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.
Not sure exactly how it compares, but the Democratic Party is definitely overrun with useless political consultants gathering all of the money for themselves, spending a lot (most?) of it on messages for donations which are essentially elder scams. Any blue wave was despite that waste, not because the Democratic Party is great at spending money to get votes.
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