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The Morning Report — 11/4 /26

Good morning kids. Well, here we are and after yesterday about the only kernel of normalcy I can offer is that being a midterm election it's not unexpected and indeed usually the norm that the party in power generally loses the majority in Congress. Although 2006 was a huge exception to that notion.
Besides that, at least we won't have to endure the preening, strutting and hutzpocritical crowing of slag shit-whore RINO Susan Collins despite being ousted by Nazi devotee Graham Platner. Not that she advanced the cause of freedom and the American agenda during her tenure, either sitting on her hands or otherwise joining with the Democrats to advance their heathen policies and agenda in the name of "bipartisanship."

Mercifully, she's gone, but we are in for a rough time going forward, as the tale of the tape shows.

It’s the first midterm election since 2006 that a party out of power has won back both chambers.
The final scale of the wipeout was not immediately clear due to slow vote-counting, including in the Alaska Senate race, which has ranked-choice voting.
Tuesday’s sweep also realized dreams Democrats have held for decades, including turning Senate seats in deep-red Texas and Kansas blue, as well as ending Republican governorships in Ohio and Texas, where three-term Gov. Greg Abbott’s loss was one of the most shocking of the night... The president had prefaced the midterm results by telling The Post’s “Pod Force One” podcast that he was ready to become “Mr. Veto” if needed after 2026.
“They’ll be sending stuff up. You veto it,” he explained.
“And eventually, after a month or two of getting all vetoed, they’re just wasting [time], they come over, and you make a deal. I think that probably would happen, but hopefully we don’t
have to worry about that.”

Oh terrific, Mr. President? You'll be making deals with terrorists that let them destroy whatever still remains of America incrementally instead of in one fell swoop? As with Iran, the President is clueless as to who and what he is dealing with. So for the past two years Mr. President, what have the Democrats compromised on that conceded even a scintilla of the MAGA agenda. I believe the answer is nothing. Not one damned thing?

They spent every moment since you were first sworn in and before it trying to impeach you as well as persecuting not only your cabinet members and advisers but even average Americans for the treasonous act of buying a MAGA hat or even donating a buck to your campaign.

At best we'll have gridlock but we're going to get it right in the neck.

They have telegraphed a not-so-subtle message: reprisals are coming. . . What’s driving the desire for reprisals?
First, the Democrats have long sought to invalidate the Trump phenomenon. They simply cannot accept the fact that Donald Trump became the president of the United States and that his ideas—build the wall, restore law and order, Make America Great Again—enjoy popular support. They believe Trump is an embodiment of every “ism” and “phobia” in the book: racism, sexism, nativism, Islamophobia, transphobia. To invalidate his presidency, they believe, is to invalidate these prejudices.
They want to turn Trump into another Richard Nixon. If the president ends his political career in disgrace—or in prison—it will serve as a warning to any future right-wing populist that that is the inevitable fate of his movement and, if he attempts to win the presidency, his life. The second motivation for reprisals is to create a permanent deterrent against the development of a right-wing counter-elite. In previous decades, the staffer class of Democrats and Republicans had a mutual understanding, in which Republicans in Washington agreed to the boundaries determined by the Left. The Democrats might campaign hard against someone like Mitt Romney or oppose the fiscal policies of someone like Paul Ryan, but everyone understood that both Republicans would respect Democrat-defined boundaries of what was acceptable. . . Finally, a reprisal campaign would protect the Left’s institutional hegemony. The Democrats often campaign on the slogan “our democracy,” and they mean it literally. The federal bureaucracy, public universities, and public schools are almost monolithically left-wing. Democrats believe that these institutions are proprietary tools for their political movement, and that any use of them by the Right is illegitimate. They will not only seek to roll back any incursions by the Trump administration but also engage in reprisals to ensure that it never happens again.
The ultimate risk is the Brazilification of our politics, in which the stakes become thus: if you win, you face reprisals in the future; if you lose, you go straight to prison.

With all due respect to the erudite and estimable Christopher Rufo, Brazilification is the wrong word. It's Bolshevization if not outright Nazification because win lose or draw, their opponents, meaning us and anyone who dares even raise an eyebrow in disagreement, will not be going to prison, or if so it's merely a pre-execution holding cell.

With bust-out socialists as well as a Muslim Brotherhood Senator now ensconced in power, I cannot even imagine where we go from here should PLEASE GOD the Democrats are indeed kept in check for the final years of the Trump presidency and beyond!

So the puzzler for me is how did yesterday happen especially given the fact that a Donald Trump election three times and at the barest of minimums his candidacy in the first place represent a negation of the negation that was and is Obama and Clinton and Leftism in general happened in the first place?

Solve that riddle and at the very least we have a shot at saving America. For now buy guns and ammo while we still can — I know I will be — and speak out while you still can.

Ugh, what a horrid waking nightmare. But that said, don't let yesterday get you down. Take comfort in family and friends and have faith in the LORD. We shall overcome so on that note, regardless of everything horrible, count your blessings and have a good day, one and all!

2026 MIDTERMS

A historic series of defeats, including Democrats flipping Senate seats in Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas — with equally staggering results in House races — positioning New Yorkers Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to lead the Senate and House.
Blue tsunami delivers Dems both chambers of Congress in stunning defeat for GOP and Trump’s handpicked candidates
At its core, Tuesday was total beatdown of the president, his policies and personality. And it was predictable. It is not uncommon for presidents to suffer losses midway through their terms. In 2014, halfway through Barack Obama’s second term, Republicans picked up a whopping nine Senate seats.
Michael Goodwin: How Trump reacts to this shellacking will determine his legacy
Now it’s time to go on, first by resetting his core team of advisers, then by testing if Democrats are willing to work with him to do right by the country these next two years — or if they demand gridlock. Dems won purely as Trump’s opposition, without expressing any realistic vision going forward — but the public’s not likely to approve if they do nothing but continue to fight the president.
A terrible night for Republicans leaves challenges for BOTH parties
Far-left candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were projected to win at least four House races, expanding the number of socialist lawmakers in the lower chamber from two to six.
DSA bolsters Congress contingent after socialists pick up at least 4 House seats
Abdul El-Sayed rode the blue tsunami to a win in Michigan.
The Muslim Brotherhood Gets Their Man In Michigan
Collins' luck ran out in what turned out to be a blue tsunami.
End Of An Era: Susan Collins Concedes Defeat In Maine
'It's worse than anyone thought'
Welcome to the Madhouse
Minnesota Democrat Peggy Flanagan held off former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya in a closely watched Senate race Tuesday, overcoming questions about her handling of multiple fraud scandals while serving as lieutenant governor in the administration of Governor Tim Walz.
Walz’s Wingwoman Peggy Flanagan Prevails in Minnesota Senate Race

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

Christopher Rufo: After the midterms, the Left will seek revenge. (especially if they lose big, and now that they've won they'll be out for blood, our's!!! - jjs)
Reprisals Are Coming
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“No. Never. Even after 9/11, when we pushed resources to the border, airports, to make sure that we didn’t have another terroristic threat, we did not see the level of security that we’re experiencing right now. And it just goes to show that, when you have consequences, when you repatriate people, return people back to their home country, then — and you prosecute people, that it will make a difference. Those policies that didn’t exist under the Biden junta, that exist now, are making a huge impact on what’s happening.”
Fmr. Biden Border Chief: Border Has Never Been This Quiet, Having Consequences Works, Unlike Some in Biden White House Wanting ‘Crisis’ for ‘Their Agenda’
The sham company, called Legacy Imigra, charged migrants for legal aid and document filings, but never actually performed any of the services they claimed to offer.
13 Foreign Nationals Arrested for Selling Fake Immigration Services to Migrants
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Governments are warning their citizens. The Pentagon is preparing for prolonged disruption. Military activity is intensifying. Are we paying attention?
What Are They Preparing Us For?
From classrooms to checkpoints, Tehran is recruiting for its survival; Washington should understand the consequences.
Iran’s Children Do Not Belong To The Regime
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
Punished for the “thoughtcrime” of not parroting the “genocide” charge.
In Reggio Emilia, Jews Not Welcome Unless They Denounce the Jewish State
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Time for Congress to pass the ‘No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act.’
American Taxpayers Paying for Terror
Will the world ever care?
Another Mass Funeral of Nigerian Christians Slaughtered by Jihadists
What conservatives might want to learn about appeasing Islamic Supremacists.
The Fatal Fantasy of Buying Off Jihad
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
New York City's Commie-Islamie Mayor Zohran Mamdani imposed a rent freeze earlier this year, and now the nation's two biggest mortgage backers just made it "impossible or extremely difficult for landlords to get financing." If your first response isn't to laugh at this news with a hearty "Gooder and harder, NYC!" you might not want to read the rest of this column — but we have some serious stuff to cover, too. So stick around.
Mamdani's Massive Real Estate Swindle Just Took a Huge Step Forward
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Raw Egg Nationalist: “The thrill is gone,” crooned the late great bluesman BB King.
The Thrill Is Gone: But X Still Remains the World’s Digital Public Square and a Bulwark Against Tyranny (, now there's a word to avoid! - jjs)
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Combined, the numbers indicate a surging demand for workers as the economy headed into the fourth quarter. The data come from the Labor Department’s monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, known as JOLTS.
Job Openings Jump Higher and Layoffs Fall
ABORTION
Virginia voters approved “Question 1” — which creates a right to abortions up until the moment of birth in the state — 61.4 percent to 38.6 percent with 86 percent of votes counted, the Associated Press (AP) projected.
Virginia Enshrines Abortion Up Until Birth into State Constitution
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
A three-judge panel had lifted restrictions on the DOJ’s efforts to have California and Washington separate ballots cast by suspected noncitizens just hours before the full court intervened.
9th Circuit Abruptly Vacates Ruling Clearing DOJ to Pursue Noncitizen Ballots

POLITICS, MORE 2026 MIDTERM ITEMS
And while Trump’s approval rating showed a solid improvement, the numbers in the most recent I&I/TIPP Poll do not give much comfort to the GOP. It shows a hefty 10-point edge for Democrats over Republicans when asked, “Which party do you prefer to control Congress after this year’s midterm election?”
Just As Voters Go To The Polls, Trump’s Approval Rating Climbs: I&I/TIPP Poll
Do you remember how Democrats couldn't lose an election without questioning the results, then declared questioning the results a crime the moment they won? Now they're questioning the results of the midterms before a single vote gets counted, and naturally, the latest salvo comes from the queen of election denial herself, Hillary Clinton.
Hmmm... Why Is Hillary Clinton Making Excuses for Democrats Losing the Midterms?
Despite the administration’s preparations, a Democratic Congress could create substantial difficulties for Trump’s final two years.
The Democrats Could Win Congress. Trump Is Preparing to Implement His Agenda Without It.
America’s ever-expanding early voting period has rendered late endorsements all but moot.
Shock Dem Endorsement Of Mike Rogers Came Too Late For 2 Million Early Voters In Michigan
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
In all cases after the bomb threats were made the aircraft were landed, evacuated, and searched by police and specialist bomb disposal teams. According to the information released by the airports and national governments involved, no explosives have been found in any of the aircraft.
Flights Across Europe Grounded Over Rash of Bomb Threats
U.S. agencies warn that stolen digital assets are e a major source of funding for the country’s weapons and military programs.
FBI Blames North Korea for Record $6.3 Billion Binance Crypto Heist
A policy’s intentions do not guarantee its results, and the question is whether Washington’s approach has strengthened America’s position over time.
Biden’s Gift to China: How Washington Helped Build Beijing’s AI Chip Industry
Bukele sent 2,000 troops to rescue four El Salvadoran aviation engineers who were captured by gangs in Croix-des-Bouquets, where 400 Mawozo is active.
UN responds to Haitian gang leader's ask for intervention as El Salvador's deploys 2,000 troops to find kidnapped aviation techs
If Americans do not want to see their country become another nation drifting toward twenty-first-century socialism, the lesson is right before their eyes.
Spain Is A Socialist Dictatorship
The failed state’s foreign minister erupts in rage at the UN.
The Communist Cuba Debacle
FRANCE IS BURNING, And Europe With It
A 20-year-old man of Pakistani origin believed to be the main organizer of the French-inspired Blocus riots movement in Spain had allegedly travelled to France before the events of the violent October 24 riots in Barcelona, local outlets revealed.
Reports: Presumptive Main Organizer of French-Style Riots in Spain Allegedly in France Before Barcelona Protests
“We've had enough – in Switzerland too”
Antifa riots spread to Switzerland
Evil has reached a qualitatively new level.
Chronicle of a Suicide
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The talks would reportedly seek to find common ground to ultimately end the nearly five-year-old Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has stagnated as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has refused to cease attacks on civilian areas and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, has resisted pressure to accept some land concessions in exchange for an end to hostilities.
Steve Witkoff Says U.S. Will Mediate Russia-Ukraine Talks Next Week
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
By flying out away from Earth and then coming back close, they multiply the effectiveness of that engine burn, allowing these relatively small and lightweight spacecraft to reach Mars.
The two Escapade Mars orbiters are about to head to Mars, using a previously untried flight path
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Permanently online types obsess over elements that rarely matter
Can We All Stop Caring About These 5 Movie Morsels?
HITHER & YON
Milwaukee’s first World Series championship is also an occasion to remember the unlikely pioneers who brought baseball back to Wisconsin.
Before the Brewers Were Champions, They Were the Seattle Pilots

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:05 AM

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1 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

2 So are you enjoying the color revolution?

Posted by: lurk at November 04, 2026 07:06 AM (hXvZk)

3 Happy Wednesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 04, 2026 07:06 AM (/+uur)

4 I really don't know how yesterday could've been much worse. Oh well, nothing I can do about any of it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:09 AM (qBdHI)

5 Yeah, I go to sleep not caring about the Elections and then wake up to discover a "Blue Tsnumai" text.

I can't help but think of how Moses had to deal with those he led out of Egypt, and all they wanted to do was go back to comfortable slavery and demon worship.

See all of the miracles? Yeah? That was yesterday. I still want to be a slave and worship demons. Why are you trying to kill us be leading us out of bondage?

Posted by: Community Notes at November 04, 2026 07:09 AM (rgGn5)

6 2 So are you enjoying the color revolution?
Posted by: lurk at November 04, 2026 07:06 AM (hXvZk)

Speaking of which I assume the colored commie is now my governor in WI?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 04, 2026 07:09 AM (x0n13)

7 Onward Horde!

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at November 04, 2026 07:09 AM (2CeDH)

8 This 'election' was as fake as 2020. Dreadful candidates are swept into office over incumbents that are presiding over economic good times. Uh-huh. Pull my other leg, it plays jingle bells.

Posted by: Lurk at November 04, 2026 07:09 AM (hXvZk)

9 Speaking of which I assume the colored commie is now my governor in WI?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 04, 2026 07:09 AM (x0n13)

yup

Posted by: davidt at November 04, 2026 07:10 AM (Q+gd/)

10 Looks like VA House will be 8-3...there's my good news for the day, b/c that's better than last year predicted...although we kept incumbents in the seats, and that probably helped greatly...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:11 AM (Gb7+b)

11 Yes he is -- the one who dropped out of the race due to a lack of support, the one who just barely won his primary -- swept into power through the strength of the ... Madison vote.

