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Cattle ranchers are making less money in the US despite beef prices at an all-time high. In the meantime, Trump started importing beef from Argentina to lower beef prices, but only achieved to lower cattle prices.
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Nebraska is a heavy red state, especially out west. those dipshits will vote red for the rest of their lives and nothing can change it. Those communities are brainwashed completely, and anyone that dare speak differently is harrased and riduculed into submission.
They voted for racism, they deserve every bit of pain they receive. But it wont matter, becuase they will still vote red. The sate is just over run with willfully ignorant, hateful, "christians".
People keep saying this (or things like it), even after we just watched the 2025 mid-terms where across the board districts flipped that went for Donald in 2024.
I dunno, man. I think this is evidence that your ingrained prejudices might be wrong, but we'll see.
More Democrats and people who were originally apathetic to politics are getting out to vote while more of the GQP supporters are staying home than usual. Trumplings are not changing their stances, and they still vote GQP til the end. The well has been heavily poisoned in certain areas of the country against anyone but Republican thugs. I find a lot of people who do not live in these areas do not understand the mentality of red until dead they take. They'd sooner vote for Satan himself than Jesus if he ran as a Democrat.
Your lived, anecdotal experience doesn't apply to the electorate of the whole country, clearly.
And your unsubstantiated claims of Trumpers learning doesn't hold water. But it's not just my anecdotal evidence, its many other's encounters with these people, of what we see them post online, of them begging but still supporting him when they arrive here. These people will still forever vote because it's the same mentality of going "My grandaddy worked coal, my daddy worked coal, and I'll work coal" that a lot of the Applachia states have. It's generational brain rot.
Maybe read the whole thread.
There is a whole-ass election to substantiate my point of view.
Your evidence is "but my feelings."
Have a nice New Years.
And again, that's people on the right just not showing up to vote. But you're like talking with a wall obviously.
Anyone telling you trump supporters are changing their minds are lying to you. This shit is nonvoters coming out of the woodwork and saying "fuck this stupid shit". Trump still has like 95% support among republicans. Its the people that never vote that are flipping seats.
I'm being objective. You can't look at at an election where every single Donald district flipped blue and then argue that minds didn't change. That's just unreasonable.
You're not being objective.
Voter turnout has everything to do with most US elections and explains election results far better than some sort of fantasy about people waking up and deciding to abandon years of family, friends and media.
When turnout is abysmally low republicans win in a landslide. They understand this and that's why their strategy for the last 30 years has been trying to reduce voter turnout by going after organizations like ACORN, delisting voters, etc.
They are giving you two valid reasons.
Virginia 2023 midterms had 41% turnout while 2025 had 54%. Even comparing governor races, 2021 had 3.2mil votes casted with an R winning and 2025 had 6.0mil votes with a D winning. Their population has remained steady with 8.6mil in 2021 and growing 0.1mil each year. That's a massive turnout difference.
One can only hope.
As a Nebraskan, we're actually on the verge of losing our Blue representation. We're one of two states that split our electoral vote, one district goes blue and the other two go red. Our governor has had a huge push this last year to change to winner-take-all, which would effectively silence the majority population of the state that lives within the blue district for the Conservative Values of the rest of the State.
It could happen.
They effectively legalized gerrymandering here in Missouri, but the bigger problem is that the Democratic Party here is 100% Schumer/Clinton-esque centrists, which appeal to no one.
We are the cautionary tale against centrism. In 2024 Republicans won every major race. In that same election Missouri voters approved amendments legalizing abortion, mandating a $15 minimum wage, and requiring paid sick leave. If Democrats had run a Mamdani Democrat here, they'd have won big. Instead they ran the same milquetoast, billionaire-loving bedwetters that they always do.
That unique election happening here in deep-red Missouri is why I'm not willing to listen when people just spout prejudices against red states. In 2024 I think it was far more about how much people hated Democrats (and rightly so, after ignoring the affordability crisis) than how much they liked Republicans.
