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Goodguy  2d ago (text post)   Edited 2d ago   9319 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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In all my time of paying attention to politics, I don't remember ever seeing a Vice President so boldly question one of the President's core policies (Iran war in this case). Maybe I'm forgetting some examples, but this seems quite unusual to me.

I don't know what Vance truly believes about Iran. My guess is that he genuinely has no interest in waging the war. I remember some news that Vance was skeptical of the war before Trump launched it. But this is definitely good politics one way or another, if Vance wants to stay a major player.

Wild to see Vance rushing to put forth the optics that he basically agrees with Nick Fuentes on major aspects of where the right should go from here. (And these are actually some of the main things that Fuentes has been excoriating him for.)

Didn’t Trump announce cutting funding to Israel yesterday? This looks to me like the admin together admittedly a mistake. Which shows the ability to adapt.

Netanyahu has been floating that idea for over a year now. He then told Trump to stop sending them those 3.6-4bn that they've been receiving annually. Point being that, whatever it is, it's not Trump or the admin dumping the Israelis. At best it's Israel recognizing that they're becoming a drag on their own horse, and are trying to lighten the load so it doesn't collapse. But if that were a serious position, the timing is certainly awful and made completely irrelevant by the Iran war.

A much simpler explanation is that Netanyahu is making his own play for his own politics in Israel, and its effect on America is irrelevant to the decision being made.

There's been a long-running conspiracy theory on /r/politics that Vance would oust Trump after the midterms so he could get 10 years as president. Of course, they thought that would happen after the 2018 midterms.

??? Vance wasn't VP in 2018...

I assume he means

Of course, they thought Pence would do that after the 2018 midterms.

In all my time of paying attention to politics, I don't remember ever seeing a Vice President so boldly question one of the President's core policies

Cheney being pro gay marriage comes to mind. Though gay marriage was just barely within the overton window at that time so I'm not sure how core that was to Bush's platform or if the electorate even cared what Cheney thought.

I don't know what Vance truly believes about Iran.

He was shilling it in a live TV interview the day he was announced as Trump’s running mate. Unprompted!

Oh, what did he say?

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