2026 Mid-Term Elections

Patooka said:

Toni said:

It would not be the first time I was overly optimistic.

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I hope as well. I think I know better.

I want to be wrong.

And I've been wrong before. (obviously not a haiku)

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Oh yeah?

Send it to a small journal somewhere that specializes in haiku. I'd say it has an excellent chance of being accepted! Especially since they dispensed with the 5-7-5 tradition, which was bogus anyway.

Anyone here want to talk about Vuvek's Ad?

You know the one.

Patooka said:

Anyone here want to talk about Vuvek's Ad?

You know the one.

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VP Vance has since don't the political spin to support it, "She is a liar". Vivek held to it. This was all planned. They knew it was going to be toxic, so they needed pre-scripted deflection zingers. And most of the GOP is holding the line as usual.

That particular ad is utterly despicable and unfortunately for the GOP, easily refutable as there are court documents available on line that prove Acton's account.

Not that that will matter to the GOP or those who only trust unreliable news sources.

Jimmy Higgins said:

Patooka said:

Anyone here want to talk about Vuvek's Ad?

You know the one.

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*Points up thread*

VP Vance has since don't the political spin to support it, "She is a liar". Vivek held to it. This was all planned. They knew it was going to be toxic, so they needed pre-scripted deflection zingers. And most of the GOP is holding the line as usual.

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Yeah, I suspect a lot of people are over it, but probably too late. The number swayed to vote pug by these antics, may be exceeded by those who were going to vote red and now decided to stay home. The whole GOP appears to be imploding. If they stay in power under these circumstances, it will not be due to electoral victories, and will likely herald the end of the Great Experiment.

Jimmy Higgins said:

Patooka said:

Anyone here want to talk about Vuvek's Ad?

You know the one.

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*Points up thread*

VP Vance has since don't the political spin to support it, "She is a liar". Vivek held to it. This was all planned. They knew it was going to be toxic, so they needed pre-scripted deflection zingers. And most of the GOP is holding the line as usual.

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My fault. I wasn't updated on GOP cuntantry.

The king Piece of shit himself also thinks that this ad should keep running. I wouldn't expect anything else from piece of shit. He's the biggest liar out there and loves to say horrible untrue things about others.

And meanwhile, as Trump sucks up to Putin, Putin's bot are out there spreading lies mainly about Democrats running for the Senate.

I wouldn't be surprised of Trump knows and approves of this. Maybe one reason he's being so accommodating to Putin to get the Russian bots to lie for Trump.

Covert Russian Group Injects Baseless Claim Into the Texas Senate Race​

Russian influence operations appear to be stepping up efforts to meddle in the midterms, according to intelligence officials. Most are targeting Democrats.

Even as President Trump pursued a thawing of relations with the Kremlin this week, a covert Russian influence operation targeted the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Texas, James Talarico, by spreading a fabricated claim of misconduct.

Several groups of researchers who track Russian disinformation operations attributed the claim to Storm-1516, a covert group that in 2024 peddled a similarly unfounded accusation against Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, who was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee.

The attack followed a flurry of Russian posts on social media in recent weeks and provided the latest indication that Moscow is once again targeting an American election with online influence operations. In recent weeks, Russia has ramped up those efforts, according to a U.S. official familiar with classified intelligence assessments on the matter.

Most of the Russian content so far, spread by bot networks around the world, has targeted Democratic candidates, especially in closely contested Senate races that could determine control of Congress in Mr. Trump’s remaining two years in office. Still, the intelligence assessments do not specify that Russia is explicitly seeking to harm one political party more than the other, the official said.

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Don't expect Trump to complain about this.


But on the other hand Trump Administration and that really scummy US Ambassador to Canada is further pissing off Canada by making shit up to blame Canada for messing with the US election.


But it was just fine for Trump to encourage Alberta to vote to leave Canada.

Trump has zero ethics. It's all about his feeling whether something helps him personally or hurts him personally. No ethics at all.

More evidence of Abdulrahman's support for the Muslim Brotherhood, and specifically Mohammed Morsi.

