This senile retard is why Republicans lost. Not the tariffs or the war, though those are the most direct policies that impacted everyday Americans. Trump has governed like an unhinged lunatic. He's utterly mad. Joe Biden was repudiated because his brain melted. Trump was repudiated for the same reason. What lessons will MAGA draw from this?
>>545851388>What lessons will MAGA draw from this?at this point MAGA is doubling down and for the most part still falling in line with the orange senile clown. 2028 is going to be great if this keeps up.
>>545851465Unless the Democrats epically fumble their candidate, I think 2028 if a foregone conclusion. Trump is not going to suddenly start being wise. JD Vance is the chosen one.I heard Trump was considering renaming the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; one of the will of course be called Trump Ocean. This is the mark of a deeply unserious person. He may in fact have dementia.
During the last two years of Trump's presidency, his net worth has increased by over $2,000,000,000. His sons have similarly seen their net worths rise by hundreds of millions. The government has provided money for, and taken partial ownership in companies they helm or invested in. Trump financial managers have made thousands of trades in the securities market, more than every single member of Congress put together in the same timespan. These are all facts.
In the aftermath of Tuesday night’s wipeout, an intramural Republican fracas broke out between MAGA populists and their rivals, referred to as the GOP “establishment,” even though MAGA is the GOP establishment. The dispute centers on competing rationalizations for the debacle — was it caused by the Iran war or by the tariffs? To repeat what I contended to Rich Lowry in our podcast this week, the argument signals that Republicans are far from confronting what truly ails them. This is blame-shifting, not serious self-examination.Yes, there is a single, silver-bullet answer to the question, “Why did we get crushed?” But it’s not a single policy, even if there is no gainsaying the significance of the war and the import taxes. The answer is Donald Trump — specifically, the president’s shameful, erratic, often reckless, always self-absorbed, exhausting, in-your-face-24/7 second-term performance — reminding people nonstop of all the reasons they disliked him the first go-round, but this time without the perception of rising prosperity.The implication of MAGA’s Iran war claim is that Trump faltered because he betrayed his core principles: After campaigning as the president who would stop “forever wars,” he gratuitously launched one that has proved intractable, thereby — so the theory goes — adopting the futile “neocon” policy of remaking the Muslim Middle East and subordinating America’s interests to those of Israel (the place where the populist “right” and the “river to the sea” left find common ground). The unsubtle aims are to (1) blame the GOP establishment for the Democrats’ midterm sweep, and (2) detract attention from other Trump policies, especially (but far from exclusively) the tariffs — which MAGA supports because Trump swears by them, regardless of their contribution to global instability and the high prices that have so agitated the public.
>>545851862The so-called establishment’s more traditional Republicans highlight the tariffs. That’s a better explanation: Trump 2.0 derailed on “liberation day” — on April 2, 2025, less than three months in — and Trump has become increasingly unpopular ever since. Moreover, where it matters, the tariff problem and the war problem get to the same place, costs. The public is riled up about gas prices (among other prices); it cares little about geopolitics in the Persian Gulf. Nevertheless, tariff tunnel vision misses most of the story. And to the extent the tariff theory is argued to counter critiques of the Iran war — which these Reaganite “peace through strength” Republicans support in principle, although not as Trump has waged it — it is a similar exercise in intramural blame-shifting.Republicans got their clocks cleaned this week because they made Trump the center of their universe, as if Congress did not exist other than as a presidential pom-pom squad. Unleashed, Trump has governed like a lunatic.I am not trying to be provocative. To the contrary, Trump’s secret sauce, the reason he has been able to succeed politically despite his personal unpopularity, has been his uncanny prowess at depicting his opponents as lunatics. The collapse of border security, rampant nonenforcement of the immigration laws, boys in girls’ locker rooms, DEI — we can run down the list, but the common thread is that Trump had a unique talent for spotlighting 70–30 or 80–20 issues, the ones as to which he could side with the vast majority of Americans, while Democrats were aligned with the fringe. “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you” — remember? Beneath all the twaddle about “landslide” victories that sandwiched a “stolen election,” the successful Trump’s resonant message was, “You need me because these people are crazy and, unlike your familiar genteel Republicans, I will fight them.”Show’s over.
