I have to say that I agree with what I recently heard a politician say. I wish I could remember who said it or find the video. What he said was essentially “the Republicans need to stop worrying about election fraud. No matter the fraud or absence of fraud, the Republicans won the last election. They now run the House, the Senate, the Presidency, AND the Supreme Court. What have they done with all of that power? Not much. Not nearly enough.”
To an extent, he is correct. I mean, Trump started a war in Iran with no clear objective and no end in sight. The Iranians are looking to keep the war going until at least November, so they can be the spoiler in that election. The Republicans managed to get rid of Roe, and are making serious inroads into getting rid of many gun control laws, but that is a function of SCOTUS and is fallout from the 2016 election. The result of the most recent 2024 election is somewhere between Jack and Shit, which is what the Republicans have managed to do so far.
If there aren’t some serious changes in the next couple of years, I think I am going to sit out most of the next election. I will vote in local and some state races, but I don’t think I can hold my nose and vote for the stupid do-nothing party. I can’t vote for a communist, Democrat, but that doesn’t mean I have to vote for a Republican who isn’t going to do anything but line his own pockets, either.
Why is it that the left can make so much progress on their agenda when they are in power, but the Republicans can’t seem to do anything? It’s almost like their stated agenda is just something they say so they can gain power, but we all know that would never be true. /sarc
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Stefan v. · July 20, 2026 at 3:43 am
A shitty bird with two wings. Voating is like choosing which flavor of shit to eat, rather than refusing to choose off that menu at all. The ballot box is trumped by the midnight ballot suitcase or data switch, and the monkey you choose is already owned, or in rare cases will be shot and replaced if he does not grind the tune he is ordered to. The cartridge box will be matched against another cartridge box, of which both owners lose. There are no non-stinky bloodless heartbreak choices left. Time is running out for any choice at all. In the meantime…..Sportzballz!
Al · July 20, 2026 at 5:41 am
While I agree with your assessment that the Republicans suck, I still plan to vote and urge you to do the same. Once the Democrats/Commies get it, it’s pretty much game over. While I expect that their takeover is inevitable, voting Republican buys us some time and gives us a chance that a miracle will occur and somehow the country will be saved. I know the odds on that are low, but I still hope for the best. Even if the miracle doesn’t happen, slowing down the takeover gives us time to enjoy our current lifestyle and that seems to me to be worth something.
Divemedic · July 20, 2026 at 6:46 am
I used to think that. I don’t think so any longer. Most Republicans are completely useless and are there to butter their own bread. .
Steve · July 21, 2026 at 6:29 am
Not voting is a valid choice.
Lucy should be able to pull the football only so many times.
Your vote, whether for winner or loser,
lends legitimacy to a system which doesn’t deserve it,
so they can say, “But you voted for it.”
Barefoot Peckerwood · July 20, 2026 at 5:47 am
Thomas Massie made the statement
Joe · July 20, 2026 at 11:38 am
Every time Trump needed Massie’s vote to pass legislation he voted no. That’s Massie’s statement.
Southernborne · July 20, 2026 at 5:50 am
So I’m disappointed with this post. I enjoy your well reasoned take on many subjects, but this is just more clap trap from the never enoughers. Let me list a few accomplishments:
1. USAID, closed.
2.negative migration-first time in 50 yrs
3. 2.6 million illegals removed
4. largest blue collar wage grow in 60 years
5. Laken Riley act passed
6. Cartels dismantled
7. Catch and release ended
Could list many more. As far as no clear objective. the President has clearly stated that Iran can not have a nuclear weapon. Seems clear.
Divemedic · July 20, 2026 at 6:49 am
Most of that is stuff that will be completely undone as soon as the next President gets the power of the executive order autopen back.
USAID was closed by EO,
border will be back to open before February of 2029.
The cartels aren’t dismantled. The war on drugs is a waste of time and money. Drugs won that war a couple of decades ago.
Catch and release will be back as a policy faster than the border will be reopened.
