“Former House Speaker Paul Ryan in an interview Wednesday with the Washington Post bashed former President Donald Trump and “Trump populism,” lamenting that it was now the “establishment.”
He said:
I am in the minority my party right now. I’m not in the establishment. I’m frankly an anti-establishment Republican. And you, I think you can safely argue — I don’t enjoy acknowledging this — that Trump is the establishment and Trump populism is the establishment and that Trump populism is this more isolationist strain that I think is wrong and dangerous and I don’t support, but that does represent a large swath of Republican voters.”
You know, Ryan is one of those people who blames everyone but himself.
When he and the other Vichy Republican, Mitt Romney, got whooped by Obama in the 202 Presidential Election, it wasn’t because Obama was so great and marvelous, it was because the American people could not force themselves to vote for a couple of professional political jellyfish who would rather reach across the aisle than stand up for their constituents.
The reason that Paul Ryan does not like Trump and does not accept the Populist Movement that has taken over the Republican Party is the fact that he is an elitist snob.
You won’t find him down in Gulf Shores, Alabama during the summer. You will find him up at Martha’s Vineyard with the Republican and Democrat Elite.
There is no doubt that Trump is different from Establishment Republicans like Ryan.
Trump actually enjoys talking to people and cares about people.
You will find him bringing pizzas to firehouses or feeding college athletes hamburgers at a celebratory dinner.
I find it funny that Trump used to be the darling of the Elitist Class, throwing lavish parties and contributing to charity while rebuilding the New York City Ice Rink and hosting a popular television show.
Meanwhile, Paul Ryan left politics and became a member of the Fox News Board of Directors, where he helped to change the news channel in ways that did not go unnoticed by the American public.
Fox News is still a strong alternative to the Main Stream News, but you can definitely tell that Paul Ryan has something to do with some of their programming decisions, including their decision not to carry Trump Rallies.
Paul Ryan is a prime example of a Trump Derangement Syndrome-suffering Vichy Republican who can not understand why average Americans do not believe the way that he does.
You think he would have learned something from getting his Professional Politician Butt whooped in 2012.
“GOP Senators blocked a hidden migration bailout for the Democrats’ sanctuary cities and states when they voted against the border bill pushed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
The GOP revolt leaves Democrat mayors and city politicians scrambling for funds they need to support and hide President Joe Biden’s growing population of poor migrants during the 2024 election year.
“It’s a huge problem for the Democrats because the Biden administration was counting on being able to shovel all this money onto the state and local allies,” said Jessica Vaughan, the policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies, adding:
The Governor of Massachusetts is feeling the squeeze in a huge way. She’s having to cut firefighter budgets and take over inner-city recreational complexes and keep paying for all these hotel rooms for this huge number of illegal migrants. Now there is no help on the way. The check is not in the mail.
“The state estimates it will cost $915 million to keep the emergency shelters running [in 2024],” the Boston Globe reported in December 2023.
Democrats are now pushing to transfer Medicaid funding for poor Americans to provide housing and aid subsidies to the Democrats’ imported migrants.” (Courtesy Breitbart.com)
The Uniparty (Vichy Republicans like Mitch McConnell and the Far Left Democrats) have no qualms about the fact that Americans come last on their list of Political Priorities.
They care more about illegal immigrants and laundering money in Ukraine than they do about average Americans.
The Uniparty places its own needs above the people who sent them to Capitol Hill.
That is the reason that McConnell and his fellow Vichy Republicans hate Trump.
As he began to try to do during his first tenure as president, Trump wants to drain the Washington Swamp of professional bureaucrats, bought off professional politicians, and those who put America last.
He is a threat to McConnell and the rest of the Uniparty.
That is why McConnell would not endorse the politicians whom Trump had suggested needed Republican Party endorsement during the 2022 Midterm Elections.
Evidently, McConnell is like his friends across the aisle, believing that those who are breaking into our country across our Southern Border are potential future voters who he can sway to his side.
