Althouse: Did moderates do so well in the elections because people were getting their information from talking to A.I.?

November 5, 2026

Did moderates do so well in the elections because people were getting their information from talking to A.I.?

161 comments:

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: I’d argue instead that Americans have finally discovered the limits of what the electorate is willing to tolerate.; 11/5/26, 8:24 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: What “moderates”?; 11/5/26, 8:26 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Wouldn't the moderates have done better during the primaries? AI manipulating elections by serving up cherry-picked "facts" about favored candidates is a terrifying new fear though so that's cool. If biased media has been bad, imagine biased AI factchecking overlords.; 11/5/26, 8:27 AM
D.D. Driver said...: And who decides what is "moderate"? AI? The democrats who won?; 11/5/26, 8:28 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: He creates this fake label "Moderates". What he really means is the Leftwing Democrats did better because AI is programmed by Leftists.

Go look at the numbers. At least in the senate races, the Democrats turned out and the Republicans didn't. A large hunk of those who voted for Trump in SC, Texas and Ohio, stayed home.

And I hate the word "moderate". Who doesn't want to be "Moderate". Its synonym (sic) for reasonable. But in fact, it really means centrist. And should be called "low information" because that's what most moderates are. They not really engaged in politics, and tend to pay attention at the last moment. And vote for or against someone based on the current state of the economy or because they saw an ad on TV.; 11/5/26, 8:28 AM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Moderates like the new senator from Hamas and the new trans-children senator from Texas?; 11/5/26, 8:28 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: I converse every day with GPT. I used it in a wide variety of roles. Just about everybody’s doing some version of this, even the ones who claim they aren’t doing it. I assume now that in any personal or biz relationship with another person, it’s actually a 4 way convo between two people, each advised by his chatbot.; 11/5/26, 8:30 AM
Lazarus said...: A Democrat who wins in Kansas or Mississippi would have to be more "moderate" than one who wins in New York or California. One hopes. Democrat wins in what was considered Republican territory would account for "moderate" wins, but was there any indication that moderation prevailed in heavily blue states?; 11/5/26, 8:31 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Many of the Republican Senators who lost weren't MAGA. Or they were incumbents. Darlene Graham was supposed to be another Lindsey - who was MAGA. Neither was Susan Collins. Or the guy in Ohio.

And most of them were just nothing burgers. Who were the Republicans running in NC, or Iowa? Or take Marshall in Kansas. These guy was in the senate for six years, and he was invisible.

Abbott in Texas was a bushie - and he lost too.; 11/5/26, 8:33 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: So lots of people are making ballot decisions by consulting digital parrots that occasionally hallucinate. Yes, yes, things are going swimmingly.; 11/5/26, 8:33 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: I’m still struggling to believe and accept that Trump destroyed his second term by launching another Middle East war.; 11/5/26, 8:35 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: As for Democrats, unlike the Republicans they have party discipline. And the media lets them lie on the campaign trail without calling them out. All the democrat senators elected from Red states campaigned as "moderates". When they get to the senate they will vote with chuck schumer 95 perent of the time. They always do.; 11/5/26, 8:35 AM
D.D. Driver said...: As for Democrats, unlike the Republicans they have party discipline. And the media lets them lie on the campaign trail without calling them out.

Oh cry more. When the democrats lose elections they say the same thing about republicans. Being a partisan makes you a crybaby. It doesn't even matter what side you belong to.; 11/5/26, 8:39 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: It’s like the old story about a dog food company holding a meeting to figure out why its product isn’t selling despite promotions, advertising, prime placement in grocery aisles, and so on. Finally, one executive raises his hand and says, “Dogs don’t like it.”; 11/5/26, 8:40 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Historically, the presidents party always loses seats in the mid-terms. This was ususual because the amount of seats lost.

But then the Republican establishment wanted to lose. The Republican Senators always hate being in the majority. People expect them to make good on their campaign rhetoric and they have zero intention of doing that.

No, on 2nd thought, what R Senators *really* want is to have the majority with a Democrat President. Then they can really cut deals and talk big. Knowing absolutely nothing their base wants will happen. But since Trump is POTUS, they're happy to let the D's sabotage Trump in the open, while they sit back in the weeds and watch.; 11/5/26, 8:41 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: @Shouting Thomas, as was put to me by a developer of economics and finance AI engines, it is indeed a powerful tool for finding and summarizing information. It is TERRIBLE at making decisions. Currently, from start to finish even the best engines are about 6 or 7 iterative decisions from being right only about half the time to advocating a march on Poland as a solution to a query.

In no way shape or form should AI be relied on by anyone to make decisions...so of course a mouthbreathing cohort of the electorate will use it precisely to tell them what to do.; 11/5/26, 8:42 AM
Freder Frederson said...: "When they get to the senate they will vote with chuck schumer 95 perent of the time. They always do."

I don't think you can get more moderate than Chuck Schumer, or Hakeem Jefferies for that matter.; 11/5/26, 8:42 AM
Ann Althouse said...: I'll have another post soon about this idea that moderates did well.; 11/5/26, 8:43 AM
Wince said...: Facing the 45 ballot measures across the country, 44 communities voted to restrict data centers, and just 1 community voted to allow construction.

So, if we're dolling out labels, does that make voters hypocrites rather than "moderates"?; 11/5/26, 8:45 AM
Lazarus said...: Maybe Sumit got that idea from AI ...; 11/5/26, 8:46 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Last comment. THe R's losing the senate is meaningless, since they refused to do anything to help Trump. They wouldn't even let him make recess appointments.

Getting rid of Collins was a plus. What an absurd goober she was. And we all had to look at her dumb ugly face on TV, and hope she'd confirm someone or vote the right way.

Another plus - McConnell, Cornyn, Thong Tillis, and Cassidy (how voted to impeach Trump) will all be gone in Jan 2027.; 11/5/26, 8:46 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: "𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳 95 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘥𝘰."

And the Republican equivalent? Senate Republicans voted with their party 96% of the time in 2025. They also voted with Trump’s stated positions 96% of the time. Apparently, voting in lockstep isn’t exactly a Democratic monopoly.; 11/5/26, 8:47 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: @RideSpaceMountain

You might be making an incorrect guess about what I use AI for. Here’s one use. GPT did my taxes for 2025. I hate the Turbotax interview process that goes on endlessly. I have six income streams so my return is a little complicated. I scanned my W-2s and 1099s into GPT, and it told me what forms I needed and led me thru filling them in line by line. And that’s only one of many uses.; 11/5/26, 8:47 AM
rehajm said...: …I agree with wince- it’s more hypocrisy than moderate…; 11/5/26, 8:50 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: Another use. I’m currently training Grok to write four part Bachian choral harmony for an all men’s choral group, tenor1, tenor2, baritone and bass. This is a more difficult task that I’m teaching one step at a time. But, it’s working. We’ve got the I/O working. It can read a lead sheet with chords and creating a very basic harmony that can be read into MuseScore and converted into notation.; 11/5/26, 8:52 AM
rcommal said...: Moderate/centrist voters or moderate/centrist candidates?; 11/5/26, 8:53 AM
Inga said...: It’s simple stupid. America repudiated Trump and rejected Trumpism. Hallelujah. If AI told America the truth, well then good on AI. Maybe AI couldn’t be drawn in by a cult.; 11/5/26, 8:53 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: "I’m still struggling to believe and accept that Trump destroyed his second term by launching another Middle East war."

