That winning we're supposed to get tired of, is it going to start at some point?

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□ [“House to Vote on Massie’s Impeachment Resolution Against Hegseth Tonight"]

This is bizarre.  They're not waiting to take power, they're going straight for the target.  I'm guessing they hope enough Republicans will cave to get this passed - and they may be right about that - but I'm not sure what precedent there is for something like this.  Although thinking about it, they may have gone after Donald Rumsfeld like this over and over.  Massie says he doesn't expect this to pass, he just wants to put everyone on record in the House and Senate.

So it's mostly a stunt for publicity, covering Iran, Venezuela and Hegseth's response when members of Congress told soldiers to disobey orders.  I think it's also an obvious rush to defend Iran.  They're probably sponsoring this along with China, Russia, etc.  Under normal circumstances this would be an obvious failure but we're not under normal circumstances.  Hegseth sounds very defensive - which is natural - and Trump is certainly defending him but how much of that is just a public show?  That's the worrisome part.  If Hegseth is taken out, he can't be replaced by any permanent War Secretary in the next two years.

The problem with Iran is that this gives the mullahs a lot of strength, they just need to keep holding out.  Democrats have completely ignored Venezuela all year because it set such a perfect example of getting things done, we had reason to expect that with Iran.  In hindsight we clearly intended to hold them like a snake killing a victim, inflicting minimum damage and not putting troops on the ground.  As a strategy that's fine, my main complaint is that Trump didn't announce that in advance.  Instead we kept getting negotiation after negotiation.  It's still effective but we can't see anything happening which is just not a good way to handle a war.

I don't think the gas prices were a major problem either, they didn't get as bad as they were under Biden.  They're also noticeably going down.  But Trump promised in early-June they'd drop in 90 days and then that didn't happen.  They very-slowly started dropping a bit later but that was where I was disappointed.  He'd already said by then it wouldn't happen until after the elections and even that's a disappointment.  This is where waking up one day and finding that they've gone down $1/gallon would prove he was right all along.  Better still, if it had happened before the election, Democrats couldn't use Iran as a shield for stealing the elections.  And now they get to go on the warpath.

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□ [“'No Leaving Town Until It's Over!' House Freedom Caucus 60-Day America First Agenda"]

I suppose it sounds good - voter ID laws, border security, sanctuary cities, congressional term limits and keeping them from getting rich - but the odds seem very low to any of this getting passed in the next few weeks.  As far as I know, all Democrats need to do is not show up and that's that.  They're the minority and they can shut everything down.

So this is just a show, similar to Democrats trying to impeach War Secretary Hegseth.  I'd like to think there's some larger plan underway here but if the left can massively steal all the elections without being noticed, they can certainly handle a lazy Congress.  That's not even counting how the RINOs will vote although to be fair, supporting this would make them look good so they might.  Can you tell I'm not very optimistic about any of this?

The left has other options, funded by their rich members.  DOJ is being hit with so many lawsuits against ICE that they don't have the time or manpower to defend them so the presumably-leftist judges can rule however they want.  In a lot of ways this is worse than the 2020 election theft because that came off as a one-time stunt that could never be repeated.  You'd really think Trump 2.0 would have multiple defenses and plans-in-place to keep this from happening again, yet here we are.

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□ [“Van Jones Admits the 'Affordability' Op Was an Organized Astroturf Campaign"]

Van Jones has actually made some sensible comments about how Democrats need to stop being so stupidly leftist because most people want nothing to do with that.  So I'll give him some leeway while considering this explanation of what happened.  He describes an army of posters on social media about how awful the economy was, admitting that it really wasn't that bad.  "The Republicans could not understand it wasn't bots.  It was actual human beings."

That's believable to an extent.  My main objection is that it doesn't account for the uniformity of increases in Democrat votes across the board.  I don't remember the exact numbers but they've been worked out and effectively every Democrat got 15% more votes than normal, so that was usually enough to win.  My other objection is that it just isn't clear how so many people would believe the economy was crashing.  I've had financial problems for the last five years and I could tell things were much better under Trump 2.0 even if there wasn't a lot I could specifically point to, no clear examples.

It's true that much of economics is just what we can see as individuals and we're sensible enough to not assume that's our economic status isn't the same as everyone else's.  I could even see a theory that 15% of humans are literally 'bots, going where they're told.  I've noticed social media posts for the last year or so have been intense propaganda, more than ever before, but I've also noticed how they often fail.  The James Gunn DC movies shows that this doesn't always work.  Maybe it's a specific design, taking Gunn down means pushing more people to vote Democrat, but that seems impossible, at least from our perspective.  I've also seen it compared to "role-playing."

As I've said before, I think China runs North Korea as a test lab for experiments like this.  The Russians certainly did such things for decades and the Germans before that.  The military also conducts tests along those lines.  So maybe it's possible, just very unbelievable.  It could explain a lot about the election, it's just trying to comprehend how you function with proven knowledge that 15% of people are nothing more than obedient servants by nature.  Might even explain the hatred for Trump that he knew how to make use of or circumvent the whole apparatus.

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□ [“House Epstein Investigation Uncovers No Trump Crimes, Refers Two Powerful Men to DOJ"]

"Powerful men"?  A former mayor of Miami Beach and a 'celebrity hairstylist.'  The Oversight Committee press release says some things about how the government didn't do enough to protect victims but there's little on how this was anything beyond a basic crime.  What makes Epstein such a big deal that there's still attention to this seven years after he died.  Every piece of evidence we have shows something bigger was going on but no answers about what that was.

The most likely guess these days is that some form of cannibalism was going on with the victims.  Most of what I've heard is aimed at Ellen DeGeneres which shows how unclear any of these theories are.  She was more associated with P. Diddy, not Epstein, but her tv show's set background did clearly resemble the temple on Epstein Island.  She fled the country as soon as Trump was re-elected and it's suggested she has health issues related to cannibalism.  None of this is evidence and after all these years, there's not even a coherent explanation of what was going on.

This report does confirm that there's no evidence Trump had anything to do with Epstein's criminal activities.  That won't stop the left, they'll just make up whatever they want and protect their own people but that's more about attacking Trump.  Epstein is just a convenient excuse.  Another reason to complain about Trump, he said he'd put everything out on Day One and we're still waiting.  Maybe they'll find that celebrity hairstylist to explain everything.

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