I Congratulate President Trump for Major Victories Tonight
Tonight was a major success for Trump. Let’s count the ways.
Trump’s Four Midterm Successes
- Goal to get rid of Texas Senator Cornyn (primaried out): Success
- Goal to get rid of Iowa Senator Joni Ernst (dropped out over feuds with Trump): Success
- Goal to get rid of North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis (dropped out over feuds with Trump): Success
- Gola to get rid of Maine Senator Sue Collins (frequent feuds): Success
I cheer MAGA and Trump for these four major successes, similar to the loss of four previous Senate seats (two in Georgia, one in Arizona, and one in Pennsylvania).
I encourage more MAGA successes to remove Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator John Thune.
Primary them all. Go for it. Primary every Republican who has ever bucked the Lord Almighty Trump on anything.
I hope Scott Pressler and Mike Johnson lead the way. Go for it. Lead the way to blame Thune, not the Trump.
We must purge society of all non believers.
Trump Does the Impossible
Trump actually managed to turn Texas blue. No ordinary human being could accomplish that!
This is clear evidence Trump has supernatural 8 dimensional powers.
Since Trump is always right, turning Texas Blue must be right. There is no other logical conclusion.
Trump works in mysterious ways.
Congratulations are in order even if we do not fully understand the Mystery of Faith at the moment.
Praise be to Trump.
On the Serious Side
I am not cheering progressive wins.
Being anti-Trump is not the same as supporting socialism. While I cheer the ouster of anyone and everyone related to MAGA, I do not cheer socialist replacements.
Long term readers know I bash the party in power the hardest.
Hopefully, Republicans and Democrats learn something from this election. I have my doubts, but Democrats get a shot, not now, but possibly two years from now.
If Democrats turn full progressive lunatic, they will immediately get my ire. Meanwhile, we have two more years of Trump executive orders to deal with.
Election Calls
I am proud of how I called this election. I called Kansas and Texas for Democrats before most others.
Apologies for the miss on Iowa, but I did not see that Iowa poll by AtlasIntel before posting my final Senate call.
I have utmost respect for AtlasIntel. I posted my final results on the Senate, then that set of polls dropped.
Two Races Still Uncalled
There are two US Senate races remaining; Alaska and Mississippi.
They’ll decide whether Democrats have 54, 55, or 56 seats in the Senate.
I suspect these races may split. If so, not in the way I would have thought at the beginning of the night.
Anyway, here we are.
This campaign was a referendum on Trump just as I stated before any votes were counted.
For my live commentary, please see The Big Referendum on Trump’s Presidency Is Now Underway
We need credit those responsible for this compelling debacle. That’s precisely one person, President Trump.
Trump wanted the election to be a referendum on him.
Mission accomplished!
Addendum
I changed the title of this post. Here a Nice Tweet to reflect on.
Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan.
Republican Party wiped out in Texas. The Zionist Mafia of Abbott, Paxton and dan Patrick wiped out. This carnage occurred throughout the Country. But Dems should be careful- Warmongers Biden, Harris, Hillary and others also served the Israeli lobby and their wars (not to mention the Gaza genocide) almost as faithfully as the Trump crowd. The Dems will blow it all if they continue their previous policies and allegiances. A Third party, or a newly constructed GOP lead by purged GOP leaders like Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, MTG, Candace and others can bring the GOP back if the Establishment Democrats betray the wishes of the Newly elected Democrat Party. No more wars, purge their own Epstein Democrats, end out of control immigration, ending extreme cancel culture, censorship and continuing to serve the interests of their own billionaire oligarchs over the people– If they go back to their old ways, they will give up their gains and lose in 2028. Of course if the GOP nominates Rubio or Vance or some other hack, then the Dems will get a free ride in 2028.
“…and others can bring the GOP back if the Establishment Democrats betray the wishes of the Newly elected Democrat Party.”
The newly elected Democrat Party is socialist. At this moment the mayor of L.A. is still undecided. KTLA web page currently has DSA Raman “edging ahead” of Bass.
