Many of us noticed this. There are several causes:
1) Most MAGA (indeed, most non DemoKKKrat Terrorist activists) do NOT want to do politics 24/7. We elected Trump, and we want the GOP to support him and enact his policies.

2) By and large, though, this reduces turnout.

https://twitter.com/NnPnemck/status/2022717869872513358

3) But then there are activist Rs who have certain axes to grind. These fall roughly into the following categories: a) the anti-Trump, anti-MAGA neocons/traditionalists who think they can wait out Trump; b) certain factions within MAGA jockeying for power and influence. . . .

1) Per my (and his) notion that Trump won the exchange with Tampon Timmy, in his "Coffee and Covid" @jchilders98 noted four significant victories right before Tampon buckled:
*CNN ran not one, two, three, but FOUR polls supporting deportations.

coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-gold-pla… @jchilders98 *8th Circuit okd pepper spray
*SecWar Hegseth okd a major base of operations at Ft. Snelling (gee, doesn't sound like anyone is leaving, right)?
*Kash Patel announced fraud investigations of the civilian supporters of the Skinny Minny fraud.

Ok, I see tons of spoogie disinformation, including supposedly some on our side who think Trump "lost" in several developments. Nope. He won every one.

1) In the NON PUBLIC meeting with Tampon Timmy and Freybread, Trump came out and SAID WHAT THEY AGREED TO. 2) Now like a good lawyer, he has them "On record." They can LATER claim they didn't say that, but too late. Trump already gained the narrative and will urge ICE on saying "Walz promised support."

3) Whatever he does, Waltz loses as he is either a liar or ineffective.

1) Yesterday Chris Bray had a terrific piece on the paradox of blue cities/states still existing, yet constantly collapsing.

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3) It comes down to this: most of these states (NY, CA, IL) are big with large populations and long established economies.chrisbray.substack.com/p/what-blue-zo… 4) They don't just collapse as an out-of-style Las Vegas casino implodes. Rather, think of it like a slow spreading cancer.

5) As he points out, people move from the inner cities. Yep. We've seen that. But then they go to liberal enclave suburbs & those begin to decay.

1) I still am not sure what the Greenland thing is really all about. Trump did mention---and this may be important---the "Golden Dome" project in the context of Greenland.

2) If that is the case, then there are apparently better, more effective "shoot down" windows there. 3) But it's all speculation. What is NOT speculation is that Trump has been riding this horse for a while. Clearly someone in his staff over NINE YEARS has been giving him info on this.

4) Is it in Denmark's interest to sell? Absolutely not. What country wants to lose empire?

1) One of my jobs as an educator is to constantly remind people---not in a rote Hannity way---but just kind of, "Hey, don't forget . . ." So, recall for two months now I've been saying that the Skinny Minny fraud was "it." As Sanford used to say, "Elizabeth. This is the big one." 2) Why is this so different? For two big reasons. First, Minny is a minor league Kollyfornia. This is the prosecutors' normal method of going after the weak corner drug dealer before taking on El Estupido, the leader. Second, the sheer NUMBER of Fed agencies and departments. .

1) Not my news day, but @jchilders98 in his "Coffee & Covid" ()
notes that not even the NYSlimes can produce a focus group favorable to DemoKKKrats. They have horrible internal contradictions, as I have repeatedly shown.coffeeandcovid.com/p/external-ble… 2) As he points out, DemoKKKrats CANNOT SAY out loud what their plans are because, well, they want to kill us. They can't say what they want to do with illegals because they want illegals to BE POLICE OFFICERS! They can't say what they want to do with transoid issues . . .

1) The helplessness of the left: folks, stop cowering or handwringing about what "they" will do. They are out of ideas, out of energy, and out of ammo.

2) They tried and failed to turn the Skinny Minny murderous attack on ICE officers into a sympathetic George Floyd moment. 3) They failed utterly to slow down J.D. Vance's march to the presidency. This was apparently an effort by the DeSorosoids and Nick Knackers. J.D. is on pace to a huge nomination win and a bigger-than-2024 EC/pop vote win in 28.

GOOD NEWS FRIDAY THREAD:

1) US economy edges toward massive liftoff with Atlanta Fed saying 4th Q growth was 5.4% (incredible: "they" said not possible). Trade deficit collapse (exports 9% higher, imports 6% lower.) AMERICAN jobs are surging, but not GUBMENT jobs. 2) The effort to derail J.D. Vance's almost inevitable nomination failed. Apparently the RDS people thought they could take him out early, but NYET! Vance came back, now headed the announcement for the Minny fraud special AG.

1) Consider this. The USA has engaged into extremely complex joint force operations. One took out Iran's nukes. One nabbed Maduro as he recovered from his New Year's Eve hangover.

2) Not a single plane or helo was lost. Not a single US GI killed. 3) Both targets were HEAVILY defended by probably not the very top tier of Russian/ChiCom weapons, but probably not the bottom either.

4) At this point, both the Russkies and the ChiComs have to be extremely concerned about their weapons.

1) Odd how the DemoKKKrat Doodling Dicknipples here are touting an IA special election when they were quiet as churchmice last week when there were FOUR GOP wins in specials. Guess those don't count.

