Steven Baker

Nick Fuentes should get his blue checkmark back. I think it is unfair and ridiculous how he is singled out by every social media platform for demonetization while everyone shares his clips and agrees with what he says.

“first black..” “first transgender..” “first woman..” “first muslim..” “first palestinian..” “first gay..” “first latina..”

Texting my maga family and friends today has been hard

Left wing influencer followed by Abdul El-Sayed calls for mass executions of Republicans. ''If Elon Musk is alive at Christmas, it has been a failure.'' 26,000 likes and counting on Instagram

Gina Hinojosa delivers the agenda for Public Education Texas: “On Day One, I will fire Mike Morath and we will work tirelessly to repair the damage of the Texas voucher scam - And end an era in which our schools are sold for parts:”

Karoline Leavitt Says Democrats Won the Midterms because Americans don’t know how much money they have: Leavitt: “They listened to the lying media”. Reporter: “But they know how much money they have”. Leavitt: “No they don’t”.

Any talk of “ICE hype edits losing the election” is a twitter-siloed misread of the media normal people consume and care about. They irritated leftists on here, and that’s about the extent of it. The truth is that the GOP hasn’t adapted to the slopcannon era of shortform political content, not that it’s gone too far. The DNC did adapt, and it won. Right now, 90% of the things Dems and normies believe about “politics” are just not true, in a way that has never been the case before. Epstein eating babies with Trump, etc. Only a few years ago, the “piss tape” and “Russiagate” took intense national media coverage to develop as mass psychoses, and even then only really weathered discreditation among low-info olds. Now, the vast majority of things you hear from “apolitical normies” are some sort of schizophrenic lie derived from a momentary partisan event 6 months ago — something you, reader, forgot about a week after it happened because you mostly consume news on here. The GOP lost among its base because of the war, gas prices, bad PR, take your pick. But if we’re talking about media strategy, it lost swing normies that it won in ‘24 because it has consistently failed to adapt to the meta of Lindsay Clancy-style TikTok parallel-reality construction. Funnily enough, this media environment — the total death of “legacy media” and “trusted experts,” supplanted by a decentralized online hive — is the exact thing many on the Right have wished for for many years. It happened… now what? As of now, nothing: hysteria is a commodity you can buy, but Republicans aren’t investing. They seemed to have missed the part of epistemic collapse where the “validity” of ideas is totally meaningless, replaced only by their ability to gain attention as a directional signal. Trump wins nationally because he is a gravity well for media attention, a unique talent; but the GOP without him as the candidate is totally excluded from the infostream, seemingly by their own choice. Everybody laughed at the DNC buying catamites like Harry Sisson back in 2023, but that’s just part of the game now — botfarming new stock characters into the popular mind in order to run participatory ARG-style media events designed solely to drive turnout. These things don’t happen by accident, they cost money and require learned acumen. Obviously this is only one small part of the electoral environment, but it’s one that very few people seem to be talking about. Epstein hysteria, the Cornell 7, Nolan Wells, etc. probably drove Dem enthusiasm in as big a way as Iran drove GOP unenthusiasm, and it’s an angle where the GOP seems uninterested in competing.

I believe one of the key reasons Republicans lost is that they were completely defeated in the information war. There are literally millions of normies - possibly tens of millions - who genuinely believe that Donald Trump personally ate babies with Epstein. They believe AI data centers consume all water on the planet and that there is a wave of hidden lynchings of black people in the South and that Lindsay Clancy is innocent while the Cornell 7 represent a campaign of white men terrorising and raping everybody. So the question becomes - how do you stop leftists flooding the short form video space with insanely toxic lies. People really believe that Lindsay Clancy is innocent, they really believe that there are secret lynchings going on throughout the South, they really believe that data centers are destroying the planet

I never thought I’d see the day where @POTUS would allow anyone in his administration to undermine him but clearly that day has arrived! If you haven’t read @JDVance tweet this morning I urge you to do it! Vance lays out 4 reasons why the Republicans got walloped yesterday and of course 2 were the war and ISRAEL! I mean it wouldn’t be a Vance tweet without at least one shot directed at our best ally in the world! I met with the guy and neither Israel or @TuckerCarlson ever came up in our conversation. Why? Because he knew he couldn’t appease me on either subject. Today’s tweet from the Vice President is further proof that I could never vote for this guy for President of the United States!

Trump: We ordered the marble for the floor, really magnificent marble. It’s a cut, a vein that people have been after for 50 years. And the owner of the quarry didn’t want to sell it, but he liked me, and he was also so honoured to be doing it for the country, for the White House. And the marble floor, you’ll see, is the most beautiful marble you’ll ever see. It’s a special vein. This is a vein that everybody wanted for a long time, and I got it for the floor.

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

On Election Day, after bombing Iran for Israel last night. Lol.

Exclusive: A congressional staffer who has worked with four representatives, including Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia), appears tied to an anonymous social media account that denigrates female politicians and promotes political violence, among other views. wapo.st/3V1aaGb

Update for Blaise.

Its just really damn weird that a plane crashes near Mar A Lago just after we learned of SAM launchers being deployed there

Madness is coming.

Newlywed, 25, killed in 'freak' motorcycle crash - after wife was 'so upset' when he got bike trib.al/sEOVpCX