Peter Rothpletz on GOP despair over the election results, the Supreme Court likely taking an axe to Trump’s tariffs, and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s plan to run for president?
The 5 stages of grief analogy to describe the MAGAt reaction to their shellacking on Tuesday is brilliant. Under the denial heading we need to add lying. The nauseatingly sycophantic Little Mikie "Bible Thumper" Johnson needs to reread the 10 Commandments especially the one about bearing false witness, aka LYING. It makes perfect sense that the lying TV network would use doublespeak to describe the results as the Dems losing by winning...WTF? No, winning is WINNING and losing is LOSING. They lost in 2018, 2020 and now 2025. Let's keep the momentum going in 2026, 2028 and beyond. On les aura!!!
Better to find another Platner style candidate, not sure how many of them are around in the district. I hope his campaign can find someone good to cross endorse with. I would really like to disprove the establishment democrats that are currently resigning to defeat to republicans over this seat in the next election.
I am in VA. My sister is in Maine. Corporate Dems infuriate me. We just shifted th western part of the state blue … in some areas by +20 and they are going to gerrymander our district instead of helping us defeat Ben Cline -- a MAGA bootlicker who is coincidentally friends with Golden. A decade of work ignored and pushed aside.
I bet he will be lobbying ACB, thinking she owes him. MAGA will be furious at her, if they indeed deny his tariffs. My guess is that they'll drag it out to July, and then give him a year or more to implement. There's no doubt that they relied on tariff revenue to offset their tax cut for the rich.
this fascist regime is far beyond being nascent;. Either you got your head in the ground or you haven't been awake for the past 7 months ofi this fascist dictatorship. And centrist Dems and silent progressives are complicit in this degradation of our democracy. Where are the peace makers. Where are "we the people" Placardes just aren't cutting it for me.
yeah, exactly... we really don't have time for the internal firing squad here...I mean look at NJ & VA, both those women are far more center-leaning than I would like but I am overjoyed that they won & the margins at which they won too. AOC is human and Mamdani is going to have issues during his tenure too--that is part of governing in a democracy where everyone has an opinion or preference about how things should be done. The idea that AOC is not the next coming of christ because she softens some edges doesn't mean she is useless and thus kicked out of the tent, so to speak. We are on the cusp of having full-blown dictatorship like Putin's Russia or worse, so the intense un-usefullness of acting like politicians (that are human beings) are never going to need checking (that is the job of the citizen, to push them when they stray from the progression forward) when they are in power is frustratingly dumb. Mamdani will need this checking too, he is not superhuman.
Peter you are the perfect person for this newsletter, I love the flavor you bring to it! Take care of yourself man, haha too much caffeine. The president Greene bit makes me laugh cuz in "normal times" that debate (if it had no real chance of ever leading to more of this scary ass nonsense) would be some of the best reality tv this batshit ass country can offer. I can image the couch jokes, eyeliner digs, space lasers and the "who can pretend they are the walking dead" contest that would take place. It is pretty sad that she is the one person amongst vance and Rubio that is horrible but doesn't just flat out lie in the way that those two half-men do. That graph is nuts! People across the board under 44 brought the heat the other night and I love it so so much! When we get organized and informed and most importantly angry look at what we can do, it has enabled me to feel a full-body joy that has been difficult to find this past year. Lastly, the revocation of TPS protection for Sudanese people is breathtakingly cruel...I wish I had a more powerful word for it. You are sending them back to a place where you can see the amount of bloodshed from space!!!! There is clearly no bottom to how vile and repugnant these fuckign people are, the deepest, darkest, hottest place in hell is reserved for the people in this administration that are doing these things to people who have come here for SAFETY!!! (that includes the likes of Haiti too).
I guessed 70% - I know my New Yorkers. Disappointing to see majority of over-45 going for Cuomo (!). How can anyone vote for a guy forced to resign?! And the upper East Side paranoid class - do they always vote with Statin Island? Very good bews summary - consudering subscription, but I want nothing in my email!
I will take MTG any day over Lil Marco (aka Adelson boy) and JD Vance (peter Thiel pawn), at least she has the courage to voice concern about the unlimited support for the genocidal state. I might go as far as stating that I might vote for her over a democratic AIPAC pawn such as Corry Booker or Rahm Emanuel.
As more and more people start to talk about LGBTQ (and especially trans) people as a political liability, it's so good to be reminded that, as last night's results show, that couldn't be further from the truth. Thank you for your coverage!
The 5 stages of grief analogy to describe the MAGAt reaction to their shellacking on Tuesday is brilliant. Under the denial heading we need to add lying. The nauseatingly sycophantic Little Mikie "Bible Thumper" Johnson needs to reread the 10 Commandments especially the one about bearing false witness, aka LYING. It makes perfect sense that the lying TV network would use doublespeak to describe the results as the Dems losing by winning...WTF? No, winning is WINNING and losing is LOSING. They lost in 2018, 2020 and now 2025. Let's keep the momentum going in 2026, 2028 and beyond. On les aura!!!
