Elon Musk Endorses Republicans for the 2026 Midterms, Arguing that Democrats Will Destroy the County and It "Won't Be America Anymore"

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk signaled Thursday that he is lining up behind Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a notable turn after months of public friction with President Trump and flirtation with launching a third political party of his own.
"America is toast if the radical left wins," Musk wrote on X, warning that a Democrat-controlled Congress would "open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud" and that the country "won't be America anymore." The post came in response to a conservative influencer claiming Musk was "going all-in funding Republicans to help President Trump take back full control" of Congress in November 2026.
According to Axios, Musk has already begun making sizable contributions to GOP candidates in key House and Senate races, though the precise amounts will not be public until campaign finance disclosures are released later this month. The signal carries weight. Musk poured more than $290 million into the 2024 election cycle, becoming the largest single political donor that year by a wide margin.

🚨 BREAKING: This is a GENERATIONAL betrayal.

HUD just found $5 BILLION+ in FRAUDULENT payments in 2024 alone, under Biden.

Payment error of over 11% PERCENT.

- $5.2 BILLION to inactive accounts
- $77M to deceased tenants
- $150M to nonexistent Social Security numbers
- $288M… pic.twitter.com/WjWgTm0hI4
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 31, 2025

RINO Republican Mike DeWine says it's no big deal that we're having our patrimony stolen from us by foreign pirates -- it's just "the cost of doing business."

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's office on potential fraud at childcare centers in Columbus-- which has the second highest Somali population in America:

"This is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business." pic.twitter.com/hCE3B0b3Dz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 31, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (LdBR/)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (LdBR/)

3 I'll go nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (LdBR/)

4 Howdy

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:03 PM (LdBR/)

5 I don't get Ohio. Guys WAKE UP.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 06:03 PM (emBoF)

6 A man who puts his money where his mouth is. How refreshing.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:04 PM (sDNVV)

7 Sounds like they'll have a new spokesman soon.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

8 8th

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 06:05 PM (NwnyJ)

9 This tells us Elon is clean.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:06 PM (E0p3T)

10 Maybe trying to burn Musk's businesses down while threatening his life wasn't the best idea after all.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:08 PM (viF8m)

11 We have been so robbed blind, and a whole lot of degenerate scum have gotten filthy rich off of us all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (67EGc)

12 Elon also recently has his Andrew Breitbart "Fuck you. War." moment:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Then it is war

DogeDesigner @cb_doge

BREAKING: Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life:

"I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

Protect Elon Musk at all costs.

X: https://bit.ly/3LlXJ2K

Woman who said this: https://bit.ly/4so8lPr

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (P5BPp)

13 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (2Ez/1)

14 5 I don't get Ohio. Guys WAKE UP.
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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Machine state from way back and similar to Indiana and Illinois as well as Pennsylvania. Prime examples of the Uniparty where whoever is in charge still protects the grift for all his fellow grifters in both parties.

I give you Bob Taft Jr, former OH governor as an example,

"In August 2005, as a result of the Coingate scandal, Taft was indicted with four misdemeanors related to him receiving undisclosed gifts and accepting illegal campaign contributions, making him the first Ohio governor charged with a crime while in office. He pleaded no contest to the charges and was fined $4,000. Despite his fallout from the conviction, Taft continued to serve as governor until his second term expired in January 2007."

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:10 PM (WDjG6)

15 It's possible that Tierney meant "robust anti-fraud measures" are the cost of doing business.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:10 PM (GPa4z)

16 There is a new head at the RNC.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:10 PM (sDNVV)

17 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM (67EGc)

18 Woman who said this: https://bit.ly/4so8lPr"

What a fine representative of the American Medical profession...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (XuXeR)

19 Welcome back to the party, pal!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (5yDGQ)

20 Lady in Black, don't buy it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (sDNVV)

21 Between the commie Mayor muzzie and all of the thieving Somali muzzies, conservative websites (and also Fox News) are going to have plenty to talk about in 2026.

Pass the popcorn oil.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (8WtOr)

22 the coward of the COUNTY

Posted by: alpine_beer at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (van9r)

23 11 We have been so robbed blind, and a whole lot of degenerate scum have gotten filthy rich off of us all.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Yes. But the disadvantage to grifters today is that all their money can be found and forced to be repatriated and confiscated. GWOT gave the US that kind of power along with control of the SWIFT network.

We know where a lot of the money went if we look for it for the most part, all that is lacking is the will to bring it back to the US and the Treasury.

Treasury even broke and reversed block chain for crypto to get some of that back from the various hacker extortion gangs (Colonial Pipeline for one example).

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (WDjG6)

24 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM

After putting your comment into Grok:

As of early January 2026, prediction markets and early forecasts do indeed show Democrats as strong favorites to flip control of the U.S. House in the November 2026 midterms, with probabilities in the 75-78% range depending on the platform.

Recent reports from platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi have pegged Democrats' chances at around 78% for retaking the House, reflecting historical midterm trends where the president's party (currently Republicans under Trump) typically loses seats.

Earlier spikes reached 75% on Kalshi following strong Democratic off-year performances, and aggregated betting odds have hovered in that ballpark as generic ballot polling shows Democrats with a modest but consistent lead.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:13 PM (P5BPp)

25 >>I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

Uh huh.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:14 PM (viF8m)

26 Governor Acton does not excite me, as a politician anyway. But she appeals to Ohio's most rabid voting bloc and Vivek doesn't appeal to anyone.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:14 PM (GPa4z)

27 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at January 02, 2026 06:14 PM (2Ez/1)

28
12 Elon also recently has his Andrew Breitbart "Fuck you. War." moment:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Then it is war

DogeDesigner @cb_doge

BREAKING: Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life:

"I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

Protect Elon Musk at all costs.

X: https://bit.ly/3LlXJ2K

Woman who said this: https://bit.ly/4so8lPr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (P5BPp)

------

Jesus, she's deformed.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (azNOR)

29 Bullshit. The Republicans will keep the House and the Senate.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (sDNVV)

30 This "off year" thing is BS. Without 40+ BS retirements in 2018, R's would have kept the House. It's amazing how they compartmentalize info by throwing so much at you, and you forget what the damn truth even is.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (E0p3T)

31 Every government program starts out as a "cause, devolves into a "business" and ends up a "racket".
Every single one.
And the money flows almost exclusively to Democrat voters, Democrat supporters or Democrat politicians.

