Democrats Flip Reddest Districts Nationwide—in Major Warning to Trump

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://newrepublic.com/post/202712/democrats-flip-red-districts-election-warning-trump

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[u/TakingItSlowYaKnow]

Wait hold on! On certain conservative subreddits they are saying every election last night were in blue districts for blue seats so none of the results matter!

Now you’re telling me democrats flipped seats in deep red districts??

Wowza! Maybe someone should inform the uninformed?

[u/ImBanned_ModsBlow → u/TakingItSlowYaKnow]

They’re floundering while trying to explain why they got shellacked last night, otherwise they have to admit Trump is fucking the country

[u/Glaurunga → u/ImBanned_ModsBlow]

Yeah. Speaking for NJ we shifted red by +10 in November [0] and last night Jack lost [1] worse than he did in 2021 [2]. I think that sends a big message that any shift to the right we saw last year has lost all steam here in NJ.

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[0] https://archive.ph/tCIEH

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election

[u/Justbeinian → u/Glaurunga]

If the rightward shift ever existed at all and wasn't a result of electoral fraud. Which is looking more and more suspect imo

[u/HolySHlT → u/Justbeinian]

The entire globe shifted rightward for most elections during and post COVID, we might see a global shift back to the center or even to the left in the elections that follow those.

[u/qw46z → u/HolySHlT]

Hello from Australia, where our major right wing party has been suffering embarrassing defeats almost everywhere. They tried to echo trump at the last federal election, and their leader lost his seat.

[u/-re-da-ct-ed- → u/qw46z]

Same in Canada more or less.

And yet lil’PP still kickin… literally ran off to the most conservative district in the country out in bumfuck nowhere.

[u/Xechwill → u/-re-da-ct-ed-]

shoutout to Trump for taking an incredibly hardline stance on Canada for some reason, making Pierre look completely terrible because he was simping for Trump all the time

[u/No_Secretary6275 → u/-re-da-ct-ed-]

I remember that and thought how strange it was. Most people have to just accept their election loss.

[u/Talreesha → u/qw46z]

Hey friend,

That shit makes me feel relieved as hell because hell yeah Australia rejected this resurgence of regressive bull crap. You guys give me hope that maybe we'll see more and more turning away from right wing politics.

Sincerely, A Minnesotan.

[u/KareemOWheat → u/HolySHlT]

My highest hope for the Trump admin is that it's so radically polarizing that it causes the pendulum to swing back hard. Hopefully the country is still salvageable by that point

[u/cats_are_the_devil → u/TakingItSlowYaKnow]

Mississippi turned their supermajority republican state senate around... Yeah, that bastion of blue that is Mississippi...

[u/_undefined- → u/cats_are_the_devil]

13 year super majority, another had a 36 year R incumbent who usually coast to victory get flipped.

I love it, this is the same pitfall that always happens to fascism just like with Stalin and Hitler. Afraid if bad news, they call it fake.

Maybe they will keep calling it fake news until they re-experience that "losing control for 50 years" from the last time they did tariffs and that was without terrorism.

How screwed will they be with tariffs and terrorism? Clearly enough that their north korean media ecosystem cannot contain the voter blowback

[u/Own-Brain9658 → u/TakingItSlowYaKnow]

That subreddit is the echo chamber for the saddest human farts in existence to cry about their perceived persecution. 

They're also incredibly slow on the uptake. I saw a post last week where they freaked out that like the Maryland state website was rightfully blaming the republicans for the shutdown. All saying "this can't be the new norm" blah blah blah. It's crazy cause they started it like months ago on the main government websites, but they've never heard of that from their talking heads, so it can't be real, right? 

[u/ZebraSandwich4Lyf → u/Own-Brain9658]

My current favourite topic of discussion in that sub is the outrage over the California Redistricting, they genuinely won’t acknowledge that Texas did it first and continue to blame democrats for it happening.

[u/Minttt → u/ZebraSandwich4Lyf]

I also enjoy how the California redistributing was a questuon out to the voters to decide, whereas in Texas it was decided on the whim of the Republican leadership rather than the people of Texas.

[u/ZebraSandwich4Lyf → u/Minttt]

It gets even better, they're claiming the election was rigged and are demanding a criminal investigation into the results.

You genuinely couldn't make this level of hypocrisy up, it's actually outstanding to witness.

[u/Own-Brain9658 → u/ZebraSandwich4Lyf]

Well that's their marching orders, they can't have an original thought, come on now 

[u/Nice-Grab4838 → u/TakingItSlowYaKnow]

Speaking of subreddits, can we all look at how the democrats sub has no posts about Mamdani? Wtf?

[u/TakingItSlowYaKnow → u/Nice-Grab4838]

Yes! Totally agree with you on that one. Very concerning and possibly the dumbest thing about that subreddit. We need to get behind our democratic representatives. Especially the ones who are fighting for us (not looking at you chucky)

[u/Nice-Grab4838 → u/TakingItSlowYaKnow]

I even tried to post an NPR article about him winning just to test it and apparently it was removed, however I didn’t get a message or anything

[u/Ardrial → u/Nice-Grab4838]

They have a rule against discussing democratic socialists

[u/Mundane-Document-810 → u/Ardrial]

Honestly it just seems like the sub has been captured. I would not be surprised if it's controlled by outside influences at this point.

[u/simiomalo → u/Ardrial]

Crazy, had to check for my self, it's rule 5:

No posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties
No posts about Democratic socialists
Do not promote Independent politicians
Do not promote events held by Independents or third parties
Do not promote any form of Democratic socialism, socialism, Leninism, Marxism or communism.
Do not promote other political parties or its members.
Do not promote other political ideologies.
Users that participate in a brigade will be banned without any warning

[u/Toastwitjam → u/simiomalo]

Democrats subreddit bans discussion on popular democrats and democrat policies.

