And of course they should have seen it coming -- but -- well, they're Republicans.

as well.

Canada, Hungary . .

through some deal he has with some of the media companies that owe him (looking at you Paramount). It was never meant to help the party, it was meant to skim off the top.

The felon only supports the party to the extent that it keeps him out of jail or facing war crimes trials as he ought tp.

GOP candidates nailed to Trump.

Winning 62 seats in The senate and the house 375 seats!

I can fantasize can’t I!

model for 'conservative' governance in Project 2025.

Rachel had a brilliant slot on that last night. Here whole show gave us hope.

to even the freeloader non-voters or careless voters. People who previously thought "everything is fine" when they didn't vote or threw their vote away on "culture war" issues. Because the GQPee has been enacting policies that actively hurt people, they got nothin' to run on now except trying to scare people. Economics at the grocery store now overriding moral panics about trans people or immigrants.

May enough voters pay attention this time and vote in their best interest.

it takes to pierce their invincibility. All that went before wasn’t enough.

Near total destruction of the world economy, insanity, immorality, hatred and so much more,

The bar is subterranean at this point.

inform them about the "automatic DRAFT" the Republicans in power will target them in December...

Tell them when their letters will come to report themselves to the nearest enrollment spot, say goodbye to your games boys.

Democratic candidates MUST inform them and tell them what they intend to do once in power (if they vote for them).

Ignoring this issue would be a big fail.

The Repukes will not do it, but Dems have always been excellent.

How about doing what is right for your constituents and this country and put a stop to the ass-clown pulling us all under while he flails in a pool of his own shit (And once we do drown, whistle while walking away).

You have it in your collective power on the right to put a stop to this today! You have had this all along.

Do choose not to, you seal your own fate. I just hope and pray you do not seal the country's fate as well.

There's a phenomenon called "runaway selection." It usually happens in the context of sexual selection - if a trait in one sex is highly attractive to members of the other sex, that trait will evolve rapidly and with increasing prominence. It can get to the point that the trait might even be mildly deleterious to the organism bearing it, but as long as that individual survives long enough to breed, it'll keep going.

There are, however, limits. Being mildly deleterious is one thing; being fatal is another.

A good example is the peacock. If the tail feathers are cut short, the bird flies better, runs better, and is better able to hide from predators. But peahens really like peacocks with big, flashy tail feathers that can be displayed as a fan during mating season - so although a peacock with short tail feathers might be better able to survive, it's unlikely to mate.

I've wondered for years if the Republican Party will ever hit that tipping point. They might approaching the point at which they can't win a primary election without the MAGA base, but they can't win the general election with it.

I've been disappointed before. 2024 is proof enough of that. But this feels different. I don't think MAGA will truly dissipate until Old Colostomy moves on to the next plane of existence, but the non-MAGA support they enjoyed in 2024 (and in 2016) seems to be drying up.

Will this lead to a fundamental change in the Republican Party? Will they back away from some of their crazier policy positions? I don't know. This may have less to do with the policy positions favored by MAGA voters and more with the obvious incompetence of the present administration. Some of those who want Orange Julius Caesar out of office aren't necessarily committed Democrats or progressives.

But I really do think we're seeing a tipping point of some sort.

They went from Shrub as a 9/11 "hero" in 2001, to Shrub as an economic disaster in 2008, managing to trigger the election of the first black President, Barack Obama, basically waking up millions of previous non-voters.

This in turn generated a backlash and another demand for "change", waking up a different group of previous non-voters.

After a tumultuous first 4 years of 45, the drumbeat for change erupted once more, now with parts of both previous groups of non-voters engaged, with just enough who stuck around to elect Biden.

But the Wash. Rinse. Repeat. happened for change once more, and thanks to billions of dollars, 45 was reinstalled.

It's like a pendulum, now with a shorter and shorter swing period, and who knows... it could get shorter still.

come out of that short-lived PR stunt somehow even more right-wing on the national level than they were before. It never, ever fails.

This was true well before Trump, and it will be true afterwards.

People really need to be paying more attention to all the news coming out of “Young Republicans” groups nationwide. That is where they’re going and always have been.

They've been happily anointing themselves with it for more than 10 years, so it's an apt descriptor.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5829228-senate-races-shift-democrats/

The report moved two Senate races from “Toss Up” to “Lean Democrat”: the fight to succeed retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-Ga.) reelection campaign.
It also moved Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) race from “Lean Republican” to “Toss Up,” and Sen. Pete Ricketts’s (R-Neb.) reelection attempt from “Solid Republican” to “Lean Republican.”
Husted, whom Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) appointed to replace Vice President Vance in the upper chamber, will likely face former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in November. Brown, a veteran of the Senate, lost in 2024 to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio).
Ricketts, meanwhile, is facing a challenge from independent candidate Dan Osborn — who lost to GOP Sen. Deb Fischer (Neb.) in 2024.
In North Carolina, former Gov. Roy Cooper (D) and former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley will face off to succeed Tillis. Further south in Georgia, a crowded GOP field — featuring Reps. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) and Mike Collins (R-Ga.), along with former football coach Derek Dooley — are squaring off in the primary that will decide who takes on Ossoff.