Alicia

Freedom, law, order, and great mental health. Eternal optimist- we only do this once, make it count. MAGA + MAHA ❤️Texas ❤️ The Great American Reset

[Alicia @awruss2]

Couple of immediate crises, now, right? Gangs taking over entire buildings and creating strongholds for themselves.
Illegal aliens, at some point they are going to need food (maybe why pets?) and I’ll bet at some point going to get desperate. This is a mess.

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

When a Japanese teenager flies home after a year inside an American family, the program waits twelve months. Then it calls the parents with one question:

"Has your child had any problems readjusting to life in Japan?"

My aunt Tamaki has made that call for twenty-three years.

The parents are supposed to say no.

Almost none of them say no.

There is a little box on her form for the answer. Two lines. In twenty-three years, nobody has stayed inside the box.

Here are a few.

"He wears shorts in February. We live in the mountains. The neighbors think we can't afford pants. In January, one of them left a pair at our door. Folded. With a note. 'For the boy.'" (Mother. Son's year: Minnesota)

"He fixed our toaster. Then the neighbor's bicycle. Then the neighbor's neighbor's sliding door. He is seventeen and he wears a tape measure on his belt. To dinner. On Sundays there's a line outside our apartment. I sent a son to Michigan. They sent back a hardware store." (Father. Son's year: Michigan)

"She still wears the sweatshirt from her high school in Idaho. Every day. When they lose on Friday night, she doesn't speak at breakfast on Saturday. They went two and seven last fall. It was a very quiet autumn." (Father. Daughter's year: Idaho)

"Every time she pays at the register, she asks, 'How are you today?' And then she waits for the answer. That cashier has worked at our supermarket for 22 years. Nobody ever waited. Now she hides the best bananas under the counter for my daughter. Like contraband. Last week the cashier asked my daughter how SHE was. My daughter had to go stand in the rice aisle for a minute." (Mother. Daughter's year: Oregon)

"He stands up every time his grandmother walks into the room. She's 87. Nobody has stood up for her since her wedding. Now she leaves the room and comes back in. Four times during one TV drama. She put on lipstick for the fourth one." (Mother. Son's year: South Carolina)

"Every Saturday she takes a guitar to the old people's home down the street. She knows four chords. Every song she plays is the same four chords. They request songs anyway. There's a man there, 91, who stopped talking to anyone years ago. Now he claps. On the wrong beat. Loudly. The nurses say it's the most he has moved in a year. They have stopped correcting the beat." (Mother. Daughter's year: West Virginia)

"At the airport, he shook my hand. Firm. He looked me in the eye like I was a man he respected. He's sixteen. I told him I needed the bathroom. I stood in there a while. A stranger asked if I was all right. I said, 'My son is home.' He didn't understand. I didn't explain." (Father. Son's year: Wyoming)

And then there's the call Tamaki didn't write down.

There wasn't a box big enough.

Kanna, seventeen, spent her year with the Dorseys, in a farm town in Indiana. Every night at dinner, the Dorseys did something called high-low. Everybody says the best part of their day and the worst part. Nobody is allowed to skip.

The youngest Dorsey's high was always dessert. Mr. Dorsey's low, every single night for eleven months, was the lawn.

On her first night, Kanna tried to skip. They waited. So she said her low was that she missed her mother. Then she couldn't stop crying, at a table full of strangers, over a casserole.

Craig Dorsey passed her the rolls.

"That's a good low, kiddo. Means you've got a good mom."

There was one rule, he told her. Nobody fixes anybody's low. You just say, "Thanks for telling us."

Kanna brought high-low home.

Her family thought it was the strangest thing America had done to her. Her grandmother's high was the weather. Every night. Her little brother's low was having to do high-low. And her father, an office worker, 51, said the same thing every night, in the tone of a man reading out stock prices:

"High: nothing. Low: nothing."

Four months of that.

Then one night in November:

"High: nothing."

He stopped.

"Low."

He put his chopsticks down. He looked at the soy sauce bottle like it might help him.

"I don't have a job."

He had lost it in August. Twenty-eight years at one company, then one meeting. For three months, he had put on his suit every morning at 7:10, picked up his briefcase, said "I'm off," and spent the day on a bench by the river. He came home at 6:30. He even complained about the trains.

In Japan, some men do this. They will sit on a bench for months before they'll say it at the dinner table.

Nobody moved. His wife stopped breathing. His son put his game face-down on the table.

Kanna had no idea what you say to that. So she reached for the only thing she had. The Indiana rule.