Totes legit.

Posted by: lurk at November 04, 2026 07:11 AM (hXvZk)

12 Mission accomplished! And please send money ASAP so we can fight the eeeevil Dems. PO box wefuckingsuck

Posted by: GOPe at November 04, 2026 07:11 AM (kFR7j)

13 The message is clear here. I think I'm going to see how much of the fraud I can get in on before the full economic collapse and face colander times.

Meanwhile, I'm glad I hedged the vote on buying ammo.

Posted by: Community Notes at November 04, 2026 07:12 AM (nAS9C)

14 While it's way early to think about 2028, how do you think last night's results impact the GOP campaign for POTUS? Do you stick with Vance or Rubio, or go off the board with someone else?

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at November 04, 2026 07:12 AM (2CeDH)

15 We are behind enemy lines. Head on a swivel, and have a plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

16 SC got Alan Wilson for gov. Bright spot there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 04, 2026 07:12 AM (r2Icn)

17 You will need to fight to take the country back.

Been saying it for years.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 04, 2026 07:13 AM (8schn)

18 JJ, being a lifelong Wisconsinite myself...may we commiserate and complain together. Hugs and prayers all around.

Posted by: JediArashi at November 04, 2026 07:13 AM (Ox9/r)

19 What is sad:

1. Data republican warned of a color revolution; she had the timing and method wrong.

2. This is one of those dreaded 'You ain't votin' your way out of this' deals.

Posted by: lurk at November 04, 2026 07:14 AM (hXvZk)

20 Gonna be a long two years.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2026 07:14 AM (iMotb)

21 11 Yes he is -- the one who dropped out of the race due to a lack of support, the one who just barely won his primary -- swept into power through the strength of the ... Madison vote.

Totes legit.
Posted by: lurk at November 04, 2026 07:11 AM (hXvZk)

The commies here thought and were right in that that Frances Hong was way too toxic so they rigged the primary for Crowley. Yeah, they run the show here, sad to say.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 04, 2026 07:15 AM (x0n13)

22 My initial thought is that Trump wasn't on the ballot, those who voted for him didn't turn out for Dem Lite.

I wonder how much it turned off Trump voters that the GOP controlled Congress didn't pass the SAVE Act.

Posted by: davidt at November 04, 2026 07:15 AM (Q+gd/)

23 I was blindingly, catastrophically wrong about this election.

And therefore I'm wrong about the follow-on effects. My predicate assumptions have been completely vaporized.

I thought Crockett would be able to play the 'I'da beat that honkey's ass!' card, guaranteeing a Kamala nomination in 28.

Welp. That honkey got his ass beat. By a kiddie diddler, and that means - I think - AOC's in the catbird seat now.

Texas and California are gone. That gives you President AOC with both houses and SCOTUS.

I have two years to prepare for this eventuality.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, prepping at November 04, 2026 07:15 AM (yKhjs)

24 Willowed from Pixy’s thread:

It’s not cheating. Voters are schizophrenic… they want low taxes, free shit and gasoline at a buck a gallon. If they don’t get that they throw a hissy fit and elect actual commies and terrorists. It’s a cold bucket of reality over the head
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 07:08 AM (PYT6H)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 07:15 AM (PYT6H)

25 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, guv'nor.

We survived 8 of Obama and 4 of Biden. OPSEC on cunning plans.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

26 18 JJ, being a lifelong Wisconsinite myself...may we commiserate and complain together. Hugs and prayers all around.
Posted by: JediArashi at November 04, 2026 07:13 AM (Ox9/r)

Jeez. I just can't escape the schvartzyorem commies!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 04, 2026 07:16 AM (x0n13)

27 This election was a referndum on Trump and not making Americans great again (foreign policy, America is great, but domestic they are all suffering).

It's not his 100% fault everyone 17-64 has been dealing with entry level jobs disappearing to AI and those remaining getting stagnant salaries, beef and other food prices staying skyrocketed (we now know beef prices matter way more than egg ones), gas being sky high, health insurance looking at continual double digit increases...

But he didn't empathize. He didn't try to help. He cheered AI and data centers. Tariffs were added with no direct benefit to Americans, but only the government coffer. So, Americans paid more and didn't feel anyithing for it. Then, DOW got a huge increase and we went to war with Iran, and Americans didn't feel any benefit - instead, it was more pain. And the promised benefits of deprtation also still brought almost nothing, except more security. All while they saw Trump fixate and sound off on petty things (pick what would go viral - the reflecting pool, the Kennedy Center, etc).

And Congress didn't do anything to help, either. Instead, they were a brick wall who did nothing.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:17 AM (Gb7+b)

28 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 07:17 AM (ccf/V)

29 davidt

Not passing the SAVE act was beyond stupid.

Now the GOPe Donor class will be hit first, and hard.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

30 We are so totally fucked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (ccf/V)

31 14 While it's way early to think about 2028, how do you think last night's results impact the GOP campaign for POTUS? Do you stick with Vance or Rubio, or go off the board with someone else?
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at November 04, 2026 07:12 AM (2CeDH)

Anyone in Trump's staff, save the VP maybe, is out. A non-loser this race will be near the top of the possibles.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (Gb7+b)

32 NPR was quite chipper this morning and said the dem house will be having lots of investigations. Please do just that 24/7

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (kFR7j)

33 In my opinion, prudent businessmen need to reconsider relocating/expanding to/in Wisconsin. The first seizure was the state supreme court. Incumbents there were lifers until one devised a novel theory of liability which made business difficult. He was voted out. Since then no incumbent can win on the purely political court.

Sad.

Posted by: lurk at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (hXvZk)

34 Looking at numbers, Republican turnout isn't too different from 2022. Which again seems to imply that the working class TrumpOnly voter(not all working class but the portion attributable to him) didn't show up in off-years. This seems to make them a bad bet for 2028.

We've yet to see the attribution for the substantially increased Democrat turnout, but the general spread seems to indicate it's Hispanic. If our politics become increasingly Latin American that will make some of the big planks law & order and social spending/bribes/patronage.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (okun6)

35 Neither Rubio or Vance can overcome the ignorant corrupt free shit socialist army that has taken over the country. PDT may have interrupted the decline briefly but the landslide is still going to break loose, with the Muslims riding the debris to the bottom.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

36 I am so happy the democrats are back in control of the Congress. Now I can get medicare, head start for the children, Pedro back to mow my lawn on the cheap and best of all all paid for by other Americans! Life is great!

Does this burqa make me look fat? Maybe just go with the hijab? So hard to choose....so hard...

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and parasite who votes for a living at November 04, 2026 07:19 AM (2mAEd)

37
How the hell did Texas get this so fucking wrong as to beggar the imagination.

Texas?!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 04, 2026 07:19 AM (x0n13)

38 Thankfully I still have the horde here, but with the blue wave, I expect all the shitty policies under Biden are going to be coming back.

DEI - more please
Trannies - more please
Censorship - more please
Higher taxes - more please
Burning cities - more please

Thanks dims - we were actually making a little headway towards sanity buy that is off the menu now.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 04, 2026 07:19 AM (mseD3)

39 Texas republicans shed 2.3 million votes from 2024. 300k went to the dims but ~2 million stayed home.
It was nice while it lasted.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 04, 2026 07:19 AM (f9RL7)

40 "We survived 8 of Obama and 4 of Biden. OPSEC on cunning plans."

OPSEC is always good.

On the other hand, show me a nation that has successfully repelled an Islamic invasion without massive bloodshed.

And don't for a minute think that Islam is not a part of this three prongs attack on the nation.

Good article, that I stole from Insty's place

https://tinyurl.com/4razwwae

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2026 07:20 AM (iMotb)

41 Anyone in Trump's staff, save the VP maybe, is out. A non-loser this race will be near the top of the possibles.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (Gb7+b)

Byron Donalds in FL would be on my short list, but with the Dems taking CA and TX, I'm not sure it'll matter.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, prepping at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (yKhjs)

42 Morning again Horde thx JJ. A not so Happy Hump Day.
I said this earlier but this reminds me of Ed Koch's comment after he lost the primary to Dinkins "the people have spoken and they must be punished"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (cfGMy)

43 How the hell did Texas get this so fucking wrong as to beggar the imagination.

CA transplants polluted TX like they do everywhere they go.

Posted by: Halfhand at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (CZuvr)

44 34 Looking at numbers, Republican turnout isn't too different from 2022. Which again seems to imply that the working class TrumpOnly voter(not all working class but the portion attributable to him) didn't show up in off-years. This seems to make them a bad bet for 2028.

We've yet to see the attribution for the substantially increased Democrat turnout, but the general spread seems to indicate it's Hispanic. If our politics become increasingly Latin American that will make some of the big planks law & order and social spending/bribes/patronage.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (okun6)

Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (Gb7+b)

45 It appears that the republican districts in Texas voted straight party democrat across the board. Not only the governor and lt governor, but all of the judges too.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 04, 2026 07:22 AM (0U5gm)

46 "This election was a referndum on Trump and not making Americans great again "

Then the electorate is stupid and selfish for not seeing what PDT has done for the country and deserves every bit of pain it is going to get. Anybody who thinks a Dem would have been or will be better is crazy.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:23 AM (MWfyi)

47 Among other personal disappointments for me this morning is the knowledge that most of my immediate and extended family are most likely quite content with last night's debacle. My late mother and father would have been appalled. I guess the the bright side, I most likely will have joined them on the other side before I witness the wonderments of islamo-socialism.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 04, 2026 07:23 AM (ceJ0R)

48 Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (Gb7+b)

And wanting to bang coeds, who are very, very left.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, prepping at November 04, 2026 07:24 AM (yKhjs)

49 fd

A lot of crazy around, and in the future.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

50 The hpuse is sold and the money should clear soon. We have to be out today. Hope the money shows......

Brother's surgery went well. Blockage was worse than thought, but soft material so easily removed. The mild stroke actually led to finding the blockage that left untreated would've been catastrophic. Woof.......

I'm severely depressed about last night. I've been struggling with every day life lately, but Texas going full commie is a bit much to handle right now.

Life just got a whole lot harder. I didn't need that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 07:24 AM (ccf/V)

51 41 Anyone in Trump's staff, save the VP maybe, is out. A non-loser this race will be near the top of the possibles.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (Gb7+b)

Byron Donalds in FL would be on my short list, but with the Dems taking CA and TX, I'm not sure it'll matter.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, prepping at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (yKhjs)

Nah, he won on DeSantis's indirect coattails...that's the only reason Florida didn't also fall. He and the R Senator aren't popular on their own. They are popular b/c of DeSantis's guiding of the R party down there (I've got family on both sides in FL, so I know how popular DeSantis is - Donalds was NOT that popular)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:24 AM (Gb7+b)

52 I feel sorry for Trump, who ran himself ragged campaigning all for nought.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 04, 2026 07:25 AM (kpS4V)

53 Good morning, one and all. I made it to work and life is continuing on.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2026 07:25 AM (svLOV)

54 Democrats are already saying publicly that their top priorities are impeaching Trump and his entire Cabinet and law fare against anyone that survives that.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 07:25 AM (sabhw)

55 How the hell did Texas get this so fucking wrong as to beggar the imagination.

CA transplants polluted TX like they do everywhere they go.
Posted by: Halfhand at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (CZuvr)

No… that wasn’t new Texans from other states like CA. You didn’t get that many transplants in just the 2 years since Trump won the state +14. It was voter retardation

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 07:25 AM (PYT6H)

56 US debt clock
$40.587 trillion
AMERICAN DOLLARS!

Unfunded - $116 Trillion.

What can't hold....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 07:25 AM (Sco7b)

57 Jeez. I just can't escape the schvartzyorem commies!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 04, 2026 07:16 AM (x0n13)

I'd love to kick them back to NY or Cali. Or more likely...Minnesota. Don't get me started.

I'm a millennial, too, so whatever ends up happening I get to deal with for a long time. Ugh.

Posted by: JediArashi at November 04, 2026 07:25 AM (Ox9/r)

58 If we had just let them eat the Tide Pods, none of this would be happening right now.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (7Ne0P)

59 44 34 Looking at numbers, Republican turnout isn't too different from 2022. Which again seems to imply that the working class TrumpOnly voter(not all working class but the portion attributable to him) didn't show up in off-years. This seems to make them a bad bet for 2028.

We've yet to see the attribution for the substantially increased Democrat turnout, but the general spread seems to indicate it's Hispanic. If our politics become increasingly Latin American that will make some of the big planks law & order and social spending/bribes/patronage.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:18 AM (okun6)

Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:21 AM (Gb7+b)

They're ultimately a limited part of the electorate. While it's not great to lose ground, we're talking numbers that are somewhere between Jews and Arabs in overall impact.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (okun6)

60 46 "This election was a referndum on Trump and not making Americans great again "

Then the electorate is stupid and selfish for not seeing what PDT has done for the country and deserves every bit of pain it is going to get. Anybody who thinks a Dem would have been or will be better is crazy.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:23 AM (MWfyi)

No one cares what he did for the country when they are maxing credit cards, postponing or going bankrupt with health costs, and are laid off and unable to find a next job that isn't minimum wage (we have a few folks here who have been in that "can't find a job" phase, and they REALLY should be able to)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (Gb7+b)

61 Conservative Canadian MP Says His Father Was Offered Euthanasia Unprompted

"I was disgusted. All the warnings about MAID we debated in the [House of Commons] and warned would happen with the change in legislation and the Liberals said would never happen [...] are happening,"

Posted by: SMOD at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (gWCxi)

62 Last night proved that the media still has a fuckton of power. A metric fuckton.

Oh, and fuck you millennials. You lazy pieces of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (ccf/V)

63 Money, Texas was the last bastion for the globalists. Texas wasn't flipped it was bought.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (8Uo7a)

64 I figure Trump is going to go golfing today, like he did after he got whupped in 2020.

Don't mean nothing, he can do what he wants; it's fine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (/Ki2A)

65 "I feel sorry for Trump, who ran himself ragged campaigning all for nought.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes"

This is the thanks he gets for trying to get the USA back on track. I wouldn't blame him for nuking everything.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (MWfyi)

66 Did the "Wealth Tax" pass in California ?

Posted by: SMOD at November 04, 2026 07:27 AM (gWCxi)

67 It's kind of a relief. So cartoonish, so obvious. The crazies will be emboldened, the 13848 report is due in 45 days. Maybe we're finally at the end.

Posted by: t-bird at November 04, 2026 07:27 AM (73EQ0)

68 It will be hard to not go with Vance in 2028 as he will be the incumbent president.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 04, 2026 07:27 AM (2ap+5)

69 "If we had just let them eat the Tide Pods, none of this would be happening right now."

