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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
“2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
And course correct means? Don’t think we’re gonna like the answer.
Figure out how to lie more effectively
That doesn’t sound nearly insidious enough.
Donald course-corrects daily. Today he’s the peace president, tomorrow we invade Aberbaijan and Albania.
I’m not against the idea of invading Azerbaijan personally especially if we ally Armenia, get fucked Turkey.
True, I reminds me of one of the only times NATO did anything good. By that I mean stopping the genocide in Kosovo.
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.
This pr0n is making me hard
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.
Bloodbath!!! Or…maybe people just aren’t into your shit? Jeezus.
The mouth breathers are used to that type of shit.
It’s the same hell and brimstone they’ve been fed from a young age so as stupid as it sounds to you, they are steeped in it.
As much as I want to believe that, there’s 36% of the country that would suck off trump and another 15% that are brain dead and couldn’t decide between Kamala and Hitler 2.0.
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.
Steve Bannon? That chucklefuck is part of the problem. He shouldn’t get a pass just because he’s not one of Trump’s besties anymore. If somehow Trump does end up in prison after all, Bannon should be in the next cell over, having to watch all of Trump’s bowel movements through the bars.
He’s back in the fold, AFAIK.
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.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
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? 🙈
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.
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.
Didn’t stay in office tho
We will see if the guardrails hold 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
He keeps trying to start a war. Other countries see it for what it is and mostly ignore it. Iran, Venezuela, and now Nigeria.
Theyre talking about a landslide defeat for the regressive scum.
I really feel like its going to be far more literal than that…
If true…I just LOVE that for them.
Hopefully he dies and we impeach and remove the entire administration
I will be ecstatic the day he dies but the traitorous orange paedo being locked up in prison while seeing his cohorts and family going through the ringer is even more delicious…then him dying of an excruciatingly painful incurable cancer would be the cherry on top.
I feel like we missed that opportunity.
Agreed.
I was quite hopeful once Jack Smith was put on the case, but that hope was soon dashed.Biden dragged his heels on the prosecution for the top secret documents thing and I solely blame him for tRUMP walking free today. The orange buffoon should’ve been arrested immediately after the insurrection attempt.
The rich have no consequences and America has always been that way. If they actually thought people would revolt they’d di something but they know it’s just got air.
Nothing well happen. Everyone well be pardoned and nobody well see any repercussions. And Dena well do nothing because we have to heal or some BS.
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!
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.
