Trump has finally taught Republicans how to fight
Trump defiant
One of the biggest complaints conservatives have had about the Republican Party for decades is that its politicians just would not fight. At the slightest hint that a Democrat was offended or disagreed, they’d fold like a house of cards. And their fear of the propaganda press made them so timid that Democrats could literally do anything and get away with it (as we are now finding out in the USAID scandal, which became a money laundering operation funneling taxpayer funds to partisan leftist organizations and media outlets).
Well, no more. Donald Trump got elected the first time and the second time because the one thing that stood out about him was his unwillingness to back down, and to “Fight! Fight! Fight!” As time has passed and he has been subjected to these same kinds of Democratic Party slander games, instead of folding he has grown stronger and more defiant. And his unwillingness to bow has taught the new generation of Republicans to fight as hard, to not back down, and to stick it right back at Democrats when they try this game.
Today congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) demonstrated she is part of this new generation. In questioning several witnesses about USAID’s absurd and corrupt funding of queer projects in foreign nations, she bluntly used the correct but shortened term for those who like to cross-dress, “tranny” for “transvestites.” This did not sit well with one Democrat, congressman Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia). Watch and be entertained by her response:
.@NancyMace showing absolutely unprecedented levels of ngaf. pic.twitter.com/G0wkuhY3tM
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) February 5, 2025
She not only refuses to bow, she stuffs the word back in Connolly’s face, and adds most correctly, “You want penises in women’s bathrooms, and I’m not going to have it. It’s disgusting.”
This has always been the correct tactic, but the establishment Republican Party that has failed us for more than three decades always refused to do it. They were either too cowardly, or in league with the Democrats (as we continue to find out) and thus did not want to fight.
That establishment party however no longer controls the Republican Party. In fact, it is largely gone, which explains why Trump and the Republicans are finally getting things done now to reform and clean up the federal government.
May this trend continue for years to come, because it is going to take years to fix the problems and corruption that past cowardice allowed it to take over our government.
More important, this is how you convince people to vote for you. You stand strong on your principles, and fight back. Considering the utter idiocy of present Democratic Party positions, fighting hard against them can only mean more election victories in the coming years.
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IRANS MULLAH’S SEND FLOWERS AND WELL WISHES
“To his Excellency, President Donald J. Trump
Washington D.C., America
Dear Excellency, Mr. President,
Please accept these beautiful flowers of peace, good will and good health. May you live a long and productive life and enjoy many, many grandchildren and the sweetest milk of 10,000 goats.
All the best to you, your beautiful wife, children and your country.
The Mullah’s of Iran (Smiley face :)”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/irans-mullah-s-send-flowers-and-well-wishes
Ha ha, I bet those flowers went in to a Level 1 clean room for in-depth forensic analysis!
Have you noticed that Elon Musk is absolutely key to this entire process? No doubt he has been advising the Trump team at every point. His own team is uncovering the USAID tendrils enfolding and feeding the bad actors in our government (including some Republicans, apparently) and the $millions in kickbacks to Politico, AP, Reuters, NYT, and surely more to come. The multiple Goebbels of our time. We are seeing the greatest shakeup in American governance since the Civil War. It’s only going to get yuger.
The GOPe cry (whine) always was “That’s not who we are.” Direct translation: “We are losers.”
It is time to give as good – or bad – as the other side does.
And it’s possible that the USAID audit—like many more to come—was simply impossible prior to the combination of AI computing power, and a crazy genius willing to use it against a vast, previously unaccountable governing class on behalf of The People. Musk has been my hero for a long time, even before he opened his eyes about political reality. My feeling of vindication is beyond description. At the same time, I fear his life, Trump’s life, and our nation.
It is a political fantasy fulfilled.
And it is only day 15.
But, do not underestimate the treachery that the both the Democrats and the “Deep State” will go to to throw a monkey wrench in the works.
Let us not be naive.
It’s how the left stifles debate: they make up rules on the fly labeling their opponent as racist, sexist, homophobe, whatever.
In keeping with the leftist rule that “He who calls his opponent ‘Hitler’ first wins the debate”, I beat them to the punch and call them Hitler first, and spend the rest of the discussion pointing out how they are Nazis.
Ok, is no one here willing to state that USAID does one worthwhile thing? Or that those things may be worth saving? Are there no “babies in the bathwater?”
Also: the discussion of what might be “legitimate” social issues concerning people characterized by the letters that begin “LGBT…”, seems to have morphed instantly into a rush by too many to go back to enjoy using as much schoolyard bully. terminology as possibl?.
These are matters that I feel should not be ignored.
And USAID is just the first rock that Elon and his DOGE-boys have turned over. Odds are, by the time this upending of rocks runs to completion, far more disgusting things will be found living under some of them. As Elon has said, DC is a target-rich environment when it comes to seeking waste fraud and abuse.