>>545851874Yes, the Democrats are still lunatics. But in national politics, they’ve been in the wilderness for a couple of years. Don’t worry, by mid-January everyone will remember why, even after his 2020 attempted soft coup, Trump managed to beat them four years later. In the meantime, though, Trump became the frighteningly crazy guy who made the sidelined Democrats seem comparatively stable.After being elected, Trump tried to make Matt Gaetz attorney general — and while that didn’t pan out, he managed to install a gaggle of sycophants who turned televised cabinet meetings into spectacles in cloying that would make his old pal Kim Jong-un blush. He started his term by pardoning 1,600 January 6 defendants, including hundreds of rioters who’d been convicted of assaulting police and vandalizing the Capitol. That was just the beginning of what’s become a thriving pardon industry that enriches Trump-connected lawyers, lobbyists, and PACs, with clemency doled out to drug traffickers, corrupt pols, white-collar fraudsters, and a Trump crypto partner — with the pardons canceling out well over $1 billion in restitution for crime victims.
>>545851892It has never stopped. Virtually every day there is some stupefyingly insane action or announcement. Trump and Vice President Vance shockingly brawled with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, browbeating him as the cameras rolled. The country grasps that Ukraine is the victim of aggression by Russia, an American foe run by Vladimir Putin, a murderous dictator. Yet, our president bizarrely fawns over Putin while pressuring Ukraine to surrender on Russia’s terms. It boggles the mind. When not browbeating Ukraine, Trump was threatening to annex Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally, Denmark — and wouldn’t rule out using military force. And the tariff-fueled trade war was just part of the president’s maniacal campaign against our neighbor and ally, Canada — which included implicit threats to take it over (“the 51 st state,” “Governor Trudeau,” etc.) and so enraged Canadians, who were poised to elect a conservative government, that they decided instead to retain the Liberals on the rationale that they’d be sure to resist Trump.Somehow, the president decided it’d be great to pick a fight with Pope Leo XIV, rebuking him as “WEAK on crime and terrible for Foreign Policy” — Catholic voters loved it, I’m sure. The context was immigration — an issue as to which Trump undermined his admirable early success in stabilizing the southern border by adopting gratuitously draconian and frequently illegal enforcement policies. These included deporting scores of suspected Venezuelan gang members, without the required due process, to a terrorism prison in El Salvador that has been condemned by the State Department for human-rights violations. Trump attempted to justify himself by invoking the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act on the laughable assertion that the United States was being subjected to a military invasion or predatory incursion.
>>545851915After two protesters in Minnesota were shot dead, the president sacked his hapless homeland security secretary, but the fallout of the ill-conceived, under-resourced dragnet has persisted.Under the Orwellian guise of ending the weaponization of law enforcement, the Trump Justice Department has pursued patently meritless cases against the president’s political enemies. Notoriously, the president publicly posted a dressing down of the term’s first attorney general, Pam Bondi, for dragging her feet on this lawfare agenda. Courts have thrown out several of the cases, and refusals by grand juries to approve indictments — previously rare in federal law enforcement — are becoming routine. The Trump retribution campaign has resulted in the firings of prosecutors and FBI agents who were assigned to work on Biden-era investigations, despite assurances to the contrary made by top Trump appointees during confirmation hearings.Speaking of confirmation hearings, Trump has made a practice of avoiding them: Determined to staff district U.S. attorney posts with loyalists who’d have trouble being confirmed, Trump and his minions have illegally relied on statutes governing temporary appointments to circumvent the constitutional requirement of Senate approval. The result has been disqualification orders by federal judges and chaos in several districts over whether routine enforcement actions are lawful. Bondi botched a harebrained initiative to appease MAGA activists by disclosing voluminous files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophile (and former Donald Trump pal); the fallout was an ill-conceived congressional disclosure law that a frustrated Trump felt compelled to sign — which itself has generated a separate scandal over whether the Justice Department is still concealing records, including some relating to the president.
