I compiled this list as a spoof over the course of the last month. How’d I do? 
Top 10 Reasons Republicans Lost
- 10: The radical Left ruined my beautiful reflecting pool
- 9: Communists took my name off the Kennedy center
- 8: If only my grand ballroom, Arch and golf course were completed.
- 7: They did not give me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping eight wars
- 6: Supreme Court justices Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch are traitors
- 5: Media communist liars and their fake polls, especially Fox News, caused Republicans to stay home.
- 4: Senator Thune held up the SAVE Act.
- 3: RINOs Running Wild. Governor Abbott is now a RINO too.
- 2. Nobody appreciated Husted’s ass as much as I did.
- 1. I wasn’t on the Ballot
This morning, I added Abbott to my RINO point, otherwise everything was on my list.
Not On the Ballot
Truth Social: I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
On Greg Abbott
Truth Social: If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost. He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty! President DONALD J. TRUMP
On Fox News
Truth Social: Fox News Ratings are way down (27%!) because they’re spending too much time covering the Trump Deranged Dumocrats! All of those people who used to watch Fox, and no longer do, get it. It’s them, not me — My numbers are better than they have ever been. The new CNN Poll stated that “TRUMP” is at 99% among Republicans and, among Republican Presidents, “TRUMP” is at 53%, compared to Ronald Reagan at 18%, and Abraham Lincoln at 8%! Fox knows this, and so does everyone else! Also, why is Fox Corp. spending so much money donating to the Worst of the Worst, including Hakeem Jeffries, Jamie Raskin, Ted Lieu, Pete Aguilar, the California Dumocratic Party, the Dumocratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Dumocratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, the CHC Bold PAC, and the New Dumocrat Coalition Action Fund, among others? No wonder FoxNews Ratings are collapsing, and they’re going to go down a lot further. They’re way down, not because of me, but because they are AGAINST me! This happened once before, and Fox almost collapsed. It’s happening again! President DONALD J. TRUMP
More on Fox News
Truth Social: Why does FoxNews have Bill de Blasio, the Worst Mayor in the History of New York City, on air, ranting and raving like a Lunatic? He left the City in disgrace, and the damage he caused was incalculable — It has never been the same, and now he’s telling us how to run America. FoxNews bears responsibility for these losses by constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse. GOD BLESS AMERICA! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Gee I Can Hardly Wait
Truth Social: I’m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost! President DONALD J. TRUMP
I Made Some Notes
Perhaps I should rank them in order of stupidity.
Predicting a Red Wave
Also Predicting a Red Wave
Predicting No Blue Wave
Skewed Polls
Dear True Texan
Republicans Favored to Win the House
True Texan on Rural Voting
Talarico Should Throw in the Towell
Chip Roy Chimes In
Trump on Ken Paxton
Kudlow Chimes In
Notes Revied
False Hope
Let’s Discuss Gerrymandering
Asinine Predictions in Minnesota
The Curse of Polymarket
Outrageously Skewed Polls
Talarico Mental Breakdown
The Left’s Spirits Will Be Crushed For Decades
The Truly Delusional Mel Gibson
Damn. In don’t even know what he said. His account has been suspended
Mish Called a Moron
Who’s a Moron Now?
It’s refreshing to keep notes.
Today, I offer Congratulations to Trump for Turning Texas Blue.
No Mere Mortal Could.
Yet, in surprising twist that could complicate Schorr’s argument, Trump revealed last night that he has already spoke with Democrat leaders and expressed a willingness to work together.
“Well, we’re going to work with the Democrats to make sure things go well for our country. Very important. They’ve already called and they want to work with,” Trump told POLITICO’s Dasha Burns. “[I] have the right to veto everything, but I don’t want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything. They want to see things happen, too.”
This is the perfect power transition away from trump because it is dispersed. he was indeed not on the ballot. It would be very different to storm every state house and election authority in the USA.
t will be easier to edge him on out, when the time comes.
Okay Mish, you win for now; you were right.
What happens now? Americans may have a lot of decadent ideas but a lot of them seem to have a reasonable understanding of what real socialism means: hardship and even famine. Will enough Democrats side with Trump to stave that off?
Purple haired Leninist trannies will be climbing up our legs with knives in their teeth, right?
remind us again of what my decadent ideas are as an American? Oh yeah, I decadently don’t want old assholes diddling young girls and grabbing them by their private parts. Just wanted to make sure the record is straight.
