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.”
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.
Republicans will burn the country to the ground to remain in power.
Why would they want to do this when each election they have a 50% fair chance of winning? The current system is as perfect for them as it could be, they cycle in power periodically through legal means
The GQP doesn’t have anywhere near a 50% chance of winning unless they cheat, get activist judges to change existing laws, and flagrantly break the remaining laws. Because who’s going to stop them, the Supreme Court?
They won elections a year ago, the chance is indeed 50%
The Republicans have literally rigged the game and are making sure they are dealt winning hands, but your feelings tell you elections are completely legitimate and there’s “a 50% fair chance of winning”.
You completely ignored my comment, deny shared reality and supporting facts, then repeat the exact same nonsense. Are you Maga?
Steve Bannon? That chucklefuck is part of the problem. He shouldn’t get a pass just because he’s not one of Trump’s besties anymore. If somehow Trump does end up in prison after all, Bannon should be in the next cell over, having to watch all of Trump’s bowel movements through the bars.
He’s back in the fold, AFAIK.
“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
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.
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.
Remember when Harris was running, and centrists kept saying that leftists don’t vote? Remember when they said that she should keep moving to the right, to pull in republican voters?
For some crazy reason, I’ve been thinking about those comments a lot lately
Dwayne Johnson and Taylor Swift are Democrats in that they’re not actively pushing fascism. They’re still billionaires who are totally divorced from the problems an average working household sees.
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.
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.
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
Most americans dont engage with politics on this level if they engage at all.
I voted for her, you fucking fool.
I can be critical of a primary candidate while doing what’s necessary to keep forward progress.
*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.
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
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.
From an insider- What Americans call people has nothing to do with where they’re from and is simply based on looks. She looks more black than Indian, so she’s black. It’s as simple as the average American. I doubt the majority of maga even know her ethnicity at all beyond the color of her skin.
Obama was one of our most popular presidents. Yes, race played a part of it, but she lost because she was a terrible candidate, who ran a terrible campaign, on the coat-tails of a terrible president.
I haven’t seen much evidence that her race had all that much to do with it.
The democrats should run candidates that care about the working class if they want people to vote for them.
Clearly the ‘fall in line’ strategy isn’t working.
First off I’d agree in the case of most elections since the 80s. When shit like Project 2025 is flashed and you dont vote against the fascist… yeah you’re fucking short sighted and have no moral high ground. The other option wouldn’t put brown people in torture camps in El Salvador and violate international law by bombing boats.
Harris is typical neoliberalism trash and the last serious contender for the presidency who gave a shit about people who work for a living was Bernie and then FDR. She was objectively the right choice to vote for if you have a soul at all.
She was the objectively better candidate in 2024, but she was also objectively a trash candidate. Electing her would have meant continued acceptance of a political mindset and process that has reliably and consistently given us trash candidates for decades.
2024 was as good a time as any to give up on the DNC.
I’d agree with your first sentence 100%. I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were with getting GOOD candidates elected though. I’m sure we could guess how involved they were.
I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were
The way you phrased that, the answer is tautologic: statistically, 100% of them were “involved”.
Their involvement may not have extended much beyond a blanket rejection of everyone the DNC tried to shove down our throats, but they were certainly “involved”.
I would go just a little bit further and say that they were involved in the only way that actually matters.
I’d say the most important way to get involved is actually helping true progressives in the primary. I guess we’ll have differing opinions on if staying home and doing the same thing you’d do every day vs. attempting to get leftists elected is more important.
I know no one is changing their opinions on this.
We can spend 80 hours a week from now until the midterms, promoting progressives. The question is what we should do when those leftists don’t actually appear on the ballot. Until the DNC realizes centrist candidates can’t win a general election, it doesn’t really matter what we do in the primaries.
When there are no progressives to vote for, rejecting their garbage candidates is the only path to progress.
See, you still don’t understand.
When the ‘fall in line’ strategy isn’t working, you don’t blame the people not falling in line for an establishment candidate. Instead, you should be blaming the people making it so all we have to choose from is ‘evil’ and ‘slightly-less-evil.’
If we could run good candidates that actually represent the working class instead of just candidates who aren’t as bad as the opposition, then this discussion wouldn’t even be happening.
You are doing your part to support the two-pronged strategy, and the working class continues to suffer because of it. Please do better. Please be smarter.
No, I understand the rationale. It’s just shit, infantile logic. I guarantee you I do more for getting leftists in than the moral high grounders did on average plus a SD or two. It’s just easier to say inaction isn’t an action and act like you’re not indirectly responsible for the shit you preached against and more.
No, I understand the rationale. It’s just shit, infantile logic.
That comment clearly demonstrates the problem. That is the attitude of the DNC and the Democratic leadership. Dismiss the electorate as too stupid to live, then wonder why we don’t support your terrible candidates.
Well, if you want to do more to get leftists elected, then focus your frustrations on the ones undermining working class agendas. It would do wonders for getting more people out to vote because they would actually feel as though the people they’re voting for have their interests at hand.
Getting angry at the people who don’t fall in line is a waste of energy.
Voters: “Please stop supporting genocide” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop deporting people without due process” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop bombing children” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop gaslighting us about the state of the economy” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please say you’ll do something to stop healthcare from being the biggest cause of bankruptcy” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please make the economy work for the people, rather than the rich” Democratic leadership: “No”
Democratic leadership: “It’s the voters fault when the Republicans win. There was nothing we could do!”
truly genius line of reasoning that got you Donald Trump.
