The Democratic Party's Slide Into Irrelevance
Attaching a poll ... Dems unfavorability rating increased from 45% to 57% during the Biden Administration.
Trump is the king of politicizing literally everything and has made 100s of much more offensive posts than that but lozen never mentions that stuff but has decided instead to post a marginally bad thing a democrat posted.
Not sure how that is a whataboutism
Actually I have been critical of Many of Trumps posts and think many are outright disgusting . The difference is I can call out both parties.
I thought it was pretty funny that all of those "Dark Woke" dorks finally came across a dark woke politician and immediately denounced her. I guess having a flesh-and-blood Democrat going super hard in the paint was too scary for the group who is constantly dreaming up new ways for Trump to be killed and for transphobes to be sent to re-education camps, etc.
They think it's super cool when Gavin Newsome steals Trump's style to makes those super-sweaty Trump parody posts, but that stealing the actually effective technique of saying insane things to energize your base is a step too far.
I have no idea whether this lady is intentionally riling up people for attention and/or if she's just a lunatic, but in any case, all of the Dark Brandons out there should be photoshopping glowing red laser eyes on pictures of her instead of the lame-ass "erm, this hate speech doesn't define our movement" stuff that inspires exactly nobody.
And speaking of lolDemocrats, this dark woke group mostly loved that Jasmine Crockett lunatic, despite the clear fact that she is INCREDIBLY Trump-like in terms of her personality and style of politics. I guess they're suddenly cool with a soulless sociopath governing strictly by insults when she's a YASQUEEN girlboss blue-fascist who is owning MTG (not MTG's politics, of course, Crockett doesn't care about that, but MTG's... body. Super important.)
I thought it was pretty funny that all of those "Dark Woke" dorks finally came across a dark woke politician and immediately denounced her. I guess having a flesh-and-blood Democrat going super hard in the paint was too scary for the group who is constantly dreaming up new ways for Trump to be killed and for transphobes to be sent to re-education camps, etc.They think it's sup
she’s absolutely psychotic, she’s not going hard in the paint. calling her a psycho IS dark woke lmao
she’s absolutely psychotic, she’s not going hard in the paint. calling her a psycho IS dark woke lmao
She is being propped up by GOP money, which is hardly surprising in the modern environment.
Lead Left has poured more than $900,000 into promoting Maureen Galindo, a left-wing sex therapist who has been broadly condemned by Democrats over a string of comments they say are antisemitic, including calls to turn a local ICE detention center into a “prison for American Zionists.” The group has put more than $640,000 toward ads, per tracking firm AdImpact. Federal campaign finance filings show the group is also spending on mail.
It’s the latest in a string of interventions by the new super PAC that appears to be trying to elevate weaker Democrats against Republicans to ease the GOP’s path in November.
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Democrats have condemned Lead Left’s involvement in the race and accused Republicans of being behind the PAC that Punchbowl News reported had the GOP fundraising platform WinRed on the metadata of its website.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/21...
Democrats of course have no basis on which to complain, as they have their own unsavory history of funneling money to fringe MAGA candidates who they think will be easier to beat in general elections.
She is being propped up by GOP money, which is hardly surprising in the modern environment.https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/21...Democrats of course have no basis on which to complain, as they have their own unsavory history of funneling money to fringe MAGA candidates who they think will be easi
This is true, and I also don’t complain other than to say I didn’t like it when Democrats did it, although I understand it was strategic. It also is clear these people are legitimate candidates in the sense that they are legitimately running and not just Republican/Democratic ops.
This is true, and I also don’t complain other than to say I didn’t like it when Democrats did it, although I understand it was strategic. It also is clear these people are legitimate candidates in the sense that they are legitimately running and not just Republican/Democratic ops.
I agree with the bolded, although I do wonder if ersatz candidates eventually will appear on the horizon, especially in lower level elections. At least for now, I think an ersatz candidate in something as closely scrutizined as a Congressional election would be nearly impossible to pull off.
There appears to be one thing for sure. Republicans are the party of trump now. No ideology, no nothing. Just trump.
There appears to be one thing for sure. Republicans are the party of trump now. No ideology, no nothing. Just trump.
lol
Republicans are the same depraved reactionary ****s that they've always been. I'm so extremely sick of this pervasive idea that there are these two separate groups of 1. honorable pre-MAGA statespersons of the Grand Old Party and 2. Trump cultists; and that Trump effectively kicked the former group out of the party. NO. These are the same people! Often literally!