Lol. That’s easy just ask the British Empire, Spanish Empire, Roman Empire, etc. The democant’s aren’t going to fix the demographic death spiral, the $40 trillion in debt, the collapse of social programs, inflation, nor anything else anymore than repubs fixed.
What happens now is the decay and misery will accelerate. I expect violence and crime to explode as the screws tighten around most families. I expect murder-suicides to explode, mass shootings from any combination of racists/bigots, religious terrorists, and nation-state actors seeking to undermine the USA.
I expect seniors on fixed income to go hungry and be found dead days/weeks/months after they expire as inflation explodes.
Won’t be surprised if we’re in a Great Depression by 2030 or WWIII apocalypse.
As an added bonus, all those countries Trump was raping and pillaging will come back to haunt America in the upcoming years. Whether that’s cartel drug violence, caravans of millions of people and/or mass migration from other areas: Africa, India, China, etc.
All there is now is a good exit strategy to ride out the storm. I hope things improve by 2036 but I’m planning for a lost decade 2026-2036.
Then again, I could be wrong and dems usher in an era of rainbows and unicorns while singing kumbaya at the park. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Beat the crowd and order your burqa now, habibi!
A total idiot completely fooled by a word. No Democrat has ever suggested government ownership of the means of production of food. And there are virtually no Democrats who will side with that evil moron on anything. Period. He has Fetterman and Haley Stevens. Two.
Nice roundup, Mish.
there is only ONE important reason. democracy works. always has since the ancient greeks invented self rule. we now have the blue team uniparty worldwide warmongering imperial as heads of committees to endorse the never ending wars and genocide and banker bailout welfare queens. in a blind test of who has been in power for my first 66 years on planet, there ain’t a pubic hair difference. the people elected themselves. again. democracy works.
Republicans really lost the young male voters as a demographic. Voting the economy, their wallets and lack of jobs. Republicans as a party let in to many foreigners on various programs over the last few years despite ICE efforts so jobs have been a net zero for young American men. So will things get better or worse for them over the next two years?
Most people voted their wallets.
” But look at the DOW!”
Famous STUPID poltical statement Halll of Fame.
Other contenders anyone??
How about “I love Inflation”?
Trump has nothing to offer remaining Republicans and no power over them as his endorsements are the kiss of death. Pariah is a better term for Trump than lame duck.
There is no reason to protect the man that destroyed the Rapeublican party.
Do not be surprised if an impeachment leads to a conviction in the Senate. I do not believe that the Democrats should engage in bipartisan politics. Put the nails in this pricks political coffin and sent it to the crematorium.
If they hold on in Alaska and Mississippi, that would give 56 seats. Assume Fetterman does his braindead Fetterman act and defects, they would have to have 12 Republican votes to convict Trump. Currently it is pointless. They can calmly investigate Trump and hi criminal associates in committees. That will be sufficient.
What’s that about everyone leaving blue states and blue cities?
Top GDP States & Governing Party
1. California – Blue
2. Texas – Blue
3. New York – Blue
4. Florida – Red, on verge of Blue
5. Illinois – Blue
6. Pennsylvania – Blue
7. Ohio – Blue
That’s most of America’s GDP right there and it’s run by Blue now. Lol.
We need to send the peace corps into the remaining red states to work on basic education and raise these people out of abject stupidity.
The remaining red states are shithole countries, right here in Merica.
I’m enjoying a trip down memory lane on this sad day….
I like this blog best when all Politicians are trashed!
https://mishtalk.com/economics/in-how-many-ways-are-president-biden-and-trump-alike/
So how much did you lose on polymarket?
Stupid SHOULD hurt.
One moron’s sad day is my high IQ’s happy day.
In the last two years, how many times have we heard that the strong stock market (i.e., Dow is over 50K) is a sign of support for T’s agenda and actions? It must make them mad seeing their agenda soundly repudiated and then have the Dow go up 3%.
The political football of the AI bubbles bursting has just been handed to the Democrats.
Recall the implosion of the real estate bubble between Obamas election and his inauguration?
History does not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme!
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DJT stock performance today:
Down 20%. Earnings due on November 9th. Last earnings were ($4.89) per share. Will they publish earnings (LOSS) on cheap paper that is spray painted gold?
DJT – Headed for the pennies, pink sheets and eventually delisting.
Why did Trump voters defect? JD himself wrote:
” … Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday …. … He asked … voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel ….”
