https://x.com/drewhlive/status/2119588958120345975?s=51
" Trump endorses an amnesty deal with Democrats, saying immigration maximalists are on the “pretty far right” and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay. "
https://x.com/wsjopinion/status/2118392917647606100?s=51
https://x.com/varrock/status/2119229337815912847?s=51
" Multiple med/pre-med students at the University of Michigan were caught planning to poison future patients if they weren't "aligned with Palestine" while also planning to kill fellow students and teachers. U of M refused to condemn their actions."
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfbXkjqjjb7/
Please, I hope they ignore this advice.
https://x.com/efischberger/status/2118793572048605388?s=51
"CNN’s Van Jones says Democrat operatives coordinated tens of thousands of people through the “American Accountability Network” to amplify their unaffordability message across social media. “The Republicans never figured out what we were doing,” Jones said. He described the participants as “online humans, not bots” and claimed the campaign generated 32.5 million daily hits on Instagram, 88.8 million on X and 185 million on Facebook "Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative.....They couldn't get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that.""
https://x.com/BlaireWhite/status/2118777123414663670
Yet the DFL useful idiots will continue to vote for this.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfbYA8ajmta/
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfbUuR1N9TB/
https://x.com/nina_mahsati/status/21188143046610
" The American feminists were so obsessed with The Handmaid’s Tale that they voted to make it a reality."
https://x.com/vigilantfox/status/2118932616912970163?s=51
"Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education. The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her. MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school." HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities." MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one." HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad." MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better." HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia." MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—" HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period." MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue." HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time." MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW." ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW." MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one." CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test. And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500. Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power. A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws. If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students.""
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Just a quick note: I haven't dove into Trump's comments about immigration enforcement, but if he's truly planning some form of forgiveness for ANY who entered illegally or overstayed their visas (especially those whose visas expired years ago), then I will oppose it strongly. I don't care how they got here. I don't care if they were brought as infants and grew up here never learning their parent's language. ALL must be deported. THAT is the only legitimate and moral starting point to any discussion and any deviation from that demands some compelling argument better than, "this is the only country they know!" (not our problem...it's their parents' problem) or "they're hard working people" (but not honest as they sneaked in or hadn't the integrity to stay current with their visa requirements). The worst, of course, is "the right of self-determination". Not at the expense of our own. Out with them all.
Well, finally something Trump has said that’s gotten your dander up. It’s good to know that there’s a limit to your support.
C
FWIW, here is why I think that Trump's comments are important.
1. He's clearly backing away from his previous stance on immigration issues and on enforcing immigration law.
2. He's made it clear the he is willing to do deals with anyone, including the new DFL majority. The question then becomes how far is he willing to go in order to compromise with the majority? If his opening position on immigration is that he's willing to consider a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, then why would we think that he'll hold to that position of there are negotiations.
3. As he approaches the end of his presidency, I can't help but think he's concerned about his legacy. If he can pad his legacy by compromising with the DFL to get some legislation passed, why would anyone think that he wouldn't.
4. He's not, and has never really been, a principled conservative. He's advanced some conservative policies, yet he's not (with the possible exception of his role in overturning Roe) necessarily been on board with the conservative position on social issues.
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/you-have-nothing-left-to-lose-because?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
"You thought you could get stuff, but what did you get?
Prolifers got the abortion pill and a cabinet secretary who has probably paid for more abortions than all cabinet secretaries in American history combined. Let’s not talk about the state-level abortion bills that have passed.
Christians barely escaped having a witchcraft practitioner as a surgeon general — only saved by senators who refused to go along with it.
Gun guys got bump stock bans and were only saved by the Supreme Court."
Trump's apparent pivot on immigration (one of his successes) is concerning. I suspect that we'll hear some version of "He misspoke" or "He really didn't mean that...", but this is a guy who's been in office almost 6 years and campaigning for office for another 5 or so. We're past the "He misspoke" phase of the Trump presidency.
I hope, seriously, I hope that I'm wrong. I hope that Trump spends the next two years fighting to preserve what he's accomplished, and that he fully commits to doing whatever possible to help keep the presidency (and get congress back) in 2028. Two years of disciplined leadership, without stupid social media posts would be a spectacular way to end his run in public office.
Shirley...you jest. It ain't the first time I've expressed disappointment or disapproval of something Trump did or didn't do. Two things leap to mind right now. This one sounds like a truly egregious pumping of the brakes and I don't like it at all. I shall send off a note...and you should, too...until he announces some manifestation of this notion, that I prefer he stay the course and rid us of every illegal in the country and screw the pansy-ass Dan types who falsely assert it's cruel to enforce the law, and arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all who physically interfere in any way. One brief message, copied and filed, and sent once a week...if not every day...takes about 10 minutes initially and then less than five for every subsequent transmission. (Why aren't we doing this? What aren't more people doing it as well?)
Dana Loesch had a great idea. She's at least as hardcore as I am in opposition to giving any amnesty to any illegal. But if there's no success in getting Trump take his foot off the brake and get rid of all of them until no more can be found to deport, then "amnesty" must be as follows: legal residence without citizenship (they don't deserve it) for those who've not broken any other laws, no right to vote since they won't be allowed citizenship and a separate, higher tax obligation than they'd be under if they came here legally and became citizens. She may have mentioned other restrictions, like welfare, but I'd have to watch that podcast again, but it is still far less than is deserved given the total disrespect for our border and laws. That we choose not to make a felony of a first time offense does in no way minimize the seriousness of the offense. Moreover, I'd take that deal if I came from a shit hole country, so I don't see how it would have a deterrent effect on future invaders, but at least its something. Oh...I don't think non-citizens, which these people would be, should be counted in the census.
This comment of yours came in while I was typing up my last comment in response to yours of November 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM. I have no problem with any president worrying about leaving a legacy. The question I have for you is, what makes you think he wants to be known as a president who caved to make Dems happy? That's a stretch. And again, assurance from those like ourselves that he had been doing the right thing might be just what he needs to see most from those about whom I believe he cares the most as a president.,,US!
OK...dinner calls. Later!
I think, based on the immigration thing and a couple of other things he’s said, that he wants things he can call wins. If dealing with the DFL gets him things he can claim as wins, I have no doubt that he’ll take wins however he can. He certainly didn’t get the wins that a GOP majority should have given him.
I have no problem with the legacy thing, just with sacrificing conservatism to pad the legacy.
C
Ok. I’m sure I’ve just missed those two things that you don’t identify.
The fact remains that you are much more likely to defend Trump and go after criticism of Trump than you are to criticize him yourself.
C
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