Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”

Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”

    What? Is he trying to gaslight the fact that both of Georgia’s US Senators have been Democratic since 2020? One of whom was subject of intense media coverage for back-to-back runoff elections in 2020 and 2022 with the US Senate majority up for grabs?

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      Yeah, I looked into it, they are saying these two specific seats were held by Republicans for decades. I’ve seen reports of 30 and 40 years.

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    Sick. Just what many people have been wanting to happen. Let’s have a war! This would give people a real reason to live. Much more of a reason than America’s dead end job slave industry.

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    This is SO DUMB! If Kidnapping Children before the Holidays, Raising Health Insurance Premiums before the Holidays, firing MILLIONS of Americans before the Holidays, RAISING PRICES before the Holidays and DESTROYING Air Travel before the Holidays was BAD POLICY the Republicans would Come To Work TOMORROW and BLOCK all these Executive Orders that CAUSED them! It’s SO EASY to UNDO these “Disastrous” Policies that the ONLY Reason to Keep them in Place is because it’s GOOD POLICY actually DUMB STEVEN BANNON!

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    Course correct from what? This is what they voted for. There’s no course correction from this. Unless of course they mean something else.

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    Why just talk about the major elections? Majority of what could be voted for was the center leaning left to far left people and measures/bills. This is even bigger than what outlets make it seem to be. Local elections matter.

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      As much as I want to believe that, there’s 36% of the country that would suck off trump and another 15% that are brain dead and couldn’t decide between Kamala and Hitler 2.0.

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      The mouth breathers are used to that type of shit.

      It’s the same hell and brimstone they’ve been fed from a young age so as stupid as it sounds to you, they are steeped in it.

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    “We can’t win if trump isn’t on the ballot, and that’s never happening again.”

    So, you built a cult of personality with an obvious expiration date. And that expiration date already passed. Lol good

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      Sometimes they can’t even win when Trump is on the ballot. Seems more accurate to say that they can’t win unless a woman is on the democratic ticket.

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      At risk of sounding like I’m dick riding, Vance has all the cunning and charisma to fill the power vacuum. He’s just lacking that “too stupid to talk to” quality that most Maga voters find relatable, but given the spotlight he could probably hit those notes they like.

      It kind of is good Kirk got slimed because he’s the only other I could think of that did all the poses they like and was also too stupid to be told anything.

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        Vance is politically quite savvy. He’s shallow and inauthentic and I think he’s smart enough to know that is a huge disadvantage following Trump. If he leans in to the memes, which it seems like he’s already doing, he’s a legitimate threat in 28. He’s built a career on being groomed by maga goons and it’s paid off so far.

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          Vance plays dumb, but not all that convincingly. He doesn’t radiate oafish stupidity in the same way that Trump does.

          And he looks like a demonically-possessed chipmunk.

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      I think the Democrats should fight fire with fire.

      Push for Dwayne Johnson or Taylor Swift as the Democratic nominee.

      Or better yet listen to your fucking voters for a change.

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        Dwayne Johnson and Taylor Swift are Democrats in that they’re not actively pushing fascism. They’re still billionaires who are totally divorced from the problems an average working household sees.

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        It would be a fools errand to fight on that level with them. Just sink our politics further into the idiocracy farce.

        Your last point, though, def. Look at 2008, look at the support for Bernie. Look at AOC, mamdani. They captured the excitement and won handily. Why was that? Because hey ran on real progressive change. Which people are desperate for. But the establishment, which includes the Democratic Party, will stop at nothing to keep people like that from winning. It ruins their big club.

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          Remember when Harris was running, and centrists kept saying that leftists don’t vote? Remember when they said that she should keep moving to the right, to pull in republican voters?

          For some crazy reason, I’ve been thinking about those comments a lot lately

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    maybe if they double down and do even more military in the streets and other nazi facist stuff why whining and crying about people saying they are nazis and facists. that outa make em more popular for sure.

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      Maybe doing stuff like stealing away things such as direct file for taxes, convenient and/or early voting, not to mention causing kids and the elderly to STARVE, and fucking up airplane travel will make them all the more delighted with the conservative “movement” (as in bowel) and the Confederate Party…

      I mean, other than racism, or being completely checked out, or being in the centimillionaire+ tax bracket and in it just to lower your taxes…just why in the fuck would you ever vote for this shitty party? They always make everything much worse.

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    I just hope they don’t try to cancel the midterms altogether… Or refuse to swear in the new dems…

    I tend to believe they will…

    So… yea…

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      Since the 2024 election I’ve been constantly wondering what the event would be that should trigger all out riot to restore democracy. The answer I always come up with is cancelled/sham election.