The GOP is always better when it’s in the minority in either chamber of Congress. It’s always easier to stomp feet, shake fists, and then say, “Golly gosh gee, we just can’t get anything done while the Democrats are in charge.” Republicans tend to be much more aggressive when proposing legislation that they know won’t go anywhere. Paralysis sets in only when they win elections. ~~ Stephen Kruiser

“Pundits condemn President Trump’s decision to bomb the nuclear facilities in Iran as the catalyst for electoral failure. I don’t care: I am glad Trump did it. If doing the right thing costs him congressional majorities, so be it. Part of making America great again is defending America from threats both foreign and domestic. President Trump has put America first, and that included taking out the megalomaniacal Ayatollahs and the IRGC.

Trump has put America first by cracking down on legal immigration and mass legal immigration, protecting kids and families, keeping men out of women’s sports, and improving our economy with drastic deregulation and energy production. Instead of measuring his successes, voters complained about pain at the pump. What’s the point of cheap gas if your city gets wiped out in a nuclear holocaust?

The angry Republicans and Independents who voted for Trump in 2024 will chime: “President Trump said no more wars. And he should have known that ‘No new wars’ means No New Wars to us!”

What planet do these people live on?” ~~ Arthur Schaper

“People think they’re dealing with liberals when they’re actually dealing with communists. Marty Scorsese is a liberal. Mark Ruffalo is a communist. Communism is a religion of malcontents, and they are allergic to beauty. They are subhuman in ways your liberal uncle isn’t.” ~~ Spencer Pratt

“70,000 people died in Gaza during the war. According to Hamas itself, 50,000 of them were Hamas fighters. And of the 20,000 “children” killed, 80% were male combatants aged 16-18. The Gaza “genocide” is the biggest hoax of the 21st century.” ~~ Br. Maalouf

“President Trump just shared Joel Pollak’s take on last night, and it is the only one worth reading. “Securing the border is ugly. Fighting Iran is costly. Taking on special interests upsets donors. Backing AI scares people.” “Tonight, Republicans paid the costs. The benefits will be with us for many generations.” Weak Republicans campaign on what is easy. Trump governs on what is NECESSARY. One bad night does not undo a secure border.” ~~ Gunther Eagleman

“When you’re glued into politics, reading blogs, scrolling through social media, you get inundated with niche issues and everyone is trying to convince you that this is the defining problem that will swing an election. . . . Right or wrong, the economic woes of the public will always be put at the feet of the president. If the stock market sucks, it’s the president’s fault. If you can’t afford DoorDash like you used to, it’s the president’s fault. The midterms are the way for the American public to punish the president in power. Yes, the typical political discussions matter, like quality of candidates etc. However, if people are angry and emotional, they don’t generally make rational decisions. If the reason for them voting is based on spite, do you really have a chance of changing their minds? You can’t fact your way out of shifting an emotional voter.” ~~ Adam Coleman

“Their economic doctrine is neo-feudal central planning wrapped in environmental hysteria. By mandating the death of the internal combustion engine, outlawing natural gas, and tethering the world’s greatest industrial powerhouse to intermittent windmills and Chinese-made solar panels, they are engineering energy poverty by design. Tripling electricity rates and normalizing rolling blackouts are features of a system built to break middle-class independence. While coastal elites lecture working families from private jets, they push national rent control policies proven to annihilate housing supply. Driving private landlords into bankruptcy clears the field for the state to become the sole arbiter of shelter, reducing self-reliant property owners to desperate tenants begging federal bureaucrats for a roof.

In the streets, they have unleashed a regime of calculated lawlessness designed to terrorize the productive class. Abolishing cash bail for violent predators, downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, and installing rogue prosecutors who legalize rampant theft have turned once-thriving metropolitan centers into boarded-up wastelands. They release career criminals into your neighborhoods and prosecute the lawful citizen who dares to defend his family. Exporting this urban carnage to suburbs and rural towns is a deliberate strategy: manufacture unbearable chaos until a terrified populace surrenders its liberties in exchange for authoritarian state control.” ~~ Saggezza Eterna

“Our thought for the day, riffing a bit off of one of Pournelle’s thoughts on peace: “Communism” is the name of the alleged ideal we attribute to an oligarchy under which, by the cover of pleasant sounding political and social (and genetic) nonsense, that cannot bear objective close scrutiny, all power is gathered into the hands of a new, tiny, highly nepotistic, amorally familistic, corrupt and completely unprincipled ruling class, itself backed up by control over the means of information, a massive propaganda administration, unbounded by even a stunted sense of integrity, a lapdog judiciary, and a secret police with unreviewable powers of incarceration, enslavement, torture, life, and death, in order to advance themselves and their heirs under the lie of advancing mankind. Contrary to the common mantra, not only has it not “never been done right,” it has _always_ been done _exactly_ right for its true purpose, cited above.” ~~ Tom Kratman

“I wish more Republicans understood this. Education is one of our country’s few genuinely existential problems. Our K through PhD system is a vast communism factory. It barely gets mentioned in our political debates.” ~~ Noah Pollak

“Republicans are learning that the law is a door that only swings in one direction. Democrats can do illegal and unconstitutional things — like enacting DACA, or putting noncitizens on voting rolls — but when Republicans try to undo these things, judges prevent them from doing so.” ~~ Joel Pollak

“Imagine watching communist straight up steal an election in Brazil and sitting out the midterms over gas prices and expecting the communists to lower your gas prices.” ~~ Beau Titanium

“When the left loses an election, it tries to destroy the country; when it wins, it succeeds.” ~~ Friedrich Hayek

“The whole ethos of Washington, D.C. these days is: let’s keep the racket going as long as possible. This is every agency, every Congressional office, every lobbyist, every think tank. Idealism is gone. Public service is gone. The notion of government as servant of the people is gone. We hardly even hear these cliches anymore.” ~~ Jeffrey A. Tucker

“The sour, bitter face of our enemy is the face of the chubby girl who always tried to get between you and her hot roommate — except instead of a double-bagger trying to block your shot, she’s now a Democrat trying to condemn you to serfdom. It’s the same face you see worn by malignant amphibians like Elissa Slotkin (D-CIA), a particularly loathsome creature who trumpets her time at the Central Intelligence Agency to establish her phony USA! USA! bona fides. This comes at the same time she supports a Jew-hating communist to be her co-senator who is, at minimum, a slobbering affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether her flex is calculated or stupid is a puzzlement; does she think she’s exploiting him instead of being exploited herself? It is useful to remember how the Iranian mullahs took power and then immediately shot all their erstwhile leftist allies. Regardless, they deserve each other; we don’t deserve either. When fascism comes to America, it will come from the left, because the left is where fascism comes from. It will come in the form of a Democrat, a Democrat who pretends to be patriotic and points to her résumé as if it’s proof. And it will be dressed like an HR director at a mid-tier company in a second-tier town.” ~~ Kurt Schlichter