#21 Are you really trying to say that what I posted in my #7 didn't happen?

Is that really what you're saying?

Are you really trying to deny this reality?

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats"the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

->Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

Well, are you really trying to deny that reality?

#28 Fair enough.

Then please allow me to post the money shot from the article:

Picture a Republican House incumbent in a Biden-won suburban district trying to run on "We made life cheaper" while their constituents are staring at concealed inflation numbers, higher costs from trade shocks, and the footage of Trump's Marie Antoinette cosplay in the East Wing.

Every ad writes itself: split-screen of the new White House ballroom, dripping with gold and rich people, paired with a kitchen table where the bills are stacked higher than the food. The voiceover does not need to be clever. It just has to ask, "Are you invited to their party?"

Republicans will try the usual: blame immigrants, blame Democrats, blame "wokeness," blame the deep state. None of it answers the basic pain of a middle-class voter who knows damn well that their real wages are not keeping up with Trump's trade disaster and inflation.

When your entire brand is "I alone can fix it" and things feel more broken, it becomes very easy for voters to decide that you, in fact, cannot.

The GOP is already on demographic thin ice. Trump's affordability fiasco is the kind of slow-burning anger that melts what remains of their suburban support among moderates and independents, many of whom held their nose in 2024 solely because Trump promised to reduce grocery and gas prices. It accelerates the erosion with younger voters who have now lived through two Trump eras and a housing market that looks like a hostage situation.

They signed up for the myth of the businessman president. They got the guy who bankrupted casinos and decided the solution for a hurting country was to blow up the economy for a jacked-up economic theory from the 17th century, build a ballroom, and hide the books.

None of the culture war crap, the performative yelping about the Deep State, the liberal media, or whatever else tickles MAGA Twitter's happy place will work when America is locked in a deep recession caused by their Golden God.

In 2026, Republicans will discover the oldest rule in politics and business: eventually, the mark realizes he has been conned. And when that happens, it is not just the con man who pays the price. It is everyone foolish enough to stand next to him when the lights come up, and the check arrives.

Trump is too old to pay that bill ... and doesn't pay his bills in any case.

But the MAGA GOP sure as hell will.

That sound they hear in the distance is a mob, hungry and furious, approaching their palace.

I hope that's fair enough, Lamp.

#82 In the 1950 Democratic primary for US Senate, challenger George A. Smathers successfully exploited Cold War fears and racial tensions, linking the incumbent US Senator, Claude Pepper, to radicalism and the NAACP, a tactic that resonated in the South.

Smathers even accused incumbent Pepper's sister of being a thespian (in the Panhandle of Florida, natch). A true "accusation."

Pepper's loss was a major upset, ending his long Senate career and demonstrating the potency of McCarthy-era tactics in Southern politics.

#108 Not at all to be confused with Major DEI Boazo

In that case, it is Major Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Boazo.

That's what Major DEI Boazo's white, so-called conservative "friends" call him (behind his back, natch):

Major DEI Boazo

#107 Comical, absolutely.

Unexpected (from a DEI* president)?

Not. At. All.

*DEI president = Delusional Entitled Idiot president

#82 I hope you don't mind, Sentinel... your excellent retort deserves a definite re-post.

It should be required reading:

"It's laughable to consider Joe Biden's presidency off limits for examination."

Sure, but starting with the premise that "Biden had dementia and others were actually calling the shots without his knowledge" and then using some dubious allegations to come to a circular logic conclusion isn't really an examination, is it?

Lack of Official Count: There is no official public record of the exact number of times any president has used an autopen, making precise comparisons difficult. The claims about Biden's frequency come from partisan analyses.

Even if the frequency did increase greatly, it doesn't "prove" anything about a President's mental capacity or whether or not he was aware of or authorized its use. There are questions that can be raised in good faith about this, but frankly this comes across like when Republicans were all constantly mimicking the partisan talking points about how concerning it was how many "czars" Obama had appointed, and how that supposedly "proved" he was foreign Communist or something, when it was actually a nothingburger.

#82 | Posted by Sentinel at 2025-12-05 04:29 PM

Emphasis added

Thank you.

#18 | Posted by Rob Schneider

#38 #39 How does a president "abolish" an Article III establishment?

snip ...

how awesome. Preznit F*ckwit has defiled yet another of our public institutions. try not to projectile vomit as you look on in horror.

congratulations, us. we're so ------ lucky.

snip ....

