The Democrat Party leaders are corrupt. Evidenced by the open cheating currently going on in Pennsylvania. Bucks County Commissioner on public record stated they do not care what the law says and they will count ever ballot even the illegal, fake ballots. This is just one county caught on tv openly stating this defiance of the law just so that they can name a Democrat winner.
Recall PA, University of PA took $54 million of Chinese government monies. Then paid Biden one million per year, and he never did anything to earn those millions. The same place where classified documents were found, in a Chinese government paid for facility in PA where Biden himself never went to. Furthermore, everyone on his staff was paid by China. Yes they were paid by a foreign government. But dig deeper.
Much like how several counties got caught on tv or in an interview admitting they purposefully overcounted COVID deaths in 2020.
I just hope people are actually listening to the lies from the Democrat Party.
Democrat Voters, rise up and fire the illegitimate “leaders”. Take back your party. Don’t hate Republicans because you let these liars in and then kept reelecting them, defending them.
Thanks for reminding us of the debacle in PA. Biden awarded the U.of PA. president by appointing her ambassador to Canada. The Biden U. of PA. center in DC had confidential materials with no security. The manager there, Blinken (SP?) after putting together the 51 liars to help candidate Biden was rewarded with being appointed Secretary of State. If the violators of the PA Supreme Court's laws on vote counting are not prosecuted criminally, we can expect that conduct to be repeated.
May it all be true! I so sincerely want to believe that we have seen the turning, and our great Nation can get back on track and the world wars can be calmed.... there is so much work to do.
The Regressive's, their unthinking sheeplike voter/minions, and their unelected deep state shadow government will continue to do everything they can to destroy our country and our culture. Only Trump and his team stand in their way. Republicans are absolutely useless if not downright ‘in on it’ with them. Trump and Elon may need to launch a new RINO free party to really seal the deal. Otherwise RINO’s and Regressives will continue to block him until they can regain power and next time they won’t kid around, the filibuster will go, the supreme court will be stacked, the electoral college will go and it will be game over for the USA. We have one last shot to fix this but we may need a REAL party to do it.
GR, you are EXACTLY right. The RINOs or Repukes as I call them are still in DC and they are currently doing all they can to stop or slow down Trump. We must get rid of these snakes in the grass evil despots. They won't go easy, they are backed by the worse of the worse, Big Pharma, Big War Industry, World Elites, Baby Butchers.....
This is the start of the Long Game to once and for all rid our Great Nation of this evil sin that has slithered into our country.
The leadership is made up of McConnelll appointees and RINO’s. They think they are invulnerable. If they seriously see the threat of a third party they ‘might’ tow the line out of fear of being relegated to the dust bin. Give them a choice of ridiculous options. Tow the line or face a strong new party and the end of the Republican party. They can choose A or B. .
We only have two years, at that point Dems may regain control, so we can't wait 2 years, we'll know if they are going to block or support by how they handle the recess approvals, if they refuse to recess, they are RINO's and need to be replaced if they facilitate recess appointments, as they promised, then fine I'll believe them. At present we have about 10 "Republicans" who will try to block the recess appointment process. Of course they must be primaried out, all of them.
I am currently in Florida, later to fly out of Orlando and back home to Cali. This follows a weeklong Carribean cruise. While on the BIG BOAT, I'd run into the occasional red cap MAGA/MAHA. I made it a point to smile at them and say, "Congratulations! You're a very happy person!" They'd smile back. After 8 years of being ostracized and let's face it, demonized, I thought those folks needed a little joy. BTW: Florida LOVES Elon. The man enjoys rock star status here.
Thank you Mr. Schulte for reminding us of the sickness which has infected the white liberal industrial complex. Yes, liberals are in full meltdown mode, which reminds me of teenagers being told the party is over, time to clean your room because Dad is coming home! Such a depraved, angry and emotionally disturbed group. Their hatred of American exceptionalism, with particular hatred of whites has managed to affect their very existence. Don’t believe it? Just read some of the bizarre, self hating and disgusting comments on Edhat.
Yes, race defines everything in “lefty world.”
White guilt somehow gives the “cred” to make the argument that we all are inherently racist and only their admonition, somehow makes contrition possible. One recent example of white guilt is the SBUSD Board meeting where white, black and “Latinx liberals came together in order to pass a controversial, divisive and unconstitutional resolution promoting “Black achievement, wellness and excellence.” What about the other kids in the school district, don’t they deserve the same?
Yes, we are now entering a different phase in American society, people are fed up with the liberal con job and starting to question authority. Even in liberal Chicago, black voters are calling out Mayor, Brandon Johnson for prioritizing illegals over US citizens.
