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No. You didn’t. You are absolutely 100% wrong. You did nothing of the sort. @NRSC Senate Republicans under YOUR “leadership” did nothing. Nothing.
You had the chance to begin the process of saving our election system from the radical left. By passing the SAVE America Act. But K Street either didn’t care or opposed it. So why bother, right?
Because the GOP Senate only does what can be monetized via those endless lobbyist dinners / fundraisers. If it can’t raise you money? Probably not worth doing.
And you BERATED @BasedMikeLee for trying to get you to work full weeks, to try to pass the SAVE America Act. Or to work a weekend sometime. Or not to recess for weeks in March and then again recess for a month in August. You and your fellow GOP Senators told him that nobody cared about the SAVE America Act. That he needed to sit down and shut up.
And the American people watched you, day after lazy, do-nothing day. And how you literally could not come up with a single idea to manage the Senate rules to get the bill passed. You just could not figure it out. Because you really didn’t and don’t care. And because you just are clueless.
What’s all the fuss, you say. It’s not a big deal to you that our election system has been taken over and manipulated by the left. That aliens by the hundreds of thousands are on our voter rolls, that there are illegal votes by the thousands in the election results…and that it matters. It matters to the USA. But not to you @LeaderJohnThune
So now, you don’t have to worry about it. You don’t have to be in charge of producing meaningful results for the American people. They just sent you to your room without any supper. I’m sure you must be relieved. You and your fellow GOP colleagues who just flat couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to save our elections.
Well done, you. What a waste of space you’ve been as a leader. That term should never be applied to you or to your inner circle.
Utterly disgusted by the lot of you. You did this. Tuesday was the Thune election. You own it. Hope you’re happy.
@EIwatchdogs @seanmdav @EricLDaugh @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @Bannons_WarRoom @greg_price11 @RealAmVoice
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Iranians who survived the 1979 Islamic Revolution are screaming at America:
THIS is exactly how it started.
Michigan’s new Senator stood in front of the American flag, declared “My name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed,” and turned “Inshallah” into “Alhamdulillah” to roaring cheers.
Same slogans. Same triumphant religious tone. Same “it’s just politics” blindness.
They watched their country fall in real time. They know what comes next.
The West still pretends it doesn’t.
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Sometimes, letting Muslim Brotherhood Islamists win elections in the West may be the harshest lesson democracy can teach its own voters. Let people discover the true face of the ideology they voted for: the intolerance disguised as tolerance, the extremism dressed up as progress, and the backwardness sold as a brighter future.
Look at the turmoil in France. Look at the political battles unfolding in Britain, or “Britainstan,” as some now call it. One day, those who voted for extremism may discover that the ballot they cast in the name of progress became a vote against their own freedoms.
The tragedy of democracy is that people sometimes have to experience the consequences of their choices before they understand the value of what they had.
Civilization is easy to take for granted until you realize what it takes to defend it.
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I'm Japanese. Watching your midterm results roll in on Tuesday night broke my heart.
Republicans lost ground. A wave of Muslim and radical leftists just won seats across your country.
Since Tuesday, my American friends keep asking me the same question.
How did Japan stay Japan?
In Tokyo, trains leave on the exact second.
Leave your phone on a cafe table, and it is still waiting an hour later. Every year, people in Tokyo turn in over 4 billion yen in lost cash to the police.
We didn't keep this by accident.
When warships forced Japan open in 1853, our ancestors made a vow. Japanese spirit, Western technique.
Take the steel, the railways, and the factories. Leave the self-hatred at the dock.
After 1945, leftists tried to make us hate our history. We refused.
We never let guilt become a state religion the way your universities did. Nobody taught our kids that our ancestors were evil, or that the family was a crime.
Foreigners are still just 3 percent of Japan. When globalists called us closed, we didn't care. We went back to work.
A border isn't just a wall. It is a people who refuse to apologize for who they are.
But you need to hear the second half of our story before it is too late.
Japan kept its culture. Yet we are dying anyway.
