Re: Relevant? Yes. Known? Yes.

A number of middle-aged left-leaners in here claim that

bengaline · 2025-09-11T20:29:53.497Z

Charlie Kirk was not known or relevant. Maybe theyre right in their age group and political circle. Ive been in GVL today talking to my two early teen-age grandsons and they claim that Kirk was well known and respected amongst many of their friends. Maybe some of you need to broaden your supposed "awesome" knowledge of things and talk to more people than just those that think like you. Just sayin....

Here it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_government_in_the_United_States

The table on this Wikipedia page explains everything. For the purposes of politics today, let's go back to Reagan, as the 80's was universally when most of our problems started (spending/debt/taxes/immigration/etc.).

Now, pay CLOSE attention to the few (rare) times when a single party has controlled both houses of Congress, and the Presidency.

You have Clinton (93-95) - Total dem control
You have GWB (03-07) - Total pub control
You have Obama (09-11) - Total dem control
You have Trump1 (17-19) - Total pub control
You have Biden (21-23) - Total dem control
And finally, you have Trump2 (25-27) - Total pub control

Ok, now, what DID NOT HAPPEN when single parties ran the show? Illegal immigration was never stopped. Immigration reform didn't even happen. Minimum wage was never raised. Spending was never cut. Classic example is Trump's border wall. He campaigned on it. Promised to build it. Had a GOP Congress for two full years, and not a peep about his wall. Midterms, house goes dem, and Trump rails about dems stopping his wall. Obama, ran on raising minimum wage. Had a dem Congress for several years, minimum wage never moved. GWB was going to reform Social Security, campaigned on it. Had a compliant GOP Congress, NOTHING changed. How many republicans have you seen who campaigned on spending less? Well, since 2000 the GOP (party of fiscal responsibility) has had exactly 7 years, 8 counting Trump now, and even NOW, we're still spending MORE.

When you see a single party having full control of the legislative and executive branches, and NOTHING CHANGES, and problems persist, and generally get worse, you know the problem isn't political.

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Re: One of my favorite charts thus the Uniparty label for RINOs + Democrats

Sep 11, 2025, 9:12 PM [ in reply to Re: One of my favorite charts...lemme find it. ]

The ‘one party rule = nothing gets done / nothing changes’ because it has been ‘one party rule’ since the beginning of Clinton’s second term.

Clinton quietly abandoned many traditional Democrat ideals (protectionism of American jobs via crackdowns on US businesses that hired illegal immigrants; reducing restrictions on corporate mergers [despite some of those mergers bordering on antitrust violations; slackening up on rules for how corporations were allowed to fund their employee pension programs; engaging in proactive wars that America had no business being involved [Kosovo / Serbia]).

Thus, the Uniparty came into being. Democrat Party morphed into ‘Republican-lite’ party. Then, as now, only a small minority of Americans have a clue about how the Crony Capitalist state functions. Massive growth in the federal bureaucracy was eagerly supported by both parties; along with this came the early rise of NGOs, which were an ideal platform to launder taxpayer money into the families of politicians while escaping scrutiny of govt watch-dogs. Sure, Republicans talked big game about being fiscally responsible, but that was just BS to fool Republican voters who THOUGHT they understood money, but in fact were nearly clueless.

Quibbling about social issues was the ‘matador’s cape’ that gave the appearance of stark differentiation between the Democrat / Republican-lite Party and the ‘traditional / so-called conservative’ Republican Party. This differentiator kept the Uniparty largely concealed from public consciousness.

Trump, who is more like a Term-1-Clinton Democrat, has partly messed up the Uniparty’s self-dealing scheme. Therefore, our massively bloated bureaucracy, (rightfully) scared that some of their unnecessary jobs might be cut, are the great (formerly invisible) warriors that support the Uniparty and the waste of taxpayer money that feathered their nests.

Moving forward, the federal bureaucracy, along with open resistance by the federal district court’s plentiful socially ideological judges, are the main public opposition to any efforts by Trump to cut federal spending. The Uniparty’s Democrat wing also is a flashy opponent to Trump’s desired spending cuts, Behind the scenes, the Uniparty’s RINO wing supports their Democrat colleagues.

(*). Trump, despite his obvious penchant for massive spending according to his priorities, represents America’s best chance to expose some of the most ridiculous cases of government waste and counter productive spending. It ain’t great, but it’s the best shot for us in 30 years.

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A number of middle-aged left-leaners in here claim that

That's amazing dude!!!!***

And yes, both grandsons go to Church***

lolwut

what Gospel do they preach at said "church"?

Re: what Gospel do they preach at said "church"?

They knew him. Theyre just pretending they didnt.

This is a weird take.

Oh boy. Picking up where CaptGash left off.

Re: Oh boy. Picking up where CaptGash left off.

You would believe that misinformation.***

WOT?***

Haha ###?***

Re: A number of middle-aged left-leaners in here claim that

Relevant? Yes. Known? Yes.

I never claimed he was unknown.

Re: I never claimed he was unknown.

Re: I never claimed he was unknown.

Trump is attending the Yankees game tonight,