The election of Trump is a game changer, the gig is up and people are no longer drinking the Kool Aide!
Great article. I can picture that conversation at the store. It happens all the time where I've been spending time out of state. ALL. THE. TIME!! You don't have to fear repercussions if you like Trump in almost any other state besides CA or, I figure, NY. Probably others, I'm sure, but it has been such a RELIEF to speak to neighbors, people at the store, literally anyone and anywhere about Trump. Why is it that conservatives believe it's OK to be tight-lipped about our beliefs and values, political or otherwise, yet the left can scream DEI, racism, white privilege/white guilt, and call anyone who disagrees with them disgusting, deplorable garbage?
Why? Because we've been beaten into submission. Anytime someone tries to implore their political beliefs, whether verbally or-God forbid a Trump sign in their yard-they are cancelled, called racist bigots, and even threatened. Talk about insecure! Now that I'm retired, I don't give a flying crap what people think about me. I had to keep my opinions and beliefs to myself for years...way too many at work. So disgusting that others can rant and rave about Trump in Santa Barbara but don't you DARE express any positive views about Trump, lest you be ridiculed, unfriended, and even demoted! Not that anyone unfriending me over politics ever mattered. Best way to clear out the unwanted fluff, if you ask me.
I'm a Gen-Xer and proud to tell anyone what I think. We've had a Trump/Vance poster in our yard for months and have flown a gorgeous Trump and an American flag in the yard for a few years now. I go to CA less and less now. Thinking of not returning. It's always stressful, always WAY more expensive, and I'm finding fewer reasons to make the trek. Truly, I used to be proud of CA. Now? I'm embarrassed to say I'm from CA. Seriously, people in most states think people from CA are literally crazy! They think we are a bunch of liberal nutcases! And, for the most part, they are right! Why do we keep voting in liberals to continue to destroy the state?????
WHY on the PLANET did anyone vote for Oscar Gutierrez when we could have had someone sane like Tony??? Just one example of the local CRAZINESS! But I digress.
You are correct, Henry. Hope has been restored. I can feel the peace wash over me as I consider the next four years!
I love reading your articles. The only thing I felt was missing is that you didn’t mention education. I have five kids, ranging from 5 to 12 years old, and it really bothers me when my 5-year-old granddaughter tells me that her teacher said she could marry another girl. My 8-year-old grandson also told me that his teacher said he could marry another boy. I think it's inappropriate to start discussing sexual education at such a young age.
I have many gay friends, and I respect them, but they also respect our choices and never push their views onto others. Children between the ages of 5 and 12 are simply not ready to make decisions about their sexual orientation for the rest of their lives.
Great article. It must have taken time to make it work.
While reading it this thought came up. What happened to the voters locally?
We are watching the ongoing narrowed view of transportation crushing the streets of south county. Ask most workers and residents if they want it stopped and reversed they say yes. Why then did they vote in incumbents who are the failed left while banging on desks stating open the streets back up and stop wasting tax money? Why has not the really stupid ambulance plan for the fire department not been "canned" and AMR with its signed contract stopped?
There is some strange and destructive disconnect between the national / State election, and what people think locally.
Mr. Shulte's comment at the end is telling "They’re so desperate to cling to the fantasy world they believed was real only to realize it wasn’t real at all."
And that boys and girls is the lie being handed the public locally......
What happened locally? We now have a Democrat hive-mind majority elected to our city council. 4 out of 7, leaving Mayor Rowse virtually alone to defend against this organized partisan political take-over of our non-partisan city council positions.
Be sure and read the issues statement from the newly elected Eastside representative. Then see if you can find any daylight between her statements and the discredited Big Government Democrat party agenda.
It now lives on steroids in the city of Santa Barbara joining party partisans Kristin Sneddon, Meghan Harmon and Oscar Gonzales - the new driving local majority voting block for the city of Santa Barbara. What a difference only a few thousand extra votes in these new district elections continues to make, in our city of 90,000.
Yes, there would seem to be a lefty changing of the guard here in SB which now appears to favor a more Latinx/Comunista approach. All while Capps and Limon are licking their political chops while waiting for Comrade “el Gordito” Carbajal to vacate his congressional seat. That’s when the real bloodbath, identity politics begins!
When you have the largest media giant in America conviently not telling their audience all the truth, what do you expect? I was in Pennsylvania at a conference before the election and talked to 3 or 4 dozen people. None of them knew about the Dominion law suit judgement; None knew about Eastman losing his license; None realized a Grand Jury and a Jury of Americans found him guilty... they thought Biden did it.
Then I started seeing all the ads Trump sent to the Hispanic community telling them that Harris is going to give their jobs to illegals and lots of other scary lies that undereducated people would not challenge.