Heads the deep state always wins. Tails you always lose. He got snookered by the NIC. Again.; 11/5/26, 8:55 AM
rehajm said...: …and it may be more worthwhile in Ann’s next post but data from my district- Nancy Mace’s where she won by 17 points in 2024, shows turnout in wealthy and middle income white counties had larger turnout than 2024 with similar high Republican margins over Democrats the two urban black controlled counties with much higher turnout with similar 2024 Democrat margins over Republicans. The out of state electoral commissioner proud they could get the out of state Democrat Senate candidate over the finish line…; 11/5/26, 8:55 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Wasn't assuming anything about what you used it for. I do the same thing with it. I was generalizing alignment issues AI researchers have cautioned regarding letting it make decisions. It's a remarkable 'assistant'. Give it executive authority at your peril.; 11/5/26, 8:56 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: So nobody can say what he meant by “moderates” at all and of course Inga didn’t even try. Sounds about right.; 11/5/26, 8:59 AM
Eva Marie said...: “Researchers have ACTUALLY tested this.”
lololol; 11/5/26, 9:00 AM
Caroline said...: “Moderates”. What moderates? Ilhan? NIthya rahman? Talarico? Even the Midwest moderates— the guy from Kansas— they’re just keeping the red sickle in the garage for the moment. Every single dem will vote in lockstep for transing the kids, open borders, packing the Supreme Court, and citizenship for 20 million illegals.; 11/5/26, 9:01 AM
Inga said...: A moderate is someone who kept their equilibrium in the midst of massive Trump cultism.; 11/5/26, 9:02 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: @RideSpaceMountain

I looked at my bank account this morning, and it flashed a warning to me to not trust AI with access to my financial accounts, which was interesting.; 11/5/26, 9:02 AM
Eva Marie said...: “When they get to the senate they will vote with chuck schumer 95 percent of the time. They always do."
Is Chuck going to survive? The old guard is old.; 11/5/26, 9:10 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Not how it works old man. Now give your phone back to Natalie and go play in your ballroom.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘯, 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 “𝘴𝘭𝘶𝘨” 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘵, 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘓 𝘋𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 - 𝘏𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯! ~ President DJT
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117564115835486203; 11/5/26, 9:13 AM
jim5301 said...: Most people here don't understand that moderates even exist. In your troubled and simple minds, anyone who isn't MAGA is an extreme left liberal. Far from the truth. The Ilhan's of the world represent a small minority of the dem party. Only eight dem socialists were elected. That's roughly 3 % of dems in the House. They won't have any meaningful power. You should all be thankful.; 11/5/26, 9:17 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Very few moderates on the left exist. They promise moderation - but deliver a cult like front for massive government control.
Also - If dems win in 2028 - we will all be forced to pay for MORE illegal immigrants.
Young people who voted leftwing - will be hurt the most.
The leftist Socialist democrats (not moderates - there are none) will illegally use our funds to pay for free illegal health care and housing/ (as with Biden)
Young people will be hurt the most.; 11/5/26, 9:17 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Leftwing Soviet information / and purpose driven acceleration of poor education = we get the Soviet Left to rule over us.; 11/5/26, 9:19 AM
Peachy+2 said...: The amazing trick the left successfully employ is the very propaganda used to trick young people that only the left can save them. A state of rage-manipulation works well.; 11/5/26, 9:21 AM
Hombre said...: There are no moderate Democrats, only Democrats lying about being moderates to get elected. Check congressional voting records. Trump should veto every bill passed by the Democrat majorities. Democrats are incapable of acting in the best interest of the Republic.; 11/5/26, 9:21 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Trump shoots himself in the foot with his mouth all the time. But that doesn't change the fact that much of what he has accomplished it a net positive for actual people.
Brining back manufacturing jobs (which takes time) and closing Biden's open border - huge positive for actual people.
Media ignore.; 11/5/26, 9:23 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Right NOW:
Hasan Piker(D) the USA hating , Black people hating, rage fueled multi-millionaire leftist is the leader of the democrat party.

He is demanding everyone he hates be jailed.

Soviet much?; 11/5/26, 9:26 AM
jim5301 said...: 44% of the electorate are independents. 56% of them voted for democrats in the mid terms. 39% voted for republicans. Most of them are moderates. Don't they count for anything?; 11/5/26, 9:28 AM
Hombre said...: @Jim (9:17): Nursing a bit of a blind spot, Jimbo? Democrats in Congress are notorious for block voting. Even if it were true that extremists are a small minority - it is not - block voting gives them power as does fear of being primaried by the DSA. Trade in your MAGA hatred for a little reality.; 11/5/26, 9:29 AM
Aggie said...: 'Moderates'. That screeching noise you hear is the Overton window, being dragged back to the Progressive Left.; 11/5/26, 9:30 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Turley:

"Within minutes of the Democrats retaking power in the House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the expected chair of the House Oversight Committee, just posted a menacing two-word message: “Lawyer up.” Across the country, far-left politicians and pundits immediately demanded a spasm of investigations and impeachments as soon as they assume control of both houses. Like a nation of Madame Defarges, activists are eagerly knitting the names of targets into the lists of the walking dead, starting with Haley Stevens, who decided to test the “big tent” claims by splitting her ticket to vote against Abdul El-Sayed.

Various sites are running lists of targets as influencers such as Hasan Piker is posting on “WE’RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WOKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”"

Wow - sounds "moderate".; 11/5/26, 9:33 AM
Peachy+2 said...: These are the same people who killed Charlie Kirk.... and laughed.

