Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
Never underestimate what the GQP will do to prevent anything resembling a fair election. They will purge voter registrations by the millions, gerrymander district maps to make them look like spider webs, and make registering and voting damn near impossible.
Republicans will burn the country to the ground to remain in power.
Don’t forget about rigging the voting machines!!
Or making it a felony if an election candidate ever was fined for jaywalking or some other minor transgression … perhaps even give them jailtime for it …
Trump has 34 felonies and SCOTUS forced him to be on the ballot.
And didn’t the Constitution plainly say he couldn’t legally run, but scotus is not interested in that document constraining them anymore.
14th amendment. He enacted a coup, is straight up not eligible. Scotus decided that whoever wrote that didn’t mention how it gets enforced, so whoopsies that part of the amendment is useless.
Whoa whoa whoa we can’t ruin young Republican lives over minor transgressions.
There will always be a IOKIYAR clause for such things…
It’s okay, the laws will only apply to democrats
Georgia state election rigged by Republican election officials who wiped the servers clean after lawsuit and FBI investigation in 2017.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed
And of course, how can we forget about the Florida count being decided by the SCOTUS in favor of Bush when the count in fact showed Gore winning back in 2000!
Rigging and cheating elections is nothing new to the repugs.
And I always thought it should be more telling how the USA is run when you had George Bush, president, father of George Bush, president, but apparently people can’t connect the dots.
Fun fact, ACB and Kavinaugh were both part of the legal team that got Bush that court appointed presidency. Now they are on the Supreme Court!
Wait, sorry, that’s not a very fun fact…
Republicans will burn the country to the ground to remain in power.
Why would they want to do this when each election they have a 50% fair chance of winning? The current system is as perfect for them as it could be, they cycle in power periodically through legal means
The GQP doesn’t have anywhere near a 50% chance of winning unless they cheat, get activist judges to change existing laws, and flagrantly break the remaining laws. Because who’s going to stop them, the Supreme Court?
They won elections a year ago, the chance is indeed 50%
The Republicans have literally rigged the game and are making sure they are dealt winning hands, but your feelings tell you elections are completely legitimate and there’s “a 50% fair chance of winning”.
You completely ignored my comment, deny shared reality and supporting facts, then repeat the exact same nonsense. Are you Maga?
Why do all that when you can just have ICE arrest voters in the queue?
And don’t get caught handing out water or snacks.
They’ll also start a war to remain in power. Fun.
A foreign war? They can try, but we don’t cancel elections for foreign wars, and it won’t give maga much of a boost in elections.
A civil war against Americans?
I don’t think they’d try, but if they did they’d fail. Like not just lose the war, they’d fail to start it.
Unarmed NG in a handful of cities is about all he can manage. Like, the only group he might be able to get to open fire on crowds is ICE, and even cops hate ICE more than they hate protesters.
If they thought they could do it, they’d have done did it by now.
They’ll be a last minute desperate attempt, but nothing will materialize
A civil war against Americans? I don’t think they’d try, …
History may look back and recognize that it’s already started.
It never ended. It just went cold.
Thats a pretty optimistic take. Hope you’re right, for everyone’s sake.
It’s not just blind optimism…
There a lot, like a mind-blowing amount, of various reasons the US would be impossible to occupy, especially by a domestic force.
Like even protests, if they start cracking down we can just spread out.
Stop making protest happen downtown, and spread them out in the suburbs all around the city.
Spread the cops too thin, they’ll be too scared to do anything. Especially if protesters have vest and rifles.
Sure sure more American bluster. And that’s all it is. If they do this people well not stand for it.
If they thought they could do it, they’d have done did it by now.
Were only 10 months in. They’re still warming up.
He hasn’t even been in power for a year and look what they’ve done. I would not put it past them.
Not “will”. They always have, historically.
Sometimes when the media has these extreme closeups of him and you can really see the sweat and oil pouring off his greasy hide it reminds me of the absolute diarrhea garbage pile that he must constantly smell like and being within a 2 meter radius of him must be olfactory torture.
Only if these losers can’t take it.
Why just talk about the major elections? Majority of what could be voted for was the center leaning left to far left people and measures/bills. This is even bigger than what outlets make it seem to be. Local elections matter.
My deeply red town elected all democrats into positions of power. My entire COUNTY flipped from red to blue on Tuesday. I was absolutely floored. I’m feeling hopeful for the first time in years
Same here! Congrats on the positive change!
Thank you! Congrats as well!
Course correct from what? This is what they voted for. There’s no course correction from this. Unless of course they mean something else.