One could argue that outlawing Lawn Darts was the beginning of all this.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2026 07:27 AM (iMotb)

70 Trump has 2 and a half months of free action left.

Iran, the Deerp State, and criminals are very happy now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

71 Since the S&P is held up by data centers, I can only imagine what the market will look like.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 04, 2026 07:28 AM (0U5gm)

72 52 I feel sorry for Trump, who ran himself ragged campaigning all for nought.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 04, 2026 07:25 AM (kpS4V)

Don't feel too bad - he saw the numbers, thus his campaigning in solely red areas - so he knew this was coming, even if we didn't...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Gb7+b)

73 "No one cares what he did for the country when they are maxing credit cards, postponing or going bankrupt with health costs, and are laid off and unable to find a next job that isn't minimum wage"

Well fine they are stupid and nothing will get better. With voters like that it's a hopeless cause.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:28 AM (MWfyi)

74 Oglebay

Vance will not run. Rubio is the only one left with stature.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

75 Thanks dims - we were actually making a little headway towards sanity buy that is off the menu now.

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We could've made substantial headway, possibly even saved the country...were it not in large part for John Thune.

Hey, with Talafreako in and Paxton out, I guess this is a shining morning for the Bush clan. Hope they're happy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:29 AM (qBdHI)

76 Good morning JJ and horde
And he isn't even our first Marxist Islamic Senator

Posted by: Skip at November 04, 2026 07:29 AM (aszAF)

77 I agree, Salty. Vance isn't going to run. Just my gut feeling.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:29 AM (qBdHI)

78 They're ultimately a limited part of the electorate. While it's not great to lose ground, we're talking numbers that are somewhere between Jews and Arabs in overall impact.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (okun6)

Oh, we lost everyone else bigger - those were just the most shocking loss...b/c they are the backbone of the party...

It would be like Dems losing blacks...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:29 AM (Gb7+b)

79 66 Did the "Wealth Tax" pass in California ?

Posted by: SMOD at November 04, 2026 07:27

AI

No, the "Wealth Tax" did not pass in California. It was proposed but ultimately did not receive enough support to be enacted

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 07:30 AM (Sco7b)

80 How the hell did Texas get this so fucking wrong as to beggar the imagination.

Texas?!!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 04, 2026 07:19 AM (x0n13)
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I voted straight R. I'm here to tell you though, there was a brief discussion at work yesterday and many of those that voted for the D had no idea what Talarico actually stands for and when told about the pro-tranny stuff said they regret their vote. Others were in denial saying that "That ain't true." So we'll see how the dims govern. I suspect Texas will turn into the next California or New York and the libs will be all "but I voted for the free stuff, why isn't anything free?"

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 04, 2026 07:30 AM (mseD3)

81 I'm finishing a road trip in a couple days and will be back in Arkansas. Common sense prevailed, Republican sweep, and a proof of citizenship to vote bill made it across the line.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 04, 2026 07:30 AM (g9REo)

82 Looks like we'll need six years worth of Talafreako jokes.
I'd better stock up.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 04, 2026 07:30 AM (RDhJX)

83 Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.

People under 30, in general, skew Socialist. Much more than anytime I can remember.

And, as always, I just follow the Population Density. As a population trends more Urban, its going to willingly choose more regulation. More of what is called Liberalism here. Just how it works.

Why did Texas do what it did ? The dirt isn't magic. There isn't some "Texas Spirit" that permeates the body. Texas voted blue last night because of all those roads getting built in Houston. All those new apartments in Dallas. All the expansion in San Antonio.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 07:30 AM (68dBl)

84 We're f***ked till at least 2033, which politically speaking, ain't that far off, but when Donks are in power, they tend to advance their ball.

With the Donks taking complete control in Texas, I see RCV and jungle primaries in that states future.

Last night was pretty much a repudiation election of the GOP.

They got a pretty big whole to dig out of.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 07:31 AM (XV/Pl)

85 I don't know the exact plan here but I feel it's gonna be All Epstein All the Time. Plus nonstop "investigations" over Goode and Plenti. And maybe Russia for good measure. They will probably also try to prosecute the war in Iran. Make that into an investigation shit show too.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:31 AM (i+GzW)

86 @66 the Billionaire tax in Cali is losing right now but....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 04, 2026 07:31 AM (cfGMy)

87 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

88 What are the new congress seat numbers?

Posted by: davidt at November 04, 2026 07:31 AM (Q+gd/)

89 75 Oglebay

Vance will not run. Rubio is the only one left with stature.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

If Vance doesn't run, no one on Trump's staff will win. He would only win as the heir apparent, and after today, that's not certain, b/c did I mention that white male vote swing...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:32 AM (Gb7+b)

90 I suspect Texas will turn into the next California or New York and the libs will be all "but I voted for the free stuff, why isn't anything free?"

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If TX turns into CA, we all know the country is kaput for all intents and purposes. The electoral votes will seal our doom and all generations that come after us.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:33 AM (qBdHI)

91 I hope Democrats introduce gas taxes in Texas like in Europe, 50% or so.
Then people will stop complaining about gas prices, because it'll be for a good cause. Or so they will be told.

Posted by: PG at November 04, 2026 07:33 AM (YAu8A)

92 Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.
--
Lot's of mentions about this group leaving college and sending 800+ resumes with no job offers.

Why they'd say, "well maybe it'll be better with the Dems in charge" I don't know.
But, humans are not rational.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 07:33 AM (/Ki2A)

93 I aver that passive resistance will not work.

the GOP is dead.
Trump is no Cromwell.

Will think deep on how to go forward.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

94 Has the media credited the DSA and communism and "energetic youth" yet with the election result? I'm expecting something to that effect though dunking on R's and Trump will give them plenty of fodder without that. I still expect it.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:33 AM (i+GzW)

95 I made this bit of spew at CTH this morning. Although the loss is in line with precedent the direction of the nation is far more dire.

Well.
It WAS hopium after all.
Now we’ll have full-on moslem, and communist, and female brains pulling the levers.

The Detroit, Los Angeles, and NYC models are coming to your still and quiet town

International friction increased overnight, a release of tension is near so look for a fire and look for movement in power centers; the

Some big brain please explain how we extract ourselves from the mire. And let’s not pretend some spark of grass-roots energy will propel a movement forward to restoration because no it won’t. When has it ever? What fractures power is more power not passive acceptance of fate.

Single-payer? Coming.
Destruction of military readiness? Coming.
Pink Power and Queer Rights? Coming.
Nationalized energy? Coming.
Great Big Giant Tax increases? Coming.
Middle class disappearance? Coming.
Gains of the past few years erased? Coming.
Mass “prayer” in the streets? Coming.

The inertia of any move (if there ever has been such a thing) to limited Constitutional governance is dissipated; the best we can do now is diminish the losses.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at November 04, 2026 07:34 AM (9f4mI)

96 Standing in the line to vote yesterday, I moved quietly along while studying the people in front, behind and all around me. Most were fat, slovenly, ill dressed, ill kept, loud talking and ugly.

The country is full of overgrown adult children.

Disgusting is the word that comes to mind.

Posted by: The Watcher at November 04, 2026 07:34 AM (2mAEd)

97 I don't know the exact plan here but I feel it's gonna be All Epstein All the Time. Plus nonstop "investigations" over Goode and Plenti. And maybe Russia for good measure. They will probably also try to prosecute the war in Iran. Make that into an investigation shit show too.

Democrats are already saying everyone gets impeached, especially Homan, Miller, and Hegseth, then law fare, and also the border must be opened immediately.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 07:34 AM (sabhw)

98 First thing on the dem agenda for Texas will be a state income tax.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 04, 2026 07:34 AM (8Uo7a)

99 79 They're ultimately a limited part of the electorate. While it's not great to lose ground, we're talking numbers that are somewhere between Jews and Arabs in overall impact.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:26 AM (okun6)

Oh, we lost everyone else bigger - those were just the most shocking loss...b/c they are the backbone of the party...

It would be like Dems losing blacks...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:29 AM (Gb7+b)

Losing young people isn't exactly new for the GOP. The Hispanic turnout will need further analysis to determine whether these are new voters and what actually drove them(not pre-baked narratives).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:35 AM (okun6)

100 I'm in Canada.
So yeah, obviously I understand a population going retarded.

But I'd still love to magically see every vote verified.
It'd be in the dems interest too.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 07:35 AM (Sco7b)

101 100?

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2026 07:35 AM (svLOV)

102 I think the inflation caused by the trillions of dollars of Covid Cash™ has a lot to do with how people are feeling.
I was in a Waffle House recently and had an omelette with a side of bacon and a side of sausage.
$18.00.
For breakfast at Waffle House.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 04, 2026 07:35 AM (RDhJX)

103 92 Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.
--
Lot's of mentions about this group leaving college and sending 800+ resumes with no job offers.

Why they'd say, "well maybe it'll be better with the Dems in charge" I don't know.
But, humans are not rational.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 07:33 AM (/Ki2A)

B/c change gives hope. What's happening isn't working for them, so they'll give anyone else the ball.

They don't care who that change - it's just about changing and trying with something new.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:35 AM (Gb7+b)

104 Will think deep on how to go forward.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

The answer has seemed obvious to me for a couple decades now. Stop trying to drag the GOP along. The GOP is not an opposition party.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 07:35 AM (68dBl)

105 Oh, and that rainy day fund, kiss that sucker goodbye.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 04, 2026 07:35 AM (8Uo7a)

106 Missing from my copy-and-paste:

the chyneez are gleeful although they will not show it. The US Constitution is a faded memory. The UniParty is firmly in the camp of the Arab and minority empowerment celebration; recall G. Bush gleefully handing power to the domestic communists mid-term but multiply that by a few exponents.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at November 04, 2026 07:36 AM (9f4mI)

107 The one thing that could derail a lot of Dem hopes is infighting between the Dems and the DSA commies. Unfortunately anti-Semitism will ramp up ( check out the Powerline story Kristallnact Again, about an anti Zionist bike ride on 11/

and the DSA will horrify a good chunk of the population.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 04, 2026 07:36 AM (cfGMy)

108 I look forward to the GOPe learning all the wrong lessons again. And just seeing this as them being happy because they can further fuck us over and not do anything.

Posted by: buzzion at November 04, 2026 07:36 AM (52m2x)

109 Democrats are already saying everyone gets impeached, especially Homan, Miller, and Hegseth, then law fare, and also the border must be opened immediately.

The only good that comes out of that is that they'll be too busy chasing impeachment that they won't be able to mess up the country that badly.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2026 07:36 AM (svLOV)

110 buzzion

You sound pretty smart and rational for a dead guy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

111 First thing on the dem agenda for Texas will be a state income tax.

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I think you're right. Wonder what all those young white male voters will say then. They're going to take it in the shorts. They'll realize it soon enough.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:37 AM (qBdHI)

112 Vance will not run. Rubio is the only one left with stature.

Vance understands that large portions of the electorate now openly hate dot Indians. And while he's about the only Republican to have spoken in that direction he knows he's still compromised on that issue by his wife.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (sabhw)

113 I voted straight R. I'm here to tell you though, there was a brief discussion at work yesterday and many of those that voted for the D had no idea what Talarico actually stands for and when told about the pro-tranny stuff said they regret their vote.

Fuck them. They are going to choke on it.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (7Ne0P)

114 "buzzion

You sound pretty smart and rational for a dead guy."

I think he got better.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (iMotb)

115 The country is full of overgrown adult children.

What decade has it not be so in our lifetimes ? The 60s were
a shit-show. The 70s were worse. My memory of the 80s is not as rosy as others. And on and on.

This didn't happen overnight.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (68dBl)

116 NR Pax

Embrase the power of AND.

The ball does not move forward. The best we can hope for is a tenacious defense.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

117 117 NR Pax

Embrase the power of AND.

The ball does not move forward. The best we can hope for is a tenacious defense.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

Rs get to do nothing again for 2 years, so that will make them happy in the House and Senate - they just vote no.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (Gb7+b)

118 I look forward to the GOPe learning all the wrong lessons again. And just seeing this as them being happy because they can further fuck us over and not do anything.

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Pathetic POS John Thune is getting massacred on X, but I have to believe he's quite happy with himself and the results last night.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (qBdHI)

119 107 The one thing that could derail a lot of Dem hopes is infighting between the Dems and the DSA commies. Unfortunately anti-Semitism will ramp up ( check out the Powerline story Kristallnact Again, about an anti Zionist bike ride on 11/ and the DSA will horrify a good chunk of the population.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 04, 2026 07:36 AM (cfGMy)

What infighting? Going full commie immediately, rather than doing it over 8-12 years?

Posted by: buzzion at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (52m2x)

120 None of this happens if you leave Iran alone. Period.

Posted by: janmarch at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (7iM56)

121 D's have been projecting strength, masculinity, energy and youth. It has been targeted and almost completely fake.

What have Republicans been projecting? What is the R message?

I believe Trump tried his best to drag our sorry party to victory. He is only one guy. We have some personalities associated with him like Vance and Rubio but what else have Republicans been saying and more importantly doing? Waiting Trump out while psy op after pay op gets deployed on the populace and here we are.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (i+GzW)

122 Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.

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great, an army of furries, groypers and trans curious girlymen; bet they all have college "education" and above

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (AKptf)

123 Vance understands that large portions of the electorate now openly hate dot Indians. And while he's about the only Republican to have spoken in that direction he knows he's still compromised on that issue by his wife.
Posted by: Ian S.

So the electorate votes for them. Real fucking smart.

Enjoy your unemployment while H1b's take over.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (7Ne0P)

124
Looks like Franklin's "A Republic if you can keep it" remark finally reached home.

Globohomoeuro is in charge, God help us.

Posted by: Auspex at November 04, 2026 07:40 AM (Y8DZL)

125 I'll tell you this, we'll get some entertainment (before we're sent to the camps) over the GOP election autopsy.

Watching the same faction that engineered this disaster claim if we'd but listened to them is going to be fun.

Just keep in mind:
Their candidates got whipped just as bad, even in "safe" seats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 07:41 AM (/Ki2A)

126 I would not discount ME interference; Trump got outplayed by the carpet sellers, and camel jockeys, they funneled a lot of money into their candidates.

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 07:41 AM (AKptf)

127

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 07:42 AM (AKptf)

128 "The country is full of overgrown adult children.

Disgusting is the word that comes to mind.
Posted by: The Watcher at November 04, 2026 07:34 AM"
+++

Yes. We have so much disposable time and money that adults can revert back to their childhood at will. I happened to be traveling on 10/31 and couldn't help but notice how many adults thought it perfectly fine to spend the day dressed up as some Disney character or superhero, especially at their place of work.
Really, people?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 04, 2026 07:42 AM (RDhJX)

129 Epic City Phase I, II, III, IV, V, etc...coming soon to a TX town near you.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:42 AM (qBdHI)

130 Young white men 18-29, regardless of location (city vs rural) voted for Ds by 17 points. They were the big swing, and I doubt they were fraud. They voted what they are feeling, which is pain and an inability to get started in life.

Looks like they just guaranteed that their lives are forfeit.

They literally voted for the very Party that set out to destroy them and told them Please Destroy Me Now.

I'm glad I have more days behind me than ahead of me.

