Comments on: The Trumpian primaries and Trump’s influence

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:04:23 +0000

Objectively speaking, Hilary wasn’t a weak candidate in 2016. She was well-known. She had experience. She had an organization. She was connected. She was intelligent and spoke reasonably well. She just wasn’t that likeable and she was arrogant.

So, no, she wasn’t a weak candidate who would be an easy opponent for Trump or any Republican.

Trump barely beat her in the electoral college with a tiny margin of popular votes making the difference.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:44:41 +0000

I was a Trump skeptic in 2016 but voted for him because, well, Hillary. Once I looked at the results it was clear Trump was the *only* Republican who could have beaten her. No one else would have flipped all those rust belt states that hadn’t voted R in decades.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:38 +0000

We discovered how on life support is the rule of law, how close to tyranny we lie, from the danchenko follies to elias mail ballot charade to the proscriptions connected to january 6th

When one of out twenty judges in judge cannon, actually follows the law (and im being charitable) proscription is a term redolent of ancient rome but a host of apparatchiks from andrew weissman to the secretaries of state in maine and colorado are complicit

Ken oaxton was subject to a local variant of this

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:13:45 +0000

No he won three times and it was stolen in maricopa and fulton countys among others the persecutions of the likes of tina peters among others

Never before has actually investigating voter fraud punished by the ruling party

This has continued with the disbarring of john eastman and attempts against steven clark ongoing

Imagine if election denialism could have been prosecuting a whole cross section of the democfatic party would have liable

The proscription of the president for similar reasons

There are some that proved brave like guiliani or sydney powell another heroine in my book and other who sold out to the lies like jenna ellis

Well they chose to live by lies ‘just your conscience tell you so’

By: Chases Eagle

Chases Eagle — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:00:41 +0000

Trump didn’t lose 2020 it was stolen. And because some of the methods were “zero-day exploits” the enemy knew they would NOT have those methods available in 24 which the whole point of the evil lawfare against him trying to keep him from being POTUS again.

We are ending the fraud, the election fraud, the vote fraud, the voter fraud, the census fraud, the apportionment fraud, the benefits fraud. All of it.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:33:46 +0000

Yes hes an iconoclast

Trump triumphed over the results of obama with hillary being his designated successor, most of her staff would have been loyal to him

Mccain nor Romney really had much of a mobilization effort its very likely he wasnt interesting in winning look at the jones memo (that was the cover story)

The two expeditions plus the very convenient lehman bros blow out probably proves very strong headwinds along with a fully weaponized facebook and twitter

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:26:56 +0000

Hey bauxy are you still on food stamps since Trump wiped out your IRA lol

By: Rick Gutleber

Rick Gutleber — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:23:13 +0000

As a computer nerd, I’ve been familiar with Eric Raymond since the early 90s (from “The New Hacker’s Dictionary”, which he edited, based on the famous “Jargon file”), and used to read his blog religiously. Now he posts on X and has some of the most incisive commentary on American politics and plenty of other topics outside of his area of expertise.

Regarding Charles’ statement above:

“It isn’t just the stupid party, it is the criminal party.”

No. The Republican Party is the stupid party. But yes, the Democrat Party is the criminal party. Or to be more precise: the more criminal party.

As I’ve been saying since the early 2000s: The Republicans promise they’ll do good things, but usually do stupid things instead. The Democrats promise to do stupid things, and usually go through with their promises.

In my opinion, that makes the Republicans more stupid.

By: om

om — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:18:15 +0000

CC-R in full Ahab.

But arguing that the GOP shouldn’t worry about running corrupt charlatans because McCain and Romney lost to Obama is facile.

Do you still eat crow, Baghdad Bauxite?

By: physicsguy

physicsguy — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:37:05 +0000

“I enjoyed seeing the MSM describe Paxson’s victory (along with all the other victories over RINOs) as showing Trump’s “grip on” the party. ”

Kurt Schlichter has an answer to that this morning:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/05/28/savor-our-victory-over-the-establishment-n2676723