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Okay! As promised, a deeper look into the GOP dumpster fire that was 2026 through the eyes of my state, NC So, North Carolina, the 12th state, pop 11.2 M Long been a battleground state since 1980 with an affluent, educated tech crowd of NOVA and good ol boys of AL 1/
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Not only that They failed to pass Constitutional Carry AGAIN They continue to allow Indians to flood Morrisville and Charlotte taking American jobs They did not mass deport illegals Take the L, GOP out with Boomers, in with America First
Let’s talk about this, North Carolina. We are guilty of this. No one wanted Thom Tillis back in the U. S. Senate. Let’s be honest. He is the representation of abandoning our republican values. But, we didn’t want a guy who cheated on his wife with a disabled veteran’s wife and didn’t know what BBQ was either, so we had to choose. We sent Tillis back to D. C. As a censured Senator we knew didn’t have our core values. Michael Whatley didn’t support the censure. He never said that, but his actions proved it. He literally put a member of Thom Tillis’s staff on the committee that would decide if the censure would come up for a vote on the NCGOP convention floor. After the censure, as RNC Chair, Whatley didn’t bar Tillis from attending. Even though he knew the party had passed the censure at THE STATE LEVEL. If we have people in the party that do not respect their own party’s votes at the state level, why have a party? People get awfully upset with me when I share these stories. I’m not sure if it’s because demanding accountability is hard for them, or they’re fine with the abandonment of our core values, or they’re just too lazy to want to stand for what’s right and sharing these stories makes them have to explain. (I am sure, actually), but here’s what all of those people learned last week- You lost because you let this kind of stuff slide and people in your own party are sick of it. Either be a fighter and stand up or get the hell out of the way.
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That’s not the flight path to India Not a win
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I’m voting this guy for president
Republicans hit a wall because they kissed The Wall.
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Foxes living up to stereotypes
D-does this suit me?👉👈💙
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Indian drive through moped wash
Vindoop takes quick refreshing dip.
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Straston Calhoun retweeted
Erik Prince says Susie Wiles blocked him from working with the Trump administration. Prince offered to help massively escalate deportations, but the offer was never taken up. Follow: @AFpost
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Susie Wiles and her close aide were screamed at and kicked out of the Oval Office by President Trump last night, according to Real America’s Voice correspondent Neil McCabe. This was after the President became aware of Susie’s efforts to scapegoat Pete Hegseth for the midterm catastrophe and her leaking info about him to the media. Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) Deputy Director Morgan DeWitt-Snow was also shouted at by Trump and followed Susie Wiles out of the Oval. Morgan controls staffing for the Trump administration. Morgan DeWitt-Snow is a Susie Wiles loyalist and donated to Mike Pence’s failed 2024 presidential campaign. Follow: @AFpost
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Uh, no They ran a bunch of fat Shaniquas and Lupe’s in GA and TX and still won Talarico is a femboy fox The GOP needs to run the baseball cap wearing, half bearded jaks straight out of the meme Strong men win
Dems ran many looksmaxxed candidates and Republicans ran Vivek. Lesson there. Our candidates need to be attractive. Is what it is. That’s 90% of politics post-19th Amendment.