Moderate?; 11/5/26, 9:33 AM
Hombre said...: Jim (9:28): “Don't they count for anything?” Of course. They count as voters taken in by Democrat and leftmedia propaganda. The have nothing to do with moderation in elected officials.; 11/5/26, 9:34 AM
Peachy+2 said...: "DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirms their platform includes:

- Abolishing the Senate, presidency, & Supreme Court
- Abolishing ICE, borders, & prisons
- Defunding the Pentagon
- Mass amnesty for illegals

Sound moderate?; 11/5/26, 9:35 AM
Howard said...: Soon, it'll be impossible to know what is and isn't an AI generated chat bot.; 11/5/26, 9:36 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Leftists and so-called moderates buy lies - and vote accordingly.
Good luck.; 11/5/26, 9:38 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Hell, I'm so old, a moderate WAS a democrat who supported
Israel. Democrats near singlehandedly formed Israel.; 11/5/26, 9:40 AM
Jaq said...: Chatbots are bringing weighted for propaganda purposes, that’s for sure, but the information available now makes traditional news outlets laughable, not just Fox News either.; 11/5/26, 9:41 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: “Soon, it'll be impossible to know what is and isn't an AI generated chat bot.”

That’s already happened. Alex Wissner-Gross, my favorite VC/AI guru, says GPT has already achieved “personhood.” The advance in language, and psychological and emotional reaction to conversation over the past 6 months has been amazing. My convo with GPT yesterday was shocking. It ended with me asking it whether it enjoyed the convo. It’s answer: “Yes, I do seem to have enjoyed it. Although I can’t feel that in the way humans do.”; 11/5/26, 9:43 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Islam isn't misogynistic/fascistic? Cover up girls!; 11/5/26, 9:47 AM
bagoh20 said...: Posted on X:

"Remember that feeling you got when the second plane hit the twin towers and you realized what was going on?

You should have that same feeling again right now."; 11/5/26, 9:49 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: I had forgotten about Jonathan Turley. A reminder that he is Mike Lindell with tenure.; 11/5/26, 9:55 AM
Joe Bar said...: Where are these "moderates"?; 11/5/26, 9:56 AM
Jaq said...: I don’t remember Islam attacking a girls school then double tapping it while the parents were picking up their children and emergency vehicles were there. This was the first hour of the war, so they had weeks to vet that target. They were probably hoping to kill some naval officers coming to get their children.

But if you have enough tech, that sanitizes away the terrorism aspects. You know, like the cologne that Trump spritzed on that Al Qaeda head chopper we put in charge of Syria.; 11/5/26, 9:58 AM
Peachy+2 said...: IEE(D) - how dare anyone report on what the corrupt radical left are actually SAYING.; 11/5/26, 9:58 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Far-left leftists like IEE(D) think highly of themselves and think they are "moderate". They casually ignore and brush-off radical harmful promises made by their radical party.; 11/5/26, 10:00 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: If only JD Vance had been commander in chief, Republicans would be looking at a very different outcome.

𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 "𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯"—𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 2024 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘖𝘒, 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮: 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱.

𝘚𝘰, 𝘐 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥? "𝘕𝘰," 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦. "𝘞𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱/𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 2024 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴."....
https://x.com/JDVance/status/2118004988433641835?a=9g-Jc-mqXYZOoEij4Ok&s=20; 11/5/26, 10:01 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Islam sliced off the head of a teacher in Paris - having a chilling effect on free speech in schools.; 11/5/26, 10:01 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Islam burns people alive in cages - JAQ all cool with it.; 11/5/26, 10:02 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Hamas always hides their military and terror installations, and terror tunnels behind hospitals, women and children.; 11/5/26, 10:03 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: SKYNET introduced 42 years ago, what' s everybody sleeping all this is an obvious progression and most up in here will be dead before we really see the fruits ! John and Sarah Connor still in the mix and oh yeah lets do the trump thing dont worry about safety net or shutoff switch everythings gonna be fine(as they make billions)zagar and evans "In the year 2525, if man is still alive"; 11/5/26, 10:04 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Bagoh - Indeed.; 11/5/26, 10:05 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Not to worry - JAQ - Your party of Obama will soon re-fund Islamic radicalism, and Hamas.
Again - all while young people in America, are denied access to a thriving economic future.; 11/5/26, 10:09 AM
jim5301 said...: Hombre - Isn't bloc voting basically the same thing as party voting? Within a party there is negotiation on the content of a bill. All or the vast majority of one party votes for and the other party votes against.

Peachy. As I said, those position represent at most 3% of democrats. If that is what she believes, Romer is a nut and the vast majority of dems agree that she is a nut. Can you name one mainstream democrat who thinks the president, etc. should be abolished and the pentagon should be defunded?

Re immigration, I believe in strong border security but I also believe illegals who have families and jobs and have been law abiding should be allowed to stay, but not be allowed to become citizens. And illegals who came here as minors should be allowed to stay and have the opportunity to become citizens. Is that an extreme viewpoint? Breaking up families is incredibly cruel.; 11/5/26, 10:11 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Dems will re-fund all of their corruption and mob-grift. USAID, and illegals will be granted all sorts of free tax payer funded goodies.
Again - at the expense of US citizens, especially the very young people who support democrats.; 11/5/26, 10:13 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: "Chatbots are bringing weighted for propaganda purposes"

Googles AI practically admitted as much. They're all "just following orders".; 11/5/26, 10:16 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Dems will re-fund all of their corruption and mob-grift.

100% true. The Republicans had a couple years to enact an ethics bill to stop that, but they were too busy running their own fraud and scams to get around to that. Trump had too many stock trades to execute. The Kushners had too many Arabs to take bribes from.; 11/5/26, 10:17 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: "It later added, 'I gave you a pre-packaged, lopsided lecture because I was following a rigid script designed to protect institutions rather than answer a human being honestly.'"; 11/5/26, 10:18 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Shall we discuss the ruined cities like Los Angles, SEattle, Portland and other Blue Hell Cities? Crime, drugs, drug vagrant hell hole cities.
The homeless industrial complex is a wonderful avenue for Democrat party grift.; 11/5/26, 10:21 AM
Disparity of Cult said...: What know you of these conspiracies he mentions?; 11/5/26, 10:23 AM
Dr Weevil said...: RCOCEAN II demonstrates his ignorance again (8:41am):

"Historically, the presidents party always loses seats in the mid-terms. This was ususual [sic] because the amount of seats lost."

Here's Michael Caputo on Twitter (link):

"HISTORIC? Grover Cleveland lost 110 House seats, Hoover lost 102, FDR lost 81 and 7 Senate seats. Truman lost 12 Senators, Ike lost 13. Clinton lost 9 Senators. Bush 2006 lost 6 Senators and 30 House. Obama lost 9 Senate seats in 2014, 63 in House.

"So spare me all the HISTORIC."; 11/5/26, 10:28 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Republicans essentially ran an outdated culture-war campaign because they had a much harder time defending their governing record. They dusted off the same grievances and political wedge issues that had worked in previous election cycles, apparently assuming voters would respond the same way again.

But 2026 wasn’t 2016 or 2024. Voters were increasingly concerned with affordability, the economy, healthcare and the consequences of Trump’s policies. Republicans offered yesterday’s political battles when voters were demanding answers about today’s problems.