Posted by: Community Notes at November 04, 2026 07:42 AM (+4Cf6)

131 Third Party?
Nah.

Destroy the GOPe?
Maybe but how?

Vote harder?
AYFKM?

Retreat?
To where, exactly?

Restore the Representative Republic?
Without an internal shooting war?

I'm all out of ideas short of secession.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at November 04, 2026 07:42 AM (9f4mI)

132 NR Pax

Embrase the power of AND.

The ball does not move forward. The best we can hope for is a tenacious defense.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

Rs get to do nothing again for 2 years, so that will make them happy in the House and Senate - they just vote no.

Posted by: Nova Local

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country and simply vote NO MORE INCUMBENTS.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:42 AM (7Ne0P)

133 If the Dems think they got voted in to impeach Trump and his cabinet they are sorely mistaken. I hope they spend all their time on impeachment because the house can impeach all they want; the senate will never convict. And I have a sneaking suspicion that even the retarded voters don’t want the chaos of constant impeachment

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 07:42 AM (PYT6H)

134 I look forward to the GOPe learning all the wrong lessons again. And just seeing this as them being happy because they can further fuck us over and not do anything.

Its not them. Its "us".

How long will it be before all the same people start talking up backing the GOP in 2028 ? I give it less than a month. For reasons such as "its the only logical play" and "you fight with the party you've got". Don't forget my personal favorite "but things will get worse before they get better". And on and on.

The only reason we got Trump in the first place is because he jumped the line. That won't happen again. In 2018 we got over 50 House member retiring in order to give away half of Congress. Before that, the GOP response to the Tea Party wave was to reject it.

They're just not an opposition party. Never will be. Its like trying to push a rope.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (68dBl)

135 Vivek's political career is over, so even in the darkest night...

Posted by: Oglebay at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (2ap+5)

136
These elections are a distraction from the Florida plane crash!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (eRlcH)

137 My thoughts on the results of the election:
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American.
Advertising works as does propaganda. News media, hollyweird, education all marching in lock step with the same message made the masses doubt what their eyes could clearly see.
The GOPeeeee is an existential threat to the Republic. They are a cancer on Truth, Capitalism, and the true American way. They are a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (JNTt1)

138 Fuck them. They are going to choke on it.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:38 AM (7Ne0P)

I'm getting back to my projects after today. Today feels like a like a beer day.

I wonder if I can design a nice jar and lighting system so they can happily view their testicles on a mantle.

That may sell.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (Sco7b)

139 125 I'll tell you this, we'll get some entertainment (before we're sent to the camps) over the GOP election autopsy.

Watching the same faction that engineered this disaster claim if we'd but listened to them is going to be fun.

Just keep in mind:
Their candidates got whipped just as bad, even in "safe" seats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 07:41 AM (/Ki2A)

It's why it was a voter repudiation of the whole party and Trump...not a state by state look.

I mean, we just squeaked Florida through...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (Gb7+b)

140 Texas weather + California taxes = ugh.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (Fv808)

141 Destroy the GOPe?
Maybe but how?

Vote NMI.

NO MORE INCUMBENTS.
And if the new crew acts the same, flush them in four years.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (7Ne0P)

142
There'll be a lot of analysis, but the answer is simple.

Perhaps 90+% of the 'Rons are Party-loyal Republicans. You might grouse about them constantly, but at the end of the day, no matter how many times they betrayed you, you always came back. Voting GOP is like being jumped into a gang, or taking an oath in front of a community of believers - blood in, blood out.

But... Trump Voters =/= GOP Voters.

Many of his voters are indifferent or hostile toward your Party.

That's why many of you get mad at them and can't understand why they elected Trump three times, but give the GOP nothing in midterms - you view them like Democrats view blacks... that the GOP owns their votes, and that they owe it loyalty.

They don't. The Party can't treat them like it treated you. They voted for MAGA populism. It needed to deliver on the MAGA populist agenda - and I mean BIGLY - or they were going to stay home.

It didn't deliver a single damn thing for 12 straight years, so neither did they.

Blame them all you like, but the fact of the matter is that Donald Trump served up a once-in-a-century mass movement to the GOP on a silver platter, and they threw it on the ground and walked away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 07:44 AM (BI5O2)

143
Vivek's political career is over, so even in the darkest night...
Posted by: Oglebay at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (2ap+5)

Brian Fitzpatrick was defeated in PA-1 as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 07:44 AM (eRlcH)

144 Idiocracy is coming. It was only a matter of time. I'm not going to waste any more time before it's fully implemented. The next two years are going to hold some major changes that I have put off too long.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:44 AM (MWfyi)

145
Vote NMI.

No middle initial?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 07:44 AM (eRlcH)

146 Thanks for trying, but this is a disaster. In 2022 the "red wave" became a trickle. This is a true blue wave. The Senate is gone for many years now, as the Dems hold seats for 6 years in places like Ohio, Kansas, Texas, South Carolina, Iowa where they have no business holding them. Collins was the GOPs one seat in a place they shouldn't have it. Can Thomas and Alito serve on the court for another 6 years? I doubt it. Just imagine them getting replaced by KBJ clones. We could all be seriously screwed.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM (CYakq)

147 Greenlandic Foreign Minister Mute Egede said on Tuesday that ratification of the deal was an important step for the island.

“We must accept that peace and stability are no longer something we can take for granted,” Egede told lawmakers in Nuuk shortly before the vote.

someone gets it

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM (/+uur)

148 Salty, thanks for your essay about the Trump rally.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

149 Good morning dear friends. I have not watched the news in more than a year, but I gather that things did not go well last night.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM (SfhV1)

150 Whelp... the GOP couldn't muster the wherewithal to pass the SAVE act... this is what you might expect.

It was a planned defeat.

We'll be on the defensive for a while longer until the worthless shits in the (R) party are drummed out.

Or we're at war with one another. Whichever comes first.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM (RORbl)

151
It's all right to feel sad, just don't despair. It's all right to be humbled, just don't give in.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM (eRlcH)

152 135 Vivek's political career is over, so even in the darkest night...
Posted by: Oglebay at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (2ap+5)

I don't regret him losing, except that the D is so much worse...he was always the wrong candidate for Ohio, but again, I don't think that would have mattered (then again, in SC, it did)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM (Gb7+b)

153 Vivek's political career is over, so even in the darkest night...

lolol
ok thanks

there's my silver lining!

also Josh is going to be extra nice the next couple of years hopefully bc he is aiming for President

so hoping PA is an ok place to be for at least a little while

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (qBivk)

154 127

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 07:42 A

Lot of that going on....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (Sco7b)

155 If your life revolves around video games at 30 years of age, you are not growing up.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (MWfyi)

156 Democrats won every state-wide office in TX, from governor on down.
I have to wonder if that's the result of move-ins from places like California during covid.

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (fPL4c)

157 It's all right to feel sad, just don't despair. It's all right to be humbled, just don't give in.

THIS

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (qBivk)

158 Pathetic POS John Thune is getting massacred on X
--
I don't think passing the SAVE Act would have been in effect last night anyway.

But, that's not really the point:
I think the point is, that was the inflection, the final betrayal where everyone knew the R party had no interest in doing anything the public wanted--no matter how popular.
Even if they held the Senate this year.
And let's go back and look, Paxton would have dropped out, they could have saved Cornyn and maybe the country.
Instead--they chose spite.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (/Ki2A)

159 No country for old men.

I got it wrong. I was counting on working class turnout.

Demographics are destiny. Europe is failing because its native born birthrate is way below the 2.2 needed to maintain. This is a decades long trend.

We don't have to follow Europe to ruin, but that's our current trajectory.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (dtajH)

160 San Franpsycho

Thank you. I did all I could.

More money to the GOPe would have made no difference. So I am glad they got none from me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

161 It didn't deliver a single damn thing for 12 straight years, so neither did they.

Blame them all you like, but the fact of the matter is that Donald Trump served up a once-in-a-century mass movement to the GOP on a silver platter, and they threw it on the ground and walked away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 07:44 AM (BI5O2)

The ask is unclear. They got tariffs and other policy changes in those years, none of them motivated them to vote mid-terms. It's not like they flipped back and forth either.

For the time being they look like personality voters. If someone figures out what policy actually gets them to vote, then fine. Until then, we've got no way to actually appeal to them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (okun6)

162 Grammy!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (iMotb)

163
*snaps fingers*

Hey! Can we do "mostly peaceful" stuff?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (eRlcH)

164 Utter psychosis. McMurphy's fellow inmates at the mental hospital were models of sanity by comparison.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (56Qyq)

165 Rs get to do nothing again for 2 years, so that will make them happy in the House and Senate - they just vote no.

--

Oh, and constantly badger us for campaign $$ to "Fight the Dems!"

The Democrats are saber-toothed tigers, ready to tear the flesh off anyone or anything that gets in their way. And we're saddled with the Republicans: the weakest, most spineless, utterly useless pieces of crap imaginable. They make me sick.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

166 I'll tell you what, I'm sick of politics

I think I speak for a lot of Americans on that

I'm keeping things local and trying to limit my exposure to politics

it's actually not that hard to do, and getting easier

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (qBivk)

167 Just learned the psychotic left won tge House AND Senate.
JFC.
This is going to get nasty.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (x3+1h)

168 We all know what’s coming. They’re going to impeach Trump and remove him from office. And probably Vance, too.

This is the end of the Trump presidency.

Ugh.

Posted by: Bulg at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (77rzZ)

169 Just a few months back everyone was feeling ecstatic about America as the worldwide fans of Men's Metric Kickball came to visit and gushed about the excesses of Buc-ee's, Costco, Taco Bell and the elixir of Ranch dressing.

Feels like a looooong time ago.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 04, 2026 07:48 AM (RDhJX)

170 Question of the Day if anyone wants one. How fast does the GOP actively turn on Trump and tell us all the awful anti-American ways we need to "solve" this problem.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:48 AM (i+GzW)

171 If your life revolves around video games at 30 years of age, you are not growing up.

===

you owe me a high paying job with low responsibilities and a nice house with 4 bathrooms!

Posted by: Young white "men" 18-29 at November 04, 2026 07:48 AM (AKptf)

172 Vote NMI.

No middle initial?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:48 AM (7Ne0P)

173 Grammie!! Great to see you here!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 07:48 AM (PYT6H)

174 {{{grammie winger}}}

The GOPe got whipped. But we still hold America in our hearts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

175 168 We all know what’s coming. They’re going to impeach Trump and remove him from office. And probably Vance, too.

yeah no

This is the end of the Trump presidency.

also no

the congress did jack and shit the past two years so that will stay the same with gridlock

some of the states who did dumb voting for Gov will maybe suffer

sucks for them, I know, I'm in PA. welcome to the Suck, Ohio!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (qBivk)

176 If your life revolves around video games at 30 years of age, you are not growing up.

One MUST grow old.
One does NOT have to grow up.

Pull my finger.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (7Ne0P)

177
And let's go back and look, Paxton would have dropped out, they could have saved Cornyn and maybe the country.

Cornyn would have gotten hammered as well, maybe worse than Paxton.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (eRlcH)

178 Grammie!! It's SO GOOD to see you!

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

179 @168 Let's not get dramatic

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (AKptf)

180 Donald Trump served up a once-in-a-century mass movement to the GOP on a silver platter, and they threw it on the ground and walked away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 07:44 AM (BI5O2)

yup

Posted by: davidt at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (Q+gd/)

181 We all know what’s coming. They’re going to impeach Trump and remove him from office. And probably Vance, too.

This is the end of the Trump presidency.

Ugh.
Posted by: Bulg at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (77rzZ)

No… that’s just not going to happen.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (PYT6H)

182 But... Trump Voters =/= GOP Voters. Many of his voters are indifferent or hostile toward your Party.

Everyone should read 142, repeatedly, until it sinks in.

Trump was the first Nationalist Populist. That simply does not jive with the GOP agenda.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (68dBl)

183 Hi Linus!

Posted by: grammie winger at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (SfhV1)

184 135 Vivek's political career is over, so even in the darkest night...
Posted by: Oglebay at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (2ap+5)

He was Indian Ken Blackwell. He was a horrible choice that shouldn't have run. Just like Husted being the worthless gnome DeWine's lickspittle being installed in the senate. People are dumb voting for Acton and Brown but Husted should never have been made the senator. Ohio passing Issue 3 easily demonstrates how fucking stupid the GOP is at selecting candidates.

Posted by: buzzion at November 04, 2026 07:49 AM (52m2x)

185 you owe me a high paying job with low responsibilities and a nice house with 4 bathrooms!

that was what their parents had/still have!

THAT is what this is about btw

people miss their phony-baloney jobs

BIG TIME

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 07:50 AM (qBivk)

186 But Grammie is here! Hello, Dear Lady!

Posted by: Bulg at November 04, 2026 07:50 AM (77rzZ)

187 161 It didn't deliver a single damn thing for 12 straight years, so neither did they.

Blame them all you like, but the fact of the matter is that Donald Trump served up a once-in-a-century mass movement to the GOP on a silver platter, and they threw it on the ground and walked away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 07:44 AM (BI5O2)

The ask is unclear. They got tariffs and other policy changes in those years, none of them motivated them to vote mid-terms. It's not like they flipped back and forth either.

For the time being they look like personality voters. If someone figures out what policy actually gets them to vote, then fine. Until then, we've got no way to actually appeal to them.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (okun6)

But that group didn't want tariffs, unless the tariff money flowed directly to them...and it didn't...it disappeared. Which was worse than never having the tariff b/c you got raised taxes (like Dems do) and no benefit from them.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:50 AM (Gb7+b)

188 I don't think the Leopard Eating Faces part is going to save us for last

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 07:50 AM (GR8fn)

189 "Vivek's political career is over, so even in the darkest night...
Posted by: Oglebay "

That is good but in the overall picture it means nothing. The GOP will continue to be a traitorous ineffective party that kowtows to the Dems. Do not look to them for salvation.

Every day will see something more outrageous from the Dems. They will go over the top and then move the top.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:50 AM (MWfyi)

190 Posted by: grammie winger

Grammie!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:50 AM (7Ne0P)

191
you owe me a high paying job with low responsibilities and a nice house with 4 bathrooms!

The ideal JAP house: six bathrooms and no bedroom.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (eRlcH)

192 Good Morning, Grammie! It's like Obama 2010. It felt good for the other side, until the other side realized who is still in the WH and, basically, in charge.

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (AKptf)

193 @168

>>This is the end of the Trump presidency.

It's not the end, but it's the beginning of the end.

Not much is going to get done in the next two years except lots and lots of spending.

2028 is going to be the real referendum on the fate of the US, If we get a Donk President with a Donk House and Senate, well...

