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Yes, people must turn out.

No, GOP won’t lose everything. Just the opposite.

I have been tracking voter registrations for years. Since lsat June, GOP has gained over 2.5 NET million, gained in EVERY. SINGLE. STATE.

In IA, where the special election occurred, only 7,000 total voted, and the winner got fewer votes than the previous loser.
IA, by the way, has gone from R+ about 8 to nearly +10.

The fact is that inherently Republicans DO NOT LIKE constant, 24/7 politics. They have families, jobs, and want to elect people then go back to “their lives.” Many of us, who do politics constantly, don’t really get this mentality.

I know Scott, like him a lot, but he’s wrong. The DemoKKKrats are facing an extinction level event. Especially with redistricting, once OH, FL, and MO come in-—even with CA and without IN-—Rs pretty much are a lock at 220 House seats. That’s without winning a single “tossup.” It’s entirely possible for the GOP to come in around 230. But the structure of the House now prevents either party from ever getting big 30 vote margins.

I will say this for the umpteenth time. The DemoKKKrats are in absolute survival mode. If they lose 2026 they may well be finished as a party. They have lost ground in EVERY. SINGLE. STATE. where we can track, including CA, where they are down nearly 2 MILLION from 2024 and falling by the day.

Once you deport 1.5 m people, once you purge voter rolls (Ds net lost 1.4m more), once you factor in voter registration changes, and then maybe even a mid-term census and redistricting? I am very serious when I say they may not even be around as a party by 2030.

“That’s no moon.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eqjiRRIqg

I think this was a great deal for the Boys.
1) A look at MP’s last half-season for the past couple of years shows he fades badly (esp. if you’re not the NYGiants).
2) His playoff performances are worse (Madden: “Big players make big plays in big games.”)
3) He clearly was going to be a cancer in the locker room.
4) Believe it or not, Dallas needed the GB tackle more than MP’s rush. We have needed a stopper /pass rusher in the middle for years.
5) 2 #1s, yes, they are low, but that’s gold. Those can be packaged for superstar.
6) Pack eats as massive contract, and woe to them if he gets hurt.

If he doesn’t begin and end with the Missouri Compromise and Martin Van Buren’s effort to protect and preserve slavery, as documented by top Jackson biographer Robert Remini and laid out nicely in Richard Brown’s article, “The Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and . . . .’ then it probably isn’t accurate.

I deal with the formation of the DemoKKKrat Party here, “Seven Events that Made America America,” chapter 1.

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Events-That-Made-America/dp/1595230793/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZTS7JOZVSNHD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EOjj1FrWXfJVGGAEfg89UBi9LOJW1JlGbhxMVG_mdfOPnMlu2DkcKPViLEZ44_LjfVzZKscByc2l_sP0zLNm4QWw8u9uR6CJO6Z56Wl0kwGZBnHFCSk6lWa4ZF1O5MJmm26gKW34gPI-KgiaERPt6GvuY2PQJmI1DE5kWRAGzSXc-SHF9DpPBiocA-P69-3u5X5X6YCtMDfyLQc9q71RglRbccu26kloqXVi6lwr6eI.CkLwyN5qUdNFe52hcV3NHY6E5YuivboFa0NBYvJXjVk&dib_tag=se&keywords=seven+events+that+made+america+america&qid=1756312606&sprefix=SEven+events+that+mad%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-1

Thank you. Appreciated. I always surf FR for stories before “Today’s News,’ as such a panoply of stuff appears here.

That seems to always be an answer. “Oh, actual evidence? Well, there you go.” Typical liberal answer to anything.

If you follow my Larry Schweikart substack or my Twit account, you’ll know that I now think DemoKKKrats HAVE to win 2026 or they are finished as a party. Unless they take back the House or Senate, I believe all these changes-—redistricting, voter registration shifts, the Supes ruling on racist districts, another censeus, voter roll purges-—are going to combine to make them irrelevant and extinct BEFORE the 2030 census, which will finish them off.

Between voter roll purges, deportations, and current voter reg changes, I calculate they have lost around 5 MILLION voters since 2020.