It's almost as if the whole Democrat Party at both the state and federal level is a giant RICO case waiting to be investigated by the "speaking truth to power" watchdogs in the media and then prosecuted by the law-and-order-focused non partisan Federal Law Enforcement officials....

Sure, Jan.......

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at January 02, 2026 06:17 PM (MNCvZ)

32 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM

You don't even know what a write-off is.

Do you?

No, I don't.

But they do. And they're the ones... writing it off.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4jxZZ3J

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (P5BPp)

33 17 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.
Posted by: Lady in Black

None of those odds are realistic especially political betting markets as they are thinly traded and susceptible to largish sized wagers aimed at influencing the process rather than profit.

If you must go into political prognostications, try Cook's Reports which is paygated but they actually apply the political history of districts along with the strengths and weaknesses of current competitors for the seats.

They can and are wrong at time and the report notes shifts based on events in 2026 as far as retirements, new districts, competitors, funding, and scandals. For political pros and has a left bias but otherwise much better than gaseous pundits or betting sites for solid information.

For my advice, having worked in congressional campaigns and then studying them as a grad student and prof, aim at June, July time frame for realistic prognostications. Primaries will be mostly done, retirements as well, and we will have some idea of funding as well as events in the US.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (WDjG6)

34 Bullshit. The Republicans will keep the House and the Senate.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (sDNVV)

Let's see how many mystery retirements we get. Incumbency is huge.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (E0p3T)

35 Wish I could afford to buy one of his cars.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (G1OIb)

36 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM (67EGc)
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The betting markets are also manipulated.

Brexit was certain to fail, all the markets predicted it.

But if you dug deeper, the small bettors were wagering on it passing, it was a few heavy-hitters who shifted the odds.

The Dems have a remarkable capacity for corrupting once-proven metrics, then acting as though the corruption wasn't there. They literally buy into their own lies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (ZOv7s)

37 Elon is right about that

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:19 PM (Ia/+0)

38 ..., Happy New Year, darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:19 PM (sDNVV)

39 Those Somalis are fucked up looking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (2pORR)

40 It's possible that Tierney meant "robust anti-fraud measures" are the cost of doing business.
Posted by: Oglebay

I'll believe what he actually said....

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (4wNax)

41 I'm sure that the scammers, Somali and otherwise, are betting that they can outwait the American public's attention span. And they are probably right.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (3nLb4)

42 29 Bullshit. The Republicans will keep the House and the Senate.
Posted by: Ben Had

Senate is probably out of reach due to the location of where the seats in play are for Dems. The House, consider it a tossup until the dust settles by May-June from primaries, retirements, campaign funding, lawsuits by DoJ requiring states to purge their registries from Motor Voter law, and redistricting effects including the possible Scotus ruling killing majority minority districts.

Economy will have a big part in it as well as futile attempts by the Dem Media to run it down like in GHWB's runup to the 92 election.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (WDjG6)

43 They seem to always say mid terms will go to the opposite party
And have no doubt those makng this prediction want it to.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:21 PM (Ia/+0)

44 The GOP ain't great but they are not lunatics.

I guess that's something.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 06:22 PM (XV/Pl)

45 41 I'm sure that the scammers, Somali and otherwise, are betting that they can outwait the American public's attention span. And they are probably right.
Posted by: Oddbob

I don't think so. Trials will actually be starting fairly soon for the underlings and the fraud keeps expanding--now to HUD where 5 billion in Housing aid was stolen in the name of dead people, etc.

The crooks were brazen in the Biden years to the extent that they failed to take even the smallest precautions in getting caught. They figured buying off the pols was enough to see them scot free.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:22 PM (WDjG6)

46 It might be a Somali rite of passage to have an extended family gang bang.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (2pORR)

47 Elon Musk, one of the few Newcomers that is a real African American.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

48 It's possible that Tierney meant "robust anti-fraud measures" are the cost of doing business.
Posted by: Oglebay

He's in it up to his ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (c115l)

49 Economy will have a big part in it as well as futile attempts by the Dem Media to run it down like in GHWB's runup to the 92 election.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (WDjG6)
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To be fair, Bush was a terrible candidate. Awful. He only won in 88 because Reagan had gifted him with a booming economy and Dukakis was an utter train wreck.

But against any kind of headwind, the guy had feet of stone and literally could not read a teleprompter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

50 Happy New Year, darlin
Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:19 PM (sDNVV)

Thank you sweetie. To you and yours as well.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (E0p3T)

51 Your enslavement is the cost of doing business?

Does DeWine personally shoulder these costs?

If not, DeWine is part of the corruption, graft and fraud since he is the primary person responsible for it not existing.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (47/pr)

52 Missed the last post -
The CIA Promoted Abstract Modern Art As a Psyop

It is funny because because so did the Soviets.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (/lPRQ)

53 I don't think so. Trials will actually be starting fairly soon for the underlings and the fraud keeps expanding...

I will be more than happy to admit that I was wrong six months from now.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (3nLb4)

54 Posted by: Oddbob
=========
Overall, I think this will hit our elite like the House Bank Scandal in 1992-94 which led to the GOP winning the House.

Voters hate being made the fools by thieves and grifters. Indy and GOP voters are infuriated by it and I don't think Trump has any intention of saving career GOPe and Dem pols from the fire here.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (WDjG6)

55 Hopefully he's selective on who he funds. NO RINO's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (abIsI)

56 As noted, at a minimum, 30pct of every state, local and federal budget is straight graft and corruption.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 06:25 PM (XV/Pl)

57 "This is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business."

------------------

You know who else used that rationalization?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:25 PM (RV1wf)

58 > We have been so robbed blind, and a whole lot of degenerate scum have gotten filthy rich off of us all.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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You've no idea.

Seriously.

Trillions of dollars have been stolen from us. Every single politician is culpable. They're all all "on the take."

The amount of wealth stolen by our government is in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Over decades. It is the biggest wealth theft in history.

I'll go to my grave with that.

Think about that April 15th.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 06:25 PM (NwnyJ)

59 This is like, if Somali bank robbers went into a bank, when they get to the teller, they stick out their finger, and say "stick 'em up!" The tellers look confused, not sure what to do, but the bank's governor, Mike DeWhine says "Give them everything they ask for!"

