Tag: MAGA

Have They Had Enough?

Almost daily I see where some are predicting that the MAGA movement is losing its luster….most of them I ignore but I did read one that I just have to share with my fellow bloggers….

For those that are abandoning the MAGA there is a new support group….

Donald Trump’s promise of a new MAGA golden age for America is cracking from within. A decade into his rise to power, a growing number of his coalition’s supporters are not just tired — they are walking away.

Rich Logis, founder and CEO of Leaving MAGA, is a former MAGA podcaster and fundraiser, and the author of “One Betrayal Too Many: Why I Left MAGA.” In a speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, he reflected on his experience with MAGA and why he finally left. Now he is going a step further. To encourage defectors from Trump’s coalition, his organization is paying for billboards with messages such as “You are not alone,” “Welcome home” and “Find your new community.” The campaign, which is estimated to cost $20,000, launched April 15 in Texas, and will soon expand to Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa.

Leaving MAGA, Logis told Raw Story, is experiencing “record-high” fundraising and more MAGA followers are reaching out to the organization “than ever before.” But what is driving them out? His answer is direct and clear: the president’s lies, which Logis described as “Trump’s toxic superpower.”

Other reasons are also piling up. The president’s tariffs, which have in part led to spiraling prices for food, housing, gas and other essentials. His broken promise to end “stupid foreign wars” — followed by a war of choice against Iran. The cruelty of Trump’s mass deportations, which are ensnaring and killing Americans. The Epstein files. Greed and blatant corruption. An image of the president as Jesus Christ, which he proudly shared on April 12 and, after widespread criticism, including from evangelicals, he deleted the following day.

https://www.salon.com/2026/04/28/they-voted-for-maga-now-they-want-out/

Some of the reasons that I read all the time are Donny’s tariffs, prices and unwanted wars…..those would be good reasons for leaving the movement but they were told beforehand what his plans were  for the country and the world….so I guess they thought he was just ‘goofing’ them….like I said they are not the sharpest pencils in the box.

While I was putting this post together I came across another MAGA story….

In an article published on April 28, Salon’s Chauncey DeVega takes a look at MAGA voters who are feeling increasingly frustrated with Trump but psychologically, are having a hard time “leaving” him even though the reasons for doing so are “piling up.”

“Donald Trump’s promise of a new MAGA golden age for America is cracking from within,” DeVega argues. “A decade into his rise to power, a growing number of his coalition’s supporters are not just tired — they are walking away…. The president’s tariffs, which have in part led to spiraling prices for food, housing, gas and other essentials. His broken promise to end ‘stupid foreign wars’ — followed by a war of choice against Iran. The cruelty of Trump’s mass deportations, which are ensnaring and killing Americans. The Epstein files. Greed and blatant corruption. An image of the president as Jesus Christ, which he proudly shared on April 12 and, after widespread criticism, including from evangelicals, he deleted the following day.”

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DeVega continues, ” Leaving is not easy. For the most committed MAGA members, the movement is all-encompassing. It is their identity, social world and way of life. For many true believers, it means alienating friends, family, neighbors, and leaving the right-wing echo chamber of conspiracism, lies and ‘mass radicalization.'”

According to DeVega, “leaving” Trump and MAGA “will demand rebuilding civic trust between people who have been on the opposite side of a deep moral and political chasm.”

https://www.alternet.org/maga-voters-trump-salon/

Yo Bubba….if you cannot leave then you are in a CULT!  PERIOD!

This article just proves, to me, what worthless sheep the MAGA morons truly are….if they cannot just walk away from a useless POS like Donny then they are truly sheep to the slaughter and they deserve everything that comes their way.

Does any of this bode bad for the movement as a whole?

So is Donny losing his grip on the MAGA morons?

I say no it does not all will be forgiven in time for the next general election….for hate does not just disappear or become replaced with logical thinking.

Sorry just had to let you know what I was thinking as I read that pile of streaming manure.

Whatcha think?

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Why Does Donny Sound Like An Idiot?

A fascinating question and the simple answer is…..because he is an idiot.

But that is from me….writer Andersen looks a bit deeper…

Acclaimed journalist and author Kurt Andersen has unlocked the secret behind Donald Trump’s appeal to his own voters.

