Russian Roulette 2026: How “principled” GOP Senators are betraying Trump, MAGA and the American people.

Back in 2016, I, along with a lot of people, made the argument that that election was critical to the future of the country.  It was and America made the right choice.  I made the same argument in 2020 and while America made the right choice the Democrats ran a coup d'état and we suffered through four years of watching whoever was controlling Joe Biden basically run the country into the ground.  Then, two years ago I made the same argument, that basically, if America made the wrong choice the Republic was going to soon find its end.  Thankfully America made the correct choice again.

But, “Come on,” you’re probably saying, “America can’t be on the cusp of collapse at virtually every election. You’re just fearmongering…”  Well, that’s not technically true.  Just because you survive three pulls of the trigger in a game of Russian Roulette doesn’t mean the next one can’t kill you.

Of course 2028 is a long way off and a lot can happen between now and then.  But the truth is, 2026 is here and while we may be playing with a smaller caliber weapon, the potential damage is almost as great… as has been demonstrated by the last few weeks, and the last few days in particular.

As it relates to the last few weeks, I’m of course talking about Nick Shirley putting a spotlight on the Democrat enabled Somalian treachery in Minnesota.  I’m not actually talking about the money being stolen from taxpayers, per se.  No, as bad as that is on its face, what’s worse is what it communicates about the modus operandi of Democrats around the country: i.e. import 3^rd world immigrants and figure out ways to enrich them at the public trough. That same kind of model is happening across the country from Maine to Maryland to California and countless states in between.  Different groups, different scams, same result: public money that makes its way into the hands of immigrants and magically comes out the other side as votes for Democrats.

To put something of a fine point on it, Kevin Bass just did a great analysis looking at states Americans are moving into or out of, correlated by those who provide benefits to illegal aliens vs. those who don’t.  Not surprisingly, 9 out of the top 10 states from which Americans are fleeing provide benefits to illegals while 9 out of the top 10 states to which Americans are heading, don’t.  Not coincidentally, 9 out of 10 of the first group are Democrat states while 9 out of 10 of the second are Republican.  The bottom line is, Democrats increasingly don’t represent the values or interests of Americans and are systematically replacing American voters with immigrants, most of whom are illegal. 

And if there were any question as to whether this is really going on, we don’t have to wonder, courtesy of leftist CIA agent and new Virginia governor, Abigail Spanberger.  What was her first official act as governor?  Why rescind ex-Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that required Virginia law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, of course.  Literally the first thing she did was basically turn the once red state into a sanctuary state.  Democrats, who now control both houses and the governor’s office quickly introduced a phalanx of hard left policies such as guaranteeing illegal aliens free education, making it illegal to hand count ballots and requiring government award 42% of their programs based on DEI criteria.

So what does this have to do with 2026?  Everything.

As it stands right now, 2026 is going to be a bloodbath for the GOP.  Almost across the board you see Republican voters angry and upset with the GOP.  Have they cut spending?  No.  Have they shut down the federal grift mills that funnel money to leftists?  No.  But most importantly, have they done something, anything on election integrity?  No. 

If there is any one issue that animates Americans in 2026 it’s voter ID, AKA election integrity.  Why?  Because virtually everything about government funnels into or out of it.  From Democrats importing 3^rd world voters to trillions of dollars that goes to support illegals to the cancer of local Democrat rule, it’s all part of the election integrity ecosystem. 

But the Republicans in the Senate don’t care about that.  They, like elites everywhere sit back in their cushy offices with their guaranteed paychecks, armed security and safe neighborhoods and laugh at the hard working Americans who are paying taxes to support illegals, fighting to keep their homes and looking over their shoulders for criminals loosed on the world by Democrats.  How can we tell?  Because the blind squirrel GOP over in the House accidentally tripped over a nut and sent the SAVE act to the Senate last April.  And what has the Senate done with it? Nothing.

“But,” you might say, “almost every GOP Senator states that they are in favor of the SAVE act.”  Sure they do. Even Mr. Ethanol himself Chuck Grassley did a flip flop in less than 24 hours after he stated very clearly that he would not support it. 

So there we go. We should get it. But no, we don’t. We can’t.  Why, because Americans are being forced to play Russian Roulette, only instead of one round and five empty chambers, we’re playing with all six chambers loaded… and there are a bunch of backup rounds nearby in case one falls out.  And what are those chambers loaded with you might ask?  Senators! 

