Predictions for the 2026 Midterms

[IBDaMann]

You don’t know much do you?

You've never applied any critical reasoning, have you?

WaPo is Bezos media and Bezos is a Trump supporter.

So, your position is that whenever the Washington Post butchers Trump, it isn't butchering Trump ... because the owner, who doesn't control daily operations, has had dinner with Trump?

Your position is asinine. Were you posting in your sleep?

Daily News is Murdock, like Fox News.

Radical leftists. Fox News has been leftist crap for over fifteen years. They fired all their effective conservative voices.

WSJ is conservative.

WSJ is liberal.

BBC and Al Jezeera play it right down the middle on U.S. news coverage.

BBC and Al Jazeera are leftist in their ideologies. BBC HATES America although Al Jazeera has improved greatly from their "Great Satan" days.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

You've never applied any critical reasoning, have you?

I was a highly rated professional investigator for over 40 years and literally got paid for my deductive and critical thinking skills in both the public and private sectors. So I have a professional record to show what I am capable of, how about you?

So, your position is that whenever the Washington Post butchers Trump, it isn't butchering Trump ... because the owner, who doesn't control daily operations, has had dinner with Trump?

Not at all. It just isn't what you are painting it as.

Your position is asinine. Were you posting in your sleep?

That is not a counter argument. It is ad hominem horse manure. The personal attack that say, "I know I am losing this argument."

Radical leftists. Fox News has been leftist crap for over fifteen years. They fired all their effective conservative voices.

Fox News is radical Lefties? OK then... {LOL}. They aren't as bad as they use to be, but Jesse Watters appearence every week night at 8pm says you are very wrong about that, even before you get to Hannity.

WSJ is liberal.

On what planet?

BBC and Al Jazeera are leftist in their ideologies. BBC HATES America although Al Jazeera has improved greatly from their "Great Satan" days.

Both are relatively straight down the center on their coverage of US news. They report, for the most part, facts and leave the reader to determine what they mean.

I worked in politics for a time [until I realized it is too dirty a business and I too honest a person to live comfortably within it]. I worked in both radio and TV and print media before I became a professional law enforcer. I have a portfiolio few others can claim and your insults are water off a duck's ass when aimed at me.

So try sticking to facts and try to refute my arguments with them [I promise I will blow a hole the size of a Howitzer's in most of them] rather than try the personal attack crap.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

Let's turn our attention to your insane confusion that Trump is somehow Congress. Why do you even bother the rest of us at the adults' table? You have no business participating in this discussion. Learn the fundamentals of government first. The President is not Congress. I shouldn't be the first person to teach you this.

I didn't say the President is Congress. I implied the President usurped Congressional authority and he has. He is placing tariffs outside the realm of Artical One of the Constitution. He is doing the same with making war over the 60 day period of the War Powers Act. Both of which are clearly defined by law as Congress' job.

There are no Trump tax cuts. Congress owns everything about taxes, to include tax cuts, e.g. when they take effect and when they end.

Trump stamped HIS name all over the BBB nonsense. HE claims it as his own. When HE did so how am *I* wrong in accrediting it to him, when HE claims it?

Your argument is spurious and weak. Further, as I would like to think you have a brain you are aware that is so, which is why you went for the personal attack instead of a solid counter argument.

Do better.

 

[IBDaMann]

I was a highly rated professional investigator for over 40 years

The "highly rated" part is your own assessment.

and literally got paid for my deductive and critical thinking skills

Nope. You got paid because someone signed a contract to reimburse you for your time.

So I have a professional record to show what I am capable of,

Nope. You have nothing to show your capabilities outside your posts, which show that you aren't bright enough by which to read.

Not at all. It just isn't what you are painting it as.

Dial it back. Your (lack of) logic dismissed the Washington Post's attacks on Trump as somehow not being attacks on Trump because Bezos owns the Washington Post. You suck at logic.

That is not a counter argument. It is ad hominem

Correct. I felt like embellishing my commentary with a fitting assessment of your obvious cognitive shortcomings.

horse manure. The personal attack that say, "I know I am losing this argument."