One thing I agree with the left on is this: We have been hearing how Iran is close to a nuclear weapon for DECADES. In fact, the claim was first made in 1992 that Iran was “three to five years” away from obtaining a nuke. 34 years later, they are still milking that cow. Also, don’t look now, but Iran is making Trump look ineffective and foolish. They will continue doing so until the election, and this will cause Trump to lose both houses of Congress, making the last two years of his second term into a “lame duck” administration.
Even so, if the objective is “no nuclear weapon” how do you define a win? What measurable objective would be met in order to claim victory? They signed a treaty? That’s no more effective than a restraining order. Oooh, they pinky promised not to build a weapon. We showed them. Of course, we are out of missiles and smart bombs, so there is that. Now China enters the chat.
Steve · July 20, 2026 at 9:35 am
Came to the same conclusion on national politics coming up on 40 years ago. In all that time, only two(?) races would I have preferred a different (within outcome. Within bounds of reality, I mean. Ron Paul was never a realistic option. In all the rest, my district’s vote went the same way I would have voted.
Nukes, I was where you are now, until the Iranians started negotiations with, “We can have 11 nukes in a few weeks and you can’t do sh*t about it.” Well turns out we maybe could, and I’ve had to concede that’s probably been the case this whole time now. Between things like Israeli raids on nuclear sites and Stuxnet and Iranian nuclear scientists dying of mysterious causes every few years, I think it’s likely there’s been a delaying action this whole time.
Steve · July 20, 2026 at 10:19 am
It’s not that they are making him look ineffective and foolish — that’s all on him BEING ineffective and foolish. Can’t believe in all that time in business he’s never encountered anyone who was just trying to drag out the bargaining phase. Nor that no one in his ambit has ever noticed that’s been the Iranian modus operandi for the last half century with the lone exception of just before Reagan was sworn in.
Hard to make any case than he is intentionally beclowning himself.
Stefan v. · July 20, 2026 at 11:23 am
Why is NO NUKE so important? Whatever happened to MAD? Wow, you have one, or ten, or a hundred….we have THOUSANDS. Ok, talking to Islam here. You’d have been better served by dropping Little Boy on Mecca, and Fat Man on Medina, and saved the next dozen for whatever ace-in-the-hole satanic dungheaps threatened mankind. One for Moscow, one for Paris, one for London, one for Ulaanbataar, one for Peking, one for Washington DC, etc. Chance missed. Only guy in the saloon with a gun…but Rosenbergs, and White, Frank the Cripple, DullesX2, etc. Next step…just what Scripture says. No USA. Rooskies and Persia and Turkey and friends, pile on da Joooooz! Ass kicked, Antichrist takes credit, things really go to shit, then TL Jesus aka Jehovah shows up, cleans house. Jew King & Creator & Saviour (for some) Jesus shows everyone how it’s done.
Steve · July 20, 2026 at 12:52 pm
“Whatever happened to MAD?”
That’s what Westerners find so hard to understand. Not everyone in the world has the same end goals. MAD works in the West because we generally value a future of more or less the status quo. But it would be crazy to assume the same is true of a culture that seeks the end times, no matter which basic religion we are talking about.
A culture that wants the end of the world is not a culture which should have the means of doing so.
oldvet50 · July 20, 2026 at 1:36 pm
Really??? You think MAD would matter? They WANT annihilation to usher in the 12th Imam. They are insane so don’t try to apply any logic to it.
Southernborne · July 20, 2026 at 11:37 am
I totally agree that if the Dems gain control that they will wipe out all of the gains, and then some. That’s not a reason to give up the fight.
Divemedic · July 20, 2026 at 12:53 pm
As long as people keep voting for them, they have no reason to change.
Southernborne · July 20, 2026 at 2:07 pm
They long ago quit caring about votes. They have their 40% useful idiots and they manufacture the rest for the necessary margin.
Divemedic · July 21, 2026 at 6:20 am
That makes my case: they don’t care about you or your vote, because you and your vote are unimportant and don’t matter. Hence, your vote changes nothing.
Steve · July 20, 2026 at 12:58 pm
It’s highly likely that Florida will vote R with or without DM’s vote.
If NY and Cali and Illinois and maybe Michigan and Minnesota can self-destruct over the next decade or so, we can make the case of why they self-destructed. The only goal is to contain the damage to those stupid enough to vote that way. But DM’s vote can’t change anything in any of those states, any more than mine would.
