I know it's soooo hard but maybe a break from the denigration and demonization is in order, in exchange for a period of quiet introspection about how and why so many very expensively educated people were so wrong about all of this. Rise above your peers at the NYT, Morning Joe, The Guardian et al. It could happen!
Great piece Joe, eminently sensible and hopefully not falling on deaf ears. (Shouldn’t the term, if not the concept of “the Resistance” be mercifully retired?) Your brave take on identity politics is born out by a tough election and echos what Ruy Texiera and Doug Schoen and other sensible types in your party have been saying, (as well as your earlier comments). You will be off the Joy Reid holiday card list! 😺
As a conservative and an unenthusiastic Trump supporter, I just have to sit back and gasp at the sheer dominance that Trump is having on what will be 15 years of American political life. Whole forests will be cut down to form the library of books to explain this phenomenon, this colossus that bestrides our age. It all says something profound about us and our politics but I am not wise enough to know what.
Some random thoughts:
—Trump’s populism (i.e. tariffs, tip tax etc gimmicks, will face a willing but hopefully sensible Senate. As much as he is imagined to be a “fascist,” I think his instincts are more of a deal making Rockefeller Republican.
—The Democrats will pretend to conduct an honest postmortem but will fall back to the default position of Trump derangement. The media will not even bother with a reflective moment but continue on their merry way to irrelevance and oblivion.
Mark Halperin’s call for grace from all sides will be as dead as Kamala’s political career.
Ps Love the reference to Philip K Howard’s The Death of Common Sense—One of my faves!
Don't count out Mark's mission for the presumption of grace. Americans are largely kind, curious and respectful. Legacy media is caving in on itself, in no small part because people are tired of the divisive messaging. They will keep repeating the same lines about misogyny, racism and brainwashed young men who voted against their own interests. But my instinct is that most people aren't buying that shit anymore. Or at least that's my profound hope.
Bear in mind that we have the advantage. Trump is lazy, ignorant, stupid, and incompetent. And his true believers are ignorant, stupid, and incompetent (birds of a feather, after all, do flock together). And you still have to flunk the IQ test to be a member of the modern Republican Party. They only have 22 months between taking office and the midterms - where the map is as favorable to us then as it was to them this year. As Elizabeth Warren put forward, Fuck. Them. Up. No more "regular order," no more "unanimous consent." Slow walk everything. Whatever they do, sue them. In multiple jurisdictions (there are 256 Biden Judges out there to judge-shop from); delay all hearings; appeal all decisions and then appeal the appeals. Use Trump's own playbook against him. Delay. Delay. Delay.
And be damn sure to punch out the next over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployable low-achiever-of-the-Ivy League white boy "DC Democratic Consultant" you run across. Repeatedly. These morons haven't done shit in 40 years. Get rid of them! (I'm damn sure not giving Jaime Harrison a goddamned dime of that $25 million he's begging for to pay off the Consultant Class after they burned through a billion dollars to no effect).
And remember what Tiomthy Snider says: “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
We will never reach the racists and the misogynists, but we can reach the 3 percent who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn't show up in 2024 - by standing for the things Biden wanted to enact but was blocked by Joe Manchin (damn good riddance you fuckwad!) and give the 65% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck in what is billed as the best US economy ever a reason to believe democracy delivers for them, too.
Trump has taken over one of the two major political parties, won the Presidency twice (the only times he has run for office), cemented a major political realignment, had a highly rated TV show, has made billions on DJT, has built big buildings in NYC and golf courses around the world. I’m no Trump fan but I’m not sure “lazy, stupid and incompetent” fits. Under-estimate him at your peril.
And you are a fucking moron. Go back to Earth II, where the sky is green and the grass is blue, and the fact you are a fucking moron won't be so blindingly obvious, yuppie-boy.
At what she does, obvioulsy yes. But if you look at previous campaign managers who became C of S, they weren't that good - D or R - it's two very different jobs.
Fair point. But she does seem to have a unique talent for managing Trump. Her reputation is a no nonsense, stand her ground gatekeeper. I think her selection is a hopeful sign.
From President Joe Biden to the biggest loser VP KH to everyone on down, including a propagandistic major media who debased themselves more than ever trumpeting the debased lie that Donald Trump was a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler who will destroy our so-called democracy not even just five days ago to now playing nice and promising a peaceful transfer of power, we gotta ask ourselves, “WTF! Which is it???” Don’t we?