"Thanks for telling us, Dad."

Then her grandmother reached over and put her hand on top of his. She's 83. She had not held her son's hand since he was in grade school.

And she said her high.

"Tomorrow you can stay home and watch my programs with me."

Nobody at that table had seen him cry before. Or laugh at dinner. Both happened at once. It made a sound nobody could identify.

He found a new job in February. Smaller company. Less money. Longer train.

That night:

"High: everything."

"And low?"

He thought about it.

"Your grandmother is upset I won't be home for her programs."

When Kanna told the Dorseys, Craig wrote back that his high that night was a man in Japan he has never met.

His low was still the lawn.

"So yes," Kanna's mother told Tamaki. "We have a problem. Dinner takes an hour now. Please send more children to Indiana."

So, America.

The high-low at dinner. Waiting for the cashier's answer. Standing up when Grandma walks in. You think it's small. You think it's corny. Your teenagers roll their eyes so hard you can hear it.

We sent you one of ours for a year. She came back corny.

And a man in Japan got up off a bench.

Stay corny, America. It travels.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

This is looking more & more like a co-ordinated attack.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

We thank Almighty God for the noble warriors of the United States military who have always stepped forward so that America might always stay free.

To our veterans: We pledge you our utmost loyalty and devotion. Thank you for your service. 🇺🇸

[Truth Org @DTruthsQ]

🔥WATCH IN FULL: President Donald J. Trump delivers a primetime address to the nation on Operation Epic Fury.

[EDIGuy @EDIGuy01]

DIVORCE AGREEMENT

THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELL-PUT, AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S WRITTEN BY A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is our separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.

--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.

--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.

--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.

--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.

--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.

--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.

--We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.

--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.

--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.

--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.

--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.

--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.

--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."

--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."

--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.

--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.

P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

It is. Rubio has said exactly this as well. I even communicated it on my show - but people just don't believe it.

[The Bruiser @DrHoosierHermit]

Hey @VP Vance, this is how it's done. We shouldn't govern by polls. We should govern by principle and what is right.

#MAGA

[Lunakye @lunakye_world]

They called it a wave. Waves have a shape. This has a signature.
25 points in Texas. 24 in Iowa. 22 in South Carolina. 21 in Kansas. The redder the state, the deeper the swing — while actual swing states barely moved.
That’s not how voters work. That’s the tell.
Buckle up. This is just getting started. 🔥 🇺🇸 🫡 #TRUMP2028

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

HOLY CR*P 🚨 Official Election Administration and Voting Comprehensive Report buried all the way on page 193 of the document shows Texas processed 2,900,357 new valid voter registrations between 2022-2024 without proof of citizenship

Documented proof of citizenship like birth certificate, passport and naturalization papers is not required at the time of voter registration in Texas

56.5% of Texas voter registration were classified as “new valid registrations.”

This is extremely suspicious that 55% of Texas voter registrations were “new”

[Louis Montoya @montoyalouis1]

🚨Two numbers from Texas that don’t pass the smell test:

Gina Hinojosa just got 5.23 million votes for governor. That’s more than any gubernatorial candidate in modern Texas history — higher than Abbott’s 4.66M peak in 2018 and 1.68M more than Beto got in 2022.

James Talarico got 5.45 million for Senate. That’s only about 940k short of Trump’s entire 2024 presidential total in Texas… in a midterm.

Republican raw votes stayed flat. Democratic votes exploded. Midterm turnout somehow produced presidential-level Democratic numbers.

Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

What an absolute, unmitigated, motherfucking disaster.

We got our asses kicked. We got politically disemboweled. We got dragged through the electoral wood chipper, and the Republican establishment stood there with its collective thumb up its ass wondering why the fucking machine was running.

And now, right on schedule, the excuses are pouring in.

The war. Gas prices. Bad candidates. Historical trends. Voter frustration. Bad messaging.

Jesus fucking Christ, SHUT UP.

We had the majority. We had the presidency. We had the opportunity to deliver. And these incompetent, spineless, self-serving Republican bastards managed to turn political power into a fucking participation trophy.

Let's start with John Thune.

You spectacularly useless son of a bitch.

You had the Senate majority. You had an election integrity bill conservatives desperately wanted passed. You had millions of voters begging Republicans to demonstrate that winning elections actually meant something.

And what did you deliver?

A fucking master class in legislative impotence.

The SAVE Act became another monument to Republican paralysis while the people who elected you watched Washington's favorite collection of overpaid assholes explain why accomplishing anything was just too goddamn complicated.

