House Control:
Democrats: Controlled the House for 46 years (1950–1994, 2007–2010, 2019–2022).
Republicans: Controlled the House for 28 years (1995–2006, 2011–2018, 2023–present).

Supermajorities:
A supermajority in the House is defined as a two-thirds majority, or at least 290 seats out of 435. Achieving a supermajority is rare.

Democratic Supermajorities:

1958–1960: Democrats gained 283 seats in 1958 and exceeded 290 in subsequent Congresses.
1964–1966: Following the 1964 landslide election, Democrats controlled over 290 seats.
1974–1976: After the Watergate scandal, Democrats achieved significant gains.

Republican Supermajorities:
Republicans have not achieved a supermajority in the House since 1950. Their largest majorities occurred during the post-1994 period, but these were well short of 290 seats.

“DOD’s Deception: General’s admission on U.S. troops in Syria latest whopper to mislead Americans”—
https://justthenews.com/government/security/dod-deception-generals-admission-us-troops-syria-latest-whopper-mislead
Key graf:

…The trouble with the truth inside America’s most famous five-sided building exploded anew Thursday when a two-star general admitted at the beginning of a Pentagon press briefing that the Biden administration had doubled the number of U.S. troops inside Syria months ago while continuing to provide a false and lower number to reporters….

It never ends….nossiree.

The “Biden” administration:
One never-ending skein of lies. (And crimes.)

File under: Keeping us “informed” on a need-to-NOT-know basis! About everything….

David Samuels, Tablet Mag, “Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment” [How Barack Obama Built An Omnipotent Thought-Machine And How It Was Destroyed]: https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment

Thank you for the link & dittos to TJ: fascinating article explaining how we got in this mess!
Trump and the country dodged a bullet, but as Barry M. wrote, there will be much work needed to save and restore the USA!

Standing in the way of what, you ask?
“The Big Story Of 2024 That Nobody Is Talking About”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/big-story-2024-nobody-talking-about
Key grafs:

…No, the important story of 2024 was The Great Reset.

Remember that? It was this pan-global supranational plan to tear down and then rebuild society in a “sustainable”, “inclusive”, “fair” and “secure” way that would – totally accidentally – eradicate civil liberties and individual freedom for every single person on the planet.

It was all the rage a few years ago, you might remember. But when it didn’t go over too well with a lot of people, the powers that be dropped the subject and there’s been very little talk about it since 2022.

Does that mean it’s gone away?…

[Emphasis in original]

File under: !No Pasaran!

Barry Meislin:

I understand your skepticism, but Trump’s win was so historic and Obama looked so pathetic in his efforts to support Kamala Harris, that I think Obama is now as dead politically as George W. Bush.

But I have a feeling that he has more heads than a hydra…and the expression, “Don’t count yer chickens…” still resonates (and not in the background).

One would like to believe that the corruption and venality of the Democratic Party have finally been exposed for all to see; but the Democrats still have their myriads of die-hard supporters. Ditto for the Corrupt Media.

Well…one can hope…

Of especial importance is that Trump and his people should forge ahead, plow through, damn the torpedoes, etc… and do their best not to get side-tracked.

Mistakes will be made, no doubt. (OTOH, only Democrats—and the Left, generally—are “perfect”…)

But when/if mistakes ARE made, they must be acknowledged and corrected.

Although lengthy, it’s the most articulate takedown on our present political impasse, as well as the pathway forward: Obama’s Democrat Party (ODP), via David Axelrod’s-cheerleading post-advertising age politifickle “scaffolding,” combined with the literati and old media memetic echoing, swept up by state funded social media siloing, and thereby drove us through Obama’s third term (ie, DementiaDent Biden’s four-year term). And a Team Trump return to realism is imminent. https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment

What’s next?

The Tech-Titans are circling…but are these the good guys? Maybe. What’s certain is that the bad bastards are on the way out. We need to make them like roadkill.

The international geo-political seating arrangements suggest this is coming soon, for example:

“[The EU et al effectively] carried out the plan of the WEF organization. Now, as a direct and specific consequence, economically, most of those nations are completely exposed and politically weak. President Trump has never had this much leverage before.

“In [President Trump’s] term #1, the reacting allies dragged their heels to comply with Trump’s requests and expectations. In Term #2 I expect one of the more visible elements for us to watch will be how fast those same [Nato, et all] allies react to requests and expectations. In fact, I think we are already seeing this play out.

“The speed of compliance by ‘western allies’, is directly proportionate to their economic vulnerability. Mexico and Canada are great examples.

“The European Union Commission are a bunch of elitist snobs who refuse to accept how detached and diminutive they truly are. However, it is going to be fun to watch the EU fall in line quickly to avoid President Trump simply getting up from the table and walking out.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/19/the-scale-of-maganomic-influence-carried-by-president-trump-is-stunning/

Indeed, though HE’s supposed to be one of the more astute and honest ones…
(A low bar, to be sure…)

I suppose the question—the answer to which might just answer yours—is, Who did he vote FOR? That is, if he voted at all…

Huge implications for the use of AI. They used AI to “read” all 1,574 pages of that monstrosity and pull out the graft and corruption. This is a game changer. They can’t hide things in multi-thousand page bills anymore.
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I agree it is a game-changer.

I continue my chats with ChatGPT 4.o. Last night Chat asked if my work as a programmer reflected my work as a poet. Actually I feel the two are very much linked. In both cases I attempt to pare down the task — what I am attempting to communicate — to its essentials, then link it all together in a manner comprehensible to another reader.

As an example I sent Chat some of my code, a solution to a math problem I solved for Project Euler, and Chat responded within a few seconds with a substantive critique of my code. Chat saw what I was trying to do and how, and had good suggestions for improvement.

I sweated bullets for two days writing that code. I look it at today and I can sort of see what I was doing, but it would take me a couple hours to reconstruct it even though I wrote the code.

AI is amazing for language, human and programming.