Once again, you aren't very bright. You are declaring me to be losing an argument that I am not presenting. You, on the other hand, have presented gibberish, leaving readers to wonder if you will ever get make a coherent point. Vegas sports books are giving very low odds of that ever happening.

Fox News is radical Lefties? OK then... {LOL}. They aren't as bad as they use to be, but Jesse Watters appearence every week night at 8pm says you are very wrong

Too funny! James and Lachlan Murdoch, who run everything, HATE Trump. You pointed to only one pawn at Fox News. Point to 46 more like him and maybe you'll have a point. The Murdoch's have gotten rid of all the effective conservative voices. Long has it been since anyone could get actual news from Fox News.

even before you get to Hannity.

What about Hannity? All you can say about him is that he doesn't bash Trump. To you and your TDS-infection, simply not bashing Trump is tantamount to far-right bending-of-the-knee.

On what planet?

I forgot, you're speaking from your perspective on the extreme Marxist left that wants the US Constitution dismantled ... so yes, you're correct, from your point of view, WSJ is conservative.

To any rational adult, however, WSJ is left-shifted.

Both are relatively straight down the center on their coverage of US news.

Nope. I can see why an America-HATING Marxist, such as yourself, would say that, though. A rational, dispassionate adult, however, would not be able to help but see the anti-American bias from Al Jazeera and the BBC that serves as life-giving manna from heaven to the likes of you.

I worked in politics for a time

The Socialist Party of America? ... or the Social Democrats of America?

I have a portfiolio few others can claim

Perhaps you should look into building the same portfolio that many other intelligent people have.

and your insults are water off a duck's ass when aimed at me.

Too funny! You consider my recommendations to apply critical reasoning, and to stop allowing other people to do your thinking for you, to be insults that just roll right off of you.

So try sticking to facts

So try learning what a "fact" is, and yes, that necessarily entails abandoning your intellectual laziness and actually learning. Remaining too stupid to learn won't work out well for you in the end.

and try to refute my arguments

OK. Make a coherent argument. The ball is in your court.

 

[IBDaMann]

I didn't say the President is Congress.

You absolutely do say everything that you imply. Perhaps you should pay attention and choose your words with care. Everything you wrote was stupid.

I implied the President usurped Congressional authority and he has.

Nope. You are a moron.

He is placing tariffs outside the realm of Artical One of the Constitution.

Have I mentioned that you are a moron. This statement is simply what you have been ordered to regurgitate by the people who do your thinking for you. Article 1 gives Congress the authority to make laws regarding tariffs, and that allows Congress to make laws that allow the President to control tariffs, e.g. Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 232, Trade Act of 1974, Section 301, Trade Act of 1974, Section 201, Trade Act of 1974, Section 122, Tariff Act of 1930, Section 338 (19 U.S.C. § 1338), International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977, etc.

He is doing the same with making war over the 60 day period of the War Powers Act.

Too funny! You are incompetently stupid. The President can wage war indefinitely. Why haven't you bothered to read the War Powers Act before stupidly citing it to support what you have been ordered to regurgitate by the people who do your thinking for you? The President merely has to inform Congress of what he is doing, and he has done so.

Has Congress ordered the attacks to cease? Have they? If they have not, then you have some 'splain'n to do, Lucy.

Trump stamped HIS name all over the BBB nonsense.

See? I knew it. You think Trump is Congress. You think that Trump can become Congress by "stamping his name" all over things ... whatever that means. Let's not pretend that you have any clue about what you speak. You gibber.

HE claims it as his own.

Is that how you think it works in the US? If I claim the Pentagon as my own, is it therefore mine? Your perspective is fuqked.

Your argument is spurious and weak.

My claim: The President is not Congress
Your claim: The President is Congress

You're a moron.

Further, as I would like to think you have a brain

... because it wouldn't reflect well on you being raked over the coals by someone without a brain.

Do better.

Too funny. You might want to try. Let me know if you need any help. I'm here for you.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

The "highly rated" part is your own assessment.


Nope. You got paid because someone signed a contract to reimburse you for your time.


Nope. You have nothing to show your capabilities outside your posts, which show that you aren't bright enough by which to read.


