2022 Midterm Elections

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,348]

1 minute ago, BuckSwope said:

The thing I don't get about the current GOP is why they don't hammer on a few things that either aren't really being addressed by either party or are very popular things universally but they aren't fully on board with, such as legal weed and mental health (especially since this is the go-to for gun violence for them).   Instead they try to focus on unpopular things like abortion bans and whatever the current moral panic is that isn't popular nationally.  

A lot of popular concerns are there for them now like the border and crime, but I think people are shying away from checking R more often because it feels like they would prefer turn us into Gilead in the process.  

because the gop and dnc are owned by pharma and pharma continues to fight to stop weed

[IGotWorms 4,058]

3 hours ago, KSB2424 said:

NC Governor Roy Cooper.  He's a Democrat so I disagree with a lot of things he is "for" but I respect the man.  I believe he's in politics for the right reason even though I disagree with him on many issues.  He's not crazy, he's not ultra liberal, he reminds me of an old school Democrat.  And well, he can put two sentences together without sounding like a complete idiot.  Which would be a step up from the current administration.  

ETA: I didn't mind Tulsi Gabbard and Andrw Yang either.  But the Democratic Party went so far left it left those candidates. 

 

 

I respect Cooper for winning twice in a purple state. But he’s not exactly bursting with charisma. I don’t see him making it on the national stage.

[TimHauck 2,866]

21 minutes ago, KSB2424 said:

As a Democrat, why wouldn’t he be? I can’t wait for the answers.  

Not everyone wants to be President…

[IGotWorms 4,058]

3 hours ago, Raven Fan said:

And what's wrong with Gavin?  No one outside the cultist circle GAF about the woke garbage you people constantly screech about.  He's young, well spoken, leader of the 5th largest economy in the world with a bigly surplus.  He's my guess as to whom the D nominee will be. 

As a California governor the assumption would be he’s an out of touch elitist Uber liberal doosh. I don’t know that much about him, but it doesn’t seem like he’s exactly dispelled that notion

[BuckSwope 654]

5 minutes ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

because the gop and dnc are owned by pharma and pharma continues to fight to stop weed

Gop more in their pocket? The Ds don't seem to have as much of an issue getting weed legal. 

[zsasz 369]

11 minutes ago, craftsman said:

I blame you liberal voters who don't know what you are voting for. 

 

Try again, Ma'am.  I'm more to the Right than you.  Republicans screwed it up.  Until they're ready to get serious about winning....they get what they deserve.  

[craftsman 1,045]

2 minutes ago, zsasz said:

 

Try again, Ma'am.  I'm more to the Right than you.  Republicans screwed it up.  Until they're ready to get serious about winning....they get what they deserve.  

Yep. And all the far left liberals on this site consider themselves moderates. Just ask them. They are happy to talk about it. 

This country was doing great under Trump. He was the best president the US has ever seen given the bullshlt he inherited from that extreme racist of a president.

Biden was asked this week what will he do moving forward. He said he will do the same thing he has been doing. 

That is 100x worse than the worst republican candidate you can put into office.  There needs to be instant opposition in any form to what Biden and his liberal handlers have been doing and plan to keep on doing during his term in office. Then if we need to fix the party further in 2024, so be it. 

I just can't see it your way.  

 

 

[Pimpadeaux 2,406]

15 minutes ago, zsasz said:

 

Try again, Ma'am.  I'm more to the Right than you.  Republicans screwed it up.  Until they're ready to get serious about winning....they get what they deserve.  

You're talking to the board's worst poster in history. What he lacks in intelligence and maturity, he equally lacks in anything close to a viable sense of humor. He and the other MAGAtards here think anything to the left of Infowars is "liberal." They don't understand moderates. They don't comprehend facts and reality.

But it's fun to pants them day after day without them realizing it.

Welcome to the Geek Club!

[OldMaid 2,130]

10 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

You're talking to the board's worst poster in history. What he lacks in intelligence and maturity, he equally lacks in anything close to a viable sense of humor. He and the other MAGAtards here think anything to the left of Infowars is "liberal." They don't understand moderates. They don't comprehend facts and reality.

