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We’ll begin by revisiting some history that everybody here already knows. Donald Trump’s first term was greatly hamstrung by the Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who were more interested in preventing him from taking over the GOP than in paying off Republican voters for putting their party in control. There are lots of examples of how this happened. Here is the best example: Repealing Obamacare and opening the door to a market-based health care reform plan was a fundamental promise that every Republican running for office in 2016 made. And yet Mitch McConnell, the then-majority leader in the U.S. Senate, allowed John McCain to torpedo that promise for the entire party and doom the Republican majority — something that would pay off in the 2020 election. But in lots of ways, in those first two years of Trump’s term, the America First agenda was tripped up and retarded by that Senate caucus. And when it was over, a handful of them even voted to impeach Trump over his exhortation to supporters that they peaceably assert their First Amendment right to protest on Jan. 6, 2021. Our readers are very well aware that there exists a Republican Party in Washington, D.C., that is very different from the one elsewhere in America, and a major part of the story of the past eight or nine years (actually, it’s been going on a lot longer than that) has been the conflict between the two. The great Angelo Codevilla, writing here at The American Spectator back in 2010, described the binary in terms larger than just within the GOP. Codevilla said, accurately, that America was divided between the ruling class and the country class, and this divide cut across party lines — though the Democrats were clearly the dominant party of the ruling class. I’ve said that those Republicans tying themselves to the ruling class, whether Never Trumpers or simply old-school establishment types, are the Washington Generals of American politics — happy to be rolled time and again by their superiors on the other side of the too-cozy aisle. McCain’s “thumbs down” Obamacare vote was eminently emblematic of that. But the Washington Generals are no longer in season. Trump absolutely represents the country-class GOP, and last week it became absolutely clear that the Republican Party is the country-class party. And the country class won big last weekend. The country class has given a mandate not just to Trump but to Republicans in the House (at least that’s what’s being projected) and the Senate. It cannot be wasted like it was in 2017. And yet despite McConnell’s retirement as the Senate GOP caucus leader, something that is overdue by at least six years, the top choices thrown around to replace him in the early going were… John Thune and John Cornyn. Two of the most egregious examples of the Washington Generals on Capitol Hill anyone could find. Both have been dutiful McConnell lieutenants. Neither offer any reason for anyone to believe they wouldn’t simply be vessels for McConnell to continue running the caucus, at least until he leaves the Senate altogether following the 2026 election. McConnell has specialized in sabotaging conservative Senate candidates since his ascension to the leadership role in January of 2007. More than a dozen races were lost as a result. This cycle was one of the more particularly egregious cases — McConnell threw millions upon millions of dollars at the hopeless Never Trumper Larry Hogan, who had zero chance of winning a Senate seat in Maryland, and in so doing, starving conservatives like Eric Hovde, Sam Brown, and Mike Rogers (not to mention Kari Lake), who with a little more support could well have added to the GOP majority. McConnell’s legacy is not something that needs to be maintained. Thune can’t be trusted not to maintain it. Neither can Cornyn. They’re classic examples of the Washington Generals. Remember when McConnell’s other acolyte, James Lankford, the affable supposed conservative from Oklahoma tasked with giving the Democrats bipartisan cover for importing countless illegal migrants? This was Thune: The No. 2 Senate Republican and GOP whip, Sen. John Thune, said that negotiations on an immigration deal tied to the passage of a multi-billion-dollar global securities supplemental package are at “a critical moment, and we’ve got to drive hard to get this done.” “If we can’t get there, then we’ll go to Plan B,” the South Dakota Republican said. He did not go into details on what a “Plan B” would look like or if a deal on immigration would be removed from the supplemental, which would provide critical aid to Ukraine that some Republican and Democratic senators are advocating as the country runs low on ammunition in its war with Russia. Here’s what Cornyn said back then: GOP Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who endorsed Trump earlier this week, said that “Texas can’t afford to wait 11 months,” referring to a potential second Trump presidency in 2025. “Some people have said, well, the (immigration) issue is going to go away, and so that’ll be denying President Trump the issue. I think that’s a fantasy,” Cornyn said. “You’re not going to turn off what’s happening at the border like a water faucet, so this is going to continue to be a problem and it’s obviously a very, potent, political issue.” He said that while Trump is “an important voice,” the Senate “has a job to do, and we intend to do it.” Both of these two guys were just absolutely breathless over the urgency of negotiating an immigration deal with Chuck Schumer, Chris Murphy, and Kyrsten Sinema — who entered with such good faith that the horse-trading quickly devolved to discussions about how many extra illegal migrants we’d take in before doing