Dial it back. Your (lack of) logic dismissed the Washington Post's attacks on Trump as somehow not being attacks on Trump because Bezos owns the Washington Post. You suck at logic.


Correct. I felt like embellishing my commentary with a fitting assessment of your obvious cognitive shortcomings.


Once again, you aren't very bright. You are declaring me to be losing an argument that I am not presenting. You, on the other hand, have presented gibberish, leaving readers to wonder if you will ever get make a coherent point. Vegas sports books are giving very low odds of that ever happening.


Too funny! James and Lachlan Murdoch, who run everything, HATE Trump. You pointed to only one pawn at Fox News. Point to 46 more like him and maybe you'll have a point. The Murdoch's have gotten rid of all the effective conservative voices. Long has it been since anyone could get actual news from Fox News.


What about Hannity? All you can say about him is that he doesn't bash Trump. To you and your TDS-infection, simply not bashing Trump is tantamount to far-right bending-of-the-knee.


I forgot, you're speaking from your perspective on the extreme Marxist left that wants the US Constitution dismantled ... so yes, you're correct, from your point of view, WSJ is conservative.

To any rational adult, however, WSJ is left-shifted.


Nope. I can see why an America-HATING Marxist, such as yourself, would say that, though. A rational, dispassionate adult, however, would not be able to help but see the anti-American bias from Al Jazeera and the BBC that serves as life-giving manna from heaven to the likes of you.


The Socialist Party of America? ... or the Social Democrats of America?


Perhaps you should look into building the same portfolio that many other intelligent people have.


Too funny! You consider my recommendations to apply critical reasoning, and to stop allowing other people to do your thinking for you, to be insults that just roll right off of you.


So try learning what a "fact" is, and yes, that necessarily entails abandoning your intellectual laziness and actually learning. Remaining too stupid to learn won't work out well for you in the end.


OK. Make a coherent argument. The ball is in your court.

You absolutely do say everything that you imply. Perhaps you should pay attention and choose your words with care. Everything you wrote was stupid.


Nope. You are a moron.


Have I mentioned that you are a moron. This statement is simply what you have been ordered to regurgitate by the people who do your thinking for you. Article 1 gives Congress the authority to make laws regarding tariffs, and that allows Congress to make laws that allow the President to control tariffs, e.g. Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 232, Trade Act of 1974, Section 301, Trade Act of 1974, Section 201, Trade Act of 1974, Section 122, Tariff Act of 1930, Section 338 (19 U.S.C. § 1338), International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977, etc.


Too funny! You are incompetently stupid. The President can wage war indefinitely. Why haven't you bothered to read the War Powers Act before stupidly citing it to support what you have been ordered to regurgitate by the people who do your thinking for you? The President merely has to inform Congress of what he is doing, and he has done so.

Has Congress ordered the attacks to cease? Have they? If they have not, then you have some 'splain'n to do, Lucy.


See? I knew it. You think Trump is Congress. You think that Trump can become Congress by "stamping his name" all over things ... whatever that means. Let's not pretend that you have any clue about what you speak. You gibber.


Is that how you think it works in the US? If I claim the Pentagon as my own, is it therefore mine? Your perspective is fuqked.


My claim: The President is not Congress
Your claim: The President is Congress

You're a moron.


... because it wouldn't reflect well on you being raked over the coals by someone without a brain.


Too funny. You might want to try. Let me know if you need any help. I'm here for you.

You realize that in the verbeage and the verbose style you use you make it very obvious what main account for which this is a sockpuppet, don't you.

Sure, on this site it is nothing but words but I am not the one making this personal and I am happy enough to let the assembled reason out for themselves who the "moron" is.

You are never going to win a fight of ideas with me going at it like this. You have to shape your thoughts around facts and present them in a way that substantiates that your points are fact based, not simply your opinion on the subject.

You have a nice night tonight and a good day tomorrow. Put the sockpuppet away for a while and go out in the sunshine. I'll be playing poker at the firehouse so I won't be here till evening anyway so unless I stop by in the morning before I head out I won't be here for you to throw your peobbles at.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

ay that, though. A rational, dispassionate adult, however, would not be able to help but see the anti-American bias from Al Jazeera and the BBC that serves as life-giving manna from heaven to the likes of you.