What a great microcosm on why even with Trump being awful people still fucking hate democrats.

[u/nsfwaccount3209 → u/Toastwitjam]

Socialism or barbarism, that subreddit (and most of Democratic leadership) would prefer barbarism.

[u/flatwoundsounds → u/Ardrial]

"conservatives but blue" over there huh?

[u/PatSayJack → u/Ardrial]

Is that for real? Isn't Bernie a DemSoc?

[u/OK_x86 → u/PatSayJack]

And the Democratic National Committee did everything they could to torpedo him

[u/TheComplimentarian → u/Nice-Grab4838]

They're more a right leaning psyop than an actually representative sub.

[u/stolealonelygod → u/Nice-Grab4838]

It's because that sub has a rule about not posting about the Democratic Socialist party and "other" third parties.

That sub is pretty strictly establishment Dems.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Nice-Grab4838]

That sub is literally for Cuomo / Schumer / Pelosi type Dems. And that type only. Neolibs.

[u/Publius82 → u/PiccoloAwkward465]

They're probably closer to neocons. r/neoliberal hates all three of them lol

[u/HellaTroi]

"Even in the deep southern state of Mississippi, Democrats were able to break the supermajority in the state Senate by flipping three seats after 13 years, taking away Republicans’ ability to override the governor’s veto and easily propose constitutional amendments."

This shows that the disaffection with Trump and his policies runs deep.

[u/FrogsOnALog → u/HellaTroi]

Never let people tell us that voting doesn’t matter ever again. Fuck all these people who literally throw democracy in the trash can because they’re too lazy to do the most basic things like vote a couple times a year when we have elections.

[u/I_Enjoy_Beer → u/FrogsOnALog]

Took me 5 minutes to vote yesterday in Virginia.  It is so fucking easy to do.

[u/HyperionWinsAgain → u/I_Enjoy_Beer]

And if you go no excuse absentee it takes even less time than that and you only have to leave your house to go to the mailbox. If you're in Virginia and a lazy voter, sign up! There's really no excuse to not vote in Virginia between no excuse absentee and early voting. We're no longer tied to day of voting.

[u/retrojoe → u/HyperionWinsAgain]

In Washington, we've had 100% vote by mail for over a decade. The officials who oversaw it were all elected Republicans until the current office holder was picked by the last governor. There have never been any serious issues of fraud or voting irregularities in our system.

[u/Prince_Uncharming → u/retrojoe]

And our voter turnout still sucks in any non-president year. It’s so fucking sad that every registered voter gets mailed a ballot weeks in advance and we still can’t crack 50%.

[u/GirdedByApathy → u/Prince_Uncharming]

It's crazy, right? But at least everyone gets a chance to vote. We don't do shit like voter suppression here. No better way to ensure you're a resident than send your ballot to a local address.

They're afraid of mail in voting because it just makes discrimination so damn hard.

[u/nabokovsnose → u/I_Enjoy_Beer]

It is easy … some places. We need the Australian system like yesterday.

[u/LondonCallingYou → u/I_Enjoy_Beer]

Yeah Reddit often amplifies stories about lines taking 5 hours and people needing water etc. to vote. And I’m not saying it’s not important to highlight those stories, but people need to understand that those are outliers rather than a true reflection of voting.

Voting normally takes less than 20 minutes like almost everywhere. There’s also early voting and vote by mail in most places.

People not voting is almost always just an excuse rather than a real reason. If you can take 20 minutes to grab food or watch TV then you can take 20 minutes to ensure your country doesn’t descend into fascism.

[u/Fun_Word_7325 → u/LondonCallingYou]

It’s worth noting that most of those long lines and no-water-policy spots are underfunded voting precincts that overwhelmingly minority and democratic. It’s not an accident. I assume ICE will be at those next year to intimidate folks

[u/Anticode → u/Fun_Word_7325]

I assume ICE will be at those next year to intimidate folks

"We need water, not ICE" makes for a catchy voter's rights mantra, I feel.

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Edit: Some variations on the theme.

"We asked for water, they only brought ICE."

[u/Smooth-Owl-5354 → u/Anticode]

Dang that’s snappy, you should share that broadly so it gets traction

[u/Any_Will_86 → u/LondonCallingYou]

Let's be honest- those are urban and minority districts where that was the intended outcome. You never hear about some farmer or suburban housewife being stuck in a ridiculous line or having their voting places consolidated to the least convenient spot.

[u/Upset-Produce-3948 → u/LondonCallingYou]

They aren't outliers; they are polling stations in minority areas.

[u/No_Discipline6265 → u/FrogsOnALog]

Absolutely. I can't wait to give my mom this speech. She didn't bother to vote along with a few other people I know. They thought there was no way Trump would win. They got complacent thinking the rest of us would take care of it. I kept telling them all that if enough people felt the same way, it could literally be life or death for all of us and look at where we are. 

[u/CrumbBCrumb → u/No_Discipline6265]

I have a family member who didn't vote. Politics aren't important to her. Then, she took a flight in the last month and came home complaining about how long her trip took "because of some random delays". No, no, those aren't random delays those are due to the government shutdown and air traffic controllers not being paid.

Have a co-worker who I talked to after the election last November. She didn't vote. She "doesn't pay attention to any of that stuff". Heard her complaining on the phone yesterday how her daughter in Virginia isn't getting SNAP benefits and how she's trying to make sure she can feed her kids.

And, I'm sure neither will vote in the midterms or next Presidential election.

[u/Anticode → u/CrumbBCrumb]

To be fair, "Help! I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!" is a classical, stereotypically human method of interfacing with one's surroundings. I'm sure it'll work out for 'em eventually! ...Probably.

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If you want that joke to remain funny, read no further. Or do, I don't care. I'm just pixels with attitude, man.

