They have no path to win midterms, and they will run first. Funny thing is that they literally have nowhere to run. 🤣

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    The republicans have a clear path to win, the election is a toss up between the two parties at this point.

    If the Democrats just assume public anger will mean they are going to win the midterm then they’re doomed. Despite everything Republican support is holding in the polls. Things are so polarised that Republican voters will seemingly accept anything of their party rather than accept a Democrat.

    1/3 support dems, 1/3 support republicans. The key is the 1/3 of voters who are not engaged in politics or hate both parties. The only way the dems can win the midterms is getting off their arses and speaking to those voters. But rightly, those voters are fed up with the shit fest that is US politics.

    The midterms are going to be down to the wire, and sadly I wouldn’t be surprised if the republicans win.

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      Don’t forget the huge gerrymandering push to steal dozens of seats and try to force a Republican majority

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      The dems have to engage the left they have completely alienated. The people on the edge of their overton window that think the dems are a complete and total failure and also invoke Godwins law every time a GOP policy is duscussed. Instead the dems think the people they need to seek are the centerists… And well… Look what that got them last time.

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      You are absolutely insane:

      • Trump is underwater on every single issue
      • Support in his minority voting blocks that were the reason for 1% win have abandoned him
      • This Gerrymandering blshit is being put to a stop
      • Iowa, Virginia, and Nebraska are on track to flip
      • Dems have more popular polling candidates writ large in the midterms
      • The farming bloc just had a SEISMIC shift away from the GOP and will be endorsing any challengers

      Where the hell are you seeing the GOP winning anything? Even their own party is saying it’s going to be an absolute wipeout.

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        Polling is all over the place but polling can’t be trusted worth a shit. Best advice is don’t be comfortable, be nervous, vote. Some folks clearly need fear as a motivator

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        You are absolutely insane:

        I saw a lot of people say this exact fucking line the LAST TWO GODDAMN TIMES TRUMP WON.

        We need to stop making assumptions and start looking at factual reality.

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        Just the gerrymandering issue alone is a huge setback. Then you factor in the dominion voting systems sale to a trump donor. It’s gunna be a wild ride at least.

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          The Gerrymandering has effectively been shut down by Prop 50 being so popular in CA. Indiana isn’t moving on theirs, Missouri looks like it’s going to be shutdown, Ohio can’t move…etc…etc. These corrupt morons have only JUST learned what gerrymandering will actually do in their states, and they have no path to making any of this work anywhere but TX it seems, and CA has neutered that bullshit.

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    I have zero faith in the American public to do the right thing. We can blame Trump and the leaders all we want but I don’t know a single person who voted for Trump 2.0 and regrets it even though I live in an 80+% Trump district that is getting completely fucked by tariffs. As a country we are just too fucking stupid to get out of this shit.

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      Anti-democracy bots are already hard at work all over the internet, doing the usual “there is no difference between the parties and only stupid people engage in democracy” spiel.

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      I’m sorry, but Doomerism has to die.

      The only call-to-action I get from this kind of comment inspires is “give up & go home evryone; your fate is to suffer”

      My intention with my own comment is to ask people to please keep the defeatist comments to yourself.
      If you aren’t saying anything informative or supportive in Public discourse, what are you actually putting into the Public’s mind?

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        I was hopefully until the DNC decided to run Janet Mills against Susan Collins. They gave her early support and the people of Maine no other option. IMHO the democrats are throwing the election early, so not sure what’s going on in your contested district, but I’d be big money on Susan Collins win here.

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          The DNC is truely doing the bare minimum to keep up the imagine. Its not a both sides are the same, but a lot of the both sides like money and we now all know most people are fucking selfish and stupid(at least in the united states).

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          There’s a primary going on with multiple candidates and she’s currently losing in polling.

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            2 candidates that I know of. The DNC supports one and is campaigning against the other? Is there a third candidate I am unaware of and can you source the polling you are referencing?

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    I’m pretty doubtful, a month or two ago there was a poll saying faith in the DNC was at an all time low. People aren’t just going to wake up en mass because things are bad: this whole admin is just a replay of 2016-2020 but with a little extra shark jumping, and they STILL reelected Trump’s ass and put GOP in a 53 senate majority.

    Then, even if a blue wave sweeps the midterms? So what? Only 20 GOP senators are up for reelection, the DNC have 45 and 2 Independents, they can’t remove trump without replacing every single GOP an that is beyond improbable.

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      We only need to control house or senate to start reining him in hard. By 2028 the economy will be in ruins and he will be ineligible to run no matter what he says or more likely dead due to his own health problems.

      There is every reason to believe we can take house senate and presidency in 2028.

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      Remember even in his first term the GOP lost the midterms.

      His first term was bad, but not nearly as bad. We didn’t have military occupation of our own cities. We didn’t have masked men abducting people off the streets into unmarked vans. We didn’t have a trade war with practically every other country. We didn’t have massive inflation after a prior year of massive inflation. We didn’t have suspension of food security. We didn’t have farmers being undermined by all this while a huge bailout is done to a foreign country. We weren’t mobilizing our military for an apparent invasion.

      So the Democrats might have a chance. Removal from office may not be on the table, but at least some check on executive power might be exercised. We may be stuck with a PJ2025 executive branch for at least the next couple of years after that, but at least maybe there can be some mitigation. It’s at least worth a try.

      Depressingly I wouldn’t characterize the last decade of elections as being as much a Republican or Democratic loss as much as pretty much every single election being a loss for whomever the perceived incumbent of the time.

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        I’m in Maine and the democrats picked the worst challenger they could find to upset Susan Collins. Once again they have failed to cultivate a decent group of candidates to win over an important senate seat. They’re going to throw in someone loyal to the party that they can control, and it will cost them an election.

