Yellow Bucket 22

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Yo Pocahontas, on September 30, 2026, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) voted Nay on the cloture motion to proceed to H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act. The vote failed 53–47 (short of the 60 needed to advance), with every Senate Democrat and both Independents voting against it and all Republicans voting for it.

Why did you vote no?

Now you just gaslighting Americans again.

[Greg 🏌🏿‍♀️🎸☠️ @charliecosmic75]

More like ready to cave.

[Cora Fortin @corafortin]

While the left complains, real Americans are proud of Pete Hegseth. Veteran. Patriot. Fighter. Exactly the kind of leader our Department of Defense needs. If you like him, leave a ♥️🇺🇲

[Yellow Bucket 22 @Dudman61]

@FoxNews What a colossal POS useless RINO.

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

BREAKING: Elon Musk just told his 240 MILLIONS Followers that the only way to Save Democracy is to pass the Save America Act

“The only way to save democracy in America”

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE 💯

FOLLOW @WhiteLeaks47 @XRPBANK11

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: Five people are dead after a gunman opens fire at a popular market square in Krakow, Poland.

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[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

This is the smartest decision Trump has ever made.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I'll remind everyone again...Scott Galloway was the "moderate, reasonable liberal" who was supposed to reinvigorate "liberal masculinity."

This is who he really is...a coward attempting to incite murder against a man better than himself out of sheer envy, masquerading as patriotism.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

The Midterm is Not the Endterm

It is too soon to calibrate the direction of the post midterm Democratic and Republican Parties.

But if the first 72 hours are any indication—and despite the soon to be Speaker’s denials—the Left is already bragging about subpoenas, and it is intoxicated by the notion of investigations and impeachments.

Heady Democrats have entirely forgotten the politically suicidal fashion of the 2021-4 five civil and criminal courtroom circuses, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the blue state deballoting efforts.

All that and more fueled the Trump recovery.

Wild talk of multi-trillion-dollar new agendas grows, like socializing the health care system, a renewed Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, and illegal alien amnesties, along with new punitive income and estate regulations and taxes.

This socialist dream is reminiscent of the 2021 giddy splurging that gave the country a 9.1% inflation rate by midterm year 2022.

Along with the Afghanistan disaster (the Left’s correction for a Middle East ‘forever war”) the inflation would ensure Biden a 40% popularity.

The idea that the Left, which cannot do much real lawmaking without a veto-proof Congress, will try to reach deals with the White House, adopt a 1995 Clinton-like realist agenda, simply claim credit for the growing Trump economy, or moderate its rhetoric is highly unlikely.

Instead, we hear crazy talk of confiscations, new billionaire and millionaire punitive taxes, imprisonments, changing the Constitution—all in full suicidal 1972 McGovern style.

Republicans are blame-gaming each other, which can be constructive if over issues and reforms rather than social media ad hominem. But they need to message far better, about both the administration’s successes and the dangers of a socialist future.

There will be likely be no planned presidential succession, or gentlemanly agreement on a front runner. That’s likely good news. More likely as of now a triangular race between front-runners De Santis, Rubio, and Vance emerges—all of whom are far preferable to any ticket with a Newsom, Harris, AOC, Mamdani, or el-Sayed.

If the Republicans can stay reasonably united, they can ensure permanent presidential vetoes of crazy leftwing legislation, fight back on the Democratic committee inquisitions, and see the economy in the final two years become an asset in recovering their popularity.

Absent in all conversations is that there is increasing evidence that the economy is actually expanding and has the potential to boom in 2027, or at least the data indicate such potential.

The jobs report came out yesterday with a stunning 165,000 jobs created in October (accompanied by the usual journalists’ adverb “unexpectantly”), dropping unemployment to 4.1%.

Revised 3rd GDP stats now show a robust 3.4% growth—likely ensuring at least 3%+ growth for the year.

Third Quarter consumer spending soared 3.8%.

Private domestic investment surged with 19.4% growth.

Just reported last week: median family income in 2025 hit a new record ($87,460)—the highest in 60 years adjusted for inflation. And poverty dipped to its lowest rate (ever 10.2%).

In October manufacturing activity grew faster than at any time in the past five years.

Yes, prices are too high, and final 2026 inflation, given gas hikes, is scheduled to increase by one point (3.7%) from last year’s (2.7%). But it is still lower than the pan-European average (ca. 4+%)—and much lower than the Biden average over four years of 5.1%.

Gas prices are already falling. On November 6 prices fell to a $4.06 average—as global oil transit is mostly back to prewar levels and refineries scramble to handle the increased deliveries.

