Kinda hard to have a better record than Trump’s 1st 6 months on the job. Here’s what Trump, a GOP Senate, and a GOP House led by Speaker Johnson and Ben Cline have accomplished:
We’ve quit funding National Public Radio and PBS. No longer will our tax dollars go to funding progressive media from these 2 antiques.
Trump is dismantling the failed Department of Education. Conservatives have been talking about doing this for decades. Yet it took a disruptor like Trump to get this done. DoE is not yet dead, but it’s surely dying. Along with its many failures
Trump’s tax cuts have been made permanent. This is the largest middle class tax cut in history.
Tax on overtime and tips will be greatly reduced. 1st $25,000 of both will be tax free.
One of my favorites – thank you Ben Cline – starting January 1 2026, sound suppressors will no longer be regulated by the ATF. Aka there won’t be an odious $200 federal tax on your right to reduce noise.
Inflation seems to be at an end. The price of eggs has dropped significantly. People slow but sure can afford to eat again. The Student Loan Program has been simplified, making it easier for students in need to borrow, and to repay the loan.
Able bodied adults who are on welfare once again have work requirements to get public money. This reform of the Clinton administration (one of the few things Clinton did right) was done away with by the Obama regime – and now has once again been restored.
Illegal aliens are mostly removed from Medicaid eligibility. Meaning tax dollars go to American citizens and those who are here legally, which is as it should be.
We have – for the foreseeable future, removed Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon.
Nearly 10,000 new ICE border patrol agents will be hired, further securing our borders from a foreign invasion.
The federal government only recognizes 2 genders – male and female.
Military recruitment is up – and for the 1st time in several years the armed services recruiters are meeting their goals.
Just like 1984, it’s once again Morning in America, and the world is safer and in a better place now that Trump is President again.
Democrats are freaking out of course, because that’s what Democrats do. They can’t have a Republican president be successful. Something the Trump administration is clearly doing at this time. If you listen to Democrats, they’d say that the USA is going up in flames. Mostly because they can no longer enforce their bizarre ideology on the populace as a whole.
John Massoud is the Chairman of Virginia’s 6th Congressional District Republican Committee
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It is hard to fully appreciate the scope and depth of changes Trump has made in only 6 months. Any other Republican president would be proud to have spent 4 years and achieved a couple of these. Trump did it in 6 months and he has 42 months to go! It is amazing.
One day Trump’s attempt to establish a dictatorship in the US — supported by about 40 percent of the population – will be over and the rest of us will have to restore our democratic republic.
The question then will be how to deal with Trump’s followers. The example of Nazi Germany after WW II may be instructive.
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“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”
― A.R. Moxon
END QUOTE
When Trump and his dictatorship are gone, and we are faced with dealing with his supporters, remember this:
“They joined what they joined.”
Then, treat them accordingly.
You have been warned.
Oh my! Don, you are seriously in need of psychiatric help! PLEASE seek help before you harm yourself or others.
Republicans keep telling the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) eliminates taxes on overtime pay.
NOT TRUE.
The BBB makes it possible for certain taxpayers to deduct from their taxable income a small portion of overtime pay, provided they itemize deductions. Only about 9% of taxpayers itemize, thus, the overtime pay provision will apply to very few taxpayers.
The only portion of overtime pay that is eligible for deduction is the part that is over your regular hourly rate. For example: Assume you make $10 per hour. You work 10 hours of overtime, earning time-and-a-half – $15 per hour. Of that $15, $10 is taxed at your regular rate and the $5 can be deducted from your gross income, if you are part of the 9% of taxpayers who itemize.
Full overtime pay is still subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes. Full overtime pay is still taxed by states. Employers are still required to withhold full federal income taxes from overtime pay at the time it’s earned.
The new law doesn’t make overtime completely tax-free but allows eligible workers to reduce their federal income tax burden by deducting a portion of their overtime pay when they file their taxes.
This provision expires on December 31, 2028, after then all overtime pay is taxed as it is now.
John, a question for you. Why hasn’t the party contributed 10.5 million to Sears the way we did for Youngkin? Reports this morning said the party has only contributed half of the a million so far.
Because the party knows she’s a loser.
All I can tell you is the Republican Governor’s Association says they will fully fund this race.
That’s all well and good I suppose, but the issue is not the RGA but the RNC. They gave Glenn the money. I’m angry with the whole thing. Other reports are that the RNC is concentrating on flipping NJ at our expense.
All of this is well and good but if VA goes communist it won’t matter much. Spanberger and her fellow travelers, if the win with houses, are sure to pass new taxes and undo the benefits for VA residents.
That should read, if they win both houses.