El-Sayed under fire for once signing letter urging Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to ‘purge media and police’

NY Post said:

Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed once signed a letter urging the then-newly crowned president of Egypt, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” the media and police.
The controversial progressive signed the letter to Mohamed Morsi in 2012 — just before Morsi’s government embarked on a cruel crackdown on journalists in Egypt, targeting at least half a dozen for “insulting Islam” and “insulting the president,” ultimately culminating in backlash and a coup.
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“We, leaders of the Egyptian community, support the revolutionary decisions taken by the president, and we call on him to purge the media and the police as quickly as possible,” the letter said, per a translation from Arabic.
“We affirm, as Egyptian Americans, that we strongly reject those voices that are courting America and Europe to take a position against the Egyptian regime.”
Days before the letter, Morsi, who was Egypt’s first elected leader at the time, issued a decree to bestow sweeping new powers on himself as unrest rocked the country.

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This is in addition to his pro-MB HuffPo oped from around the same time.

Derec said:

More evidence of Abdulrahman's support for the Muslim Brotherhood, and specifically Mohammed Morsi.

El-Sayed under fire for once signing letter urging Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to ‘purge media and police’

NY Post said:

Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed once signed a letter urging the then-newly crowned president of Egypt, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” the media and police.
The controversial progressive signed the letter to Mohamed Morsi in 2012 — just before Morsi’s government embarked on a cruel crackdown on journalists in Egypt, targeting at least half a dozen for “insulting Islam” and “insulting the president,” ultimately culminating in backlash and a coup.
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“We, leaders of the Egyptian community, support the revolutionary decisions taken by the president, and we call on him to purge the media and the police as quickly as possible,” the letter said, per a translation from Arabic.
“We affirm, as Egyptian Americans, that we strongly reject those voices that are courting America and Europe to take a position against the Egyptian regime.”
Days before the letter, Morsi, who was Egypt’s first elected leader at the time, issued a decree to bestow sweeping new powers on himself as unrest rocked the country.

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This is in addition to his pro-MB HuffPo oped from around the same time.

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Big deal.

laughing dog said:

Big deal.

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You do not think it's a "big deal" for a Democratic nominee for US Senate to support an Islamist hardliner and also explicitly support him going after dissidents who do not support Muslim Brotherhood?

Unfortunately, you are not alone. Many on the Left of the Democratic Party have fully embraced Islamoleftism.

Derec said:

laughing dog said:

Big deal.

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You do not think it's a "big deal" for a Democratic nominee for US Senate to support an Islamist hardliner and also explicitly support him going after dissidents who do not support Muslim Brotherhood?

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You interpret purging the gov’t of the repressive brutal police as “going after dissidents “?

No, in the grand scheme of things, I don’t think it is a big deal. Especially compared to the epic deal of the magatard Republican opponent.

I give you credit for at least focusing on something he actually did.

Toni said:

That particular ad is utterly despicable and unfortunately for the GOP, easily refutable as there are court documents available on line that prove Acton's account.

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Doesn't matter. Brandolini's Law dictates that lying in political ads is very effective; Voters need exert almost zero effort in order to believe the lie, but would have to start doing difficult and complicated stuff, like 'thinking' and 'reasoning' in order to grasp that it has been refuted.

The average voter sees ads all the time. They see court documents never. Certainly they don't go looking for such documents.

So ads like this work. So the only thing that stops campaigns from producing such ads is a sense of honour and decency. So nothing whatsoever will ever stop the GOP from producing them.

bilby said:

Toni said:

That particular ad is utterly despicable and unfortunately for the GOP, easily refutable as there are court documents available on line that prove Acton's account.

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Doesn't matter. Brandolini's Law dictates that lying in political ads is very effective; Voters need exert almost zero effort in order to believe the lie, but would have to start doing difficult and complicated stuff, like 'thinking' and 'reasoning' in order to grasp that it has been refuted.

The average voter sees ads all the time. They see court documents never. Certainly they don't go looking for such documents.

So ads like this work. So the only thing that stops campaigns from producing such ads is a sense of honour and decency. So nothing whatsoever will ever stop the GOP from producing them.

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Court documents are all over Facebook.

The Muslim Brotherhood was designated a terrorist organization in January of 26 through an executive order. Mike Rogers voted to send 250 million dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood when they won the Egyptian presidency.

SCOTUS rules College IDs not good enough for voting ID. This is an effort to pull college students out of local voting pools. Honestly, I voted absentee when in college in another state. I'm uncertain why college ID shouldn't be allowed. It isn't as if you just walk up, show college ID and you get to vote. You need to be registered.

