By Tommy Acosta
Sedona AZ –Talk about one more bit of bad luck for the Republicans.
Bad enough the terribly-timed Supreme Court decision on Roe vs Wade and now we have Trump making his announcement on the heels of the Red Fizzle that he will run for the presidency two years in the future, thereby fomenting even more division in the party.
Instead of making everyone wait on their toes playing coy he goes ahead and tells his enemies he is on for the run.
Two years is such a long time, plenty of time for his enemies to develop strategists to derail or jail him.
In the Republican Party there are those that love him and will support him. There are those who hate him and will fight him and there are those that are scared shit of him.
The fearful Republicans will just wait on whether to support or attack him depending on the way the wind blows from now until then.
But the signs are there that the media has already lost interest in him and are bored of the rhetoric Trump patented.
They will harm him where it hurts most by not paying him any attention, other than criticism and ridicule.
Americans are so easily manipulated now and can be swayed one way or the other by pundits and print media and it appears that the kind of passion MAGA people initially had for Trump is starting to wane.
The leadership of Trump’s far right supporters was decimated after the January 6 trap identified the most volatile of them, arrested them and neutralized them forever.
One can assume that most if not all aggressive groups that are still Trump followers have already been infiltrated, and the government is probably in total control by now, anyway.
No one can argue that the Republican Party is not fragmented. You got Mitch gathering his forces and circling the wagons. You got major Republicans donors snipping their purses shut. And you have many party members publicly doubting Trump is the path to the White House.
Trump will be marginalized. The media will go to work on him by simply ignoring him or criticizing whenever an opportunity arises. DeSantis will be their chosen one.
Then there are all the legal missiles being launched at him. As good as he is deflecting them, by the sheer volume of attacks, politically lethal ones will pierce the Teflon and Trump could find himself in handcuffs.
Once Trump is effectively removed from the equation, Republicans will unify and concentrate on the campaign and investigating the Bidens.
The MAGA people will lose their steam but will eventually fall into party line once their leader is taken out of the political picture.
Again, Trump will not be able to last two more years of attacks or lack of attacks if those in control decide to just ignore him, cut off his lifeblood of public attention.
It will be sad for his supporters to watch him chopped down piece-by-piece. But that’s what’s going to happen.
Observe how the Fox News people have already started the process, cutting him an inch at a time.
Bad timing for Trump to announce his candidacy. Premature is the word most fitting.
He should have stepped back, waited for the investigations on the Bidens go into full swing, allowed the other hopefuls to fight it out and tear each other to pieces, kept everyone guessing and then come in as the rightful champ and unifier.
But nope. He just could not help himself. The bigger the ego, the harder the fall.
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The Democratic Party in Washington and New York has forced Donald Trump to declare his candidacy for re-election as President of the United States. The Democrats are doing everything they can to get Trump convicted of a crime to ruin his reputation even more, if that is possible. Trump merely seized center stage for the voters to decide if the various charges have substance and whether the Justice Departments are engaged in ‘selective prosecution”. For example, in the case of unauthorized removal of secret documents, have other presidents taken home documents which were no secret to the president? Did President Obama, President Clinton or President Bush improperly take home documents when they left office?
One of Donald Trump’s favorite attacks on opposition candidates turns on hypocrisy and double standards. For instance. he often points to 33,000 emails that Hiliary Clinton deleted when she was served with a subpoena.
The point is that as a candidate for president, Donald Trump has a national pulpit to explain the intentions and motivations of democratic party prosecutors. It was the Democrats that forced him to make what Tommy Acosta calls a ‘premature” declaration. It was not premature. It was calculated.
America is going through very strange times. There are more than threats all around us. There is action like the war in Ukraine that displaced millions of families, the homes they live in, the schools their children attend and the churches in which they talk to God. There is talk of the use of nuclear weapons and verified reports of over population that has decimated American borders.
In Washington, the donors who own the politicians and their relatively minuscule number of lackeys, fight over money and power, not for the American people, but for themselves. What is most disturbing is that American leadership, with little exception. is stupid and have found it profitable to keep America in perpetual foreign wars.
Donald Trump does well in a world of violence and emotion.
Unlike Editor Tommy Acosta I do not count Donald Trump out for the count. I admit, Mr. Acosta’s theory that Donald Trump’s candidacy spells doom for the Republican Party is compelling, especially when you consider the midterm elections. It is clear to me that the very small slither of independent and republican voters that determine the outcome of important elections do not want Donald Trump around. But yet, 66% of Americans for not approve of the direction of our nation. There appears to be insufficient facts to draw conclusions.
The new House Majority. The Republicans have finished organizing mountains of evidence and eyewitnesses regarding the Biden Family and their money dealings with other countries. A major source of evidence was recovered in Hunter Biden’s laptop, which the New York Times has now validated as authentic. You may remember that for three years the so-called liberal media reported that talk about the information in the laptop was Russian misinformation. Now there is little, if any, question that Hunter Biden is much more than a crack head and man that enjoys sex.
The Republican hearings should be like an investigation of the Mafia where all the little boxes lead to the “Big Guy”. The Congress will follow millions of dollars exchanged between so called communist or corrupt governments and Hunter Biden. Where does the money lead too?
The narrative that Joe Biden is a feeble old man that is excessively touchy-feely is about to expand to the world of Vincent (Chin) Gigante walking around Greenwich Village in a bathrobe.
Media coverage will be brutal. But at the end of the day, cynical voters, who now find Joe Biden undesirable may walk away with a sense that he is not as feeble and absent minded as he appears. And it will not escape voters that his son, Hunter Biden represents the ultimate poster boy for white privilege.
If it gets down to Biden and Trump it will be a very sad day for America.
It’s ironic that Trump has exposed so much corruption, when he himself, has enjoyed the fruits of an economic and political system that is designed to profit the few and encourage polarization. But that is Trump. I would say that he will be remembered by historians as the president that exposed deep corruption in the White House, the Media and in our foreign relations. A rogue billionaire. With dirty hands himself.
He himself, being ugly, understands ugly and has told us ugliness is not confined to one party or one nation.
The Mueller Report and the Hunter Biden stories make everything very clear. They are stories that are instructive to protect what is left of democracy and freedom. These stories show major media corporations work to brainwash Americans. The media is owned by the donors. The media misinforms voters. The media promotes identity politics and reduces intelligence to whether you are red or blue, or whether you support Trump or Biden. The corporations believe that voters do not like to think.
Life is not so simple.
This reflection upon Mr. Acosta’s predictions, supposes that in a time of uncertainty and fear a “strongman” like Trump is historically preferred. Trump is skilled at navigating a path of victory through roads of chaos and polarization. On the other hand, voters are very concerned with the economic and military leadership of Joe Biden. who sometimes sounds completely incoherent or non-sensible.
When America sees the Godfather-like organizational charts leading to 10% for the “Big Guy”, the paper trail, the witnesses, the parties and possible indictment of Hunter Biden, American will have to evaluate the lessor of two evils, Trump or Biden. The democrats will attack the evidence but it will not matter. Americans can smell a crook dressed in blue or red.
Very rich people may do the smart thing and allow Biden and Trump to retire without any threats of prosecution. This seems to be a good decision for America. Time for more honest and ethical candidates. Time to make America safe and prosperous. Time to handle the big problems of war, overpopulation, starvation, nuclear proliferation, care for the elderly and children, protection of the earth and so forth.
It’s time for a clean sweep.