In order for the SAVE act to pass, currently the filibuster needs to be overcome. But the reality is, it doesn’t.  All we need are 50 Senators to vote to eliminate the filibuster and VP Vance would break the tie.  But we can’t get those 50 Senators because there are almost a dozen GOP traitors who would rather allow Democrats to destroy America so they can pat themselves on the back that they didn’t nuke the filibuster. 

These hypocrite GOP Senators pretend they are doing the people’s work, but in reality they’re doing anything but.  From stealing elections to funding fraud to basically legalizing crime across the country, Democrats are no longer representing Americans.  They are purposefully turning America into a failed 3^rd world dystopia.  And by not eliminating the filibuster (something Democrats will do the first opportunity they get…) these Senators are basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “I didn’t do that.” But in reality, they did.  It’s like watching a man drowning and standing on the dock with a life preserver but refusing to throw it to him.  Sure, you can technically say you didn’t drown him, but you’re responsible for his death nonetheless.

For anyone paying attention over the last decade, it’s crystal clear that the filibuster serves only to block Republicans.  From the moment Harry Reid changed the rules for presidential appointments in 2013 it’s been clear where that road leads.  But treacherous Senators like Mike Crapo, Tom Tillis, James Lankford and the other grifters pretend they’re being principled by not eliminating it.  They’re not, unless their principles include eviscerating the Trump agenda, sidelining the MAGA movement and betraying the American people. Because that’s what happens in January 2027 when the Democrats take the House and perhaps even the Senate this November. 

 

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Braveheart Circa 2026, This Time In The United States Congress

Braveheart is great entertainment, if less than perfect history. Mel Gibson plays the hero, William Wallace, who battles to deliver the Scots from the hated English, who had brutally murdered his father, brother, and wife. Wallace attracts a growing following as he begins to defeat the English in several skirmishes and battles. Following the Battle of Stirling Bridge, where his heavily outmatched and outnumbered troops defeat the English, Wallace becomes something of a legend and demands that the nobility join him in the fight.

The nobles, who have holdings in both Scotland and England, while not enthusiastic about English occupation, want nothing to do with the peasant rebellion. After a tense meeting, Wallace gains a promise of noble support for the upcoming battle from their ostensible leader, Robert the Bruce.

Wallace carefully plans the battle (the Battle of Falkirk) but is dispirited when he calls for the noble cavalry to take the field, only to watch as they turn and abandon the fight. Betrayed, the English are victorious. An injured Wallace goes after the English King, only to have one of the king’s defenders intercept him. The defender unhorses Wallace, but when he approaches the Scotsman, Wallace disarms him and discovers that his opponent is none other than Robert the Bruce.

A conflicted Bruce then helps Wallace escape, and the now-mythic figure takes a cathartic vengeance on the nobles. He is then betrayed a second time and ends up dying on the rack with “Freedom” his final utterance.

Anyone who’s ever seen the movie can remember the visceral reaction they had when the nobles turn and leave Wallace in the lurch. It’s been thirty years, but I remember it as if was yesterday. But the funny thing is, the reason I even thought of it is that I feel the exact same way today, but towards a different set of nobles.

What nobles, you ask? Why congressional Republicans, of course.

The GOP in Congress has left Donald Trump and America out to dry just as much as the nobles did to Wallace and the Scots. And the betrayals aren’t just one battle; there are countless ways the GOP is shivving the American people.

First and foremost is the lack of election reform. The argument that the 2020 election was a coup is now an established fact. From Georgia to Arizona to Minnesota and beyond, election fraud seems to have been the norm rather than the exception. Add to that the simple existence of a lack of voter ID in so many blue states, and it makes one wonder when America’s last honest election was.

Yet somehow, the Republicans in the Senate have refused to pass the SAVE Act. Ensuring honest elections is the single most important thing on their plate, but somehow they can’t seem to get it done.

Another thing the Senate GOP can’t seem to get done is abolishing the filibuster. We constantly hear that it’s a check on the other party if they return to power, but the reality is, it’s not, as Harry Reid demonstrated in 2013.