Early voting turnout is notably higher than 2022, and 2022 was a high turnout at well. Anecdotally, I'm uncertain if this is a reflection on Trump trying to fuck with the USPS, as I dragged my mom out to vote instead of mail-in ballot because there was just no trust mail-in voting was going to not be screwed with. I also voted early, I don't want surprises. Democrats have a higher rate of voting early. In 2020, Biden had a notable lead when polls closed in Ohio because the early vote was already counted. The election day voting overwhelmed that lead. So, reading tea leaves isn't too wise. We won't know if the early voting is higher turnout or merely displaced turnout from mail-in, or more likely a combination of the two. Black turnout is said to be high.

Polling? Dems 49 - Repubs 47. Minnesota is too one sided to flip, with this. I have TX, OH, MI, and ME at toss ups. Dems need all four to assure Senate takeover. MT, KS, NE, IA, SC are light pink. If it is a bad night for the GOP, those could flip. MT, NE are independents.

Worst the Dems can see, 48 - 52. Best the Dems can see 56 +2 more indies to 44. I think 51-49 is the over-under. It would suck for the Dems to gain 4 seats and lose the majority still.

Texas shows Talarico up 15 pts (Marist) in suburbs. I have a hard time believing that. The other issue I see is that of Trump voters in 2024, about 7% are undecided (Emerson). This is an important breakdown as it is 48 - 46 for Talarico (Emerson), but if that 7% does the nose holding thing and votes for Paxton, Paxton wins. 7.5% of 2024 voters say they are voting for Talarico (Emerson). Makes one wonder the ID breakdown of those people relative to the undecideds. If those undecided go 50-50, then Talarico can win. But it is a lot easier to assume that a conservative undecided will more likely vote conservative than for the moderate Democrat.

With 51-49 being a possible outcome, certainly both the GOP and Democrats are putting together the "be on our team" package for Fetterman. Pennsylvania might get their own submarine base in Harrisburg.

Jimmy Higgins said:

SCOTUS rules College IDs not good enough for voting ID. This is an effort to pull college students out of local voting pools. Honestly, I voted absentee when in college in another state. I'm uncertain why college ID shouldn't be allowed. It isn't as if you just walk up, show college ID and you get to vote. You need to be registered.

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SCOTUS did not rule that "College IDs not good enough". It ruled that the lower courts could not block the law that NH passed. It was also an 8-1 ruling, so not along party lines - Sotomayor and Kagen joined the majority.

ZiprHead said:

The Muslim Brotherhood was designated a terrorist organization in January of 26 through an executive order. Mike Rogers voted to send 250 million dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood when they won the Egyptian presidency.

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Mike Rogers is not the greatest candidate to put it mildly (both parties have a problem selecting good nominees, which is why I think the present primary system has outlived its usefulness) but this apologetics for AES is ridiculous.

It is one thing continuing supporting Egypt's military - which is opposed to MB and would have wrested power from them a year later - and quite another supporting MB's Mohammed Morsi and even urging him to purge media and police of all dissenters to MB rule.

Playball40 said:

completely different.

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I don't think so, since there is also a similar distinction between "lawyer" and "attorney".
"Doctor" does not mean physician. It means graduating with a 'doctorate degree'. Now if he called himself a Physician, it would be different.
According to his wiki page, he did call himself a physician.

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In 2014, he completed a Doctor of Medicine degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, supported by a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and the Medical Scientist Training Program.[21][22] He later worked as an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia but did not pursue residency training, and therefore did not become licensed to practice medicine.[23] He has described himself as a physician, including on his LinkedIn profile.

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If whatsherface used J.D. it would have been accurate (graduating from law school) - not calling herself a Lawyer or Attorney, which require passing the state bar.

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According to the above, it technically does not. So why was she eviscerated, while Abdulrahman is not scrutinized by the mainstream media? Neither for this, nor for his MB ties, nor for him speaking at an Islamist conference alongside pro-terrorism speakers?

I am also not surprised that AES has been bankrolled by the Soroses.

How AMA defines it:

1. Our American Medical Association affirms that a physician is an individual who has received a "Doctor of Medicine" or a "Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine" degree or an equivalent degree following successful completion of a prescribed course of study from a school of medicine or osteopathic medicine.

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Can you point to where you have to be licensed to call yourself a “physician”? I could just be missing it.