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Mark Straton retweeted
🚨 WOW! Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just dropped this truth nuke: "You take all the debt Florida's accumulated in its history, I've paid off 54% of it just in my tenure as governor!"
"We've reduced our budget 4 YEARS in a row! Inflation has been happening, population's been growing, our budget's LESS *TODAY* than it was four years ago"
"The size of government in Florida is SMALLER today than the day I took office."
"We have the smallest government per capita of any state in the United States."
"And what has that led to? More economic growth than any state this decade during my tenure as governor."
Florida is CRUSHING IT and thankfully held the line on Tuesday ☀️
Sadly, Texas is about to go the opposite direction. They voted blue, and they will slowly begin looking more like California unless things change there, FAST
Mark Straton retweeted
Trump: "The Senate is KILLING our country. NOTHING is getting through. And you know what? Our voters saw that. And in my opinion, that's the biggest problem we had. The Save America Act didn't get passed. The Republicans should have passed it."
Mark Straton retweeted
Alito won't retire in the lame duck and he doesn't need to. Trump can nominate someone to the Supreme Court and the senate can confirm without a vacancy. Then Trump can wait to sign the commission any time in the next two years. The question isn't Alito, its Cornyn/Tillis/Thune.
Mark Straton retweeted
It's appalling that the victory of one party or another means that a private citizen and his businesses, none of which have been accused of breaking the law, would suddenly be targeted by the government. That's pure Third World and should outrage everyone. latimes.com/business/story/2…
Mark Straton retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee is calling on the Senate to stay in session, cancel its vacation, and confirm all 135 of President Trump’s nominees before Chuck Schumer takes the gavel in January.
Lee says every vacant seat left open hands Democrats an advantage the moment they take control.
He is placing the responsibility directly on Majority Leader John Thune to keep the Senate working and get the confirmations done now.
The window is closing.
Mark Straton retweeted
🚨 DESANTIS WANTS COTS IN THE SENATE CLOAKROOM.
He is urging Republicans to work around the clock and confirm every pending Trump judge before January 3.
Lifetime appointments matter more than Washington's vacation plans.
Sleep in February.
Mark Straton retweeted
If Thune and his RINO buddies would grow a spine, in the next 60 days they could nuke the filibuster and pass Trump's entire agenda.
The best part is that Democrats couldn't do a damn thing because Trump would veto any attempt to overturn!
But knowing Thune, he'll send everyone into recess and do NOTHING.
Mark Straton retweeted
No. You didn’t. You are absolutely 100% wrong. You did nothing of the sort. @NRSC Senate Republicans under YOUR “leadership” did nothing. Nothing.
You had the chance to begin the process of saving our election system from the radical left. By passing the SAVE America Act. But K Street either didn’t care or opposed it. So why bother, right?
Because the GOP Senate only does what can be monetized via those endless lobbyist dinners / fundraisers. If it can’t raise you money? Probably not worth doing.
And you BERATED @BasedMikeLee for trying to get you to work full weeks, to try to pass the SAVE America Act. Or to work a weekend sometime. Or not to recess for weeks in March and then again recess for a month in August. You and your fellow GOP Senators told him that nobody cared about the SAVE America Act. That he needed to sit down and shut up.
And the American people watched you, day after lazy, do-nothing day. And how you literally could not come up with a single idea to manage the Senate rules to get the bill passed. You just could not figure it out. Because you really didn’t and don’t care. And because you just are clueless.
What’s all the fuss, you say. It’s not a big deal to you that our election system has been taken over and manipulated by the left. That aliens by the hundreds of thousands are on our voter rolls, that there are illegal votes by the thousands in the election results…and that it matters. It matters to the USA. But not to you @LeaderJohnThune
So now, you don’t have to worry about it. You don’t have to be in charge of producing meaningful results for the American people. They just sent you to your room without any supper. I’m sure you must be relieved. You and your fellow GOP colleagues who just flat couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to save our elections.
Well done, you. What a waste of space you’ve been as a leader. That term should never be applied to you or to your inner circle.
Utterly disgusted by the lot of you. You did this. Tuesday was the Thune election. You own it. Hope you’re happy.
@EIwatchdogs @seanmdav @EricLDaugh @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @Bannons_WarRoom @greg_price11 @RealAmVoice
Mark Straton retweeted
What if last night was the best thing that could have happened to us?
I know how that sounds. Democrats just took the House and the Senate. Texas went blue. Everyone on our side is depressed this morning. But step back and look at the longer game, because I think we might be living through the beginning of a renaissance.
History has a pattern. When a party wins big, it confuses a protest vote with a mandate. And that's exactly where it starts making mistakes.
1994: Republicans sweep Congress. They overplay their hand, shut down the government, and hand Clinton a comfortable reelection two years later. 1998: they push impeachment against public opinion and lose seats in a midterm they should have won. Victory breeds arrogance. Arrogance breeds overreach. Overreach breeds backlash.
Now look at what Democrats are walking into. They control Congress, but not the White House. They can't really govern. They can block, investigate, subpoena, and posture. For two years, their entire identity will be opposition. Endless hearings. Impeachment fantasies. Shutdown brinkmanship. Purity tests from their activist wing, emboldened by a win they'll believe was ideological when it was mostly a midterm reflex.
And every one of those moves will be on full display, in front of voters who just gave them a chance and will expect results.
That's the setup for 2028. Not a narrow win. A clean one. White House, House, Senate. Full power, with a clear mandate and two years of Democratic overreach as the backdrop.
And this time, full power has to mean something different. Not just holding office. Building.