Thank you, Joe! Please listen to the majority of Americans who cast their votes for President this round. In Colorado, there is a flurry of concern that we cast our vote to make our delegates vote for the majority overall election winner, and that if this was law, all of Colorado’s delegates would flip their votes to Trump! I hope that is the death of a bad idea!
There is no question Ukraine will be forced to deal. It is or will become short on money, arms and men and Trump is not going to help. Besides determining what territory will it be forced to cede, the other pressing question is what protection from further Russian incursions will it receive from the US? Nato membership (assuming that will be anything)? A defense treaty like South Korea? US troops on Ukraine soil? A hand shake? Trust me? Nothing? I'm sure Poland and the Baltics will be watching very closely.
Great piece. For me, Wednesday was a very difficult day, Thursday a little better, and today I feel much better. I’m certainly not feeling optimistic or positive, but have been looking for reasons to believe that the things won’t be terrible. Wiles being appointed Chief of Staff is a good sign. She is competent and not a right wing nut. He went through Chiefs of Staff like Kleenex the first time, but none of them were people he had a longstanding connection with like he does with her. And he seems to take counsel and guidance from women (Ivanka, Kellyanne, Hope Hicks) much better than he does men. If Wiles can be an effective gatekeeper and keep the crazies like Bannon, Flynn, and Loomer away it will certainly be a good thing. And I read that Rubio is on the list for Secretary of State. At least he’s qualified for the job. That’s our best hope, that the key positions end up being filled by people who are at least somewhat competent.
1. President Trump’s proposed tariffs are neither to reduce inflation nor generate tax revenue. They are Trumps’ art of the deal to encourage US corporate globalists to invest in US jobs rather than foreign slave labor and to strong arm Mexico to halt the invasion of illegal aliens through the Mexican/US border.
2. Biden’s economy is a dumpster fire with almost all of the jobs created going to illegal aliens, employment has increased because people are working more part-time jobs to stay afloat because of the inflation created by the democrats egregious spending bills and the so called “infrastructure” bill are corrupt payouts to the democrats’ green energy donors (Consider $1 billion for only 8 EV charging stations and that all of Obamas’ green energy grift recipients went bankrupt). The US used to lead the world in integrated circuit development but they became fat, lazy and democrats. There is no reason for US taxpayers to subsidize their incompetence. The US government and the military industrial complex is the largest crime syndicate in the world (even larger than the CCP) and building more multi-$billion carrier fleets that can be taken out with a barrage of 500 $thousand drones is the height of stupidity. Before Beijing Biden, the peanut president was the most incompetent president in US history. President Trumps’ planned lower taxes, reduced regulation, government downsizing and mass deportation of illegal aliens will lead to an economic boom.
3. Record numbers of black men and Hispanics voted for President Trump.
4. The democrats haven’t been this angry since we freed their slaves.
5. The corrupt Washington DC swamp is making a fortune using the Ukraine war as an off shore money laundering scheme down to the life of the last Ukrainian and the corrupt Biden administration refuses to give an accounting of where the money is going. The corrupt/ignorant media ignores several significant issues:
A. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt oligarchies in Europe, most of who are descendants of the Nazi Germany SS
B. It was the CIA who ran a coup to overthrow the duly elected President Viktor Yanukovych and install Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
C. Eastern Ukraine, specifically the Donbas and Crimea, was part of Russia until Nikita Khrushchev, to appease his wife, made it part of Ukraine. The inhabitants speak Russian and practice a Russian culture.
D. The government in Kiev tried to force residents of eastern Ukraine to abolish their Russian heritage and language against their will.
E. The eastern Ukrainians voted in a ballot referendum to leave Ukraine and return to the Russian Federation and the will of the voters was ignored.
F. Kiev actually began bombing eastern Ukrainians.
G. Two Minsk agreements to end the attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Eastern Ukrainians were negotiated and Kiev ignored them.
H. Sevastopol is Russia’s only winter port and the land bridge through Crimea is so strategic they are not going to give it up.
I. The Russians accomplished their objectives in two weeks after invading Ukraine and Putin proposed a peace agreement which Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed in principal but Joe Biden dispatched then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet with Zelenskyy telling him to keep fighting.
J. Zelenskyy for the first time allowed foreigners to buy Ukrainian property and Blackrock has been buying it up and if it weren’t for the return of President Trump they would be looking for US taxpayers to foot the bill to rebuild the country and maximize their profits.
So after a million casualties and an unknown number of wounded and Ukraine in ruins, President Trump will broker an agreement that could have been reached in the first two weeks of the war.
6. I am looking forward to Elon Musk deconstructing the bloated, incompetent and corrupt administrative state. Musk is also intelligent and knowledgeable enough to know that climate alarmism is a scam that is not based in legitimate science and he will eradicate the government climate alarmism zealots.
