Wrong lesson. Republican voters chose Trump because they were tired of feeling like their leadership had no interest in beating the Democrats. They were tired of feeling like even when they won, they lost.
This shellacking tonight didn’t happen because of Trump. His candidates have lost before. It happened because the base is tired of settling for representation content with losing slowly.
@tuffsmurfen96@MattWalshBlog@cordes_tax A lot of people either don't know it's possible or are unwilling to put in the initial effort. The obvious result being children who never learn, because they aren't taught, that there are different ways to behave based on the circumstances.
@tuffsmurfen96@MattWalshBlog@cordes_tax 🤦♀️ "initial trips to the hallway" during the training phase- until they learn to sit quietly. It doesn't actually take that long, even for very small children. Then your efforts are rewarded with kiddos who know how to sit still and quietly when the situation calls for it.
@MattWalshBlog@cordes_tax Agree. We had 8 and all 8 sat in church with us their entire childhood, without being disruptive(& without a backpack of toys!). But if you aren't willing to put in the effort of training-incl. the initial repeated trips out to the hallway until they learn, well, they never will.
@The0tt0Show@MattWalshBlog@cordes_tax We had 8 and got that same comment at more than one restaurant. Even had our meal paid for once by an older couple who said they appreciated our calm, happy family. Ppl assume kids aren't capable of quiet, calm behavior when it's warranted, but a little training proves otherwise.
Yesterday we all just noticed something.
The moment America eliminated the Supreme Leader of Iran, the missiles hit the nuclear facilities, and Iranians flooded the streets celebrating their liberation, a very specific group of people who spent years calling themselves conservatives, wrapping themselves in MAGA, selling supplements and survival gear and “America First” merchandise to the most loyal voters in the country started parroting Iranian state TV.
Not similar. Not adjacent. The same.
PressTV could have copy-pasted their posts. The IRGC’s propaganda arm spent years trying to convince Americans that Iran was not a threat, that the real enemy was domestic, that any strike was a neocon Jewish conspiracy and yesterday these “conservatives” did that work for free.
For an audience of millions.
Built on Trump’s name.
Just noticing that the grift only works if the base stays angry at the wrong enemy.
Just noticing that “America First” somehow always seems to end with defending the people who chant Death to America.
Just noticing that the people who couldn’t name a single Iranian proxy army, couldn’t tell you how many Americans Iran killed in Iraq, couldn’t locate Fordow on a map — were the loudest voices telling the President of the United States he was wrong about a national security threat they’ve never studied.
Just noticing that while they were posting flag emojis about the IRS —
Iranians were dancing in the streets because the man who ordered the murder of their children was finally dead.
Just noticing that the regime those “conservatives” spent yesterday defending:
Executes women for showing their hair.
Hangs gay men from cranes.
Paid bounties on American soldiers’ heads.
Had an active assassination plot against the President they claim to support.
Just noticing that when the smoke cleared on the biggest American national security victory in a generation these grifters all exposed themselves as the frauds they have always been.
Coupon code: OperationLetThemSpeak
The fact that a billionaire real estate playboy who liked to slap his name on steaks and wine has proven to be a better diplomat and military strategist than every other politician and foreign policy expert over the last 30 years is such a damning indictment of the DC establishment I honestly don’t know how they recover.
@goddek@grok You used the word "paid". LOTS of accounts are, all at the same time, using that word, and making similar accusations about the activity of particular accounts. The only conclusion I can reasonably draw-using your own methods- is that YOU are getting paid to say ppl are paid 🤷♀️
@JerryBrewer So many stupid takes from journalists big mad that athletes won't dedicate the greatest moment of their lives to validating the journalists' political biases. The only room they lost was a room full of assholes.
@DanScavino It certainly wasn't the principled resistance look that they were, presumably, hoping to portray. They came across as utterly defeated and demoralized rather than defiantly energized.
If you’re too fragile to sit in a room with a President you dislike, you aren't a "principled dissenter"—you’re an overgrown, petulant toddler in a power suit.
Spare us the performative boycott. If you despise the administration so much that you refuse to participate in the basic functions of the government you’re literally paid to run, then have the spine to resign.
Even the Confederates had more class. In 1861, as the Union fractured, Southern Senators actually surrendered their seats before leaving. They didn’t hang around like bitter exes to heckle Lincoln from the cheap seats while still cashing a federal paycheck.
If you’ve lost the stomach for the job, get out of the way; otherwise, sit down, shut up, and do the work.
@JohnTBTucker@jwludwig@ShamashAran 99% of the hysteria could be avoided if people took a breath and got the facts. But, alas...the outrage drug is quite an addictive one.
@breerstrom@TheEpsteinFiles Exactly what I was thinking. An email asking for guidance, with no responding email detailing guidance. At this point, hardly some kind of smoking gun.
@1DarrenHoward@iamrjknight Yes! *Religion* leads to one of only two places- pride/self righteousness or discouragement/defeat. They have been burdened with religion, rather than set free by the Good News.