On the one hand, it's encouraging to see batshit crazy Republicans losing these down-ballot elections. OTOH, if these wins truly indicate a rising trend against GOP candidates in 2026, I fear it may make it more likely for them to go along with any Trump plan to cancel the mid-terms altogether.
Fun facts: she was the longest serving GOP mayor and sent out mailers last week that were cartoonishly evil. Some people are saying those mailers convinced them to get out and vote against her.
She went negative after the campaign’s had been positive. We decided it was time to move on (she has done a lot for Omaha while mayor but John Ewing has been a positive influence for a long time).
Sorry to threadjck, but Pete Buttigieg blew his response in the Iowa Town Hall. When asked about the SAVE Act, mention it disenfranchises ALL whose birth certificate doesn't match the legal name! It's women, trans, other marriages where there's been a legal name change. Pete needs to do better.
At last..a dem with common sense. Where someone pees or what sex they are, are meaningless next to voter suppression, constitutional law, judicial system, elections, local state control. If these aren’t in place first, working on other issues are totally useless.
That’s what happened to our mayor of Rockwall Texas. He Invented a “sure thing” problem, then tried to pass a bill to ban trans people from bathrooms. Even the very very very red county rejected his proposal. He lost the next election. Conservative business owners said it would cost them too much.
Exactly they want stuff done substantially that has never truley been fixed HEALTHCARE , Wages, Rx problem, SS,MEDICARE, corporate gouging, massive political contributions, wallstreet reform, the list goes on !
Stothert, the incumbent mayor, was pushing an unpopular streetcar initiative. Almost every republican that they polled said they voted against Stothert because they hated the streetcar crap.
There was a twelve year stretch between Carter and Clinton, too. This does let mean anything. Until upper-middle-class whites vote Democrat all the way down the ticket and do it consistently, we're still in hot water.
We can't have uppity white folks chasing lying scumbags like Bernie Sanders and AOC, who confirm people's ignorance if we want to get this country back on track.
@georgetakei.bsky.social Bingo.
The takeaway is that the Rs' anti-trans bigotry is NOT popular.
It LOST them an election... in red Nebraska.
Creaky Dem party leaders, some of whom now feel we need to turn anti-trans to be popular, are very wrong.
Rights for *all* should *always* be our motto.
Stothert sounds like she's been drinking Elon Spaceboy kool-aid, to go after 5 trans-athletes in ALL of America.! Ya have to be a MEAN ASS slag to try to perpetuate hate against 5 innocent people. to her-- you lose, good day sir!!
Mean Jean barely lived in Omaha. She spent most of her time in St. Louis with her new husband and never seemed to be here when shit was going down. She was a terrible mayor and she will not be missed, by sane Omahans that is. Congrats to Ewing!
This is meaningless. Democrats are not giving people anything to vote for, Republicans are just giving them something disgusting to vote against. Democrats don't need "heart," they need a spine and a message.
This iteration of the Denocratic Party isn't inspiring anybody. People hate them. Voters will take heart and fight all on their own if there's a message other than "we're not as bad as the Republicans." The 2024 election should have been an easy win. The Democrats blew it by alienating their voters.
Yet they give Trump a pass? Sorry, but no. He's the one who's ruining everything, they should turn their anger on him, not the Democrats. If anything, this only shows how blind the American people and they alienated the Dems, not the other way around. A bunch of ungrateful fools who did nothing.
Look, I will happily spend all day attacking the dipshits who chose to sit out the last election rather than engaging in harm reduction. I voted for Kamala even though I wanted nothing to do with her. But seriously? The voters failed the Democrats? That is the most asinine take I've heard all day.
Are you honestly going to say that the voters should be on board with a genocide, continued austerity measures, unabated militarization and fetishization of the police, Kamala throwing the party's left wing under the bus to campaign with that viper Liz Cheney? You're not a serious person.
They do need to stop standing around flapping their hands. They've got some real rising stars with great voices, but they're scattered and disconnected. If they can't form a unified messaging force without pissing on each others shoes, they simply shouldn't be in politics. It's not a solo sport.
I find it interesting that Democrats have done quite well in elections since the new administration took over, even though we keep hearing about the low approval rating.
Exactly! ...and we are taking notes and taking it all to the ballot box, so they do need to take heed. If they can not do the one thing they were elected to do, represent their constituents best interests, then they will be replaced...it's that simple.
The people are showing they don't want to go down that dangerous route of the US becoming a complete mess, destroyed by populism, stripped of assets by the rich, and tossed a few crumbs that they'll be billed for...
Seems to me that most of the DNC is worried about winning an election that may not happen, and Republicans are only interested in consolidating more wealth and power for themselves. Who is representing me?
I live in small town Nebraska. We have bigots who support that anti woke crap, but they're nowhere the numbers that the Republican Party thinks. Most people vote Republican just because it's so tied up with small town identity. Right now, it is possible to change this.
People out here either rely on SS and Medicare/Medicaid or have family and friends who do. We're sick of our grocery bill. We have hospitals, but they need more equipment. You can't take our money, shove it your pocket while ignoring our needs, and hope we'll be okay with it because you're a bigot.
Even those who take longer to think, lol, after finding out things like 'who uses the bathroom' is really--actually-- inconsequential in their life😵💫; will eventually realize their error &stupidity has cost them their own livelihood & freedoms.
(They'll still blame Dems;)
The trans/bathroom argument seems ludicrous to me. Doesn't a trans woman enter a women's bathroom because she identifies as a woman? I don't see the problem.
Yep! National culture war issues didn’t help anybody win the local elections. I thought that was a clue when one of the losing candidates wanted to fire a DEI hire in city government.
Stop throwing us under the bus and you win. Easy as that. Keep pushing us away and will just get louder and louder. I know it's made me louder then normal.. and I was a quite person beforehand.
And the city of Lincoln, NE turned the city council blue! I’m proud of my former state. Now to do so there in South Carolina. Good lord this will be a steep uphill climb.
Congratulations! I hope this guy is fully vetted. I also hope this is the first of many to come. Stay skeptical. Know Share VOTE! Stick together. We are all the same and different.
Jean started out okay but then veered ultra-right in the end which in Omaha doesn't fly. Omaha residents have always maintained, supported, and participated in an inclusive, diverse, thriving arts community that makes them more open-minded than many unfamiliar people would ever give them credit for.
We are tired of all this people bashing. Aren’t we supposed to be the land of the free? Let people live their lives. Republican’s lies and hate are what is hurting people.
No they are two men who have ideas and views that differ from your puny closet affinities. Neo anything is dead and was replaced by musk’s billions. Gavin was once married to Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle, don he’s girlfriend now.
Stoooped ME! It was the dirty fucking hippies who wrecked Humphrey & nader on gore & Bernie on Hillary... NOT decades of privileged fucks selling working stiffs out leading to orange turd! You getting paid to defend sell outs?
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In Canada, Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative party, ran on the issue of bringing back single-use plastic utensils and bags.
He lost as well!
The takeaway is that the Rs' anti-trans bigotry is NOT popular.
It LOST them an election... in red Nebraska.
Creaky Dem party leaders, some of whom now feel we need to turn anti-trans to be popular, are very wrong.
Rights for *all* should *always* be our motto.
I was hoping to get the job as Lead Pecker Checker at the YWCA
(They'll still blame Dems;)
BE THE IMPORTANT MATTERS
WE LITERALLY JUST SHOWED THEM THE ROADMAP!
Were they sleeping during Carneys campaign?
It's past the point of tolerance for this. I'm open for fucking consulting at this point.
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