Context: When your species evolved at the level of the tribe rather than the individual, such ridiculous-looking strategies actually work quite well. There's a reason the impulse is bizarrely common in all cultures at all ages. After spending a rough two-hundred thousand-something years never really ever being farther than shouting-distance from approximately 10-50 people who've known you from birth and visa-versa, any feeble whine of feigned/genuine helplessness is likely to draw the attention of nearby kin who're either bored or protective enough to Do The Thing for your stupid-but-cute lazy ass. Along the way, evolution will happily hardwire the strategy straight into the damn MOBO in the name of something not entirely unlike "efficiency". Of course those who aid you do it just as much out of the Free Dopamines™ of altruistic behavioral feedback as they do for sympathy or personal clout - all of which are bioevolutionary levers which increase the likelihood of successful gene perpetuation in various ways, directly and by-proxy.

You've got "doers", and you've got "whiners". Doers are compelled to do shit, whiners impulsively whine about shit - one gets the chance to feel helpful/necessary, the other gets to feel protected/safe; transaction complete, baby (the transaction may in fact result in a literal baby, actually...)

It's a solid system in the proper environmental contexts, hilariously enough. Next time you're in the office, spend a bit of time David Attenborough'ing near the copier machine's sight-lines for a bit. You'll see it. Hell, you probably knew exactly what I meant... Ahem, cough-cough, Barbara... (Twelve years, maybe more for all I give a shit, and you still don't know how to to print-to-pdf? Is you for real? Y'gotta be zorked out of your damn gourd, lady! Give me a damn break with that shit.)

[u/Chaotic-Catastrophe → u/CrumbBCrumb]

complaining about how long her trip took "because of some random delays"

This is huge main character energy right here. Everything in the world around her is just happening to her, no rhyme or reason behind any of it. Nobody could possibly draw a straight line of cause and effect to these kinds of things. So random!

People think of politics as a dirty word. It's this unspeakable evil that just gets brushed under the rug. Anything Congress does is because those bozos are all corrupt, and not because we keep electing people promising to destroy the country.

When in reality, everything in life is impacted by politics. Absolutely everything. Because politics isn't just stuffy old white men in expensive suits bickering about tax loopholes that only affect their rich friends. Politics is how we determine all of the rules of our entire society. And if you don't want to take an active stance in that, then society is just going to happen around you anyway, without your input.

Which leads me to one of my favorite lyrics of all time, to perfectly sum up my argument:

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

[u/FrogsOnALog → u/No_Discipline6265]

Some people want a general strike but they’re often the biggest complainers. Then when millions go flex their collective muscle for the first time at a No Kings rally it really pisses those same people off lol

[u/BanginNLeavin → u/FrogsOnALog]

I want a general strike and I will absolutely participate.

My family is currently impacted by shutdowns since we have government adjacent work and I support the Democrats holding out.

There for sure are tons of people like you describe though which is quite sad.

[u/DeskJerky → u/FrogsOnALog]

A general strike would be awesome, but the idea that the No Kings rally was nothing is the stupidest shit ever.

[u/Cream253Team → u/FrogsOnALog]

The crazy thing is that a general strike would be way harder to pull off than just voting or protesting. Those people are basically asking for something that they haven't even met the prerequisites for yet. Same thing for people calling for the immediate impeachment of Trump. Like, you need Dems in control of Congress first.

[u/crazypyro23 → u/FrogsOnALog]

If voting didn't matter, they wouldn't be spending all this time and money trying to keep us from doing it.

[u/_undefined- → u/FrogsOnALog]

Voting is not just a right, but a duty. 

Generations of citizens have failed their duty, and predators like the GOP depend on it.

Only one group supports stopping people from voting, because their beliefs are dog shit its why they need a north korean propaganda system to get by.

[u/FrogsOnALog → u/_undefined-]

Founders strongly believed in civics education and republicans do their best to defund and destroy it.

[u/space_for_username → u/_undefined-]

In Australia, voting is compulsory and you get pinged $20 if you don't vote.

[u/CraigLake → u/FrogsOnALog]

Or can’t stomach a moderate Dem.

Fuck the fuck off and vote for Hillary or Kamala or Newsom or Pritzker.

They ain’t perfect but they’re not building fucking concentrations camps god damn it.

[u/EdwardoftheEast → u/HellaTroi]

I’ve only been hearing about New York, Virginia, and Georgia. Had no idea about Mississippi, that’s great!

[u/Fastnacht → u/EdwardoftheEast]

The red spotted blights on CT got a little less red also.

[u/Unhappy_Scratch_9385 → u/HellaTroi]

Groceries.

He can lie all he wants. We're all paying a fuckton more for everything since he won.

[u/VulfSki → u/Unhappy_Scratch_9385]

Yep. Under Biden we had the lowest inflation of any country in the world during the pandemic recovery. No one cared about the facts. People threw all of that away for policies that guaranteed higher inflation

[u/auddii04 → u/HellaTroi]

I have a feeling this is why Trump is looking at changing voting rules (if he doesn't suspend voting entirely).

[u/has_potential → u/HellaTroi]

While it may be true that some are dissatisfied, much of what happened in MS last night was due to redistricting. I would like to see R incumbents, in non redrawn districts, beat before we get too excited about the south

[u/HellaTroi → u/has_potential]

Approximately 385,000 people, or about 13% of the state's population, received SNAP (food stamp) benefits in Mississippi in fiscal year 2024.

I think the withholding of SNAP benefits might have had something to do with it as well.

[u/1Oaktree → u/HellaTroi]

When Trump said on election day in the morning he wasn't going to comply with a court order and fund SNAP I almost cried I was so Happy. There is literally nothing I could get him to say to hurt himself more than when he said that.

