1 hour ago, rjshae said:

One of the first victims could be Hegseth. Republicans don't seem too happy with him, so an impeachment may even succeed. That means he'll probably be encouraged to resign before that happens.

Pete Hegseth may take fall for Republicans’ midterm losses, despite Trump support

I won't lose any sleep if that occurs.

Yeah he might become the scapegoat even though it was Trumps decision to attack Iran

Massies impeachments on Hegseth are more interesting. I just hope the next 2 years is not about the Dems focusing on impeachments because then you will find " angry lame duck " Trump and he will veto everything

That will become a waste of time and frustration for the next 2 years

^Then whos going to monitor our troops testosterone levels?

17 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

Some of you may remember me mentioning the popular vote compact a number of times as the years have gone by. Well...

Democrats have finally achieved enough trifectas in state governments to enact the pact. The current compact sits at 222/270 electoral votes, but new additions of Michigan (15), Wisconsin (10), Arizona (11), and Pennsylvania (19) would push it to 277/270. This idiotic electoral college system can finally be put to an end.

Texas has sadly missed out on this opportunity, with Democrats winning the State House but narrowly missing the State Senate. It will deadlock legislation there, but...still, with Democrats in every statewide position, I have high hopes that much good will be done there nevertheless.

But will they?

4 hours ago, Lexx said:

But will they?

7 hours ago, Gorth said:

Even worse, the immoral minority, thanks to Stinky. Ah, how the turn tables.

Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles as Trump’s White House chief of staff after GOP’s midterm defeat

Well, doubling down on noxious behavior is trademark Stinky, so I guess we're in for two more years of rampant xenophobia.

usa could still perform many act of sabotage

mass pardon for all the collaborator

escalation at middle east

blow up more ship at caribbean

fire more employee at all the regulatory agency

https://results.elections.org.za/dashboards/lge/

We just had our municipal elections and Im overjoyed with the results 

The DA the party I support did exceptionally well with taking control of 11 councils and is the largest party in almost all major cities but  no party got a majority so coalitions will be created. Except for Cape Town where the DA won by close to 60%

Overall votes were the ANC got 31% and the DA got 25%. In the last election the ANC got 46% and the DA 21% so its massive decline for the ANC 

The DA had 1 million black voters supporting it which is great news because we slowly moving away from identity politics which doesn't help in South Africa where whites are a minority and the DA is incorrectly framed as a "white" party by its detractors and that's used as an attempt to get black voters to not vote for the DA

 The racist, pro-Russia, " socialist "  and anti-white EFF only got 6% down from 10% in 2021. Also fantastic news

Other outcomes, for the first time the SACP (Communist party )  ran and they predictably were an epic failure with 2% of the vote

But overall excellent results for the DA but now coalitions will be formed which is fine 

Appointing Miller as Chief of Staff bodes well for his lame duck period

https://x.com/christogrozev/status/2119140959183368459/photo/1

Congratulations on your state kicking Boebert to the curb, @ShadySands. It was a long-time coming.

Everything I can see points to likely victories for Democrats in the Mississippi and Alaska senatorial elections, which puts them at 56 going into the 2028 elections. There's a lot of outcry for eliminating the filibuster, but it wouldn't serve much actual legislative purpose except for grandstanding since Trump would just veto. Not that grandstanding is completely pointless, as actually working on real legislation that you want to pass is good even if Trump just ends up vetoing it, but... I am guessing it probably will not happen with this particular group of senators. However, the 2028 map with a presumably unpopular outgoing Trump could very well make 60 a reality without even needing to touch the filibuster. Wisconsin's Ron Johnson and North Carolina's Ted Budd are two obvious targets for flipping, especially as both of them only just barely won their last elections in 2022 during the Biden midterms...after that, you would need two flips from some combination of Alaska, Iowa, Kansas...or South Carolina, or Florida. Hmm. Possible, depending on what the national environment turns out to be at that particular time.

It's nice to see some younger lawmakers for a change. The average senator's age is now finally below retirement age, at about 63. Woo. Praying that none of the Supreme Court justices retire during this lame duck period while they can still get replaced by Trump.

