The two-week temporary ceasefire has done little to quell GOP fears about the war in Iran costing the party seats in November.
Republicans are relieved over Trump’s steps toward reconciliation in Iran — but they worry the measures are too little, too late to save them from a brutal midterm election cycle.
Behind the public celebration by many Republicans of the temporary two-week ceasefire announcement, longtime party operatives continue to warn of a bleak political reality as the cost-of-living concerns around the war including spiking gas prices that are likely to continue for weeks if not longer even if the fragile ceasefire holds.
A person close to the White House, granted anonymity to speak candidly, put it bluntly.
“This war in Iran almost cements the fact that we lose the midterms in November — the Senate and House,” the person said.
Can we just stop doing this? It’s exhausting. I just want healthcare. My money to stop blowing people up across the world. And stop fucking with other countries.
I don’t give a shit what the midterms news is. Go vote. And keep people voting.
The magas I know are ecstatic about the war with Iran. They’re also the most vocal about the gas prices. Completely unable to link the two together.
Worry about their seat and not about the war crimes
The midterms will be decided by no mail-in voting and ICE at every polling place. Red Wave.
If democrats ran on a hard stance of “We will prosecute the fuck out of everyone involved in the current administration”, they’d sweep the midterms. Then if they actually followed through on it, they’d also sweep in 2028, but we all know they won’t do either.
I don’t have much faith in the Democrats. I’m reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. It’s a great book, and everyone should give it a read. It basically sums up the entire history of America from a Liberal law professor’s point of view.
… regardless. In terms of taxes, Democrats are largely responsible for increasing taxes on the poor and subsidizing the rich. They at the same time give weak concessions to the lower class, but these are flimsy enough to be overturned the minute Republicans are in charge.
He summed it up in one sentence:
In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
If they ran on that, I wouldn’t be surprised if the regime arrested them for sedition and thus proved their point even more.
It’s not like they can do that overnight.
Also, don’t pretend that the Democrats oppose this war on moral grounds. The only criticisms most national Democrats have been able to muster are either that the trump admin has failed to follow appropriate procedure (i.e. not informing Congress, which is a whole tangent alone), or that they are incompetent in their execution of the war, which…
Also, don’t pretend that the Democrats oppose this war on moral grounds.
They generally oppose it on economic grounds at least. I’ll take the outcome of “no war” even if I disagree with the reason we get there.
Yep. Democrats are pretty right wing
If Democrats were capable of that sort of backbone, Donald Trump would never have become president. At least, not for a second term.
Democrats
Taking a hard stance
Pick ONE.
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Iran and Epstein simply exposed Republicans and Trump as garbage people
Easy fix, republicans can grow some and vote with their constituent’s and the country’s interests. Tune out corporate and foreign interests. Support health care. Strengthen social security (a pension we pay for!). Break up monopolies. Put policies in place to improve cost of living and upward mobility. Shut down the culture wars that are distractions. Invest in education and science for our future. Repair the lost trust with our global allies through diplomacy, laws, and actions. Oh - and place consequences on our president and leaders that are pedophiles, corrupt, and war criminals. The answer is SO SIMPLE!
Maybe it should be costing them their livelihoods and their freedoms. Throw the bastards in jail.
I’m not gonna let anyone give me hope, least of all someone close to the White House.
Clutch those pearls, assholes. Don’t worry, your base is too stupid to cast blame on you. I’m sure your war-criming, pedophile-enabling, constitution-hating ilk will do just fine.
I certainly won’t be voting for anything remotely resembling GOP/MAGA, but I know plenty of people who will because they apparently can’t learn what would actually be good for them. Only the “undecideds” can really make the decision…Hopefully they bother to cast enough intelligent votes.
Nuremberg 2.0 incoming.
I have no idea what is going to happen. We elected that man to office twice and are capable of anything.
The ceasefire Republicans are hoping will save them is very unlikely to outlive the week, it’s almost impossible it’s going to last the two weeks Trump is desperately hoping for. Israel isn’t taking any notice of it and JD Vance is trying to convince everyone that Lebanon wasn’t part of the agreement when it was clearly stated by Iran that it was if the US wanted a ceasefire.
FYI, the ceasefire is dead and the Strait has already been closed again, thanks to Israel continuing to attack Lebanon.
I get that this is how politics works, that a certain amount of disassociation is part of the package, but holy shit how ghoulish is this.
If in the course of my job I inadvertently or intentionally caused the deaths of hundreds of schoolchildren, I’d like to think I wouldn’t then complain about the possibility of losing that job.
Imagine having so little regard for human life. I know there are a disproportionate number of sociopaths in government, but they can’t all be sociopaths, right? Some of them must just be racists, and some of them must be able to delude themselves that much, but still. What the fuck.
Iran has cost them the whole fucking country.