The current Republican party is socialist also. Socialism for the rich. I was a Republican activist for 30 years in the Buchanan/Ron Paul mode. gave up on them 2 years into Trump’s first term. The establishment GOP supports crony capitalism. if you buy their rhetoric and propaganda and believe otherwise-you are a fool. Same for the democrats. Now the democrats have their chance to prove they are much better. I am not optimistic We’ll see.
BREAKING NEWS
Trump switches BACK to Democratic party!
Tweets, I’m not hanging around with a bunch of LOSERS the next two years!
MAGA!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Democrats should build a giant golden statute of Trump and place it front of the DNC headquarters- As I stated last week, Trump is the great destroyer of the republican Party. Trump now go home back to his roots- as a Democrat. That will obviously not be accepted by the Dems- but the truth is that Trump shrewdly orchestrated this GOP carnage. If the republicans do not learn from their mistakes and quickly purge the Party of Trump, Laura Loomer, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levine and others– it will only get worse for the GOP in 2028. I can’t wait to hear the analysis of this defeat from Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie.
Mark Levin is probably stroking out at this moment.
Lindsay Graham is looking up from below anxious to be united with his soul brother.
Hard to claim this was rigged, with a repudiation across this vast gameboard. I await Trump’s endless laughable excuses and blame-shifts.
It might be another stupid move, who knows, but it is an interesting one, that I welcome. It speaks for the limberness of our society.
Trump said Abbott lost in Texas because he was a RINO>
It’s the end of Trump “owning the libs”.
Can’t recall which Trumptard friends crowed about Trump “owning the libs” or accused me of TDS. Looks like they self-owned.
Now is the time for the Republican Party to burn to the ground and for a new party (or two) to rise from the ashes
Led by which amoral monster?
or to represent which amoral monsters?
One of the centrist outgoing Republicans. They need a better and broader negotiable coalition. Thune, Massie are both names, certainly the types who could run a sustainable competitive party. Reality is somewhere in the middle – it is NOT always genuflection more to a party’s extreme on new issues and decisions.
They haven’t been living in the real world. IMHO. And working in the real world means having some aspects, policies that can serve the Majority of the People. The Populace you serve.
It’s their own fault for thinking all solutions should be laid at The Lie’n King’s feet. In doing so they acquiesced their Elected Fiduciary Duty to Their Constituents. Could have been workable perhaps longer if they weren’t worshipping what is really an idiot nut job.
Plato knew this centuries ago
Congratulations, Mish. It looks like Happy Days Are Here Again!
Democrats campaigned on more government spending and more taxes. While there is still significant impedance to getting that accomplished on the federal level with the filibuster and veto, not so in many states. This will lead to even more fiscal imprudence and be potentially good for tangible assets. A head wind however will be bond vigilantes wanting compensation for potential loss of purchasing power on their capital invested in debt resulting in markets pushing up rates. The fed will likely follow. While I have believed for some time that a recession was coming, this election may accelerate its arrival.
Potentially the state that will see the most change is Texas. It has been very encouraging of data centers and business in general to include the wealthy. That will likely change significantly and Musk companies SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, I believe in hindsight, may have concentrated to heavily in Texas.
Just fodder for some thought.
Trump wanted to increase “defense” spending by 50% to $1.5 trillion.
Texans hate data centers.
Democrats drive down fiscal deficits, Republicans increase them.
Will Trump try to replace Alito and Thomas before January 3rd?
They have their jobs for life.
They would have to resign effective immediately. Not in their temperament. They pulled a Ginsberg by staying on too long. They could go vegan and try to live until 2037.
K1-12 public education, clean water, public health, old age insurance, old age medical care are all socialistic, promoting society over naked capitalism. Some other democracies for the benefit of society, their citizens, have health care for all, eliminating 3rd party insurance capitalist’s 20% profits and the gouging by big pharma capitalists. Without FDR’s socialism, building Grand Coulee Dam, and its electricity generation, B-29 aluminum production in the scale required, would have been nearly impossible. Without LBJ contributions, American society would be split further apart today. Without wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran driven in a large part by capitalists’ special interests in the war industry, oil industry, and in the 1917 arbitrary made-up Balfour state, the US would likely be deficit-less, have a positive cash flow, and have its current wartime powder very dry.
People are hurting, because politicians cater more to the capitalists’ election money (and probably Swiss bank account money) than the needs of the ordinary citizens. During recessions, a little socialism is exactly the remedy to prevent societal dissolution.
