Justplainbob 🇺🇸

Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis are both much better Presidential candidates than JD Vance. And it’s not even close.

WE DESERVED THAT Republicans lost because we stopped being Republicans. We abandoned our principles. We became Trump's bitch. And whatever he said, no matter how preposterous or unconstitutional, no matter how contrary to truths we've stood for for generations, we acquiesced to. We became a party of thugs and suck-ups. If you were close to Trump, you became a thug, trashing and destroying other Republicans who weren't Trump enough. If you weren't close to Trump, you became a suck-up, fawning before his name and whim. The party became a cult, an obsequious and groveling embarrassment to the party's heritage and beliefs. We sold our soul, and it showed. We broke our pact with the people and violated our oath to the Constitution. And so we suffered one of the worst political beat downs of the last 100 years. And we deserved it. And so did he. Donald Trump. He deserved it. He acted like a king and the people rose up against him. That means Ukraine has a chance to survive, and so does NATO, and the Kennedy Center, and maybe we can be friends with Canada again. Vladimir Putin takes a hit, like Elon Musk, and so does the cabal of Trump and cabinet business connections who have whored out federal policy for personal profit. The Supreme Court may be ripped apart, and it seems unlikely any federal judge nominees will be confirmed from this Republican president or the next. And the Republican Party is sidelined in national politics. As it ought to be. Its recent conduct has demonstrated that it offers nothing of substance or principle. And now the vultures will fight over the bones, the grifters trying to milk the party and its most ardent supporters for the last bit of cash, or maybe a spot on Fox or a podcast. While those of us who are actually Republicans, the ones who have been pushed out of the party, will try to remind people of what we once stood for, and why those principles are still the best protectors of individual liberty and national interest. But for now we reap the whirlwind. Democrats will wield their mandate like a sword, dismembering anything that doesn't jibe with their world view. They will have their day in the sun, and time will tell how wisely they use it. Will they moderate, or will they be extreme? Will they keep the keys to the car, or will they lose them themselves in another two years? There will be change, in a direction few Republicans will like. And there will be impeachments, and maybe there should be impeachments. And maybe we Republicans should spend some time re-embracing principle and patriotism, and laying aside personality and party. Maybe we should try to remember who we are. Maybe we should go back to being Republicans again.

I'm ded! - ☠️ 😵 💀 😆

You’re not going to like what I’m about to say. But guess what? I’m going to say it anyway. Most of the people voting in November are not sitting on X all day. They don’t know who your favorite political account is. Most don't even know what X is. I know because I've asked my coworkers, my family and my neighbors. They don’t know about the argument that consumed your timeline yesterday. They haven’t spent the last year reading “PASS THE SAVE ACT” or “FIRE JOHN THUNE” posts 417 times a day. They’re living their lives. And their lives are fcking exhausting right now. I talk to my coworkers. I talk to my neighbors. I talk to regular people who couldn’t care less about social media political warfare. You know what they talk about? Money. Groceries. Gas. Rent. Mortgages. Credit cards. Second jobs. Third jobs. I work for a major bank and my coworker still has to drive DoorDash after work to make extra money. Think about that. People are leaving one full-time job, getting into their cars, and starting another one just to keep their families above water. People who want to buy homes look at the numbers and wonder how the hell they’re supposed to do it. And everywhere I look, I see the same thing. Bags under people’s eyes. People are tired. People are stressed. People are anxious about money. People are working more and enjoying life less. That is the America that will be walking into voting booths in November. Not your timeline. Not your group chat. Not your engagement circle. Real people. With real bills. Real families. Real problems. And whichever political party forgets that does so at its own peril. You can win every argument on X and still completely misunderstand the country. You can get 10,000 likes and still have absolutely no idea what the exhausted mother at the grocery store is thinking. Or the father working overtime. Or the couple realizing the house they dreamed about is out of reach. Social media makes politics feel like a game. For millions of Americans, it isn’t. It’s their mortgage. Their grocery bill. Their gas tank. Their paycheck. Their kids. Their future. November won’t be decided by who screamed the loudest on X. It’ll be decided by millions of people asking one brutally simple question: Is my life actually getting better?

Spectacular sunrise over @wickhamfarms this morning in Penfield, NY. @News_8 @john_kucko @13WHAM @WHEC_SPensgen @EricSnitilWx

DOJ announced charges for 16 individuals for ILLEGAL VOTING, illegal voter registration, and related election-fraud schemes across the country. If you are not allowed to vote in our elections, you shouldn’t. And if you do, that’s a CRIME. This isn’t a partisan issue! Read more about EACH of these illegal voting and election-fraud scheme cases here: justice.gov/opa/pr/departmen…