The Rino's in the US government are the major issue. Incumbants usually get reelected. US Senators spend WAY to much time campaigning for corporate donors. And they end up in debt to them. NOT the states that they are SUPPOSED to represent. Thune is a classic entrenched evil POS. He's hated Trump since he appeared on the scene. AND, after the Rino's handed him the gavel, he's done EVERYTHING possible to detail the MAGA agenda. Will he face any REAL consequences for his behavior??? I don't know…I will guarantee you this, he'll be invited to plenty of democrat cocktail 🍸🍸🍸 parties.
> Not a single exit poll shows Iran or Israel as a top-four concern. The top concerns are the economy, cost of living, jobs, and tariffs.
What this misses is that the Iran war was a significant driver for the first two of those things. The price of fuel affects *everything*. It affects individuals at the pump. But it also affects the prices of things that have to be moved by truck, train, plane, or ship. It affects the prices of things that have to be manufactured with energy. It affects the prices of things that have to be manufactured with materials brought *in* by truck, train, plane, or ship.
By the time something reaches the end consumer, who had to drive their car on price inflated gasoline to get to the store to buy it, the price of fuel might well have tapped what they're actually buying three or four times.
I can agree that many people may not have been thinking to themselves, "I'm mad about the War in Iran, and so I'm voting Democrat" explicitly. But the War in Iran undoubtedly had a significant impact on voter behavior indirectly.
And while everyone wants to make the Midterms a referendum on Trump, but it my take that in reality, they were a referendum on the Republican Congress who did so little to help the President with his goals and make his policies permanent, or even explicitly worked *against* him and his goals despite the fact that the '24 election showed that those goals were popular. They couldn't even pass 80 / 20 legislation that was popular even with Democrats -- such as the SAVE Act -- let alone things that were explicitly R coded. Taking jurisdiction over immigration cases away from lower level, Congressionally created, federal courts and their judges, for example.
The results are terrible, and I don't like them, and they *are* going to have unpleasant consequences. But while the Democrats didn't *deserve* to win this year, the Republicans *absolutely* deserved to *lose*. The larger concern I have is that in being such feckless poltroons, they took down State governments with them. Texas is going to be crippled for a *long* time from these election results, if not permanently.
And FWIW, I'm aiming to be the gladiator you're looking for at the end of your post.
When Trump openly said that he no loger cares about the American people but Israel, I knew we were in trouble. I'm surprised Dems didn't run that on a loop.
You're a liar. Trump never said he doesn't care about the American people, he only cares and Israel. How does it feel to know that all your beliefs were instilled in you by foreign Islamists and communists. If anything foreigners brainwashing stupid, angry men was wildly successful. You're pathetic.
I would suggest reading about what happened in Russia after the Bolsheviks took power. Also China after Mao took over. You all seem to think that the Marxists who currently inhabit our government will be constrained by the constitution and the bill of rights. They will not. They're currently planning on changing the constitution and eliminating the bill of rights, abolishing the electoral college and going to the popular vote, adding two states and adding judges to the supreme court. Opening the borders will permanently change the demographic makeup of the country to the democrat advantage. The native working population will become the host to the immigrant population that will parasitize it under the "new" constitution.
Inflation will be a part of our economy until and unless we return the dollar to the gold standard. And as long as human beings inhabit government, you're going to have corruption. This isn't something new to the 21st century. The democrats may have campaigned on affordability but they won't deliver and they never intended to. The Marxist play is to force everyone into the same level of poverty and hardship, and then target "relief" to certain constituents for votes.
The Rino's in the US government are the major issue. Incumbants usually get reelected. US Senators spend WAY to much time campaigning for corporate donors. And they end up in debt to them. NOT the states that they are SUPPOSED to represent. Thune is a classic entrenched evil POS. He's hated Trump since he appeared on the scene. AND, after the Rino's handed him the gavel, he's done EVERYTHING possible to detail the MAGA agenda. Will he face any REAL consequences for his behavior??? I don't know…I will guarantee you this, he'll be invited to plenty of democrat cocktail 🍸🍸🍸 parties.
> Not a single exit poll shows Iran or Israel as a top-four concern. The top concerns are the economy, cost of living, jobs, and tariffs.
What this misses is that the Iran war was a significant driver for the first two of those things. The price of fuel affects *everything*. It affects individuals at the pump. But it also affects the prices of things that have to be moved by truck, train, plane, or ship. It affects the prices of things that have to be manufactured with energy. It affects the prices of things that have to be manufactured with materials brought *in* by truck, train, plane, or ship.
By the time something reaches the end consumer, who had to drive their car on price inflated gasoline to get to the store to buy it, the price of fuel might well have tapped what they're actually buying three or four times.
I can agree that many people may not have been thinking to themselves, "I'm mad about the War in Iran, and so I'm voting Democrat" explicitly. But the War in Iran undoubtedly had a significant impact on voter behavior indirectly.
And while everyone wants to make the Midterms a referendum on Trump, but it my take that in reality, they were a referendum on the Republican Congress who did so little to help the President with his goals and make his policies permanent, or even explicitly worked *against* him and his goals despite the fact that the '24 election showed that those goals were popular. They couldn't even pass 80 / 20 legislation that was popular even with Democrats -- such as the SAVE Act -- let alone things that were explicitly R coded. Taking jurisdiction over immigration cases away from lower level, Congressionally created, federal courts and their judges, for example.
The results are terrible, and I don't like them, and they *are* going to have unpleasant consequences. But while the Democrats didn't *deserve* to win this year, the Republicans *absolutely* deserved to *lose*. The larger concern I have is that in being such feckless poltroons, they took down State governments with them. Texas is going to be crippled for a *long* time from these election results, if not permanently.
And FWIW, I'm aiming to be the gladiator you're looking for at the end of your post.
Well put. Inflation didn’t just happen to come out of the blue. The Iran escapade drove it up and up.
When Trump openly said that he no loger cares about the American people but Israel, I knew we were in trouble. I'm surprised Dems didn't run that on a loop.
You're a liar. Trump never said he doesn't care about the American people, he only cares and Israel. How does it feel to know that all your beliefs were instilled in you by foreign Islamists and communists. If anything foreigners brainwashing stupid, angry men was wildly successful. You're pathetic.
I would suggest reading about what happened in Russia after the Bolsheviks took power. Also China after Mao took over. You all seem to think that the Marxists who currently inhabit our government will be constrained by the constitution and the bill of rights. They will not. They're currently planning on changing the constitution and eliminating the bill of rights, abolishing the electoral college and going to the popular vote, adding two states and adding judges to the supreme court. Opening the borders will permanently change the demographic makeup of the country to the democrat advantage. The native working population will become the host to the immigrant population that will parasitize it under the "new" constitution.
Inflation will be a part of our economy until and unless we return the dollar to the gold standard. And as long as human beings inhabit government, you're going to have corruption. This isn't something new to the 21st century. The democrats may have campaigned on affordability but they won't deliver and they never intended to. The Marxist play is to force everyone into the same level of poverty and hardship, and then target "relief" to certain constituents for votes.
Thanks Leigh, I needed to read this today. Our children’s future is not optional, we must fight and win 🙏🇺🇸