I agree with everything you wrote and it fills me with despair because it’s a continuation of the same pattern we’ve been putting up with ALL CENTURY.
Rs get elected, wild tf out, then eventually crash the economy at which point everyone turns to Ds for the fix.
Which Ds get done but not without sacrificing tons of political capital as Rs refuse to help fix anything while blaming Ds for the mess they’re cleaning up.
Of course, once the pain stops, folks forget where it came from because again, Rs spent the whole time blaming Ds.
Which is how Trump and MAGA Nazis will inherit the strongest economy in the world without having lifted a finger to get it there. They won’t even have to worry about infrastructure because Biden took care of that too.
Frankly, I’m tired of saving MAGAs. Now that Ds are out of power, I’m begging them to put the capes away until 2028, else the pattern will just keep repeating.
And can somebody slap the taste out of Chris Murphy’s mouth over that Bernie BS? How DARE he accuse Ds of abandoning the working class when Rs haven’t offered up a single policy to improve their lives since the Nixon administration?
The answer involves Ds taking a stand and refusing to prop the Rs up. The Ds would have to be willing to let people feel the full consequences of R fuckery.
Understandably not being sociopathic sadists (unlike the Rs) the Ds don't want to let that happen, but they really must.
He is. Those propping him up are not. And they are full fascist. None of his new administration will have either a conscience or the patriotism to slow him down. Don't look for any of the current crop to repudiate him at some future point.
And when Trump dies in office (either due to him being fat, lazy, old, and already unhealthy or by being pushed out a window Putin-style) we get President Vance who is abhorrent but not at all stupid.
His goal was to avoid his Fed. Indicments for his crimes of Big Lie & Jan6th. Elon was also under the target of pending DOJ & Labor Lawsuits.
So they achieved that goal via Corpo Media along with their Disinfo Fuckery helped by Putin, but also like Justin points out (and AOC's election Survey to her constituents) voters indeed punished Biden & Harris for 2021-2023 inflation - conveniently acting like Covid Global Pandemic never happened - but did not totally give way to MAGA downballot and even in red states like Kentucky, NC, Missouri voted for the Democratic issues or candidates.
*Also, 'Rump is fugging lazy, Presidenting is hard and bad Presidenting has repurcussions (which we will all pay for). He is early Alzheimers stages which his dad died from I think at 80, 'Rump is soon to be 79.
Justin is correct in the sense that if we listen to that 4% of voters (which doesn't mean going against our values) we act swiftly to fill the Special Seats with great candidates to replace the promoted MAGA's, then we tackle 2026 harder than 2018 Take The House Movement.
We know Elon, Miller, Bannon etc. are basically the Shadow Presidency, 79 year old 'Rump just wants to golf and take credit and grift. But we shall see if these assholes desire to over reach, and attempt Constitutional fuckery will give them the outcome they cosplayed on Right Wing Fascist conventions/radio/podcasts since Big Lie & Jan6th through this Nov 5th 2024.
Don’t forget JD Vance. I agree Trump enjoys the campaigns, but not the work of being President. Shadow government? Definitely, his health is terrible, but they have to keep him around, so it’s back to “executive time”, manic posts every day on X and his knock off. Pretty sure JD Vance is slick enough to manipulate Trump, especially since he’ll be coached by Peter Thiel. I agree that Bannon, Miller, etc will be part of the shadow, but I think JD will be the leader in 2 years or less.
Not less. Just *over* two years. That way, since he won't have been President for more than half a term, Vance can run in both 2028 and 2032.
They'll make sure Trump is propped up until at least Jan 21, 2026. If he's still at all publicly presentable they'll keep propping him up for the remainder of his term while continuing to run things as the shadow government. If he isn't, the clock on him falling out a window starts.
Contrary to the well-known statement "Resistance is Futile", I'd propose "Resistance is Mandatory" on anything and everything the right-wingers attempt to do, and at all levels.
Don't forget about the Democratic successes in North Carolina.... which is exactly why it seems like rigging happened. Yeah yeah, you all can call me paranoid if you want. Lol
North Carolina governor, Democrat wins
Lieutenant governor, Democrat wins
Attorney general, Democrat wins
Secretary of education, democrat wins
The Democrats in North Carolina also had several wins in their state legislature, successfully breaking the Republican veto and super majority.
But but then they all turned around and voted for Donald Trump????
Anyway, you get the point with a massive Blue Wave wins in North Carolina.
Just think, after 2026, Trump could go for a Guinness World Record of 3 impeachments, because he will have no doubt by then unofficially crimed some more.