The Socialist Party of America? ... or the Social Democrats of America?



OK. Make a coherent argument. The ball is in your court.

OK, I will. I am a card carrying registered Republican and when I worked in politics over 40 years ago I helped get Republicans elected to statewide and county offices as a job. I made a living at it. I also held a very minor elected office myself.

When I worked in law enforcement for 25 years I served my community well. I was decorated a baker's dozen times for doing so.

What did you ever do for your country or community? You ever serve in ANY capacity?

 

[Tobytone]

I think that Republicans will keep the Senate and the House is a toss up atm (If R's would've redistricted better, I would've said that R's keep it, but without redistricting being as good as I would've liked to see it, and if gas prices don't come down all that much in the next couple months, then I'm thinking the D's win the House by a slim margin) ... it's hard to buck history.

I'll go all in. We have a very good night coming.

I've been away a while, and I'm still certain not one JPP libtard drone has figured out they're tools and subjects of the most evil forces on the planet. Meanwhile the newly emboldened nepo-baby Bolsheviks have gone too far, too fast. The old congressional pros spent decades on calculated incrementalism. The 'democrat socialists' think it's time to rip the masks off. Ironic, since most of these little wannabe dictators still wear covid masks.

I predict this midterm makes history instead of repeating it, historical norms and the curse of the party in power be damned. Two reasons.

One, reduced fraud. Thune sold out, sure, but Trump still shoved through changes that matter. Every illegal deported is one less Democrat vote, and as much as they've always cheated, they rarely have votes to spare.

Two, normal Democrats still exist, and they're stuck with garbage choices. They won't vote Republican, but they also won't touch what the batshit DSA is cooking. Polls mean nothing if the people answering them stay home. Midterms are easy to skip when your party got hijacked by radical nutcases.

One more prediction past November. We all know the talking point they think delivers them the promised land. Affordability. That's been the whole strategy. Repeat the word enough and maybe people forget they created the prices. Of course, they're right about a chunk of their own party, for example, JPP libtards have bought it for sure. The drones actually believe Democrats will magically reverse trillions in printed money by chanting a slogan. Hollywood and the press have been pounding the word for months, but lately, the polls they still worship are tightening as Election Day gets closer, so they're already shopping for a better crisis that demands undivided attention while scaring people to the polls.

My prediction? AI is the new climate change, the latest existential threat to the 'working' class. Not just greedy billionaires parking data centers in your backyard. Super intelligence that will kill us all unless they save us by banning it yesterday. Some kid quits after a massive six weeks on the job at Anthropic, 'blows the whistle' on the evil rich guys, and Bernie and friends instantly demand a freeze until they can wrap their heads around it. They're pretending that the kid had some bombshell, but no, just another idiot that apparently is late to the discussion, but Bernie doesn't care, he just needs a different boogieman. Communist always need a boogieman. This is only the start. This becomes the entire 2028 focus. China wants it that way, and they paid a lot of money for the right to give Democrats orders. Wait and see. AI becomes enemy number one, same as big oil, big pharma, climate change and Trump. It must be stopped.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

One, reduced fraud. Thune sold out, sure, but Trump still shoved through changes that matter. Every illegal deported is one less Democrat vote, and as much as they've always cheated, they rarely have votes to spare.

You good folk have never seen an alternative fact you won’t embrace.

The Heritage Foundation itself did a study and found from 1982 to 2025 a couple of hundred cases, each a single individual, so a couple of hundred votes spread out of 50 states, over the course of 43 years. That over a BILLION votes cast and only a couple of hundred individual caees.

Not one election changed. OVER ONE BILLION VOTES.

MAGA truly lives in an altered universe. Your world is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, we never landed in the moon. MAGA is bonkers.

 

[Tobytone]

You good folk have never seen an alternative fact you won’t embrace.

The Heritage Foundation itself did a study and found from 1982 to 2025 a couple of hundred cases, each a single individual, so a couple of hundred votes spread out of 50 states, over the course of 43 years. That over a BILLION votes cast and only a couple of hundred individual caees.