You had power, John.

HAD.

And now Democrats get to enjoy the congressional authority your leadership helped squander.

What a magnificent fucking achievement. You couldn't have served Democratic interests more effectively if you'd shown up to work wearing a DNC name tag.

And don't think the rest of the Republican establishment gets a free pass. Every useless bastard who spent these last two years hiding behind parliamentary excuses, protecting his precious committee assignments, and treating the Senate like a retirement community deserves the same political eviction notice.

Get the fuck out.

Then there's Iran.

And this is where I have absolutely zero patience for the Monday-morning military strategists pretending the nuclear threat was some imaginary problem.

IRAN MUST NEVER, EVER GET A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB.

Not tomorrow. Not ten years from now. Not under some worthless diplomatic agreement held together with wishful thinking and another round of international bullshit.

Never.

We're talking about a regime with a long history of sponsoring terrorism, threatening Israel, brutalizing its own population, and pursuing nuclear capabilities that could fundamentally alter the security of the Middle East.

A nuclear-armed Iranian regime is a nightmare America has every reason to prevent.

And if military action was necessary to eliminate that threat, then the mission needed a clear objective and the determination to achieve it.

Destroy the nuclear weapons capability. Prevent its reconstruction. Make damn sure the regime cannot simply wait out another American administration and resume the same dangerous ambitions.

Finish the fucking job.

Because if Americans endured war, economic disruption, and soaring gasoline prices only to discover Iran could eventually rebuild its nuclear weapons program, then what the everlasting fuck was the point?

I can accept political costs for a mission that makes America and its allies safer.

I cannot accept strategic confusion, endless uncertainty, and politicians who seem incapable of explaining what victory actually means.

And here's the part Republican leadership should have understood before this election became a political slaughterhouse.

Americans were paying the price at the pump while Democrats were pounding them over affordability.

Groceries. Gas. Housing. Insurance. The cost of keeping a fucking roof over your family's head.

Democrats hammered those issues relentlessly.

And Republicans?

Apparently they were too busy measuring the drapes in their offices and scheduling another goddamn television appearance.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to watch voters struggle with household expenses and fail to understand what they're telling you?

Then came the candidates.

James Talarico winning Texas. Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan. Susan Collins losing Maine.

An electoral fucking earthquake.

And the Republican establishment somehow managed to look surprised.

Surprised?

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

You could practically hear the political foundation cracking for months. Warning signs were flashing everywhere, and these arrogant, complacent jackasses behaved like victory was something they were entitled to receive in the mail.

At some point, incompetence becomes so breathtaking that you begin wondering whether anybody in Republican leadership has ever successfully managed anything more complicated than ordering lunch.

And now comes the part that really makes my fucking blood boil.

The conservative influencer circus.

Bannon. Tucker. Candace. Megyn. Flynn. Alex Jones. Jack Posobiec. And every other self-appointed political messiah whose microphone somehow became more important than winning elections.

Here come the emergency broadcasts. The finger-pointing. The infighting. The hysterical accusations. The endless fucking circular firing squads.

Another catastrophe, another opportunity to turn conservative frustration into a revenue stream.

How many fucking subscriptions does it take to rebuild a political movement?

How many podcasts does it take to pass a bill?

How many goddamn livestreams does it take to win a Senate race?

Apparently nobody knows, because we've spent years watching people get rich explaining why conservatives should be furious while the actual machinery of Republican politics keeps breaking down.

Enough of this shit.

And spare me the conservative celebrities who spend more time attacking other conservatives than figuring out how to defeat Democrats.

Your personal feuds are not a political strategy.

Your fucking podcast ratings are not election results.

And your ability to scream into a microphone for three hours doesn't qualify you to lead anything.

Meanwhile, Democrats just demonstrated that winning elections is still considerably more useful than winning internet arguments.

Imagine that fucking revelation.

And speaking of Democrats, can we appreciate the sheer comedic absurdity of what just happened?

Donald Trump, the man they've spent years calling a dictator, fascist, authoritarian, monarch, and existential threat to democracy, just watched his party lose control of Congress through an election.

A fucking election.

The most terrifying dictator in American history apparently forgot the most important chapter in the dictator's handbook.

CANCEL THE GODDAMN VOTING.

What a fucking embarrassment for the professional hysteria merchants.

Apparently American democracy was healthy enough to deliver Democrats a massive victory after all.

Somebody call the Nobel Committee. Democracy has miraculously survived another Tuesday.

But here's where the laughter stops.

