"On Tuesday 3 November 2026, all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the US Senate will be contested to determine the 120th United States Congress. 39 state and territorial US gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous state and local elections, will also be contested."

1) Chronic and Acute Economic Frustrations
2) Cumulative Right-Wing Media Advantage
3) Movement Alignment

Movement alignment: "Recent cycles have shown that Democrats are more likely to win when campaigns are aligned with movement forces and energy. Exhibit A is Joe Biden administration's handling of Israel's war in Gaza. Both movement activists and many ordinary voters were horrified by the Biden White House's shockingly ineffective and callous approach to Gaza, combined with the equally shocking unwillingness of the party apparatus to even engage with reasonable critics.

That ultimately dampened the enthusiasm and support of some of the Democratic Party's most engaged and reliable supporters."

Further granularity from www.commondreams.org:

"A recent poll found that among the 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote in the 2024 election, nearly a third " -- about 29% -- "cited the US government's support for Israel's war on Gaza as the top reason for staying home.

This means roughly 5.7 million Democratic voters did not cast a ballot in 2024 because of the administration's stance on Gaza, which many described as a genocide.

This issue was the most frequently cited reason, even above concerns about the economy or immigration."

Between the winning 2020 and losing 2024 elections, Democrats lost 6,265,888 votes. The Democratic Party of 1968 lost felt the same sting because of their support of the brutal Saigon regime and the Vietnam War. Between 1964 and 1968 the Democratic Party lost about 12 million voters with the Vietnam War being a major factor in this decline.

A drunk misogynist racist who spilled state secrets over the phone and paid off a rape victim for her silence is in charge of the world's most powerful military and ordering defenseless smugglers on boats killed, abducted a couple from another country, is persecuting a decorated astronaut who is taking care of his invalid wife because she was shot in the head years ago by a Republican gun nut.

*** Trumpf Junta Shuffle ***

"As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice," Hegseth bleated.

~Kegsbreath never made it passed US Army Major and he commands Flag Officers. Those Generals and Admirals know he is an incompetent buffoon and a drunkard way above his head, like Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel as D/FBI.

~Kegsbreath should know that US military personnel don't receive "pensions," we receive "military retirement pay." This distinction was taught to us on Day One. We are not union workers or civil servants.

~If this malice from Hellbreath succeeds after the 30-day rebuttal process, this will be just another reparation the next Democratic administration will address. Senator Kelley's former rank would be restored and he would receive the lost retirement pay retroactively. Last century I witnessed an officer receive TWO back-to-back promotions in one day over an injustice that was finally remedied years afterwards.

Senator Kelley's words and actions are a mere trifle compared to what former officers and enlisted personnel did to protest the Vietnam War. Just ask former USN Seal/USSECSTATE John Kerry.

Having been to both apartheid and post-apartheid Suid-Afrika and pre- and post- Oslo Accords Israel several times, the Palestinians have it much rougher than the Xhosas and Zulus did. The Afrikaaners were not ethnic cleansers, but racial and tribal dividers, exploiting cheap Bantu labor and playing one tribe off of another. They were like a modern day Confederacy, with plantations, mines, and factories.

The Israelis under the nefarious Likud regime are ethnic cleansers, as we have seen over the decades.

Years ago there were mixed Israeli and Arab neighborhoods like in Haifa; I don't know know how many such neighborhoods exist today.

There are many Israelis who believe in co-existence with Palestinians, like many in the Labor Party, but they are the minority now.

Other Israelis are fighting injustice besides the human rights lawyers of B'Tselem, like the Israeli Communist Party (AKA the Makis).

And the Maduro government is intact and in power. I'm wondering what's really changed.
No American oil company is going to Venezuela any time soon. What a stupid god-damned idea.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-05 07:47 AM | Reply | Flag

Weeks before JFK's assassination, CIA orchestrated the overthrow of unpopular Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem on 2 Nov 1963.

The ARVN installed their CIA-backed generals and continued the same brutal policies.

With Venezuela, the USG removed Maduro but the government is still intact, as you said.

What was the Trumpf junta thinking with their plan, that things would fall neatly into place for them after arresting Maduro?

This overthrow scheme was concocted by Empty Suit Marco Rubio, so here we are.

At Mar-a-Lago last June, Dummkopf Trumpf watched US munitions explode on the Houthis in utter fascination, calling them "animals" and "savages."

The USIC knew that Nicolas Maduro's bodyguards included Cubans and when Trumpf must have been advised of that fact and the possible repercussions, he didn't care.

There are reportedly 200 Russian military advisors in Venezuela. None of them were reported killed or wounded.

This report comes amid continued Israeli threats of military escalation against Iran, repeated warnings of large-scale attacks in Lebanon, and growing incitement by Israeli Likudniks to resume ethnic cleansing in Gaza, alongside an ongoing escalation in the occupied West Bank.

The report noted that, even prior to the mass protests in Iran, Israel had spent weeks signaling its intention to initiate a new war with Iran and to carry out what it described as "large-scale attacks" on sites it claims belong to Lebanese Hezbollah in Lebanon, should Beirut fail to disarm the group by the end of 2025.

The ominous looking cover of The Economist magazine "Look Ahead to 2026" issue was correct.

Now we know why Israel recently shut off the power, water, as well as the communication and banking links, for UNRWA in the Gaza Strip

Sources:

Dummkopf Trumpf said Gustavo Petro's days running Colombia are numbered while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.
He said Venezuela is a "sick" country that was led by narco-terrorist dictator Nicolas Maduro until he was captured by the US. Trumpf then said Colombia, which borders Venezuela, could face the same treatment.

