"Just a Few Thoughts" on Yesterday's Disastrous Midterm Election

The thoughts below is my thoughts alone, and do not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com  

[[[ As I reflect back to what was yesterdays Republican "political bloodbath," these five key points come to mind.  

 

First: We Republicans now having officially lost both the House and the Senate really need to "grow a set" and start taking responsibility for our actions, while "getting off our knees" if we are to have any chance of winning the presidency in 2028...and that includes NO JD Vance on the ticket.

   

Second: Trump and his misplaced crew of advisors crew of advisors wanted to make the midterm election all about him…he did the rallies…he was constantly on TV…he thought his overinflated theatrical ego could help convince people to vote Republican. He failed miserably what with his misplaced "I, I, I, it's all about me" crude and unpolished persona; his lack of any true oratory skills; his overall self-perceived "I'm smarter than you demeanor;" his promises made NOT kept regarding both the economy and the Iran War; that actually caused Republicans to lose it all!!

 

And I couldn’t wait to hear his excuses for this absolutely horrendous loss…as I knew he'd find a way to blame said loss on everyone but himself, which as expected he did.

 

Third: We know Reagan inherited a bad economy from Jimmy Carter and yet he was able to turn things around. Trump inherited a bad economy from Joe Biden nobody is denying that, but what Trump did with his misguided overinflated tariffs and turning the Iran war away from Iran’s nuclear ambitions to a war over control of Hormuz and oil forced the voters pocketbooks to do their voting for them. Sad fact indeed.

 

Fourth: Another loser last night that people seem to have forgotten about is the Supreme Court, as the Democrats will either stack the court to put more Democrat members on it or we might actually see some Republican justices retiring thus leaving their seats open, but that no matter who Trump nominates they will be turned down. 

 

Many folks did not stop to think about all the possible ramifications of the Democrats gaining what is absolute power before they cast their votes. And remember, Trump‘s promise to "veto" all that Democrats propose can only go so far because it now looks like it’s even possible that Democrats can  reach the 60 votes needed to negative any of Trump's vetoes. 

Fifth: Here's something few think about, but it does affect a great number of savvy people..as in today the "stock market" is going through the roof!

 

Why so...because now "the market" finally has their own version of a must needed system of "checks and balances" in place...similar to that of the House and the Senate...as "the market" had continued not to respond well to Trump's ad-nauseam, "one day we’re doing this, the next day we’re doing that" scenario. In other words, Trump is NOT making any rational, tangible or reality based decisions in regards to what's happening on the international stage, and especially in regards to the Iran War. 

 

Trump himself via his in-actions literally made "the market" quite "unstable," and now with his loss of total governmental control...Trump's aforementioned "veto power" can only go so far with "the market" responding positively to the election decision made last night because the totality and finality of it will actually stabilize "the market."

 

How so...by what's called a "clarity of projections" coupled with governing decisions finally being made one way or the other, thus resulting in what the "stock market" views as a "cleansing event" for both investors and speculators.

 

At least for some lucky folks a modicum of good has come out of what was a total "Blue Wave" caused Republican political disaster...enough said, case closed. ]]]

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.  

Bloggers Note: I absolutely despise this miserable excuse of a man!

JD Vance blames Iran war and Israel for GOP midterm bloodbath

Ryan King / NEW YORK POST

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance blamed the war in Iran for Tuesday’s GOP electoral bloodbath, a sharp departure from his own remarks about the conflict and the closest Vance has come to criticizing President Trump as his second-in-command.

Vance, believed to be the top contender for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, decried the GOP “establishment” and nudged Republicans to reconsider their support of Israel in his first public midterm post-mortem.

“In the next few months, there’s going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty,” Vance posted on X.

“But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war,” he added. “The president himself said so last night. If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so.” Read more, see Xx, and photos here.                                               

Midterm Election Day 2026 live updates: Voters hit the polls early as GOP fights to retain control of Congress

By Carl Campanile, Craig McCarthy, Hannah Fierick,Vaughn Golden, Matthew Fischetti,Emily Goodin and Kaydi Pelletier / NEW YORK POST /  US News

Decision day is here.

Americans are taking to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the high-stakes midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress or lose the majority to Democrats, as the left grows ever more socialist by the day.

The Post is on the ground in New York — where control of Congress hinges on four key, high-profile battleground seats in the few remaining swing districts — and Michigan, where Dem infighting boiled over in the days before the election as Israel-hating Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed aims to win the left’s only vulnerable Senate seat in the midterm, making it critical for the party’s plans to flip the upper chamber. 

Watch this space throughout Election Day and Night, as we bring you the latest news and results from key Senate, House and governor races across the US to determine whether Republicans will maintain control of Congress. See LIVE coverage here. 

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Just a Thought

 Got this from a friend...it's so good I just had to share it.

Trump reveals he’ll use preemptive pardons to protect staff, allies if Dems take Congress

Thomas English / NEW YORK POST 

President Trump revealed he’s willing to issue sweeping preemptive pardons to everyone who worked in his administration if Democrats follow through on threats to prosecute them.

“I would if I needed to. Sure,” Trump told The Post’s Miranda Devine in a “Pod Force One” interview.

Asked whether that applied to everyone who’d worked for him, the president reaffirmed. “I’d do it,” he said. “I did it for J6.”