>>545851929Trump’s DOJ dropped a corruption prosecution of then–New York City Mayor Eric Adams while pressuring Adams to support Trump immigration enforcement policies, prompting the resignation of the highly regarded interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, whom Trump had appointed. The DOJ has also tried to defend executive orders by which Trump sought to put out of business, or force hefty settlements from, law firms that had employed attorneys who’d investigated or otherwise crossed swords with him — so far, the courts have invalidated the orders against firms that chose to fight rather than settle. And not content with pardoning the Capitol riot defendants, Trump used a collusive lawsuit — the president, supposedly in his private capacity, sued the IRS, an executive agency he controls — to generate a “settlement” trough, risibly branded the “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” to pay the pardon grantees “compensation.” The cherry on top of the slush fund was the attempt by the president’s second AG in this term — his former private defense lawyer, Todd Blanche — to grant Trump immunity from IRS audits.In what was supposed to be his big summation speech on behalf of Republicans prior to the election — but turned into a rambling spiel on Washington architecture — the president said that renaming the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to the “Trump Reflecting Pool” was under consideration. He instantly felt the need to assure listeners that he was joking. Small wonder. Trump has tried to rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after himself (in violation of a statute — a judge has invalidated the gambit). He named a class of battleships after himself. We now have “Trump Accounts” in tax law. The Trump State Department announced that the U.S. Institute of Peace had been renamed the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace” to “reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history.”
>>545851957Trump also caused stirs by delusionally ordering that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be known as the “Gulf of America” (the Associated Press was barred from the White House press pool for declining to use the new name), and directing that Lake Ontario is now “Lake America.” At recent campaign rallies, he has floated renaming both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans — “Ocean of the Americas” and “Trump Ocean” are in the running. In statutory law, we have a Department of Defense, but Trump has denominated it the “Department of War” — although he has occasionally denied that the Iran war is a war in an attempt to evade Congress’s constitutional war powers.n potential violation of long-standing federal law, the Trump Treasury Department grafted the president’s visage onto U.S. currency (a $1 coin issued in connection with the nation’s 250th anniversary) — and it has started issuing paper currency bearing his signature (in the previous 165 years of minting bills, it had always been a Treasury official’s signature). And now hanging on several government buildings in the Capital are huge banners brandishing Trump’s portrait.
>>545851983The center of attention in the capital, however, is the White House. There, Trump unilaterally demolished the East Wing in order to build a ballroom. He paved the Rose Garden. The Oval Office is gilded in gold, and Trump has added a “Presidential Walk of Fame,” in which he has hung a picture of an autopen where a portrait of Biden would otherwise be — a funny about which he had a good laugh with the dictator of communist China, on whom he lavished a treacly state dinner. There is, in addition, a very live controversy over a gigantic arch Trump proposes to build at Memorial Circle, which links the National Mall to Arlington National Cemetery — at 250 feet, it would dwarf the nearby Lincoln Memorial. Opponents, who contend that such a project requires congressional approval and an explanation of where the funding would come from, have sought to stop it administratively and in court. On Thursday, a judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking construction.Amid starting the Iran war without congressional authorization, deploying U.S. forces without congressional authorization to extract Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, and using lethal military force without congressional authorization to kill at least 240 people suspected of ferrying narcotics in the Caribbean, Trump has zealously lobbied to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — and castigated the committee for rebuffing him. The prize was awarded in 2025 to María Corina Machado, the political activist who heroically fought for democratic reform against the leftist regime of Hugo Chávez and Maduro. In a gesture of gratitude to the United States, Machado presented her prize — which she had traveled to Norway at great personal risk to accept — to Trump. On brand, the president accepted the award rather than graciously declining.
