It's nice that Republicans come right out and say it: Republicans really don't think the candidate with the most votes for President ought to be the winner. Somehow, that's unfair.

Day Two: Fragged by his own men, since he resembled "the enemy".
#19 | Posted by Danforth

Yeah. Back when he would share his little "murder all the libs" fantasies with us, I always thought back to the ending of The Night Of The Living Dead.

The price of groceries didn't help either.

Hired to come with ways to kill as many immigrants as possible before Jan 20.
That will cement Stephen Miller's place in the Republican Pantheon of Patriots.

"Jefferies is already pushing the "we need to look forward" tone."

Of course he is.

Stopping your house from getting robbed any more is a forward-looking move.

"Whether you think it was the right decision or not, the Iran War is largely what shifted voter sentiment and caused this wave, right?"

For me it was more about ICE.
I'm used to people like Boaz killing the ---------- over there.
But we don't need that on our streets.
Plus, people who look a lot like Boaz already do that to each other on our streets, and Boaz praises the Second Amendment every time it happens.
But enough about Boaz!

ICE has a whole aspect about it that people don't really talk about. Not the crying about the poor illegals dying in camps because ICE refuses to give them meds. Trump doesn't care about deporting illegal immigrants. It's not why he's doing sending them to camps. If he cared about deporting them, he'd be deporting them, not sending them to camps. The primary purpose of the camps has nothing to do with illegal immigrants.

The actual reason detainees are being sent to the camps?
It puts hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of Republican "Law and Order" fascist cronies.

Corruption up and down, including the Iran War, is why normal people think Trump and the Republicans are the worst bunch of crooks that have ever governed this nation in our lifetimes, and possibly ever.

"That's why we don't win wars anymore"

Trump didn't win.
W. difht win
Bush didn't win.

You have voted to lose wars your whole life.
You are why we don't win wars any more.

Corky, what do you think, should Jeffries and Schumer step aside?

They both have the special interest money stink all over them.

Nobody wants the Old Guard democrats. Personally, I thought Nancy Pelosi was great -- but that era of politics has ended, and there's no going back to "Business As Usual" if Democrats want to win in 2028.

The wealth tax is not an elegant solution. The better thing is to close the wealthy-people-only loopholes.
I'm kinda glad California didn't pass this. It makes Gavin Newsom's Presidential Rum seem less kooky by association.
Newsom's Presidential run is desperate to ride the blue wave today, with his commutation of those death row inmates.

The big winner here is the inevitable Reality TV shows when hardcore Mormons and Muslims move to Hollywood.

"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one"

This has been the picture of human history longer than we've had money.

Conservatives, at their core, are okay with it being this way.

Glad the Trumper lost. Huge win for California and for the United States. Not that it was ever close.
This particular Republican did maybe five points worse than the average Republican.
Thank Trump for that.

Screw Jeffries and Schumer. We need new leadership.

You want to run retail stores, gas stations, electric supply like it's a fire station, right?
#83 | Posted by lfthndthrds

More like the Army PX.

Good to know. It's funny to compare today's Civic to my dad's 80s Civic with four on the floor.

"Mamdani's rent freeze,"

That's not a good example. That's only realistically possible in a place like NYC, where they have true rent controlled units.
In other words, Mamdani doesn't need legislation to do that. He just needs an advisory board to agree.
DSA would need an Act of Congress for a nationwide rent freeze, which wouldn't even get all Democrat votes, and would never survive Trump's veto even if it did.

Give me another one.

Why do you ignore 50% of Hitler's chosen title?
#176 | Posted by madbomber

LOL
Why do you ignore The "Democratic" and "People's Republic" parts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Or maybe you don't. That would be more like you to say North Korea is in fact a democratic people's republic.

"conservatives lost because over 1.5 million people didn't show up"

Republicans have done nothing but push the Trump Agenda.
If the Trump Agenda was going well, Trump voters would have turned out in droves.

" If the perception that allowing them to maintain or expand control will further allow the DSA to gain a better fold hold, the populace will swing the other way."

You seem to be warning us that the magic spell "DSA agenda" will have the same effect on future voters as "Trans Men In Girl's Lockers Rooms" had in 2024. (And notably didn't have in 2026.)

Is that what you're arguing (minus the part in parentheses) or is there more?

Well, Well, Well, If It Isn't The Consequences Of My Own Actions

If the Dems can deliver some affordability back into the average Joe's wallet, 2028 will stay strong D. If the next two years allows the DSA to run rampant, 2028 will be up for grabs again.
#51 | Posted by kwrx25

I see where you're going, but "affordability" and "DSA agenda" have a lot more overlap than you want them to.

For example, cancelling student debt puts a trillion dollars in the hands of the people who are bound to spend it at a pretty high multiplier effect.

And Medicare For All would reduce the nation's health bills by approximately as much as the health insurance companies earn in profits.

Abolishing ICE won't save much money per se, but making the United States a country safe for immigrants will have profound positive economic consequences. Though probably not enough as making the United States a country unsafe for immigrants has already had profound negative economic consequences. Same too with global trade and tariffs.

A sovereign wealth fund is also an idea that if implemented well would benefit every American, much like the Alaska Permanent Dividend fund puts money in every Alaskan's pocket every year.

Let me know if any of this math isn't mathing for you!

"The Dems will think this means every single policy plank of theirs is green lit, not the obvious core ones of economy and security."

I dunno. Talarico already said he's there to make life more affordable for his constituents, not to push the Woke Agenda.

But I think I agree with what you're saying. If Democrats don't focus and dare I say succeed on making like more affordable for Americans as their top priority, they will likely squander this opportunity.

Then again -- Democrats don't have enough votes to override a veto. So Trump could simply block most any legislation they actually try.

The choice of Speaker is going to be a big one for Democrats. I don't see Jeffries as being all that capable of drawing in Republicans. Of selling the whatever Democrats push in national sound bites. Schumer also needs to go.

Democrats have to show it's not just two more years of business as usual. Republicans of course would love to constrain Democrats to two more years of business as usual, for the reasons you mention.

me and kwrx will be here in 2028 to tell you why the election didn't go as you expected.
#40 | Posted by jpw

Why don't you just tell us now?

Will it be because we said "---- your feelings" to the people who told us "---- your feelings?"

vaxx
#14 | Posted by THEBULL

Trump spent ten billion dollars on that vaccine.

"They haven't been this cheerful since they watched a peaceful debater get murdered on a college campus."

I put on a gold sequined pantsuit when that happened!
Wait, that wasn't me. That was Charlie Kirk's wife.