2026 U.S. midterm elections: Place your bets!

[Holy_Seduction]

eager to tear things down

. . . Reads rather like US foreign policy, right?

 

[YDB95]

Every day, the Demfucks whittle their chances in the midterms down even more.

Gonna shut down the government again and feebly try to blame the Republicans?

Thank you! The best move at the right time, geniuses.

Quoted for posterity - let's see how well this has aged in November.

That's why your team is losing. Americans really don't want a welfare state. They want jobs that pay their bills, the jobs that were outsourced or given to immigrants and indentured servants. Besides the emotional difference between making their own money and taking government handouts, they want to be done with work at the end of the work day. They don't want to spend extra time with government paperwork and sitting in government offices to get the crumbs that are left after bureaucracy takes its cut.

No one wants a welfare state. What our side is calling for is a safety net; that is really quite different. As for "the jobs that were outsourced or given to immigrants", first of all those are two very different things. Second, the reason why the latter jobs are "given to immigrants" is because no American is willing to do them, at least not for the salary on offer. Want to put a stop to that? No problem; all you need is reasonable regulations on businesses (and enforcement of those regulations) and a living wage law. But you know which side supports that and which thinks such things are communism.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Every day, Trump cooks himself for the mid-terms a little more....he's done., and he's done it to himself

 

[Chernosoth]

No one wants a welfare state. What our side is calling for is a safety net; that is really quite different. As for "the jobs that were outsourced or given to immigrants", first of all those are two very different things. Second, the reason why the latter jobs are "given to immigrants" is because no American is willing to do them, at least not for the salary on offer. Want to put a stop to that? No problem; all you need is reasonable regulations on businesses (and enforcement of those regulations) and a living wage law. But you know which side supports that and which thinks such things are communism.

We went that route of tightly regulating everything, and arrived here. More enforcement is more bureaucracy. Businesses and government will both be forced to spend only what they can afford.

The covid lockdowns destroyed huge numbers of small businesses and boosted a few huge corporations with billionaire owners. A bystander could speculate that was the designed intent of the lockdowns. Restarting and rebuilding small businesses with local entrepreneurs who think of their employees and customers as people, not things to be exploited, will be slow, but the huge retail chains and the slimy river all becoming bankrupt could nudge that along.

 

[YDB95]

We went that route of tightly regulating everything, and arrived here.

Not really. The exodus of factories overseas only really got underway in the '80s, when deregulation was all the rage. But that's beside the point. You said people wanted work that offered the satisfaction of having done your job and earned your keep, and you were right. But laissez-faire capitalism has never delivered that, and never will.

The covid lockdowns destroyed huge numbers of small businesses and boosted a few huge corporations with billionaire owners. A bystander could speculate that was the designed intent of the lockdowns.

The bystander would be wrong. Besides, there were grants available for keeping small businesses afloat, but a whole lot of Americans have been conditioned to believe government can't do anything right.

Restarting and rebuilding small businesses with local entrepreneurs who think of their employees and customers as people, not things to be exploited, will be slow, but the huge retail chains and the slimy river all becoming bankrupt could nudge that along.

Again, it was deregulation that caused those problems in the first place.

 

[RachelWalsh]

I bet it will be super orderly and fair. Lol

 

[Chernosoth]

But laissez-faire capitalism has never delivered that, and never will.

We don't have the resources and growth to redo the gilded age. Capitalism needs growth to work, so what we improvise in our decline could simultaneously piss off all types of economists, political scientists, and so on down the list of professional idiots.

 

[YDB95]

We don't have the resources and growth to redo the gilded age. Capitalism needs growth to work, so what we improvise in our decline could simultaneously piss off all types of economists, political scientists, and so on down the list of professional idiots.

Why are you concerned about pissing them off if you think they're idiots?

 

[Chernosoth]

Why are you concerned about pissing them off if you think they're idiots?

I anticipate hearty lols. If not knowledge, they can at least provide entertainment.

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
eager to tear things down

. . . Reads rather like US foreign policy, right?

I hope it's just the Trump/MAGA urges about foreign policy, not your entire nation's!

 

[Holy_Seduction]

about foreign policy . . .

As Trotsky remarked ironically in the 1920s, "America is always liberating somebody, that's her profession."

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

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maybe there is on some of the alternate earths in the multiverse lol

 

[Wilson23]

As Trotsky remarked ironically in the 1920s, "America is always liberating somebody, that's her profession."

We did a thorough job on the Philippines . . .

 

[LLCox]

democrap landslide. So it's back to the gay parade. This is why I refuse to vote, there is NO PARTY to vote FOR.

 

[73Seahawks]

US Senate seats to watch in 2026:
*Michigan (OPEN)
*Georgia
*Minnesota (OPEN)
*Iowa (OPEN)
*Illinois (OPEN): Focusing on the Democratic primary election on 17 March 2026.
*Texas (my beloved home State)
*North Carolina (OPEN)

 

[MajorRewrite]

and so on down the list of professional idiots.

The Dystopian Lunatic only supports amateur idiots.

 

[MajorRewrite]

US Senate seats to watch in 2026:
*Michigan (OPEN)
*Georgia
*Minnesota (OPEN)
*Iowa (OPEN)
*Illinois (OPEN): Focusing on the Democratic primary election on 17 March 2026.
*Texas (my beloved home State)
*North Carolina (OPEN)

Add Alaska and Maine to your list.

 

[Wilson23]

democrap landslide. So it's back to the gay parade. This is why I refuse to vote, there is NO PARTY to vote FOR.

There are third parties.
https://politics1.com/parties.htm

 

[LLCox]

There are third parties.
https://politics1.com/parties.htm

I have voted third Party most of the time. They don't know how to run. You can't wait for the campaign season to start you have to start the day after the last election day and not stop until the next election day. That goes for Congress too. You would think they would have a clue by now.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

NO PARTY to vote FOR

Know what’s mad?

This revolutionary Trotskyist has said that for decades. Some company you keep, what?!

 

[LLCox]

Know what’s mad?

This revolutionary Trotskyist has said that for decades. Some company you keep, what?!

so ?

 

[Holy_Seduction]

so ?

. . . You ADMIT to agreeing with the likes of me?!?!

Seriously, man. It’s just funny that people so far apart agree on some do fundamental — if for entirely different reasons.

Anyway, take care and be well!

 

[Celand]

Trump DOWN 30 seats in the house and 5 in the senate.

 

[LLCox]

Trump DOWN 30 seats in the house and 5 in the senate.

I hope he lives to be impeached.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

impeached

It begs to be asked, ‘why.’

It’s happened twice already. Calls for a third impeachment demonstrate its inefficacy.

I suggest stripping his immunity, removing him from office and putting him on trial for his multitudinous crimes.

At some point, it becomes necessary to recognize that calls for measures proven to be ineffective becomes a weapon to thwart effective action leading to real change.

Trump has exposed the [uppercase ‘D’] Democratic Party as the class reaction that faction it is.