Good morning everyone! And isn't it a LOVELY morning thismorning? :D
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Kind of surprised to see Republicans voting in such lockstep against impeaching Hegseth. He's never gonna get removed, they don't have the votes, but impeaching him would be an easy way to shift blame from Trump. Hell, if nothing else it'd be a good look for a lot of them. If the party stays this glued to Trump's ass '28 is gonna be a fucking extinction level event.
Oh hey, Mississippi finished counting! Let's give it up for Blississippi <3
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/scott-colom-mississippi-campaign-democrats
Let's see... Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia for banging a spy... And also his own employees? Man, CEOs really DO have light work schedules, huh?
The Russian oil tankers Trump thought would save him in the midterms fucked him over. They headed for Brazil instead after the Governor of NJ warned companies they could face prosecution under the laws Trump violated to make that deal. Nice to finally have a little leverage, isn't it <3
And it looks like Trump and Bibi aren't getting along, aaaaw, always sad to see a friendship die 😁
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I keep seeing people ask Acton in interviews if she's gonna talk to Ramaswamy and she keeps saying fuck no. I wonder if the media is gonna try to turn this into a Thing™.
On the one hand, it's an extremely petty thing to have turn into a scandal (if it does). On the other hand, I HOPE Acton would see it as an opportunity to stand on principles and refuse. I think she can count on a groundswell of support, and it'd be a great way to drive the stake a little further into the MAGA movement in this state.
You can tell I'm feeling better after the election because I actually have the energy to engage with this shit again :P
"So we're definitely gonna get a Dem president in '28, right?"
Chief, two years is an ETERNITY in politics. Let's do the job in front of us first.
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I do think the hoops Republicans are jumping through to attempt to explain last night's wipeout are pretty funny just in general, because the answer is very simple:
There is a nebulous cloud of low-information center-right/center-left voters in this country who don't care about policy, don't care about international politics, and don't care about healthcare, national defense, or, broadly speaking, the general health of the economy. The one and only thing they care about is the prices they pay at shops.
So if you, for example, start a war in the middle east which causes gas prices to spike something like $2/gallon nationally over several months while flicking new tariffs on and off like a kid with a flashlight, they will *flay you alive* at the polls.
That's literally it.
So when Vance says "Oooh we need to reappraise our relationship with Israel so that voters will feel the Real Manly Leadership and come back to the fold" I'm laughing not just because it's a silly idea, but because it shows he's physically incapable of realizing why he's losing. And so it'll happen again.
Oh so they're gonna impeach Hegseth themselves. They're gonna have a full ritual for the sacrificial animal, that's thoughtful <3
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/republicans-quickly-turn-against-pete-221449149.html
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Centrists gonna centrist, I guess. Always gotta push 'em.
The silence from the right is fucking deafening this morning. Feels like the day after Jan 6th, when they were still scrabbling for a narrative. <3
So Alaska and Mississippi are still possible flips, people are projecting Dems hit fucking *258* in the House, and the money markets are UP on news that Republicans lost.
"Repudiation" doesn't begin to cover it. :D
By exit polls, it's looking like what happened was MAGA just straight up didn't show up. Democrat numbers were reasonably close to 2024 -- which is pretty impressive by itself given midterms usually trail well behind presidential elections -- but Republican numbers CRATERED. Trump's base fucking IMPLODED.
Given that after 2024, people were talking about a permanent demographic shift amongst young white men and Latino men, this is REALLY REALLY satisfying.
Turns out if you fuck with gas prices, American voters will shred the flesh from your living bones as you watch <3