But it's fun to pants them day after day without them realizing it.

Welcome to the Geek Club!

Yep. It’s seems their takes on Jan 6th, abortion bans, tranny mania, trying to overthrow elections and Trump in general are horribly out of touch with the rest of the country. 

[Pimpadeaux 2,406]

27 minutes ago, OldMaid said:

Yep. It’s seems their takes on Jan 6th, abortion bans, tranny mania, trying to overthrow elections and Trump in general are horribly out of touch with the rest of the country. 

It's normal to see, read and hear the noisiest things and worry, but it's reassuring that the majority feels the same way and reacts accordingly, such as turning the MAGAtard-chest-beating prediction of a red tsunami into an historic red trickle. 

[craftsman 1,045]

51 minutes ago, OldMaid said:

Yep. It’s seems their takes on Jan 6th, abortion bans, tranny mania, trying to overthrow elections and Trump in general are horribly out of touch with the rest of the country. 

Riots of 2020 and the $2 billion insurance claim price tag has nothing on all the people/cops those riots put out of work, killed, beat up, etc. all ignored.  Yet.....a selfie fest causes the libs to scream TRUMP!!!!! for years to come. 

TDS must hurt down to the liberal soul.

[Gepetto 1,368]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/politics/catherine-cortez-masto-nevada-senate/index.html

Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto will win reelection in Nevada, CNN projects, clinching a critical victory that will allow Democrats to keep control of the US Senate.

 

[Vince44 205]

Boom. Winning. Dems keep Senate. When Warnock wins on Dec 6th to give us the 51-49 edge, Manchin loses his power to block as Harris will break the ties he will cause. Sinema is up for reelection in two years and she's been falling back on party lines. Arizona sent a loud message in rejecting these MAGA Psychos down the ballot in the general election. Hobbs beating Lake for Governor will be the cherry on top. You shouldn't have kept focking with the McCain family. 

Thanks Republicans. You fumbled the ball on the one yard line six months ago by never stopping on the abortion issue until you took us back to the stone ages. How did that fake outrage work out for you in the decades of screaming about RVW? All you did was piss off more than enough women to get them out to vote in droves for the Democrats. Talk about going from a certain win to a embarrassing hysterical loss in these midterms.

Thanks for putting up these unelectable unqualified wackjobs. Mitch warned you about these conspiracy clowns. You "might" be able to eke out a microscopic majority in the House (211 to 205 at this point) but even you know this is a colossal disappointment. Graham and Scott just said you got whipped when a week ago they said it was a lock for a landslide to take back Congress. Good luck with a handful of seats (maybe) in making those sweeping changes coming next year. Lots of tight races in the House still up for grabs that could go either way. McCarthy having the champagne and balloons put away is hilarious. 

[craftsman 1,045]

I'm surprised so many liberals are cheering on massive government spending. It's almost as if they are really stupid. 

Oh wait.....

[Shooter McGavin 618]

3 hours ago, craftsman said:

I'm surprised so many liberals are cheering on massive government spending. It's almost as if they are really stupid. 

Oh wait.....

I am not surprised that your crying about liberals at 3am on a lightly trafficked FF message board.

[craftsman 1,045]

4 minutes ago, Shooter McGavin said:

I am not surprised that your crying about liberals at 3am on a lightly trafficked FF message board.

I'm not surprised the first thing you do early on a Sunday morning is wake up thinking of me and sprinting to your computer to look up my posts and record the times in a notebook. 

You and MDC have a lot in common. Are you two having an affair? 

[Shooter McGavin 618]

7 minutes ago, craftsman said:

I'm not surprised the first thing you do early on a Sunday morning is wake up thinking of me and sprinting to your computer to look up my posts and record the times in a notebook. 

You and MDC have a lot in common. Are you two having an affair? 

Seriously do you ever sleep?  Now it's 7.  Did you sleep last night?

[BuckSwope 654]

8 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Imagine being glad that a party that fights so children can get a sex change operation even if their parents are against it? And think that abortions should be allowed up until the moment of birth? Hard to believe there are so many of these sick focks. 

