US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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[Rick's Beef Wellington]

Also the state GOP have always been borderline useless. Yes, the Harlem Globetrotters beat the Washington Generals, everyone is very shocked.

Same thing with NJ, let's run the guy who already lost twice and have some goofy radio host run against him in the primary. I have a friend who was approached years ago to get vetted to run against Cory Booker for Senate; it seems like they just try to find businessmen who have never won an election and hope that will work for some reason. Or like you say, hope it doesn't work.

Also, I'm still fuming about the two local Republican offices I contacted to volunteer for never got back to me. More proof that there is no GOP in NJ. Not like I would have made any difference, but now I'm alienated after finally getting to the point where I feel the need to pitch in.

 

[Justsomecicada]

Same thing with NJ, let's run the guy who already lost twice and have some goofy radio host run against him in the primary. I have a friend who was approached years ago to get vetted to run against Cory Booker for Senate; it seems like they just try to find businessmen who have never won an election and hope that will work for some reason. Or like you say, hope it doesn't work.

Also, I'm still fuming about the two local Republican offices I contacted to volunteer for never got back to me. More proof that there is no GOP in NJ. Not like I would have made any difference, but now I'm alienated after finally getting to the point where I feel the need to pitch in.

If it’s truly that dire why not try to infiltrate or do entryism into your local Democratic Party ? Especially in NJ/NYC/western Con which are already one party states

 

[Fabio Socialist]

Also, I'm still fuming about the two local Republican offices I contacted to volunteer for never got back to me. More proof that there is no GOP in NJ. Not like I would have made any difference, but now I'm alienated after finally getting to the point where I feel the need to pitch in.

"I finally got off my ass and decided to do my civic duty and get involved in the political process and I was either ignored or told to fuck off and let the pros handle it." Because that surely won't have any negative repercussions down the road.

 

[Breadbassket]

In the grand scheme of things the losses in New York City and New Jersey aren't all that surprising but the outcome of the election in Virginia is rather disappointing. Seems that keeping Jones around was worth it for Spanberger after all.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

That's nice and all, but it's not enough to overcome the GOP's problem. Namely, they only have a handful of seats over the Dems in the house. A pretty standard mid-term reversal gives the Dems a house majority fairly easily, given that.

Its two million illegals already with another year of denied visa applications, and deportations to go. Average number of votes cast per house rep was 250,000 in the last midterms. There a lot of districts already decided by a few thousand, or even a few hundred votes. Then you have the chilling effect ICE being out and about will have on early voting and election day. This is well within the margin of enough to overcome the GOP's problem. Especially if the GOP doesn't lose a bunch of seats in otherwise safe areas.

 

[Justsomecicada]

"I finally got off my ass and decided to do my civic duty and get involved in the political process and I was either ignored or told to fuck off and let the pros handle it." Because that surely won't have any negative repercussions down the road.

I dont get it what are you saying here

 

[Dafuqisdis?]

It very clearly was shocking, we had multiple people in this very thread who thought silwa was gonna win and everything was just peachy. Those same people who called everyone impatient children are now calling for the end of the filibuster and for trump to start Ignoring Judges kek

We are eating good Andrew Jackson enjoyers

There are lots of retards in this thread that don't know anything about politics so them being shocked that Dems winning off year elections in blue states when they were out of power is not terribly surprising.

But the problem is the margins and it's not so much a turnout problem for Republicans - they actually got more votes in Jersey this time versus last time. But it's that Dems are getting very good at getting people out in these low turnout elections.

 

[Moonglade Feral Druid]

There are lots of retards in this thread that don't know anything about politics so them being shocked that Dems winning off year elections in blue states when they were out of power is not terribly surprising.

Unsurprising, but undoubtedly dejected by the status quo.

 

[Justsomecicada]

But the problem is the margins and it's not so much a turnout problem for Republicans - they actually got more votes in Jersey this time versus last time. But it's that Dems are getting very good at getting people out in these low turnout elections.

Yes I think NJ might be a swing state in regards to federal elections in the coming decades if the patterns hold

Especially if the split between northern and southern NJ democrats keeps growing

 

[Null]

I hate Muslims so fucking much

 

[Justsomecicada]

I hate Muslims so fucking much

I haven’t caught MATI in a while so sorry if you had already discussed this but did the elections go about as well as you thought?

Also why sahkalin as your shit hit the fan hideaway?

 

[Breadbassket]

Personally I had thought Republicans had a better chance in New York City then they actually did considering what had happened with Adams, Cuomo's failures and the reporting on Mamdani but evidently that didn't matter to the locals. Looking at voting result maps, the only place where Sliwa did relatively well was Staten Island though he still lost to Cuomo there who himself was decisively beaten in every other borough by Mamdani.

