12/18/2025
Shared from Fred Schott:
I didn’t watch whatever you want to call the President’s speech last night. We all knew it would be a Biden-bashing, I’m-the-greatest, you-owe-me, rerun. But I had to read a summary just to make sure we hadn’t gone to war yet. I say “yet” because also yesterday the spineless, abdicating Congress couldn’t even pass a resolution to confirm their own Constitutionally-mandated responsibility to declare or not declare war.
We would have all been better off if Congress had taken this entire year off and done nothing. Actually a lot better off.
But I digress.
I didn’t read about a Democrat response to Trump’s speech. So, here is what Jeffries or Schumer or someone should have purchased some tv time to say:
The one thing I'll give Donald Trump a lot of credit for is that he's proven basically everything Progressives have been saying about the Republican Party for the past 45 years has been absolutely true, and that nothing the GOP has claimed to support to get money and votes from its members they actually believe in.
Their entire ethos is nothing more than simply stonewalling and opposing whatever Democrats support.
For decades, Republicans claimed to be the party for Christian and “family” values; for small government; for states' rights; for the free market; for keeping government and regulations out of private business; for fiscal responsibility; and for opposing dictators.
Yet here we are with Trump, a president and human being who has proven daily, weekly, this entire year to literally be the antithesis of every one of these.
Every single one.
Let’s review.
“Party of Christian and ‘family’ values.” Trump doesn't go to church. He’s never gone to church unless there’s a photo op involved. Literally, never. He has committed adultery God knows how many times and cheated on every one of his wives. Once with a p**n star while his wife was home with his newborn child. And just for good measure, he fills his highest positions in government with fellow serial adulterers and was besties with the most notorious pe*****le in history.
He doesn't display a single trait of Jesus. None. That is why he isn’t the anti-Christ but he is at least one of, if not the, anti-Jesus.
“Small government.” Trump wants government, which in his mind means him, involved in every aspect of your life. Naming sports teams, who owns social media, what programming is allowed, policing what everyone can say, policing what people are permitted to protest, even who is entitled to the freedoms and rights of citizenship. He wants the government to control everything in your life.
“States rights.” I love this one. When the federal government is led by Democrats, every argument is about states rights. Leave abortion to the states. Leave any possible attempt at sensible gun restrictions, like keeping them away from people with mental health issues or anger management issues, to the states. Leave property rights to the states.
But the minute Trump takes the Oval, how dare California or Massachusetts or Arizona set their own policies or laws. The DOJ and DHS get weaponized to the point of arresting state officials while FEMA funds are used for extortion.
“Free market and keeping government and regulations out of private business.” We’ve never seen anything like the government overreach in the last eleven months. Everything from Jimmy Kimmel’s show to whiplashing tariffs to pardons for billion dollar thieves to who gets to buy Warner Brothers or sits on the Fed are all at the juvenile and narcissistic whim of Donald. All. We now live in a reality where every corporation in America is either genuflecting, blowing air up the emperor’s skirt, or looking over their shoulder to see if they’ll be targeted or rewarded, not by the public or their customers as it should be in a free market economy, but by Trump.
“Fiscal responsibility.” That’s pure fiction for Trump along with every recent Republican president. They blow the budget and the debt wide open. Reagan, the Bushes? Never once came close to a balanced budget. But Trump is a world-class debt expander notwithstanding his usual fictional bluster in 2016 to “eliminate the national debt very easily,” and current claim that tariffs are bringing in “trillions in revenue.” If trillions were coming in our and your grandchildren’s debt would be going down. Your debt has gone up, I hope you are sitting down, 6 billion dollars…per day this year. It has gone up more and faster this year than at any time other than during Covid under Trump’s last year in office.
You want facts? Raw numbers? Ten of the last eleven recessions were
started under Republican Presidents.
The only three Presidents in the past half century to slow the growth of our debt were, ready for it, Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Six out of seven Presidents with the highest job creation rates since World War II were Democrats.
GDP growth, which measures the strength of our entire nation’s economy, under Republican Presidents averages just 2.5%. Under Democrat President’s, it’s a whopping 4.3%. Seventy percent better. That’s more money for our country and for you and for me. Not the smoke-and-mirrors of higher costs with tariffs and then sending just a percentage of what he took out of your pocket all year back to you.
“Opposing dictators.” At least prior Republican Presidents did this. Not our man in the White House now. Orbán? Great guy. Putin? Roll out the red carpet and offer him Ukraine. Xi? Get your advanced computer chips right here for a low, low cost. And don’t even start on the 9/11 House of Saud and terrorist-harboring Qataris. They’re the besties now of our President.
So, let’s give credit to Trump for not even trying to hide the full-bore hypocrisy of the Republican Party’s leaders and their platforms. Every guiding principle they have claimed, when push came to shove, was complete bs. You know what their entire platform has actually been? Get and maintain absolute power so they could grab as much of the monetary pie as they could, legally or illegally, and never be held accountable for it. Sound like anyone’s history that you know?
