Melody Kief

Loves Jesus and America, too. Common sense conservative. Animal lover. Israel supporter.

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

The Steeler crowd is a little rough if you are in an opposing team's jersey. I was there for a Monday night game several years ago (when we were good) in my Titan's jersey. I ran into another female Titan's fan on the way in to the stadium who was literally in tears because their fans were so mean. I was with some Steeler fans so all I got was good natured kidding. Inside the stadium, the guy behind me gave me grief for the whole first half. Right before half time, I went and bought him a beer. He asked "What's this for?" I told him if he was at our place it would be called hospitality, not sure here. He left me alone the rest of the game.

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@Serious_biznass @ConnManATL @MarkHalperin @JDVance @marcorubio @tedcruz @RonDeSantis @DaveMcCormickPA @GlennYoungkin @SarahHuckabee @BrianKempGA Hmmm..what makes you think so?

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@ConnManATL @MarkHalperin @JDVance @marcorubio @tedcruz @RonDeSantis @DaveMcCormickPA @GlennYoungkin @SarahHuckabee @BrianKempGA Massie is a traitor.

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@Finance2Crypto @MarkHalperin @JDVance @marcorubio @tedcruz @RonDeSantis @DaveMcCormickPA @GlennYoungkin @SarahHuckabee @BrianKempGA You obviously haven't seen Sarah lately.

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

AND interest rates were not that low in 1988. My guess is that bought it at a significantly higher rate and refinanced it. I'm also guessing they didn't start with such a big house. They probably stepped up to that. I know my parents did. For much of my childhood, our family of 7 lived in a 900 sq ft home. They moved up to an 1800 Sq ft home when I was a senior in high school and later to a 3500 sq ft home. They were smart. Instead of being resentful, make a plan.

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@stevets @Owennfa Bingo!

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@stylemen911 When you were hired, was it a work from home job or did you get sent home during COVID? If you got sent home, did you take a pay cut to work from home?

[ℝ𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕠𝕗 ℝ𝕠𝕞𝕖 @return_of_rome]

Nayib Bukele: “There is no State that cannot defeat criminals. If a State does not defeat criminality, it is because the State is complicit.” @nayibbukele

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@MacroSloan2929 Health care was broken way before Obamacare. That just made it worse.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Please ask him how the American people can have any confidence in him or Senate Republicans when they squandered a Republican House, Senate, & White House.

Ask him about the hundreds of bills sitting on his desk that were sent from the Republican House.

Ask how if he feels at all responsible for the defeats of his colleagues in red states like Kansas.

Ask him how do we expect him to do anything in the minority when he failed to lead in the majority.

Ask him if he feels responsible for the Republican base not turning out because voters were so fed up with an entirely Republican gov’t that failed to pass legislation.

Ask him how he will respond when democrats change the rules & allow for legislation to pass out of the Senate with a simple majority.

Ask him how is it “conservative” to squander a Republican majority with aging Supreme Court Justices that no longer have the voters to confirm their successors.

Ask him why does he deserve to continue to serve in a leadership role when his lack of action in the majority directly impacted his catastrophic loss into the minority.

Ask him if he intends to take a vacation during the remaining time Republicans maintain the Senate majority.

Ask him if he will use every second over the next 2 months to work to pass legislation.

Ask him if he regrets not taking advantage of the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act.

Ask him if he regrets not safeguarding our elections, especially since we have proof that non-citizens are voting in our elections.

Ask him why he deserves re-election in 2028.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

It’s important to note that when Republicans tried to impeach Lloyd Austin during the Biden administration for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, @RepThomasMassie opposed impeaching him.

Austin also notoriously failed to disclose his location for over a week when he was getting treatment for cancer as Defense Secretary while Iran was launching missiles and drones at US bases in the Middle East. He didn’t tell anyone where he was while our troops were under attack. This was a major national security threat.

Massie didn’t say a word about that. But he wants to impeach @PeteHegseth for doing his job? Hegseth never hid from the Iranians. Lloyd Austin did.

It’s quite hypocritical.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Remember…

When Trump started this Presidency the 1st official they tried to get removed was Hegseth.

When Dems got control of Congress the 1st Trump official they’re trying to remove is Hegseth.

It’s clear they fear Pete.

It’s clear they want control of the military.

Fact.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

The Midterm is Not the Endterm

It is too soon to calibrate the direction of the post midterm Democratic and Republican Parties.

But if the first 72 hours are any indication—and despite the soon to be Speaker’s denials—the Left is already bragging about subpoenas, and it is intoxicated by the notion of investigations and impeachments.

