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REMINDER: What did you think draining the swamp meant? In two years, this is the swamp that left. The problem is most folks on the conservative side believed it would be the democrats that left first. That could not be the case. The 2028 election really will be quintessential to our nation as then it will be the leftists that feel the will of the people. OR, nothing will happen (now or then) and we all lose.
Left at end of 118th Congress (January 2025) — 2024 election cycle
Retired / did not seek re-election:
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) — Retired
Ben Cardin (D-MD) — Retired
Tom Carper (D-DE) — Retired
Laphonza Butler (D-CA) — Appointed; did not run
Mitt Romney (R-UT) — Retired
Mike Braun (R-IN) — Ran for (and won) Governor of Indiana
Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) — Retired
Joe Manchin (I-WV) — Retired
Defeated in November 2024:
Jon Tester (D-MT) — Lost to Tim Sheehy (R)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — Lost to Bernie Moreno (R)
Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) — Lost to Dave McCormick (R)
Resigned or died during the 119th Congress (2025–2026)
J.D. Vance (R-OH) — Resigned January 2025 to become Vice President
Marco Rubio (R-FL) — Resigned January 2025 to become Secretary of State
Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) — Resigned March 2026 to become Secretary of Homeland Security
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — Died in office July 11, 2026
Not returning after 2026 midterms (leaving January 2027)
Retired / did not seek re-election:
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Tina Smith (D-MN)
Gary Peters (D-MI)
Joni Ernst (R-IA)
Thom Tillis (R-NC)
Steve Daines (R-MT)
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) — Running for Governor of Alabama
Alan Armstrong (R-OK) — Appointed (to replace Mullin); did not seek full term
Defeated in primary or general election (2026):
Roger Marshall (R-KS) — Defeated in general election
Susan Collins (R-ME) — Defeated in general election
Jon Husted (R-OH) — Appointed (to replace Vance); lost special election
Darline Graham (R-SC) — Appointed (to replace Lindsey Graham); lost general election
John Cornyn (R-TX) — Lost renomination (primary)
Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — Lost renomination (primary)
Progress is not neat or uneventful.
It is usually very messy and painful.
I've taken a couple of days to absorb what has been happening. I'm not surprised at the loss. The GOP betrayed the nation so we didn't vote for them. Some, maybe. Or, in Texas, 2.9 million new unverified voters all voted democrat. That seems rather unlikely. I live in one of the most rural counties in the state. We did not experience any of that 2.9 million new blue voter influx, we voted 80+% Red. I checked on the voter totals. But on the charts it looks like we voted blue. We did not.
Unless WE the people actually do anything, the left and the islamocommunists will usurp our agency. (Pseudo) Legally.
I see many men here and elsewhere discussing 'keep on fighting' but not a single one of the 'big' guys here have done (or will do) a darn thing except tweet 'buy ammo'. Just whinge on the internet.
I can quarter and feed. I can't form a militia or even a Sunday picnic because you (the fighting men) are not willing much less capable of fighting in any capacity. You just want to flex like this is high school, using your grand-dad's reputation instead of your personal performance. That is not impressive nor will it save the union. The few men out there doing anything, President Trump, Treasury Secretary, Hegseth, Miller, and Rubio are fighting in their capacities. And the ones that fought and lost Bo French, Spencer Pratt, Steve Hilton lost fighting, and are still fighting. But you? Awesome meme's tho.
Are Texas men going to let the plethora of illegals just walk into our state again? Yes? Are you smoking pork belly in front of mosques? Blasting heavy metal during calls to prayer? No? Why not? Are you protecting your churches 24/7 and your communities? No? Huh. Did you step up and attend school board meetings and city council meetings? No? Do you do business with them? Yes? Why? Do you buy and sell their houses? Yes? Why? Did your company print their banners? Do you patronize their establishments? Why?
Patriots. Huh.
Why are you NOT fighting in any way possible? Or organizing? Ohhh I know.....'buy ammo'.
It's all so disheartening. Can't really blame the EU when we are just casually following in their footsteps. My heart breaks for my country and the men actually trying to save it while the 'real' men continue to argue on the internet about the price of a gallon of gas or melt into a stew of antisemitism and incel behavior.
It's a free country.
If we can keep it
Like I said, I can quarter and feed.
Welp. I am going to have some @redbaronpizza and watch the chaos unfold. What’s all yall doing? 😂🇺🇸❤️🤘
Do you ever deliberately not follow or reply to a big account because you don’t want to give those duckers even one penny?
Wow. It’s so simple.
Next time a stranger at a bar asks if you're a patriot, do not say yes.
Chase Hughes walks through a hypothetical recruitment, and it starts with someone telling you he loves your podcast and then asking whether you'd consider yourself a patriot. That first yes is what he builds everything else on - your identity.
