For months, I've been insisting this would happen big in November 2026 with the D's very likely retaking the House with high confidence and likely the Senate too BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP and the Rs in Congress that have given away their power to him.
However, we got a profound sneak preview with the results of the elections today.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-2025-voting-results/
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/democrats-trump-us-elections-mamdani-sherrill-spanberger.html
Fox tonight is telling viewers that this was from BALLOT HARVESTING because the Ds hijacked the election system.
Right. It has nothing to do with Trumps behavior and actions because Trump is the best president in history.
Congrats to the Ds tonight!
The rejection of Clinton/Obama caused Trump 1.
The strong rejection of Trump 1 caused Biden/Harris.
The profound rejection of Biden/Harris caused Trump 2.
The very profound rejection of Trump 2 will cause..............what's next!
Prominent conservatives, including the president, sounded familiar alarms about voter suppression and other efforts to manipulate the vote on Election Day, without presenting evidence.
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Trump helps me to be a better person and practice what some of our posts preach!
How's that?
It's easy to love people that are lovable because they behave in a way that makes us want to love, or at least like them. That's not a challenge. Treating those people the way they treat us comes naturally and easily to all of us.
But then we have people like Donald Trump. For non MAGA, his hate spewing persona brings about a knee jerk, instinctive response of hating him back.
He deserves to be hated by those that he is attacking and hurting the most. He's not actually targeting metmike personally but I see so many of the people I care about getting hurt by him. Seeing the country that I love dearly being greatly damaged. Seeing the office of our president being tarnished. Many people of other countries being harmed. Watching him decimate the truth that I cherish. Poisoning the minds of people in his cult.
That is the type of person that gives us every reason to feel hatred towards them because they absolutely deserve to be hated.
There are times when I do feel that hatred and have to consciously remind myself to not give in to that.
Divert and convert that emotion into something different. Loving Trump is a bit too much. However, taking a step back and seeing this, instead of using emotions, using analysis of an incredibly fascinating and unprecedented historical character that we are following in real time.
100 years from now, Trump will stand out in history books so profoundly that many books will have been written about how we got here and what's happening.
The story will have ended for almost a century and most people will know it.
Here in 2025, that intriguing history is being written every day in front of us. Like watching an incredibly suspenseful movie that has us on the edge of our seats.
Trump is the villain in our current events, political history movie being made here in 2025. I'll fight the urge to hate him and consider it anti hate training to make myself a better person!
Always speaking out against what's wrong about him and other things in the world that are wrong but doing it without damaging my own peace of mind.
Thank you, Donald Trump!
Hate(and love)
Started by metmike - Oct. 17, 2023, 4:15 p.m.
Hey MM,
To me this was a great Election Day! Hopefully this Republican drubbing will continue through next election and at least get the Dems the House.
Meanwhile, did you see this nonsense?!
Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding to New York City if Mamdani is elected mayor.
“Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Trump, a New York native, has repeatedly weighed in on the mayoral race, threatening to withhold federal funding from his hometown if Mamdani wins the election.
Thanks, Larry! Perfect example!
That's exactly the sort of thing that, in my mind triggers an initial, impulsive reaction that emotionally wants to hate Trump over it.
As you know, I'm extremely critical of Netanyahu and what Israel has been doing to Gaza the past 2+ years.
At the same time, I'm extremely critical of antisemitism and all racism in fact.
I was raised to see Jewish people today as ancestors of God's chosen people. Outside of that, my personal, more objective observations include great respect for the brilliance, tenacity and tremendous work ethnic of the many Jewish people I know and know of.
So the opinion about Jews and the government of Israel (including their leader) right now are completely INDEPENDENT of each other.
Just like my opinion of Donald Trump is completely INDEPENDENT of my opinion of the country that I live in and love.
I believe the new mayor of NYC has expressed this clearly too. He is Muslim, of course so it might be MUCH harder to believe than a person raised in Catholic Schooling(St. Alphonsus for 12 years) that was taught a completely different religion which elevated the Israelites, God's chosen people.