So, when you have a massive misinformed audience fed lots of scary lies and deceptions, it is an easy win. I am not saying Trump didn't win, just that money, fear and lies were the turned the tide.
Gene, What did you think of Trump is Hitler Trump is a threat to democracy, Trump will be a dictator, Trump will control your womb messages? What did you think about MSNBC's rellentless Russia-Russia-Russia FUD campaigns. Ad nauseam. Apparently America was not easily misled this time, but just the opposite.
What about Nancy Pelosi's constant threats to seniors Trump was going to take away their SS and Medicare, while claiming they won back the House on "health care issues".
Fox News more than tripled CNN and MSNBC's combined audiences among primetime total viewers and as well as the Adults 25-54. Do you know how many times Fox admitted to losing the Dominion suit? Once. But they carried the election lie non stop. The Republicans have the best media machine in the USA. You guys rocked it but telling the truth was not required. What is so hard about admitting that without spinning to CNN or some other BS?
Gene, I never watch FOX so I have no idea what was going on there. A commonly held misconception that Trump supporters are just a FOX News viewing cult which hands us our talking points. Not true. And I hope you come to understand this by reading the commentary here. Do you have a special interest in the Dominion thing?
Babylon Bee was making more inroads into that younger age group for conservative, values-laden spoof and fun. Or Dennis Prager for very accessible short history points and factual explanations. Apparently highly watched by the college age sets.
Tucker Carlson too, and finally at the 11th hour Joe Rogan both with very wide viewer ship. However SNL held is own keeping its TDS intact for the younger "sophisticates". However, GOP just had the better arguments to make this time. That trumped any hidden bias or nefarious intent. Biden-Harris offered too many slow pitches of continued missteps, failures, and repeated lies which finally got immediately debunked in the New Media going back to the original source material that leading Democrats kept distorting even on election eve. Obama, here is looking at you.
Ironically, many on this side think MSM-legacy media was unfairly in the tank 100% for Biden which was very easy to prove. But when you look at their viewing numbers I have to wonder who in fact was even watching them, besides us pearl-clutching conservatives, who got a daily dose of outrage from them, for our own kicks.
GOP just had the better message. No manipulations needed. They captured the current Zeitgeist. (No good translation for that term in English, so don't go reading any Nazi buzzwords into that word choice). Democrats had their turn, when they used "covid" to capture and exploit an unrecognized global Zeitgeist in 2020.
I'll stick with the Republicans having better marketing. They manage to convince a bucket load of people to ignore that Trump is a convicted sex offender, convicted fraudster, convicted tax cheat, serial adulterer, and a braggard of grabbing women by the privates. That would have never happened before cable new and opinion talk shows that claim to be journalists.
Regarding the Dominion law suit, it is a clear example of how media repeatedly lied about the election being stolen and using complete BS to con the public into buying their lies. Have your forgotten the dead dictator coming back to life and stealing the election? How about the millions of votes changed by Dominion machines despite them only being used in one county in CA. Fox lost a $765 Million dollar judgement and another similar one was done behind the scenes with the Smartmatic folks.
Gene, After only a few elections, EU countries banned all future"electronic" voting and ballot handling once they saw how easy it was to corrupt. Something must have turned them off. Not sure what brands they were using, but they just tossed the entire concept, except in a few very local elections.
Excellent article Mr. Schulte!!! I was wrong about our youth too- but I believe our real work has just begun. Because we have a majority of the country right now, we must not do what the psychopathic left did and does, we must never lose sight of the truth that the leftists conditioned in psychopathy are not our real enemy, they are only duped and working for the enemy- the real enemy is the bent ones Our commitment ought to be to deal first with the false ideologies and then second politically with the aftermath of our articulations being in conformity with virtue and natural law, reclaim our public schools and the good politics will follow- we must never use our schools as political training grounds.
Good summation, Henry, of the past insanely corrupted years under the Biden/Harris regime. It is wonderful to see the legacy media along with their bought and paid for lackeys becoming totally irrelevant. We do need to stay on our toes, though, as to what other readers have correctly pointed out in the importance of eliminating the RINO's from the political scene . We're all hoping that the next four years brings a halt to world tensions, a nice, healthy economy, and a reduction in the government employees that are sucking us all dry.
Trump will illustrate the comparison of running a government by businessman methods or by the same-old, crooked politicians. Hard choice isn't it <g>. A revamp of the Feds will probably be to eliminate pyramid structures (too many chiefs and too few injuns) and eliminate non-functional (probably half of government) entities altogether. I'm guessing the revamp will be humongous and fun to watch. Hopefully, it can be done without a lot of legal resistance. Need to eliminate lawyers, too.
