StevenWMosher

Population Research Institute Prez; Author, The Devil & Communist China, Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics, Bully of Asia. 1st US Scholar in China-1979

[PRI: People First @PRISource]

TODAY: PRI President @StevenWMosher joins @Varneyco at 11:15 AM ET to talk about the Nvidia spy scandal.

What would a Chinese honeypot want from America’s top AI chipmaker?

Chips, secrets, and influence in the White House. Tune in on @FoxBusiness.

[Zigaflint2 @Zigaflint2]

@Varneyco Stuart you're facial expression when @StevenWMosher mention Fang Fang at Swawells w no undergarment on was priceless!!! Thanks for the morning laugh! 🤣🤣thank goodness I'd already swallowed my coffee at that point.

[Steve Lance @SteveLanceNTD]

Ahead of President Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping at APEC, president of the Population Research Institute @StevenWMosher says the U.S. must stop China’s espionage to stay ahead:

“If we can stop the stealing, if we can stop the espionage, we can win in space, we can win in artificial intelligence, we can win in robotics.”

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

My friend Victor Davis Hanson did not say "JD's idiotic vision."

Rather, he faults President Trump for entering into negotiations with Iran instead of leveling the country.

But the country has already been leveled--economically. Hunger works better than bombs.

[🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱 @TheDemSlayer]

Victor Davis Hanson hits the nail right on the head with the Iran War.

The war was never the problem. JD’s idiotic vision that we could successfully negotiate with a “theocratic, apocalyptic regime that had just killed 40,000 of their own people” was the problem.

The war wasn’t what cost us the election. JuDas “We Love Pakistan” Vance did.

But ultimately, it is the mistake of the Commander in Chief. President Trump is the one who listened to the poisoning words of his Grima Wormtongue VP.

And now we’ve lost the House and the Senate to a bunch of freaking communists, and God only knows how the Iranian People are going to be liberated.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

Alarm bells should go off in the head of any politician, tech CEO, or China hand who is approached by a young, attractive, and obviously available Chinese woman.

You are only a means to an end.

[Steve Lance @SteveLanceNTD]

President of the Population Research Institute @StevenWMosher has a warning for politicians and tech CEOs after the Nvidia scandal:

“Do not fall for this kind of bait, because it always ends badly, not just for you personally, but for the United States of America.”

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

If we are going to use AI, here is Grok's answer to the question of whether the Koran allows its followers to dissemble:

"I'll examine the Quranic texts and relevant scholarly interpretations on this topic.

"Yes, in limited, specific circumstances of self-preservation or compulsion, as interpreted in classical Islamic sources."

"The Quran does not use the later term taqiyya (or authorize unrestricted lying to non-Muslims), but key verses and standard tafsirs (commentaries) permit outward dissimulation or false statements toward disbelievers (kafirun) when a believer faces danger, persecution, or coercion."

"Broader Islamic tradition also allows deception in war."
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I note also that the Muslim Brotherhood is engaged in what it calls a Civilizational Jihad, which is to say, war.

[The Big Dead One @CthulhuRules]

@StevenWMosher @ItsVictorNieves Nope.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

@ItsVictorNieves An oath taken on a book that explicitly permits false statements toward disbelievers does not inspire confidence.

Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed will swear on the Koran to uphold the Constitution.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

YES! Also, there is nothing fishy about a high correlation between a recent presidential result and the next midterm’s statewide races. The US is highly polarized. This election was an election on national issues--the war, high prices, affordability, and so forth--that of course moved the move the needle in a seemingly correlated way.

This wasn't voter fraud. R² values in the 0.8+ range for presidential-to-Senate/governor shares are common, not proof of fraud. So yeah, you can calculate a single factor--keeping ~85% of the Trump share--because in reality a roughly constant fraction of the 2024 Trump coalition defected, stayed home, or cancelled out by higher Dem turnout everywhere.

The war, higher energy prices, affordability issues hit everyone, from sea to shining sea, and a portion of the president’s coalition walked away.

I wish it were not so, believe me. But that's what produced what seems to be a pattern, not mysterious outside forces. Focus, folks. WE won't win the next election by going down rabbit holes. And we must win it!

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

You're right. Nobody cared about the War in Iran at the outset.

Until it started showing up month after month in the price of gas, diesel, heating oil and electric bills.

Then a lot of people cared. And voted.

[Phil Scarborough @phsjr1]

@StevenWMosher @CynicalPublius NOBODY CARED ABOUT THAT FUCKING "WAR" THAT'S NOT A WAR

BULLSHIT

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

@CynicalPublius We DID lose because of the War in Iran-which has hit American families hard.

Dems ARE preparing to destroy US. If they win in 2028, they will do so.

I am NOT willing to risk spending the rest of my life in a Commie hellhole because of another failed effort at regime change.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

Congress can pass a bill, right now during a Lame Duck session, codifying the current number of Supreme Court justices.

All it takes is guts, Leader Thune.

[Carrie Severino @JCNSeverino]

That didn’t take long.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

https://t.co/DKWbYuLjHJ

Now that the midterms are over, the 2028 countdown begins.
The War in Iran must end, one way or another, soon.
Or the Presidential election will be a repeat of this week's shellacking--only worse.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

@AriFleischer No. The pledge was “No new wars.” Repeated countless times.

The pledge was broken. People noticed.

Every time they gassed up.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

@MattWalshBlog "End the War." That was the election message

The 4 factors mentioned by Vance are all consequences of the attack on Iran--the war raised prices, seemed to put Israel's interests ahead of the US & violated the America First promise of "peace and prosperity" & "no new wars."

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

End the War. That was the message.

The 4 factors mentioned by Vance are all consequences of the attack on Iran--the war raised prices, seemed to put Israel's interests ahead of the US & violated the America First promise of "peace and prosperity" & "no new wars."

[JD Vance @JDVance]

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

@LeaderJohnThune Live up to your title, Leader John Thune: End the 60-vote threshold for legislation, pass the SAVE America Act, codify the Executive Orders, and other legislation between now and January.

This may be our last chance to SAVE America, literally. It is certainly yours.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

@jenvanlaar End the 60-vote threshold for legislation, pass the SAVE America Act, codify the Executive Orders, and other legislation between now and January.

This may be our last chance to SAVE America, literally.

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

How much money would China be willing to spend to rig Kalshi in favor of their friends in the Democrat Socialist Party?

It already spends tens of billions on influence operations around the world.

What's a few tens of millions more to help elect a few of their friends?

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

BREAKING: Democrats have a 93% chance to win control of the House on Election Day

🟦 Democrat: 237
🟨 Toss-Up: 10
🟥 Republican: 188

[StevenWMosher @StevenWMosher]

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