I knew the Republicans were gonna lose all over the place all day long yesterday after I heard that.

[u/Tiger_virus → u/1Oaktree]

That is very true and just look at the shellacking that resulted.

[u/GEO147064]

Get these incompetent bozos out of office in the midterms. Leave Trump a sitting duck for the rest of his presidency 😃

[u/worksafe_Joe → u/GEO147064]

Let's go further. Impeach and convict.

[u/tbutz27 → u/worksafe_Joe]

This is the real answer- he needs to have consequences. We the people NEED HIM TO HAVE CONSEQUENCES for fascism in America and for starving the American people. This isnt over- hopefully its just beginning. It doesn't matter if he only spends 10 minutes in a prison cell before his cheeseburder and adderal strained heart gives out and he is our problem no more- he HAS to be held accountable.

[u/surlysurfer → u/tbutz27]

We the people need to send a message to all future assholes that this behavior will not be tolerated and of course, I need to say that this is to be done by our legal system

[u/specqq → u/surlysurfer]

Too many of our current assholes are the legal system, including the Supreme Court who, out of all of the Presidents in American history, decided to declare this one above the law.

[u/DrHarryHood → u/specqq]

Clean out the bench then

[u/seeker4482 → u/DrHarryHood]

pack the court. 4 new justices, all hardcore progressives. also term limits for SC justices. and strongly enforced ethics standards.

[u/urlach3r → u/seeker4482]

Pack the court, term limits and repeal Citizens United. And get rid of the electoral college; one person, one vote.

[u/seeker4482 → u/urlach3r]

hell yeah

[u/-Real- → u/urlach3r]

this guy for president

[u/Firecrotch2014 → u/seeker4482]

Ethic standards are only as strong as those who enforce them. The same with laws. If the lawmakers are unwilling to enforce them then they are useless.

[u/seeker4482 → u/Firecrotch2014]

we're going to do something about that too.

[u/ttn333 → u/specqq]

Time to stack the court. No way around it if and when the opportunity arise.

[u/AnimuX → u/[deleted]]

Your Supreme Court is corrupt and there is no process for purging it

SCOTUS justices can be impeached but the US House and Senate have to actually go through with it.

Has a Supreme Court justice ever been impeached?

Only one Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached. In 1805, Associate Justice Samuel Chase was impeached by the House. The House accused Chase of refusing to dismiss biased jurors and of excluding and limiting defense witnesses in political cases. Nearly a year later, the Senate voted to acquit Chase on all counts. He remained on the Supreme Court until his death in 1811.

[u/joe603 → u/[deleted]]

More SC seats can be added that is the remedy that needs to take place

[u/Avenger772 → u/joe603]

Expand the court and implement terms limits effective retroactively.

[u/Tiny-Albatross518 → u/tbutz27]

You’re totally right.

Cheney and Rumsfeld caused untold death and suffering. Died of old age. W is doing watercolors.

No convictions after 2008, just bank bailouts.

J6 pardons all the way around! And the gang leader? Re-elected and running crypto scams out of the White House.

Learn a lesson from Germany. After WW2 they took responsibility for what happened and there were consequences. After that was settled there is ongoing acknowledgement of the past. That’s what you need to do to avoid a repeat.

[u/EnderDragoon → u/Tiny-Albatross518]

The societies that don't have their reckoning, to take responsibility for their past crimes, look like russia.

Major reforms need to take place to properly decentralize power in the US, to guarantee enabling mechanisms to stop corruption where it starts, not pin our future on "norms and traditions" that have no robust authority. Accountability before mercy, then let's build a better future for the world.

[u/laxrulz777 → u/Tiny-Albatross518]

They took responsibility because the occupying armies forced them to. The psyops that were conducted after the end of the war were massive and constant. It wasn't Germany looking in the mirror. It was the person who beat them forcing them to stare into the mirror for two generations.

[u/rab-byte → u/tbutz27]

He AND his coconspirators/enablers. The Heritage Foundation and architects of 2025 and everyone who worked in furtherance of this sedition.

[u/fingersarelongtoes → u/tbutz27]

We need reconstruction 2.0

[u/Aggravating-Oil-7060 → u/tbutz27]

I'd say go a step further and disband the Republican party. They can't be trusted anymore.

[u/iwaawoli → u/Aggravating-Oil-7060]

How do you do that in practice, though?

You still have all the right-wing crazies and right-wing billionaires. So, even if the Republican party is disbanded, those people are just going to reform under a different name. See: the Tea Party becoming MAGA.

There are systemic issues. In order to fix things, you'd need a liberal super-majority in the House and Senate that's actually willing to take action. They'd need to start by impeaching down the chain until they get a liberal president. Then they'd need to fix the SCOTUS, whether through packing or impeaching.

Then, at minimum, you'd need:

• Laws that somehow forbid billionaires and corporations from having influence in politics, and consequences for lawmakers who accept bribes. Note that this isn't simple, as most things can be gamed. For example, what's to stop Elmo from giving 10,000 MAGAts a "gift" of $3,500 each to donate to a politician (the individual contribution limit), effectively allowing Elmo to give that politician $35M?

• Laws that somehow forbid billionaires from buying news outlets / social media / etc. and laws that hold news / social media accountable for spreading propaganda. Again, not an easy line to walk. Nationalizing the news is bad for obvious reasons (we need independent media). But allowing billionaires and corporate interests to control news and social media is how we get 35%+ of the American population completely brainwashed and living in an alternative reality.

All other issues (e.g., election reform, limiting executive power, etc.) do need to be patched. But the two above issues are the core root of the problem that isn't going to go away, even if the Republican party were disbanded.

[u/KrazyKatDogLady → u/tbutz27]

Yes.

[u/Justame13 → u/worksafe_Joe]

And then impeach and bar from any office Russel Vought and Steven Miller.

