People don’t understand Ken Griffin. He’s a stock trader, not a conservative. He’s not a capitalist, but a crony capitalist, who uses the rules and lobbies for rules to keep his corner of the market.
For an example, see his and his firm’s statements on “pay for order flow”. They don’t want competition.
He’s also the money behind Nikki Haley.
Nikki Haley got her butt beat badly in her home state. Sherman had a tougher time getting through Georgia. She didn’t win a county in the state she was governor of.
I watched her speech. It was shrill. It was scripted. It also told me she is running third party and staying in the race because she is going to use the Republican Primaries across the country to stay in the news cycle. She needs to be on tv, local tv, talking.
She is the Deep State Establishment candidate. She is why the Republican Party stinks. They are the Washington Generals. Failure theatre. She talks the talk, but can’t walk the walk. Mitch McConnell needs her to remain minority leader in the Senate because she won’t have coattails as a third-party candidate.
She killed any future she had with the Republican Party with her speech tonight. She burnished her Establishment's big spending big talk/do nothing credentials. Sad really because I had high hopes for her.
The Republican Party isn’t Mitch McConnell’s party anymore, and while the press hates it, it is a very good thing. It’s not necessarily a “populist” party either. It’s a “I am sick of talking about all this bullshit and do something about it party.”
Immigration-they talk about it meanwhile millions come illegally and tap our resources.
We rebuilt Europe after WW2. Built all the damn roads in places like New Zealand during the war. Send billions to countries that are FIRST world countries who ought to fend for themselves. What do we get for it? Scorn. Screw them. Build your defense and prepare yourself to step up.
The budget deficit grows and no one lifts a finger. Entitlements are 70% of the budget. People are getting paid not to work, and no one reforms anything. It’s just “tax the rich more” even though they pay all the taxes anyway.
They propose policies that decelerate and take away hope and opportunity.
That’s your Republican Establishment.
You read it here first. Remember that. I was born at night but not last night.
Cocaine Mitch was\is excellent in defense. If you ran a football team and needed a defensive coordinator. he'd be the guy you would want. If you needed an offense coordinator and the choice was Mitch or you grandmother who was deaf, blind, dumb, senile and knew nothing about football. Go with grandma.
D's= Evil Party.
R's=Stupid Party
D's want to be feared.
R's want to be loved, especially by D's.
The R's have been playing defense so long they don't know how to take the offense. Rush Limbaugh use to talk about the Prevent Defense and why it wasn't a good overall strategy. He was right, but the R's haven't learned the lesson.
If you don't play to win but not to lose or to tie and try to run out the clock, you lose.
Also see almost every war the US has fought since WW II.
If Trump is convicted I think the R's would turn to De Santis in a heartbeat over her.
Nikki Haley is the "JIAD" candidate; "Jeb! In A Dress". She's the Shrub's chance for 2024, since Jeb himself was so blandly forgettable.