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/jd-vance-makes-his-disdain-for-trumps-iran-war-crystal-clear-in-stunning-screed-about-gops-implosion-trump-vance-2024-voters-are-pissed/
Looks like Thiel is paying him well enough not to need the aipac sheckles.
Vance who?
Will anyone in Congress be focused on those four issues post-election?
No.
Thank you Captain Obvious Vance!
So why didn’t you do any of these things, O Wise One?
Looking ahead, if the current projected 258/177 elected house ratio holds (beyond a tsunami, that’s a dinosaur ending asteroid event) there will be an 18/12 ratio on house committees (with the exception of the rules and ethics’ committees): some serious Mr. Clean sanitizing is coming …
Is today’s market rally a blow off high?
Reality sucks for the Democrats with what Trump has done to the economy and the AI bubble has to burst at some point…
The ultimate short squeeze …
If Trump voters had just taken Trump’s mRNA vaccine, they wouldn’t died like flies of COVID-19 and they would have won last night.
Picture Clarence Thomas’s and Samuel Alito’s answering machines on fire. It’s a dilemma though, because they might be deciding Trump’s legal fate, and they are known quantities, doing absolutely anything he wants. Naming new young justices with their own future would be a crapshoot.
Anyone old enough to remember Bob Dole pointing out “Democrat wars” (referring to WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam) during the 1976 election?
Unfortunately yes. I was more attuned than most kids of my age.
Long before that, when it was suggested to him he should run for office they asked what party he was, and he answered he was a Democrat, and they told him he could not win in Kansas as a Democrat, and he said well, then I guess I’m a Republican.
At that age, I didn’t listen to anything the Republicans said, lol.
I know you are all sick of me saying this, but since we can now move on to watching the next set of delusions brought to you by the other side, I will say it one last time.
Trump is an ignorant deluded moron. There’s no need to analyze his every move, he’s just a narcissistic fool that a bunch of dopes found appealing for a while. Finally enough woke up and here we are. Same as it ever was
I’ve said the same- Trump is the scorpion in the parable of the scorpion and the frog. The idiot is not the scorpion for asking to ride the frog’s back across the river. The idiot is the frog, who ignores the scorpions nature and gives him a lift. Maga needed to be stung badly to learn. Something in the conservative mentality is deficient in judging character.
“Lawyer up”….I guess if I was called names for years, I’d feel the same.
At least Congress can focus on trashing Trump, than making up sh%t to trash us.
We are all TDS now. Or at least TES (Trump Exhaustion Syndrome.)
Even 90% of the posters on the Trump sycophantic site FreeRepublic have turned on him. Any politician/pundit that is popular on that site will inevitably turn out to be a turkey. Bush, McCain, Graham, Bolton, Ben Shapiro, Pence and now Trump. Even Reagan has been found to have feet of clay. The list goes on. A perfect contrarian indicator.
I got banned from the site when I criticized Bush Jr.’s war on Iraq.
Currently, they like Rubio and DeSantis.
They must respect competent criminality.
No one likes a LOSER
Everybody in the world screwed up but Trump. The last thing this whinging, blaming narcissy will ever do is just shut up for one minute.
Aaron Rodgers after the 2020 election, on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast:
“You take it like a man. You don’t go, ‘We won that game.’ That’s what Donald Trump does. ‘We won that game.’ You didn’t. You lost it. It happens. You lose sometimes. Be a f-king man and just own up like every other president has ever done ….”
Deep down I’m both glad and worried.
Glad that the people rejected, decisively, over the last 5 years:
— High gas prices (a psychological limit of $4/gallon?)
— High grocery prices
— Covid bullshit
— Financing or participating in foreign wars
— Gaslighting on all of the above
…and worried that the Democrats did not get the actual message, that this was not an approval vote, but a rejection/protest vote. Just like Trump, they too think that they were elected for their looks.
we will see if any lessons have been learned. I doubt it.
If it results in gridlock, I could live with that. What I fear is that Trump will cut deals with the democrats on amnesty, gun laws, restoring AID, tax increases etc.
New generations come in… back in the 60s through the 80s, a common theme in Europe was Scandinavian teenagers with backpacks travelling mostly by hitch-hiking all the way to Greece and Italy, with no concerns in mind. That’s a level of safety young Europeans are not aware of. They think today’s situation is “the norm”. Similarly, modern Americans think that more than half of your income in taxes (if we add property/local taxes), is “the norm”. That’s what makes things worse: we never ask the old people to tell us, we lose key reference points.
