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You are a thirsty ass woman if you are drinking my tears.

Receipts are...........well, in most posts of yours. It's constant from you, yet you call me a troll? Get a life.

The balance of power will come down to a georgia runoff election.

The people of georgia will have to pick between a racist and a psychopath.

How fun.

But where is that red wave?

Funny, not funny, Kornaci just pointed out that Ney York's possible Dem losses may cost Dems the House. WHAT?

Not exactly a Red Wave.... Lots of Election deniers were beaten. The question is, will the Right finally figure out that may not be the way to go... maybe following a Trump plan isn't the answer? Do you think these damn fools will figure it out.

Just a early observation, a little shuffling here and there, but it looks like the WWI battle of Marne with both sides dug in and little movement.

The star of the nigh was DeSantis IMO. His pull of the Latino group, largely due to his leadership during the pandemic and recent hurricane will make major waves on a national basis.

this is freaking hilarious hahahahahahaha

jc

so just zooming out to the big picture results so far...even if the dems retain congress, or the gop takes it, look at the margins. from a national viewpoint, not much changed. what, maybe the gop ends up with a handful of house seats flipped for the majority? gop or dems MIGHT get 51 senate seats instead of the 50-50 split? red wave was more like a red fart.

basically, business as usual. thats why i look at midterms more locally and focus on Ohio, cause just to be honest i dont really care about the rest of the results no matter which party wins, i care about my state this election cycle.

JD freaking vance......really? thats who we went with? come on guys...

He has a bigger fight now that he needs to decide whether he wants to take head on, or become the next Ted Cruz.

people on both extremes are losing their marbles today.

Hopefully, both parties can start working together again and stop dividing the country futher.

aye you see Trump take another shot at DeSantis last night?

as a liberal, i have to admit that for the conservative base, DeSantis is that dude. aye i'm not a floridian so its whatever. but damn it says something that Trump cares more about the grift that making sure the conservative base is well represented.

but MAGA hatters enabled that sort of behavior so....

Seeing that JD Vance gave Tim Ryan a 6 pack of
Whoop azz yesterday, maybe Tim and Bernie
Can throw the football around today and Tim can
Tell Bernie how he almost won his Senate seat.

We had 2 bad candidates. Vance, ... Bleh .... and Tim Ryan has been incredibly ineffective, so evidently we went with the one we don't know. Also, it should be apparent tnat Ohio is turning bright red overall. Even in blue leaning (which used to be absolutely reliably blue) Mahoning Co, a generally well respected Democrat County Commissioner barely won against a largely unknown opponent by a whopping 204 votes. (out of 84-85k votes overall)

Weird election, overall.

I did see that. Full disclosure, I don't like DeSantis at all. Different personality - and considerably smarter and more cunning - than Trump, but he calls plays from the same playbook so to speak.

That being said, Trump runs against Biden in 2024, he loses...again, at least based on how everything is now. DeSantis runs and I think he wins. I think a lot of the donors know that, too, which is why you see them dividing and calling out Trump. Trump firing off this many unnecessary volleys at this point in time shows he's scared of DeSantis, too. It screams school yard bully insecurity.

What is difficult for DeSantis is that, right now, he pretty much has the full backing of the MAGA caucus. I don't think he wants to disrupt that until he has to make a play. With Trump continuing to call him out, it might force his hand earlier than he had planned.

What will be funny, though, and you can bank on this, is that if DeSantis does pull of a coup against Trump in the primary, you will see a lot of former Trump supporters begin to say the same things about him that many of us have said for a while, because they found their new train to ride.

glad to see you back in this area. so straight up bro, what is your overall view of JD Vance? like, not taking into national politics, but just from a candidate perspective and his potential impact on our state. how do you view him?

I really hope that Trump doesn't run. He triggers way too many people in negative ways and I can't stand him.

I could live with DeSantis if he throws his hat in the ring. He has done a lot of really good things for Florida - tons of people love him and he has a lot of support.

