Eternal Optimist
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Lauren Smith retweeted
Karoline Leavitt just delivered a brilliant IRONCLAD defense of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on live TV.
After all, it was Leavitt who was in the Situation Room with President Trump and Hegseth, NOT Thomas Massie.
She personally witnessed what was happening behind closed doors.
Every second of this 2-minute defense is worth listening to.
LEAVITT: “I was in the Situation Room, I was in the Oval Office on many occasions where I watched firsthand Secretary of War Pete Hegseth act directly at the request and the execution of the commander-in-chief, his boss, the president of the United States.”
“That’s why these articles of impeachment are fundamentally so flawed, because Secretary of War Hegseth was always acting on behalf of the president in directing the military.”
She just obliterated Massie’s entire narrative.
Lauren Smith retweeted
Under Pete Hegseth the United States Military has pulled off operations that no one even thought possible
Meanwhile, he has been extraordinarily careful with the safety of servicemembers. We've been in major military operations against a country of 90 million and we've lost fewer than 25 soldiers.
He has his team have done their jobs and fulfilled their oaths. Massie, of course, doesn't really grasp the concept of loyalty, as he's never served anything other than himself
Lauren Smith retweeted
In a world of Dave Chappelle's.
Be a Charlie Kirk.
Lauren Smith retweeted
Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:
1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.
Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:
1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
15) Freeze rent increases
Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.
Lauren Smith retweeted
I watched @CBS @60Minutes tonight, and Ross Douthat interviewed President @realDonaldTrump. Toward the end of the interview, they talked about something far more important than politics. He asked the President, at 80 years of age and after surviving multiple assassination attempts, what he thinks will happen when he dies. President Trump said he wants to go to Heaven and not to Hell. Most people, if asked, I believe would say the same. But Heaven has borders. Heaven has unique and very strict entrance requirements. To enter Heaven, the Bible tells us that you must acknowledge your sins, turn from them in repentance, and receive Jesus Christ by faith. That means, believe that Jesus Christ is God’s Son, that He paid the penalty for your sins by dying on a cross, was buried in a tomb, raised to life on the third day, and walked out of that tomb. He’s alive! If you put your trust in Jesus Christ, you will be in God’s presence for eternity. Religion can’t save you—only a relationship with the Savior, Jesus Christ, can save you. Do you have that assurance?
Lauren Smith retweeted
The Susan Wiles revolving door of treachery.
Susan Wiles worked for Ron DeSantis.
Susan Wiles was fired by DeSantis for leaking information
Susan Wiles found her way to the Trump world with the help of very important friends in high places.
Those friends threw a wedge between two good friends turning them against one another that being Trump and DeSantis.
Once that wedge was established this RINO gang went to work on a vulnerable Don Jr selling him on you got it, JD Vance
The Trump-DeSantis ticket was destroyed before it ever got started.
The scheme was to sell Vance to Don Jr who then sold it to Trump.
Vance then took back the years of badmouthing Trump and said it was a mistake
Trump bought it because Wiles sold Vance as an up and coming rock star that will only benefit your presidency
The Trump-Vance ticket was official
Wiles was sold on Trump
Vance was sold on Trump.
As for the elite RINOs?
They got their in woman in Susan Wiles a proven leaker and master manipulator
They got their Pence in Vance
Vance played the game until the midterms where he ended that game and started his separation from Trump by blaming the Iran War on Trump.
Note how he never once spoke negatively about the War and actually held peace talks with the Iranian’s
Once Vance’s blame game wasn’t received well in fact it may be his ending, he did a 360 and is looking to save grace for his 2028 run.
This was an orchestrated, well designed game of manipulation to catapult Vance for 28. Vance fucked it all up by opening his phony mouth. Now the best thing that can come out of this is Vance is done.
Wiles got screamed at by Trump before she left. Don’t believe the bullshit about Wiles leaving graciously just to move on from her post and to work for Trump in another capacity. That’s the game of politics. Never make it look like your administration is in trouble. All for show and tell
They were both caught. Their plan exposed and now we know why we never got any of the accountability this country is starving for.
The manipulative Susan Wiles, the same Wiles who was working on bringing Pete Hegseth down. Trump went scorched earth when he found out
Enter the closer. Trump’s number one confidant. Stephen Miller. It’s Miller Time! All of a sudden the Dems and the media are scared shitless!
Now without someone who was supposed to be your top advisor, manipulating you and giving you false intel, maybe we can get back to the game plan starting with accountability.
Now we all know what Hegseth meant when he said Patriots are now in control.
These are going to be a helluva last two months and a historic next two years. Let the games begin! It’s Miller Time! My two cents
Please read and pass this on to everyone you know ~
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.
--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.
-We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors. --We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."
--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.
--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete.
In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely, John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Forward This Every Time You Get It!
Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sink in.
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Lauren Smith retweeted
If we want to put America First, we must put Christ first. We live out the words “Christ is King” when we step up to lead and let Scripture guide our decisions.
Lauren Smith retweeted
Dear @DonaldJTrumpJr,
I get it, you have future aspirations and any SANE person has watched without saying a word because you're President Trump's son.