There are very few American taxpayers, virtually zero %, who pay 1/2 of their income in federal, state and local taxes. It’s just another myth perpetrated by billionaires who want to keep their effective tax rate at around 20%.
It’s not too far off… not hard to get to 40% on your income alone in a high tax state. Add sales and property tax and you can easily get to half, and not even be doing that well. Inflation pushes us into higher tax brackets.
Not a myth… here in Cook county, it’s the norm for people to pay over 6-7 thousand in property taxes for very moderate homes. Add the income taxes (Federal, State), the sales tax on every transaction, and that’s well over 50% of the average income for our area.
Old people often confabulate, so they aren’t a reliable source of info. I know this because I was elected arbiter of reality back in the 80s. It’s a lifetime position.
At the end of the day, the US will suffer the fate of every wealthy house on earth: it will be looted. Europe is being looted for about a decade, now they’re broke, and we all see the results.
Do you realise that you have been voting uniparty?
That uniparty is for sale.
I have only voted once in the US, just for the experience (it’s always raining that day, can’t leave the office, long lines, no parking, or I’m exhausted). I had to vote all the time in Greece (mandatory). And since I was in insurance, I participated in the local elections (non-mandatory) for social connections. Greece is a country where you hear and see all political scandals right in front of you, before any journalist writes anything. Three of the national politicians were drinking in bars of my area, two blocks from my home. Bars in Crete are far more classy than bars in America (and cheaper too), and since it’s culturally mandatory to go out every single night, you can guess that some of us become very savvy in the local politics.
It’s the opposite in the USA, everything is so far away, so Americans have decided that their Real Politics Lighthouse is PRICES. Gas prices, grocery prices, house prices. All current political courses by both parties are set to increase these prices. Republicans for insisting on the Iran war, Democrats on insisting on very high energy prices for green deals etc. There’s no hope for long term affordability (other than occasional relief from time to time).
Trump’s been trumped…
Excellente on your ten reasons, Mish! I totally agree. I am a moderate conservative, but I will never vote for somebody who I consider mentally ill along with obviously being extremely corrupt. And as expected, Trump being the “narcissist” that he truly is, has stated more than once that the political loss of both the House and the Senate is not in anyway his fault; it’s everybody else’s fault. This is sometimes referred to as gaslighting, but it’s one of the true signs of a highly narcissistic individual. Paranoia is another one, and he’s got plenty of that. And yes, I do have a background in the “Behavioral Sciences.” Way to go on your predictions, Mish! GOOD JOB!!!
The only chance of this being a genuinely transformative election, would be if the Democratic Party elects new leadership. Schumer and Jeffries are bought and paid for by big money special interests, particularly AIPAC. They see their role as service to oligarchs; suffocating any progressive tendencies in the crib.
One thing that is new is the spotlight this strong, on these issues. So let’s see how it goes.
I too would like to see old leadership go.
Time for the boomer generation to give way to my Gen-X generation as the leadership with the Millennials on deck.
Half the GENX i know are acting like boomers, and it’s cringe to see.
The election doesn’t have to be transformative. Suffice to boot out the enablers of genocide, pedophilia and grift at the highest levels.
Not going to happen. Especially Jeffries.
Just watched a few videos of Speaker Mike Johnson telling his supporters of the coming Republican landslide in the mid-term elections. You know who he reminds me of? Captain Wally Binghamton in McHale’s Navy. In other words, a flaming idiot!
Baghdad Bob comes to my mind.
Willy Loman
So happy the Epstein class lost last night. AIPAC and the wealthy zionist donors can lose – well done Michigan!
AIPAC team blue did quite well last night. Those dems not on the team will not get any power. Have you noticed that even though the election was largely a referendum on the Iran war, the circumstances leading up to that war are NOT on the table for investigation by the democrats. Do you have any clue WHY?
Regarding Minnesota, races can’t be called until Hennepin County results are posted. Hennepin holds all results until they are ready to dump all at once. From the news this morning, Hennepin’s results were later than normal (which is why Republicans had hope for longer than normal).
Unfortunately current Majority Whip Tom Emmer won reelection by 11 points. He might not have if Dems had put any effort or cash into his defeat.
Ramsey was last in, right after Hennepin.
I was a little worried when Flanagan was behind in the beginning, but then I saw that Klobuchar also looked to be behind – and I knew Klobuchar would win handily – so I figured Flanagan had it wrapped up. I’m a little surprised Klobuchar only won the governorship by 13 points. Never liked her as a senator – best buds with McCain and Graham.
