflict of interest.
and with stuff like that is going in AZ where one candidate oversees the counting. This happened in GA with Kemp so I think Abrams might be right that it was stolen from her the former time, but GA was so lucky she was not the gov because she would have caused a disaster. She gave up on gov position thank God.
Stacy Abrams will be back, just like Beto. Running for office has become a cottage industry for them. Abrams was broke....look how much $$$ she has now. It wasn't from sales of her steamy novel, either.
yes I read an article about that, too. I also read some of beto's posts, sounded like a person on the brink of depression. Office has become an income gathering. It is high time someone looks at the faucets of money and stops the spill. But who is going to do that? Courts? Is there anything not corrupt in this world?
Isn't Abrams going to work for Biden now? I thought I heard that.
somone mentioned that in a comment, but I have not found any evidence of it. If so would someone please post a link? thank you already
OMG
That cow pursued it through the courts. She got her day.
Republicans haven't had their day in court.
that is an insult to cows
Abrams would have been to Georgia what Gillum would have been to Florida. Dumpster fire.
The fix very well may be in, and lots of shenanigans going on (ballot harvesting, week long counting, etc.) don't pass the sniff test. That being said, this election should not have been close yet it was. Our side needs to face some hard truths:
1) Lots of people (probably the majority) actually like what happened over the past two years. They like lockdowns, masking, and vax mandates. These are cowardly, timid people who will happily give up freedom if it means they feel a little safer, even if the safety is an illusion. This is a huge problem that is getting worse not better, if it doesn't turn around soon the country is doomed.
2) Despite the popularity of Trump's policies, many (maybe most) people don't like Trump personally. They see him as an arrogant buffoon who doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. We all know this type of person in our lives, obnoxious, overly opiniated, boorish, and crude. Most of us avoid these types of people as they are unpleasant to deal with. Rightly or wrongly, Trump is seen the same way (and the way he went after DeSantis and Youngkin completely unprovoked last week is making me see their point).
Unless our side deals with these two problems, we will permanently be in the minority. Complaining about stolen elections (even if they actually were stolen!) just makes it worse as it makes us look like crybaby sore losers.
I would agree with the first opinion, judging from what I am seeing here in Michigan. About Trump, the media has made Trump the man many perceive him to be. Because of his “out there” personality he derived a loyal following starting out campaigning. I saw him at a rally in 2020 and he was none of those things. He gave us hope when there didn’t seem to be much. His rallies were something I will never forget. And anyone who can run successful companies and still get the blue collar workers, the elite disdain says more about him then what the media spouts. However, I do not understand his haste to run for president, but I do agree with Counselor Childers that he should if he wants.
Trump still pushes the vax. Enough said
Agree 100%, however perception is reality unfortunately, rightly or wrongly.
Honestly, what was your opinion of Trump before 2015 when he announced his run based on his media behavior and image? Was it a prudent, sober thinker with deeply held principles? Or was it a buffoonish World Wresting Federation-type cartoon character always hawking something? I'm willing to bet it was the latter.
However, since then Trump won us over with his commitment to conservative principles and obvious love for the country. Most people don't follow politics they way we do though, and they still see Trump as the buffoon. He's made no real effort to reach these people and makes it worse by shooting off his mouth without thinking. I get it as it's always worked for him in the past, but when you need 51% (including lots of political illiterates) sometimes a behavior change is warranted. He needs to really consider this as now he's even driving away supporters (such as myself) with his ill-timed antics.
I wanted to see Ben Carson win the nomination. He was already out when the Michigan primary rolled around. So I voted for Ted Cruze. My nephew, mid 40’s and a cop was all in for DJT. Then my sister in CO stood in line for hours twice to see him in rally’s there. She was all in. I still wasn’t convinced, but Carson supported him after he left the race, and he gave a list of SCjustices he would nominate and I liked that. I was not going to vote for Hilary. And I would not go 3rd party as did that with Ross Perot and gave the race to Clinton. I was not on the DJT bandwagon but when I went to our rural twp hall to vote, the place was packed, many blue collar friends with MAGA hats on. I have never felt so exhilarated after voting and I have voted in every election since I was 18. I didn’t expect him to win, but I felt good about voting for him.
Some excellent points Jeff C!
I was anti-Trump in 2016. I could've (held my nose) and voted for 16 of the 17 GOP candidates who ran, but not Trump. (I ended up taking a part in the Gary Johnson campaign after Trump was nominated.)
In 2020, however, I was all in. Despite his boorish, crude narcissism, I heavily supported Trump. We went to his rally in Tulsa, and after the steal, I went to a Stop the Steal rally (which ended up being just another GOP steal itself.)
But enough is enough. Trump is not at all a hero - he's in bed with Big Pharma. He's in bed with whomever goes to Mar a Lago to kiss his ring - no matter how transparently dishonest and establishment they are. (Kevin McCarthy, I'm looking at you.)
I get that the politically naive see his rough demeanor and wrongly think he's an outsider. He isn't. He's just a conman playing the part of "Spoiler" to convince the average voter to vote one more time. Just because he's despised by all the wrong people, doesn't make him right.
Right up until he started slamming DeSantis and Youngkin, I honestly would have voted for him if he were the nominee. Not anymore. Even if it were Biden/Harris vs. Trump, I'll sit it out.
Why all this Trump bashing? He's the best President in my lifetime. He said what he would do and then he did it, through great adversity. I judge him on his accomplishments, not his personality. I like his personality anyway.i dont see him as you do. He's the only person I can listen to for hour and not get bored.
And he wasn't downing DeSantis when he said De-sanctimonious . It means NOT Sanctimonious! But you just let the MSM tell you what it means.
He was playing with the press and I'm sure there is no animosity between Trump and DeSantis.
You don't understand what Trump is doing with the press. The minute he's not pulling their chain, they'll be all over him.
Excepting Reagan, and maybe Kennedy, Trump is the best president in my lifetime too.
BUT that's a damn low bar to measure him by.
His proudest accomplishment, Operation Warp Speed, will kill millions. Yet he keeps touting it.
I think you misunderstand his "touting" of Warp Speed. It was a good idea, taken over by DeepST Leftists. It's they who want to kill us, not Trump. Had he been able to rightfully take office in 2020, he would have seen that proper testing be done.
He said, take the vaccine IF it's been tested and is safe.
I found that in Politico
when fox and nbc were only reporting that he said take the vaccine. By the way, there is no vaccine, so he was giving warning in that way.
Except that TO THIS VERY DAY he's still claiming it as his greatest accomplishment and has urged people to take it over and over and over.
Trump is deep state. He's just stealthier - by pretending to oppose the Deep State, he's even deeper than the rubes think.
I disagree. You have no idea what he's had to deal with.
And I don't believe he's encouraged people to take the shot over and over again.
A few times he has said, take the vaccine [ which we don't have yet], If it tests safe.
Was the Wall Built, Hillary jailed, the Swamp Drained? Did you get sick of winning too?
More of the wall was built, while leftist tried to stop it.
He closed the border and worked a deal with Mexico to keep asylum seekers there until their case could be heard.
