Right Wing Pundit - "This was the breakup of a winning coalition."
Gas prices and the war cannot explain a wipe out from top to bottom in Texas or Georgia or losing South Carolina or Ohio or a total coast to coast wipe out. Only the simpletons can believe that.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
For the last two years, the Trump Administration has been governed by a simple mantra: “We can just do things.” On Tuesday, voters replied, “So can we,” and wiped out the GOP. This was not a blue wave. This was not a blue tsunami. This was the breakup of a winning coalition. Those voters, in breaking up the coalition, treated downballot races as proxies for their contempt of Washington, D.C. The race for dog catcher became nationalized because of Republican political malpractice. In 2024, Donald Trump assembled a multiracial and multiethnic coalition of voters who bristled at the progressivism of the Democrats and the wreckage of the economy.
By 2026, Trump and his White House acolytes set that coalition on fire to cater to a group of hyperonline grievance mongers who have confused Twitter with real life. Last night, the American constitutional system worked as designed and worked so well and so thoroughly that the party that lied to itself in 2020 that it had lost only because the election was stolen is now lying to itself that it lost only because of gas prices and war.
Last night’s drubbing was too complete to be theft. It was gas prices. And it was the war. But it was also calling affordability a “hoax.” And it was also the corruption. The incompetence. The tariffs. The playing nice with Russia while treating our allies worse than our enemies. The impression of cruelty. The overly aggressive deportations. The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic. The arrogance. The ballroom. The reflecting poll. The golf courses. The arch. The Qatari 747. The aggressive redistricting push. The threats against enemies.
It turns out a weekend Fox and Friends host might not be a reassuring beacon of competence to Americans. Gas prices and the war cannot explain a wipe out from top to bottom in Texas or Georgia or losing South Carolina or Ohio or a total coast to coast wipe out. Only the simpletons can believe that. Adam Hamilton won Finney County in Kansas, which was a Trump +35 county in 2024 and he did so with Hispanic voters. He did not do that just because of war and gas prices. And shall we talk about Mississippi? A few weeks ago, Bo French in Texas attacked University of Texas students who were American citizens of Indian descent. A portion of the President’s base cheered him on.
Even some within the Administration, on public Twitter accounts tied to the Administration, echoed him. Those voters’ parents repudiated the racism in the GOP and wiped out Republicans in Texas, not because they support the Democrats, but because the party they had supported turned on them. It was political malpractice by the GOP.
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The New Lost Cause myth is getting underway, and Erickson alludes to it. The myth will be that the Republicans only lost because Trump had the courage to attack Iran though he knew it might raise gas prices, and all prices, but he had to do it to save civilization from Muslim barbarism. In other words he threw himself on his sword out of devotion to freedom.
The truth is that about 10% of the fools that voted for Trump in 2024 reached a breaking point of their consciences when they watched 2025 and 2026.
I love the term "Muslim barbarism". I'm being sarcastic. Did you know Muslims invented algebra? They understand medicine unlike anybody else in Europe during the Medieval Ages. So the Spanish Catholics converted by the sword or just simply chased them out of Spain. And there went real medicine.
So I guess my point is....they were more civilized in the Middle Ages than the Europeans were. While Europeans were still using cow and pig shit as poultices they understood herbs and other medical treatments
Because they had contact with the Chinese and Indians along the Silk Road.
But they also revered books and collected anything Greek or Roman or Hebrew.
The Romans were particularly anal about collecting medical knowledge across Europe to help keep their soldiers alive.
The first instance
The second instance he targets Asian females at the same school.
He lost by 7% or 700,000 votes but he carried 220 counties and garnered 4.4 million votes
vs the 5.1 million citizens in 34 blue counties.
Let that sink in...46% thought it was ok as long as a Republican won that Commission seat.
Sad.
poor lauren blowbert ...
her kid is in jail for child porn, she's a GED holder out of a $174K a year job, and her boyfriend kid suck now has permanent ED ...
There's always Only Fans... maybe some geriatric MAGA spawn might pay for a sub.
I liked her a lot better about 20 years ago when I'd see her almost every friday afternoon during the summer months at the McD's drive up window in Rifle, back when her teeth were crooked, she wasn't as buxom, slowly transitioning away from teenage single mom, and more towards her gun-toting teabag/maga bimbo persona.