'congratulations, world.'

that's an actual quote from some White House chucklef*ck " and she wasn't being sarcastic. oh no, not at all. we're apparently all supposed to genuflect in gratitude over Dear Leader's latest exercise in fragile megalomania.

on Wednesday, out of the clear blue, workers showed up at the US Institute of Peace building in Washington DC, and slapped Donny Convict's name on it.

#28 Whenever a post ends with Posted by bell boi it is nothing but disrespectable.

Disrespectable to the intended poster.

Disrespectable to the rest of the audience.

Why, even disrespectable to yourself, bell boi.

Any respect for you went out the door on February 7, 2021.

And you've said nothing since then to change that.

#23 What do fentanyl deaths in the USA have to do with a boat that would need more than 20 refuels to go from Argentina to the USA?

Do tell us, onepigironsmoothbrainaut.

#14 TDS = Trump Devoted Sycophant

'Tis almost like no one bothered reading the article.

The knee-jerk reaction was over the title, A Blue Wave Revolution is Coming ...

... without once bothering to read the article where Rick Wilson lays all this at the feet of the Trump & Republicans:

When your entire brand is "I alone can fix it" and things feel more broken, it becomes very easy for voters to decide that you, in fact, cannot.

The GOP is already on demographic thin ice. Trump's affordability fiasco is the kind of slow-burning anger that melts what remains of their suburban support among moderates and independents, many of whom held their nose in 2024 solely because Trump promised to reduce grocery and gas prices. It accelerates the erosion with younger voters who have now lived through two Trump eras and a housing market that looks like a hostage situation.

They signed up for the myth of the businessman president. They got the guy who bankrupted casinos and decided the solution for a hurting country was to blow up the economy for a jacked-up economic theory from the 17th century, build a ballroom, and hide the books.

None of the culture war crap, the performative yelping about the Deep State, the liberal media, or whatever else tickles MAGA Twitter's happy place will work when America is locked in a deep recession caused by their Golden God.

In 2026, Republicans will discover the oldest rule in politics and business: eventually, the mark realizes he has been conned. And when that happens, it is not just the con man who pays the price. It is everyone foolish enough to stand next to him when the lights come up, and the check arrives.

Trump is too old to pay that bill ... and doesn't pay his bills in any case.

But the MAGA GOP sure as hell will. That sound they hear in the distance is a mob, hungry and furious, approaching their palace.

The article I posted here is NOT about the Democrats.

It is not about pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

It is not about if Democrats are (or are not) up to the job.

That is not what Rick Wilson was saying in the article I posted.

#16 Did they ever find D.B. Cooper?

#3 The is no such thing, bell boi.

#14 See also: Canary in the coal mine

#7 says, "You would rather have criminals running around."

That's rich coming from someone who supports the Trump, who just pardoned a cocaine importer, saving him from 45 years in the slammer.

Rich, indeed!

#14 Major wars are won by many, many, many such "very very very small victories."

And major wars are lost by one side constantly dismissing all the "very very very small victories" from the other side that seem to be racking up.

More importantly, what are those "very very very small victories" saying about tomorrow?

Especially given all the "very very very small victories" I highlighted in my #7, #9, and #13.

#11 Come on, Eb. You know exactly what that adds up to.

You said, and I quote, "...there has been a buildup of confidence in a "blue wave" in the past and it never materialized."

I provide you with multiple examples of very recent Democratic Party blue wave victories, and you claim you don't know what that adds up to?

Really?

Or how about 2022, when there was a Democrat in the White House (but not on the ticket). Was that a red wave, as would be expected in an off-year election?

Or perhaps 2020? How'd that election turn out for the Democrats?

Or 2019, 2018, 2017?

bell boi keeps using the phrase "self-inflicted." I keep repeating back to him that what he's doing is actually self-fulfilling for a pre-determined outcome.

Is that what you're doing, Eb?

#6 Or this happened just this week:

Tennessee special election results: What we know about Matt Van Epps's win
Republican Van Epps manages to defeat his Democratic challenger by a narrow margin.

#6 Not sure why your server would be blocking Substack?

#6 Yeah!

It is almost as if this never happened - just a month ago:

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats"the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

->Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

snip ...

Don Snorleone is in big trouble.

Behold, even Hardcore MAGA voters like Patriotic Blonde' on Twitter are now abandoning Don Snorleone forever.

They're finally realizing the man they worshipped is, in fact, a moron.

It only took Donald crashing the economy again, which he did in record time. Make America go bankrupt again. MAGBA!