2026 Political Chat
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So This Is Happening!
00:00 Susan and Steven, together for the first time00:27 The countdown to the midterms
01:35 The transformation already under way
02:04 Ground zero: Michigan and the El-Sayed primary
03:23 Detroit's black districts didn't vote for him
04:25 The party of Lincoln, rebuilt
05:22 Why the young fell for socialism
06:20 Mike Rogers, John James, and the message that wins
07:03 The polls oversample the left
07:21 68% of local seats run uncontested
09:11 "It's a powder keg"
10:11 Sharia law in Texas, England and Cologne
11:58 Haley Stevens and the black working-class vote
13:25 Mary Waters has breakfast with a Republican
14:50 Skilled trades: 400,000 welders and electricians
16:21 Where the biggest political shift in history comes from
17:00 Starmer, Virginia, and candidates who say anything
17:46 The hot mic, the Tigers, and what you can't come back from
18:24 A Hail Mary for the globalists
19:01 Buyer's remorse after the socialist wins
20:40 Boomers, Gen X and the bloc that decides it
21:21 Wayne County: too big to rig
23:03 California and New York: no blue states, only blue cities
25:41 Pennsylvania's shipyards, Arizona's investment boom
28:15 Beating the left at their own game, locally
29:07 How to take an uncontested seat
30:13 The pastor who ran for the library board
31:33 Todd Blanche, Jay Clayton, and what comes next
33:47 Trump upsets everybody — including us
34:33 The injections, the courts, and who actually pays
35:22 The mothers, the autism, the miscarriages
36:41 RFK Jr, Fauci, and when it gets personal
38:09 Bill Ackman's wife and seven miscarriages
39:04 You don't need a law degree to be a judge
39:50 The women in Texas who stopped waiting
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The 17th Amendment Broke the Founders Kill Switch | Path to Liberty Podcast from Tenth Amendment Center
1913 was a really bad year. And one of the biggest changes came from the 17th Amendment. It didn’t just alter the way federal senators are chosen, it actually broke a process the framers built into the system: A constitutional KILL SWITCH to end the federal government. On this episode, it’s the...
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and if folks don't understand that the deep state has been plotting for centuries to regain control over the economic engine of the world - the US - they need to start digging into "conspiracy theories" as if they were "real"... because that's where the answers are.The 17th Amendment Broke the Founders Kill Switch | Path to Liberty Podcast from Tenth Amendment Center
1913 was a really bad year. And one of the biggest changes came from the 17th Amendment. It didn’t just alter the way federal senators are chosen, it actually broke a process the framers built into the system: A constitutional KILL SWITCH to end the federal government. On this episode, it’s the...
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
― Woodrow Wilson, New Freedom
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Durham's been very busy...
Fort Pierce is much bigger than Brennan and Comey… this is where ten years of government weaponization may finally be assembled into one continous conspiracy…
We knew Durham was laying the foundation for what would come… he gathered the records… questioned the players… exposed the unverified intelligence, FISA abuse and collapsed safeguards… then preserved the evidence while narrow prosecutions left the larger machine untouched…
Now Round River exposes the other half… the FBI chased weak information against Trump through Crossfire Hurricane… while at least 14 confidential human sources were reporting derogatory information about Joe Biden…
Round River analysts moved through those files… marked intelligence as Russian disinformation… buried records behind restricted access… and branded the people investigating Biden family corruption as Russian conduits…
Bill Barr… Mike Pompeo… Chuck Grassley… Ron Johnson… Lindsey Graham… Devin Nunes… Jim Jordan… journalists and government officials… anyone carrying the evidence toward public view was pulled inside the counterintelligence frame…
The FBI reportdly identified 53 sources potentially exposed to foreign intelligence… 14 had reported information against Biden… Hunter’s laptop had already been authenticated… and the U.S. attorney assigned to review the Biden-Ukraine allegations reportedly never knew Round River was operating through the same Pittsburgh office…
That is the machine… investigate anything that could damage Trump… discredit anything that could damage Biden… bury the files… smear the witnesses… target the investigators… then hide the operation behind intelligence classifications…
Crossfire manufactured the Trump narrative… Round River buried the Biden evidence… media flooded the country with both outcomes… censorship sealed the information environment… Mueller, impeachment, Arctic Frost, Mar-a-Lago and Jack Smith carried the pressure forward…
Same machine… same protected outcome… now the flow is reversing… this reaches far beyond Trump…
If federal power was used to investigate one candidate… protect the other… control what Americans were allowed to know… and disable the president they elected… then the constitutional voice of the American people was the real target…
Durham documented how it began… Round River shows how they protected the outcome… Fort Pierce will finally connect the whole machine…
Fort Pierce is much bigger than Brennan and Comey… this is where ten years of government weaponization may finally be assembled into one continous conspiracy…
We knew Durham was laying the foundation for what would come… he gathered the records… questioned the players… exposed the unverified intelligence, FISA abuse and collapsed safeguards… then preserved the evidence while narrow prosecutions left the larger machine untouched…
Now Round River exposes the other half… the FBI chased weak information against Trump through Crossfire Hurricane… while at least 14 confidential human sources were reporting derogatory information about Joe Biden…
Round River analysts moved through those files… marked intelligence as Russian disinformation… buried records behind restricted access… and branded the people investigating Biden family corruption as Russian conduits…
Bill Barr… Mike Pompeo… Chuck Grassley… Ron Johnson… Lindsey Graham… Devin Nunes… Jim Jordan… journalists and government officials… anyone carrying the evidence toward public view was pulled inside the counterintelligence frame…
The FBI reportdly identified 53 sources potentially exposed to foreign intelligence… 14 had reported information against Biden… Hunter’s laptop had already been authenticated… and the U.S. attorney assigned to review the Biden-Ukraine allegations reportedly never knew Round River was operating through the same Pittsburgh office…
That is the machine… investigate anything that could damage Trump… discredit anything that could damage Biden… bury the files… smear the witnesses… target the investigators… then hide the operation behind intelligence classifications…
Crossfire manufactured the Trump narrative… Round River buried the Biden evidence… media flooded the country with both outcomes… censorship sealed the information environment… Mueller, impeachment, Arctic Frost, Mar-a-Lago and Jack Smith carried the pressure forward…
Same machine… same protected outcome… now the flow is reversing… this reaches far beyond Trump…
If federal power was used to investigate one candidate… protect the other… control what Americans were allowed to know… and disable the president they elected… then the constitutional voice of the American people was the real target…
Durham documented how it began… Round River shows how they protected the outcome… Fort Pierce will finally connect the whole machine…
It's been like that for a lot longer than Trump has been a thorn in their side.
