The 2025 Midterms. For the GOP it's June, 1944 and the choices couldn't be more clear.

Yesterday's' election made it clear.

Yesterday, November 4,2025, was metaphorically D-Day, June 6, 1944.  The forces that will destroy you are now present on all flanks. They're on the ground to your south, to your east, and now to your west, and you cannot stop them.

Those who are not besotted by Der Führer know this.  Indeed, they know that the leader is mentally unstable and in irreversible physical decline.  He is, quite frankly, mad and getting worse.  He's surrounded, of course, by seemingly loyal lieutenants. . . not all of whom are really loyal . . . or seem to be.

You can read the situation.  He never had the majority of force, only temporary advantage brought on by shock.  You went along as it seemed that he'd bring along constative values with him.  Because he seemed to do that, even while leading an immoral life and surrounding himself with immoral men, you tolerated deep immoralities, including extra judicial killings and racist round ups.  This seemed to be the price you had to pay, temporarily, in order to restore true conservatism to the country.

But it went too far, and it got too weird, and you were in too deep to do anything about it.  You know that.  You watched him decline into illegality and insanity, and stood by as it got worse and worse.

But you can still save yourself, and your movement.

He had sworn an oath.  He was a Roman Catholic.  He knew the leader was immoral.  He knew the country was committing deeply immoral acts.  He served his country's efforts anyway until the raving madness of Der Führer reached the point where he could not ignore it.  The situation isn't the same, except perhaps metaphorically, in that there is a Roman Catholic, who has taken an oath, who is serving his country, and knows that what is occuring deeply wrong and that the Leader is mad.  He could use, with help, the 25th Amendment.

That will involve deploying something that you never thought you'd see used, and you have to do it.  Some of you on the inside, who are not members of the MAGA SA, have to deploy the 25th Amendment before it's too late.  You can't wait until the Red Army is in Berlin . . . or the mushroom cloud is over the Korean Peninsula, or protestors are shot dead in Portland, or mayor and governors arrested simply for being opponents.

If you do it soon, you have a chance, but by this point only a chance, of making peace with the overwhelming force of the electorate.  If you do that now, or very soon, you can keep on with a conservative government, but not one that is outright insane.  You might be regarded as heroes.  You might save many of your members from November 2026.  You can still make an impact on the country.  

And you might, just might, avoid bloodshed in American streets, or foreign dead from an illegally provoked war, perhaps a nuclear one.

Or, you can decide that Loyalty is Your Honor and go down in complete and utter defeat in November 2026 while your increasingly demented leader rants and decides that you failed, as you weren't sufficiently loyal to him.

Indeed, that's already started, hasn't it? The wild party with barely clad young women, the sycophantic adoration sessions, the purges of the less than loyal.

And, too, the wise are leaving, aren't they?

The 25th Amendment was for the rare and extraordinary.  You know the leader is mad.  You know that this is going to take conservatism down.  You know is madness is resulting in death.  You know that you can act.

His madness is unfortunately not out of the ordinarily for the elderly, which he is.  But to have somebody in such a state of mental decline in power, and grasping for absolute power, is.  He's sick, getting sicker, and seeks complete control.

Will you, to your difficult credit, act to uphold your sworn oaths to the country, and save the nation from a demented autocrat whose decline gets worse every day, or will you abstain and simply try to take the last plane out of Berlin?

2025 Off Year US Elections

They can be, sometimes, an indicator of things to come.

June 25, 2025

New York City Mayoral Race

Progressive Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Primary.  

Mamdani, who immigrated with his parents as a child from Uganda to the US, is a self declared democratic socialist.  He's a Shi'a Muslim. All of these things are setting off the populist far right.

Curtis Sliwa, founder of Guardian Angels, won the Republican primary for New York City mayor, but was unopposed.  He stands no chancing of winning the general election.

September 22, 2025

Texas

Texas has an election this year, and it includes a bunch of ballot propositions, which are:

• Proposition 1 (SJR 59): Texas State Technical College funding
• Proposition 2 (SJR 18): Capital gains tax ban
• Proposition 3 (SJR 5): Bail reform
• Proposition 4 (HJR 7): Water infrastructure funding
• Proposition 5 (HJR 99): Tax exemption on animal feed
• Proposition 6 (HJR 4): Securities tax ban
• Proposition 7 (HJR 133): Tax exemption for veterans’ spouses
• Proposition 8 (HJR 2): Inheritance tax ban
• Proposition 9 (HJR 1): Inventory and equipment tax exemption
• Proposition 10 (SJR 84): Tax exemption for homes destroyed by fire
• Proposition 11 (SJR 85): School tax exemption for the elderly or disabled homeowners
• Proposition 12 (SJR 27): Changing the State Judicial Conduct Commission
• Proposition 13 (SJR 2): Increased school tax exemption for homeowners
• Proposition 14 (SJR 3): Funding for dementia research and prevention
• Proposition 15 (SJR 34): Codifying parental rights
• Proposition 16 (SJR 37): Clarifying citizenship requirement for voters
• Proposition 17 (HJR 34): Property tax exemption for border security infrastructure

November 4, 2025

The kiss of death:

And so the demented New York octogenarian made it clear to thousands that they were going to vote for New York Democratic Socialist Mamdani.