“Capitalism is fundamentally about creating monopolies rather than competing.” (Peter Thiel)
K-12 is now Marxist indoctrination, not education. Socialists aren’t interested in a little socialism. Klaus Schwab said to imagine it is 2030 and you own nothing. He had a bust of Lenin in his office. The wishful thinking on empires, is just that, wishful thinking. Empires rule. Empires clash.
As Coolidge said, the business of America is business. The DSA mayor of Seattle recently responded, “bye,” to businesses leaving Seattle. Apparently, some 24,000 jobs have been lost. Those people will be hurting. With an anti business climate, California has had the highest unemployment rate in the country. Hollywood is mostly a Democrat community, but the Democrat producers find it cheaper to produce TV and movies elsewhere these days.
Let’s get this straight now, everyone: THIS WAS PLANNED by “The Congressonal Leadership” AND TRUMPCO. This is as planned as the Brain-Dead Biden Presidency was – – with his handlers making decisions while we witnessed a CLEARLY DEMENTED BIDEN overseas – – Losing Focus – – and yet they even presented a BRAINED FOGGED CACKLING FOOL (Kamala) to their constituencies.
There is NO WAY this was not planned. This is what they WANT. THEY WANT US TO BELIEVE that they MEAN what they say when of course they do NOT.
NO ONE CAN BELIEVE that TRUMP lied his way through these two years and then have US believe that he is on an ISLAND OUT OF CONTROL and that NO ONE would do anything clearly to stop his BS (WAR IS ON/OFF with the resulting Trades flowing with the SEC saying that they cannot trace those bulk Futures shorts and longs).
Come on, now, folks. This is TOO extreme to NOT be planned.
Wrong. On all points.
Now you know the dislocation many felt in November 2016, and it shows in your clarity of expression here. It took many of those folks months to emerge form that fog.
I can just see your face going red and pulsing as you go ALL CAPS with absolute weird abstract statements. Meditation time (too lefty?) or maybe ask the nurse to adjust those meds.
A tip: you would have been somewhat braced for it, reading here, with any critical doubt operating in your mind.
Because scales can be tipped with smaller weights when they’re more closely balanced, TPTB prefer “gridlock” so they can pay smaller bribes.
Imagine A Bridge Too Far. You have the young battlefield Generals AOC, Talarico, Sayed, Sands, etc. with the Chiefs of Staff, 5 Stars Shumer, Sanders, and Jeffries. To defeat the SS Gestapo bastards and win the entire country, they hatch a plan to send a Sherman tank column up the Alcan Highway to join up with the Airborne troops they’re going to drop into the NorthWest territory to take the final state: Alaska. Only, because they’re extremely smart liberal progressives, it all works. They brag, only braindead idiots thought it was A State Too Far. On the fly, some crafty PFCs came up with taking Mississippi in a late night raid.
Lunatic rant. Trump/MAGA was too extreme. Killing citizens to deport a few illegal, going to war with a country that had never attacked us, implementing idiotic tariffs, weaponizing the entire government, massive graft and corruption, I can go on.
The country is about 1/3rd Republicans, 1/3 Democrats and 1/3 independents. In order to stay in power you have to build a moderate coalition with the independents. MAGA/Trump refused to do that. A choice that must end in massive defeat.
Even Tom Cotton in Arkansas only got 54% of the vote. Aside from that, did Zionism win anywhere?
The reliance on individual bundling and independent expenditure arms has become the central focus again. In October 2026, AIPAC announced it would cease endorsing candidates and making direct PAC contributions, opting to pivot its strategy away from direct PAC engagement back toward mobilizing individual donors and steering funding exclusively through independent expenditure vehicles like the UDP
The United Democracy Project (UDP) is a super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Purpose: Founded in late 2021 by AIPAC, the UDP is an independent expenditure-only super PAC that raises and spends unlimited funds to support or oppose political candidates in U.S. elections—particularly focusing on congressional primaries.
Connection to AIPAC: While AIPAC historically operated without a super PAC, it created the UDP to help elect pro-Israel candidates from both the Democratic and Republican parties and to defeat critics of the U.S.–Israel alliance.