Because this defeat is serious as hell.

Republicans lost power. Democrats gained it. And the people who spent years warning us about the consequences of losing these midterms now have to explain why they were so spectacularly unprepared to prevent it.

And I don't want to hear another fucking word about how everyone needs to unite behind the same failed leadership.

Unite behind WHAT?

More excuses?

More broken promises?

More leadership elections where the same collection of useless bastards rearranges the nameplates and congratulates itself on a fresh start?

Fuck that.

I want a political reckoning so thorough that every complacent Republican incumbent starts checking whether his local voters are recruiting a primary challenger.

Every single one.

I want records examined. Promises compared with results. Leadership positions challenged. Failed candidates replaced. Party organizations rebuilt from the ground up.

And I want Republican voters to stop treating incumbency like some sacred fucking birthright.

You want loyalty?

EARN IT.

You want donations?

SHOW RESULTS.

You want another term?

EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK YOU ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE LAST ONE.

Because the era of handing out political participation trophies to career Republicans needs to end.

And don't give me that tired bullshit about how difficult Washington is.

We know Washington is difficult.

That's why we elect people who promise to fucking fight.

If you wanted a comfortable career collecting a government paycheck while accomplishing absolutely nothing, you should have applied for a job as a congressional office fern.

At least the fern produces oxygen.

Now, I know what some people are thinking.

It's over.

MAGA is finished.

Trump is politically crippled.

The country is lost.

BULLSHIT.

Absolute, defeatist, self-pitying BULLSHIT.

Yes, we got our asses kicked.

Yes, Democrats are celebrating.

Yes, the next two years are going to be harder than they needed to be because Republican leadership apparently couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.

But since when did one election determine the permanent fate of the United States of America?

Obama's Democrats lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats in 2010.

Did the Democratic Party disappear?

Did progressives pack their bags and surrender?

Of course fucking not.

Political movements survive defeats when they have the courage to confront their failures and the discipline to rebuild.

And that's exactly what conservatives need to do.

Because here's what I refuse to believe.

I refuse to believe that millions of Americans who love this country, believe in secure borders, want safe communities, demand responsible government, and expect their elected officials to put American interests first suddenly ceased to exist because a bunch of Republican politicians fucked up an election.

I refuse to believe that the people who stood by Trump through investigations, indictments, impeachment battles, media hysteria, and years of political warfare are suddenly going to surrender because Democrats won Congress.

And I sure as fuck refuse to believe that the future of American conservatism belongs to the same failed political establishment that helped create this mess.

Maybe this election was the wake-up call.

Maybe God looked down at the Republican Party, watched the arrogance, complacency, backstabbing, cowardice, and endless fucking excuses, and decided these people needed a lesson in humility delivered with a goddamn sledgehammer.

Maybe the message was simple.

YOU AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH.

Your leadership isn't good enough.

Your candidates aren't good enough.

Your organization isn't good enough.

Your results sure as hell aren't good enough.

FIX IT.

And maybe that's precisely what needs to happen.

Tear down the complacency. Destroy the culture of excuses. Replace failed leadership. Recruit candidates who actually know how to win. Build organizations capable of turning conservative principles into electoral victories.

Stop expecting Trump to carry every worthless Republican politician across the finish line like some exhausted political pack mule.

Trump has already done more than enough heavy lifting for people who seem incapable of carrying their own fucking briefcases.

And guess what?

TRUMP IS STILL PRESIDENT.

That little detail seems to have escaped the champagne-soaked Democrats dancing on MAGA's supposed grave.

He still occupies the White House. He still has constitutional authority. He still has the ability to shape foreign policy, defend American interests, and pursue the priorities that brought him back to office.

And if Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions can be permanently eliminated, that achievement will matter long after every smug political analyst has forgotten the election-night graphics.

But Trump also needs a Republican Party capable of surviving politically without him.

Because 2028 is coming.

And when it arrives, the movement needs more than nostalgia, slogans, celebrity endorsements, and another fucking collection of candidates who think putting MAGA in their social media biography qualifies them for public office.

We need competence.

We need discipline.

We need courage.

We need people who understand that winning an election is a responsibility, not a fucking lifetime achievement award.

And we need Republican voters willing to hold their own side accountable with the same ferocity they direct toward Democrats.

That means primaries.

That means challenging incumbents.

That means getting involved locally.

That means demanding actual accomplishments instead of accepting another round of bullshit fundraising emails promising that victory is just one more donation away.

I'm sick of the excuses.

I'm sick of the cowardice.

