Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
I just hope they don’t try to cancel the midterms altogether… Or refuse to swear in the new dems…
I tend to believe they will…
So… yea…
But why would they do the thing they’ve already been doing? There’s no precedent!
Bloodbath!!! Or…maybe people just aren’t into your shit? Jeezus.
As much as I want to believe that, there’s 36% of the country that would suck off trump and another 15% that are brain dead and couldn’t decide between Kamala and Hitler 2.0.
The mouth breathers are used to that type of shit.
It’s the same hell and brimstone they’ve been fed from a young age so as stupid as it sounds to you, they are steeped in it.
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TBH I wish the left were as violent towards the right as they like to claim.
The longest government shutdown in US history came from Trump and he still got voted back in because people didn’t want a South Asian woman as president. And now we have that shutdown record broken again.
The fact that he won the Latino, Muslim and Black vote and now they’re acting surprised by the mass deportations, ICE raids and tariffs he’s been imposing is peak “Leopards Ate My Face” material.
The democrats should run candidates that care about the working class if they want people to vote for them.
Clearly the ‘fall in line’ strategy isn’t working.
First off I’d agree in the case of most elections since the 80s. When shit like Project 2025 is flashed and you dont vote against the fascist… yeah you’re fucking short sighted and have no moral high ground. The other option wouldn’t put brown people in torture camps in El Salvador and violate international law by bombing boats.
Harris is typical neoliberalism trash and the last serious contender for the presidency who gave a shit about people who work for a living was Bernie and then FDR. She was objectively the right choice to vote for if you have a soul at all.
Voters: “Please stop supporting genocide” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop deporting people without due process” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop bombing children” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop gaslighting us about the state of the economy” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please say you’ll do something to stop healthcare from being the biggest cause of bankruptcy” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please make the economy work for the people, rather than the rich” Democratic leadership: “No”
Democratic leadership: “It’s the voters fault when the Republicans win. There was nothing we could do!”
She was the objectively better candidate in 2024, but she was also objectively a trash candidate. Electing her would have meant continued acceptance of a political mindset and process that has reliably and consistently given us trash candidates for decades.
2024 was as good a time as any to give up on the DNC.
I’d agree with your first sentence 100%. I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were with getting GOOD candidates elected though. I’m sure we could guess how involved they were.
I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were
The way you phrased that, the answer is tautologic: statistically, 100% of them were “involved”.
Their involvement may not have extended much beyond a blanket rejection of everyone the DNC tried to shove down our throats, but they were certainly “involved”.
I would go just a little bit further and say that they were involved in the only way that actually matters.
See, you still don’t understand.
When the ‘fall in line’ strategy isn’t working, you don’t blame the people not falling in line for an establishment candidate. Instead, you should be blaming the people making it so all we have to choose from is ‘evil’ and ‘slightly-less-evil.’
If we could run good candidates that actually represent the working class instead of just candidates who aren’t as bad as the opposition, then this discussion wouldn’t even be happening.
You are doing your part to support the two-pronged strategy, and the working class continues to suffer because of it. Please do better. Please be smarter.
No, I understand the rationale. It’s just shit, infantile logic. I guarantee you I do more for getting leftists in than the moral high grounders did on average plus a SD or two. It’s just easier to say inaction isn’t an action and act like you’re not indirectly responsible for the shit you preached against and more.
Well, if you want to do more to get leftists elected, then focus your frustrations on the ones undermining working class agendas. It would do wonders for getting more people out to vote because they would actually feel as though the people they’re voting for have their interests at hand.
Getting angry at the people who don’t fall in line is a waste of energy.
No, I understand the rationale. It’s just shit, infantile logic.
That comment clearly demonstrates the problem. That is the attitude of the DNC and the Democratic leadership. Dismiss the electorate as too stupid to live, then wonder why we don’t support your terrible candidates.
*Black woman.
The vast majority didn’t want her because she was black, please don’t gloss over this with technicalities.
Obama was one of our most popular presidents. Yes, race played a part of it, but she lost because she was a terrible candidate, who ran a terrible campaign, on the coat-tails of a terrible president.
I haven’t seen much evidence that her race had all that much to do with it.
Complete outsider here; don’t Americans usually call people from Africa black? Isn’t one of Kamala’s parents from India? Like, I’ve never heard anyone refer to someone from China as “black” before, but I do have an Eastern-European friend who received some anti-Mexican sentiment when he visited the U.S.