Taney recognized the threat in his Dred Scott ruling, but as “Freedom National” shows (and it seems some people are afraid of looking at that), SOUTHERNERS and Confederates recognized the threat as well, which is why they pushed for secession. It was understood by most Southern leaders that the definition of “personhood” (NOT a “euphemysm”) would eventually triumph.

NO, you showed nothing. I showed YOU a huge intense history book that proves just the opposite, that in fact they NEVER used the terms as euphemisms PRECISELY so that they could be freed as persons. It’s the same distinction as was used for “indentured servants,” which, despite pro-slavers/pro-Confederates’ claims, ALWAYS had powerful distinctions (including marriage) from slave status.

The devil is in the details. You might check out “Freedom National” before you post again. It seems, from his evidence, that large numbers of Confederates understood this quite properly. That’s what they were afraid of. Personhood WAS a “federal matter.” This is precisely why Taney went out of his way to try to restore a definition of property to slaves by trying to deny blacks all elements of personhood. Again, the scholarship on this is abundant if you choose to look at it.

Actually, no. What he does in “Freedom National” is look at legal cases, for example, where there were in fact big distinctions. No PERSON could ever be PROPERTY in the U.S. Constitution.

It’s not just a “hangup.” it was a subtlety built into the system by which eventually slavery could be removed.

Yep. Great “new” book (last 7 years or so) called “Freedom National,” that shows how the abolitionist movement figured out the word “slave” or “slavery” were not in the Constitution, but rather unfree “PERSONS.” In other words, from the very beginning, the Founders saw slaves as people. The Confederacy wanted them re-defined as PROPERTY.

This was the key battle, and the South could not win. By 1850 its only two options were losing slavery peaceably or through a war.

It’s funny. I WISH I had the influence, access, or clout everyone thinks I have. I get these “one-off” events——I introduced WFBuckley at a speech once, I got invited to Bush’s WH once with Hanson to talk military stuff, I knew Bannon at just the right time, I was invited on Glenn Beck at just the right time. Then, these people just drift out of my life.

OH is one of those states like TX where DemoKKKrats never learn. They said it was “close” in 2016. Trump won by 8.

They said it was close with Vance. He won by 4.

They said it was close in 2024. Trump won by 8.5.

They ALWAYS underpoll Rs in OH by at least 4 points.

I have only a tenuous connection to Barnes. Right now, I’m staying away from him because he’s in some kind of menopausal stage.

Dropped like a hot potato.

Great stuff, but honestly anymore I have no contacts.

Bannon, for some reason, won’t talk to me.

I lost my phone that had both Don, Jr. and Eric’s info.

That’s pretty much it.

True. That is why we kept him alive.

Good questions, typically asked.

1) NO test bombs were to be dropped for two major reasons. First, there was a great deal of skepticism that it would affect the Japanese at all. After all, we had leveled Tokyo in a firebombing, but the Japanese were still fighting. Second, we had a very limited supply of bombs-—perhaps six by Christmas. WE DID NOT KNOW IF A BOMB WORKED. The only test was a stationary device. No one had ever dropped a bomb. So you would use up one of perhaps six, and still not know that the other five worked. Likewise, if the Japanese saw a dud, it would embolden them.

2) The missions were “easy” only because we had bombed Japan so badly they stopped sending up interceptors, and never for a one- or two-plane mission.

3) Germany had already surrendered in May 1945. The objective was to use the a bomb on Germany, but they surrendered before we could.

By all accounts, the bombs saved about 1 MILLION American casualties (perhaps 100,000 more deaths) and up to 10 MILLION Japanese. They were ready to fight for every inch of their home islands, and our invasion plans were badly flawed, completely missing the insertion of a whole division from China in the landing zones. Moreover, NO accounting for weather was made; and ALL estimates excluded the Navy (which was losing ships in these invasions BIGLY to kamikazes or to accidents. So even the “official” estimates were way, way too low.

Japanese historian Asada who gained access to the War Council papers found that even after the first bomb they weren’t even considering surrender.

Yeah, looks safe as hell.

Over a year ago I outlined four DemoKKKrat Civil Wars, none of which they could win.

AI/Techbros vs. Green/transition was one of them. Well, here it is in full bloom in Mediocre Britain. Coming here. The green movement will flat out lose bigly as the techbros will not be denied their precious AI.