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        Notably, what you have said is the democrats are so bad that it literally takes a 100% undeniable fascist takeover to let the neoliberals rule. We gotta tear it down, man. Holy fuck. Where’s option 3? Did McCarthy truly kill it?

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    Interpol is going to nab them. They have no where to run. No one is their friend.

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      But they also fled to America. So why do people always say this? Or just typical American BS we are the best and nothing bad ever happened here.

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      They did, they will, they already are. Every single living person who is still a registered Republican, every single person who has voted for a Republican in the last 20 years is a traitor to both humanity and the American people.

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        i could almost forgive someone voting for bush, i could forgive someone voting for romney. but i wouldn’t forgive a trump voter. this is exactly what they wanted. they played the game and they deserve their prize.

        note, i would not forgive a vote for mccain. he gave a voice to the crazy wing of his party by letting palin be his running mate. if not for him, the tea party might not have happened, and we might not even have had to be in this mess.

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      They sent ice into nyc ahead of the mayoral elections specifically targeting areas that are latino, indian and Asian. I think this is them testing the tampering.

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    I mean shit, that would be the wise thing to do. I probably would too if I was worried about investigations into all the war crimes I committed, all the rights I violated, all the documented abuse and negligence, and all the humans that have died or gone missing in their fucking detention centers. Not to mention all the money they’ve clearly stolen, and contracts they’ve violated.

    I was actually thinking that’s probably the real reason Stephen Miller sold his house rather than he was threatened bc “radical leftists” wrote mean messages in chalk on his sidewalk.

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    Why would they care? Look, setting aside concerns about dem chances in 2026, or concerns about if the election is even certified if dems win, what would dems do? Oooh, subpoena, so scary. When have republicans ever given a shit? Furthermore when have dems ever actually held these criminals to actual criminal account?

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    Please. Nothing will happen because the Supreme Court will back Trump. Trump will pardon them.

    The only possible path to accountability is if Democrats take control of Presidency/House/Senate in 3.5 years. And even then I doubt anything will be done in the name of “healing the nation”.

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      We don’t have 3.5 years, the midterms are all we have left.

      In less than a year, the GOP has normalized complete fealty and disregard of the rule of law to Trump. Complete victory for fascism in the US right now is a matter of “when” and not “if.”

      Which makes the midterms (ugh, once again, I’m getting so tired of this) the most important election of our lifetimes. Assuming we can still get free and fair elections in 2026 before total fascist takeover, re-elevating Congress to an equal branch of the government is literally the only legal move we have left.

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        Honestly the whole budget crisis gives me hope that our institutions are holding up.

        Trump hasn’t “ordered” that the government reopens.

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          He doesn’t want it to open. He’s got more power without all that overview. And his goal is to crash and burn everting, so shutting g down the government help with that.

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        That is if these Nazis haven’t already fully rigged the coming mid-terms, through all the various/nefarious means.

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        If things keep going as they are (and maybe already), there’s no chance for a free and fair midterms election. The last election was the most important one and we blew it.

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          I don’t think we did. Remember when the traitors had their hands on physical voting machines and source code?

          He didn’t win. He wasn’t shot. He’s on the list.

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          I agree we jumped off the cliff. But since I’m not ready to smash against the rocks, I’m holding onto any rational hope, even if it’s akin to fashioning a parachute out of our shirts on the way down.

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            Same. Cognitive dissonance allows me to both acknowledge reality and cling to hope at the same time. You never know if it’s really hopeless until you’ve actually hit the rocks, so let’s go ahead and try to make that parachute.

            I live in a red state but I’ve still always voted so it won’t be that different for me anyway. 🥲

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      The only possible path to accountability is…

      … a fleet of guillotines.

      Edit: I don’t actually know the collective noun for a group of guillotines, or even if there is one.

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    Pretty funny theory.

    What are all these white liberals going to do when the elections are blatantly stolen and republicans galvanize their stranglehold on America next year?

    Repugs are going to lie and say they won fairly, and the corporate news media will 100% back them up on that lie. Seriously libs, what are you going to do then? Gonna just try to get em next time in ‘28?..

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      Dem voters are going to do absolutely nothing.

      They didn’t do shit when GWB created “Homeland Security” and the Patriot Act. They did nothing to stop the Tea Party. They didn’t do shit when Citizens United passed. They did nothing when Russia installed a puppet in the White House a decade ago. They did nothing when he stole classified documents. They did nothing when he was convicted of multiple felonies. They did nothing when the president’s top advisor did a sieg heil in front of the entire country. They did nothing when he started calling the national guard into US cities. They did nothing when he named The Department of War. They did nothing when he demolished the east wing…

      There is no resistance. They did 2 fucking “peaceful” parades in 4 months. US liberals are a bigger problem than MAGA voters at this point and deserve whatever they get.

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      All “normal” routes were already lost as of Jan. 20th when they took power and threw away the Constitution. With one party and the SCOTUS on their side it’ll be almost impossible to dislodge them using peaceful means. There may still be a chance to save what scraps of democracy remain at the state and local levels and try to rebuild from there but to succeed that way will take a generation or more.

      It’s irritating to see all these pundits talk about, “well, when the Dems are back in power …” They’re the ones who are supposed to know what’s going on. If they really believe it’s going to work that way, they’re in total denial.

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      Yes everyone is going to go oh no the stolen election and just refuse to admit the Democrats are unelectable. The republicans are still polling higher then the democrats.

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    As the 2026 midterm elections fast approach, …

    “Fast” approach? It already feels like an eternity since Jan. 20th and there’s still over a year to go. 😩

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        It’s amazing how fast government can be when they ignore laws, due process, and the rights of citizens

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          Yesterday I heard the news talking about how Trump’s probably gonna interfere in the election next week. They’re not even pretending like the law matters anymore