7. Because the federal bureaucracy is so incestuous and corrupt, President Trump has promised to relocate multiple federal departments out of the DC swamp moving them closer to the constituents they are supposed to serve. This will improve government services and keep taxpayers' money in their communities rather than having it extorted by the DC swamp. During President Trump’s first term in office, the Interior Department relocated the D.C.-based headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction, Colorado and then the failed Biden administration tried to move them back. I offer suggestions for decentralization including: EPA to Cleveland, Energy to Oklahoma, Labor & Industry to South Carolina, Homeland Security to Texas, VA to Mississippi, Transportation to Chicago, HUD to Detroit, Agriculture to Nebraska, Interior to South Dakota and DOJ/FBI to Kansas.
There are also good arguments to entirely eliminate the failed departments of Education and Commerce and return control to the states. And with modern telecommunications and air travel there is no need for the foggy bottom State Department loaded with all its incompetent ivy-league indoctrinated social justice warriors who want to force their woke BS on the rest of the world. And as JFK said before he was assassinated by them, the CIA must be broken into a thousand pieces.
8. Because of the effort of thousands of election integrity volunteers the 2024 election was secured. The results demonstrate that the 2020 election was rigged. It is noble to fight and lose but cheaters demonstrate that they are losers to their core and the democrats are the biggest losers in the country.
Joe, you miss the big story; President Trump pulled off the greatest political comeback in US history, even after Russiagate, the lies of the corrupt media, the bogus impeachments, the Jan. 6 government false-flag operation, Pelosi’s dog and baloney Jan. 6 committee, the law-fare by the corrupt DOJ/FBI and NY and Georgia prosecutors against Trump and his advisors and supporters, the attempted assassinations and all of the really stupid voters who believe whatever propaganda they’re fed by the failed NYTImes, the Worthless ComPost, the Atlantic and the rest of the lying media.
Here is a repost of Peter Navarro's excellent substack post:
"Thank You For the Trump Landslide!
The biggest difference between Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 and 2024 is Sherlock Holmes’ “dog that didn’t bark.” In 2016, I remember all too vividly walking out of Trump Tower from the campaign headquarters the night after the election only to be greeted by howling protestors flooding the streets of Manhattan.
Not this time. This time a beautiful calm has descended over this American nation.
Even those who opposed Donald Trump understand he will bring this nation safety, security, and prosperity. Even those women who might have voted for Harris on abortion understand they will be better able to afford raising a family should they choose to have children.
For the Trump landslide, I want to offer my thanks first to Donald Trump not just for tirelessly campaigning through the last 60 days while his opponent sucked wind. We must also thank my old boss for the preceding 60 months in which this ultimate warrior went through the hell of a losing campaign, myriad election interference efforts, a relentless smear campaign by the legacy media, and the slings and arrows of a weaponized justice system. He could have gone quietly into that good night in 2020 and shot par well into his 90s, but he literally put his life on the line for us.
We must also thank JD Vance for being the kind of running mate that Tampon Bug-eyed Punch line Tim Walz could only dream about. Vance’s dissection of Walz in the one vice presidential debate marked in inflection point in the overall campaign that could not have come at a better time.
The new Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and the inestimable Dan Scavino must also get a big thanks not just for helping to orchestrate and message a landslide but for also having President Trump’s back for what has been over a decade.
There are many other unsung heroes, and there’s not enough words in this column to note even a small fraction of them. Forgive me for not naming you, but we in Trump Land know who you are and so does the Boss.
As for some other well-deserved thanks, it’s time to put my tongue in my cheek. I’d first like to thank Joe Biden for being so easily duped to step down by Nancy Pelosi, George Clooney, James Carville, Bill Maher, and George Stephanopoulos.
A JOY-filled thanks to Kamala Harris herself for thinking the America people are so stupid that she could run a campaign from the political equivalent of a Pope Mobile that would shield her from any kind of unfriendly media or public scrutiny.
A big shoutout to Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Bruce Springsteen for proving that the only way Kamala Harris could fill an auditorium was to pack the stage with stars. Fortunately, Harris never learned the lesson that she should have spoken before the performers so she wouldn’t have to face so many empty seats after they were done.
A very special thanks to Barack Obama for an effete, condescending lecture that drove proud black men into the Trump camp. Michelle Obama was almost as effective at alienating white voters.
Somewhere over the last four years, once dear sweet go high Michelle lost the grace that made her such a political threat. Instead, she spewed go low viperous anger that tried to make the election about what it never was, race.