In fact, I was the first to call Texas turning blue in these comment boxes.
Congrats. I disbelieved it the whole way.
“If Democrats turn full progressive lunatic, they will immediately get my ire.”
I believe that ship has sailed…
My Texas friends are happy (as am I), but, this wasn’t just a Texas thing at all. It was a nationwide repudiation of Trump and Trumpism.
My hope is that these new Democrats move the party toward a party of solutions to modern day problems, and that decent Republicans move with them, and find compromise and real solutions (Deficit and Debt anyone?) and leave maga in the waistbin of history.
These ‘new’ democrats that you mention are unrecognizable as democrats by any historical measure. The founding fathers are now very worried about what is to become of their grand design.
As for Trump, he lost the election for his ticket when he told the Iranian patriots, “Help is on the way!” and then didn’t follow through. 50,000+ Iranian patriots were arrested and executed for wanting to get out from under the thumb of the regime and Trump just talked. Trump dodged Vietnam and it shows what he is made of. Had he followed through and removed the regime, he would be getting the Nobel Peace Prize for restoring Iran to its people. Time for age limits on the presidency- must be younger than 65 when you take office. Trump is now a very lame duck.
another expert on Iran.
“50,000+ Iranians arrested and executed…”
Whatever you read and watch, stop reading and watching it. That’s 100% bullshit. January was another CIA-attempted color revolution (after Bessent targeted their currency for collapse in December). The “protesters” were armed by the US and led by Mossad plants. Both of those facts were publicly proclaimed by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo – who always says the quiet part out loud. Around 300 police officers were shot dead by those “protesters” (US and Israel-sponsored agitators).
As for “removing the regime”, did you miss the tens of millions who came out in >100F heat for the funerals held for the Supreme Leader and his granddaughter who we murdered? Everything you think is wrong.
The approximate number of people killed by the regime in last year’s uprising was 3,500. Iran is a country of 93 million people. Those protests were miniscule and not supported by the general population.
Taco will never admit that he was a major reason for the blue wave.
Trump before the election : “Vote like I’m on the ballot!”
Trump after the election : “I didn’t really lose! I wasn’t on the ballot!”
The Grand Orange Inquisitor was “inquisited”.
And in California, we saw that Prop 40 failed to pass, but Prop 3 did pass.
Translation: The super-rich threw the merely rich under the bus. Delicious!
AND…He has given us the Universe to do with what we choose:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-declares-outer-space-open-for-all-humans-to-explore-6117696?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
Ah, the Epoch Times… No one worth listening to quotes that rag.
America could move a long way toward socialism and still be no where near socialist. Removing the parasites from healthcare (insurance companies, collections, billing, ect) would make healthcare more efficient. Taxing the top 1% at a progressive rate would not hurt anyone not even the 1% be taxed. Losing corporate welfare and limiting or eliminating lobbyist influence so the actual people are represented does not seem that bad does it really?
Exactly. Things have gotten so hideous that merely having a few common-sense rules of the road, is considered to be sOcIaLiSm! Truly absurd.
That will have to change and hopefully the voters have made that clear not just to the Republicans but also to the corporate donorCRAT Party.
At this point, Americans think socialism = spending money on anything that isn’t bombing other nations
We’ve got the most inefficient, parasite-rich healthcare system of anywhere else in the world.
I want a party that’s focused on just cleaning out parasites and getting the system clean in a common sense way and don’t care how they do it.
Mish: Perhaps you’ve missed the Big Picture. The political middle has collapsed similarly to the politics of pre WWII Germany. You detest MAGA which is understandable and you equally despise the socialists, but that’s what you’ve gotten.
You think I missed that?
You are not a reader of my blog are you.
Been discussing this for years
What is the name of a Democrat who openly suggests government should take over ownership of the means of production?
The word “socialism” is just another word for boogeyman to lower thinkers.
If Trump starts bombing Iran or Cuba or Russia……….the blue and red party and people of our empire will rally around our commander in chief. I like reality and the track record of amerikans for the past 6 generations since at least 1898
“I had no choice,” (Trump) said of the decision to support Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued candidate in Texas he endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.
“When it wasn’t fashionable, he kissed my ass.”