Oh, I thought they meant the economy. That too, I’m sure.
maybe if they double down and do even more military in the streets and other nazi facist stuff why whining and crying about people saying they are nazis and facists. that outa make em more popular for sure.
Maybe doing stuff like stealing away things such as direct file for taxes, convenient and/or early voting, not to mention causing kids and the elderly to STARVE, and fucking up airplane travel will make them all the more delighted with the conservative “movement” (as in bowel) and the Confederate Party…
I mean, other than racism, or being completely checked out, or being in the centimillionaire+ tax bracket and in it just to lower your taxes…just why in the fuck would you ever vote for this shitty party? They always make everything much worse.
You’re underestimating the power of being soft on racism.
“We can’t win if trump isn’t on the ballot, and that’s never happening again.”
So, you built a cult of personality with an obvious expiration date. And that expiration date already passed. Lol good
I think the Democrats should fight fire with fire.
Push for Dwayne Johnson or Taylor Swift as the Democratic nominee.
Or better yet listen to your fucking voters for a change.
It would be a fools errand to fight on that level with them. Just sink our politics further into the idiocracy farce.
Your last point, though, def. Look at 2008, look at the support for Bernie. Look at AOC, mamdani. They captured the excitement and won handily. Why was that? Because hey ran on real progressive change. Which people are desperate for. But the establishment, which includes the Democratic Party, will stop at nothing to keep people like that from winning. It ruins their big club.
Remember when Harris was running, and centrists kept saying that leftists don’t vote? Remember when they said that she should keep moving to the right, to pull in republican voters?
For some crazy reason, I’ve been thinking about those comments a lot lately
Dwayne Johnson and Taylor Swift are Democrats in that they’re not actively pushing fascism. They’re still billionaires who are totally divorced from the problems an average working household sees.
At risk of sounding like I’m dick riding, Vance has all the cunning and charisma to fill the power vacuum. He’s just lacking that “too stupid to talk to” quality that most Maga voters find relatable, but given the spotlight he could probably hit those notes they like.
It kind of is good Kirk got slimed because he’s the only other I could think of that did all the poses they like and was also too stupid to be told anything.
Vance is politically quite savvy. He’s shallow and inauthentic and I think he’s smart enough to know that is a huge disadvantage following Trump. If he leans in to the memes, which it seems like he’s already doing, he’s a legitimate threat in 28. He’s built a career on being groomed by maga goons and it’s paid off so far.
Vance plays dumb, but not all that convincingly. He doesn’t radiate oafish stupidity in the same way that Trump does.
And he looks like a demonically-possessed chipmunk.
Sometimes they can’t even win when Trump is on the ballot. Seems more accurate to say that they can’t win unless a woman is on the democratic ticket.
Dems can make some huge gains if they have a working class message. Plan on holding Trump/ICE accountable for their actions and not be Israel simps. It isn’t hard. Trump and Steve Bannon keep hinting at some plan if they lose so it won’t be easy even with Trump being the worst.
Dems can make some huge gains if they have a working class message. Plan on holding Trump/ICE accountable for their actions and not be Israel simps. It isn’t hard.
you are assuming they are good people and not a bunch of fascists like their peers
I mean, yes…but I also see this as “The vampire party could be so much more popular if they came out in favor of a bloodsucking ban.”
They likely have their own objectives beyond getting elected. They might even prefer being in the losing position if “they are our only hope and we all gotta donate real hard”.
The fact that they have a golden opportunity right now convinces me of the fact that they will fumble the absolute fuck out of it. They already went to war against mamdani. Any progress will be in spite of the D party.
Did you see the part where the defacto leader of the party didn’t show up to his own press conference, so the reporters asked Bernie (who was just watching from the back) if he’d answer questions?
The Democratic establishment fought Mamdani (and progressives generally) along with Trump and the oligarchs and lost massively. Both parties are in chaos right now, because it’s obvious that money is no longer enough to win elections, even safe ones
They’re all going to be quiet for a while before the other shoe drops, hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence
Any progress is not going to come from the top of the Democratic Party down. They lead by following. They’ll slowly, and at first, probably ineffectually, react to external events. In a year or so, they’ll be claiming credit for anything Mamdani achieves. And the centrists will attempt a rug-pull whenever they get a chance.
I don’t disagree except where we are in this process
Pelosi resigned, Schumer went missing, Higgs is doing talk show circuits, and everyone turned to AOC and Bernie for comments
This was the leadership failing. The old guard has lost control of the party
They had so many opportunities to learn their lesson since 2016 and every time they have refused. I’m fully expecting them to learn nothing again.
hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence
This is the real and probably only hope. If progressives thrash the establishment dems hard enough, they’ll at least pay lip service to them.
