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2026 Mid-Term Elections

 
 
 
bilby said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Trump might get Congress to pass legislation forbidding the use of Arabic numerals and make America use Roman Numbers instead!
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Roman numbers? Did JFKs capitulation to the Pope teach us nothing?
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That's not gonna work either. Turns out this new Chicago Pope is pretty damned (relatively) liberal too, touring South America and paying homage to that "radical leftist" Pope Francis on his home turf. I even heard that even Sean Hannity has stated that he's no longer Catholic because the Vatican is just too damned liberal.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/...e_code=1.P1E.WHpe.7HN133rtKyJB&smid=url-share

The last Black man to represent Mississippi in the Senate was born into slavery and left office in 1881.

Nearly a century and a half later, Scott Colom, a Democrat, defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican of Mississippi, according to The Associated Press, delivering a remarkable upset on Wednesday and becoming the first Black person to be elected to the Senate in his state since the Reconstruction era.

Mr. Colom’s victory, which came by a slim margin after more than a week of ballot tallying following the Nov. 3 election, puts an exclamation point on the sweeping Democratic victories across the country during this year’s midterms. For Republicans, the outcome was a jarring rebuke in a reliably conservative stronghold.
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Sen. Warnock helped get the vote out in Mississippi. Worst yet for the GOP, as this should empower the not so minority vote in MS that they can win.
 
Now the electorate will be looking to the Dems to put a chicken in their pot or turnout will drop in '28. Either that or the Dems had better trump Trump in the blame game over the next two years. Every Trump veto must get a full-throated admonishment on Fox News and *whatever is worse than Fox News.

Good thing Dems have a nice buffer going forward.

2028 Senate areas of vulnerability

- GOP opportunities: Ohio Sherrod Brown, Georgia Raphael Warnock, Pennsylvania John Fetterman, Arizona Mark Kelly, and Nevada Catherine Cortez Masto.

- Republicans must defend Ron Johnson Wisconsin, Ted Budd North Carolina, Chuck Grassley Iowa, Jerry Moran Kansas, Tim Scott South Carolina, and Lisa Murkowski Alaska.



*I don't know. I don't swim in that shit.
 
While the Democrats have overstepped their bounds by taking a good deal of red seats, the GOP hopes of clawing back seats relies on the GOP and Donald Trump governing well. This was a vote against the GOP... and the problems the GOP has been complicit in causing would need to be resolved. We've been here before in 2006. Iraq improved after the '06 spanking, but the fact that Iraq was still a thing couldn't fix the electoral liability. Trump needs to get rid of the trade wars, resolve Iran, figure something out on the cost of the debt. The cut taxes and raise the deficit / starve the beast model of economics has hit a threshold.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Sen. Warnock helped get the vote out in Mississippi. Worst yet for the GOP, as this should empower the not so minority vote in MS that they can win.
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I've known many people who didn't vote in the midterms. Plus my next door neighbor who is Black hadn't voted in years, but we convinced him to vote this time.His white wife always votes. I also took his 18 year old daughter to the voter registration office so she could register and vote. People are finally realizing that their votes count. It's about time! My friends who are my age never miss an election, regardless if it's only for one small thing or office. I'm hoping the younger generations will learn the importance of voting too and never miss any future elections.
 
southernhybrid said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Sen. Warnock helped get the vote out in Mississippi. Worst yet for the GOP, as this should empower the not so minority vote in MS that they can win.
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I've known many people who didn't vote in the midterms. Plus my next door neighbor who is Black hadn't voted in years, but we convinced him to vote this time.His white wife always votes. I also took his 18 year old daughter to the voter registration office so she could register and vote. People are finally realizing that their votes count. It's about time! My friends who are my age never miss an election, regardless if it's only for one small thing or office. I'm hoping the younger generations will learn the importance of voting too and never miss any future elections.
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They're going to learn for a generation and then forget again, as usually happens, unless someone can capture an exact enough slice to demonstrate the full horror of a reality where people don't, in a way that doesn't fade so sharply.
 