I'm sick of watching Republican politicians campaign like warriors and govern like frightened little bureaucrats terrified of upsetting the Washington cocktail circuit.

And I'm especially fucking sick of being told that criticizing Republican leadership somehow makes you disloyal to the conservative movement.

No.

The people who squandered their opportunities owe voters an explanation.

The people who made promises and failed to deliver owe voters accountability.

And the people who believe Republican voters should simply shut up, open their wallets, and keep electing the same failed leadership can go fuck themselves.

We've got two years.

Two years to clean house.

Two years to rebuild.

Two years to recruit candidates who can actually win.

Two years to prove that conservatism is bigger than any one politician, any one election, or any collection of self-important assholes occupying leadership offices in Washington.

And yes, I'm furious.

I'm absolutely fucking livid.

I'm disgusted by the incompetence. I'm embarrassed by the squandered opportunities. I'm enraged that so many people who demanded our trust treated that responsibility like a goddamn inconvenience.

But I'm still here.

And so are millions of Americans who believe this country is worth fighting for.

We're still breathing.

We're still voting.

We're still organizing.

And we're still perfectly capable of telling every useless politician in Washington exactly where to shove his excuses.

America has survived wars, depressions, assassinations, national catastrophes, and political upheavals far worse than one disastrous election.

We'll survive this.

But surviving isn't enough.

We need to learn from it.

We need to rebuild.

And we need to make damn sure that the next time Republicans are entrusted with power, the people holding it actually know what the fuck they're doing.

So congratulations, Democrats.

Enjoy your victory. Pop the champagne. Dance on the political graves. Write your obituaries for Trump and MAGA.

You've earned your celebration.

But don't confuse a devastating electoral defeat with the permanent death of a political movement.

And to the Republican establishment, here's your message.

The fucking gravy train needs to stop.

No more automatic loyalty.

No more free passes.

No more protecting failed leadership because somebody has been warming a Senate chair since the invention of electricity.

No more treating voters like gullible idiots who can be placated with a flag pin, a campaign slogan, and another goddamn promise.

You wanted power.

You got it.

You squandered it.

Now answer for it.

And to every conservative wondering whether to give up, I have one final thought.

FUCK GIVING UP.

Fuck surrender.

Fuck political despair.

Fuck the idea that one election gets to decide whether we still believe in our country.

The fight for America's future didn't begin with Donald Trump, and it sure as hell doesn't end with a Republican defeat in 2026.

We lost a major battle. We haven't lost the country. And we haven't lost the right to fight like hell for its future.

So bury the excuses.

Fire the failures.

Challenge the incumbents.

Build something stronger.

And when 2028 comes around, make sure the Republican Party has learned the one lesson its leadership apparently needed an electoral ass-kicking to understand:

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T OWE YOU A GODDAMN THING.

Earn their trust.

Earn their votes.

Earn the right to govern.

Or get the fuck out of the way.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

🚨 I call on Gov. Abbott to IMMEDIATELY convene a special session to REIN IN EXECUTIVE EMERGENCY POWERS… before Gina Hinojosa is sworn in!

Republicans lost last night, but Democrats were not sworn in.

We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers and limit the emergency powers that Governor-Elect Hinojosa is set to inherit, which would allow her to destroy liberty in Texas by executive fiat.

I’ve warned since I was first elected that NO governor, Republican or Democrat, should have unchecked emergency powers!

Now that Texas has elected a Democrat Governor, the urgency is undeniable… and inaction is intolerable.

Without action, Governor Hinojosa will inherit the powers of a DICTATOR.

Due to the absurd (and almost certainly unconstitutional) Texas emergency powers laws, Gov. Hinojosa will literally have the power to modify laws, ignore laws, or create and enforce laws – including criminal laws – on a whim!

Today is a day for ACTION, and bold leadership.

The Texas Legislature must immediately pass, and Governor Abbott must sign, legislation like HB911, which I filed in 2022 and warned at the time, that “Never ending emergency powers are antithetical to representative government and render people powerless. Legislative bodies allowing a single executive branch official to both write and enforce laws is the biggest threat to our constitutional system of divided government and should be opposed irrespective of which political party runs the executive branch.”

My legislation would protect liberty from executive fiat by, among other things, taking the following actions:

1. Prohibit the Governor from suspending or modifying statutes

2. Sunset emergency orders in 30 days if the legislature does not ratify the order

3. Prohibit the governor from reissuing emergency orders that expired or the legislature rejected

4. Require emergency orders to be narrowly tailored

5. Subject emergency orders to expedited judicial review

We have TEN WEEKS LEFT to protect Texas from near total Democrat rule.

