Says President Nero while attempting to grab a nearby fiddle with his tiny, tiny bruised hands.

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      If enough Democrats win, they can push legislation through without him being able to block it.

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        Ohh for sure, maybe even impeach, but the headline implies something else entirely though…wonder if he would flee to russia lol

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          It’s entirely possible he could flee given the investigations he’s about to face. He knows what happens to pedophile in prison. And while his legal team, even though inept, will keep him from ever seeing the inside of a prison. That fear would be enough to make him flee.

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        the odds of democrats sweeping the upcoming senate elections, including every single one of the twenty-two republican-held seats, is as close to zero as you can get without actually being zero.

        then on top of that, you have ‘unreliable’ ““democrats”” holding office which you can’t count on to vote with their party of record.

        so the net chance of the upcoming senate session being able to override a veto is zero. not gonna happen. hell, the democrats would be extremely lucky to hit 60 seats.

        over on the house side, democrats might get a 5-10 seat advantage, they’ll never get the veto-proof majority there either. way too much rigging of the vote and maps by republicants for that.

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        Nope, not this cycle. They’d have to win every single Senate race, which would put them at 67. Or as my math works, 66 + Fetterman.

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        Are enough Republican seats (that are likely to flip) even up for election to do that this midterm? I seem to remember that being a problem in 2018, that there was backlash but not enough Republicans up for election to make much headway.

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          Technically yes, but highly unlikely. Every single seat has to go D, no exceptions, and the resulting 67 seats would still include the bald imbecile from Pennsylvania.

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      I think it’s because he’s going to try and burn everything down then he and his “donors” will buy everything up. Then Democrats will be blamed and 2028 comes around and the GOP gains power again. Rinse repeat.

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        Yah but I thought that was a four year cycle, are we accelerating to the two year cycle now lol. Damn republicans are dumb.

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          Musk is ready to burn $200+ million every two years to make sure he stays the wealthiest person in the world. I can picture the headlines now… " Republicans promised you $5000 checks, once the dumocrates took over they took it away. If we had a Republican Congress, everything would have been different, pinky promise. This 2028 election year correct the midterm mistake and elect true Republicans." This ad was brought to you by spacexai ad agency.

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            Oh yah for sure and trump just boasted hes already spent $400m to prop up other republicans. They are very nervous or perhaps this has always been the republican spending norm and we are just hearing about it more because we have a bunch of megalomaniacs with megaphones