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2026 Mid-Term Elections

The republicans in my state are desperate. I'm getting phone calls from 'pollsters'. The questions are all thinly veiled right leaning propaganda. For fun I tried one and it went on for over 15 minutes, the questions became more absurd the longer it went. The call might have continued on indefinitely if I hadn't hung up. It was on speaker, we had a good laugh after.
The ads online are relentless right now in Ohio. Watch CBC in the morning via Google News and almost every add is going on about how Sherod Brown will follow the socialists and force children into sex change operations (<--- this isn't an exaggeration)... and is in the pocket of big banks and medical insurance. Yeah, try to figure that Venn Diagram.

Go from tempered news coverage to might as well be watching Fox News for the ads.
The first I seen of these was watching the Browns last Sunday on over the air TV. Couldn't make it to the end of the game for not the usual reason. They were horrible.
The ads.

My online life is nearly ad free.
YouTube Premium is worth the price.
And a Reuters subscription for as long as they permit reader view.
 

I posted this on another thread and then saw this one and thought I’d add it. This is basically the regime’s recipe for refusing to give up power on January 3.
Zackly. What I been saying.
There will be big whoopin’ it up if Dems clobber the fascists in November.
But however that result might bear on whatever scurrilous tactics the thugs use to hold onto power in January, they’re NOT going to go quietly. It’s NOT gonna be pretty on 1/3 unless Trump is dead by then.

The fable of the rabbit and the hound comes to mind. Hunter scolds the dog for letting the rabbit escape. Hound says “the rabbit was running for its life; I was running for my dinner”.
Trump has incriminated most of his closest buddies, and they’re in an existential battle, unlike their opposition.
 
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Following reporting that Donald Trump’s tariffs have cost Michigan households $5,600, more than any other state, MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Michigan’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson about her campaign against Trump-backed Republican John James.
 

I posted this on another thread and then saw this one and thought I’d add it. This is basically the regime’s recipe for refusing to give up power on January 3.
Zackly. What I been saying.
There will be big whoopin’ it up if Dems clobber the fascists in November.
But however that result might bear on whatever scurrilous tactics the thugs use to hold onto power in January, they’re NOT going to go quietly. It’s NOT gonna be pretty on 1/3 unless Trump is dead by then.

I'm beginning to think the guano will hit the air conditioner not too long after the election results come trickling in and the shellacking is obvious. Of course they're going to claim it was "rigged," but I'm not so sure they'll hold off until January 3rd. I'd expect a "national emergency" to be declared before the end of November, and if Pete Kegsbreath's scheme goes as planned, the 20% of generals and flag officers (who aren't "manly" enough) will be gone before 1/3, making a declaration of martial law that much easier. In any case, they will NOT go quietly into minority status this time.

No, I'll be sleeping with one eye open from November 3rd until January 3rd, and even if the Democrats take both houses and are sworn in, I won't sleep soundly if they choose Chuck "Feckless" Schumer and Hakeem "Of Course I'll Take A Meeting With Jared" Jeffries as their leadership.
 
I'll be sleeping with one eye open from November 3rd until January 3rd
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It is a certainty that post shellacking, the denials and protests, claims of cheating and illegal searches and seizures of ballots will begin without delay. I expect a flurry of illegal arrests of election workers and associated innocents. The drumbeat will grow as much as they can cultivate it, right up to 1/3.
Only CONTINUOUS diligence will be able to keep up with it, and there will probably need to be a pro democracy mob at the Capitol on that day if we want to see our electees seated.
Trump guarantees a high degree of ugly, unbridled violence and authoritarian boots on necks; there will be no avoiding that, regardless of all else.
 

I posted this on another thread and then saw this one and thought I’d add it. This is basically the regime’s recipe for refusing to give up power on January 3.
Zackly. What I been saying.
There will be big whoopin’ it up if Dems clobber the fascists in November.
But however that result might bear on whatever scurrilous tactics the thugs use to hold onto power in January, they’re NOT going to go quietly. It’s NOT gonna be pretty on 1/3 unless Trump is dead by then.

I'm beginning to think the guano will hit the air conditioner not too long after the election results come trickling in and the shellacking is obvious. Of course they're going to claim it was "rigged," but I'm not so sure they'll hold off until January 3rd. I'd expect a "national emergency" to be declared before the end of November, and if Pete Kegsbreath's scheme goes as planned, the 20% of generals and flag officers (who aren't "manly" enough) will be gone before 1/3, making a declaration of martial law that much easier. In any case, they will NOT go quietly into minority status this time.

No, I'll be sleeping with one eye open from November 3rd until January 3rd, and even if the Democrats take both houses and are sworn in, I won't sleep soundly if they choose Chuck "Feckless" Schumer and Hakeem "Of Course I'll Take A Meeting With Jared" Jeffries as their leadership.
The question is what will you do if they start this shit on the third. I may have to go to DC.
 

