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.
I don’t want them to merely lose the midterms. I want Republicans to cease existing. Politically AND physically.
that kind of verbiage only promotes political division and confrontation. So being precise with what you say does matter. Should dissenting opinions exist? Should there be guardrails AGAINST blatant breaks of law (domestic and international)? Should people be jailed or exterminated for their political views? Who has monopoly on violence? etc. etc. Political demise for republicans would be nice but then take into consideration how very close Mainstream Democrats are to republicans. This is not solved by political extermination of Republicans but by pluralistic government, proportional representation that allows for more nuance and forces compromise… would still need strong and independent judicial branch to hold government to account. Calls for extermination of “other” was always a prerogative of radical extremes, ability to set the framework that prevents any abuse and having a dialogue is what defines “civilized” society
You want nuance? We will never have a “normal” Republican president again. If that doesn’t strike you as a threat to civilization then you haven’t been paying attention.
VERY dramatic. Maybe even accurate. But does it really matter? System needs to change. Otherwise same people will hijack Dems and you’ll have NOTHING to tramp it with having a single party. So yeah, nuance, grasshopper.
I mean it puts it in perspective. We have a system where the two parties take turns being president and one party is a death cult. So the system is guaranteed to change, but if that change doesn’t include the extinction of the GOP then it won’t change for the better.
It’s not really about the GOP, though, it’s about the rich guys behind it. How do you deal with those who are above the law? This must be resolved.
The fallacy above is the Tolerance of Intolerance. Democrats, up until this presidency, generally respected the rule of law. There has been nothing close in any of their behavior.
When the “other” is an identity formed through place of birth, race, or cultural upbringing, I agree that extermination is a horrific thing that serves as a warning bell. But when the “other” is an intentional ideology formed through mature, conscious decision as a functioning adult, especially when it originates from boundless hatred, I don’t see any particular issue in full, total extermination of its source.
methods of extermination matter. Did you ever try to train an animal? Did you exterminate one for not listening? Do you know anyone who did exterminate animals for bad behaviour and put it on their resume? Do you want to be like them? Ideas and movements do not grow in a vacuum. Uneducated underpaid masses will find the most unpleasant outlet for their anger. Mainstream Democrats will not resolve that issue and those same Democrats will choke off any progressive agenda. So it’s a hydra, you cut off one head only to get two staring back at you. Extermination of effect solves absolutely nothing. So, you were saying?
If ONLY there was SOMETHING that they COULD have Done to Stop this War that was waged WITHOUT Congressional Approval!
That’s where you’re wrong. It’s not a war. It’s a military operation. Easy mistake to make :)
Don’t underestimate the Democratic establishment’s ability to run godawful candidates. I think they actually believe they can run even worse candidates when the Republicans are unpopular
Shhh, don’t let the Dem supporters and Blue No Matter Who types hear this. They’ll say you voted for Trump personally.
Everyone outside the country knows Harris was an excellent candidate.
Saying “I voted republican because of the dems” is typical american behaviour.
That’s why you are where you are, but it’s not your fault, it never is.
You guys are saying that what Trump did to your country is because of the democrats?
I voted Harris. So good strawman.
It’s not a strawman, they’re directly responding to what you said. Regardless of how you voted
Man, I came to Lemmy thinking I’d encounter less neo-liberals or those who apologize for them. It’s rather unfortunate really.
Good strawman
There’s one thing I do like about Lemmy at least.
the word neo-liberal is propaganda forced onto you by people who have that kind of power over you
Neo-liberal is a political ideology, it’s not propaganda. Neo-liberals aren’t the left and I’m tired of them as well as their apologizers.
I don’t remember saying you voted for him, and I already know nothing will ever be your fault, no need to remind me
I love backhanded insults. There’s only one good response for them.
You guys are saying that what Trump did to your country is because of the democrats?