The new 2024 limited-government ethos has put 23 million government jobs at existential risk, creating a great deal of self-interested hysteria.
How best to tap this now negative government dependency energy into something more productive? For the good of all. Not unlike the loss of major military-industrial contracting for scientific and technical talent in the Bay Area during the Clinton years, led to the private sector digital revolution.
Suggest you get over J6 for your mental health’s sake. It was a riot, nothing more. Those guilty were punished, and then some. No amount of hand wringing or bed wetting will change that!
I find trumps behavior reprehensible and my mental health is just fine thank you. Perhaps you should, for your mental health sake, stop making excuses for him.
The people have spoken. I notice there’s no talk about election fraud and nobody seems to want to hang the VP yet. It will be up to the Republican leadership to keep him focused. No, the appointments aren’t wonderful either, no matter where you stand politically.
AR: The 2020 "covid election" allowed too many abuses on the fly, and too many anomalies that were never explained nor stopped in their tracks. Looking forward to see more in-depth investigations finally getting done now, and stringent preventive measures put in place. By 2024 we were on to them, and were diligently watching and ready to assert prevention on the spot.
Plus I am not entirely convinced Democrats had already agreed among themselves to lose in 2024, so they could have a clean new slate for 2028, and be "unburdened by what had been" which was namely their "heir-apparent" VP Harris. Even they knew upfront they could not run and win defending four years of Biden-Harris. Perhaps the grand plan to install Michelle Obama in an open DNC convention by vocal acclaim some how got off its tracks?
Maybe we will even learn who was that early AM team who constructed that clearly photo-op "noose" and was tracked back to close to the FBI building for a coffee break after its flimsy construction, all caught on surveillance cameras. Why was this never was taken down by the Capitol Police who had hours of lead time to remove this illegal structure. What was up with that? It will be good to get answers using the government's now crack photo ID recognition capacities.
It arrived in a few vans and trucks, as I recall. The FBI connection was only near that location used for a coffee break for one of the noose installers, which was many blocks away. But he seemed to know it was open in that location. Tenuous, needs more investigation along with the ersatz "pipe bomb" used to put Capitol Police on high alert, and just the exact time that caused the most contemporaneous damage and police panic.
The framed photo ops from that "spontaneous" incident were remarkable - the framing of the grapplers going up the building facade, when the stairs were wide open, ; the framing of the "noose" shot against the Capitol Bldg.. Almost like it was stage managed for maximum visual effect.
Nancy Pelosi's highly scripted and staged "home video" to use as an "alibi"? All just so curious. Who was on the scaffolding waving in her direction at the exact moment she peered out the Capitol window to see the gathering crowd? Hope they keep digging.
What is your interest in these details, TJ? Do you still have questions.
Google is your friend TJ, lots of entries with a simple search including the Rep Loudermilk congressional investigation report on the curious "gallows".
Mr. Schulte, I will let you enjoy your victory lap. Hopefully you and the country won’t be disappointed I’ve been looking at his Cabinet choices, pretty dubious. FYI, it seems, musk apparently got in a shouting match, during dinner, with one of trumps other advisors at Mar-a-Lago, I just hope trump’s people don’t cause drama, but maybe that’s the plan to draw attention from what trump is doing or not doing. I pray trump live up to the country’s expectations.
I was also very happy with the election result. However, I would warn you not to get over complacent. Trump must deliver what he promised or the next midterm election in 2026 will not look so good. Just hark back to 2018 when Republicans suffered a massive defeat in Congress and this was after a very successful 2 years of his presidency. Trump promised many great things, now he has to deliver.
The Democrat Party leaders are corrupt. Evidenced by the open cheating currently going on in Pennsylvania. Bucks County Commissioner on public record stated they do not care what the law says and they will count ever ballot even the illegal, fake ballots. This is just one county caught on tv openly stating this defiance of the law just so that they can name a Democrat winner.
Recall PA, University of PA took $54 million of Chinese government monies. Then paid Biden one million per year, and he never did anything to earn those millions. The same place where classified documents were found, in a Chinese government paid for facility in PA where Biden himself never went to. Furthermore, everyone on his staff was paid by China. Yes they were paid by a foreign government. But dig deeper.
Much like how several counties got caught on tv or in an interview admitting they purposefully overcounted COVID deaths in 2020.
I just hope people are actually listening to the lies from the Democrat Party.
Democrat Voters, rise up and fire the illegitimate “leaders”. Take back your party. Don’t hate Republicans because you let these liars in and then kept reelecting them, defending them.
