The polls

[Grudge]

Many polls are showing that the T Party (no, not the Tea Party, the Donnie T Party) is in disfavor. People are generally not happy about the state of the economy. In Texas as well, it's quite a fight for Paxton and Abbott's futures.

But, the polls have been wrong on T before.

So, I ask you, the common men and women who are the true representatives of American public opinion, what your perspective is. What's the pulse of the situation?

[User]

the australian point of view is that america is in the toilet

[zim]

nothing surprises me anymore, half expect the republicans to win midterms. i don't know what else it would take to convince people that bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea in not on their side, he was kind of prophetic when he said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

[Lavabug]

People reelected this fucktard after he bumbled the covid response and tanked the economy once.

I fully expect no lessons were learned even if things are worse now with the war, mass surveillance and ICE brutality. Already seeing clips of knucklehead farmers complaining about going out of business saying they'd still vote for him again, even as they're reaping what they sowed and getting undercutted by bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea's deregulation and pulling of their subsidies.

Maybe the swing vote would sway things but people are increasingly using AI to guide all their decision making, and we all know what's likely going to encourage. Whatever candidates are least likely to hurt their business.

[jawn galliano]

given that we've abandoned every legitimizing pretense of empire and now openly brag about controlling global politics for the benefit of american oligarchs, i'm not entirely confident the pretenses of democracy at home have much gas left in the tank. the military leadership has been purged of everyone but loyalists, most of the federal security services too, and it's not hard to guess which side the majority of the vice squad fall on. they've got all the guns, the will to use them, and enemies and subversives lying in wait around every corner. why should they have to care what an election has to say, after all?

but who knows, maybe they're all too birdbrained and addled by surrounding themselves with sycophants and melting their brains with LLMs to actually pull it off

i don't think it's especially high odds that we see an overt coup. you kind of don't even need to anyway, because the democrats will happily institutionalize all of bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea's policies given the chance. they don't oppose the war in iran, or anything he's doing, their problem is just that it's all being run by boorish idiots. democrats just want a slick salesman like obama to convince them that supporting the savvy war criminals (who are really very enlightened; they'll let the gays in on the action) is social progress. it's not so heinous when it's the self-appointed smartest guys in the room are doing it

we've seen this all before

[Ninny]

[Verbal]

paying attention to the news is so not worth it

[Olden Polynice]

I doubt him becoming President again wasn't rigged let alone anything going forward.

It has been interesting to witness how easily influenced people are by actual serious hatred and ignorance while the really influential power players among it have shown their cards for all to see. Just full steam ahead. Where does it end? Spreading like a sickness and overriding rationality. People who just want peace becoming targets. It's bullshit.

And this album is cool

[Olden Polynice]

I wonder how that Karmablade dude is coping with the nwo transition.

[Grudge]

Brock Lesnar is gonna smash your face! The ref saved your life!

[Lavabug]

I wonder how that Karmablade dude is coping with the nwo transition.

He warned us about becoming microchip slaves. We should have listened.

If only I was born with an extra chromosome, I would be smarter.

[jawn galliano]

you can gain his powers by listening to 300 hours of treasure moment

[Lavabug]

I'm closing in on 300 hours of Nile this year, maybe that will suffice? Need a bit of Queen here and there.

[jawn galliano]

that's fine... if your only goal is to unlock the NDMG skill tree, you've got a long grind ahead pal!

[deckard]

the australian point of view is that america is in the toilet

most of the world i think

[Ninny]

Lula won And Vučić has to go

[User]

the democracy vice squad are on the beat

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Stood in line for an hour after work to do the thing.

[zim]

my line was about 5 minutes, in and out

doing my part to fund israel

[jawn galliano]

i dropped my shit in the mail last week

[Grudge]

I voted early. I wasn't originally going to vote. I have serious criticisms of the Democrats. But when I got cards in the mail from a Republican campaign telling me that they needed my help to keep "Islam" out of Texas, that really blew a fuse for me. I don't see that crap coming out of the Democrat campaign disturbing my peace of mind like that, so I got pissed off and wanted to give a giant fuck you to the T Party. And that's exactly what I did in furious anger at the voting station.

[Corpsepyre]

Good job, Immy.

[jawn galliano]

no competitive elections for me but we had a shitload of ballot initiatives and i got 8 out of 9 right, one is still a tossup but probably leaning towards being defeated. which sucks, it would impose a statewide requirement to allow building on lots as small as 5000sqft, but the townies came out in force to vote it down

[Corpsepyre]

So, where do Republicans go after Don.ald? Irrelevancy? Tucker?

[Grudge]

What would be really funny is if many of these new Dem elects turned out to be more John Fettermans

[Grudge]

So, where do Republicans go after Don.ald? Irrelevancy? Tucker?

It remains to be seen. There will be the jockying, and what we can expect is a diminished ability for the Don to appoint a chosen successor to carry on MAGA.

[Dr. Gonzo]

No matter what happens, America is resilient. We've been through much worse and bounced back.

[Dr. Gonzo]

I voted early. I wasn't originally going to vote. I have serious criticisms of the Democrats. But when I got cards in the mail from a Republican campaign telling me that they needed my help to keep "Islam" out of Texas, that really blew a fuse for me. I don't see that crap coming out of the Democrat campaign disturbing my peace of mind like that, so I got pissed off and wanted to give a giant fuck you to the T Party. And that's exactly what I did in furious anger at the voting station.

I get stuff like this too. I think its dumb.

[jawn galliano]

So, where do Republicans go after Don.ald? Irrelevancy? Tucker?

not much of a back bench as of now because the whole party has been turned into a MAGA vehicle, which now appears to be totally radioactive. the liberal media institutions love magic the gathering though, and have been very eager to help her create the perception of distance from the MAGA brand, so i expect they'll do their best to give her a leg up in the post-DT era (i don't think they will get very far with that of course)

as far as current officeholders, i really have no idea. massie? paul? i think it'll take a while for them to rebuild and are probably a non-entity for at least the next election cycle after this one. past that it's really going to depend on whether the democrats actually govern for the first time in my life

[zim]

the liberal media institutions love magic the gathering though

i don't know what that chili cheese fries was

[jawn galliano]

oh there's no word filter, everyone else addresses her as MTG so i just thought i should as well

[User]

it's a good chili cheese fries but hard to implement in the back end, would take slightly longer than normal

[Mesarthim]

This is the first time since Obama first got elected that I actually feel hope for the future.
yeah, the far-right MEGAtards are still whining and complaining, but it actually feels like there has been a massive shift in attitude within the general populous for the better.
I mean, who knew that when the economy goes to shit and everyone is suddenly not doing that well (except for a very small handful of people) that suddenly everyone cares enough to get out and vote and do so in an educated manner?!

time will tell, but things are actually looking up for once. I know my nose picks are already eyeing DNC leadership (Schumer and any and all AIPAC recipients) and are preparing to being the hammer down - in addition to what is intended to go down with all the failed republican policies and corruption. If they actually follow through, should be interesting.