Edited Sunday at 01:26 AM5 days by Bartimaeus

3 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

It's nice to see some younger lawmakers for a change. The average senator's age is now finally below retirement age, at about 63. Woo. Praying that none of the Supreme Court justices retire during this lame duck period while they can still get replaced by Trump.

With the Dems in control of the Senate, I believe they will be in control of the SCOTUS confirmation process. That means they could return the favor for Garland.

2 minutes ago, rjshae said:

With the Dems in control of the Senate, I believe they will be in control of the SCOTUS confirmation process. That means they could return the favor for Garland.

Yes, but not during the lame duck period (i.e. over the next two months). One of them could retire now and they could very easily push through another confirmation.

Hello just dropping by to say, yeah, nice one USA, that's some semi decent voting there

Stinky says his deportation policy ‘might have been too tough’ for voters in the election

Too tough for voters? Huh.

List of deaths in ICE detention

30 deaths in ICE detention in 2026 alone. Yeah, I guess that's tough for "voters". 😕

Edited Monday at 03:46 PM3 days by rjshae

Trump's never exactly been consistent, but saying that a few days after appointing the main architect of that policy as CoS is inconsistent even for him.

Sort of funny from Mr Warrior Ethos

Democrat Scott Colom seals historic win in Mississippi Se...

Colom is the first black person from the southern state elected to the US Senate in over 140 years.

The Blue Tsunami continues with Mississippi not only going Blue but a black person winning the Senate race which is the first time in 140 years

The GOP needs some serious introspection about what went wrong, I was expecting losses but not this Midterm bloodbath

"Democrat Scott Colom has won the US Senate race in Mississippi, delivering a shock victory for the party in a deeply conservative state that has elected Republicans for decades.

Colom's victory makes him the first black person from Mississippi to be elected to the US Senate in more than 140 years.

Fewer than five thousand votes out of nearly a million counted separated him from his Republican opponent, the incumbent Cindy Hyde -Smith.

The result means the Democrats will hold 55 seats in the 100-member Senate, with a knife-edge race in Alaska still to be called."

16 hours ago, BruceVC said:

The Blue Tsunami continues with Mississippi not only going Blue but a black person winning the Senate race which is the first time in 140 years

The GOP needs some serious introspection about what went wrong, I was expecting losses but not this Midterm bloodbath

I'm not expecting much of a change before 2028. They've all drunk from the orange koolaide and anybody who might have righted the ship is no longer in office.

6 hours ago, rjshae said:

I'm not expecting much of a change before 2028. They've all drunk from the orange koolaide and anybody who might have righted the ship is no longer in office.

Yes, you also still have loyalty within MAGA to Trump like where Massie was primaried so now is not time to create obvious distance from Trump

But its inevitable and 2028 will be the beginning. It will take a Dem presidential win to put the final nail in the blind support for Trumpism

Something else I am surprised about. When Trump won 2 years ago there was all this legitimate concern and sensationalism that the USA is " over "because its now a right-wing country and its descent into authoritarianism was now confirmed

Yet these Midterms have seen a complete and comprehensive rejection of Trumps brand

But Im not seeing much positive feedback about the USA because of this outcome, not in the same way when Trump won. And elections are the easiest way to understand the current ideological reality of any country even if most voters decide to vote on issues. The optics of election results matter to most observers

Why do you think that is ?

39 minutes ago, BruceVC said:

Something else I am surprised about. When Trump won 2 years ago there was all this legitimate concern and sensationalism that the USA is " over "because its now a right-wing country and its descent into authoritarianism was now confirmed

Yet these Midterms have seen a complete and comprehensive rejection of Trumps brand

But Im not seeing much positive feedback about the USA because of this outcome, not in the same way when Trump won. And elections are the easiest way to understand the current ideological reality of any country even if most voters decide to vote on issues. The optics of election results matter to most observers

Why do you think that is ?

If you're speaking about the foreign perspective of the USA, I think it matters less because the executive powers are scarcely hindered despite the election results. He'd still free to abuse his powers and bomb whatever nation (or random boat) he feels like levelling. As for a descent into authoritarianism, the jury is still out on that one. It remains to be seen how well a more active Congress can hold him in check. We've perhaps been very fortunate that Stinky still appears to respect the decisions of the judicial branch. It could have been a lot worse.