Why did the Republican's lose so badly?
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Started by metmike - Nov. 7, 2026, 1:19 a.m.

There are many reasons for this but these are some of the top ones that I can think of, not necessarily in this order of importance.


1. Donald Trump's unpopular, ruinous policies. The War in Iran and tariffs are at the top.  Blatant abuses by ICE!

2. Donald Trump's offensive, hateful and divisive personality that includes lying more times than every president before him combined.  Posting lunatic screeds from a psychopath. He has no honor, character or trustworthiness as well as 2 brain diseases

a. Delusions of grandeur-psychiatric

b. Progressive dementia-organic,

c. Obsessed with revenge against anybody that he thinks might have harmed him in the past.

3. Appointed unqualified people to so many key jobs based on them swearing allegiance to  and adulating Donald Trump. For instance: Pete Hegseth, RFK. Jr. Kash Patel. Mark Wayne Mullin. Stephan Miller. In the end, thousands of people have been fired or replaced by unqualified Donald Trump adulating MAGA people. 23 people came from FOX.

4. Donald Trump has greatly harmed the credibility of the United States around the world, doing major PERMANENT damage to our relationships with allies like Canada.

5. Donald Trump insisted  that people pretend he is on the ballot. This is exactly what Americans did. Ds came out in record numbers to defeat the R candidates, Independents voted for the Ds in near record numbers. Even some Rs voted for the Ds. Why was that?  Because they were pretending Donald Trump was on the ballot and sending a profound message to MAGA and the Rs in Congress too. WE WANT YOU OUT! 

6. During the R primaries, Donald Trump told the tens of millions in his MAGA cult who to vote for. Defeating all the moderate, electable Rs in favor of the Donald Trump candidates. The extreme, MAGA Trump adulating candidates all won. In the general election those MAGA candidates were crushed because people were  voting for the NOT Donald Trump NOT MAGA candidate. There are not enough MAGA cult members to win elections by themselves except in the  counties where half the people living there are MAGA. 

7. People were fed up with the Rs in Congress supporting and enabling the worst president in history as he wrecked our country and wrecked the world. 

8. Donald Trump blocked the release of the Epstein files because HIS NAME IS IN THERE MORE THAN ANYBODY'S OTHER THAN EPSTEIN(38,000 times). The files with him in them are still blocked. He was an active predator of young women for much of his life, including the 15 years when he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein and they hunted young females together. Suing the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion for exposing his offensive, predator mind with the bragging about their friendship birthday letter to Epstein.

9. Extreme corruption. Enriching himself and family by billions of dollars using his position as the president. 

10. Extreme abuse of presidential powers. Practicing authoritarianism and not a democracy.  Pardoning countless criminals/partners in crime because they enriched Donald Trump or did him favors, for instance.

11. Doing things for the rich and powerful people/friends and focusing on things like the stock market, while neglecting the non rich Americans.

12. Committing treason by following a foreign leader(Netanyahu/Israel) and using the United States military to serve that leader for his country/Israel(after being convinced by Devil Netanyahu that the war would be a piece of cake and make him an historical legend for finally defeating Iran)

13. Naming all sorts of things after himself, some against the law. Tearing down historical buildings/places illegally and rebuilding them with his name.  

14. Affordability and Donald Trump bragging that he stopped inflation.

15. Getting rid of healthcare subsidies, resulting in many millions of Americans losing their healthcare.


                Compilation of Donald Trump's offenses during 2nd term            

                Started by metmike -Oct. 25, 2026, 4:11 p.m.      

      https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/123477/







   The Trump-tanic            

                            Started by metmike - May 16, 2026, 5:44 p.m. 

           https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/120271/






                                   


                  

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By metmike - Nov. 7, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
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Re: Re: :   Donald Trump's Diagnosis NAILED!            

                            By metmike - Oct. 4, 2026, 9:03 p.m.            

            

The dark triad of personality is a constellation of traits characterized by a willingness to exploit and manipulate others, callousness, disagreeableness, deceitfulness, egocentrism, lack of honesty and humility, empathy deficits and a focus on agentic goals (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). Such traits have been previously associated with sexual coercion (Pavlović, Markotić, & Bartolin, 2019; Zeigler-Hill, Besser, Morag, & Keith Campbell, 2016) and consist of Machiavellianism (proclivity to exploit others), narcissism (malevolent behavior associated with a grandiose identity) and psychopathy (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). Psychopathy is characterized as a form of personality disorder with a distinctive pattern of interpersonal (e.g. deceitfulness and manipulation), affective (e.g. lack of remorse, lack of empathy or guilt) and behavioral (e.g. irresponsibility and impulsivity) characteristics (Hare & Neumann, 2008).