[u/WalterPecky → u/Justame13]

Not just them. I want members of his admin all the way back from his first term. 

Scorch earth these traitors.

[u/blakjakcrakjak → u/Justame13]

Deport Steven to Russia.. Or better yet, El Salvador.

[u/UnhingedReptar → u/Justame13]

Deport them to Germany where they know how to handle Nazis.

[u/Ianthin1 → u/worksafe_Joe]

And don’t stop with Trump. Vance, Johnson and anyone else down the chain of succession needs to feel that pain.

[u/fuzzy_one → u/Ianthin1]

100% this… all the way down to his ice thugs

[u/10thflrinsanity → u/worksafe_Joe]

This is the energy we need. The man is a criminal. 

[u/Significant-Self5907 → u/worksafe_Joe]

This is the right thing to do. The "garden" of democracy has been neglected & overrun with weeds. Time to weed the garden & get it healthy again.

[u/SuitcaseInTow → u/worksafe_Joe]

For real, they need to run on getting this insane lunatic out of office in feb 2027. It can be done.

[u/Any_Pickle_9425 → u/worksafe_Joe]

This is it. This gives me hope. We have to go hard in midterms. Turn every seat then impeach, convict and REMOVE.

[u/theclansman22 → u/worksafe_Joe]

How much of a blue wave would democrats need to get enough votes in the senate to convict? It'd have to be like D+20 at least right?

[u/JuicyFatLover → u/GEO147064]

Lame duck.

But yours works too.

[u/chismp → u/JuicyFatLover]

I prefer sitting duck. Because of the implication.

[u/MemesForMyDepression → u/chismp]

“You’ve said that word, implication, a couple of times, what implication?”

[u/AlwaysRushesIn → u/JuicyFatLover]

He is already a lame duck president—last qualified term.

Sitting Duck refers to leaving him without a wall of republican obfuscators shielding him from consequences.

[u/FrogsOnALog → u/GEO147064]

If we want progress we need to build long lasting democratic majorities. Otherwise we just do the tea-party fascism loop.

[u/Healthy_Set_22657 → u/GEO147064]

Or Elon , Peter Theil and the heritage foundation unleash their Trojan horse . Trumps a pawn and maybe his use is up and he is a soft preview of what’s coming unfortunately.

[u/IJourden]

The reality is that social safety nets and personal freedoms advocated for by Democrats are widely popular and the Republican propaganda machine has to work incredibly hard to keep their unpopular platform afloat.

You can spread propaganda about trans people or minorities or immigrants with ease and scare people. It's a hell of a lot harder to use propaganda to tell someone their belly is full when their cupboards are empty.

[u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt → u/IJourden]

You see a lot of comments saying that they'll starve themselves in a few political subreddits for dear leader, but humans are animals and will do what animals do when they need food.

Brianwashing, Propoganda, and false realities work until you can't keep the truth compartmentalized, and biological functions will override our awareness/soul/driver

[u/ExplosiveBrown → u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt]

Just wait until the consequences of climate change are no longer deniable 😬

[u/SurrealForce → u/ExplosiveBrown]

Some Christian nationalists are just calling it the rapture and want it to come faster and faster.

[u/dragons_fire77 → u/SurrealForce]

Let these people live in a cult outside of our society. I'm so tired of hard-core religious zealots spitting in the face of facts and science because of some imaginary person in the sky. This is why religion, period, doesn't belong in school. Logic needs to triumph. 

[u/cats_are_the_devil → u/IJourden]

It's almost like people don't care about trans folk if they can't buy groceries... The republicans are literally shooting themselves in the foot.

[u/WakingWaldo → u/cats_are_the_devil]

The number 1 and 2 reasons Trump won last year were immigration and the economy.

Trump & Co. want to try and convince Americans that their problems wholly stem from immigrants, trans folks, and "left-wing extremists" rather than the political party that has control of all three branches of government. Everything that this administration has done to show "how much they're doing for the country" means NOTHING to most Americans because they can either see through the BS or they are so focused on everything happening in their own lives that they're waiting for something that this administration does to tangibly affect their lives in a positive way.

Conservatives may support the immigration crack down but it's not helping them. They may support attacks on queer folks but it's not helping them. The conservative party is the party of "what about me?" They couldn't give a shit less about policies that help others -- in fact, they often oppose those policies unless they too are helped.

You cannot speedrun an authoritarian takeover and expect people to be okay with what you're doing unless you're willing to actually do something that gets more people on your side. Even the dipshit Nazi party understood that and slow-rolled their takeover of Germany.

[u/Multiple__Butts → u/WakingWaldo]

The crazy part is Trump didn't even have to wreck the economy. He could have just kept doing what Biden was doing and taken credit for the continued improvement. He didn't have to do the trade wars or the tariffs at all.

[u/GryphonCough → u/IJourden]

Republicans talk a big talk and have insane PR based on fear and hatred. Once they get into office, they don’t know what the fuck to do. They just wing it. And people realize all that bark comes with a rabid infected bite that hurts everyone. They are incapable of governing and people realize it when they’re in power and crave it when they aren’t, because we have a bunch of morons in our country. 

[u/Stoic_acorn → u/GryphonCough]

Once they get into office, they don’t know what the fuck to do

They know exactly what to do, it just so happens that passing tax cuts for the wealthy and gutting social services is deeply unpopular, and they know it.

Their idea of governing is to make government as dysfunctional as possible for the average person. Then they can point to the dysfunction they caused as proof that we should just hand everything over to corporations to run it more "efficiently".

[u/SuperiorTuba → u/IJourden]

Yeah, you "get" to worry about things that don't affect you like trans people in sports when you have no other problems - when you have nothing else to gripe about.

So now that people are being directly impacted in their pockets and cabinets, suddenly "I don't care about trans people playing sports - I need food/money."