He made the US the #1 Exporter of oil in the world.
Gas was a lot cheaper.People got back to work. He stopped sending money to WHO. He got us out of the Paris climate stupidity. I could go on.
He was in process of draining the Swamp, but you have No idea the evil he still is dealing with.
Uh...no. The race was only "close" because the black box cheating is designed to keep the Dem vote count just a little above the Rep count. Furthermore, they can't exceed the total registered voter roll as that would obviously reveal the steal. It's got nothing to do with your two points. Sure, the dem-idiots who depend on gov't freebies will always vote dem no matter what. But the last 2 years of OBiden BS gov't has done nothing but turn many many Democrats red in the ballot box as demonstrated in FL and Long Island. This was a national movement that could only be covered up by the black box cheating.
Secondly, characterizing Trump as a crude, obnoxious buffoon is the standard RINO narrative they promote to break up the populist movement in the party that threatens their power. To the contrary, Trump is very popular and the exaggerated caricature of him is an MSM and RINO narrative. Blaming the Republican Party's ineffectiveness on Trump is a deflection. The Rep Party's ineffectiveness is an intentional policy of the RINOs who only want to protect their power as fellow travelers with the Bolsheviks. They are traitors to America. Full stop .
"...Complaining about stolen elections (even if they actually were stolen!) just makes it worse as it makes us look like crybaby sore losers..."
Really?? I just have to add this. This is a typical Bolshevik tactic to intimidate the opposition to sit down and shut up. BS! This is allowing the opposition to set the terms of the debate and this has to stop. You think I'm going to shut up because someone calls me "crybaby"? Hell no. We are not the losers. The Democrats are the losers because they HAVE to resort to stealing votes just to get elected. I'm going to stand up and shout to everyone that the Democrat Bolsheviks are thieves, liars and evil communists. This is what we have to do to win. WE have to set the terms of the debate, call out the enemy for their evil and make them defend their position! We have to stand for what is right. Don't tell me to shut up.
Well thought-out comment. I agree with you about Trump. However what if all future elections are stolen due to computer manipulation? Naomi Wolf chimes in: https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/america-broken-by-digital-hallucinogens
Exactly why I never liked Trump. A president should act like a president. If I want entertainment, I'll watch a movie or Gutfeld!
Then you never saw beyond what the media wanted. You did not see him go down to help Louisiana residents who were flooded by torrential rains. This was before he was ever elected. He got truck loads of supplies to be sent down to the poorest sections that were most affected. He passed out water and meals. Sure it was a photo op but the media mostly ignored it. He went to Afghanistan very quietly Christmas Eve to visit the troops. The actual soldiers loved him. Who quietly helped lay wreaths on the graves at Arlington. He gave Jennifer Hudson a place to live, all without fanfare. He tried to fulfill every promise he made as president. Ask yourself why a man who funded much of his own campaign, who did not take a presidential salary but donated it every quarter. He didn’t have to do any of these things, but he did. These are not the actions of a buffoonish narcissist.
I am exhausted after this election, I am in no mood to start speculating on what DJT or DeSantis may do.
Trump began the negotiations with the Taliban re: our disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Everything he touches turns to crap.
To be fair, I will say that Trump is the only president in decades to *not* send our troops to fight a new military conflict.
So he deserves credit for that much.
Inflation and war they like that to? They like food shortages and gas that is expensive. I don’t know what to tell you at a loss here.
You are right in that things are a disaster, like I said the election should not have been close but it was aside from a few exceptions.
Either elections across the entire country were hacked (very unlikely and zero evidence) or people like this (my point #1) or think the alternative will be worse (my point #2). There is no other explanation.
And in line with the mess I just heard Russian rockets crossed over into Poland killing two. I don’t see how this is a winning narrative and the swing states are riddled with election issues. There are 13 reps in the house need to come up all democrat for the republicans to lose the house. I bet the 13 are flip democrat. I’m going on Biden smugness on as votes come in democrats will come up victorious and the president secretary reinforcing this narrative bc it’s ok to take one month to count ballots.
Wow, been reading this thread. All I can say is there sure does seem to be a lot RINO narrative being pushed here. As Rep we are doing exactly what the Bolsheviks want: tearing each other down. Which is funny cuz you don't see the Don and Ron doing that, now do you?
Could it not also be viewed as "We know what you did?"
Perhaps that's only a crappy horror flick; but many feel it's important that THEY know that WE know...
It's the losing Republican equivalent of a tearful "I'm telling Mom, and you're gonna' get it!
Luv my Gov...Ron DeSantis!!!
As someone who fled Michigan last year, the paradigm shift was obvious at the peak of COVID-mania. I knew Michigan was doomed when Gretchen relaxed the obedience mask requirement in 2021 and yet over fifty percent of patrons at the local Costco, Kroger, and Whole Foods still insisted on wearing them. Fearing that schools would insist on masks in Fall 2021 and possibly even vaccination, we made our move south.
Michigan's core economy is the medico-industrial complex. Creating and treating sick people is Michigan's comparative advantage, not building cars.
It's particularly evident in the tri-county area where the vast majority of economic development is led by mega-hospital systems. Sixty years ago it was 'The Big Three' and the various industries that supported them as suppliers. Now that the Michigan auto industry is effectively dead, the medico-industrial complex has replaced them. Thus, the fealty to masks, vaccines, DEI, gender affirming care, and abortions.
It's no secret that Gretchen's father was the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and that Gretchen is a friend of current CEO Dan Loepp. https://theintercept.com/2018/07/18/michigan-governor-race-gretchen-whitmer-blue-cross/
BCBSM was one of the most aggressive businesses in Michigan to push COVID vaccines and gleefully fired several hundred non-compliant employees. The people who work for these companies and the medico-industrial complex tend to be card-carrying progressives who are current with their boosters and loyal to the narrative.
BCBSM and the medico-industrial complex are probably the state's biggest paid advertisers, Thus, Michigan's media is wholly in their pocket. What "they" want is what "they" will get.
Parenthetically, Gretchen's future post-governor is not in politics. Gretchen will undoubtedly follow in Dan Loepp's footsteps as the $30M a year CEO of BCBSM.
Thanks, I am from just north of Detroit, 14 and Gratiot area. I left in 1982 really, for Ann Arbor, but more fully in 92 when i came out to Oregon. It's nice for me to hear someone from MI speak in a way that chimes with me, I was raised with folks who did not have so wide and realistic a view of goings on wrt the insurance industry there. (Industry says it all, like the the medical industry we also are suffering from now, so many cogs). Members of my extended family worked at BCBSM and in hospital financial management. I was just a kid, but what they were engrossed in certainly had nothing to do with health, (even the jobs seemed unhealthy, for the stress). We've literally inflated things, made them bigger, more cumbersome, more fragile, with this industrial view. Both sides of the scales are out of balance (hey thats a balance just not one we want), companies too big, nanobits too small. The money master controls its slave. But I digress....thanks ejsmith
I had never considered this being north of that area in the rust belt area of the tri cities. We have Dow here in next door Midland, a conservative bastion for decades, now pretty blue, along with the cities of Saginaw and Bay City. Saginaw, has a large hospital complex, as does Midland and a lesser one in Bay City.