Yeah, I think the April 2025 WI Supreme Court election (plus the Virginia gubernatorial and legislative elections that fall) will be a big early indicator of voter anger to FDJT’s second term. The last two WISC elections were won by 10–11 pts (Protosaewicz last year and Karofsky in 2020). Rebecca Dallet won her WISC seat by the same margin in 2018.
It helps that the R aligned judicial candidate is an unpopular holdover from Scott Walker’s administration.
I’m no historian & no Federal government scholar, but it seems to me that many of the ways optimistic people think the new Administration can be held in check is through the checks & balances we’ve heard about all our lives.
I haven’t seen any of those work in quite a while. Republicans don’t just control the White House, Senate & possibly the House, they bought the Supreme Court & several lower courts. They’re in bed with the Heritage Foundation & Opus Dei & all the millionaires & billionaires who will never have enough to fill their empty, bankrupt souls. While most people were watching sports or reality TV, the GOP passed Citizens United to make that not just possible but a slam dunk.
Until the last coup attempt in Turkey failed miserably, it used to be that some despot would get elected & when things got too bad, the military would overthrow him. The military would lead the government until things settled down enough for a new election & then the cycle would repeat.
But given all the potential of electronic surveillance, I’m not even sure anything like that is likely to work if the Trump team scraps all conventions and rewrites the Constitution as they promised.
There are some mistakes that can’t be fixed. I hope this isn’t one of them.
I hope the optimists who thinks checks and balances still exist are right.
1) they will absolutely blame Democrats for the pain that their tariffs and other policy dicta will cause. And their voters will fall for it, because they marinate in a media echo chamber.
2) I doubt it was split tickets that cause the "meh" down ballot for Republicans. There was a HUGE wave of 18-29 year old men, who bought the Trans terror, and the Joe Rogan experience (and that podcaster that gave trump the wrapped Cybertruck - he also sniffed the chair after Andrew Tate left the studio - ewww) who probably just filled out the Trump/Vance bubble and left the rest of the ballot blank.
Trump did turn out the lowest propensity block of voters, and I have to grudgingly acknowledge that.
I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but The Orange Turd is not in good mental or physical health. Fingers crossed that he'll be dead in a year or two.
Vance and his ties to The Heritage Foundation (P2025) is worse. The way I see it, the republicans in Congress will try to use Article 25 of our Constitution to oust trump, then vance (Heritage Foundation) will try enacting their P2025. I hope I'm wrong.
I’m having a hard time believing there will be midterm elections… I would like to believe this is possible to fix, but my gut and my heart and my brain - none of them - say, oh yeah, there’ll be elections again moving forward, term limits, a Congress, a constitution…
I’m serious, if you have any base for optimism on that issue, if he is inaugurated and controls the military, and scotus supports consolidation of power with the executive, and the richest techie in the world and company control the media messaging tunnels, and has likely equipped the Russian troll farms with ai… how do we…??
Writing I’ve read in the last two days on fascist leaders celebrating the end of liberal democracy, and terror texts targeting African Americans the day after the election, and incelagas promising rape trucks… I’m barely functioning…
Me too. We need community at this time. Take time to care for yourself, and try not to let your fear get the best of you. Hang in there, and fight if you can after your much needed rest.
- JANUARY 1933: Hitler becomes chancellor of a coalition government, where the Nazis have a third of the seats in the Reichstag.
- FEBRUARY: The German Reichstag is destroyed by fire. The plot and execution is almost certainly due to the Nazis but they point the finger at the communists and trigger a General Election.
- MARCH: The Enabling Act passed giving powers of legislation to Hitler’s cabinet for four years, making him virtual dictator. He proclaims the Nazi Party is the only political party permitted in Germany. All other parties and trade unions are disbanded. Individual German states lose any autonomous powers, while Nazi officials become state governors.
I would not put “because we’re armed” as something to rely on. It sounds to much like the fever dreams MAGAns has been telling themselves and wishing for.
I agree with everything you wrote and it fills me with despair because it’s a continuation of the same pattern we’ve been putting up with ALL CENTURY.
Rs get elected, wild tf out, then eventually crash the economy at which point everyone turns to Ds for the fix.
Which Ds get done but not without sacrificing tons of political capital as Rs refuse to help fix anything while blaming Ds for the mess they’re cleaning up.
Of course, once the pain stops, folks forget where it came from because again, Rs spent the whole time blaming Ds.
Which is how Trump and MAGA Nazis will inherit the strongest economy in the world without having lifted a finger to get it there. They won’t even have to worry about infrastructure because Biden took care of that too.
