My life is planes, politics, ASU Football, concerts, teenagers and Apple. 5th Generation Arizonan.
Mesa, AZ
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We had a Republican governor impeached and a handful of legislators indicted and removed for taking bribes, and this grifter still has done a greater damage to the Arizona Republican party than all of them combined.
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Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies. Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party.
But will there be a lesson learned? And will Democrats take this once-in-a-generation gift for granted, or will they overplay their hands and blow their political capital on short-term niche policy wins that will bite them in two years?
For the last two years, the Trump Administration has been governed by a simple mantra: “We can just do things.” On Tuesday, voters replied, “So can we,” and wiped out the GOP. This was not a blue wave. This was not a blue tsunami. This was the breakup of a winning coalition.
Those voters, in breaking up the coalition, treated downballot races as proxies for their contempt of Washington, D.C. The race for dog catcher became nationalized because of Republican political malpractice.
In 2024, Donald Trump assembled a multiracial and multiethnic coalition of voters who bristled at the progressivism of the Democrats and the wreckage of the economy. By 2026, Trump and his White House acolytes set that coalition on fire to cater to a group of hyperonline grievance mongers who have confused Twitter with real life.
Last night, the American constitutional system worked as designed and worked so well and so thoroughly that the party that lied to itself in 2020 that it had lost only because the election was stolen is now lying to itself that it lost only because of gas prices and war. Last night’s drubbing was too complete to be theft.
It was gas prices.
And it was the war.
But it was also calling affordability a “hoax.”
And it was also the corruption.
The incompetence.
The tariffs.
The playing nice with Russia while treating our allies worse than our enemies.
The impression of cruelty.
The overly aggressive deportations.
The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic.
The arrogance.
The ballroom.
The reflecting poll.
The golf courses.
The arch.
The Qatari 747.
The aggressive redistricting push.
The threats against enemies.
It turns out a weekend Fox and Friends host might not be a reassuring beacon of competence to Americans.
Gas prices and the war cannot explain a wipe out from top to bottom in Texas or Georgia or losing South Carolina or Ohio or a total coast to coast wipe out. Only the simpletons can believe that.
Adam Hamilton won Finney County in Kansas, which was a Trump +35 county in 2024 and he did so with Hispanic voters. He did not do that just because of war and gas prices.
And shall we talk about Mississippi?
A few weeks ago, Bo French in Texas attacked University of Texas students who were American citizens of Indian descent. A portion of the President’s base cheered him on. Even some within the Administration, on public Twitter accounts tied to the Administration, echoed him. Those voters’ parents repudiated the racism in the GOP and wiped out Republicans in Texas, not because they support the Democrats, but because the party they had supported turned on them. It was political malpractice by the GOP.
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244 of our 254 Vote Centers currently have wait times of less than 10 minutes! That's 96%.
Planning to vote in person? Check out the wait times and find a Vote Center near you at Locations.Maricopa.Vote.
Ahhh like clockwork. The grifters and snake oil salesmen can’t pass up an opportunity. They posted this at 5:52 AM. At 7:00 AM they posted that the site opened at 6 AM. She saw both of those but at 8:44 AM she decided to fish for dummies (and was successful).
It never gets old that we make spaceships at @gatewayairport
Apeiron, Virgin Galactic’s next-generation spaceship, took off yesterday from Mesa Gateway Airport en route to New Mexico.
The Delta-class spacecraft is the first to emerge from @VirginGalactic’s Mesa assembly facility. @Fox10
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Welcome home, Spaceship Apeiron.
Our newest spaceship completed its first flight today, from our factory in Mesa to Spaceport America in New Mexico. Details → bit.ly/ApieronArrives
Great day for @virgingalactic and @gatewayairport
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Meet Spaceship Apeiron. From the Greek for boundless. Named by you → bit.ly/SpaceshipApeiron #NameASpaceship
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FIRST ON CBS: As President Trump boasts about how much money the U.S. oil and gas industry is making from the war with Iran, the president's personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5 million and $81.6 million, compared with $12.6 million to $46 million at the end of 2025, according to a new report by Democrats on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. cbsn.ws/47IN9un
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This is a lie. Here is the exact text from the filing, where they specifically ask to stop certification.
The Attorney General of the United States is a bald face liar.
The Department of Justice does not seek to stop any ballot from being cast or to stop the certification of Alaska's election. This litigation seeks to ensure that after Alaskans cast their ballots, they are preserved in a manner so that only Alaska's governing officials have the information necessary to make a determination as to whether Alaskan voters were confused or mislead.
The lawsuit was written by Justice Department attorneys and the Department did not coordinate with any campaign or candidate, but rather relied solely on federal law.
Weird, no tweets demanding Russia remove themselves from the areas they invaded. Short of that you’re just a Russian stooge.
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These people are the liars we all know them to be.
BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning.
BLANCHE: That's not what it says
BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal government have telling a state not to certify?
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Initially Elon denied slowing down the Starlink data rates and said only the Pentagon had that authority. We don’t like being lied to.
After Elon Musk posted on X saying he had throttled Ukraine’s use of Starlink after it was used for offensive attacks, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) says the billionaire’s ability to wield that power is “beyond disturbing to me.”
“It cannot and should not be the case that a tech oligarch, a private citizen, who has that much control over our national security, who is unaccountable, who is unelected, with zero transparency, is making life and death decisions on the battlefield in systems that our service members and our partners and allies rely upon,” he adds.
There will be the appropriate number of elected officials in office at some point that will demand answers to these questions…and the results should not be pretty. So lie now, the truth is coming.
Don’t be distracted. This just shows he is on the admin’s script: keep blathering about Starlink and “terms of use/service,” don’t engage on Starshield, which is the issue and which — as Musk himself says — the Trump administration controls. nationalreview.com/corner/th…
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