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2026 Mid-Term Elections

 
 
 
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Politesse said:
President Trump's current priorities in the wake of this catastrophic loss seem to be primarily real estate-related. Yesterday, he toured the ballroom site and signed one of the steel beams with his signature Sharpie. Today, he signed an executive order declaring the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as a National Monument in an attempt to prevent President Buttigieg or whoever from redecorating it after he's retired.
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He's been out there the entire time speaking to crowds. He may be one of the unsung heroes of this blue wave.


Just read this morning LA has a Democratic Socialist for a mayor now. OMG, OMG, OMG.
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Oh, damn. Something else for fizzle to shitpost about.
 
Shadowy Man said:
Politesse said:
Today, he signed an executive order declaring the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as a National Monument in an attempt to prevent President Buttigieg or whoever from redecorating it after he's retired.
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As he is aware, executive orders are not laws and can be simply undone by the next president. So it prevents nothing.
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It prevents anyone with more than half a brain from mistaking the Donald for a person with more than half a brain…
 
blastula said:
time.com

Meet the Doctors and Scientists Who Won in the Midterms

These midterm winners know the health-care system from the inside—and want to help fix it.
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  1. Dr. Annie Andrews - South Carolina Senator - pediatrician
  2. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed - Michigan Senator - public-health director
  3. Jasmine Clark - Georgia 13 Rep - microbiologist
  4. Elaine Luria - Virginia 2 Rep - US Navy nuclear-reactor operator
  5. Dr. Amy Acton - Ohio Governor - public-health director
  6. Mitchell Berman - Wisconsin 1 Rep - emergency-room nurse
  7. Christina Bohannan - Iowa 1 Rep - university professor
  8. Daniel Biss - Illinois 9 Rep - university professor, state legislator, city mayor
  9. Dr. Adam Hamawy - New Jersey 12 Rep - surgeon
  10. Dr. Richard Pan - California 6 Rep - pediatrician, state legislator
  11. Jacqui Irwin - California 26 Rep - engineer, state legislator, city-council member
 
lpetrich said:
blastula said:
time.com

Meet the Doctors and Scientists Who Won in the Midterms

These midterm winners know the health-care system from the inside—and want to help fix it.
time.com time.com
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  1. Dr. Annie Andrews - South Carolina Senator - pediatrician
  2. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed - Michigan Senator - public-health director
  3. Jasmine Clark - Georgia 13 Rep - microbiologist
  4. Elaine Luria - Virginia 2 Rep - US Navy nuclear-reactor operator
  5. Dr. Amy Acton - Ohio Governor - public-health director
  6. Mitchell Berman - Wisconsin 1 Rep - emergency-room nurse
  7. Christina Bohannan - Iowa 1 Rep - university professor
  8. Daniel Biss - Illinois 9 Rep - university professor, state legislator, city mayor
  9. Dr. Adam Hamawy - New Jersey 12 Rep - surgeon
  10. Dr. Richard Pan - California 6 Rep - pediatrician, state legislator
  11. Jacqui Irwin - California 26 Rep - engineer, state legislator, city-council member
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What? No mention of Tommy Tatertown defeating Doug Jones? For all those hifalutin credentials, none of them can make the claim!

Tommy T … … football coach
 
Pete Hegseth fired Nancy Lacore. She may get the last laugh.. - "After having been purged without cause, the retired three-star Navy admiral ran a Democratic campaign in a red district — and is ahead in the count."
Just two months ago, The New York Times reported that Hegseth’s firings have been so dramatic that he has left the U.S. Army “essentially rudderless” during an ongoing war in the Middle East.

Political scientist Caitlin Talmadge, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who specializes in foreign policy and military operations, noted via social media earlier this year, “Firing senior officers for cause is one thing. Firing them repeatedly on this scale and with no explanation is unprecedented in our nation’s history.”
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She herself:
“I was one year into what is normally a four-year job [and] was notified that I was being relieved, effective immediately,” Lacore later told MS NOW’s Jen Psaki. “I struggled to figure out what was next for me. But the one thing I couldn’t shake was this feeling that I wasn’t done serving.”