And Pfizer is in Kalamazoo.
They totally cheated. I knew dems who said they were done voting D.
(raises her hand)
I feel your pain...trapped in Commiefornia. And Gruesome Newsom is being groomed to run for Prez. Lord help us all.
Same! and my exact same fear. He is as slithering as Obama! UGH
Newsom is being groomed to be INSERTED as President.
if that happens a revolution will break out i am sure
No it won’t far too many LOOOOOOOVE him. And do not know the in connections.
I hear you about voting fraud and it definitely happens but what makes me mad is that the red wave should've been so far out that cheating at that level would be impossible. I didn't want close wins, in the current situation, I wanted undeniable wins everywhere like DeSantis got. There should've been few close races. Really, what the heck is it going to take for people to wake up, bread lines, war on our land? Just saw O'Reilly's daily take is 2 very difficult years coming. IDK, you think people will be ready then?
even 3 or 4 ball players and runners dropping dead every week does not wake them up. What do you want? the jabs made lots of them braindead
I thought Trudeaus lawyer dropping would do it, but gone from view...i do wonder how he is doing, not sure if stroke or fainted. Will folks even notice. They are broken in ways, it's getting more than painfully obvious and hard to watch, oh that psyop is a gift that keeps on giving for us trying to observe it...best Ingrid C Durden
Quite honestly it is so big - so much corruption and cheating - far and wide. Corporations, donations, possibly even other country involvement I don’t believe it would have ever turned red. The only difference is how Desantis changed the laws for voting and cheating. I have little hope we will EVER get out of BLUE.
Note that the computers control it, there is no wave too big to cheat. The computers can literally manufacture or switch votes at will. Or rather, on command.
*now
I don't think we know how many cheat votes can be used. Perhaps even a substantial difference in votes can still be fiddled with, we just don't know. And no one will find out.
TWO difficult years coming? That’s optimistic to the point of delusion.
SB- Can you direct me to the O'Reilly report where he talks about this. I would love to read his take on it.
https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Tough-Two-Years-Ahead/-187232338605474429.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mod
He calls it The Message of the Day. It's brief and encourages you to watch his show. I don't remember how I signed up for it.
The election was "fortified" in certain crucial locales.
$$$ from ....... FTX. Ukraine. Taxpayers.
Ah.... I know - ALL THE ABOVE.
Exactly. And I keep wondering why Republicans never figure out what the crucial states are and work hard to counter what will happen in those states. They don't recruit and support strong candidates.
Listened to Ron Armstrong from SUM. He doesn’t sugarcoat anything. He says we need to fight like the Dems and start yesterday for the 2024 elections. It’s a great thought but Conservatives by nature don’t fight like the behind the scenes cabal that the Dem party is a front for.
The stage was set for Michigan for decades. It was a well known secret among the political world that the MiGOP was corrupt, a fact I was rudely introduced to in our fight against lockdowns in 2020. After the 2016 election, white women went nuts, egged on I am sure. Pink pussy hats and women going to DC to demonstrate against Trump’s inauguration. The media couldn’t get enough of it. I know because Liberal women I knew were all over social media. Shortly thereafter, there was a petition drive to get a new redistricting law on the ballot using a bipartisan committee to do the census redistricting. One of my friends was adamant about it, and I believe she really thought that was why Trump won Michigan. I looked into the group funding the petition drive and it had leftist ties that weren’t hard to find. It made the 2018 ballot. Along with it were a legalized marijuana initiative proposal and a same day voter registration proposal that went completely unreported. The Liberals turned out massive voter turnouts on the big college campuses across this state. The marijuana industry contributed heavily to getting this proposal passed and to Whitmer, Nessel, and Benson’s campaigns. All 3 proposals passed and all 3 were elected. Was there corruption in the election? Who knows but it was really convenient when the pandemic dropped and we were locked down. Marijuana stores and PP stayed open though. Because women’s rights to safe health care was essential according to Gov Whitmer.
The pandemic was dropped to screw the election with mail in ballots in places such as Michigan where 7 million applications for absentee ballots were mailed out in June. Because everything was locked down including all gov’t offices, computer signature verification was employed. SOS Benson was charged with failure to correctly perform her duties but it went nowhere. On election night Michigan shut down counting ballots. They boarded up windows and threatened poll challengers. Election computers were connected to outside sources, this was proven. Ballot drops were shown via camera footage. Many of us went to bed with Trump comfortably ahead and woke up to his lead almost gone. No one could believe it. When the Michigan election was called for Biden no one could believe it. A U.S. senate race went to the Democrat incumbent who campaigned not at all. The Michigan SC flipped to Liberal, something that would be telling in the months to come. But the down ballot races remained typical for most areas of Michigan. Despite piles of affidavits and video footage the AG refused to do an investigation of election corruption. The Michigan Legislature assigned a committee to investigate who ruled, “nothing wrong” here and certified the election. Come up to 2022. Michigan, because of Whitmer received unbelievable amounts of covid monies, which mostly disappeared. Roe v Wade was overturned in June and promptly appeared a Constitutional ballot initiative that not only was abortion up to birth but parental rights given up in their children’s health care. A voter initiative also showed up and miraculously made it to the ballot, as did an extension of Legislator’s tenure. The bipartisan committee redistricted the state and made some obviously odd redrawn lines, ultimately putting larger cities in all favored Democrats. Many of these were surrounded by rural areas, but the idea is always to turn urban areas and surrounding suburbs into Dem strongholds. The MiGOP, along with money from Betsy DeVos got Tudor Dixon on the primary ballot for governor, then promptly got all kinds of crossover voting. She was 20 percentage points ahead of the next two very popular contenders. Almost as soon as she secured the GOP nomination, the RNC quit fundraising for her. She was likable and in two debates wiped the floor with Whitmer, but few saw the debates. She received a bus two weeks prior to the election which she gamely traveled all over the state. Meanwhile, Whitmer pounded the abortion issue in wall to wall television ads. Dixon had virtually none. The RNC and Michigan GOP deserted virtually every grass roots candidate in place at the state and National levels. The Michigan Legislature was flipped to Liberal. None of it unexpected if you followed what was going on. Add in the redistricting and you have the mess Michigan is in. Long, I know but an explanation which might be what did not surprise here.
Florida is an anomaly and I’m not sure it isn’t being set up for something. There were different tactics employed by different states as far as I can tell. It was a telling point that Florida seems to be the only state to clean up election laws. It was something Kari Lake promised to do in AZ. They were not going to let her win. If it had been a Republican SOS, running for governor, running her own election so to speak, the Dems would be screaming bloody murder. But nary a peep in the case of AZ. It seems we quite often compare if it was a Republican doing the corruption how it would be called out, but it never happens.
Great comment, Laurie. As always, I thank you for the time. I think that you nailed the MI GOP's complicity in an incestuous relationship quite well. All told, it doesn't bode well for Michigan or this country with a GOP that is gutless and possibly knee-deep in it.
