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CatWoman

(80,197 posts)
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 06:14 PM Sunday

I think some GOP are breaking ranks -- this from the co founder of The Federalist magazine


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I don’t know who is advising congressional Republicans on strategy right now, but it is whoever it is has an IQ barely approaching room temperature.

Republicans right now have no accomplishments, no plans, and no vision. Why on earth would anyone be excited to go vote for them 12 months right now?

Trump needs to ditch the foreign policy crap and focus all his attention on the domestic economy, which is still not working for the majority of people. Right now he looks weak and rudderless. Be mad all you want, but it’s the truth.

Newly minted college grads can’t find work and are saddled with debt. Where is their path to the American dream right now? Who is giving them a vision of a future worth fighting for?

You cannot have a viable country or future when half your country and all its young people are locked out of the economy and locked out of ever owning a home or much of anything beyond next month’s streaming subscription.

Does anyone in Washington care about this? Anyone at all?

Republicans had better wake up, because right now their nightmare is only beginning if they don’t start making massive changes.
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I think some GOP are breaking ranks -- this from the co founder of The Federalist magazine (Original Post) CatWoman Sunday OP
Please, Lord, do NOT let him "focus all his attention on the domestic economy". Midnight Writer Sunday #1
The only accomplishment the GOP cares about is yelling "Neener Neener" at Democrats. tanyev Sunday #2
repukes with their TRICKLE DOWN crap CAUSED this major inequality Skittles Sunday #3
The AI Economy will be proletarian worker bees and CryptoBros bucolic_frolic Sunday #4
The ... littlemissmartypants Sunday #5
The Repubs are incapable of change. flashman13 Sunday #6
Right. H2O Man Sunday #8
Recommended. H2O Man Sunday #7
We are past where they plan for voting to matter quakerboy Monday #9

Midnight Writer

(24,979 posts)
1. Please, Lord, do NOT let him "focus all his attention on the domestic economy".
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 06:37 PM
Sunday

I don't think our economy can take too much more of his focused attention.

tanyev

(48,279 posts)
2. The only accomplishment the GOP cares about is yelling "Neener Neener" at Democrats.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 06:40 PM
Sunday

And a lot of their voters are fine with that.

Skittles

(168,613 posts)
3. repukes with their TRICKLE DOWN crap CAUSED this major inequality
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 06:47 PM
Sunday

repukes solely pimp for the moneyed class, they don't give a FUCK about WE THE PEOPLE

bucolic_frolic

(53,228 posts)
4. The AI Economy will be proletarian worker bees and CryptoBros
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 08:20 PM
Sunday

A flat polity. A world crafted for everyone to want to do nothing but escape it.

littlemissmartypants

(30,882 posts)
5. The ...
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 08:45 PM
Sunday

naiveté of these pundits is mind numbingly ridiculous. Do none of them recognize that they are proposing "working with" psychopaths? Why TF would anyone agree to such or even acknowledge the idea?

The stupidity!!

H2O Man

(78,253 posts)
8. Right.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 09:25 PM
Sunday

I would say they are incapable of positive change. (Others will likely point out they eventually die, which is perhaps the ultimate change. I mean while living.) But they are capable of negative change ..... consider going from nominating Willard "Mitt" Romney to nominating the felon in 2016. Of course, they did so in 2020 and 2024, indicating the inability to change you noted.

We do see hints, at the very least, that some of them are worried about their chances in the mid-terms is they continue to kiss the felon's ass. More, some are aware that the felon will soon have lame duck status, with the reduction in his power decreasing at a pace as fast as his physical decline. His focus on building a temple dedicated to his memory might suggest that he is aware, as Jim Morrison sang, "The future's uncertain, the end is always near. (I refuse to confirm that I have set aside a special gram of hashish for that day.)

There will be disagreements between different factions that increase. For example, some are expressing rage at Tucker Carlson. Imagine when he enters the 2028 presidential primaries. Think of when the primaries are ongoing, he announces that Marjorie Taylor Greene will be on the ticket with him.

They will destroy themselves. The biggest question, in my opinion, to paraphrase Jack Nicholson, is when god created republicans, was it a mistake? A leak from the universal lab? If so, there might be a cure. A vaccine that involves pouring bleach up their asses? But if it was on purpose, it's a curse and they have no hope.

quakerboy

(14,657 posts)
9. We are past where they plan for voting to matter
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 02:38 AM
Monday

This is not a civil society issue that will give way to regular democratic action. They dont plan to let voters vote, votes be counted, or counts be released without edits as they find convenient.

And they have every branch of federal government, a large majority of state level branches, and the press and most of business in their pocket. Meanwhile we dont seem to have even a functional opposition party.

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