I'm on the left and even I hate dems right now. Maybe the old school ones will die in the next 30 years and we can keep Jasmine Crocket for 50 years instead.
The Dems haven't been left in a long time. To Europe they are at best center right.
Love the progress you guys have been making down there. We came close to electing an Independent for senator this past year, but we're also fighting with our Governor and Surgeon General over a medical marijuana bill that passed the overwhelming majority of voters this past year yet they don't want to support nor acknowledge. Our farmers are feeling the heat from the economic situation. I think if there's any time to see Nebraska start to shed its fierce loyalty to Husker Red (Husker White isn't so bad, is it?), we'll see it happen very soon.
This is why I am, in part, optimistic about Donald losing control of Congress. Between his decision to target legal immigrants (rather than criminal) and his decision to essentially bankrupt American farmers, I expect a reckoning. The shitty thing is that, even if we hand Democrats power, it's unlikely they'll do anything meaningful with it. It may be significantly beneficial for the Mamdanis of the country to have an actual check against Donald's power that, at least performatively, has to support the changes he's trying to make. (Assuming he tries to do what he promised.)
You can only alienate your coalition so much before you imperil your own power. Just ask Democrats after their constituents told them they wanted affordability and to stop sending WMD's to a genocide.
I hope you are right. I would love to eat my words.
All I can do is report what i see with my own 2 eyes. The racism runs deep here and often has no opposing viewpoints in the small ranch towns on the west side of the state.
I think it's bad strategy that Donald has embraced the Biden/Harris playbook and just decided to outright ignore the affordability crisis.
Red, Blue, doesn't matter. I don't think the cultist mentality of some will be enough to carry MAGA to victory in 2026 because you can't propagandize around millions being unable to afford their rent and put food on the dinner table, as Biden/Harris learned in 2024. Back then, Donald was the candidate of change. This time around, he and the people he endorses will be the candidates of starvation.
He was never going to help with that. He doesn't need voters anymore. So the house goes blue in 2026. Who cares? He can still grift and tariff and make billions off market swings and back room deals.
In many of those cases though voter turnout was down. Alabama of all places had a progressive-ish democrat for a few years because his opponent was credibly accused of being a pedophile. Red voters didn’t carry Doug Jones to the finish line, the inaction of red voters did.
That's arguably what lost Democrats the election in 2024, owing to their decision to ignore the affordability crisis. Now that Donald has embraced the Biden playbook on affordability and just decided to ignore it or attempt to propagandize around it, I think the 2026 election is going to be a bloodbath for MAGA.
You can't tell someone who does their own shopping, and finds every week that their $100 only buys them half as much, that the stock market being at all time highs means the economy is good.
most of americans are selfish voters, not racist voters...though obviously a large contingent are just...stupid racist motherfuckers that have their brain rotted by too much Murdoch (my dad being one of them), the latter only decides elections when normies can't be bothered to show up.
most arent racist though (not enough for it to influence their voting choices), most are just selfish.... republicans promise the most ratfuckery, and are the most predictable in their backstabbing (being proud in their cruelty/stupidity). any business in a red state can just plan for maximum-pain, pay their bribes, and they're probably golden for the next 4 years.
democrats...they're fucking shifty and too fucking smart. the bernies/AOC/mamdani's are the exception not the rule. most US politicians in general are coastal (or local) elites that think their dick cures cancer or something (going off all the sexual harassment cases/connections to epstein)....they're 100% going to abuse their position to fuck others over, some petty fucking grudge they've held for years or maybe just because they're bored, who knows.
if you have to choose between playing with a bad liar or a good liar...playing against the bad liar is just a good business strategy. and that's all america is, a business, the bottom line is the only thing sacred here...
Dude doesn't understand the level of brainwashing that has happened in this country for the last 40 years amongst rural and isolated people. Trumplings aren't seeing the light and dropping the GQP entirely, they're just disillusioned with it right now. When this is all over, you'll eventually find fewer and fewer proudly proclaiming to be a Trump supporter as you found Nazi supporters in 1940's post war Germany.