Heady Democrats have entirely forgotten the politically suicidal fashion of the 2021-4 five civil and criminal courtroom circuses, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the blue state deballoting efforts.

All that and more fueled the Trump recovery.

Wild talk of multi-trillion-dollar new agendas grows, like socializing the health care system, a renewed Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, and illegal alien amnesties, along with new punitive income and estate regulations and taxes.

This socialist dream is reminiscent of the 2021 giddy splurging that gave the country a 9.1% inflation rate by midterm year 2022.

Along with the Afghanistan disaster (the Left’s correction for a Middle East ‘forever war”) the inflation would ensure Biden a 40% popularity.

The idea that the Left, which cannot do much real lawmaking without a veto-proof Congress, will try to reach deals with the White House, adopt a 1995 Clinton-like realist agenda, simply claim credit for the growing Trump economy, or moderate its rhetoric is highly unlikely.

Instead, we hear crazy talk of confiscations, new billionaire and millionaire punitive taxes, imprisonments, changing the Constitution—all in full suicidal 1972 McGovern style.

Republicans are blame-gaming each other, which can be constructive if over issues and reforms rather than social media ad hominem. But they need to message far better, about both the administration’s successes and the dangers of a socialist future.

There will be likely be no planned presidential succession, or gentlemanly agreement on a front runner. That’s likely good news. More likely as of now a triangular race between front-runners De Santis, Rubio, and Vance emerges—all of whom are far preferable to any ticket with a Newsom, Harris, AOC, Mamdani, or el-Sayed.

If the Republicans can stay reasonably united, they can ensure permanent presidential vetoes of crazy leftwing legislation, fight back on the Democratic committee inquisitions, and see the economy in the final two years become an asset in recovering their popularity.

Absent in all conversations is that there is increasing evidence that the economy is actually expanding and has the potential to boom in 2027, or at least the data indicate such potential.

The jobs report came out yesterday with a stunning 165,000 jobs created in October (accompanied by the usual journalists’ adverb “unexpectantly”), dropping unemployment to 4.1%.

Revised 3rd GDP stats now show a robust 3.4% growth—likely ensuring at least 3%+ growth for the year.

Third Quarter consumer spending soared 3.8%.

Private domestic investment surged with 19.4% growth.

Just reported last week: median family income in 2025 hit a new record ($87,460)—the highest in 60 years adjusted for inflation. And poverty dipped to its lowest rate (ever 10.2%).

In October manufacturing activity grew faster than at any time in the past five years.

Yes, prices are too high, and final 2026 inflation, given gas hikes, is scheduled to increase by one point (3.7%) from last year’s (2.7%). But it is still lower than the pan-European average (ca. 4+%)—and much lower than the Biden average over four years of 5.1%.

Gas prices are already falling. On November 6 prices fell to a $4.06 average—as global oil transit is mostly back to prewar levels and refineries scramble to handle the increased deliveries.

U.S. companies are dominating all the top 10 rankings in market capitalization/usage in key area such as software, AI, digital media, space, satellite launches, and bio/genetic engineering.

Note that today gas prices are not that much higher than 4 years ago at the 2022 midterm time ($4.06 vs. ca. $3.80), and haven’t once spiked to $5 a gallon as they did in 2022, just four months before the Biden midterms.

Yet oddly, the red wave sputtered in 2022 when the U.S. was in far worse economic shape than this week when the blue wave became a tsunami.

Messaging, media, and communication count, so note:

Four years ago GDP growth was lower than today—even though the pandemic was about over and there was a dramatic return to work and spending.

The inflation rate was almost three times higher in 2022 than now.

Median family income was $14,000 lower than now. The poverty rate was higher in 2022.

The Dow was 20,000 points lower. Foreign investment will likely end the year 30-40% higher than in 2022.

Real wage growth (nominal wages minus inflation) while not great in 2026 is likely to end the year far better than in 2022 (when real wage growth fell 2-3%).

So why would “affordability” have been decisive in the 2026 midterms when it was not in 2022?

The 21% aggregate inflation rate Trump inherited force-multiplied the average 3.15% Trump inflation rate of 2025-6— yet in a way the aggregate first-term Trump inflation rate (7.7% just a third of the Biden total) did not exaggerate all that much the 9.1% inflation rate in 2022.

Messaging, however, matters. The administration did not explain adequately that a 21% rise in prices cannot be lowered without radical deflation or recession, but only ameliorated by medium family income growth and lowering the inflation rate from the Biden 2021-5 averages, both of which occurred in 2025-6, but were forgotten.

Media coverage of the Biden 2022 weak economy were muted, while Trump’s 2-year inflation rate was exaggerated during 2026.