Sigh. Very insightful detail, thanks for laying it all out. The Republicans are so supine I've had to wonder if they are ALL (i.e. all parties) in on the scam, playing out their different roles in this criminal enterprise we call our government. Depressing to read all the increasingly sordid detail.
This is all so sickening 😞
Prion disease from the jabs, and or the inability to think new thoughts, as many jabbed are not physically ok anymore. Dying people cannot think new thoughts, in general, lack of energy.
All of you (even those of us in Florida) should read this and plan for how to implement it, as a way to counter the Dem tactic focused on ballots. In warfare, a new weapon only works until the opponent figures out its vulnerabilities and exploits them. Get to work in your locality:
How Wisconsin Streetfighters Disrupted a Democrat Ballot-Gathering System
"The Wisconsin team proved, in this election, that adding even a small amount of friction – removing thousands of phantom names and identifying several hundred thousand incorrect addresses — has a massive impact on the ballot-gathering system.
"Our Wisconsin election heroes applied Fractal Programming technology, funded by Mike Lindell, at scale to find and challenge phantoms. The process is explained at www.Omega4America.com."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/how_wisconsin_streetfighters_disrupted_a_democrat_ballotgathering_system.html#.Y3JrVhGJ7yQ.twitter
Huuuge!!!!
I do not think we have fair elections anymore …
I’m probably not supposed to say that out loud or I’ll be put in jail by the thought police …
But How on earth is PA electing Fetterman??
He’s massively cognitively impaired. He’s not fit to lead.
I really do not believe the people of PA are that ridiculous!!
It feels like a litmus test to see just how far they can push the common sense of people… without people pushing back.
And The answer is…
Apparently VERY very far.
It doesn't matter what you're "supposed " to say! You are an Election Realist. Say it often. Dont let any one define you.
Fetters being "elected" is proof enough of irregularities.
Same in New Mexico. Depressing is what it is.
I feel your pain .. same in IL.
trapped here in PrickSter land.
Me too 😭😭
What's even worse is being in a state that has been SOLIDLY red for 60 years (Oklahoma) and watching the progressives take over the cities (Tulsa, OKC, Norman). We had a very "Red Wave-ish" election (Gov., US Senate, US Reps all in GOP hands), but that 's not the story in Tulsa or OKC, where the progressives made in-roads to our DA and State House.
It's super depressing to see the writing on the wall and look forward to a Blue Oklahoma at some point in the near future.
How do they do it?
By running photogenic soccer moms who avoid all issues at all costs.
They know they can't openly advocate for abortion in pro-life Oklahoma, so they run stealth campaigns to appeal to an electorate that oh-so-desperately want to be seen as hip and progressive.
You are an Election Realist. Spread the word.
You're right. It's not remotely possible.
Project Veritas had proof from a few years ago that there's a vote-buying operation going on in Ilhan Omar's district. They paid $200 for a ballot.
Here is one way to fight ballot fraud that's working and might stop Democrat control:
Anonymous Wisconsin Heroes Demonstrated How to Collapse the Democrat Ballot Gathering Apparatus
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/anonymous-wisconsin-heroes-proved-collapse-democrat-ballot-gathering-apparatus/
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For more about the process at a national level:
https://www.omega4america.com/
Great read - thanks. Mike Lindell is doing a good job.
Time to support Mike! Christmas is coming- order something off his website as a gift… stop supporting Bezos and cabal.
Huuuuuge!!! You and Fla mom...great job.
Buy local and/or buy small too whenever and as often as you can ..... even just doing it a few more times than you do now .... it all adds up and helps move money from the big guys and gals to the smaller operations. I really think even a small shift of money to local and/or smaller operations may bring surprising power back to the people and to the big guys and gals so that they can tell the federal government and the World Economic Forum to bug off because it is hurting their bottom line. *** Update added .... I forgot about the cash issue ... love the comment on using cash more often ... doesn't have to be a big change .... little changes by even a small percentage of people really add up (just ask any PTA/PTO leader :) ) ..... every time I use cash, I love that it is more money that stayed with the local and/or small business and less money for the big credit card processers who seem to have such a big influence on our federal government. Definitely worth the extra effort to go to the bank to get cash I think. Thanks everyone for the encouragement!
As an aside, I ordered a Ron DeSantis coffee mug. To my delight, it was made by HF Coors in the USA. I just happened to notice because I have a set of HF Coors dishes that I love - free of lead, etc. Thought that was very cool of his campaign. They could have made lots more money going with cheap Chinese-made mugs.
Yes, no more Chinese schwag, not easy to avoid. Read a really good book on one familys journey to deChineseify their household, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Without-Made-China-Adventure/dp/0470379200 its probs at your local library, or local bookseller, good read, even humorous, but goes into the nitty gritty of having kids, birthday parties, all without Chinese goods.
Oh wow hadn't heard of this book - thank you!
AM...Can you share the link for the DeSantis Coffee Mug? Would be a great Christmas grab gift!
Connie I went looking for it on the Ron DeSantis campaign site and it looks like they've shut down the "shop" function. Basically, when you bought something from there, it was a political donation (so maybe there were rules about selling the stuff after the election was over?). It was the "Cup of Joe" mug for $25. I wish I had bought a bunch more of them for gifts ha ha (thankfully bought an extra for my sister-in-law). Direct message me if you want me to send you a pic.
As a small business owner, I appreciate that!
keep going Jean ! doing our best to get businesses back on their feet here in the US !
Yes, but how many of true Conservatives rush over to Walmart, Target and other ‘superstores’ or use Amazon when they could be supporting small local businesses? These chains did all they could to profit off the fake pandemic and support heinous liberal causes.
doing my best to de-walmart. Only going there if nothing else is available. There are not many small businesses here anymore although I am in small town GA. But doing what I can.
We have a big family ... price of milk has doubled in the past two years ... we go where it is cheapest 😩
I cancelled AMZ when they cancelled Parler. But will admit to using the easy button a few times, like when my friends daughter registered at AMZ for her baby shower and asked for a bunch of things I did not have time to hunt down elsewhere. Have found Thriftbooks is a good substitute for books and music (yeah I still buy CDs, I am old), but not 100%, some titles are only on AMZ. Boycotted Wal Mart for over a decade due to a host of reasons. But it is a PITA since I have also dropped Target due to transgender issue. Multiple trips for what used to be a one stop shop. Switched to Menards for cleaning products but they are not 100% 'clean' either; enforced the mask mandates while others just ignored them. But know of no local source for some things, especially everyday items like HBC, paper products, etc. But doing my best!
I cancelled my Amazon Prime, so when I'm tempted to order from Amazon, the postage costs stop me.
Yes, trying our best is the way to go.
Interesting...remember Walmart was ALWAYS open during the plandemic lockdown. China. China. China.
Walmart wasn't open here and it still isn't back to what it was, 24 hours. Was actually a pain since you could always go there late for something if it was urgent. Only time I used them.....