In 1949, 2.7 million Japanese babies were born. Last year, it dropped below 700,000.
The left didn't do this to us. Weak conservatives did.
For thirty years, our politicians protected zombie corporations and old voters while crushing young working men. You cannot raise a family on a part-time contract.
When young Japanese stopped having kids, our rural towns simply went quiet and empty.
In America, empty spaces do not stay empty.
Your system priced young Americans out of homes, marriage, and children. Your schools taught them to be ashamed of their own heritage.
At the exact same time, you opened the gates.
You brought in millions from the Islamic world who do not share your values. They have big families, and they have zero intention of assimilating.
They do not apologize for their religion or their culture. They are fiercely proud of it. And they vote as a tribe.
Once that happens, elections stop being about tax cuts.
Elections become a headcount.
A proud culture that has children will always outvote and replace an aging culture that hates itself.
Look at Tuesday night's map. That isn't just a bad midterm cycle. That is your country slipping away in real time.
Stop letting spineless politicians sell out your young people for cheap foreign labor and corporate donors.
You don't save a nation just by praising the past.
You save it by locking the gates, fighting for your own young families, and having children to hand your country to.
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“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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So strange, Trump has been saying since 1987 Iran could never have a nuclear weapon. Heck many of us voted for him because Obama and his Middle East appeasement was a problem.
Almost every Republican and even many democrats freaked out about the Iran nuclear deal. The backlash was so bad the Obama administration spied on Netenyahu government.
Trump walked in, and during the first term, put sanctions on Iran, cut off the Iran nuclear deal, and launched strikes against Soleimani.
And I don’t remember everybody framing it as the end of MAGA.
Yet in June, before the 1st strike ever occurred, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, the Daily Caller and the Federalist had already framed a conflict in Iran as the end of Maga.
After hosting Trita Parsi, Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal guy multiple times.
No one thinks that’s strange?
No one thinks it’s strange that he helped to start the Quincy Institute in 2019, right after the Iran nuclear deal collapsed, and right before the next United States election?
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If Progressive Inc was run by slick institutionalists they would project normalcy and stability while quietly advancing their agenda and restoring ideological and administrative infrastructure vandalized by RW populism.
But they’re too dysregulated and incompetent to do that. It’s going to be low IQ French Revolution community theater because those are the tendencies that animate even ostensibly ‘smart people’ like Ben Rhodes, one of the original ‘failed creatives,’ an erstwhile novelist from Brooklyn.
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Mr. Vice-President,
Please allow me to present a different perspective.
The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire.
If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it.
This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism.
Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency.
In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue.
No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision.
Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed.
Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon.
No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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You may think he's joking, but this is what the communists did to nuns in Spain during the civil war.
Defiling corpses.
Believe them when they tell you who they are.
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Exactly!
When I grew up in Communist China, I was surrounded by completely brainwashed people, including myself.
Now in the US, I’m surrounded by people even more brainwashed than the communists I grew up with in China.
Communism thrives on a dumbed-down population. And the dumbing down is systematically carried out through schools, the media, and Hollywood!
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The same people who turned their backs against Trump due to Iran are the same people who voted for him to bring jobs back into the country and fight against China who is destroying our economy. If you are reading this and are thinking what is the relation between Iran and China then you shouldn't vote.
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We’ve spent years as the actual Arab Muslim begging the West to ban the Muslim Brotherhood for how extreme their ideology is, and suddenly Abdul just wins in USA ..
WTH 😂😂
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Honestly, blaming the “Iran War” for your troubles and turning against Trump/Republicans because he finally took Iran to task is a litmus test for me
It tells me you have ZERO historical and political IQ—you’re just an emotional toddler. Utterly absurd.
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Progressive politics is extractive.
They can’t build anything, not even a train in California, which is fundamentally a 19th century endeavor.
So they’re going to try to menacing in this way because they think it serves their business model which is a shakedown operation.
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What an absolute, unmitigated, motherfucking disaster.
We got our asses kicked. We got politically disemboweled. We got dragged through the electoral wood chipper, and the Republican establishment stood there with its collective thumb up its ass wondering why the fucking machine was running.