U.S. companies are dominating all the top 10 rankings in market capitalization/usage in key area such as software, AI, digital media, space, satellite launches, and bio/genetic engineering.

Note that today gas prices are not that much higher than 4 years ago at the 2022 midterm time ($4.06 vs. ca. $3.80), and haven’t once spiked to $5 a gallon as they did in 2022, just four months before the Biden midterms.

Yet oddly, the red wave sputtered in 2022 when the U.S. was in far worse economic shape than this week when the blue wave became a tsunami.

Messaging, media, and communication count, so note:

Four years ago GDP growth was lower than today—even though the pandemic was about over and there was a dramatic return to work and spending.

The inflation rate was almost three times higher in 2022 than now.

Median family income was $14,000 lower than now. The poverty rate was higher in 2022.

The Dow was 20,000 points lower. Foreign investment will likely end the year 30-40% higher than in 2022.

Real wage growth (nominal wages minus inflation) while not great in 2026 is likely to end the year far better than in 2022 (when real wage growth fell 2-3%).

So why would “affordability” have been decisive in the 2026 midterms when it was not in 2022?

The 21% aggregate inflation rate Trump inherited force-multiplied the average 3.15% Trump inflation rate of 2025-6— yet in a way the aggregate first-term Trump inflation rate (7.7% just a third of the Biden total) did not exaggerate all that much the 9.1% inflation rate in 2022.

Messaging, however, matters. The administration did not explain adequately that a 21% rise in prices cannot be lowered without radical deflation or recession, but only ameliorated by medium family income growth and lowering the inflation rate from the Biden 2021-5 averages, both of which occurred in 2025-6, but were forgotten.

Media coverage of the Biden 2022 weak economy were muted, while Trump’s 2-year inflation rate was exaggerated during 2026.

The Iran war became the culprit as a war of choice that made the inherited Biden 21% high prices and the inability to lower were them solely Trump’s fault. Again, there was inadequate explanation of either the economic reality or why the gamble to denuclearize Iran was defensible–with the caveat that stopping the bombing at day 38 and talking with theocrats for seven months was an unfortunate mistake.

The domestic and foreign policy activism of the lame-duck Clinton (1998-2000} and Obama (2014-2016) presidencies increased after their loss of Congress. Indeed, their popularity climbed from a once nadir of below forty to sixty percent approval or above.

There is no reason why the Trump administration cannot have a successful last two years. The economy is growing.

The crime rate is at historic lows.

The border is closed shut. The radical pro-Western political transformation of South and Central America has remade the entire Western Hemisphere.

European NATO is rearming.

Oil and gas production is at highest levels of any nation in history.

The bloated federal work force has been trimmed by over 270,000 jobs.

There is no longer a 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment. The forced reforms in higher education were long overdue.

The verdict on Iran is still out.

If it is denuclearized, the crippling sanctions continued, the Strait kept open, the provincial opposition armed—and our military gone home— the regime will face an increasingly restive population

2026 was an unequivocal defeat, but 2028 need not be.

If the administration and Congress stay disciplined and united, and can message better, while the Left goes utterly berserk, drunk on their midterm successes, socialism/Islamism, and Trump Derangement Syndrome 2.0, the tide will soon radically turn— as the economy already has.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Scott Galloway DOUBLES DOWN on his call for Elon Musk to be EXECUTED for being a “traitor to the West”

“We took the Rosenbergs and put them up against a wall and executed them for being traitors.”

“And I realize this is an incendiary statement, but I’ll make it and I believe it. I think Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.”

Absolutely sickening.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

These are among the most influential liberals in America today, and their party now runs a significant portion of the country.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Do you agree?

[Greg 🏌🏿‍♀️🎸☠️ @charliecosmic75]

Communist

[Cora Fortin @corafortin]

Yes or No?

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

What an absolute, unmitigated, motherfucking disaster.

We got our asses kicked. We got politically disemboweled. We got dragged through the electoral wood chipper, and the Republican establishment stood there with its collective thumb up its ass wondering why the fucking machine was running.

And now, right on schedule, the excuses are pouring in.

The war. Gas prices. Bad candidates. Historical trends. Voter frustration. Bad messaging.

Jesus fucking Christ, SHUT UP.

We had the majority. We had the presidency. We had the opportunity to deliver. And these incompetent, spineless, self-serving Republican bastards managed to turn political power into a fucking participation trophy.

Let's start with John Thune.

You spectacularly useless son of a bitch.