You're standing there in line, as the tellers shove cash into bags, and after the Somalis walk out, you try to make a withdrawal from your account. They say "Sorry, we don't have any cash for you," even though you put thousands into your account.

When you try to tell them how unfair this is, they call you racist.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:26 PM (KwCuT)

60 "This is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business."

Listen up you four-eyed little rat bastard. GFY with a
chainsaw dipped in acid.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 06:27 PM (abIsI)

61 You might say that the Haitian takeover of Springfield is DeWine's "pet" project.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:28 PM (GPa4z)

62 Dewine is a swirly kid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 02, 2026 06:28 PM (2pORR)

63 >>Economy will have a big part in it as well as futile attempts by the Dem Media to run it down like in GHWB's runup to the 92 election.

There are so many sea change things happening right now including the Democrat Party in Congress having a historically bad approval rating and Republicans redistricting to make new Republican seats applying old standards is in January is just dumb.

Nobody knows what damage all of this fraud will cause Democrats but it could be enormous. It will certainly hurt their fundraising because that's where a lot of it came from. Saying Republicans only have a 22% chance of holding the majority right now is laughable. There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)

64 To be fair, Bush was a terrible candidate. Awful. He only won in 88 because Reagan had gifted him with a booming economy and Dukakis was an utter train wreck.

But against any kind of headwind, the guy had feet of stone and literally could not read a teleprompter.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Read the final media polling on the election, a lot of voters thought we were in a major recession in 92. And GHWB was also taking fire from the populists like Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot.

"Exit polling showed that 75% thought the economy was in fairly or very bad shape while 63% thought their personal finances were better or the same as four years ago." from wiki.

Clinton won both 1992 (42 percent plurality) and 1996 (49 percent) with Ross Perot taking 19 percent in 1992 and 8.4 percent of the vote in 1996.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (WDjG6)

65 Oh Mago, you done it again!

Posted by: TrainmanTim at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (lycPY)

66 BurtTC thats a good analogy

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)

67
Is there some way that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine can manage to shift a couple of billion into my bank account as a "cost of doing business"?

I'd be ever so grateful if he would.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (iJfKG)

68 JackStraw, thank you for the song the other night. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (sDNVV)

69 There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)

Except the Crooked Republicans.

Posted by: davidt at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (Q+gd/)

70 Trillions of dollars have been stolen from us. Every single politician is culpable. They're all all "on the take."

The amount of wealth stolen by our government is in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Over decades. It is the biggest wealth theft in history.

I'll go to my grave with that.

Think about that April 15th.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I'm good with executions. Let the blood flow.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (c115l)

71 DeWines's wife Fran looks like she could eat an ear of corn through a picket fence.

https://tinyurl.com/2c5wymu3

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 06:31 PM (abIsI)

72 You're welcome, Ben Had. Happy New Year.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:31 PM (viF8m)

73 Listen, if Ross Perot didn't run then Bush would have won.

Ross snarfed up 19pct of the vote, that would have gone to Papi.

And we would have been spared The Clinton Grotesquery.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 06:31 PM (XV/Pl)

74 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM (67EGc)

Let's put it this way: The Republicans don't deserve to be re-elected, but the Democrats also don't deserve to be elected.

So it'll be a race to the bottom.

One or the other will have their butts in those seats, and you can be damned sure whoever it is, "we" won't have won anything.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (LPgB/)

75
Are we going to see some kind of leftist desperation moves this year? Mass terrorist attacks, assassinations, claims of a new epidemic?

They've been taking hits for a year. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (azNOR)

76 Here's a great memory thanks to Ohio:

https://youtu.be/3BrCvZmSnKA

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (2Ez/1)

77 He's in it up to his ass.
Posted by: rickb223

Yep, just like all these mayors, whether GOP or not, that used refugees and illegals to make bank from federal and state spending.

E.g. Springfield OH mayor was involved in real estate rentals and strangely supportive of his Haitian refugees that were destroying the town while he was busy playing landlord. Much of that money was federal and state spending on poor refugees that started eating the swans, dogs, cats, etc. when they were not committing all sorts of crimes.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (WDjG6)

78
Jesus, she's deformed.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

===============

I'm going Full Shallow on these mammals and asking why they don't give enough of a fuck to look this side of conscious for a profile pic. And those God-damned ugly rags they wear, the hems dragging in the snow and up top, just an oval of face showing. (Honestly, at least Ilhan matches her lipstick to her headscarf.) They're the Somali equivalent of the white Wal-Mart Mutant look, which I also do not approve of.

Omar Fateh, do some looks-maxing. Where in hell did he get the idea that the proper manscape for that hot-air-balloon-shaped head was a blob of whiskers on the very tip of his chin and a halo of fluff on his scalp? And get to the gym ffs. He looks like a pile of pick-up sticks.

Sorry if any of this applies to anyone here. But it's like they're deliberately doing the minimum because fvk society. I remember once reading an AA affirmation type thing called "Just For Today," and one of the bullet-points was "Just for today, I will dress becomingly" and a few other things to make yourself positive and pleasant for others.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (n7rxJ)

79 "Cost of doing business " - whose business?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (znREB)

80 Impeach DeWine. What a POS. Wonder how many of his allies are at the trough?

Posted by: HogWildforIslam at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (6eQS7)

81 Take it from somebody in the waste management business. HUD is beyond fraud.

Posted by: Tony Soprano at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (wBaIH)

82 There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.
Posted by: JackStraw

Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Not what it used to be. But if Big 3 lead with abysmal economy every night this year ( whether true or not) it will affect tight races.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (FxH7T)

83 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).

I haven't held that position for quite some time.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 06:34 PM (cYBz/)

84 73 Listen, if Ross Perot didn't run then Bush would have won.

Ross snarfed up 19pct of the vote, that would have gone to Papi.