While the Iranians are celebrating with smug satisfaction the Democrats’ historic midterm blue tsunami in the US midterm elections, Russia’s leadership is reacting very differently.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Wednesday bluntly stated that that leaders in the US Democratic Party have a “sharply negative” approach to relations with Moscow.
The closer at the patched-up Reflecting Pool showed the unerring taste for self-satire
I would be interested to hear your opinion on how aggressively Democrats should use the investigative powers of Congress to go after Trump, Mish. Do you think it’s important to hold him to account? This looks like an issue where there remains some level of disagreement in the electorate. Does aggressively investigating and prosecuting this administration’s criminal acts count as “turning full progressive lunatic?”
biden set the stage. trump will just grant himself and his crime family lifetime immunity.
Presidential power to pardon doesn’t affect the authority of congressional investigative oversight.
Investigative oversight with no consequences is… inconsequential.
Agreed at least with open investigation & hearings like the Jan 6 hearing the people can see what the creepy crawlies look like
Disagree. People should know what’s been done in their name. Without that how can we have a democracy?
You don’t have a democracy when a president can forgive crimes. That’s monarchy, oligarchy, whatever, but not a democracy.
Somewhere co-conspirators can be uncovered and prosecuted, after Trump has departed but before the statutes of limitation have expired. This will bring at least some of the desired deterrent effect to corrupt players.
Its always worth taking a look (both sides need to police the other when they take power to at least keep the worst corruption under control).
The danger is spending too much time and money on witch hunts that don’t really benefit the general public but instead just make a bunch of lawyers rich at public expense.
In the case of Trump himself it’s probably essentially pointless and they know it since he can’t run again and will pull a Biden (both pardoning everyone and going the dementia route). But some of the others in power are definitely worth investigating.
But states got innovative with criminal cases after Trump 1.0. The weight-challenged lady hasn’t sung yet.
Remember 2006? Team D promised impeachment proceedings in 100 days if they won the House.
They won, swept into office on a wave of revulsion over The War On Iraq. Once in office, Team D dropped impeachment like a hot turd and proceeded to fund the same war.
That was 20 years ago. You might as well bring up Nixon. Millions of the people who voted yesterday were too young to even vote then, and many had not even been born yet. We all know politicians serve many masters, but times change. The democrats impeached trump multiple times more recently- why do we need to look at 2006?
Many of the same crew from 2008 are still in Congress.
OK, 2018, then. Team D regained congress on bread and butter issues,
then, once elected went back to crackpot conspiracy theories.
No. The old guy will be gone in two years. So will his corrupt minions.
Just ignore them, and get on with the important work of tending to Americans.
Your election coverage delivered to me more than twice the value of any single other outlet in this cycle. AFAIK you don’t proclaim yourself a sharp election pundit as one of your core skill sets. But you’d be well justified in so doing – heck, I’d call that a highly monetizable skill. Kudos to your early and unwavering public thoughts on the midterms.
Immigration is simple. the border has been wide open for 400 years. With a few years of very bad men, like Ike and Trump that push workers back over the border. The green light is now on at the border. Like it normally has been. North, South and at the airports and harbors. There are very few secure borders on the planet for the past 10,000 years since mankind settled down when they domesticated plants and animals. The ignorance about this issue is outstanding and makes me LOL. Passports are example A in the bootlickers manual
There were no passports before the 1st War Among the Colonial Powers. It’s a relic of the “Gilded Age”.
Trump said you can’t have a country without strong borders, and the United States of America has never had a strong land border. Never.
The difference is that for 99.9% of the last 10000 years the ability to move to another area depended entirely on your ability to walk (or maybe ride if you could afford an animal) there. If you even knew how to get there or whether that new area was worth walking to.
In the last 100 years (0.1%) the ability to get somewhere else has been measured in hours, you no longer walked there and you knew whether or not it was worth going.
Yes, now planet-wide, traffickers will monitor border conditions and be entrepreneurial to bring people to weak points, in the blink of an eye. There can be all kinds of woe along that way. We need firm and well-policed borders.
Poland has secure borders. The USA could learn something from them.
MAGA clown Joe Kernen on CNBC is confused about how dems won with GDP 3.4%, stock market up and unemployment low.
