Roberta Thomas

Retired now with time to actually think.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

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[TRUMP QUANTUM TREASURY ✪ @Trump_Treasury1]

🚨 I want to see where public opinion stands:

How would you grade John Thune's performance as Senate Republican leader so far?

A, B, C, D, or F?

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Absolutely not.

[Lyuba @Lyuba_211]

No way 🤣😂🤣🤣

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Absolute TRUTH. 💯

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Brilliant idea and long overdue.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Thomas Sowell – The Man Who Asked for the Evidence 📚

He was born in 1930 in North Carolina, in a house without running water. His father died before he was born. He grew up in Harlem, left school at sixteen, delivered telegrams, worked in a machine shop and served in the Marines. Then he went to Harvard, Columbia and Chicago.

He started as a Marxist. Books did not cure him. A summer job did.

In 1960, at the U.S. Department of Labor, he studied the minimum wage in Puerto Rico's sugar industry. Each time the wage was raised, employment fell. He proposed a simple test to find out why. Nobody in the building wanted it run. The department's budget depended on the law being good; whether the law was good was not its business. That summer, he understood that an institution has interests of its own, and that the truth is rarely among them.

Everything else followed from there. For sixty years, he has asked the three questions that no ideology survives: compared to what, at what cost, and what hard evidence do you have?

He put the whole of economics in one line, observing that there are no solutions, only trade-offs. And he put the whole of politics in another, noting that it is hard to imagine a more dangerous way of making decisions than putting them in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

He gave the planners their true name: the anointed. People who judge themselves by their intentions and everyone else by results, and for whom every failure of their policy is proof that it was not tried hard enough.

He was a black man from Harlem who said that culture matters more than grievance, and that the policies made to help the poor had hurt them most. For that, the people who claim to speak for the poor never forgave him. He kept writing anyway – more than forty books, without a single slogan in them.

He is ninety-six. He has never held power, never led a movement, never raised his voice.

He only asked for the evidence. In the age of the Lie, that turned out to be the most radical thing a man could do.

—

America has one honor that fits: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, its highest civilian award. 🏅🇺🇸
He should receive it now, while he can still walk up and collect it. 🗽

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

😂😂🙌🏻

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Rubio, over and over and over again. 😏

[David Zorkocy @DavidZorkocy]

If the primary was held today between JD Vance and Marco Rubio... who would you vote for and why?

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

So, what's with all the Asian brides. Michelle Yeoh I understand - Hell of an actress - but the rest?

[Bhandafod @Bhandafod_]

I have one question… actually, a LOT of questions. 😭

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

Alan Dershowitz: "So by the standards that this guy, Thomas Massie, has espoused, he should be impeached because he is violating the Constitution."

"He's saying that Hegseth should be impeached for violating the Constitution, but he's calling for impeachment on grounds that were explicitly rejected by the framers of the Constitution."

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Talk about an arrow pointing right at your chin . . .

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

What kind of haircut is this? 😖🤭

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

@atensnut This is possible when one has absolutely no - zero- nada - zilch - sense of self.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Dear, Sir. I fear you speak hope and reason to the headless.

[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.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

I like these bans.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:

1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements

Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

So, somebody, where are these people? They're threatening US citizens.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

The New Democrat Party.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Watch her face: this is the face of duplicity. She speaks softly, with heart and caring, about confiscating the livelihoods of her constituents. Why, Boiseans do you vote this poison into office?

[Idahogirl @nancymarie1000]

I knew it.

She wants to institute rent control in Boise but “the legislature won’t let her”.

And she directs Boise renters to NGO’s for help.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

When the intellect is divorced from concrete facts -- they're inconvenient, you know -- you get overlong, self-masturbatory harangues such as Massie's. An embarrassment to all fighting men, in all the arenas of life.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.

I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.

We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.

Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.

His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.

GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.

We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.

And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.

So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.

Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.

That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.

From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.

No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.

And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.

Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Can Republicans ever figure out "the plan" and develop a counter plan?

[Gentry Gevers @gentrywgevers]

Oil crashed the day after Democrats took Congress. Then Van Jones went on CNN and admitted the quiet part out loud.

