2026 Congressional Elections

[oblong]

I take the US/Soviet space race and project paper clip approach. “Our Germans are better than their Germans” 

[pfife]

2 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

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Nice gas prices and also prices of everything and also wars.   And pedos.   Epstien Memorial Ballroom

[gehringer_2]

3 minutes ago, pfife said:

Nice gas prices 

so the strait has been closed for 3 months now, all that time asia has been surviving by drawing down huge inventories they had built up in anticipation of exactly an event like this. Now Trump surely believes he has the whole summer to squeeze Iran into a better deal, so he can act at playing bored, and still get a settlement in time for gas prices to be back under $3 by election day. But what nobody has bothered to tell him, or maybe nobody on his team has figured out, is even if the Strait opened tomorrow, those drawn down Asian inventories mean there is going be huge surge in purchasing once oil becomes available again, and that is going to keep the price high for months after the Strait re-opens.

[oblong]

They don’t care.  The GOP cares in terms of electoral politics but the admin is outside of that now.  They just care about getting rich. 

[romad1]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

so the strait has been closed for 3 months now, all that time asia has been surviving by drawing down huge inventories they had built up in anticipation of exactly an event like this. Now Trump surely believes he has the whole summer to squeeze Iran into a better deal, so he can act at playing bored, and still get a settlement in time for gas prices to be back under $3 by election day. But what nobody has bothered to tell him, or maybe nobody on his team has figured out, is even if the Strait opened tomorrow, those drawn down Asian inventories mean there is going be huge surge in purchasing once oil becomes available again, and that is going to keep the price high for months after the Strait re-opens.

The goodwill strategic reserve is really drawing down in Asia in particular because they don't have people mumbling about having to protect Israel in the pulpits.  

A little surprised how important the Gulf oil is to them when there is oil in the region.  The market is the market and makes up its own mind who drills and processes based on profitability I guess. 

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Some much Nazi love, weird.

Yes, so much.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4677700-trumps-latest-flirtation-with-nazi-symbolism-draws-criticism/

[guy incognito]

[oblong]

If I knew nothing about the candidates the guy on the right would look foolish. Who decided that was a good idea?

[Tigermojo]

2 hours ago, guy incognito said:

He must be doing the same workout as Trump. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

If I knew nothing about the candidates the guy on the right would look foolish. Who decided that was a good idea?

Yeah, right? He looks somewhat deformed on the right.

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

He must be doing the same workout as Trump. 

Late night in his bedroom to dirty videos?

[romad1]

that's a remarkable lead.  

[chasfh]

This president can’t engineer the gerrymandering of the Senate, so they will have to resort to some combination of suppressing turnout beforehand and limiting access on-site.

[romad1]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

This president can’t engineer the gerrymandering of the Senate, so they will have to resort to some combination of suppressing turnout beforehand and limiting access on-site.

Orban couldn't stop the landslide when it came. 

[chasfh]

9 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Orban couldn't stop the landslide when it came. 

It’s fair to wonder whether the machinery that can be used to stop the landslide here would be more sophisticated and effective. Only one way we’ll find out, I guess: live through it.

[Motown Bombers]

Not sure why the Ohio senate is surprising. At this point I think Dems have a better chance of flipping Ohio than Maine. 

[romad1]

35 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Not sure why the Ohio senate is surprising. At this point I think Dems have a better chance of flipping Ohio than Maine. 

You do think that.  

I think the rising tide will put a lot of marginal boats in the House and Senate that would not otherwise make it if it were not a +11 to +14 year.  

Platner's got enough patter to him to win in an environment where Susan Collins is responsible for Hegseth and RFKjr being in the cabinet. 

[romad1]

Worth a look

2026 Senate - Sabato's Crystal Ball

https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026_06_02_SenateMap_600.png

 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

On 6/2/2026 at 8:14 AM, chasfh said:

Yes, so much.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4677700-trumps-latest-flirtation-with-nazi-symbolism-draws-criticism/

The SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head Units): This specific branch of the SS wore the skull on their right collar tab. They were responsible for building, organizing, and administering the Nazi concentration and extermination camps

The Totenkopf (German for "death's head" or skull) was a universal cap badge and insignia of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel). To the SS, it symbolized fanatical loyalty to Adolf Hitler, contempt for death, and an absolute willingness to commit acts of terror and violence in the name of the Nazi regime

 

 

[gehringer_2]

Serious question (well to the degree any question about tattoos can be serious): What in particular denotes a Nazi derived skull and crossbones from any generic pirate/poison skull and crossbones?

[Tigeraholic1]

 

 

[pfife]

21 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Serious question (well to the degree any question about tattoos can be serious): What in particular denotes a Nazi derived skull and crossbones from any generic pirate/poison skull and crossbones?

The one in that lolics post specifically is used by nazis and neo nazis.   I learned about it a few years ago as the atomwaffen logo. 

Idk if theres usage of that specific one outside nazis but i def see that and think nazis.

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, pfife said:

Idk if theres usage of that specific one outside nazis but i def see that and think nazis.

the pirate 'Jolly Roger' which is a skull with either crossed swords or crossed bones, has a lot longer history than Nazi Germany, and the skull and crossbones is the standard Hazmat poison symbol and has been used used to denote toxins since the 19th century. I'm not defending Platner at all, but I'm honestly curious because coming from the chemical industry when I see skull and crossbones, I always think 'poison' not Nazi, so I was curious as to what aspect of some particular S&C design should signify 'Nazi' to me. Bikers since the 70's have also used variations, including the "Outlaws" groups that sometime used the skull over crossed pistons with connecting rods (sort of clever).

 

Edited 2 hours ago by gehringer_2

[pfife]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

G2 i deleted it from his post because he deserves it, but this one in the lower right is a specific one and i think lolics post above the pic is accurate about ithe lts use by the nazis.  Totem whatever in his post...

In modern times neo nazis use it too a lot.  It is used over peoples faces in their nazi **** videos, and they make masks of it.  Atomwaffen division uses it.

It may have other uses, outside of nazis but idk.   The design is distinct from jolly rodger and other skull crossbones graphics.