Philosophically, I agree. But, here in Southern California, most of the brick and mortar stores were forcing masks on me and, I’m sure, would have required being jabbed to be a customer if they could have figured out a way around HIPPA laws. So, they’re in the same group as Bezos is, to me.
Yes if at all possible support your local businesses when they are gone America, the real historic America of the people, will be gone as well.
We have been an oligarchy of corporations, special interest groups, and influential individuals for a while now. Cite Princeton study 2014 ' US not a democracy but Oligarchy'. (suppressed on Google, surprise, surprise)
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
“.... the wealthy few (DAVOS) move policy, while the average American has little power....When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias (corruption) built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it.” ....
stopped ordering from amazon and now ordering from the companies that make the stuff. Very good results with my main hobby - Buffalo puzzles ! what a difference in service. If you thought amazon gives service think again.
I’ve don’t the same when I can. We use Vitacost for food items and I use abebooks, although someone said AMZ owned them. Doing what we can where we are.
I try to order directly from the companies as well. In general, I've found them to be very good and responsive so perhaps a great many of them prefer that to selling via Amz.
yes and I think even ebayers prefer to do business directly, I have a yarn company in turkey that I found on ebay and I have since years orderer directly there, without ebays pockets being filled. People deserve their money without having to pay an intermediant licking the pot
Also use CASH !!!!!
What does using cash help?
In days gone by if a kid mowed a lawn or watched the neighbors kids for an evening, they would typically be paid in cash at the end of the job. Using that cash to buy something would then trigger the pain-centers in the brain... "I had to work for this. I don't want to waste that time." Using a card from the wallet has a lower visceral pain response. And when using things like Apple Pay on a phone or a gas-station key fob, the transaction occurs with something that isn't even associated with money or work, thus a lower pain response and less friction in the transaction.
Bottom line: people that use cash tend to be more intentional with their spending. More intentional == more likely to shop local.
On top of that, even debit cards incur a fee to the merchant, between 2-6%. Using cash keeps more of the transaction value in the local monetary ecosystem, instead of lining the bankers pockets in some far off city.
I came across these concepts in Dave Ramsey's videos on cash/debit/credit and the idea of 'friction' when shopping. Highly recommend them. Big companies spend a lot of money researching out how to reduce friction to boost their bottom line.
yep totally agree with all you've written.
Cocaine Mitch took money from FTX. 2.5 million per disclosures uncovered so far. I’m sure he is not the only UniParty member on the take. Just sayin.
Source: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/14/the-washington-dc-uniparty-surfaces-in-ftx-crypto-exchange-political-contributions/
Yep. And do you have any doubt that is the tip of the iceberg? But just like with the stolen elections, we will likely never know the truth.
I do find it interesting how little coverage this has gotten on MSM or MSM Financial channels. They all likely had their grubby hands in the cookie jar. And if I had to bet, they were forewarned and were among those lucky few who extricated their funds in the days leading up to the implosion.
Great link and information! Thanks.
BINGO!
Thank you for your support of Kari Lake. I’ve been volunteering on her campaign since day one. This is an unfair and consequently devastating and unacceptable loss for we the people of Arizona and this country.
Need to get to work on your state reps and senators. Make their lives miserable if appropriate or encourage the ones who are actually moral and decent people who put liberty first.
Thank you Susan Mullen... standing by Kari from day one, you are a true patriot warrior 💗 ... I pray Kari fights this overtly public steal! Has it ever been more obvious that we are strategically organized as a country by an oligarchy controlled government? These DAVOS ELITE have limitless funding via their massive NGO’s, unelected bureaucrats and a unified cabal of 30 pieces of silver bought and the sold pseudo elected “leaders” in office... not to mention the overt FTX crypto-Ukraine-Biden money laundering scandal..... how more obvious can it be given basement swamp dwelling hermits and a cognitively jab injured compromised stroke victim are media heralded as great election wins? God Help us 🙏🙏
There is so much more to this FTX thing than we can even imagine. This company was formed in 2018. In 2019, they were at $89M. In 2020, they were more than $500M. In 2021, they were more than $1.2B. And then reach over $10B in 2022?? That seems like Clinton math to me. Remember when Hillary invested $10,000 and it ‘became’ $100,000? 😳
I don’t know anyone on this planet who could grow a company that fast and that large without lots and lots and lots of help, nefarious ways and over the top deceit.
I listened to a podcast describing all this and how deep this runs. It’s worth a listen if you have the stomach for it.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-is-sam-bankman-fried-and-what-really-happened-at/id1205359334?i=1000585956796
Another great money-laundering Dem PAC, and using our tax dollars.
New note to self:
Just because someone “has” money doesn’t make them smart.
Newer note to self:
Just because someone doesn’t have money means they are dumb.
Agreed. Neither Musk, nor Bezos, nor Markie-Mark Zuck multiplied money that fast.
Wow thanks for the heads up re: the podcast.
a belgian company did that years ago and got the best growing company award, only to be locked up the next year for fraudulent business.
Interesting that the Times is able to contact this guy 2 days after he "flies off" to Gilligan's Island (or whatever) and is granted an interview - this guy probably has NO fear at all. But an article by the Times that NEVER utters a syllable suggesting he's a criminal of any sort, or even that he is a "bad" guy?
Wonder what all the people who have been duped by him are thinking right now? Probably NOT wishing him 'sweet dreams'.
The media needs a swift kick in the democratically (and pfizer) funded backside.
But but but Bankster-Fried's clients were promised a chance to recover the funds they lost investing with Bernie Madoff.
they probably know where he is, because they will be able to see where the sponsor money for their 'interview' came from. Is anyone still reading that rag?
THEY finding all kinds of ways to increase Inflation. To make us Poor.
--Money Printer go brrrrrrrrr--
Wouldn’t it be great if the CIA gave $$$ to the US citizens for “black op” cost of living adjustments? Dreamin...
You are missing the crypto boom. Making 10x your money was the easy part.
The hard part was making sure it didn't go to zero with all the crashes :)
AS DISTASTEFUL THE GAB GUY CAN BE, HE IS RIGHT ABOUT THIS:
The Path Forward: Build and Balkanize
https://news.gab.com/2022/11/the-path-forward-build-and-balkanize/
"Voting harder isn’t going to cut it. We have to build. The existing system will collapse. It’s not a matter of if, but when. When that happens we need to have Christian infrastructure in place to fill the power vacuum. The Amish have had it right this entire time. Their communities are growing and thriving. They will continue to do well. We must become a form of neoamish, building sovereign communities and families away from Babylon. Technology is okay and a good tool. It’s something we can use to our advantage to communicate, build, and engage in commerce with one another.
We are the new pilgrims. We must move to deep red states, push them further right, build, and secure a future for our families. Forget politics at the national level. That rigged game is over. Focus on state and local elections, not what is going on in DC.
Conservatism has failed. It has been trying to conserve a country and a culture that is never coming back and has long been gone. The future of the West depends on those of us who are going to build. Build our own infrastructure, our own families, our own communities, our own parallel economy, and our own strongholds of deep red states. We’ll build a wall around the borders of those states if that’s what it comes to. We need to accept exile from Babylon and get to work."
