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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

All indications are that Republicans are headed for massive defeat in elections that Trump has deliberately made a referendum on himself: "MAGA, pretend that I am on the ballot." So what will he do when Americans show what they really think of him?

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Republicans were retreating Tuesday from a handful of battleground U.S. House races while Democrats were racing to raise money to boost candidates who seemed like long shots earlier this year. https://to.pbs.org/4e97VH6

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-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) 4:02 PM · Oct 14, 2026

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"He will, of course, claim that the election was rigged and try to overturn the results. Assuming that he fails, however, then what?"

I wouldn't automatically assume that overturning the results would fail; had the States followed DJT's original instructions for his DOJ to tell them that they could alter the Ballot results, he would have been re-elected in 2020.

Which is why his current DOJ is run by his Criminal Defense Attny, who won't hesitate to do what he's told.

That being said, he either has to stay Pres to try to protect himself from Congress, or leave the country to some place that won't extradite him.

Like Israel, for instance.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-14 03:32 PM | Reply

"Trump Will Punish Nation Economically..."

He's been doing that since the day he came into office.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-10-14 03:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Orange Adolf will flee to Saudi Arabia or Russia after his election fails.

#3 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-10-14 05:07 PM | Reply

Donald Trump punishes anyone who refuses him narcissistic supplies.

If his sick ego, his pathetic sense of self, is challenged or thwarted; he'll insist that as many Americans as possible are made to hurt.

Assuming Trump dies or is put in a cage, there really needs to be a nationwide discussion on perversion and mental illness and why it is so many Americans agreed to enable and support that destruction.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-14 05:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Congress Can Stand Up To The Executive Branch.

Thats what they were created to do.

It's part of the checks and balances.

Our current Congress is complicit.

Should democrats win congress, by big enough margins, they can prevent Trump from being able to continue destroying America.

Should that be what democrats want.

Jeffries and Schumer aren't going to do anything.

They both need to be removed. Along with Fetterman.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-14 05:13 PM | Reply

Loss of Congress will limit Trump's power, but by no means eliminate it.

Even after these two lawless years we're still acting like norms are in place?

They've acted in a multitude of illegal ways and have usurped significant portions of Congressional power.

Even IF, big fat giant IF, the elections are allowed to proceed uninhibited/unmodified AND the results are respected enough to seat an unfavorable Congress, it still won't mean s*&^. They've been thumbing their noses at the courts for two years. They'll happily do the same to Congress.

Especially a Congress run by impotent Dems.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-10-14 06:21 PM | Reply

Well then America is officially dead.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-14 06:26 PM | Reply

Did you think otherwise? Or just hoping otherwise?

Also, I don't think it's officially dead.

It's just going to likely take more than a single election.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-10-14 06:29 PM | Reply

- Assuming Trump dies or is put in a cage, there really needs to be a nationwide discussion on perversion and mental illness and why it is so many Americans agreed to enable and support that destruction.
#4 | Posted by Zed

THIS is an important point... during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi criminal leaders, the Nazis used the, "just following orders" excuse for their atrocities.

In 1961 the Milgram Experiment, a now famous psychology study, found out WHY a supposedly normal human being would commit atrocities on prisoners.

The experiment suggested that normal, everyday people can be induced to commit harmful or lethal acts simply by yielding to perceived authority.

SO when Trumpers, who also happen to be far rwing authoritarian white nationalists as were the Nazis, are ordered by Orange Adolph to Respect his Authoritah!... that's what they do.

DJT can murder their economy, their employment, their healthcare, their social security, their brown neighbors... other democracies... 100's of thousands of children by starvation...

.... and Trumpers just say, "Yes, Sir!, I love your, Sir!" and go ahead and increase the voltage on the patient just like the subjects did in the experiment.

Because, hey, they weren't really responsible, the Boss was. Which is really one reason they love Bosses so much, no responsibility for themselves or their actions.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-14 07:13 PM | Reply

Also, I don't think it's officially dead.

It's just going to likely take more than a single election.

Going to take a generation or two.

#10 | Posted by qcp at 2026-10-14 07:52 PM | Reply

Did you think otherwise? Or just hoping otherwise?

I'm waiting to see how November shakes out.

But honestly. I don't see America recovering for what Trumo has done.

In two years. He has totally ------ this county.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-14 07:57 PM | Reply

Going to take a generation or two.

#10 | Posted by qcp

I'm not even sure that that is the right metric. It's not about time; it's about enough change in the electorate to realize what a mistake this was.

And elections, let alone a single election, aren't going to be that catalyst.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2026-10-14 08:54 PM | Reply

But honestly. I don't see America recovering for what Trumo has done.
In two years. He has totally ------ this county.

#11 | Posted by ClownShac

Depends on your definition of recovering.

We'll certainly never go back to what was our "normal."

But an America that survives this bulls*&^ but bears the scars could recover in that it will begin to improve and move back towards what it was but will jettison the morons and bulls*&^ that scarred it.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2026-10-14 08:57 PM | Reply

"But honestly. I don't see America recovering for what Trumo has done."

I don't think most Trumpers will ever really connect the dots.

Fuel prices aside -- they aren't experiencing the ICE and national guard terrorizing their neighborhoods. They don't live in the cities and suburbs where multiple neighbors lost their jobs from DOGE cuts. They don't have professional connections to academia or e.g. biotech to see the harm being caused.

They don't really understand what is being destroyed. They don't know those things exist, or what they do, or why Congress thought it was Necessary and Proper to do it.

They don't even know it's against the Constitution for Trump to undo things Congress did.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-14 09:10 PM | Reply

"But honestly. I don't see Clownshack recovering for what Trumo has done."

FT

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-14 09:22 PM | Reply

America does not learn from its mistakes, nor does it heal from trauma.

America is in the midst of a regressive revolution that the regressives have been planning for decades. And do not for a minute fool yourself, Piggy is the natural and logical end point of the conservative philosophy-seeking a higher moral justification for selfishness leads inevitably to a corrupt, nihilist fascist authoritarian state.

These people do not believe in liberal democracy. The concept of 1 man (or woman) 1 vote is anathema to their central beliefs.

They believe, in their core, that the human race is to be ruled by an elite class. That belief is simply the latest version of royalty or the nazi superman or southern slave culture or aristocracy or even many religious organizations.

They certainly do not believe that brown people or women hold the same value as a white male. These Untermensch are only valuable as chattel and certainly not deserving to hold power

Liberal democracy-the concept of equality, of one man (or woman) one vote, of a government OF the people, by the people and for the people, with its striving for equality and justice of protection of minorities, of a social safety net has built a strong foundation over the past 250 years strengthened by winning the Civil war, defeating fascism, economic growth, the miracles of medicine and food production, of technology allowing more and more people to experience freedom.

That foundation has been under attack for decades, but always the foundation held strong.

But that is no longer true

the regressives are winning

The regressives have a plan

The regressives have seized power

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-14 09:39 PM | Reply

damn....I was about to turn this off and then the ultimate piss and moaner here shows up.

I trying really hard to be a good person here............

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-14 09:44 PM | Reply

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