And we would have been spared The Clinton Grotesquery.
Posted by: Thomas Bender a

Honestly do not know. Much of teh Perot vote was anti Bush but absent Perot, they may have just not turned out. Perot in 1996 was basically in the race for no good reason except ego at that point. Allowed Clinton to win going away from Dull Dole.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:34 PM (WDjG6)

85 Mmmm. Enjoying a hot buttered rum in a 1917 USMC Centennial Watch Mug.

https://tinyurl.com/y337rhrf

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 06:35 PM (c115l)

86 What Steve_in_SoCal said, since he probably lives around a lot of olds with fixed property-tax. The olds in CA are shielded from the consequences of their vote, and watch the TV we don't.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 06:35 PM (gKWVE)

87 Every government program starts out as a "cause, devolves into a "business" and ends up a "racket".
Every single one.

Not in MN, the paid family leave went skipped cause and business and went straight to racket

As of today (1/2/2026), over 12,000 people have begun at least 8 weeks of MN's Paid Leave Program.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (a4flb)

88 83 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).
Posted by: Tonypete
=======
The good folks in politics exit when the time comes and they do something else. The bad folks in politics are addicted to power and control and never want to do something productive with the rest of their lives. They stay on and on until they can't anymore.

DeWino is one of the bad ones.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (WDjG6)

89 You're standing there in line, as the tellers shove cash into bags, and after the Somalis walk out, you try to make a withdrawal from your account. They say "Sorry, we don't have any cash for you," even though you put thousands into your account.

When you try to tell them how unfair this is, they call you racist.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:26 PM (KwCuT)

One final scene - later that evening the Somalis meet up with the bank tellers and say “okay, as we agreed here’s half of all you gave us.”
And the bank tellers say “Nice doing business with you! Same time next week?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (otNgF)

90
"I wouldn't want to be Somalian right now."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EwFXyF3Po-I

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (iJfKG)

91 Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Not what it used to be. But if Big 3 lead with abysmal economy every night this year ( whether true or not) it will affect tight races.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (FxH7T)

They also have the fact that the electorate (or perhaps more accurately, the ballots that are cast) are idiots, and as happens every election, they look around, see how they don't like whatever they don't like, and vote against the incumbents.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (LPgB/)

92 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).

Wrong person killed in a car wreck?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (a4flb)

93 Elon Musk, one of the few Newcomers that is a real African American.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

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Trump should Musk the Presidential Medal of Freedom during this year's upcoming State Of The Union address -- guaranteed to explode many Democrat-Communist heads!

An argument can be made that by purchasing Twitter -- at a YUGE financial loss in order to save Social Media Free Speech and previous-censored conservative voices, investigations, & news -- and supporting Trump and MAGA, Elon was critical in helping elect Trump and (for now at least) saving The American Experiment and Nation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (RV1wf)

94 More like every government program starts out as a racket and never ends.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (E0p3T)

95 As I said the other day, that means Dewine is in on it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

96 I am Very happy to introduce the "Tim Walz" Blackhawk Down LEARING Centers.

Lear how to make an IED, Fire My favorite Weapon the AK-47, and learn how to shoot an RPG at an American Pig Dog BlackHawk Helio.

Great fun for all and great as a step to study at the University of Mogadishu for the Spring Semester. Learn about Shria Law and The Mostly Peaceful Islamic Jihad to destroy Israel.

Posted by: Tim " Nuken till they Glow" Walz at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (J9q9v)

97 *Trump should AWARD Musk ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (RV1wf)

98 The media can cry havoc and poverty but when people are paying less for gas and basic expenses that's not going to sell.
Diesel is under 3 bucks in some places. Do you not know how big a deal that is?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:38 PM (sDNVV)

99 I'm sure that the scammers, Somali and otherwise, are betting that they can outwait the American public's attention span. And they are probably right.
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100 92 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).

Wrong person killed in a car wreck?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (a4flb)

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I'm sure this has nothing to do with anything, but the car wreck was in Haiti.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:38 PM (GPa4z)

101 No, the wreck wasn't in Haiti. But there is some sort of memorial tie-in.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (GPa4z)

102 No, you are wrong about Perot. The MSM called the election for Clinton while the polls were still open on the West Coast. Perot got more votes then because our votes didn't matter.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (+mUZM)

103 One final scene - later that evening the Somalis meet up with the bank tellers and say “okay, as we agreed here’s half of all you gave us.”
And the bank tellers say “Nice doing business with you! Same time next week?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (otNgF)

Yes, and the moral of the story being, of COURSE the Somalis are rotten dirty stinking filthy bank robbers.

But so are the bankers, and the Somalis would not have gotten a dime without their complicity.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (LPgB/)

104 >>I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

W/O looking I'd give it a 75% chance that in an off year the other party has that chance of winning.

Most first term presidents win reelection and then the opposite party gets a turn.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (/lPRQ)

105 Economy will take off bigly, Trump will make a deal involving Greenland, the Uke bs will conclude, and Republicans should win on the back of all that if they don't get bought off again.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (E0p3T)

106 Are we going to see some kind of leftist desperation moves this year? Mass terrorist attacks, assassinations, claims of a new epidemic?

They've been taking hits for a year. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

A lot of Democrat direct action came from federal funds pilfered by community activists. That rathole is being stopped up bit by bit and the shy pols like Emmer who dismissed the fraud previously now are all in on fixing the problem. Only those who are deep in the issue like Walz and MN Dems are defending it. You get radio silence from the rest of teh Dems right now.

Antifa is now a terrorist listed organization. That means no free rides for Soros and the Chicom Singh Code Pink guy, and so on.

Things are looking up but we started deep in a well after Biden's junta so the sunlight still appears distant.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (WDjG6)

107 Apparently, for a Republican incumbent to have a good year, all he needs is to be charismatic, to have a great economy, to know how to manipulate the media like Reagan or Trump, to have a team of lawyers ready to fight to prevent Democrat lawfare on election day, a team of programmers to jamb up the Dem servers trying to stuff ballots, guards and observers trying to prevent ballot stuffing, luck with judges on those emergency rulings, not too many retirements, good turnout,... anything else?

Easy Peasy.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (aTta8)

108 More like every government program starts out as a racket and never ends.
Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (E0p3T)

Which is why, as I said this morning, I don't understand how anyone looks at whatever problems they see, and think "Gee, I sure hope the government comes and fixes this for us."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (LPgB/)

109 It's just the cost of doing business. Monkey business!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (pkeXY)

110 Trump will have everything running like a finely tuned sports car and the Republicans will not bother to turn out on Election Day.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (GPa4z)

111 Ross snarfed up 19pct

Perhaps the GOPe shouldn't have left a Ross sized hole in the electorate. Thankfully they didn't learn and PDT did.

Posted by: DaveA at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (FhXTo)

112 Elon Musk created a monster that’s tearing the right apart
X put the right on top in the culture war. Now it’s turning them against each other.

