The Republican Party should be a big tent, but that big tent shouldn’t include Democrats or Democrat collaborators. Members of our party, from weakness, malice, or delusions of moral superiority, have been betraying us left and right lately, with political mediocrities empowered by the fact that the margins are so close and the issues are so important that even the most ridiculous of these alleged Republicans can seize a moment of outsized power simply by sucking up to the regime media. Much of the focus lately has been on marginal twerps who aren’t even Republicans – that malignant rodent Nick Fuentes makes no bones about hating the GOP, as does the unstable and malicious Candace Owens. They deserve our contempt, but it’s not like they have an (R) after their names. It’s the ones who do who are the real threat. Fortunately, we have leverage over them, and we need to use it ruthlessly to restore the discipline the GOP needs to beat the existential threat that is the left.
I could be talking about the ridiculous Thomas Massie, a pompous buffoon who embraces the silly ideology that is libertarianism. He only matters temporarily, and not that much, since we always know he won’t be with us when we need him. He’s taking his shot because the GOP majority in the House is so small; otherwise, he would go back to being what he always was before, a fringe crank no one cared about. But he’s using this opportunity to grab the spotlight for a brief, shining moment. We’ve got important things to do in 2026 in fighting the Democrats, but we need to spare a moment to fight him. The President is right to support a primary challenge. We can’t tolerate his shenanigans; when he finally goes away, it will be, appropriately enough, as a result of distracting us from important fights, but distracted we must be.
I could be talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is green with envy at the candidates – like Rep. Mike Collins – who actually have a chance of winning back that Georgia Senate seat we need so much. She’s so mad at Donald Trump for refusing to back her certain-to-fail campaign for the seat that she’s defected to the left, to the point of being received by the harpies on “The View” as a prodigal daughter. Trump has hilariously disowned her, complaining about her daily crazy phone calls, among other things, and this is good. She’s created a distraction because her feelings got hurt, but we have to be distracted to police our own. We can’t be a party where “it’s all about me,” and with MTG, it’s all about her. Regardless, she’s got to go; I’m sure she’s going to end up blaming it on the Jews.
And then there’s the State of Indiana, which I take a special interest in since I recently went there to urge the GOP to redistrict 9-0 because we’re in a redistricting fight, and that’s what you do when you can. But there are enough Republicans, alleged Republicans, who, for some reason, refuse to fight the fight, effectively aligning themselves with the Democrat Party that literally wants to disenfranchise and defenestrate the very Indiana Republican voters these clowns purport to represent.
What’s happening in the Hoosier State is what typically happens in deep red states where nobody can get elected to office unless they’re nominally Republican. You end up with a lot of nominal Republicans, people who would anywhere else join the Democratic Party if it weren’t moribund. But you can solve that problem. We have begun the process of doing that here in Texas, my second home state. There were a bunch of Republicans who were happy to go along and get along with the Democrats and block conservative progress. Conservative Texans organized, focused, and got rid of a bunch of them at election time. The process is not complete yet, but it can be done, and Texas managed to redistrict.
Indiana’s governor, Mike Braun, is pushing to redistrict by calling the legislature back into session to get two more seats. But just the other day, Senate Pro Tem Rodric Bray announced that there weren’t enough GOP votes to do it, and he will not call the Senate into session. Who were the other reprobates? Sources say key Benedict Arnolds include Senators Rick Niemeyer, Brian Buchanan, Dan Denulc, Blake Dorit, and Greg Goode.
Now, these mediocrities all give off the vibe of that guy at a party you avoid because he wants to try to sell you term life insurance. It’s pretty clear they’re in the Senate, not to actually serve their constituents by supporting conservative progress and defending them from the left that wants to Mandani America, but instead to strut around enjoying what is doubtless the pinnacle of their lives, being addressed as an Indiana state senator and treated accordingly. That’s almost as pathetic as their spinelessness.