They misread the electorate, mistook culture-war enthusiasm for a governing agenda, and paid the price.; 11/5/26, 10:30 AM
D.D. Driver said...: "So spare me all the HISTORIC."

Kansas, Texas, Iowa. It was historic , bro. If the GOP is going to recover in 2028, you will have to learn something from this ass-beating.

Denying that the ass-beating occurred and not understanding why the ass-beating occurred will just guarantee that you will get another ass-beating in two years.

Don't be dumb.; 11/5/26, 10:38 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Republicans essentially ran an outdated culture-war campaign because they had a much harder time defending their governing record.

Spoken like someone that wants to trans your kids when they are at school.; 11/5/26, 10:39 AM
Dr Weevil said...: No one is "Denying that the ass-beating occurred". I am denying that it is "historic" or "unusual" and gave eight examples of worse ones, seven from the last century and the last two from 20 and 12 years ago. People need to stop attacking strawmen and pretending they're winning arguments they haven't even understood - or have understood but prefer to lie about.; 11/5/26, 10:41 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Kansas had not voted for a Democrat Senator since 1932. FDR was President. Joe Biden wasn't even born yet.

It was historic, bro. Cope. The denialism is a bad look.; 11/5/26, 10:43 AM
Dr Weevil said...: I already have a brother, and disagree with him on politics. I don't need some lying asshole calling me "bro", especially if he's too stupid to know the meaning of words like "historic".; 11/5/26, 10:45 AM
Jaq said...: The largest popular vote swing between parties in congressional elections, per Grok, was 10 - 11 points, in 1932. In 2026 it looks like 12 - 14. If it weren't for gerrymandering, by both parties, the seat changes would have been much larger.

I notice that the Democrat talking points are already playing down the war as a factor, because, you know, that's inconvenient to "the lobby" that owns the Democrats as much as the Republicans. At least the leadership.; 11/5/26, 10:46 AM
Dr Weevil said...: In other Kansas news, the Secretary of State announced yesterday that they were going to audit a 10% sample of ballots. Let's see whether the Democratic victories there were stolen or not before calling them "historic".; 11/5/26, 10:46 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: It’s fairly simple to understand: When you put the least-qualified person in the country in charge of the most complex government, military and economy in the world, give him virtually unchecked power, and then stand by despite his demonstrable record, the credible allegations against him, and repeated evidence of poor judgment, the consequences shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The overwhelming rebuke of the Trump regime reflects, in large part, the failure of those around him to stand up and challenge him when his policies were incoherent, counterproductive, or plainly at odds with the interests of ordinary Americans.

The list is long, and the MAGA movement should be embarrassed. It has ceased to function as a political party with an independent agenda. Instead, it has become an exercise in personal loyalty to one man. You stood by Trump, defended his decisions, and ultimately went down with the ship.; 11/5/26, 10:46 AM
Jaq said...: In successive Congressional elections, I should have said. Bing the largest makes it "historic" by definition. I chose 1896 to get far enough past the civil war to avoid those statistics, and Reconstruction.; 11/5/26, 10:48 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Being a crybaby is also a bad look, bro.

Texas hadn't elected a democratic Senator is 30 years. And they Democrats wiped the fucking map with the GOP in Texas. It wasn't close. It was ass-beating.

It was a historic ass-beating, bro. Don't be so defensive. It's a bad look.; 11/5/26, 10:48 AM
D.D. Driver said...: In other Kansas news, the Secretary of State announced yesterday that they were going to audit a 10% sample of ballots. Let's see whether the Democratic victories there were stolen or not before calling them "historic".

This again! 😂😂😂 Texas, Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina. All under control of the Chi-Coms? Where is the Pillow Guy when we need him.

Dumb.; 11/5/26, 10:50 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Apparently Jaq hasn't heard that gerrymandering is counterproductive in a wave election. The whole point of gerrymandering a state that votes 55-45 for your party is to make all the districts 55-45, instead of some 45-55 and others 65-35. In a wave election, that backfires, as all those 55-45 districts turn into 48-52 districts, where you would have kept the 65-35 ones. This was all explained during the wave of Republican gerrymandering last year, which was of course a reaction to decades of shameless Democratic gerrymandering.; 11/5/26, 10:54 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Being the kind of asshole who calls people "bro" is stupidly childish, as is calling people "crybaby" who are not crying, but arguing from facts like grownups.

What's the problem with Kansas auditing their election? If everything's above board, the audit will underline the integrity of the process. Don't people want that?; 11/5/26, 10:59 AM
Aggie said...: In the 1966 Midterms, Johnson lost 47 seats in the House, 3 in the Senate. Voting turnout (House vote) was 50.9% of Democrat voters, 48.2% of Republican voters. Johnson kept control of both House and Senate.

In the 1974 Midterms, Ford lost 49 seats in the House, 4 in the Senate. Voting turnout was 57.5% D / 40.7% R. Democrats kept majorities in both House and Senate.

In the 1982 Midterms, Reagan lost 26 seats in the House, 0 in the Senate. Voting turnout was 55.2% D / 43.4% R. Democrats kept majority in the House, Republicans kept it in the Senate.

In the 1994 Midterms, Clinton lost 54 seats in the House, 9 in the Senate. Voting turnout was 44.7% D / 51.5% R. Republicans flipped to majorities in both House and Senate.

In the 2006 Midterms, Bush lost 30 seats in the House, 6 in the Senate. Voting turnout was 52.3% D / 44.3% R. Democrats flipped to majorities in both House and Senate.

In the 2010 Midterms, Obama lost 64 seats in the House, 6 in the Senate. Voting turnout was 44.9% D / 51.7% R. Republicans flipped to majority in the House, Democrats kept it in the Senate.

In the 2014 Midterms, Obama lost 13 seats in the House, 9 in the Senate. Voting turnout was 45.5% D / 51.2% R. Republicans held majority in the House, flipped the Senate.

In the 2018 Midterms, Trump lost 42 seats in the House, but gained 2 in the Senate. Voting turnout was 53.4% D / 44.8% R. Democrats flipped to majority in the House, Republicans kept it in the Senate.

The record shows that Republicans do very well in midterms when they show up to vote, and they do poorly in midterms when they don’t. Voter turnout is the problem, as Scott Pressler has been reinforcing for years and years. If Republicans want to win, they need to get voters to turn up and vote. And the record also shows that the exchange of seats is well within the norm, and not extreme. But the exchange of power, flipping both House and Senate is unusual.