Farewell and adieu to you fare Spanish Ladies...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (XV/Pl)

194 If your life revolves around video games at 30 years of age, you are not growing up.

Before video games it was model kits and model trains and ham radio. For as long as it's been possible to have leisure time men have had hobbies that have been frowned upon by women.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (sabhw)

195 Posted by: grammie winger at November 04, 2026 07:45 AM

Well, there's a pleasant surprise amidst the gloom! So nice to hear from you, grammie.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (ceJ0R)

196 Grammie !!! So very good to see you here.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (8Uo7a)

197 171 Question of the Day if anyone wants one. How fast does the GOP actively turn on Trump and tell us all the awful anti-American ways we need to "solve" this problem.
Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:48 AM (i+GzW)

They don't turn...they just don't raise a finger to help. And they wait to see what develops.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (Gb7+b)

198 Trump was the first Nationalist Populist. That simply does not jive with the GOP agenda.
Posted by: The Way It Is

F the GOPe.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 07:52 AM (7Ne0P)

199 157 It's all right to feel sad, just don't despair. It's all right to be humbled, just don't give in.

THIS

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (qBivk

I'm still going through the worst part of my life. But we control what we can and don't worry about things outside our control.

And for all those crazy thoughts about tomorrow things.
What are you going to do if aliens attack?
Batman goes rogue?

We handle today.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 07:52 AM (Sco7b)

200 184 — It is wonderful to see you here, Grammie. An elixir after yesterday’s fiasco

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 07:52 AM (PYT6H)

201 Grammie! So nice to hear from you.

I'd keep up that news embargo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 04, 2026 07:52 AM (kpS4V)

202 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 07:47 AM (qBivk)

It's the only way. Trump was a blip and a very fun one. I am in full 2013 mode. No more making myself sick over crap I can't control. Not this crap. Not ever.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:52 AM (i+GzW)

203 My friend just made the comment she wishes that Desantis would move to Texas and run.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 04, 2026 07:52 AM (EneHm)

204 Wait!
Grammie is here?

I hope you and your loved ones are well!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 07:53 AM (Sco7b)

205
The ask is unclear. They got tariffs and other policy changes in those years, none of them motivated them to vote mid-terms. It's not like they flipped back and forth either.

For the time being they look like personality voters. If someone figures out what policy actually gets them to vote, then fine. Until then, we've got no way to actually appeal to them.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:46 AM (okun6)

But that group didn't want tariffs, unless the tariff money flowed directly to them...and it didn't...it disappeared. Which was worse than never having the tariff b/c you got raised taxes (like Dems do) and no benefit from them.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:50 AM (Gb7+b)

The precise Trump demographic has historically supported tariffs. That's obviously not the key issue with them, if one even exists.

We're in our third mid-term of them not showing up for anyone. If it were a policy formula I suspect someone would've cracked it by now. We're unlikely to come up with something by 2028 that would turn them out.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 07:53 AM (okun6)

206 Can Thomas and Alito serve on the court for another 6 years?
--
Yeah, the senate 2028 map is brutal for R.

And you just know Roberts will now feel safe retiring.

So, yeah: 6-3 Dem majority.
There will be no more talks of expanding the Court now.

But, if you want a silver lining: There has to be 6 quorum to vote.
And there's no way the Dems will approve anyone Trump nominates.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 07:53 AM (/Ki2A)

207 It is hard for me to type. But I'll read along. Thanks again fpr all the cards. You guys are so sweet

Posted by: grammie winger at November 04, 2026 07:54 AM (SfhV1)

208 How fast does the GOP actively turn on Trump and tell us all the awful anti-American ways we need to "solve" this problem.

The GOP turned on Trump 10 years ago. The SAVE Act not passing was the biggest marker of that yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 07:54 AM (sabhw)

209 "Just a few months back everyone was feeling ecstatic about America as the worldwide fans of Men's Metric Kickball came to visit and gushed about the excesses of Buc-ee's, Costco, Taco Bell and the elixir of Ranch dressing."

Europeans come here and see how great America is and that just makes them want to tear it down more.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 07:54 AM (MWfyi)

210 I wonder if the Republicans in the Texas Assembly will have as much courage as the Democrats to use extreme measures to get their way, starting with walkouts.
It seems that in modern times Democrats have done it 4 times, while Republicans have only done it once, in 1870.
Do they have a spine? Or have they grown soft after many years of governing?

Posted by: PG at November 04, 2026 07:54 AM (YAu8A)

211 Grammie!!!!!

Omg that's my morning made.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:55 AM (i+GzW)

212 I say this election was a referendum on Trump. The dragging out the conflict with Iran in pursuit of a "deal" was the main issue, IMHO.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 04, 2026 07:55 AM (M0I1r)

213 Europeans come here and see how great America is and that just makes them want to tear it down more.

More that it makes their overlords want to tear us down more. Can't have the proles getting ideas

Posted by: RandomDave at November 04, 2026 07:55 AM (aJQbY)

214 Have you had a bullet shave your ear?

I don't want to hear a fvcking word about Trump who has done more to improve America in ten years while losing personal wealth than anyone since Ronaldus, Nixon, and JFK.

The republican party is the enemy: when 80% of America wants voter ID and you control congress - and you don't pass it?!?!?!?!?!?! F*ck Off. I will support local republicans, but nationally?! Fvck off. The whole story.

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 04, 2026 07:55 AM (klw0w)

215 Europeans come here and see how great America is and that just makes them want to tear it down more.

The Davos crowd was furious that people were learning that there's an alternative to the EU's managed decline so they redoubled their efforts to stamp it out.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 07:55 AM (sabhw)

216 For the time being they look like personality voters. If someone figures out what policy actually gets them to vote, then fine. Until then, we've got no way to actually appeal to them.

We know what DOESN'T appeal to them. Foreign wars. High prices. Lower top marginal tax rates.

Folks - this is going to go over here like a lead balloon. But the majority of the country doesn't get a tingle down their pants leg every time the nightly news shows an American plane dropping ordinance.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 07:55 AM (68dBl)

217 I have a feeling the pendulum ain't gonna eventually swing back to the GOPe as they think it will. The Dems have grabbed it, and they ain't gonna let go.

Posted by: davidt at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (Q+gd/)

218 Lotta hard lifting and sacrifice is needed to fix this country.

And the young, mal-educated said nah.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (r2Icn)

219 She also thinks that going after marijuana and abortion hurt us in Texas.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (EneHm)

220 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was founded by Michael Harrington in 1982.

His plan was to take over the D party from within as the best way to push progressivism.

It's working.

AOC is a creature of the DSA, picked in their beauty pagent to take out Menshevik Crowley.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (dtajH)

221 2028 is going to be the real referendum on the fate of the US, If we get a Donk President with a Donk House and Senate, well...

Farewell and adieu to you fare Spanish Ladies...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (XV/Pl)

Explain how we win the White House without Texas.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, prepping at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (yKhjs)

222 Barack Obama (spit) didn't pull Democrat candidates to victory, and neither does Trump. People get out and vote for the man, but when the man is not on the ballot, bad things happen to the party. The negatives drive the opposition. Say what you want about the institutional Republicans, but they also understood this. I'll bet they're happier than the Democrats this morning.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (QaH55)

223 125 I'll tell you this, we'll get some entertainment (before we're sent to the camps) over the GOP election autopsy.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

The good news is that they don't have the cattle cars to ship us anywhere.

The bad news is de-platforming, de-banking, and punishment-in-place works fine.

Fauci showed the way.

Posted by: Auspex at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (Y8DZL)

224 The GOP turned on Trump 10 years ago. The SAVE Act not passing was the biggest marker of that yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 07:54 AM (sabhw)

No I mean full throated. Does the GOPe come back and dunk all over him and us now? Do they dance all over the fault lines? Do they tell us that Communism and Hating America is Not So Bad When Managed Correctly? Do they tell us we have "nothing to fear from Sayed and the DSA"?

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (i+GzW)

225 And there's no way the Dems will approve anyone Trump nominates.

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One of my first thoughts this morning. I see very little good news today on all fronts pertaining to the state of this wretched and doomed country.

Trump will not get to pick any replacements for Alito or Thomas if they chose to retire between now and Jan. For the next 2 years, nobody Trump selects will ever get confirmed. Then, it's time for 2028. If we lose that, the Supreme Court will change forever. At least the Communists won't feel such a need to pack the SCOTUS at that point...

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

226 # 96

"The country is full of overgrown adult children."

This.

See it everyday here in Corpus Christi.

Decline is a choice. And we chose poorly.

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at November 04, 2026 07:58 AM (sQ97Y)

227 221 2028 is going to be the real referendum on the fate of the US, If we get a Donk President with a Donk House and Senate, well...

Farewell and adieu to you fare Spanish Ladies...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 07:51 AM (XV/Pl)

Explain how we win the White House without Texas.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, prepping at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (yKhjs)

We don't...but if Texans want DeSantis to run for Gov there (which is a ridiculous notion, but...)...he comes out of this election more popular - can any other R say the same?

Could DeSantis win the SE Coast and reshore red heartland? Maybe.

I think this election says he tries and he doesn't go to Trump's cabinet. He tries for the top again, after passing some of the most popular legislation is Florida this year.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 07:59 AM (Gb7+b)

228 One silver lining is the Democrats elected so many bizarre candidates that we will laugh a lot as we are herded into the camps.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 04, 2026 07:59 AM (xzwaQ)

229 The bad news is de-platforming, de-banking, and punishment-in-place works fine.

Yep. That is definitely on the way.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 04, 2026 08:00 AM (ceJ0R)

230 Having high gas and diesel prices hurt. I don't think we would have lost in Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska with lower prices. I don't blame the war in Iran for this since we had to take action against that regime. We need to have more spare capacity in our refineries - we are running at 98% and this is too narrow of a margin.

The Dems won't do anything to help this out. They'll most likely make this worse, and this is just one thing that they'll screw up. Perhaps the public will notice that the Dems simply should not be trusted with the economy in 2028 and keep a Republican in the White House.

I don't know but I will work hard to make it so. In the meantime, I've spoken with family members and we're coordinating our survival plans for whatever the Party of Lavrenty Beria decides to throw at us in the near future. This is something we'll all have to discuss and hopefully, won't have to deal with.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 04, 2026 08:00 AM (lwGZg)

231 "The country is full of overgrown adult children."

Video games are a waste of time for adults. But golf ? Now golf is full of virtue and such.

Yeah. I just can't figure out how the under 30 crowd doesn't trust the GOP. Maybe a good tent revival will bring them over.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:00 AM (68dBl)

232 225 And there's no way the Dems will approve anyone Trump nominates.

--

One of my first thoughts this morning. I see very little good news today on all fronts pertaining to the state of this wretched and doomed country.

Trump will not get to pick any replacements for Alito or Thomas if they chose to retire between now and Jan. For the next 2 years, nobody Trump selects will ever get confirmed. Then, it's time for 2028. If we lose that, the Supreme Court will change forever. At least the Communists won't feel such a need to pack the SCOTUS at that point...
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

Trump also can't pick any replacements for his cabinet, so they are in for the duration, or those cabinets' work falls by the wayside...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 08:00 AM (Gb7+b)

233 So two years of Hakeem Jeffries? That'll be fun.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 04, 2026 08:00 AM (RDhJX)

234 "Before video games it was model kits and model trains and ham radio. For as long as it's been possible to have leisure time men have had hobbies that have been frowned upon by women.
Posted by: Ian S."

I said "if you life revolves around video games", not as a hobby but as your primary thing in life over everything else, like say maybe marriage and kids. Hobbies are fine. Living in fantasy worlds while ignoring the destruction in the real world is not a hobby.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 08:00 AM (MWfyi)

235 216 "For the time being they look like personality voters. If someone figures out what policy actually gets them to vote, then fine. Until then, we've got no way to actually appeal to them."

We know what DOESN'T appeal to them. Foreign wars. High prices. Lower top marginal tax rates.

Folks - this is going to go over here like a lead balloon. But the majority of the country doesn't get a tingle down their pants leg every time the nightly news shows an American plane dropping ordinance.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 07:55 AM (68dBl)

1. Liberal interventionism just won the mid-terms. Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc. The foreign wars claim doesn't hold water.
2. Inflation is not nearly as elevated as in 2022, which did very little for a GOP win. So this also seems unlikely.
3. Tax rates are possible but latin american politics typically focuses on social spending more than how to pay for them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 08:01 AM (okun6)

236 Here in AZ propositions against DEI and non-citizen voting went down in flames.
Yet anti-trans proposition passed.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 04, 2026 08:01 AM (x3+1h)

237 Whatever happened to the face eating bath salts zombies?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 04, 2026 08:01 AM (M0I1r)

238 @221

>>Explain how we win the White House without Texas.

Well, you can't but that doesn't necessarily mean a GOP candidate won't.

If the Donks do what they usually do when they gain complete control, f*** with the election systems and you get RCV and jungle primaries and ballot harvesting and ballot curing, etc.

Then no GOP candidate can win Texas in those circumstances as the donks will control all the levers of the apparatus.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 08:01 AM (XV/Pl)

239
Good of you to visit, Grammie. Every day in my Rosary intentions, I ask Blessed Karl of Austria to intercede for you. Reckon it can't hurt any.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 08:02 AM (eRlcH)

240 Good to see you, Grammie. We are blessed to read your words.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:02 AM (ccf/V)

241 Texas as I have always known it is permanently over. The Dems will import enough voters to maintain power. Sad to realize nothing will change in my state or my country in my lifetime. I have a place in Florida but Texas is home. It is no longer a refuge.

Posted by: AnnaS at November 04, 2026 08:03 AM (X5pwk)

242 1. Liberal interventionism just won the mid-terms. Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc. The foreign wars claim doesn't hold water.
2. Inflation is not nearly as elevated as in 2022, which did very little for a GOP win. So this also seems unlikely.
3. Tax rates are possible but latin american politics typically focuses on social spending more than how to pay for them.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 08:01 AM (okun6)

Inflation is cummulative - it's not like 2024 pain goes away b/c the increase comes down a few points b/c all of the pre-existing price gains are still there. It just keeps building and building. Our side doesn't get that b/c the 65+ get inflation adjustments to all their pay every year - 17-64 don't (like my spouse got a ZERO percent pay increase last year while everything continued to get more expensive, so I feel for the younger folks who have no cushion in their salary to take that)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (Gb7+b)

243 Sorry, All. I am blackpilled now.

At least we won’t get riots. I hope.

Posted by: Bulg at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

244 The GOP strategy to wait Trump out (again) worked gangbusters. Amazing. And we are right back where they tried to put us in 2008, 2012, 2016 and again in 2020-2024. Trump was an incredible miraculous anomaly.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (i+GzW)

245
She also thinks that going after marijuana and abortion hurt us in Texas.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 04, 2026 07:56 AM (EneHm)

I don't think those issues ever came up in the campaign. When they were hot a couple of years ago, the effect was negligible.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (eRlcH)

246 Keep an eye on Poland. The EU is desperate for war with Russia and may execute a false flag op to get things going.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (Dv3i1)

247 Okay look.
Bright sides.

ace has tons of content going forward.
Acton in Ohio.
Crap was she drunk.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (Sco7b)

248 The ask is unclear. They got tariffs and other policy changes in those years, none of them motivated them to vote mid-terms. It's not like they flipped back and forth either.

