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*Ross turning to the camera breaking the 4th wall*
"And do you, dear liberal viewer, have it in your heart to forgive Donald Trump when your time comes?"
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest people, bad people, I love our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
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The House Republican caucus will shift rightward as more moderate members in swing districts lost or retired; the House Democratic caucus will shift to the center as more moderates won in swing districts; this is the normal pattern
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This was not a realignment election, it was a collective temper tantrum: Republicans in their room pouting and Democrats throwing plates of spaghetti off the table and independents toddling around crying with arms outstretched begging for someone to pay attention to them.
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This is exactly right. Media freakout when Mike Johnson said he had arrived at his position by God's providence. Admiration when left-leaning politicians using the Bible. For me, it shows that despite our attempts at secularism, appealing to Christianity still matters in 2026. As GK Chesteron says, America has the "soul of a church." I talk about this in my book:
link.amazon/B0b563ECY
If you’re a Christian Democrat, according to the @nytimes, you’re a Matthew 25 Christian. If you’re a Christian Republican, you’re a Christian nationalist. Make it make sense.
As I said when I left the state, Colorado is way to the left of California but lacked the state capacity to make that fact obvious. It now has the revenue to build that state capacity. The exodus will accelerate.
For a generation, Colorado has hobbled the growth of government with some of the tightest legal shackles in the country. With a pair of votes Tuesday, that era is over. denverpost.com/2026/11/08/co…
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More and more I find the left inscrutable. I have no theory of mind for people who get so angry about a public figure they poop in their car.
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
This is a broken, deranged and utterly toxic individual.
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We’re all excited about the moderates and moderation but you have to pause and observe that this is factually completely wrong slopulism
Talarico argues pro-business really means pro-big business, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else
“I've seen that when people talk about being pro-business, what that usually means is being pro-big business, right?”
“we basically subsidize Walmart through Medicaid because they don't give their employees quality healthcare.”
“So again, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest of us.”
“And this is not a radical vision. It's what we had before.”
w/ @jamestalarico
Guys, their statement is not meant to be an apology. They’re being completely facetious and having another laugh. They aren’t apologizing about the notion of digging up Kirk’s corpse and defiling it but about using a gun to do so. They are the definition of filth.
Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan posted an apology to Instagram after numerous sponsors dropped them. Normally, I’d give them grace, but they have consistently said some of the hateful, outrageous things imaginable over the last year without remorse. I don’t believe they’re remorseful now, either.
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Twitter libs misunderstanding the US tax code and being aghast at it is why we’ll never have socialism here. Denmark actually does tax income over $5,400 at 12%. If you think 10% on $13k is a scandal you simply don’t have the bleeding heart for socialism.
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Mr. Bukele I have it on good authority Haitian gang leaders are hiding out at this location in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Please destroy it next. This is not my mother-in-law’s house.
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As with everyone else, God is allowed in the public sphere as long as He’s a Democrat.
James Talarico, a Democrat, is quoting Scripture in his victory speech, and the crowd is cheering.
Democrats don’t hate religion. We hate watching people weaponize it.
Faith isn't the problem. Using God as a weapon against your neighbors is.
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I mean, they do harm manufacturing by making inputs more expensive, and supporters of the tariffs (🙋🏻♂️) should acknowledge that while explaining its temporary and costs will come down as domestic supply comes online, as happens with e.g. dishwashers a decade ago.
Something striking: when you dig into the recent manufacturing employment gains, they're in sectors that have high tariffs. For example, fabricated metals added 29,000 jobs since December 2025 with an average tariff of 25%. People love to claim that tariffs harm manufacturing by making inputs expensive, but that's tough to see in the employment data. Graph:
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Erickson adopts the David French template that pretty much guarantees access to the NYTs op-ed page: “I’m on the Right. How This One Obscure & Irrelevant Weirdo Explains the GOP.” Then 1,000 words eviscerating the obscure & irrelevant weirdo. It’s a half-step above strawmanning.
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The way we know this isn’t true is that Trump already eliminated tariffs on broad swaths of food imports a year ago and nobody noticed. The effect was negligible to non-existent. I’ll repeat it til I’m hoarse but the tariffs’ impact on consumer prices just isn’t that significant.
Among the single worst vanity and "I know best" decisions of Trump 2.0 was the tariff regime Trump insisted on putting in place.
He's married to tariff's not as an economic policy tool, but as a diplomatic tool. They are his "whip" in his "Carrot and whip" approach to foreign policy. And he employs them without much regard for the economic damage they inside the U.S.
They are irrational and malevolent tools the way they have been used, with not enough attention paid to the way they exacerbated the problem of inflation.
The easiest step to bringing down the cost of some consumer goods, including food items, is to dramatically scale back the tariffs on imports.
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What this tells me is the GOP will have a much easier transition to its post-Trump era than previously assumed. Trump won’t haunt the party like Obama. Everyone’s ready to move on. To borrow from Gwyneth, there won’t be a divorce but a conscious uncoupling.
I’ve been called an optimist, but I’m a “glass-half-full” guy, which is not the same. So here’s my “glass-half-full” take for today: the GOP & conservatives are not responding to the election with conspiratorial accusations or excuses. They’re debating policies & execution.
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There’s about a 1-2 quarter lag between the economy and public sentiment. I remember Democratic pundits getting extremely angry literally *the day* BLS released data showing wages were finally outpacing inflation because voters weren’t giving Biden credit for it lol
We have now had two U.S. elections in a row where incumbents got wrecked because of "the economy" even though, by most objective measures, the economy was doing incredibly well on the eve of *both* elections (and maybe even accelerating slightly).
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Oh, phew!! These kids came dangerously close to cultural literacy. Thankfully the Democrats can nip this misadventure in erudition right in the bud!
🔵 News - Democrats flipped the Texas State Board of Education and can scrap the mandate requiring Bible stories in public school classrooms before it starts in 2030.
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“We very badly want to pass this bill but we can’t clear the 60 vote threshold so we’ll pass it with 50” is how Dems went from 59 seats to losing the Senate in 4 years. Yes, the filibuster protects the minority, but it also protects the majority from itself.
Other incoming Democratic Senators have expressed support for abolishing or reforming the filibuster
🟦Annie Andrews (SC)
🟦Adam Hamilton (KS)
🟦Sherrod Brown (OH)
🟦Josh Turek (IA)
Roy Cooper says he supports the filibuster “right now because it protects us from bad legislation.”
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