(11-03-2026 11:12 PM)scorpius Wrote:  

(11-03-2026 11:03 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(11-03-2026 10:52 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Problem is Trump looks like a guy with a bunch of broken promises. He ignored the kitchen table economics. Hard pill to swallow for regular people when bragging about leading in the Tech race or these manufacturing jobs coming tomorrow when the financial issues are here today. He just didn’t sell his vision well enough.

And he has added to the deficit, big time.

The deficit in a joke. It's beyond the point where it can be solved in any meaningful way by spending cuts or tax increases. What will solve the problem is AI transforming society. But to the extent that doesn't move fast enough, inflation will fill in the gaps. Even Trump understands this.

Trump aggressively expanded the deficit, and it didn’t seem to help his party very much at the ballot box today. As I’m looking at the voting right now, Democrats are leading in FREAKING MISSISSIPPI with 97% of the vote in. What’s it been, 100 years since a Democrat was elected to Senate in Mississippi? Republicans are supposed to be fiscally conservative instead of trying to one up Joe Biden in the wasteful spending department.

The only silver lining here is that there is going to be a long overdue reckoning within the Republican Party, else we will see more election days like today down the road.