Jarhyn said:
southernhybrid said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Sen. Warnock helped get the vote out in Mississippi. Worst yet for the GOP, as this should empower the not so minority vote in MS that they can win.
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I've known many people who didn't vote in the midterms. Plus my next door neighbor who is Black hadn't voted in years, but we convinced him to vote this time.His white wife always votes. I also took his 18 year old daughter to the voter registration office so she could register and vote. People are finally realizing that their votes count. It's about time! My friends who are my age never miss an election, regardless if it's only for one small thing or office. I'm hoping the younger generations will learn the importance of voting too and never miss any future elections.
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They're going to learn for a generation and then forget again, as usually happens, unless someone can capture an exact enough slice to demonstrate the full horror of a reality where people don't, in a way that doesn't fade so sharply.
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Well that is optimistic. I'm questionable how many will remember in two years, unless the economy goes into a recession.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Jarhyn said:
southernhybrid said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Sen. Warnock helped get the vote out in Mississippi. Worst yet for the GOP, as this should empower the not so minority vote in MS that they can win.
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I've known many people who didn't vote in the midterms. Plus my next door neighbor who is Black hadn't voted in years, but we convinced him to vote this time.His white wife always votes. I also took his 18 year old daughter to the voter registration office so she could register and vote. People are finally realizing that their votes count. It's about time! My friends who are my age never miss an election, regardless if it's only for one small thing or office. I'm hoping the younger generations will learn the importance of voting too and never miss any future elections.
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They're going to learn for a generation and then forget again, as usually happens, unless someone can capture an exact enough slice to demonstrate the full horror of a reality where people don't, in a way that doesn't fade so sharply.
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Well that is optimistic. I'm questionable how many will remember in two years, unless the economy goes into a recession.
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Or two months! Americans pivot fast and our government constantly changes. I'd be surprised if the current blue wave lasts for more than 4 years.
 
Jarhyn said:
southernhybrid said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Sen. Warnock helped get the vote out in Mississippi. Worst yet for the GOP, as this should empower the not so minority vote in MS that they can win.
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I've known many people who didn't vote in the midterms. Plus my next door neighbor who is Black hadn't voted in years, but we convinced him to vote this time.His white wife always votes. I also took his 18 year old daughter to the voter registration office so she could register and vote. People are finally realizing that their votes count. It's about time! My friends who are my age never miss an election, regardless if it's only for one small thing or office. I'm hoping the younger generations will learn the importance of voting too and never miss any future elections.
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They're going to learn for a generation and then forget again, as usually happens, unless someone can capture an exact enough slice to demonstrate the full horror of a reality where people don't, in a way that doesn't fade so sharply.
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This is what has been talked about on the news. Repeal of the voting rights act by the Supreme Court and then southern states taking immediate action to disenfranchise black voters through gerrymandering and other efforts really pissed off a lot of black people spurring them to the polls.
 
southernhybrid said:
What I'm about to post almost deserves its own thread, but it is related to the midterms so I'll add it to this thread.

I found lots of info about how the whiney little conservative Christians are reacting to the midterms. Some of it made me laugh, but it really does show the insanity and stupidity of these conservative Christians who support Trump and his lackeys.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-leaders-react-to-midterm-catastrophe-offer-hope.html

Evangelical voter turnout saw a marked decline this year compared to previous elections, leaving some Christians reeling from the overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party, which some discern has grown overtly hostile to biblical Christianity as it cozies up to far-left socialism, LGBT ideology and Islam.
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First of all, wasn't Jesus kind of a socialist? I mean he supported giving up your money to the poor, and the rich guys couldn't get into the good club, loving your enemies and all that jazz. Plus he never said anything against gay folks. In fact, he might have been gay himself as he was always hanging out with a bunch of guys, had a sex worker for a friend, was never married or had kids. That doesn't prove he was gay, but it doesn't make him look straight either, not that there's anything wrong with that. Still, why do these people hate gay folks?

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister and Christian Zionist who recently claimed opponents of the Iran war have been spiritually blinded by Satan, echoed the CUFI Action Fund memo, dismissing Vance's assertion that many GOP voters abandoned the party because of the nature of the U.S.-Israeli alliance.

"I don't agree with that because I don't think that's where voters are," Huckabee said during an interview with Channel 12, an Israeli outlet. "In fact, if you look at the polls, the only group of people in America that really think that that's an important issue are the Democrats on the far left. Only 19% of Republicans even have that same view."
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Yeah, that's a good one Mike. I thought there was something about peacemakers being the good guys in the NT. Oh well. There is a lot more in the link if anyone is interested, but I think most of us know that these far right Christians are immoral idiots.
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Some believe that Jesus married and had a family. I can’t cite evidence that make them think this.

A friend who is a biblical scholar points out the many different translations, compilations, deletions, etc. that have produced what we see as the modern Bible. Many/most were politically motivated and influenced by personal views, including misogyny. .

Some scholars believe that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute but a female apostle and was relegated to the role of prostitute by misogynists invested in marginalizing women.

This is not at all uncommon when translating ancient texts. Famously Dr. Emily Watson translated Homer’s The Odyssey into modern English and did not translate the enslaved young girls and young women who had sex with Penelope’s suitors as whores or creatures but as girls, recognizing that they had little agency but were expected to comply with the demands of ( powerful) men. She points out, correctly, that translation is interpretation, that a translator’s personal perspectives influence the translation.
 
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