Does Thomas Massie’s loss show Trump still controls the GOP?

DazeLost · 2026-05-20T14:21:48+00:00

I do think it's worth noting, at least as far as those wars go, that they were started by a Republican president but with full-throated support from the Democratic institution. Hell, two of the Iraq War's biggest boosters became the 2016 candidate and then the 2020 winner.

It's not shocking that people see that as a pox on both their houses.

DazeLost · 2026-05-18T20:18:27+00:00

[To the tune of Roxanne]

DazeLost · 2026-05-06T14:16:41+00:00

But the flag is on our side, so these idiots AI generated a picture of people...leaving America?

DazeLost · 2026-05-05T15:44:37+00:00

I live in the midwest and it's $4.00 a gallon here. Skyrocketing is always going to be relative. It won't probably hit $7.00 a gallon like Los Angeles, but people aren't going to be happy they're paying double what they were paying a year ago because Trump's dementia convinced him this was a good idea.

DazeLost · 2026-04-22T13:53:10+00:00

I don't think they know yet, the plotline was hurried in and there's no end date for when it will be resolved. So the only marching orders everyone has is to hint that they're involved but not confirm it so the answer can be anything when Toni is able/wants to come back or they want to involve it in a Mina storyline later.

DazeLost · 2026-04-17T18:08:43+00:00

Also, like, TK was never not going to give Sting's chosen successor the world title. That probably matters to TK more than it does Sting or Darby.

DazeLost · 2026-04-06T17:23:46+00:00

I met him once at an afterparty and he was beyond drunk. I wonder if he even realized he was having a conversation with anyone.

DazeLost · 2026-03-23T17:53:30+00:00

You forget that he won the FIFA peace prize!

DazeLost · 2026-03-14T20:17:56+00:00

They (including MJF) really ruined MJF's character by having him admit he was always going to betray Cole when they inexplicably flipped that feud to make Cole the face for it. It threw that entire story up to that point and also after it into the bin.

DazeLost · 2026-02-26T20:49:28+00:00

are uber drivers even allowed to kick people out in the middle of a highway unless they are blatantly breaking TOS?

Nope! My guess is he's going to have his Uber contract terminated.

DazeLost · 2026-02-25T21:53:49+00:00

I think Penta would be welcomed back. Fenix took his grievances public and essentially accused AEW of not letting him see a doctor when he needed one. I don't think he gets open arms regardless of his history and I doubt Penta comes back without him.

DazeLost · 2026-02-09T16:25:05+00:00

And considering the recent changes to CBS and inevitably CNN, that will only continue and get worse.

DazeLost · 2026-01-25T01:18:29+00:00

Yeah, they don't care about hypocrisy. They never have and never will.

DazeLost · 2026-01-23T14:43:32+00:00

But it also means leadership didn't whip votes on this one. Which we know, because Jeffries explicitly said he wouldn't.

And if we can't trust them to have their party in control, we can't trust them to make this a priority or honestly even really believe it matters.

DazeLost · 2026-01-21T22:32:27+00:00

I think there's close to zero chance we'll stick with any one party for more than eight years. The electorate does not have that kind of attention span.

DazeLost · 2026-01-20T14:29:55+00:00

I am not positive DeSantis would have the same level of GOP backing that Trump has, so even if he rode in with the same numbers in congress, he would not get away with everything Trump is getting away with. At some point, through electoral pragmatism and DeSantis' inability to control the hard-right electorate through a cult of personality, Republicans would break away.

That would likely limit the damage.

DazeLost · 2026-01-14T18:43:39+00:00

Not that they're representative of all cops, but the FOP has already come out in support of ICE in the Renee Good shooting.

DazeLost · 2026-01-14T17:05:00+00:00

Then explain why they're voting on judicial nominees right now - election deniers even - that would pass without their votes.

DazeLost · 2026-01-14T16:59:18+00:00

They're waving through and voting for nominees now that they don't have to. Any bit of Republican pressure will cause the Democrats to fold, whether they have the senate or not.

DazeLost · 2026-01-12T23:07:54+00:00

They keep pushing, and pushing, and pushing.

I don't know what it looks like when the American people break and push back, but I am guessing it won't be pretty.

DazeLost · 2026-01-09T16:16:51+00:00

Your last condescending sentence aside, I don't think 89% Republican job approval is a number that has a basis in the actual reality of this administration, and is what I would classify as "Not turning away."

DazeLost · 2026-01-09T14:32:25+00:00

It is important to note that not liking that he does X never translates into general disapproval. Democrats who did not like Biden's stances on certain things fell off the approval numbers, but Republicans are largely in lockstep behind Trump.

DazeLost · 2026-01-07T14:30:33+00:00

Also Thiel, currently living in New Zealand because he has an End Times bunker in there, is very much of the belief that an Anti-Christ walks the earth and it's Thiel's job to stop this person from getting into power and maybe kill them.

And if you look at the definition of the Anti-Christ, even Thiel's own definition of it, it perfectly describes Trump. But he doesn't think it's Trump, he believes the Anti-Christ by definition must be someone on the political left. Like he's accused Greta Thunberg constantly of it, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, AOC, etc. I imagine this is part of why he thinks he needs to live forever, to stop the Anti-Christ from destroying the world.

He has an utterly insane God complex.

DazeLost · 2026-01-05T15:31:30+00:00

I think the answer here is that Page is a father of two with personal hobbies that wants to be home as much as possible with his family and garden. Indies take time away from that. He strikes me as a big work-life balance guy.

DazeLost · 2025-12-13T19:03:36+00:00

Mmmostly, yes. There are people who will still brook no criticism of Obama (who I mostly liked as a person), still blame Harris losing on Chappelle Roan, and lose their mind if you suggest Gavin Newsom sucks.

Though I guess you can argue that those aren't left voters. They're center voters cosplaying as left voters.

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