And now, right on schedule, the excuses are pouring in.
The war. Gas prices. Bad candidates. Historical trends. Voter frustration. Bad messaging.
Jesus fucking Christ, SHUT UP.
We had the majority. We had the presidency. We had the opportunity to deliver. And these incompetent, spineless, self-serving Republican bastards managed to turn political power into a fucking participation trophy.
Let's start with John Thune.
You spectacularly useless son of a bitch.
You had the Senate majority. You had an election integrity bill conservatives desperately wanted passed. You had millions of voters begging Republicans to demonstrate that winning elections actually meant something.
And what did you deliver?
A fucking master class in legislative impotence.
The SAVE Act became another monument to Republican paralysis while the people who elected you watched Washington's favorite collection of overpaid assholes explain why accomplishing anything was just too goddamn complicated.
You had power, John.
HAD.
And now Democrats get to enjoy the congressional authority your leadership helped squander.
What a magnificent fucking achievement. You couldn't have served Democratic interests more effectively if you'd shown up to work wearing a DNC name tag.
And don't think the rest of the Republican establishment gets a free pass. Every useless bastard who spent these last two years hiding behind parliamentary excuses, protecting his precious committee assignments, and treating the Senate like a retirement community deserves the same political eviction notice.
Get the fuck out.
Then there's Iran.
And this is where I have absolutely zero patience for the Monday-morning military strategists pretending the nuclear threat was some imaginary problem.
IRAN MUST NEVER, EVER GET A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB.
Not tomorrow. Not ten years from now. Not under some worthless diplomatic agreement held together with wishful thinking and another round of international bullshit.
Never.
We're talking about a regime with a long history of sponsoring terrorism, threatening Israel, brutalizing its own population, and pursuing nuclear capabilities that could fundamentally alter the security of the Middle East.
A nuclear-armed Iranian regime is a nightmare America has every reason to prevent.
And if military action was necessary to eliminate that threat, then the mission needed a clear objective and the determination to achieve it.
Destroy the nuclear weapons capability. Prevent its reconstruction. Make damn sure the regime cannot simply wait out another American administration and resume the same dangerous ambitions.
Finish the fucking job.
Because if Americans endured war, economic disruption, and soaring gasoline prices only to discover Iran could eventually rebuild its nuclear weapons program, then what the everlasting fuck was the point?
I can accept political costs for a mission that makes America and its allies safer.
I cannot accept strategic confusion, endless uncertainty, and politicians who seem incapable of explaining what victory actually means.
And here's the part Republican leadership should have understood before this election became a political slaughterhouse.
Americans were paying the price at the pump while Democrats were pounding them over affordability.
Groceries. Gas. Housing. Insurance. The cost of keeping a fucking roof over your family's head.
Democrats hammered those issues relentlessly.
And Republicans?
Apparently they were too busy measuring the drapes in their offices and scheduling another goddamn television appearance.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to watch voters struggle with household expenses and fail to understand what they're telling you?
Then came the candidates.
James Talarico winning Texas. Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan. Susan Collins losing Maine.
An electoral fucking earthquake.
And the Republican establishment somehow managed to look surprised.
Surprised?
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
You could practically hear the political foundation cracking for months. Warning signs were flashing everywhere, and these arrogant, complacent jackasses behaved like victory was something they were entitled to receive in the mail.
At some point, incompetence becomes so breathtaking that you begin wondering whether anybody in Republican leadership has ever successfully managed anything more complicated than ordering lunch.
And now comes the part that really makes my fucking blood boil.
The conservative influencer circus.
Bannon. Tucker. Candace. Megyn. Flynn. Alex Jones. Jack Posobiec. And every other self-appointed political messiah whose microphone somehow became more important than winning elections.
Here come the emergency broadcasts. The finger-pointing. The infighting. The hysterical accusations. The endless fucking circular firing squads.
Another catastrophe, another opportunity to turn conservative frustration into a revenue stream.