 

8 hours ago, craftsman said:

I blame you liberal voters who don't know what you are voting for. 

Yep, keep pointing the finger elsewhere and keep losing.    Bottom line from Tues is that for some reason Rs decided to go too far for the public on abortion bans, and they clinged too hard to this stolen election nonsense.    Unlike your extreme, rare examples of sex operations full term abortions - voting and bodily autonomy are core things everybody can understand and feel the affects off.   The GOP went too far and lost.  Maybe, unlike you two seem to be willing to do, they as a party will learn from that.  

[Sean Mooney 1,983]

7 minutes ago, BuckSwope said:

 

Yep, keep pointing the finger elsewhere and keep losing.    Bottom line from Tues is that for some reason Rs decided to go too far for the public on abortion bans, and they clinged too hard to this stolen election nonsense.    Unlike your extreme, rare examples of sex operations full term abortions - voting and bodily autonomy are core things everybody can understand and feel the affects off.   The GOP went too far and lost.  Maybe, unlike you two seem to be willing to do, they as a party will learn from that.  

Not to mention- I doubt there is a large majority, or even plurality, of liberals who actually want people to have sex changes without parental permission and all that. In fact, I would bet the number of people who have actually had sex changes without parental permission is so low it is statistically insignificant.

It is about personal choice without governmental involvement. The kind of thing the Republican party always stood for until they let the Christian fundamentalists corrupt them on this issue with the pearl clutching. 

[craftsman 1,045]

12 minutes ago, BuckSwope said:

 

Yep, keep pointing the finger elsewhere and keep losing.    Bottom line from Tues is that for some reason Rs decided to go too far for the public on abortion bans, and they clinged too hard to this stolen election nonsense.    Unlike your extreme, rare examples of sex operations full term abortions - voting and bodily autonomy are core things everybody can understand and feel the affects off.   The GOP went too far and lost.  Maybe, unlike you two seem to be willing to do, they as a party will learn from that.  

How do you beat 81 million worth of cheated votes? And why do all the races where the counting goes on after election day always end up with liberals overtaking the conservatives. 

I know you will stick with your bit on saying that keeping the current disgusting liberal party in place over having conservatives you don't like in there is good for America, but you are part of the problem. I blame people like you for the mess we are in. 

[BuckSwope 654]

6 minutes ago, craftsman said:

How do you beat 81 million worth of cheated votes? And why do all the races where the counting goes on after election day always end up with liberals overtaking the conservatives. 

I know you will stick with your bit on saying that keeping the current disgusting liberal party in place over having conservatives you don't like in there is good for America, but you are part of the problem. I blame people like you for the mess we are in. 

It's not a secret that Ds are using mail in options at a higher %.   Hell, the GOP largely is telling people that method is cheating and fraud, but then they are surprised when their voters don't use it.  It's funny to watch them cry foul when it happens, I see it in my state.   Very simple explanation, but it doesn't sink in for whatever reason.  

You can blame me all you want, just be accurate in what you are blaming me for.  I was clear on my process: first step is to eliminate any super woke, stop the steal, abortion ban, defund the police, and other nuts of the ballot and go from there.  I guess you could blame me for that process crossing off more Rs from my ballot this time around, but I fail to see how that is my fault.  

I usually blame people who strictly vote R and D no matter what.  It allows the party to get nutty because they know it doesn't matter to voters like you, because you are too distracted blaming all the country's problems on others.  

 

[BuckSwope 654]

36 minutes ago, Sean Mooney said:

Not to mention- I doubt there is a large majority, or even plurality, of liberals who actually want people to have sex changes without parental permission and all that. In fact, I would bet the number of people who have actually had sex changes without parental permission is so low it is statistically insignificant.

It is about personal choice without governmental involvement. The kind of thing the Republican party always stood for until they let the Christian fundamentalists corrupt them on this issue with the pearl clutching. 

That's right as well.  People, especially around here, love to pretend that it's a unified message from the left about sex changes.   Even it the lib utopia that people seem to think FBGs was full term abortion and pre-18 sex operations were very unpopular ideas.   

You have to understand the other side if you want to beat them.  

