2026 Congressional Elections

[chasfh]

17 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

What part do you not agree with?

The simplistic basis of the post overall, but beyond that, the meme was in response to the sneeringly dismissive second sentence and its reductive tropes, which can't be reasoned with.

[romad1]

This is some dark money stuff

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/gop-mystery-pac-midterms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.7D6K.DmaZZlGgNqzF&smid=url-share

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, romad1 said:

This is some dark money stuff

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/gop-mystery-pac-midterms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.7D6K.DmaZZlGgNqzF&smid=url-share

Shocking—in that this is a rare case of Republicans engaging in repugnant and quasi-illegal political behavior that they did not accuse the Democrats of doing to them first.

[gehringer_2]

On 5/9/2026 at 1:08 PM, Motown Bombers said:

Keep in mind these economic progressives who think billionaires are the scourge of the earth are endorsing a billionaire for governor of California. 

we have DSA candidate for Mayor in A^2. I don't agree with the DSA on very much but I'll vote for anyone against Chris Taylor. If Taylor wins the primary, Mayor will be the only R vote on my general election ballot.

Edited Thursday at 02:50 AM by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

24 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

we have DSA candidate for Mayor in A^2. I don't agree with the DSA on very much but I'll vote for anyone against Chris Taylor. If Taylor wins the primary, Mayor will be the only R vote on my general election ballot.

If El-Sayed wins the primary, I'm going to either leave it blank or write in a candidate. Am I just supposed to vote for whoever Democratic leadership tells me to vote for? He should campaign harder and win my vote. 

[Motown Bombers]

This is a swing district by the way. 

 

[romad1]

1 minute ago, Motown Bombers said:

This is a swing district by the way. 

 

 

fascinating

[Tigerbomb13]

Wild 

[gehringer_2]

has someone checked the flight logs to Katmandu?

I guess they have put out that he's having a health issue. Apparently something that has taken his ability to speak.

Edited Thursday at 07:35 PM by gehringer_2

[romad1]

Looks like the GOP has decided Collins is going to lose if they sent this guy to campaign for her

 

[chasfh]

18 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

has someone checked the flight logs to Katmandu?

I guess they have put out that he's having a health issue. Apparently something that has taken his ability to speak.

It's simply mind-bloggling that a public official, placed in office by voters, is allowed to elude access by the public for so long and without reasonable explanation or discovery.

[romad1]

Not to be too "both sides" but there is also a Dem lady in Texas who has gone missing from Congress.  She's on the far side of her sell-by date so its probably illness related as well.  Congressional staffs are gonna do that thing aren't they?

[chasfh]

35 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Not to be too "both sides" but there is also a Dem lady in Texas who has gone missing from Congress.  She's on the far side of her sell-by date so it’s probably illness related as well.  Congressional staffs are gonna do that thing aren't they?

This is not a partisan issue. This is an institutional rot issue. But there is one side more invested in keeping the rot as rotten as possible, and spoiler alert, it ain’t the Dems anymore.

You may argue against that, and you’d be right in normal times. We are in post-normal times now, it’s time for a new normal, and if either party is still a viable force when that time comes, I believe it will be Democrats working toward that new normal.

[romad1]

I like these numbers but they need to more a bit more to have the true dialectic effect of crushing the corrupt, racist, theocratic mess that the GOP has us in.    

So long as land aka money outvotes people we are going to have this problem.   Reform Citizens United, end gerrymandering.  

[chasfh]

I wish these were votes and not mere polling.

[romad1]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

I wish these were votes and not mere polling.

Yes, because more money from overseas will come in to create its own effects on these elections.  They almost pulled that off in Virginia...oh wait, they didn't have to because Clarence Thomas has a rich friend who pays him and he's not from overseas. 

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, romad1 said:

Yes, because more money from overseas will come in to create its own effects on these elections.  They almost pulled that off in Virginia...oh wait, they didn't have to because Clarence Thomas has a rich friend who pays him and he's not from overseas. 

I won’t live to see it—maybe you will—but at some point when we have sufficiently recovered from this, they are going to do an autopsy on this era of America politics, and future adults educated in civics will be horrified for generations that we let it get like this and worse.

[romad1]

Just now, chasfh said:

I won’t live to see it—maybe you will—but at some point when we have sufficiently recovered from this, they are going to do an autopsy on this era of America politics, and future adults educated in civics will be horrified for generations that we let it get like this and worse.

There will be the 2067 version of "Schoolhouse Rock" about how bad it is. 

[romad1]

Just now, romad1 said:

There will be the 2067 version of "Schoolhouse Rock" about how bad it is. 

Everyone remembers how popular the Schoolhouse Rock on the Jim Crow era was.  

 

[romad1]

Holy Frijoles

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Trump endorsing Paxton is a major victory for Democrats. Paxton still might beat Talarico, because it is Texas afterall. But this is about as big a gift as Democrats could get.

[romad1]

2 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Trump endorsing Paxton is a major victory for Democrats. Paxton still might beat Talarico, because it is Texas afterall. But this is about as big a gift as Democrats could get.

Yep...