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A top GOP strategist is offering this as an argument as to why the midterms might not be a disaster for Republicans.

Counterpoint: every single one of these items could actually make it worse. Mostly because Trump is incapable of being near anything and not making it about him in a cringey, tacky way.

"bad votes on things like deporting criminals" oh please, oh please, MAKE our congresscritters stand up in front of C-Span and talk about who's actually getting deported

Lol. They are very good at making fantasy lists of what the Trump administration and GOP should do that they are never in a million years going to do. And that wouldn't work if they did.

“Some kind of successful resolution on Iran” is enough hand-waving to lift a smaller person off the ground so they start flying around like Woodstock.

4mo ago he expected a resolution of the Iran war? The 250 vibes were an adventure: a cheap ass fair with a trump arch made of drywall; no one actually there; and some corrupt drama about renovating the reflecting pool on time, but algaes. Did trump attend the Artemis splash? No idea, who cares?

I had no idea who that was (being UK based and all that) and thought that was a rando just posting their brain on the internet. Good grief.

Hoping that things go kind of okay even though the president is cognitively impaired and emotionally unstable, and the GOP members of Congress and Cabinet act as if they are 100% in a personality cult….seems to be wishful thinking. This is the Trump admin. It’s not going to suddenly go well.

I think it's not necessarily crazy. "Midterm convention" is an attempt to make it *feel* like a presidential election to Trump-only voters. I don't think it will work, but I can see why they would try it. People who hate Trump don't need reminding.

tying the popular president to all the candidates running for congress in the midterms is a really good idea, lemme just check to make sure i'm right about the president being popular hang on

Look at that list. The only one addressing actual policy, the Iran one, is just speculative prayer..."some kind of resolution..." The next three are reality show, Potemkin village shit. The final one is just legislative chicanery, show votes. None involve actions to improve citizens' lives.

Problem predates Carter, revolution happens in his term, the hostages are held up by Reagan. Rather than push back on the IRGC Reagan helps them, see Iran-Contra and his pre-election talks on holding back the hostage release. Carter did not do this.

They've spent the past 45 years trying to convince voters that the government is totally useless. If they suddenly announced they were going to do something useful, it would raise suspicions about their sincerity.

He wrote a book last year about how the GOP now had a broad-based, multi-ethnic working class permanent majority, so he’s got a lot of chips on the table here with a band hand

“In two weeks”. Or something. It’ll be a speech like the Easter Bunny one Nobody has good vibes right now and not changing Yeah Rs bending knee to Mr 36% Johnson can’t hold votes as his caucus has too many MIAs. But yeah.

250 good vibes?! I’ve never felt more ashamed to be an American, I’ve never felt under so much constant threat. They’ve ruined the country and everything I thought it stood for. I’m not celebrating shit while these criminal pedo protesting goons are in charge.

I love space as much as any child of the Apollo era, but one flyby 60 years after Apollo 8 did it, this time with no realistic follow-up mission in sight, is not going to lift the nation.

I don’t know that national celebrations of overthrowing tyranny and those who abet it will unify people in quite they want. 🤔 It does say a lot about their worldview that they view Republicans as the only true Americans. Would they imagine rallying round the flag for a Democrat? Transparently not.

Yes, ruining a wonderful thing by showing up to the Artemis splashdown sounds awesome and not a way to use something genuinely awe inspiring to launder the unpopularity of a pedophile war monger that the GOP lacked the spine to call out.

Kinda sucks that the Artemis II crew, already having so many things to think about, will also be forced to make sure they have on-point, feel-good responses to whatever dumb shit the President says.

I was only four at the time, so my only significant memories are a couple of parades (my hometown's parade featured local boy made good Ted Knight as the grand marshal, and I got to meet him), and a Bicentennial Ball that was held on my mom's hometown which her father helped organize.

“Damp squib” comes to mind. The bicentennial was a several year effort to make it a nationwide celebration. The 250th is a dud.

Dismissing the base of your party—that’s how you blow the midterms.🤦🏿‍♂️

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“There are misconceptions because there is a vocal, far-left faction of our party, but they are in no way leading here,” said Halie Soifer, former Kamala Harris adviser. But backing Israel cost Harris every swing state—now that losing wing is dismissing the base. That’s how you blow the midterms.🤦🏿‍♂️

Oh, let's let them have their happy thoughts. Oh, let's let them send ICE to the polls and watch people crawl over them to vote if necessary. It will make it all that much sweeter when they are DESTROYED in November

It's an administration full of rake steppers; where do they think they are getting good news from? Artemis - hey, let's cut NASA's budget! America 250 - blood sports on the WH lawn! Votes - Hey Republicans - vote in favor of ICE thugs and pointless wars!

It is genuinely funny to see them try to pull an even more extreme version of the Biden “the economy is better, inflation isn’t an issue” schtick that got him run out of town.

Yeah, that “deporting criminals” has really worked out well for them. And with old Marky Mark in charge, it’s gonna get much better I’m sure.

The “good vibes” are going to be hard to pull off when people who get pissed at Trump every time they fill their gas tanks see him turn the 250 events into a celebration of his own birthday like he did with that embarrassing parade last year

"America 250" has been a giant nothingburger, and with the Republicans in power we sure as shit don't have much to feel proud about. I don't recall anything about it in the news, or any local events. Far cry from 1976, which was absolutely everywhere.

This is the primary even for the anniversary and I am not even kidding: UFC event on the White House South Lawn (originally billed for 4th of July; set a couple weeks earlier.) The sort of think Idiocracy joked about (especially sponsor deals.)

Do they think Trump's "flood the zone with sh*t and distract them at every moment" strategy has left Americans with attention span long enough to remember Artemis and 250 in November?

Patriotic points for the 250 go to GOP? They are underwater in every poll because they acting in ways even loyal republicans think is “unamerican”.

Bullet 1 is a no go. Trump has no solution for the Iran issue he created. That just leaves feel good photo ops and hoping to make Dems take unpopular votres. That is neither a campaign or governance strategy.