The different religions are a fascinating topic in itself but Islam sees things a bit differently. There is actually commonality WITH THE ISLAM FAITH to the Jewish and Christian religions when you go back to the early portions of the Old Testament.
Regardless, the huge differences the past 2,000 years and the indoctrinated hatred in the Middle East between Arabs and Jews is reality.
But I will give all Jews and Arabs the benefit of the doubt and assume they feel like me when they say things like the new mayor of NYC does.
Trump on the other hand is clearly mischaracterizing/lying when he accuses this guy of hating Jews with 0 evidence. Ironically, Trump is the guy that spews out non stop hatred for anybody that doesn't support him. Him backing Cuomo might have hurt Cuomo more than helped him and its totally unacceptable for a president to be telling people how to vote and that he will with hold Fed funding illegally if his guy doesn't win.
This is how he's acting with Brazil (illegal 50% tariffs on them) and Argentina (40 billion bail out) based on his PERSONAL, political agenda and friendships.
He's abusing his power and using tax payers money to try to control every country that he can. Mr. America First, only applies to his MAGA and rich/political friends in our country.
My reluctance to support Mamdani was based on numerous interviews when he was asked directly if Hamas was a terrorist organization, he sidestepped the question instead of giving a direct answer. But, as a friend of mine said, "what does that have to do with being mayor of NY city.' I was torn between Cuomo and Mamdani. I went to the voting booth and voted for and against a couple of referendums. I chose not to vote for either candidate, but I'm open minded about Mamdani. Give the next generation a chance.
As for Trump's role in the drubbing R's took last night, a picture is worth a thousand words.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
After clicking the link, scroll down to see the graph.
joj,
I didn't want to put you on the spot earlier but was EXTREMELY interested in your take since this was YOUR election.
We can all discuss what we think about it but YOU actually live there and voted as well as being Jewish AND a democrat AND see Trump for who he really is.
Dang, you check all the boxes!
Protestant or other Christian (21%)
Catholic (27%)
Jewish (15%)
Other (14%)
None (24%)
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Also, Mamdani did best with those <44 and with higher educated people.
Thanks for the link too. joj.
Most people show this as Evidence of how many people DON’T approve of Trump.
Ive seen hundred of those polls this year and appreciate you sharing this with us.
However, every time I view those results, no matter how badly Trump is doing or what the direction and magnitude of change is, it completely blows my mind that so many people still approve of him!!
I think there is a huge MAGA base of 10s of millions that would still approve of him if he burned their hoise down.
Seriously, this is more evidence of Trump being the head of a cult that features the unwavering faith of a religion.
There seems to be nothing that he can do, no matter how egregious, that will result in an interpretation by MAGA or Fox that would tarnish his omnipotent, infallible statis.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5591070-speaker-johnson-election-results/
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another shocker by MM. R's got clobbered in the bluest of blue states. Thanks we never would of guessed. New York will be filing bankruptcy after this and we all get to bail them out.......again
Mc said:
another shocker by MM. R's got clobbered in the bluest of blue states.
Hey mc,
VA isn’t anywhere near the bluest of blue states. The current Governor, Youngkin, is Republican. This switch to a Dem is significant.
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might want to check the rolls in VA there Larry. that red state you speak if now has over 250,000 more reg D's than R's....but never fear this new elected dreamer is so scared f the fr left she will do nothing to improve that suburb of DC. IVA does not change its ways soon it will also march into the hell hole NYC and its new Communist leader. Call him what he is a communist and lets get real about the future of that city with its new leader
mcfarm,
I get what you are saying. There is some embellishment with regards to the results of Tuesday's election.
However, the Rs being in such complete denial of how THE MAJORITY of Americans feel right now about Trump and the R leadership in Congress(giving up their power to Trump) is mind boggling.
Not just far left libs that always vote for the D party/candidates.
There's not nearly enough MAGA and Fox viewers that will always vote the R party and cheerlead for Trump and claim that he is right about everything to hold off the rest of America.
mcfarm, the Rs are fighting a losing battle. I'm just being brutally honest based on the authentic facts.
The R party is doing everything possible to wreck their future by ignoring what the majority of Americans want.