I posted this on another thread and then saw this one and thought I’d add it. This is basically the regime’s recipe for refusing to give up power on January 3.
Zackly. What I been saying.
There will be big whoopin’ it up if Dems clobber the fascists in November.
But however that result might bear on whatever scurrilous tactics the thugs use to hold onto power in January, they’re NOT going to go quietly. It’s NOT gonna be pretty on 1/3 unless Trump is dead by then.

I'm beginning to think the guano will hit the air conditioner not too long after the election results come trickling in and the shellacking is obvious. Of course they're going to claim it was "rigged," but I'm not so sure they'll hold off until January 3rd. I'd expect a "national emergency" to be declared before the end of November, and if Pete Kegsbreath's scheme goes as planned, the 20% of generals and flag officers (who aren't "manly" enough) will be gone before 1/3, making a declaration of martial law that much easier. In any case, they will NOT go quietly into minority status this time.

No, I'll be sleeping with one eye open from November 3rd until January 3rd, and even if the Democrats take both houses and are sworn in, I won't sleep soundly if they choose Chuck "Feckless" Schumer and Hakeem "Of Course I'll Take A Meeting With Jared" Jeffries as their leadership.
The question is what will you do if they start this shit on the third. I may have to go to DC.
If Mrs E is no longer with us by then, I will probably do that too. I strongly believe we should start arranging for some hundreds of thousands to show up and demand Congress do its job. Such arrangement should begin immediately post election, and be strongly pushed on major media for the entire 60 day interval.
Even with such effort, it is likely that only another display of RW violence will suffice to compel Congress. Remember how they were for that brief moment on 1/7/91? Trembling terrified weenies sobbing about Trump’s unfitness? That moment may recur, and if it does, that will be the moment to set things right.
 
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So now Hegseth is looking to cut the number of Generals and Admirals by 20% this year. He claims that there are too many woke flag officers.

Others are saying it's to prepare the military to act in the event of violence after they refuse to sit democrats on January 3.

If by "woke" he means "will refuse to follow/give illegal orders," then that's EXACTLY what that's about. I mean, when decorated combat veterans got together to remind the military of the clear language of the UCMJ, Whiskey Pete called them "traitors" and tried to have them thrown in jail.
 

So now Hegseth is looking to cut the number of Generals and Admirals by 20% this year. He claims that there are too many woke flag officers.

Others are saying it's to prepare the military to act in the event of violence after they refuse to sit democrats on January 3.

If by "woke" he means "will refuse to follow/give illegal orders," then that's EXACTLY what that's about. I mean, when decorated combat veterans got together to remind the military of the clear language of the UCMJ, Whiskey Pete called them "traitors" and tried to have them thrown in jail.
Yeah, remember Trump's meeting with them all last year where he talked about using them against Americans. He got no reaction from the cameras in the crowd at the time, but there were cameras in the room and supposedly they were using AI to determine who would and wouldn't obey such orders.

Of course, the Colonels, Captains and Sergeants weren't in that room. That's where the rubber meets the road. I'm reminded of how the Soviet Military's 1991 coup failed. The guys in the tanks said fuck you to their superiors. They then turned their cannons around.

It’s going to be interesting. I just hope democratic leaders have some balls.
 
Adjusted for inflation,
Why the hell would we adjust for inflation for the short time frames you are talking about?
Incomes haven't improved. Inflation is the point. 'Adjusting' is cooking the stats.
I won't sleep soundly if they choose ... and ... as their leadership.
Don't they already have a 'Minority Leader' who would become 'Majority Leader'. Who is that?
there will probably need to be a pro democracy mob at the Capitol on that day if we want to see our electees seated.
I want to be there.
I have a transportation problem. Is anybody passing through PA on the way?
 
Others are saying it's to prepare the military to act in the event of violence after they refuse to sit democrats on January 3.
I’d be gobsmacked if that was not the case.
J3 is likely to be The Final Shitshow by the authoritarian right. And they know it.
 
So, there is a chance the Dems could sweep victories for the Senate in GA, NC, take the Senate seat in Texas and Alaska and still not get to 52 seats, though the Dems losing MN seems absurd.
 
Trump rally today in Vandalia,
What a brave guy. I thought he was sticking to ruby-red “safe” spaces. Like Ohio used to be.
He is in an area that is the union / former union type folks that fell in love with a guy who hasn't done a hard day's work in his life. SW Ohio is barely purple in good conditions, with Trump in conversation it is or at least was reddish-purple. Looks like some of these people might finally be waking up to how shitty Trump is (high gas prices). I wouldn't expect them to vote Democrat after all the far right wing BS they have ingested, but they may just not bother to vote at all.
 
No, I'll be sleeping with one eye open from November 3rd until January 3rd, and even if the Democrats take both houses and are sworn in, I won't sleep soundly if they choose Chuck "Feckless" Schumer and Hakeem "Of Course I'll Take A Meeting With Jared" Jeffries as their leadership.

Who would you like to see as Majority Leader and Speaker instead?
 
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