Frankly, I’m tired of saving MAGAs. Now that Ds are out of power, I’m begging them to put the capes away until 2028, else the pattern will just keep repeating.
And can somebody slap the taste out of Chris Murphy’s mouth over that Bernie BS? How DARE he accuse Ds of abandoning the working class when Rs haven’t offered up a single policy to improve their lives since the Nixon administration?
The answer involves Ds taking a stand and refusing to prop the Rs up. The Ds would have to be willing to let people feel the full consequences of R fuckery.
Understandably not being sociopathic sadists (unlike the Rs) the Ds don't want to let that happen, but they really must.
Harsh but theory has legs
Seriously. We can only do so much to save people from themselves. We’re exhausted.
Another thing going for us is that trump is pretty goddamn stupid. Here is hoping it bites him in the ass, again.
He is. Those propping him up are not. And they are full fascist. None of his new administration will have either a conscience or the patriotism to slow him down. Don't look for any of the current crop to repudiate him at some future point.
And when Trump dies in office (either due to him being fat, lazy, old, and already unhealthy or by being pushed out a window Putin-style) we get President Vance who is abhorrent but not at all stupid.
He is kind of stupid in a fascist kind of misogynistic way
That might take him out
His goal was to avoid his Fed. Indicments for his crimes of Big Lie & Jan6th. Elon was also under the target of pending DOJ & Labor Lawsuits.
So they achieved that goal via Corpo Media along with their Disinfo Fuckery helped by Putin, but also like Justin points out (and AOC's election Survey to her constituents) voters indeed punished Biden & Harris for 2021-2023 inflation - conveniently acting like Covid Global Pandemic never happened - but did not totally give way to MAGA downballot and even in red states like Kentucky, NC, Missouri voted for the Democratic issues or candidates.
*Also, 'Rump is fugging lazy, Presidenting is hard and bad Presidenting has repurcussions (which we will all pay for). He is early Alzheimers stages which his dad died from I think at 80, 'Rump is soon to be 79.
Justin is correct in the sense that if we listen to that 4% of voters (which doesn't mean going against our values) we act swiftly to fill the Special Seats with great candidates to replace the promoted MAGA's, then we tackle 2026 harder than 2018 Take The House Movement.
We know Elon, Miller, Bannon etc. are basically the Shadow Presidency, 79 year old 'Rump just wants to golf and take credit and grift. But we shall see if these assholes desire to over reach, and attempt Constitutional fuckery will give them the outcome they cosplayed on Right Wing Fascist conventions/radio/podcasts since Big Lie & Jan6th through this Nov 5th 2024.
Don’t forget JD Vance. I agree Trump enjoys the campaigns, but not the work of being President. Shadow government? Definitely, his health is terrible, but they have to keep him around, so it’s back to “executive time”, manic posts every day on X and his knock off. Pretty sure JD Vance is slick enough to manipulate Trump, especially since he’ll be coached by Peter Thiel. I agree that Bannon, Miller, etc will be part of the shadow, but I think JD will be the leader in 2 years or less.
Not less. Just *over* two years. That way, since he won't have been President for more than half a term, Vance can run in both 2028 and 2032.
They'll make sure Trump is propped up until at least Jan 21, 2026. If he's still at all publicly presentable they'll keep propping him up for the remainder of his term while continuing to run things as the shadow government. If he isn't, the clock on him falling out a window starts.
Contrary to the well-known statement "Resistance is Futile", I'd propose "Resistance is Mandatory" on anything and everything the right-wingers attempt to do, and at all levels.
Don't forget about the Democratic successes in North Carolina.... which is exactly why it seems like rigging happened. Yeah yeah, you all can call me paranoid if you want. Lol
North Carolina governor, Democrat wins
Lieutenant governor, Democrat wins
Attorney general, Democrat wins
Secretary of education, democrat wins
The Democrats in North Carolina also had several wins in their state legislature, successfully breaking the Republican veto and super majority.
But but then they all turned around and voted for Donald Trump????
Anyway, you get the point with a massive Blue Wave wins in North Carolina.
The results stink to me
Will be interesting what turns up
Josh Stein actually received 150K more votes than FDJT did here in North Carolina. Too bad the 150K votes weren’t also for Madame VP Harris.
Just think, after 2026, Trump could go for a Guinness World Record of 3 impeachments, because he will have no doubt by then unofficially crimed some more.
Yeah, I think the April 2025 WI Supreme Court election (plus the Virginia gubernatorial and legislative elections that fall) will be a big early indicator of voter anger to FDJT’s second term. The last two WISC elections were won by 10–11 pts (Protosaewicz last year and Karofsky in 2020). Rebecca Dallet won her WISC seat by the same margin in 2018.