What politicians like McConnell and the Far Left Democrats don’t realize or just plain don’t care about is the fact that we are getting the dregs of a lot of countries. Criminals are entering our country over the Southern border. They include not just criminals but terrorists, as well as possible military from countries like China.
I’m sure that the American citizens living in Sanctuary Cities like Chicago and New York are positively thrilled that the Uniparty wants to send the money they pay in taxes for Government Benefits like Medicaid in order to enrichen the lives of these illegal immigrants.
Hopefully, they will show their displeasure this November.
As we begin a New Year, we find our Sovereign Nation more divided than it has been in decades, almost as it was before the start of the Civil War.
In the past few years, Americans have had to endure a devastating coronavirus, released by Communist China, which took a horrible toll in terms of American lives, businesses, and jobs.
Then, just as Americans were starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel, it turned out to be an oncoming train in the form of Election Fraud, in which a demented old man, who could not even draw a campaign crowd of 200, supposedly inspired 80 million Americans to vote him in as President of the United States of America.
Now, in 2024, in the last (Thank God) year of the worst Presidency in American History, the Democratic Hierarchy and the Vichy Republicans have proven that they care more about keeping former President Donald J Trump out of the 2024 Presidential Election by using Political Lawfare against him or through appointed judges and politicians in Blue States attenpting to disqualify him through specious use of the 14th Amendment, laundering money by sending it to Ukraine, leaving our Southern Border wide open, and spending taxpayer dollars giving special interest groups “free” money than in making our Sovereign Nation stronger and making the lives of average Americans better.
Why are those who claim to be our “public servants” so adamant about going against the wishes of the American people?
According to a man who was an American Legend, it all has to do with the way Liberals look at things…
…I always thought I was a liberal but I came up terribly surprised when I found I was a right-wing conservative extremist…I have always listened to every human being I’ve ever met about how I should feel. But this so-called new liberal group… they never listen to your point of view and they make a decision as to what you think and they’re articulate enough and in control of enough of the press to force that image out for the average person. For some reason, maybe it’s these pictures, they have not been able to do that with me…it hasn’t affected my career in popularity in spite of the fact that they’ve tried to make them do it. There isn’t a hell of a lot we can do to change human behavior. We keep making laws to try to change human behavior but we can’t do it…You’re being conned into Keynesianism and socialism now but it isn’t going to stop the selfishness of human behavior. It isn’t going to stop the greed. If you take $20 and give a dollar to every son of a b!tch in the room, you come back a year later one of the b@st@rds will have most of the money. It’s just human nature. We’re never gonna whip it with a lot of laws.
As communication gets better and you make people conscious of somebody in trouble, starving or something like that, the average person will help…I think there are people who try to affect a thinking where they know more than some other son of a b!tch and try to pull a false impression on what human nature is. We’ve proven we go back to hope at the first opportunity…and bam they’re out there ready to grab it. So we are optimistic; we have to be optimistic. What else would we be if you lose optimism?” – John Wayne
The negativity and bitterness of the Modern American Liberals to whom the Duke was referring has been on display for the entire world to see, ever since the night of November 8, 2016, when reality threw a bucket of cold water in their faces, putting them on notice that average Americans were tired of their failed political philosophy and their perpetually morose opinion about the Greatest Country on the Face of the Earth.
For 8 long years under Barack Hussein Obamaand continuing with the election of Donald J Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America, there has been a constant chorus provided by the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism, now known as Modern American Liberals, concerning how uncaring, how bigoted, how xenophobic, how narrow-minded, and how just plain awful and stupid average Americans are to continue to love this country, to honor its flag, and to continue to hold dear the America Legacy of Traditional Faith and Values.
For proof of this, please check out the Kangaroo Court known as the J6 Committee Hearings and the ongoing protests supporting Radical Islamic Terrorists of Hamas.
Luckily, the overwhelming majority of those of us who live between the coasts do not live our lives like the mindless lemmings whom I have named the “New Bolsheviks” and the “New Politboro” in Washington DC.