something about the problem, and, oh yes, how many of them would catch amnesty offers so they could be made into Democrat voters. You saw what happened. Lankford (read: McConnell) released the details of his negotiations, the public guffawed at the abject rolling that it represented, and most of the GOP caucus ran away from the bill — which was respectable enough, one guesses, except for the fact that the Democrats then had a bat to beat Trump and the GOP with for the rest of the year. Rather than just insisting Biden rescind his executive orders opening the border and write a clean border security bill and insist the Democrats bring it to a vote. That’s how Washington Generals politics works. This also can’t be forgiven: Lisa Monaco was Robert Mueller’s chief of staff when he ran the FBI. She was one of Obama’s closest aides—she participated in secret Situation Room meetings with John Brennan in 2016 to concoct Russia collusion hoax. After Trump won, she became an outspoken critic of Donald… pic.twitter.com/blekqJD0yf — Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) November 11, 2024 No Republican who endorsed the hyper-corrupt, hyper-partisan Team Obama attack dog Lisa Monaco can possibly make a credible claim to leadership. It’s utterly, irretrievably disqualifying, and yet there John Cornyn is doing it. Thune’s not much better. This is a guy who early in the campaign essentially claimed that if Trump was the GOP nominee, the party would lose the election. And earlier this year when Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin decided to politicize the military by providing money for abortion travel for servicewomen, something not authorized by Congress and that would never have passed on Capitol Hill, Sen. Tommy Tuberville courageously stepped in to place a hold on all Defense Department appointments until Austin’s decision was reversed. Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, whom the public vigorously fired last week, laid into Tuberville with all the invective he could manage and soon Tuberville was “embattled” — at least according to the Propaganda Press. It was time for the Senate GOP caucus to rally around Tuberville. Virtually all of them had made public statements of opposition to Austin’s move. And yet John Thune cut the Alabama senator off at the knees: “I think the longer this drags on, the more problematic it becomes for the military to function and operate in the way that I think the American people expect them to operate,” Thune told reporters. The president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, unloaded on Thune for that, and rightly so: That’s Washington Generals politics in pure form. Now, you could argue that Tuberville was going off on his own and the leadership wasn’t under any obligation to protect him from shooting himself in the foot. But after 17 years of Washington Generals self-sabotage, in which the party’s Senate leadership never actually led — that McConnell still dines out on a solitary example of doing his damned job, that being when he held up consideration of Merrick Garland as a Supreme Court nominee in a move that would have been utterly unremarkable had Schumer or his Democrat predecessor Harry Reid done the same, is fairly instructive — we can’t do this anymore. The reason the Tommy Tubervilles of the world have gone off tilting at windmills is that the leadership has never actually fought. The Republicans’ ruling-class politicians, who are more heavily concentrated in the Senate than anywhere else, have been appeasers and Good-Time Charlies more interested in sipping cocktails and playing bridge in the cloakroom than slugging out the issues of the day in the chamber, can’t be allowed to drive the agenda. Not after the 2024 election, which simply must signal the birth of a new era in American politics. And yet a whip-count list leaked over the weekend showed that the Republicans in the Senate still don’t get it. EXCLUSIVE: A GOP Senate Source has leaked the internal whip-count for the Leadership Vote. The final votes will be on a secret ballot Wednesday. Here is where the race stands now… Cornyn (18) Scott (11) Thune (24) Banks – Thune Barrasso – Thune Blackburn – Thune Boozman -… — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 11, 2024 Thune and Cornyn aren’t qualified to lead the Senate into that new era. Perhaps one of them will change enough of his spots to merit an opportunity on a short leash, but if anyone has seen evidence of such an epiphany, I’d be grateful to see it. Trump is touting Rick Scott, who ran against McConnell following the 2022 elections and lost a lopsided vote for the leadership job. Early returns had Scott far behind, though a public campaign in the Florida senator’s favor is said to be paying dividends as some number of senators have begun recognizing that making it their first vote to rebuke the winner of the popular vote isn’t such a good idea. Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader! https://t.co/lpT34yHTKk — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2024 The post It’s Long Past Time to Bend the Senate to the Will of the People appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