From an insider- What Americans call people has nothing to do with where they’re from and is simply based on looks. She looks more black than Indian, so she’s black. It’s as simple as the average American. I doubt the majority of maga even know her ethnicity at all beyond the color of her skin.
She’s mixed race
She is the first female, first African American, and first Asian American U.S. vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian American official in U.S. history
Right from her wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
I think the point is that while certainly some Americans would not want someone of Indian descent as President, there are a lot more who would be upset by a black President.
Doesn’t help that she was a shit candidate, dawg.
Yeah, great justification for either giving up your right to vote or actively supporting a fascist lol
Most americans dont engage with politics on this level if they engage at all.
I voted for her, you fucking fool.
I can be critical of a primary candidate while doing what’s necessary to keep forward progress.
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It was wild seeing libs blame minorities in 2016, I didn’t think they were still doing that.
To this day I don’t understand how people let the libs get away with blaming the voters, rather than blaming the people with the money, the power, and the platform.
*Genocidal woman
Dude, that’s not an accurate description of her and you know it.
On the genocide issue trump was far worse so idk what you want. If that was your excuse to not vote for her you are just lying at this point.
She wasn’t the best candidate by any means so you could try attacking numerous things wrong with her but she wasn’t responsible for what Israel did so why choose that?
…so why choose that?
Because she was very clear that she wanted to continue supporting Israel. She openly gave up voters to keep supporting a genocide. Remember the “I’m speaking” bit she did when people were trying to get her to stop supporting genocide?
Polling showed that was the biggest reason that she lost.
If you thought Kamala wasn’t paying enough attention to suffering in Palestine, you could have protested and lobbied her to pay more attention to this issue, while still voting for her as president, on the basis that Trump is even more pro-Israel and even less sympathetic to Palestinians.
…you could have protested and lobbied her to pay more attention to this issue…
People did that, and she blew them off.
Not as genocidal as Trump though.
Oh, if only that were literally true.
“We can’t win if trump isn’t on the ballot, and that’s never happening again.”
So, you built a cult of personality with an obvious expiration date. And that expiration date already passed. Lol good
I think the Democrats should fight fire with fire.
Push for Dwayne Johnson or Taylor Swift as the Democratic nominee.
Or better yet listen to your fucking voters for a change.
Dwayne Johnson and Taylor Swift are Democrats in that they’re not actively pushing fascism. They’re still billionaires who are totally divorced from the problems an average working household sees.
It would be a fools errand to fight on that level with them. Just sink our politics further into the idiocracy farce.
Your last point, though, def. Look at 2008, look at the support for Bernie. Look at AOC, mamdani. They captured the excitement and won handily. Why was that? Because hey ran on real progressive change. Which people are desperate for. But the establishment, which includes the Democratic Party, will stop at nothing to keep people like that from winning. It ruins their big club.
Remember when Harris was running, and centrists kept saying that leftists don’t vote? Remember when they said that she should keep moving to the right, to pull in republican voters?
For some crazy reason, I’ve been thinking about those comments a lot lately
Sometimes they can’t even win when Trump is on the ballot. Seems more accurate to say that they can’t win unless a woman is on the democratic ticket.
At risk of sounding like I’m dick riding, Vance has all the cunning and charisma to fill the power vacuum. He’s just lacking that “too stupid to talk to” quality that most Maga voters find relatable, but given the spotlight he could probably hit those notes they like.
It kind of is good Kirk got slimed because he’s the only other I could think of that did all the poses they like and was also too stupid to be told anything.
Vance is politically quite savvy. He’s shallow and inauthentic and I think he’s smart enough to know that is a huge disadvantage following Trump. If he leans in to the memes, which it seems like he’s already doing, he’s a legitimate threat in 28. He’s built a career on being groomed by maga goons and it’s paid off so far.
Vance plays dumb, but not all that convincingly. He doesn’t radiate oafish stupidity in the same way that Trump does.
And he looks like a demonically-possessed chipmunk.
Dems can make some huge gains if they have a working class message. Plan on holding Trump/ICE accountable for their actions and not be Israel simps. It isn’t hard. Trump and Steve Bannon keep hinting at some plan if they lose so it won’t be easy even with Trump being the worst.
