Derek. 🇺🇸

Politics? It's all storytelling built atop "Blood and Iron."

[Derek. 🇺🇸 @SuitablePolitic]

Media: "Trump thought 4-5 weeks meant 2-3 days and now he's panicking. He wants nothing more than for the fighting to stop. He's desperate for an off-ramp where he doesn't look weak."

Trump: "IT IS MY GREAT HONOR—AS YOUR PRESIDENT—TO KILL THESE DERANGED SCUMBAGS IN IRAN!"

[Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel]

With the last two dumps from Pinal and Graham counties, GOP now has a lead in Arizona returns. Ahead of schedule.

[Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus]

Saying a Trump+11 electorate is a toss up in Texas is a truly insane thing to put down in paper and show people in public

That specific electorate would have likely voted for Paxton as AG by 8-10% margins

[MAGA Lindsey Enjoyer @MassieLostLol]

Retard Baris: early voting data looks good for Talafreako.

Reality: GOP is leading by 12 in early voting in Texas.

I will never forgive Retard Baris for costing us Arizona in 2022 because of his kindergarten-level math.

[Paul Yeager 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @mtntallpaul]

So it turns out that Ukraine's issues with Starlink were caused by Ukraine.

Starlink terminals disconnected at speeds above 160 KPH, as determined by the Starlink terminals internal GPS.

To get around this, Ukraine hacked the Starlink terminals to think they were stationary regardless of speed.

SpaceX figured this out, and updated the system software to detect excessive speed by seeing how rapidly the terminal switched from on satellite to another. This broke Ukraine's hack, and Starlink would no longer work at high speeds.

Ukraine was using Starlink in a way that violated the terms of service.

Starlink figured it out and stopped it.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

“One word I didn't hear much in Maine, and this is a problem for Jackson, is "Trump." Almost everyone I spoke with sees Collins as independent of the president, who, after all, would serve only two years of the six-year term she is running for.”

[Kopfkino @turkey_son]

So this is the play, seen in this graphic.

100% of the Talarico house of straw is built on Republicans voting for Abbott and Talarico. That is the entire play.

Even Talarico and his campaign manager @KarlRove and his footman @JohnCornyn tell you that is what it is!

You have to believe that to believe this.

@brithume and his Fox buddies believe it 100%, or at least sell that they do.

We shall see.

Vote Vote Vote for @KenPaxtonTX it has never been more important!

The only way we lose is to listen to the Judas at our own table!

[Derek. 🇺🇸 @SuitablePolitic]

Oh???

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

KREMLIN SAYS RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN MILITARIES ARE WORKING OUT CEASEFIRE DATES

KREMLIN SAYS CIVILIANS WHO WANT TO LEAVE OLESHKY WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO

KREMLIN SAYS MELANIA TRUMP COORDINATED THE AGREEMENT, SOMETHING DISCUSSED BY PUTIN AND TRUMP IN RECENT PHONE CALL

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨Scoop: U.S. intelligence finds Iran has "substantially increased" its efforts to target American diplomats & officials in the Middle East and beyond, with lethal plots reaching "advanced stages," per memo to Secretary of State Rubio. My story on @axios
https://t.co/JpDxTvWdpT

[Derek. 🇺🇸 @SuitablePolitic]

It seems pretty clear that the midterm is going to be rather disappointing for Democrats. Now, we don't know how disappointing.

Them walking out of November with control of the House of Representatives is a very real possibility.

But the Senate was never great, and now seems unlikely.

The more interesting question is why this happened.

They had every advantage.

A polarizing figure as POTUS who was unabashedly pursuing his agenda, controversial parts included.

Trump told parts of his electorate to go fuck themselves, several times.

All the stars aligned for the tables blue wave. A blue 2010.

Yet it didn't happen.

I can't help but think we were told why this result would come to pass.

We really spent a whole year reading polls from extraordinarily friendly Dem outlets where Dems were polling at 25% approval. On a good day.

And instead of sounding the alarms, everyone focused on whether Trump's approval was 35 or 45%... despite both of these numbers far outstripping 25%.

Everything about the midterms can be related back to that one data point.

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

I don’t apologize for anyone. I go talk to voters. If you want to live in your own fantasy land that’s cool, but I’ll tell you what is really happening.

[Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus]

R areas in Cuyahoga are structurally dominating the cuyahoga Dem areas seeing double and nearly triple the turnout rates of the most essential Cleveland Dem areas

Dems will lose Ohio.

[Derek. 🇺🇸 @SuitablePolitic]

So, maybe promising to harass the world's richest man in a midterm election with obvious turnout problems wasn't a particularly smart idea...

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

Elon Musk's total political spending in the 2025-2026 cycle:

$469 million, by my count.

[Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus]

Warren county Ohio had a really really strong day today nearly outvoting Cuyahoga county, which is 6 times larger by population

Electorate was extremely R today 49-24 R+25

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.

The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.

[The Reckoning 💥 @sethjlevy]

Thanks to Trump the US is now an extremely inhospitable place to stay once you’ve been told to leave.

Thank you, @POTUS!

[Derek. 🇺🇸 @SuitablePolitic]

I also think the GOP is operating much more intelligently in a naturally low-turnout environment.

It seems Democrats, even at the decision maker level, were convinced that they would get a very high turnout environment.

[Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus]

Georgia Day 9 IPEV Update
11:30am - 45,962 voted

White: 60.3%
Black: 24.9%

Dems really have completely botched their turnout ops

[Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus]

@bdquinn Only if you do not understand how absolutely essential 1% of the black vote is for Democrats in TX lol.

[Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus]

2% lower black share adds 4% to Paxton's margins in Dallas County. If you're talking about a floor for Paxton at 32% of the vote there you're talking about the end of James Talarico.