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People who read The Washington Post and certain other outposts of journalism apparently do.
Right wingers care about Will.
People who read The Washington Post and certain other outposts of journalism apparently do.
This point is presented elsewhere in the forum. Giving it a separate thread. It is time to calm down.
George Will's conservative commentary is usually on the mark even for a liberal and it is again this morning. Older Democrats, he suggests, should think twice before accepting Biden's recommendation that they thank inflation for enabling an 8.7 increase in Social Security payments next year; Republicans should understand that the country never responds well to leaders who make a habit of demonizing political opponents or insists they accept nonsense that has a soothing quality (translate "stolen election"). With strife, Will suggests, Republicans induced their own poor showing.
It could be added that strife is the main, and witless, ingredient of this forum.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... ed-wounds/
I think MAGA rubes just thought there was this vast wellspring of hatred and anger towards Biden that would carry them forth on a Red Tsunami.
Because banning school textbooks and flying asylum seekers around the country on private chartered luxury jets aren't really compelling campaign issues to sell your party on nationally
As I suspected. A BIG part of jackasses voting the perpetually stupid ticket is the simple fact that you're a bunch of butthurt twinklepuffs who are all frowny faced because those mean ol' wepubwicans called you bad names. George should hang out on JPP for a while. If it's any consolation, I no longer claim to be an "election denier", I simply believe that the blue half of the American electorate is a bunch of petulant morons.
Nope, you made explicitly clear that what you were looking forward to the most was Democrats screaming and crying about a massive Red Tsunami.
Which is exactly what did not happen.
It was the best midterm election performance by an incumbent party in two decades
Right it didn't happen but what matters is getting rid of the witch. She's dead. Yeah!
Liberals and progressives shouldn't be in a hurry to celebrate too much.
Yes, we thankfully avoided the huge red wave, but we still lost enough seats to totally fuck up the government even beyond where it's fucked up now.
Neither ideology will get any legislation passed for the next two years.
No incredibly destructive republican legislation.
No helpful Democratic legislation either.
Due to the assholes Manchin and Sinema, Biden couldn't pack the SCOTUS while he had the chance,
and now we'll have the current group of six fucking idiots on the court letting the red state legislatures do anything they want.
It's amazing how many JPP members moved their goalposts yesterday morning![]()
MAGA posters spent the last six months eagerly anticipating that Democrats would be despondent on November 8. Having six months of anticipation get flushed down the toilet in one afternoon was hard for MAGA to accept
Who cares what George Will thinks.
I think what's making them the most furious - they were looking forward to gloating and us being miserable this week. We're all celebrating and it's making their little heads explode![]()
I don't see the Will commentary anywhere in the link.
Bet it's similar to Time's commentary and to Victor David Hanson's.
Personally , I'm relieved that this is probably the beginning of the end for Trump.
That he knows something about DeSantis.What do you think he'll announce next week? He's going to make some "big announcement" on 11/15.
That he knows something about DeSantis.
It wasn't just Fox that was making that shitty prediction; The Hill, 538, CNN, The National Review...they all got it wrong because of the polling and the lazy historical precedent.
Historical precedent didn't play into this election at all, since the #1 issue for most voters was either abortion or democracy, not the economy and not punishing the President.
Biden wasn't even an issue in this election. His name barely came up. Trump's name came up more.
But there was no world in which you thought the loss would be this small...or even no loss at all, because we still need to count all the votes.
So I'm not sure why you are even running your mouth about this before all the votes have been counted.
Didn't you learn that lesson two years ago, or have you had your head up your ass this entire time?
Historical precedent predicted correctly.
You would know that is not true if you actually read my posts rather than making up lies about things I never said. I said several times I thought the Democratic loss would be in the 20's. That is lower than the average loss of 27 seats in the first midterm. I said the Senate was too close for a rational opinion.
Sure, if you're going to lower the bar to the floor because you don't want to drill into the specifics of this election.
And how do you know that the shift in seats was truly historical precedent and not an effect of gerrymandering? Because losing seats to gerrymandering is a lot different than losing seats due to historical precedent.
The only way we will be able to tell for sure is only after all the votes are counted, because I suspect that the aggregate vote margin will again favor the Democrats by millions of votes, just like it did in 2018 and 2020.