November 6, 2026
We've put our two immediate 2026 Election Post Mortems, but we'll need a trailing thread as there's going to be a boatload of things coming.
One thing that already has come is new voters entered the voting scene in spades. The tyranny of the Boomers at the polls has ended. The youngest voters in this election were born in 2007 and they are pissed off. They don't admire their great grandparents in the Boomer generation (or in many cases, their great great grandparents) and they don't think the Boomers saved the world for civilization. They think the Boomers destroyed things for them.
They have good reason to think that.
For that reason, renewed dire warnings from politicians like Ron Johnson that "the Commies" are coming don't mean anything to them. Socialism? They aren't afraid of it.
For that reason, look for an early effort to bring in Medicaid for all. The Republican demographic already on Medicaid will oppose it.
The country is getting national healthcare. If not in 2027, then in 2029.
But we're seeing the revival of conservative Democrats, which actually isn't inconsistent with what we've noted above. The incoming Democratic 120th Congress will have 22 members in the Blue Dog Caucus.
Blue Dog Democrats, conservatives, were considered dead and buried in the pet cemetery. The festering stench of the dying and dead GOP caused, however, a revival. As already noted, the incoming 120th Congress has a couple of real red blooded Americans in it, so to speak.
Democratic Congressman from Montana, Sam Forstag, a smoke jumper. By Conorhogan16 - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=194696290Our neighbor to the North, Montana, is sending a Democratic smoke jumper to Congress, whereas we're sending a man who couldn't even muster up the traditional photo on a horse propaganda. Alaska is sending a woman who was a commercial fisherman to the Senate whereas we're sending a woman who just likes to sound like an old harpie. The darling of the far right in the election, Becky Bextel, spent he first part of her campaign bragging about the size of her presumably imaginary testicals.
Alaska Senator, Mary Peltola.Geez louise, we've become a bunch of candy ass wimps.
Add to that a logger who booted out Susan Collins in Maine.
Also add to that a collection of senior military officers including Eileen Laubacher, who replaced Lauren Boebert.
The fact of the matter is that Wyoming now has a real cadre of wimps and oddballs in D.C. John Barrasso rose all the way to Majority Whip. My guess his days of being useful to the GOP are over. He won't run again, and he shouldn't. He's as old as dirt now. Hageman is just going to be malignant, a bit of her specialty. Chuck, well who knows. He probably hoped that his beloved, Donald Trump, would pick him for something.
Anyhow:
Wyoming Republicans strike defiant tone as Democratic sweep of Congress ushers in a new era
Senior Justice Department official Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office, and oversaw investigations into universities, voter rolls and alleged violations of religious freedom, bolted.
That's interesting. She surely has a reason to be doing so.
Rumors have it that Pete Hegseth is going to get fired. If that's the case, it has to happen soon as once the 120th Congress is seated, no new Secretary of Defense, and that's what it will be, not Secretary of War, will be confirmed.
One thing we're seeing big time now is Donald Trump's mental decline. As we noted yesterday:
Donald Trump is fading fast.Frankly, he's becoming a child and is playing with his binkies.
We're likely to see more and more of this. People like Paula White and Franklin Graham aside, Trump has no real concept of religion and probably figures that any immortality he can obtain has to be in stone. He's desperate to be remembered. He'll become more and more fixated on this.
Indeed, fwiw, I've noticed this in older people who lack a concept of the existential. Some physical thing, or a business, becomes their "legacy".
Trump, deep down, know that his legacy is a vile one. Everything associated with this administration, including the ballroom and the arch, if its built, and the gilded crap will be tossed out like the trash of an all night party on Epstein Island, and smell just as bad. . .a and weird. He can't accept that.
He'll get worse.
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Ted, who of course is from Texas which saw a major Democratic insurgency:
I will say to every elected Republican: We need to listen to what the voters' said, listen to their frustration, and be working to lower gas prices, food prices, interest rates. Help people succeed and provide for their families.
Ted Cruz.
Cruz showed signs of breaking away the last several months. Now he's openly doing so. He's also campaigning for 2028.
Hageman goes into the Senate as a freshman Senator and will receive an assignment to the toilet bowl committee. She's not going to achieve squat for at least four years.
She also posted this screed somewhere on social media:
The people of Wyoming have hired me to do a new job. I am grateful, and I will not let you down.
Four years ago, you gave me the honor and responsibility that go with serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have worked hard every day to defend your Constitutional rights and look out for your interests in every way possible. I will now move across the Capitol to the Senate, where I will again put my shoulder to the wheel and be the champion Wyoming wants in Washington, D.C.