Thanks for reminding us of the debacle in PA. Biden awarded the U.of PA. president by appointing her ambassador to Canada. The Biden U. of PA. center in DC had confidential materials with no security. The manager there, Blinken (SP?) after putting together the 51 liars to help candidate Biden was rewarded with being appointed Secretary of State. If the violators of the PA Supreme Court's laws on vote counting are not prosecuted criminally, we can expect that conduct to be repeated.
We are watching the systematic destruction of the Old Guard, death of the [D] Party…
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ag-william-barr-disappointed-by-partisan-attacks-levied-at-president-trump-says-media-on-a-jihad-against-hydroxychloroquine
Difficult to imagine media [D PARTY] attempting to squash all hope of a cure?
Difficult to imagine media [D PARTY] wanting public to remain in fear [re COVID-19] up until the election?
Difficult to imagine media [D PARTY] willing to sacrifice lives in order to regain power?
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day...
May it all be true! I so sincerely want to believe that we have seen the turning, and our great Nation can get back on track and the world wars can be calmed.... there is so much work to do.
Methinks we are in the 4th Turning…what does that mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVyfiP0cLk&t=65s
The Regressive's, their unthinking sheeplike voter/minions, and their unelected deep state shadow government will continue to do everything they can to destroy our country and our culture. Only Trump and his team stand in their way. Republicans are absolutely useless if not downright ‘in on it’ with them. Trump and Elon may need to launch a new RINO free party to really seal the deal. Otherwise RINO’s and Regressives will continue to block him until they can regain power and next time they won’t kid around, the filibuster will go, the supreme court will be stacked, the electoral college will go and it will be game over for the USA. We have one last shot to fix this but we may need a REAL party to do it.
I agree with you and vote we call it the "Common Sense" party.
GR, you are EXACTLY right. The RINOs or Repukes as I call them are still in DC and they are currently doing all they can to stop or slow down Trump. We must get rid of these snakes in the grass evil despots. They won't go easy, they are backed by the worse of the worse, Big Pharma, Big War Industry, World Elites, Baby Butchers.....
This is the start of the Long Game to once and for all rid our Great Nation of this evil sin that has slithered into our country.
Looks like to me the new Republican party leadership did a very fine job. Give them credit, rather than stop this new direction in its tracks.
The leadership is made up of McConnelll appointees and RINO’s. They think they are invulnerable. If they seriously see the threat of a third party they ‘might’ tow the line out of fear of being relegated to the dust bin. Give them a choice of ridiculous options. Tow the line or face a strong new party and the end of the Republican party. They can choose A or B. .
Let's see what the next two years will bring under this new GOP tent.
We only have two years, at that point Dems may regain control, so we can't wait 2 years, we'll know if they are going to block or support by how they handle the recess approvals, if they refuse to recess, they are RINO's and need to be replaced if they facilitate recess appointments, as they promised, then fine I'll believe them. At present we have about 10 "Republicans" who will try to block the recess appointment process. Of course they must be primaried out, all of them.
I am currently in Florida, later to fly out of Orlando and back home to Cali. This follows a weeklong Carribean cruise. While on the BIG BOAT, I'd run into the occasional red cap MAGA/MAHA. I made it a point to smile at them and say, "Congratulations! You're a very happy person!" They'd smile back. After 8 years of being ostracized and let's face it, demonized, I thought those folks needed a little joy. BTW: Florida LOVES Elon. The man enjoys rock star status here.
Thank you Mr. Schulte for reminding us of the sickness which has infected the white liberal industrial complex. Yes, liberals are in full meltdown mode, which reminds me of teenagers being told the party is over, time to clean your room because Dad is coming home! Such a depraved, angry and emotionally disturbed group. Their hatred of American exceptionalism, with particular hatred of whites has managed to affect their very existence. Don’t believe it? Just read some of the bizarre, self hating and disgusting comments on Edhat.
Yes, race defines everything in “lefty world.”
White guilt somehow gives the “cred” to make the argument that we all are inherently racist and only their admonition, somehow makes contrition possible. One recent example of white guilt is the SBUSD Board meeting where white, black and “Latinx liberals came together in order to pass a controversial, divisive and unconstitutional resolution promoting “Black achievement, wellness and excellence.” What about the other kids in the school district, don’t they deserve the same?
Yes, we are now entering a different phase in American society, people are fed up with the liberal con job and starting to question authority. Even in liberal Chicago, black voters are calling out Mayor, Brandon Johnson for prioritizing illegals over US citizens.
The election of Trump is a game changer, the gig is up and people are no longer drinking the Kool Aide!