Maybe you’ll understand why most “real” left of center people are angry with you guys for pushing this shit.
I’m convinced theyre either incapable of learning or just refusing to admit fault. No one will convince them otherwise. I’m sure all the people being snatched off the street are glad they believe that they have the “moral high ground” though.
The only people claming the moral high ground are the Democrats that got us into this mess. The same party that helped build out the system that is snatching people off the streets.
You are correct, that is exactly why we got Trump. I’ve been saying that for years.
If the Democrats would put in any effort to fix things, Trump would never had held power again.
when all you have is a wedge, everything looks like a crack
*Genocidal woman
Dude, that’s not an accurate description of her and you know it.
On the genocide issue trump was far worse so idk what you want. If that was your excuse to not vote for her you are just lying at this point.
She wasn’t the best candidate by any means so you could try attacking numerous things wrong with her but she wasn’t responsible for what Israel did so why choose that?
…so why choose that?
Because she was very clear that she wanted to continue supporting Israel. She openly gave up voters to keep supporting a genocide. Remember the “I’m speaking” bit she did when people were trying to get her to stop supporting genocide?
Polling showed that was the biggest reason that she lost.
Ok but did you ever wonder how trump was going support Israel because I’m pretty sure he was a billion times more supportive of the genocide than she was. So if there are 2 candidates and one is worse on the genocide issue why do you feel the need to target the lesser evil instead of the greater evil? It makes no sense.
Anyone who really cared about the genocide would know there was a better chance that she would end it before trump would. If you wanted it to stop she would have been the better choice. Trump just gave Israel everything they asked for so is that better?
Ok but did you ever wonder how trump was going support Israel because I’m pretty sure he was a billion times more supportive of the genocide than she was.
No, of course I didn’t. I knew he was going to do exactly what he has done. What does that have to do with her support of Israel?
So if there are 2 candidates and one is worse on the genocide issue why do you feel the need to target the lesser evil instead of the greater evil? It makes no sense.
I do target the greater one all the time. That doesn’t mean that the lesser evil isn’t evil.
Anyone who really cared about the genocide would know there was a better chance that she would end it before trump would. If you wanted it to stop she would have been the better choice.
Citation needed. She literally gave up the presidency to keep supporting Genocide. Why would she do anything different after becoming president?
rump just gave Israel everything they asked for so is that better?
No, and I never said it would be better. It’s always amazing to me that libs will defend rape, geocide, the murder of kids, torture, mass deportation, all because “the other side does it worse”. I don’t know how you can be so lacking in morals or ethics to not care about these things.
If you thought Kamala wasn’t paying enough attention to suffering in Palestine, you could have protested and lobbied her to pay more attention to this issue, while still voting for her as president, on the basis that Trump is even more pro-Israel and even less sympathetic to Palestinians.
…you could have protested and lobbied her to pay more attention to this issue…
People did that, and she blew them off.
Politicians can change their mind though if there is enough political pressure on them. I just think it’s weird logic to think “I don’t like what is happening in Gaza so I would rather see Trump elected to the White House than Kamala Harris”. Since Trump has a history of being strongly pro-Israel and he doesn’t seem to have a lot of sympathy for civilians who are suffering.
“I don’t like what is happening in Gaza so I would rather see Trump elected to the White House than Kamala Harris”
I think that’s weird logic as well, which is why I never said that.
Absolutely true. I didn’t mean to imply that you said that. I was just thinking about people on the left (not necessarily yourself) who didn’t vote for Kamala because she wasn’t critical enough of Israel. In America’s political system, especially in swing states, not voting for the Democrat candidate makes it more likely that the Republican candidate will win.
Well, sure, but the Democrats running a terrible candidate, with terrible policies, who tells the voters to sit down and shut up also makes it more likely that the Republican candidate will win.
Not as genocidal as Trump though.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
He keeps trying to start a war. Other countries see it for what it is and mostly ignore it. Iran, Venezuela, and now Nigeria.
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? 🙈
I really hope we’re even allowed to have an election in 2026.
As long as the choice is a binary option between red and blue i wouldn’t be much concerned about the government taking away elections
“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.
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.
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.
you are assuming they are good people and not a bunch of fascists like their peers
I mean, yes…but I also see this as “The vampire party could be so much more popular if they came out in favor of a bloodsucking ban.”
They likely have their own objectives beyond getting elected. They might even prefer being in the losing position if “they are our only hope and we all gotta donate real hard”.
“Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
What? Is he trying to gaslight the fact that both of Georgia’s US Senators have been Democratic since 2020? One of whom was subject of intense media coverage for back-to-back runoff elections in 2020 and 2022 with the US Senate majority up for grabs?
Yeah, I looked into it, they are saying these two specific seats were held by Republicans for decades. I’ve seen reports of 30 and 40 years.
First for these PSC seats in 30 years. Dems took it almost 2-to-1.
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).
Republicans “And that’s why we to do everything we can to fuck with voting.”
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.
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.
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.
A lot will change in a year.
Yep. We haven’t gotten a full year of the orange moron yet but January seems like a distant memory.
Oh, I thought they meant the economy. That too, I’m sure.
I just hope they don’t try to cancel the midterms altogether… Or refuse to swear in the new dems…
I tend to believe they will…
So… yea…
But why would they do the thing they’ve already been doing? There’s no precedent!
Since the 2024 election I’ve been constantly wondering what the event would be that should trigger all out riot to restore democracy. The answer I always come up with is cancelled/sham election.
