Artful Dodger

You have to go down five places to get to anyone who resembles a moderate.

This is how you start to get a brand back on track.

Truly, it's the most diverse group of Nazis in history. 😐

1. Eliminate DEI initiatives, especially in the military where it's hampering recruitment and affecting readiness. If you're a federal employee and you ever have to sit through another training session on white fragility or systemic racism, that's one too many times. 2. Restore border security. Reinstitute Trump's Remain in Mexico policy and/or build the wall in vulnerable border areas. 3. Immigration reform. How about a merit-based system for a change? We have major shortages of engineers and doctors. Let's fix that. There's a million things that the new administration needs to do to rectify the damage done by the Biden Administration, but if they can get these things accomplished it will be a good start.

Great post! 1. The election was a thorough repudiation of progressive governance, the mainstream media, and the establishment, not necessarily in that order rather than an embrace of a new Republicanism. The liberal consensus in this country has been shattered. However, Trump doesn't have a coherent ideology, and he never will. However, we may get a good immigration bill, finally. I hope so. 2,6. Trump is exhausting and people will get tired of him fairly quickly as they did during his first term, and the Democratic Party will come roaring back in the midterms. The Democrats will be strongly favored as the Not Trump party in 2028, whether it has a coherent ideology or not and the Republican candidate is forced to defend the last four years. 4. The abortion issue is obviously a loser for Republicans. Eventually nearly every state will settle on legalizing abortions through four months or so which is similar to most European countries. Once we reach that point, the issue will be largely off the table. Not sure how long that will take. 8. Come Inauguration Day, there will be riots in some blue cities including Washington, DC. Since the riots will be characterized as "mostly peaceful," maybe they won't be too destructive. But it may be that this movement has exhausted itself and been discredited and hopefully it won't get another boost from Trump's election.

Apparently, the politics of Joy isn't all it's cracked up to be. This is a rejection of four years of terrible progressive policies, the establishment, and the mainstream media, not necessarily in that order.

It's probably time to bring this golden oldie back from 2016. It never gets old.

When you're losing on the issue of democracy to a guy who refused to accept the results of the 2020 election, you know you've got a problem. A little introspection for the Democrats might be order here. On the other hand, Trump is not running against the president; he's running against Vice President Harris.

Due to the tied vote, there's news reports that both sides in Dixville Notch have started to riot over the results.

Yeah. I can't believe this. I've been waiting for months to see who Nicky Jam would endorse so that I would know who to vote for. Once he endorsed Trump, I mailed in my ballot and now he's backed off. So now what am I supposed to do? 😐

Perhaps there are some very good reasons why so many Puerto Ricans live in Pennsylvania and not in Puerto Rico.

I strongly doubt there will be a civil war, but if there is, it will be over quickly. Most soldiers come from the red States, and red state citizens have more guns. More importantly, the red states would have internal lines of communication, while the blue states are mostly on the coasts, separated by 3,000 miles of red state counties. Also, even in states like California and Oregon, most of the areas outside of the major coastal cities are deeply red. The red States could deal with the blue states and blue enclaves within the red states in a piecemeal fashion.

I have no idea how you came up with that one. To the point of this thread, the Biden Administration blamed the rise in prices on "corporate price gouging" without ever bothering to explain why the so-called price gouging didn't start until the Biden Administration.

Your information is out of date. Most of the large OECD economies now have a lower inflation rate than the US. My main concern is that I'm paying about 35% more for groceries than I did when Biden took office. Perhaps that doesn't bother you, but it does bother me.

The endless gaslighting about all the bad policies, including the open border, overspending which caused runaway inflation, crime, the $2 trillion and rising deficit, the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal, etc. According to the Biden/Harris Administration, they're not responsible for anything that's happened on their watch. The constant lying about everything is a big issue for me. Just to be fair, the single greatest thing that makes me not want to vote for Trump is that he's a drama queen. And he also lies constantly, though his lies tend to be reflexive and more personal and less deliberate. It's just who he is.