...in recent months, X has lost its ability to unite the right. Instead, it’s increasingly the place where Trump supporters turn on each other.

Intense and bitter public feuds have broken out over such topics as Israel, antisemitism, bigotry against Indian Americans, and whether people whose ancestors came to the US more recently should be considered less authentically American. Conspiracy theories are running rampant, with many targeting the Trump administration itself...

...Musk’s ownership have altered the norms of what it’s acceptable for right-wingers to say, and have incentivized a race to the bottom for engagement. It turns out that once guardrails against bigotry and misinformation are removed, there’s a huge audience-side “demand” on the right for both...

...as X grows more extreme and disconnected from reality, top Trump officials remain obsessed with pandering to its user base — focused on throwing red meat to the online right, rather than trying to win back the ordinary voters who have soured on the president..

Posted by: Intercepted Vox Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (ycI94)

113 Anyone know if we are refilling the strategic reserve?

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (aTta8)

114 I think even we are underestimating the huge impacts - economic, social, and political - that the near simultaneous collapses of Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba are going to bring about.
And add onto that the California catastrophe that’s about to unfold.

Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (otNgF)

115 More like every government program starts out as a racket and never ends.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (E0p3T)

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Like a cancer, it usually continues growing uncontrollably.

The future schadenfreude with each "unexpected" consequence while NYC implodes during the next four years may rival that which I've experienced over the past 13 years after having escaped Califzuela ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (RV1wf)

116 Would someone please repost the link to people telling Scott Adams how he changed their lives?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (SRRAx)

117 Apparently, for a Republican incumbent to have a good year, all he needs is to be charismatic, to have a great economy, to know how to manipulate the media like Reagan or Trump, to have a team of lawyers ready to fight to prevent Democrat lawfare on election day, a team of programmers to jamb up the Dem servers trying to stuff ballots, guards and observers trying to prevent ballot stuffing, luck with judges on those emergency rulings, not too many retirements, good turnout,... anything else?

Easy Peasy.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (aTta

Maybe do some of the things they told their voters they would do if elected?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (LPgB/)

118 113 Anyone know if we are refilling the strategic reserve?
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (aTta

I’ve read that it has begun.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:43 PM (otNgF)

119 >>Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Well not CBS. Not the way they used to anyway. And they sure as hell don't have social media or the richest guy in the world who just happens to own the biggest social media platform in the world. The left actually has less control of the media now than they did in 2024 and we did pretty good then.

There's a lifetime between now and November and lots can happen but as of now there's zero reason to rely on historical norms or assume the Democrats are in such a dominant position. Tax cuts and a predicted strong economy are coming this year. Illegals will continue to be deported. The DOJ has been cleaning voter roles for months and is now going after Minnesota's vouching bullshit and now Democrats are going to have to defend an enormous corruption scandal that boils down to Democrats importing and paying immigrants for votes.

No matter how much some love to bitch and moan nothing is happening, shitloads of things are happening. I'm so old I remember when Harris was going to beat Trump because some polls said so. That turned out ok. I think I'll wait a few months before lighting my hair on fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)

120 The statusquotidians are about to get their assez kicked up around their shoulders

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (sDNVV)

121 Bring back tar and feathers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (5He9w)

122 Except the Crooked Republicans.

I'm hopeful that Paxton will replace Cornyn and for the first time in forever Texas will have a Republican senator that is worth anything.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (a4flb)

123 >>Ross snarfed up 19pct

worse even, he fed the Dem narrative that the economy was narfed.

People felt good about the economy (as noted above) but Ross kept banging on about how we were all doomed.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:45 PM (aTta8)

124 They have the media? Nick Shirley has 135 million views. That dog won't hunt.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:46 PM (sDNVV)

125 Anyone know if we are refilling the strategic reserve?

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (aTta

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Supposedly the contents of those captured pirate oil tanker contents will be donating to it.

Trump is probably waiting for oil futures to go negative (or the price per barrel to crash) before acquiring the rest. /only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:46 PM (RV1wf)

126 Dole was a wet dishwater rag. He had no freaking chance against Clinton's charisma.

As far as 1992 goes, they got a LOT of mileage over the sax on Arsenio. Stupid but whatever.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:46 PM (E0p3T)

127 82 There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.
Posted by: JackStraw

Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Not what it used to be. But if Big 3 lead with abysmal economy every night this year ( whether true or not) it will affect tight races.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (FxH7T)

The media couldn't convince Americans that the Biden-Harris economy was as rosy as they tried mightily to portray - with the help of the DNC and US government billions to boot. If Trump succeeds in turning around the economy this year - and he will - there is nothing the media can do to convince the people otherwise.

Look, it's not like the media was actually FOR Reagan's Morning In America slogan - they simply didn't have the power to obscure what people could see right in front of them. America250 is playing right into Trump's wheelhouse.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 06:47 PM (0CU3H)

128 116 Would someone please repost the link to people telling Scott Adams how he changed their lives?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's

This?

https://x.com/Cernovich/status/2006841435304366141

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:48 PM (aTta8)

129 how we were all doomed.

we were, we still are.

Posted by: DaveA at January 02, 2026 06:48 PM (FhXTo)

130 Not sure that turn around in Sundowner's mid term happened but ghen vote fraud was still king.
Not so sure this next mid term won't be frauded, the Marxists are desperate

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:49 PM (Ia/+0)

131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (otNgF)

132 Democrats Propaganda Ministry and 50 years of Marxist Seminaries

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)

133 39 Those Somalis are fucked up looking.

That is what happens when YOU FORNICATE with Goats....

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (J9q9v)

134 Bring back tar and feathers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (5He9w)

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I'm imagining Tampon Tim working as The ~~San Diego~~ Mogadishu Chicken mascot at minor league baseball games in Minnesomalia.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:51 PM (RV1wf)

135 Tom Servo. Nope. MCvain was the worst.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:51 PM (sDNVV)

136 In 1996 the Republicans had a ten point plan for the Contract with America. Whatever else one might think about Newt Gingrich he was a very savvy politician. Unfortunately the Clintons were even savvier. Bill laid claim to a majority of the items in the Contract with America- leaving the Dole campaign in the dust.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 06:51 PM (NlEaG)

137 131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”
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Well it gave us Norm McDonald as Bob Dole, which was one of the only things worth watching on SNL from the time Eddie Murphy left, so there is that.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 06:52 PM (UdiE9)

138 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (otNgF)

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His subsequent ads for Viagra had more enthusiasm.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (RV1wf)

139 His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”

Posted by: Tom Servo

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In his Inside The Beltway mind, that was both true and sufficient. He was the perfect embodiment of what incumbency can do to a mind.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (8AONa)

140 Tom Servo. Nope. MCvain was the worst.

Hey! I was the worst!

