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PrestonyteParrot · 2026-11-05T08:58:17-0600

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Millions Of Texans Seen Crossing Rio Grande Into Mexico

EL PASO, TX — After the political winds ushered in sweeping changes to the Lone Star State last night, with radical Democrats taking power in what had been a staunchly conservative stronghold, millions of Texans were seen crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico.

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18IsTheMan · 2026-11-05T09:32:02-0600

Ha!

Yeah, that is satire, but there is a lot of hyperbole about the outcome of the midterms.

Just in my voting lifetime, both parties have been declared dead with no viable path forward multiple times each. The democrat party was run into the dirt in 2024. Total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging. Now they win the midterms and all is hunky dory and it's the republicans who are in total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging.

I don't know how much stock to put into any of this stuff. Both parties simply run to get elected. Once in power, they do little to nothing to advance the causes that got them elected. Most often, the party in party overplays their hand and voters retaliate by swinging the pendulum the other direction. Every win is called a mandate.

The biggest problem with elections in America is that voters are idiots. They just swing the pendulum back and forth every 2-4 years if they don't get exactly what they want from a particular party. Voters are weird. If they are unhappy about the price of potato chips, they'll vote for a candidate who ideologically opposed to everything they believe in just because that candidate is from the other party not currently in power.

PrestonyteParrot · 2026-11-05T09:43:36-0600

Agree, and history will repeat if nothing changes. The Republican Party is currently nothing more than Democrat Lite at the power level. The Bush Kabal is obviously still a factor in Texas.
Hearing that John Warren and some of the Freedom Caucus are forming a movement for changes to the Republican Party in SC. Hopefully that will become a nationwide movement.

The Reel Ess · 2026-11-05T09:50:19-0600

18IsTheMan said:
Ha!

Yeah, that is satire, but there is a lot of hyperbole about the outcome of the midterms.

Just in my voting lifetime, both parties have been declared dead with no viable path forward multiple times each. The democrat party was run into the dirt in 2024. Total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging. Now they win the midterms and all is hunky dory and it's the republicans who are in total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging.

I don't know how much stock to put into any of this stuff. Both parties simply run to get elected. Once in power, they do little to nothing to advance the causes that got them elected. Most often, the party in party overplays their hand and voters retaliate by swinging the pendulum the other direction. Every win is called a mandate.

The biggest problem with elections in America is that voters are idiots. They just swing the pendulum back and forth every 2-4 years if they don't get exactly what they want from a particular party. Voters are weird. If they are unhappy about the price of potato chips, they'll vote for a candidate who ideologically opposed to everything they believe in just because that candidate is from the other party not currently in power.

My cousin texted me to gloat a little. He asked what I thought of the blue "title" wave. I reminded him that while Biden was pres, he said the Republican pres candidate would never win another majority. I'm 56 and this is what I've seen: We get a wave of one party as a reaction to a president. We get hearings and investigations. We get the other party president and their agenda goes far from center. We get a midterm reaction, complete with hearings and investigations. We get the other president. Rinse, repeat.

18IsTheMan · 2026-11-05T09:55:42-0600

The Reel Ess said:
My cousin texted me to gloat a little. He asked what I thought of the blue "title" wave. I reminded him that while Obama was pres, he said the Republican pres candidate would never win another majority. I'm 56 and this is what I've seen: We get a wave of one party as a reaction to a president. We get hearings and investigations. We get the other party president and their agenda goes far from center. We get a midterm reaction, complete with hearings and investigations. We get the other president. Rinse, repeat.

Saw a funny X post someone said "I can't believe the most important of my lifetime is about to end just in time for the next most important election of my lifetime to begin."

Both sides play up every election now as the most important one in the history of our nation. Was I disappointed in the results? Yeah, I guess. I want my team to win. There's a saying "everyone gets their turn in the barrel". Two years ago, it was the dems. Now it's the GOP. This is just how it goes. Obama lost a staggering 63 house seats in his 2nd midterm.

Voters are fickle and reactionary, not ideological.

SouthernBelly · 2026-11-05T09:56:11-0600

18IsTheMan said:
Ha!

Yeah, that is satire, but there is a lot of hyperbole about the outcome of the midterms.

Just in my voting lifetime, both parties have been declared dead with no viable path forward multiple times each. The democrat party was run into the dirt in 2024. Total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging. Now they win the midterms and all is hunky dory and it's the republicans who are in total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging.

I don't know how much stock to put into any of this stuff. Both parties simply run to get elected. Once in power, they do little to nothing to advance the causes that got them elected. Most often, the party in party overplays their hand and voters retaliate by swinging the pendulum the other direction. Every win is called a mandate.