Bless you Mark Cuban energizing strong Republican and Independent women. Here’s a narcissist caught in unrequited love – Mark Cuban loves the camera but the camera hates him. Are you listening smug Bill Maher and smugger Jon Stewart?
By far my biggest thanks must go to the legacy media which simultaneously drove its credibility into the ground and sent Donald Trump’s popularity soaring with its over-the-top Whoopi, Morning Joe, Joyless Reid, Rachael Maddow critiques.
Does Whoopi Goldberg have any clue that her daily Halloween costume garishness and Trump hating persona on The View appeals to only a small sliver of Americana that loves a churlish clown? Does the Trump turncoat Alyssa Farah realize how small, petty, and smug she presents?
A shout out to CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for conducting the only fair debate in the last three presidential elections. ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis paled in comparison and merely put an exclamation point on the unfairness of the media.
BTW, God bless CBS for getting caught switching an answer to a question in your Harris interview – it was just priceless and free Trump media. The only thing more fun was catching
CNN’s Donna Brazil slipping questions to Hillary Clinton.
Does the Fake News legacy media understand that its legacy now is going from an American institution once trusted by 90% of American before Donald Trump to only 10% now after almost a decade of the unfair trashing of Trump?
In contrast, Newsmax should be profusely thanked for its rise to a credible and formidable alternative to a subtly but all too often sinisterly anti-Trump Fox News. A shout out right here to the Washington Times, Kelly Sadler, and Charles Hurt for putting together the best commentary section of any major newspaper in the country. And an honorable mention to News Nation, which is at least trying to run down the middle of the road between liberal and conservative media outlets.
Thanks also to Real America’s Voice for being at the vanguard of Trump’s Deplorable Army, with guerrilla warfare shows like that of Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, and John Solomon. Bannon’s posse organized a hostile takeover of local Republican parties and precinct captains, Kirk’s youth movement mobilized the Gen Z’ers and Millenials, and it was a sight to behold.
Finally, before putting them in jail, we must thank Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Fani Willis Alvin Bragg, Arthur Engoron, and Juan Marchan for weaponizing our justice system to steal Donald Trump’s money, drain him of legal fees, threaten him with 700 years of prison, and put Trump advisors like me in prison for simply doing our duty. Through such weaponized injustice, Donald Trump went from being far down in the polls on the crucial threat to democracy issue to skyrocketing up right past Harris and neutralizing the issue.
Ultimately, we must thank the American people for piercing the veil of the legacy media’s lies. We have a chance now to reboot our democracy and Fourth Estate and get on with the business of making America safe, secure, peaceful, strong, healthy, and great again. Donald Trump is more than ready to do that.
Peter Navarro served as Donald Trump’s manufacturing czar and chief China hawk. He is the author of The New MAGA Deal: The Unofficial Deplorables Guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 Platform. Follow him at www.peternavarro.substack.com where this article appears."
" Life isn’t fair." - I think that's too easy. We should be taught by the media (largely illiterate about economics, very sadly) that the economy really is the result of policies put in place in the past - near or far - and it should be simply stated that "the economy is good" so the reader/Iistener can commit the logical fallacy of "it must the guy in office". It's really not that hard. People understand causation in all kinds of aspects of their lives - the paint didn't peel just today, the grass didn't grow in one day, an ill-maintained car will break down more often, etc., etc. I'm sure I could be more articulate here, but gee whiz, it's really not that hard to say "Because of policy x in 2022, we got result y in 2024."
Joe, I am sure you are aware that The Biden administration has not reduced any of Trump’s tariffs on China, and in May 2024 raised tariffs on steel, aluminum, medical equipment, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells. While it is true that the current establishment consensus on tariffs are inflationary, there is a growing group of economists who claim that if introduced alongside policies to encourage inward and domestic investment, along with sovereign investment in infrastructure and innovation, those inflationary drivers can be managed. Is there a reason why you dismiss this thesis? Past performance is not necessarily indicative and economic theories have a habit of being proven deficient on both sides of the supply/demand curve.
I know it's soooo hard but maybe a break from the denigration and demonization is in order, in exchange for a period of quiet introspection about how and why so many very expensively educated people were so wrong about all of this. Rise above your peers at the NYT, Morning Joe, The Guardian et al. It could happen!
