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Jeff Childers's avatar

ERRATA

— Squad story was from march, not this week. Updated post to reflect historical nature and obscure evidence of my cognitive impairment

Mindy's avatar

Thank you for your humorous honesty!

David Nelson's avatar

I got Mar and May confused this year too.

Juju's avatar

It’s May? *checks calendar, rolls out of bed …**

David Nelson's avatar

(SORRY, Juju, we were all agreed to let you sleep.)

David K Thiel's avatar

Thank you for clarifying. I was confused.

Janet's avatar

Thanks. I was wondering. I pulled a Republican ballot on our Illinois open primary a couple of months ago. But didn’t hear much about what happened on the Dem side. Good to hear.

Edward Drass's avatar

Cornyn campaign spending = why I no longer contribute to the RNC.

BBS's avatar
2hEdited

Absolutely. Contribute directly to the candidate not to the party.

LeadCPA's avatar

Not to mention that you cannot get off their mailing and text lists.

taxpayer's avatar

FWIW, back in 2022, at Jeff's suggestion, I sent a small donation to support Ron Johnson's reelection campaign. Then I received an incredible quantity of emailed and postal solicitations to send more money. Probably they spent on printing and postage more than I had donated.

Then I received an apology, from Senator Johnson, explaining that somehow the donor list had fallen into the wrong hands and been misused. Subsequently I've received nothing.

RunningLogic's avatar

Senator Johnson is a class act!

Steenroid's avatar

Johnson seems like one of the few good ones.

J Carol Burton's avatar

Exactly. Same here. It becomes an abundant amount of waste of funds. I won’t contribute further.

Justin's avatar

You could get a yahoo email address. They regularly censor conservative candidates and shift their emails into your spam folder.

Maha's avatar

I continue, since before the 2024 election, to get several texts a day from WinRed and associates--my phone sends them to spam or unknown senders, but they never stop.

Juju's avatar

They use a different phone number every time so you can never really block them. Horrendous

Free in Florida's avatar

WinRed is the worst, for sure. I gave one time and specified it for one time only and they still set it up on a continuing basis! My hair was on fire and they got the message - have never given since.

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

I never give them a thin dime. Among other reasons it’s because once they have your information the crying begging for more never stops.

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

It’s taken years and lots of blocking I finally receive zero texts and phone calls from them. Knocking on wood

Ana GonzƔlez's avatar

I list my landline so I never receive ANY of their textsā€¼ļøā€¼ļøā€¼ļø

Janet's avatar

We lost our landline due to the incompetence of our new Wi-Fi installer after dropping cable. I miss it. I did use that number sometimes. It was attached to an actual answering machine.

G Harkness's avatar

Never made a donation and can't get off those lists, either!

Emumundo's avatar

I thought this was taken care of when Rona McDaniel was out. Guess not.

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

yup. Me too.

They are toast.

neener's avatar

Me either. Only local candidates get anything from me.

RunningLogic's avatar

The round up of the Paxton victory was pure gold, from the monster trucks to the leg rash šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

And yes, contrary to what so many people say, money isn’t everything in campaigns. Sometimes people truly are sick and tired of the incumbent and want someone who will fight for what they value the most!

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I hope the Paxton landslide also signals the end of the Bush regime in Texas.

MaryAnn Markowitz's avatar

Amen and other RINOs keep falling

Ana GonzƔlez's avatar

That would be wonderful if it didā€¼ļøā€¼ļøā€¼ļø

Deb's avatar

Everyone wants to blame Trump for these wins.... and an endorsement does not hurt... but TEXANS spoke loud and clear! We are finished with the RINO class! There is still lots of work to be done. Cruz and Abbott need to take note!!!!

william howard's avatar

every candidate endorsed by Trump has won - pretty sure that has never happened before

RunningLogic's avatar

I think it’s more of a reflection of the fact that voters put Trump in to accomplish certain things and the people who have stood in the way of that have been given their notice. Trump represents the voters’ wishes and endorsing candidates who will support his agenda is what the voters want.

william howard's avatar

could it be that voters are actually looking at performance and policy rather than party affiliation and propaganda

G Harkness's avatar

At the primary level, yeah. At the national/state level, I will always support ANY Republican over ANY Democrat, forever and ever, amen.

william howard's avatar

getting rid of RINOs is the immediate goal

Free in Florida's avatar

William, I think we have to look at both performance and party affiliation. I can’t think of Anything the Democrats stand for which I support so there is no way I’d vote Left. The person himself might be likable enough and a hard worker but if he’s not working for things I value, there is no point in supporting him.

