I respectfully disagree, Mr. Carter, that should Republicans regain power, they should not pay the Left back in kind. Sorry, the Republicans and conservatives have been stuck in a one-sided game too long.
The Republicans should go after the Left with every legal tool at their disposal, taste be damned. Democrat politicians and judges need to be non-violently harassed out of restaurants and stores. Liberal justices need to have their homes picketed non-violently; if it's apparently legal to protest in front of the homes of conservative justices, it must be legal for all justices, wouldn't you think? Red State Attorneys General need to seek warrants to search Democrat Representatives and Senators' homes on the slightest legitimate pre-texts, no matter how flimsy. The appropriate federal and state agencies need to conduct detailed investigations, as invasive as legally possible, into the practices of woke corporations. We need to make--FIGURATIVELY--blood run out of the ears and anuses of all the Leftist weasels who have behaved so disgracefully since 2016.
This, I think, is how civil wars can be prevented. By showing the other side that two can play the game, so it's best to be...civil. It's called deterrence.
Thanks. You can sign up for the free email! I have been cogitating about what you could do in response with out mimicking the Democrats attacks. What tools do the Republicans have at their disposal? Certainly you can simple cancel entire agencies like the Dept of Education. You can move agencies out of DC-move the Dept of Ag to South Dakota for example and trim it down....I am quite sure that any President who wanted to do that might have the support of a lot of American voters, but would surely get fights from their own party. My blood boils at the sight of people like Adam Schiff and when you read TheConservativeTreeHouse.com about the Trump raid, you get a sense of how hard it is to get rid of the Deep State and permanent bureaucracy.
I think the fact that the Republicans let all of the previous egregious Democrat illegalities go unpunished going back decades is what made the Mar-A-Lago raid happen. The FBI and Justice Dept. know that the Republicans are pushovers and that there will be no price to be paid for such a banana republic move.
When you ignore or diminish the Rule of Law, this is what happens. Just enforce the written laws, talk of retribution does not need to enter the conversation.
I agree Jeff. Letitia James is a political Hack. It's unprecedented that the attacks that happened to Trump from the crazy left-wing progressives and the media. The RINOs are destroying the Republican party my grandfather, my father and I used to know.
Crush your enemies! They’re just going to try to prove what they got manafort on which was basically lying on a mortgage application. Appraisals are independent. They can go on a fishing expedition to to try to find collusion with an appraiser on mortgage fraud but that’s super hard to prove. Just drunken monkeys throwing lawfare shit at the orange Hitler to try to see what sticks. Trump is the most investigated and audited man in US history. And all they find is shit they make up. He’s got to be the cleanest politician in the history of this country. And yet they persist…the investigations will continue until the coup is fortified, comrade.
One assessment that you missed is the one made for real estate tax purposes. The process is local, as it should be, but a little different in each state and sometimes each county. How Trump values his real estate when he makes presentations to investors and potential lenders should in no way be connected to how the city and state assess the value of the property. The government always wants more and the owner always tries to argue that the value is less. James is enough of a hack to try and make something out of this if Trump's real property valuations to investors was high while his lawyers were in front of the tax board arguing that the government had wildly overvalued the property, and that it was worth less than presented to the investors. That's the world we live in right now.
This is a great point and is counter to my point about inflating the price to make him seem bigger than he really is. The reality is he should be trying to impair the assets when he negotiates with the state on taxes since demand curves slope down and we all want to pay less. Thanks for that comment!
If Trump valued his properties at the high end of the scale (whatever that might be deemed for tax purposes), they would still want more. He's in a no-win with the mob after him. Ms James is a tick who wants more from the host.
You write the following in the final three graphs of this piece:
I don’t think Republicans should use it to target political rivals like Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and the rest of the Democrats have done-with the full support of the entire apparatus and every candidate of the Democratic party by the way.
But, boy, it’s awfully hard not to wish they’d use it that way.
That’s how Civil Wars get going.
This is EXACTLY AND COMPLETELY WRONG!!! If the R's do as you suggest, and just let bygones be bygones and act like the gentle lady's they always have been, THAT SIR, IS HOW YOU WILL GET CIVIL WAR!!!