Great piece Joe, eminently sensible and hopefully not falling on deaf ears. (Shouldn’t the term, if not the concept of “the Resistance” be mercifully retired?) Your brave take on identity politics is born out by a tough election and echos what Ruy Texiera and Doug Schoen and other sensible types in your party have been saying, (as well as your earlier comments). You will be off the Joy Reid holiday card list! 😺
As a conservative and an unenthusiastic Trump supporter, I just have to sit back and gasp at the sheer dominance that Trump is having on what will be 15 years of American political life. Whole forests will be cut down to form the library of books to explain this phenomenon, this colossus that bestrides our age. It all says something profound about us and our politics but I am not wise enough to know what.
Some random thoughts:
—Trump’s populism (i.e. tariffs, tip tax etc gimmicks, will face a willing but hopefully sensible Senate. As much as he is imagined to be a “fascist,” I think his instincts are more of a deal making Rockefeller Republican.
—The Democrats will pretend to conduct an honest postmortem but will fall back to the default position of Trump derangement. The media will not even bother with a reflective moment but continue on their merry way to irrelevance and oblivion.
Mark Halperin’s call for grace from all sides will be as dead as Kamala’s political career.
Ps Love the reference to Philip K Howard’s The Death of Common Sense—One of my faves!
Don't count out Mark's mission for the presumption of grace. Americans are largely kind, curious and respectful. Legacy media is caving in on itself, in no small part because people are tired of the divisive messaging. They will keep repeating the same lines about misogyny, racism and brainwashed young men who voted against their own interests. But my instinct is that most people aren't buying that shit anymore. Or at least that's my profound hope.
"People of color" has to be one of the most asinine phrases of the last 30 years. Up there with "Latinx."
Bear in mind that we have the advantage. Trump is lazy, ignorant, stupid, and incompetent. And his true believers are ignorant, stupid, and incompetent (birds of a feather, after all, do flock together). And you still have to flunk the IQ test to be a member of the modern Republican Party. They only have 22 months between taking office and the midterms - where the map is as favorable to us then as it was to them this year. As Elizabeth Warren put forward, Fuck. Them. Up. No more "regular order," no more "unanimous consent." Slow walk everything. Whatever they do, sue them. In multiple jurisdictions (there are 256 Biden Judges out there to judge-shop from); delay all hearings; appeal all decisions and then appeal the appeals. Use Trump's own playbook against him. Delay. Delay. Delay.
And be damn sure to punch out the next over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployable low-achiever-of-the-Ivy League white boy "DC Democratic Consultant" you run across. Repeatedly. These morons haven't done shit in 40 years. Get rid of them! (I'm damn sure not giving Jaime Harrison a goddamned dime of that $25 million he's begging for to pay off the Consultant Class after they burned through a billion dollars to no effect).
And remember what Tiomthy Snider says: “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
We will never reach the racists and the misogynists, but we can reach the 3 percent who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn't show up in 2024 - by standing for the things Biden wanted to enact but was blocked by Joe Manchin (damn good riddance you fuckwad!) and give the 65% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck in what is billed as the best US economy ever a reason to believe democracy delivers for them, too.
Trump has taken over one of the two major political parties, won the Presidency twice (the only times he has run for office), cemented a major political realignment, had a highly rated TV show, has made billions on DJT, has built big buildings in NYC and golf courses around the world. I’m no Trump fan but I’m not sure “lazy, stupid and incompetent” fits. Under-estimate him at your peril.
I’m sorry. He ran and lost in 2020. My bad.
Jay
You are a delusional hater. Spoken by someone who has never voted for Trump.
And you are a fucking moron. Go back to Earth II, where the sky is green and the grass is blue, and the fact you are a fucking moron won't be so blindingly obvious, yuppie-boy.
Out of curiosity, do you think Susie Wiles is competent?
At what she does, obvioulsy yes. But if you look at previous campaign managers who became C of S, they weren't that good - D or R - it's two very different jobs.
Fair point. But she does seem to have a unique talent for managing Trump. Her reputation is a no nonsense, stand her ground gatekeeper. I think her selection is a hopeful sign.
Possibly. I just note that the result has not been what was expected with both sides.
From President Joe Biden to the biggest loser VP KH to everyone on down, including a propagandistic major media who debased themselves more than ever trumpeting the debased lie that Donald Trump was a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler who will destroy our so-called democracy not even just five days ago to now playing nice and promising a peaceful transfer of power, we gotta ask ourselves, “WTF! Which is it???” Don’t we?
I made a new post from my comment with a cool live performance of Bob Dylan’s “Idiot Wind” that seemed oh so fitting. 😎 https://open.substack.com/pub/themjkxn/p/idiot-wind?r=1qts0e&utm_medium=ios
I am so grateful for this newsletter -- no pulled punches, just constructive, reasoned discourse. Thanks Joe.