Ana GonzƔlez's avatar

Amen ā€¼ļø

We've never had a candidate who has listened to our wishes as well as MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT ā€¼ļøā€¼ļøšŸ™ŒšŸ‘šŸ™Œ

Juju's avatar

Trump really was going to endorse Cornyn. But he always listens to his voter base. They raged louder for him to endorse Paxton. Trump heard and understood, then made it clear to them the importance of the SAVE act and how IF they passed that it would be worth a bad endorsement. Even Paxton publicly said he’d back out of the race under those conditions. In the end weasels chose their weasely ways, and Trump did as his voters wanted.

Trump is good at picking winners. But it’s the voters guiding the horse across the finish line. It’s ALWAYS up to us. Unless Paxton backed out most Texans would have voted for Paxton even if Trump endorsed Cornyn.

Ana GonzƔlez's avatar

FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO I AGREE WITH ABOUT ABBOTT & CRUZā€¼ļøā€¼ļø

I HAVE BEEN POSTING ABOUT HOW CRUZ HAS BEEN MIA.

HE THINKS THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE TO PUSH THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA JUST BECAUSE HE ISN'T CURRENTLY UP FOR REELECTION ā€¼ļøā€¼ļøā€¼ļø

WE CAN'T FORGET ABOUT HOW HE HASN'T LIFTED A FINGER (other than the middle finger) TO GET THE SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSEDā€¼ļø

NOT TO MENTION, WHY HASN'T HE PUSHED FOR GETTING THE RECESS APPOINTMENTS DONEā‰ļøā€¼ļøā‰ļø

G Harkness's avatar

From what I've been hearing lately, Cruz especially (who I used to support)! And I have never been a fan of Abbott.

Janet's avatar

Now they can attack Talarico properly and scathingly with a bulldog. šŸ‘šŸ»šŸ˜

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

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ā€œOf old You founded the earth,

And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Even they will perish, but You endure;

And all of them will wear out like a garment;

Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

But You are the same,

And Your years will not come to an end.

The children of Your servants will continue,

And their descendants will be established before You.ā€

— Psalm 102:25-28 NAS95

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Happy good morning frens! First time ever!

Karmy's avatar

Good morning Alan! Have a blessed day.

RunningLogic's avatar

Good morning Alan!! 😊

kittynana's avatar

@Alan- then which Substack do you and I belong to? I've seen your name numerous times.

CeeMcG's avatar

Click on Alan’s name to see his Substack profile and scroll to the right to see what he reads. He reads 215 substacks and you read 18, so it should be easy to figure which ones you match on. šŸ‘šŸ»

Beckadee's avatar

Toot that horn!

Juju's avatar

Woot! Long overdue šŸ’ƒ

RunningLogic's avatar

Oh and I posted this late the other day but it’s great so I’m posting it again. Good for him for expressing what so many of us are feeling!!

https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/05/24/will-take-your-breath-away-taxpayer-is-sick-to-death-watch-n2428529?

Melissa S's avatar

Very good news. My grandkids love watching some of the anti-scammer channels on youtube such as Scammer Payback. The scams are inevitably based in India. The scammers target seniors especially, often clearing out their bank accounts.

Deb's avatar

That video is excellent and speaks volumes about the American people! We are tired of footing the bill for illegals who come to our country for a "better" life on the taxe

taxpayer's dime. Not all immigrants are guilty of this tactic but what we have been seeing the last few years during the Biden regime speak is being coddled by horrible politicians who just want a new voter base!!!!

There was a time when immigrants came to this country, assimilated to the American culture and have prospered within their own families and helped build this country!!!

RunningLogic's avatar

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Debbie Wagner's avatar

He is 100% right! The American people are overwhelmingly generous and compassionate. But, when our generosity and compassion are mocked and scorned, and when we are further told that we aren’t doing enough, and when we are called ā€œhatefulā€, ā€œracistā€, and ā€œbigotedā€ by asking only that immigrants follow the same laws we are required to follow as US citizens, WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!