The Iran war became the culprit as a war of choice that made the inherited Biden 21% high prices and the inability to lower were them solely Trump’s fault. Again, there was inadequate explanation of either the economic reality or why the gamble to denuclearize Iran was defensible–with the caveat that stopping the bombing at day 38 and talking with theocrats for seven months was an unfortunate mistake.

The domestic and foreign policy activism of the lame-duck Clinton (1998-2000} and Obama (2014-2016) presidencies increased after their loss of Congress. Indeed, their popularity climbed from a once nadir of below forty to sixty percent approval or above.

There is no reason why the Trump administration cannot have a successful last two years. The economy is growing.

The crime rate is at historic lows.

The border is closed shut. The radical pro-Western political transformation of South and Central America has remade the entire Western Hemisphere.

European NATO is rearming.

Oil and gas production is at highest levels of any nation in history.

The bloated federal work force has been trimmed by over 270,000 jobs.

There is no longer a 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment. The forced reforms in higher education were long overdue.

The verdict on Iran is still out.

If it is denuclearized, the crippling sanctions continued, the Strait kept open, the provincial opposition armed—and our military gone home— the regime will face an increasingly restive population

2026 was an unequivocal defeat, but 2028 need not be.

If the administration and Congress stay disciplined and united, and can message better, while the Left goes utterly berserk, drunk on their midterm successes, socialism/Islamism, and Trump Derangement Syndrome 2.0, the tide will soon radically turn— as the economy already has.

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@lizpeek I read your article about changes to our immigration policy . I don't see any other way to address it without open borders every time the Dems are in control. I'd add to it that anyone entering illegally since 2016 has to leave and anyone who entered before that would pay a fine for each year they've been here illegally. Assimilation also has to be addressed. How do any of your suggested changes address the issues we have with foreign professors at our universities?

[NizNellie3 @NizNellie3]

🚨 This bum is still here.

There are currently 40,000 foreign professors in the U.S. on some form of visa.

Not 400. Not 4,000. 40,000.

Northeastern University Professor Aisulu Kulbayeva is here on a visa from Kazakhstan. Guys... KAZAKHSTAN.

During a pro-Hamas rally, excuse me, a pro-“Palestine” rally, Professor Kulbayeva enthusiastically joined students chanting for the destruction of America and Israel.

She was given the opportunity of a lifetime to teach at an American university.

Instead, she joined students calling for our demise.

Northeastern University has a foreign student population that’s upwards of 25,000 per year.

That’s over 25,000 spots that are ripped away from American students.

She’s still here. Still teaching.

Our Dept of Education, led by Linda McMahon, is currently shoving $300 MILLION in federal funding into the hands of this university.

@StateDept
@USCIS

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

Your party wants you de*d. You're surely old enough to know what "from the river to the sea" means. Yet you still remain affiliated with them and want to "lead" them. Please forgive me if I actively oppose every single thing you support because you obviously do not have a single ounce of wisdom let alone survival instincts.

[Commentary American News @TrumpWorld_QQ]

BREAKING: Tim Burchett just TOOK THE GLOVES OFF and called out the person suspected to be behind the stalling of his bill to stop paying the Taliban. This is HUGE!!!

"We got a fellow over in the Senate who is a staffer, but he was a former, I believe, ambassador to Afghanistan, and his name is what?"

"Tom West. And apparently, our good friend, Tulsi Gabbard and the Trump administration denied him his security clearance because of his alleged cozy relationship with the Taliban. And so, I suspect that's what's going on in the Senate. That's why they are, they're stopping the bill."

If this is true, it's a BETRAYAL of epic proportions. He also said there are GOP Senators who are likely getting KICKBACKS from Afghanistan.

DEFUND THE TALIBAN, THEY CAN HATE US FOR FREE!

[Jay Gatling @apinionsvary]

🚨BREAKING: Thomas Massie is finally reading the names on the Epstein list, just like he promised!

Just kidding!

No, it's Thomas Massie once again betraying the Republican Party, this time with a ridiculous push to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Kentucky already fired him in the primary, and he's using his last few weeks to do the Democrats' dirty work on his way out the door.

January 3rd can't come fast enough.

Good riddance!

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

I love Coleman Hughes. I started following him during all the COVID/BLM madness. I don't agree with all of his opinions but I respect how he presents them. It's been interesting to watch how his views have developed over the last half decade.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.

The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.

MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."

HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."

MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."

HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."

MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."

HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."

MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"

HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."

MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."

HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."

MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."

ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."

MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."

CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.

And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.

Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.

A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.

If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."

[Melody Kief @InRhythm2]

@PhillipAKennedy Worst list ever.