AI Overview

The Dark Triad and Mental Toughness

The Dark Triad is a psychological concept that groups three negative, manipulative personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. [1]

Researchers Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams named this group in 2002. These traits are "sub-clinical," meaning they describe normal personality variation rather than a formal mental illness or medical diagnosis. [1, 2]


The Three Traits

  • Narcissism: Marked by intense self-love, grandiosity, pride, and a constant need for attention or admiration. Narcissists often feel entitled and lack deep regard for others' feelings. [1, 2, 3]
  • Machiavellianism: Marked by cold manipulation, strategic planning, and a cynical focus on self-interest. People high in this trait deceive others to get what they want. [1]
  • Psychopathy: Marked by high impulsivity, thrill-seeking, and a severe lack of empathy or remorse. This is considered the darkest and most callous component. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Behaviors and Impact

  • Interpersonal Exploitation: People with these traits use charm to form superficial attachments, treating others as tools rather than friends. [1, 2]
  • Conflict and Toxicity: They frequently lie, take credit for others' work, and escalate conflicts in workplaces, families, and romantic relationships. [1]
  • Measurement: Psychologists measure these traits using surveys like the 12-item "Dirty Dozen" or the Short Dark Triad (SD-3)


By metmike - Nov. 7, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
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Americans have spoken in the most profound way in history. We'll see what happens now with the Ds having the majority of both the House and Senate. 

1. Donald Trump's time passing bad for America, good for Donald Trump agenda has ended forever with 2 years left in his 2nd term.  Where this goes can take several different paths.

2. Will there be reversals of Trump legislation? Will Trump dig in and veto the bills? Will he negotiate to keep from being impeached and capitulate to save his own skin? How motivated the Ds are to impeach him may depend on this. It should be pretty easy to get the needed 10-12  Rs in the Senate to vote to impeach and REMOVE Donald Trump after what he just did to their party. 

Will Donald Trump start planning his new life as a private citizen, posting on Truth Social to 10s of millions of MAGA Rs that still worship him, with the media broadcasting every tweet for ratings?

Impeachment and removal from office is an historical embarrassment and stain to his legacy but look for Donald Trump to spin it as just another example of him being the victim and his MAGA cult getting all fired up over it.

No way that Donald Trump will NOT do this after his presidency ends. Sadly for the R party, as long as MAGA has tens of millions of Trump captured brains, they will continue to struggle.

The Ds didn't dominate 4 days ago because they suddenly discovered a fresh new message that people connected with. They won entirely because of the NOT Donald Trump/MAGA vote.

Here's an illustration of how that is the way to win elections in this age. Winning elections in this age means NOT being the other person who is really REALLY, REALLY bad!!! So you can still be bad but if your opponent or the other party is even worse...........you win as the lesser of 2 evils!  

This was such a powerful reality in 2026 that it caused Donald Trump's last several weeks of campaigning and going to rallies in front of MAGA crowds to completely backfire. The media broadcast what he was saying to EVERYBODY and it likely generated millions of extra D votes!

Year            Winner

2016     NOT Hillary Clinton=Donald Trump

2018    NOT Donald Trump/MAGA=Ds

2020    NOT Donald Trump=Biden/Harris

2022    NOT Biden/Harris=Rs

2024    NOT Biden/Harris= Donald Trump+Rs

2026    NOT Donald Trump/MAGA=D's


Keeping Donald Trump in office for another 2 years would be the smartest things the Ds can do and worst thing that can happen to the Rs. 

But it would be the worst thing that could happen to our country(and most of the world). We can't begin to heal from the historically profound damage, some permanent that Donald Trump has caused to the relationship with most of our allies(not Israel) and trading partners. 

Impeaching him will not silence his huge mouth and stop the chaos completely, especially since he and his minions have replaced thousands of competent people in key positions with MAGA/Trump adulators that will still follow Donald Trump, no matter where he is and when it is. 

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MAGA does not follow Donald Trump because he's the president of the United States. MAGA follows Donald Trump because he's their cult leader!