Now, Indiana has spawned loser Republicans before. There’s Mike Pence, the look-at-me Christian who never met a Democrat he didn’t yearn to surrender to in the name of Muh Norms. And there’s Mitch Daniels, the preening Cory Booker of the Midwest. But there are good people, too. Right now, they have a superstar senator in Jim Banks, who is four-square for redistricting and backs President Trump 100%. Senator Banks is exactly the kind of Republican a state like Indiana should have, instead of these simpering eunuchs.
But they also have Senator Todd Young, who apparently finds Donald Trump and other Republicans with spines icky. Now, maybe I’m wrong and he does have a spine, but we haven’t seen it, and we would have over the last weekend if he did. You see, that
Senator Greg Goode guy who is conspiring to allow the Democrats to take over the House of Representatives and allow them to spend the last two years of the Trump 2.0 administration blocking our agenda, launching pointless investigations, and ridiculous impeachments, is Todd Young’s minion. Yes, Greg Goode – a provisionally male-identifying traitor who is personally undermining the President and betraying every single Republican not only in Indiana, but the country – is Senator Tom Young’s State Director! Here’s what Todd had to say about this gelatinous mass of treacherous goo when he hired him as his personal representative to the people of Indiana:
“I am extremely excited to welcome Greg Goode to our team as State Director. Greg is a proven leader who is passionate about public service and improving Indiana’s communities. His talent and wealth of experience will help our office better serve and represent all Hoosiers, and I look forward to partnering with him,” said Senator Young.”
So, I have some questions for Sen. Todd Young about how he’s currently “partnering with” Greg Goode, like why His Senatorness is reading this article – or having some intern read it to him – instead of being on the phone, right this second, incinerating his personal Grima Wormtongue? Sen. Young was a Marine officer, and therefore shouldn’t have to be told how to light a fire under non-hackers, but he apparently can’t accomplish this basic mission. Let me help. Take the cell phone from one of your myriad underlings, hit the speed dial for your State Director – the one who is betraying the President, your constituents, and, frankly, you – and repeat after me:
“Listen you, stupid dip****, I don’t know what the hell you were thinking, but you better un*** your **** before I come back there and kick your *** into next week. You stupid piece of ****, fix this. If we don’t have a 9-0 map by New Year’s, I’m going to make you my personal project. When I finish with you, you won’t be able to get elected county cornhole inspector. Is there anything unclear about what you’re going to do, ****stick? I didn’t think so.” *click*
See, that’s called innovative, decisive, and uncompromising leadership, Todd. Now, you may have already had this conversation with your subordinate. I hope you have. I hope I’m wrong. But I know this Army officer wouldn’t tolerate one of my subordinates embarrassing me like this. I don’t understand how a Marine would, because it does embarrass you. It’s all on you, because you’re the boss. You’re the high poobah of moderate Indiana Republicans. The buck stops on your desk.
So, this is a test – a test of you. You’re not running again until 2028, but what you do now will determine what your constituents do then. I’ve been to Indiana. I’ve spoken to the Republicans there. They want a 9-0 map. They don’t want a bunch of prissy posers squealing in their high-pitched voices about norms, but that’s what your boy’s doing. If you haven’t already fixed it – and if you have, I will gladly praise you for doing your duty as a Republican, a Marine, and a man – fix it now.
For too long, we Republicans have failed to hold our politicians accountable. You can’t go on the offensive if you don’t have security in your own rear area. Well, we don’t at the moment. The Fredocons are in the wire. We’ve got far too many pols in this party who think it’s all about them and their agendas, and who refuse to notice that the Democrats just elected a communist who hates Jews and Christians, or rather someone who’s an open communist who hates Jews and Christians instead of the normal covert communists who hate Jews and Christians. This is a serious fight. We’re trying to save our country, and we’ve got a bunch of clowns who’d rather jump into the spotlight for some strange new respect by the regime media. We don’t have time to deal with them, but we’ve got to make time. And we’ve got to make them pay at election time.
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