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The 1776 Revival on the House Floor or Trump Wins Again

Posted: February 25, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics
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For the last 35 days we have seen an almost unbroken streak of victories for the Trump administration with only slight temporary setbacks in the courts that are likely to become solid wins as well.

Tonight on the House floor Trump just got his biggest win by a single vote and if you want to know how he managed it think of this key moment from the movie/play 1776

In the drama Ben Franklin calls for a poll of the Pennsylvania delegation with Ben Franklin voting for independence and John Dickerson voting nay and the final decision being up to James Wilson who decides he doesn’t want to become “The man who prevented American independence.” and thus votes Yea! (Historically Franklin arranged for two delegates from PA to miss the vote thus giving him the majority needed to carry the state for independence but I digress…)

Something much like this happened in DC on Tuesday.

As I noted Donald Trump has been on a huge winning streak and his actions continue to poll incredibly well among the general population with well over 50% backing him and among GOP voters the number is in the high 90’s.

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1894424037129904413

The text

Why GOP members will be hesitant to fight Trump: “Republican [voters] love Donald Trump the way Grimace loves Ronald McDonald”… Trump’s net approval with the GOP is even higher than it was during his 1st term. Also, GOP voters trust Trump over Congressional GOP: 58%-22%.

Click the link to see the CNN video.

Bottom line Trump is REALLY popular so once Thomas Masse of KY noted he would be a “No” no matter what that meant that every single other holdout had the potential to become THE member of the GOP responsible not only for Trump’s first defeat of his term, but be the man or woman who gave the Democrats a lifeline when they are drowning.

In short their political career would be over.

That is the position that Trump and Johnson put them in and nobody proved willing to jump off that bridge.

So Trump gets another win. and the GOP agenda goes on.

I’m not sick of winning yet.

Musk Gets the Arrows Johnson Turns The Flank

Posted: February 13, 2025 by datechguy in politics
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 Radio Presenter: Twelve men were accidentally hanged at Whitby Assizes this afternoon whilst considering their verdict. This is one of the worst miscarriages of justice in Britain since Tuesday.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus Episode 35 The Nude Man 1972

Every day that passes Elon Musk seems to uncover a new big of outrageousness that surpasses the outrageousness of the previous one. It’s reached the point where:

All of this stuff is great and Kari Lake gets it

The text: Isn’t the easiest answer to why Jeffries is struggling to mount an Anti-Trump resistance is that the President, Elon, & DOGE have shut off the money tap for the astroturfed protest operations, &, it’s hard to fuel genuine opposition to an agenda that’s popular with the people?

but as I pointed out a bit ago:

All of these actions that Donald Trump has taken and he has taken many rather popular acts are completely reversible because they are by executive order.

If he wants them to stand beyond his presidency Trump needs to get these thing codified into law and the fact that the GOP house has not taken any action along those lines yet disturbs me.

Well apparently Johnson got the message:

We have a $36 trillion dollar federal debt. We have got to get ahold of these things. You’re going to see it reflected in the reconciliation package that comes forward, you’re going to see it reflected in the appropriations as we go forward, and you’re going to see it in these efforts to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
And we think the final number on that is going to be substantial and a game changer in Washington.

The clear threat was in Johnson’s final sentence. A game-changer in Washington. DOGE isn’t the weapon, it’s just the canary in the limestone mine. Now that Congress knows where the waste is —like USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Department of Education, DEI spending, the Treasury, Social Security, and the rest— legislators are working up a budget bill to nuke the Deep State from orbit.

It’s wonky, but this is very important. The fact Johnson announced a budget bill is critical. Bills related to reconciling the budget can be passed using a process called ‘budget reconciliation,’ which avoids the Senate filibuster and can be approved with a simple majority. In other words, it’s the Deep State’s worst nightmare: first, DOGE identified the bureaucratic bloat, and so now Republicans in Congress have a viable legislative path to cut the guts out of the bloated, mutant Swamp whale.

The folks at Coffee and COVID (via Insty) and that’s the bottom line.

If Johnson can keep the GOP in line (and I assume there are more than a few in on the graft) and get the bill out it’s game over for the left. Musk might get the headlines but Johnson can win the day and all the court cases against Trump will instantly become meaningless.

The irony? All of this is made possible because the can was kicked down the road on a government shutdown.

The People Stop the Crap CR via X Pitchfork Salesmen Hardest Hit

Posted: December 19, 2024 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics
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Collin Rugg summed it up pretty neatly:

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1869521197232476169

In case the embed doesn’t take (that’s happened a lot since Musk bought twitter (unexpectedly of course).

I’m not sure if people have truly grasped the power of X. The House was set to pass a BS spending bill. After just a few hours of posting on X by Musk & X users, the bill was effectively killed… potentially saving the US taxpayer billions of dollars.

This tells me that the era of needed a bunch of people to show up on capital hill to make people fear voter is also gone. If we can generate the fear of God from here that will save a lot of time and effort and might even save the country. That’s the good news

The bad news is the very fact that Speaker Johnson started in this direction tells me a lot of the GOP caucus still wants to play by the old rules and is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into actually serving the American people.

This illustrates the most important reality of the final Trump term. The last election didn’t save the country, it give us the chance to do so.