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Carl Witmer retweeted
Zelensky is now on CNN celebrating that the Democrats won Congress. He kept bombing energy infrastructure in the run-up to the elections, even after Trump asked him to stop - and now he is celebrating the midterm results
Zelensky:
I've heard from new people who will be in Congress, and also from the Democratic Party, that they stand on our side.
They don't try to balance between us and Russia. They are not afraid to say that Russia is the aggressor.
They don't want to give our land to Putin.
And I think that, based on such things, of course, we count on even more support.
Carl Witmer retweeted
A few days have passed, and the whole “Iran war caused GOP losses” explanation is still being peddled as unquestionable gospel. Of course the war played a role. But pinning everything on it, however politically convenient that may be for various people, is going to do a lot more damage because it allows Republicans to ignore far more fundamental problems. And the biggest of those problems is the Republican Party itself.
I mean, my goodness. Donald Trump pulled off the greatest comeback of all time. He nearly got killed in the process. He came back from what everyone said was an impossible position and handed the GOP the White House. And how did these feckless ingrates repay him? They immediately set about sabotaging his agenda, obstructing his appointments, and undermining everything he had fought so hard to achieve.
It started with the Department of Justice, which, after everything that happened during Trump’s first term, everyone knew was the single most important place to get right. Matt Gaetz, whatever one thinks of his positions on this or that, would have been an absolute burn-it-all-down warrior at DOJ. So, naturally, the Republicans made sure that couldn't happen. Instead, we got Pam Bondi, who was hopelessly out of her depth, and a crucial year in which so much desperately needed to be done was lost.
Or look at Ed Martin. I've never met a happier warrior than Ed, someone with the energy, determination, and understanding of what needed to be done. So, of course, they had to destroy his appointment as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, the most important U.S. attorney position in the entire country. Can't have people like that in positions of power, apparently.
Same story at the CDC, where Republicans derailed David Weldon's nomination because they didn't like what he was saying about vaccines. The list goes on and on. And that's just the personnel.
There's also the SAVE Act, the blue slip rule, the filibuster, and countless other examples of Republicans standing in the way of their own president and his agenda. And as for the filibuster, does anyone seriously believe Democrats will now show the same reverence for it? Of course they won't. They'll demolish it without a second thought, while Republicans will congratulate themselves on having preserved some imaginary principle of Senate tradition.
And that, right there, is the rotten core of the problem. Donald Trump did the impossible. He handed Republicans a historic opportunity, and starting the morning after his victory, they set about squandering it, sabotaging his agenda, and undermining all the people who might have made his second term a success.
There are always many reasons why elections go the way they do, and I'm sure the Iran war was one of them. But if Republicans spend the next two years blaming the war while refusing to confront their own catastrophic failures, they will have learned absolutely nothing.
Carl Witmer retweeted
Of all the explanations for the midterm results going around, this is by far the best. We are living in an entirely new paradigm, and the only conservative politician who truly understands it and operates accordingly is Donald Trump. Whenever he was on the ballot, he either won convincingly or, in 2020, came within 40,000 votes of winning, despite massive shenanigans involving tens of millions of mail in ballots and all kinds of other schemes. Trump understands that politics today is all about narratives, and he has mastered the art of shaping them. No Republican will ever win another major election until and unless they understand and adapt to this new paradigm.
We're in a new era of communication, and only one side seems to be living in it. The old guard consultant class is about to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
If you think that high prices lost the election for the right, you don't understand marketing. Humans have no problem paying a premium for a good quality brand. Notice the word "brand", not "product". Are Nikes better than New Balance? Nope. But the brand is better. And notice what happened when they tinkered with the brand and screwed their core narrative? Nike stock fell through the basement. Did the product change? Nope. The brand did.
It's not the product, it's the brand. Results don't sell the product, the storytelling does. Will these newly-elected commies lower prices? Of course not. Are they gonna get you free healthcare? No, your insurance is gonna get even worse, just like it did the last time they tried socialized medicine. They're not going to do anything they've sold you, but...like Saul Goodman said: if you're committed enough, you can make any story work.
The committed storytelling of a couple insane podcasters was enough to fracture an entire political coalition from their own side in less than 2 years...they have zero power, zero credibility, they've never actually governed anything nor produced any results, but...they're good storytellers, and that's all that matters. Are they telling a good story? No, it's atrocious, but they're telling their atrocious story effectively and compellingly.
It is 100% true that everything's too damn expensive, and we all know that inflated prices are always sticky. Does anyone know that it's entirely the result of shutting down the global economy over the flu and (both naive republicans and democrats) printing infinity dollars for several years? Nope...because nobody has effectively told that story, and it's an unsexy story to tell. "Free stuff!" is a VERY easy story to tell, and when everyone's gotta take out a second mortgage just to pay their insurance premiums, "free healthcare" is an unbeatable story. It doesn't matter that "free healthcare" doesn't exist and socialized medicine is a terrible product...it's not the product, it's the brand. And "FREE!" is a great brand.