Speaking to The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles about the president’s actions overseas, including most recently in Iran, Andersen claimed Trump has “no clue” about the history of Iran and the Middle East.

“He’s an idiot. He’s always been stupid. And his stupidity has been an under-remarked-upon, unheralded part of his—long with the lying, along with the mental disorders—the stupidity is important.”

The Daily Beast has meticulously documented the president’s visible decline since his return to the White House, including interviewing medical experts who believe his obvious cognitive decline is the result of a serious medical event like a stroke. More than 60 percent of Americans believe that Trump has become increasingly erratic with age.

Andersen argues that the president’s stupidity, which predates his recent decline, is a feature that appeals to a broad swath of the voting public.

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“But his most devoted supporters are evangelical Christians, because once you get a country in which so much belief in any old thing you want and hear and disbelief in things that are true, anything goes.”

“That wasn’t always the case,” Andersen notes. “It always tended to be the case in America a little bit, but then it got out of control in the last 60 years and, along with the internet, gave us Donald Trump.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-reason-trump-talks-like-an-idiot-author/

Interesting take on Donny…..

But what draws idiots to the MAGA cult?

Any ideas?

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What Did They Think They Were Getting?

Another addition to the ‘Can’t Fix Stupid’ files…..

I have been amazed at just why some people voted for Donny…..and I read an article that shows that voters have to say about the plan unfolding from their vote.

Please read the article and then comment….

All year long, the subreddit r/LeopardsAteMyFace has been filled with regretful MAGA supporters.

Usually, they’re somehow shocked that voting for Donald Trump didn’t turn out how they expected.

So, let’s take a look at 15 things that Trump supporters said they didn’t vote for:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/regretful-trump-voters-complain-about-trump-admin

All I can do is laugh at their stupidity.

To me this shows just how ignorant the voter has become….after a year or more of rallies and they still did not know what they were going to get by their vote?

Seriously was their hatred of people of color that ingrained that that is all they seized upon?

Someone once said….”voting has consequences” and guess what you got just what you voted for and now you want to whine….piss off there is no sympathy here.

Plus they still hold onto the support even while they are being raped by this admin and its bully boys.

A little something extra….these are perfect examples at the rate stupidity is rising….

https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/dumbest-things-that-happened-in-2025

All I can say is ….’there is no fixin’ stupid’.

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MTG: What’s Her Game?

I have written several times about the Georgia Rep that badmouths her party, colleagues and now the Leader himself….and she still has not received the ire of any of them.

She recently called the America First thing the America Last…..

MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone scorched-earth on her own party again, lambasting the GOP for falling short of its “America First” motto.

The Georgia Republican is known as one of President Donald Trump’s most visible MAGA allies, but she has been left suddenly questioning whether the movement is faltering.

In an interview with Axios published Friday, Greene went as far as calling the party’s concerns “America Last.”

“It’s a revolving door at the White House of foreign leaders when Americans are, you know, screaming from their lungs,” Greene said. “If me saying those things are considered breaking with my party, then what is the Republican Party? I thought we were America First?”

Greene insisted she still supports Trump—saying he’s done “a great job in a lot of places”—but said his administration’s renewed focus on global conflicts has irked her.

Inflation and rising health-care costs, she warned, are hammering voters while Republicans ignore domestic priorities.

“Inflation skyrocketed under the Biden administration. But it’s like, okay, well, now we’re in charge, and when are we working on this?” she said.

Greene has also clashed with GOP leadership on health care, siding with Democrats in calling for action on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.

“Republicans have no plan,” she said. “[House Speaker] Mike Johnson has not had a single conference meeting about any sort of plan to deal with the ACA tax credits expiring.”

That comment comes after she lashed out at the House speaker for dodging questions about a Republican lawmaker accused of harassing his former girlfriend, in an Axios article published Thursday. Earlier this week, in an interview with The Washington Post, Greene raged against “weak Republican men” in Congress.

The congresswoman also slammed the administration’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina as “America Last,” arguing it puts U.S. farmers “on the verge of bankruptcy.” She also criticized erratic tariff policies, saying producers “don’t know if the tariff policy is going to change with a Truth Social post.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-rips-trumps-america-last-moves/

What is her game?