New York has actually had a prior Democratic Socialist Mayor, David Dinkins, who served from 1990 to 1993.  Trump made minor contributions to the Dinkin's election campaign and reelection campaign, the latter of which failed.  The current mayor of Cheektowaga, New York, Brian Nowak, is a Democratic Socialist.

Trump made another post last night:

Early indications are that this election is going to be an utter disaster for the Republican Party, setting up a potential disaster next year, and causing those who wish to evade disaster to potentially start moving away from MAGA now.

Prop 50 will be on California's ballot, which may end up countering the anti Democratic moves of the Texas legislature.

Cont:

New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani won the race for Mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim to occupy that position, and the first Democratic Socialist since Dinkens to occupy it.

It's a generational change with Mamdani defeating two elderly opponents.

It's an important mayoral seat, but nobody who has occupied it has ever been President, and for the most part, its occupants do not rise further in politics.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger took the Virginia Governor's race, causing it to go from Republican to Democratic control.  She's the first female governor of Virginia.  Democrat Mikie Sherill took the Governor's race in New Jersey.

Democrats are going to take Texas' 18th Congressional District, Houston, but they already held that.

Proposition 50 passed in California.

The Democrats won everywhere they were running.  It's a dope slap in the face for Donald Trump.

November 5, 2025

So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.

Zohran Mamdani.

Cont:

A race we weren't following was that for Virginian AG. T he race was won by Jay Jones.  Jones made headline news because some absolutely horrible things he said about another member of Virginia's legislature came to light.  They were awful.

Jones beat the Republican incumbent  Miyares, which suggest a pretty significant move away from the GOP in Virginia.  Jones is a practicing African American Catholic, which is interesting in various ways.

Notable in the races last night Hispanics began to pull away from the GOP.  Catholics had been attracted to the Republican Party for various reasons that I've noted here on numerous occasions, the principal one being that they're social conservatives as a rule.  The interesting thing here is that the GOP, which only recently attracted them, has treated them much like the Democratic Party treated ethnic minorities, which is to say to ignore them and more particularly, to offend them.  Merely being Hispanic is putting people in the target zone for ICE and the GOP has broken out into outright open feuds of race recently, with some figures in the pundit class being openly racist.  

This gets back for a moment to noting that Jones is a Catholic.  The populist far right is strongly Evangelical, and Evangelicalism has attracted a lot of American Hispanics.  But the nature of the Evangelicalism and MAGA has not been sorted out and now, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the pot is really boiling.  Quite a few on the populist far right have barely hidden contempt for women working, which most Hispanic women have to do by default.  Some MAGA pundits are openly racist with Nick Fuentes now openly going after J. D. Vance, a Catholic married to an Indian, on the basis that he's a "race mixer".

This doesn't explain last night's results overall, but it fits into it.  The price of things, a major factor in Trump's win, is now starting to be a major factor in a retreat from the GOP.  The brutality and lawlessness of the Trump administration is disgusting many people. The outright stupidity of some the things the Trump Administration says is taking a toll.  The Government shutdown is being blamed, rightfully, on the Republican Party.

The 2026 election is a long ways off but so far the Administration and MAGA's reaction to everything is to double down on it.  That probably won't change, but what might is the extent to which Republicans who don't have to go down with the ship begin to abandon it. Some already have.  Marjorie Taylor Green, who was a MAGA fanatic, now is an opponent, for example. Thune is suddenly, as of yesterday, sounding more moderate.

But you can't moderate a demented narcissist surrounded by sycophants.

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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 106th Edition A series of Zeitgeist predictions about New York City.

Mamdani is obviously going to win.

Republicans will freak out.  

Mike "Smarmy Smile" Johnson will be in full bullshit mode for weeks.  "I'm not keeping the House in perpetual recess because I'm afraid of the Epstein files but because a Communist Marxist Islamist has been elected to Mayor in New York and that means that we can't look at the Epstein files".  