The results of the recent presidential election give a rare opportunity to those who care about the strength of the family, the education of boys, pragmatic liberty, and real friendship across racial divides. It had better be seized. For the pundits were stunned to find that a little under half of Latino men voted for Donald Trump, along with about a quarter to a third of black men, who have been voting reliably for the other party. A telltale, I think, is the contempt with which Latino men (and women too) hold the awkward and stupid term “Latinx,” invented to efface the natural differentiation between the sexes that shows up to some degree in almost all human languages, and in a marked way in Spanish. Evidently, those men do not approve of the linguistic castration. I suspect that they do not approve of a sort of educational castration, either. I am trying to imagine what the excellent crew of Portuguese-speaking painters and carpenters we recently hired to do work on our house — I am too old now for it, and a lot of it was beyond my knowledge and skill anyway — would say about having drag queens parade their fetishes in front of little boys at the local library. I know what the chief of the crew would do. He is intense, intelligent, and intolerant of nonsense; for him, everything must be done to perfection. He would furrow his brow, shake his head, and say, “That is wrong.” Well then, quite a lot has been wrong about how we treat boys. It has been a dogma of the “identitarian” Left that differences in outcomes over a large population must be the result of some underlying animus against those who do poorly, or some unwarranted favoritism toward those who do well, or a combination of both. When it comes to results in school, which is a great testing ground for what works and what does not, regardless of whether those in charge of the schools heed the lessons that their own results should teach them, the Left insists that more funding for schools in poor districts will solve the problems. In vain have critics pointed to other and strong contributory causes of failure, whether cultural or economic: fatherlessness, chaos in the home, material poverty, no books in the house, and so forth. But there is one division of the population where none of those cultural and economic causes differentiate: boys and girls. They come from the same families. They have the same books at home. They enjoy or they suffer the same material wealth or poverty. If one boy is not doing well in school, we may assume, at least to start with, that the problem is his. But if this is the case across the board, that is, if it seems obvious that the boys in general are not living up to their intellectual potential, then the problem is the school’s. And when we meet this phenomenon across a whole nation, the problem is not with the particular schools but with the way school itself is set up. What subjects are taught, and how? Who are the teachers? What is the order of instruction? Can that order be shelved or breached for boys who clearly want to run away with a certain subject? What is the culture of the school? Is it built on honor? On friendly but fierce competition? On a kind of platoon-building for some difficult and many-sided aim — not “group work,” which, in my experience, is usually a dreary exercise in conformity? What I have in mind is nothing less than that men, with the support and encouragement of women who appreciate the male sex for what it is, should take back the education of their sons. More: that they should make a point of its uniting men and boys across racial divides. That is, such unifying should be central to the school’s mission and its whole social ambiance. Still more: that they should adopt an unashamedly masculine approach to education, with a strong emphasis on work with the hands — for many of these boys, skilled trades will be calling, and just at the point when many a college major is a negative intelligence test, beginning with ignorance and ending in a stupidity that unassisted Nature could never produce on her own. And still more: the subjects to be studied should harmonize with and energize the natural interests of boys. Geography, military history, mechanics, epic poetry, art and music on a grand scale, architecture, and draftsmanship come readily to mind. I am thinking of the kinds of study and action that produced people like Robert Falcon Scott, David Livingstone, William Sherman, Michael Faraday, Alfred Tennyson, Johann Sebastian Bach, A. W. N. Pugin, and, with all the odds against him, George Washington Carver. (READ MORE: Welfare? How About a Log Cabin?) I have long noticed that, when it comes to healthy relations between men regardless of race, baseball teams manage to do what our colleges fail so miserably to do. That is because friendships among men are forged by a common commitment to get important work done, by competition, by showing skill and courage, by having fun even in the hardest or most dangerous work, and by doing so in an atmosphere that laughs at insults and which assumes that your personal feelings aren’t all that important. Such an atmosphere liberates. Thus we would want such schools to transcend, by far, the petty envies and ambitions of contemporary politics. Fratres in laboro — Brothers in Work; that might be a good motto. I have not mentioned anything specifically religious, but I do think that Christian churches can unite and contribute resources for such schools. For there is nothing like the common worship of God to bring men together most closely and decisively. I am not speaking here of ideas floating in the head. I mean kneeling, praying, singing together, or going forth to do charitable work together under the aegis of the faith. Men and boys by nature do not want to sit around examining their feelings. Many of us understand by instinct that a lot of such feelings are ginned up by the examination itself, and are eight parts self-deception, one part deception of others, and one part truth. If there is work to be done, we want to work, and we want other people not doing the work to clear out. If we are going to worship, we want to stir the soul with solemnity, as when of old a thousand men at West Point would rise as one to sing “God of Our Fathers,” the national hymn. We want to make the roof tremble. Who will gainsay us? The Left? Let them try. Or let the Left abandon its sexual madness. In the cause of the good of the poor themselves, let them come to their senses. READ MORE from Anthony Esolen: Welfare? How About a Log Cabin? Common Core Undermines the Search for Beauty We Seek the Truth The post Reclaiming Education for Boys appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