Joe Blow · July 20, 2026 at 5:51 am
I have completely given up on any politician accomplishing anything of value. The notion they serve us is completely inverted at this point. The encircling police-state in particular is all the proof one should need.
Us vs. Them, its really that simple. The machinations that make it look like they’re doing something for our benefit are a charade to keep you playing the game. Notice how they never, EVER actually accomplish things that are well within their grasp, but instead produce side-show tickets to distract you from the real matters (and the next election, the ping pongs to the other side cuz they voated moar harderer). They won’t even hold a vote on SAVE act, it’s a slam dunk, now why would that be?
ghostsniper · July 20, 2026 at 6:17 am
Have you ever noticed that after every election things always get worse?
Each election cycle seems to produce a more criminal set of politicians.
And that’s without my participation.
Think how much worse things would be if I DID participate!
Doin my part…..
chiefjaybob · July 20, 2026 at 6:20 am
“Why is it that the left can make so much progress on their agenda when they are in power, but the Republicans can’t seem to do anything?”
Because they’re in on it. The dems are the Harlem Globetrotters, and the GOP are the Washington Generals.
J J · July 20, 2026 at 7:43 am
This!!! Two sides of the same coin, both owned and controlled by the same people/organizations/countries.
Tennessee Budd · July 20, 2026 at 6:14 pm
Yep. I’ve said for years that ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ don’t matter. They’re both attached to the same pestilential bird.
Steve S6 · July 20, 2026 at 9:00 am
Democrats: Gain of Function
Republicans: Gain of Graft
TRX · July 20, 2026 at 12:06 pm
We don’t call it the Uniparty for nothing.
Like the old hippie T-shirt said, “No matter who you voted for, the government got back in.”
Bluey · July 20, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Can’t say it’s any different here in a different country. I’ve come to the conclusion “conservatives” are useless. They’ll make all sorts of noise about what’s important, but will never actually fight or do anything when they have the power to.
Need to embrace your extremists, like the left do, to achieve anything.
lynn · July 20, 2026 at 3:39 pm
They are the two sides of the War Party.
But Trump did shut the border for now.
ghostsniper · July 21, 2026 at 7:37 pm
Nicely said Mike, and I agree.
Mike in Canada · July 20, 2026 at 7:59 pm
this is such fascinating question…. to vote or not to vote? We all know that voting is ridiculous, that the game is long since rigged against us, that the illusion of participation is real and attractive, that the real masters of the world delight in our delusion, that there is nothing we can do to stop them short of outright armed defiance…
On the other hand, it is helpful to contest the descent into that good night, if only to slow the rate of that fall, to savour the joys of a life largely unmolested, to prolong the afternoon of our lives, to further the education of our children, to carve out moments with them and give ourselves the gift of watching them grow within a peace we ourselves create…
Time is a great thing, and a finite amount of it our lot.
What to do with the time that is given us?
Shall we savour the days that remain to us, before the final darkness befalls?
Shall we accelerate things, to force the issue such that it may be decided while we are still hale and angry enough to see the task completed (Oh, Lord, if this bitter cup is not to pass from my hands, then let me drink deeply of it, that my children shall be spared its taste)?
Either way, the clock is ticking.
Steve · July 21, 2026 at 7:40 am
Well put!
Another possibility I’ve considered (since my vote just pads the margin of victory of the lesser evil) is consistently voting libertarian, to hopefully signal there are votes out here to get. But, alas, there are not enough libertarian votes to make them worthwhile going after.
And even if you do get some libertarian elected, he’s going to pull a Flake or a Massie and throw away any good he might have done. Might as well have a RINO.
Grumpy51 · July 21, 2026 at 8:45 pm
ANY name written in or voted for means you consent to the process and therefore whomever wins. I was raised with “don’t vote, don’t complain.” NOPE – voting ANY name, then complaining just makes you a sore loser.
The ONLY way (SMO) is to write-in “withdraw consent” (or something similar). Paraphrasing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – they know we know they are cheating and lying and stealing…..
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