The rugged individualism of previous generations of Americans flows through our veins. The American “Can-Do” Spirit has taken us from the bottom of the Ocean to the surface of the moon.
The overwhelming majority of Americans will stand by one another in times of crisis, as shown by the outpouring of support throughout natural disasters like tornadoes and hurricanes and horrible events such as wildfires.
The intestinal fortitude that is our heritage as Americans…along with that Still, Small Voice which still resides in each and every one of us, will continue, I pray, to guide our nation, and spur us on, to stay vigilant and protect our American Freedom, just as my Parents’ Generation did, against the Axis of Evil.
It is that same Divine Spark which leads our Best and Brightest as they protest and serve our nation’s interests in all corners of the globe. It is also found in our First Responders and the men and women of Law Enforcement who are willing to give their lives to protect our municipalities.
The Great Communicator, President Ronald Reagan, summarized what I have been trying to say better than I ever could.
In 1964, in his famous stump speech, “A Time for Choosing”, The Great Communicator said,
It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, “We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government.”
This idea — that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power — is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream–the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
As we enter the New Year with an uncertain and frightening future facing our country, it will be up to us to continue what was begun on the night of November 8, 2016 and continue the fight to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, regardless of the words and actions of those who wish to change America into a totalitarian Marxist third-world barrio.
While I do not know what tomorrow holds, I know Who holds tomorrow…and me.
“And, life is worth the living, just because HE LIVES.”
Joe Biden almost falls twice going up the stairs today. Don’t worry, guys, he’s totally got the double wars in Europe and the Middle East covered. pic.twitter.com/4cDVV9y1ml
“The Biden administration sent $33.7 million from the American Rescue Plan, a spending bill meant to combat COVID, to a Palestinian relief organization that has previously been accused of providing safe harbor to terrorists in Gaza and has been referred to as “effectively a branch of Hamas.”
The American Rescue Plan, a COVID-19 relief bill pushed through Congress with unanimous Democrat support in the Senate and almost unanimous in the House, allocated $33.7 million to the United Nations Relief & Works Agency through the State Department’s Migration and Refugee Assistance program, according to data from USASpending.gov, as part of $500 million that was included in the bill for the State Department to fund migration and refugee assistance.
UNRWA has faced intense scrutiny in recent years from critics who say the group has not done enough to prevent aid from reaching the hands of Hamas terrorists. UNRWA locations have reportedly housed Hamas activities and spread Hamas propaganda in schools.
In 2014, the left-leaning New Republic described UNRWA as “effectively a branch of Hamas.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)
This week, the Resident in our White House had another falling incident, once again managing to fall UP stairs.
… While the leadership of Israel has united and are giving the savages of Hamas the retribution they so greatly deserve for slaughtering innocent adults, children, and babies.
Meanwhile, in America, the Democratic Presidential Administration and the Republican Majority led House of Representatives can’t seem to walk and chew gum at the same time.
An American President would have threatened Hamas with annihilation the moment that they took our citizens as hostages.
Former President Donald J Trump never negotiated to get back Americans held hostage by our enemies.
America’s enemies knew that he was not messing around and that their lives were forfeit if our people were not let go.
He told them so.
What has the Biden Administration done?
They sent the Barney Fife Wannabe Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, to assure Bibi Netanyahu and the people of Israel that we have their back, even though Biden just freed up “with restrictions” (cough) six billion dollars belonging to their greatest enemy, the Radical Islamic Terrorist Country of Iran.
As the above article shows, the Biden Administration has been supporting Hamas financially, just like Iran.
Sheesh.
In the House of Representatives, both political parties are fighting over leadership while our country is falling apart.
The House needs a strong Republican leader like Jim Jordan.
The only problem is the Vichy Establishment Republicans and the Far Left Democrats don’t like him because he actually has a spine and is not afraid to stand up for what is right.
…And …and he supports Truuumppp!
While the House fiddles, America is burning.