Dems can make some huge gains if they have a working class message. Plan on holding Trump/ICE accountable for their actions and not be Israel simps. It isn’t hard.
you are assuming they are good people and not a bunch of fascists like their peers
I mean, yes…but I also see this as “The vampire party could be so much more popular if they came out in favor of a bloodsucking ban.”
They likely have their own objectives beyond getting elected. They might even prefer being in the losing position if “they are our only hope and we all gotta donate real hard”.
The fact that they have a golden opportunity right now convinces me of the fact that they will fumble the absolute fuck out of it. They already went to war against mamdani. Any progress will be in spite of the D party.
Did you see the part where the defacto leader of the party didn’t show up to his own press conference, so the reporters asked Bernie (who was just watching from the back) if he’d answer questions?
The Democratic establishment fought Mamdani (and progressives generally) along with Trump and the oligarchs and lost massively. Both parties are in chaos right now, because it’s obvious that money is no longer enough to win elections, even safe ones
They’re all going to be quiet for a while before the other shoe drops, hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence
Any progress is not going to come from the top of the Democratic Party down. They lead by following. They’ll slowly, and at first, probably ineffectually, react to external events. In a year or so, they’ll be claiming credit for anything Mamdani achieves. And the centrists will attempt a rug-pull whenever they get a chance.
I don’t disagree except where we are in this process
Pelosi resigned, Schumer went missing, Higgs is doing talk show circuits, and everyone turned to AOC and Bernie for comments
This was the leadership failing. The old guard has lost control of the party
They had so many opportunities to learn their lesson since 2016 and every time they have refused. I’m fully expecting them to learn nothing again.
hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence
This is the real and probably only hope. If progressives thrash the establishment dems hard enough, they’ll at least pay lip service to them.
They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best
They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama
But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all
I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t
The fail-children of millionaires who get jobs as staffers and run the party have historically burned down house before handing the keys to a progressive.
Umm… Yeah, I think that’s already happened
They threw all the money and burned through all the remaining goodwill trying to keep us from getting to what happened Tuesday
lol not yet. Wait until state parties start intentionally wasting money, deleting databases, quitting en mass, appointing republican judges, etc.
I really hope we’re even allowed to have an election in 2026.
My Spidey Sense tells me he’ll start a war in the next 12 months then get the Supreme Court to side with him on postponing elections during wartime, and then we’ll stay in a permanent state of war afterwards.I really hope we’re even allowed to have an election in 2026.
As long as the choice is a binary option between red and blue i wouldn’t be much concerned about the government taking away elections
My money was on Trump to start a war with Iran in March or April 2026, so things were ramped up before the elections. If the expected wartime popularity bump happens then just win the election, otherwise cancel then due to war reasons.
But I guess it’s looking more like wat against Venezuela or possibly Nigeria? 🙈
No. A presidential election has never been postponed … EVER. There were elections even during the Civil War.
Trump can try this route to stay in office… but he will not be president and his wartime rule will only be as strong as the guards around him. He will become a domestic threat to the Constitution if he tries to stay in office unelected.
Uh… The dude already tried to stay in office unelected. That’s what the Jan 6 riot was. He faced no consequences, and then got elected again.
Didn’t stay in office tho
We will see if the guardrails hold again.
The military basically removed him from power quietly after Jan 6 and worked with Pelosi to do the transition
Got a sauce for that?
Nope. When I said quietly, I meant it… This got very little media attention. Also, search is pretty much dead at this point, I can’t find shit I read a week ago - there’s too many results around Jan 6 no matter how specific I query it
But essentially, the top brass created a voicemail for trump, there’s a bunch of deleted texts between the military and secret service, and then Trump was conspicuously absent during the handover process
If he stays in office one day past his term he is automatically a threat to the Constitution.
That would mean violence becomes a legal and necessary option.
Big talk but nothing well happen. He’s been trouncing on your constitution gor the last year and nobody has done anything. For all the bluster if Americans that’s all it is.
By that day the constitution will just be another piece of paper he wipes his ass with. Now is the easiest time to resist and stop that future, not once it’s already happened.
He keeps trying to start a war. Other countries see it for what it is and mostly ignore it. Iran, Venezuela, and now Nigeria.
Never underestimate what the GQP will do to prevent anything resembling a fair election. They will purge voter registrations by the millions, gerrymander district maps to make them look like spider webs, and make registering and voting damn near impossible.