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If the OH GOP is placed in this guy’s hands, by God, we’re gonna win back the state
EXPLOSIVE: An Ohio GOP insider reached out to me this week. They wanted to relay the following message, detailing the rise of the usurper that we know and successfully opposed. His name is Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamay. Here is the message, verbatim, titled The Golden Calf of the GOP: “The Ohio Republican Party, a consistently dishonorable organization, has squandered the good faith Ohioans felt towards it. It crowned a foreigner who had never held public office as its monarch. A monarch picked from a rival constituency, a hostile nation, foisted upon us by Donald Trump after a stint at ‘DOGE’ so brief he quit before the agency even launched. The subcontinental’s arrogance burned his DC bridge before the mortar dried. He was here, which he falsely claimed as his home. All involved in Ohio politics were told to fall in line, and most did. The voters did not. Praise be to God. The climax of this embarrassment was on November 3, when Ohio Republicans lost a governorship they had held for 16 years, in a state won two years ago by double digits. Amy Acton bested Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy 52.0% to 44.7%. But let’s trace this decision back eighteen months earlier, when the Ohio Republican Party cast, fashioned and adorned its golden calf before Ohio Republicans had any chance to choose one. When the party that’s supposed to represent the interests of White Christians betrayed God and committed political suicide down ballot as a result. In May 2025, the Republican State Central Committee endorsed Ramaswamy 60–3, nearly a year before the primary. It was the earliest the party had ever endorsed a non-incumbent for governor, and unlike past endorsement votes, it happened in secret. Chairman Alex Triantafilou defended the closed session by arguing that public debate would only help Democrats. Not everyone agreed. Objections circulated within the party that taking sides so early was unfair, premature, or both. Gov. DeWine worked behind the scenes to deny Ramaswamy the endorsement and warned publicly that an endorsement a year out would be unprecedented. The committee disregarded DeWine, who is in fact a shell of a man, but whose political instincts are infinitely better than Ganapathy’s. Trump’s word would not be challenged, after all — who would deny the man with a seemingly Heavenly mandate, having recently survived an assassination attempt, a popular vote victory, control of both legislative chambers and the judiciary, as well as infinite cash through his alliances with Elon and Big Tech? God will. Trump’s endorsement did what it was built to do. It handed Vivek and his team the party’s statewide fund, voter database, and field staff, not to mention Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy’s ill-gotten fortune. The party cowered and froze out all competition. Dave Yost backed out. LG Jim Tressel, despite what was essentially begging from Mike DeWine, did as well. By primary day, Ramaswamy’s only opponent was a well-intentioned but politically unconnected car designer with an automotive YouTube channel. Primaries are stress tests that expose a candidate’s weaknesses to friendly voters before the general electorate finds them. Ramaswamy, who had never held office in Ohio, skipped that test. Even so, a warning sign appeared: he won only 82.5% against a little-known challenger, Casey Putsch. Nearly one in five Republican primary voters chose a protest candidate over the party's anointed nominee. Defenders will blame the midterm environment, which is true. Nationally, Trump's prioritization of Jewish interests and neglect of his base did cause the onslaught of the GOP. In Ohio, though, the ticket's own numbers undercut that excuse. Senator Husted, running in the same environment against former three-term senator Sherrod Brown, the strongest Democrat, lost 50.0% to 45.2%, a margin of about five points. Ramaswamy lost by 7.2 percentage points to Acton. The nominee with the party's full backing a year early ran more than two points behind an appointed senator facing a far better-known opponent. Ohio voters still approved Issue 3, a Republican-backed constitutional amendment on voter photo ID, by about 65% to 35%. Republican candidates lost, yet a conservative ballot measure won by nearly thirty points. Ohio did not simply vote against everything on the right. The damage did not stop at the governor’s race. Ohio’s down-ballot Republicans ran far ahead of their nominee and still lost by inches. Keith Faber lost the attorney general’s race 50.3% to 49.7%, a margin of about 28,000 votes out of more than 4.5 million cast. Jay Edwards lost the treasurer's race by about 50,000 votes, and Robert Sprague lost secretary of state by about three and a half points. Only Frank LaRose held on, winning auditor 50.8% to 49.2%, saved only by decent and somewhat favorable name ID. Faber and Edwards were running well enough to survive a bad Republican year. What they could not survive was a seven-point hole at the top of the ticket. Democrats had not won a statewide executive office in Ohio since 2006. Ramaswamy’s coattails ran in reverse, and they dragged three of the four offices down with him, not to mention the judges, state legislature, and local races. Ramaswamy never lacked money. By late October, ad trackers counted $204.2 million in ad spending on his behalf against $44 million for Acton, making Ohio's the most expensive governor's race in the country. His campaign alone spent nearly $80 million to Acton’s roughly $34 million, backed by at least $30 million of his own money. It closed the race carrying $41.3 million in outstanding debt. Allies added more than $100 million against Acton, including at least millions from Elon Musk, plus late rallies by President Trump and Vice President Vance. The image problem predated the campaign. On December 26, 2024, a day after Christmas, two months before he launched his bid, Ramaswamy defended tech companies’ hiring of foreign workers with an X post blaming an American culture that had ‘venerated mediocrity over excellence.’ A thinly veiled attack on White America in favor of his parasitic ethnics. Because of the early endorsement, no Republican rival ever made him answer for it in front of Ohio primary voters. He scoffed for the majority of the following nearly two years. His consultants, in his ear, said the online pushback was inorganic, the work of bots, or the phantasmal ‘Groyper.’ They were disenfranchised white men whom the Indian holds in contempt for their lack of izzat. Wrong. The average Ohioan’s detestation of Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy was real. For all the modern world’s faults, the Christian rejection of pride and disingenuousness held. The spending never repaired his false image. In August 2025, he led Acton by ten points. He fell continuously. The more you knew of him, the worse you thought he was. Early on, his favorability was soft, with polling showing him no different than other Republicans. A year of record spending later, Marist put him at just 38% favorable, with a majority unfavorable. The last big buy was the worst. In late October, the campaign put $4 million behind a minute-long ad starring Donna Arthur, Acton’s estranged mother, who told voters her daughter ‘lies about her past.’ Acton has not seen her mother since 1978. Arthur lost custody of her children after her husband, Acton’s stepfather, was indicted for raping Acton as a child. The ad left that out, and it insinuated that Acton has mental health problems. A campaign worth $80 million chose to spend its closing argument putting an abuse survivor's estranged mother on television, in defense of her rape. Could anything be more Third World than this? Many high-profile Republicans denounced the ad, but Vivek doubled down for a time before eventually pulling it. Nonetheless, no one truly distanced themselves from him. And they were forced to pay the price. ‘Victors, not Victims’ was his campaign motto. This reads like a simple embracing of merit. It never was. It was an endorsement of predation. Of pickpocketing. Weaponizing and exploiting the good-natured naiveté of White America. In his culture and mind, the victor is the predator. Ohio Republicans worshipped Mammon and colluded with foreign demons. There has been a calculated betrayal here and in D.C. that the average American sees right through. In Ohio, they threw away the state’s governance, many of their careers and their friends’ careers because of it. It is time we take it back, in the name of Jesus Christ.”
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omg you guys, it's almost wolf girl winter 😍❤️
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🚨🇮🇱 BREAKING — AIPAC WON! AIPAC Won Most Seats in the House. 🇮🇱⚫ (231) — AIPAC Bloc 🇺🇸🔵 (164) — Democrats 🇺🇸🔴 (11) — Republicans
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we would never win Ohio he'd flood that state with 4 million Indians
Vivek losing saved America if a blue wave was required for that then so be it but NEVER again will the GOP platform another vivek If he won it'd be lights out with zero chance of recovery
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having IQ 76 means never knowing what YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY OUT LOUD
He is flexing his Brahmin Caste to a foreign girl 😭
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do boop wolp wolp hungy for finger
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Straston Calhoun retweeted
John Kane should run for NCGOP Chair with the slogan, "I told you so". John went to every election board hearing watching the democrats use their power to make decisions in elections in counties. He stood before the NCGOP body and openly said, "we need to get rid of the felons (my paraphrasing) in leadership in this party", and we do not need Thom Tillis's influence to make change for North Carolina. He also stated on Whatley consistently to test and certify all the voting machines. (Which was never done). People got fired from their jobs for whipping the vote for John Kane when he ran against Whatley. That's how much of a threat he was.
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President Trump will celebrate Diwali at the White House today at 1:30 PM EST, lighting a diya lamp before a packed house of Indians. President Obama began the tradition in 2009. Follow: @AFpost
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As I said yesterday: the 2026 midterms weren't a blue wave but a red crash out right wing voters didn't show up the left showed up near presidential election numbers they don't outnumber the right in NC, GA, TX, KS, SC It's up to America First to win back these states
Okay! As promised, a deeper look into the GOP dumpster fire that was 2026 through the eyes of my state, NC So, North Carolina, the 12th state, pop 11.2 M Long been a battleground state since 1980 with an affluent, educated tech crowd of NOVA and good ol boys of AL 1/
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Straston Calhoun retweeted
Abbot installed Indian colonists in Texas. They liked him while he was handing them Texans' jobs, but then he started to walk back on the H-1B issue to win white Texans' support. So what did they do? They voted for their own betterment. What's the lesson here for Greg?
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