Y’know, come to think of it, Biden falling up those stairs this week is a pretty good metaphor for the lack of leadership coming out of Washington, DC.
Man, I sure could use some “mean tweets” right about now.
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says ill-fated attempts by state Republicans to call a special session to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis are not going to work.
Kemp made the comments during a press conference on Thursday, saying it has nothing to do with his personal feelings surrounding the district attorney’s case against former President Donald Trump.
“Up to this point, I have not seen any evidence that DA Willis’ actions or lack thereof warrant action by the prosecuting attorney oversight commission. As long as I’m governor, we are going to follow the law and the Constitution — regardless of who it helps politically,” Kemp said.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)sition without actually doing anything.
So, Georgia is run by a Vichy Republican Governor protecting an out-of-control Democrat DA (In this case, these initials have two different meanings) out to make a name for herself by jailing Donald J Trump and 18 other Republicans.
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Not really.
If Kemp was a Conservative Republican, he would not be standing up against President Trump and the “D… A..” DA would be looking for another job.
He would have sense enough to be able to observe all of the backlash against the Fox News Channel and all of the other Vichy Republicans who have come out against the former President’s Campaign to become POTUS again.
Instead, Kemp is behaving like DA Willis’ and her Democrat Elite Bosses’ lap dog.
He must have taken Mitt Romney’s Video Training Seminar “How to Be Democrat in Republican’s Clothing”.
I always wonder how sell-outs like this disgrace to the South look at themselves in the mirror.
Then I say to myself,
Self, they’re not looking the mirror. They’re too busy counting all of money that the Democrats are paying them under the table to betray those who trusted them.
Just like the Fox News Channel has.
But, I digress…
This Vichy Republican in Georgia is just like the underachieving employee who sucks up to the Personnel Director or upper management of a company in order to move up to a better paying position without actually doing anything.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter wrote in his 1968 Best Seller “The Peter Principle”, that
You will see that in every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.” (Italics are his.)
Gov. Kemp has gone about as far he is going to rise in politics.
Because this cream of the crop certainly has soured.
Welcome to the New Soviet Union. If they are allowed to jail Donald J Trump for exercising Free Speech and Political Opposition, what's to stop them from coming after us? https://t.co/e55zptvOEI
Watching the events of Thursday evening unfold on Fox News with my wife in our home in the northwest corner of Mississippi, I felt as if I had suddenly been transported to another world.
There was the private jet of the former President of the United States of America landing at the Atlanta Airport.
I watched as he was driven in a Secret Service Motorcade to a courthouse to be arrested like a common criminal.
Why was this happening?
Was he indicted as a traitor?
No.
Was he indicted because of seditious acts against America?
No.
Did he send billions and billions of American taxpayers’ money to the Ukraine?
No. (I just had to throw that in there).
Did he commit mass murder as a sitting president by ordering people to do so?
So, what were the egregious crimes that led the Atlanta District Attorney to bring forth charges, causing Trump to be indicted by a Grand Jury full of Democrats leading to the former President having to turn himself in to be arraigned, fingerprinted, photographed in a mug shot, and released after paying a $200,000 bail?
Trump dared to question the outcome of an obviously corrupt 2020 Presidential Election.
The District Attorney and those in cahoots with her are hoping to convict him for exercising his Constitutional Right to Free Speech, the same right that all Americans are supposed to have the right to use.
This idiot in Atlanta has not only indicted Trump, she also indicted 18 others who were also involved in his campaign or his Administration under the Rico Act, an act normally used against Organized Crime figures.
The American people are not fooled by all of this Political Lawfare being utilized by the Democrat Elite in order to keep Donald J Trmp from winning the 2024 Presidential Election.
It is backfiring on them in a big way as Trump’s poll numbers continue to climb, and donations to his campaign continue to pour in.
All the Democrat Elite has accomplished by attempting to weaponize America’s Department of Justice and our legal system in a coordinated effort to jail Trump in order to retain their political power is to torque off average Americans to the point to where some are saying that the Democrats won’t stop until they cause another Civil War.