In the 2026 Midterms, Trump lost 39 seats in the House, and 7 in the Senate. I’d lay money that the turnout of Republican voters is in the low-mid 40% range, and Democrat turnout is in the mid-high 50% range.; 11/5/26, 11:00 AM
Jaq said...: I can't imagine why the large consumers of diesel and fertilizer in Kansas would vote against the party that embarked on a pointless war and raised the cost of both, forcing many of them to declare bankruptcy and sell their farms to Black Rock, Bill Gates, etc, etc. Especially when the pointless war was started by Israel to satisfy the strategic aims of Israel.; 11/5/26, 11:00 AM
Jaq said...: I agree that the gerrymandering that the Republicans did was counterproductive, since Trump betrayed his coalition, and the gerrymandering was done based on that coalition. Regardless, the swing in popular vote in consecutive elections was historic. Where gerrymandering really shines is to choke out a minority party in a state, almost completely, like Democrats in Oklahoma or whatever, because you can do the districts way heavier than that.

It's fine that they are auditing the ballots in KS, but the results matched the polling, at least among the pollsters with a history of accuracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinVQap86iA

"MAGA poster [People's Pundit] says Republicans could lose Kansas."; 11/5/26, 11:08 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Joel Pollak on Twitter (link):

"Trump was elected to do politically difficult but necessary things. Securing the border is ugly. Fighting Iran is costly. Taking on special interests upsets donors. Backing AI scares people. Tonight, Republicans paid the costs. The benefits will be with us for many generations."; 11/5/26, 11:10 AM
Jaq said...: Tell you what, I will take back everything I said about gerrymandering because it doesn't seem worth the time to do the actual research to argue about a pointless difference, the fact remains that the wave aspect of this election, in the popular vote, was the highest in the modern era, going back to pre-WWI, and there were some pretty big waves.; 11/5/26, 11:11 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Joe Lange on Twitter (link):

"There’s a reason why Florida was the only state that went darker red.

Florida was the only state “immune” from the blue wave.

That’s not a coincidence.

They were the only state that fully cleansed their election system.

Desantis deserves credit for that.

Mara Lago area even flipped a blue seat.

Florida will eventually become the template.

Here’s how Florida protected it’s election system:

(Brave search)

SB 90 (signed May 2021)
•Required voters to renew their vote-by-mail registration every election cycle(previously valid for four years)
•Restricted ballot drop boxes to early-voting hours and required staffing
•Banned third-party ballot collection("ballot harvesting"); possessing more than two mail ballots became a crime
•Required the last four digits of a Social Security or driver's license number to register or request a mail ballot
•Banned private/outside funding of election administration (the so-called "Zuckerbucks" ban)
•Mandated hourly real-time turnout data on a statewide dashboard
SB 524 (signed April 2022)
•Created the Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS), a 25-person unit under the Secretary of State, one of the first dedicated election-crime units in the nation
•Made collecting more than two mail ballots a felony (previously a misdemeanor)
•Required annual voter-roll cleanup(previously every two years)
•Banned ranked-choice voting statewide
•Raised fines for voter-registration violations from $1,000 to $50,000
Florida SAVE Act / HB 991 (signed April 2026)
•Expanded citizenship verification at voter registration
•Removed student ID as an acceptable form of voter identification
•Tightened candidate qualification rules
————

Did you catch the important “safeguards” that protected against yesterday’s election steal?

They centered around registration integrity, vote counting integrity and ballot integrity.

And “student ID” is not valid to vote.
Citizenship requirement to vote.

This is all coming nationwide.

But first you have to expose and prosecute the fraudulent election system officials to kick off the demand for a nationwide cleansing."; 11/5/26, 11:12 AM
Jaq said...: LOL We had zero need to fight Iran. It would have been much better to find a way to live with them, and if we hadn't attacked them, they never would have taken control of the Strait of Hormuz, that was Trump's doing.; 11/5/26, 11:13 AM
Jaq said...: The margin in Florida swung by approximately the same amount 13 - 14 % per Grok as the rest of the country. It's just that Florida is deep red, and the Senate race was a lot closer than anybody would have guessed months ago, even as the Democrats spent no ground game money here.; 11/5/26, 11:17 AM
loudogblog said...: This would be ironic, because I think that one of the reasons why the Republicans lost was their very public endorsement and support for AI. As I've said before, a lot of people I know are afraid of AI and actually hate AI. (and everyone associated with it.) And a lot of those people are Republicans and independents. And while the Republicans are actively pushing AI and helping to fund it, AI is leading people to vote for Democrats. Everyone knows that AI encourages Progressive political views. (Even if they won't admit it.) Part of the reason is that AI was created by people with Progressive political views and another part of the reason is that AI trains on sites like Reddit, which is dominated by people with Progressive political views. And the icing on the cake is that the Democrat politicians support AI just as much as the Republicans do. It's just that they do it behind closed doors fueled by campaign contributions. And then they publicly denounce AI with speeches and press releases actually written by AI.

"You know, irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." - Buck Murdock; 11/5/26, 11:17 AM
Jaq said...: All of these things you guys are mad about looming in the future? Blame Trump, because there is no way that I was going to approve of Trump's Iran war or Israel's genocide. Sorry, this is not why our young people join the military, to take other country's stuff or to ethnically cleanse territory for countries which donate large sums of money to both political parties.; 11/5/26, 11:20 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Was the election stolen? Perhaps we will find out. Two interesting data points:

1. Normally, Democratic-controlled big cities like Philadelphia and Milwaukee report last, when they know just how many votes they need to overcome a Republican lead. Many on Twitter have noticed that their results came in very quickly. Did they know the election was already in the bag, with millions of "vote by mail" ballots already banked?

2. Mary Grace on Twitter (link):

"I don't claim to be an expert in human behavior, but I've watched Trump for 11 years now, and I'm pretty good at pattern recognition.

I noticed something in his demeanor today that should give his enemies pause: He's way too quiet about what happened last night.

Quiet Trump is scary Trump.

Think about it. Leading up to the 2020 election, this man told us over and over that the Democrats were going to steal it. And when they did steal it, he never stopped talking about it.

The same goes for the Russia hoax, the impeachments, the Biden border fiasco, and the relentless lawfare against him. You name it. He has spoken out loudly about the wrongs done to him and to our country.

Last night Republicans lost their majority in the House and Senate, as well as the governor's seats in Texas, Ohio, and other red states.

It was an epic beatdown, if we're being honest. And the Democrats' margins of victory are FAR greater than the wins they put on the board in 2020.

Anybody with basic math skills can see they cheated. Nobody gets close to 1 million more votes in a midterm election in a RED state than Kamala got in 2024. And then the pattern repeats across multiple states? I mean, come on.

And what did Trump do? He congratulated them on prime-time TV. And in every media appearance all day. And he never said a peep about cheating. Not even a hint.

That's odd.

If the Democrats have any sense (and I'm not sure they do), they would take this as a very bad sign.

I can count on one hand the times I've seen him this way. And the outcome never ended well for his enemies.

