by Capt. Seth Keshel
Recapping Waco
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, speaking at President Trump’s first official 2024 campaign rally in Waco, Texas, over the weekend, said what every Trump supporter in America has been thinking – that Ron DeSantis and Texas Senator Ted Cruz should endorse Trump’s candidacy:
“Only Donald Trump could have rescued us from Hillary Clinton. Without Trump doing three rallies in the final week in the 2018 election in Florida, my governor today would probably be Andrew Gillum. How weird is that? And without Trump dragging Ted Cruz across the finish line, your senator would probably be ‘beta-Beto.’ So Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz: patriots of the MAGA movement delivered for you in your time of need. Today, Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz should endorse Donald Trump for president and stand with us as we were so proud to stand with them.”
Among speakers not named Donald J. Trump, Gaetz’s statement had the most relevant, meaningful impact on the event and its afterglow.
THE SIZZLE: With even mainstream media reports suggesting the Florida governor’s shadow campaign is lagging, my theory that DeSantis won’t run is closer than ever to coming to fruition. There are many reasons to doubt that DeSantis is better suited to run in 2024 than he would be in 2028, but perhaps none bigger than Florida’s law requiring him to resign the governorship to run.
With Donald Trump breathing down his neck, and backers shying away, it is best for the America First movement to be fully focused on 2024 and getting the Trump campaign over than it is to have a protracted war resembling the Cruz vs. Trump factional trench war raging into the early months of 2024.
Perhaps most troubling is the realization that DeSantis, ambiguous regarding his presidential ambitions, appears to be waiting for a potential indictment and arrest of Trump to leap out of the woodwork. That would mean that he’s waiting on orders from those pushing special interests and GOP establishment orders to foist himself upon a primary field that largely believes since Trump was robbed of the 2020 election, the first shot at the nomination belongs to him, and will go to him.
Will Trump Carry Texas in 2024?
Trump’s selection of Waco, and not Auburn Hills, Altoona, Chander, Rome, Henderson, or Sheboygan, left some scratching their heads.
Isn’t Texas reliably Republican?
Are we in trouble if we are campaigning in Texas?
Not taking anything for granted, especially now that Texas is worth 40 electoral votes (up two from 2012, 2016, and 2020), Trump appointed his Texas Leadership Team, spearheaded by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. Those listed presumably endorse Trump’s 2024 campaign, and consist of Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton, 11 U.S. House representatives, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, and former U.S. Congresswoman Mayra Flores.
Texas was won comfortably by Trump in 2016 with very little gain from Mitt Romney’s 2012 performance, though the trend was to the left thanks to a solid Democrat gain and pissed off Cruz supporters wasting their votes on Gary Johnson. In 2020, Trump’s gains were enormous Republican records, but a titanic amount of election fraud made the margin closer than it has been in any election in nearly a quarter century. Texas was won by just 5.6%, nearly matching Trump’s winning margin in Georgia in 2016. This is why I have placed Texas, along with North Carolina, and Alaska, on a list of three must-hold states totaling 59 electoral votes – so it doesn’t get “Georgia’d.”
Trump’s leadership team is solid. I am a bit disappointed that Dan Patrick has done very little to acknowledge systemic cheating in Texas elections going back to 2018, which made his first re-election to the office of Lieutenant Governor much tighter than it should have been, but he has backed Trump without apology for years and has hammered on Harris County for their blatant abuse of the legal elections framework. Paxton’s legal team is responsible for the landmark Texas v. Pennsylvania case from 2020, which was thrown out of the U.S. Supreme Court on procedural grounds and alleged Pennsylvania’s illegal conduct of their own election disenfranchised Texas’s 38 electors (20-plus states signed on to the suit). The rest of the list has strongly backed Trump for years.
Texas is a big time Conservative State you wont find any looters or arsonists and no riots they carry the Guns and it was in a that Taco Place in Texas where armed citizen shot and killed a a masked armed robber and the Texas Church where mass shooter was stopped
I agree on the sizzle of DeSantis! He has not been impressive in any interviews! I actually found him repulsive!!!! Plus, he is being pushed by the Paul Ryan, Bush, and Carl Rove group – that can assure that DeSantis does not stand a chance of winning.
