Trump’s party stripped of control after he spent weeks pleading with Americans to pretend he was on ballot
Donald Trump has been dealt a devastating blow to his authority in a night of crushing defeats in the midterm elections, which saw his Republican party stripped of control of the Senate and the House as his handpicked “Maga” candidates were swept away by a blue tsunami.
The president spent weeks before the election pleading with the American people to pretend he was on the ballot. He may now rue that tactic: the American people took him at his word, and delivered him a bloody nose of historic proportions, flinging his presidency into lame duck status.
He appeared last night to have changed his mind, declaring on social media: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”
donnie is betting on Hakeem to not put anything foward, since hakeem already met with kushner a few weeks ago, likely to not put foward any anti-trump bills.
Unbelievable how many historically red states voted liberal in this election. Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas…
My kudos to everyone who lives there who made this happen
Edit: Mississippi and Alaska are fighting too
As a (former) long time NYer, Texas turning blue before Long Island is exactly what I would’ve expected
I don’t know why people seem to forget that Ohio used to be considered a swing state. They are not “historically red,” which is why it always bothered me that Ohio was hopelessly red according to some people.
Living here I can tell you it feels so much more red. Maga bullshit did a number on people and extreme gerrymandering hasn’t helped.
I’d long to be purple. Sadly I feel this is an aberration but I’ll take the reprieve. Voters here need to wake up permanently and not just vote every so often when it’s terrible enough.
I mean, I used to live in Columbus. Didn’t feel very red to me, for obvious reasons, but the point is that your viewpoint can easily change based on the slice of Ohio you get to see. My impression in Columbus is you either had people who were clearly blue or people that didn’t seem to care. I’m sure the same is true just outside of Columbus if you switch “red” in for “blue.”
Still living here sure, blue in cities. But naga turned some places way more red, most certainly formerly blue union areas like around Youngstown, etc. That and the red fervor is just turned up to 10.
Well, I’m hopeful that these midterms are signalling that the “MAGA fervor” might be reversed, even if just a little bit.
Me too. But I won’t hold my breath. Really depends what Democrats do now.
Florida used to be blue. Lots of states polarized after 9/11.
The polarization started with Gingrich in the 90s, 9/11 accelerated it.
Well, that and all the gerrymandering and other election fuckery. And the Supreme Court just deciding how Florida voted instead of actually counting the ballots.
Donny is a little slow, I expect his reactions are gonna get worse as consequences slowly dawn on him, realized or not
He was on Fox News and wasn’t denying the election at all. He sounded tired and defeated, saying they were gonna work with Democrats as best they could.
Which, given his previous reactions to losing makes me think he realizes he’s boned
I think he’s glitched out halfway between 1) trying to figure out something outrageous enough to say that would seem proportional to the electoral blowout, and 2) his simple-ass programming that defaults to “winners are good”
I hope he has a fucking stroke the next time he goes to honk out a dirt snake
They probably dosed him hard with something to keep him calm. Because otherwise he would have died is my guess.
Fox News
Have they already started to lament the national debt again or are they waiting for ~24 hours for the cult’s brains to cool down and their memories to reset?
He has to look like he will cooperate or the Epstein connections get fast tracked into prosecutions. And it isn’t just Trump - a lot of the billionaire donors are implicated too so he has to delay. It isn’t going to stop anything but could buy him some leniency.
sounds like they got him some zanex
*Xanax, but probably
Pretty sure it’s starting to wear off or he’s grabbed his phone back from th baby sitter
He is wondering if the spineless domocrats can be sweet talked into not hanging him for treason in front of the capitol
Congratulations to the Americans for a good election. 👍 😀 🎉
I wish we could’ve done a little bit better in Florida. We were so, so close to getting Angie Nixon and Bill Jolly. at least we managed to flip three house seats! By the showing of these results, Florida is pretty purple now, making a pretty big shift back to the left, even if it wasn’t quite big enough.
As a Florida man myself, couldn’t agree more. Though honestly it’s a bit heartening. All I see everywhere is bumper stickers that say “Trump. Guns. Jesus” and it’s nice to know I’m not literally the only blue voter in this state
Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville Tallahassee… All of these are big blue cities (each has a major university— except Tampa). It’s the rest of the state that’s the problem.
To paraphrase a character on the West Wing, we overthrew the government last night. Good job everyone!
Holy shit, some good news out of that damn country for a change.
As an American I feel the same way.
A few years ago a friend of mine commented that Texas even being questionable (this was when Beto ran against Ted Cruz) was good because it meant the GOP had to spend money in Texas rather than using the state like a bank account to fund races in swing states. Texas turning blue is a massive blow to the national GOP.
Of course now we all need to hammer on our reps to move forward on real progressive legislation, like abolishing ICE and instituting universal healthcare and higher education.
We did it!!
trump has made his billions and hurt and killed a lot of liberals, time for him to leave the country or be removed.