[JustinCharge 2,397]

8 hours ago, OldMaid said:

Yep. It’s seems their takes on Jan 6th, abortion bans, tranny mania, trying to overthrow elections and Trump in general are horribly out of touch with the rest of the country. 

its not.  the gop simply spent their political capital on abortion instead of the 22 midterms.

[Raven Fan 362]

47 minutes ago, Sean Mooney said:

Not to mention- I doubt there is a large majority, or even plurality, of liberals who actually want people to have sex changes without parental permission and all that. In fact, I would bet the number of people who have actually had sex changes without parental permission is so low it is statistically insignificant.

It is about personal choice without governmental involvement. The kind of thing the Republican party always stood for until they let the Christian fundamentalists corrupt them on this issue with the pearl clutching. 

It's nice to see some actual intelligence on this board.

Keep focusing on your made up boogeyman god-fearing culture issues conservatives.  Folks who think like you are dying out and being replaced by folks who want other folks to be left alone to live and let live.  Keep shunning science and education.  Until you turn your back on the christian right who's running your party your party will fade into insignificance. 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

what would you rather have?

1.  a red wave where the GOP takes the House and Senate in the 22 midterms.
2.  a smaller red win where the GOP only takes the House but also strikes down Roe.

really theres not much difference between have all of congress and just the House.  its gridlock either way.  so obviously the preferred option is #2.

 

liberals will spin the results and false claim this election means this is a center-left nation.  but that is just disinformation.

[Sean Mooney 1,983]

8 minutes ago, BuckSwope said:

That's right as well.  People, especially around here, love to pretend that it's a unified message from the left about sex changes.   Even it the lib utopia that people seem to think FBGs was full term abortion and pre-18 sex operations were very unpopular ideas.   

You have to understand the other side if you want to beat them.  

And they still beat the "81 million cheated votes" bell.

Simple fact is- one party has said "mail in voting is safe and secure and you can use it" (all proven true by impartial and unbiased research) and one side has said "Don't mail in vote. It doesn't work and it isn't right."

Hard to believe the latter has lost twice now on it. 

[Raven Fan 362]

All but one election denying governor and secretary of state lost.  And the one that won was in backwater Indiana. 

Trumpism is finally dying, thank god. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

49 minutes ago, BuckSwope said:

That's right as well.  People, especially around here, love to pretend that it's a unified message from the left about sex changes.   Even it the lib utopia that people seem to think FBGs was full term abortion and pre-18 sex operations were very unpopular ideas.   

You have to understand the other side if you want to beat them.  

Why are people, even democrats. against abortion up until birth? 

[Raven Fan 362]

2 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Why are people, even democrats. against abortion up until birth? 

Almost no one is for late term abortions and that's why there are very very few non-medical needed late term abortions.  It's just another conservative boogeyman like grooming and some pedo ring or whatever else you folks choose to focus on instead of the things actual people care about.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

40 minutes ago, Sean Mooney said:

And they still beat the "81 million cheated votes" bell.

Simple fact is- one party has said "mail in voting is safe and secure and you can use it" (all proven true by impartial and unbiased research) and one side has said "Don't mail in vote. It doesn't work and it isn't right."

Hard to believe the latter has lost twice now on it. 

I don’t think anyone thinks all 81 million votes are questionable. Most of them are 100 pct legit.  Just some of them, in the right places, that are questionable.  Republicans got 6 million more votes nationwide this cycle, btw. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

1 minute ago, Raven Fan said:

Almost no one is for late term abortions and that's why there are very very few non-medical needed late term abortions.  It's just another conservative boogeyman like grooming and some pedo ring or whatever else you folks choose to focus on instead of the things actual people care about.

Why are they against them then? And if no one cares about the issue, why are the leftists claiming abortion was a big reason they won? 

[Raven Fan 362]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Why are they against them then? And if no one cares about the issue, why are the leftists claiming abortion was a big reason they won? 