What I believe we need is a techno-republic. A state that runs like the best companies do: fast, measurable, accountable. Where public services are rebuilt from first principles with the best technology available. Where talent and merit matter more than credentials and connections. Where we stop managing decline and start building again: energy, industry, infrastructure, AI, space.
Because the stakes are civilizational. The West has spent decades losing confidence in itself. Its institutions hollowed out, its elites ashamed of its own history, its universities captured by an alliance between the radical left and political Islamism that sees Western values as something to dismantle rather than defend. Free speech, secularism, equality before the law, the idea that a civilization has the right to exist and to defend itself. None of that survives on autopilot.
A techno-republic is how we rebuild that foundation. Not through nostalgia, but through competence. Prove that a free, confident, technologically ambitious West works better than any alternative, and the debate is over.
So yes, last night hurt. But maybe this is the detour that gets us there faster. Let them win this round. Let them show the country who they really are. And be ready.
The renaissance won't come from comfort. It'll come from the moment we stopped being comfortable.
Today, I'm sad. For Texas, for this blue wave. But if Elon taught us anything, it's that losing a round means nothing. Here's why I'm not worried.
Texas sending a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in decades. The Senate and the House flipping. No point lying to ourselves: this is a real defeat.
But a defeat is not the end. They won a battle. We haven't lost the war.
Politics moves in cycles. Midterms almost always punish the party in power. What matters isn't one election night, it's the trajectory over ten, twenty, thirty years.
So look at the situation as it is. No denial, no panic. Understand what didn't work, what needs to change, and move forward.
The only real danger today isn't the result. It's losing your optimism. Discouragement does more damage than any electoral loss ever could.
Look at Elon. Every time the world declared him finished, he came back stronger. Rockets exploded, companies nearly went under, everyone bet against him. I have zero doubt he's the one who wins in the end.
As Corneille wrote: "To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." If victory were easy, it wouldn't mean anything.
Keep your spirits up. Keep playing. Keep fighting on every front: ideas, culture, tech, the ground game.
Stay focused on victory. It won't come overnight. It will take time to build. But it will last, and it will be beautiful.
We get back up. We keep going.
Mark Straton retweeted
Ron DeSantis is the ONLY choice for 2028
He’s actually ACCOMPLISHED everything republicans ask for
Cut spending then Paid down state dept by trading bonds. Took Florida’s schools from the bottom to the top, tackled crime, cleaned up and protected the Everglades, built the most efficient hurricane relief in the world, I could go on for days
Mark Straton retweeted
Ron DeSantis is nailing it with an exact list of every mistake the Trump administration and the GOP did, which cost them the midterms.
Campaign ads targeting congressmen who voted against releasing the Epstein files, the issue of congressional stock trading, and the historical pattern of the sixth year of a presidency bringing large seat losses.
He also observes that in states where Republicans lost heavily, voters still approved conservative ballot measures.
Conservatism is alive and well. But the public is fed up of all the RINOs who fail to represent conservatism and have nothing in the way of conservative values.
Mark Straton retweeted
The truth is the blame lies on every single Senate Republican who allowed the snake to remain a senate leader for the last two years.
Instead of doing what is necessary to codify executive orders and pass election laws, he put UNIPaRTY first.
While President Trump and his administration have worked 24/7 to secure our order, bringing manufacturing back to the United States, handling foreign countries who have screwed us over for long enough, deporting and fixing decades of policies that put America last, he and other members of Congress aided the left with the help of legacy media and the Woke Reich
I stand with @POTUS
Cc: @dbongino @willchamberlain @elonmusk @GuntherEagleman
Mark Straton retweeted
TRUTH NUKE: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: “So here's the thing with Iran and why I think it's been a big, big drag. You know, it was launched. He obviously ran saying he wasn't gonna do a Middle East war; they did. So we had some of our voters who've checked out because they're like, I didn't want any more Middle East wars, and now we're doing it. Had that been wrapped up in like a week, like Venezuela was very quick, people probably wouldn't have been an issue right now.”
“What's happened is it's kind of an open-ended conflict, and it's having a direct impact on people's finances because they're going to the gas pump. They're seeing energy prices have gone up. And, you know, I made a comment this weekend when I was campaigning for our attorney general candidate, and some of these Republicans are saying, ‘Oh, well, the gas, don't worry. You know, it's not a big deal.’”
“Like they're trying to blame Biden for it. No, no, listen, we just gotta be honest. Gas is higher. It hurts people, working-class people, and it's higher because of this conflict. That's just the fact. If you can't admit that to voters, then you're gaslighting them, and they're not gonna listen to you on other things.”
The greatest governor in American history, Ron DeSantis, hit the nail on the head — but of course, Republicans were too stupid to listen.
Mark Straton retweeted
Ron DeSantis is the only Republican who delivered tonight. There was a blue tsunami across the country except for the state he spent 8 years turning ruby red. Objectively the most effective Republican in elected office. Consistent winner for 8 years straight.
Mark Straton retweeted
DeSantis is the ONLY Repulican who can say he has ALREADY done everything GOP voters care about. Balanced the Florida budget, cut spending, ended boys in girls restrooms, stood up to COVID totalitarianism and cut property taxes. I hope he announces his campaign tomorrow.
Mark Straton retweeted
It's Election Day. Four Black Republicans could make history today:
@ByronDonalds, FL Governor
@TWShannon, OK Lt. Governor
@JohnJamesMI, MI Governor
@LisaDemuthMN, MN Governor
Lower taxes. Lower costs. More opportunity. Polls are open. Go vote. #ElectionDay
Mark Straton retweeted
We're seeing this everywhere! GOP is blowing the doors off on election day. Midterm elections showing presidential year turnout!
Let's go!