After burnt earth rhetoric about the party and her colleagues why has Speaker not gone after her and punished her?

Just what is her game?

What does she hope to accomplish by her attacks?

Why are fellow Morons not gone after her with the hatred they go after anyone else that is so vocal?

Where is the condemnation from the MAGA supporters on social media?

What the Hell is going on?

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“lego ergo scribo”

Canonization Of Charlie

Warning:  I wanted to move on from this saga but the media has made that impossible….this is my thoughts on this whole thing and I will probably go off into some rants that may offend some readers that have a dislike for harsh words….if the reader is one of those people than I suggest that they move on from this post and go to TikTok and watch some funny cat videos.

Donny and his silly ilk are painting Charlie in a light he does not deserve….especially by MAGA supporters….its is fucking bullshit.

But Kirk was no hero. The record is clear. If Kirk was a victim of a pernicious culture of violence in America, it must also be acknowledged that he was an author of that culture.

His primary accomplishment in life was to foment hatred and division across the United States. He blamed all of America’s ills on the left, and cheered violent attacks on Democrats. He fought against equal rights for many Americans; some of his last words were condemning women’s reproductive freedoms. He promoted America’s gun pathology (Ironic isn’t it), and asserted the death of innocents was an acceptable cost for that culture.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-magas-canonization-of-charlie-kirk-is-truly-monstrous/

A ‘martyr’?

Charlie was not what I would call a compassionate person….he proved it every time he opened his mouth….

One of Charlie Kirk’s most controversial statements comes from a Turning Point USA Faith event Q&A (starting around the 1:13:00 mark) in April 2023 where he was fielding a question about gun rights:

“It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights… That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

On the October 12, 2022, episode of his podcast (around 36:40), Charlie Kirk stated:

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.”

During a TPUSA Faith event on March 21, 2025, Charlie Kirk criticized birth control (around 36:50), stating:

“…birth control really screws up female brains, by the way. Every single one of you needs to make sure that your loved ones are not on birth control. It increases depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Birth control is the number one prescribed medication for young ladies under the age of 25. They will give young ladies birth control for pimples, for acne, to control their moods, and their period. It is awful, it’s terrible, and it creates very angry and bitter young ladies and young women.”

Just a few of Charlie’s words of wisdom (that is also sarcasm)….

The MAGA silliness and even the puke spilling from Donny’s useless mouth praise this worthless POS….

Imagine that President Donald Trump actively wanted to encourage radical right-wing groups and “lone wolf” individuals to wage open violent warfare on anyone they deem a leftist anywhere in America. If Trump wanted to send that precise message, he could hardly do much better than the words he actually did deliver on Fox and Friends on Friday morning.

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Look at what the president said just after the assassination of Kirk:

For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country and must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges and law enforcement officials.

As Jonathan Chait notes, here Trump treats political violence as if it only exists on one side of the spectrum. I’d add something else: I’m unaware of any other recent president explicitly vowing to unleash the power of the American state on a vast, inchoate ideological group in quite this way.

Trump’s wording in this prewritten speech is deliberate: He says his administration will target everyone it can find who contributed to the assassination of Kirk. The clear message is that anyone who can be blamed for Kirk’s death even speciously and pretextually is now subject to retribution by the full force of the government and Trump’s security services. Note that this includes liberal-left “organizations” as well.

“The radicals on the left are the problem,” he continued, “and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/200410/trump-issued-unnerving-threat-liberals

The fucking dipshit we call ‘president’ is doing what he did for those treasonous bastards on 06 January giving them permission to take the law in the own hands.

It seems clear that Trump isn’t interested in turning down the temperature on political tensions in the United States, and he’s just given the go-ahead to right-wing radicals to take matters into their own hands.

Within hours of Kirk’s death and without knowing any information about the shooter, Trump blamed the “radical left” and their rhetoric for political violence by “demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year in the most hateful and despicable way possible.”

