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Schumaker and Jeffries and Pelosi aren't the problem because they are centrist .... they are the problem because they are old school, do nothing but stall the opposition, political dinosaurs who are happy milking the system as much as the R's -- although not as much as Trump who is in a league of his own there. And if you think moving to the extreme left is the answer then I can tell you know - it will be like a pendulum ... if it swings too far left it will just swing back harder and further right when the time comes.

What Dems should be doing is figuring out what they are going to do and how they are going to do it ... they shouldn't waste a moment of time talking about impeachment because that's a political process that will fail. By all means investigate the corruption and the abuse of power during Trump term 2 ... but simply provide observable, provable, factual conclusions and summaries and expose what's happened (if it's happened). Don't speculate, don't over promise, don't focus on bringing Trump down - focus on making the country better and help it recover. *** and try to put some guardrails in place to prevent the same abuse of power happening in the future no matter who is in power.

I get the feeling that everybody (not named Mike Johnston) would have bet on the Dems taking the House... Only a few were predicting that the Dems would take the Senate as well.

But I don't know anyone that thought that Texas would end up with all those state wide election wins for democrats... Yikes... And as of this writing, Mississippi is still in the Senate mix to Flip.. Alaska is still in the mix to flip a senate seat. Who would have thunk that?

Lots of excuses coming from MAGA as to why it happened. What they fail to admit is that Republicans (maga) screwed up. Trump got caught in lies over and over again., Congress got caught lying for Trump over and over again. All Republicans had was Culture Wars.

It's hard to find anything good about Ramaswamy.. I man geez,, how stupid do you gotta be spend $4 million running that ad about Actons mom... It was easy to discredit.. Just look up the police reports from that time and it all comes into focus.

Now we have Trump telling the DOJ (which isn't normal) to go after Democrats for saying we are going after Republicans for their actions? We have the AG saying he represents Stephen Miller (which of course is not normal)

We have a bunch of Idiots in the MAGA movement...

I get where you are coming from, but I don't think this is really the case. I don't think it is an intelligence issue at the root of the problem (though there are undoubtedly some individuals with deficits in that dimension,) I think it's more a case of emotional hijack. Almost a victims of abuse becoming their abusers sort of situation.

I think my problem with Christianity is that there are parts of it that I am drawn to. As a "survivor"/sufferer of child abuse, Jesus is a very relatable figure. Having your father effectively demanding that you "kill yourself"/willingly go to the cross despite your "wanting the cup to pass from" yourself is very abuse coded. Wanting to be able to love others despite what you've been subjected to feels very noble.

The problem comes from the God, the father, aspect. Ultimately, the Biblical God is effectively a narcissistic abuser. Worship me or suffer forever is something that if a human father told his child, we'd probably throw him in jail. Yet, in Christianity we/they've somehow twisted constantly being told such a thing into an act of love. Once you can rationalize that and have subconsciously integrated that into your belief systems, you can rationalize almost anything. Most are taught that young and come to believe it before they can rationally understand it.

Now, I don't claim to know the specifics of the existence of higher powers, but, if God is actually love, it seems people may have underestimated the "Great Deceiver" and have attributed his actions to the "loving God." If God can drown the majority of the human population and it be love, you can justify essentially anything. An entity of power beyond comprehension but opposed by another entity of similar power locked into some near stalemate would seem to make more sense if higher powers actually exist in a "sentient" form.

Sorry if I got too far "off topic."

Rather than Democratic or Republican parties as forces in opposition constantly pinballing between extremes, I think we need to figure out some sort of third party to bridge the two sides. The Compassion Party comes to mind as I feel like more compassion is really what our society needs, but it might be too sappy to catch on. The "persecuting" nature of the current two party system seems to lead to entrenchment and things (divides) getting worse.

I feel like as a society we're all pretty messed up. It's just a difference in how that happened and how it expresses itself. Ultimately, we all just want to feel safe, and, likely, loved.



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Well when it comes to God the Father I noticed something I found significant.