Thank you, Joe! Please listen to the majority of Americans who cast their votes for President this round. In Colorado, there is a flurry of concern that we cast our vote to make our delegates vote for the majority overall election winner, and that if this was law, all of Colorado’s delegates would flip their votes to Trump! I hope that is the death of a bad idea!
There is no question Ukraine will be forced to deal. It is or will become short on money, arms and men and Trump is not going to help. Besides determining what territory will it be forced to cede, the other pressing question is what protection from further Russian incursions will it receive from the US? Nato membership (assuming that will be anything)? A defense treaty like South Korea? US troops on Ukraine soil? A hand shake? Trust me? Nothing? I'm sure Poland and the Baltics will be watching very closely.
Great piece. For me, Wednesday was a very difficult day, Thursday a little better, and today I feel much better. I’m certainly not feeling optimistic or positive, but have been looking for reasons to believe that the things won’t be terrible. Wiles being appointed Chief of Staff is a good sign. She is competent and not a right wing nut. He went through Chiefs of Staff like Kleenex the first time, but none of them were people he had a longstanding connection with like he does with her. And he seems to take counsel and guidance from women (Ivanka, Kellyanne, Hope Hicks) much better than he does men. If Wiles can be an effective gatekeeper and keep the crazies like Bannon, Flynn, and Loomer away it will certainly be a good thing. And I read that Rubio is on the list for Secretary of State. At least he’s qualified for the job. That’s our best hope, that the key positions end up being filled by people who are at least somewhat competent.
Joe, pay attention and try to keep up:
1. President Trump’s proposed tariffs are neither to reduce inflation nor generate tax revenue. They are Trumps’ art of the deal to encourage US corporate globalists to invest in US jobs rather than foreign slave labor and to strong arm Mexico to halt the invasion of illegal aliens through the Mexican/US border.
2. Biden’s economy is a dumpster fire with almost all of the jobs created going to illegal aliens, employment has increased because people are working more part-time jobs to stay afloat because of the inflation created by the democrats egregious spending bills and the so called “infrastructure” bill are corrupt payouts to the democrats’ green energy donors (Consider $1 billion for only 8 EV charging stations and that all of Obamas’ green energy grift recipients went bankrupt). The US used to lead the world in integrated circuit development but they became fat, lazy and democrats. There is no reason for US taxpayers to subsidize their incompetence. The US government and the military industrial complex is the largest crime syndicate in the world (even larger than the CCP) and building more multi-$billion carrier fleets that can be taken out with a barrage of 500 $thousand drones is the height of stupidity. Before Beijing Biden, the peanut president was the most incompetent president in US history. President Trumps’ planned lower taxes, reduced regulation, government downsizing and mass deportation of illegal aliens will lead to an economic boom.
3. Record numbers of black men and Hispanics voted for President Trump.
4. The democrats haven’t been this angry since we freed their slaves.
5. The corrupt Washington DC swamp is making a fortune using the Ukraine war as an off shore money laundering scheme down to the life of the last Ukrainian and the corrupt Biden administration refuses to give an accounting of where the money is going. The corrupt/ignorant media ignores several significant issues:
A. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt oligarchies in Europe, most of who are descendants of the Nazi Germany SS
B. It was the CIA who ran a coup to overthrow the duly elected President Viktor Yanukovych and install Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
C. Eastern Ukraine, specifically the Donbas and Crimea, was part of Russia until Nikita Khrushchev, to appease his wife, made it part of Ukraine. The inhabitants speak Russian and practice a Russian culture.
D. The government in Kiev tried to force residents of eastern Ukraine to abolish their Russian heritage and language against their will.
E. The eastern Ukrainians voted in a ballot referendum to leave Ukraine and return to the Russian Federation and the will of the voters was ignored.
F. Kiev actually began bombing eastern Ukrainians.
G. Two Minsk agreements to end the attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Eastern Ukrainians were negotiated and Kiev ignored them.
H. Sevastopol is Russia’s only winter port and the land bridge through Crimea is so strategic they are not going to give it up.
I. The Russians accomplished their objectives in two weeks after invading Ukraine and Putin proposed a peace agreement which Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed in principal but Joe Biden dispatched then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet with Zelenskyy telling him to keep fighting.
J. Zelenskyy for the first time allowed foreigners to buy Ukrainian property and Blackrock has been buying it up and if it weren’t for the return of President Trump they would be looking for US taxpayers to foot the bill to rebuild the country and maximize their profits.
