- It would be nice if the legacy media companies started publishing daily opinion pieces on how Republicans need to moderate their views on trans rights, the LGBTQ community, gun access, abortion, etc. since they got destroyed in these elections… lol jk, I know they only ever insist on Democrats moderating and empathizing with the other side of the aisle.
- Trump is still refusing to take any blame for the epic Republican losses, and he claimed the GOP lost because he was not personally on the ballot. If Trump is accurate — he’s not, voters made it clear they’re not enjoying all this chaos — isn’t that a massive red flag for Republicans? Trump is not going to be on the ballot in 2026 either, or 2028, or ever again.
- Trump’s Oval Office is getting so tacky and gaudy with all the fake gold accents everywhere between the crammed in portraits. Even for Trump’s famously vulgar design tastes, the Oval looks awful. The terrible interior designing is a reminder of what Republicans lose out on because they don’t have more gay friends, though it would be nice if some of Trump’s straight friends would tell him the dance moves he loves so much literally look like he’s jerking off two guys at once all over his face.
- Political pundits are not blaming Elon Musk enough for this gigantic shellacking Republicans just got served. Northern Virginia was the epicenter of the D.O.G.E. wrecking ball, and Musk fucked over VA more than any other state with thousands of firings. Turns out it’s bad politics to insult everyone who cares about a functional, professional, responsible government. Virginia was turning a little more purple in recent elections, but now Democrats have won nearly a supermajority in the state legislature.
- Trump is gonna get much lamer and duckier in 2026 because his agenda has gotten so unpopular so fast. Republican incumbents in Congress are gonna have to start breaking with his administration on the more draconian policies if they want to keep their seats next November. Especially if the GOP keeps gerrymandering their state Congressional maps and turning safe, bright red seats more pink and purple in their greedy, mid-decade attempt to steal as many House seats as possible. Trump’s horrific deportations, unpopular city occupations, insane trade warring, and rising inflation are going to really weigh down Republican candidates unless they pivot and try to brand themselves as party-bucking mavericks who are willing to compromise with Democrats.
- It’s past due for Republicans to start planning for a post-Trump era, and I don’t think Trump’s ego is gonna handle this well at all. It’s not difficult to imagine him lashing out at every “disloyal” Republican ready to move on from the divisive MAGA movement, or even turning his back on the GOP entirely. Never forget Lindsey Graham’s prophetic warning back in 2016 that Trump will destroy the GOP!
- Remember when Glenn Youngkin won his VA governor race by less than 2% of the vote, and legacy media pundits immediately declared him presidential material? Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger just won it by 15 points.
- The 2026 Senate map just got a lot more interesting. Republicans have a natural gerrymander in the Senate thanks to controlling so many small, rural states, but, if you look at the election data, Democrats won big swings in the Hispanic vote and youth vote while Republican enthusiasm was shockingly low. Meanwhile, Trump is too busy demolishing the White House and bailing out Argentina and Israel to do anything about the classic kitchen table issues, and his impulsive, foolish trade policies are hurting and demoralizing big Republican constituencies in the corporate, import, manufacturing, and farming industries.
- If a similar blue wave materializes in next year’s midterms, it’s no longer preposterous to believe Democratic Senate candidates might be surprisingly competitive in states like AK, NE, KS, IA, OH, NC, and ME if conservative voters get sick of the Trumpian chaos and this Do-Nothing Congress’s inability to keep their own government open despite having full control of all three branches. It’s certainly going to cost the GOP a lot more money than usual to protect seats in previously safe states.
- Per CNBC: “Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September and 175% higher than the same month a year ago. It was the highest level for any October since 2003 and has been the worst year for layoffs since 2009.” YOWZA!
- We’re literally in a Trump recession right now thanks to the tariffs and trade warring utterly erasing Biden’s manufacturing expansions, wiping out corporate growth, and scaring away all foreign investment. The current recession would be more obvious except that the absurd AI bubble we’re watching inflate to spectacular proportions is allowing just a handful of companies’ stock values to keep the stock market rising. But Trump has three years left in office, and shit looks likely to hit the fan well before 2028. It’s going to bring a lot of economic pain, and could very well result in “Trumpville” shantytowns springing up across the country. The silver lining is that we’re maybe heading toward a Democratic tsunami like it’s 1932 because the Trump Administration is filled with incompetent, brown-nosing sycophants who have no agenda to solve our problems or reverse these worrying economic trends except to constantly soothe Trump’s sociopathic ego on TV and lie to every American’s face about how prices aren’t going up.
- It’s funny and ironic how the two longest government shutdowns in US history have been during Donald Trump’s two presidencies. The guy who never shuts up about being the greatest dealmaker in the universe who ever lived can’t even keep his own government open to carry out his own agenda.
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer declining to say who he voted for in the NYC mayor race is a real profile in political courage. To Hakeem Jeffries’s credit, he did announce he voted for Mamdani, but only after months of annoying waffling that lost him political capital with the Democratic base for not being a team player with the victor of the primary. I said it before and I’ll say it again: they’re the wrong Democratic leaders for the moment.
- Speaking of terrible leaders, there has never been a more spineless, pushover, useless, cuck-chair-sitting Speaker of the House than Mike Johnson. Even Kevin McCarthy had more dignity. What a contrast with Nancy Pelosi, who is one of the most badass Speakers America has ever had.
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