You can't get mad at people for having the financial literacy of a 9 year old. I mean, you can, but they outnumber you a million to one, so it's not going to be productive. You need to figure out how to make an unsexy story sexy, or else the "free stuff!" crowd is going to eat your lunch every time. If you give people a choice between earning a six pack on a treadmill or taking Ozempic, they're gonna choose Ozempic...they don't care about the side effects. If you give people a choice between fiscal discipline or free stuff...guess what they'll pick? They don't care about the side effects.
With projected growth of 5%, the economy right now is stronger than it's been in generations. Is that the story you hear? Nope. Is that the vibe you feel? Absolutely not, especially when every time you fill up your gas tank, it feels like a diesel enema.
It's not the product, it's the brand. A great product can fall into oblivion with bad messaging...a single bad review from one effective storyteller can tank a restaurant. The "influencer economy" is lucrative for a reason; everybody inherently understands the importance of effective storytelling...except the right. Zohran Mamdani gets it...he has an army of influencers on staff. In a perfect metaphor of this transitional phase of old guard vs new wave political messaging, Zohran nuked the Vice President into oblivion with maybe the biggest ratio in the history of the internet. By simply posting the subway assistant meme, Mamdani got 2 MILLION likes, quoting a post from the VP that had only 10K likes. If you're reading that sentence thinking "this is fucking ridiculous, you're talking about social media likes as political analysis now?"...you are the problem.
Yes, this stuff matters. Rizz matters. The President did a masterful job of this kind of retail politics in his historic 2024 campaign...you can be angry that this is what politics has been reduced to, but you can either adapt or die.
"No the problem is, you didn't deliver enough for the American people!" Are you a moron? Since when does anybody care about that? What have democrats delivered for Californians in the last 20 years? Unmitigated wildfires, homeless drug zombies everywhere, roads that look like Fallujah in 2004...people don't care about results. They think they care about results. That want you to believe they care about results, just as Nike wants you to believe their shoes are better than New Balance...but at the end of the day, all people really care about is the swoosh.
Adapt or die.
Carl Witmer retweeted
One of the things I have learned as a so-called "social media influencer" is that outlets like X and YouTube will pay you a LOT of money if you have a big enough audience. (Like millions of followers.)
That's great if your gig is clothing or sports or tech or whatever (other than politics).
But when your gig is politics, suddenly you have a choice. Do you try and advance America's interests and stay true to your principles, or do you try and make more money?
That temptation is real, trust me. Sometimes those two things align. More often, they do not.
Some of us stay true to our principles. Others opt for the Three Cs (Controversy, Clicks and Cash).
And some of those big social media accounts who opted for the Three Cs just did their part in handing America over to a communist/jihadist cabal, because filthy lucre.
You know who they are, and they should be reviled.
Carl Witmer retweeted
We're in a new era of communication, and only one side seems to be living in it. The old guard consultant class is about to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
If you think that high prices lost the election for the right, you don't understand marketing. Humans have no problem paying a premium for a good quality brand. Notice the word "brand", not "product". Are Nikes better than New Balance? Nope. But the brand is better. And notice what happened when they tinkered with the brand and screwed their core narrative? Nike stock fell through the basement. Did the product change? Nope. The brand did.
It's not the product, it's the brand. Results don't sell the product, the storytelling does. Will these newly-elected commies lower prices? Of course not. Are they gonna get you free healthcare? No, your insurance is gonna get even worse, just like it did the last time they tried socialized medicine. They're not going to do anything they've sold you, but...like Saul Goodman said: if you're committed enough, you can make any story work.
The committed storytelling of a couple insane podcasters was enough to fracture an entire political coalition from their own side in less than 2 years...they have zero power, zero credibility, they've never actually governed anything nor produced any results, but...they're good storytellers, and that's all that matters. Are they telling a good story? No, it's atrocious, but they're telling their atrocious story effectively and compellingly.
It is 100% true that everything's too damn expensive, and we all know that inflated prices are always sticky. Does anyone know that it's entirely the result of shutting down the global economy over the flu and (both naive republicans and democrats) printing infinity dollars for several years? Nope...because nobody has effectively told that story, and it's an unsexy story to tell. "Free stuff!" is a VERY easy story to tell, and when everyone's gotta take out a second mortgage just to pay their insurance premiums, "free healthcare" is an unbeatable story. It doesn't matter that "free healthcare" doesn't exist and socialized medicine is a terrible product...it's not the product, it's the brand. And "FREE!" is a great brand.