We are sick of the cheating, the gaslighting, the lying, the corruption and the insult of elevating illegal aliens above tax paying US citizens! We are AWAKE! We are MAD! And, we are VOTING!!! 😔

Free in Florida's avatar

RunningLogic - these clips and info are soooooo good!!! Thanks!

LiveDreamRepeat's avatar

Good news on Paxton, but Texas is absolutely NOT in the clear yet. Talarico is dangerous and has some awful ideologies that blue voters are matching onto - and we KNOW that corrupt money will be pouring in from around the country (and likely the world) to turn TX blue. Texan voters cannot afford to rest on our laurels and think "there hasn't been a Dem senator in decades" - that's possibly the very thinking the Dems are counting on. There are MANY corrupt actors working overtime to turn TX blue. I'm surprised Jeff isn't actively calling all TX conservatives to ensure it doesn't happen.

RunningLogic's avatar

I agree, they can’t rest on their laurels. I expect Jeff will say that later but right now he’s just savoring the victory. There’s time enough to rally the voters.

Margot Wooster's avatar

In the meantime, we can all PRAY, wherever we live (Oklahoma for me)

RunningLogic's avatar

Yes!! šŸ™šŸ™šŸ™

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

And PLENTY of time for Dems to step on more rakes

GregWA's avatar

Great links RunningLogic.

Re the fraud piece, I'm skeptical. What ever happened to DOGE? They ramped up, allegedly shut off a couple hundred billion, chump change in the fraud totals, and then flamed out.

I suspect Vance's task force will be similar. A bit of progress, some fraud shut down (good!), but the problem will still be there. The a$$hats waiting in the wings for the adults to get distracted by something else.

I hope I'm wrong!

RunningLogic's avatar

I suspect there is work going on behind the scenes. They had taken too much heat so the focus was taken off of them.

VelvetStitching's avatar

We need a government of people like Tom Holman who can take the heat and just keeps on truckin'!

(Like a Monster Truck... "get outta my way!") Bull dozer!

RunningLogic's avatar

Yes, he’s awesome!!

PapayaSF's avatar

Both DOGE and the fraud task force are more important than they may look. By grabbing sysadmin control of federal computer systems DOGE got Trump all sorts of evidence of Deep State crimes and made it harder for the them to plot against Trump.

The fraud task force is a dagger to the heart of the Democrats. Those billions didn’t all go to individual fraudsters. Some portion got kicked back to the Democrats (and maybe some Republicans) who let it happen. The feds are really good at tracing money when they want to be, and voters really hate corrupt politicians who steal tax money. Trump is going to use this to make Democrats the party of fraud for the midterms.

RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed them!

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

It’s a beautiful day indeed. I’m going to rejoice and be glad. šŸ™šŸ»

RunningLogic's avatar

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Dr Jen | Syringa Wellness's avatar

I thought i saw a piece recently about population growth. With Paul Ehrlich's name on it. Seemed like they were trying to pivot back to planetary carrying capacity. I didn't really read it, but it is out there.

Beth's avatar
1hEdited

I suspect two things about population growth. 1) Is that we have no idea how the covid plandemic affected population. And 2) Harken back to what Rush said about population. Which turns out to be true. And that is the entire population of Earth could fit inside the borders of texas. And every person would have a thousand square feet to themselves. Look it up. So population growth has never been a problem, it's only been a problem to people who make money off of population growth fear-mongering.

GregWA's avatar

Some time ago (10 years?) I read that the UN outfit that tracks and predicts world population says we're going to top out at 11 billion people sometime this Century.

That always struck me as a pretty reasonable number. Now, imagine if we can make the lower 70% of that 11 billion as productive (and healthy, wealthy, and happy) as the top 30%, what a world it would be!

Dr Jen | Syringa Wellness's avatar

If we have a collapsing birth rate, I don't see how that continued growth is even possible. Global average births is 2.2 per woman. That's just a bit above parental replacement rate.

Carolyn's avatar

Seems like to me that is not our job to determine. That is GOD'S field not ours.

Debbie Wagner's avatar

The video at the ICE facility is priceless! Made my day! (I would say it made my week, but I am at the beach, so it would be hard to top that!ā˜ŗļø)

Thanks for posting these. All very good!