So after a million casualties and an unknown number of wounded and Ukraine in ruins, President Trump will broker an agreement that could have been reached in the first two weeks of the war.
6. I am looking forward to Elon Musk deconstructing the bloated, incompetent and corrupt administrative state. Musk is also intelligent and knowledgeable enough to know that climate alarmism is a scam that is not based in legitimate science and he will eradicate the government climate alarmism zealots.
7. Because the federal bureaucracy is so incestuous and corrupt, President Trump has promised to relocate multiple federal departments out of the DC swamp moving them closer to the constituents they are supposed to serve. This will improve government services and keep taxpayers' money in their communities rather than having it extorted by the DC swamp. During President Trump’s first term in office, the Interior Department relocated the D.C.-based headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction, Colorado and then the failed Biden administration tried to move them back. I offer suggestions for decentralization including: EPA to Cleveland, Energy to Oklahoma, Labor & Industry to South Carolina, Homeland Security to Texas, VA to Mississippi, Transportation to Chicago, HUD to Detroit, Agriculture to Nebraska, Interior to South Dakota and DOJ/FBI to Kansas.
There are also good arguments to entirely eliminate the failed departments of Education and Commerce and return control to the states. And with modern telecommunications and air travel there is no need for the foggy bottom State Department loaded with all its incompetent ivy-league indoctrinated social justice warriors who want to force their woke BS on the rest of the world. And as JFK said before he was assassinated by them, the CIA must be broken into a thousand pieces.
8. Because of the effort of thousands of election integrity volunteers the 2024 election was secured. The results demonstrate that the 2020 election was rigged. It is noble to fight and lose but cheaters demonstrate that they are losers to their core and the democrats are the biggest losers in the country.
Joe, you miss the big story; President Trump pulled off the greatest political comeback in US history, even after Russiagate, the lies of the corrupt media, the bogus impeachments, the Jan. 6 government false-flag operation, Pelosi’s dog and baloney Jan. 6 committee, the law-fare by the corrupt DOJ/FBI and NY and Georgia prosecutors against Trump and his advisors and supporters, the attempted assassinations and all of the really stupid voters who believe whatever propaganda they’re fed by the failed NYTImes, the Worthless ComPost, the Atlantic and the rest of the lying media.
Get ready for MAGA 2.0!
Here is a repost of Peter Navarro's excellent substack post:
"Thank You For the Trump Landslide!
The biggest difference between Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 and 2024 is Sherlock Holmes’ “dog that didn’t bark.” In 2016, I remember all too vividly walking out of Trump Tower from the campaign headquarters the night after the election only to be greeted by howling protestors flooding the streets of Manhattan.
Not this time. This time a beautiful calm has descended over this American nation.
Even those who opposed Donald Trump understand he will bring this nation safety, security, and prosperity. Even those women who might have voted for Harris on abortion understand they will be better able to afford raising a family should they choose to have children.
For the Trump landslide, I want to offer my thanks first to Donald Trump not just for tirelessly campaigning through the last 60 days while his opponent sucked wind. We must also thank my old boss for the preceding 60 months in which this ultimate warrior went through the hell of a losing campaign, myriad election interference efforts, a relentless smear campaign by the legacy media, and the slings and arrows of a weaponized justice system. He could have gone quietly into that good night in 2020 and shot par well into his 90s, but he literally put his life on the line for us.
We must also thank JD Vance for being the kind of running mate that Tampon Bug-eyed Punch line Tim Walz could only dream about. Vance’s dissection of Walz in the one vice presidential debate marked in inflection point in the overall campaign that could not have come at a better time.
The new Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and the inestimable Dan Scavino must also get a big thanks not just for helping to orchestrate and message a landslide but for also having President Trump’s back for what has been over a decade.
There are many other unsung heroes, and there’s not enough words in this column to note even a small fraction of them. Forgive me for not naming you, but we in Trump Land know who you are and so does the Boss.
As for some other well-deserved thanks, it’s time to put my tongue in my cheek. I’d first like to thank Joe Biden for being so easily duped to step down by Nancy Pelosi, George Clooney, James Carville, Bill Maher, and George Stephanopoulos.
A JOY-filled thanks to Kamala Harris herself for thinking the America people are so stupid that she could run a campaign from the political equivalent of a Pope Mobile that would shield her from any kind of unfriendly media or public scrutiny.
A big shoutout to Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Bruce Springsteen for proving that the only way Kamala Harris could fill an auditorium was to pack the stage with stars. Fortunately, Harris never learned the lesson that she should have spoken before the performers so she wouldn’t have to face so many empty seats after they were done.