Great article. I can picture that conversation at the store. It happens all the time where I've been spending time out of state. ALL. THE. TIME!! You don't have to fear repercussions if you like Trump in almost any other state besides CA or, I figure, NY. Probably others, I'm sure, but it has been such a RELIEF to speak to neighbors, people at the store, literally anyone and anywhere about Trump. Why is it that conservatives believe it's OK to be tight-lipped about our beliefs and values, political or otherwise, yet the left can scream DEI, racism, white privilege/white guilt, and call anyone who disagrees with them disgusting, deplorable garbage?
Why? Because we've been beaten into submission. Anytime someone tries to implore their political beliefs, whether verbally or-God forbid a Trump sign in their yard-they are cancelled, called racist bigots, and even threatened. Talk about insecure! Now that I'm retired, I don't give a flying crap what people think about me. I had to keep my opinions and beliefs to myself for years...way too many at work. So disgusting that others can rant and rave about Trump in Santa Barbara but don't you DARE express any positive views about Trump, lest you be ridiculed, unfriended, and even demoted! Not that anyone unfriending me over politics ever mattered. Best way to clear out the unwanted fluff, if you ask me.
I'm a Gen-Xer and proud to tell anyone what I think. We've had a Trump/Vance poster in our yard for months and have flown a gorgeous Trump and an American flag in the yard for a few years now. I go to CA less and less now. Thinking of not returning. It's always stressful, always WAY more expensive, and I'm finding fewer reasons to make the trek. Truly, I used to be proud of CA. Now? I'm embarrassed to say I'm from CA. Seriously, people in most states think people from CA are literally crazy! They think we are a bunch of liberal nutcases! And, for the most part, they are right! Why do we keep voting in liberals to continue to destroy the state?????
WHY on the PLANET did anyone vote for Oscar Gutierrez when we could have had someone sane like Tony??? Just one example of the local CRAZINESS! But I digress.
You are correct, Henry. Hope has been restored. I can feel the peace wash over me as I consider the next four years!
Locally, the Independent and edHat remain sources for virulent TDS and all things Democrat, in case anyone misses this energy.
Agreed. I don't miss them one iota!
I find that edhat has both sides showing up TDS and the MAGA folks seem to carry on over there quite well. Sometimes too well.
Wrong! ALL MAGA comments go right to the Penalty Bin. All while they allow their resident moron “Sacjon” terrorize all others!
Sacjon was my point of kind of too well and too long of threads. And I see MAGA quotes all the time.
I love reading your articles. The only thing I felt was missing is that you didn’t mention education. I have five kids, ranging from 5 to 12 years old, and it really bothers me when my 5-year-old granddaughter tells me that her teacher said she could marry another girl. My 8-year-old grandson also told me that his teacher said he could marry another boy. I think it's inappropriate to start discussing sexual education at such a young age.
I have many gay friends, and I respect them, but they also respect our choices and never push their views onto others. Children between the ages of 5 and 12 are simply not ready to make decisions about their sexual orientation for the rest of their lives.
Were these personal social/cultural agenda statements made during their reading, writing or arithmetic classes? Back to basics.
I'm not sure. We prefer not to place too much importance on it to avoid our little girl and boy turning against us.
Great article. It must have taken time to make it work.
While reading it this thought came up. What happened to the voters locally?
We are watching the ongoing narrowed view of transportation crushing the streets of south county. Ask most workers and residents if they want it stopped and reversed they say yes. Why then did they vote in incumbents who are the failed left while banging on desks stating open the streets back up and stop wasting tax money? Why has not the really stupid ambulance plan for the fire department not been "canned" and AMR with its signed contract stopped?
There is some strange and destructive disconnect between the national / State election, and what people think locally.
Mr. Shulte's comment at the end is telling "They’re so desperate to cling to the fantasy world they believed was real only to realize it wasn’t real at all."
And that boys and girls is the lie being handed the public locally......
What happened locally? We now have a Democrat hive-mind majority elected to our city council. 4 out of 7, leaving Mayor Rowse virtually alone to defend against this organized partisan political take-over of our non-partisan city council positions.
Be sure and read the issues statement from the newly elected Eastside representative. Then see if you can find any daylight between her statements and the discredited Big Government Democrat party agenda.
It now lives on steroids in the city of Santa Barbara joining party partisans Kristin Sneddon, Meghan Harmon and Oscar Gonzales - the new driving local majority voting block for the city of Santa Barbara. What a difference only a few thousand extra votes in these new district elections continues to make, in our city of 90,000.
Me thinks district elections have been a nail in Santa Barbara’s coffin
Yes, there would seem to be a lefty changing of the guard here in SB which now appears to favor a more Latinx/Comunista approach. All while Capps and Limon are licking their political chops while waiting for Comrade “el Gordito” Carbajal to vacate his congressional seat. That’s when the real bloodbath, identity politics begins!