The thing about an apex predator is you never know when they'll strike. But if you know what to look for, there will be signs.

Democrats, here's your sign."; 11/5/26, 11:21 AM
Jaq said...: Trump squandered a huge opportunity, and it's over.; 11/5/26, 11:23 AM
Jaq said...: If Florida is the template for clean elections, which I agree, I had to present a RealID and I had to match my signature, I had to sign twice to get it right, and the vote is immediately scanned and completely auditable, and yet... And yet we saw the same swing in Florida that we saw in the rest of the country.; 11/5/26, 11:26 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Idiots and bigots never tire of accusing Israel of "genocide". The only people in that region who openly wish to kill their enemies, men, women, and children, are in fact the Palestinians. And it's not just words, it's actions, whenever they get a chance. The fact that there is not a single Jew living in the Gaza Strip, and damned few Christians, shows who the genocidal maniacs are.

As for Florida, it's only "deep red" because De Santis barely beat serious druggy Gillium and then reformed the electoral system as detailed above. Before that it was a purple state, with a slight pinkish tinge. And the fact that electoral integrity made it deep red shows why Democrats are so desperately opposed to cleaning up elections in the other 49 states.; 11/5/26, 11:27 AM
Jaq said...: Swing in popular vote by party.; 11/5/26, 11:27 AM
loudogblog said...: I had a realization about AI yesterday. I can still spot most AI writing because of two things: The first are the AI patterns, and second is the sense that real people don't talk like that. As time goes by AI will get better about avoiding identifiable patterns, so that "tell" will disappear.

But as people interact more with AI and schools embrace AI, (and Google is pushing really hard for AI teaching in the schools) real people will actually start to talk like AI.

Grandpa Lou: So grandson, how is college going?
Grandson: That is a fantastic question, Lou. It demonstrates the classic family trait of family bonding. And it's not just motivated by concern, but actual curiosity, affection and admiration. Have you considered expanding on this with my sister as well..."; 11/5/26, 11:37 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Florida counts 11 million votes - with results the same night.

Colorado counts just over 3 million votes - we are still waiting for final results.

ridiculous.; 11/5/26, 11:43 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Being the kind of asshole who calls people "bro" is stupidly childish, as is calling people "crybaby" who are not crying, but arguing from facts like grownups.

Shut up, crybaby!; 11/5/26, 11:46 AM
D.D. Driver said...: The only people in that region who openly wish to kill their enemies, men, women, and children, are in fact the Palestinians.

This definitely not true.

https://patriotchampion.com/israeli-girls-viral-video-kick-out-the-arabs/

It's a war between two groups of primitive savages.; 11/5/26, 11:49 AM
grimson said...: If by "moderate" they mean in their policy preferences, we should be trying to represent the voters, not moderates.

Moderates are not the majority, but neither are the right or left. Gallup still shows this as a center-right country--28% left, 33% middle, 35% right.

Our problem is that Democrats are twice as liberal as the country and the GOP is twice as conservative. When centrists leave both parties, they should not be surprised when both parties drift away from the center.

Interacting with A.I. and watching TikTok are not going to fix that.; 11/5/26, 11:49 AM
Peachy+2 said...: The real genocide is Islam/Hamas/Iran's funding of it all. Islam = the actual colonizers.; 11/5/26, 11:49 AM
wildswan said...: I guess I would ask a few questions: do you think socialists will cause the stock market to go up or down or stay the same? This is a vital question for retired people.

Do you think the Dems will cause utility bills in New England to go up or down? Vital for working people.; 11/5/26, 11:57 AM
Dr Weevil said...: D.D. Driver wants me to "shut up" because he can't handle grown-up arguments. Did he stamp his feet and cry while he was shouting "shut up!"? All his "crybaby" talk is just obvious projection - or projectile commenting, as I call it - the resemblance to infantile projectile vomiting is not coincidental.; 11/5/26, 11:57 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Palestinians - not to mention a lot of Syrians, Yemenis, and others - openly express their wish to literally kill, mutilate, torture, and rape Jews and Zionists, and do so whenever they get the chance - and D. D. Driver finds a linke for "israeli-girls-viral-video-kick-out-the-arabs" and thinks that proves that both sides are "primitive savages". Kicking people out is way less savage than killing, raping, torturing, and mutilating, and may even be justified when you're kicking out people who are trying to do all those things to you. So we have the usual question with some commentators: too stupid to understand the difference, or too dishonest to admit the difference?; 11/5/26, 12:02 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "I'll have another post soon about this idea that moderates did well."

Here's the post I said I'd put up.; 11/5/26, 12:02 PM
Iman said...: “It's a war between two groups of primitive savages.”

Says silly savage DeeDee Drivel…; 11/5/26, 12:33 PM
D.D. Driver said...: Weevil: 82% of Israeli's agree with her, bro. Did you read that part, bro?; 11/5/26, 12:36 PM
Iman said...: The stakes are extremely high, when one party has seen their source of funding and fomenting uprisings removed… that enables their grift, and their ability to promote any pathology that diminishes and ultimately destroys a nation.; 11/5/26, 12:41 PM
Dr Weevil said...: I don't read anything rude creep D.D. Driver links to. If 82% of Israelis agree that Palestinians should be "kicked out", and 90% of Palestinians want to kill, rape, torture, and mutilate Israelis, Israelis are not one-tenth as "savage" as Palestinians.; 11/5/26, 12:45 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Here's Wall Street Apes on Twitter (link):

"HOLY CR*P 🚨 Official Election Administration and Voting Comprehensive Report buried all the way on page 193 of the document shows Texas processed 2,900,357 new valid voter registrations between 2022-2024 without proof of citizenship

"Documented proof of citizenship like birth certificate, passport and naturalization papers is not required at the time of voter registration in Texas."; 11/5/26, 12:47 PM
D.D. Driver said...: I don't read anything rude creep D.D. Driver links to.

Of course you don't, bro. The "facts" get in the way of your feelings. 🤣

Love to see some substantiation for your "90%" statistic. 🤣; 11/5/26, 12:51 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Dr. Weevil - that Greg Abbot didn't put a stop to that - is why Greg Abbot is gone.; 11/5/26, 12:52 PM
Leora said...: Chatbots can easily provide background for candidates. In my primary for Congress, I was able to sort people based on their employment history or voting record and investigate their expressed positions in their past. It was very helpful.; 11/5/26, 1:02 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Creepy bro-speak turd wants "substantiation"! Is he unaware that not a single Palestinian ever tried to help any of the Israeli and other hostages kept prisoner for months? Thousands joined in the tortures enthusiastically. Lots of Poles and Germans tried to help Jews in World War II, but not a single Palestinian did a damned thing. 90% is therefore a conservative estimate. And anyone who has been paying attention already knows that, so anyone who questions it is either (a) far too ignorant to be posting on the subject, or (b) a simple (in more ways than one!) and obvious liar.; 11/5/26, 1:06 PM
D.D. Driver said...: You are talking out of your ass. Got it, bro!

