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2026 Midterms

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by The Captain, Nov 13, 2025.

  1. The Captain

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    Huge election for the USA with the Dems trying to build on their 2025 wins while attempting to match GOP voter suppression techniques to win back majorities in the House and Senate. The outcome here will determine how much power Trump has in his final two years in office.

    Big one for Texas with the 2026 gubernatorial (governor) election. Abbot swinging for his 4th term with the campaign slogan ‘Lets Roll’.
     
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  2. adoo

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    Tx Dem could use Gavin Newsom's help to neuter Gov Wheelie again,
    this time in the invalid's home turf.
     
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    Garbage like normal. Take your nap
     
  5. The Captain

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    That's a comment
     
  6. adoo

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    Unconstutional Tariffs have discredited
    Trump’s affordability pitch


    If frustration with inflation carried Trump back to the White House, frustration with high prices haunted his first year and will be pivotal
    in Nov 2026’s midterm elections.


    Trump has himself to blame.

    His campaign promised (implausibly) to rapidly restore affordability. Instead, a steady stream of headlines about tariffs pushing some prices higher has soured most Americans on Trump’s ability to tame cost-of-living pressures. When the Supreme Court struck down much of the administration’s global tariffs in February, the White House responded by promising to replace them using other legal tools.
     
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    All I know is that whoever Trump endorses would never get my vote. The last thing we need is mini orange men in office.
     
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    Trump 2.0 White House 'circulating' 17-page executive order draft to declare emergency over voting


    “Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting,”

    Claiming there is an emergency would allow the president to ban voting by mail and voting machines.

    Trump has repeatedly urged Republicans to pass the SAVE Act, which critics say could disenfranchise millions of American citizens who do not currently have a passport or access to their birth certificates. It could also disenfranchise people who have married and changed their names but did not do so on all their legal documents.

    “Trump has said that if the bill fails, he will act unilaterally to impose the changes for the midterms,” WaPo reported.​
     
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    this orange turd is still talking about the 2020 election…

    China? Really?

    Does this demented dumbass not know he was president in 2020? So China interfered in the 2020 election under his watch, and was so effective that Biden beat his ass by like 8 million votes?

    And because of what China did in 2020, that’s grounds for claiming an emergency for the 2026 election?

    So what happened in 2022 and 2024? China decided to sit those out?

    talk about desperate

    the courts would laugh that garbage right out the room
     
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    John Cornyn, Ken Paxton, and Wesley Hunt are going to be doing some serious smoozing and butt kissing in Corpus today when they attend Trump's speech.

    It should be pretty gross to watch.
     
  12. El_Conquistador

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    I’ve been making this point for years. Dem voters are just trying to suck on the teet of government.



    GOOD DAY
     
  13. ElPigto

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    Does it matter what the courts think? His administration has been daring them to do something about it when they disobey court orders. So the court system has not been as big of a safeguard as it has in the past. Republicans Congress is so ****ing power hungry that they are looking the other way as well and it would not surprise me if Senate eliminates the filibuster to attempt to get the SAVE act through. Our only hope would be that Susan, Lisa, and a couple of others actually have a ****ing spine.
     
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    Fake. It's an identical to map produced to Buzzfeed simulating what would the map look like if only white men and women voted.

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ection-would-have-looked-like-with#.xn0Y77ml0

    It could be coincidence, but I am unable to find a source with methodology of how this 'only tax payer' map was made. So I'm going to assume it garbage fake propaganda.
     
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    Trump told us who he was in 2012. Will we finally believe him today?

    In 2012, Barack Obama won reelection by a landslide. He garnered nearly 5 million more votes than Mitt Romney and won the Electoral College 332 to 206. Donald Trump was not pleased.

    On election night, Trump called for “a revolution in this country!” Minutes later, he added, “We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!”

    Finally, at 11:30 p.m., after the race was called for Obama, he posted something that feels eerily familiar today: “Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice!”

    Trump has always been an election denier. He has always vilified voting. He has always started with lies, escalated to the courts, and ultimately embraced violent rhetoric.

    For nearly two decades, Trump has been lying about elections and threatening the democratic process. A small group of us has been sounding this alarm, but far too few people in positions of power have been willing to act. The result is that things have only gotten worse.

    Donald Trump showed us who he was on election night 2012, when he called for a revolution because Obama won. He showed us again in 2016, when he spent months propagandizing that the election would be rigged — and then, after winning, claimed millions of illegal votes had cost him the popular vote. He showed us in 2020, when he incited a mob to storm the United States Capitol rather than accept defeat. And he is showing us again today.

    https://www.democracydocket.com/opi...as-in-2012-will-we-finally-believe-him-today/
     
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  16. deb4rockets

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    Young voters say they intend to vote blue in November

    Large majorities of voters aged 18-22 (68%), 23-29 (72%), and 30-34 (75%) expressed disapproval of Trump's performance.

    According to the poll, majorities of young voters plan to vote for Democrats in this fall's congressional midterm races, including 52% of 18- to 22-year-olds, 58% of 23- to 29-year-olds, and 62% of 30- to 34-year-olds.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...un-trump-lean-democratic-in-poll/89594673007/
     
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  17. deb4rockets

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    Trump has been tweeting up a storm endorsing his MAGA warriors for the midterms. It's hilarious how his picks are always against who he calls radical leftists wanting transgender for all. He's such a clown. You know whoever he endorses is simply a butt kissing loyalist yes man you don't want to win. Of course he always throws his spills about Buy American and so on. This is coming from the clown who is using European steel for his ballroom, and wants to portray that miniscule percent of trans folks as some huge threat. :p What a clown he is.

    After the "great steel" donation the administration halved tariffs on ArcelorMittal's Canadian plant. You see, buy American is just one of those slogans Trump uses for everyone but himself. Hell, most of the crap in his Trump stores isn't even made in America.

    Of course, that 37 million dollar donation for his ballroom came with a little quid pro quo favor, as do probably all the players giving him money. All you ever have to do is see what those big donors to Trump and his vanity projects got in return, or what the Trump family got from them to build their empires around the globe for those quid pro quo foreign policies.

    The guy's a fraud plain and simple. Never trust anyone he endorses. We don't need any more enablers to feed the ego, and kiss the butt of the crazy old destructive and dangerous lying clown in the White House.
     
  18. Space Ghost

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    Congrats Dems. You did the easy part, as always. You now have everyone hating Trump.

    Now for the next junior step (which they will never take): find competent candidates to take their place
     
  19. deb4rockets

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    Come on man, at least be honest. Trump's vanity projects, war mongering, and other BS policies aren't boosting our economy, reducing inflation, and solving our healthcare problems. His campaign lies and blind ears to the voices and concerns of Americans are what's having folks hate Trump. Even Republicans voters know he's screwed them over. Trump did this all by being a lying, crazy self-serving con man, with the mentality of a deranged psychopath. He's gone full blown war mongerer and vulgar hate spewing maniac, who could care less if he commits war crimes upon humanity at this point.
     
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  20. AleksandarN

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    I agree let’s roll lol

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