Not one election changed. OVER ONE BILLION VOTES.

MAGA truly lives in an altered universe. Your world is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, we never landed in the moon. MAGA is bonkers.

Wow, is this a new libtard or another loser that changed their name out of embarrassment? Hey, I've got some hot investments and you seem like just the right kind of person to understand their value. You seem really smart, are you interested?

 

[IBDaMann]

You realize that in the verbeage and the verbose style you use you make it very obvious what main account for which this is a sockpuppet, don't you.

You're an idiot. I have no socks and the posters on JPP are aware of this. They are also aware of the leftist penchant to pivot suddenly anytime they look stupid to the ridiculous topic of "LOOK OVER THERE! IT'S A SOCK!" as you try to slink away unnoticed.

What can I say as IBDaMann that I somehow cannot write as any other poster? Enough of your pivot, back to your idiocy.

You are never going to win a fight of ideas with me ...

I know. You are invulnerable to ideas.

You have to shape your thoughts around facts ...

I see you still haven't learned what facts are. You didn't do very well in school, did you?

... and present them in a way that substantiates that your points are fact based, not simply your opinion on the subject.

Were you asleep during the lecture on "observations" or were you simply playing hooky? I'm just observing what you are writing, and you write stupid crap. You don't even know what facts are. I bet you worship "Climate Change". I'm not the only one who is waiting for you to write something that is not flat-out absurd.

You have a nice night tonight and a good day tomorrow.

Likewise. Try enjoying the day without simply numbing your mind. Enjoy a beverage with family and pay attention to differing viewpoints. Call boooooolsch't when you are told a fallacy or a contradiction; don't wait for me to call you on it when you regurgitate it here on JPP.

Put the sockpuppet away for a while

I get it ... you are a leftist and pivoting is all you have. You certainly don't have anything intelligent to contribute. By the way, how does screaming "SOCK!" work out for you? I realize that you don't have many tools with which to work, so you keep going back to the well even when it's dry. Don't you eventually get sick of it, though? ... or is it like breathing, i.e. an existential requirement?

I'll be playing poker at the firehouse so I won't be here till evening anyway so unless I stop by in the morning before I head out I won't be here for you to throw your peobbles at.

Good luck. I hope all your poker opponents are as good at poker as you are at supporting an argument; you should clean house.

 

[IBDaMann]

MAGA truly lives in an altered universe. Your world is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, we never landed in the moon. MAGA is bonkers.

Leftists truly live in a delusional delerium, i.e. their world is flat, the moon landing was a hoax, Climate Change is real, abortion should be mandatory, science is evil and should be denied, democracy means stealing elections, assassination is a viable solution, etc.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Is this a problem? Have you contacted your representative?

I would hope every person who makes tips or works overtime understands that if the democrats gain control of the house, the massive cuts through exemption of these wages goes away. democrats are dedicated to taxing the middle class out of existence.

 

[IBDaMann]

democrats are dedicated to taxing the middle class out of existence.

WRONG! The Democrats are happily dedicated to taxing everyone out of existence, not just the middle class who are claiming to be victims. Democrats just call it "affordability", and "taxation diversity."

 

[ModernDiogenes]

Wow, is this a new libtard or another loser that changed their name out of embarrassment? Hey, I've got some hot investments and you seem like just the right kind of person to understand their value. You seem really smart, are you interested?

I’m a registered Republican, a fiscal conservative, and a practical pragmatic ,a who served the public good and welfare for 25 years as a law enforcer. I use deductive reasoning and critical thinking, practiced and honed on the job to run my life and to cine to conclusions on my observations.

Also, I did that work in a very Marge metropolitan PD so I’ve been cussed at, spit on, shot at, knifesxwaved in my face, etc. and do forth so comments like yours above is water off a ducks ass.

I know shit from Shinola and nothing you’re going to say is going to rattle my cage.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

You're an idiot. I have no socks and the posters on JPP are aware of this. They are also aware of the leftist penchant to pivot suddenly anytime they look stupid to the ridiculous topic of "LOOK OVER THERE! IT'S A SOCK!" as you try to slink away unnoticed.

