Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election: Chasity Martinez (D)- 62% Brad Daigle (R)- 38% Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

Last years SB was watched by about 38% of the country. Which is very high but also seems low. The SB is given cultural prominence that almost nothing else in Us culture gets and it’s not even breaking 40% Really goes to show how diverse the uS is where most people don’t even bother

Democrats want elections to be run by the states, per the Constitution. Republicans want elections to be run by federal agents loyal to Donald Trump. The voters themselves? They just want the squabbling to stop.

Donald Trump’s posting and unposting of racist videos of the former First Lady and President gives us more insight into Biden’s mental deficiencies.

Any Dodgers player who defends visiting Trump by saying it's all about "honoring the office, not the man" or that it's about "team unity" should immediately be asked why it was fine for Blake Treinen to skip out in 2021 because he hated Joe Biden.

Black people who voted for Trump are very low iq

I remember this “friend” of mine telling me how white people ruined culture because we let women have jobs and didn’t spank our kids. Back then I’d be like “oh let me think on that” now I’m like “go vote for the GOP you aren’t welcome”

Woke part one was way too into “every culture is unique and different and we should listen to them” woke two is like “oh interesting your your culture is sexist well good luck you will be ignored”

This is the cycle of Bluesky: 1. Trump admin does something terrible 2. Dems have press conference and release statements condemning 3. Bluesky demands Dems have press conferences and release statements 4. Bluesky then completely ignores what Dems did and then go viral shitting on the Dems

The people I know who understand how government works don’t hate the dems. The people who hate the dems and want them to stop trump don’t have any idea how the government works.

Dang add 5% to each of these if the poll is Quinnipiac Absolute clown show

Better to die on your feet fighting than hide and cry like a coward.

So the Super Bowl is watched by 38% of the US according to last years ratings which is super high…but I also thought it was much more. Way more people than not don’t watch it which is crazy for an event that pretty much everyone in the country stops for.

Also political commentary that sounds like sports commentary “they just need to do x and they will win” is insanity. So many people have lost touch with reality

I’ve been watching a lot of football this year as a distraction from politics and it’s wild how stupid football commentators are. It’s like political commentators but somehow worse. I also think gambling has ruined people’s minds

Gen X is the worst generation. I won’t be taking any questions.

A downballot Republican losing in CT is a really really bad sign for the GOP

Even the most conservative culture states have culturally liberal areas. They can’t even erase it from their own seats of power.

The GOP base is never satisfied and never will be satisfied. What they want is unobtainable. They want like a cultural conservatism as ideology. Like a made up 1950’s culture. But that is highly unlikely to happen even if GOP has every branch of the government.

I saw so many conservatives bitching about TX SD09 results, saying things like: “the GOP has betrayed us and isn’t conservative enough so we won’t vote for them” It’s ironic because the TX GOP has basically done everything Trump and the party wanted but it isn’t enough

I remember in 2006-2008 a strong vibe of “neo conservatives have sold us out” from the conservative movement. I’m starting to get that vibe from conservatives about MAGA.

This times 100. Trump doesn’t have the brain power (nor anyone in this admin) to rig an election. I mean the GOP has had three months since VA and NJ to distance themselves from Trump and they can’t even do that

lol what else can even be said at this point about how tilted the media Is against us

Gotem

I cannot stress enough how completely different the media coverage of all this would be if this were about a Democrat.

GOP protects this man so much and he just throws them away

Reactionary centrists after seeing TX SD09’s results

I think the MSM went all in on the “Trump won the greatest election ever” as a type of self justification for being so anti normie dem. The MSM is the most stressed after last night because it cuts away at their ability to pretend that Trump and the GOP is popular.

This is true. The GOP knows they need to turn on Trump to have a chance of stopping the damage but they won’t do it. The GOP doesn’t have the imagination or ability to move past Trump yet. Keep the faith. We gonna win this

This applies to probably most GOP candidates for 2028. They for sure are gonna be chasing trumps blessing in the primary Which will be an anchor around their necks come election time. The GOP doesn’t lose +17 districts just because people are mad at Trump. The anger is spreading

I’m like 90% sure if Trump was to run again he’d lose bigly. All the guard rails are gone and he’s demented and prices are high. Pretty much every edge he had in 2024 and 2020 are gone.

White settlement went Dem! It’s gonna be a good November ya’ll!!

This is the election the Republican just lost. Trump cared enough to post these intense appeals....so all you doomers, why didn't he steal the election?

Nate Silver watching the Texas SD9 special election results come in like...

"Donald Trump can neither cancel elections nor preemptively 'steal' them in the way that is popularly imagined on here" bskyers: 😡😡😡😡

And this even begs the question wtf do the enlightened centrists want? They want to win over voters who don’t believe people are equal and are ok with suffering as long as it isn’t them. Like that’s jus not the Dem party anymore and it will never be with our current primary voters

This meme plus the media obsession with Trump is why they favor him and the GOP so hard.

It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.

lol "white people felt economically insecure so that's why they voted this way" makes no sense because of facts: - Black people are worse off on nearly EVERY economic metric - 45 NEVER had a plan to address the affordability crisis

D friendly news media has to be by, for, and from the base. And the base is not the online left. It is the tens of millions of ppl who actually identify w the party and do not spend all their time online saying "god I fucking hate Democrats"

The best way to farm clout as a leftist is to pull a Hasan and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a centrist is to pull a Bari and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a conservative is to pull a Charlie and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a fascist is, you guessed it,

Go to a conservative space and see what they are talking about it’s very disconnected from reality. Like they still think DOGE happened and that the federal government has been dismantled. Everything happens and then they just cheer and move on with no follow up

Politics post 2008 has become very content and likes driven vs actual policy outcome driven. This has always been the case to a certain extent especially in racially polarized areas but it’s expanded everywhere now.

(FWIW I don't think this is unique to them; a *lot* of the 'Dems Suck!' content on here is also all about Content and when people vaguely suggest they want 'Dems To Fight' etc, a lot of the time what they actually mean is they want them to churn out more favourable Content)

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

🎵But Sir Jake done told that Mr. Biden, he was old...🎵