Lacore added, “I can’t sit on the sidelines. I can serve differently.”
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Elixir said:
lpetrich said:
blastula said:
time.com

Meet the Doctors and Scientists Who Won in the Midterms

These midterm winners know the health-care system from the inside—and want to help fix it.
time.com time.com
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  1. Dr. Annie Andrews - South Carolina Senator - pediatrician
  2. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed - Michigan Senator - public-health director
  3. Jasmine Clark - Georgia 13 Rep - microbiologist
  4. Elaine Luria - Virginia 2 Rep - US Navy nuclear-reactor operator
  5. Dr. Amy Acton - Ohio Governor - public-health director
  6. Mitchell Berman - Wisconsin 1 Rep - emergency-room nurse
  7. Christina Bohannan - Iowa 1 Rep - university professor
  8. Daniel Biss - Illinois 9 Rep - university professor, state legislator, city mayor
  9. Dr. Adam Hamawy - New Jersey 12 Rep - surgeon
  10. Dr. Richard Pan - California 6 Rep - pediatrician, state legislator
  11. Jacqui Irwin - California 26 Rep - engineer, state legislator, city-council member
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What? No mention of Tommy Tatertown defeating Doug Jones? For all those hifalutin credentials, none of them can make the claim!

Tommy T … … football coach
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I am just happy to see anyone in government who isn't a career politician or lawyer.

Government of the people, by the lawyers, for the lawyers hasn't been so great. We need more engineers, doctors, football coaches and bus drivers in our legislature and executive. Save the lawyering for the judiciary.
 
lpetrich said:
Pete Hegseth fired Nancy Lacore. She may get the last laugh.. - "After having been purged without cause, the retired three-star Navy admiral ran a Democratic campaign in a red district — and is ahead in the count."
Just two months ago, The New York Times reported that Hegseth’s firings have been so dramatic that he has left the U.S. Army “essentially rudderless” during an ongoing war in the Middle East.

Political scientist Caitlin Talmadge, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who specializes in foreign policy and military operations, noted via social media earlier this year, “Firing senior officers for cause is one thing. Firing them repeatedly on this scale and with no explanation is unprecedented in our nation’s history.”
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She herself:
“I was one year into what is normally a four-year job [and] was notified that I was being relieved, effective immediately,” Lacore later told MS NOW’s Jen Psaki. “I struggled to figure out what was next for me. But the one thing I couldn’t shake was this feeling that I wasn’t done serving.”

Lacore added, “I can’t sit on the sidelines. I can serve differently.”
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Also, looks like “retired” Eileen Laubacher is gonna send Bobblehead packing. Trump must be seething.
 
bilby said:
Elixir said:
lpetrich said:
blastula said:
time.com

Meet the Doctors and Scientists Who Won in the Midterms

These midterm winners know the health-care system from the inside—and want to help fix it.
time.com time.com
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  1. Dr. Annie Andrews - South Carolina Senator - pediatrician
  2. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed - Michigan Senator - public-health director
  3. Jasmine Clark - Georgia 13 Rep - microbiologist
  4. Elaine Luria - Virginia 2 Rep - US Navy nuclear-reactor operator
  5. Dr. Amy Acton - Ohio Governor - public-health director
  6. Mitchell Berman - Wisconsin 1 Rep - emergency-room nurse
  7. Christina Bohannan - Iowa 1 Rep - university professor
  8. Daniel Biss - Illinois 9 Rep - university professor, state legislator, city mayor
  9. Dr. Adam Hamawy - New Jersey 12 Rep - surgeon
  10. Dr. Richard Pan - California 6 Rep - pediatrician, state legislator
  11. Jacqui Irwin - California 26 Rep - engineer, state legislator, city-council member
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What? No mention of Tommy Tatertown defeating Doug Jones? For all those hifalutin credentials, none of them can make the claim!

Tommy T … … football coach
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I am just happy to see anyone in government who isn't a career politician or lawyer.

Government of the people, by the lawyers, for the lawyers hasn't been so great. We need more engineers, doctors, football coaches and bus drivers in our legislature and executive. Save the lawyering for the judiciary.
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You prefer laws penned by the unlettered, in short. I note that the man you are paraphrasing the political principles of, Abraham Lincoln, was a working lawyer by all accounts, and a damned good one. He himself was paraphrasing another excellent orator, Theodore Parker, who studied law at Harvard before disenrolling in favor of the clergy.

Personally, I do not think education or credentials are the true cause of the problem that irks you, the inability of politicians to understand the lives or needs of those they govern. That happens because they have never met them in a situation unmediated by the complex customs that work to separate the upper from the middle classes. Lincoln and Parker understood the needs of common people because they chose paths in life that obliged them to spend time with those had no family compound to shut themselves into. A good person becomes a good lawyer. A born asshole who "studies law" at Yale becomes neither good nor an actual lawyer through the exercise.
 
