Joe B's take on the Midterms

9) Youth Came through for the Democrats - This is a very good sign for the future. Youth turnout was at a record high for a midterm. Not just because the the Democrats stand for things that young people care about (Student Debt, Reproductive choice), but because they have grown up in a generation where homophobia, transphobia and racism are kind of unacceptable. The Kids are all right.
 
9) Youth Came through for the Democrats - This is a very good sign for the future. Youth turnout was at a record high for a midterm. Not just because the the Democrats stand for things that young people care about (Student Debt, Reproductive choice), but because they have grown up in a generation where homophobia, transphobia and racism are kind of unacceptable. The Kids are all right.
Do you support a one party country?
 
Some ruminations on the midterms.

The Red Wave turned into a pink mist. Not since 2002 has an out of power party done so poorly in a midterm. The Republicans have lost governorships, state legislatures, and as it stands now, may only gain a handful of seats in the House. This despite gerrymandering, voter suppression attempts and massive amounts of money spent, this was a poor performance for the GOP despite all the polls.

1) Trump remains a motivator - people just do not like Donald Trump! They never liked him. If the 2022 midterms were a referendum on Trump, this would be the FOURTH time the voters rejected him. (As he lost the popular votes in 2016 and 2020, lost control of the House in 2018, and was the root cause of an underwhelming performance for the GOP this year. Yet the GOP just can't quit the guy.
Considering that the overwhelming majority of his endorsed candidates won their races, quiting him would be a colossal mistake.
I suspect there will be a very ugly civil war in 2024 as the GOP establishment rallies around DeSantis and the hard core cultist rally around Trump. :popcorn:
Doubtful. The GOP establishment loves the GOP establishment, but each member loves himself/herself much more.

If they could rallly around DeSantis, you might be right, at least that it would be a Civil War (metaphorically). But if they each go for themselves, the much more likely scenario, Trump will have a larger base now than in the 2016 primary and will simply watch his opponets drop down to single-digits if they ever get above that, and drop out.


7) Crappy celebrity candidates - Can we say we've had enough of them? Dr. Oz and Hershell Walker have no business being in the Senate. Why did you guys nominate them.
From the party that gave us Senator Al Franken, that is more than a little ironic.
 
The Democrat Party has increased the poverty rate.
They have divided Americans worse than ever.
Joe Biden is a crook, a pathological liar, a pedophile, an incester, a traitor, incompetent, a racist, an idiot and he has dementia.
Nancy Pelosi is a new level of evil.
Schumer's greed has caused an inflation crisis that is hurting Americans and destroying people's savings.
There is nothing to be proud of for the Korrupt Klanocrats.
 
Considering that the overwhelming majority of his endorsed candidates won their races, quiting him would be a colossal mistake.

The majority of "his" candidates were people running in safe districts. But the ones that he lost - Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Now Nevada - were the key ones.

Doubtful. The GOP establishment loves the GOP establishment, but each member loves himself/herself much more.

If they could rallly around DeSantis, you might be right, at least that it would be a Civil War (metaphorically). But if they each go for themselves, the much more likely scenario, Trump will have a larger base now than in the 2016 primary and will simply watch his opponets drop down to single-digits if they ever get above that, and drop out.

Ahhhh... not so much. Even Fox News is turning on him.

From the party that gave us Senator Al Franken, that is more than a little ironic.

Al Franken was actually pretty good, because he was knowledgeable about issues. Unfortunately, his own party turned on him.
 
The Democrat Party has increased the poverty rate.
They have divided Americans worse than ever.

Uh, guy, I've had the best year of my life this year. As for Americans being divided, it's just your crazy cult that is divided.

Joe Biden is a crook, a pathological liar, a pedophile, an incester, a traitor, incompetent, a racist, an idiot and he has dementia.

Wow, you have Biden on the brain, doncha?

Nancy Pelosi is a new level of evil.

Blah, blah, blah... sour grapes, buddy.

Schumer's greed has caused an inflation crisis that is hurting Americans and destroying people's savings.
There is nothing to be proud of for the Korrupt Klanocrats.

That they did pretty well is a good thing. That the best you guys can hope for is the economy will get worse says a lot.
 
Wrong. The 1st is intended to protect the church from government. Not the other way around.

Actually, it's meant to do both.

What the founders were trying to avoid was a situation where, starting with Henry VIII, every time you got a new King you ended up with a new religion.

When you start making policy based on religious beliefs, how do you handle those who don't share the same beliefs? Let's be honest, you "Christians" have been murdering each other for hundreds of years over really dumb theological issues... because church and state were combined.
 
Actually, it's meant to do both.

What the founders were trying to avoid was a situation where, starting with Henry VIII, every time you got a new King you ended up with a new religion.

When you start making policy based on religious beliefs, how do you handle those who don't share the same beliefs? Let's be honest, you "Christians" have been murdering each other for hundreds of years over really dumb theological issues... because church and state were combined.
But we are getting that now with atheistic Communism being rhe official state religion from DemocRATs
 
If Atheism is a religion.

Then "Off" is a TV station
Not collecting stamps is a hobby.

All of your whining aside, we get the government we want. You guys had a chance to offer something, and you had nothing.
It ia NOT rhe government's job to provide cradle to grave bennies. The only job is that which is outlined in the Constitution. And that include protecting the Christian faith above allnelse because it is the ONLY immutable absolute Truth.
 
It ia NOT rhe government's job to provide cradle to grave bennies. The only job is that which is outlined in the Constitution. And that include protecting the Christian faith above allnelse because it is the ONLY immutable absolute Truth.

Uh, no, guy. There is nothing about Zombie Jesus in the Constitution.

If the people decide it wants the government to provide Cradle to Grave benefits, then that's what we'll get. The people have already decided that. Even conservatives are perfectly fine with social security, Medicare, unemployment benefits, veteran benefits and other middle class entitlements.
 

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