If the D's are not brought to heel, if they are not taught to feel the pain of harassment and arrest and the FULL FORCE of the government on their necks, THEY WILL NEVER STOP!!!
And if the Dems continue to act with impunity against our leaders like Trump, and don't kid yourself, they won't stop with him, regular folks, (I myself, am most certainly NOT a regular folk and would NEVER, EVER take up arms against my own government, hell I don't even own a firearm) will say to themselves, "fuck it" and decide to take matters into their own hands.
So, when the R's come into office and have control of the government they must give the Dems a dose of their own medicine. Please notice, I didn't say when the R's come into "POWER". Cause that is what the D's do. When they control the levers of government, they most certainly are in POWER.
Sadly, when the R's are in control, they are simply in office.
Conclusion. We are headed for one of two outcomes. Either we will get the "Great Reset" and live in total subjugation OR we will have a bloody and violent and LONG civil war they will destroy the USA.
Buckle up and buy ammo. I mean, only if you own a firearm, which I most certainly DO NOT!!! Those thingS are DANGEROUS!!!
Given James's campaign statement she and her office should have been disqualified by the first Judge that was asked to issue subpoena's! When a Prosecutor openly and publicly declares they want to gain office specifically to use the power of the State to go after a citizen they are corrupt. How can this be allowed within any system of justice in any state unless the whole system is corrupt?
I watched ABC world "news" tonight as my left wing proxy. And also Tucker for the other side.
Tucker stretches things, of course. But ABC is insidious in how they spin their BS with the handsome guys with deep voices. Trump takes the 5th for the 1st time, haha, who wouldn't given the mob after him. But, as they point out, the mob who raided his home is a separate case! How dare him hunker down after the FBI mob raids the 1st president in history.
And, BTW, it's completely normal to have HOT DAYS during summer, you idiots. Cold, hot, wet, dry, it's all f'ing climate change.
You are one of those squishy country club Republicans. Eww, don't go after the dims, they may not like us. This is a WAR, between those who love real freedom, the Constitution, our Republic and globalist scum bag marxists. You need to pick a side and get serious or this Republic will be just like the ccp. Grow up Mr. Carter and actually see what is happening.
hahahaha, I am not squishy. Please read the rest of the blogs here and follow me on Twitter if you'd like @pointsandfigures1. Or, ask the regular commenters here about how squishy I am
I wouldn't go as far as you did Pepe, but I do think that there are many, many, too many unfortunately, like Mr. Tucker who naively believe that the Dem's will somehow begin behaving civilly at some point in the future.
There are so many sweet folks who foolishly believe that it is only Trump that is bringing out this behavior in the Dems. Well sweet fools are still fools. And that leads to death, defeat and destruction.
It may surprise you, but I totally agree with your comments on company valuations. There are legit reasons to go high, low, or somewhere in the middle. This civil prosecution seems fishy and politically motivated.
Political talk radio & TV now is essentially sports talk radio with different focus. "The Cubs need to bring Rizzo and Bryant back and then they would be on track to win again." In no world do Republicans need to bring back Trump. Trump was good at tearing things down. (And I agree that some things in government need some big changes.) But he was terrible at building things up. All presidents get a few things right, but that doesn't make them good presidents.
Nobody personifies the sports radio analogy more than Trump himself. Last night Trump (game show host, former Clinton donor, not a conservative) touted Jeff Van Drew as a potential running mate. Van Drew is a lifelong Democrat until 3 years ago (not a conservative). Too many "average joes" buy this junk and it gets regurgitated into conspiracy theories on channels like OAN, "Real America's Voice" in QAnon terms.
Jonah Goldberg has had 2 really good columns recently.
Brining back Trump would make the US system more like a banana republic, not less. "Presidents are not redeemers, messiahs, incarnations of mystical aspirations, or righteous settlers of seething grievances. They’re not god-kings or the fathers of our American family." https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/yearning-for-a-banana-republic
All politics is about "me vs. we". How those trade-offs are negotiated matters. "What, for God’s sake, is American conservatism supposed to conserve if not the principles and ideals that make America great?" https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/bonfire-of-the-asininities
And I do note with a bit of schadenfreude (sorry) a couple of the comments on this thread. Apparently you are not MAGA enough for some. Calling people names like "RINO" works on talk radio. It doesn't really work to get things done. Populism sucks, always.