The biggest problem with elections in America is that voters are idiots. They just swing the pendulum back and forth every 2-4 years if they don't get exactly what they want from a particular party. Voters are weird. If they are unhappy about the price of potato chips, they'll vote for a candidate who ideologically opposed to everything they believe in just because that candidate is from the other party not currently in power.

It’s because it’s one party presented as two.

atl-cock · 2026-11-05T09:59:18-0600

18IsTheMan said:
Ha!

Yeah, that is satire, but there is a lot of hyperbole about the outcome of the midterms.

Just in my voting lifetime, both parties have been declared dead with no viable path forward multiple times each. The democrat party was run into the dirt in 2024. Total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging. Now they win the midterms and all is hunky dory and it's the republicans who are in total chaos. No leader. No discernible path forward. Bad messaging.

I don't know how much stock to put into any of this stuff. Both parties simply run to get elected. Once in power, they do little to nothing to advance the causes that got them elected. Most often, the party in party overplays their hand and voters retaliate by swinging the pendulum the other direction. Every win is called a mandate.

The biggest problem with elections in America is that voters are idiots. They just swing the pendulum back and forth every 2-4 years if they don't get exactly what they want from a particular party. Voters are weird. If they are unhappy about the price of potato chips, they'll vote for a candidate who ideologically opposed to everything they believe in just because that candidate is from the other party not currently in power.

A very astute observation. Thanks for posting.

18IsTheMan · 2026-11-05T10:06:30-0600

A GOP candidate can win a senate seat in the midterms. Then, in the next presidential election a democrat president might win that senator's district. Now, all-of-a-sudden, that senator has to think about his own re-election. If a democrat president just won his district, he has to pivot how he legislates because he wants the votes of those voters who voted for the democrat president. This is how it is for both parties all the time. They aren't legislating ideologically. The legislate to keep their job.

Dabo's Weenie · 2026-11-05T12:44:55-0600

SouthernBelly said:
It’s because it’s one party presented as two.

Or, as I say, "two sides of the same coin".

It's pro rasslin' without the tights.

Deathstar · 2026-11-05T12:50:25-0600

All of those people who fled California because of the politicians they voted for are now in TX voting for the same kind of scum. Not very smart people, where will they run to next when Texas crumbles in a few years?

Piscis · 2026-11-05T13:28:28-0600

Deathstar said:
All of those people who fled California because of the politicians they voted for are now in TX voting for the same kind of scum. Not very smart people, where will they run to next when Texas crumbles in a few years?

The cancer of Atlanta has metastasized to the point that it has destroyed Georgia. Every statewide race went to a Democrat. The decline has begun, the only question is, how long before the state crashes?

Deathstar · 2026-11-05T13:41:45-0600

Piscis said:
The cancer of Atlanta has metastasized to the point that it has destroyed Georgia. Every statewide race went to a Democrat. The decline has begun, the only question is, how long before the state crashes?

Yes, every major state office in Georgia is now going to be held by a liberal black woman from Atlanta. I told my wife yesterday that we seriously need to move to FL. I see all of the following happening; a mass release of dangerous criminals from jail, increased taxes (sales, property and income tax), the trans agenda will be back in our schools and they will be coming for our guns again. Business will be leaving the state as fast as they can.

All of the rural people who sat out this election will be paying for it for the next 4 years.

18IsTheMan · 2026-11-05T13:42:52-0600

Deathstar said:
All of those people who fled California because of the politicians they voted for are now in TX voting for the same kind of scum. Not very smart people, where will they run to next when Texas crumbles in a few years?

Was talking to someone last night who said their parents were moving from Michigan to SC. I asked where and they said Charleston. I told them "Ugh, don't bother. Charleston has been taken over by Yankees."

Piscis · 2026-11-05T13:48:51-0600

Deathstar said:
Yes, every major state office in Georgia is now going to be held by a liberal black woman from Atlanta. I told my wife yesterday that we seriously need to move to FL. I see all of the following happening; a mass release of dangerous criminals from jail, increased taxes (sales, property and income tax), the trans agenda will be back in our schools and they will be coming for our guns again. Business will be leaving the state as fast as they can.

All of the rural people who sat out this election will be paying for it for the next 4 years.

I'm not sure the rural people sat out. The Atlanta metro area is now well over half of the state population. Georgia has become like NY state, where one metro area dictates politics to the whole state.

Luckily, the Georgia legislature is structured to give a lot of power to the counties and rural areas.

Lurker123 · 2026-11-05T14:52:20-0600

Piscis said:
I'm not sure the rural people sat out. The Atlanta metro area is now well over half of the state population. Georgia has become like NY state, where one metro area dictates politics to the whole state.

Luckily, the Georgia legislature is structured to give a lot of power to the counties and rural areas.