How many fucking subscriptions does it take to rebuild a political movement?
How many podcasts does it take to pass a bill?
How many goddamn livestreams does it take to win a Senate race?
Apparently nobody knows, because we've spent years watching people get rich explaining why conservatives should be furious while the actual machinery of Republican politics keeps breaking down.
Enough of this shit.
And spare me the conservative celebrities who spend more time attacking other conservatives than figuring out how to defeat Democrats.
Your personal feuds are not a political strategy.
Your fucking podcast ratings are not election results.
And your ability to scream into a microphone for three hours doesn't qualify you to lead anything.
Meanwhile, Democrats just demonstrated that winning elections is still considerably more useful than winning internet arguments.
Imagine that fucking revelation.
And speaking of Democrats, can we appreciate the sheer comedic absurdity of what just happened?
Donald Trump, the man they've spent years calling a dictator, fascist, authoritarian, monarch, and existential threat to democracy, just watched his party lose control of Congress through an election.
A fucking election.
The most terrifying dictator in American history apparently forgot the most important chapter in the dictator's handbook.
CANCEL THE GODDAMN VOTING.
What a fucking embarrassment for the professional hysteria merchants.
Apparently American democracy was healthy enough to deliver Democrats a massive victory after all.
Somebody call the Nobel Committee. Democracy has miraculously survived another Tuesday.
But here's where the laughter stops.
Because this defeat is serious as hell.
Republicans lost power. Democrats gained it. And the people who spent years warning us about the consequences of losing these midterms now have to explain why they were so spectacularly unprepared to prevent it.
And I don't want to hear another fucking word about how everyone needs to unite behind the same failed leadership.
Unite behind WHAT?
More excuses?
More broken promises?
More leadership elections where the same collection of useless bastards rearranges the nameplates and congratulates itself on a fresh start?
Fuck that.
I want a political reckoning so thorough that every complacent Republican incumbent starts checking whether his local voters are recruiting a primary challenger.
Every single one.
I want records examined. Promises compared with results. Leadership positions challenged. Failed candidates replaced. Party organizations rebuilt from the ground up.
And I want Republican voters to stop treating incumbency like some sacred fucking birthright.
You want loyalty?
EARN IT.
You want donations?
SHOW RESULTS.
You want another term?
EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK YOU ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE LAST ONE.
Because the era of handing out political participation trophies to career Republicans needs to end.
And don't give me that tired bullshit about how difficult Washington is.
We know Washington is difficult.
That's why we elect people who promise to fucking fight.
If you wanted a comfortable career collecting a government paycheck while accomplishing absolutely nothing, you should have applied for a job as a congressional office fern.
At least the fern produces oxygen.
Now, I know what some people are thinking.
It's over.
MAGA is finished.
Trump is politically crippled.
The country is lost.
BULLSHIT.
Absolute, defeatist, self-pitying BULLSHIT.
Yes, we got our asses kicked.
Yes, Democrats are celebrating.
Yes, the next two years are going to be harder than they needed to be because Republican leadership apparently couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.
But since when did one election determine the permanent fate of the United States of America?
Obama's Democrats lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats in 2010.
Did the Democratic Party disappear?
Did progressives pack their bags and surrender?
Of course fucking not.
Political movements survive defeats when they have the courage to confront their failures and the discipline to rebuild.
And that's exactly what conservatives need to do.
Because here's what I refuse to believe.
I refuse to believe that millions of Americans who love this country, believe in secure borders, want safe communities, demand responsible government, and expect their elected officials to put American interests first suddenly ceased to exist because a bunch of Republican politicians fucked up an election.
I refuse to believe that the people who stood by Trump through investigations, indictments, impeachment battles, media hysteria, and years of political warfare are suddenly going to surrender because Democrats won Congress.
And I sure as fuck refuse to believe that the future of American conservatism belongs to the same failed political establishment that helped create this mess.
Maybe this election was the wake-up call.
Maybe God looked down at the Republican Party, watched the arrogance, complacency, backstabbing, cowardice, and endless fucking excuses, and decided these people needed a lesson in humility delivered with a goddamn sledgehammer.
