2026 Midterm Elections

[robnisch]

Gasoline prices, for example, are lower than they were during most of Biden's administration:

Gas prices are so historically volatile I question the validity of using them as a metric of overall economic health. If prices are definitely better than they were under Biden you assuredly can give another example.

If it’s eggs though keep in mind the impact of the bird flu.

Who is or is not the President of the USA has so little to do with the price oil that it is dumb to bring up.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Actually, yeah, we're getting a little lax on the whole Trump Rapes Kids thing. Gotta remember to keep that fact where people will keep seeing it, until he sees justice.

Trump is not relevant to this thread (he won't be on the ballot in 2026), but just out of curiosity, what evidence is there of that?

Also, some images of Epstein's speed dial list got released, and there's an entry there blacked out that's just the right length and sort position to be "Donald".

So, guilt by (possible) association?

Trump is extremely relevant. We need a real congress that won't skirt its responsibility. Congress has ceded power to the Presidency (tariffs and etc) that is causing chaos for companies. We need a congress with the balls to investigate Trumps shading business ventures. We need a congress willing to stand up to Russia. We desperately need a real separation of powers. Having a strong corrupt president and a congress with no balls is a very bad recipe.

 

[ZiprHead]

Gasoline prices, for example, are lower than they were during most of Biden's administration:

Gas prices are so historically volatile I question the validity of using them as a metric of overall economic health. If prices are definitely better than they were under Biden you assuredly can give another example.

If it’s eggs though keep in mind the impact of the bird flu.

We here regularly bounce down into the upper 2 80's then bounce back up into the low 3 30's. No reason offered or explained.

 

[Gospel]

With the housing market in flames,

Is it?
[citation needed]

A citation isn’t needed when millions of Americans are literally getting priced out of housing because of skyrocketing property taxes, insane insurance premiums, and homes being valued like they’re made of unobtanium. Everyone living through it is the citation.

• High property taxes
• Exploding insurance costs
• Severely overvalued homes
• Wages not keeping up
• Housing affordability at record lows

So yeah, the housing market is absolutely in flames. Trump’s housing policies overwhelmingly benefit investors, developers, and landlords – not families trying to keep a roof over their heads. His whole playbook is just deregulate and . But deregulation doesn’t reduce the actual costs of building anything.

You can scrap a zoning rule all day, but it won’t lower land prices, labor costs, material costs, or the permit fees states charge when taxing for each individual blade of grass. And developers don’t even look at looser zoning and say, “Wow, let’s build cheap homes for working families!” They say, “Sick dude, let’s build more luxury condos with infinity pools and valet dog-walking.”

 

[Gospel]

I agree that the GOP platform is very unpopular right now, although some of your points are overstated, like energy costs.
Gasoline prices, for example, are lower than they were during most of Biden's administration:

Awww that's so cute. Gasoline is only one part of the energy picture. The bigger issue is natural gas, because natural gas is the backbone of the US energy grid. Around 43% of all US electricity is generated from natural gas, and both heating and AI data centers use it too. So when natural gas prices rise, nearly everything in the energy economy gets more expensive.

Trump is proposing a major increase in natural gas exports. That is the part you are not mentioning. I wonder why. Ok I lied, I really don't.

When you take a domestic energy source and start selling more of it overseas, you shrink supply at home and push US prices upward. So, if the plan is to expand LNG exports, Americans will not get cheaper electricity or heating. We will be competing with Europe and Asia for our own fuel supply. Investors and exporters benefit. US households pay more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The GOP is out here blabbing about lower energy bills on TV while pushing policies that actually make natural gas more expensive. And honestly, this probably won’t move the needle in the midterms at all, because Americans will be too busy arguing about Epstein, war crimes, UFOs, celebrity scandals, or whatever the for-profit media machine is serving as the “outrage special” of the week.

And here’s the part I guarantee will happen: When energy prices spike because of Trump’s policies, half the country will blame “Democrat clean energy mandates” instead of connecting the dots right in front of them. The correlation is obvious, but nobody’s going to stop doomscrolling long enough to make it.

 

[Gospel]

Republicans: "Clean energy is a Democrat scam!"
Also Republicans: ‘America must dominate the natural gas global market…"