Radicals on the Left?  Yes they are some radicals but so far not one of them has taken up to assassination and besides has any of these dickless morons mentioned the the shooter was an independent that comes from a Republican family? (Of course for that would defeat Donny’s effort to turn this situation into the emergency he needs to go beyond)

Just for the MAGA supporters that think they are all that….Democrats are NOT radical Left.  Democrats are not socialists.  To believe otherwise makes them fucking mindless assholes.

Apparently none of the mindless herd does see any problem with the lameass rhetoric of their leaders just as they still defend those pricks on 06 January.

None of what they are saying or doing will solve the problem of these assholes and their guns.  And what kind of leaders shoots off a dumbass mouth in this way?

I have had about a fucking enough of these cocksuckers and their lies and actions….

We can all look for some sort of ‘Reichstag’ fire moment coming.

Makes me so proud to be an American.  (And that is fucking sarcasm douche bag).

More thoughts on this propaganda.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-suspect-left-trump/86115056007/

I am under no obligation to mourn….but in this case I will mourn not for the person but for the nation he and his ilk have tried so hard to destroy.

Enough said!

If you were offended all I can say is you were warned.

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“lego ergo scribo”

The Shot Heard Throughout MAGA-ville

Yesterday there was yet another shooting and this time it took out a MAGA favorite, Charlie Kirk….

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. A law enforcement official tells the AP that Kirk was hospitalized in critical condition. NBC News reports that disturbing videos from the scene show Kirk slumping down in his seat, with blood flowing from his neck. In an alert, the Orem, Utah, university said “a single shot was fired on campus toward a visiting speaker,” Deseret News reports.The university initially said a suspect was in custody, but UVU spokesman Scott Trotter later said police had determined the man taken into custody was not the shooter, the New York Times reports. Videos on social media showed police detaining an older man at the event.

Kirk is the CEO and co-founder of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, the AP reports. “We are confirming that he was shot and we are praying for Charlie,” said Aubrey Laitsch, the organization’s public relations manager. Kirk, 31, is a close ally of President Trump and the “America First” movement. “We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot,” the president said in a Truth Social post. “A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!” The shooting was condemned by Republican and Democratic politicians alike, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling it “disgusting, vile, and reprehensible,” reports CNN.

Kirk was speaking at the university as part of his “American Comeback” tour. UVU professor Michael Andersen tells KSL News that he heard what he thought was a firework while Kirk, who was sitting in a tent, answered a question. “Then people started running out of the amphitheater and I saw some people trying to get up out of the terraces, Andersen says. “As I was walking away, as we were evacuating, the person next to me said he saw Charlie Kirk get hit.” He says the atmosphere was “fairly panicked” after the shooting.

Then later yesterday it had been confirmed the Kirk was indeed dead.

Charlie Kirk is dead, President Trump announced Wednesday, hours after the conservative commentator was shot in the neck during an event at Utah Valley University. Kirk was 31.

  • “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”
  • In another post, Trump said he was ordering all American flags in the US be lowered to half-mast until 6pm Sunday to honor Kirk, “a truly Great American Patriot.”
  • Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said law enforcement officials told him the Turning Point USA founder had died, Deseret News reports. University officials say the shooter is not in custody. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he had spoken to Trump about Kirk’s death, KSL News reports. “Working with the FBI and Utah law enforcement, we will bring to justice the individual responsible for this tragedy,” he said. “Those responsible will be held fully accountable. Violence has no place in our public life. Americans of every political persuasion must unite in condemning this act. Our prayers are with Charlie, his family, and all those affected.”

And the hunt goes on….

The person of interest who was taken into custody in connection with the murder of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday has been released following an interrogation, says FBI Director Kash Patel. He wrote on X, “Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency.” NBC News reports Patel’s about-face came about 90 minutes after he had announced the shooter was in custody. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox had strong words for the shooter, per the Deseret News: “I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this, we will find you.”

President Trump posted a four-minute video on Truth Social Wednesday night addressing the shooting:

  • He called Kirk a “martyr for truth and freedom, and there’s never been anyone who was so respected by youth. … This is a dark moment for America. Charlie Kirk traveled the nation joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good faith debate. His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever, to share his love of country and to spread the simple words of common sense.”
  • “It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree,” Trump continued. “For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today and it must stop right now.”