I’ll explain Joe. America doesn’t like Trump’s ICE Gestapo, tariffs, Iran war, graft and general stupidity. Does that help?
Elections have consequences MAGA. The people want woke, DEI, open borders, free trade, and trans surgeries for everyone! lol!
Agreed
Inflation. Voters don’t like inflation.
I suspect they don’t care all that much about any of those things you mentioned.
But they DO care about the cost of everything skyrocketing since that directly affects them. It’s always about the economy (price of gas/food etc, inflation).
And yet many people here were quote just that when Trump won. Now the tune changes. I believe YOU were one of the most vocal against woke, DEI and immigrants.
Hey Elon, that half a billion you dumped into the midterms was money well spent, right?
Well, the billionaire class did block Prop 40 in Calif, didn’t they?
It is so simple for people to vote against the side that has outspent the other side 10-1 yet they keep falling for the glossy bullshit in their junk mail and on their TVs again and again.
The top 1% pay a huge part of CA taxes already.
Gavin Newsom made the case that, without a national tax, billionaires would just migrate out of CA, as Musk did. That absolutely would devastate CA finances. If a Dem majority persists into a Dem presidency, that might happen.
I think this logic suggests maybe the “money buying votes” claim is suspect.
Trump should also be congratulated for saving Social Security – for all those here that love and want it so much.
By causing the Big Blue Wave, Trump brought in 1/3 of the current Senate (this year’s elected) as strongly Democrat. Those Senators will be there for six years when the Social Security Trust Fund is depleted. They will work to save that program.
So indirectly, Trump saved Social Security as well?
very easy to fix. a few taps on the old keyboard in the NYFED and presto, new electronic currency. i’m old enough to remember when a millionaire meant you were thurston howell the 3rd and gilligan was your caddy and mary anne was your maid.
Don’t you know that freshly minted dollars are exclusive for the plutocracy? Nice try, now go to the Gulag!
Thanks for the laughs! One of your funniest posts ever!
Lukashenko also said that Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize “even just for keeping Europeans from triggering a nuclear conflict.”
Democrats warned the Trump admin to brace for investigations. Robert Garcia, in line to lead the House Oversight Committee, issued a two-word statement: “Lawyer up.”
Kalahi odds strongly favor Democrats in the Alaska and Mississippi Senate races… Is this just post coital Bliss or do they know something?
Candidate Party Votes Percent Pct. Chart showing percent
Mary Peltola Democrat 102,701 +48.18% 48.18%
Dan S. Sullivan* incumbent Republican 102,075 +47.88% 47.88
Gerald L. Heikes Republican 4,821 +2.26% 2.26
Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. Other 3,583 +1.68% 1.68
– I am proud of how I called this election. > You damn well should be! Nicely done, great foresight and Your sentence I liked best was this one: “If Democrats turn full progressive lunatic, they will immediately get my ire. You stand true to your word.
> I am shocked at Texas and Michigan specifically. I never thought Texas would go back in my lifetime, and the candidate to win Michigan is going to be very bad imo, for Michigan, if he gets his way. That will create more ire…
Thankfully Trump is now out of Politics for future offices, so we won’t have to deal with this fiasco again!!!
TRUMP can be speaker of house in future R houses. or get FL and other states to secede in 2029
Good. Florida and most other red states are societal cancer. Let them fester in their shitholes without the transfer payments.
You are nuts ,why would anyone want another Mitch mc conell
People wanted a Mitch McConnell recently enough. The half-life of American political memory is less than 2 years.
You shouldn’t be shocked; you should have listened to the people who told you what was happening. Instead you were dumb as a rock and incapable of learning. You were delusional enough to completely ignore the copious poll data that anyone could see. You’re dumb about the new senator from Michigan now and you will continue to not learn anything and be surprised as the world ignores your uninformed mental model.
You mean that copious data doesn’t mean data for coping?
Now that the drunken honeymoon orgy is over, it’s time to face reality. Dems, despite owning Congress and owning the repubs aren’t going to fix much of anything. I don’t think it’s a question of “if democrats turn full lunatic” it’s a question of when.