Posted by: Willard M. Romney, Loser at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (R/m4+)

141 Revealing this massive, large-scale fraud might be Trump's greatest accomplishment, if he can make the normals understand what has been taken from them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (RIvkX)

142 114 I think even we are underestimating the huge impacts - economic, social, and political - that the near simultaneous collapses of Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba are going to bring about.
And add onto that the California catastrophe that’s about to unfold.

Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I think that is true. I also think Trump's second term more closely resembles FDR's first mid term politically.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (WDjG6)

143 129 how we were all doomed.

we were, we still are.
Posted by: DaveA

I honestly trace a lot of our woes back to Clinton.
- 9/11
- real estate bubble
- china rise
- JEF came out of the 2008 crash which came out of the bubble
- mass immigration
- iraq war
- Hillary (which leads to Ukraine, MENA chaos,....)

I could go on. So blame it all on Clinton, and blame that on Perot.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:54 PM (aTta8)

144 SanFranpsycho, you are absolutely correct.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:54 PM (sDNVV)

145 One wonders if the Dems are so dumb and poorly thought of how in the world is it so close.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (NlEaG)

146 DeWine looks like the cowardly, blowhard mayor of some dusty cow town in 90% of the westerns I've seen. I'd be ashamed to be lorded over by this carp-faced, narrow-shouldered doofus.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (2L+MU)

147 McCain was half running against his own vice presidential pick. I hope the devil is shoveling more coal beneath his cauldron in hell as we speak.
As for Romney, at least he wanted to win (so he could fuck us better).

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

148 Is there such a thing as a non radical left?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (8CIFn)

149 I blame it on 535 elected asshole that don't know shit from shinola.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (sDNVV)

150 131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”
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What a worthless, befuddled, limp dick -- oh wait, I think that last bit was part of his campaign slogan too.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (aTta8)

151 131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (otNgF)

***********

But Bob Dole was serious about the 10th Amendment! Bob Dole even kept a note about taking this issue seriously in his pocket!

Sheesh, what more does Bob Dole have to do to win your vote?

Posted by: Zombie Bob Dole, 10th Amendment Champion in 1996 at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (/mCq0)

152 They have the media? Nick Shirley has 135 million views. That dog won't hunt.

And you can bet the ranch that X amplified the hell out of his message and cost Elon nothing to do it.

We have the GEOTUS and Tony Stark negating the power of legacy enemedia.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (a4flb)

153 Someday is a wonderful thought but now is the time to act! For as little as $9.99 a month, you can sponsor a little Mohammad or Janeezer here at The Somali African Stunt Child Sponsor Fund! For the price of lunch, you can make a world of difference and receive a hand written letter with a picture each month from your sponsored Somali African Stunt Child! Call 1-888-SPONSOR...Act today!
Posted by: Minnesota Somali African Stunt Child Fund LLC

Going rate is $19 a month. That's the price point every charity has chosen that people will pay. St. Jude's, Shriner's, Covenant House, the animal charities. $9.99 is passe and so 1998.

Posted by: Haitian Child With Cleft Palate at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (oftw2)

154 Here you go, Teresa

https://tinyurl.com/38puct54

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (+mUZM)

155 Show all the charts and graphs you want. Report on all the fraud you want. People are numb to it. As long as people are comfortable and entertained, everyone will just keep looking at their phone. The powers that be know this, which is why they spend all their days just kicking that can down the road. Whether it will continue to work? It has up to now, so...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (MZ+PY)

156 https://x.com/Cernovich/status/2006841435304366141

What a lovely tribute.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (RIvkX)

157 I blame it on 535 elected asshole that don't know shit from shinola.

The real power is chief of staff for each of these 535 ~~elected~~ scarecrows.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:59 PM (a4flb)

158 141 Revealing this massive, large-scale fraud might be Trump's greatest accomplishment, if he can make the normals understand what has been taken from them.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Most of them already have internalized that government often has large dollops of fraud but the extent and brazenness of theft by despicable and unapologetic foreign invaders put a face on it plus the feeling among taxpayers working for a living that they are being had.

The House banking scandal was understandable to normies in that Congress critters were kiting checks.

This brazen fraud where Somalis were simply stealing funds designated for kids day care is something that will also resonate with the normies.

And I think this is coming deep from within the Treasury after Bessent exiled and fired most of the assholes running the magic money machines in Treasury and a few other agencies. DOGE also is getting its licks in. Because the key to a lot of this fraud is identity--social security, medicare and medicaid numbers, etc. Fraudsters need the massive ID theft in order to work their grift.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:59 PM (WDjG6)

159 >>Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.

They don't even do that. Even CNN's polls are showing Democrats are polling around 20% approval, historically bad. But somehow they are also 80% likely to take back Congress.

Inserting wanking motion.

Everyone can see for themselves what is happening right now and there is literally no reason to think Democrats are in such a dominant position. Screw polls, all you have to do is look around.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)

160 ...in recent months, X has lost its ability to unite the right. Instead, it’s increasingly the place where Trump supporters turn on each other.

It always amuses me when the Left assumes that vigorous disagreement means people are not or cannot work together.

I mean, I know that's how it works on their side.

But it's still funny when they think we are just like them, given how much they try to demonize us as different and weird.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 02, 2026 07:00 PM (Cznub)

161 Did Scott Adams die?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 07:01 PM (XV/Pl)

162 The real power is chief of staff for each of these 535 elected scarecrows.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Donor and friends with benefits like those hiring family and friends of the congress critter.

The chiefs of staff simply are the intermediaries for quid pro quos so the Congress critter can have deniability and someone to sack if things go off the rails.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:01 PM (WDjG6)

163 Words cannot fully express how much I hate these avaricious cockgobbling shitweasels. Motherfuckers are selling our birthright - not their own, ours - for a bowl of Somali shit stew and money in their bank accounts.