Elixir said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
if the Democrats take 55 seats in the Senate this November, it won't be because of *blah blah* Israel or *blah blah* Hamas
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No, it will be due to all the flying pigs.

If a democratic majority is seated in the House on January 3rd, 2027, it will be no small miracle. Getting 51 Senate seats is a naive hope, though winning that many elections may not be.
I predict that if Dems “win” (get the most votes for) anything in this fall’s election, there will arise an extremely important emergency that requires martial law to “stabilize” things, at least until Trump dies.
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When can we expect this martial law?

I want to be prepared.
 
Politesse said:
bilby said:
Elixir said:
lpetrich said:
blastula said:
time.com

Meet the Doctors and Scientists Who Won in the Midterms

These midterm winners know the health-care system from the inside—and want to help fix it.
time.com time.com
Click to expand...
  1. Dr. Annie Andrews - South Carolina Senator - pediatrician
  2. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed - Michigan Senator - public-health director
  3. Jasmine Clark - Georgia 13 Rep - microbiologist
  4. Elaine Luria - Virginia 2 Rep - US Navy nuclear-reactor operator
  5. Dr. Amy Acton - Ohio Governor - public-health director
  6. Mitchell Berman - Wisconsin 1 Rep - emergency-room nurse
  7. Christina Bohannan - Iowa 1 Rep - university professor
  8. Daniel Biss - Illinois 9 Rep - university professor, state legislator, city mayor
  9. Dr. Adam Hamawy - New Jersey 12 Rep - surgeon
  10. Dr. Richard Pan - California 6 Rep - pediatrician, state legislator
  11. Jacqui Irwin - California 26 Rep - engineer, state legislator, city-council member
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What? No mention of Tommy Tatertown defeating Doug Jones? For all those hifalutin credentials, none of them can make the claim!

Tommy T … … football coach
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I am just happy to see anyone in government who isn't a career politician or lawyer.

Government of the people, by the lawyers, for the lawyers hasn't been so great. We need more engineers, doctors, football coaches and bus drivers in our legislature and executive. Save the lawyering for the judiciary.
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You prefer laws penned by the unlettered, in short. I note that the man you are paraphrasing the political principles of, Abraham Lincoln, was a working lawyer by all accounts, and a damned good one. He himself was paraphrasing another excellent orator, Theodore Parker, who studied law at Harvard before disenrolling in favor of the clergy.

Personally, I do not think education or credentials are the true cause of the problem that irks you, the inability of politicians to understand the lives or needs of those they govern. That happens because they have never met them in a situation unmediated by the complex customs that work to separate the upper from the middle classes. Lincoln and Parker understood the needs of common people because they chose paths in life that obliged them to spend time with those had no family compound to shut themselves into. A good person becomes a good lawyer. A born asshole who "studies law" at Yale becomes neither good nor an actual lawyer through the exercise.
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It's okay to have some lawyers as politicians, but not an excessive number. Also, where one wants lawyers in government is in high ranks of public service - that is the ones who actually write the detailed legislation. They don't have to be politicians, and the ideal is that they are not politicians. Another good place for qualified lawyers is in those organizations that represent the interests of poorer people and normal citizens. Government paying for such is a good use of lawyers and of government revenue.

That list of doctors is a contrast to the unqualified DEI appointments that the GOP (especially Trump) has made to top positions.
 
TomC said:
Jason Harvestdancer said:
When can we expect this martial law?

I want to be prepared.
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Start stocking up now.
Trump and his minions are nothing if not unpredictable.
Tom
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But Elixir won't tell us when he thinks this will happen.

Of course he doesn't answer questions under the best of circumstances, but this is such a dire prediction one would think he would be more forthcoming.
 
Politesse said:
bilby said:
Elixir said:
lpetrich said:
blastula said:
time.com

Meet the Doctors and Scientists Who Won in the Midterms

These midterm winners know the health-care system from the inside—and want to help fix it.
time.com time.com
Click to expand...
  1. Dr. Annie Andrews - South Carolina Senator - pediatrician
  2. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed - Michigan Senator - public-health director
  3. Jasmine Clark - Georgia 13 Rep - microbiologist
  4. Elaine Luria - Virginia 2 Rep - US Navy nuclear-reactor operator
  5. Dr. Amy Acton - Ohio Governor - public-health director
  6. Mitchell Berman - Wisconsin 1 Rep - emergency-room nurse
  7. Christina Bohannan - Iowa 1 Rep - university professor
  8. Daniel Biss - Illinois 9 Rep - university professor, state legislator, city mayor
  9. Dr. Adam Hamawy - New Jersey 12 Rep - surgeon
  10. Dr. Richard Pan - California 6 Rep - pediatrician, state legislator
  11. Jacqui Irwin - California 26 Rep - engineer, state legislator, city-council member
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What? No mention of Tommy Tatertown defeating Doug Jones? For all those hifalutin credentials, none of them can make the claim!