They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best
They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama
But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all
I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t
The fail-children of millionaires who get jobs as staffers and run the party have historically burned down house before handing the keys to a progressive.
Umm… Yeah, I think that’s already happened
They threw all the money and burned through all the remaining goodwill trying to keep us from getting to what happened Tuesday
lol not yet. Wait until state parties start intentionally wasting money, deleting databases, quitting en mass, appointing republican judges, etc.
Outta the loop. What’s Cancun Cruz gotta do with this?
I’ve no clue, and wonder the same? Or is it just more dumb republican bs, scapegoating him? Doesn’t Cancun Cruz just grovel for trump?
Nah, dude’s the epitome of the Texas problem. He’s a snake and will sell his mother to save face.
No arguments there.
If true…I just LOVE that for them.
Republicans “And that’s why we to do everything we can to fuck with voting.”
I really hope we’re even allowed to have an election in 2026.
My Spidey Sense tells me he’ll start a war in the next 12 months then get the Supreme Court to side with him on postponing elections during wartime, and then we’ll stay in a permanent state of war afterwards.No. A presidential election has never been postponed … EVER. There were elections even during the Civil War.
Trump can try this route to stay in office… but he will not be president and his wartime rule will only be as strong as the guards around him. He will become a domestic threat to the Constitution if he tries to stay in office unelected.
Uh… The dude already tried to stay in office unelected. That’s what the Jan 6 riot was. He faced no consequences, and then got elected again.
The military basically removed him from power quietly after Jan 6 and worked with Pelosi to do the transition
Got a sauce for that?
Nope. When I said quietly, I meant it… This got very little media attention. Also, search is pretty much dead at this point, I can’t find shit I read a week ago - there’s too many results around Jan 6 no matter how specific I query it
But essentially, the top brass created a voicemail for trump, there’s a bunch of deleted texts between the military and secret service, and then Trump was conspicuously absent during the handover process
Didn’t stay in office tho
We will see if the guardrails hold again.
If he stays in office one day past his term he is automatically a threat to the Constitution.
That would mean violence becomes a legal and necessary option.
By that day the constitution will just be another piece of paper he wipes his ass with. Now is the easiest time to resist and stop that future, not once it’s already happened.
Big talk but nothing well happen. He’s been trouncing on your constitution gor the last year and nobody has done anything. For all the bluster if Americans that’s all it is.
I really hope we’re even allowed to have an election in 2026.
As long as the choice is a binary option between red and blue i wouldn’t be much concerned about the government taking away elections
He keeps trying to start a war. Other countries see it for what it is and mostly ignore it. Iran, Venezuela, and now Nigeria.
My money was on Trump to start a war with Iran in March or April 2026, so things were ramped up before the elections. If the expected wartime popularity bump happens then just win the election, otherwise cancel then due to war reasons.
But I guess it’s looking more like wat against Venezuela or possibly Nigeria? 🙈
first statewide wins in 30 years.
Wait what are Senators, then?
I believe they are talking about state level seats, not federal. Also, I’ve seen that it was 2006 the last time it happened, which is… not 30 years ago Bannie boy.
No, both federal level senators from Georgia are currently Democrats. Warnock and Ossoff. Those are statewide elections. Bannon is either omitting facts or mental.
They are statewide elections, Warnock and Ossoff, but they are federal seats, not state government seats.
I can see how it isn’t clear to non-USians, but each state has its own house, senate, and “supreme” or highest court that it elects representatives for at the state level, as well as the federal equivalents you are familiar with.
For example, Warnock and Ossoff, as you rightly pointed out, are federal senators elected statewide in Georgia, to represent Georgia at the federal level in DC. But there are also Georgia state senators who represent various areas of the state in Atlanta at the Georgia State Assembly.
EVERY state has this duplication of representatives for the judicial and legislative branches, and even the executive (governor = state president, if you like) though the names for the state equivalents can vary from the federal.
The way to spot the difference is that the reps will have either US or state in front of their titles, US being federal, and sometimes you have to look closely for it, but it’s always there. Also, there are zero state elected “commissioners” at the federal level, which is another clue: when you hear “commissioner” it’s either state level or a leader specific to a govt agency at any level.
Edited to add: The commissioners mentioned in the article are not state senators, they are representatives on the state’s Public Service Commission, which controls public utilities in the state of Georgia.
A commissioner in Georgia can also be county government, which is another level of possible duplication under the state level (the variation is even wider when you get down to county and city level).
To flip these seats is actually really significant, because local power structures are real, and can be much harder to ever change than even their more visible counterparts at the state and federal level.