Now, I don’t know if things actally would go that far.
I personally am hoping that the Supreme Court gets involved because at this point I really don’t have much faith in the Vichy Establishment Republicans who tend to “reach across the aisle” more than they reach out to their constituencies and who flap their gums instead of taking approptiate legislation action.
It is time for America’s Silent Majority to be heard loudly and clearly.
We need to let our Representatives on Capitol Hill know how mad we are about the situation and we need to talk to our family and friends about the fact that it’s time we return to our traditional American Values and exercise our Constitutional Rights.
We need to pray first and then get this all straightened out before the 2024 Presidential Election.
Otherwise, America as we know it will cease to exist.
We will be living in a totalitarian country with a One-Party Political System where political opposition, free speech, and individual freedom are not allowed.
Why would over 50,000 people line up for 5 hours in the hot South Carolina sun to hear an “indicted” former President of the United States of America speak?
Because, like it or not, he will be the Republican Candidate running to be the 47th President of our Sovereign Nation.
No other Republican Presidential Candidate draws crowds like this.
Why is this man still drawing crowds like this?
After all, he has been “indicted”.
The reason is very simple:
Unlike Senator “Miss” Lindsey Graham, who was booed off the rally stage by his constituency, Trump tries his darnedest to keep his promises.
Trump is not a professional politician who has spent decades in the bubble known as Capitol Hill.
That is why his supporters still support him.
That is why they booed Graham.
Graham is a Washington Insider and a protégé of the late Senator John McCain.
Graham says that he supports Trump. The problem with that is that his words and actions show that he supports the Washington Status Quo more.
But. I digress…
The reason that Trump’s popularity continues to grow, allowing him to outdistance Gov. Ron DeSantis by 30-50 points in the Republican Primary Polls, is the fact that he has shown himself to be a man who cares more about reaching out to the American people than “reaching across the aisle “.
That’s why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hates him so much.
Trump does not “play the game” and “kiss his ring.”
The Democrat Elite thought that they would bury Trump by using political indictments to get him out of the picture.
“Former Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was booed at a conference in Washington, D.C., after criticizing the leadership of former President Donald Trump.
“I’m running because he’s let us down,” Christie said to a crowd at the Faith & Freedom Coalition event on Friday, referencing Trump. “He has let us down because he’s unwilling to take responsibility for any of the mistakes that were made and any of the faults that he has and any of the things he’s done, and that is not leadership everybody. That is a failure of leadership.”
At that point, several people in the largely pro-Trump crowd booed the former New Jersey governor.
“You can boo all you want,” the Republican presidential candidate responded. “But here’s the thing. Our faith teaches us that people have to take responsibility for what they do. People have to stand up and take accountability for what they do.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)
How did Former President Trump fail you, Chris Christie?
Are you still upset that he was not a Status Quo Republican who sucked up to the Democrat Elite while they tried to impeach him at every turn?
Or, are you still upset that he made professional politicians like yourself look grossly incompetent and spineless?
Why are you upset and attacking Former President Donald J. Trump?
After you left office, you made millions of dollars through consulting and advocating causes behind the scenes, not to mention being a contributor to the twenty-four hour news cycle any time you had a chance to get your big fat face in front of a camera.
You are dadgum skippy those Evangelicals had the right to boo you. They recognized a turncoat RINO when they saw one.
As shown by all the popularity polls, average Americans still support Trump.
Waitaminute…
I just realized why you are so upset at Trump.
As long as Trump remains in the race, you don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming the Republican Nominee.
You are strictly a Regional Candidate.
Regardless of what Democrats and Vichy Republicans like you believe, Capitol Hill and the Northeast do not rule over average Americans in the Heartland.
Oh, and concerning your “our faith” statement.
Yes, Our Lord and Savior preached that there are consequences for actions, but he also preached forgiveness of sins after repentance.