Posted by: Fuck them all to death with a wooden pike at January 02, 2026 07:01 PM (TbWk/)

164 Did Scott Adams die?

--

He announced yesterday he would not live out January.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 07:02 PM (67EGc)

165 It always amuses me when the Left assumes that vigorous disagreement means people are not or cannot work together.

I mean, I know that's how it works on their side.

But it's still funny when they think we are just like them, given how much they try to demonize us as different and weird.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Cult behavior and comfort from being one in the crowd.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:02 PM (WDjG6)

166 No, but Scott doesn't think he'll live out the month. The cancer spread to his spine

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:02 PM (+mUZM)

167 People are taking the time to thank Scott while he is still alive.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:03 PM (+mUZM)

168 159 >>Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.

They don't even do that. Even CNN's polls are showing Democrats are polling around 20% approval, historically bad. But somehow they are also 80% likely to take back Congress.

Inserting wanking motion.

Everyone can see for themselves what is happening right now and there is literally no reason to think Democrats are in such a dominant position. Screw polls, all you have to do is look around.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)

Can someone please - please - tell me what winning message the Dems will have to run on in the midterms and beyond? Make Graft Great Again? Make Unfettered Immigration Great Again? Make USAID Great Again?

Sorry, folks. There is nothing this crop of Dems can run on that will make the average American want to dump the GOP and give these guys another shot. Not one Democrat is on the record saying that the Biden Presidency was awful - even at this late stage of the game, they won't admit it.

There's false pride and then there's facts. The Dems have literally nothing to run on.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 07:04 PM (0CU3H)

169 @166

>>No, but Scott doesn't think he'll live out the month. The cancer spread to his spine

Terrible news.

Well, as the saying goes, on a long enough timeline, we're all dead.

He will be missed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 07:04 PM (XV/Pl)

170 One wonders if the Dems are so dumb and poorly thought of how in the world is it so close.

The combined effect of:

1) a large percentage of people actually are dumb and
2) voting fraud

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 07:04 PM (3nLb4)

171 134 I'm imagining Tampon Tim working as The San Diego Mogadishu Chicken mascot at minor league baseball games in Minnesomalia. - ShainS

I think he'd actually be pretty good at that, what with those energetic arm gestures and all that elegant footwork.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:05 PM (2L+MU)

172 Elon Musk created a monster that’s tearing the right apart
X put the right on top in the culture war. Now it’s turning them against each other.

MAGA has always been at war with the worthless GOPe.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:05 PM (c115l)

173 Scott Adams taught me a lot about how to see things and how things are engineered behind the scenes to fool you. I stopped reading him after that, but I do recommend getting one of his earlier books, especially How to Fail at Everything.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 07:05 PM (E0p3T)

174 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)

175 I agree Jack that big stuff is happening.

NYT and WaPo still get picked up nationwide. There will be an avalanche of Obamacare subsidy stories.

My point is: there are outlets who are not on the left. But you have to go find them. The rest are brought to you.

But big things are happening and need to be spoken daily by the right. I dont see that happening.

Regardless, the economy will determine the outcome.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (FxH7T)

176 163 Words cannot fully express how much I hate these avaricious cockgobbling shitweasels. Motherfuckers are selling our birthright - not their own, ours - for a bowl of Somali shit stew and money in their bank accounts.
Posted by: Fuck them all to death with a wooden pike
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This is far greater than the Somalis. HUD fraud (at least 5 Billion) was from teh usual urban POC crooks. The Covid Payroll Protection loans were usual smarmy pieces of shit from the US and even around the globe. Once again, thieves so lazy that no physical businesses ever existed to 'protect' the payroll.

Musk, after his stint in DOGE, estimated 1.5 billion bucks per year as fraud out of about 7 billion in spending and about one billion of that is interest.

So about 25 percent fraud of all federal spending apart from interest on the federal debt.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (WDjG6)

177 There are some folks that seem to face their mortality with courage, sometimes even curiosity. Scott seems to be doing that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:07 PM (+mUZM)

178 174 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yep.
"Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation, specifically Senate Bill 5926, to expand public records exemptions to include all licensed or certified child care providers, thereby limiting public access to information about daycare centers and their operators." Brave AI.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:07 PM (WDjG6)

179 A third of the population would be happy if America fell, a third would fight in some way to save it, and a third are not committed in any real sense.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 07:08 PM (pDt9x)

180
There's false pride and then there's facts. The Dems have literally nothing to run on.

If the economy is better they will credit Mamdami.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 07:08 PM (pkeXY)

181 Sheesh, what more does Bob Dole have to do to win your vote?

Bob Dole did win my vote, for what little good it did him. Or rather, Clinton forfeited it by betraying his "moderate" facade from '92.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 07:08 PM (3nLb4)

182
A third of the population would be happy if America fell, a third would fight in some way to save it, and a third are not committed in any real sense.

Just like it was 250 years ago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 07:09 PM (pkeXY)

183 I think Musk or whoever said the debt is all fraud. So, shut the tap. Audit the books. Claw back the dough. You're welcome.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 02, 2026 07:09 PM (YlWIZ)

184 173 Scott Adams taught me a lot about how to see things and how things are engineered behind the scenes to fool you. I stopped reading him after that, but I do recommend getting one of his earlier books, especially How to Fail at Everything.
Posted by: ...

A nation's culture is uphill from the behavior from those in government, corporations, and other organizations. The Democrats have unleashed vicious attacks on the existing US culture for a reason, it blocked them from power and money (and children) in existing society.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:09 PM (WDjG6)

185 tubal, those numbers have been the same since the revolution. This is not a 50/50 country.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (sDNVV)

186 Want some more fraud? Let's take a look at SNAP.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (G1OIb)

187 165 It always amuses me when the Left assumes that vigorous disagreement means people are not or cannot work together. - FeatherBlade

What used to amuse me - and by "amuse", I mean "piss me off no end" - was my inside-the-beltway boss's view that the main role of government was to serve as an assembly line of legislation: the more laws that got churned out, the happier he was. And it apparently didn't matter if the legislation made sense or was clearly idiotic as long as the conveyor belt kept moving.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (2L+MU)

188
Can someone please - please - tell me what winning message the Dems will have to run on in the midterms and beyond?

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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"Here's $20 bucks for every filled in ballot. There is an extra $200 if you have to work election night to make up any shortfalls."