No link, but saw an analysis that was arguing that this election was heavily "sat out" across the board by one party.

Deathstar · 2026-11-05T15:18:12-0600

I think it says everything when your party sweeps into power and it wipes out the stock market. The worst losses in stock market history. Worse than the Covid 19 crash. I wonder if all of the fools who voted for these commies or just did not vote are happy with their 401K this afternoon.
Probably quite a few are parasites who have no savings…

usc_nc · 2026-11-05T15:24:10-0600

Deathstar said:
Yes, every major state office in Georgia is now going to be held by a liberal black woman from Atlanta. I told my wife yesterday that we seriously need to move to FL. I see all of the following happening; a mass release of dangerous criminals from jail, increased taxes (sales, property and income tax), the trans agenda will be back in our schools and they will be coming for our guns again. Business will be leaving the state as fast as they can.

All of the rural people who sat out this election will be paying for it for the next 4 years.

It will a lot more than 4 years

Dabo's Weenie · 2026-11-05T15:25:30-0600

Deathstar said:
I think it says everything when your party sweeps into power and it wipes out the stock market. The worst losses in stock market history. Worse than the Covid 19 crash. I wonder if all of the fools who voted for these commies or just did not vote are happy with their 401K this afternoon.
Probably quite a few are parasites who have no savings…

Relax.

The people they voted for are just going to confiscate yours and give it to them... in the name of "fairness".

Problem solved.

USCEE82 · 2026-11-05T15:32:35-0600

Piscis said:
The Atlanta metro area is now well over half of the state population. Georgia has become like NY state, where one metro area dictates politics to the whole state.

^^^^^^This^^^^^^

USCEE82 · 2026-11-05T15:35:31-0600

Deathstar said:
Yes, every major state office in Georgia is now going to be held by a liberal black woman from Atlanta. I told my wife yesterday that we seriously need to move to FL. I see all of the following happening; a mass release of dangerous criminals from jail, increased taxes (sales, property and income tax), the trans agenda will be back in our schools and they will be coming for our guns again. Business will be leaving the state as fast as they can.

All of the rural people who sat out this election will be paying for it for the next 4 years.

My wife and I are having the same discussion.

PrestonyteParrot · 2026-11-05T16:13:31-0600

18IsTheMan said:
Was talking to someone last night who said their parents were moving from Michigan to SC. I asked where and they said Charleston. I told them "Ugh, don't bother. Charleston has been taken over by Yankees."

Just don't send them to Greenville. Believe it or not, Andrews took Greenville county with 51% of the vote.
Not sure if that was the result of angry Republican voters or new demographics with the influx of non-southerners.

Sweetwatergolf · 2026-11-05T16:25:28-0600

PrestonyteParrot said:
Just don't send them to Greenville. Believe it or not, Andrews took Greenville county with 51% of the vote.
Not sure if that was the result of angry Republican voters or new demographics with the influx of non-southerners.

The nominee/appointee to run against her was not the best choice. That was the problem.

Skuddy · 2026-11-05T16:34:06-0600

Deathstar said:
I think it says everything when your party sweeps into power and it wipes out the stock market. The worst losses in stock market history. Worse than the Covid 19 crash. I wonder if all of the fools who voted for these commies or just did not vote are happy with their 401K this afternoon.
Probably quite a few are parasites who have no savings…

I was thinking about dumping some yesterday and should have. I knew this was coming but it will inevitably recover and go back up like it always does. I suspect data centers and AI will be regulated and taxed to the hilt and subsequently leave like our manufacturing did. Maybe it's time to start taking some Mandarin classes.....

PrestonyteParrot · 2026-11-05T17:29:55-0600

"Satire Alert"

Another one right on target

Russell Brand Convicted In UK Court On Charges Of Raping While Not Muslim

LONDON — Harsh justice looked set to be carried out soon, as actor-comedian-podcaster Russell Brand was found guilty in a UK court on charges of raping while not Muslim.

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Dabo's Weenie · 2026-11-05T17:35:51-0600

Sweetwatergolf said:
The nominee/appointee to run against her was not the best choice. That was the problem.

Neither of the major parties offered attractive candidates. Who likes choosing between two losers?

I4CtheFuture · 2026-11-05T17:42:46-0600

Deathstar said:
I think it says everything when your party sweeps into power and it wipes out the stock market. The worst losses in stock market history. Worse than the Covid 19 crash. I wonder if all of the fools who voted for these commies or just did not vote are happy with their 401K this afternoon.
Probably quite a few are parasites who have no savings…

$2.3 Trillion in tech, wiped out in a single day. Historic loss.

Irony: They think Trump was bad for the economy. ~ You can't fix their level of retardation. You just can't. It's going to take a civil war to set these people straight.

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