Trump will wax poetic, "My Mommy, that's what I call him, mommy. . . I loved my mommy, she was from Scotland, where they invented golf.  Are we in Mar A Lago, no, well, the Communists, Marxists, Monarchical Islamist don't want me to build a ballroom, that's because they can't dance and their legs are thin. The Wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful things tops are made out of rubber their bottoms are made out of springs Their bouncey, trouncey, ouncey, pouncey fun, fun, fun, fun, fun But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one. Tiggers are cuddily fellows Tiggers are awfully sweet everyone el'es is jealous That's why I repeat and repeat The wonderful thing about Tiggers Is Tiggers are marvelous chaps They're loaded with vim and vigor they love to leap in your laps They're jumpy, bumpy, clumpy, thumpy fun fun fun fun fun But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers Is I'm the only one I-I-I'm the only...-oof Ouch.  I've decided to kill the entire population of South America. . . "

John Thune will say something, with an earnest looking John Barrasso behind him, but nobody will remember what it was, as nobody was paying attention to him to start with.

And then a weird thing will happen.

Mamdani will probably govern more or less from the center, as he'll have to, which is likely to make his administration a success.

Which is the biggest Republican nightmare of all.

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This one should be short.  I'm very tired, and I'm in a bad/despondent mood.  Nonetheless. . . 

Some observations.

Mike Johnson, toady.

Mike Johnson is a complete toady . I don't know how he can stand himself.  Those interviews with his little shit eating smirk in which he spouts lies. . . uff.

Johnson claims to be a Christian.  He claims to be a Southern Baptists, and perhaps he is, but he seems to solidly be in the New Apostolic Reformation camp, and if I had to guess, he feels that lying to the heathens is justified if it brings about an Evangelical Republic.  That view wouldn't be sanctioned by the views of most branches of Christianity.

Johnson is going to be remembered as one of the worst Speakers in American history due to his complete toadyism.  He probably figures he'll be exalted for helping to bring about an Evangelical republic.

People who accuse others of being a Communist should be forced to live in a Communist country.

Johnson is one of those people who now run around calling the Democrats Communists, or Marxists.  They are not, and its totally absurd.  It's particularly absurd coming from a camp that is completely fascistic in real terms.

Johnson should be required to live in North Korea for a decade so he can learn what a Communist actually is.

Freaking out about New York

Part of the reason the "Marxist" term is getting thrown around is because Zohran Kwame Mamdani is about to be elected the Mayor of New York City.

Mamdani is a Democrat but he's also a Democratic Socialist.  He's an observant Muslim and a member of the political far left, which is something that can only really happen in a Western country.

New York City has always been a Democratic stronghold.  There are some Republican New Yorkers who are well known to history, such as Theodore Roosevelt, but the city's connection with the Democratic Party is very strong historically  That shows in this race as the Republican candidate is Curtis Sliwa, who has less than zero chance of taking the office.  Democrat Andrew Cuomo is running as an independent after having already lost to Mamdani in the primary.  His chances are obviously very poor.

Oh well.  

Bernie Sanders is also a democratic socialist and the country back in the past had some outright Socialist hold high office.  All the bedwetting by the GOP is just stupid, but stupidity is really setting in around Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is truly weird.

The entire administration's desperate struggle to slander the No Kings rallies over the weekends really declined into the absurd.  The weirdest thing was a completely juvenile AI depiction of a King Trump dumping shit on No Kings protestors.  It's the sort of bathroom humor that juvenile boys like.

Juvenility is increasingly a hallmark of the Trump administration as his acolytes grasp on to his descent into dementia.  The thing is, however, the blind refusal to face reality and invoke the 25th Amendment means that the country has been, by this time, almost completely destroyed as a serious entity.  We will not rapidly recover from Trump, if we ever do.

Trump supporters dismiss all of this as "that's just his style" or as TDS.  Derangement is the key word.  Trump is increasingly deranged.

Gaza

Among the weird claims that Trump keeps making, I'd note is that he's ended eight wars.

The one war he might be able to claim he ended, the one in Gaza, seems to be teetering on the edge of a resumption of fighting.  Added to that, quite frankly, there's no way whatsoever that Hamas is going to lay down arms.  None.

If the peace is to hold, Gaza will need to be rebuilt as it's destroyed at practically a Hiroshima level, employment found for its people, which has never existed, and a real government put in place.  It's not impossible, but nearly so.

Covert Operations

The Administration has authorized covert operations in Venezuela, which makes them non covert.  Anyhow, our "peace president" is waging a small war against a foreign power illegally.

And its been revealed by the New York Times that during Trump's first term an attempt was made to insert Navy Seals into North Korea to plant a listening device. The mission went wrong as it encountered North Korean fishermen, all of whom were killed.

The details of this are unclear, but basically, that's murder unless its a case of mistaken identity.

In the Special Ops community the Seals are getting a bad reputation.

What is in those files?

Donald Trump last Friday called for Rep. Thomas Massie to be "thrown out" of Congress "ASAP".

Isn't that interesting?

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