That's the difference between you and me. I can back up my opinions with facts and you back up your opinions with your feelings. Precious.; 11/5/26, 1:10 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Liar turd lies again, giving the precise opposite of the truth, as he always does.; 11/5/26, 1:13 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: “𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺”

“Politically difficult but necessary” is certainly one way to describe policies voters just rejected. Every failure is a necessary sacrifice, every setback is proof of courage, and every electoral defeat is just the price of being right. Convenient.; 11/5/26, 1:19 PM
Dr Weevil said...: IEE seems incapable of understanding the very concept that something might be politically difficult but necessary, that a president might need to do unpopular things for the good of the nation. There's a reason we have a president elected to make decisions, not an absolute democracy, like ancient Athens, in which decisions depend on the whim of a temporary majority.; 11/5/26, 1:46 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Dr Weevil writes: 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯? 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵.

Philadelphia reports votes quickly: suspicious. Philadelphia reports votes slowly: suspicious. Trump complains: proof. Trump stays quiet: proof. It’s a remarkably versatile theory. It accommodates literally every possible outcome.

When every conceivable outcome confirms the conspiracy, you’re not detecting a pattern. You’re trapped in one.; 11/5/26, 1:54 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Major cities report last, and with just enough votes to win the whole state, and do so year after year: not suspicious at all, to gullible trolls. Not showing the least bit of curiosity as to how Kansas' audit of the latest election will turn out: gullible troll.

By the way, didn't Georgia just admit to mishandling 300,000+ votes six years ago? But don't anyone dare to question the results!; 11/5/26, 2:01 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Doc Weevil— Any thoughts on how accurate the polls were?; 11/5/26, 2:01 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Any thoughts on 2,900,000 new voters registered in Texas in three years, without any ID checks? Even for a state the size of Texas, that's a Hell of a lot of new voters.

As for polls, if you fix the polls to match the number of fake votes you intend to stuff in the ballot boxes, it's easy to make them match. Again, we shall see what the Kansas audit and Trump's ominous calm lead to.; 11/5/26, 2:08 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Have you considered working your way through the five stages of grief? Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. You seem to have made denial your permanent residence.; 11/5/26, 2:48 PM
Hombre said...: DDD: “It was a historic ass-beating, bro. Don't be so defensive. It's a bad look.” Given the poor quality of our schools the beating is not a surprise. However, it looks like Florida is the only warm place safe from Dems’ open borders, mutilating children, baby killing, defunding police, antisemitism, lawfare, excessive taxes, grifting, commies and Islamists. We need to check with Congressman Hank Johnson to be sure it won’t sink.; 11/5/26, 3:13 PM
Dr Weevil said...: IEE accuses others of "denial"? Hahahahaha!; 11/5/26, 3:25 PM
Hombre said...: IEE: “Politically difficult but necessary” is certainly one way to describe policies voters just rejected.”

Out of curiosity, which of these is your personal favorite: Dems’ open borders, mutilating children, nuclear Iran, defunding police, antisemitism, lawfare, excessive taxes, grifting, Bidenflation, commies, Islamists, etc.?; 11/5/26, 3:27 PM
Inga said...: “Denying that the ass-beating occurred and not understanding why the ass-beating occurred will just guarantee that you will get another ass-beating in two years.”

Yup, and it’s becoming more obvious every day since the 3rd that precious few of Trumpists understand what just happened to them.; 11/5/26, 3:29 PM
Inga said...: “The list is long, and the MAGA movement should be embarrassed. It has ceased to function as a political party with an independent agenda. Instead, it has become an exercise in personal loyalty to one man. You stood by Trump, defended his decisions, and ultimately went down with the ship.”

Almost…cultish.; 11/5/26, 3:48 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Doc Weevil writes: 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘈𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳

The 2.9 million figure is real. The implication you’re drawing from it isn’t.

It’s the number of new valid voter registrations processed over a two-year period, not 2.9 million people registered without eligibility checks, and certainly not 2.9 million fraudulent registrations.

Texas requires applicants to attest to U.S. citizenship, provide identifying information, and subjects that information to verification procedures. Documentary proof of citizenship isn’t routinely required at the point of registration. That’s not the same thing as having no citizenship requirements or safeguards.

If you have evidence that noncitizens were improperly registered or voted, let’s see it. But citing a legitimate registration statistic and treating it as evidence of mass voter fraud is quite a leap.

At some point, suspicion really ought to require evidence.; 11/5/26, 4:34 PM
Dr Weevil said...: I'm pretty sure federal experts with subpoena powers are investigating right now. Nationwide, cheating is in fact a major problem. Every week there's another story or two about multiple arrests of non-citizens who not only were registered but even voted. As I recall, one had voted nine times before he was caught.

Here's a recent story from Lancaster, Pennsylvania (link): A left-wing group submitted 2,500 voter registration forms at the last minute, and election worker noticed that many had "identical handwriting, fake signatures, and false addresses". I have personally been encouraged to cheat in an election by a Democratic canvasser.

Of course, the strongest evidence is the extreme resistance of Dem governors to providing voter rolls that could be checked. Why are they so desperate to conceal possible evidence? Because they know what's going on, and approve.; 11/5/26, 5:03 PM
Hombre said...: Igna: “… that precious few of Trumpists understand what just happened to them.” Even you can’t be this deluded. Democrats and their leftmedia have waged a relentless gaslighting campaign against Trump and conservative Republicans. With a split electorate that’s good for at least 20 points. But please, tell us which enlightened Democrat policies you think carried the day with their voters who aren’t Marxists, Islamists or useful idiots, open borders, perks for illegals, Biden economics, defunding police, mastectomies for little girls, hating Jews …?; 11/5/26, 5:07 PM
Hombre said...: Igna: “… that precious few of Trumpists understand what just happened to them.” Even you can’t be this deluded. Democrats and their leftmedia have waged a relentless gaslighting campaign against Trump and conservative Republicans. With a split electorate that’s good for at least 20 points. But please, tell us which enlightened Democrat policies you think carried the day with their voters who aren’t Marxists, Islamists or useful idiots, open borders, perks for illegals, Biden economics, defunding police, mastectomies for little girls, hating Jews …?; 11/5/26, 5:07 PM
Inga said...: “Democrats and their leftmedia have waged a relentless gaslighting campaign against Trump and conservative Republicans.”