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They got things they wanted from Trump - not them.

From the 2017 House budget that killed the Wall, to the SAVE act in 2026, they stopped every piece of legislation that Trump wanted - along with almost everything else. Two GOP Senates were graveyards for his agenda.

They watched during this time as that Party (at best) rolled over and played dead during his investigations and impeachments, high-fived Nancy Pelosi during the electoral coup, exulted in calling his movement an insurrection, got the vapors during his lawfare travails, and on and on.

This Party is 110% responsible for its litany of failures and it only ever won anything because of Trump and in spite of themselves.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (t7aoG)

249 More good news...in 2028, Iowa can reelect Chuck Grassley to the Senate!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:05 AM (qwx/I)

250 Many companies moved to TX thinking it a stable red sate. Musk built up a lot of facilities. I bet they are celebrating today...

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:05 AM (AKptf)

251 I don't care anything about golf but at least it gets you out into the real world. I don't have anything against video games either but they damn sure don't.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)

252 Virginians are now guaranteed a Constitutional right to murder their babies as they're coming down the birth canal. I expect at any minute, fireballs falling from the sky and pelting this country for its depravity. It's just unreal where we are. It truly turns my stomach. All of it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

253
At least we won’t get riots. I hope.
Posted by: Bulg at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

On the contrary, I expect the Left to start rioting in January, if not sooner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 08:05 AM (eRlcH)

254 242
Inflation is cummulative - it's not like 2024 pain goes away b/c the increase comes down a few points b/c all of the pre-existing price gains are still there. It just keeps building and building. Our side doesn't get that b/c the 65+ get inflation adjustments to all their pay every year - 17-64 don't (like my spouse got a ZERO percent pay increase last year while everything continued to get more expensive, so I feel for the younger folks who have no cushion in their salary to take that)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (Gb7+b)

If inflation was the key element the GOP would've done better in 2022.

We have the same pattern under radically different economies spread across roughly a decade. There's no demonstrated way to get this demo to vote without Trump on the ticket, and he can't be run again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 08:06 AM (okun6)

255 It's all right to feel sad, just don't despair. It's all right to be humbled, just don't give in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That works for me. Thanks, Hadrian.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2026 08:06 AM (svLOV)

256 Texas as I have always known it is permanently over. The Dems will import enough voters to maintain power.

That's the cost of rapid economic expansion. All those new manufacturing jobs that were pouring in from other states ? They just bring those people with them.

We won't bury the myth that the risk of importing demographics - at the State or Federal level - can be mitigating by assimilation. But we should. Populations don't assimilate much.

And a Liberal is not a Conservative that hasn't been mugged yet. We should bury that one as well. But I doubt we will. Hope springs eternal. Even if its false.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:06 AM (68dBl)

257 I have a sneaking suspicion that even the retarded voters don’t want the chaos of constant impeachment
——-

And, as we all know, the movers and shakers in politics are most especially responsive to “voters” and what they want. Whew!

Posted by: Um at November 04, 2026 08:06 AM (tM8U8)

258 252 Virginians are now guaranteed a Constitutional right to murder their babies as they're coming down the birth canal. I expect at any minute, fireballs falling from the sky and pelting this country for its depravity.
___

Please limit the fireballs to depraved Virginia. Thank you.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 04, 2026 08:06 AM (Dv3i1)

259 So the Dems that got elected in Kansas (?!), SC, and Iowa...are they Dem Dems, like seriously full on commies, or are they Dems that represent the electorate of KS, SC, and IA? Will they go full on impeachment/hamstringing the administration?

Yeah, there are no good outcomes, best we can hope for as I saw on X is Woke 3 followed by American Hitler.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:07 AM (qwx/I)

260 The knives will be out for a number of Trump's cabinet members.

Hegseth and Rubio in particular. And everyone at DoJ.

We're going to have non-stop committee hearings about Iran, Cuba, ICE, Maduro, etc. And most likely a couple impeachments.

The country's lost. Time to make a new one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 04, 2026 08:07 AM (RORbl)

261 So the dems control both chambers. I wonder how quickly they'll pass something that requires the full release of all Epstein documents. They sure yammering about them while they were out of power

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:07 AM (feSaR)

262 And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 04, 2026 08:07 AM (amcLV)

263 On the contrary, I expect the Left to start rioting in January, if not sooner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 08:05 AM (eRlcH)

Oh yeah the only thing worse than leftard behavior when they lose is leftard behavior when they win. Think Detroit after a championship. And they're not "celebrating".

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:07 AM (i+GzW)

264 At least we won’t get riots. I hope.

We will 100% get riots. Look at Europe.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 08:08 AM (sabhw)

265 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (t7aoG)

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+1000

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

266 Congratulations to Iran for ruining another American Presidential administration.

Hey, Jimmuh, hold my Diet Coke!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:08 AM (qwx/I)

267 More good news...in 2028, Iowa can reelect Chuck Grassley to the Senate!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:05 AM (qwx/I)
*******
And if he passes away, they now have an Iowa governor that can appoint a democrat in his place.
Another Senate seat will be lost.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 04, 2026 08:08 AM (wzaBj)

268 I wonder how quickly they'll pass something that requires the full release of all Epstein documents. They sure yammering about them while they were out of power
_____

Hypocrisy is just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 04, 2026 08:08 AM (Dv3i1)

269 Whatever...I'll be moving back to the Hill Country soon, hope to hunker down and avoid most of them for the rest of my years.

Hey! Where's the "buy more ammo!" guy?

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at November 04, 2026 08:09 AM (sQ97Y)

270 It was a thousand cuts that bled MAGA dry. Some I was thinking on:
- Bondi and her goofy stunt of Epstein files.
- Then letting her further humiliate him by dragging out the release so badly the GOPe united with the Dems to force him to sign a bill over it. Why did he waste so much political capital on that shit?
- ICE raids. We cheered the big show in the blue cities. And got f all for it. But gave the left rally cries. And helped our enemies reduce their crime to boot.
- while leaving big ag and other business in red states that hired illegals untouched.
- Jobs sure. That went to women and minorities. DEI didn't die.
- so many high profile arrests that were dismissed or botched.
- Sitting on the Covid files, letting Grassley trickle them out, so little and redacted, that the media easily ignored--and no one arrested or even sweating over their illegality
- letting all the J6 persecutors off scott-free.
- the silly fight with Musk when the problem was in the Capital.

And so on. We never got tired of the winning, we got tired of not winning.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 08:09 AM (/Ki2A)

271 The knives will be out for a number of Trump's cabinet members.

Hegseth and Rubio in particular. And everyone at DoJ.

None of the Democrats crowing about jailing the entire Cabinet today have mentioned Rubio. Miller and Homan and Hegseth are the primary targets.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 08:09 AM (sabhw)

272 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at November 04, 2026 08:09 AM (RDhJX)

273 I expect at any minute, fireballs falling from the sky and pelting this country for its depravity. It's just unreal where we are. It truly turns my stomach. All of it.

Same here. The rot is almost tangible.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 04, 2026 08:09 AM (ceJ0R)

274 Well, Blackburn is now governor. That's good. Must have run a good campaign, and did not rely on GOPe. Sarah Sanders won her reelection. Must have run a good campaign too.

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:10 AM (AKptf)

275 I wonder how quickly they'll pass something that requires the full release of all Epstein documents. They sure yammering about them while they were out of power

They won, you'll never hear about Epstein again because more attention on it means more Democrat donors get exposed.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 08:10 AM (sabhw)

276 Well, something happened.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 04, 2026 08:10 AM (MWfyi)

277 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (t7aoG)

That is what you call the nutshell. Couldn't have said it better and wouldn't because I'm mostly just dumb but know some big words.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:10 AM (i+GzW)

278 264 At least we won’t get riots. I hope.

We will 100% get riots. Look at Europe.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 0

Seeing Detroit burn.
Let me think on that.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (Sco7b)

279
I got my stewarding assignments for this weekend's shows. Dear heavens, on Friday I have a full day, 175 dogs. The first group starts at 9:00 (I have to be there at 8:00) and the last, of 41 dogs, at 3:05. I'll be there until nearly 5:00.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (eRlcH)

280 Well, something happened.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 04, 2026 08:10 AM (MWfyi
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Thanks for the laugh

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (kSATS)

281 Well, that stock market is surging...I don't know why. AI Data Centers are dead but tariffs are probably dead as well so it's a wash. GOP President and Dem Congress is usually a pretty bad mix.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (qwx/I)

282 Last night at 10:18pm. He just couldn't wait. This is what's coming, just like we thought.

Congressman Robert Garcia

@RepRobertGarcia
LAWYER UP.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

283 Texas weather + California taxes = ugh.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 04, 2026 07:43 AM (Fv80

=====

*points and laughs*

Your congressman's a p3do!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

284 And so it ends.

Posted by: The person who always thinks it's ending at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (RDhJX)

285 271 The knives will be out for a number of Trump's cabinet members.

Hegseth and Rubio in particular. And everyone at DoJ.

None of the Democrats crowing about jailing the entire Cabinet today have mentioned Rubio. Miller and Homan and Hegseth are the primary targets.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 08:09 AM (sabhw)

You start with the Christian white straight males, not the Hispanic one...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 08:12 AM (Gb7+b)

286 People here keep saying what about 2028. There won’t be a 2028! They are permanently in power now. This was not a usual midterm loss. They will import enough voters to maintain permanent control and power. Change my mind!

Posted by: AnnaS at November 04, 2026 08:12 AM (WdMlw)

287 It was a thousand cuts that bled MAGA dry. Some I was thinking on:

Said shorter ... Trump really is a lot. He wears on all but the most loyal. The country just got tired of him personally.

If you could find a Nationalist Populist that stayed off social media, talked less in general and more focused and - honestly - more sanely ? That candidate would be much more popular.

And also cut down at the knees by the GOP. That's the other problem. The GOP simply won't support or abide the candidate that the majority of the public wants.

There's the issue.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:13 AM (68dBl)

288 They won, you'll never hear about Epstein again because more attention on it means more Democrat donors get exposed.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 08:10 AM (sabhw)

On the contrary I think they are going to put Epstein on blast. Use his crimes that they benefited from to tar Trump and us as pedos.

Like the people who thought covid would be "over" if Biden got elected. No, I don't think so.

They will squeeze the Epstein lemon for all its worth and pair it up with further Investigation Theater into every single dump any Trump official has taken since 1983.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:13 AM (i+GzW)

289 The problem is him.

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I'd say the problem is everyone.

Everyone in the GOP can share some blame.

Rant for a while, but then regroup and soldier on. There will be more losses, but the pendulum keeps swinging.

Posted by: SH at November 04, 2026 08:13 AM (qCV5n)

290 282 Well, that stock market is surging...I don't know why. AI Data Centers are dead but tariffs are probably dead as well so it's a wash. GOP President and Dem Congress is usually a pretty bad mix.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (qwx/I)

Budget will stay the same with .5T leaving DOW and being spread to the other departments to fund D priorities...so they can say they are "stewarding" the budget...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 04, 2026 08:13 AM (Gb7+b)

291 The good news is that with dems in permanent power like CA has been for decades, we'll ALL be getting high speed trains!!!

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:14 AM (kSATS)

292 Trump is the Black Swan I always suspected he was. I think collectively the country is not particularly conservative, certainly not in the sense we at the HQ are. Cities dominate the process and that’s not going to change. We crashed and burned here in Missouri last night and my state is not the Red bastion I deluded myself into believing it was. 3 cities controlled what happened here.

Posted by: tubal at November 04, 2026 08:14 AM (Gqar8)

293 John Thune will save us.

Posted by: Said no one ever at November 04, 2026 08:14 AM (RDhJX)

294 - {{{{ grammie!!!! }}}}

I'll see ya when I see ya. And you know where we'll be.

Posted by: TeeJ at November 04, 2026 08:14 AM (8a+6A)

295 Well, something happened.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 04, 2026 08:10 AM (MWfyi)

Some people did something......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

296 We Gen Xers are gonna catch hell.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:16 AM (qwx/I)

297 “ I love you, Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation,
my stronghold.”

Psalm 18:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at November 04, 2026 08:16 AM (XGYZI)

298 Grammie! What a blessing to see you!

Posted by: Emmie at November 04, 2026 08:16 AM (OlzlW)

299 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kv81sju7Ido

Truth from Ralf Sheepers

Ready! Let the calvinball begin!

Posted by: Kittens! at November 04, 2026 08:16 AM (LOZbR)

300 If "affordability" is understood as social spending, then things line up pretty cleanly as far as D turnout goes. Fiscal conservatism may well be dead until the next currency collapse.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 08:16 AM (okun6)

301 I got my stewarding assignments for this weekend's shows. Dear heavens, on Friday I have a full day, 175 dogs. The first group starts at 9:00 (I have to be there at 8:00) and the last, of 41 dogs, at 3:05. I'll be there until nearly 5:00.

*********************

That's a lot of rubber bands to hand out.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 04, 2026 08:16 AM (J4Dwc)

302 We Gen Xers are gonna catch hell.

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Our lot in life is to just be a fly on the wall. Its never about us.

Posted by: SH at November 04, 2026 08:17 AM (qCV5n)

303 If you could find a Nationalist Populist that stayed off social media, talked less in general and more focused and - honestly - more sanely ? That candidate would be much more popular.
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This is Fantasy Math. Sort of the reverse of taking away a running backs longest runs to prove he is quite average?

Trump was popular enough to win BECAUSE of what he is not in spite of it.

Without Trump's hubris and all his awful shitty cringy qualities, no one in the country would have had the vision or sense or single mindednees to fight the GOPe morass and fully embrace National Populism.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:17 AM (i+GzW)

304 People here keep saying what about 2028. There won’t be a 2028! They are permanently in power now. This was not a usual midterm loss. They will import enough voters to maintain permanent control and power. Change my mind!
Posted by: AnnaS at November 04, 2026 08:12 AM (WdMlw)

Now that they are in full control of Texas, they will take control of the elections and voter rolls like Hobbs did in Arizona and Whitmer did in Michigan in order to ensure that Texas stays permanently blue. Which means it will be impossible for a Republican to win the presidency again. Funny how you won't hear them talk about scrapping the Electoral College now that they've seized control of Texas.

Posted by: janmarch at November 04, 2026 08:17 AM (7iM56)

305 This Party is 110% responsible for its litany of failures and it only ever won anything because of Trump and in spite of themselves.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 08:04 AM (t7aoG)
=====

For example, Troy Jackson for Susan Collins is a wash.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

306 Affordability is a feeling, not a fact.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 04, 2026 08:18 AM (RDhJX)

307 The GOP has shown over and over what "Trump without Trump" looks like.

The same old milquetoast "hope you haven't figured us out" shit from people that are so transparent, birds are constantly flying into them.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:18 AM (i+GzW)

308 We crashed and burned here in Missouri last night and my state is not the Red bastion I deluded myself into believing it was. 3 cities controlled what happened here.

The poll takers and pundits can keep their crap projections. Just show me a population density maps by year. That's all I need to know to tell where a State is headed.