Having failed to eliminate it in 2024 because of holdouts by “independents” Manchin and Sinema, you can be certain that Democrats will eliminate the 60-vote threshold the next time they can muster 51 votes. So, instead of eliminating it now and doing good things for the American people while the GOP holds both chambers and the White House, the eunuch John Thune and the rest of the RINO grifters in the upper chamber apparently have better things to do, like give $5.7 billion to immigrants.

But of course, it’s not just voting. Across the country, activist, traitorous federal judges are seeking to usurp President Trump’s powers, yet Congress does nothing about it. Congress literally controls the federal judiciary; it’s right there in the Constitution, yet the GOP’s elected members do nothing and allow judges to exercise a stranglehold over the Executive Branch.

There’s Obamacare, too, which has been a disaster from day one but has been a fundraising bonanza for Republicans. Not only can’t Republicans repeal it, but they also can’t even keep their members in line, as 17 Republicans in the House just voted to extend the subsidies for the hated program.

Then there’s fraud. Last year, in the wake of the hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud identified by DOGE, the Senate voted not to codify the DOGE cuts, with three Republicans joining Democrats to help protect the waste.

But honestly, it’s not just Congress, it’s the White House as well. The reality is, the FBI and the Justice Department have yet to indict anyone for practically anything. 2020 election fraud? J6 persecutions? Russiagate? COVID? And more. This is in stark contrast to the Biden administration arresting practically everyone associated with Donald Trump, up to and including Trump himself.

Also at the top of the list of GOP failures is immigration. Across the country, we have states, cities, and citizens actively, sometimes violently, seeking to thwart the federal government from executing its immigration powers, to the point where governors, mayors, and police are threatening to arrest ICE personnel for simply doing their constitutional duty.

The reality is, every one of those officials is obstructing justice and should be arrested. And the professional activists who are assaulting ICE agents across the country should be as well. As America learned in 1968 and 2020, if you allow leftist mobs to obstruct lawful business or commit crimes, you get more of both.

With at least 10% of the population made up of illegal aliens and a cabal of billionaire leftists funding the protests and violence, this problem is not going away. Indeed, if Republicans don’t do something soon, the summer of ‘26 is going to make the 2020’s summer of love look like a little girl’s tea party.

But somehow, the people funding the insurrection haven’t been arrested, and few people on the ground have been arrested. Congress and the White House shirk their responsibility here at their own peril. They could easily utilize National Guard troops to control the violence. They could cut off all monies going to states, cities, or NGOs that are assisting illegals or obstructing ICE. They could cut every single dollar going to illegal immigrants via any program. But thus far, they haven’t.

The GOP is flirting with disaster, at Donald Trump’s, and ultimately America’s expense. While they’re busy faking vacations and being confused about what war is, the clock is ticking to the midterms, and much hinges on that outcome. This is particularly true as it relates to voting integrity.

Congressional Republicans see Democrats trying to destroy the country, and yet they do nothing to stop it. At some point, voters will tell themselves, what’s the point of voting for Republicans if they never fix anything?

They think they’ll be safe when the left comes back to power because they see themselves as modern-day Mr. Smith Goes to Washington characters in an Americana that is long past. Besides, they’re above power politics. They clearly haven’t been paying attention. Power politics is all the left does, and they’re willing to lie, cheat, and steal their way to victory in their goal to destroy America. Everyone sees that. But the swamp weasel RINOs pretend it’s beneath them.

The reality is, America is the last best hope for Western civilization, and voters gave Republicans the opportunity to protect it, but the Republicans are too busy doing interviews and trading stocks to bother. Their treachery is just as vile as that of the nobles who betrayed William Wallace, only worse. Voters see that and will likely respond accordingly at the polls in November.

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The American Revolution Wasn’t Revolutionary—But the Constitution Was (And 70% of what Congress spends money on is unconstitutional)

During college one of my professors in Political Philosophy said that the only real revolutions in modern western civilization were the French and the Russian.  He was right, but I didn’t quite get it at the time.  I do now.

While the American revolution was ostensibly a revolution, in reality it was more of a divorce where the kids kept the same parents, they just lived with their Mom.  Their Dad was still their Dad, but they didn’t have much to do with him. In contrast, the French and Russian revolutions were basically the children taking their parents out back and shooting them…

The American revolution was a revolution, but it wasn’t revolutionary. But what was revolutionary was the United States Constitution. 