Good report.
Platner should run for Golden's seat
Better to find another Platner style candidate, not sure how many of them are around in the district. I hope his campaign can find someone good to cross endorse with. I would really like to disprove the establishment democrats that are currently resigning to defeat to republicans over this seat in the next election.
I am in VA. My sister is in Maine. Corporate Dems infuriate me. We just shifted th western part of the state blue … in some areas by +20 and they are going to gerrymander our district instead of helping us defeat Ben Cline -- a MAGA bootlicker who is coincidentally friends with Golden. A decade of work ignored and pushed aside.
Trump supposedly wanted to go to the arguments. That would have been entertaining, in part because there’s no way he could have kept his mouth shut.
I bet he will be lobbying ACB, thinking she owes him. MAGA will be furious at her, if they indeed deny his tariffs. My guess is that they'll drag it out to July, and then give him a year or more to implement. There's no doubt that they relied on tariff revenue to offset their tax cut for the rich.
Peter, there is nothing “nascent” about Trump fascism. It is as open and in your face as it can be.
MAGA sings the blues. Defund this misadministration. Boycott the IRS. F thegvt
Let's see this Democrat victories prevent war with Venezuela. Trump will have thought time to spend money in any other war at this point.
"nascent fascism" WTF???
this fascist regime is far beyond being nascent;. Either you got your head in the ground or you haven't been awake for the past 7 months ofi this fascist dictatorship. And centrist Dems and silent progressives are complicit in this degradation of our democracy. Where are the peace makers. Where are "we the people" Placardes just aren't cutting it for me.
Please don't equate AOC to Zohran. She is a sellout in Washington and has bowed to AIPAC.
Clearly she has failed to achieve perfection. Best turn her picture against the wall and forget about her. SMH!
yeah, exactly... we really don't have time for the internal firing squad here...I mean look at NJ & VA, both those women are far more center-leaning than I would like but I am overjoyed that they won & the margins at which they won too. AOC is human and Mamdani is going to have issues during his tenure too--that is part of governing in a democracy where everyone has an opinion or preference about how things should be done. The idea that AOC is not the next coming of christ because she softens some edges doesn't mean she is useless and thus kicked out of the tent, so to speak. We are on the cusp of having full-blown dictatorship like Putin's Russia or worse, so the intense un-usefullness of acting like politicians (that are human beings) are never going to need checking (that is the job of the citizen, to push them when they stray from the progression forward) when they are in power is frustratingly dumb. Mamdani will need this checking too, he is not superhuman.
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Peter you are the perfect person for this newsletter, I love the flavor you bring to it! Take care of yourself man, haha too much caffeine. The president Greene bit makes me laugh cuz in "normal times" that debate (if it had no real chance of ever leading to more of this scary ass nonsense) would be some of the best reality tv this batshit ass country can offer. I can image the couch jokes, eyeliner digs, space lasers and the "who can pretend they are the walking dead" contest that would take place. It is pretty sad that she is the one person amongst vance and Rubio that is horrible but doesn't just flat out lie in the way that those two half-men do. That graph is nuts! People across the board under 44 brought the heat the other night and I love it so so much! When we get organized and informed and most importantly angry look at what we can do, it has enabled me to feel a full-body joy that has been difficult to find this past year. Lastly, the revocation of TPS protection for Sudanese people is breathtakingly cruel...I wish I had a more powerful word for it. You are sending them back to a place where you can see the amount of bloodshed from space!!!! There is clearly no bottom to how vile and repugnant these fuckign people are, the deepest, darkest, hottest place in hell is reserved for the people in this administration that are doing these things to people who have come here for SAFETY!!! (that includes the likes of Haiti too).
Peter, all those Red Bulls will give you a heart attack, seriously.
I guessed 70% - I know my New Yorkers. Disappointing to see majority of over-45 going for Cuomo (!). How can anyone vote for a guy forced to resign?! And the upper East Side paranoid class - do they always vote with Statin Island? Very good bews summary - consudering subscription, but I want nothing in my email!
I will take MTG any day over Lil Marco (aka Adelson boy) and JD Vance (peter Thiel pawn), at least she has the courage to voice concern about the unlimited support for the genocidal state. I might go as far as stating that I might vote for her over a democratic AIPAC pawn such as Corry Booker or Rahm Emanuel.
As more and more people start to talk about LGBTQ (and especially trans) people as a political liability, it's so good to be reminded that, as last night's results show, that couldn't be further from the truth. Thank you for your coverage!
MAGA has added new stages of grief.
1. Cult grief
2. Gaslight grief