The main message to Trump: Tell me you’re a narcissist without telling me you’re a narcissist.
The EGO has landed.
I predict that Trump will throw MAGA under the bus and do a reach around to the democrats. People forget that Trump called Pat Buchanan a bigot before stealing Buchanan’s views (except for Israel, of course). Trump has no core convictions except Trump.
Now let’s see if he does absolute stupid, and orders the attack on Iran(tonight).
He’s got nothing to lose by doing so. Enough AIPAC democrats got elected last night that there will be no consequences other than strongly worded speeches.
The really sad part is that either way this election went we’d be screwed. The euphoria of a blue landslide will soon wear off.
Why should republicans have all the fun of screwing over their voters? Fairness demands that democrats be given achance.
Today is not the day America rolls over the autocracy.
Your “Trump’s 10 Reasons” is hilarious.
Trump psychology continues its intrigue. He did not, as so many assumed, contest the election or say it was stolen. He claimed that if he were on the ballot, he would have won, and that the problem was poor Republican candidates. Of course, he is fully responsible for the poor candidates as well as the anti-Trump sentiment that created the Blue Tsunami.
Now we sit back and wait to see how this result will translate into policy. There will be Congressional hearings, dragging Trump administration officials in front of the cameras to account for what they have done. Unfortunately, I don’t see any major changes in the war on Iran coming.
Lots of questions now. I think Hegseth will be gone before we change the calendar to 2027, but who will take his place? Will the Epstein files be released? How many Republican politicians will now openly challenge Trump? Will the MIC be successful in starting more wars? What will become of AIPAC?
It will be an interesting two years.
There is talk of Admiral Bradley Cooper replacing Hegsdeath. God help us.
I loved him in The Hangover !
I think our hangovers aren’t over yet.
I read that Trump may also blame Cooper for the Iran war.
Enough AIPAC democrats got elected/reelected yesterday that its power remains although it will be more discrete. Look at who actually gets named to chair the important committees.
The supposed cutting off of aid to Israel that Trump mentioned the other day means no one will have to go on record as voting for it because they already gave Israel a direct pipeline into the Pentagon.
Did they get elected because of AIPAC or despite it? I think being visibly connected to aipac is now a net negative. That’s why aipac is going stealthy. They can’t be stealthy enough, though.
I think the American public signaled that Trump and Bibi overplayed their hands. These recent times were over the top even by their standards.
Their distorted egos drove the process form the top, but as with WW2, it is too simple to just scapegoat a couple of people and ignore the vast cheering section. .
How many people do the research to find a politician’s financing from AIPAC? Many of these politicians have been funded by AIPAC for years or even decades with cumulative amounts over several million dollars. Even anti-Israel politicians tread lightly around the subject. Now that it has become somewhat safer to do so, the pro-Israel funding will become more hidden.
This election cycle, AIPAC laundered contributions through third parties in sensitive races.
“How many Republican politicians will now openly challenge Trump?” will be key.
In 2028, there will be 19 Republican senators whose terms will be expiring, and of course all of the approximate 180 Republican members in the House will have terms expiring. It will be interesting to see if there are any early signs that these individuals are deciding that their futures would be better if they were not closely aligned with Trump. Let’s assume the Senate ends up as 55 Democrats + independents. So 12 Republicans would have to cross over for a veto override. 12 out of 19 is a very high percentage. In the House, lets go with 255 Democrats + independents. So there would need to be 35 Republican crossovers out of 180 Republican members for an override. This actually seems a more achievable prospect. (In both chambers, Republicans could also choose to be absent or vote “present” to reduce the number needed to reach a 2/3 majority, but this would require even greater numbers.) Most likely scenario to me is gridlock.
All GOP candidates henceforth: “I always hated Trump. I’ve always worked against him. Hell, I’ve never even heard of him. Trump who?”
I would love to see them turn on that pig, en masse, and throw him under the bus before he throws them.
The loss was sufficiently comprehensive and in so many elections on so many levels, that claiming “Canadian election meddling” or whatever would have been absurd.
Accountability!
Great post Mish.
You forgot
11 – They over turned my big beautiful tariffs that would have made every American wealthy.
I had 15 point and tariffs was on the list. I cut it down to 10.
Oh come on, we would now all have plush factory jobs paying huge bucks, if not for the sniveling backstabbers Trump himself put in SCOTUS.