For the first time in history, a government was formed by a written constitution that described rights that were inherent from God (as articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of most of the original 13 states) upon which the government could not impede.  What’s more, the entire thing was created for the specific purpose of limiting the power of government. This was made clear by the Bill of Rights, which—beginning with Massachusetts—became the quid pro quo for getting the Constitution ratified. And in case anyone missed the point, the last of the ten amendments that make up the Bill of Rights states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

That was every bit as revolutionary as the French sending King Louis XVI to the guillotine or the Bolsheviks shooting Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family in a basement.  But what’s more, unlike those other two revolutions, the American Constitution didn’t result in rivers of blood and a collapse of society.  On the contrary, it set the American experiment on its slow but methodical march to revolutionize the world and unleash the potential of man.

The American experiment worked… for almost 200 years.  Of course it didn’t work perfectly for everyone all the time, nor for some people any of the time, but for the overwhelming majority of people who have lived in the United States over the course of its existence, life has been better here than almost any other place on Earth.

But that experiment is in the process of collapsing. Why?  Simple.  Because the nation that was birthed with a constitution specifically geared towards limiting government power has metastasized into a nation where the government controls virtually everything. 

Today it’s almost impossible for a person to get out of bed and go through a normal day without out violating one or more laws.  Just the federal government alone, which was the government the Constitution sought to control the most, today has so many laws that it itself can’t tell you how many there are. Justice Gorsuch estimates as many as 300,000.  To his credit, President Trump sees the problem. 

But that is just one part of the problem.  Another, even more dire, is playing itself out on our X accounts and on TV right in front of us – except obviously, the MSM…  I’m of course talking about the criminal enterprise that is known as what seems like the entire Somali population in America. It appears that Somalians in America have stolen almost as much money from American taxpayers as the entire GDP of Somalia itself. 

This of course comes mere months after we saw DOGE discover the USAID / NGO grift machine documenting tens of billions of taxpayer dollars going to fund countless leftist programs.  Not surprisingly, both involve Democrats… but that’s an issue for another day. 

As enraging as all of this is, these treacheries are just a drop in the bucket of where America has gone off her Constitutional rails. One need to look no farther than the federal budget to understand it. Today, 70% of federal spending goes to things that did not exist when the Constitution was written. 

And we’re not talking about air traffic control towers or NASA.  No, these are programs where government basically takes taxpayer’s money and gives it to someone else. And what would those things be? Social Security, Health, Medicare, Education & Income security. (While SS is not redistribution, it is money the government demands and then controls the distribution of.) That’s fully 70% of federal funding, clocking in at a cool $4.4 trillion. A century before, domestic spending – at that time usually on roads and farm subsidies – made up less than 13% of the federal budget.  Another way of looking at this is that in 1821 federal spending made up 2.5% of America’s total GDP while today it’s in excess of 23%.

The fraud in Minnesota and via USAID are merely the most blatant examples of a system that has gone rouge.  Half of American households pay essentially no income taxes while 100 million Americans receive some sort of government assistance.  And the icing on the cake is that we’re not even spending our own money, we’re borrowing to do so, and today the national debt stands  at 100% of GDP and unfunded mandates at twice that.

Between the stultifying regulations, the income redistribution and the rampant, government sanctioned fraud dressed up like social programs, Americans have betrayed their birthright.

America became the most powerful and consequential nation in human history specifically because of her explicitly limited government. For a period of almost 200 years she stood as a beacon of freedom and hope and opportunity. 

To the outside world that illusion of greatness may remain, but the reality is, much like the French Ancien régime before the revolution, there is a cancer at its core. And that cancer is government.  Not government per se, but rather an out-of-control government that regulates too much, spends too much and controls too much.  Our government has become a leviathan in every manner possible and its tentacles and largesse have undercut the foundation upon which the nation was founded. 

With the Democrat party’s Stalinist leanings and Stasi like practices getting too difficult for free men to tolerate, the election of Donald Trump was a requisite for averting a real revolution. But it’s not sufficient.  The America that changed the world for the better, that unleashed a level of human achievement unlike any other cannot survive as a borg, which is exactly what it has become. 

If Donald Trump and the mostly useless GOP Congress really want to actually make America great again, starting in 2026 they will turn their metaphorical guns and scalpels on the government itself and begin to bring back the primary idea that made America great in the first place:  Limited government. Without that, everything else is little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and the outcome will be the same.