Her boyfriend is named "bert"?
The electorate has done its part. Now it is up to the Ds to start fixing this mess by:
This may be the only guy the Senate would prosecute.
trump would probably hide retreat pete in another job before the house goes back into session or pardon him last minute ...
Kegsbreath could go back to Fox News for all I care. He should not be in charge of anything more dangerous than an office stapler (and even that might be too much for him).
Looks like you're right...
I dunno....we have a guillotine at work I would let him play with (I forget their actual name...its for cutting paper)
I hope I am wrong that they won't do anything to help the people they swore they would and just focus on Trump.
The Democrats didn't promise they would accomplish their goals on Day 1 like the Republican fake did. Interesting how right wingers think their propaganda means anything to anyone other than low intelligence magas.
I watched Fox News today for about an hour which was about all I could take. They basically were hitting all the spin talking points blaming anyone and everyone other than rightwing conservatives or Trump for the losses. Dan Bongino was on there trying desperately to keep from screaming, at one point he literally said "I shouldn't say anything more" as he attempted to contain his faux rage, and who was he blaming? Democrats of course, claiming they lied about everything, about ICE, about him, about Trump, of course he had no evidence to back up his claims, just angry retorts. According to him, basically all the bad things America is living through right now is just a fantasy of Democrats making even though Republicans have the house, senate, supreme court and the white house.
Brett Bair was caught on a hot mic asking is staff "can do a spin" on the election results.
Fox News’ Bret Baier reacts to hot mic moment asking to do ‘spin on the races’ in election results
These are not people who love the diverse America our founders envisioned and enshrined in the constitution and the ideals stated in the declaration of independence, that all men are created equal.
Even the conservatives here were claiming El-Sayed was somehow not American enough to represent Americans even though he was born here, raised here, went to school here, graduated here and is living and working here. How is that not being an American? Ah, but that's thinking like a rational intelligent person. I forgot we have to share this country with ignorant racist neanderthals who scream, grunt or shit themselves whenever they see someone with a foreign name, different faith or brown skin in a position of power over them.
Sounds like torture.
He has a funny name, an imaginary accent and speaks his parent's language, lol.
I just watched a video of last night when some idiot on Fox News, his name is Will Cain , saying Trump brought sanity back to politics. They have no shame.
Another moron on the same show, with the Hollywood (or maybe porn star) name of Caroline Sunshine, said that Trump's message was anti-corruption but the GOP candidates werent able to get it across.
These people are AI robots, aren't they?
Says one thing but does another.
I believe that was the same 15 minutes I tolerated.
The Democrats must immediately launch investigations into:
Opinion: Why Dems Should Launch These 5 Investigations Into Trump Immediately
Since the election, many more people are expressing strong feelings about the political situation. Recently, a person from a very deep and very mysterious part of the Internet sent me this: #Trump Derangement Syndrome
*Warning: This video contains language that some very sensitive people may find to be upsetting. Turn your profanity filters on. View at your own risk!
James Carville: I Got Trump Derangement Syndrome
And of course, the situation being what it is, there is an ongoing debate: Is this really James Carville-- or is it merely AI???
(Curious minds want to know!!!)
What about #s 2-4-6 and 8 ?
While that should be obvious I would imagine it would be hard to actually prove . . . ?
Remember two years ago when Republicans duped enough voters into doing to Democrats what Democrats just did to Republicans? Those of us who recognized the big dupe just shook our heads and said, ok you have the three branches under your control and now you need to govern. We knew it would be a disaster, but to what degree? It was to this degree:
It was gas prices. And it was the war. But it was also calling affordability a “hoax.” And it was also the corruption. The incompetence. The tariffs. The playing nice with Russia while treating our allies worse than our enemies. The impression of cruelty. The overly aggressive deportations. The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic. The arrogance. The ballroom. The reflecting poll. The golf courses. The arch. The Qatari 747. The aggressive redistricting push. The threats against enemies.
Trump didn’t just lay waste to the economic conditions of the voters, he destroyed our position and credibility on the world stage. How long will it take to fix all the metrics of his damage?