Agree with most of this, but we cannot forget national politics until we divorce our infrastructure from it. We MUST refuse all federal dollars. That's the control lever, giving all the other illegal and unConstitutional policies teeth.
The 10th amendment and federalism in a moral society are key, but first we need to ween ourselves off the gov't money.
Interesting piece at Corey's Digs:
"They suggest that state legislatures should enact a “State Sovereignty and Federal Tax Funds Act,” known as an “escrow” law. Federal taxes would be required to go into a special fund controlled by the state government. Once they calculate the actual constitutional federal spending, the state would only send that percentage of funds to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Remaining funds would go toward state expenditures that were reliant on federal funding, or be returned to taxpayers." They also suggest eliminating the Federal Reserve.
https://www.coreysdigs.com/u-s/laundering-with-immunity-the-control-framework-part-1/
Interesting idea!!
"We MUST refuse all federal dollars." 33T in debt and sky-high inflation due to QE and printing - won't last much longer - especially as other countries move away from the dollar...
I have come to the same conclusion. Conservativism has failed. I truly thought that there were millions of true Americans just waiting to vote these clowns out of office. But no, after Afghanistan, inflation, covid tyranny and on and on and on, but no. The citizens of this "country" (any nation that can't control it's own borders is not truly an independent nation anymore) decided that this insane unlawful government is exactly what they want. I KNOW there was vote fraud but I don't believe that it is the only reason this turned into nearly a demoncratic victory. And I don't believe that Trump helped, in fact he hurt the cause imo.
Have to agree in the sense that those who call themselves "conservatives" have failed to conserve a single thing. I don't think Conservatism in itself failed, but that it was co-opted by corrupt crony capitalists (Ryan, Boehner, McConnell, McCarthy, National Review, ad nauseum) who portrayed themselves as Conservatives but actually weren't. These people fooled us into thinking being pro-multinational corporation was the same things as being pro-free market. They aren't.
In addition, these same people were also libertarian rather than conservative on social issues. They insisted we surrender on traditional marriage, gay rights, and a host of other issues claiming that these were side issues that would drag the party down. It was not until the state demanded the right to actively promote homosexuality and mutilate our children's bodies, that people started revolting. These same alleged "conservatives" didn't say a word about it until they were forced to, even then their criticism was muted. They are not Conservatives.
It's not "Conservatism" that failed, but people we allowed to lead us that called themselves conservatives. The last real conservative was probably Ronald Reagan though despite his mistakes, he actually believed what he said. He was also the last Republican to have a successful presidency which is no coincidence.
Thank you for a clarification. I get very frustrated and emotional about it all. In the Navy I was willing to die for this country during it's various wars. Now I ask myself "Who's country?" Die for this gangs of demonic clowns? Not me. It's very personal and hurtful watching it torn apart.
Agree...Though I admire what Trump did for the country...his behavior only made the Trump haters hate him even more...and that spread to the GOP and undecided. He can be SO Presudential when he wants to be. See his last Ohio rally. He is his own worst enemy.
Yup, and the fact that so many refuse to see this is a real problem. You can love his policies, even love the man personally, and still realize he's a loose cannon. When someone dares mention this they get attacked, called RINO's, sell-outs, and worse.
There's a faction of Trump supporters that are just as bad as anything on the left with an "ends justifies the means" mentality. Trump encourages this with his reckless behavior such as his unprovoked attacks on DeSantis and Youngkin. It's ugly no matter which side is doing it.
The problem is that we need to convince the great mushy middle, the people with no real political philosophy or principles. They may like the results of Trump's policies, but they don't like his behavior. Understandably, in all fairness.
Agree 100%.
There was really good R turnout, just not in all the spots we needed. Anecdotally, my entire family voted R in Florida, even though it was probably meaningless in the big scheme of things given how overwhelmingly the conservatives won. But we all made it a point to vote - it was a vote of confidence in DeSantis and a rejection of Covidianism. Just wish that had happened everywhere. And I agree with you that Trump didn't help in some areas. I have family in other states who would vote R except when it comes to Trump (not that I agree with them necessarily).
Hopefully nobody ever believes that casting a ballot is meaningless. Never believe the polls, never take anything for granted and if the elections are going to be stolen make them do it each and every time. But I understand your perspective.
Agree CraigN.
Its meaningless IF you are in a BLUE AREA of the country...
So, are you saying that if your voting precinct is in a blue area of the country and you are not in favor of that sort of government you should not bother to vote or something else?
Yea... But if you want to waste your time giving credibility to Kabuki theatre, go right ahead and participate in state and federal races...
So, unless you know that your candidate is going to win there is no point in voting. Wow. (head scratch)
Your candidate is not going to win when you live somewhere where one side and one side only will keep harvesting ballots until their side wins.... So what's the point of voting when what matters is how many ballots you harvest or create???
Your candidate is positively not going to win if you don't vote. At this point you are saying that whomever has the best methodology for altering the numbers will win the elections. If that is the case, skip the voting and let's just have a technology battle to see who will have superior election hacks. Thought you would be a bit more rational CS.
"At this point you are saying that whomever has the best methodology for altering the numbers will win the elections." You nailed right there... That's blue states summed up... You are NOT going to vote your way out or get the results you want by voting harder and you won't change many mindsets...
It was because you all made sure to go out and vote that that huge conservative result happened in Florida. Continue your mindset because it is important and keeps Florida free.
The failure of the Conservative message is the only likely reason for the vote splitting that went on. Agree some funny business went on in some states, but that is not the whole answer. I cannot even imagine voting for a D in this current environment yet it appears that I am in the minority, and lots of folks did just that, vote for candidates on both sides. https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2022:_Split-ticket_voting_in_statewide_elections
I'm hard pressed to think of anything that would cause me to vote D.
Well, me too, but there seem to be more low information voters out there than I realized. I have run across an occasional person who smugly will say, 'oh I am an INDEPENDENT, I don't vote the party, I vote the candidate. Heck, 20 years ago I may have voted for a D or 2. But ever since 2008, the lines have become very clear. Independent to me means "guess you don't pay much attention." I get that the R party has plenty of issues, but a 3rd party vote in most races is a vote for the D's. I used to see a fair number of Green Party candidates back in the day but they are very rare now. None this year even in the primary on my ballot. Guess the D's paid them off, not that they differ much nowadays anyway.
There is a word for that, Secession!
We can’t separate like that. Our sole purpose on earth is to share the gospel and live it out in front of unbelievers. Communes won’t help others find their way to faith in Jesus. We will be unknown and just weird to them.
I agree we must be witnesses of the Light of God, but this world has now become so depraved that you must protect yourself from being conformed to its standards. Protecting children, at this point, is a primary goal.
I, no longer, want to listen to lies, immorality and excuses from pagans or those masquerading under the guise of religion. So, I’ll excuse myself from them to protect my own soul and sanity.
“But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.”
1 Cor 5:11
I appreciate what you are saying. I’m sure you know this scripture is referencing those who call themselves Christians but live like they are not.
FYI: Most of the world is getting fed up with toxic western wokeness and see through our sham elections... What the wokesters at home think will be increasingly irrelevant...
