Just my feeling...The obamites are calling the shots. He and his wife or whatever it is are more powerful now than 2008 - 2016 because they are not elected and she/he/it is the most hate filled person I've ever seen in the public eye. Briben (stealing that from skip) was a complete moron without a moral compass in 1988 and he is no better in 2024. He's never in his life been anything but a morally corrupt parasite and an idiot to boot. The man cannot tell the truth, never has, but he gets a pass from everyone. The obamites are extremely dangerous because their thought process is basically that the end justifies the means. Obama himself admitted to that statement in speeches when he was president. Unfortunately, I don't see another republican winning the presidency simply because the obamites have the court system to prosecute their enemies, the press to persecute their rivals, and the voting in the 10-12 counties they need is handled by their friends at dominion. The good news, we have a house and senate to check the powers. The bad news, the executive branch controls the judicial branch nominations. IMO, there is nothing we can do because we all have property to lose, families to care for, and retirement to worry about yet illegals who contributed very little to their country come here for the freebies so they don't care, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. In Trump's words, we are not and will not be getting the best that other countries have to offer.
There was a recent study done and the estimated "comfortable" carrying capacity of the earth is around 4 billion people. We currently have over 7.9 billion people with the stats showing us going over 9 billion sometime between 2030 - 2040. Now to put that in perspective, DSM and the burbs have about 700k people. Just imagine 10-15 years from now the world has to accommodate 1,428+ population areas equal to that and then build the roads, cars, energy, communications, and especially healthcare...The communist countries wont allow them in so guess what...We are a target for these new population centers. And guess who owns most of our protein supply chain, South America and Asia, pathetic!
This will likely be a very unpopular opinion but at the very least the decline sped up under W with his illegal wars and close relationship with the obomites upon leaving office. I honestly believe the true decline started on his watch. That administration did us very few favors. Deep down we all know Trump should not have ran let alone received the nomination this year but we all have to do the best we can now. Can he do it, dang right he can but will he get the chance? Perhaps we will have a constitutional crisis by electing an obviously unfit president or the unlikely scenario that the one who wins will be serving time. Unlikely, but we can't rule anything out.