Personally, I am still hoping for an independent or middle-ground Dem/GOP that can generate enough interest from both sides.

I'd love to see:

my body my choice
my money my choice
small federal government
love is love
term & age limits
racism/sexism is stupid
immigrants need to enter our country legally
smoke all the weed you want
own as many guns as you want
flat taxes with no deductions

I hope he doesn't run either, but he's pretty much tipped his hand at this point, although the midterms haven't exactly validated his hopes of smooth sailing.

They'd have no shot, but I'm actually hoping Kinzinger and/or Cheney run in the primaries. Either one of them, DeSantis and Trump all on stage would be some gripping prime time television, if nothing else.

I would also love to see an independent, but we as a whole still seem hellbent on a two-party system for whatever reason.

Gotta go to work, but I will try to remember to respond to this later.

I'm glad to see you back here, too. Just do what I do: have the forum open during a mundane teleconference at work so that you can actually have a valuable discussion.

lol i love the stock market throwing a hissy fit today. keep dropping so i can keep buying!

I appreciate what DeSantis has done in Florida, but I don't like his "Trump like" grandstanding and over-enthusiastic speeches. But I think much of that is for the media. I did have the pleasure of seeing him in person without all the media around and he seemed pretty down to earth.

If nothing else, it would be nice to see some younger blood in the office. It's time we rid DC of the fossils, and bring it into the 21st century.

I don't know how we do it, but we really need to enact age limits on congressional seats, forced retirement. One should not be able to serve for 40+ years.

I agree with all that. Problem is, besides owning as many guns as you want, you’ll never see any of that with a Republican in the Oval, never ever, even a middle ground Republican. And we shouldn’t have to worry about trump or Desantis. They should both be in jail by 2024.

speculation:

just looking at the current results, looks like the GOP might want to be a lot less militant on illegal immigration. latino's are coming into the country...and voting Red. those latino numbers in florida for the gop is crazy.

almost as if culturally, the only difference between latino communities and american conservatives is the european language they both speak, like i've been saying...

I - for the life of me - can't figure out why we place the future of our country into the hands of so many octogenarians and late-septuagenarians.

Because the octogenarians are doing the voting?

I really have to laugh at this GOPer red wave wipe out. trump screwed the GOP on a great opportunity. They could have done …soooo …much better if they just stepped off the trump crazy train. Lol

yea your IQ definitely higher than mine. i had to google both words cause i never heard them before lololol

Ha! I suppose that has something to do with it, especially as the Boomers age. I still can't imagine that - even with their turnout - that they'd be the controlling demographic of voters.

I don't know about all that, bro. I think I was 135 last I checked - like 15ish years ago - but all the big words and BS that I use still doesn't make up for my frequent airheadedness.

Gen xyz are notorious no shows.Especially the mid terms. But blaming the outcome of elections on the elderly is a good distraction. Nice.

j/c

I'm rather stunned. With inflation at its highest in 40 years I expected the GOP to create more of a red tsunami than a red wave. I mean if they can't accomplish that under current economic conditions, when can they? Instead it seems to have ended up more of a red faucet drip.

lmfao uhh yea, mine is 114. beyond basic hahaha

lol yikes.

Yep. That's clearly what I did. You got me!

Dude, your knack for twisting words is other-worldly.

And please, let's stay on topic.

Shows some independent thinking folks can see through the BS they been spoon feed the last 6 years.

The party that talks inflation… lol …the party that was in the Oval when inflation started to grow out of control and did nothing.
The party for a balanced budget and never balanced a federal budget.
The party for small Government and less spending that actually grew the Government and spent more.
The party of law and order is soft on prosecuting the law when it comes to their own party.
The Party of “Party over country”

Yep folks are starting to see thru the BS and the Democrats got the word out better then they thought they did.

I am too. Hopefully this pushes the center-to-moderate Republicans to rethink who they want to have be the figurehead of their party...

Numbers are just that. I wish I had your penchant and initiative for running side businesses and investments.