>>545851997Upon deposing Maduro — who faces trial in the United States on the same drug offenses as to which Trump pardoned one of his co-conspirators, former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez — Trump did not turn to Machado’s reform party (from which Maduro stole the last election, treachery that Trump had used as justification for deposing him). Rather, he installed Delcy Rodríguez, the Maduro regime’s No. 2. He then pressured Rodríguez to surrender 65 billion barrels’ worth of Venezuela’s oil reserves, without congressional authorization and in violation of Venezuela’s constitution; to develop the reserves, the administration recruited a Chavez crony, Alejandro Betancourt López, who has been under criminal investigation by several countries for money laundering. (See my series, links here.) The Trump administration originally kept the proceeds of Venezuelan oil sales at a bank in Qatar in order to prevent creditors cheated by the Maduro regime from seizing it through U.S. legal processes. The proceeds are now held in U.S. Treasury accounts, but the administration has stonewalled questions about how the funds have been handled and disbursed.When the Supreme Court quite rightly invalidated his first set of illegal tariffs, Trump lambasted the justices — particularly two of Trump’s own stellar appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — as “unpatriotic,” disloyal to our Constitution, “fools and lap dogs for the RINOs and the radical left Democrats,” and “an embarrassment to their families.” He even claimed the Court had been “swayed by foreign interests” — which was rich considering the source.
>>545852014I won’t even try to summarize Trump’s manic daily output of social media posts. Suffice it to say that they are habitually juvenile, profane, nasty, and self-aggrandizing (depicting him variously as Jesus Christ, a king, a crown-wearing fighter pilot defecating on his political critics, and so on). On Easter Sunday this year, Americans were treated to a Truth Social post in which the president of the United States warned Iran, “Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” Quite apart from the pathological nature of these exhibitions, they are constant. There is no surcease, and normal people in the country detest it.Finally, about the unseemly grabbing with both hands . . .No, I’m not just talking about the “Palace in the Sky” — the luxurious Boeing 747-8 aircraft the president accepted from Qatar as a replacement Air Force One (though it’s ill-equipped for the job) that is ultimately to be transferred to his post-presidential library. Trump has increased his personal net worth by well over $2 billion since his second term began just 22 months ago. The president’s financial accounts, which are not in a blind trust, have made tens of thousands of trades in the securities markets — more than all members of Congress combined (something we know because, unlike his predecessors who did not trade stocks while in office, Trump triggered federal law disclosure requirements).
>>545852031His two elder sons have simultaneously ballooned their bottom lines by hundreds of millions of dollars. Much of it was generated by crypto schemes, in which foreign investors who have major business with the United States — most prominently, an Emirati government official and royal family member — have invested billions (see my series, links here). Meantime, the Trump administration, the Pentagon in particular, has poured billions of taxpayer dollars into companies in which Don Jr. and Eric Trump have invested; and the Trump organization, which the brothers run (and in which the president maintains shares) continues to negotiate lucrative deals, in the billions of dollars, in countries (and with entities linked to the governments of those countries) that are deeply entwined in U.S. foreign policy concerns, including the Iran war.It may be that none of this is illegal — although, when the previous president’s relatives cashed in on his political influence with foreign regimes heavily reliant on the United States, in an amount that was a bare fraction of the astronomical sums we’re talking about here, MAGA Republicans on Capitol Hill brayed about “the Biden crime family” and talked openly about impeachment. What matters, in terms of the verdict the voting public rendered this week, is that the Trumps’ behavior has been brazen and unprecedented: In the not-distant past, it would have been deemed disqualifying for an incumbent and his family to leverage the awesome powers of the presidency for personal gain — indeed, the Framers made bribery a separate ground for impeachment over precisely this concern.