There's a near-complete overlap of policy preferences and ideology between these two factions. The majority of Trump's people were and are full-standing members of the GOP. Do you think people like Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Stephen Miller and many others would be shut out of any influence in a Romney Republican Party? GTFO
I'm going to put this in caps, as many people seem to be unable to hear it otherwise: GEORGE W. BUSH STOLE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2000. But nah, tell me more about how Trump is some wild divergence from previous powerful Republicans.
Would another Republican administration NOT pass a massive tax cut for the rich bill, as Trump did in his first term? Would another Republican administration NOT be willing to engage in various murderous misadventures in Palestine and Iran? Would another Republican administration have NOT pointlessly killed a million Iraqis? Oops, strike that one, that was the honorable and noble George Monkey Bush.
A friend of mine told me that "Trump hijacked the Republican Party". alsdkfjals;kdjfal;skdjf;laksjdflkasjdfl;ksajdf;lkj
Open a goddamned history book one time, and you might find yourself no longer pining for the glory GOP days of Joe McCarthy.
lol
I'm going to put this in caps, as many people seem to be unable to hear it otherwise: GEORGE W. BUSH STOLE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2000. But nah, tell me more about how Trump is some wild divergence from previous powerful Republicans.
It isn't over yet and the opinion is certainly specific to the individual, but I think Bush Jr. was worse than Trump. His death toll in the ME, the expansion of surveillance powers under the Patriot Act, the completely bad faith deregulation contributing to the largest recession in 80 years.
You can argue that trump is disrupting the institutional norms but Bush normalized many of those shifts much more quietly that will definitely outlive him and Trump.
lol
Republicans are the same depraved reactionary ****s that they've always been. I'm so extremely sick of this pervasive idea that there are these two separate groups of 1. honorable pre-MAGA statespersons of the Grand Old Party and 2. Trump cultists; and that Trump effectively kicked the former group out of the party. NO. These are the same people! Often literally.
You can argue persuasively that Trump is a significant departure from the traditional GOP without buying into the notion that the pre-Trump GOP was honorable. Dick Cheney was horrible. But horrible in a very different way than Trump.
Trump didn't kick the traditional GOP politicians out of the party. He offered them three choices. Door No. 1 was to do his bidding without question, repeat his lies without squirming, and praise him incessantly without showing embarrassment. In the second Trump term, Door No. 1 has been the only path to the inner circle. Door No. 2 was to show fealty at the 100,000 foot level, praise the normal Republican stuff like nominating conservative SCOTUS justices, and otherwise stay under the radar and out of the way on the crazy stuff like Stop the Steal and annexing Greenland. This is the path for spineless party loyalists like Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, etc. Door No. 3 is active opposition a la MTG, Massie, Romney, etc. This is an uncomfortable path in which Trump does everything he can to run you out of government and out of the party. Very few Republicans have chosen Door No. 3.
I'm just wondering what percentage of old school republicans will jump ship during midterms? It seems that during his first term, they tolerated him for the most part. But he's gone completely off the rails now.
I won't get my hopes up. I remember everyone screaming "blue wave" last time. Didn't happen.
Anyone think talarico has a shot?
Gotta love Paxton's resume. Just like daddy trump.
He was indicted on felony securities fraud charges a decade ago. Eventually in 2024 he reached a pretrial agreement involving community service and restitution.
He also faced a civil case on similar allegations brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, though that case was thrown out in 2016.
His own aides reported him to the FBI in 2020 for alleged corruption. No case was brought, but Paxton’s firing of the aides was ruled improper in a $6.6 million judgment.
The GOP-controlled state House impeached him in 2023, though he was later acquitted by the state Senate.
He has the kinds of mortgage problems that the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed could be serious crimes — at least when they involved Trump’s foes.
He has faced allegations of infidelity, including when his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, filed for divorce last year, citing “biblical grounds.”
He'd better......
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/pla...
“I don’t care about the midterms,” Trump said today during his 12th Cabinet meeting. The comment came as the president spoke about why he hasn’t moved faster to end the war with Iran. But the remark also comes two weeks after the president told reporters “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” when approaching those negotiations.
I saw that Talarico has a ton of cash compared to Paxton but I am not sure him saying God is Non Binary may not help him
Sadly Paxton was a horrible endorsement by Trump and puts the seat in play but did they not have high hopes for Beto O'rourke
Yes you believe that but it was in part to women's in men's sports and the other gender issues. I personally could never vote for any individual that believes men belong in women's sports and its ok to mutilate children .
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I'm just wondering what percentage of old school republicans will jump ship during midterms? It seems that during his first term, they tolerated him for the most part. But he's gone completely off the rails now.
I won't get my hopes up. I remember everyone screaming "blue wave" last time. Didn't happen.
True. And the "red tidal wave" everyone predicted in 2022 didn't happen either.