It helps that the R aligned judicial candidate is an unpopular holdover from Scott Walker’s administration.
I like your enthusiasm 🙂 will reStack ASAP 💯👍
"Political analysts have been thinking about eating a bullet since election day."
Oh, please do. Pretty please with sugar on top, please, please, please.
I am not as optimistic as you.
I’m no historian & no Federal government scholar, but it seems to me that many of the ways optimistic people think the new Administration can be held in check is through the checks & balances we’ve heard about all our lives.
I haven’t seen any of those work in quite a while. Republicans don’t just control the White House, Senate & possibly the House, they bought the Supreme Court & several lower courts. They’re in bed with the Heritage Foundation & Opus Dei & all the millionaires & billionaires who will never have enough to fill their empty, bankrupt souls. While most people were watching sports or reality TV, the GOP passed Citizens United to make that not just possible but a slam dunk.
Until the last coup attempt in Turkey failed miserably, it used to be that some despot would get elected & when things got too bad, the military would overthrow him. The military would lead the government until things settled down enough for a new election & then the cycle would repeat.
But given all the potential of electronic surveillance, I’m not even sure anything like that is likely to work if the Trump team scraps all conventions and rewrites the Constitution as they promised.
There are some mistakes that can’t be fixed. I hope this isn’t one of them.
I hope the optimists who thinks checks and balances still exist are right.
Thank you! This gave me some hope today!
Righteous rant, but two points.
1) they will absolutely blame Democrats for the pain that their tariffs and other policy dicta will cause. And their voters will fall for it, because they marinate in a media echo chamber.
2) I doubt it was split tickets that cause the "meh" down ballot for Republicans. There was a HUGE wave of 18-29 year old men, who bought the Trans terror, and the Joe Rogan experience (and that podcaster that gave trump the wrapped Cybertruck - he also sniffed the chair after Andrew Tate left the studio - ewww) who probably just filled out the Trump/Vance bubble and left the rest of the ballot blank.
Trump did turn out the lowest propensity block of voters, and I have to grudgingly acknowledge that.
I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but The Orange Turd is not in good mental or physical health. Fingers crossed that he'll be dead in a year or two.
We better hope not. He'll be the biggest obstacle to the GOP's agenda.
Vance and his ties to The Heritage Foundation (P2025) is worse. The way I see it, the republicans in Congress will try to use Article 25 of our Constitution to oust trump, then vance (Heritage Foundation) will try enacting their P2025. I hope I'm wrong.
They can't afford to be seen taking trump out, because they need his base and Vance has no warped, orange, charisma.
That’s been my thought since the git. Chilling.
Maybe more effort should be made to take out Fox News - surely there are numerous crimes and lawsuits that could be won
I’m having a hard time believing there will be midterm elections… I would like to believe this is possible to fix, but my gut and my heart and my brain - none of them - say, oh yeah, there’ll be elections again moving forward, term limits, a Congress, a constitution…
I’m serious, if you have any base for optimism on that issue, if he is inaugurated and controls the military, and scotus supports consolidation of power with the executive, and the richest techie in the world and company control the media messaging tunnels, and has likely equipped the Russian troll farms with ai… how do we…??
Writing I’ve read in the last two days on fascist leaders celebrating the end of liberal democracy, and terror texts targeting African Americans the day after the election, and incelagas promising rape trucks… I’m barely functioning…
Me too. We need community at this time. Take time to care for yourself, and try not to let your fear get the best of you. Hang in there, and fight if you can after your much needed rest.
"End democracy as quickly as possible to cement their hold on power -That is easier said than done."
Hitler did it in THREE MONTHS.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/hitlers-rise-and-fall-timeline
- JANUARY 1933: Hitler becomes chancellor of a coalition government, where the Nazis have a third of the seats in the Reichstag.
- FEBRUARY: The German Reichstag is destroyed by fire. The plot and execution is almost certainly due to the Nazis but they point the finger at the communists and trigger a General Election.
- MARCH: The Enabling Act passed giving powers of legislation to Hitler’s cabinet for four years, making him virtual dictator. He proclaims the Nazi Party is the only political party permitted in Germany. All other parties and trade unions are disbanded. Individual German states lose any autonomous powers, while Nazi officials become state governors.
Germany's democracy was weak AF.
Ours ain't looking too strong today.
I would not put “because we’re armed” as something to rely on. It sounds to much like the fever dreams MAGAns has been telling themselves and wishing for.