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sheshe2

(94,824 posts)
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 05:18 PM Nov 5

'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America'

'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America'

#TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T21:30:16.000Z


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Tuesday night's elections across several states delivered overwhelmingly positive news for Democrats. But one columnist is also directly warning MAGA Republicans that the lopsided victories for diverse candidates signifies that the GOP is badly losing its culture war.

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Magary went on to argue that he felt no sympathy for MAGA, as last year he "watched as American voters handed the country over to a criminal enterprise headed by a broken television set" and has since "spent the near entirety of 2025 watching that enterprise eat its way through this country’s federal workforce, its military, its legacy media and even the White House itself." He observed that "woke was felled by this onslaught, and outright bigotry had become the new order."

"What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does," he wrote. "Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good."

"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."


More: https://www.alternet.org/terrible-news-red-america/
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'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America' (Original Post) sheshe2 Nov 5 OP
Be left alone BOSSHOG Nov 5 #1
K&R brer cat Nov 5 #2
Thanks for posing this analysis, sheshe. Lesson: Americans voted against anti-woke politics. ancianita Nov 5 #3
Ha! sheshe2 Nov 5 #5
Thanks for your kind words. ancianita Nov 5 #6
yup Skittles Nov 5 #4
That's funny because Democrats in office will actually help these stupid motherfuckers Blue Owl Nov 5 #7
Woke allows me to post on DU without looking over my shoulder. KS Toronado Nov 5 #8
Rec for the Kamala gif! ShazzieB Thursday #21
Thanks Shaz KS Toronado Thursday #24
"A criminal enterprise headed by a broken television set" PatSeg Nov 5 #9
Recommended. H2O Man Nov 5 #10
Another thing to consider... pat_k Thursday #22
Here's the full piece from Magary. Beartracks Nov 5 #11
Thank you. Pinback Nov 5 #12
Thank you. Great writing! Pinback Nov 5 #13
His summertime NFL columns on Defector. . . DinahMoeHum Thursday #20
Woke ensures decent healthcare for everyone. Woke ensures food and housing for everyone. Clouds Passing Thursday #14
Excellent summary of why even Republicans are voting for Democratic candidates. A lot of people who should be Democrats Martin68 Thursday #15
CRT? czarjak Thursday #16
I'll have a blue, blue Christmas without you. usonian Thursday #17
OMD, I laughed myself NJCher Thursday #18
Mission Accomplished! usonian Thursday #19
It wasn't too long ago that the gutting of Roe was supposed to ensure a blue landslide ..... groundloop Thursday #23

BOSSHOG

(44,111 posts)
1. Be left alone
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 05:40 PM
Nov 5

And not aggravated by people who don’t have a life relative to positive outcomes. MAGA wakes up every morning thinking of ways to hurt human beings for no apparent reason. Because they don’t have a life and enjoy being easily instructed to hate. That’s their life. Very convenient for those orchestrating the instruction. It’s as if it were a master plan. Decades in the making. But now coming to an end ever slowly.

ancianita

(42,539 posts)
3. Thanks for posing this analysis, sheshe. Lesson: Americans voted against anti-woke politics.
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 06:35 PM
Nov 5

I just reposted this to my son, who last night won another term on Silver City, NM's town council agains two other opponents.

The best part, imo:

"Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good."

"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."


Russel Vought (christian nationalist) took the hundred year old term black folks had used to keep each other "awake" to what endangers their liberty, and he intentionally perverted its meaning as something bad.

Vought is losing his propaganda culture war and its lingo ("weaponize government" to "investigate the investigators" and end "woke."
Americans are woke enough to know better and voted accordingly.

sheshe2

(94,824 posts)
5. Ha!
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 07:00 PM
Nov 5

Yup, I had to get that part in.

So glad you forwarded that to your son. Also, a huge congratulations to him for winning his re-election bid in Silver City! You must be so proud of him.

ancianita

(42,539 posts)
6. Thanks for your kind words.
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 07:04 PM
Nov 5
Indeed, I'm very proud of him. He's been a lifelong progressive Democrat (not too hard in blue NM, which has been an island of blue for decades, but still... ) and co-chair of his county''s Democratic Party.

ShazzieB

(21,953 posts)
21. Rec for the Kamala gif!
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 05:06 PM
Thursday

Would have rec'd for the comment even without the gif, would rec more than once if I could!

KS Toronado

(22,015 posts)
24. Thanks Shaz
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:51 PM
Thursday

Been a hell of a day starting at cancer center this morning, then lunch at cafe, then an oil change at Walmart
this afternoon. Talked to a lot of people today about current affairs.

Oh and figured out who the one yelling at me this morning was, edited my post talking about it.

I'm ready to get back on the MIRT team.


H2O Man

(78,253 posts)
10. Recommended.
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 07:17 PM
Nov 5

Lindsey Graham argued with the felon today. As Malcolm X noted, when the puppet talks back to the puppeteer, the puppeteer is in trouble.

There were outstanding gains by Democrats yesterday. That includes a good, solid variety to represent our party -- actually, our country. Here in upstate New York, including rural contests, Democrats won seats that were long considered "safe" for republicans.

pat_k

(12,436 posts)
22. Another thing to consider...
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 05:10 PM
Thursday

... when Texas redistricted, I wonder how much they relied on their so-called MAGA realignment with latinoamericanos, young white men, and other key democraphics? I hope someone does an analysis of that map against numbers modified by the swing back to Democrats in those demographics

Pinback

(13,439 posts)
13. Thank you. Great writing!
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 07:46 PM
Nov 5

I wasn’t familiar with Drew Magary, but I’ll be seeking out his work from here on.

Clouds Passing

(6,508 posts)
14. Woke ensures decent healthcare for everyone. Woke ensures food and housing for everyone.
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 09:58 AM
Thursday

Woke takes care of themselves AND others.

Martin68

(26,625 posts)
15. Excellent summary of why even Republicans are voting for Democratic candidates. A lot of people who should be Democrats
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 10:48 AM
Thursday

voted for Trump (or didn't vote at all) because of apathy and/or a desperate need to believe the absurd promises he made. Trump's subsequent action left no room for doubt in any but the most hard-core Fox-viewing MAGAts.

groundloop

(13,413 posts)
23. It wasn't too long ago that the gutting of Roe was supposed to ensure a blue landslide .....
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 05:12 PM
Thursday

Instead we wound up with a convicted criminal / con artist / rapist / pedophile in the White House. Yes, these most recent election results are good news, but they won't mean anything unless people continue to turn out at the polls.

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