Loved kid of God, Classical Liberal (what the right used to be), Fightin’ Texas Aggie, Angels fan, Texans, I critique Rs & Ds so I assume you won’t be following
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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address 1/20/1953.
That must've been the problem all along. Too bad for the Rs he didn't do it a week earlier. Everything will now be hunky dory.
Rs: will learn nothing.
Ds: will overshoot thinking this is a mandate FOR them, when in actuality it is a mandate AGAINST Trump.
Ds: will waste their political capital on Trump investigations.
The world: will keep spinning as usual.
Joel Alberto retweeted
Congrats everybody. Republicans did this to themselves. God is smashing your idols now. Maybe instead of telling people to vote for a lesser evil, find better candidates. Find character that counts.
Joel Alberto retweeted
The blame here is on Donald Trump, yes, but at a deeper level it's with the Republican primary voter, the heart of the cult of MAGA. They shouted "give us Barabbas" time and again in state after state. No one made the grown MAGA adults of Texas vote for Ken Paxton. No one.
What’s the opposite of a Midas Touch? You know, when everything you touch turns to shit? I think we’ve seen which our dear old orange leader has.
Joel Alberto retweeted
If you’re blaming John Thune for this night, you’re a fucking moron. The blame is Donald Trump fucking up with tariffs (see when his approval started to decline after Liberation Day), the dicking around with Iran, and endorsing fucktards like Ken Paxton and Darline Graham.
The lesson of this election SHOULD be that the country does not want to be governed by the extremes. It won’t be though. Dems will view this as a mandate and they will go (or try to go) extremist left. And the pendulum swings… again…
I’m really disappointed that as many Ohio Republicans have voted for Ramaswamy as they have. I’m also disappointed that El Sayed is winning. Happy about Paxton getting his ass kicked though.
Joel Alberto retweeted
We could have avoided this result in 2024, but you all said DeSantis' boots were weird.
Joel Alberto retweeted
Trump and his political team have managed to do what the pre-Trump GOP never did — shrink the map of Republican states. Bush and Rove turned Texas red. Trump turned it blue. The pre-Trump GOP turned Georgia red. Trump turned it blue. But MAGA says we can't go back to winning.
Lol.
Easy Mike, there are going to be plenty of D voters, you don't need to get more to the polls.
Oh, and by the way, though he is right Dems should reconsider. That would be a stupid waste of their majority(ies).
Joel Alberto retweeted
I left the Republican Party because they put the whims of a reckless, childish con man ahead of working Americans like me. I'm done.
It's not that I want the Democrats to win. I want the Republicans to lose.
Joel Alberto retweeted
In 2016, I watched in real time as Republicans around me argued character could no longer be king in our voting process. They said our demands for respectability politics were making us weak, causing us to lose.
We’ve now lived through a decade of characterless candidates. Republicans may have won more races during this time period, but they’ve lost everything that mattered in the process.
Nothing has changed for the better, not a single facet of our lives has improved. The country has become meaner, more divided, more isolated, and less secure. Our economy has been pillaged. Our political systems have been weakened. The only thing we have more of is corruption and crassness.
In a two party system, we're lucky if we get integrity on even one side of the ballot. For me, that's now the guiding principle in how I vote. Because a person who has already proven to be a liar and a thug is likely lying to you about their policies anyways.