To live Urban is to accept Collectivism. One has to. To drive the extra miles and take the extra time to live Rural is an expression of one's priority to stay an Individualist.

As we become more Urban, Collectivism is inevitable. Pure and simple.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:18 AM (68dBl)

309 I could see this coming just based on what was going on in social media.
Even the local news programs would frame everything in a negative way to make the viewers feel things were hopeless.
I felt we were going to lose Texas all the way down ballot, but I thought it was going to be only by a couple points. I didn't know it was going to be as huge as it was.

And we barely won Florida.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 04, 2026 08:19 AM (wzaBj)

310 How the fuck are people still going on with this "Good tsar Trump undone by the evil party" shtick? The problem is him. The public hates him, and there are good reasons why. He's a terrible president, and trying to gaslight people otherwise failed.

Posted by: Don't Blame Me, I Wanted DeSantis at November 04, 2026 08:11 AM (

Yup, you've nailed it. Everyone I know was very enthusiastic about every Republican except Trump, and especially DeSantis.

I remember so many people saying to me that they craved Ron's high-minded conservatism and were so disappointed in Trump that they regretted having to crawl over broken glass to vote for him.

"THOSE FOOLS IN IOWA," they lamented while beating their breasts, "if only they'd given our standard bearer a single primary win, we would be in the promised land!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 08:20 AM (t7aoG)

311 The funny thing is that I was more optimistic this election.

The one thing I was going to keep my eye on is the effect of California redistricting.

At this point, it looks like the Cali GOP congressional delegation is going to be, at a minimum, halved, going from 8 to 4, but a couple of the other races are close, so they may go down to 1 or 2 seats.

The GOP may be completely dead in California after this election.

Wild.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 08:20 AM (XV/Pl)

312 We Gen Xers are gonna catch hell.

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Our lot in life is to just be a fly on the wall. Its never about us.

Pretty much our default setting.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:20 AM (qwx/I)

313 We Gen Xers are gonna catch hell.

Yep. We were the cash cow for the generations before us. And we'll be the cash cow for the generations after.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:20 AM (68dBl)

314 Can't wait for the analysis, the "post mortem". I already saw a bit of it last night. The biggest swings to Dems : Zs and Millenials (18-29 and 30-44), suburban, Asian. Those are the biggest, most significant swings from 2024.

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:21 AM (AKptf)

315 El Gato Malo says there is no chance the Democrats don't go all the way overboard on trannies again, and that *can* be their downfall if we find the right candidate. I tend to agree.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/election-musings

Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 08:21 AM (tUj8P)

316 1776 - 2026. It was a good run. Capped by outrageous fraud that dwarfed 2020

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at November 04, 2026 08:21 AM (lFFaq)

317 "It's always bitterly funny to watch people here blame every single Republican alive except the single most powerful one in the last decade. Trump is blameless for all the bad shit under him! What are the odds!
Posted by: Don't Blame Me, I Wanted DeSantis "

Trump is a republican because the only other choice is democrat, dumbass.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2026 08:21 AM (MWfyi)

318 El Gato Malo says there is no chance the Democrats don't go all the way overboard on trannies again, and that *can* be their downfall if we find the right candidate. I tend to agree.

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I wouldn't be so sure of this. One can hope anyway.

Posted by: SH at November 04, 2026 08:22 AM (qCV5n)

319 Contact the registrar of voters and change to Independent today: Yes? No?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 04, 2026 08:22 AM (1Ff7Z)

320 El Gato Malo says there is no chance the Democrats don't go all the way overboard on trannies again, and that *can* be their downfall if we find the right candidate. I tend to agree.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/election-musings
Posted by: Ian S. at November 04, 2026 08:21 AM (tUj8P)

Talarico was all in on trans and child endangerment.

He won by over a million votes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

321 grammie's here?

*slicks down cowlick*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 08:22 AM (RIvkX)

322 So the dems control both chambers. I wonder how quickly they'll pass something that requires the full release of all Epstein documents. They sure yammering about them while they were out of power
Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:07 AM (feSaR)

I have all the files on my desk...well....had...

Posted by: Pam Blondie, buffoon at November 04, 2026 08:22 AM (2mAEd)

323 Talarico is a heretic and demonic in my opinion. I wonder what God sees as positive to let him win. I guess I don’t know His ways. 😢

Posted by: AnnaS at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (WdMlw)

324 I saw someone saying, "but Trump will veto everything."

I don't think so.
6 years in office and he's not once played hardball.
He's dallied a bit at it.
Then made a deal.
I mean, it's who he is.

I just don't see him--fresh of a 100-year ass-whopping over "affordability" saying, "eh, I'm going golfing, government is shut down until you pass my budget."
When the Dems budget is "Covid Checks 2.0."
No, he'll sign that 'cause they'll fund USDA farm subsidies for him or some meaningless spending.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (/Ki2A)

325 Posted by: Don't Blame Me, I Wanted DeSantis at November 04, 2026 08:19 AM

Any chance you would consider giving the sanctimonious lecturing a rest? It has become redundantly tiresome.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (ceJ0R)

326 OrangeEnt

Yes. For self preservation, even if only a fig leaf.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

327 I'm curious how all the tech bros in TX are feeling today

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (qBivk)

328 Welp, so much for the economy, which is about to stall out with these shenanigans.

Mornin' Horde. I suppose the effects of last night will filter down soon enough but for now I still have other things to worry about, so hair status: Not on fire.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (ENA4W)

329 Many companies moved to TX thinking it a stable red sate. Musk built up a lot of facilities. I bet they are celebrating today...
Posted by: runner

They companies moved. But they fucking brought their dumbassed employees with them.

Uh, guys? You just f'ed yourselves.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (7Ne0P)

330 Now that they are in full control of Texas, they will take control of the elections and voter rolls like Hobbs did in Arizona and Whitmer did in Michigan in order to ensure that Texas stays permanently blue. Which means it will be impossible for a Republican to win the presidency again.

--

I wonder how many people actually know this is coming for TX. This has been the D blueprint for states for a while now. All they have to do is get in. Then they fix the rest to ensure complete dominance. And most catastrophic of all, it will reverberate throughout the entire country as presidential elections will likely never go R again. I'm just being a realist.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 08:24 AM (qBdHI)

331 333 Welp, so much for the economy, which is about to stall out with these shenanigans.

I think it's regional

so yeah, I could see things continuing to grow here in PA because Shapiro needs a good resume for 2028

I'll make hay here while the sun shines.

TX tho. that's not going to be good.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (qBivk)

332 So when do I get my five grand?

Posted by: Stoner living in the basement at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (RDhJX)

333 We crashed and burned here in Missouri last night and my state is not the Red bastion I deluded myself into believing it was
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Wyoming is still red and we have a little room left for right-minded people

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (svJkb)

334 Without Trump's hubris and all his awful shitty cringy qualities, no one in the country would have had the vision or sense or single mindednees to fight the GOPe morass and fully embrace National Populism.

So you have to be crazy to not be part of the GOPe ? Got it.

It really is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum why the GOP is lost with Millennials and Gen Z. Not losing. Lost.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (68dBl)

335 She also thinks that going after marijuana and abortion hurt us in Texas.
Posted by: lin-duh

Seriously? Reps were fighting these two things? Talk about stupid.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (Fv808)

336 I'm curious to see if Dems proceed with massive mostly peaceful protests since Trump is still in office and provoke a response that they harvest for votes. Or do they have the sense to decide that makes them look bad?

Posted by: Ripley at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (PTDkx)

337 Talarico is a heretic and demonic in my opinion. I wonder what God sees as positive to let him win. I guess I don’t know His ways. 😢
Posted by: AnnaS

God is like my dad. Sometimes you have to be allowed to open the door into your nose and break it to learn your lesson.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (7Ne0P)

338 I don't know why , but don't feel as doomy as many. It's just that I am old enough to remember 2010.

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (AKptf)

339 well Phil Scott got reelected in VT!

lol anyway I found that interesting

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (qBivk)

340 Stoner living in the basement

Never.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

341 325

Talarico was all in on trans and child endangerment.

He won by over a million votes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

The point you make explains pretty much everything about where we are as a country. We are not conservative, and what happened last not was not an anomaly. They wanted what Talarico peddled.

Posted by: tubal at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (Gqar8)

342 Talarico is a heretic and demonic in my opinion. I wonder what God sees as positive to let him win. I guess I don’t know His ways. 😢
Posted by: AnnaS at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (WdMlw)

God lets man toil until he doesn't.

Man is doing this to itself because it's not listening to God. God will make an adjustment when he sees fit.

I'm not giving up hope just yet, and my life is incredibly hard right now. I'm going through test after test. I've bent, but have not broken. My faith is bruised, but not battered. God's will is righteous and will be done.

I believe that. I still give praise.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (ccf/V)

343 Posted by: Don't Blame Me, I Wanted DeSantis

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You're perseverating.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (RIvkX)

344 Surveying the scene this morning, can't decide whether it is tragedy or comedy. It's like the country voted for chaos.

Islam is inside the walls. The worst excesses of the Biden years will look like teatime compared to what's coming. And the GOP has done it again: held the White House, the House and the Senate, just to piss it away.

Tragedy or comedy?

Posted by: Don Black at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (ZxPkt)

345 Maybe everyone you know isn't very representative of the general public?

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Perhaps not.

But... elections kind of are.

You know... the elections where Trump forcibly buttfucked every single person on a long Republican bench - most especially your preferred dickweed Republican - and then became the first Republican candidate in living memory to win the NPV?

Is that representative enough for you?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (t7aoG)

346 I just woke up and things political look as bad this morning as last night. My prediction was wrong, to say the least.

But, the voters will get what they voted for. Me and mine will be fine. We can survive $6/gal gas, undesirable as that might be. I even stayed up late profiting from the debacle. As a brutal capitalist, I make money when things are going bad as well as when they are going up, at least until civilization collapses, thought it's not as fun.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (kRx5X)

347 The good news is that I'll probably be dead in about 30 years

Posted by: Josephistan at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (y9ksN)

348 338 I don't know why , but don't feel as doomy as many. It's just that I am old enough to remember 2010.

I don't either runner

it's a midterm

I worry a little abouit the Texas thing, but maybe it will work out like the dog that finally catches the car

I hope they choke on it

change is coming no matter what

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 04, 2026 08:26 AM (qBivk)

349 My fear is without TX, there is no path to the presidency

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:27 AM (svJkb)

350 Your guy lost to Nikki Haley.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:27 AM (i+GzW)

351 @344

>>Tragedy or comedy?

Life is alternatively tragic and comic.

Things are definitely going to get more interesting, per the maxim.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 08:27 AM (XV/Pl)

352 She was hardly inspiring, but Darline Graham's loss will mark 21 years since the state of SC has had a Democrat senator. The last one was Fritz Hollings, who retired in 2005.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

353 OrangeEnt

Yes. For self preservation, even if only a fig leaf.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 04, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

It'd obviously be for show. I couldn't pick Rs in primaries, but I'd still vote for them in the general.

If they don't do what I want anyway, why bother?

Hi, Grammie. Do anything fun on Saturday?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 04, 2026 08:28 AM (1Ff7Z)

354 It's mornings like this that I wish I were a drinking man.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 04, 2026 08:28 AM (q3u5l)

355 333 We crashed and burned here in Missouri last night and my state is not the Red bastion I deluded myself into believing it was
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Wyoming is still red and we have a little room left for right-minded people
Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (svJkb)

You better check each one at the door before you let them in. And keep your towns small.

Posted by: tubal at November 04, 2026 08:28 AM (Gqar8)

356 338 I don't know why , but don't feel as doomy as many. It's just that I am old enough to remember 2010.

I don't either runner

it's a midterm

I worry a little abouit the Texas thing, but maybe it will work out like the dog that finally catches the car

-----------------

Let's not kid ourselves. It's doomy. But despair sucks. Regroup and soldier on.

Posted by: SH at November 04, 2026 08:28 AM (qCV5n)

357 “Officium erat imperare, non regnum”.

- Seneca the Younger.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 04, 2026 08:29 AM (XGYZI)

358
Break Out the Croissants!!!

We Just Voted to Become France!!!

*Checks Frenchification List*

Buys sporty new beret. Throws away cowboy boots and hat.

Practices Ooo-La--La1 Drops Y'all and Yahoo.
Adds allahu ackbar! to favorite phrases.

*rubs hands together*

Welp!..ooops....Oooo-la-la! Ze treek she is done!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 04, 2026 08:29 AM (YSUhf)

359 You better check each one at the door before you let them in. And keep your towns small.

Posted by: tubal at November 04, 2026 08:28 AM (Gqar

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Wyoming is going to build a wall and make them pay for it!

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:29 AM (svJkb)

360 Trans the Mohammedan kids!

Posted by: The Next Big Thing at November 04, 2026 08:29 AM (RDhJX)

361 Reminder:

Instituting an income tax in Texas requires a constitutional amendment that is voted on by the people. Gina can't do shit but get congress to put it on the ballot and shill for it.

We'll see then just how fucked the state is.

As of right now, it's strictly forbidden by the state constitution.

In Texas, the income tax referendum process was significantly changed by Proposition 4, approved in 2019, which prohibits the state from levying an income tax on individuals without a two-thirds legislative vote and a statewide referendum. This means that any future attempt to impose an income tax would require a substantial legislative majority and voter approval.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:30 AM (ccf/V)

362 I agree Islam is inside the walls, but does the modern Christian faith have the tools it needs to defend itself?

How many non-Muslim, non-Hindu, non-Rastafarian, whatever Americans who grew up in a vanilla environment with Holiday pageants instead of Christmas...what are they defending?

And in my case as a Catholic, is Pope Bob gonna say "violence is never the answer" even though history has proven time and time again that yes, violence is the answer, it is a medium through which God's will is exerted upon our enemies.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 04, 2026 08:30 AM (qwx/I)

363 Good morning J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at November 04, 2026 08:30 AM (53oGX)

364 Off to sub, teaching 4th graders today.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 04, 2026 08:30 AM (aJQbY)

365 *points and laughs*
Your congressman's a p3do!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

LOL, now he's your congressman too. (Well, Franp's here too but the rest of you get him but don't get our weather or, for the time being, Prop. 13.)

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 04, 2026 08:30 AM (Fv808)

366 The biggest swings to Dems : Zs and Millenials (18-29 and 30-44), suburban, Asian. Those are the biggest, most significant swings from 2024.
Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:21 AM (AKptf)

All this time I've been hearing that younger people were trending R, and that Repubs made gains in a bunch of traditionally Dem demographics.

Posted by: Emmie at November 04, 2026 08:31 AM (OlzlW)

367 This was not the week to stop sniffing glue.

Posted by: AZHiDesert (Gringo fuertemente armado) at November 04, 2026 08:31 AM (dDcr0)

368 Buys sporty new beret. Throws away cowboy boots and hat.

Throw out your hands
Stick out your tush
Hands on your hips
Give 'em a push
You'll be surprised
You're doing the French Mistake
VOILA !!!

