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.
Trump's gotta go and yet we would be far worse off without Trump creating it all to begin with
I wish some of you were around to the truly dark, pointless days of the GOP under McCain or Romney
Not necessarily. Only if the right seizes the moment because he also radicalized the left.
the Obama administration's behavior, especially post 2012, is good evidence it's not Trump causing the radicalization on the left and they find something to get radicalized and push until they find resistance anyway
no one is coming to save any of us, we're going to have to do something in the real world
Obama is nothing like Mamdami, The Squad, and the DSA. Wd have a Muslim mayor of NYC and a Muslim Senator now. Socialism is massively popular now with young people.
The problem with Trump though is that he super charges the left without actually making any long term gains. Obviously they are going to be pissed and that is fine, but he pisses them off and then does nothing tangible. The things he does do well he communicates poorly on and can all be overturned by the next administration
The only thing he did well was blow open the Overton Window on race, immigration, and white identity, but that has no benefit if nobody does anything with the opportunity.
Obama is largely the same as these three, except earlier, more dangerous and effective. Obama winning in 2012 radicalized and emboldened the left. Mamdani and Abdulla are not Muslims in any meaningful sense; they're empty foreigners who are playing racial resentment politics and saying whatever they need to say to get power just like Obama did. They're the solved meta for leftist politics. The demographic replacement happened before Trump "super charged," them with likely 100,000,000 foreigners in the US by the time he took office.
The American economic system is socialism for the rich and the poor and capitalism for the middle-class. Why wouldn't the young be interested in socialism for themselves as well? The current American economic system is everyone gets stuff except for them and they're looking at their lives being far worse than their parents or their grandparents. They would be interested in anything which gives them answers to these problems.
even if this was true: Oh? Is that it? As opposed to pre-Trump GOP who were constantly trying to convince their voters for decades to accept illegal amnesty deals and destroying the lives of anyone on their own side who even got slightly close to these topics?
sure dude, this has been a fuckup and a failure and a disaster, but having no Trump would have been worse
not that it particularly matters, we didn't know it would end up like this when we first started and trying anything, especially in politics, means putting something on the table and accepting risk you could fail and things get worse
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