No one is for abortion.  We are for the RIGHT to choose to have one.  Simple as that. And who's saying no one cares about abortion?  It's a huge issue when conservatives try to turn the US into Gilead where women don't have control over their own bodies.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

1 minute ago, Raven Fan said:

No one is for abortion.  We are for the RIGHT to choose to have one.  Simple as that. And who's saying no one cares about abortion?  It's a huge issue when conservatives try to turn the US into Gilead where women don't have control over their own bodies.

So you’re for abortion up until birth? 

[jerryskids 6,791]

13 hours ago, Raven Fan said:

The worst possible environment for Ds and a highly unpopular POTUS yet the Rs picked up almost nothing.

Ds have won 3 of the last 4 presidential elections and the popular vote forever.  Something about the policies people appreciate.  What people don't appreciate is:

Election deniers, anti-vaxxers, lying, cheating, orange morons, your religious rules for all, tax cuts for the rich, anti-education, etc.

If you are a single woman, that is.  If not, you are in the minority.

11 hours ago, dogcows said:

More people voting = Republicans losing. High turnout, especially among younger voters, is almost always bad for Republicans.  The whining about imagined fraud is just entertainment for the winners. Keep the tears flowing. 

Keep blaming fraud for your losses instead of fixing your broken party. The rest of us will enjoy the Democratic victories. 

So true.  I know there is a romance about "everyone voting," but there was a certain self-regulation to the process when you had to put in at least a teensy amount of effort to vote.  There will always be more have-nots than haves, so if you make it effortless to vote, you get people voting for free stuff.  

There are also interesting social dynamics with the younger voters.  One, they've recently emerged from an education system which is extremely Left and moving further that way each day.  Two, there is tremendous pressure, especially among young women, to bow to the borg opinion of social media, which is also extremely Left.  I just heard about a 22 year old girl who decided to have her fallopian tubes removed and turned them into jewelry, apparently this has gone viral.  I haven't looked but Ima guess that the comments to her are overwhelming supportive.  A young woman who would have the audacity to question that on social media would become a pariah.

7 hours ago, Vince44 said:

Boom. Winning. Dems keep Senate. When Warnock wins on Dec 6th to give us the 51-49 edge, Manchin loses his power to block as Harris will break the ties he will cause. Sinema is up for reelection in two years and she's been falling back on party lines. Arizona sent a loud message in rejecting these MAGA Psychos down the ballot in the general election. Hobbs beating Lake for Governor will be the cherry on top. You shouldn't have kept focking with the McCain family. 

Thanks Republicans. You fumbled the ball on the one yard line six months ago by never stopping on the abortion issue until you took us back to the stone ages. How did that fake outrage work out for you in the decades of screaming about RVW? All you did was piss off more than enough women to get them out to vote in droves for the Democrats. Talk about going from a certain win to a embarrassing hysterical loss in these midterms.

Thanks for putting up these unelectable unqualified wackjobs. Mitch warned you about these conspiracy clowns. You "might" be able to eke out a microscopic majority in the House (211 to 205 at this point) but even you know this is a colossal disappointment. Graham and Scott just said you got whipped when a week ago they said it was a lock for a landslide to take back Congress. Good luck with a handful of seats (maybe) in making those sweeping changes coming next year. Lots of tight races in the House still up for grabs that could go either way. McCarthy having the champagne and balloons put away is hilarious. 

Sadly, this is an accurate post, particularly in my home state of Arizona.  Shapiro has some similar takes on the conspiracy clowns:  put up stupid candidates, win stupid prizes.  I can only hope that (1) the Democratic Party follows the lead of folks like Raven Fan and thinks this win is an endorsement of their positions, and (2) the Republican party learns from this and stops putting clowns into the general election who are all blather and no substance.

[Raven Fan 362]

2 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

If you are a single woman, that is.  If not, you are in the minority.

So true.  I know there is a romance about "everyone voting," but there was a certain self-regulation to the process when you had to put in at least a teensy amount of effort to vote.  There will always be more have-nots than haves, so if you make it effortless to vote, you get people voting for free stuff.  