Next he asks if you'd be willing to look at something that might be uncomfortable. Then he shows you your browsing history and webcam captures from your phones and computers, offers to keep it all out of the public eye, and puts $20,000 a month on the table. All you have to do is keep a few people off the show and leave a few things out, for your country.
What gets me is that the protection covers more than your reputation. It also hands you a story you can live with, where every concession counts as service.
"They don't build influencers. They find the ones who are already successful and recruit them."
Apparently the benefits package includes getting to keep calling yourself independent.
So be honest, has anybody here ever been approached with an indecent proposal?
Well said.
I feel the same way.
Je ne veux plus fréquenter les gens qui disent « À quoi ça sert ? ».
J’ai 50 piges sur mon passeport, 12 ans dans ma tête (et 18 ans dans mon slip, dirait ma femme).
Et je compte bien que ça dure.
Je ne supporte plus les pisse-vinaigre professionnels du scepticisme.
À quoi ça servait de vouloir voler ? De traverser les océans ? De marcher sur la Lune ?
À rien. Jusqu’au jour où quelqu’un l’a fait.
J’ai toujours eu une tendresse infinie pour les originaux. Les inadaptés. Les rebelles. Les emmerdeurs. Ceux qui ne rentrent pas dans les cases.
Ceux qui ont des idées absurdes, des ambitions démesurées, des projets improbables.
Parce que ce sont eux qui font avancer le monde.
Pas les gestionnaires du déclin.
Les gens suffisamment fous pour croire qu’ils peuvent changer le monde sont précisément ceux qui finissent par le changer.
Et ce qui me terrifie aujourd’hui c’est l’état d’esprit que nous transmettons à nos enfants.
On les élève dans une atmosphère de fin du monde permanente. Entre malthusianisme, injonctions à la décroissance, culpabilité écologique et anxiété organisée.
Quelle terrible inversion des valeurs !
L’écologie devrait être un formidable défi lancé à l’intelligence humaine, pas une pédagogie de la résignation.
Je ne veux pas d’une génération qui s’excuse d’exister au point de ne plus faire d’enfants
Je veux une génération qui brûle d’envie de découvrir, de créer, de baiser, de comprendre !
l’optimisme n’est pas de la naïveté mais le courage de croire en notre capacité à tout affronter.
Le progrès n’est pas une fatalité mais une conquête.
C’est mon ode aux rêveurs, aux inventeurs, aux enthousiastes, aux insoumis, aux doux dingues et aux emmerdeurs magnifiques.
À tous ceux qui disent « t’es cap ? » plutôt que « À quoi ça sert ? ».
J’ai 50 ans, et je refuse de devenir vieux dans ma tête.
Aux fous qui veulent changer le monde !
@Delta 😑
I am NEVER flying Delta again voluntarily.
What an absolute crap experience. Incompetent and uncaring dinks.
The flight was delayed 30 minutes because they didn’t have food loaded. That was a delay. I mean, ok.
But!!!
Now the flight is delayed AGAIN because somehow, someway, they are short on fuel even though we’ve been sitting, loaded, on the tarmac for 45 minutes.
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PSA:
When you book a 16 hour international flight with a friend, don’t book the aisle and window and start yapping over the person sitting in the seat in the middle. Then don’t get all snippy when the person in the middle simply says, you should have booked your seats together.
I mean….
Metal Nana retweeted
We are so much smaller and you have more money so you should just give it to us and stop complaining. Why are you so mean and hateful and bigoted and xenophobic and racist?
Just give us your money and your product and we’ll be your friends again.
No thanks. 🙂↔️
Tomorrow I head off on my end of year vacation and I'm heading to Australia for the next 25 days - again. I lived there for 8 years. Not in the densely populated cities but very very rural in FNQ. I'm going back to MY beach (lol) and to my slew of friends. I'll be yapping at cows on the back of a horse, drinking a teeny bit of rum with the stockmen and friends, eating Australian beef, and dodging Huntsman Spiders.
Not looking forward to the plethora of snakes and spiders - that is for sure. But I wanted to say goodbye to one of the most beautiful countrysides I've ever seen. From the Atherton Tablelands, to the Waterfalls, the splendor and terror of the Rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef, to plains of grasses filled with Emus and Kangaroos and cattle. I will dance in Yarbarah with my Aboriginal friends and feast with them. And I will love every minute of it.
My posts may be sporadic and since I'll be in OZ, I supposed I'll have to behave online...and make sure not to cause offense to anyone. It wasn't like that before Covid. Now it is exactly like that. Worse. And every day new teeny freedoms are being excised from their normal everyday life so quickly and methodically they cannot do anything but continue to spiral.
I think most of the western world is in a spiral of identity, since we love identity politics so much. We should identify as what we are: Western nations with Western ideals.
This will probably be my last trip to Oz. I want to say goodbye to my Aussie people in person. I'm 63. With the rapid rate of decline I may not get another chance. Time is of the essence.
God Bless America. 🇺🇸