The day after the election, Brent crude fell 8.7% in a single day. WTI fell 13% on the week. Worst week for oil since COVID. Nothing about the war changed overnight. Only the election ended.

And it is still falling this morning. WTI is down near $87 a barrel. Tankers are still getting hit near the Strait of Hormuz. But the fear is gone, right on schedule.

The official story is that traders think a Democrat Congress will force Trump to end the Iran war. Maybe. Hold that thought.

Because then Van Jones went on CNN and bragged about how they did it. His exact words: 'The Republicans never figured out what we were doing.'

Jones said Democrats ran something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of real people. Not bots. Coordinated to post the same message, everywhere, every day.

And the message never changed. Everything is unaffordable. Gas costs too much. And it is all the Republicans' fault. Jones said they tied kitchen table pain to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative.

The scale he claimed: 32.5 million hits a day on Instagram. 88.8 million on X. 185 million on Facebook. That is not a campaign. That is a flood. And it was aimed at your gas tank.

This was not some random group either. The network's own partner list includes the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC, MoveOn, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU. The whole machine, working one message.

So here is the question people are asking now. If the crisis was real, why did oil fall off a cliff the morning after the votes were counted? Inventories actually went down that week. Less oil sitting around usually means higher prices. Prices crashed anyway.

They did not win on policy. They won on volume. They manufactured a crisis, pointed it at your gas tank, and flooded every feed in America until it worked. And Jones said the network is not going away.

What were you paying for gas on Election Day?

[Connie Lee @RealConnieLee]

I was an Army Intel analyst for Special Forces and military police sergeant and I have spent over 40 collective months in Afghanistan over my 23 years of service. My background taught me how this actually works. I LIVED in their country. I SAW how they move and operate when they already hold power, and I STUDIED how they take a country when they don't.

I saw girls beaten with fists and sticks. Kicked. I saw girls faces disfigured from acid attacks because they DARED to want to learn and have an education. I saw little boys as young as 9 years old treated as sexual entertainment through the accepted practice of bacha bazi (Chai Boys). I saw many a 'Man Love Thursday'. TOO MANY. I saw a culture where a woman accusing a powerful man of sexual abuse WOULD face shame, punishment and very likely DEATH because a man's word carried more weight than hers. Little girls are married off, bought and sold like livestock. These girls do not get a choice. It's either do it or DIE. They are controlled and hidden away underneath a burka. Inside a compound. No rights. No voice. They are OWNED by men.

Five years after the Taliban returned to power, this isn't ancient history. Girls are still barred from school. Women are still hidden, abused and powerless. The Taliban has issued more than 100 decrees restricting women and girls and made child marriage and forced marriage even harder to escape.

This is what I saw with my own eyes time and time again all over that country. This is what I KNOW.

And this is what I see right now IN MY OWN COUNTRY, unfolding before our very eyes......and its f*cking terrifying.

When Muslims are not the majority, they play a VERY different game. They label you an Islamaphobe. They demand tolerance. They demand their own rules. They build mosques and preach a 'Death to America' message from INSIDE our own country and make us pay them for it with our own tax dollars. They shame you for noticing. Then the second they see a path to power, they get bold.

They see that path in America right now. An IMAM in TEXAS just said it out loud......he said on camera, now that the state 'turned blue', it's their chance to TAKE OVER. That's why they're getting more brazen by the day.

Next, they'll build more mosques with Americans' tax dollars. They'll keep infiltrating our government so they can fight us from the inside. And once that foothold is strong enough, they WILL start implementing Sharia law.

I've already seen that ending. We HAVE to REJECT this and KICK THEM THE F*CK OUT!!! We owe it to our daughters and our sons not to let that shit live here. 🇺🇸🪖 Spread this message like our kids' lives depend on it because they 100% DO!!!!

Below is one of the many schools we built that the Taliban seized after we left country. I'm the one in the middle. 5'2 but locked and loaded. And thanking GOD every day that I took a breath in that country that-

1. I had guns and bullets
2. That I was an American
3. That I had the full force of the United States military on my side

Seeing this very same religion and culture that's destroyed so many other countries come to MY America is even scarier than seeing it there. This is OUR home. But it will be unrecognizable if we don't stand up and FIGHT against this with everything we have!