What typical bullshit from Donny….stoking the fires of hatred.

My thoughts and prayers are with the family (is that not what one says when there is a shooting death?)

Never fret….this will happen again…just a matter of time.

Then there is the call for all people to come together against this type of violence…..and the House was not the poster child for this call….

Two thousand miles east of Orem, Utah, where Charlie Kirk was shot to death on Wednesday, the House of Representatives honored the political commentator with a moment of silence—followed by a shouting match. With every lawmaker in the chamber still standing quietly in observance, Rep. Lauren Boebert demanded that Speaker Mike Johnson recite a prayer for Kirk aloud, the Washington Post reports. “Silent prayers get silent results,” the Republican hollered from the back of the chamber. That was met with jeers from Democrats about gun laws. Rep. Jahana Hayes shouted that school shootings, including one earlier in the day in Boebert’s home state of Colorado, are ignored, per the Wall Street Journal.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a friend of Kirk’s, stormed out of the chamber while yelling profanities at the Democrats, per Politico. Johnson, who had led the moment of silence, eventually was able to gavel a brief halt to the chaos and move on to the next piece of business. That was the swearing-in of Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, who’d won a special election the day before in northern Virginia. When he ripped President Trump in his remarks for actions including the mass layoffs of federal employees, Republicans jeered back. “Scoreboard,” one member said, referring to the GOP holding a House majority.

What a pack of clowns!

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Is There Any Doubt?

For several months there has been a meme going around that Repubs are pushing a white nationalist agenda….of course that meme has been disputed by conservs….

This is from a speech given by a MAGAt Repub rep from Missouri, Sen. Schmitt…..given to a conserv meeting….

At the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri proposed a new direction for his party—essentially arguing for the self-styled “party of Lincoln” to abandon Lincoln for white nationalism.

Schmitt’s speech took issue with the “old conservative establishment” for embracing legal immigration, instead positing that there are select true Americans to whom the country belongs.

“That’s what set Donald Trump apart from the old conservatism and the old liberalism alike: He knows that America is not just an abstract ‘proposition,’ but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests,” Schmitt said. The Continental Army soldiers at Valley Forge, Pilgrims at Plymouth, pioneers in Missouri, and “Kentucky settlers repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks,” Schmitt said, “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants.”

“America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny,” the senator continued. “If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true.”

He went on: “When they tear down our statues and monuments, mock our history, and insult our traditions, they’re attacking our future as well as our past. By changing the stories we tell about ourselves, they believe they can build a new America—with the new myths of a new people. But America does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.”

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Schmitt failed to include any nonwhite people in the true-American pile. He did, however, include his German ancestors, who came to America in the 1840s: a time when, he omitted to mention, arriving European immigrants were met with no shortage of nativist challenges to their American-ness.

(rawstory.com)

Reading what this jughead had to say leaves no doubt what he thinks of everyone that is not a W.A.S.P.

Is there any doubt?

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Is There A GOP Internal War Brewing?

Little by little the news is that there is trouble brewing within the GOP….some say it is for the soul of the party….there also seems to be cracks forming in the undying support for Donny and his brand stupid.

GOP Townhalls are becoming contentious….the people are staring to fight back against the policies of the party….

Shouts of “Vote him out!” echoed through a packed Nebraska town hall on Monday as Rep. Mike Flood struggled to defend President Trump’s policy and tax bill—and faced an audience ready to challenge every word. About 750 attendees made their dissatisfaction clear during the event at Kimball Hall in Lincoln, descending into heckling and loud boos as the Republican attempted to explain provisions of the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” particularly its changes to health care and Medicaid. As audience members questioned how the Republican could vote to take health care away from Nebraskans, Flood sought to address what he described as misinformation about the bill, per ABC News.

He tried to walk through health care aspects, emphasizing that the bill’s Medicaid changes wouldn’t affect disabled individuals, seniors, pregnant people, or anyone considered vulnerable. A key flashpoint was the bill’s stance on Medicaid coverage for working-age adults. “If you are able to work, and you’re 28 years old and you choose not to work, you don’t get free health care in America. If you are in this country illegally, you do not get free health care in America,” Flood said, drawing a vocal negative reaction.

