Merged 2026 Mid-Term election outcomes: US Congress

[plague311]

I think he can try but there's no mechanism for the Federal government to "seize ballots". First, they don't have the manpower to do it. We're talking like 3,000+ counties. It would take coordination between multiple agencies and would abso-◊◊◊◊◊◊◊-lutely require local police forces, ballot counters, and election officials to comply.

There's just no way to get it done, and mind you the election is in less than a month. No matter what that stupid bitch says there is no logical way for Trump to accomplish that.

 

[AmyStrange]

I think he can try but there's no mechanism for the Federal government to "seize ballots". First, they don't have the manpower to do it. We're talking like 3,000+ counties. It would take coordination between multiple agencies and would abso-◊◊◊◊◊◊◊-lutely require local police forces, ballot counters, and election officials to comply.

There's just no way to get it done, and mind you the election is in less than a month. No matter what that stupid bitch says there is no logical way for Trump to accomplish that.

That makes sense but what makes you think the fat clown won't at least try to do it?

 

[thaiboxerken]

They'll go after the ballots of major cities in swing states.

 

[shemp]

I think he can try but there's no mechanism for the Federal government to "seize ballots". First, they don't have the manpower to do it. We're talking like 3,000+ counties. It would take coordination between multiple agencies and would abso-◊◊◊◊◊◊◊-lutely require local police forces, ballot counters, and election officials to comply.

There's just no way to get it done, and mind you the election is in less than a month. No matter what that stupid bitch says there is no logical way for Trump to accomplish that.

He may try to do it in some places, to sow doubt and cause chaos, but it's not just 3,000 counties, many counties have multiple polling places, maybe even hundreds. According to this link, there were over 95,000 polling places in the U.S. in 2024.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/polling-places

More than 95,000 polling places were used in the 2024 general election, according to the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) report released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The EAC also reported that less than 3% of those locations were election offices—the vast majority of polling places were at other sites, such as libraries, schools or churches.

 

[plague311]

That makes sense but what makes you think the fat clown won't at least try to do it?

He may try to do it in some places, to sow doubt and cause chaos, but it's not just 3,000 counties, many counties have multiple polling places, maybe even hundreds. According to this link, there were over 95,000 polling places in the U.S. in 2024.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/polling-places

Make no mistake, I know he'll try to do something crazy, and I don't doubt it'll be something like this, but I don't think it'll be successful.

Trump doesn't plan things out very well, and even if they are planned out well he ◊◊◊◊◊ them up at the first opportunity. Then he goes into blitz mode and throws ◊◊◊◊, or ketchup, at the wall trying to get something to stick. It generally doesn't work and then he goes back to bitching about it online.

I'm sure he'll target the biggest Dem cities too because he's ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ dumb as hell. I would expect Dem cities to know what's coming.

 

[Tero]

She may be corrupt, but..

Senate Democrats (@dscc) on Threads

Donations to Susan Collins were investigated by the FBI until the Trump admin shut it down, ProPublica reports.

www.threads.com

...it's a small price to pay for men in womens' sports and Iran nuking the USA.
(their missiles can't even reach the UK if they have a nuke)

 

[AmyStrange]

For those who are unaware, here's some good advice:

Go here to read the actual law:
52 U.S. Code § 21082 - Provisional voting and voting information requirements

 

[dirtywick]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers

ukraine bombs russian bot farm data centers

 

[kookbreaker]

Susan Collins pays for ads attacking her opponent to run in Portland......Oregon.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6143888-susan-collins-maine-ads-oregon/

 

[shemp]

Susan Collins pays for ads attacking her opponent to run in Portland......Oregon.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6143888-susan-collins-maine-ads-oregon/

Not that I would ever want to defend her, but for the sake of accuracy, she didn't pay for the ads or place them. Other people were the idiots here.*

^{* However, she is also an idiot.}

Ads promoting Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) appeared to target the wrong city of Portland in a Republican super PAC mix-up, running the advertisements in Oregon instead of Maine.

“During a recent independent expenditure, our media vendor mistakenly placed approximately $25,000 in digital advertising in the Portland, Oregon media market instead of Portland, Maine,” a spokesperson for Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP), the nonprofit affiliated with GOP super PAC Defending Main Street, told The Hill.

“The error was identified, the ads were immediately stopped and corrected, and the vendor is refunding Defending Main Street the full amount of the misplaced spend,” the spokesperson said. “No donor funds will be lost as a result of the vendor’s error.”

 

[Trebuchet]

tell that to the people who got hurt.

My error, it was of course 2021.

 

[dudalb]

The Diesel deal will drive even more undecideds to the Dems, and in the end it is the swing voters who decide elections.

 

[Tero]

When starting to lose, always bring back vaccine scam

Ken Paxton stirs vaccine skepticism to ingratiate himself with Maha movement

Texas AG and US Senate hopeful announced inquiry into alleged conspiracy between pediatricians, vaccine makers and insurance firms

www.theguardian.com

 

[kookbreaker]

Marsha Blackburn, GOP gubernatorial candidate for Tennessee has managed to take AI cringe to a new level with a video showing her rapping Kendrick Lamar's song "Not like us".

Marsha Blackburn Takes ‘AI Cringe’ To New Heights With Bonkers Kendrick Lamar Video

Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for governor, shared the bizarre video on social media.

www.huffpost.com

 

[plague311]

Marsha Blackburn, GOP gubernatorial candidate for Tennessee has managed to take AI cringe to a new level with a video showing her rapping Kendrick Lamar's song "Not like us".

Marsha Blackburn Takes ‘AI Cringe’ To New Heights With Bonkers Kendrick Lamar Video

Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for governor, shared the bizarre video on social media.

www.huffpost.com

Uhm, is it a good idea to steal a well renowned battlerapper's song? I don't know that this is going to end well for her.

Also, the folk that are "not like us" are specifically people like Blackburn. She is personifying the song.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Uhm, is it a good idea to steal a well renowned battlerapper's song? I don't know that this is going to end well for her.

Also, the folk that are "not like us" are specifically people like Blackburn. She is personifying the song.

It is typical of MAGA to lionize songs that were written to criticize people just like them. I remember a bunch of MAGA slam dancing to Rage a few years ago....

 

[shemp]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com%2Fpost%2F3mxsb6ewtzh2e

 

[Resume]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com%2Fpost%2F3mxsb6ewtzh2e

Remember the days when someone uttered such nonsense in public, we'd all back away from them?

Yeah, neither do I.

 

[kookbreaker]

It is typical of MAGA to lionize songs that were written to criticize people just like them. I remember a bunch of MAGA slam dancing to Rage a few years ago....

Slam dancing to Rage, using Fortunate Son for a billionaire's walk-in, using Born in the USA as a "Patriotic Anthem"....

Let's remember this song (and its presentation) had them foaming at the mouth with rage a year and a half ago.

 

[Tero]

They forgot to claim that Talarico was probably adding a few more genders while absent.

It gets uglier. Recently, Talarico disappeared from the campaign trail for nine days. He and his aides said it was a bad case of the flu. His conservative opponents pounced, spreading a rumor that he had been at a mental health facility in Ohio, a state Talarico said he had never visited.

That story proved false — The Times obtained time-stamped security camera images showing that Talarico spent a week at home — but the episode offered a lesson for the age of misinformation, my colleague Bayliss Wagner reported: “It is politically risky for a candidate, even one too ill to campaign, to disappear for nine days.”

...But as attorney general, he (Paxton) was charged with felony fraud. He cut a deal to drop the charges in exchange for paying restitution and performing community service. Then, a group of his aides accused him of bribery and abuse of office. The Texas House impeached him in 2023.

NYT