I have only read a little bit about the gab guy lately. Could you describe more about why he's distasteful? I think a lot of us really haven't followed it much
He makes some statements against Jews and about things like replacement, or male/female roles that rub people the wrong way. I don’t like or agree with some of the things he says (I also think conflating some of the Jewish people in positions of power with average regular people is wrong, and a lot of those are barely nominally Jewish, kind of like saying Pelosi and Biden represent Catholics, but that is a whole other discussion I guess). But I think he’s got some things right and I also admire him for his refusal to back down even when banks and other companies refuse him service because of his views.
I used to be on Gab a lot after Parler was shut down (I particularly admire Torba for his savvy in avoiding the same fate, by not being beholden to Amazon, Apple etc.). But there was too much trolling and people just spouting off nonsense and vitriol. I prefer civil and reasoned discussions, so Substack seems to suit me better on that score. But I do like some things that Torba has said and done.
Hi Michele, I think running logic made this comment. not me. interesting tho.
Cheers Kennyb
If you are on GAB and he is in your feed, expect alot of "jew rants" - either blatant or subtle without mentioning them by name but everyone knows who he is talking about... Maybe if he spent less time ranting on them, GAB would be further along with his ideas of a parallel economy that they can't cancel... Parler apparently is also getting into data services and other back-end stuff that's needed...
Wow. This may have just convinved me to actually move. As much as we have considered itbwe have not been compelled.
The anger and disappointment with what’s going on in AZ (and in our own government) is only tempered by my trust and faith in Almighty God. So much corruption and deceit. Katie do-nothing Hobbs has been smug throughout the election cycle while anyone could see that Kari Lake is the far better candidate. I see our country as a nation in decline. But God has a plan and I’m keeping my eyes fixed on Him. Meanwhile I pray for truth, righteousness and justice and that we will all join in the fight between goodness and morality vs. evil and depravity.
Consider that, regardless of the AZ outcome, Kari Lake is young, energetic, and propelled by honesty and truth. Should she so choose, she has a long and brilliant political career ahead.
Hobbs, on the other hand, is a hack. And will always be a hack.
She and other conservatives will have NO future if election interference isn’t stopped NOW. This will be the 2nd fraudulent election - if left unchallenged. There will be no future for honesty and truth.
Again, everyone must look at California as what they want to create all over the country. There are a few "token" Republicans elected here and there, but in general California is a done deal, dominantly Democrat forever more. There are laughably few R's in office. And MOST Californians just don't care and don't pay attention to a damn thing that happens here in terms of politics. 40 million people and perhaps 30% vote. Things are just the way they are and people accept that like drones. Whatever conditions exist, these people do not connect those conditions with politicians or policies. Democrats have destroyed this once majestic state. Addendum: All the Democrats in charge lead pretty nice lives here, though. They don't ever suffer the consequence3s of what they create.
Sad to say the hacks stay in power, it appears. They are useful tools of the greater political hierarchy. They conduct policies as they are told.
Only repentance can save us. Half the country now behaves like pagans in the decline of the Roman Empire, like the 'fun loving' people of Sodom and Gomorrah, like any uncivilized civilization of history--in action, intention, and behaviors.
It is lauded, indoctrinated, celebrated. Sin is now a relative term at best and a taboo word at worst.
We are now Sodom and Gomorrah.
We can only hope that if she ends up being governor, Katie Hobbs will only show up to work 19 days out of every six months.
I still have a hard time understanding why Trump potentially running gets people excited. He's part of the problem. Anyone that pushes the clot shots is wholly unqualified and should be in prison.
Trump had no clue they were designed to injure or kill. He would have been eviscerated if he had not helped clear the way for them. At this point it’s unlikely anyone in government will speak the truth about them because they are all in too deep. Frankly we are all in too deep. Look at the millions who took them without doing their own research...you think any of them are qualified to run after making such a poor decision? Even some of the great scientists and doctors who started warning us took them. If that’s your purity test then good luck finding candidates. Three quarters of the country is disqualified. 
It's a nice story but Trump will not reverse his position on recommending the clot shot even as that cat has been out of the bag for months, esp. in Florida where Trump lives.
Trump was out of office months before the Vaxx was released. Even after it was well known the Covid Vaxx was a clot shot, Trump continued to claim he was the proud father of the Covid shot and never talked about what everyone else knew about the high risk of death and disability.
No, it's not the end. It was well known early on they had a death safety signal, and he still bragged about rolling out the vaccine. Jesus folks, wake up!
I agree! If someone like me could understand the safety signals in the fact sheets, Trump could have too. It still blows me away as to why there was never a focus on treatment instead of prevention.
Not quite. Trump was out of office months before the Vaxx was released. Even after it was well known the Covid Vaxx was a clot shot, Trump continued to claim he was the proud father of the Covid shot and never talked about what everyone else knew about the high risk of death and disability.
It's always the same with the pro-Trump TDS-ers. "It's not his fault, if he would've opposed the vaxx, the media would've destroyed him." WHINE WHINE WHINE.
If that were true, then Trump is a pussy
They're like those helicopter moms who make excuses for their kid's criminal behavior.
With the exception of Ron Johnson, in Wisconsin, every politician is. Because none of them are coming out, speaking the truth. Not even DeSantis in Florida. His surgeon general has made some statements not recommending it, but nobody is speaking about what’s happening so that this disqualifies every existing politician currently in office from running for higher office. 
I agree. I don't know why people continue to not only have hope in but give deference to these people. Screw them all.
You have to consider thatDeSantis is a relative anti-vaxxer and won the election 60/40.
Couldn't agree more. If you can't handle the heat, get yer ass out the kitchen!
Sweettea71 ...Nailed it.
Trump didn't manufacture the jabs. You want to blame someone? Blame Pfizer and Moderna for making a lethal shot and then lying about it's efficacy and safety. Then blame Biden for mandating these jabs.
I don’t blame him for his early ignorance in promoting the deadly ‘warp speed.’ So many were tricked, cajoled or frightened over the lies. But, I do blame him for continuing to push his promotion of it after all the dust settled, even to this day. That is heinous.
It's foolish to think that the leader of the country had no idea what was going on. Us plebs with a computer and half a brain figured it out rather quickly...
Whatever happened to Pres. Truman's famous dictum "The buck stops here"?
One thing is certain - there's PLENTY of blame to go around.
And your solution is...? It does not matter any way as no Republican will ever win a national election ever again...
Don't push what could be Democrat-UniParty cabal-written propaganda. They want us to feel defeated, because if we're defeated in our minds, we won't even try winning anymore. Seek your inner Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, George Washington.
Read this and work, or choose another avenue, but *don't* give up.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/how_wisconsin_streetfighters_disrupted_a_democrat_ballotgathering_system.html#.Y3JrVhGJ7yQ.twitter
You nailed it.
I owe...we owe you a beverage of your choice.
Scratch that...we owe you a beverage and Mike Lindell a pillow purchase!
Lol!
Not to support people who push the poison death shot.