When you have the largest media giant in America conviently not telling their audience all the truth, what do you expect? I was in Pennsylvania at a conference before the election and talked to 3 or 4 dozen people. None of them knew about the Dominion law suit judgement; None knew about Eastman losing his license; None realized a Grand Jury and a Jury of Americans found him guilty... they thought Biden did it.
Then I started seeing all the ads Trump sent to the Hispanic community telling them that Harris is going to give their jobs to illegals and lots of other scary lies that undereducated people would not challenge.
So, when you have a massive misinformed audience fed lots of scary lies and deceptions, it is an easy win. I am not saying Trump didn't win, just that money, fear and lies were the turned the tide.
Gene, What did you think of Trump is Hitler Trump is a threat to democracy, Trump will be a dictator, Trump will control your womb messages? What did you think about MSNBC's rellentless Russia-Russia-Russia FUD campaigns. Ad nauseam. Apparently America was not easily misled this time, but just the opposite.
What about Nancy Pelosi's constant threats to seniors Trump was going to take away their SS and Medicare, while claiming they won back the House on "health care issues".
Fox News more than tripled CNN and MSNBC's combined audiences among primetime total viewers and as well as the Adults 25-54. Do you know how many times Fox admitted to losing the Dominion suit? Once. But they carried the election lie non stop. The Republicans have the best media machine in the USA. You guys rocked it but telling the truth was not required. What is so hard about admitting that without spinning to CNN or some other BS?
Gene, I never watch FOX so I have no idea what was going on there. A commonly held misconception that Trump supporters are just a FOX News viewing cult which hands us our talking points. Not true. And I hope you come to understand this by reading the commentary here. Do you have a special interest in the Dominion thing?
Babylon Bee was making more inroads into that younger age group for conservative, values-laden spoof and fun. Or Dennis Prager for very accessible short history points and factual explanations. Apparently highly watched by the college age sets.
Tucker Carlson too, and finally at the 11th hour Joe Rogan both with very wide viewer ship. However SNL held is own keeping its TDS intact for the younger "sophisticates". However, GOP just had the better arguments to make this time. That trumped any hidden bias or nefarious intent. Biden-Harris offered too many slow pitches of continued missteps, failures, and repeated lies which finally got immediately debunked in the New Media going back to the original source material that leading Democrats kept distorting even on election eve. Obama, here is looking at you.
Ironically, many on this side think MSM-legacy media was unfairly in the tank 100% for Biden which was very easy to prove. But when you look at their viewing numbers I have to wonder who in fact was even watching them, besides us pearl-clutching conservatives, who got a daily dose of outrage from them, for our own kicks.
GOP just had the better message. No manipulations needed. They captured the current Zeitgeist. (No good translation for that term in English, so don't go reading any Nazi buzzwords into that word choice). Democrats had their turn, when they used "covid" to capture and exploit an unrecognized global Zeitgeist in 2020.
I'll stick with the Republicans having better marketing. They manage to convince a bucket load of people to ignore that Trump is a convicted sex offender, convicted fraudster, convicted tax cheat, serial adulterer, and a braggard of grabbing women by the privates. That would have never happened before cable new and opinion talk shows that claim to be journalists.
Regarding the Dominion law suit, it is a clear example of how media repeatedly lied about the election being stolen and using complete BS to con the public into buying their lies. Have your forgotten the dead dictator coming back to life and stealing the election? How about the millions of votes changed by Dominion machines despite them only being used in one county in CA. Fox lost a $765 Million dollar judgement and another similar one was done behind the scenes with the Smartmatic folks.
Good night.
Not only better marketing but a far superior product.
Gene, After only a few elections, EU countries banned all future"electronic" voting and ballot handling once they saw how easy it was to corrupt. Something must have turned them off. Not sure what brands they were using, but they just tossed the entire concept, except in a few very local elections.
Excellent article Mr. Schulte!!! I was wrong about our youth too- but I believe our real work has just begun. Because we have a majority of the country right now, we must not do what the psychopathic left did and does, we must never lose sight of the truth that the leftists conditioned in psychopathy are not our real enemy, they are only duped and working for the enemy- the real enemy is the bent ones Our commitment ought to be to deal first with the false ideologies and then second politically with the aftermath of our articulations being in conformity with virtue and natural law, reclaim our public schools and the good politics will follow- we must never use our schools as political training grounds.
Good summation, Henry, of the past insanely corrupted years under the Biden/Harris regime. It is wonderful to see the legacy media along with their bought and paid for lackeys becoming totally irrelevant. We do need to stay on our toes, though, as to what other readers have correctly pointed out in the importance of eliminating the RINO's from the political scene . We're all hoping that the next four years brings a halt to world tensions, a nice, healthy economy, and a reduction in the government employees that are sucking us all dry.