There are also interesting social dynamics with the younger voters.  One, they've recently emerged from an education system which is extremely Left and moving further that way each day.  Two, there is tremendous pressure, especially among young women, to bow to the borg opinion of social media, which is also extremely Left.  I just heard about a 22 year old girl who decided to have her fallopian tubes removed and turned them into jewelry, apparently this has gone viral.  I haven't looked but Ima guess that the comments to her are overwhelming supportive.  A young woman who would have the audacity to question that on social media would become a pariah.

Sadly, this is an accurate post, particularly in my home state of Arizona.  Shapiro has some similar takes on the conspiracy clowns:  put up stupid candidates, win stupid prizes.  I can only hope that (1) the Democratic Party follows the lead of folks like Raven Fan and thinks this win is an endorsement of their positions, and (2) the Republican party learns from this and stops putting clowns into the general election who are all blather and no substance.

I've done nothing but say the election was a repudiation of the Rs focus on election deniers, grooming, taking choice away from women, and whatever other cultural war nonsense conservatives focus on.  Like you just took the example of one single sick person and somehow made it seem like all young people would support this kind of sickness.  Keep it up and your party becomes more and more relevant.  Meanwhile dems are focused on issues like climate change, the middle class, keeping society equitable, healthcare is a right, etc.

You guys focus on not letting women control their bodies and the mention of the word peepee in some book in some library in some school.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

Just now, Raven Fan said:

I've done nothing but say the election was a repudiation of the Rs focus on election deniers, grooming, taking choice away from women, and whatever other cultural war nonsense conservatives focus on.  Like you just took the example of one single sick person and somehow made it seem like all young people would support this kind of sickness.  Keep it up and your party becomes more and more relevant.  Meanwhile dems are focused on issues like climate change, the middle class, keeping society equitable, healthcare is a right, etc.

You guys focus on not letting women control their bodies and the mention of the word peepee in some book in some library in some school.

So you’re ok with abortion up until birth? 

[Raven Fan 362]

Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

So you’re ok with abortion up until birth? 

LMFAO.  What did I just say?  No I am obviously not ok with even late term abortions.  Why are you so focused on something that essentially never happens.  I am for keeping choice for women vs taking away that choice over something that almost never happens.

Keep pushing the social issues, it's working out great for you guys!

[Sean Mooney 1,983]

18 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I don’t think anyone thinks all 81 million votes are questionable. Most of them are 100 pct legit.  Just some of them, in the right places, that are questionable.  Republicans got 6 million more votes nationwide this cycle, btw. 

I think craftsman thinks they are.

Also, by the whole 6 million more votes nationwide we should be crying "illegitimate"

[BuckSwope 654]

12 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Why are they against them then? And if no one cares about the issue, why are the leftists claiming abortion was a big reason they won? 

I said allowing abortions up to birth is not a popular opinion, even for the Ds.  I didn't say people don't care about abortions as an issue.  

You and craft seem to want to believe most libs are for that procedure and as a whole the party as well.  I have 0 clue where you get to that conclusion.  

Ds made the mistake of letting some states drift to the extreme, and we get RvW overturned.  Rs made the mistake of going to the other extreme instantly, and I think it largely factored into their performance Tuesday.

[jerryskids 6,791]

2 minutes ago, Raven Fan said:

I've done nothing but say the election was a repudiation of the Rs focus on election deniers, grooming, taking choice away from women, and whatever other cultural war nonsense conservatives focus on.  Like you just took the example of one single sick person and somehow made it seem like all young people would support this kind of sickness.  Keep it up and your party becomes more and more relevant.  Meanwhile dems are focused on issues like climate change, the middle class, keeping society equitable, healthcare is a right, etc.

You guys focus on not letting women control their bodies and the mention of the word peepee in some book in some library in some school.

My hope, as stated, is that your party continues to think it was an endorsement of this list.  The numbers clearly indicate that the Dems won because (1) young single women went out in droves and voted single issue, and (2) the Reps put up clowns who couldn't combat that.

Regarding the single sick woman, I didn't say "all," but a vast majority, because it would be very difficult for a young woman to oppose that publicly.  They may choose to just say nothing, but then they are irrelevant because they aren't in the "in" crowd.  Remember, we aren't talking about people with significant life experiences; this is what drives them.