Discussion turned heated again as tax policy came up. While Flood highlighted provisions like no tax on tips or overtime and pitched the law as a middle-class tax cut, audience members instead called for higher taxes on the wealthy and repeatedly chanted, “Tax the Rich!” Flood pushed back, contending that taxing high earners, as proposed by Democrats, would not fill budget gaps and would hurt job and business growth. But he “was continuously drowned out by the raucous crowd,” per ABC. “How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” one attendee asked, per CNN, drawing cheers from the crowd. Another said Flood was complicit in a “fascist machine.”

Well that guy was about as popular as a turd in a punchbowl.

All that does not mean the MAGA idiots will disappear just that is some sort of tug of war going on with the young Republicans…..

Young Republicans are split over the future of the party, with two warring factions seeking to position themselves as the true MAGA warriors ahead of a weekend vote for control of the party’s youth arm.

On Saturday, young party members will converge in Nashville, where they’ll decide between two slates to lead the Young Republican National Federation: Grow YR, led by current YRNF Chair Hayden Padgett, and the insurgent Restore YR campaign, led by New York State Young Republicans Chair Peter Giunta.

The brawl between the two slates is both personal — including interpersonal clashes and squabbles over hotel loyalty points and committee assignments — and ideological, with both sides looking to prove their loyalty to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. But the fight is also a microcosm of a schism ready to burst in the party at large, which is already delicately trying to chart a course for its post-Trump future.

Restore YR, which is seeking to unseat the current leadership in an effort to “restore trust, opportunity, and unity,” has won the endorsements of hardcore MAGA firebrands like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), longtime Trump ally and convicted felon Roger Stone, Florida GOP Chair Evan Power, and Turning Point Action Chief Operating Officer Tyler Bowyer, who was one of several “fake electors” in Arizona in 2020.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/02/maga-future-young-republican-national-convention-00488361

I feel it should go further than the ‘young’ Repubs…..thinking conservatives need to redraw the lines of the party…..this MAGA crap is killing the nation and its people.

What do you think should be the focus?

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“lego ergo scribo”

MAGA: A What If Story

There have been many writers/analysts that have said that this chaotic time will end and the political pendulum will swing back….but for the sake of debate ‘what if’ it does not?

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate Silver have all invoked it to some degree. Presidential biographer Jon Meacham recently predicted that the pendulum would swing from a Donald Trump presidency to “the presidency of AOC.” The phrase conjures history, the past as prologue. The “pendulum”—the vagaries of change, the slow pace of history—will shift back to Democrats soon. Americans will tire of the status quo that Trump built. The MAGA movement will fall.

Talk of history, particularly American political history, in such ways returns us to the life and career of historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. For it was Schlesinger Jr.’s 1986 book, The Cycles of American History, that popularized the idea that American politics shifts from liberalism to conservatism, and back again, within every generation. Schlesinger also used the term “pendulum” to describe this shift. But whereas pendulums can only move back and forth, Schlesinger Jr. argued that history moves within itself, its phases interacting in ways that blur the origins of the present—hence a “cycle.” American history, he wrote, has circulated between “public action and private interest” since the early 1800s. “War, depression, inflations, may heighten or complicate moods,” he wrote in his second chapter, “but the cycle itself rolls on, self-contained, self-sufficient, and autonomous.”

Schlesinger Jr. wrote these words in another era of conservative dominance. President Ronald Reagan had trounced former Vice President Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election, winning every state but Minnesota and capturing the largest number of Electoral College votes in American history. Since coming to office in 1981, Reagan had attracted the traditional constituents of the Democratic Party (blue-collar, working-class, union voters, as well as Blacks and Hispanics)—into the GOP, in what commentators at the time referred to as the “Reagan revolution.” The Democrats floundered for relevance and a strategic path over the next eight years, lost in incredulity at their collapse and the quest for a new coalition.

Sound familiar?

https://newrepublic.com/article/197515/political-pendulum-doesnt-swing-back-cycles-of-american-history-schlesinger

If it does not swing back what will that mean for us peons that keep this country together?