As I stated earlier, America voted for change last night but we’ll still likely get more money and warmongering for Israel above everything else. I await Oscar winning performances on feigning outrage, pretending to do something about anything and getting nothing done.
Lastly to MAGA: “Look at me, look at me, Libs are the captain now!”
Lol.
Without 60 Democratic Senators in the Senate to override a filibuster, the Democrats can’t change anything. The filibuster is what keeps America from making change, keeps the US a vassal of Israel, and ensures that no one in Congress can be held accountable.
The filibuster is a procedural rule that the Senate could end at any time.
No. What prevents change is the unwillingness to compromise.
The poor MAGA cult — and all those who gave Orangeman-Bad a chance despite their misgivings — also thought they were voting for change. Hope springs eternal and dies last. I see wishful thinking on all sides. Yep. The Fourth Turning is not done turning. Popcorn anyone?
Putting up with the Democrats in power is worth booting the orange nosed boot lickers.
Yup. Expect a repeat of 2006, except instead of the real estate bubble imploding, it will be AI.
Any 6 year old or adolescent can say “that’s stupid” as a response to everything.
(Ha ha ha) “Wipe Out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4IfxAQ4TqQ&list=RDm4IfxAQ4TqQ&start_radio=1
The Surfaris {DES Stereo} 1963
“I had no choice,” (Trump) said of the decision to support Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued candidate in Texas he endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.
“When it wasn’t fashionable, he kissed my ass.”
Favorite “no shit” revelation from:
“Trump reacts to Republican losses and declines to take blame”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/04/politics/trump-republican-reacts-midterm-losses
Before all the bashing on both sides, lets celebrate that there was a free election and inspite of Trump’s efforts to suggest otherwise. Voters went to the polls. A lot of them. A big day for American democracy. And maybe each side will tone it down realizing that the public is a little tired of the culture wars, bombing wars and simply want lower prices and affordable healthcare. But it will last but a a day.
I’m quite relieved about this. Civil war was one of the possible outcomes, and, despite my cowardice, I would have felt compelled to fight.
Fair point. And let’s look at the flip side – in 2024, we were duly and repeatedly assured that “democracy is on the ballot”, that if Harris were not elected, there would be no elections, or they would be a mere rubber stamp.
That clearly was not the case.
I think all the ass kissers that kept his ego afloat deserve honorable mention.
Did Trump talk to buddies Vlad and the anti-Christ about asylum? There is an opening in Ed Snowden’s building.
Imagine Trump living in a cold-water Moscow flat and lurking around a Cuban consulate like Lee Harvey Oswald.
Some blood diamond kingdom or North Korea might keep him around for laughs.
Expect him to continue ruling by decree and pushing emergencies everywhere.
This isn’t over but only beginning. He may be impeached yet.
And for anything that does make it through congress, the veto sharpie
Doubtful because he can release all of the Epstein files or selectively release against some of the worst Democrat affiliated politicians. Pardon himself on the way out or have his replacement do it.
Vance would not pardon Trump. Ford’s pardoning of Nixon cost him the 76 election.
But the MAGAts would defect, and who would serve as the designated chumps?
Let the impeachment and investigations begin after epstein files fully released. One can be hopeful.
“Yes, Charlie.” Lucy said.
Investigations for sure.
Impeachments, maybe, depends on who and how many given Trump says he’ll issue pardons.
Epstein files no chance.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh, wait….what do we think the change will be?
Anything But Orange
You buck the trend and call out things for what they are Mish. Hats off to you.
As for Trump, he is a self centred person. He will only look forward to being liked. He has no elections to win going forward. So he will play nice with the new congress and the senate. Pass the dreamers path to citizenship bill and other agendas democrats will demand as long as they keep him and his family free from prosecution.
As for the war mongers of the world, we have to wait and watch how many senators from Democrats will do a Joe Lieberman and switch sides.
I like your thinking.
It looks like enough of a margin in the Senate that we can absorb one or two fettermans… Speaking of whom- he can’t be looking forward to 2028!
Yeah the first order of business should be bringing back the Massie bills — impeaching Hesgeth and releasing the rest of the Epstein files — prior to Speaker Johnson calling for a recess, to see where all of them really stand.
