Repeal WI Min. Markup law, lower WI spending & taxes. Madison & DC lobbyist swamp hater. No partisan filter. Anti populist, pro RDS, anti tariff conservative.
@badvalorem Depends on how you define Republican and doesn’t mean jack. Tariffs increased costs so they were definitely a big factor in the 2026 GOP debacle.
@badvalorem The tariffs and Iran war both significantly increased the cost of living which was by far biggest driver of the GOP losing. Corruption was also a big driver. A large majority of people oppose tariffs. Haven’t seen anything recent indicating otherwise.
@badvalorem Omg, you think people voted for Trump because of the tariffs? Seriously delusional thinking there. Trump won because Clinton and Harris were terrible candidates. From a policy standpoint immigration was definitely the biggest driver of Trump’s support. Little to none was tariffs.
"Economists spelled out the cost of tariffs in advance, and voters paid for them with every purchase. The only people who missed the warnings were the ones who preferred not to look." https://t.co/KQ1Fp8oZZ4
It just cannot be overstated how much of a problem the end of real conference titles is going to be.
Quite literally, because your non/conference games will provide the tiebreaker (one-loss ties will be very common place, often with more than two teams) if you are in contention for the conference title there is NO difference between your games in, or out, of the league!
The reality is that fans (and players) will eventually figure out that the conference titles are SO meaningless that they don’t even guarantee a bye, and 3-4 teams that do NOT win one WILL get a bye!
At that point, the entire conference structure falls apart, and the big boys will no longer put up with sharing their revenue with schools that usually suck.
This is by far the most underrated problem created by ESPN’s 24-team playoff/gambling-money grab.
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Democrats have been lying about wanting ‘fair’ maps for years. Now they are going to gerrymander the heck out of the WI congressional map just like they did in IL. Take it to the bank!
Dem Leader @SenHesselbein on mid-decade congressional redistricting: "I think we have to fight fire with fire. And Democrats can't bring a poetry book to this."
Gov.-elect @DavidCCrowley says he'd sign new maps:
https://t.co/k4R813ZSmY
via @colbylambwrites + @MollyBeck + me
@lifeasjosh Because he is a terrible president! His incompetence caused massive GOP loses throughout the country. For the love of God move on from the corruption and low IQ populism! Make the GOP conservative again!
I cannot stress how dire the situation is right now.
Democrats came just a handful of seats away from outright flipping North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas into Blue trifectas. Republicans only narrowly avoided this by clinging on to the state Senate in each by just a few seats.
If we do not flip these states back in 2030, the House of Representatives will be lost for a generation.
There is essentially no path to winning back a House majority without maximizing GOP redistricting in the South. Without this to offset Dem gerrymanders in states like Illinois, New York, and California, we’re looking at a scenario where Republicans likely remain locked out of the House until at least 2042, if not longer.
Exactly! The election results were a total repudiation of tariffs. If people had listened to me and Congressman Bacon the GOP would be much better off today!
It is time for Congress to take its full Article One tariff authorities back. The voters elected Trump in 2024 because of the broken border and inflation. The Federal Reserve Bank blames global tariffs for the current inflation rate. The vast majority do not want global tariffs and they said so last Tuesday.
Um yeah, that was kind of the point of my column lol. Repubs need the wow counties to offset that. Also need to hold own in Valley and the Kenosha-Racine axis
Totally ignorant statement! It reflects so many inaccurate assumptions that it can't be rebutted in 280 characters. For starters, no jobs were lost because of cheaper TVs and a lot of manufacturing jobs don't pay close to $35 an hour.