2) PA continues to slip away from Ds. Their lead dropped by 4k more. 3) Trump is wisely temporarily shutting down all "food assistance" programs from the feds to states after the Skinny Minny scandal.

GOOD. I keep saying, this is a NATIONAL scandal, not confined to the foreign invaders in Minny.

1) I see the usual takes are out on Stefanik and some of the other resignations. Almost all are wrong.

2) Here is what is happening. Trump has so radically changed Washington that these people actually HAVE TO WORK to keep up with him. 3) They face a choice: keep up with him legislatively, or be made irrelevant.

4) EXCEPT THEY CAN'T KEEP UP WITH HIM. No one can. Trump has limitless energy, infinite agenda items to make America greater.

TEN GREAT THINGS TO WRAP UP YOUR WEEK WITH

1. Inflation, by all measures has cooled and beat the (always wrong) "expectations."

2. DHS announced that in less than a year they have deported/self-deported an astonishing 2.5 MILLION illegal criminal invaders. 3. Final voter registration wrap up for the year, which includes voter roll purges, shows that EVERY. SINGLE. STATE moved to the right. Total shift, Rs+1.18 million. NC is only months away from turning red, PA on track to be red before 2028.

1) If you have not yet read the Trump National Security Strategy, it will make you stand up and cheer.

whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl… 2) American elites badly misjudged America's ability to shoulder the burden of defending the world with "no connection to global interest." Amen, amen, amen.

3) I'm not going to break up these two paragraphs in separate tweets cuz you MUST read this. "What do we want?"

"First and foremost, we want the continued survival and safety of the United States as an independent, sovereign republic whose government secures the God-given natural rights of its citizens and prioritizes their well-being and interests. We want to protect this country, its people, its territory, its economy, and its way of life from military attack and hostile foreign influence, whether espionage, predatory trade practices, drug and human trafficking, destructive propaganda and influence operations, cultural subversion, or any other threat to our nation."

1) As pioneers such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett spread out through the early American wilderness, another sort of pioneer was building a commercial structure that would soon take over after civilization followed. 2) Somewhat ironically, the two men were on the opposite side of the fence, but had the same vision: impose order on chaos that was the commercial frontier.

3) John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant who sold musical instruments, knew that there was a fortune in furs.

1) For over a year I've been warning you that barring flat-out dictatorship like Rutabaga used, our national character does NOT go after political enemies, even those that . . . ahem . . . started a civil war that killed 600,000. 2) Other than the murderous creep who ran Andersonville prison, not one single Confederate officer or member of the CSA administration was arrested or jailed except Jefferson Davis.

3) He served a whopping 2 years.

4) Not the first time. In 1814, as the British . . .

1) Why "Die Hard" is an awesome movie.

2) Almost everyone loves "Die Hard," a John McTiernan film from 1988 starring Bruce Willis and Alan Richman. But what made it so great?

3) The movie opens with NY cop John McClain (Willis) landing in LA. He is anxious.
His seatmate . . . 3) contd . . . asks him if flying bothers him & then shows him a trick to decrease the stress--taking off your shoes & socks and "Making fists with your toes." It turns out as in all great moviemaking this plays a key role in the plot.

4) The man then notices something you . . .

1) This is hard to write, but historically it appears the GOP is at the same point as the DemoKKKRats in the 1890s or the Republicans in 1912, and neither turned out well.

2) In the 1890s the DemoKKKrats had to choose between racism/continuing to fight the Civil War . . . 2) contd . . . and the emerging domestic populism, which consisted of no foreign wars, regulations on Big Bidness, and inflation. This pitted the Grover Cleveland DemoKKKrats (he was the last good DemoKKKrat) v the William Jennings Bryan wing.

Bryan won the party lost the war.

1) Getting a lot of post mortems. One I just looked at said abortion was an issue, but the biggest problem was that with early voting, 41% of Ds & a lot of Is made up their minds early in the process. 48% of ALL said "woke" culture is a problem.

BUT . . . 2) Very concerning, Social Security was in the top 4 issues for indies.

3) It is clear that DemoKKKrats actually sold that SS was under attack. Rs either did not respond or responded way too late.

(WPA Intelligence Poll)

1) I will try, one more time, to lay this out and then Ima gonna give up.

2) We don't know a lot for sure about the 2020 election. We know it was steeped in fraud, throughout.

3) Rutabaga didn't get 81m votes. We can be pretty sure Trump got at least 74m, but don't know . . . 3) contd . . . how many more he got. Consider that with ballot harvesting, not only were Biteme votes being arbitrarily added, but we have more than a few reports of Trump votes being destroyed.

4) None of the elites, no one in the GOP really wants to get to the bottom of this

1) Let me clear up some of the absolute lies about the Fuentes Mar-a-Lago dinner.

2) I have held a secret military clearance.

3) I have spent over an hour and a half in the Oval Office speaking with President Bush.

4) I have been security cleared on another occasion for W. 5) On such visits/dinners, whatever, the President quite often has no idea who is "out there." His aides set up an event. "Mr. President, at 3:00 you'll meet with the Poughkeepsie Children's choir, who will sing a song. A 6:00 you have a dinner with the Boisie CoC."