Tide Already Turning

Americans have a short attention span. They absorb whatever trash they are fed by social media and television and have lost any sense of critical thinking for themselves. They rarely look back at their short history, and never draw any lessons from it. As descandants of poor illiterate peasants from the boonies of Europe, the founding stock of Americans remains mired in 16th century modes of living: Violence, brawn not brain, local encapsulated thinking, and a predilection for stubborn self-inflated but otherwise mediocre worth.

Now that the enthusiasm for Donald Dumb's advent to power is reaching its paroxysm, Americans are getting tired and bored with the yo-yo and whiplash mechanics of the demented jackass. And they are bgeinning to think about 2026. Because of his "grandeur" as a "great man" whose face will be sculpted on Mount Rushmore, no one can ever replace him in the eyes of his dumb MAGA followers, which means he will leave behind a devastated republican wilderness that he created by taking the country back some 100 years at the very least.

From the start, it was clear that the best antidote to Donald Dumb is Donald Dumb himself: Let him self-destroy. Let him fire up all his stupid engines until he runs out of gas. And he is already well on his way to consuming himself and his MAGA herd of fanatic rightwing white supremacist idiots in a bonfire of retrograde regressive reactionary nostalgia for the 1950s and 1600s' America that can never be resucitated. Everything changes, everything passes, and those who think the world is a fixed sepia image are ignorant people.

It's called evolution. Not revolution. Not devolution. Doesn't turn around, doesn't regress, but moves forward in unpredictable ways. MAGA morons cling to the past. It would be one thing to cling to the present, but the past? With the illusion that it can be brought back?

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Opinion

The Trump Effect Is Here: Democrats Sweep to Victory in Historic Upset
Edith Olmsted
Wed, May 14, 2025

The Donald Trump effect struck in Nebraska Tuesday night as Democrats snatched another public office away from Republicans by tying them to the president’s disastrous agenda.

The people of Omaha elected John Ewing Jr. to be the city’s first Black mayor, in a surprising defeat for Jean Stothert, the city’s three-term Republican mayor who outraised Ewing by nearly double, according to The Washington Post.

Although the seat itself is nonpartisan, Ewing’s campaign was able to channel the voters’ negative feelings about Trump’s wild first few months in office into a victory over his opponent, who had supported the president’s run in 2024.

“Let’s say no to the chaos and elect a mayor who will actually get things done,” said one ad run by Ewing’s campaign.

Stothert got in trouble for using the same anti-trans Republican playbook that Trump employed in his campaign. One controversial mailer distributed by a PAC on behalf of her campaign claimed that “Ewing stands with radicals who want to allow boys in girls’ sports.”

But Ewing said he’d made no such statement. “Nobody’s ever brought that question up. So I believe it’s a made-up issue by Jean Stothert and the Republican Party,” Ewing said, and his campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter to Stothert for the misleading attack.

Ewing’s campaign was then able to use his opponent’s attack to mock her focus on such a nonissue. “Jean is focused on potties. John is focused on fixing potholes,” read one ad.


Stothert’s campaign stood by the mailer, saying that it referred to groups that had lent their support to Ewing. During a press event last week, Stothert tried to defend herself, comparing the ads from the two campaigns.

“I would bring it back to, ‘Why is John Ewing trying to relate me to Donald Trump and saying the city is in chaos?’” Stothert said. “Donald Trump has not called me and asked me for advice.”

Stothert has tried to distance herself from the Trump administration, which she initially supported. During an appearance on the daily podcast Omapod earlier this month, she said, “I can honestly say as a Republican, I don’t like everything [Trump’s] doing and decisions he’s making. I wish he’d slow down on a lot of these decisions he’s making. I don’t advise the president.”

This election indicated that Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, which handily backed Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, is emerging as one of the most contested battlegrounds for control of the U.S. House in the coming midterms. Republican Representative Don Bacon’s term will be up, and he will be forced to decide whether he will run for reelection in a district that includes the “Blue Dot” of Omaha.