This is the best two and a half minutes of TV I have ever seen--pure schadenfreude

[renate]

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[ornotna]

1. Satisfying to the last drop

[keithbvadu2]

44. So good!

[calimary]

51. ROFL!!! Red Ripple!

[Upthevibe]

53. ornotna......

Thanks for posting this!

[multigraincracker]

2. Blue Wave turned into a

Green Wave in the Markets today. Any connection? I think so.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Relief. It's like a giant constipation moved through

[Beetwasher.]

3. Red Treacle Hit's Blue Wall

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. .

"Wha haapen'?

[Sky Jewels]

5. I gotcher red wave right here ...

[Ocelot II]

6. That was *really* satisfying.

Makes me want to lie back and have a cigarette....

[tishaLA]

7. Matthew Dowd and Cornell Belcher got it right on Nicolle's show Tues

And I was an idiot, telling myself "these people are just doing this because it's what the audience wants to hear" and I started watching the doom and gloom exit polls on CNN. LOL I've never been happier to have egg all over my face.

[Johnny2X2X]

37. A ton of us here fell for it

I didn't even watch election night until late because I was sure it would just be mostly bad news.

[Hieronymus Phact]

38. That's funny i've been optimistic all along

I don't watch any political talk on TV any more. It's just noise, maybe its liberal flavored noise but noise none the less. Anything that's of actual interest will bubble up and i can catch it later. Anything genuinely newsworthy i can dig deeper on.

There was really no evidence of a red wave: it was all circumstantial: off year election, presidents party loses, bla bla bla. Just regurgitating conventional wisdom from a country that doesn't exist any more.

This is uncharted territory, this has no precedent for us. mass media + personalized social media manipulation, opposition lead by a flat out traitor with the full protection of the GOP party apparatus, the radicalized supreme court, a reawakened pro choice movement.
Did any of the chattering heads once reference the disastrous 1998 midterms overseen by Gingrich? That was the better historical model to examine when the country is disgusted with GOP overreach.
Michael Moore's prediction rang very true to me when he said it.

I guess what I'm saying is unplug. Even liberal chattering heads aren't healthy for you, treat it like fast food or candy: once in a while is ok, but don't live on it.
in the video:
Watching Bobert smirk, as she seems so proud that shes reading her lines on que.
It will be delicious if she loses.

[Johnny2X2X]

41. Agree

In retrospect, the data did not show a red wave at all. There was maybe a little bump for the GOP in the last couple weeks of the campaign and that led the pundits to all jump on the red wave train and anticipate that the Reps would beat what the data was saying.

Now I am here in Michigan. And the data was showing big wins at the state level for the Dems, but for both state houses to flip was really unexpected. We had a massive blue wave in Michigan that no one predicted. It was glorious!

[Hieronymus Phact]

52. Congrats to Michigan!

We could still keep the house too!
The Repubs close like a freight train: pure fear, confusion, massive cash infusions. It's been saving them, and democrats still haven't found a good counter for it, but they're getting better, they started calling it out, and launched the big names in the final weeks to gain traction.

[NJCher]

45. really? you?

I believed Michael Moore because his argument just made sense.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I'm predicting a huuuuge red wave in 2024.

If a "red wave" prediction is what gets Dems to vote, I'm all for predicting it.

Run away! Run away! The red wave will be HUGH!

[keep_left]

9. OK, this is really petty, but does Lauren Boebert not know to clean her fireplace glass...

...before she goes on TV?! (See clip starting at 1:11). Even those gas fireplaces get really dirty. Hers looks like a fire hazard!

Yes, I know, there are a lot more important things to discuss, I just couldn't help myself...

[NJCher]

46. well damn

If she poisons customers in her restaurant, she sure as hell isn't going to be cleaning her fireplace glass.

What she really needs to clean is her sense of morality. Ooops, she doesn't have one: she's a republican.

[Amy_Jones_90]

10. Thank you!

That was the best two minutes ever. The "Red Wave" hit a big Blue Wall.

[paleotn]

13. Hilarious!!!!

Love the clips of "Marry the flasher" Barbie....her deficit just got wider today. BWAAAHAHAHA! She may very well lose her "situation" and have to find something else to do. Nothing more pathetic than a one term congress critter.

[aggiesal]

14. They'll claim that was never said that. ...

That video was doctored, to make it look like we're @$$es.

Nothing to see here, keep moving.

[Mme. Defarge]

15. Michael Moore.

That’s all.

[COL Mustard]

16. Actually, I think it was more like a red tide than a red wave

Kills everything around when it comes in.

[Timeflyer]

21. And it stinks!

[barbtries]

17. lol

my son is a plumber in CA - he does new construction and renovations for some very wealthy, entitled people. He had a customer who had not received their bill and called them on Tuesday about it - the woman said, "we won't be home because we're going to be out celebrating the red wave."

hahaha maybe they will be home.

