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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Zerkwynnd's neighbors were shocked to find that the HOA had no bylaw to prevent him from keeping a 20-foot tall animatronic Abe Vigoda in his yard.
The Democrats' family feud is really heating up this week, especially after psycho leftist Abdul El-Sayed's primary defeat of Democratic establishment darling and alleged centrist Haley Stevens.
The upstart, upfront commies in the party will be campaigning on all of the "free" government stuff that their sucker voters like to hear about. The older, establishment commies will continue to pretend that they're not commies and do the only thing that they've been doing for a decade now: tell voters that they hate President Trump.
In my latest column, I wrote that the Democrats are acting as if President Trump is on the ballot in November. The DNC types have been pretty open about wanting to tie every Republican candidate to the president. They seem to believe that if they say "MAGA" over and over, the voters won't know that they're out of ideas.
The bad news for the Democrats, but great news for the Republicans, is that President Trump will be campaigning for GOP candidates as if he were on the ballot. He's already warming up. This is from my RedState colleague Becca Lower:
On Wednesday, one day after a pit stop in LA for an RNC fundraising dinner, President Trump continued his Western midterms trip in the Silver State, speaking at a rally in Las Vegas for Nevada Republicans on the wins the administration and the GOP have made for the citizens there. But the president had thoughts on the primaries that happened Tuesday night, also.
I recently wrote that rally Trump is my favorite Trump. After years of frustration with Republican candidates being unable to articulate even the simplest of messages, it has been refreshing to have the guy at the top be able to communicate with the voters so brilliantly.
GOP candidates in the past have had difficulty clearly pinpointing the Democrats' vulnerabilities. Some are too timid, while others cling to an image of Republicans as being above-the-fray gentlemen.
President Trump says what needs to be said. This is something that Becca shared in her post:
.@POTUS: While our allies in Congress are working every day to defend the American Dream for you and your children, the Radical Left maniacs are trying to destroy it with the disaster known as Communism. The polls were wrong again last night when they thought it would be a… pic.twitter.com/VcFHo8eVT3
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 5, 2026
The old Republican playbook would have eschewed the use of a dig like "maniacs." The Trump playbook, however, was written to win. Call the commies commies, and never pass up a chance to point out that they're unhinged.
It's a shame that the party can't deploy an army of hologram Trumps to appear with each candidate at every event. His attitude has been rubbing off on a lot of Republicans, but his humorous extemporaneous speaking skills aren't as transferable.
I truly believe that the Democrats' obsession with keeping Trump's name in every campaign conversation — and likely in all the campaign literature — will inspire him to hit the trail in support of Republican candidates even harder.
President Trump is the GOP's biggest weapon and its best hope for countering whatever nefarious plans the Democrats have for the next two elections. He could go the Barack Obama route and not bother to get his hands dirty by fighting on the campaign trail for his party. That's not his style, though.
Despite what his critics love to say, Trump's mission as president has never been about him. He's a billionaire who has a hot wife and a beautiful family. He doesn't need this job for his ego. He does it because he loves this country. And he knows it will be in better hands with the Republicans.
It's the Democrats who are making President Trump the star of the midterm elections. We know that if he's going to be in the spotlight, he will make very good use of his time there.
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Friend of the Briefing Jonathan S. gets us going today:
Looking at that picture of Mr. Talarico, I wonder who was doing the most sweating: him, or the copper pipe he was, ah, torching?? And, seeing no evidence of any "flux", was he fluxing, flexing, or flummoxed? (Some may not know that "flux" is a compound often used in combining copper pieces, like a piece of straight pipe to a "Tee-connector". I helped an uncle do some plumbing back in the early 80's.) As John Wayne said in one (or more) of his movies, "Ya done good, pilgrim"!
I was really thrown by the country day school chem lab smock Talarico was wearing. It seemed to kneecap the intended effect of the picture. Someday, the Dem higher-ups will realize that their candidates wouldn't have to work so hard to fake being normal if they weren't all fly-torturing weirdos. Today is not that day.
Charlotte S. (no relation to Jonathan) is also a Friend of the Briefing:
Dear Kruiser-Man, I, too, liked the line "I'm too busy to research a cure for stupid." I regret to inform you, however, that there is no cure for stupid. It's like being dead; you can't fix it. MB is my favorite read in the morning. Best regards, Charlotte
I don't know, Charlotte, I have a lot of conservative friends who were Democrats when they were younger. Some kind of healing happened there. I am proud to say that I never had a wandering liberal phase in my life.
George S.G. writes:
Kruiser, I'm old enough to remember when Bozo O'Rourke was going to beat Ted Cruz, and out-of-state Democrats pumped $50M dollars into his campaign. Admittedly, he didn't lose by double digits as I had expected, but it wasn't even close. The only thing Talarico has going for him now is that he's all over the airwaves with prevaricating ads, while I have yet to see/hear anything for Paxton. Ideally, these "sky is falling" predictions will energize Republicans to make Talarico's defeat even more impressive.
After the red trickle insanity of the 2022 midterms, I don't boldly predict victory for any Republican candidate. I have too many decades of watching the GOP screw up to ever brim with optimism again. More Republicans have to learn how to not aim at their own feet when they're shooting.
We'll finish with this from Mike S. The subject line for this email was My family has been fighting Commies since 1948 when...
… my mother joined the CIA (it was still on our side back then). Actively killing them started when Uncle Jim landed at Inchon, marched to Chosin, then clawed his way out. Dad’s first war was Korea. He and Jim both pulled tours in ‘Nam. Looks like I may get a chance to actually drop a few Commies in the next several years. It is, after all, a fine family tradition.
Your family picnics must be lit.
Lively correspondence this week! Thanks to all!
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