Trump will illustrate the comparison of running a government by businessman methods or by the same-old, crooked politicians. Hard choice isn't it <g>. A revamp of the Feds will probably be to eliminate pyramid structures (too many chiefs and too few injuns) and eliminate non-functional (probably half of government) entities altogether. I'm guessing the revamp will be humongous and fun to watch. Hopefully, it can be done without a lot of legal resistance. Need to eliminate lawyers, too.
The new 2024 limited-government ethos has put 23 million government jobs at existential risk, creating a great deal of self-interested hysteria.
How best to tap this now negative government dependency energy into something more productive? For the good of all. Not unlike the loss of major military-industrial contracting for scientific and technical talent in the Bay Area during the Clinton years, led to the private sector digital revolution.
The best is yet to come.
Lots of “what ifs” and conspiracy theories. Still eating for justification for watching Jan 6 for hours and taking no action.
Andy,
Suggest you get over J6 for your mental health’s sake. It was a riot, nothing more. Those guilty were punished, and then some. No amount of hand wringing or bed wetting will change that!
I find trumps behavior reprehensible and my mental health is just fine thank you. Perhaps you should, for your mental health sake, stop making excuses for him.
Andy, who killed JFK? Do you think we will finally see those long hidden files?
The video of the trump family watching Jan 6 for two hours IS available…..
And ........? There is a family video of Nancy Pelosi on Jan 6 too.
The people have spoken. I notice there’s no talk about election fraud and nobody seems to want to hang the VP yet. It will be up to the Republican leadership to keep him focused. No, the appointments aren’t wonderful either, no matter where you stand politically.
AR: The 2020 "covid election" allowed too many abuses on the fly, and too many anomalies that were never explained nor stopped in their tracks. Looking forward to see more in-depth investigations finally getting done now, and stringent preventive measures put in place. By 2024 we were on to them, and were diligently watching and ready to assert prevention on the spot.
Plus I am not entirely convinced Democrats had already agreed among themselves to lose in 2024, so they could have a clean new slate for 2028, and be "unburdened by what had been" which was namely their "heir-apparent" VP Harris. Even they knew upfront they could not run and win defending four years of Biden-Harris. Perhaps the grand plan to install Michelle Obama in an open DNC convention by vocal acclaim some how got off its tracks?
Maybe we will even learn who was that early AM team who constructed that clearly photo-op "noose" and was tracked back to close to the FBI building for a coffee break after its flimsy construction, all caught on surveillance cameras. Why was this never was taken down by the Capitol Police who had hours of lead time to remove this illegal structure. What was up with that? It will be good to get answers using the government's now crack photo ID recognition capacities.
Are any of the surveillance camera's footage of moving the noose from the FBI building public?
It arrived in a few vans and trucks, as I recall. The FBI connection was only near that location used for a coffee break for one of the noose installers, which was many blocks away. But he seemed to know it was open in that location. Tenuous, needs more investigation along with the ersatz "pipe bomb" used to put Capitol Police on high alert, and just the exact time that caused the most contemporaneous damage and police panic.
The framed photo ops from that "spontaneous" incident were remarkable - the framing of the grapplers going up the building facade, when the stairs were wide open, ; the framing of the "noose" shot against the Capitol Bldg.. Almost like it was stage managed for maximum visual effect.
Nancy Pelosi's highly scripted and staged "home video" to use as an "alibi"? All just so curious. Who was on the scaffolding waving in her direction at the exact moment she peered out the Capitol window to see the gathering crowd? Hope they keep digging.
What is your interest in these details, TJ? Do you still have questions.
I'd just like to see the video. It would help me understand more about that day. But yes, looking into it more.
Google is your friend TJ, lots of entries with a simple search including the Rep Loudermilk congressional investigation report on the curious "gallows".
Mr. Schulte, I will let you enjoy your victory lap. Hopefully you and the country won’t be disappointed I’ve been looking at his Cabinet choices, pretty dubious. FYI, it seems, musk apparently got in a shouting match, during dinner, with one of trumps other advisors at Mar-a-Lago, I just hope trump’s people don’t cause drama, but maybe that’s the plan to draw attention from what trump is doing or not doing. I pray trump live up to the country’s expectations.
I was also very happy with the election result. However, I would warn you not to get over complacent. Trump must deliver what he promised or the next midterm election in 2026 will not look so good. Just hark back to 2018 when Republicans suffered a massive defeat in Congress and this was after a very successful 2 years of his presidency. Trump promised many great things, now he has to deliver.