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A guy indicted for securities fraud is Attorney General. Texas is Trump’s kind of state!
05/23/22 – Seven Years Later, Still No Trial for Texas AG Ken Paxton –
*The state prosecution against Paxton grows out of Paxton selling shares of Servergy Inc., a technology company, to investors in 2011. Prosecutors allege that Paxton sold shares of Servergy to investors (raising $840,000) while failing to disclose that he was receiving compensation from the company in the form of 100,000 shares of stock in return. Paxton says the 100,000 shares of stock he received from Servergy’s founder and CEO were a gift, and not a sales commission, and they were provided to Paxton long before the sales transactions occurred.
Not quite as nice as $500,000 worth of free vacations, but still a nice “gift”.
File under Republican Culture of Corruption.
It’s just another of the Democrat’s campaign tricks. They are always accusing, investigating or indicting the opposition and then the cases blow up in their faces.
Feets, don’t fail me now! Paxton evades being served…
“Reportedly”. One of the left’s favorite words.
It’s just another of the Democrat’s campaign tricks. They are always accusing, investigating or indicting the opposition and then the cases blow up in their faces.
$3 million spread across a limited number of family members is better for Joey Sponge Brain.
05/24/23 – Battle rages in Texas between AG Paxton and GOP-controlled House
The only civil war we have going on is the revelation that the FBI is a wing of the Democrat Party, which now owns our government illegally.
Americans are pretty unified and casting out ALL the corrupt bastards from our governments.
Yahoo and the Texas Tribune? Hahahahaha. They have less credibility than Hunter’s crack pipe and crack ho combined.
Investigate and reveal the backgrounds and real motives of those attacking Paxton. Paxton “beat his top Republican challenger by 36 points in a primary runoff and won the general election by 10 points.” With so much approval from the public but hated by his peers, one must question the witch hunt. I’ll bet you find some interesting facts about those persons attacking Paxton.
All this is part of the Democrat strategy to “turn Texas blue” and destroy it, as they have California. All they want are the votes, they don’t care about doing anything beneficial. It’s bad enough that San Antonio and Austin are shit-smeared liberal enclaves, but Democrats want to bring that magic state-wide.
Just stay the F**K out of Texas. It’s fine just as it is (or was before idiot Biden destroyed border security). Democrats ruin everything they touch (like they did the border here), we don’t need their “help”.
05/27/23 – GOP-controlled Texas House votes to impeach Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton –
Wanting to use $3.3 million in taxpayer funds to pay off a wrongful official misconduct settlement was evidently one step too far.
The operation to undermine Texas, the biggest threat to the now-illegal federal government, rolls on.
The CIA has forgotten they are supposed to be clandestine…and only undermine our enemies…not our people.
So, since you don’t like that, do you think idiot Biden taking a $5 million bribe to tailor US policy to the demands of a foreign power is wrong?
Paxton sings Trump’s tune:
The Republican-controlled Texas legislature vote to impeach him was 121 to 23.
The 2020 presidential election was rigged.
Everyone knows now.
Biden won nothing.
05/29/23 – Donald Trump fought to save Texas ally Ken Paxton from impeachment. It didn’t work.
The writing is on the wall.
USA Today another non credible source
How is it exactly that corporate profits cause inflation?
By repeatedly raising their prices more than their own actual costs have gone up.
It does not follow that a rise in prices results in increased profits. You are an economic illiterate junior.
Maybe you would like to cite last year’s skyrocketing gasoline pump prices as an example of that?
11/30/22 – Corporate profits hit record high in third quarter amid 40-year-high inflation
Why did gas prices rise precipitously?
What economic factors were at play to cause a rise in energy?
Are we to believe that energy corporations randomly increased prices one against the other in a race to raise prices faster?
Hint; it is related to supply and demand meathead.