It is easy and lazy to state that it will all work out in the wash….a prediction that is a safe beat because the statement has a 50/50 chance of being right…that is nothing more than a cop-out and a safe bet.

I am sure someone has something to say about this…..so let it fly.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Why MAGA?

Another in my series of trying to find some plausible explanation for MAGA….

That has become the universal question….how can conservatives, of both parties, support a movement that assaults their lives on so many levels?

There has been a wealth of explanations/excuses for this devotion….and yet so far it has been an elusive answer.

But the people keep trying to make sense out of the chaos.

Below is an interesting take….

Why “Make America Great Again?” Don’t get my question wrong. I put “MAGA” and “Make America Great Again” in quotation marks because by them I refer to the movement, not the general hope of most Americans. Why the specific contemporary movement with Donald Trump at is head? Why are so many Americans passionate about it and so invested in it?

I have read and watched/listened to many attempted explanations. Most of them have part of the truth. Few capture all of it.

Of course, intelligent, reasonable MAGA partners, people associated with the movement, would say the reason for it is the general left-leaning drive of Democrats and others to make America weak, vulnerable, too inclusive, morally relative, and “woke.”

I think there is more to it than that.

As I study the MAGA mentality and movement I see people who are afraid of losing their status. What status? Privileged status in society. They hark back to a time when white men and women (mostly men) enjoyed a special privileged status in America. They fear they are losing that status; it is being taken away from them. Is that fear justified? Well, yes, to a certain extent. What I question is whether that fear justifies the reactions of MAGA and Trumpism. What reactions? Well, for one, hatred of “Mexicans,” especially Spanish-speaking undocumented immigrants from south of the border, especially Central America and Venezuela. Much MAGA fear and hate is focused on them. Not so much because disposing of them is believed to restore white, male (and female) privilege and status but because MAGA people are just angry and fed up and need a scapegoat. Drawing any kind of line from illegal immigrants to loss of status and privilege by white, lower and middle class men (and women) is extremely difficult.

Another reason for MAGA rage, however, is the sense of loss of American supremacy in the world. I believe it stems all the way back/from the dismal end of the Vietnam War. Up through the failure of America’s occupation and combination of Afghanistan. And our seeming helplessness to stop North Korea and other countries who call themselves our enemies and acquire or almost acquire weapons of mass destruction. America’s role as the world’s policeman and its role as the leader of a Pax Americana deeply discourages MAGA people. Who is to blame for it? Who stabbed America in the back? Liberals, of course.

Why “MAGA?”

Regardless of the damage that is done…..parts of the country have clung to MAGA for dear life…..this is another question that begs a descent answer….why does rural American cling to this chaos?

Tom Gish, the crusading editor of The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Ky., — always insisted that if people had the right information, they would make rational decisions in their own best interests. Such optimism, we agreed, needs to be tempered in these times. But how do we explain the reasons for this behavior, such as how much of Appalachia went from heavily Democratic to MAGA-supporting in just a few decades? In fact, the question can also be asked of much of rural America. It takes some digging.

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For generations, Appalachia existed as a kind of social and economic commons for the country, where promises of help — federal investment, job training, flood protection, health care access — were offered as communal sustenance. Each wave of politicians, agencies and even well-intentioned outsiders acted, in their own short-term interest, to make these promises — while securing votes, funding or moral satisfaction. But like herders adding one more cow, these promises were often poorly implemented, underfunded, quickly abandoned or designed more for political optics than lasting change. Over decades, this relentless “grazing” of pledges, without consistent, effective follow-through, degraded the shared resource of trust down to bare earth.

Why believe this promise of help, when the last dozen withered? The MAGA vote isn’t necessarily an endorsement of specific policies; it’s a desperate lunge toward any alternative, a grazing of the last bitter stubble of hope left in a field systematically exhausted by decades of unfulfilled commitments from both traditional political parties.

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/12/why-appalachia-and-rural-america-clings-to-trump/

Right information?

That is harder to find than hen’s teeth thanks to social media that spreads crap like a spreader.

I believe that Social media can be blamed for the chaos of the day….people too lazy to look for answers or use AI to reinforce their biases….until that is eliminated then we are in for a long period of continuing chaos.

Thoughts?

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