If you’re not familiar with our politics then you don’t know how right you are. The Democrats have a strategy of giving Republicans rope to hang themselves. The “adults” of the Democratic party are encouraging self-harm.
vote them in
Yep, and claim that we’re Russian bots and Propaganda Bots…all because we use facts. lol
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I don’t think she campaigned with Liz Cheney enough for me personally. Maybe she could have drug Kissinger’s corpse around too, that’s what sold me on Clinton
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It’s never ‘no reason’, getting the votes out is an essential part of being a politician in a democratic country. If voters don’t connect with an otherwise good candidate, blame the politician, not the electorate.II think the campaign was bad and too invisible. She was running on “not Trump” and lacked a positive vision for the country
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Yep. Dems have been running on, “but, but…but our candidate isn’t republican” strategy for so long. And they still haven’t changed.
And from some of the comments in this thread, they are supported in doing that. So they’ll keep fucking it up. lol
I’ll happily admit I’m wrong if they put AOC forward as pres candidate. If they don’t put AOC in there, then I’ll keep voting third party.
sO yOu WaNt tRuMp To wIn?!
Pretty much how Lemmy thinks! lmao
I mailed in my primary vote from overseas weeks ago. Other mail I’ve sent since has arrived with my family in that and another state. I voted for the progressive candidate that was anti-ice. We’ll see just how fucked democracy is for those of us overseas voters
It amazes me how many of them are in hard bubbles. I work with tradesmen, some of them are just the worst fucking people. I had one tell me yesterday that at least Hegseth is assertive unlike ‘that black guy that went awol for heart surgery’. I’m convinced absolutely nothing will sway about 25% of the population. It’s psychopathic.
Thankfully a decent portion of those imbeciles don’t vote
He should just do his mail in voting in advance then offer to take the muppets for a beer on election day.
There is no way they are making it to the polling stations.
PEDOPHILES, the fascist paramilitary executing people in the streets, AND ISRAEL COST YOU. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -DC
Also the blatant corruption, the absolute bad faith effort at governing since obama, and the generally insulting way they view citizens and dehumanizing way they regard non israeli non citizens.
Good. Unpopular political decisions should have consequences for those that make them. Doubly so when those decisions are to get people killed.
I’ve been seeing these type of headlines of Republican “fear” of losing elections due to the horrible shit they do when they are in power. The money behind Republicans don’t care. It’s built into the plan. Republicans just hunker down, switch to obstructionsm to limit undoing the damage they caused and wait for the voters to get fed up with the lack of change and blame the party in power (not the party that created the situation and is preventing it from changing). Then they find themselves back in power and continue burning the world and push for every more oppression.
there’s a name for it: “racheting”
That assumes that the current narcissist in power is even willing to accept that he has lost… given that they seem to be preparing to label everything to the left of MAGA as terrorism and the federal government is currently buying tear gas in bulk, I would put a big question mark on that.
“Those who fall asleep in a democracy may wake up in a dictatorship.”
Yah, that’s what’ll lose you the midterms. Not the complete abdication of restraining the executive branch from destroying the US international reputation and completely fucking the economy for decades to come.
Fucking numpties.
Don’t believe it for a second. This is just like all those articles of people walking out of Trump rallies during the end of the last election.
MAGA goons are still chugging that Kool-Aid.
It’s from Politico… so…
It should. There should be no question about it. But the loyalists will still vote for the world to burn.
Don’t forget all the purity ponies and the low-info that won’t bother to vote for equally stupid reasons.
The number of idiots and monsters still in MAGAcult is way too damn high.
I also truly hope the uncommitted No Vote / Third Party voters complicit in his election (I think I’ll call them Maga-lite at this point) have learned a thing or two since last election, too.
Register and Vote Democrat come November. Vote in Dem primaries right now if you want to alter the composition of the Democratic banner.
I also truly hope the uncommitted No Vote / Third Party voters complicit in his election (I think I’ll call them Maga-lite at this point) have learned a thing or two since last election, too.
I’m a third party voter. And I did learn something. That I was right. I’ll be voting third-party again to. Dems suck. Republicans suck. I vote for who I want to win, not against who I don’t want to win.
Found the Republican.