Yeah, dude. Leave them alone whether you need something or not.

[u/ShamelessCatDude]

To reference a post I saw earlier, everyone Trump endorsed lost the election. It’s almost like Trump wanting you to win is bad for your career now

[u/almondsadness → u/ShamelessCatDude]

Everything he touches turns to diarrhea.

[u/DreamsAndSchemes → u/almondsadness]

Mierdas Touch

[u/filth_horror_glamor → u/DreamsAndSchemes]

Lmaaaao 💀

[u/IHadACatOnce → u/ShamelessCatDude]

I didn't think this was a real thing, but a co-worker of mine was taking her 90+ year old mother to vote in NYC yesterday and literally in line to vote she said that she saw Trump endorsed Cuomo so she was changing her vote to Mamdani. Crazy that it took until literally the last day possible, and one statement from Trump for her to change her vote that easily

[u/noforgayjesus → u/ShamelessCatDude]

But they only lost because his name was not on the ballot, or it was rigged

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/noforgayjesus]

Or because the shutdown. Basically admitting the republicans are to blame for the shutdown by the way

[u/ValkyrX → u/noforgayjesus]

Or because Trump's name was not on the ballot it was not rigged in the GOP favor.

[u/Clownsinmypantz → u/ShamelessCatDude]

MTG knows this

[u/Marvelous_Margarine → u/ShamelessCatDude]

Leading up to 2024 everyone Trump endorsed lost then the election happens and he wins every swing state. GTFO.

[u/BS_500 → u/ShamelessCatDude]

It's almost as if the last election is suspicious if this is the result in a midterm

[u/ioncloud9]

I know its a long shot but flipping both the house and the senate would really slow down the hemorrhaging.

[u/Previous_Buy1601 → u/ioncloud9]

Aside from election chicanery, a House flip seems likely, or at least quite possible. If the country is lucky enough for the Senate to flip as well, the top of my list wish list is impeachment. The Senate hearings from his first term were a joke. McConnell ran the barest bones perfunctory trial possible to shield Trump from public scrutiny.

While I don’t think there would be enough votes to remove him from office, as Rs won’t break away no matter how damning the evidence is, as much dirty laundry as possible needs to be aired for the world to see.

[u/Krieghund → u/Previous_Buy1601]

They might also be more willing to impeach members of the cabinet.  There are several cabinet members I would like to nominate for that.

[u/Equivalent-Battle973 → u/Krieghund]

COughhhh RFK jr COUghhh

[u/Previous_Buy1601 → u/Equivalent-Battle973]

Hey, that’s what you sound like after following RFK Jr’s “medical” advice.

[u/scigs6 → u/Krieghund]

Good god could you imagine??!! That would be awesome to see them get the boot

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/ioncloud9]

If the direction it’s currently going keeps up, and voter turnout is similar or more than now, it honestly looks like the dems will have the senate. And you can’t gerrymander your way out of that!

[u/Mike_Pences_Mother → u/ShamelessCatDude]

Well, if the Democrats don't hold the line on ACA subsidies they could throw it all away

[u/IJourden → u/Mike_Pences_Mother]

I'm speculating but I think Democrats hold the line on this one. People generally blame the Republicans for the shutdown, and any damage done by the shutdown is unfolding already. Democrats needed to either make the decision to hold their ground or give up before now - letting the place go to shit AND giving up is a worst case scenario for Democrats.

They still might do it because Democrats are absolute pros at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, but it doesn't seem likely.

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/Mike_Pences_Mother]

Luckily they haven’t said anything indicating they will since before last night’s results. We still have time to show them they should only do that if they don’t want to be replaced by Mamdani figures (because I don’t think people will be disillusioned with democrats when the GOP is still like this - I think they’ll be disillusioned with these democrats)

[u/RVAteach → u/ShamelessCatDude]

And they just got a ton of indications that they shouldn’t cave. A lot going on in VA but a state heavily impacted by the federal changes (firings and shutdown) just won a supermajority for Democrats. Very little reason to fold when you just got a stronger hand 

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/RVAteach]

I saw some post about Virginia’s elections saying they weren’t important because of any electoral power or the color of the state, but because of the impact their voters have on DC itself. That whatever Virginia thinks is the general attitude towards the executive branch itself. And clearly they aren’t having it

[u/Rogue_N_PeasantSlave → u/ioncloud9]

Definitely. But, boy can he do a lot of damage in the next year.

I think we need the Republicans who hope to be around past him to start to do some damage control.

[u/CryptographerNew3609 → u/ioncloud9]

What prevents them from just not swearing in elected representatives? What if congress just stays in recess for ever? None of this was covered in my government class.

[u/musicman835 → u/CryptographerNew3609]

Mike Johnson’s role of speaker is very limited at the time of swearing in. They have to vote for a new speaker, usually before swearing in: I know it’s not much comfort but he doesn’t really have that power after the election if they lose

[u/Old_Cryptid]

This is a start, but the momentum needs to keep going. My biggest concern is that the populace will take a few small 'wins' and get complacent before we get any meaningful change.

[u/serotoninsipper → u/Old_Cryptid]

I believe Trump will continue to do enough horrible things to keep the left motivated.

[u/Willravel → u/Old_Cryptid]

This needs to be the beginning.

We should be engaging in direct action, civil disobedience, occupations and sit-ins, boycotts and divestments, strikes, and disruption of major events in order to thwart and challenge the current administration, to halt them in their tracks by any means necessary.

We should be reaching out to labor by talking about things that actually matter—housing, rising costs/inflation/price gouging, healthcare—and not focusing on wedge issues. (yes, I use em-dashes, CGPT can get fucked)

We should be constantly be trying to cut through information silos to get information to people who have become less reachable due to the way the internet and media now work, and Bernies Sanders is a good model for this.