When he was young and wild he was very abusive and violent. I'm not sure where that anger originated but maybe it's when some of his angels rebelled against him.

At any rate, like a lot of people who outgrow their youth, he mellowed out quite a bit after he had a kid.

It took longer than I thought it would, but here we are...... again..............

Trump Questions Midterm Election Results After Saying He’d Accept Them

President Donald Trump on Monday directly questioned whether the midterm elections were “honest” and blamed voting machines, escalating doubts he had raised over the weekend by repeatedly sharing posts questioning Democrats’ gains. The remarks came days after Trump said he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results of an election that cost Republicans control of Congress.

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday morning. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote.”

“It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” Trump added. The president did not provide evidence in the post that voting machines had improperly affected the election results.

The comments represent a significant escalation from Saturday, when Donald Trump shared other users’ posts questioning Democratic vote totals nationally and in Texas but stopped short of himself saying the results were dishonest. They also mark a sharp departure from election night, when he acknowledged Republicans’ losses and said he would accept the results.

Later Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump shared additional posts questioning the results, including one that asked of a chart showing Texas Senate vote totals: “Does anyone believe this at all?”

Trump also shared a lengthy post claiming an unusually consistent shift toward Democrats across 59 Senate and gubernatorial races and calling for ballot-level scrutiny, including paper ballot hand counts and comparisons of poll-book records with votes counted.

On Sunday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that America had taken a "giant step back in History with the results of the last Election."

Monday’s post went substantially further by explicitly questioning whether the election was “honest” and suggesting that voting machines were responsible for the results he questioned. He did not provide evidence in the post to support that claim or explicitly say that he was withdrawing his election-night acceptance of the results.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983

Trump Shares Post Calling Texas Midterm Numbers ‘Looney Tunes’

One of the posts shared by Trump Saturday was from writer and commercial fisherman Donald Ward, who argued on X that unusually high Democratic turnout in Texas could not be explained by weak Republican participation.

Ward noted that Republican Governor Greg Abbott received roughly 100,000 more votes than in his 2022 reelection but lost to Hinojosa, who received substantially more votes than Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O'Rourke had four years earlier.

“The problem is Gina Hinojosa gained 1.7 million votes more than Beto O’Rourke,” the post said. “Those are Looney Tunes numbers.” Ward added that if the turnout reflected genuine enthusiasm, “lines should have been around the block at every polling station.”

Ward also compared Hinojosa’s total with those of Democratic presidential nominees Kamala Harris in 2024 and Joe Biden in 2020. The post called the numbers “not normal midterms numbers.”

Minutes later, Trump shared another post, this one from Kevin Bass who writes about science, nutrition, history, and politics, featuring a chart comparing the nationwide House popular vote in 2022 with projected totals for 2026.

“Republican votes stayed the same. Democrats materialized 20 million new votes,” the X post said.

The accompanying chart listed 54.2 million Republican and 51.3 million Democratic House votes in 2022, compared with projected 2026 totals of 55.6 million Republican and 70.4 million Democratic votes. The graphic itself noted that the 2026 numbers were projections based on 85 percent of the expected vote being counted and estimated remaining ballots at the then-current rates.

Neither post provided evidence that the reported results were inaccurate or the product of fraud.

Trump also shared a separate graphic highlighting the longstanding historical tendency for the president’s party to lose House seats during midterm elections. That material did not question the validity of this year’s results.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983

Trump Said He Would Accept 2026 Midterm Results

Donald Trump’s Monday remarks contrast sharply with his response as the scale of Republican losses became apparent on election night.

“I am absolutely willing to accept those results,” Trump told the New York Times on election night. “We’ll work with the Democrats, and we’ll, you know, look forward to working with them. We’ll probably work something out.”

Trump had been less definitive before Election Day, saying he would accept the outcome if the elections were “honest.”

In other election-night remarks, Trump sought to distance himself from the Republican defeat, writing on Truth Social: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

He nevertheless gave Democrats credit for their showing, telling Fox News: “I think the Democrats did a good job. I really do. They fought hard.”

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983

Who didn't see this on their Bingo card?