Honestly looking at the results as they are now (90.5% reporting in, Sliwa 7.1%, Cuomo 41.6%), even if the vote wasn't split there is a high chance Mamdani would've edged out his opposition slightly regardless. Lackluster backing from a GOP President and the state party didn't help the situation either though there is a good chance it wouldn't of made that much of a difference.

The only conclusion I've drawn from the mayoral election is that politics in the Big Apple are a dumpster fire of socialist antics, party machine intrigue, immigrant agendas and foreign interests.

 

[autistic dog]

Something I noticed from all the weirdos posting here last night is just how much they are zombies following marching orders. They went from doom and gloom end of the world sadness about trump being mega ultra Hitler dictator 3000 to seemingly overwhelming joy about some minor elections no one cares about.

It becomes highly obvious when they get a new NPC update to their marching orders and when its something stupid like new york politics its obvious who controls their puppet strings. I wonder if there is a moment of reflection when its such an obvious 360 degrees moonwalk shift.

 

[LiquidKid]

Let's not pretend that tonight wasn't a giant assfucking for team Red - I can see the fireball of the VA GOP from here in the Midwest - but part of this result is reversion to blue-state status (NJ, VA), local issues (GA Public Service Commission) and Dems having a propensity advantage via being really mad (PA Judicial races).
Although a "don't extrapolate too much" warning for '26 still applies ('21 didn't correspond to '22, and '23 didn't correspond to '24), I think the GOP moving forward needs to brace for impact in '26. Will we see a redux of 2018? Before today I would have said no (now I think it is possible at the very deep end), and it still isn't a foregone conclusion. But there is still time to mitigate a liberal victory that I think will happen in some proportion next November.
I guess one more thought - Despite everything today, Donald Trump is still President of the United States. Would you have tolerated a Kamala Harris presidency to have gains in the governorships, legislatures, and courts today?

They lost races everyone knew the republicans were going to lose. I don’t see how this is in anyway an ass fucking. These were effectively inconsequential elections and the Republican candidates in them were all awful.

I didn’t even need to watch these outcomes come in because all of these races were basically settled months ago

 

[RollerGator]

The Republicans strategy of doing absolutely nothing really paid off

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Same thing with NJ, let's run the guy who already lost twice and have some goofy radio host run against him in the primary. I have a friend who was approached years ago to get vetted to run against Cory Booker for Senate; it seems like they just try to find businessmen who have never won an election and hope that will work for some reason. Or like you say, hope it doesn't work.

Also, I'm still fuming about the two local Republican offices I contacted to volunteer for never got back to me. More proof that there is no GOP in NJ. Not like I would have made any difference, but now I'm alienated after finally getting to the point where I feel the need to pitch in.

Who else were they going to run?

Also NJ is cursed by being NYC expat central and nest of the bridge and tunnel caste.

Image one is the Northeast Corridor(for those who do not know that is a train that runs from Penn Station in Manhattan to Trenton).
Image two is a map of results from NJ.com.
You can follow strength of Dem support by following the NEC.

In the South there is a weakening of Dem support outside of Mercer, Camden, and Burlington.
Burlington County and Camden County essentially house the bridge crowd from Philly though Camden County has its own quirks.


I am also fairly certain the shutdown, specifically the specter of losing EBT, played a huge factor in the results. Blacks overwhelmingly went blue with 94% turning out for the DNC.

Also worth noting that NJ requires no voter ID so you walk in give a name and address and you can vote for that person!

NJ is being sued by the GOP for their voter rolls for no reason I am sure.

Whatever NJ is fucked and I am glad I do not live there anymore and will be extra glad when I never have to step foot in the state again.

 

[sperginity]

Personally I had thought Republicans had a better chance in New York City then they actually did considering what had happened with Adams, Cuomo's failures and the reporting on Mamdani but evidently that didn't matter to the locals.

The problem is that NYC isn't "locals" anymore, its half foreigners and about 1/3 white. If you add in 10% jews this is exactly what you would expect to happen. Foreign born people preferred mamdani like 2 to 1 and it was the opposite for actual americans.

 

[Puff]

we had multiple people in this very thread who thought silwa was gonna win

That's just not true.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

On the bright side, maybe all the troons will move to NYC for the alleged freebies. They should mix well with violent niggers and Muslims.

 

[babyDunk]

I hate Muslims so fucking much

They are as American as you. Deal with it !

Dems to get a house majority in the mid-terms too

Yeah that would be in line with the trend

Could they create some kind of NYC memecoin as an alternate currency to raise funds for his infinigibs and do an end run around currency printing rules in the US?

That would immediately fall under federal juristiction though