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Republicans spent election night discovering that “pretend I’m on the ballot” was not, in fact, a governing strategy. Trump, displaying his usual breathtaking commitment to personal accountability, offered this masterpiece of political self awareness: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” Apparently, the man who spent months demanding that voters treat every election as a referendum on him suddenly developed amnesia when the referendum came back with a resounding rejection. How convenient. It is the political equivalent of totaling your car, blaming the passengers, and then insisting the accident never would have happened if you had been driving. This is the same man who graciously acknowledged that Democrats “did a good job” and declared himself “absolutely willing to accept” the results, while simultaneously floating the veto hat. Nothing says accepting defeat quite like announcing that you intend to obstruct the people who just defeated you. Truly, a masterclass in losing without the inconvenience of admitting it. Then came Mike Johnson, whose contribution to the evening was apparently to explain that history was always going to win, despite polling that had been practically screaming about a Republican wipeout. “We faced some real odds,” he lamented, which is a fascinating way of describing the consequences of spending two years ignoring every warning sign while confidently marching toward the electoral equivalent of a wood chipper. And now, naturally, the Republican Party is talking about a “wake up call.” How precious. A wake up call generally suggests that someone intends to get out of bed, examine what went wrong, and make meaningful changes. Republicans, meanwhile, have spent the last two years treating Democratic voters, Democratic candidates, and enormous portions of the American public as existential threats to civilization. They have spent years screaming about communists, invaders, enemies of America, and the supposed destruction of the republic. But suddenly, after getting their political teeth kicked in at the ballot box, they expect Democrats to pull up a chair, pour some coffee, and have a pleasant bipartisan conversation about “core principles.” Absolutely not. You do not spend years vilifying an entire political party, questioning its legitimacy, attacking its voters, and treating compromise like an act of treason, only to lose an election and immediately demand cooperation from the people you spent years demonizing. That is not reconciliation. That is political entitlement with a fresh coat of desperation. And that brings us to what these election results actually mean. The voters who flipped Texas, Kansas, Ohio, South Carolina, Iowa, and a string of House seats did not send new Democratic majorities to Washington so they could participate in some adorable bipartisan friendship retreat with the very people voters just rejected. They did not vote for Democrats so Republican leadership could continue dictating the agenda while Democrats politely searched for common ground beneath the rubble. They voted to STOP the Republican agenda. They voted to reverse what can be reversed. They voted to ensure that the next two years do not become another installment of the same political disaster with a slightly different cast. Democrats were not elected to serve as unpaid therapists for a Republican Party experiencing the consequences of its own behavior. They were not sent to Washington to provide adult supervision for a movement that spent years treating bipartisanship as a one way street, only to suddenly discover the beauty of cooperation when it found itself on the losing end of an election. And spare us the inevitable lectures about statesmanship, unity, and reaching across the aisle. Republicans had their opportunity to demonstrate those principles. Instead, they spent years setting fire to the concept of political cooperation and are now apparently shocked that Democrats might not be interested in helping them roast marshmallows over the ashes. Working with a party that voters just repudiated on its own preferred political terrain is not statesmanship. It is surrender dressed up in a respectable suit. It is handing the losing side the authority to negotiate the terms of its own defeat. It is taking a democratic mandate and feeding it directly into the Republican obstruction machine. Democrats should not be working with Republicans to salvage their agenda, rehabilitate their reputation, or soften the consequences of an election they lost. Republicans can spend the next two years contemplating the political consequences of their actions without expecting Democrats to rescue them from those consequences. The newly elected Democratic majorities were not dispatched to Washington to negotiate away the very policies and principles voters elected them to defend. They were elected to USE THEIR MAJORITY. Stop the agenda. Reverse the damage wherever possible. Exercise the authority voters handed them. And let Republicans experience the extraordinary constitutional concept of losing an election and no longer getting to dictate what happens next. That is the mandate. Anything less is rewarding a political movement that has repeatedly and loudly declared Democrats illegitimate, treated compromise as weakness, and only discovered the virtues of bipartisanship once its own political power was threatened. Republicans spent two years making it abundantly clear that cooperation was beneath them. Democrats should respect that position. No bipartisan rescue mission. No political rehabilitation program. No surrender disguised as compromise. Republicans wanted to govern without Democrats. Now they can discover what it feels like when Democrats govern without them.

The only thing in his future.

Haley Stevens @HaleyforMI grossly misjudged. Michigan dodged a literal bullet not voting for her.

Democrats are coming for all of you. Violating our civil rights and killing our people. That deserves only one punishment.

Heh. Okay, that made me smirk. Just a little though.

Elon Musk is so silent... Did the TDS wear off?

Democrats. Get rid of the filibuster.

You're next.

Democrat's also need to go after these betting websites and also crypto.

Can't wait to see the US markets. We are coming for the Tech bros.

I don't think @RepJeffries should be speaker. He was not helpful whatsoever.

Pedophile protector @SpeakerJohnson lost. Gloated earlier in the day that it was a sure thing Republicans would win. I had no idea how good of a job Democrats would actually do tonight. I said months ago the midterms would be a bloodbath. The Republicans imploded like the Titanic Sub.

Deport this cunt @NICKIMINAJ

いいえ、驚くようなことではありません。これは「自分たちの行動が招いた結果」というものです。 共和党は、アメリカ国民の半分を敵視し、悪者扱いしてきました。アメリカ市民の命が奪われ、人々の公民権が侵害され、この国では公職に就く者たちが犯罪行為に手を染めています。 ドナルド・トランプは犯罪者たちに恩赦を与え、その犯罪者たちは社会に戻って再び犯罪を犯しています。 日本ではこうしたことがどう受け止められるのか、私にはわかりません。しかし、いずれ有権者が立ち上がり、自分たちの信念とアメリカ合衆国憲法を守ろうとするのは当然のことです。 何も驚くことではありません。 本当に驚くべきなのは、共和党が圧倒的な支持を誇ってきた、最も保守色の強い選挙区や共和党の牙城ですら、実際に共和党が敗北しているという事実です。 これこそが、実に注目すべきことなのです。

If you have stock in @elonmusk's companies, you may wanna sell before they crash into the ground.

Or - if @ICEgov wants to stay, we can instruct them to round up all the MAGAs and deport them to the Middle East to fight for Israel.

.@cindy4kansas, Kansas Governor.