Karmy's avatar

Good morning all! Praise be to God for He is good and His mercy endures forever! It appears He's helping to clean house for our country. Thanks be to God!

kittynana's avatar

Talarico is the proverbial Wolf in Sheep's clothing. He needs to go back to hell where he came from. Or back to Seminary to be reminded what a pastor is supposed to be.

Asylum: My brother in law and his siblings were sent from Cuba to Miami in 1963 because the parents saw what was happening. A few months later, as the parents were returning home from somewhere, a neighbor stopped them, told them the government ransacked his mother's place, and were looking for him. They 'borrowed' a rubber raft and rowed to America, not even retrieving anything from their home. HIs mother was harassed for years. The parents immediately got jobs, as soon as they were legally allowed, and the kids have all grown to have had long careers in education, 2 with Masters and one with a PhD.

Now THAT'S asylum seeking.

RJ Rambler's avatar

Welcome to US!!

James Goodrich's avatar

The riot that took place at the Newark New Jerseys ICE detention center, Delaney Hall, with the ring leaders of the riot being New Jerseys governor Mickie Sherrill mayor Ras Baraka, U.S. reps Bonnie Coleman, LaMonica Mciver and Robert Menendez should be given a list of the inmates, the charges against them and allowed to take 1,3 or 10, free these criminals, take them into their homes. Some murderers, some child molesters, some common criminals, all are felons. They should take them, sponsor them, take custody of these ā€œgood God fearingā€ ā€œfamily membersā€, and be fully responsible for them. If they commit further crimes the sponsors should be dragged into court and held responsible for what these better than American people do, the illegal being deported.

I’m sure with the supposed hundreds of protestors that were there, they could free the six hundred murderers, child molesters and felon inmates easily. Let’s see them put their money where the stupid liberal mouth is. It’s incredible how hard they fight for these criminal illegals but don’t fight at all to make their constituents life easier or better. They just throw another log on their backs.

Here’s a great hard working ā€œtax payingā€ American that’s had it!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18kJHyVM7N/?mibextid=wwXIfr

RunningLogic's avatar

I posted that video the other day and reposted today! Definitely worth a listen!!

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Love it. The guy certainly articulates his righteous points with flair.

I fled Massachusetts at age 20 and now almost entirely ghosted by my Ivy League relatives.

Massachusetts is a bio tech cesspool of know-it-all, 'expert'-class technocrats.

(Loved growing up on Cape Cod in the 60's and 70's though).

Dolores's avatar

This should be played on every stadiums Jumbotron

Dolores's avatar

Coast to coast

GregWA's avatar

"...then we may be watching the beginning of something that the American political system has needed for a long while: a correction."

Respectfully, Jeff, I disagree.

What we need is for the Democrat Party to stay the course, keep embracing the insanity and the retards so that they go down in flames, are utterly destroyed as a Party, taking the hard core fringe with them. That fringe must be destroyed, by which I mean discredited in the mind of all thinking Americans, left or right. This discrediting needs to include accountability for all the harms they've caused. And the reasons those harms occurred needs to be exposed.

Politically, crush them, grind them, dissolve them and then vaporize the liquid and shoot the vapor into the Sun! Even better, someone else's Sun--why ruin ours?

Arturo A.'s avatar

The "solution" of replacement with moderates is no solution at all. Spamburger in Virginia proved that. All Democrats these days running for anything are suspect and cannot be trusted. Just cardboard figures for the hard left Party.

Inverted Pyramid's avatar

Excellent point! Just like the Galindo lady in Texas, her own party couldn’t stand her…

william howard's avatar

my hope is the democrat party suffers the same fate as the WHIGs

mspring's avatar

Agree, dems should continue their "progress" into insanity, and the rest of us must remind folk of each step they take! I think that perhaps Jeff may have been reporting their correction attempt, not supporting it tho.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

I agree ... The Democratic Party is waaaay beyond a correction.

PapayaSF's avatar

Democrats are still stuck, though. They can try to quietly purge the radicals, but their party platform is still radical and they can’t risk doing anything publicly about it. Imagine the party chaos if they tried to abandon gender ideology, or agreed that dangerous illegals should be deported. All they can do is fudge and hedge and pretend to be moderate. They can’t really *be* moderate.