                Choosing MAGA/Donald Trump or Jesus            

                            Started by metmike - Jan. 28, 2026, 5:06 p.m.            

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/117561/



By metmike - Nov. 8, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
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A reminder that the world’s richest chalaran, Elon Musk bought Twitter after Donald Trump was permanently banned. He saw an opportunity to use it for far right propaganda And was hoping that Donald Trump‘s massive MAGA cult would follow him back to THE newly named X.

At that point, however  Donald Trump had already started his own propaganda spewing social media platform to send out messages to strengthen his power over his MAGA cult, ironically, calling it Truth Social. Since then, Truth Social has served as the mouthpiece for Donald Trump.

 Expressing his thoughts, announcing his policies as President , positions, plans and attacks against his countless enemies often in the middle of the night with lunatic screeds from a person with pathological thinking with the main objective  being to maintain control over the tens of millions of people in his MAGA cult.

All these messages were immediately made the top news stories within minutes by the media which operates based on generating ratings. This actually assisted Donald Trump to get his messages out in the beginning. It helped him to win the 2024 election after cognitively impaired, Joe Biden greatly struggled with  the Ds and media pretending he was the sharpest tool in the shed, thus providing the main incentive for the RED wave in 2024. …….which included a strong NOT Biden/Harris element.

After Donald Trump and the Rs took over in 2025, they failed America catastrophically, with the list of the many ways on the front page of this thread.

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/123721/

That set the stage for the historical "Bluenami" last week. With the Ds now in control of both the House and Senate, Donald Trump's agenda (that previously was passed with impunity)  is dead on arrival and some it can be reversed.  But Donald Trump has veto power to block some of it. The only way to over ride Donald Trump's veto is if both the House and the Senate over ride it with a 2/3rd majority.  So they will need some Rs in Congress to do the complete opposite of the Rs in Congress have been doing. 

Will this motivate the Ds to impeach Donald Trump to get him out of the way?

Will the threat of impeachment motivate Donald Trump to cooperate to save the only thing that matters to him......Donald Trump?

Regardless of how this shakes out, there are 2 things that seem most likely.

1. Donald Trump will no longer be president at some point, starting some time between 2027 and January 2029.

2. Donald Trump will continue to use Truth Social as he has since its inception, especially AFTER he is no longer the president and Truth Social becomes his ONLY source to message the world. 

3. Almost all the 10s of millions of  captured brains in Donald Trump's MAGA cult are forever and will follow him and whatever he tells them to think and do AFTER he is no longer the president. 

4. If he's impeached, this will be used as a battle cry by portraying Donald Trump as the victim and he could still control enough R voters to keep the Rs in Congress fearful of him and under his spell.

This may be impossible to fathom after the profound message that Americans just gave us but keep in mind, after his Insurrection in January 2021 and attempt to over turn the results of the 2020 election, violating the Constitution and betraying our democracy and the American people..... everybody, including me thought his career was over for sure. 

Core MAGA membership is forever! It's the biggest religion in human history based on unwavering, unshakeable faith in it's omnipotent leader. 


AI Overview

Public opinion data and polling from 2026 show that roughly 12% to 15% of the total U.S. adult population—or about 38 million people—explicitly identify as part of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, while bfiguresroader or looser alignment within the Republican Party is higher. [1, 2]

Key figures from recent surveys and studies include:

  • Overall U.S. Population: According to tracking from Statista and YouGov, overall adult identification with the MAGA movement fluctuates under 20% (hovering around 12% to 15% identifying "very much" or strongly, with others indicating partial alignment). A study published via PubMed Central estimated core MAGA identifiers at roughly 15% of all U.S. adults, or about 38.8 million individuals. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Within the Republican Party: Identification is much higher among Republicans, though it has experienced shifts. Mid-2026 polling by UMass Amherst indicated that about 68% of Republicans identify at least somewhat with the MAGA movement (31% "very much," 37% "somewhat," and 32% "not at all"), down from earlier peaks. [1]
  • Demographics and Split: Studies note that MAGA identification tends to be higher among men, older adults (55+), self-described conservative ideologies, and specific regional or cultural zones (such as parts of the Deep South and Greater Appalachia), though post-midterm analysis from outlets like CNN and the Wall Street Journal has pointd to shifting dynamics and electoral pushback following recent midterms

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        Donald Trump says he could "shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose" support  

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOi7nfrd8k