Because the industry had shut down domestic production to cut costs. Instead they purchased a cheap supply on a COVID-depressed global market and boosted corporate profits enormously. Then the pandemic began winding down, global demand soared, prices rose, and the armies of Putin’s totalitarian state invaded Ukraine. Feel free to send him a letter of complaint.
Link to the industry shutting down domestic production? Amazing what lengths you people will go to in order to protect the pedophile biden.
biden caused the inflation. There is no dispute in that fact. Where is the data when inflation was growing by leaps and bounds that the root cause was corporate profits? Do some research from 01/21/2021 on the trendline growth of inflation. Corporate profits may contribute in some miniscule way, but they in no way drive the core causes of inflation.
https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/the-biden-inflation-tracker/
https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/the-biden-inflation-tracker/
False. Biden shut down production, and allowed oil companies to charge more.
Limiting movement is totalitarianism, 101.
Fossil fuel usage, and profits, are decided by the WH.
No others.
The government doesn’t control the oil industry’s corporate decisions. Biden’s only direct influence over pump prices relates to control of federal strategic reserves, and you all squawked like ruptured parrots when he utilized that power in an effort to bring down prices.
“The government doesn’t control the oil industry’s corporate decisions”
It most certainly does.
Biden was directed to end fossil fuels.
Ending drilling and blowing up pipelines as he’s done is exactly what it looks like:
Government control.
He’s raised prices. He controls them.
Biden has a lot of magical super-powers for someone you insist is too dumb to tie his own shoes.
Idiot Biden is an incompetent boob that is nothing but a puppet, but he signs the orders. But he is the erstwhile asterisk “president” and all the responsibility falls upon him. He destroyed all the positive that was left for him and he did it intentionally.
It looks like “idiot Biden” might do an end run around Trump’s moronic call to let the nation default on its debt.
No, it looks like idiot Biden, who was going to hold out for a blank check to continue throwing trillions of dollars down the drain or let the debt limit expire, because he assumed the public would blame Republicans exclusively, had to cave in and negotiate because polls showed him HE would be held accountable.
It also looks like the FBI has documentation showing idiot Biden took a $5 million bribe because Wray would rather be held in contempt of Congress than turn over an unclassified document to the House. I doubt it likely Herr Oberguppenfuhrer Garland will have Wray arrested and put in leg irons like the fascist Democrats did Navaro.
And it looks like idiot Biden is a congenital liar, a pedophile, a rapist and a traitor.
Well, yes, they do. When the government shuts down production on federal lands (extensive holdings of the most productive areas), make getting new and renewed leases difficult or impossible and openly push policies intended to completely destroy the industry, that sort of impacts decisions.
Defense Firms ‘Strike Gold’ Thanks To Russia, Ukraine, and Joe Biden
War mongers just dont care about the tax payers purse.
https://eurasiantimes.com/new-ukraine-war-a-25k-atgm-now-sells-for-400k-us-defense/
A Greggie story book.
And yet Iran and Venezuela have suffered through massive inflation and nary a corporate profit to be found. But there sure was a lot of paper money, practically worthless.
Nice try but no cigar, again.
One more lesson. Profits are not guaranteed. Prices go up, people adjust buying habits. Profits go down.
https://www.justfacts.com/monetarypolicy#inflation_definition
The Fed thinks it can control inflation through higher interest rates, check out the interest rates in Argentina Predatory is not quite the word.
I snagged a dozen eggs for 99 cents! limit 1, it was 75 miles north where pretty non industrial dairy farms dot the countryside at the Piggly Wiggly/Ace hardware/Subway sandwich shop, in a little town population 1075. Deep MAGA country.
You missed the part about oil prices going up exponentially? Or do you just pretend to be stupid?
False. The gov determines oil prices.
No one else
The only question we all have for Democrats is this:
Why are you afraid of democracy?
Democracy requires give and take. Uneducated Dems don’t understand that you win some, you lose some.
They are free to live in a Communist country if they’d like to experience what a one party state yields:
Poverty
Yes. It reads “Trump 2024” as Trump leads in the polls.