RunningLogic's avatar

ā€”ā€œasylum applications rose from 19,000 in 2012 to an eye-watering 3.18 million in 2024.ā€

That is absolutely insane and mind boggling and infuriating all at once 😔

Jeff Johnson's avatar

Well, we Texans who know what's what, also know that if you're a politician who refuses to fully support the Trump agenda, you will get your personal walking papers, emphatically!

Jacquijacq's avatar

Do you think Paxton will defeat Talarico? I hope so but I’m curious to hear from a Texan.

Jeff Johnson's avatar

Yes, in fact, I don't think it'll be close. Maybe similar to last night. This is a RED state, Talarico is a far-left loon.

Margot Wooster's avatar

That’s what I’m praying for!

Julie's avatar

This from Trump on the dem candidate :

may be the worst TEXAS candidate I have ever seen. A strong Open Borders advocate, he is WEAK ON CRIME, believes there are 6 genders, is insulting to Jesus Christ, will never support the Military, was a big Mask Wearer until recently, and is a Vegan who dislikes meat, not exactly a good way to be if you’re wanting to win an Election in Texas.

🤣

Beckadee's avatar

He's going to get beaten like a rented mule.

Peter Schott's avatar

Gonna add to Jeff's response. Talarico is worse than "Beto". He's _highly_ unlikely to win, even with the crazy number of imports into Texas of late.

Johnny-O's avatar

Great plan because Trump is always right and only has the best ideas, like fighting a war for another country and wrecking the economy as a result.

Jeff Johnson's avatar

Can I get you some cheese to go with your whine? Wah,Wah,Wah...

PonyBoy's avatar

Johnny zero is drunk on whine Jeff.

The NGO that employs him must reward him dearly for repeating the same schtick day in and day out.

What do they call repeating the same thing over and over expecting a different result?

That's right, "Insanity."

Now we all know what Johnny zero's affliction is.

Best to ignore him Jeff. His issues are beyond help.

Johnny-O's avatar

Good one. Enjoy the restoration of the neocon war party.

Jeff Johnson's avatar

Thanks, your comments are worth the entertainment value alone.

mspring's avatar

Wrecking the economy? I dunno, my IRA says otherwise.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Cutting off the Straight of Hormuz for the bankers and Wall St while Stock trades based on the reporting of the White House media center Axios creates a $ killing for insiders?

"All hat, no cattle"

Carolyn's avatar

You are so clueless

Jpeach's avatar

The GOP Establishment is going the way of the Dodo Bird and Fax Machine. It was very profitable for the GOP to be the controlled opposition of the Democrats. That scam is over.

Margot Wooster's avatar

I think JPeach is saying we are all sick of the RINOs

Dindu Nuffin's avatar

Good morning y’all

NoVA mom's avatar

Happy cloudy Wednesday folks! 😊

RunningLogic's avatar

Cloudy and stormy here! ā›ˆļø

Renea Buchholz's avatar

Yes, my baby dalias are begging for sun and warmth. Actually all the garden!

Carol Brizzolara's avatar

It is supposed to be stormy here, but it is still sunny. Hence my getting to this late, as I’ve been outside enjoying the sunshine.

RunningLogic's avatar

That’s wise, you definitely should enjoy it while it lasts!

RunningLogic's avatar

Good morning! ā˜€ļø

Lynda Adams's avatar

Good morning! I moved out of CA to South Dakota and now, I am looking at my senate leader and wishing he was up for re-election. What a disappointment John Thune has been. I had to hold my nose and vote for Feinstein for years, now this spineless republican is in charge. Ugh

Inverted Pyramid's avatar

I like South Dakota.

Margot Wooster's avatar

Lynda, here in supposedly super-red Oklahoma, we are stuck with Lankford until 2028. Dear husband calls him Lameford.

Lynda Adams's avatar

When I moved to CA years ago from the Midwest I sensed that conservatives were going along to get along. Never questioning election outcomes and allowing judges to overturn elections. I see the same insidious behavior in South Dakota. Marxists infiltrated city and county governments and school boards and the people just ignore it, and play nice. It’s worrisome.

King Cavalier II's avatar

Texas is my materlingua and that was not a race. That was a red dirt azz-whuppin’. Trump is now 38-0.

King Cavalier II's avatar

Well, dangit- who’d I miss? I like your count better.

FrankInFL's avatar

Actually, I got that wrong. One (of 7) of the Indiana Legislature anti-endorsements survived the primary, but six of his buddies did not. 39 - 1 .