Mitch McConnell’s rigor just mortised while reading this.
Think you can just walk away as a Dem candidate now? Nah. Get your ass in there.
I mean, gas was up. That’s all it takes to make conservatives stay home. Conservatives supported absolutely everything else.
Not true. My mother-in-law refuses to talk about politics with me, but from what I can gather she didn’t vote for Paxton, because he’s ugly.
🤣 Ok. You win this round! 😆
Enormous simplification. Gas prices were a major factor, even moreso because they are posted EVERYWHERE. The Dow is the prime indicator of the economy for the wealthy, but gas prices are that for the workers, and it doesn’t help that they were reminded of it on every corner as they were going to vote.
But it wasnt just gas prices. He harshly betrayed several groups that were important past sources of support: Epstein Files, America First, Young People, LATINOS, etc
Much of his Texas support in 2024 was from Latinos, and he thanked them with a brutal crackdown that destroyed families. His policies were directly responsible for turning Texas blue, something statisticians had been warning about for years. Trump finally made it happen.
Georgia flipped blue, along with many other seats, because of MAGA’s ugly, racist attack on hard fought and won Civil Rights protections. They took deliberate steps to send Black Americans back to the Jim Crow era, and would absolutely put them back into full slavery, if they could figure out how. They seemed to think that eliminating black voting districts meant that it eliminated black votes, but all they did was bury those black votes in previous bright red districts, diluting them, and making them vulnerable. Who would have thought that Black Americans valued their freedom so much? It’s almost like they are actual humans. /s
You can’t fuck over the very groups that put you over the finish line, and expect to win again. Gas prices is why they lost by a normal amount. All the other stuff turned it into a historical shellacking.
All of these horrible things from maga were not new though, yet so many still voted for them last time, and will again probably. Many flip flop, blame Dems for high prices they didn’t cause, at least this time blamed maga for causing high prices, but that’s coincidence. A lot of people flippantly flip flop, and will blame Dems next time since all the media says they’re in charge, but don’t know they can’t do whatever they want with all the maga obstruction of investigations and such. It also takes longer to build than destroy and most don’t have patience and demand instant gratification, so they’ll flop around.
I hope I’m wrong and they really see the light now and understand it all well, won’t lay false blame on Dems again and that maga is still the same, still toxic and bad policies so no flopping back.
Bankruptcies (many of) 👍
Felonies 👍
Racism 👍
Rape 👍
Corruption 👍
Overthrowing countries 👍
Insurrection 👍
Treason 👍
Stealing top secret documents 👍
Paedophilia 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Bombing schoolgirls 👍
Now that’s my type of PresiDunce…
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Hold up. The price of fuel is up?! NOW THAT’S JUST EVIL. JUST PLAIN EVIL. OH WOE IS ME!!There is so much horrible shit going on that people don’t have the bandwidth absorb all of it. Also, until it directly affects them, they don’t give a fuck. Besides the fact that many southern republicans are propagandized into racism, Christian white nationalism, and various forms of fascism and isolationism.
“The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it… and that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.”
How the hell did that absolute masterpiece get made in this timeline? By the mouse no less?!?!
Goddamnit. Now I need to make this into a T-shirt. Fine comment.
That’s fine, but be warned that I only accept royalties in the form of mushrooms or ostrich eggs!
Running a successful campaign requires immense physical and mental energy.
Apparently it sometimes doesn’t. Lol.
Sometimes it just requires being a sane human being while your opponent flounders.
Iowans were so pissed off with Republicans on Tuesday that they elected Eric Armstrong to the state House. The catch: Armstrong, a retired railroad executive, pulled out of the race in September due to health issues.
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Speaking with The New York Times via phone Wednesday, Armstrong said he would “do my best to represent” Iowa’s 20th district.
Lol. Lmao even
Democratic necromancy.
A strangely relevant saying, now that the Republican party has allied with Russia.
Or that Mitch guy…
Whats a Warlok take when hes sick?
spoiler
Vitamancy
This…this is just fucking hilarious. I’m sure the gop will try and fight this somehow like the shit stains they are.
That is hilarious.
It’s ridiculous. Bro stepped down two months ago, clearly didn’t spend a dime campaigning after and he still fuxking won. lol!!
He didn’t “win” the vote, he was the only choice for voters to rebuke loudly the Trump administration
We take those
“It’s an enormous change of pace from how Iowa’s 20th House of Representatives district was feeling even two years ago, when it swung in favor of Donald Trump by a margin of 20 percentage points.”
Impressive loss by Republicans.
These idiots have the attention span of a gnat.
yes, that’s probably correct, but you could interpret it as them learning
Was he still on the ballot or was this write in?
Don’t know about this specific case. But IIRC it is quite normal to have a deadline last chance to withdraw, related to when the ballots are printed. So he likely informally withdrew, but not officially as far as the rules are concerned.
I don’t see it in the article, but he stepped away pretty late, so I imagine he was still on the ballot.
He dropped out for medical reasons. But now that he’s won, he’s taking the job!
This is the way
Awesome.