"Colombia is very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States," Trumpf bleated. "And he's not going to be doing it for very long, let me tell ya."

A female reporter then asked the geriatric bloodthirsty Dotard-in-Chief: "So there will be an operation by the US in Colombia?"

"Sounds good to me," Trumpf responded.

Colombia President Petro refers to Dummkopf Trumpf as "Donald Duck." The warmongering dotard had already revoked President Petro's visa to come to the US earlier this year. The Trumpf junta wants rightwing regimes friendly to US business interests running Latin America, but in their way are Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico.

Like the George Bush junta pushing Islamophobia and WMDs as the casus belli for invading Muslim countries in the failed "GWOT," the nefarious Trumpf junta is pushing the "War on Drugs" as their rationale for invading or interfering in Latin American countries.

Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republican Party doesn't care how many people get killed, how much American taxpayer dollars will be wasted, how many US servicemembers will get killed or wounded, or how much of the environment will be destroyed.

Simply put, the Trumpf junta is composed of selfish rapacious racist jingoistic imperialistic psychopaths.

EOM.

*** President Nicolas Maduro's Dance Moves Were Last Straw for Dotard Trumpf ***

"Mr Maduro's regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some of the Trumpf junta that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff. So the White House decided to follow through on its military threats."

While Dummkopf Trumpf is terrorizing the people of Latin America, Nigeria, Yemen, and Somalia, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu keep immiserating the Ukrainian and Palestinian people this winter.

And millions of Americans will now have trouble paying for their health insurance premiums without the ACA subsidies which were allowed to expire in Congress.

But we got Nicolas Maduro!

"Vladimir Netanyahu Trumpf, at your service."

Kill a billionaire near you.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 04:39 PM | Reply | Flag: 924 billionaires in the US to choose from

The UN's top counterterrorism and human rights expert condemned US strikes on Venezuela, calling them an "illegal aggression."

"I condemn the US' illegal aggression against Venezuela and the illegal abduction of its leader and his wife," Ben Saul stated.

"Every Venezuelan life lost is a violation of the right to life. President Dummkopf Trumpf should be impeached and investigated for the alleged killings," Ben Saul declared.

It's right pocket red Hankey, no? Yes?

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 04:42 PM | Reply | Flag: "You got it, Handsome!"

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-04 09:44 AM

And the massive Inchon landing during the Korean War (15-26 Sep 1950).

Dummkopf Trumpf was four years old at the time of this "Asian D-Day", but the history books covered it at his military prep school.

Puppy killing DHS Director Kristi Noem braying on Faux News:

""We have lost millions of lives due to the drug trafficking committed by these people. It's so interesting to watch people defend these criminals, these dictators.

"[Nicolas] Maduro was not a credible elected leader in Venezuela and to watch people go out and protest and make threats on his behalf is unspeakable.

"This is a time when our country really will find out who loves America, who wants the freedoms and liberties that our country represents, and how they're willing to stand up and defend it like President Dummkopf Trumpf is."

@1 Don't know if it's true, but the ease with which he was grabbed suggested to me a high ranking insider or insiders were involved.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-04 03:37 PM | "It was Barzini"

CIA/DIA/NSA tracked President Nicolas Maduro and established his "pattern of life," but they can't read his mind as to which of the eight locations he will sleep that night. So, somebody close to Nicolas Maduro fingered his location to CIA, possibly to collect the $50m bounty for his abduction.

Venezuelan counterintelligence would be monitoring communications, so something subtle would be necessary.

Along these lines are the possible methods of alerting his/her CIA handler with a pre-arranged code:

Electronic signal to a throwaway cellphone:

Text "One" for Palacio del Presidente
Text "Two" for Ministry of Justice
Text "Three" for Segundo AFB
Text "Four" for....

Physical Signals:

Wear a red scarf or tie for Palacio del Presidente
Wear a yellow scarf or tie for Ministry of Justice
Wear a blue scarf or tie for Segundo AFB
Wear a green scarf or tie for....

or

Carry "War and Peace" for Palacio del Presidente
Carry "Madame Bovary" for Ministry of Justice
Carry "The Sun Also Rises" for Segundo AFB
Carry "Murder on the Orient Express" for....

**** Phony AI Imagery of Happy Venezuelans Fools MAGA Dolts ***

The UN's top counterterrorism and human rights expert condemned US strikes on Venezuela, calling them an "illegal aggression."

"I condemn the US' illegal aggression against Venezuela and the illegal abduction of its leader and his wife," Ben Saul wrote.

"Every Venezuelan life lost is a violation of the right to life. President Dummkopf Trumpf should be impeached and investigated for the alleged killings," Ben Saul declared.

This is an example of "GOGI": Garbage Out and Garbage In to the heads of Republican voters and thus the cycle of stupidity and ignorance continues, corroding our national discourse.

Six South American countries are scheduled to participate in the FIFA World Cup 2026: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, and Paraguay.

Nine African countries have already qualified to participate: Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cape Verde, and South Africa.

Denmark, which is trying to defend Greenland from Dummkopf Trumpf, has a team competing.

Foreigners will be coming to a warmongering fascist country that deploys masked ICE goons to watch FIFA games at exorbitant prices?

And some of these national leaders have been insulted or disinvited to the US by Dummkopf Trumpf?

How and why this mega-galactic farce, which benefits the Trumpf junta and corporate insiders, hasn't been boycotted, scrubbed, or rubbished yet from top to bottom is bewildering.