You can't get mad at people for having the financial literacy of a 9 year old. I mean, you can, but they outnumber you a million to one, so it's not going to be productive. You need to figure out how to make an unsexy story sexy, or else the "free stuff!" crowd is going to eat your lunch every time. If you give people a choice between earning a six pack on a treadmill or taking Ozempic, they're gonna choose Ozempic...they don't care about the side effects. If you give people a choice between fiscal discipline or free stuff...guess what they'll pick? They don't care about the side effects.
With projected growth of 5%, the economy right now is stronger than it's been in generations. Is that the story you hear? Nope. Is that the vibe you feel? Absolutely not, especially when every time you fill up your gas tank, it feels like a diesel enema.
It's not the product, it's the brand. A great product can fall into oblivion with bad messaging...a single bad review from one effective storyteller can tank a restaurant. The "influencer economy" is lucrative for a reason; everybody inherently understands the importance of effective storytelling...except the right. Zohran Mamdani gets it...he has an army of influencers on staff. In a perfect metaphor of this transitional phase of old guard vs new wave political messaging, Zohran nuked the Vice President into oblivion with maybe the biggest ratio in the history of the internet. By simply posting the subway assistant meme, Mamdani got 2 MILLION likes, quoting a post from the VP that had only 10K likes. If you're reading that sentence thinking "this is fucking ridiculous, you're talking about social media likes as political analysis now?"...you are the problem.
Yes, this stuff matters. Rizz matters. The President did a masterful job of this kind of retail politics in his historic 2024 campaign...you can be angry that this is what politics has been reduced to, but you can either adapt or die.
"No the problem is, you didn't deliver enough for the American people!" Are you a moron? Since when does anybody care about that? What have democrats delivered for Californians in the last 20 years? Unmitigated wildfires, homeless drug zombies everywhere, roads that look like Fallujah in 2004...people don't care about results. They think they care about results. That want you to believe they care about results, just as Nike wants you to believe their shoes are better than New Balance...but at the end of the day, all people really care about is the swoosh.
Adapt or die.
Guys, I hate to break it to you, but most political advisors are so bafflingly incompetent, it would make your head spin. All the talented communicators go work in Hollywood or at Saatchi and Saatchi, and these political bros never tap these agencies for help...I've connected several campaigns with literally the best marketing geniuses in the game, got them discounted rates, even...and they just never even bothered calling. It truly feels like a lot of consultants and candidates just want to lose.
You ever wonder how my ads went so massively viral, but there's not been a single candidate who's come close to it? It's their dumbass advisors. I didn't go with any political advisors, and they were SO mad about it. I partnered with a filmmaker and marketing wizard, instead of political grifters. Why? Because I wanted our messaging to be effective. Political ads suck. Nobody watches them. I wanted people to want to watch my ads. The fact that nobody else understands this is...I honestly don't know how to explain it, other than they want to lose.
There are a bunch of candidates who love it when their party loses power. It takes all the heat off them, because then they can't be expected to pass legislation when they're in the minority, plus they can fundraise way better off of the rage when the opposition is running roughshod over the country. Baffling to watch.
Carl Witmer retweeted
Norman Vincent Peale’s advice for times when things go wrong was to make a list of what you still have going for you. He meant this broadly, as a way to face life’s setbacks, but the same principle applies just as much to politics.
The good news is that Republicans still hold the presidency, run all the executive agencies and have a majority on the Supreme Court. Most important of all, as Peale would have emphasized, Republicans have the better ideas.
Those are strong foundations for regrouping, rebuilding and using the existing power and leverage to get things done over the next two years. Of course, Donald Trump, Peale’s favorite student, will see it exactly this way.
Carl Witmer retweeted
The period after Trump's election in 2016 was, without a doubt, the most magical time in politics I have ever experienced. There was so much excitement and anticipation, the feeling that finally someone was going to go scorched earth on the establishment, the deep state, the media, and all the rot that was eating away at Western civilization.
Instead, they went scorched earth on Trump. They just kept coming at him with an endless barrage of lawfare, lies, and leaks. Russiagate, Ukrainegate, Covid, impeachments, indictments, raids, arrests, and even an assassination attempt he narrowly survived. It never stopped.
Despite it all, he pulled off the greatest comeback in history. And then, for the past two years, he has been blocked and sabotaged all over again, this time less by Democrats than by Republicans.
So here we are, almost ten years later, with one last chance. Maybe it was always meant to come down to this. There will never be another Donald Trump in my lifetime, and probably not for generations after that. He has two years left to do what so many of us dreamed of back in 2016.
Make them count. Burn it all down.
Playing with fire is part of burning it all down. Burn it all down. telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2017…
Carl Witmer retweeted
This is how the Left steals elections.
Mike Lawler’s competitive district and they are turning away voters.