A lot longer.
It's how we end up with the (mostly) shitty candidates from both parties we've typically been getting for longer than anyone reading these words have been alive.
Which is why it gets my attention when I see Trump seem invincible to it, as well as so much of it for so long.
Water, meet duck.
That's been going on a lot longer than anyone reading these words have been alive too.
Because he beat their hag! Err, excuse me. Hags. Lol
How dare he! Lol
"She was supposed to win", said some blue haired freak. Lol
Y'know, even if everything you've been posting about this is 100% on the money and undeniable proof of it comes out and is on all news shows and front pages of every newspaper and news website in the World, and with God as my witness I pray that it does, at least half the country won't give two shits about it.
They'll see it as acceptable because it was done to get Trump.
All because when they woke up the morning after that glorious night of the election (you were there) and saw that he had won, they were shell shocked* and immediately ate up all the Russia collusion lies as the only way to make sense of what had happened.
.........and because it was hammered into their heads for four years straight, it became truth to them.
* I've personally heard lots of Dems irl describe it that way. They were truly shocked.
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Watch this
This is EXACTLY what’s happening
“The political left mastered an old mass manipulation strategy that lets them push any claim, no matter how radical, wrong, or stupid, into the mainstream without ever having to defend it. And once you know it, you'll see it everywhere, even in daily arguments
It's called the motte and bailey doctrine
- The bailey is the radical, extreme version of a claim
- The motte is the small defensible tower next to it, the mild version of the claim
In the public's mind, the 2 are never actually separated. They live together as one position. So when someone attacks the bailey, the radical version, the motte gets defended instead, the reasonable version.
And because the public sees the motte and bailey as the same claim, successfully defending the motte automatically validates the bailey, too. Attacking the radical position now looks identical to attacking the reasonable one, which makes the radical position untouchable by association”
“This is how the Overton Window is moved, through hundreds of small, unwinnable fights over the motte, each one quietly making the bailey a little more acceptable, a little more mainstream, until what used to be radical is just the new normal. And from there, real political power follows”
Let me give you a real world easy to understand example of this,
Let’s take the Left’s plan to Defund the Police
- The Bailey, the radical claim: Democrats say they want to cut or abolish police departments. Reduce their funding so severely that traditional policing becomes impossible
- The Motte, the mild, defensible version: Democrats say “We just want to reallocate some money to mental health services, social workers, and community programs so the police don’t have to handle everything.”
Here’s how it works, When critics attack the radical version saying something like “You want to abolish the police and leave cities less safe”, the defenders immediately switch to the mild version “No one is saying abolish the police, we just want better resources for communities”
But in reality, they plan us to abolish the police
The Left uses this tactic ALL THE TIME
This is EXACTLY what’s happening
“The political left mastered an old mass manipulation strategy that lets them push any claim, no matter how radical, wrong, or stupid, into the mainstream without ever having to defend it. And once you know it, you'll see it everywhere, even in daily arguments
It's called the motte and bailey doctrine
- The bailey is the radical, extreme version of a claim
- The motte is the small defensible tower next to it, the mild version of the claim
In the public's mind, the 2 are never actually separated. They live together as one position. So when someone attacks the bailey, the radical version, the motte gets defended instead, the reasonable version.
And because the public sees the motte and bailey as the same claim, successfully defending the motte automatically validates the bailey, too. Attacking the radical position now looks identical to attacking the reasonable one, which makes the radical position untouchable by association”
“This is how the Overton Window is moved, through hundreds of small, unwinnable fights over the motte, each one quietly making the bailey a little more acceptable, a little more mainstream, until what used to be radical is just the new normal. And from there, real political power follows”
Let me give you a real world easy to understand example of this,
Let’s take the Left’s plan to Defund the Police
- The Bailey, the radical claim: Democrats say they want to cut or abolish police departments. Reduce their funding so severely that traditional policing becomes impossible
- The Motte, the mild, defensible version: Democrats say “We just want to reallocate some money to mental health services, social workers, and community programs so the police don’t have to handle everything.”
Here’s how it works, When critics attack the radical version saying something like “You want to abolish the police and leave cities less safe”, the defenders immediately switch to the mild version “No one is saying abolish the police, we just want better resources for communities”
But in reality, they plan us to abolish the police
The Left uses this tactic ALL THE TIME
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Just something to read for anyone interested.
The following is President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum, Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base, signed Aug. 13, 2026.
THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
SUBJECT: Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby direct:
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Presidential Memo: Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base
The following is President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum, Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base, signed Aug. 13, 2026.
From the Memorandum
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WARTHE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
SUBJECT: Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby direct:
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