No Kings PEACEFUL protesting, from millions of people exercising their Constitutional rights as patriotic Americans that care about the future of our country(in the biggest 1 day of protesting in our country in 50 years)?
Take this:
The president shared a video depicting him in a fighter jet dropping what appeared to be feces on U.S. protesters
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115398251623299921
That behavior is so beneath anybody that has ever been president of our great country. ............and the Rs actually defend it as acceptable humor.
I can give you many dozens of other examples, all of which demonstrate that this president is NOT qualified to be president and he constantly communicates and acts based on his hatred of the majority of Americans and does it so unprofessionally.
I mean, c'mon man. In what world, would that same majority of Americans that he has declared to be his enemy NOT turn out in the November 2026 elections IN RECORD NUMBERS to fire dozens of the people in Congress who are enabling and in fact, positively reinforcing this????
Ds that normally don't vote in mid terms will be coming out in droves.
Independents and even some Rs that are completely fed up with this crap and know THE TRUTH about how the Rs and Trump are hurting America right now will be flipping their votes.
MAGA, of course will vote for straight ticket Rs in the election and justify it with the real fake news...........what Trump continues to lie about. Including that he won the 2020 election..........by a lot! It won't be close to enough to save your party from devastating losses in November 2026.
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Whether the Rs believe that Ds are crazed lunatics with no sense of wisdom or not, there are more than enough of THEM and the Independents to crush MAGA in 2026 and 2028.
MAGA, still in denial here in November 2025, in 1 year will be looking back at 2025 as the good old days. Wishing THEY had exercised much more wisdom, compassion, control of the unhinged president and had just listened better to the MAJORITY of Americans(not just Trump and MAGA) that just FIRED THEM and taken away their majorities in Congress.
mcfarm,
As your friend telling you the truth. Please enjoy the XX months with your party in full control because every month that passes is 1 month closer to that ending.
The only thing that could change that is if the Rs in Congress, suddenly and miraculously rebuked all of Trumps destructive nonsense. They should have done their jobs and stopped Trumps ruinous tariffs, for instance a long time ago but instead, it comes down to the Supreme Court, so the Rs doing the right thing seems impossible based on who they have been.
I don't have a high opinion of the Ds in Congress either but at least here, opposing Trump is the right thing to do and the MAJORITY of Americans know it, which is why they will be rewarded in a year for that position.
Keep in mind folks that I voted R for POTUS from 1984-2012…that’s 8 straight times. Voting Republican for Pres had been a near automatic for me then. However, Trump comes along in 2015 and I said no way, Jose. Since 2016, I voted Hillary, Biden, and Kamala all as way, way, way, way, way lesser of two evil votes against Trump. If I had somehow been told by someone in 2012 that my next 3 votes would be D, I’d have thought that person were absolutely insane.
That sounds similar to me Larry!
However, the big difference is that I actually voted for Trump in 2016 as a never Hillary person.
And again in 2024, mainly as a never either candidate but my wife guilt tripped me into voting because I spend so much time at MarketForum discussing politics and I picked a specific reason.........ending the war in Ukraine to justify voting for Trump.
Trump has in fact made several legit efforts to end the war in Ukraine but his unstable and constantly changing position has destroyed what credibility that he had on that war.
Insisting that he ended 8 other wars is so delusional. If he actually believes that nonsense, then his ability to see realities that are needed to understand all the dynamics, that include whether its really a war or not and what role that he played is greatly lacking.
Mc said:
another shocker by MM. R's got clobbered in the bluest of blue states.H
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In addition to the GOP losing its Governor seat in VA, this is big news in GA that reflects on the move away from the GOP and signals big losses being likely away from the GOP in 2026:
Democrats have flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission in what were seen as a key bellwether ahead of the 2026 midterms, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Democratic candidates Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, who ran for Georgia Public Service commissioner in Districts 2 and 3, respectively, have defeated GOP incumbents Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson.
The Tuesday election marks the first time since 2000 that a Democrat has won a Public Service Commission race, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5589670-gop-incumbents-lose-seats/amp/
Thanks, Larry!
That sure seems like an objective measure that illustrates the overall political mentality/message of the people voting on Tuesday.