You had the Senate majority. You had an election integrity bill conservatives desperately wanted passed. You had millions of voters begging Republicans to demonstrate that winning elections actually meant something.

And what did you deliver?

A fucking master class in legislative impotence.

The SAVE Act became another monument to Republican paralysis while the people who elected you watched Washington's favorite collection of overpaid assholes explain why accomplishing anything was just too goddamn complicated.

You had power, John.

HAD.

And now Democrats get to enjoy the congressional authority your leadership helped squander.

What a magnificent fucking achievement. You couldn't have served Democratic interests more effectively if you'd shown up to work wearing a DNC name tag.

And don't think the rest of the Republican establishment gets a free pass. Every useless bastard who spent these last two years hiding behind parliamentary excuses, protecting his precious committee assignments, and treating the Senate like a retirement community deserves the same political eviction notice.

Get the fuck out.

Then there's Iran.

And this is where I have absolutely zero patience for the Monday-morning military strategists pretending the nuclear threat was some imaginary problem.

IRAN MUST NEVER, EVER GET A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB.

Not tomorrow. Not ten years from now. Not under some worthless diplomatic agreement held together with wishful thinking and another round of international bullshit.

Never.

We're talking about a regime with a long history of sponsoring terrorism, threatening Israel, brutalizing its own population, and pursuing nuclear capabilities that could fundamentally alter the security of the Middle East.

A nuclear-armed Iranian regime is a nightmare America has every reason to prevent.

And if military action was necessary to eliminate that threat, then the mission needed a clear objective and the determination to achieve it.

Destroy the nuclear weapons capability. Prevent its reconstruction. Make damn sure the regime cannot simply wait out another American administration and resume the same dangerous ambitions.

Finish the fucking job.

Because if Americans endured war, economic disruption, and soaring gasoline prices only to discover Iran could eventually rebuild its nuclear weapons program, then what the everlasting fuck was the point?

I can accept political costs for a mission that makes America and its allies safer.

I cannot accept strategic confusion, endless uncertainty, and politicians who seem incapable of explaining what victory actually means.

And here's the part Republican leadership should have understood before this election became a political slaughterhouse.

Americans were paying the price at the pump while Democrats were pounding them over affordability.

Groceries. Gas. Housing. Insurance. The cost of keeping a fucking roof over your family's head.

Democrats hammered those issues relentlessly.

And Republicans?

Apparently they were too busy measuring the drapes in their offices and scheduling another goddamn television appearance.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to watch voters struggle with household expenses and fail to understand what they're telling you?

Then came the candidates.

James Talarico winning Texas. Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan. Susan Collins losing Maine.

An electoral fucking earthquake.

And the Republican establishment somehow managed to look surprised.

Surprised?

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

You could practically hear the political foundation cracking for months. Warning signs were flashing everywhere, and these arrogant, complacent jackasses behaved like victory was something they were entitled to receive in the mail.

At some point, incompetence becomes so breathtaking that you begin wondering whether anybody in Republican leadership has ever successfully managed anything more complicated than ordering lunch.

And now comes the part that really makes my fucking blood boil.

The conservative influencer circus.

Bannon. Tucker. Candace. Megyn. Flynn. Alex Jones. Jack Posobiec. And every other self-appointed political messiah whose microphone somehow became more important than winning elections.

Here come the emergency broadcasts. The finger-pointing. The infighting. The hysterical accusations. The endless fucking circular firing squads.

Another catastrophe, another opportunity to turn conservative frustration into a revenue stream.

How many fucking subscriptions does it take to rebuild a political movement?

How many podcasts does it take to pass a bill?

How many goddamn livestreams does it take to win a Senate race?

Apparently nobody knows, because we've spent years watching people get rich explaining why conservatives should be furious while the actual machinery of Republican politics keeps breaking down.

Enough of this shit.

And spare me the conservative celebrities who spend more time attacking other conservatives than figuring out how to defeat Democrats.

Your personal feuds are not a political strategy.

Your fucking podcast ratings are not election results.

And your ability to scream into a microphone for three hours doesn't qualify you to lead anything.

Meanwhile, Democrats just demonstrated that winning elections is still considerably more useful than winning internet arguments.

Imagine that fucking revelation.

And speaking of Democrats, can we appreciate the sheer comedic absurdity of what just happened?

Donald Trump, the man they've spent years calling a dictator, fascist, authoritarian, monarch, and existential threat to democracy, just watched his party lose control of Congress through an election.

A fucking election.

The most terrifying dictator in American history apparently forgot the most important chapter in the dictator's handbook.