Charles Lurio:”Ok, is no one here willing to state that USAID does one worthwhile thing? ”
USAID was not founded to do worthwhile things. It was founded to serve as a covert spreader of Leftist destabilization.
When your reason for existence is evil, you produce nothing worthwhile.
“Ok, is no one here willing to state that USAID does one worthwhile thing? Or that those things may be worth saving? Are there no “babies in the bathwater?”
The problem with things like USAID is that like all government it becomes perverted and as it amasses more and more power and money it becomes a vehicle for in this case anti American activities financed by the American people. It is the nature of the beast.
The good that it does can be done in other ways.
What is the Eiensteinian definition of insanity?
To keep doing what you know does not work.
Don t be insane because you believe that what was and is what you are comfortable with is the only way.
1) I would have suggested the term ‘transvestite’. Or ‘person suffering from gender dysphoria’.
2) To those whining about the ‘vital things that USAID does’, including some in the GOP, nobody is destroying those things. This is a pause, an audit and a re-assessment. USAID still exists, under the State Department and the directorship of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. So take that straw man and put it somewhere.
1) I would have suggested that Nancy Mace use the term ‘transvestite’. Or ‘person suffering from gender dysphoria’. Just as accurate, less drama and attention seeking.
2) To those whining about the ‘vital things that USAID does’, including some in the GOP, nobody is destroying those things. This is a pause, an audit and a re-assessment. USAID still exists, under the State Department and the directorship of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. So put away that straw man, it is not fooling anyone.
To my point, right from the horse’s mouth:
“A former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) director appeared Wednesday on Fox News to reveal details on what he said were the agency’s misused resources and deeply rooted corruption.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/05/former-usaid-director-mark-moyar-jesse-watters/
I’d feel much better if Mitch McConnell, (and his CCP wife and Father-in-Law) all disappeared. But we’d still have to deal with Gov. Beshear in Kentucky,
Tangentially-
“President Trump & Greenland, A British Problem”
Mark Felton (January 27, 2025)
https://youtu.be/TMDDLGkP1I0
(8:00)
It appears the British have right of first refusal. Britain (David Lloyd George) cut a deal with Demark in 1917.
wayne: Replacing McConnell if he retires or dies no longer involves Beshear. The legislature this week removed him from the process. Instead, the voters will decide in a special election.
Ah, Wayne,
Mitch M. is not long for remaining in the Senate.
I suspect that he will, like Diane F, be forced by the laws of nature to retire sooner rather than later.
The wheels of rational American thought and freedom churn slowly.
But they are churning.
I’m sure a bunch of Democrats wish they’d never messed with Musk
At this point, I’m willing to toss out some (metaphorical) babies with the bathwater. However, MM is correct: If anything worthwhile is found, those funds can be dispersed by some other entity.
Another thing that’s being lost in the noise: USAID was created (by JFK, iirc) with the intent that it would be temporary (like the Rural Electrification Board and the Spanish American War telephone tax).
I watched as Ms. Mace read the absurd misappropriations of US TAXPAYERS’ funds. After each item she asked if it Advanced American Interests or Made America Safer and the answers were “no, no, and I have no position”! The “no position” nitwit was met with Ms. Mace’s “of course you don’t”! I was hoping she’d just say “let’s save some time and just skip Mr. I have no position! And THEN, AND THEN she did it! It was a dramatic and anticipated as Dr. Johnny Fever’s “BOOGER” – she DARED to utter the “slur” of TRANNY! And then when the pearl clutching democrats all wailed in unison “Blasphemy” – ok, they didn’t say that they said “SLUR, SLUR”!!! SO just to make SURE they heard her the FIRST time she PROCLAIMED “TRANNY, TRANNY, TRANNY I don’t care”!! But she does! She cares about the little girls being subjected to perverted MEN in bathrooms and locker rooms! Isn’t it ODD that there’s never a TRANNY allowed into the democrat women’s naked spaces? I’m sure something like that would be greeted with the same HYPOCRISY as everything the democrats do! Maybe someone can “test” it!
Ok, feeling a little better about Kentucky and Mitch.
(We need to repeal the 17th Amendment, but that’s not happening & nobody cares.)
As somebody who is getting old, I have nothing against old people, but some of these people cling to power like the evil tyrants they reveal themselves to be.
Hans Herman Hoppe Wave
“Absurdistan” (2018)
https://youtu.be/x15LTalV1b0
4:33
The best part is no part.
Cut stuff out.
If you aren’t putting stuff back in you didn’t cut enough.
As for the LGBTQ etc folk, the rest of us aren’t interested. STFU.
RZ:”Trump has finally taught Republicans how to fight”.
No, Trump has taught non-C conservatives how to fight.