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

And there it is. Is this what you want in your future?

[BabblingBeaver @Babbling_Beaver]

Hello, Seventh Century? Can you please come take your people back.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

Take heed. AI is the West's savior, not it's nemesis.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My American friends,

If you don't understand this, you will never beat your real enemy.

On Tuesday, voters rejected data centers almost everywhere they were on the ballot. Within hours, the left was calling AI executives to testify and demanding a national moratorium.

Power bills, jobs, safety. That's the official story. It's not the real one.

The real story is that the institutional left runs on three things: scarcity, narrative, and money. Manufactured scarcity in housing, healthcare and education, so someone has to allocate it. A captured narrative, so you accept it. And a money printer, so you pay for it without ever voting on it.

AI is the first technology in history that hits all three at once.

It makes the $200,000 degree look absurd. It makes the expert's monopoly on truth disappear. It pushes prices toward zero in a system that needs inflation to survive its debt.

They're not fighting AI because it's dangerous to you. They're fighting it because it's dangerous to them.

Read this. Understand it. Then stop attacking the people building abundance, and start fighting the ones who need you poor so they can administer you.

AI isn't a threat to humanity. It's an audit.

[Roberta Thomas @sre4all]

No, unfortunately. We no longer have Pam Bondi to kick around. Nothing like this happened.

[Capitol Leaks @CapitolLeaks1]

🔺PAM BONDI JUST PLAYED THE GREATEST TRAP IN POLITICAL HISTORY.

And Congress walked right into it.

Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi sat before the House Judiciary Committee. Standard oversight hearing. Routine questions.

Then she pulled out a document.

Labeled: "Jayapal Pramila — Search History."

The room went SILENT.

⚠️ HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED

The DOJ gave Congress access to the unredacted Epstein files this week. Every member got their own login. Their own computer. Their own session.

What Congress didn't know?

The DOJ was tracking EVERY SINGLE SEARCH.

Every name they looked up.
Every document they opened.
Every file they downloaded.

ALL OF IT. LOGGED.

And Bondi brought the receipts to the hearing.

🔺 THE PANIC WAS INSTANT

Rep. Jayapal called it "spying on members of Congress."
Rep. Raskin accused Bondi of "blatant abuse of power."
Rep. Moskowitz said it was "suspicious and inappropriate."

They're FURIOUS.

But here's the question nobody in the media is asking:

Why are they so scared of their search history?

If you're searching for evidence of crimes against children — you'd be PROUD of that search history.

Unless you're not searching for evidence.
Unless you're searching for YOUR OWN NAME.

⚡ THE GENIUS OF THE TRAP

Think about it.

Bondi didn't just release the files.
She released them on MONITORED COMPUTERS.

Every Congress member who rushed to search the files just told the DOJ exactly:
• WHO they're trying to protect
• WHAT names they're worried about
• WHICH connections they're trying to verify

The ones searching for "flights to the island" = investigators.
The ones searching for SPECIFIC NAMES = protectors.

Bondi now knows who's investigating and who's COVERING UP.

And she showed them she knows.
In front of cameras.
With a smile.

🔺 THE DHS SHUTDOWN — PERFECT TIMING

While Congress panics about their search history, DHS is shutting down SATURDAY.

Democrats blocked the funding bill. House members already left Washington.

The same week Congress gets caught searching Epstein files — they REFUSE to fund the department that investigates trafficking?

They're not defunding DHS to save money.
They're defunding it to STOP INVESTIGATIONS.

⚡ CONNECT THE DOTS

Monday: Congress gets Epstein file access.
Tuesday: Members frantically search for names.
Wednesday: Bondi reveals she tracked everything.
Thursday: Democrats block DHS funding.
Friday: Government shutdown begins.

Five days. One pattern. PANIC.

They walked into the hearing thinking they were in control.
They walked out knowing Bondi has EVERYTHING.

Every search. Every name. Every cover-up attempt.

Logged. Documented. WEAPONIZED.

The hunter became the hunted.
And they did it to themselves.

⟁ DARK TO LIGHT.