Always Darkest before It's Pitch Black.

Top 3

#1 - Winners and Losers

#2 - What's Next?

How "What We the People Wanted" Will Play out

Losers

• ICE

• Continued Deportation of Illegals with Criminal History

• Military Spending and National Security

• Oil and Gas Independence

• The SCOTUS as we know it

• Israel

• Sensible Expansion of AI

• The Filibuster

• Pro Business tax climate

• Donald J. Trump's Legacy...maybe

• Trump's legal bill...for sure, which is really ours.

Likely Winners

• A Packed Supreme Court

• Green Energy with all its business-crushing regulations

• DEI/Woke

• Nationalized Healthcare

• Relaxed Border Security

• Ilhan Omar

• CRINK's Ambitions

• Taxing the stuffing out of those who can pay.

• The Impeach Trump crowd.

Trump ended the hammer lock the Republican "establishment" had on the Party in 2016. Socialists have just ended the reign of establishment Democrats a decade later.

#2 - The Democratic Playbook

I have a prediction. For the next two years the Democrats will throw a lot of half-assed bills against the wall knowing Trump will never sign them so they have no risk of their "promises" being proven a disaster. They will inundate Trump, his cabinet and his allies with "trumped up" impeachment charges so they are on the record with "I told you so". See? We told you Trump was a bad guy who will block everything you voted for.

Don't need to be Nostradamus to see this coming. 1 to 5 on Kalshi.

What Do Americans Really Want?

More importantly, what are they really willing to sacrifice to get?

Seems nobody's happy with the leaders they choose. The UK has had 8 PMs in 10 years. Italy, Germany, Hungary, Poland have or are flipflopping in short order.

We elected Trump to counter the Obama years, then dumped him after one term for Biden who was dumped after one as well.

Seems voters really do care more about PERSONALITY than POLICY.

Do we have a structural problem? Is our governing system irretrievably broken to the point where trust is impossible? It's pretty obvious promises made, promises kept isn't near enough if they can't stomach you.

Even more fundamentally what do the majority of Americans want and are willing to tolerate some pain the acquire?

It's clearly not deporting illegals. Or stopping a nuclear attack. One's too icky and the other too expensive. Reducing the rate of inflation by 50% is...ho hum.

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Ironic, Isn't It?

Trump exhorted voters to "vote as though he was on the ballot." And they did!

We Need a New Leader

After losing in 2020, I was emphatic that Trump should "not" be the standard bearer in 2024. I based this on personality...not policy. Well, once again, I was off the mark. Trump won resoundingly in 2024, although opposition was worse than feeble.

But, alas, now, we are in the same boat. The country cannot stick with the policies because they can't stomach the personality.

We can only hope we resist allowing Trump to influence, never mind lead, the search for a new leader. Hard to see Rubio or DeSantis entering the fray in 2028, unless the Socialists really cock up, which is unlikely given Trump still has the pen. JD will probably read the tealeaves as well. So where do we turn?

At Least Caitlyn's Getting Her Due

After breaking all WNBA scoring records again, she was just named brand partner for BOTH Foot Locker and Dick's. Another first.

Think I Was Kidding about Wall Street?

Market jumped 1500 points in a day after it became clear the squabbling kids cant break anything for at least two years more.