My husband and I enjoy watching old films from Hollywood’s Golden Age. The stories are usually well-crafted, the women beautiful, and the men darkly handsome. But the thing that fascinates me most is the crisp tailoring of the clothes, the hats, the gloves, and the truly adult silhouettes. Ah! To crown each outfit with a fabulous hat! Draw on a pair of supple kidskin gloves! Toss a fur scarf around one’s neck! So glamorous. This was not confined to the artificial world of the movies, either. YouTube has tons of old footage taken by amateurs on the streets of major cities. Women stride along in pumps; men wear suits and ties. Even photos of old baseball games show well-dressed fans, decked out in what we now would call formal business wear, complete with hats. People dressed up to present themselves to the world. But things have changed. I have had reason to take several plane trips in the past few months, which have taken me to various airports all over the country, and I’ve come to the conclusion that America is now the land of the slob. Nobody seems to take a look in the mirror before they travel. Pajamas and slippers are commonly worn on airplanes by both sexes. Actual structured footwear is seldom seen; most people are wearing flip-flops, sneakers (often with laces undone and dragging), and the ubiquitous Crocs. (The exception was one woman I saw in gleaming red patent leather stilettos. I didn’t get a chance to see her try to walk in them.) While one occasionally notices a businessman in wing tips and a long-sleeved shirt, more common attire is hooded sweatshirts, tee shirts, and sweat pants. One young man, with a high-and-tight haircut that marked him as a military recruit, had on a pair of oversized jeans with legs so wide they resembled a pair of skirts. He’d trodden on the hems so much that long ribbons of fabric snaked around the floor as he walked. I worried about him getting onto an escalator. Now that it’s so expensive to check bags, and heaven forbid having to wait ten minutes at the carousel to pick them up, people resemble pack animals as they drag their carry-ons, bending under their enormous, stuffed-to-the-gills backpacks, while the gate attendant cautions that “one carry-on and one small personal item” are what they should be bringing on the plane.  I understand that comfort is important when traveling and I certainly don’t dress in a suit and heels, but, from my perspective, the “athleisure” trend has been taken much too far. As we prepared to brave the gauntlet that is the Transportation Security Administration’s checkpoint at Reagan National Airport the other day, I noticed a young woman, clad only in a pair of spandex athletic short-shorts and a sports bra, unloading her stuff into plastic bins. She looked as though she should be launching herself into a gymnastic floor exercise, not about to get on a plane. It’s alleged that a significant contributor to the relaxing of dress standards was John F. Kennedy’s hatless presidential oath of office in 1960. Truly that was a watershed moment, but he did wear a top hat to the inaugural ball. His wife Jackie wore hats and gloves but even she had given them up by the end of the decade. The sixties also brought blue jeans, formerly the pants of choice only for 1950s rebels and blue-collar workers, into the mainstream. Denim suits were even a trend in the 1970s.  I admit that I wear jeans nearly every day. My mother never wore them and my father only when he was mowing the lawn or working on the car. (Times definitely have changed. I looked at a $378 pair of Ralph Lauren jeans recently — nope, I wasn’t paying that, but one of my daughters probably wouldn’t hesitate.) A rare sight is someone dressed in well-fitting, attractive, appropriate clothing. As I stood waiting for my luggage one day, I told one woman, “You’re a sight for sore eyes. You look lovely.” She wore an ensemble of trousers, a top, and a long jacket in burgundy knit. A sleek pair of impeccably clean black sneakers coordinated with her black leather tote. She looked fabulous, a standout in a sea of scruffy, sloppily attired people staring at cell phones, with earbuds isolating them from their fellow travelers. And perhaps that’s the real problem. Personal electronic devices with content designed only for the viewer, delivered by isolating headphones, create the illusion that one is an entity only to him- or herself. Gone are screens on airplanes, replaced by clever plastic doodads that hold passengers’ cell phones or tablets on the back of each seat. Flight attendants have to plead with patrons to pay attention to their safety presentations — nobody bothers to remove their earbuds long enough to listen. It seems to me that, just as your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins, your right to dress in whatever you want has a limit when you enter my field of vision. I have been told this attitude of mine is judgmental, old-fashioned, and just plain wrong, and maybe it is. But one would think that with all the social media content on how to dress, we’d see fewer adult women carrying children’s backpacks and wearing sweatshirts adorned with Disney princesses, and more gentlemen wearing proper shirts and pressed slacks.  