I fear we're in for a rude awakening

[EnergizedLib]

Indiana has had no fewer than five state senators backed by the felon knock off anti-gerrymandering incumbents - while one of them leads a MAGAt challenger by a mere three votes with 99% in.

Higher gas, higher prices, an unpopular war, higher debt, job losses? All is good within the cult, and what I fear now is Georgia and South Carolina will look at Indiana and have second thoughts (maybe not Georgia as much since Kemp stood up to the felon over 2020 and still won in 2022), or Thune will nuke the filibuster and pass the voter suppression act.

They'll look at Indiana and feel emboldened and enabled to do the bidding of the felon to gerrymander everywhere, which of course, we must fight back with everything we can do, but the problem, and I've been saying this multiple times recently, is we win battles, they win wars. And the battles become more and more uphill.

Even if we win in 2026, I can't hold my breath for 2028, no matter how stinking unpopular the felon is. Will they run him again in 2028? Will the enablers in robes allow it to happen?

Nothing truly surprises me anymore.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Thune isn't going to nuke the filibuster

Take a breath- It’s Indiana.

Let’s see how things turn out in November.

One thing you don’t have to worry about- Trump will not appear on any state’s ballot in 2028.

2 does not equal 3, no matter how you slice and dice the constitution.

In addition, There are dozens of Republican presidential wannabes who won’t stand for it- they are biding their time, kissing his ass hoping for an endorsement (most of them anyway),

We are not doomed.

[EnergizedLib]

2. How broken is the electorate, though?

I have some, but not a whole lot of confidence for November.

If these nominated judges are dodging the 22nd Amendment question….

Okay, maybe these Republican 2028 hopefuls are just hoping for an endorsement, but is that not an indictment of the electorate that this is whom they need to kiss up to to have a shot?

[misanthrope]

3. Agreed. There's still six months worth of Trump mistakes left

The way his policies are going right now, he is slitting his own throat.

[wnylib]

11. I have doubts that he will even live to the 2028 election.

He's constantly declining.

[Norbert]

4. tump friendly pacs spent a ridiculous amount of money on these races

We are seeing this in Boone County KY. Ed Gallrein wall-to-wall TV spots campaigning against Thomas Masse.

[Emile]

5. For what they spent in advertising in Indiana

to get the results they got, it's going to bankrupt the GOP to do it in other states.

[EnergizedLib]

6. Wouldn't that be lovely?

[wnylib]

12. Unfortunately, I doubt that they can be bankrupted.

Billionaire oligarchs will chip in for their cause

[Happy Hoosier]

7. I was hoping that Indiana Republicans were better than that. NOPE.

The state is now SO Gerrymandered that I expect we're doomed. My wife and I are planning an exit stratedy... which is a shame, becuase I love my house and I love my friends, but I will not live Under His Eye. Thinking of moving to Illinois. Or more likely, somewhere close to whereever my daughter lands.

[BannonsLiver]

8. Low grade FUD.

2/10

[EnergizedLib]

9. I hope my fear is all for naught

I sincerely do.

[BannonsLiver]

13. If you say so.

[Initech]

10. Rupert Murdoch has done more damage to the United States than Osama Bin Laden ever would or could.

So much of this is the doing of Fox News / News Corporation. I don't know how we ever get out of this, but Fox News needs to be taken out and so many of the architects of this hideous administration need to be brought to justice.