All that may be true, but none of those are directly under the president's control.  The Congress controls the money.  He can make all the demands he wants but unless the Congress gives him the money to do it, it can't be done.

I submit that he wasn't given a chance to succeed, by design.  With Congress (both R and D), the MSM, the deep state, and pretty much everything besides half the nation aligned against him, I'm very impressed that he did as much as he did.  Add in all the distractions of non-stop investigations, and there you go.

I would love to see what he can accomplish with another term as president.  But even if he gets elected, there's no way the forces aligned against him will allow him to succeed.

Speaking of agendas - has Trump outlined what he would do if reelected?

Yes, he has.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda

And there is more. He continues to hold massive rallies. He is releasing short videos outlining actions he will take on all the issues that concern me the most. He will release America’s energy. In a recent video he said he would go straight for the jugular on gender mutilation of children.  As President, he kept his promises more than any President in my lifetime.

I’m with Rush on this. He is not perfect. But he fights for America and for human flourishing harder than any possible candidates in any party. It’s true the RINOs and globalists hate him. It’s when the RINOs and globalists go silent that worries me. They’ll never go silent on hating Trump and will always try to replace him with a globalist.

Enter DeSantis. I’ve seen plenty of clips and articles on Gab of DeSantis being very inconsistent considering how many think he is the new, improved Trump. He is not. I am not convinced yet that he is unbribeable or pro America to the extent we need to restore our government to serving us. He is a governor; we need a fighter.

Of course this whole discussion is academic until elections are secure. We all have differing experiences and views on that. But at the very core of my existence is the certainty that elections are being precision-targeted in certain states and precincts to steal them. The world knows this.   

I think it's because too many people know his true character now and it turns them off.  I'm slightly right of center and I will not vote for him, I'll write in a candidate first.  I suspect there are many others like me, so if he only has support from 40-45% of the country, how can he win?

Additionally, he is a lightning rod.  As soon as he is in the race, Democrats will pull out all the stops to get out the vote, they will have record turnout again.  Republicans are not well served by having Democrats energized and learning to vote.  If someone voted last election, they're likely to vote again. 

And yes, that will include cheating, but at this point they almost don't need that anymore.  It's a lot more than "they cheated".

Other than his demeanor and his mean Tweets, please tell us which policies of his you didn't like?
Was it the closing of the border, mostly?

The low unemployment numbers, especially among blacks and Hispanics?

How about the tax cuts that have brought us record revenues?

Maybe it was the growth in the economy?

Was it because he didn't start any new wars and was working a plan to end the one in Afghanistan?

Establishment RINOS and other weak-kneed republicans can bitch all they want about the 15 ballots needed to elect RINO mccarthy as Speaker,
but the BIG news is the agreement to add THREE members of the Freedom Caucus to the House Rules Committee.

Those ignorant of the process had no idea (and most still don't) why that is important.

THREE "no" votes kills any bill from going forward. mccarthy fought that to the last second (literally with 39 seconds to go before the house adjourned
until Monday at noon, because it allows conservatives and other NON-communist-controlled house members to stop the never-ending bribe machine
funneling thru the ukraine.

mitch mcconnelll can't send billions to our enemies without the house going along and those three members are the only stop sign to the bribe process.

Another big rule concession by mccarthy was a rule change allowing a no-confidence vote on the speaker with just one member putting it forward.

While rank-and-file rinos, and other uninformed whiners complained all week, the four members with backbone stood up as long as it took to add at
least some accountability to a brutally corrupt house.

A young man pulls up to a burger joint drive up window...

The lady at the window asks, "how may I help you sir?" to which he replies, " I wanna give you a heads up that there is a woman in your parking lot offering her services for a junior burger with cheese and a small order of fries".

She says, "thank you sir, I will let my manager know. Now may I take your order?"


"Yes", he says, "I'll have a junior burger with cheese and a small order of fries".

The communist left notwithstanding, maybe 2023 will be better as people are starting to realize something is wrong with the direction the scumbag left is leading America.

I am intentionally positive about the new year because the lunatic communist democrats have so radically overstepped in 2022. Something has to give.

Therefore, May 2023 takes us in a better, stronger, more successful, and freer direction, and may all freedom loving Americans experience a better life in the coming year.

If you are a communist pretending to be democrat, may you have the blinders ripped from your eyes and learn how to be honest with yourself about how you’ve let the sick freaks of the left manipulate you into stupidity, depravity, and intentional blind ignorance.

Well said.

My optimism is coming from who was voted to be the chair of the Wisconsin GOP, Brian Schimming. Politics starts at the local level, and this is where the fix has to start.

“As reported by Just the News, new Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Brian Schimming has said in a number of interviews over the past week that he wants to focus on early voting and raising money ahead of the spring ’23 election. Wait a minute. Does Schimming sound like a Democrat? Yes. Does sounding like a Democrat make Schimming wrong? No. Why not? Because if the Republican Party doesn’t learn to play the Democrats’ election season game, Republicans will continue to lose close elections. Reality bites, huh?”

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/12/29/every-republican-party-chair-in-the-country-should-follow-the-new-wisconsin-gop-heads-lead-n680476

For what insurance, and more expensive than where?
Yeah, windstorm insurance is more expensive, as is flood insurance.
And car insurance is kind of expensive because of all the New Yorkers crowding our highways and driving like, well, like New Yorkers.

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I was told that auto is high because many uninsured.

I'm not exactly sure what all of your objections are.  Is it the amount of money we are spending?  I consider that as a small, selfish investment for ourselves.  If Russia fails here that will strengthen our hand against Iran and China.

Is it Ukraine's involvement with Hunter Biden?
Or perhaps it is just the fact that Biden and the Dems are for it so you have to be against it?

Is it the incorrect use of the word "Democracy"?  Perhaps what they are striving for isn't actually Democracy.  Democracy isn't right for everyone.  In fact, it isn't right for us either.  But if they survive this in any form, they are bound to be a friend of the US and indebted to us, and we need all the friends we can get.

So convince me what you see as a problem with our support here.  My only worry is that we have gone this far already.  If we pull back now, we will look even worse than we did withdrawing from Afghanistan.  And my biggest objection to Biden (in this regard only) so far is that he has given them too little, too late.  If he had shown some backbone in January this whole fustercluck  may not have ever happened in the first place.  Biden has done NOTHING else that I could defend to any degree.

$100 Billion - 1/10th of a Trillion - is a small, selfish “investment”?  And that “investment” is going to a dictator. See anything wrong with that?