CANCEL THE GODDAMN VOTING.

What a fucking embarrassment for the professional hysteria merchants.

Apparently American democracy was healthy enough to deliver Democrats a massive victory after all.

Somebody call the Nobel Committee. Democracy has miraculously survived another Tuesday.

But here's where the laughter stops.

Because this defeat is serious as hell.

Republicans lost power. Democrats gained it. And the people who spent years warning us about the consequences of losing these midterms now have to explain why they were so spectacularly unprepared to prevent it.

And I don't want to hear another fucking word about how everyone needs to unite behind the same failed leadership.

Unite behind WHAT?

More excuses?

More broken promises?

More leadership elections where the same collection of useless bastards rearranges the nameplates and congratulates itself on a fresh start?

Fuck that.

I want a political reckoning so thorough that every complacent Republican incumbent starts checking whether his local voters are recruiting a primary challenger.

Every single one.

I want records examined. Promises compared with results. Leadership positions challenged. Failed candidates replaced. Party organizations rebuilt from the ground up.

And I want Republican voters to stop treating incumbency like some sacred fucking birthright.

You want loyalty?

EARN IT.

You want donations?

SHOW RESULTS.

You want another term?

EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK YOU ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE LAST ONE.

Because the era of handing out political participation trophies to career Republicans needs to end.

And don't give me that tired bullshit about how difficult Washington is.

We know Washington is difficult.

That's why we elect people who promise to fucking fight.

If you wanted a comfortable career collecting a government paycheck while accomplishing absolutely nothing, you should have applied for a job as a congressional office fern.

At least the fern produces oxygen.

Now, I know what some people are thinking.

It's over.

MAGA is finished.

Trump is politically crippled.

The country is lost.

BULLSHIT.

Absolute, defeatist, self-pitying BULLSHIT.

Yes, we got our asses kicked.

Yes, Democrats are celebrating.

Yes, the next two years are going to be harder than they needed to be because Republican leadership apparently couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.

But since when did one election determine the permanent fate of the United States of America?

Obama's Democrats lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats in 2010.

Did the Democratic Party disappear?

Did progressives pack their bags and surrender?

Of course fucking not.

Political movements survive defeats when they have the courage to confront their failures and the discipline to rebuild.

And that's exactly what conservatives need to do.

Because here's what I refuse to believe.

I refuse to believe that millions of Americans who love this country, believe in secure borders, want safe communities, demand responsible government, and expect their elected officials to put American interests first suddenly ceased to exist because a bunch of Republican politicians fucked up an election.

I refuse to believe that the people who stood by Trump through investigations, indictments, impeachment battles, media hysteria, and years of political warfare are suddenly going to surrender because Democrats won Congress.

And I sure as fuck refuse to believe that the future of American conservatism belongs to the same failed political establishment that helped create this mess.

Maybe this election was the wake-up call.

Maybe God looked down at the Republican Party, watched the arrogance, complacency, backstabbing, cowardice, and endless fucking excuses, and decided these people needed a lesson in humility delivered with a goddamn sledgehammer.

Maybe the message was simple.

YOU AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH.

Your leadership isn't good enough.

Your candidates aren't good enough.

Your organization isn't good enough.

Your results sure as hell aren't good enough.

FIX IT.

And maybe that's precisely what needs to happen.

Tear down the complacency. Destroy the culture of excuses. Replace failed leadership. Recruit candidates who actually know how to win. Build organizations capable of turning conservative principles into electoral victories.

Stop expecting Trump to carry every worthless Republican politician across the finish line like some exhausted political pack mule.

Trump has already done more than enough heavy lifting for people who seem incapable of carrying their own fucking briefcases.

And guess what?

TRUMP IS STILL PRESIDENT.

That little detail seems to have escaped the champagne-soaked Democrats dancing on MAGA's supposed grave.

He still occupies the White House. He still has constitutional authority. He still has the ability to shape foreign policy, defend American interests, and pursue the priorities that brought him back to office.

And if Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions can be permanently eliminated, that achievement will matter long after every smug political analyst has forgotten the election-night graphics.

But Trump also needs a Republican Party capable of surviving politically without him.

Because 2028 is coming.

And when it arrives, the movement needs more than nostalgia, slogans, celebrity endorsements, and another fucking collection of candidates who think putting MAGA in their social media biography qualifies them for public office.

We need competence.

We need discipline.

We need courage.

We need people who understand that winning an election is a responsibility, not a fucking lifetime achievement award.

