Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
The longest government shutdown in US history came from Trump and he still got voted back in because people didn’t want a South Asian woman as president. And now we have that shutdown record broken again.
The fact that he won the Latino, Muslim and Black vote and now they’re acting surprised by the mass deportations, ICE raids and tariffs he’s been imposing is peak “Leopards Ate My Face” material.
*Black woman.
The vast majority didn’t want her because she was black, please don’t gloss over this with technicalities.
Complete outsider here; don’t Americans usually call people from Africa black? Isn’t one of Kamala’s parents from India? Like, I’ve never heard anyone refer to someone from China as “black” before, but I do have an Eastern-European friend who received some anti-Mexican sentiment when he visited the U.S.
I think the point is that while certainly some Americans would not want someone of Indian descent as President, there are a lot more who would be upset by a black President.
She’s mixed race
She is the first female, first African American, and first Asian American U.S. vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian American official in U.S. history
Right from her wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
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It was wild seeing libs blame minorities in 2016, I didn’t think they were still doing that.
Doesn’t help that she was a shit candidate, dawg.
Yeah, great justification for either giving up your right to vote or actively supporting a fascist lol
Oh, if only that were literally true.
Sick. Just what many people have been wanting to happen. Let’s have a war! This would give people a real reason to live. Much more of a reason than America’s dead end job slave industry.
“We can’t win if trump isn’t on the ballot, and that’s never happening again.”
So, you built a cult of personality with an obvious expiration date. And that expiration date already passed. Lol good
Sometimes they can’t even win when Trump is on the ballot. Seems more accurate to say that they can’t win unless a woman is on the democratic ticket.
I think the Democrats should fight fire with fire.
Push for Dwayne Johnson or Taylor Swift as the Democratic nominee.
Or better yet listen to your fucking voters for a change.
It would be a fools errand to fight on that level with them. Just sink our politics further into the idiocracy farce.
Your last point, though, def. Look at 2008, look at the support for Bernie. Look at AOC, mamdani. They captured the excitement and won handily. Why was that? Because hey ran on real progressive change. Which people are desperate for. But the establishment, which includes the Democratic Party, will stop at nothing to keep people like that from winning. It ruins their big club.
At risk of sounding like I’m dick riding, Vance has all the cunning and charisma to fill the power vacuum. He’s just lacking that “too stupid to talk to” quality that most Maga voters find relatable, but given the spotlight he could probably hit those notes they like.
It kind of is good Kirk got slimed because he’s the only other I could think of that did all the poses they like and was also too stupid to be told anything.
Vance is politically quite savvy. He’s shallow and inauthentic and I think he’s smart enough to know that is a huge disadvantage following Trump. If he leans in to the memes, which it seems like he’s already doing, he’s a legitimate threat in 28. He’s built a career on being groomed by maga goons and it’s paid off so far.
Vance plays dumb, but not all that convincingly. He doesn’t radiate oafish stupidity in the same way that Trump does.
And he looks like a demonically-possessed chipmunk.
Dems can make some huge gains if they have a working class message. Plan on holding Trump/ICE accountable for their actions and not be Israel simps. It isn’t hard. Trump and Steve Bannon keep hinting at some plan if they lose so it won’t be easy even with Trump being the worst.
The fact that they have a golden opportunity right now convinces me of the fact that they will fumble the absolute fuck out of it. They already went to war against mamdani. Any progress will be in spite of the D party.
Did you see the part where the defacto leader of the party didn’t show up to his own press conference, so the reporters asked Bernie (who was just watching from the back) if he’d answer questions?
The Democratic establishment fought Mamdani (and progressives generally) along with Trump and the oligarchs and lost massively. Both parties are in chaos right now, because it’s obvious that money is no longer enough to win elections, even safe ones
They’re all going to be quiet for a while before the other shoe drops, hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence
Any progress is not going to come from the top of the Democratic Party down. They lead by following. They’ll slowly, and at first, probably ineffectually, react to external events. In a year or so, they’ll be claiming credit for anything Mamdani achieves. And the centrists will attempt a rug-pull whenever they get a chance.