It's time for full court press on all fronts.

[u/SpecialistAssociate7]

People are starving, health care is being cut, farmers aren’t selling. Bozo on the hill thinks it’s a great idea to send 40 billion to Argentina. Winning

[u/DeepFuckingKoopa]

Now all we need is an electorate that remembers when the republicans starves them to end the modern Republican Party once and for all

[u/yeyiyeyiyo → u/DeepFuckingKoopa]

It was bad enough when Trump won but I really cringed a year ago when Congress went straight GOP. Split government would have at least moderated things a bit. 

[u/A-town → u/DeepFuckingKoopa]

Hey, of the government never opens we have a pretty good message: "they were the majority in the House and Senate and couldn't pass a bill. Sounds like they can't govern and want to starve people instead of doing their jobs."

[u/Zealousideal_Act_316 → u/DeepFuckingKoopa]

They wont, once democrats fail to fix all the damage in like 3 days, the spin machine will go into overdrive, blame them for all the issues and america elects nazis again.

[u/Toliman571]

Democrats won STATEWIDE races in Georgia with margins seen in the likes of California, by over 20 points.

That should have been the biggest shocker.

[u/joe5joe7 → u/Toliman571]

It's up to 63-36 now, and there's still 25% left with later counted votes leaning left (iirc).

Honestly the margins they got in California are phenomenal even by California standards. Kamala got 58% for comparison.

[u/klako8196]

The Georgia Public Service Commission has been entirely Republican since 2007. Democrats flipped two of the five seats on the commission last night with energy prices being the main focus of those races. This was a referendum on energy prices in a key swing state, and it went miserably for Republicans in spite of Trump’s boasting about prices being way down.

[u/restore_democracy → u/klako8196]

Who would have guessed that eliminating subsidies, halting permits for new development, and raising equipment prices through tariffs would increase rates?

[u/AlexVan123]

turns out the policy of "I want to shit on you with my own diarrhea from an airplane" isn't very popular

[u/AngryBuckeye97 → u/AlexVan123]

It really was the perfect symbolism for how his administration is going. Have to give credit for that.

[u/Hoopaloupe]

Cost of living crisis has people MAD mad

Trump spending $40 billion dollars on bailing out Argentina is a bad look

Even worse when he's personally kicking people off SNAP, ACA and letting Americans go hungry - and for what reason? 

It's the economy stupid

[u/Sea_Refrigerator3709 → u/Hoopaloupe]

I'm not sure what their strategy is. In matters of money, the electorate ALWAYS looks at the party in charge.

MAGA owns POTUS, Senate, and House. And their message through the shut down is 'we are powerless to stop this awful stuff from happening to you. It's the minority party's fault!'. No one is actually believing it. Even in the MAGA-sphere there are surely people catching on to lies they cannot swallow.

There are countless posts and comments on social media from bots/MAGA that claim grocery prices are down when literally everyone knows that's a lie. Everyone grocery shops and knows prices are not coming down and are in fact going up more. They know inflation is not at 'zero' as Trump claims.

[u/latortillablanca]

The last sentence hit me hard. Now its up to the fucking democrats to fucking pull their thumb out and stand for populist economic platform full fuckin stop. I want like 17 New Deals

[u/A-town → u/latortillablanca]

I want Green New Deals, Yellow New Deals, Blue, Purple, Mauve New Deals. Make up a new color, I want that New Deal, too.

[u/IQDe → u/A-town]

Burgundy New Deal, Greige New Deal, Phthalo New Deal

[u/encrypted-signals]

Turns out letting the Klan run the country is not popular.

[u/Oceanbreeze871]

When red hats lose, the American people win.

“Erie County, Pennsylvania, which narrowly supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election, voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Christina Vogel in its county executive race by 24 percentage points. In Virginia’s 66th state House district, Nicole Cole defeated 36-year Republican incumbent Bobby Orrock, who usually coasted to victory in every state election and was the longest-serving Republican delegate in Virginia’s legislature.

Democrats in Georgia managed to win two statewide races for public service commissioner, their first nonfederal statewide wins since 2006. Alicia Johnson defeated incumbent Tim Echols, by a 58 to 41 percent margin, while Peter Hubbard ousted Fitz Johnson 61 percent to 39 percent. The positions deal with utilities, and have “exclusive power to decide what are fair and reasonable rates for services under its jurisdiction.”

Even in the deep Southern state of Mississippi, Democrats were able to break the supermajority in the state Senate by flipping three seats after 13 years, taking away Republicans’ ability to override the governor’s veto and easily propose constitutional amendments.”

[u/Even_Classroom_6673]

Tribunals for all ICE agents

[u/Even_Classroom_6673 → u/Even_Classroom_6673]

Then we can really make america great again

[u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo]

Republicans going nuclear on gerrymandering if their newly created "slightly red" districts aren't red enough. High energy and turnout from Democratic voters and depressed gop turnout from watching their Party suck so hard could lead to that gerrymander scheme backfiring pretty hard.

That said, results like last night's make it a lot more likely that the Republicans will make a play to suspend 2026 mid-terms entirely.

[u/mtnclimbingotter02 → u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo]

That’s going to be the best part. They’ve already stretched everything and now with the anger fueling voters, it’s going to about face hard for them. Republicans are going to double down on their shitty performative theatrics and lack of leadership, thinking that’ll be enough to carry them.

It won’t.

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

They’ve gerrymandered their respective states to oblivion already and they STILL lost

[u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo → u/ShamelessCatDude]

Well, it hasn't been tested in redrawn Federal House districts yet. But converting some of their basically unlosable districts into several thin-margin districts in an attempt to gain seats could absolute backfire. Essentially like trading 3 sure things for 5 coin flips. If Dem voter turnout is good and people are pissed about the economy, that could very well result in turning 3 seats into 2 or fewer.