Republicans are Democrats-lite.
When I commented on this on X, and that a Congressman who wanted men in women’s restrooms was evil especially when objecting to the use of the word trannies I was told that this was “hate speech.” I responded that if X found the truth hate speech so be it but it was a sad reflection on the state of morality that the world had sunk to when Connolly’s view of morality was acceptable and calling a tranny was considered hate speech. X needs help or needs to examine its censors.
The term “Tranny” is just an extension of the “Patriarchy”.
EVERYTHING of the “Patriarchy” must be destroyed.
When you are focused on creating and “NEW” reality within real reality you must have rules about what words and terms which are of the “Patriarchy” are acceptable and allowed and which are banned all together.
The “NEW” “normal” is not normal as defined by those who inhabit the real reality and live within the Patriarchy (The construct of the Constitution).
I hope this helps.
And PS: There is no morality as you would reasonably define it within the “NEW” reality. That version of morality is of the Patriarchy and is based in the Western / Judeo / Christian ethic.
(Patriarchy: Def: Anything in American culture that can be traced back to the rich, white, slave owning European Founders of America who conceived and wrote the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution of America. And that includes any form of religion, or any philosophy or history reflected within American culture and education. It ALL must be replaced.)
And this is what people must understand about the true believers indoctrinated within the radical “progressive” movement that has taken over the Democrat party, Marxists essentially. Many people do not understand just how deep the real radicals see themselves and their cause, the country and the world.
I think many regular everyday Democrats see this all as a faze, they are mistaken. This for the fully indoctrinated is their religion.
Let your religion be the Constitution, it is the only Objective solution to such abominations.
Objection.
Just because the GOPe wouldn’t fight Democrats doesn’t mean they wouldn’t fight like cornered cats.
When we tried to primary Mike Simpson, the GOPe at all levels pulled every dirty trick in the book, including shaking down businesses, blatant slander, making deals with the teacher’s union to overturn education reforms, and systematic election fraud.
It was very clear who they considered the enemy.
will musk tackle the 70 billion in waste / fraud at the dept. of defense? that is almost twice as much as the entire USAID budget. you would think that tackling the biggest amounts first would yield the greatest amount the quickest.
Vladislaw wrote: “will musk tackle the 70 billion in waste / fraud at the dept. of defense? that is almost twice as much as the entire USAID budget. you would think that tackling the biggest amounts first would yield the greatest amount the quickest.”
Unless the strategy is to get the Democrats to waste their efforts on fighting smaller items now so that when Musk and Trump get to the big stuff the Democrats have used up all their political capital as well as their financial capital and already clogged the courts with the earlier stuff so that the big stuff gets through more easily. They already have the Democrats defending the indefensible, so when they get to the real savings, the Democrats will have difficulty being believed when they want to defend the large sources of waste and fraud.
Trump has learned how to push the left’s buttons and has been doing this tactic for a while. He says something, the left goes bonkers, and then we all come to realize that the left is bat soup crazy. The left reacts emotionally and irrationally, intending to destroy Trump’s credibility, but it backfires, and in the end the left loses its credibility. It has been a long process, but that is how the news media has slowly lost the attention of the American people. “Let’s go Brandon,” “bat soup,” and “deplorables” all came about from news reports that expressed untrue opinions, and the right picked them up and ran with them. The American people have been helping Trump for years, just by pushing back in this simple way.
Perhaps it is ironic that the left has created Trump’s and the American people’s responses to them, just by being so antiAmerican. They were boiling the frog by slowly removing our rights the Fabian way, like the cold blooded, poikilothermic frog. However, Obama turned up the heat, insisting on fundamentally transforming America during his tenure, and we have felt the rapid increase in temperature, and now we want to jump out of his trap. We had forgotten to be eternally vigilant, and the left took advantage of the weakness (complicity?) of our Republican representatives. Musk is in on the Great Rescue of America, because he did not come here just to end up in a [*cough*]hole country (as Trump called them).
In this post, Robert points out that Nancy Mace is learning this same tactic, using something an emotional Democrat said, and emphasized an absurd and disgusting leftist policy. In the past, Republicans would let such policies speak for themselves, but those policies didn’t speak loudly enough. Now, Republicans are becoming willing to use every opportunity to reinforce how bad the left has been for the country and the world.
Robert’s Blacklisted American series did the same thing, emphasizing over and over that one of the left’s favorite strategies is unAmerican. Instead of letting the left get away with it in silence, Robert pointed it out for years, pushing back against it. He has been pernicious in reporting these unfair acts, and none of us will ever forget how ubiquitous this leftist strategy has been. Robert occasionally pointed out, in a Ninth Amendment sort of way, that the enumeration in his blog of certain violations of individuals’ rights does not mean that this is all the violations that there are.