There are RINOs about. They run as Republicans but when it counts, they stab the supporters in the back. John McCain's vote on Obamacare is an example. McConnell's silence on the raid on Trump's home is another example. RINOs are there to grift money out of the government and help themselves to some candy. Term limits would help but electing people who truly believe in small government etc is good too. Citing the writers at The Dispatch or The Bulwark isn't much good since they are faux conservatives. Look at what has happened to Bill Kristol. What a sad sack of a person.
I guess that make Trump the true RINO: he got Warnock and Osoff elected in GA thus sabotaging any chance of holding the goofy Ds in check. Since leaving office he's grifted millions of dollars from supporters to be used on whatever baloney he deems fit.
I agree with your assessment of Kristol. Just because a Republican believes that Trump is a horrible president shouldn't make one a Democrat. There is such a thing as an overcorrection. I don't know what makes him, Rubin, Boot et al. tick, and they have zero appeal to me.
The Dispatch should be assessed much differently. They really are conservatives, just ones who are not concerned with being on "team red". They believe that Trump and his ilk are not conservative. I think you'd actually agree pretty significantly with a lot of Goldberg's writings if you put away some preconceptions. Because you guys both say things that overlap by a fair bit.
Trump really is a bad person. Cheater in life, cheater in business, cheater in politics. In one of your pieces you talked about integrity among traders and if one was deemed to be dishonest they would get thrown out. I'm pretty sure that Trump would have been one of the ones to have been thrown out. The country is full of much better choices who are actually conservative and have ideas greater than merely blowing up the system. No kings. No banana republic.
I don't agree with your assessment of the folks at the Dispatch. Bunch of whining crybabies. I do agree that Trump lost two elections in Georgia. If Republicans run on election fraud in 2020 it's a losing issue. If they run on election integrity (voter ID) it's a winning theme. If they run on school choice, winning theme. The problem with Trump as the standard bearer is I think he runs a vindictive campaign instead of a hopeful one. He certainly got jobbed throughout his whole Presidency. There were certainly fraudsters about in 2020 but nothing has been proven in court.
Ha. You didn't read the piece. As I said, the more they attack him unfairly, the more ticked off I get. I will support him if he runs. Nothing against him per se, but he is almost 80. He also isn't perfect.
I don't like the God like worship that happens around political figures in the US by anyone. But, I loved how he attacked the institutions that needed attacking which conservatives prior to Trump never would do. I liked that he was plain spoken and did what he said he was going to do. I have minor disagreements on policy, like tariffs. I think there are better ways. But mostly, I'd like to see the younger generation lead us into the future.
sounds really good to me. But I find it improbable that any more than a fraction would actually be implemented for the new Republican majority. Moreover, I don't see enough about wide-spread punishment for the last three years.
Yes, that is the standard def. I talked to my son about it and he seemed to think the concept could be pulled, prodded, and poked into what I laid out. Maybe I need a different color?
I respectfully disagree, Mr. Carter, that should Republicans regain power, they should not pay the Left back in kind. Sorry, the Republicans and conservatives have been stuck in a one-sided game too long.
The Republicans should go after the Left with every legal tool at their disposal, taste be damned. Democrat politicians and judges need to be non-violently harassed out of restaurants and stores. Liberal justices need to have their homes picketed non-violently; if it's apparently legal to protest in front of the homes of conservative justices, it must be legal for all justices, wouldn't you think? Red State Attorneys General need to seek warrants to search Democrat Representatives and Senators' homes on the slightest legitimate pre-texts, no matter how flimsy. The appropriate federal and state agencies need to conduct detailed investigations, as invasive as legally possible, into the practices of woke corporations. We need to make--FIGURATIVELY--blood run out of the ears and anuses of all the Leftist weasels who have behaved so disgracefully since 2016.
This, I think, is how civil wars can be prevented. By showing the other side that two can play the game, so it's best to be...civil. It's called deterrence.