And we need Republican voters willing to hold their own side accountable with the same ferocity they direct toward Democrats.

That means primaries.

That means challenging incumbents.

That means getting involved locally.

That means demanding actual accomplishments instead of accepting another round of bullshit fundraising emails promising that victory is just one more donation away.

I'm sick of the excuses.

I'm sick of the cowardice.

I'm sick of watching Republican politicians campaign like warriors and govern like frightened little bureaucrats terrified of upsetting the Washington cocktail circuit.

And I'm especially fucking sick of being told that criticizing Republican leadership somehow makes you disloyal to the conservative movement.

No.

The people who squandered their opportunities owe voters an explanation.

The people who made promises and failed to deliver owe voters accountability.

And the people who believe Republican voters should simply shut up, open their wallets, and keep electing the same failed leadership can go fuck themselves.

We've got two years.

Two years to clean house.

Two years to rebuild.

Two years to recruit candidates who can actually win.

Two years to prove that conservatism is bigger than any one politician, any one election, or any collection of self-important assholes occupying leadership offices in Washington.

And yes, I'm furious.

I'm absolutely fucking livid.

I'm disgusted by the incompetence. I'm embarrassed by the squandered opportunities. I'm enraged that so many people who demanded our trust treated that responsibility like a goddamn inconvenience.

But I'm still here.

And so are millions of Americans who believe this country is worth fighting for.

We're still breathing.

We're still voting.

We're still organizing.

And we're still perfectly capable of telling every useless politician in Washington exactly where to shove his excuses.

America has survived wars, depressions, assassinations, national catastrophes, and political upheavals far worse than one disastrous election.

We'll survive this.

But surviving isn't enough.

We need to learn from it.

We need to rebuild.

And we need to make damn sure that the next time Republicans are entrusted with power, the people holding it actually know what the fuck they're doing.

So congratulations, Democrats.

Enjoy your victory. Pop the champagne. Dance on the political graves. Write your obituaries for Trump and MAGA.

You've earned your celebration.

But don't confuse a devastating electoral defeat with the permanent death of a political movement.

And to the Republican establishment, here's your message.

The fucking gravy train needs to stop.

No more automatic loyalty.

No more free passes.

No more protecting failed leadership because somebody has been warming a Senate chair since the invention of electricity.

No more treating voters like gullible idiots who can be placated with a flag pin, a campaign slogan, and another goddamn promise.

You wanted power.

You got it.

You squandered it.

Now answer for it.

And to every conservative wondering whether to give up, I have one final thought.

FUCK GIVING UP.

Fuck surrender.

Fuck political despair.

Fuck the idea that one election gets to decide whether we still believe in our country.

The fight for America's future didn't begin with Donald Trump, and it sure as hell doesn't end with a Republican defeat in 2026.

We lost a major battle. We haven't lost the country. And we haven't lost the right to fight like hell for its future.

So bury the excuses.

Fire the failures.

Challenge the incumbents.

Build something stronger.

And when 2028 comes around, make sure the Republican Party has learned the one lesson its leadership apparently needed an electoral ass-kicking to understand:

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T OWE YOU A GODDAMN THING.

Earn their trust.

Earn their votes.

Earn the right to govern.

Or get the fuck out of the way.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

What do regular Americans worry about in the first five minutes after they wake up in the morning? They worry about their kids. Their bills. How they’ll afford to pay the mortgage and fill the tank. They don’t worry about Iran or renovating the White House or any of the numerous other things Trump spent the last year rambling about. Republicans did not speak to the issues that directly and immediately impact regular Americans. They did not present a compelling plan to deal with those issues. That’s why they’re getting crushed. And they deserve it.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

TRUMP: "I'm a little bit surprised. I thought they'd do better."

President Trump reacts to the midterm election results in an interview with Fox News' @BretBaier, acknowledging that some Republican candidates fell short of his expectations despite the large crowds at his campaign rallies.

"I thought that I could transfer those people into candidates," Trump says, reflecting on why the enthusiasm at his rallies didn't translate into victories in every race.

Tune in to Fox News Channel now for live midterm election coverage.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles.

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

Today is November 4, 2026 - the border is CLOSED, the streets are SAFER, we’re BUILDING things in America again, and Donald J. Trump is STILL the President of the United States of America. 🇺🇸

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

THE JETS JUST RECORDED THE LATEST FOUR-GOAL COMEBACK WIN IN NHL HISTORY 🔥

THEY WERE DOWN 4-0 WITH JUST 2:40 LEFT IN REGULATION 😱