I don’t disagree except where we are in this process
Pelosi resigned, Schumer went missing, Higgs is doing talk show circuits, and everyone turned to AOC and Bernie for comments
This was the leadership failing. The old guard has lost control of the party
They had so many opportunities to learn their lesson since 2016 and every time they have refused. I’m fully expecting them to learn nothing again.
hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence
This is the real and probably only hope. If progressives thrash the establishment dems hard enough, they’ll at least pay lip service to them.
They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best
They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama
But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all
I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t
The fail-children of millionaires who get jobs as staffers and run the party have historically burned down house before handing the keys to a progressive.
Umm… Yeah, I think that’s already happened
They threw all the money and burned through all the remaining goodwill trying to keep us from getting to what happened Tuesday
lol not yet. Wait until state parties start intentionally wasting money, deleting databases, quitting en mass, appointing republican judges, etc.
Republicans “And that’s why we to do everything we can to fuck with voting.”
I really hope we’re even allowed to have an election in 2026.
My Spidey Sense tells me he’ll start a war in the next 12 months then get the Supreme Court to side with him on postponing elections during wartime, and then we’ll stay in a permanent state of war afterwards.My money was on Trump to start a war with Iran in March or April 2026, so things were ramped up before the elections. If the expected wartime popularity bump happens then just win the election, otherwise cancel then due to war reasons.
But I guess it’s looking more like wat against Venezuela or possibly Nigeria? 🙈
No. A presidential election has never been postponed … EVER. There were elections even during the Civil War.
Trump can try this route to stay in office… but he will not be president and his wartime rule will only be as strong as the guards around him. He will become a domestic threat to the Constitution if he tries to stay in office unelected.
Uh… The dude already tried to stay in office unelected. That’s what the Jan 6 riot was. He faced no consequences, and then got elected again.
Didn’t stay in office tho
We will see if the guardrails hold again.
The military basically removed him from power quietly after Jan 6 and worked with Pelosi to do the transition
Got a sauce for that?
Nope. When I said quietly, I meant it… This got very little media attention. Also, search is pretty much dead at this point, I can’t find shit I read a week ago - there’s too many results around Jan 6 no matter how specific I query it
But essentially, the top brass created a voicemail for trump, there’s a bunch of deleted texts between the military and secret service, and then Trump was conspicuously absent during the handover process
If he stays in office one day past his term he is automatically a threat to the Constitution.
That would mean violence becomes a legal and necessary option.
Big talk but nothing well happen. He’s been trouncing on your constitution gor the last year and nobody has done anything. For all the bluster if Americans that’s all it is.
By that day the constitution will just be another piece of paper he wipes his ass with. Now is the easiest time to resist and stop that future, not once it’s already happened.
He keeps trying to start a war. Other countries see it for what it is and mostly ignore it. Iran, Venezuela, and now Nigeria.
Oh, I thought they meant the economy. That too, I’m sure.
Every time these fuckwits lose, they think it’s because they weren’t fascist enough. The same thing happened with the LNP in Australia when they lost. I say let 'em keep thinking that.
I say let 'em keep thinking that.
Right, but they’re in power and power having that thought pattern is scary if you’re a targeted member of a minority group (Ask the LGBT population about the similarities between 1930s Germany’s stance on the LGBT and today’s America’s stance on the same).
Never underestimate what the GQP will do to prevent anything resembling a fair election. They will purge voter registrations by the millions, gerrymander district maps to make them look like spider webs, and make registering and voting damn near impossible.
Republicans will burn the country to the ground to remain in power.
Don’t forget about rigging the voting machines!!
Georgia state election rigged by Republican election officials who wiped the servers clean after lawsuit and FBI investigation in 2017.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed
And of course, how can we forget about the Florida count being decided by the SCOTUS in favor of Bush when the count in fact showed Gore winning back in 2000!
Rigging and cheating elections is nothing new to the repugs.
And I always thought it should be more telling how the USA is run when you had George Bush, president, father of George Bush, president, but apparently people can’t connect the dots.
Or making it a felony if an election candidate ever was fined for jaywalking or some other minor transgression … perhaps even give them jailtime for it …
Trump has 34 felonies and SCOTUS forced him to be on the ballot.
And didn’t the Constitution plainly say he couldn’t legally run, but scotus is not interested in that document constraining them anymore.