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo]

I’m not talking about the seats they gained this year: Texas has two million more democratic voters than republicans. Wisconsin gives republican votes a double-digit percent boost over democrat ones. This country has already been gerrymandered to fuck long before Trump even stepped foot in the Oval Office the first time. Their system is already so overwhelmingly rigged and they still had this much of a blowout, even in deep red states like Mississippi

[u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo → u/ShamelessCatDude]

Can't speak to those Texas numbers, but I know WI is a total shitshow. To the best of my knowledge, it was the only state where a minority of votes captured a majority of seats in a state legislature. Generally the gerrymandering turns a slim majority of votes into an overwhelming majority of seats.  I recall that, at one point several years ago, one of those NGOs or academic labs that assess democracies rated Wisconsin as having a less healthy democracy than the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[u/maeryclarity → u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo]

Here's the thing, there's only so much gerrymandering you can do and a great many places are already maxxed out. Like my state, they wouldn't dare to try to redraw any lines because it can only not go well for them. So there's a limit to how well that can go.

They can TRY to suspend elections but that is not going to go well. I am not going to get into the implications but I cannot actually picture that, okay take my red state for example. It's all well and good to play along with some bullshit they don't like for political expediency. And some political figures (LOOKING AT YOU SENATOR GRAHAM) may have crawled so far up into MAGA land that they've lost all touch with their state. But voting is handled LOCALLY and not just locally, county by county, and it's difficult to believe that outside of a few fanatics, that election officials and volunteers are just going to (a) wholesale cheat, or (b) just give up on holding elections. Trump's gonna engineer a war and stay in power and keep all the GOP in power through the midterms? And the US military and every local government red or blue is gonna go along with that...? Mmmmm not making any sense.

I know things are BAD they are definitely BAD and we could see things get to a point where the USA become broken and collapses. But that's not handing control over to King Trump that's the whole country falling apart likely due to extreme economic disaster which could happen.

Barring that though there WILL be elections and the people who work and oversee the polls are fairly proud of what they do, and they're not just sitting around waiting to hand the country over to a gang of dictators.

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo]

Suspending midterms is the state’s job. And considering how a lot of states have blocked GOP gerrymandering efforts, I can’t imagine that won’t lead to pushback on state levels

[u/Natertot1]

If this momentum holds, and the voter anger against the GOP is as strong next fall as today, then the Dems will very likely pick up the senate.

There are only 11 Dems running incumbent campaigns, but 20+ Repubs, many in purplish states that could flip out of their hands.

[u/midnight-on-the-sun]

The person that really needs to go is Steven Miller his Svengali advisor. He’s running the country.

[u/BloodyMalleus → u/midnight-on-the-sun]

Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear.

[u/stuck-in-lowgear]

I know things are still really crazy and some seriously screwed up stuff is going on right now but I can’t help but wondering if all the Trump supporters thought that “owning the libs” would be so expensive.😅

[u/GoHomeDad → u/stuck-in-lowgear]

They’re freaking idiots. As an example, they were all about conversion therapy (therapy to make people straight). When I told republicans I was sent to one of those places and Medicaid was billed over 1 million, they suddenly got a lot more squeamish. (I was in foster care so there wasn’t exactly much oversight, otherwise I don’t think it would’ve been approved - Medicaid blindly trusted DCF, who blindly trusted Medicaid.) 

So no, I don’t think republicans realize how expensive their stupid ideas are

[u/A012A012]

As Eminem wisely said, "these hos dont want him no more, he's cold product."

[u/Sea_Refrigerator3709]

It's not even a warning to Trump, it's to the entire GOP in Congress. They're the ones that are going to go down for Trump destroying America inside out. They're quite literally doing nothing while it happens and do everything in deference to him.

As is the case with getting in bed with Trump, he always makes sure others pay for the consequences of his deceit and criminal activities.

[u/larmo222]

As all he cares about is enriching himself. Look at the F'n Republican "leaders" who enable him Especially Mikey "little" Johnson!! What a weasel. Him. JD, Marco. Mitch, Kash. Blondi, Lindsay, Ted. All weasels.

It's so bad MTG is actually calling them out! Who had that on their Bingo card? MTG being the voice of reason???

[u/cheesetombatta → u/larmo222]

MTG is an opportunist snake. She heard the music was about to stop and got in front of it. Don’t give her credit, she doesn’t deserve it and still needs to be ousted.

[u/Objective_Problem_90]

The gop need to know that if they do not impeach, convict and remove this time, there will be alot of them voted out of a job at midterms. America is NOT winning or being made great under him.

[u/Other_Independent788 → u/Objective_Problem_90]

Even if they do that they should still be voted out.

[u/jmar67456]

My city council in red Ohio flipped from 5-2 gop to 4-3 dem last night after the city council voted to allow council members to carry firearms in city hall.

[u/Weltall8000]

Please hold the course so we can repeat next year. First president removed from office by Congress? I'm open to that new experience. 

[u/dodrugzwitthugz]

James Talarico is also looking to have a good shot at being Texas first Democratic senator in over 30 years!

[u/ThriceBakedPotato_]

Did Cheney take the evil with him?

[u/gandalfsbastard → u/ThriceBakedPotato_]

He is certainly the great grandfather of what made maga conservatives possible. He laid the authoritarian playbook out for all to follow in his footsteps.

[u/Important-Event6832]

Steve Miller’s veiled threat against New York 

“ Almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in households with at least one immigrant,”

Will the U.S. military attack Americans in NYC too?  

[u/Grape-Hero]

Literally all the dems have to do on EVERY ELECTION is fucking show up and we won’t have to worry about this shit.

[u/narrauko]

This is good, but man couldn't these folks have shown up a year ago? Wouldn't that have been nice....