Sure, it’s great that we have so many options when it comes to clothing, and we are no longer tied to the ironing board since man-made fibers have created a wash-and-wear world. Many people don’t even own an iron. But is it such an imposition on individuality to consider, just a little, the way others will view you? Would it be so terrible to coordinate your outfit and opt for a grown-up, somewhat sophisticated presentation? Is it really that difficult to don clean, attractive clothing when you go out in public? I understand the way many standards have slipped but that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, or that I have to like it. Years ago, my Los Angeles-area high school was invited to celebrate Grad Nite at Disneyland. And there were dress standards. Boys had to wear a shirt, tie, and sports coat or a suit. Girls had to wear dresses or pantsuits. The Disney folks had found that people behaved better when they were dressed up. With all the problems with behavior on planes these days, you’d think airlines would follow suit and consider a dress code for passengers.  But no, such a requirement would be called out as insensitive, sexist, impossible to implement, and, of course, racist — though it is none of those things. The pendulum toward selfishness has swung too far to even allow the suggestion that someone is inappropriately dressed. Even clothing adorned with what used to be termed foul language gets barely a glance. So, I go about my business and bury my nose in a book when I embark on plane travel. I remind myself that to judge is un-Christian. I know very well that the only behavior I can control is my own. However, I do long for the days when formality in dress and behavior was revered and appreciated, instead of ridiculed and ignored.  READ MORE from Cari Clark: Teeing Off on ‘Trad’ Wives I Wish We’d Been Wrong on Disney The post America: Land of the Slob? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

With business and especially small and medium sized businesses set to BOOM under President Trump, I wanted to tell you about something that could really help you out.  I know we have a TON of business owners and entrepreneurs here with us reading WLT Report, and I think this is something you’re really going to like.  Let’s get stronger together! Hey friends, Noah here with a really important message for Small and Medium Sized Businesses… Something very near and dear to ME personally. Why? Because running this website, I AM a “small business owner” too. I started this website from absolute ZERO in 2015. No funding… No experience… No tools or anything to help me even get started. I know how incredibly hard running a business can be! I wouldn’t trade it for anything, and the thrill of building something and serving your community or serving the world at large by making the world BETTER in some small way is a HUGE reward. But it ain’t easy! There are great days and there are really, really tough days! But here’s the deal… There shouldn’t be an added level of difficulty placed on your just because you are a Conservative or just because you support President Trump. That’s not fair. That’s not a level playing field. But that’s exactly what’s happening out there with Banks and Credit Card Processing companies. I have heard so many reports of Banks and Credit Card Processors just shutting off small businesses — completely shutting them down, overnight with no warning! KEEP READING BECAUSE I HAVE A SOLUTION TO SHOW YOU DOWN BELOW — A LIFELINE! Why? Because they did something wrong? Something criminal? Hardly. Because of their BELIEFS. Because they are Conservative. Because they believe in God. Because they support Trump. And/or all of the above! I know many of you have experienced this first-hand yourself, but for those that haven’t it’s coming! Remember this?  Check out this from the Wall Street Journal: This from NPR: And this from The Heritage Foundation: Notice a theme? It’s nasty out there! But now I want to talk solutions, because I hate to ever just leave you with a problem and no answer. Here’s the great news…. I have a Credit Card Processing Company that LOVES Patriots! It’s ran by a good friend of mine who I actually interviewed about a month ago — Pepe Deluxe! You can watch that full interview right here on Rumble: Pepe runs a company is called OneSourceSolutions and his mission is to provide credit card processing to small and medium sized businesses. He explains the meaning behind the name in our interview above. Of course, the best part is he LOVES Conservatives (because he is one – Big League!) and so he does everything in his power to make sure you never get shut down simply because of your views or beliefs. What a novel concept! He can also help you navigate the fees involved and often help you take home a LOT more each month that you are currently netting by helping you understand how to manage and modify the fees normally charged by credit cards. I absolutely love what he’s doing and I am so excited to connect YOU to HIM so that we can build out this portion of the Parallel Economy. If you can’t accept credit card payments you likely can’t stay in business, so this is VITAL. Here are the links your need: OneSourceSolutions https://uspaygate.com/ Pepe on Telegram https://t.me/PepeDeluxed Pepe on Twitter https://twitter.com/deluxe_pepe If you are interested in seeing whether they can help you, go here (https://uspaygate.com) and tell them Noah sent you! Or use promo code WLT or just tell him Noah sent you…and they’ll hook you up with some extra freebie stuff! I’d love to hear how many people we are able to help with this. Please stay in touch with me and shoot me an email or comment and let me know if this can help you. Bit by bit, we are building out the Parallel Economy and we’re helping Patriots STAY IN BUSINESS and continue to serve the world around them!