No you didn’t. If I were Republican I would have voted Republican. Why would I do a roundabout voting thing, rather than just vote Republican if I wanted a Republican to win?
I think I’d bet money I did, in fact.
Odds even better from a brand-spankin’ new 1-month-old account, LOL. Got that classic false equivalence both sides wedge-driving scent, even!
Looks, Acts, Quacks, Helps a Republican!
Must be a Republican.
Slava Ukraini ;)
Odds even better from a brand-spankin’ new 1-month-old account,
Obivously you didn’t look at my profile where I listed my accounts. My original account is Lemmy.today. Then it was lemmings.world, but it’s closing. So I created this one. I am not a new 1-month-old account.
All that info is right in my profile.
I have been on Lemmy for 3 years, bub.
I think I’d bet money I did, in fact.
So you bet money that someone on Lemmy who says they are not a republican, is a republican? Um…doubt it. But if true, you are taking Lemmy way too seriously.
Again tho, if I were republican, wouldn’t it be better for me to vote Republican? Why would I vote third party if I were a republican? Seems kinda the long way around, don’t you think?
He was President for 4 years and then tried a coup after losing the election. He was elected in 2024 anyway.
Seems like they should have arrested or killed him.
They absolutely have not learned, they might vote dem in greater numbers and we’ll get a blue wave, but they are still going to be fundamentally moronic. The blue wave will be blunted by the in-fighting but even if its not and we also get a dem president in 2028 (we almost certainly will) the US will become increasingly hellish and miserable to live in anyway. There will be only so much a democrat can do
I intend to vote dem but that’s just self interest now. I can’t mentally invest in the suffering of masses of people that Republican vs Democrat victories will have because there is nothing I can do about it.
At this point, for your own sanity, I suggest you treat politics like the climate and weather. Which, just like real climate weather is going to get worse, not better. Focus on enjoying what time you have.
There are fewer of them, but they consistently show up. The other side, however, is capricious and wont act simply to prevent a criminal from taking the wh. I literally dont know which is worse for the country, and that scares me.
It will lose you the midterms until the elections are determined to be rigged and the newly-elected Reps are not seated.
I’m not so sure the Democrats don’t have some trick up their sleeves to still lose it naturally lol
I love how when the republicans win, there’s definitely no election fraud, but when they lose it’s nothing but fraudulent elections. Fuckwits
Their base eats that shit up and they’ll keep using that tired line until it stops working.
Or the old “Iran” blew up a dirty nuke in a US city so its martial law and no election trick.
They won’t attempt to stop doing the things the country hates, however…
Democrats will take office on Jan 2nd and announce the need to compromise with Moderate Republicans about three days later. They’ll pass enormous bailouts for the tech industry, a marginally increased spending package for ICE and the Pentagon, a massive tax cut plan for middle class people with over $40k in auto loans, the Joe Manchin Memorial Coal Energy Independence Act, and then advance the “Act to Declare Donald Trump a Naughty Boy” which… gosh darnit… we just can’t get it out of committee because we don’t have the votes!
Nonetheless, Democrats will declare that they outsmarted Trump, by tricking him into signing the “Make Israel Great Again” Act. And we’ll hit a bipartisan consensus on adding antisemites to the concentration camps. Also, Elon Musk will be given a trillion dollars, in a bag, out the back of the Capital Building. Please don’t ask how or why.
I will be called a Russian bot for predicting this.
No you’ll be called a Russian bot for the needless bothsiderism you threw out as a completely unrelated response to what you were replying to.
Like, holy shit dude. When someone points out Republicans doing bad, you don’t always have to jump in with a much longer complaint about Democrats doing shit too. Time and a place.
needless bothsiderism
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
~ Julius Nyerere, a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, political theorist, and Russian botfarm
This is what these people don’t understand. They’re the same side of the same coin, the other side doesn’t have representation hardly at all. Voting for evil is still evil winning.
You know, I’d like to think that with everything dumpy has done over the last few years, the repubs have lost any good will they had. But this is America we’re talking about. So I’m thinking they’ll still vote for them.
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.
vote
This time it will be different!!!
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