“I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.”

Words of wisdom, requiring only one modifcation, for conservatives appalled by yesterday’s election results.

Latino voters swung back hard to Democrats in the 2026 midterms (Dems ~60–62% of the Latino House vote vs. ~35% for Republicans), reversing most of Trump’s 2024 gains (~45–48%).

The main drivers were the same issues that helped him before: the economy and cost of living still hadn’t improved enough for many households, and aggressive ICE raids/deportations were seen by a large share as overreach that hit mixed-status communities and workplaces. Latinos acted as swing voters punishing the party in power when results on prices and enforcement fell short.

“aggressive ICE raids/deportations” is putting it mildly, ‘Sidekick‘…more like gestapo troops shooting, beating, rounding up, etc. Hey, fine by me, but I am not Hispanic.

I blame the Bauxites and NPAs! (Sarc)

🙂 🙂 LMAO 🙂 🙂 Well, no one can say humble hermit me didn’t warn y’all TCS MAGA voters! (Ditto on the Sarc)

Anyway, 2028 best have a female and/or Latino and/or black GOP Presidential candidate “nominee” — for starters…

Trump annoyed a lot of folks with putting his name on stuff in Washington and pushing his big ball room and he perhaps should have waited until the mid-terms to make himself famous with landscape. I think this probably pushed the middle undecided over to the left. Now the next few years we will have to deal with the liberal moves forward for a better world, in their opinion. That will be a total mess. As for the hispanic vote here in Texas I think the dems sold their side a bit better than the GOP, deportations and the media coverage of that really hurt us. I went to bad rather sad and woke up kind of mad.

Life goes on and stuff happens, did the border counties have rigged elections as usual, probably did and that has always been a factor however bad candidates make for bad elections. This stuff makes me sad and I am not looking forward to the media coverage of the next several years. The price of gasoline did not go down enough and prices,, due to inflation in the past, are still too high and it’s the economy. So, there’s that today.

“…The Time for Excuses Is Over”—
https://pjmedia.com/maureen-steele/2026/11/04/gen-flynn-to-trump-the-time-for-excuses-is-over-n4959027

Wretchard:

“THERE ARE NO LESSONS TO BE LEARNED”—
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/11/there-are-no-lessons-to-be-learned.php

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-desantis-describes-gop-midterms-wipeout-close-extinction-level-event-republicans

I don’t know how the numbers shake out, but I’d say that some Hispanics don’t like the deportations.

I know a story, from 10 years ago, about a local Hispanic fellow who voted for Trump in 2016. Many years prior, he and a buddy snuck into the US illegally and were beginning to assimilate, mainly with finding work. His buddy continued down that path, with things like getting fake ID’s.

He, alternatively, thought about his future, and wasn’t happy about all these other small or modest crimes, like fake IDs, that he would have to engage in. Plus, he had girlfriend back home he wanted to bring her over too. So he went back to Honduras, and he and his girlfriend applied for legal immigration to the US, and they got in.

He was absolutely against what he initially attempted and his buddy continued with, and was happy with the idea that Trump would secure the borders. Deportation is a different process, but I suspect he would be fine with that too.
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In an alternate history, Trump could have done things to bring gasoline prices down, if he had not attacked Iran. Or if he had attacked Iran, but had an excellent scheme to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

But generally, it just isn’t possible to bring prices down across the board without triggering a severe recession first. THAT would not have made people happy.

I kind of agree with neo’s post about “human history.” People have trouble seeing beyond the end of their own nose, or beyond what’s been happening in the last 2 or 3 months.

What are the chances of an undetectable (so far) AI driven rejiggering of the electronic vote to produce landslide level shifts in what were reliably Red States?

I mean really…dweeby kiddie diddler and tranny fanboy James Telarico winning by 12 pts in f*&king Texas?? Like this NewNeo commenter said…

“…This makes no sense to me. Dems took the evil side of every 80-20 issue, R registrations far outpaced D, people have been abandoning woke, Dems have been threatening their fellow Americans, Trump has reversed the Biden administration’s abuses against Americans, Dems have lost funding for their riots and other nefarious doings, crime is down, inflation is down, employment is up …
What is going on?…”

On the flip side, the dumbpublicans in Congress did what ?? What exactly did they accomplish? Trump initiated a bunch of policies, but the congressional dumbpublicans were MIA.
Unfortunately , this is par for the course for the dumbpublican party.