[3catwoman3]

18. Those folks suffer from a vocabulary deficiency.

They just barf out the same words and phrases over and over again. No original thoughts and no creativity.

[Aussie105]

19. FOX & GOP are victims of their own internally generated and self-sustaining propaganda?

Sad!

Bigly sad!

I guess falling on their own swords is out of the question?

Bet they didn't figure on a lot of Americans saying . . . this is BS! This election is IMPORTANT!

[BigmanPigman]

20. I want a video compilation of their

smarmy faces after they lost. Ha. Ha. Ha

[wnylib]

22. They possibly caused lower R turnout with their red tsunami prediction.

Maybe Republicans felt free to skip this election if it was already sewn up for them.

[KS Toronado]

30. That's what I'm thinking

So we're going to give the Democrats the worst ass kicking they've ever gotten, my one vote won't make
that big a difference, besides I'd rather sit at home and watch Der Fuhrer on FQX point to all our
victories on the battlefield.

Running up to 2024, maybe we should tell our side it's a super close race every vote counts, and ignore the
polls, remember how far off they were in 2022?

[chriscan64]

31. Reminds me of when Bart Simpson ran for class president

and held the victory party during the voting and lost 2-0.

[oldsoftie]

49. I think its more that a lot of GOP voters were NOT voting for trumpers.

Democracy was more important than "the seat".
Here in GA, Kemp easily won reelection. But Herschel Walker LOST & gets a do-over runoff. So a LOT of Kemp voters just refused to vote for Walker. Trump HATES Kemp. I think I've seen similar Stories in other Staes as well.

[catbyte]

23. That reminded me of the predictions in 2012 when they were all so sure that Obama was gonna

get creamed by Romney and were so stunned when Obama won handily. I still watch this clip on occasion when I need a little pick-me-up:

And this (I'm not crazy about TYT, but the clips of Morris are golden):

[czarjak]

43. Worth the re-watch to see Meg stuff Bush's Brain.

[wolfie001]

57. Dick Morris!!!!!

The most famous outed "toe sucker" in the history of politics.

[catbyte]

58. Ugh. He just oozes sleaze, doesn't he?

[wolfie001]

59. Yes! Pure trash!!! nt

[BMW2020RT]

24. No Candyman for FIX News.

[Aussie105]

26. More a funeral dirge . . .

Did FOX not have any contingency plans in case things didn't go as predicted?
No weasel words they could use later?
So sure of GOP's red wave they felt secure in their propaganda?

No?

Murdoch gnashes teeth, Putin looks more worried . . .

[BMW2020RT]

28. Putin must be very displeased by our election results.😀

[Kingofalldems]

25. Kick this one for the yeoman trolls.

[liberalla]

27. Yep, that hit the spot! So satisfying!

[TheBlackAdder]

29. That's great, thanks!

[JI7]

32. What an Ugly Ass Bunch

[nightwing1240]

33. Following Tuesday's vote sans red wave

A good title would have been The Hunt for Red November! Red wave my a$$, feel the burn idiot maga's

[ancianita]

34. Fuck Joe Rogan.

[MiHale]

35. Can't stop smiling...it's starting to hurt..such a delicious pain.🥳🥳🥳😁🤗👍🥳🥳🥳

[Blue Owl]

36. It's like freakin' therapy

[NJCher]

47. yeahhhhh

pleasure coursing through my veins....

[malaise]

39. Bwaaaaah😀😀😀😀😀😀

😀😀😀😀😀

[leftyladyfrommo]

40. Wow! I don't have a TV so.I had no idea that was going

on.

And they put out bogus polls ?

Holy cow! And they lost despite all their best shenanigans?

[Johnny2X2X]

42. Not necessarily bogus polls, just outliers

It seemed like 3 polls would come out and the media would run with the 1 of them that was a pro Republican outlier.

[Mr.Mystery]

48. TV pundit is the only job in the world in which you can be WRONG every day

And never get fired.

The Cons complain about tenure for teachers. Dude, how about TV political commentators?

They should run a warning label: “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.”

[republianmushroom]

50. I like it

[Pluvious]

54. Interesting pair of comments:

( in that thread… )

Can’t help thinking that of the 1,000,000 Americans who tragically died of COVID, many of them were presumably unvaccinated, unmasked MAGA-types that were elderly, reliably Republican voters. That alone could have made a huge difference in the outcome of this election.

Reply:
I was actually tracking some of that. The # of deaths by state was not enough to affect outcomes outside of maybe AZ or GA, but it may have mattered more in house races.

[calimary]

55. "Red Wave"??? Make that "Red Wave BYE-BYE!"

[IronLionZion]

56. Red wave turned out to be ketchup thrown on the wall