THIS!!! Yes this is exactly right. Bravo!!!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-payback-for-mar-a-lago-will-be-brutal-trump-raid-fbi-justice-department-president-investigation-11660255311?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s All this tit for tat will further undermine our institutions and polarize the nation—but such is the nature of retributive politics. Which is why the wholesale Democratic and media defense of this week’s events is so reckless. Both parties long understood that political restraint was less about civility than self-preservation. What goes around always comes around. What went around this week will come around hard.
Fair points. I think political tit for tat can get you in trouble and haunt you when you aren't in power. Ask Dirty Harry Reid.
That is a fair point also. Unfortunately, what we have had over the past few decades is all tit but no tat. Time for some tat.
How refreshing to be able to disagree, albeit mildly, on this forum and not have it degenerate into name calling and ad hominem attacks.
I enjoy your Substack columns immensely, and check for new essays everyday. Be well.
Thanks. You can sign up for the free email! I have been cogitating about what you could do in response with out mimicking the Democrats attacks. What tools do the Republicans have at their disposal? Certainly you can simple cancel entire agencies like the Dept of Education. You can move agencies out of DC-move the Dept of Ag to South Dakota for example and trim it down....I am quite sure that any President who wanted to do that might have the support of a lot of American voters, but would surely get fights from their own party. My blood boils at the sight of people like Adam Schiff and when you read TheConservativeTreeHouse.com about the Trump raid, you get a sense of how hard it is to get rid of the Deep State and permanent bureaucracy.
I think the fact that the Republicans let all of the previous egregious Democrat illegalities go unpunished going back decades is what made the Mar-A-Lago raid happen. The FBI and Justice Dept. know that the Republicans are pushovers and that there will be no price to be paid for such a banana republic move.
When you ignore or diminish the Rule of Law, this is what happens. Just enforce the written laws, talk of retribution does not need to enter the conversation.
I agree Jeff. Letitia James is a political Hack. It's unprecedented that the attacks that happened to Trump from the crazy left-wing progressives and the media. The RINOs are destroying the Republican party my grandfather, my father and I used to know.
Crush your enemies! They’re just going to try to prove what they got manafort on which was basically lying on a mortgage application. Appraisals are independent. They can go on a fishing expedition to to try to find collusion with an appraiser on mortgage fraud but that’s super hard to prove. Just drunken monkeys throwing lawfare shit at the orange Hitler to try to see what sticks. Trump is the most investigated and audited man in US history. And all they find is shit they make up. He’s got to be the cleanest politician in the history of this country. And yet they persist…the investigations will continue until the coup is fortified, comrade.
One assessment that you missed is the one made for real estate tax purposes. The process is local, as it should be, but a little different in each state and sometimes each county. How Trump values his real estate when he makes presentations to investors and potential lenders should in no way be connected to how the city and state assess the value of the property. The government always wants more and the owner always tries to argue that the value is less. James is enough of a hack to try and make something out of this if Trump's real property valuations to investors was high while his lawyers were in front of the tax board arguing that the government had wildly overvalued the property, and that it was worth less than presented to the investors. That's the world we live in right now.
This is a great point and is counter to my point about inflating the price to make him seem bigger than he really is. The reality is he should be trying to impair the assets when he negotiates with the state on taxes since demand curves slope down and we all want to pay less. Thanks for that comment!
If Trump valued his properties at the high end of the scale (whatever that might be deemed for tax purposes), they would still want more. He's in a no-win with the mob after him. Ms James is a tick who wants more from the host.
The problem is that every single developer in the history of this country has done this. It would be like a bill of attainder. Singling him out
Mr. Tucker,
You write the following in the final three graphs of this piece:
I don’t think Republicans should use it to target political rivals like Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and the rest of the Democrats have done-with the full support of the entire apparatus and every candidate of the Democratic party by the way.
But, boy, it’s awfully hard not to wish they’d use it that way.
That’s how Civil Wars get going.
This is EXACTLY AND COMPLETELY WRONG!!! If the R's do as you suggest, and just let bygones be bygones and act like the gentle lady's they always have been, THAT SIR, IS HOW YOU WILL GET CIVIL WAR!!!
If the D's are not brought to heel, if they are not taught to feel the pain of harassment and arrest and the FULL FORCE of the government on their necks, THEY WILL NEVER STOP!!!