Former Governor Christie, during your “sermon” to those Evangelicals, you left out a very important scripture from the recounting of Jesus and the woman at the well:
“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone…” – John 8:7
“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats — the enemy of the hard-working men and women of this Country — have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement.
You remember it just like I do: Russia, Russia, Russia; the Mueller Hoax; Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine; Impeachment Hoax 1; Impeachment Hoax 2; the illegal and unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid; and now this.
“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable — indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference.
“Never before in our Nation’s history has this been done. The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaign, but weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent, who just so happens to be a President of the United States and by far the leading Republican candidate for President, has never happened before. Ever.” (Courtesy Newsmax.com)
As you have probably heard by now, Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg got a New York Grand Jury to indict former President and 2024 Presidential Candidate Donald J Trump.
Bragg waited until Congress had left on Easter Break to engage in Political Lawfare.
A Manhattan District Attorney who refuses to prosecute shoplifters and other criminals has indicted a former President of the United States of America for paying a woman to get away from him and shut up.
That is NOT even a crime.
The SDNY Federal Prosecutors refused to indict Trump. So did Braggs’ Predecessor, Cyrus Vance.
So, why is this indictment being brought now?
It is being brought to keep Trump from becoming President in 2024.
The problem that the Far Left Democrats now face is a backlash such as American Politics has never seen before.
The only ones who support Bragg’s bad decision are Far Left Democrat Politicians, Capitol Hill Vichy Republicans, and Social Media Trolls.
Good on Gov. Ron DeSantis for speaking out about this Weaponization of the American System of Justice.
After three failed attempts to destroy Trmp via impeachment, the last one after he was no longer President, the Democrats have shown that they are willing to usurp our Constitution and to split our country wide open in a way that hasn’t been seen since the “War Between the States”.
Let’s face it, y’all.
They were willing to install a Dementia-riddled idiot as the Leader or the Free World and then add 80,000 ARMED IRS Agents.
“Comedian Chris Rock warned U.S. lawmakers on Sunday that arresting former President Trump would only make him “more popular.”
Rock made the comments while in Washington, D.C., for an event honoring Adam Sandler. He began poking fun at the well-connected capital crowd, which included former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of President Biden’s administration.
“Are you guys really going to arrest Trump?” Rock asked.
“Do you know this is only going to make him more popular. It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid?” he said as the room laughed.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)
Chris Rock is exactly right.
The reason for that is simple: Average Americans view Trump as “one of us.”
Those on Capitol Hill, who American Voters keep sending up there to speak for THEM, stopped caring about them long ago.
The Professional Politicians in Washington have purposefully become tone-deaf and utterly removed as to the payers, hopes, and dreams of average Americans, which are born out being raised in families who believed in America’s Traditional System of Faith and Values which have made this country both great and admired around the world.
Instead, the Washington Elite have embraced a hedonistic lifestyle, surrounded by special interest groups and lobbyists, who as Rep. Swalwell and Joe and Hunter Biden found out, include our representatives of our enemies, Red China.
Americans from all over the country support former President Trump.
They will view a Trump Indictment as an attack on the only man who can keep our country from becoming another Venezuela.
Trump actually cares more about preserving our Sovereign Nation than those in Washington who are supposed to be working for US and who are instead up there for themselves.
The Far Left Democrats and the Vichy Republicans look down their nose at average Americans because we have sat back and allowed them to run over us for decades.
And then, we elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America and turned the Washington Status Quo on its collective head.
The coming together of the Far Left Democrats and the Vichy Republicans, in support of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s Witch Hunt, is an act of self-preservation.
They would rather turn America into a Third World “Democratic Socialist” country than to allow a “rank outsider” like Donald J. Trump to become President in 2024 and “Make America Great Again”.
And, that is why we are witnessing this attempt by Bragg to invent a charge on which to indict a former President.
And, in return, that is why Chris Rock is right.
Average Americans’ sense of fair play will generate a backlash, which will culminate in the second term of President Donald J Trump.
The Washington Elite never saw it coming in 2016, and they won’t see it coming in 2024.