If he wins, this has to go down as one of the best political ads of all time.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 5, 2026
I made a "Scott Colom" tag, so that means I think he's going to win. But it's very close. See "A Viral Ad and a Trump Rally Visit Helped a Democrat Compete in Mississippi/Scott Colom, a Democrat, ran a viral ad and courted Republicans at a Trump rally before winning virtually the same number of votes as Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican" (NYT).
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She's a terrible candidate.
Cindy's current protein is foot-in-mouth.
We're fighting another war in the Middle East rubes. Ask not what protein you'd prefer but what other proteins you can pick for pete's sake!
RideSpaceMountain said...
"We're fighting another war in the Middle East rubes."
Exactly, which is why the public eating of Pork as a loyalty test is needed. I got your protein...right here! Eat my Pork Sausage.
The internet was not able to tell me when food people starting saying protein when they mean meat but the internet was able to tell me that "the shift is tied to the late 20th‑century rise of protein‑focused nutrition science, fitness culture, and industry menu language."
Of course Colom wins. It's two days after, and too close to call. In what should statistically/randomly be a 50/50 prop, the Dems win in this scenario nine times out of ten. So they take Alaska as well.
I'm stupified that the stock market took a day to figure out what this means for the economy. Absent Data Center investment, and related AI projects, there is no growth in this economy, and the election just quashed AI investment. Buyers remorse starts kicking in when the November 401k statements arrive, if not before.
Has Kalshi opened betting on the end of the Filibuster ? My over/under is by March 2027.
@baghdadbob, eating a bacon double cheeseburger would make an excellent test for US citizenship.
She is right of course. But her job isn't dispensing nutritional advice, it's running government.
Beef prices are high partially because of the high cost of inputs, which she and her colleagues could have averted but reining in Trump a year ago.
@baghdadbob, eating a bacon double cheeseburger would make an excellent test for US citizenship.
Now who is antisemitic? 😬 We are doing this shit now?
Protein supplements have doubled in price due to so many on GLP-1s taking them to avoid muscle loss. The Biden administration started the herd drawdown, and higher prices are hard for ranchers to resist sending cows to market now.
Republicans did an awful job of messaging, but the oil price runup ruined their chance to run on cheap dino energy, something the Dems haven't wanted for decades when there's so much wind and sun power to grift virtuously.
That was a really dumb thing to say. You vote for a politician because you think that they will solve your problems, not just tell people "that's just the way it is. Deal with it."
Remember kids, lying is an essential skill that must be mastered to be a successful politician.
2024 -Trump got 750 thousand votes in Mississippi. 2026- This chick gets 460 thousand. 2026 Democrat Colm and 2024 Harris about the same. 469 thousand.
Of course x percent switched their votes. But mostly, the Republicans didnt show up, and the D's did.
Ralph L said...
"Protein supplements have doubled in price due to so many on GLP-1s taking them to avoid muscle loss."
They're also putting protein in everything. I was in the store a few weeks ago and they had a display up front for Cheez-its with PROTEIN! Seriously. Cheez-its.
Hyde-smith was another weak Republican incumbent who was originally appointed to the Senate in 2018. She was a former Democrat and not particululary popular. She under-performed Trump in 2020 by 6 points.
She was invisible in the Senate. I don't even remember her seeing her name in news.
The Democrat who won in 2026, actually got 100,000 fewer votes than the Democrat who lost to Hyde-Smith in 2020. Bottom line is that Republicans just didn't care enough to come out and vote for her. And who can blame them? She was a nothing-burger who supported Thune and McConnell.
I must say that while I like beef best, Chicken, pork, and fish are good too. We usually only have beef 3 days a week, not because we cant afford it, but because we like to mix it up.
LOL. Here's Susan Collins on why she lost. Of course, it was all trump's fault:
"I was caught up in the Trump tsunami that swept away many incumbent Republican senators who have served their states well for many years and really care about our country.”
“Everybody ignores the fact that I voted to convict him in the second impeachment trial. What bigger break could there be? It is never enough. I want results and they want angry rhetoric.” Collins told The New York Times.
Sads. Her Democrat voters in Maine wanted red meat and angry attacks on Trump.
People should try more mutton, goat, and lamb. Far too underappreciated, and I picked up a preference for it in all my travels. But if you're in the levant looking for lamb, just make sure you're careful in your selection. Just like olive oil, there's "virgin" and "not" virgin.
BTW, The Republican big donors tried to save her. Her campaign spent 21million dollars, and outside PAC's spent $130 million.
I wonder what Hyde-Smith could have done with 130 million? Probably win. Or Marshall in Kansas.
Antisemitic?! Nah. Anti-picky? You betcha! I'm not a culinary philistine and I don't want anti-epicureans in my country.
At least she wasn't drunk.
“Pick another protein.”
“Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.”
When your party sounds exactly like Jimmy Carter you deserve to lose elections.
“Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.”
When someone posts irrelevant shit I think they done lost their damn mind.
“When someone p̶o̶s̶t̶s̶ says irrelevant shit I think they done lost their damn mind.”
That’s exactly what I thought when I heard Trump say it.
Being a MS resident, and a republican by nature (sic), I couldn't bring myself to vote for Cindy. Honestly, I'm tired of the Trump 24/7 from the Democrats and Trump feeding them. It'll be more of the same over the next few years.
Colom's subtext: I'm not one of those New York liberals who doesn't know how to grill a cheeseburger.
How hard is it to convey your awareness of the problem and then state the things you are doing to make things better? Republicans got too cocky and too dismissive of the kind of complaints that had got them elected to begin with. "Suck it up and quit complaining" didn't get Trump and the Republicans elected in 2016 or 2024 and it wasn't going to win them votes this year.
We've been eating ground turkey instead of beef for about 6 months. The ad is Trumpy. I might have voted for him myself it's that good.
That ad is fantastic! Also the best comment here is: "Cindy's current protein is foot-in-mouth" haha
BLUE MISSISSIPPI way to go Don the whole country wants you gone and take MAGA with you please thank you!
doesn't yet look like the AI horse broke down on the backstretch. It looks more like Wall Street suddenly looked up at the tote board and said, "Wait a minute... are we making this horse go off at 1-5 when maybe it should be 5-2?"
The next few weeks are all about whether the AI story regains momentum or whether the crowd finally decides the favorite was overbet
tech stock runaway (and take Musk with you) This doesn't yet look like the AI horse broke down on the backstretch. It looks more like Wall Street suddenly looked up at the tote board and said, "Wait a minute... are we making this horse go off at 1-5 when maybe it should be 5-2?" Yeah maybe we'll get a stop button put on? The next few weeks are all about whether the AI story regains momentum or whether the crowd finally decides the favorite was overbet , gonna get nowhere betting chalk/ To bad MAGAS didnt know how to handicap a race, they could have come into reality for a moment. Its like RECOVERY,,ya gotta want it! Now big $$$ saying quick grab the baby.....
Yesterday was a relief rally when MAGA accepted the outcome and didn't call for armed response to a stolen election. Today was back to fundamentals.
I'm curious as to what the Democrats are proposing to do about the price of beef.
The price of eggs seems to have fixed itself. It was apparently Trump's fault that the price of eggs went up. Then it went down, apparently without Trump doing anything.
Is it a senator's job to control beef prices?
Pick another protein seems like good advice--unless you are stupid enough to pay $20lb while complaining that the price is too high.
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