A very special thanks to Barack Obama for an effete, condescending lecture that drove proud black men into the Trump camp. Michelle Obama was almost as effective at alienating white voters.
Somewhere over the last four years, once dear sweet go high Michelle lost the grace that made her such a political threat. Instead, she spewed go low viperous anger that tried to make the election about what it never was, race.
Bless you Mark Cuban energizing strong Republican and Independent women. Here’s a narcissist caught in unrequited love – Mark Cuban loves the camera but the camera hates him. Are you listening smug Bill Maher and smugger Jon Stewart?
By far my biggest thanks must go to the legacy media which simultaneously drove its credibility into the ground and sent Donald Trump’s popularity soaring with its over-the-top Whoopi, Morning Joe, Joyless Reid, Rachael Maddow critiques.
Does Whoopi Goldberg have any clue that her daily Halloween costume garishness and Trump hating persona on The View appeals to only a small sliver of Americana that loves a churlish clown? Does the Trump turncoat Alyssa Farah realize how small, petty, and smug she presents?
A shout out to CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for conducting the only fair debate in the last three presidential elections. ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis paled in comparison and merely put an exclamation point on the unfairness of the media.
BTW, God bless CBS for getting caught switching an answer to a question in your Harris interview – it was just priceless and free Trump media. The only thing more fun was catching
CNN’s Donna Brazil slipping questions to Hillary Clinton.
Does the Fake News legacy media understand that its legacy now is going from an American institution once trusted by 90% of American before Donald Trump to only 10% now after almost a decade of the unfair trashing of Trump?
In contrast, Newsmax should be profusely thanked for its rise to a credible and formidable alternative to a subtly but all too often sinisterly anti-Trump Fox News. A shout out right here to the Washington Times, Kelly Sadler, and Charles Hurt for putting together the best commentary section of any major newspaper in the country. And an honorable mention to News Nation, which is at least trying to run down the middle of the road between liberal and conservative media outlets.
Thanks also to Real America’s Voice for being at the vanguard of Trump’s Deplorable Army, with guerrilla warfare shows like that of Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, and John Solomon. Bannon’s posse organized a hostile takeover of local Republican parties and precinct captains, Kirk’s youth movement mobilized the Gen Z’ers and Millenials, and it was a sight to behold.
Finally, before putting them in jail, we must thank Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Fani Willis Alvin Bragg, Arthur Engoron, and Juan Marchan for weaponizing our justice system to steal Donald Trump’s money, drain him of legal fees, threaten him with 700 years of prison, and put Trump advisors like me in prison for simply doing our duty. Through such weaponized injustice, Donald Trump went from being far down in the polls on the crucial threat to democracy issue to skyrocketing up right past Harris and neutralizing the issue.
Ultimately, we must thank the American people for piercing the veil of the legacy media’s lies. We have a chance now to reboot our democracy and Fourth Estate and get on with the business of making America safe, secure, peaceful, strong, healthy, and great again. Donald Trump is more than ready to do that.
Peter Navarro served as Donald Trump’s manufacturing czar and chief China hawk. He is the author of The New MAGA Deal: The Unofficial Deplorables Guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 Platform. Follow him at www.peternavarro.substack.com where this article appears."
" Life isn’t fair." - I think that's too easy. We should be taught by the media (largely illiterate about economics, very sadly) that the economy really is the result of policies put in place in the past - near or far - and it should be simply stated that "the economy is good" so the reader/Iistener can commit the logical fallacy of "it must the guy in office". It's really not that hard. People understand causation in all kinds of aspects of their lives - the paint didn't peel just today, the grass didn't grow in one day, an ill-maintained car will break down more often, etc., etc. I'm sure I could be more articulate here, but gee whiz, it's really not that hard to say "Because of policy x in 2022, we got result y in 2024."
* should not be stated - whoops
Thanks, John. I never hear that emphasized enough about how long it takes for the economy to shift because of earlier enacted policies.
Very insightful, Joe, as always! I am not in a panic about this election -- yet! I will wait and see what happens, but I have low expectations.
Joe, I am sure you are aware that The Biden administration has not reduced any of Trump’s tariffs on China, and in May 2024 raised tariffs on steel, aluminum, medical equipment, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells. While it is true that the current establishment consensus on tariffs are inflationary, there is a growing group of economists who claim that if introduced alongside policies to encourage inward and domestic investment, along with sovereign investment in infrastructure and innovation, those inflationary drivers can be managed. Is there a reason why you dismiss this thesis? Past performance is not necessarily indicative and economic theories have a habit of being proven deficient on both sides of the supply/demand curve.