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Goodguy  1d ago (text post)   Edited 1d ago   8191 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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The Trump admin and the GOP may have managed to turn a once in a couple generation opportunity to fix major structural problems in the United States into the worst political loss since at least the 1974 election a month after Nixon's resignation over the Watergate Coup, but have you considered the worst scumbags around, Republican political consultants like Susie Wiles, Chris Lacivita, and James Blair, got generational wealth sucking MAGA dry?

Wiles, LaCivita, and Blair just spent >$1,000,000,000, the most expensive midterm in US history, in the worst loss in 50 years. They could have scaled up 10xvotes or some other GOTV operation over the last 2 years with that enormous warchest, but that wouldn't have gotten them generational wealth, and so they ran worthless dumb ads while claiming DJT doing a rally in a few states was going to get the job done and blacklisted and attacked anyone attempting to speak the truth or tell Trump the truth.

Let's hear it for these champions. In a just world, these people and the rest of the Florida Mafia would at least be blacklisted from controlling anything more than county dog catcher (not to mention sued into oblivion and investigated for where the money went and what it was spent on), but we can look forward to them joining the Rubio 2028 campaign because that's how GOP politics works.

It's hard to exaggerate just how much of a disaster if not malicious destruction the GOP leadership/consultant class has caused in this cycle, but here's hoping this will cause accountability instead of what is more likely which is to find some scapegoat to blame everything on. The burned MAGA to the ground and got rich in the process. They betrayed their voters and supporters but at least many of them have gotten fabulously wealthy.

And don't forget the paid-for pollsters manipulating access to lie in internals and to the President. I need to make a pollster review and post-mortem effort post about this, but not right now.

Sorry for the rants, I burned bridges and access and money over the last year+ trying to stop this from happening and as you can see I failed miserably. It's simultaneously cathartic but also this loss will just make everything worse.

I get the frustration, but I don't know how much more good tzar, bad boyars cope I can handle. The only people giving small-dollar donations to Republicans are 78-year-old paypigs. Maybe the consultants sucked Musk and Adelson dry. Of course, no one can say that Miriam didn't get what she paid for.

Trump betrayed the voters himself. First by playing hide-and-seek with the Epstein Files, then more substantively by starting and losing a war with Iran. Don't think for a second that he isn't okay with whatever brazen corruption is occuring in the campaign finance realm. It is at least a small credit to him that he keeps the corruption network close and in-house, rather than treating it as an expandable franchise enterprise as the Democrats are wont to do.

Exactly. I’m amazed there are still Trump supporters here. He’s not that guy. He’s had 10 years and hasn’t delivered anything meaningful. He has to go. He is the problem. Time to give someone else a chance even if you like Trump’s policies.

When is Hitler 2.0 running?

I’d be fine with Vance, DeSantis, or Rubio at this point. As long as Trump is gone. He’s incompetent and chaotic for no benefit. If we’re not getting Hitler 2.0 then let’s just do managed decline and we can all live peacefully. I’ve accepted that’s probably best case scenario at this point.

If we’re not getting Hitler 2.0 then let’s just do managed decline

As opposed to...

Presumably Hitler 2.0 would be immediate and catastrophic decline that leaves the country a bombed-out ruin?

Hitler 1.0 was defeated by the combined armies of white men that are long dead.
Who could possibly stop Hitler 2.0?

Well…himself.

What are these guys going to do?
Could they even win against one of these drunk women the Dems are fielding?

we can all live peacefully.

That's until the President says that that rioter the police shot was his son or some other bs.
Without Trumpian youth American streets would not get pacified. You'll get a cop knocking at the door after your next X (formerly Twitter) post right for tea time. What we've seen so far is the beginning of the bad. Trump put a halt to much of it, but it barely even began.
Remember in 2021 they wanted to get you fired if you did not take a shot.
Have you taken your daily capsule of Anti-whiteness yet citizen? We have reports that bad thoughts were being emitted in your area.

I don't think you understand how fucked we (as in white conservatives) are already. I moved out of Texas recently and it is probably 30% white now. Chicago is noticeably more white than Texas cities. Texas is going to be permanently Blue. All you need to do is go to a Costco to see this. It's done. Trump's antics have radicalized the left so much that if they win all 3 branches of government in 28, they are going to open the borders like we've never seen before. At this point, if you care about demographics, it's either Hitler 2.0 Reconquista right now or it's over. If you aren't down with that (and it looks like America isn't hence the response to ICE raids) then that's about as good as we can hope for. There are no white pills to be had. Vance is the best the dissident right can ever hope for, as sad as that is.

Trump did not make anybody open the borders.
Trump's antics got him elected which is better than any of these other yahoos could hope for.
I don't really care about demographics, maybe local power at this point.
Demographics vote their way into what we have now anyway.

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