And if the Dems continue to act with impunity against our leaders like Trump, and don't kid yourself, they won't stop with him, regular folks, (I myself, am most certainly NOT a regular folk and would NEVER, EVER take up arms against my own government, hell I don't even own a firearm) will say to themselves, "fuck it" and decide to take matters into their own hands.
So, when the R's come into office and have control of the government they must give the Dems a dose of their own medicine. Please notice, I didn't say when the R's come into "POWER". Cause that is what the D's do. When they control the levers of government, they most certainly are in POWER.
Sadly, when the R's are in control, they are simply in office.
Conclusion. We are headed for one of two outcomes. Either we will get the "Great Reset" and live in total subjugation OR we will have a bloody and violent and LONG civil war they will destroy the USA.
Buckle up and buy ammo. I mean, only if you own a firearm, which I most certainly DO NOT!!! Those thingS are DANGEROUS!!!
BTW, on another note, the stock market seems strong. But, I think it is a bear market rally. I certainly could be wrong about that, but we will see.
Is there a way for us to communicate privately? I mean, you do have my email, right?
Thanks.
Given James's campaign statement she and her office should have been disqualified by the first Judge that was asked to issue subpoena's! When a Prosecutor openly and publicly declares they want to gain office specifically to use the power of the State to go after a citizen they are corrupt. How can this be allowed within any system of justice in any state unless the whole system is corrupt?
I watched ABC world "news" tonight as my left wing proxy. And also Tucker for the other side.
Tucker stretches things, of course. But ABC is insidious in how they spin their BS with the handsome guys with deep voices. Trump takes the 5th for the 1st time, haha, who wouldn't given the mob after him. But, as they point out, the mob who raided his home is a separate case! How dare him hunker down after the FBI mob raids the 1st president in history.
And, BTW, it's completely normal to have HOT DAYS during summer, you idiots. Cold, hot, wet, dry, it's all f'ing climate change.
You are one of those squishy country club Republicans. Eww, don't go after the dims, they may not like us. This is a WAR, between those who love real freedom, the Constitution, our Republic and globalist scum bag marxists. You need to pick a side and get serious or this Republic will be just like the ccp. Grow up Mr. Carter and actually see what is happening.
hahahaha, I am not squishy. Please read the rest of the blogs here and follow me on Twitter if you'd like @pointsandfigures1. Or, ask the regular commenters here about how squishy I am
I wouldn't go as far as you did Pepe, but I do think that there are many, many, too many unfortunately, like Mr. Tucker who naively believe that the Dem's will somehow begin behaving civilly at some point in the future.
There are so many sweet folks who foolishly believe that it is only Trump that is bringing out this behavior in the Dems. Well sweet fools are still fools. And that leads to death, defeat and destruction.
I pray they come around.
The people that don't recognize the Democrats have gone full National Socialist are the same people mocking Putin for wanting to "de-Nazify" Europe.
It may surprise you, but I totally agree with your comments on company valuations. There are legit reasons to go high, low, or somewhere in the middle. This civil prosecution seems fishy and politically motivated.
Political talk radio & TV now is essentially sports talk radio with different focus. "The Cubs need to bring Rizzo and Bryant back and then they would be on track to win again." In no world do Republicans need to bring back Trump. Trump was good at tearing things down. (And I agree that some things in government need some big changes.) But he was terrible at building things up. All presidents get a few things right, but that doesn't make them good presidents.
Nobody personifies the sports radio analogy more than Trump himself. Last night Trump (game show host, former Clinton donor, not a conservative) touted Jeff Van Drew as a potential running mate. Van Drew is a lifelong Democrat until 3 years ago (not a conservative). Too many "average joes" buy this junk and it gets regurgitated into conspiracy theories on channels like OAN, "Real America's Voice" in QAnon terms.
Jonah Goldberg has had 2 really good columns recently.