Republicans will burn the country to the ground to remain in power.
Republicans will burn the country to the ground to remain in power.
Why would they want to do this when each election they have a 50% fair chance of winning? The current system is as perfect for them as it could be, they cycle in power periodically through legal means
The GQP doesn’t have anywhere near a 50% chance of winning unless they cheat, get activist judges to change existing laws, and flagrantly break the remaining laws. Because who’s going to stop them, the Supreme Court?
Don’t forget about rigging the voting machines!!
Georgia state election rigged by Republican election officials who wiped the servers clean after lawsuit and FBI investigation in 2017.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed
And of course, how can we forget about the Florida count being decided by the SCOTUS in favor of Bush when the count in fact showed Gore winning back in 2000!
Rigging and cheating elections is nothing new to the repugs.
And I always thought it should be more telling how the USA is run when you had George Bush, president, father of George Bush, president, but apparently people can’t connect the dots.
Or making it a felony if an election candidate ever was fined for jaywalking or some other minor transgression … perhaps even give them jailtime for it …
Trump has 34 felonies and SCOTUS forced him to be on the ballot.
And didn’t the Constitution plainly say he couldn’t legally run, but scotus is not interested in that document constraining them anymore.
14th amendment. He enacted a coup, is straight up not eligible. Scotus decided that whoever wrote that didn’t mention how it gets enforced, so whoopsies that part of the amendment is useless.
Whoa whoa whoa we can’t ruin young Republican lives over minor transgressions.
It’s okay, the laws will only apply to democrats
There will always be a IOKIYAR clause for such things…
They’ll also start a war to remain in power. Fun.
Not “will”. They always have, historically.
A foreign war? They can try, but we don’t cancel elections for foreign wars, and it won’t give maga much of a boost in elections.
A civil war against Americans?
I don’t think they’d try, but if they did they’d fail. Like not just lose the war, they’d fail to start it.
Unarmed NG in a handful of cities is about all he can manage. Like, the only group he might be able to get to open fire on crowds is ICE, and even cops hate ICE more than they hate protesters.
If they thought they could do it, they’d have done did it by now.
They’ll be a last minute desperate attempt, but nothing will materialize
He hasn’t even been in power for a year and look what they’ve done. I would not put it past them.
Thats a pretty optimistic take. Hope you’re right, for everyone’s sake.
It’s not just blind optimism…
There a lot, like a mind-blowing amount, of various reasons the US would be impossible to occupy, especially by a domestic force.
Like even protests, if they start cracking down we can just spread out.
Stop making protest happen downtown, and spread them out in the suburbs all around the city.
Spread the cops too thin, they’ll be too scared to do anything. Especially if protesters have vest and rifles.
Sure sure more American bluster. And that’s all it is. If they do this people well not stand for it.
A civil war against Americans? I don’t think they’d try, …
History may look back and recognize that it’s already started.
It never ended. It just went cold.
If they thought they could do it, they’d have done did it by now.
Were only 10 months in. They’re still warming up.
Why do all that when you can just have ICE arrest voters in the queue?
And don’t get caught handing out water or snacks.
Republicans “And that’s why we to do everything we can to fuck with voting.”
Sick. Just what many people have been wanting to happen. Let’s have a war! This would give people a real reason to live. Much more of a reason than America’s dead end job slave industry.
Every time these fuckwits lose, they think it’s because they weren’t fascist enough. The same thing happened with the LNP in Australia when they lost. I say let 'em keep thinking that.
I say let 'em keep thinking that.
Right, but they’re in power and power having that thought pattern is scary if you’re a targeted member of a minority group (Ask the LGBT population about the similarities between 1930s Germany’s stance on the LGBT and today’s America’s stance on the same).
Oh, I thought they meant the economy. That too, I’m sure.
“2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
And course correct means? Don’t think we’re gonna like the answer.
Donald course-corrects daily. Today he’s the peace president, tomorrow we invade Aberbaijan and Albania.
I’m not against the idea of invading Azerbaijan personally especially if we ally Armenia, get fucked Turkey.
True, I reminds me of one of the only times NATO did anything good. By that I mean stopping the genocide in Kosovo.
Figure out how to lie more effectively
That doesn’t sound nearly insidious enough.