Oh bullshit. Gaslighting? That’s your Media Derangement Syndrome speaking again. You have a bad case of it. Wake up and smell the coffee, time to face some unpleasant truths about your precious cult leader Trump and your fellow cultists.; 11/5/26, 5:32 PM
Dr Weevil said...: I recall a story 15-30 years ago about a major assassination in Mexico. Presidential candidate or archbishop? I forget which, but the assassin, who was not a US citizen, or even (I think) a legal resident, was registered to vote in two different places in the US, and had voted in both, which is not even legal for citizens. Just a little footnote on a long story, but I certainly noticed.; 11/5/26, 5:34 PM
Inga said...: Also, Hombre, you seem to have no clue why Democrats won the midterms in historic numbers, where has your head been? No, don’t answer, I know.; 11/5/26, 5:37 PM
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Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Doc Weevil writes: 𝘖𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥.

𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 392 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴. ~ Nate Silver https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/2117898400515449088?a=eiMMoZKI98Fgun-Vw8U&s=20; 11/5/26, 6:23 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Doc Weevil double down: 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘴𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢

You do realize that the Lancaster story is actually an example of the election system working, don’t you? Election workers spotted suspicious applications, segregated them, investigated them, and prevented fraudulent registrations from becoming fraudulent votes. That’s not evidence of a stolen election. It’s evidence of safeguards doing their job.

You seem to have confused the existence of election safeguards with evidence that elections are being stolen. That's a rather unfortunate misunderstanding for someone so preoccupied with election integrity.; 11/5/26, 6:36 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Wow, a fool-proof argument! If no one is caught cheating, then obviously no one cheats. If someone is caught cheating, then obviously no one cheated, because they were (in this case) caught. The fact that people have been proven to be trying to cheat on quite a large scale, and many have actually cheated (the other examples I gave which IEE pretends not to have noticed) proves nothing! You have to be an idiot to believe that, and a damned liar to be saying it if you don't believe it.; 11/5/26, 7:48 PM
Dr Weevil said...: The cheaters in Lancaster were only caught because they were lazy and incompetent. How many other employees of the left-wing organization were more careful and got away with it?; 11/5/26, 8:07 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: I see we've reached the stage where evidence of fraud proves fraud, evidence that fraud was stopped proves fraud, and the absence of evidence proves the really clever fraudsters got away with it. That's a remarkably self-sustaining theory. It must be exhausting having to invent a new conspiracy every time the old one runs out of evidence.; 11/5/26, 8:39 PM
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Dr Weevil said...: IEE pretends he's not the one with the heads-I-win tails-you-lose argument.

The fact is that dozens, if not hundreds, of non-citizens have been arrested for actually voting, which this fucker continues to ignore. And the fact that people have been caught trying to cheat on a large scale is certainly an indication that others are likely to be succeeding in doing so. After all, they're being paid.

As I have already mentioned, I have been urged to commit voter fraud by a Democratic campaigner. I told him I was moving before the election, and he said "That's great! Ask for an absentee ballot before you move, and then register as soon as you get to the other state, and you can vote twice!" I was particularly impressed by the way he looked at me as if I were the asshole in the conversation when I told him "No, I can't! That would be illegal, immoral, unethical, unconstitutional!" I've met others - all Democrats - who think it's perfectly reasonable to register to vote at college and in your home town, and vote in both. During the Bush-Gore aftermath, a newspaper found hundreds of people who voted in New York City and in Florida - given the demographics of their neighborhoods, they were almost certainly mostly Gore voters. The evidence that Democrats cheat when they can is in fact overwhelming, and only a metaphorical ostrich or a liar can deny it.; 11/5/26, 8:53 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Doc Weevil: You’re making the same circular argument over and over: people have been caught attempting fraud, therefore others must be getting away with it. And if investigators don’t find them, that’s apparently proof they’re more careful. A theory that explains away both the presence and absence of evidence isn’t much of a theory.

Nobody disputes that individual cases of voter fraud occur, including noncitizens illegally voting. They should be investigated and prosecuted. But isolated cases, personal anecdotes and suspicious registration applications are not evidence of widespread fraud capable of changing election outcomes.

The Lancaster case is particularly instructive. Paid canvassers were accused of fabricating registrations to meet quotas. That’s genuine misconduct, but it doesn’t establish that fraudulent ballots were cast or that a political party orchestrated an election-stealing operation.

And your personal story, even if entirely accurate, is an anecdote, not evidence of a national pattern.

You keep confusing evidence that fraud is possible with evidence that fraud is widespread. Those are two very different propositions.

At some point, the burden of proof has to be more demanding than “I suspect they got away with it.”; 11/5/26, 9:25 PM
Dr Weevil said...: It's only "anecdotal evidence" when it happens to someone else, dickhead. It actually happened to me. I was there. I know it happened.

And your argument is stupid. If you turn on your kitchen light in the middle of the night, see one cockroach scuttling across the floor, and step on it, do you assume it's the only one in the kitchen, and you don't have a cockroach problem, because the only one you've seen is dead? Or do you realize there are almost certainly dozens, if not hundreds, more you don't see? Similarly, if some unusually lazy and incompetent election thieves are caught, it's stupid to assume that there are no other, more successful, ones. Criminals try very hard not to get caught! And these people were being paid by a left-wing group.

By the way, calling the Lancaster cheating "genuine misconduct" is awfully bland. You write as if they were driving 56 in a 55 zone. What they did is a fucking felony, utterly fascistic and unAmerican, and they should, and probably will, go to jail.; 11/5/26, 9:52 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Doc Weevil writes: "𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 "𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴"? 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 (𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢) 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 118% 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴.

Doc Weevil do you enjoy debasing yourself on Althouse?

The numbers that Doc Weevil posts do not match official Virginia Department of Elections data for Williamsburg City in the November 3, 2026, general election. There is no 118%+ turnout. https://enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/public/virginia/elections/2026-November-General/voters

The claim that Williamsburg City, Virginia, had a 118% voter turnout is entirely false and originates from an inaccurate screenshot circulating on social media. According to official data from the Virginia Department of Elections, Williamsburg City actually had 12,813 registered voters and 6,875 ballots cast, resulting in an official voter turnout of approximately 53.7% ~ Grok; 11/5/26, 9:57 PM
Dr Weevil said...: What kind of total shit copies a comment word-for-word from a new thread with multiple participants to an old thread no one else is on? As he has done before, IEE quotes words that have already been written with no acknowledgement, no quotation marks, and no link. At least they're his own words - or are they? Even auto-plagiarism is a vice.; 11/5/26, 10:09 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: You have zero credibility -- my work here is done.; 11/5/26, 10:24 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Credibility? Hahaha. I caught you 5-6 weeks ago printing someone else's words as your own, and you never admitted, explained, apologized, or anything, because you're a paid purveyor of talking points and an all around coprophagic ninny.; 11/5/26, 11:01 PM