I encourage every elected Republican in Texas to join my demand for Gov. Abbott to call a special session.

The future of liberty in America is literally on the line in Texas, and Texans deserve leadership that acts accordingly.

@GregAbbott_TX

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Well this sucks.

I’m going to rant for a few moments and then move on in a positive way.

My three unvarnished thoughts on tonight:

1. Any MAGA voter who sat this out to "prove a point" to the eGOP who now lives under Democrat rule deserves what they are about to experience.

2. Trump knew Iran could cost the midterms. But he did it anyway. Because he knows that the Iranian mullahs are theocratic madmen who are trying to build nuclear weapons so they can use them on the USA and Israel, precipitating Armageddon so the Hidden Imam will arise from a well in Qom and force what’s left of humanity to convert to Shia Islam. So Trump had to choose. Win the midterms or save humanity? He chose wisely. Historians will eventually acknowledge this reality.

3. The PRIMARIES are where you make RINOs pay, not the general. Geez.

So THAT’S all over and it’s on to 2028 to save America. Let’s put this behind us, pull together as patriotic conservative Americans, squash the squabbling, infighting and name calling, and get back to where we need to be.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

No. No it was not.

Onward to 2028…. (I’m dropping the name of my preferred presidential candidate in the morning.)

[Commentary Trump Daily Posts @TrumpDailyPosts]

JUST IN: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller Issues Major Midterm Warning.
Announces not a single blue state run by Democrats has checked their voter rolls for citizenship and that non-citizen voting numbers appear to be astronomical.
Developing....

[Capitol Leaks @CapitolLeaks1]

🇺🇸⚡️President Trump: "I will propose a Western Survival Pact. Whoever joins it closes its borders, expels en masse, and defends its culture. Whoever doesn't do it... faces the invasion alone. And the first one who must sign it is the United Kingdom... or it sinks!" 💥

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Every person who tried to vote here should be calling to report this. Wake up Texas.

[Alicia @awruss2]

@ZenithcoreAi Autopilot

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Every voter in Texas should watch this before Election Day.

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Hey Texas are you paying attention yet?

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher opens the floodgates when he asks, “Why?” James Talarico is a “very weird dude.”

Ted Cruz spends the next 2 full minutes going down the list.

Maher gives Talarico the benefit of the doubt until the “I really love trans children” quote drops.

Then he folds.

CRUZ: “I’m not going to convince you to love Ken Paxton. But you got to admit, Talarico, I think, is a very weird dude.”

MAHER: “Why?”

CRUZ: “Because he is like the ultimate woke social justice warrior. This is a guy who stands in front of a church... he says God is non-binary. He says there’s six genders. He stands in front of a church and says he weeps for his whiteness and weeps for his masculinity.”

MAHER: “That’s just weird. That is weird. I couldn’t agree with you more.”

KID ROCK: “Maybe he’s gay.”

MAHER: “What?”

KID ROCK: “Maybe he’s just gay.”

MAHER: “But why are we inferring — because he thinks Jesus is non-binary, which I don’t think he means as —”

[Kid Rock’s face isn’t buying a word of Maher’s explanation]

KID ROCK: “I know what he meant!”

MAHER: “What do you think he meant?”

KID ROCK: “Yeah, he’s trying to go into this whole ‘what’s a woman.’ Like, are we really talking about this 250 years later?”

MAHER: “No, I just think — look, I don’t know that much about it, but I have heard those quotes. I think what he meant by the Jesus is non-binary thing is that, you know, there are a lot of people who believe in God. I mean, your whole album is about Jesus, but in a more sort of ethereal way, more spiritual way. You know, he’s not the man in the sky with the beard, that kind of thing.”

CRUZ: “So Bill, all of these, he’s on video. He was asked, ‘Who do you really love?’ And his answer is, ‘Trans children.’ Well, I don’t know anyone else who would answer that question that way.”

MAHER: “Is that the full answer?”

CRUZ: “Yes, I promise you. You can pull up the video. He was asked, ‘Who do you really love?’ And he pauses and thinks and says, ‘I really love trans children.’ ... He also says on video that his objective is to, quote, ‘dismantle capitalism.’”

MAHER: “Look, I am not for any of that sh*t.”

CONTEXT: Talarico really did say it. On a 2023 podcast, he was asked what he loves other than family and friends, and his answer was the “trans children” who had rallied at the Texas Capitol the day before.