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (aTta8)

189 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yep.
"Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation, specifically Senate Bill 5926, to expand public records exemptions to include all licensed or certified child care providers, thereby limiting public access to information about daycare centers and their operators." Brave AI.
Posted by: whig

I could understand sensitive police information pertaining to active investigations, but taxpayer's money for daycares?

Fuck you. Show the paperwork.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (c115l)

190 And let's not forget 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the United States. And if nothing else Trump is a master marketer. 2026 is going to be a nonstop celebration of American greatness and patriotism. That's not exactly the left's wheelhouse.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)

191 The total fiduciary squalor of this government is beyond imagination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 07:12 PM (WHfpM)

192 I think Musk or whoever said the debt is all fraud. So, shut the tap. Audit the books. Claw back the dough. You're welcome.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

Execute those you can't get the money from.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (c115l)

193 186 Want some more fraud? Let's take a look at SNAP.
Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (G1OIb)

This is why the Somali fraud case is so important. If it is opening people's eyes to the rampant fraud behind something as universally approved as child day care (which Blue states are trying to make universal, by the way), all of a sudden SNAP bennies don't look as pure as the driven snow. From there it's a small hop to question everything government does.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (0CU3H)

194 Noob

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (G1OIb)

195 183 I think Musk or whoever said the debt is all fraud. So, shut the tap. Audit the books. Claw back the dough. You're welcome.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey
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I think easily half of the current federal debt (18 trillion) comes from fraudulent spending and that fraud has been propping up much of the world's economy along with making the US a massive debtor nation so that people could make vast fortunes from the flows in and out and piece of shit world control power freaks could fund their ops.

Like insertion of fraudulent ballots into the rest of the count, it is difficult to separate the shit from the rest of the porridge. Once the funds are commingled, much harder to separate out the shitty fraud from the legitimate spending.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (WDjG6)

196 Musk, after his stint in DOGE, estimated 1.5 billion bucks per year as fraud out of about 7 billion in spending and about one billion of that is interest.

So about 25 percent fraud of all federal spending apart from interest on the federal debt.
Posted by: whig

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*TRILLION
*TRILLION
*TRILLION

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (aTta8)

197 This is why the Somali fraud case is so important. If it is opening people's eyes to the rampant fraud behind something as universally approved as child day care (which Blue states are trying to make universal, by the way), all of a sudden SNAP bennies don't look as pure as the driven snow. From there it's a small hop to question everything government does.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Yep.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (WDjG6)

198 *TRILLION
*TRILLION
*TRILLION
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's

Dammit. You are right. Brain fart and thanks for the correction. 1.5 Trillion in fraud out of a 7 trillion dollar budget.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (WDjG6)

199 Well, whatever happens let's not have another federal government shut down. I was clearing the dead off of my driveway entrance for weeks.

Posted by: It's A Swindle, A Swindle at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

200 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)

And the state AG. The state doesn't want people looking because the state is involved.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (MZ+PY)

201 Want some more fraud? Let's take a look at SNAP.

"Why do you hate the chiiilllldren?!"

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (3nLb4)

202 And let's not forget 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the United States. And if nothing else Trump is a master marketer. 2026 is going to be a nonstop celebration of American greatness and patriotism. That's not exactly the left's wheelhouse.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)
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Out of morbid curiosity, I looked up the Chinese Zodiac symbol for this year. It's the Year of the Horse:

"the Horse embodies enthusiasm, speed and fieriness, bringing a year focused on bold moves and exploration."

I think we're going to see a lot of that this year.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (ESVrU)

203 What amazed me about Scott Adams was not only his powers of observation, but his apparent prescience. It was something of a game in the agency where I worked in D.C. to read the Dilbert comic strip and guess when the latest dumb and/or inhumane idea in the strip would be embraced as an actual policy by the top brass. And it happened constantly.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (2L+MU)

204 I could understand sensitive police information pertaining to active investigations, but taxpayer's money for daycares?

Fuck you. Show the paperwork.
Posted by: rickb223
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The legislator knows this is a bomb underneath the Democrat facade and brand management of caring for people.

So she is trying to cover it up. Won't work in a modern internet society with the Streisand effect to hide the villains but yet they persist in shitting on taxpayers.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:16 PM (WDjG6)

205 DOGE was the most important government initiative in my lifetime.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 07:17 PM (WHfpM)

206 And the state AG. The state doesn't want people looking because the state is involved.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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That shithead AG in Wa State is threatening prosecutions and investigations of clearly 1A protected information. He too will fail.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:18 PM (WDjG6)

207 Where my EBT card at? I need me some mo' Doritos and grape Nehi.

Posted by: LaQuisha at January 02, 2026 07:18 PM (2Ez/1)

208 The fraud perpetrated by Somalis is really just a symptom of a much deeper issue. It all comes back to the basis of our system of government and the utter failure of the Constitution to keep a handle on people who (as the Left is inclined to say) make themselves ungovernable.

The insight of John Adams was spot-on and is the biggest Achilles heel of our laws:

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Add to our moral rot since the 1950s an influx of populations entirely based in exploiting opportunities, and we're utterly doomed.

Posted by: red speck at January 02, 2026 07:19 PM (Ve/HL)

209 204
The legislator knows this is a bomb underneath the Democrat facade and brand management of caring for people.

So she is trying to cover it up. Won't work in a modern internet society with the Streisand effect to hide the villains but yet they persist in shitting on taxpayers.
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I think this is the thing that pisses me off the most at a gut level. I don't mean that it's the worst thing by any standard. There are far worse things for the health of the republic. But the brazenness of Dim politicians in the last 5-6 years is really infuriating at an emotional level. Some deeply buried ancestral part of me wants to physically throttle them for insulting my intelligence and honor.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 07:20 PM (UdiE9)

210 If Venezuela did to America what the democrats have done to America, no people would be alive there.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 07:20 PM (EyfuW)

211 Don't forget the current gov of WA state was previously the AG. Gotta protect Fergueson

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:38 PM (+mUZM)

212 Why do any of us legal law abiding citizens pay our taxes, every self employed citizen should just stop paying taxes, irs doesn't have 50 million agents to get us, stop funding this Insane fraud, the entire world is ripping us off! WTF!

Posted by: Matthew at January 02, 2026 09:13 PM (OdsgZ)

213 All laundering through 501c3/c4's back to the democrat and prolly republican parties(Tom Emmer). Disgusting.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 02, 2026 10:02 PM (iXm17)

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