Tommy T … … football coach
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I am just happy to see anyone in government who isn't a career politician or lawyer.

Government of the people, by the lawyers, for the lawyers hasn't been so great. We need more engineers, doctors, football coaches and bus drivers in our legislature and executive. Save the lawyering for the judiciary.
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You prefer laws penned by the unlettered, in short.
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You think doctors and engineers are "unlettered"??
Politesse said:
I note that the man you are paraphrasing the political principles of, Abraham Lincoln, was a working lawyer by all accounts, and a damned good one. He himself was paraphrasing another excellent orator, Theodore Parker, who studied law at Harvard before disenrolling in favor of the clergy.

Personally, I do not think education or credentials are the true cause of the problem that irks you, the inability of politicians to understand the lives or needs of those they govern. That happens because they have never met them in a situation unmediated by the complex customs that work to separate the upper from the middle classes. Lincoln and Parker understood the needs of common people because they chose paths in life that obliged them to spend time with those had no family compound to shut themselves into. A good person becomes a good lawyer.
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Sure. But good legislation, while it requires input from good lawyers, also requires input from people with expertise in things other than law.

I have no problem whatsoever with education or credentials, but there is something deeply disturbing about asking people to pass legislation whose ONLY education or credentials are in one very narrow field of human endeavour.

Politics really should be something people do after a career spent doing something else - ideally in a diverse range of fields. Certainly there should be few areas of human experience that are not represented in our legislatures. But science and engineering and medicine remain rare, and tradespeople and artisans almost unheard of, in our parliaments and houses of representatives.
Politesse said:
A born asshole who "studies law" at Yale becomes neither good nor an actual lawyer through the exercise.
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...and yet such assholes are very strongly represented in legislatures around the world, while almost* zero bus drivers get any kind of political position.





* Venezuela being an outlier until it was attacked and the government decapitated by arguably the greatest asshole ever to stride the political stage in a nominal democracy.
 
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FBI agents served an Alaska Senate candidate with a subpoena just days before election day

They're going after Gerald Heikes, the other Republican candidate on the ballot, as well as Dan. J Sullivan whose party affiliation wasn't listed.

“They want me to appear and tell them what I know and how I was recruited, but I wasn’t recruited. I just took a chance,” Heikes told CNN in an interview on Friday.

The DOJ declined to comment for this story. Peltola has denied any knowledge of efforts to recruit other candidates.

Heikes, a conservative who is now in third place in the still-undecided contest, told CNN that earlier this year an operative whose name he does not know pitched him on running for Senate.

Heikes said he had already been aiming to run for office but decided to run for Senate after that meeting.

“I did it out of fascination… I wanted to see what would happen,” Heikes said.

He added, “If they think I’m an operative, they’re wrong.”
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And wrt Trump calling him a "slug":

“I’ve been called worse. I’m a sheet rocker. I’ve spent over 40 years in trade, so I know every curse word there is. He’s kind of lightweight,” Heikes said when asked about that post.
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Jason Harvestdancer said:
Elixir said:
No, it will be due to all the flying pigs.

If a democratic majority is seated in the House on January 3rd, 2027, it will be no small miracle. Getting 51 Senate seats is a naive hope, though winning that many elections may not be.
I predict that if Dems “win” (get the most votes for) anything in this fall’s election, there will arise an extremely important emergency that requires martial law to “stabilize” things, at least until Trump dies.
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When can we expect this martial law?

I want to be prepared.
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TomC said:
Start stocking up now.
Trump and his minions are nothing if not unpredictable.
Tom
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Jason Harvestdancer said:
But Elixir won't tell us when he thinks this will happen.

Of course he doesn't answer questions under the best of circumstances, but this is such a dire prediction one would think he would be more forthcoming.
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To be concerned about a guy who lead an insurrection, left his VP to the wolves, and just pulled Stephen Miller in a little closer?

I say we can all sleep easy in the bosom of democracy.
 
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