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Goodguy  8hr ago (text post)   Edited 5hr ago   3555 thread views

Midterms Megathread

Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.

The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.

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Uno reverse card - Trump is now distancing himself from Republicans:

I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

He's in for a rude awakening when the Republicans start to distance themselves from him, too.

Texas has fallen, billions must say "I never really liked that Trump guy anyway."

Yeah, Abbott is… well he has an independent politics machine and a lot of reason to hate trump.

They already are. He’s cooked. I don’t think he makes it 2 more years.

What do you think might happen? I doubt they'd get enough Republicans to vote to impeach and remove him from office - not without some significantly greater disaster than this down the line - and he's not going to be 25thed. Nor do I think anyone's going to be able to convince him to resign.

I think Republicans will turn on him. If he stays 2 more years they lose in 2028 and they know this.

Enough to impeach him? What's the process there?

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