Doesn't seem like a radical stance, nor does fooling oneself into thinking he is part of the solution.
I have been saying this for days. One thing is clear no republican will win a national election ever again.
I somewhat disagree, there is still a path. Its narrow but there is a path. Georgia passed some voter reforms and Kemp won by a wide margin - nearly 10%.
If we could get the right people in place in AZ, WI, MI, PA or even a few of these places we might have a chance. That seems to be a long shot though.
Here’s another possible option. Kemp did nothing when they blatantly stole GA in 2020. Then he did nothing when they apparently did it again in 2022 in the Walker race, though his seat was safe.
Maybe he’s not clean either?
NOT when the R's are so darned easy to manipulate.
Or, perhaps better to say - when the Dems are so good at divisiveness.
They're just BETTER at that game!
Remember Trump pre-COVID? He did what he said he'd do, more so than any other candidate in my memory, and I'm not young, or did his best to, given the Democrat Lilliputian strings tying him down from every direction. Economy, building the wall/legal vs. illegal immigration, rolling back regulations by the *thousands,* peace in the MIddle East, vs. the usual 'discussions about frameworks,' the list goes on and on. He's the only guy who ever verbally and practically fought back instead of rolling over. DeSantis is a more polite version, but he's a copy, not an original, and DeSantis needs big funding, which was the main reason the working-class Trump supporters around me gave for supporting him way early in 2016, before the primary - he wasn't owned by anyone else, and he loves our country. And 2020 was stolen from him, so there's a justice aspect. There are a few other people who would do the same or similar, but not with Trump's name recognition or self-funding capability (Rep. Thomas Massie of KY and former FL state Rep. Anthony Sabatini come to mind). DeSantis had us shut down until summer (even the beaches, an outdoor setting with wind and tons of UV light, during spring break), and businesses failed over it. He made a great recovery from his prior ignorance, but most people were fooled at the beginning.
"Remember Trump pre-COVID? He did what he said he'd do...."
Like Build the Wall, Jail Hillary, Drain the Swamp?
But to give him some credit, apparently his plan to drain the swamp by hiring the swamp creatures to work for him in the White House.
Funnily enough, I'm still not "sick of winning."
But perhaps Trump's definition of winning and mine are two different things.
Desantis did as well
DeSantis also said that people should make their own decisions on it, and that there should not be mandates for students, etc. And he did an amazing job setting up monoclonal antibody sites all over Florida - until the Biden-lead FDA revoked their EUA which effectively shut them down.
Yes. I am waiting for him to start talking about the actual death and injuries from them. Not forcing them on children is a start but that seems to me a “freedom of choice” issue and they haven’t come fully around to the REAL dangers yet. But maybe I missed that from Dr. Lapado but the risks outweigh the benefits talk.
As much as I agree there is absolutely no way for any mainstream politician to go against the pharmaceutical industry to that degree. Way too much money sloshing around. Nevertheless, giving Ladapo the reins was impressive. Ladapo does not toe the pharma line.
Would you consider Senator Rand Paul mainstream? He's laid out his anti-Big pHarma chips.
Yup. Big Pharm equals Oligarch which equals too much power.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
He never forced it in order to work.
He was out of office during the Vaxx roll-out.
As I remember from 2020 doing a recount is useless. You will only be recounting the same fraudulent ballots. A forensic audit needs to be done.
It's not enough to call out what they are doing with FTX. I realized, watching a football game the other night, that *every single ad*, whether it's from an NGO, a PAC, a PSA, or supposedly "private" businesses desperate for ESG approval, is an ad for D talking points. Every one. Conservatives and thoughtful people will say, "look at this bs, Alinsky couldn't do it better," but they aren't loud enough with the counter-narrative. Unless people understand WHY it is bad to let the government regulate crypto, they just won't care. What are the best talking points that might resonate outside of the echo chamber, and how might they be conveyed?
NGOs are a scam. I got involved with one for anti- human trafficking and it’s disgusting how much money they DO NOT spend on what they say they are “fighting” for. You can look up ANY NGO’s finances by their 990s. That’s what they file annually with the IRS, like we file our 1040s.
If you REALLY want to get sick to your stomach look up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You can go to the guidestar website to look them up or ANY NGO. It will be a true eye opener; brace yourself.
https://www.guidestar.org/
But for whatever reason, revealing the lies and corruption and hypocrisy is not enough to sway people to think about alternatives. I'm wondering what is. If 400 private jets to Egypt doesn't cut it, what will?
Guidestar is reliable ... also https://www.charitywatch.org/
Thanks. I’ll look that up. 👍
Your every dollar will be tracked, monitored. Regulating crypto paves the way for cbdc. In this system, only the ultra wealthy will be able to be anonymous.
There has got to be a way to get people to understand that financial regulations hurt them much more than banksters. It's hard because there is a lot of "I don't do anything illegal, I'm fine" and too many people who don't care what happened to the truckers. But this is an important message.
Yes you’re right. There is also a large ostrich contingent. “Oh that could never happen here.” People who just don’t want to face the ugly possibilities and prefer to watch Netflix or focus on their kids’ activities and ignore anything related to politics or government.
I might even focus on those things because the government is basically a malevolent weather system as far as I can tell, but the delusion blows me away.
Government will "regulate" crypto out of existence at the very same time they announce - and mandate - sovereign digital currency. Wait for it.
They'll try for sure, and I think hammering on this CBDC thing is a good way to get people's attention.
Tenacious D talking points…
'They' (who ever 'they' are) are going to take over the country by running incompetent politicians who don't have to campaign but magically win; set up a gigantic investment company run by people who admit they suck at math, play online games all the time, and are drug addicts, so they can regulate a market segment the way they want.
It sounds like a crazy plot, and yet, here we are, living it.
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Sad state of affairs all around....pray, people, pray!
I think we need a defacto secession. Move to deep red states, force separation from the federal gov't using 10th amendment, Constitutional federalism, and refusing all federal money. Create a separate morality-based society. Create a coalition of federalist states to work as a defacto federal gov't.
Add to that money and banking separate from the U.S. gov't. North Dakota has an independent, state-owned bank. A handful of states allow use of gold and silver as money. We need this in every deep red state.
If we can see 100% of the key swing contests in blue counties all take 5-7+ days to count "votes" until finally 100% of the liberals have just enough votes to win, and the courts refuse to correct the policies that do not meet state legislated requirements, we need to remove our obligations to the federal gov't. Good riddance!
Sam Bankbreaker-FriedBrains is more like a computer guy from South Park, not Jurassic Park. There, FIFY.
This whole deal looks like a laundromat: Dummy investor cash in, wash thru crypto, rinse in Ukraine, speed-dry in the DNC's coffers.
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Thank you Jeff, I really appreciate your take and ability to make sense of the current circus that is Earth politics in today's age. Thank you for all you do!
I'm glad Kari Lake is going to fight this, but 2020 proved that recount's of the same fraudulant ballots are useless & a waste of time. Especially if they usethe same machines to do the recount. They need a forensic investigation. A human hand done recount inspecting each ballot with human eyes. No machines !!!!