Maybe the message was simple.
YOU AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH.
Your leadership isn't good enough.
Your candidates aren't good enough.
Your organization isn't good enough.
Your results sure as hell aren't good enough.
FIX IT.
And maybe that's precisely what needs to happen.
Tear down the complacency. Destroy the culture of excuses. Replace failed leadership. Recruit candidates who actually know how to win. Build organizations capable of turning conservative principles into electoral victories.
Stop expecting Trump to carry every worthless Republican politician across the finish line like some exhausted political pack mule.
Trump has already done more than enough heavy lifting for people who seem incapable of carrying their own fucking briefcases.
And guess what?
TRUMP IS STILL PRESIDENT.
That little detail seems to have escaped the champagne-soaked Democrats dancing on MAGA's supposed grave.
He still occupies the White House. He still has constitutional authority. He still has the ability to shape foreign policy, defend American interests, and pursue the priorities that brought him back to office.
And if Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions can be permanently eliminated, that achievement will matter long after every smug political analyst has forgotten the election-night graphics.
But Trump also needs a Republican Party capable of surviving politically without him.
Because 2028 is coming.
And when it arrives, the movement needs more than nostalgia, slogans, celebrity endorsements, and another fucking collection of candidates who think putting MAGA in their social media biography qualifies them for public office.
We need competence.
We need discipline.
We need courage.
We need people who understand that winning an election is a responsibility, not a fucking lifetime achievement award.
And we need Republican voters willing to hold their own side accountable with the same ferocity they direct toward Democrats.
That means primaries.
That means challenging incumbents.
That means getting involved locally.
That means demanding actual accomplishments instead of accepting another round of bullshit fundraising emails promising that victory is just one more donation away.
I'm sick of the excuses.
I'm sick of the cowardice.
I'm sick of watching Republican politicians campaign like warriors and govern like frightened little bureaucrats terrified of upsetting the Washington cocktail circuit.
And I'm especially fucking sick of being told that criticizing Republican leadership somehow makes you disloyal to the conservative movement.
No.
The people who squandered their opportunities owe voters an explanation.
The people who made promises and failed to deliver owe voters accountability.
And the people who believe Republican voters should simply shut up, open their wallets, and keep electing the same failed leadership can go fuck themselves.
We've got two years.
Two years to clean house.
Two years to rebuild.
Two years to recruit candidates who can actually win.
Two years to prove that conservatism is bigger than any one politician, any one election, or any collection of self-important assholes occupying leadership offices in Washington.
And yes, I'm furious.
I'm absolutely fucking livid.
I'm disgusted by the incompetence. I'm embarrassed by the squandered opportunities. I'm enraged that so many people who demanded our trust treated that responsibility like a goddamn inconvenience.
But I'm still here.
And so are millions of Americans who believe this country is worth fighting for.
We're still breathing.
We're still voting.
We're still organizing.
And we're still perfectly capable of telling every useless politician in Washington exactly where to shove his excuses.
America has survived wars, depressions, assassinations, national catastrophes, and political upheavals far worse than one disastrous election.
We'll survive this.
But surviving isn't enough.
We need to learn from it.
We need to rebuild.
And we need to make damn sure that the next time Republicans are entrusted with power, the people holding it actually know what the fuck they're doing.
So congratulations, Democrats.
Enjoy your victory. Pop the champagne. Dance on the political graves. Write your obituaries for Trump and MAGA.
You've earned your celebration.
But don't confuse a devastating electoral defeat with the permanent death of a political movement.
And to the Republican establishment, here's your message.
The fucking gravy train needs to stop.
No more automatic loyalty.
No more free passes.
No more protecting failed leadership because somebody has been warming a Senate chair since the invention of electricity.
No more treating voters like gullible idiots who can be placated with a flag pin, a campaign slogan, and another goddamn promise.
You wanted power.
You got it.
You squandered it.
Now answer for it.
And to every conservative wondering whether to give up, I have one final thought.