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:31 AM (68dBl)

369 If I may interrupt this festive gathering with my own rant,

ray lahood's progeny, darrin "the princeling" lahood won reelection last night. All the people that lost why couldn't this useless piece of gopE dogshit be one of them?

Posted by: A random guy on the net at November 04, 2026 08:31 AM (5Op5D)

370 "How many non-Muslim, non-Hindu, non-Rastafarian, whatever Americans who grew up in a vanilla environment with Holiday pageants instead of Christmas...what are they defending?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie"

Giving Trees

Posted by: Ripley at November 04, 2026 08:31 AM (PTDkx)

371 Hey, what happened last night? Is Kansas, South Carolina, Texas all telling Trump to FOAD indicative of a popular man?
Posted by: Don't Blame Me, I Wanted DeSantis at November 04, 2026 08:28 AM (5v8KW

Where was Trump on that ballot, pray tell? Did the Republicans' piss-poor performance in the other two midterms indicate anything anything to you? At all?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 04, 2026 08:32 AM (t7aoG)

372 High gas prices are now good news!
-state media

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

373 Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:25 AM (68dBl)

If you can show me anyone demonstrating a realistic path to the victories Trump had, I'm all ears. Where has it happened? Where has anyone else taken any hostile place (and Trump stood in a very hostile place) by electoral GOP storm?

Maybe not fair since you of course do not have such an example anywhere - but due to the fact that I said Trump would win in early 2016 and show up the useless feckless GOP (and have never changed my stance on them) I get to remain standing on this rock.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:32 AM (i+GzW)

374 The big winner last night is China. The Dems are opposed to data centers, and the Anthropic S-1 stated that the biggest risk to their business is ENERGY. We have ceded the AI race to the Chinese.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 04, 2026 08:32 AM (2ap+5)

375
Hinojosa has promised an income tax for Texas.

So, we got that working for us.

Add to that plenty of new 3rd world neighbors and bright shiny mosques and tranny-surgery for all kids and everything coming up roses here in the Lone Star State.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 04, 2026 08:32 AM (YSUhf)

376 I seeing that "moderates have won, fringe underperformed" on the D side. Does not explain Derka Derka Abdul. But ok. let's run with it.

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:32 AM (AKptf)

377 Hey, what happened last night? Is Kansas, South Carolina, Texas all telling Trump to FOAD indicative of a popular man?

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This is what last night tells me. The GOP brand right now is not popular enough to get the votes out. Sometimes the political winds are simply against you. It doesn't mean the GOP is dead. Pendulums swing. Not always the way you want.

It also lets 2028 shape up to be a fairly wide open primary. There will be no coronation of Vance or Rubio. Maybe that will be good.

Posted by: SH at November 04, 2026 08:33 AM (qCV5n)

378 Hinojosa has promised an income tax for Texas.

So, we got that working for us.

Add to that plenty of new 3rd world neighbors and bright shiny mosques and tranny-surgery for all kids and everything coming up roses here in the Lone Star State.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 04, 2026 08:32 AM (YSUhf)

Please see comment 361 on that........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)

379 Oh, and call your 401k administrator and change to conservative level holdings? Yes? No?

I've gone aggressive with the economy and made quite a bit. I don't want to lose it when I may need to take some to pay off debts to lower my outgo load.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 04, 2026 08:33 AM (1Ff7Z)

380 I just keep thinking about this:

Jesus promises peace to His followers.
He doesn't promise peace for nations, the world or in general--for you, your family, your home.

And nothing man can do can touch that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 04, 2026 08:34 AM (/Ki2A)

381 Sponge, Hinajosa ran on pushing for a state income tax. Everything from the Gov to the dog catcher are now dems so on the ballot it will be.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 04, 2026 08:35 AM (8Uo7a)

382 Off to sub, teaching 4th graders today.
Posted by: RandomDave at November 04, 2026 08:30 AM (aJQbY)
=====

Never show fear.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

383 Oh, and call your 401k administrator and change to conservative level holdings? Yes? No?

I've gone aggressive with the economy and made quite a bit. I don't want to lose it when I may need to take some to pay off debts to lower my outgo load.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 04, 2026 08:33 AM

I would next month. Interest rates are going back up in the new year I suspect.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 04, 2026 08:35 AM (kRx5X)

384 Jesus promises peace to His followers.
He doesn't promise peace for nations, the world or in general--for you, your family, your home.

And nothing man can do can touch that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Well said.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (r2Icn)

385 I feel like Michelle Tafoya will never text me again.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (R86kT)

386 Good thing we didn't pass the save America act

Norms restored indeed

Posted by: brak at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (nnVdx)

387 Inflation and high gas prices matter if people are told it matters.
This time people were encouraged to complain about it. Trump's war is absurd, without any explanation, serving no purpose. Plus political ads about Jews raising prices for everyone.
Last time, experts explained to that core inflation or whatever was much smaller than uninformed people thought and besides it's for a good cause.
People like to be told by experts what to think, especially when it's counterintuitive. It's probably the same impulse that makes one appreciate stage magicians, hypnotists, and optical illusions.

Posted by: PG at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (YAu8A)

388 All this time I've been hearing that younger people were trending R, and that Repubs made gains in a bunch of traditionally Dem demographics.

My anecdata goes along with what a few others have said. It breaks down blue collar / white collar with them.

College Educated ? Bring on the DEI. They love that shit. Blue Collar ? They're certainly not Republican. I wouldn't even call them Conservative the same way most here push it. And they have no love for Muh Corporations.

Posted by: The Way It Is at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (68dBl)

389 They DEI’d and killed it with Affirmative Action.

Posted by: Eromero at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (LHPAg)

390 "Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
·
2h
We're in a new era of communication, and only one side seems to be living in it. The old guard consultant class is about to be relegated to the dustbin of history.

If you think that high prices lost the election for the right, you don't understand marketing. Humans have no problem paying a premium for a good quality brand. Notice the word "brand", not "product". Are Nikes better than New Balance? Nope. But the brand is better. And notice what happened when they tinkered with the brand and screwed their core narrative? Nike stock fell through the basement. Did the product change? Nope. The brand did.

It's not the product, it's the brand. Results don't sell the product, the storytelling does....The committed storytelling of a couple insane podcasters was enough to fracture an entire political coalition from their own side in less than 2 years...they have zero power, zero credibility, they've never actually governed anything nor produced any results, but...they're good storytellers, and that's all that matters. Are they telling a good story? No, it's atrocious, but they're telling their atrocious story effectively and compellingly..."

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (AKptf)

391 Sponge, Hinajosa ran on pushing for a state income tax. Everything from the Gov to the dog catcher are now dems so on the ballot it will be.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 04, 2026 08:35 AM (8Uo7a)

She needs 2/3 of the state legislature to put it on the ballot. I don't think they have that much in their pocket. The GOPe got rid of Paxton......a state income tax seems suicidal after that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (ccf/V)

392 Posted by: Emmie at November 04, 2026 08:31 AM (OlzlW)

The DNC-DSA op is part of capturing the "youth" away from Trump who seemed to make America and not being a communist "cool" for a short scary time for them. I do think that's gonna be the shape of the op as we continue here.

Young People Adore Communism is coming for us and it's been obvious to me since June.

Although I have been clear the GOP deserves nothing, I didn't think they would be able to sweep them away the way they have. But looking back on it I guess I'm not surprised.

Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:37 AM (i+GzW)

393 330 Now that they are in full control of Texas, they will take control of the elections and voter rolls like Hobbs did in Arizona and Whitmer did in Michigan in order to ensure that Texas stays permanently blue. Which means it will be impossible for a Republican to win the presidency again.

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I wonder how many people actually know this is coming for TX. This has been the D blueprint for states for a while now. All they have to do is get in. Then they fix the rest to ensure complete dominance. And most catastrophic of all, it will reverberate throughout the entire country as presidential elections will likely never go R again. I'm just being a realist.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 08:24 AM (qBdHI)
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This is exactly how I feel. Ted Cruz's Senate seat will be up in two years and I feel it's going to go to the Dems.
I just don't see us resolving anything with voters in two years, which could end up being a complete wipeout for our side.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 04, 2026 08:37 AM (wzaBj)

394 Oh, I guess our space program is fucked now.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 04, 2026 08:38 AM (kRx5X)

395 387 Inflation and high gas prices matter if people are told it matters.
This time people were encouraged to complain about it. Trump's war is absurd, without any explanation, serving no purpose. Plus political ads about Jews raising prices for everyone.
Last time, experts explained to that core inflation or whatever was much smaller than uninformed people thought and besides it's for a good cause.
People like to be told by experts what to think, especially when it's counterintuitive. It's probably the same impulse that makes one appreciate stage magicians, hypnotists, and optical illusions.

Posted by: PG at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (YAu8A)

The GOP will always be running against adversarial media.

2022, high inflation, high gas prices, Ukraine war, terrible GOP mid-term performance

The coalition and policy planks need to be resorted, and not on the basis of things that aren't driving results.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 04, 2026 08:38 AM (okun6)

396
Looking for anything on the bright side and hoping this all brings an end to the senior nokings protests.

Posted by: Auspex at November 04, 2026 08:38 AM (Y8DZL)

397 Oh, I guess our space program is fucked now.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 04, 2026 08:38 AM (kRx5X)
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No, man. We're nationalizing SpaceX. We're going to be great!

Posted by: 496 at November 04, 2026 08:38 AM (UzVcT)

398 I like this Spencer Pratt guy!

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:38 AM (AKptf)

399 It will be interesting to see a full analysis of the vote based on facts. It looks like a lot of voters were sour on the economy and their reason for voting Democrat was for change. I am not certain of the logic and I am unclear what they expected economically, or what the Democrats plan actually is for that, but I suppose the socialist message should be a giant clue. Texas is a complete shock and it looks like in many places Republicans didn’t get out to vote.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 04, 2026 08:39 AM (9MWCZ)

400 Ted Cruz's Senate seat will be up in two years and I feel it's going to go to the Dems.

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Obviously from today that looks difficult to defend, especially with Cruz. But I suspect he will just follow the coattails of the GOP nominee.

Posted by: SH at November 04, 2026 08:39 AM (qCV5n)

401 384 Jesus promises peace to His followers.
He doesn't promise peace for nations, the world or in general--for you, your family, your home.

And nothing man can do can touch that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Well said.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 04, 2026 08:36 AM (r2Icn)

He also said that in this world you will have trouble, and also that you will be hated because they first hated him.

Posted by: tubal at November 04, 2026 08:39 AM (Gqar8)

402

Please see comment 361 on that........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 04, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)

You're correct, Sponge.

Buuuuuut, vote integrity is now in the hands of the Democrats.

I expect we'll get an income tax regardless.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 04, 2026 08:39 AM (YSUhf)

403 So far Democrats will hold at least 27 governorships after the 2026 election, marking their first majority in 16 years.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 04, 2026 08:39 AM (wzaBj)

404 I can’t help but think…. If Charlie Kirk hadn’t been murdered, he might well have made a big difference yesterday. Alas, we’ll never know

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 04, 2026 08:40 AM (PYT6H)

405 Good news. Nancy Pelosi's anointed successor got trounced.

Bad news. The winner's a Leninist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 04, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

406 I wonder how quickly they'll pass something that requires the full release of all Epstein documents. They sure yammering about them while they were out of power.

And when Trump's name is still not showing up, they will demand an edit so they can have something new to impeach him with.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2026 08:41 AM (svLOV)

407 I brought in my friends' cat Snowflake. She lovingly pawed and gnawed at me. Painfully.

Foreshadowing is hell.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 04, 2026 08:41 AM (Sco7b)

408 Seeing all these latent Democrat voters turning out sure makes Kamala look even worse. Two years ago she's crushed, yesterday the Communists sweep to power.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 04, 2026 08:41 AM (kRx5X)

409 But looking back on it I guess I'm not surprised.
Posted by: ... at November 04, 2026 08:37 AM (i+GzW)

I'm completely surprised, but then I'm always surprised when people embrace insanity.

Posted by: Emmie at November 04, 2026 08:41 AM (OlzlW)

410 So you're telling me Michelle Tafoya has been sidelined?

Posted by: I gotta ask at November 04, 2026 08:42 AM (RDhJX)

411 All the pro abortion measures passed too. What a disaster

Posted by: brak at November 04, 2026 08:42 AM (nnVdx)

412 @401, acshually , we did not lose Hispanics/Latinos, there was a swing to the Ds, but it is still R+ from 2024! What I posted above - Spencer Pratt's take is exactly, 100% correct.

Posted by: runner at November 04, 2026 08:42 AM (AKptf)

413 Suicidal empathy is all the rage among white women. They forgot how women who supported the fall of the Shah, lost all their rights. Also Khomeini supported the transing of gays, ball free or die

Posted by: night lifted at November 04, 2026 08:42 AM (kJmLc)

414 We're still all here, so there's that. Thank you, J.J.
And WI is disappointing, it's not yet PA.

City & State: ‘These Zionist establishments must go!’ Organizers of upcoming Philly ‘Boycott Ride’ target Jewish-owned eateries
A coalition of pro-Palestinian activists plans to intimidate Jewish-owned businesses on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi night of terror that destroyed thousands of Jewish homes and businesses.
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Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel groups organized a bicycle rally starting at Rittenhouse Square with flyers promoting a boycott under slogans like "No business for Zionists." (Ref. JNS+1)

(The central message printed on the promotional flyers declares: "No business for Zionists! These Zionist establishments must go! Not in our city!")

The organizers are urging biking participants to join a ride through Rittenhouse (fancy, fancy!) to confront targeted business owners, expressing solidarity with Palestinians. The broader boycott targets a certain restaurant group, with organizers stating that the owners materially and ideologically support the occupation and raise funds for

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Posted by: L - No nic... at November 04, 2026 08:42 AM (NFX2v)

415 related interest groups. Additional locations (stores, delis) were included due to their close biking distance to the Rittenhouse Square starting point.

Aside from one, all the other businesses are owned by American Jews, a distinction not evident in the rally flyer.

The "Boycott Ride" protest in Philadelphia is still scheduled to take place on November 8, 2026. Senators Dave McCormick and John Fetterman have criticized the event as intimidation and rank antisemitism.

Posted by: L - No nic... at November 04, 2026 08:42 AM (NFX2v)

416 We could've made substantial headway, possibly even saved the country...were it not in large part for John Thune.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 04, 2026 07:29 AM (qBdHI)
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I agree. Not saying we could have held on to both houses, but the GOPe and most especially John Thune and the backstabbing bastards in the Senate did everything they could to stop Trump's agenda.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at November 04, 2026 08:42 AM (3ImbR)

417 At least Alabama did it's part.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 04, 2026 08:43 AM (kRx5X)

418 Looks like Raman is going to beat Bass and become Mayor of LA, so they are going to replace an NPC marxist for a committed marxist.

Fascinating.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2026 08:43 AM (XV/Pl)

419 This is exactly how I feel. Ted Cruz's Senate seat will be up in two years and I feel it's going to go to the Dems."

I fully expect cruz to switch parties , asap.

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