Very few have spoken up and let me be one of those few.
Of course, we as young people think we know it all up until such a point when we don't know it all.
You may feel like you could have done somethings better than your father.
But the man risked his life, his empire and family of which you are part of to make a name for you lot.
The last thing you should be doing is trying to burn down his legacy with your nonsense.
The MAGA base is attached to your father.
Not you, not your friends JD, Tucker or anyone.
Don't try to think that this midterms was an indictment on your father.
And out of all people, YOU SHOULD BE THE MOST LOYAL ONE!!!!!!!
You're his son man... What the hell is going on?
You guys lining up for the "next generation" of MAGA while shitting on the folks that got ya'll up to this point???
You've been in your father's ears all this time and see what that brought everyone.
STEP BACK AND ASSESS YOUR STANDING.
Put respect on the Trump name, legacy and brand.
You had very little to do with it. You like all your friends just rode on the wave.
This is one of my only posts targeted to you since I highly respect and am loyal to your father..
Get your act together. America is going to spit out your friends when the time comes.
Politics is a double edged sword.
Lauren Smith retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth RESPONDS to Rep. Thomas Massie's IMPEACHMENT filing against him
"A disgruntled, defeated Congressman, along with all his Democrat allies, has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly--just like they tried against President Trump twice."
"It didn't work against President Trump, and it won't work with me."
Lauren Smith retweeted
Dear @JDVance,
You wrote this long post just hours after a devastating loss.
Just because you saw the electoral numbers, you thought in your head that you could separate yourself from President Trump early?
It's not even 2028 yet my friend..
You of all people should know the inner workings of the administration in terms of what's been achieved so far and what the implications will be for years to come for America.
YOU KNOW that the Iran conflict was something that needed to be addressed and President Trump knew full well what the consequences could be.
LOYALTY DURING DIFFICULT TIMES MATTERS MY FRIEND.
I HATE people who shit on people when things go south and this post is not an assessment of the loss, you shit on the President just mere hours after the midterms loss.
Oil prices have plummeted just hours after the midterms.
Gas prices will follow.
Everything else will follow because the establishment wanted the Democrats to gain power.
But the foundations of a thriving economy was set in stone by the Trump administration.
Despite the potential gridlock in the next 2 years, YOU KNOW that the US economy will boom.
You could have waited a few days but you decided to show your true colors.
And for this, since we're going into the lame duck period, I'll let it sit because I know what to say, and when.
Don't confuse the midterms as an indictment on President Trump.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
Lauren Smith retweeted
They don't have 2/3rd's majority so they can't override a Presidential Veto
Remove Thune, kill the filibuster and pass everything with (51) votes B4 Jan 6th
Pass the Save America Act
Prosecute Ilhan
Fund ICE for (10) yrs
Confirm every Judge w-o debate
Thune 👇 owns this
Lauren Smith retweeted
This is insane
A federal judge in SDNY just ordered that this video of Trump offering $5000 if Republicans win the elections had to be DELETED
It would sure be a shame if we all made it go viral again!
Lauren Smith retweeted
I asked 50 Japanese people, ages 9 to 91, one question.
"What do you admire most about Americans?"
Here are the top answers.
10. "They clap when the plane lands." (Office worker, 34)
9. "They say 'I love you' every time they hang up the phone. Even men. Even to other men." (Taxi driver, 61)
8. "A stranger told me she liked my shoes. Then she just walked away. She didn't want anything." (High school girl, 16)
7. "They thank the bus driver when they get off." (Bus driver, 55. He got emotional saying this.)
6. "They tell you their whole life story in the grocery line. I know about one man's divorce, his boat, and his knee surgery. We knew each other for four minutes." (My mother, 64)
5. "They stand for the anthem at a children's baseball game." (Little League coach, 47)
4. "When they lose, they shake hands and say 'good game.' And they mean it." (Sota, 12)
3. "They fly the flag on a regular Tuesday. No holiday. Just because." (Nurse, 28)
2. "They help a stranger push a car out of the snow, then leave without saying their name." (My cousin's husband, 52, who got stuck in Colorado once)
And the number one answer came from the oldest person I asked. My grandfather. He's 91.
He thought about it for a long time.
Then he said:
"They still believe tomorrow will be better than today."
I asked him what he meant.
"In 1946, we had nothing," he said. "The American soldiers I met were young and far from home. But they acted like the future was coming, and it was going to be good. After a while, we started to believe them."
I asked him if he thought Americans still believe that.
He nodded slowly.
"Tell them," he said, "not to stop."
Lauren Smith retweeted
Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me — it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt — 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles — a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said — you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance — a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said — you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth — a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said — you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio — the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it."🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Republicans want to
1) keep our borders closed
2) keep our people safe from drugs and bad illegal aliens
3) support the family
4) protect our Christian rights
5) support women in their sports
6) save our nation!!!!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Please get out and vote
Republican!!! We are NOT perfect by any means, but we want the best for everyone in our State and Nation!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