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Mark Campbell's avatar

Outstanding message, John!!!

Kris's avatar

We could have put forward better candidates, follow through with convicting the pedophiles involved with Epstein, allowed Joe Kent to investigate the Charlie Kirk assassination and kept our promise on “no new wars president” and spent more on American interests than on foreign wars. That was not a good look for Republicans. Look what a low turnout it was for Republicans.

Now we lick our wounds and hopefully learn from this. If not, we’ll lose our country to the socialists.

Kris's avatar

Here’s the thing, we complained about all the money we sent to Ukraine, yet we are still sending them money and weapons. We’re also spending money attacking Iran and sending money to Israel while it costs me $70 to fill my gas tank. I don’t know how much we spend on American interests vs what we spend on foreign wars, but why are we always the world’s police when we can’t secure voter ID, the border and homelessness here? I am tired of seeing human feces in the parking lot every morning when I go to work. Common man, clean up the streets already and show me where my tax dollars go. I love California, but it’s become a rat haven.

David Behar's avatar

The amount of aid sent to Israel amounts to one tenth of one percent of the national budget, or 00.1%. What scares me is that people can say such patently false, easily provable, and hate mongering antisemitic nonsense, and that people are naive enough to nod their heads in agreement without even bothering to check the facts!

Kris's avatar

I stand corrected and I’m happy to correct my mistake. I did acknowledge I don’t know what is actually spent on foreign wars. It’s not “antisemitic” to question how our tax dollars are spent, and that right there is a problem. To falsely accuse someone of something that is ridiculous because they want fiscal responsibility. My father is Jewish!!!! It’s the reality of high costs that affect me every day. I’m aware gas was high during the previous administration and open borders put a serious strain on our country.

m444ss's avatar

You're saying the US spent more on foreign wars than on American interests. (a) Do you mean "domestic foreign interests"? A war is not de facto against a nation's interests. (b) How much do you think the US spent on foreign wars vs how much the US spent on all other American interests? (Hint: In the last 20 months, we did not spend more on wars.)

Sassy Biggons's avatar

Sometimes a country, like a child, must get burned so that it never goes near the fire again. Watch the burning begin. I don’t care about either party (they are the uniparty), but I am not a fan of socialism or communism which should scare the crap out of the youngest voters. So we will see if patriotism is erased, like in the UK, or if they put their foot down.

m444ss's avatar
3hEdited

do not assume the average voters knows what's going on. do not assume the average voter who knows what's going on understands what's going on. do not assume voters actually choose candidates based on ability. it seems a plurality - perhaps a majority - of voters make ballot choices based on whether there's something they like or dislike about one of the candidates that has nothing to do with the job the candidate is trying to get. also, the mob - much like a herd of bison - is easily led off a cliff. Note that, throughout history, charismatic would-be tyrants became tyrants. How many boring do-gooders got to do good on the same scale?

To win, a party should field qualified candidates, but those qualified candidates must also inspire the electorate.

David Behar's avatar

Thank you for putting yesterday's losses into perspective and giving us encouragement and hope. The next few years are going to both challenging and pivotal if we want to keep our Constitutional Republic.

JoeyH's avatar

The Republic still stands. We shall keep it.

Frank Lee's avatar

The fact that Republicans could not beat the crap of Democrat today says much about how terrible the GOP really is. Trump saving the Republican Party from themselves was probably a bad thing in retrospect. Because the old establishment hacks lied to themselves that they were still relevant and popular. Trump made mistakes, but the GOP did nothing but thwart him.

JJ's avatar

The cause absolutely does go on. Let's hope the businessmen learn really quick that there's no voting, no manuvering and so forth to get out of this, the old guard and those they groomed like Thune, Johnson and their ilk are the real problem, my point being trying to placate the old guard is what cost us this battle, the radicalism of the federalist and the audacity of the Republicans of old , and willingness to deal it out not to mention say fuck it and cut tumors out just to save the Republic is going to be needed, did those chain breaking Republicans not see this eventually happening, no, they're happy to keep the small club ivy and CEO types ruling us forever but their own hubris and unwillingness to try to win, especially the long game, and to acknowledge that they were programmed in their ivory towers to be cucked and handle it in a classy yet positively flipped way ( which ushered in the left we have now,) has been the ruination of the party and any bare minimum gains made. It's utterly repungent to observe the Republicans. They had a chance to set a long term plan into motion, they couldn't sell it or deliver the short term gains to keep energy flowing in their direction. Where does the trail of bad decisions lead and identifying the precise moment said decisions were made is hyper critical at the moment.

MARK LECLAIRE's avatar

Theres no way forward really. They lost freaking TEXAS. And the BUSH family helped that with TWO of them endorsing a transophilic pastor. Another Muslim Brotherhood member elected in Michigan. I think Obama's fundamental transformation is nearly complete. The country club set got their republican party back, and now theyll make bank while they let the islamofascist party of the trans open the borders and redeposit all the USAID money overseas, all the while talking a good game about "defending freedom!". We're cooked.