14th amendment. He enacted a coup, is straight up not eligible. Scotus decided that whoever wrote that didn’t mention how it gets enforced, so whoopsies that part of the amendment is useless.
Whoa whoa whoa we can’t ruin young Republican lives over minor transgressions.
It’s okay, the laws will only apply to democrats
There will always be a IOKIYAR clause for such things…
They’ll also start a war to remain in power. Fun.
Not “will”. They always have, historically.
A foreign war? They can try, but we don’t cancel elections for foreign wars, and it won’t give maga much of a boost in elections.
A civil war against Americans?
I don’t think they’d try, but if they did they’d fail. Like not just lose the war, they’d fail to start it.
Unarmed NG in a handful of cities is about all he can manage. Like, the only group he might be able to get to open fire on crowds is ICE, and even cops hate ICE more than they hate protesters.
If they thought they could do it, they’d have done did it by now.
They’ll be a last minute desperate attempt, but nothing will materialize
He hasn’t even been in power for a year and look what they’ve done. I would not put it past them.
Thats a pretty optimistic take. Hope you’re right, for everyone’s sake.
It’s not just blind optimism…
There a lot, like a mind-blowing amount, of various reasons the US would be impossible to occupy, especially by a domestic force.
Like even protests, if they start cracking down we can just spread out.
Stop making protest happen downtown, and spread them out in the suburbs all around the city.
Spread the cops too thin, they’ll be too scared to do anything. Especially if protesters have vest and rifles.
Sure sure more American bluster. And that’s all it is. If they do this people well not stand for it.
A civil war against Americans? I don’t think they’d try, …
History may look back and recognize that it’s already started.
It never ended. It just went cold.
If they thought they could do it, they’d have done did it by now.
Were only 10 months in. They’re still warming up.
Why do all that when you can just have ICE arrest voters in the queue?
And don’t get caught handing out water or snacks.
Course correct from what? This is what they voted for. There’s no course correction from this. Unless of course they mean something else.
Why just talk about the major elections? Majority of what could be voted for was the center leaning left to far left people and measures/bills. This is even bigger than what outlets make it seem to be. Local elections matter.
My deeply red town elected all democrats into positions of power. My entire COUNTY flipped from red to blue on Tuesday. I was absolutely floored. I’m feeling hopeful for the first time in years
Same here! Congrats on the positive change!
Thank you! Congrats as well!
“2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
And course correct means? Don’t think we’re gonna like the answer.
Donald course-corrects daily. Today he’s the peace president, tomorrow we invade Aberbaijan and Albania.
I’m not against the idea of invading Azerbaijan personally especially if we ally Armenia, get fucked turkey.
True, I reminds me of one of the only times NATO did anything good. By that I mean stopping the genocide in Kosovo.
Figure out how to lie more effectively
That doesn’t sound nearly insidious enough.
maybe if they double down and do even more military in the streets and other nazi facist stuff why whining and crying about people saying they are nazis and facists. that outa make em more popular for sure.
Maybe doing stuff like stealing away things such as direct file for taxes, convenient and/or early voting, not to mention causing kids and the elderly to STARVE, and fucking up airplane travel will make them all the more delighted with the conservative “movement” (as in bowel) and the Confederate Party…
I mean, other than racism, or being completely checked out, or being in the centimillionaire+ tax bracket and in it just to lower your taxes…just why in the fuck would you ever vote for this shitty party? They always make everything much worse.
You’re underestimating the power of being soft on racism.
Hopefully he dies and we impeach and remove the entire administration
I will be ecstatic the day he dies but the traitorous orange paedo being locked up in prison while seeing his cohorts and family going through the ringer is even more delicious…then him dying of an excruciatingly painful incurable cancer would be the cherry on top.
Nothing well happen. Everyone well be pardoned and nobody well see any repercussions. And Dena well do nothing because we have to heal or some BS.
I feel like we missed that opportunity.
Agreed.
I was quite hopeful once Jack Smith was put on the case, but that hope was soon dashed.Biden dragged his heels on the prosecution for the top secret documents thing and I solely blame him for tRUMP walking free today. The orange buffoon should’ve been arrested immediately after the insurrection attempt.
The rich have no consequences and America has always been that way. If they actually thought people would revolt they’d di something but they know it’s just got air.