Brining back Trump would make the US system more like a banana republic, not less. "Presidents are not redeemers, messiahs, incarnations of mystical aspirations, or righteous settlers of seething grievances. They’re not god-kings or the fathers of our American family." https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/yearning-for-a-banana-republic
All politics is about "me vs. we". How those trade-offs are negotiated matters. "What, for God’s sake, is American conservatism supposed to conserve if not the principles and ideals that make America great?" https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/bonfire-of-the-asininities
And I do note with a bit of schadenfreude (sorry) a couple of the comments on this thread. Apparently you are not MAGA enough for some. Calling people names like "RINO" works on talk radio. It doesn't really work to get things done. Populism sucks, always.
There are RINOs about. They run as Republicans but when it counts, they stab the supporters in the back. John McCain's vote on Obamacare is an example. McConnell's silence on the raid on Trump's home is another example. RINOs are there to grift money out of the government and help themselves to some candy. Term limits would help but electing people who truly believe in small government etc is good too. Citing the writers at The Dispatch or The Bulwark isn't much good since they are faux conservatives. Look at what has happened to Bill Kristol. What a sad sack of a person.
I guess that make Trump the true RINO: he got Warnock and Osoff elected in GA thus sabotaging any chance of holding the goofy Ds in check. Since leaving office he's grifted millions of dollars from supporters to be used on whatever baloney he deems fit.
I agree with your assessment of Kristol. Just because a Republican believes that Trump is a horrible president shouldn't make one a Democrat. There is such a thing as an overcorrection. I don't know what makes him, Rubin, Boot et al. tick, and they have zero appeal to me.
The Dispatch should be assessed much differently. They really are conservatives, just ones who are not concerned with being on "team red". They believe that Trump and his ilk are not conservative. I think you'd actually agree pretty significantly with a lot of Goldberg's writings if you put away some preconceptions. Because you guys both say things that overlap by a fair bit.
Trump really is a bad person. Cheater in life, cheater in business, cheater in politics. In one of your pieces you talked about integrity among traders and if one was deemed to be dishonest they would get thrown out. I'm pretty sure that Trump would have been one of the ones to have been thrown out. The country is full of much better choices who are actually conservative and have ideas greater than merely blowing up the system. No kings. No banana republic.
I don't agree with your assessment of the folks at the Dispatch. Bunch of whining crybabies. I do agree that Trump lost two elections in Georgia. If Republicans run on election fraud in 2020 it's a losing issue. If they run on election integrity (voter ID) it's a winning theme. If they run on school choice, winning theme. The problem with Trump as the standard bearer is I think he runs a vindictive campaign instead of a hopeful one. He certainly got jobbed throughout his whole Presidency. There were certainly fraudsters about in 2020 but nothing has been proven in court.
I think we all need to realize that Trump is just a cipher. It’s really not about him. It’s about fortifying the communist coup that is taking place. They’re coming for people like you next. Are you ready? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/irs-hiring-new-employees-including-armed-fit-federal-agents-willing-use-deadly-force/
Glad to know you are against President Trump running again. I won't be reading your drivel anymore.
Ha. You didn't read the piece. As I said, the more they attack him unfairly, the more ticked off I get. I will support him if he runs. Nothing against him per se, but he is almost 80. He also isn't perfect.
I don't like the God like worship that happens around political figures in the US by anyone. But, I loved how he attacked the institutions that needed attacking which conservatives prior to Trump never would do. I liked that he was plain spoken and did what he said he was going to do. I have minor disagreements on policy, like tariffs. I think there are better ways. But mostly, I'd like to see the younger generation lead us into the future.
> I don’t think Republicans should use it to target political rivals
I don't think you have to worry. The black-pilled like me have no say. Yet.
Ha. What is "black pilled"? I am assuming it is not part of the BLM movement! : )
Hahaha, you are correct. Black-pilled is like red-pilled but even more so. Angrier. And somewhat nihilistic. For example, this "evil plan"
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/08/10/ron-filipkowski-lays-out-the-republican-platform-and-pretty-much-nails-it/
sounds really good to me. But I find it improbable that any more than a fraction would actually be implemented for the new Republican majority. Moreover, I don't see enough about wide-spread punishment for the last three years.
Black pilled means you think it’s over and there’s no hope.
Yes, that is the standard def. I talked to my son about it and he seemed to think the concept could be pulled, prodded, and poked into what I laid out. Maybe I need a different color?