1. Trump's Response To Democrats' January 6 Commemoration
Since an article containing Trump's response to yesterday's proceedings is being suppressed by Twitter as "suspicious content," I will serialize a few key quotes from Trump in this thread.
2. “What we witnessed yesterday was the last gasps of a discredited left-wing political and media establishment that has, for decades, driven our country into the ground—shipping away jobs, surrendering our strength, sacrificing our sovereignty, attacking our history & values.”
3. “These radical leftists in Washington care NOTHING for American Democracy. All they care about is control over you, and riches for themselves.
But they are failing. No one believes them anymore. And the day is coming when they will be overwhelmingly voted out of power."
4. “Joe Biden’s voice is now the voice of desperation and despair. His handlers gave him that speech to read yesterday because they know the unprecedented failures of his presidency and the left-wing extremism of the Pelosi-Schumer Congress have destroyed the Democrat Party."
5. “Part of their panic is motivated by the realization that, just like the Russia Collusion Hoax, they cannot sustain the preposterous fabrications about January 6 much longer. The truth is coming out."
6. “But for them, the worst part of it all is the knowledge that the American People are seeing right through their phony media event—which despicably compared a Pelosi-led security failure at the Capitol to the darkest days in American history and the deaths of 3,000 Americans.”
7. “The people see right through that sham. They see a cynical politician who ran for office promising unity who is now doing the most divisive thing possible—slandering his political opponents as domestic terrorists, just like insecure dictators do in communist countries.”
8. “The American People also see that January 6 has become the Democrats’ excuse and pretext for the most chilling assault on the civil liberties of American citizens in generations."
9. "It is being used to justify outrageous attacks on free speech, widespread censorship, de-platforming, calls for increased domestic surveillance, appalling abuse of political prisoners, ..."
10. "... labeling opponents of COVID lockdowns and mandates as national security threats, and even ordering the FBI to target parents who object to the radical indoctrination of their children in school."
11. "And this week, January 6 is also the Democrats’ excuse for trying to pass a radical Federal takeover of state election law. They are trying to BAN voter ID and other basic measures that can ensure the sacred integrity of the vote.”
12. “The reason the Democrats are doing all of this is not because they believe they will win a fair and honest election. It’s because they know they will overwhelmingly LOSE one.”
13. “From the very beginning, all that Americans have wanted is great jobs, safe neighborhoods, strong borders, good schools, a proud nation, and a government that LISTENS to the American People. Joe Biden and the Radical Democrats have failed on every front."
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Allow me to capture a particularly amusing aspect of one half of our beautiful country's beautiful polity, courtesy of WSJ. Hillary has now shared a victory speech she had planned to give in 2016, had she won. ...
2. Hillary's victory speech had this beautiful passage:
"I am as sure of this as anything I have ever known: America is the greatest country in the world."
As for the last eight words of the preceding passage, truer words were never spoken.
3. Unfortunately these words were never spoken at all by Mrs. Clinton in her concession speech on Nov. 9, 2016. Though she had this bedrock conviction that this nation is the world’s best, somehow the line never made it into the next day’s message.
Too many people have a romantic notion of 'resetting' our government. Status quo is not the creation of a select few politicians. It's the net of pushes and pulls of millions upon millions of interconnected interests in the nation. Wisdom lies in pursuing stepwise refinements.
Big moral battles of mankind have already been fought and mostly won in the United States and most other liberal free market democracies. We should strive to keep the gains and build upon them, not gratuitously recast every pet peeve as 'civil rights issue of our time' and such.
For our entire history, mankind has strived hard to cope with problems of survival, scarcity, and calamities of all kinds. Nothing in our history and evolution has trained us to deal with problems of plenty and unprecedented successes all around us. No wonder we are disoriented.
And Republicans' opportunity, if they keep their heads and address the electorate respectfully and constructively.
Turning to the nature and size of recent Hispanic shifts against the Democrats—it’s not as bad as you think, it’s worse.
2. In the most recent WSJ poll, in a 2024 hypothetical rematch between Trump and Biden, Hispanic voters favored Biden by only a single point. This is among a voter group that favored Biden over Trump in 2020 by 26 points.
3. In the same poll, Biden’s net approval rating among Hispanics was -12 (42% approval/54% disapproval). Hispanics in the poll favor Republicans in Congress over Democrats on containing inflation and securing the border.
"The fact is, GOP's 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups, provided the greatest benefits for middle-income households and spurred economic growth that helped to reduce poverty and improve prosperity." thehill.com/opinion/financ…
Illustrative example:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Got A Tax Cut From Trump's Tax Reform
The Governor's income in 2017 and 2018 was exactly the same; $212,000.
His Federal Tax Bill for 2017: $41,765
His Federal Tax Bill for 2018: $39,138