What can I say as IBDaMann that I somehow cannot write as any other poster? Enough of your pivot, back to your idiocy.


I know. You are invulnerable to ideas.


I see you still haven't learned what facts are. You didn't do very well in school, did you?


Were you asleep during the lecture on "observations" or were you simply playing hooky? I'm just observing what you are writing, and you write stupid crap. You don't even know what facts are. I bet you worship "Climate Change". I'm not the only one who is waiting for you to write something that is not flat-out absurd.


Likewise. Try enjoying the day without simply numbing your mind. Enjoy a beverage with family and pay attention to differing viewpoints. Call boooooolsch't when you are told a fallacy or a contradiction; don't wait for me to call you on it when you regurgitate it here on JPP.


I get it ... you are a leftist and pivoting is all you have. You certainly don't have anything intelligent to contribute. By the way, how does screaming "SOCK!" work out for you? I realize that you don't have many tools with which to work, so you keep going back to the well even when it's dry. Don't you eventually get sick of it, though? ... or is it like breathing, i.e. an existential requirement?


Good luck. I hope all your poker opponents are as good at poker as you are at supporting an argument; you should clean house.

See the post directly above.

Your spouting off doesn’t impress me. Make a cogent counter to anything I have to say instead of the ad hominem hog wash and you might get my attention.

The above is just rambling. It has no discussion value. Your typing to hear yourself type.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

I’m a registered Republican, a fiscal conservative, and a practical pragmatic ,a who served the public good and welfare for 25 years as a law enforcer. I use deductive reasoning and critical thinking, practiced and honed on the job to run my life and to cine to conclusions on my observations.

Also, I did that work in a very Marge metropolitan PD so I’ve been cussed at, spit on, shot at, knifesxwaved in my face, etc. and do forth so comments like yours above is water off a ducks ass.

I know shit from Shinola and nothing you’re going to say is going to rattle my cage.

And yeah, I make a lot if typos.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

I would hope every person who makes tips or works overtime understands that if the democrats gain control of the house, the massive cuts through exemption of these wages goes away. democrats are dedicated to taxing the middle class out of existence.

Your world is divided into tribes and yiur tribe is the “good guys”. Your allegiance bought and paid for and you come cheap. The others guys are getting a much better deal.

 

[Uncensored2008]

WRONG! The Democrats are happily dedicated to taxing everyone out of existence, not just the middle class who are claiming to be victims. Democrats just call it "affordability", and "taxation diversity."

The middle class, the Bourgeoisie, are the traditional target of the left, the Marxist democrats.

You can't tax the impoverished out of existence. The democrats are working to impoverish the middle class. To put 99% of America into sustenance level poverty. Those standing in line for 12 hours to get a loaf of government bread have little time to organize resistance against the party.

Eliminating the people in poverty would just be mass murder - which is itself very popular for the left. Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Ho, Pol Pot, Castro, Baby Doc, Idi Amin, et al.

 

[Uncensored2008]

You good folk have never seen an alternative fact you won’t embrace.

And you leftists have never seen an actual fact that you will accept. Maddow decides, you believe.

The Heritage Foundation itself did a study and found from 1982 to 2025 a couple of hundred cases, each a single individual, so a couple of hundred votes spread out of 50 states, over the course of 43 years. That over a BILLION votes cast and only a couple of hundred individual caees.

Repeating DNC propaganda isn't the way to convince people you're a "card carrying Republican." (Republicans don't have or need cards, we have IDEAS)

If you want to have a thread on election fraud - particularly fraud perpetrated by your party, please start one and I will participate.

THIS thread is about the midterms and who each of us believes will prevail.

Not one election changed. OVER ONE BILLION VOTES.

Did Boss Tweed tell you that himself?

MAGA truly lives in an altered universe. Your world is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, we never landed in the moon. MAGA is bonkers.

The only ones claiming 9/11 was DA JOOOZZZZ are you Marxists. Along with J6 WUZ INSURRECTION - as your brown shirts attack another federal police officer.