We are about to engage in a battle for the future of this nation, and as we all recognize, the looming fight with the left is about much more than just policy differences. It’s about the very survival of this country as it has been and as we know it. Are we a capitalist nation, or will we slide precipitously into communism? The left hates our founding principles of freedom, just as they hate our strength and prosperity. A strong United States of America embarrasses them, so they aim to tear it all down. And I aim to stand in their way.
We must keep taxes low, prioritize defending property rights, and produce as much domestic energy as we can. We must protect our borders and enforce immigration laws for those already inside the country. We must aggressively defend freedom and capitalism, or the rabid left and their weak dupes in the Democratic Party will usher in soul-crushing communism.
Wyoming has a great deal at stake in the coming years as we know the forces of the left will stop at nothing to prevent us from safely accessing our own natural resources. Wyoming leads the nation in coal production, has the most uranium reserves, and is prominent in oil and natural gas as well. We must defend America’s energy independence and block all efforts to punish the lawful production of domestic energy. Not only does our economy depend on it, so does the very existence of the United States of America.
As always, I am grateful to President Trump for his continued support. I thank our two current U.S. Senators, Sen. John Barrasso and Sen. Cynthia Lummis, whose retirement was the only reason I decided to run for this seat. And, most of all, I thank the people of Wyoming.
I can’t wait to join the Republicans in the Senate in January to fight these battles ahead.
This puts Hageman back into the liar category. The Democrats are not communists and she knows it.
What she might not know is that capitalism is not part of the American political and economic heritage. It was heavily disfavored in the early republic and should be now, with true free markets being favored.
An increasingly interesting aspect of the last election:
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I should probably make it a seperate thread, but the meaning of Stephen Miller being appointed Chief of Staff cannot be underestimated.
Democrats don't have six weeks to come up with a plan to address Trump. And Republicans who wish to save themselves better do it right now.
A couple of views, but which I think miss what's about to occur.
Führerbunker time
Stephen Miller Will Drag the GOP Further Into the Electoral Abyss
We don't know what happened in the White House in the immediate aftermath of the election. Trump seemed at first to accept it, and he hasn't said that he hasn't. Susie Wiles was let go very quickly however. We know that there's some discussion of letting Hegseth go, and we know that Hegseth is going to be impeached come the 120th Congress.
But we're not in the 120th Congress. The 119th is still in session.
Trump is obsessed with his legacy and fears it'll be torn down. And for good reason, it will be. Come the next two years, and the advance of old age and dementia will contract that two years, Trump will try to rule through executive order and ignoring the law. The bloom is coming off that rose, however. The Democrats know they can't let him do that and will do everything they can, much of it in the courts, to keep that from happen.
What Trump really has is the next six weeks.
In the next six weeks Trump is going to do everything possible to cement a far right legacy that he himself probably doesn't believe in, but which has become, in his narrow minded way of thinking, the only legacy he has. A more intelligent person would try to be like Truman, and turn a mid term defeat into a sort of victory by adjusting to the circumstances.
He's not that smart.
And he doesn't have that much time either.
There are persistent rumors about his health, and his mind is clearly going.
The first effort along these lines was are on his binkies, the ballroom and the gilded crap in the Oval Office. Trump can't believe that anyone following him would tear the ballroom down (which is exactly why it needs to be). This is why, the day after the election, he's out signing the binkie. After he's dead, he thinks, people will look at the binkie and love him. Indeed, his declining number of fans keep repeating the "it'll be there for future presidents" line.
No, it won't. Trump has made it so it cannot be.
Same with the gold crap. Trump signed an order which he believes will preserve it for the future in its current form.
That didn't work for Grand Staircase Escalante, did it?
These are minor things, as they're easy to reverse. What's coming in the next six weeks won't be.
It should be clear that Trump is, at this point, Miller's vehicle as much as Miller is Trump's. Miller has a far right wing agenda. Of all the people in the administration, he is by far the most fascist. All evidence is that he's a genuine fascist as well, not one of convenience.
Over the next six weeks we're going to see a hardcore push on the wackiest of Trump ideas. New tariffs will come in. Real hostility will develop on foreign nations. The US will sell Ukraine down the river. We might invade Cuba.
Why?
Because there's only six weeks to do it and this is what the far right in Trump's orbit wants. If we betray Ukraine, that'll be hard to fix. If we invade Cuba, we're in a war in Cuba. If we impose new tariffs it will take weeks to unring that bell.
It's their last chance.
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