The new Congress isn’t seated until 2027, at which point hegseth should definitely be on the menu. It would be nice to let the lame ducks weigh in, but it makes sense to wait for the new Congress.
Hopefully the Republicans won’t try to ram through the US-Israel Defense Technology Cooperative Initiative during the lame duck session. I’m sure Mike Johnson would if he could, I doubt Thune would. I would think those GOP House members who barely survived reelection would be reluctant vote for it.
“The party that started a genocide just won over the party that continued it.” -indi
Don’t congratulate him just yet. The only way he can maintain power come January 3 is to start and maintain a full scale war sometime between now and that date. Don’t think he’ll do it? I dare you to say he won’t. Let’s face it. It’s going to be his first “go to” now that he’s been utterly humiliated. He is a bully, after all.
Trump can attempt to do anything but Congress controls the purse strings now. Without money, Trump can’t do a damn thing. Ironically, that’s his main love and main Achilles heal.
Congress has given up on control since ever.
Congress might find its backbone as in the days after Nixon.
They’ll happily hand out money for war in return for Trump signing off on a bunch of things the Dems want.
After all, none of those people actually pay for it, it’s the tax payers problem.
Bibi is probably telling him “works for me!”
Depending on how aggressively Democrats will launch their socialist/communist agendas, the next Red Wave may be just a few years away. The times have become truly CRAZY! The pendulum moves quicker and with more force, no normalcy allowed!
LOL! By next election, the Democrats will have 2/3rds of seats in both house and senate. They will do whatever they want, just like the original socialist party, the Nazis.
The Nazis certainly were not the original ones, nor socialist. The original socialist parties wanted to create a worker’s paradise and then unify all countries into that. They abhorred nationalism as a tool for capitalists to keep the people from starting a class war.
Hitler’s twist was to combine socialist economical policies with a radical nationalist agenda (hence his party’s name, the National Socialist German Workers Party). “Nazi” is the shortened version by using the two first syllables only. Their main competitors in Weimar Republic were the Communists – essentially socialists but communists believed a revolution was needed to achieve the worker’s state. Socialists believe this can be achieved through democratic means.
Interestingly, Trump stole quite a few socialist ideas from the democrats, and combined them with a loud nationalistic approach to win in 2016. Quite like the original Nazi party did.
Hitler did not institute socialist policies in Germany. He forced private companies to work in the interests of the NAZI party however. He told companies they had to produce military equipment for example as well as hire more employees. On the upside, he also negotiated prices to keep them very profitable. By 1936, The German economy was completely free of the Great Depression and the their was full employment. The NAZIs put “socialism” in their name just to be cool. They were really state capitalist. More like modern China than Sweden.
State capitalism, that is, fascism.
The only thing this means is gridlock for the next two years and nothing will get done … congratulations … so what’s new?
I would be satisfied to see the Epstein files released, and Trump prosecuted for being a pedophile. Beyond that, gridlock is fine with me.
Didn’t they have almost a decade to not release them already? Which leaders were campaigning on that besides Massie?
LOL – No one is releasing the files. Dems could have released them anytime under Biden when they also held both houses during the first 2 years of his term but they didn’t.
We all know the reason why, lots of connected people in both parties are in there and even if they didn’t actually do anything, they don’t want the embarrassment.
It will be fun to watch Dems squirming out of releasing the full files, thus proclaiming where their bread is buttered.
The less is “done”, as far as Washington calls “doing”, the better.
I suspect the next 2 years will be all about regulating data centers. That’s the hot button topic that so many ran successfully on.
People don’t want increased costs for electricity and water.
Our institutions have held up. Now Trump, ironically, is a check and balance on Dem excess.
As for him: ride the personality-cult and fake-sales-pitches roller coaster up, ride it down.
It was a cute fever dream he was selling, real and durable as his meme coins. Time to tastelessly redecorate a nice golf club porch, and post old fool rants to a dwindling crowd.
Now comes the real challenges of redirecting this mess.
The filibuster is the biggest check in the system. Republicans should be happy they did not abolish it. And yes, democrats should keep it in place.
No sense for them to get rid of the filibuster until they get a democrat in the White House. Then, look out.
Snap!
The free world is celebrating.
Getting a Brazilian done got a new meaning.