FUCK GIVING UP.
Fuck surrender.
Fuck political despair.
Fuck the idea that one election gets to decide whether we still believe in our country.
The fight for America's future didn't begin with Donald Trump, and it sure as hell doesn't end with a Republican defeat in 2026.
We lost a major battle. We haven't lost the country. And we haven't lost the right to fight like hell for its future.
So bury the excuses.
Fire the failures.
Challenge the incumbents.
Build something stronger.
And when 2028 comes around, make sure the Republican Party has learned the one lesson its leadership apparently needed an electoral ass-kicking to understand:
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T OWE YOU A GODDAMN THING.
Earn their trust.
Earn their votes.
Earn the right to govern.
Or get the fuck out of the way.
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When a Muslim Brotherhood member wins a Senate race, that’s NOT DEMOCRACY; that’s USEFUL IDIOTS hating their own country. When the mullahs in Iran took over, socialists helped them, and later, the Islamists killed them all. This is the most dangerous moment for Western civilization. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is a dark chapter in this great nation’s history.
And as the Bible warns:
“For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” — Galatians 6:7 (KJV)
Be careful what you plant in the name of democracy. You may not enjoy the harvest.
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I'm Iranian. I've lived under the Islamic Republic for decades. I've seen how they ruined my country and took away our freedoms and every single right we had.
They control what you can wear, what music you can listen to, how you behave in public, and even how men and women are allowed to interact. Women are forced to follow a dress code. Women can't even sing solo in public. Dancing can get you in trouble. Drinking alcohol is illegal. Having a private party with men and women together can get your home raided and everyone arrested. Relationships outside marriage are criminalized. Even what you can watch, listen to, say, and post online is subject to censorship. Social media platforms are blocked. You can be punished, imprisoned, or even executed for speaking out against the regime.
Your own home isn't necessarily safe from their interference. Your private life isn't yours. Your freedom isn't yours. They want to dictate how you live, from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep.
This is the country I grew up in. This is what I experienced. They took so much from me that I was eventually forced to flee my own country.
America, I'm terrified for you. I know exactly where this road leads. I've watched it. I lived it.
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Two things.
#1, you claim turnout wasn’t the problem—not only are you wrong in the moment, but you’re exposing the main problem in the macro: the entire premise of America is self-government, and that can’t function if people don’t govern themselves.
This applies specifically to politics and civil government: half of Christians don’t vote (which is sin—Gen 1:28, James 4:17). Half of all eligible American voters don’t vote. That’s just absurd.
If only half the team shows up, are you going to win any games, much less the Super Bowl?
But this also applies to personal government: self-discipline. Logic, critical thinking, morality, sacrifice, service…love, as Christ demonstrates and demands. This has also been decimated.
If half your team DOES show up—overweight, unprepared, disorganized—are you going to win any games, much less…you get the point.
#2, and equally important: you say we lost because the electorate demands this:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
And your implicit argument is we either satisfy that demand, or we lose.
That’s a loss, either way—because those “demands of the electorate” aren’t based in reality, they’re based in emotional hysteria driven by liars and charlatans (get familiar with that word—you see them 24/7 on TikTok and Instagram).
War is the perpetual state of humanity, as @JeremyDBoreing so eloquently explained recently. The conflict with Iran has been simmering for half a century—Trump is the first leader brave enough to take tough medicine. Tough medicine saves lives—refusing it because it’s tough kills lives. That’s just reality.
Yes, life is too expensive—because the government steals nearly half of your money, and government wastes nearly all of it. No political party or significant politician is even trying to propose a real reversal of this (I tried: JohnStrand.com)
The anti-Israel propaganda project is at the root of all of this—and its root is a rebellion against God and His divine order, upon which our Constitution and Western Civilization are built. If we don’t expose those lies and take tough medicine for that cancer, it’s going to kill us. Guaranteed. That’s what cancer does.
That’s reality. Reality is a tough game, so many don’t want to play it—and it plays them instead. Reality always wins. @PatriotPlea
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