Carl Witmer retweeted
Lawfare is not about Trump. It is about power, and Brazil shows its endgame is one party rule. The most important Counterlawfare essay yet explains why America’s Supreme Court is the last barrier to the same fate. If it falls, there may be no way back.
counterlawfare.org/research/…
Carl Witmer retweeted
Following the 9/11 attacks, Pat Tillman, then a safety with the @AZCardinals, left the @NFL to enlist in the @USArmy during the War on Terror.
On April 22, 2004, he was killed in Afghanistan.
His service and patriotism must never be forgotten.
He walked away from the NFL to answer a higher calling. 🇺🇸
Following the 9/11 attacks, Pat Tillman left behind a professional football career to enlist in the U.S. Army alongside his brother. An Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Tillman was killed at just 27 years old.
This Veterans Month, we honor his courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment to serving something greater than himself.
Carl Witmer retweeted
All roads of lawfare ultimately lead to the Supreme Court. Its independence is indispensable. Brazil shows what happens when the Court itself becomes part of the lawfare machinery. In America, the Supreme Court is the last major obstacle to the same fate.
counterlawfare.org/research/…
Carl Witmer retweeted
Think about the purpose of this tweet. PBS is a total laughingstock to anyone who is even mildly conservative, which of course PBS knows perfectly well. So the intended audience is the brainwashed legions suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
But why bother telling them something they already believe anyway? Because the purpose is to reinforce those beliefs, give them a veneer of official legitimacy, and, above all, convince them that anyone who dares to ask questions about late night vote counting behind locked doors, with suitcases full of supposed ballots, is a dangerous extremist who deserves their hatred and contempt.
This is a lawfare operation, pure and simple. The objective has nothing to do with informing the public. It is to whip the already brainwashed into a frenzy of hatred against their fellow Americans.
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
Carl Witmer retweeted
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1785
Carl Witmer retweeted
MS-13 Gang Member with Prior Arrests for Attempted Murder and Sexually Assaulting a Minor Released from Jail by Maryland Sanctuary Politicians dhs.gov/news/2026/10/30/want…
Carl Witmer retweeted
Democrats Admit Their Top Priority Is Illegal Aliens, Not “Affordability” amac.us/newsline/democrats-a…
Carl Witmer retweeted
This is something very familiar, yet still infuriating. A bunch of people did all the heavy lifting years ago and exposed Ilhan’s corruption and lies. But then, the media smeared them as conspiracy theorists and the whole thing came to nothing.
Now, ten years later, the same media is presenting the whole thing as breaking news, either to throw Ilhan under the bus or to run interference for her, while omitting the fact that they themselves spent the past decade covering it up.
It’s the same story over and over. Intrepid people do the hard work and expose the lies, only to get smeared or ignored. Then, when the truth can no longer be contained, the media suddenly discovers it and pretends that nobody could possibly have known any earlier.
I lived through this at least twice, first with Russiagate and then with Covid origins. I blew open the Fauci teleconference cover-up in June 2021 and was probably also one of the first to go on the record to explain that Covid 100% came out of a lab and why we knew it. And we all know how this game works. The media can lie endlessly and face no consequences, while if we get even one thing wrong, we’re branded irredeemable conspiracy theorists for eternity.
It’s a hugely thankless task, and that is one reason I’ve moved on to founding Counterlawfare.org. We desperately need people fighting in the trenches, but we also need to expose the bigger picture and the machinery behind all of this.
The media is a giant scam operation whose ultimate purpose is to push America toward one party rule. The sooner people understand that, the better.
The Ilhan Omar "married her brother" story was originally broken by @realDSteinberg at the @powerlineUS blog and @PJMedia_com in 2018. Media covered it only to try to bury it.
It was treated as a conspiracy theory. Now we know the feds knew it in 2016.
powerlineblog.com/archives/2…
Carl Witmer retweeted
This largely represents increased value in equity positions in their respective companies.
You, however, have become a multimillionaire on the public dime.
When you had a spare $600K lying around, you could have given it to charity or bought a vacation home.
Which did you do?
Carl Witmer retweeted
Wholly sheet!!! The FAKE Dan Sullivan is listed ABOVE the real one?!?
Brought to you be the same party that claims minorities are too stupid to get i.d.?!?
Of COURSE they are trying to TRICK and DISENFRANCHISE voters. Anyone with trifocals (like me) or who have a beer over lunch (like me, sometimes) or tired and eager to get home for dinner (me, bigly) could easily make this mistake!!!
Carl Witmer retweeted
BREAKING via NYT: In 2016, the Obama administration investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and found “some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother”, but the case and potential felony charges stalled because of a 5 year statute of limitations.
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/im…
Carl Witmer retweeted
🚨 EXC: I uncovered a midterm playbook labeled “CONFIDENTIAL” from a left-wing group run by Obama White House lawyers.
Legal battles. Coordinated censorship. Mass mobilization.
A progressive network is promoting it to state lawmakers—and its plans extend through the counting and certification of your votes.🧵