>>545852045You can tell yourself that Tuesday was all about the Iran war or the tariffs. The cold truth, however, is that American voters previously turned on Democrats because the Joe Biden they championed did not appear to be functioning as president — and they didn’t like it; and this week, they turned on Republicans because the Donald Trump they champion has turned the presidency into something they don’t recognize — and they don’t like it.
>>545851388MAGA isn't dead. The retard Woke Right is. They are going to just get purged and removed from the party, since they demonstrated that they are not reliable or loyal voters.Trump is objectively the most America First President in anyone's lifetime. But even that wasn't enough for the supposed America First crowd, who supported far left DSA types out of spite because Trump dropped some bombs on fucking Iran.Grow the fuck up. No President is perfect, and you will NEVER get 100% of what you want. There's NEVER going to be an actual Literal Hitler 2.0 going full 1488 and putting jews in camps. And even if there was, you would still bitch and complain and say it's not enough because all you care about is virtue signalling how much further to the right you are than everyone else.Have fun sucking that faggot Massie's cock at the Lolbert convention while he drones on about muh USS Liberty for 4 hours.The Far Right had an opportunity to gain real power in the US, but they completely fucked it all up and destroyed themselves politically in the biggest self own and unforced error since the Democrats rigging the 2020 election to get Biden.
>>545852210Sounds like you haven't learned anything. You should let go of your hatred and do some introspection.
>>545851388you will NEVER be a woman
>>545852626Didn't claim to be, do you have anything else in that empty head of yours?
>>545851388>the tariffs>those are the most direct policies that impacted everyday AmericansHe campaigned on tariffs and WON you niggerDon't put tariffs in the same boat as the war which he specifically campaigned AGAINST
>>545852741He premised his tariff policy on a corresponding boom in domestic production, which as not happened. All the data in fact shows a decline in domestic productivity (because imports are more expensive now) and the prices speak for themselves. Inflation is running at 8pc. Prices are up 13% compared to a year ago.He failed in his campaign promise to bring prices down.
18/21 poststhis isn't you personal blog imbecileand fuck red jews and blue jews. its just one AIPAC uniparty you retarded turbo spam shill
>>545853234it's not good to spend all your time here, you know. your mental state is probably deteriorating.
>>545852871yeah because he started a fucking jew war nigger
- Openly came out as a slave to Israel, will do whatever Israel tells him to do- Did a 180 on the Epstein files and claimed it's all a hoax and unimportant, attacked anyone who wants the pedos jailed- Fucked the economy- Grifted/rugpulled with Trump and Melania coins and other scams- Importing tons of meetsYeah this Trump guy sucks.
>>545853598The Indian word autocorrects to "meet" now? Meant j---eets/Indians, not meets.
>>545851388Holy faggot rant.
>>545851388Not gonna lie, former Trump voter here. This is fucking hilarious watching Trump crash and burn. But in all seriousness we can't let this guy get the nuclear codes.
>>545851388>What lessons will MAGA draw from thisFuck israel?
>>545851388american jews, their hubris, and the their lobbying for the iran war are why the gop died. Trump's sin is being the bestest shabbot goy toy.
>>545851531MAGA is toxic af. We’re not gonna win with Vance. We need a totally new approach. Maybe need to be not such dicks and to be honest with ourselves.
>>545853561inputs for domestic manufacturing come from outside the country.tariffs make those inputs more expensive;this means less domestic manufacturing.it's economics 101, really basic stuff.
>>545851388the reason why "republicans lost" is because of demographics and literally nothing else.leftists are all worthless nigger worshiping death cult fanatics who want to collectively and psychically suicide themselves and they should be routinely encouraged to fucking kill themselves.fucking worthless globalist multikulti motherfuckers, you're all going to meet a brutal end, every single fucking one of you
>>545853870Lotta tough talk from a guy who spends all day online.
>>545851388this is the reason why they lost>>545853488
>>545854792refusing to engage in reality only works for so long.
>>545851388>Electing republicans is why we keep losing
>>545851531At this point a muppet in a blue tie could crush Steven Miller's Republican party.MAGA is over.
