Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
If your country sucked so bad you came to the U.S., then don't bitch about the people already here. If you consider it an insult to be told, "Go back to you country," well then, show some fuckin' gratitude.
“I don’t need to look down on Indians, or Haitians or Somalis, these people need to go home because we fucking said so. And if that isn’t enough, then whose country is it??
REMINDER: When Mamdani’s father came to America, he was here for about five minutes before he became a communist street animal. Instead of deporting him, we allowed him to fester in the this country.
Now his demon spawn runs our biggest city.
Deport foreigners.
Been there. 3 weeks out and had a piece of garlic bread, and went off the rails for a 3 day food bender. Put myself back 2 https://t.co/vvOz2QuyeH look amazing though. and on prep I just think about food nonstop. All day, every day. Easy to snap after 16 or 20 weeks of what feels like starving. Glad you had the courage to post this, and the only people giving you shit don’t have the balls discipline to step on stage. Best of luck & don’t get too down- bodybuilding is really the only 24/7 sport
Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:
"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with."
This is misleading. Creatine is an awesome supplement but it does not build more muscle than exercise does.
It draws in fluid into muscle tissue. This is counted as lean mass.
The gains were water.
Young white men are told that they must be the butt of jokes and bigoted ads from Sarah Huckabee Sanders that would never been tolerated about Jews or blacks or any other race. Cut the bullshit. Stop playing dumb. Everyone knows why we are not putting up with that slop anymore.
Worst Tesla update ever. “Automatic collision avoidance” jammed me to a hard stop for no reason whatsoever. Then my wife and I were having a conversation about kids at her school and Grok chimes in with “sounds like you have a good handle on them” You guys turned my Cybertruck from my favorite vehicle ever into one that stops for no reason and spies on you, overnight. Please undo!!!! @elonmusk@cybertruck@Tesla
George Bush has always been sold as a man who met the moment. Even some of his haters describe him that way. “I didn’t like him, but he was great after 9/11.”
You can’t handle that moment worse than George Bush handled it. 20 years of war and Muslim calls to prayer in America.
🚨 BREAKING: I’ve received confirmation from the Trump Administration that the DOJ will NOT appeal our historic court victory against the NFA.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP and Attorney General Blanche, for delivering the most significant Second Amendment win in OVER 90 YEARS!
The GOP does not fully understand the simmering hatred their base has for the mass immigration that has trashed this country.
You can be the perfect candidate in every way and a single statement about amnesty will cost you everything.
We demand deportations. All of them.
Yeah, taking Repatha. APOb in 40s, from over 110s for years. LDL and Hdl are almost the same every 8 weeks, sometimes HDL is a point or two higher. Diet and cardio have always been on point but have genetic dislipidemia. A magic drug! Dr says I am his first patient to have calcium scores go down significantly
Obviously this little freak could go volunteer to fight the war himself, but of course he won’t. He’s got no interest in making any kind of personal sacrifice. None of them do. Israel’s finance minister bragged the other day that having American soldiers fight Netanyahu’s wars “is the best for us.” Smotrich doesn’t want to die for Israel. Neither does Ben Shapiro. Dying for Israel is your job. You’ve got to wonder how people like this — liars without honor, wisdom or loyalty to the United States — wound up in positions of such profound influence throughout our society. How did Mark Levin get the president’s cell phone number? Why is Adm. Brad Cooper, the man in charge of the Iran war, secretly taking strategic advice from crazed Israel shill Mark Dubowitz? It’s all so nuts, and ultimately suicidal. Future generations will struggle to understand it. In the meantime, Trump will likely obey Ben Shapiro, as he has consistently for months. We can predict the results, because every neocon “victory” is identical: huge numbers of innocent people killed, disproportionately Christians, economic destruction, famine, mass migration and deepening authoritarianism at home. That’s what they’re demanding because that’s what they want. What can we do to stop it? Apparently not much. But we can remember what happened and why, so that history records the truth. Otherwise, when the war ends in disaster, as it inevitably will, Ben Shapiro will be able to blame you for it.