He pointed to former President Joe Biden, who used his final hours in the Oval Office to pardon Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the members and staff on the House Jan. 6 committee and a handful of his own relatives — including his troubled son Hunter.

“That’s what Biden did. He gave everybody a pardon,” Trump said.

He dismissed the Jan. 6 panel as “the unselect committee” and “a corrupt committee.”

Last month, Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-Mich.) said at a University of Chicago event that a Democratic majority should prosecute “signature cases” against “the people who enable” Trump. Read more, see video, and photos here.

Just a Thought

The thought below is my thought alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com  

[[[ Well, well, isn't this interesting...it now seems that while President Trump was busy trying to make deals with the Iranian terrorist regime while also focusing on his Strait of Hormuz blockade, Iran was busy circumnavigating said blockade as well as the sanctions imposed, and doing so right under Trump's and our noses. How so...Iran has, and has had for quite some time, a “hidden network of military agencies” who were and are still able to smuggle military hardware and equipment past the blockade.

 

How so...Iran was able to create a secret network of military agencies with global reach, thus they were able to import at least $2 billion in hardware, explosives and heavy-duty trucks since January 2025 alone. In other words, Iran has been able to replenish their military arsenal while still pretending to be willing to entertain diplomacy as a means by which to end this war.

 

Simply put, Iran remains not only well stocked to keep fighting, something some of us...me included...have said since day one...but the fact is Iran has “out-Trumped Trump,” and it's courtesy of said military supplies “point of origin” being not only Russia and China,..not unexpectedly...but our ally Germany as well..

 

But if you don't believe what I've just said here's the proof, just click on this link: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-913481 and read it for yourself. And if you still think after reading this article/report that Trump didn't know at least some of this, but willingly chose to ignore it, and also that he still knows how to win this war, then you must be a charter member of the “Trump can do no wrong brigade.” No need to say anything more. ]]]

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

Just a Thought

The thought below is my thought alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com           

[[[ Three days to go, and as we all know President Trump has again been repeating "ad-nauseam" that the Iran War will either "end soon” or "when I say it will end."  Such useless ego-driven words now being spewed in recurring rotation, along with words like, "we're going to hit them hard if they don't comply"...words I'm surely not going to hold my breath for.

 

And while a few bombs might "go boom" somewhere in Iran in the days or immediate weeks following the midterm election...just so Trump can "save some semblance of face"...Trump's "six weeks tops" war rhetoric spoken earlier this year will have come back to haunt. Why so...because when this war's 47.1 billions of dollars spent with its price tag still growing is coupled with what many consider Trump's mishandling of the war itself (and those numbers are continuing to rise contrary to what the die-hard "Trumpers" say) actually has directly resulted in home-based economics not being just in play in a very politically negative way, but has been the main contributor to the current rise in inflation...which many economists sadly now feel will rise even higher in 2027...along with inflation itself now negating out both job numbers gained and salary increases garnered.

 

And while I obviously do NOT want to see we Republicans losing the midterm election, I am smart enough to know two things...first, that the "pocketbook" NOT even Iran's ongoing nuclear ambitions or even its continuing terrorist mindset is what currently weighs heavy on the minds of most Americans...and second, I could well be wrong and that we do keep both the House and Senate in spite of Trump's faux-pas...what would be a miracle indeed. However, as one who does not put much stock in what in this case would be a political miracle, the best I'm hoping for is that we at least keep the Senate. 

 

Only time will tell, but please do get out and vote...it is a duty we should all hold sacred in honor of those who sacrificed their lives for us to be able to do so. ]]]

 Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Costly AI boom rattles Wall Street, sends Google shares to historic one-day loss

Investors are increasingly wary of tech giants pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, worried the massive investments may not ultimately pay off. Those concerns fueled a historic selloff in Google shares on Thursday

James Cirrone / FOX NEWS

WHAT TO KNOW

• The selloff of artificial intelligence stocks is projected to continue on Friday, with Nasdaq futures falling more than 2% after Intel and Amazon released disappointing earnings results Thursday.

• Hackers linked to the Chinese government used AI, including DeepSeek, to conduct cyberattacks against 200 different organizations globally in just an 11-day span, CrowdStrike said.

• AI systems are being used in about two dozen Chicago-area stores to catch suspected shoplifters, ABC7 WLS Chicago reported this week.

AM Intelligence, an India-based company, has plans to raise $3 billion in debt to fund a purchase of Nvidia's next generation chips, Bloomberg reported.

 

Read LIVE UPDATES here.

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Just a Thought

The thought below is my thought alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com                             [[[ So let me get this straight...according to some folks here in our country it's OK for America to be a Christian nation but it's NOT OK for Israel to be a Jewish nation...the hypocrisy truly does run deep in these overtly antisemitic folks, and sadly they do exist on both sides of the political aisle. ]]]                                                                                   Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

Joe Manchin warns Democratic socialists are gaining ground as Democrats remain silent

Former West  Virginia senator says his old party is trending from liberal to progressive to DSA

Taylor Penley / Fox News

Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin criticized what he sees as his former party's embrace of the progressive left, warning that Democratic socialists are gaining ground while longtime Democrats largely remain silent.

"That's why I'm an independent," Manchin said on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast.

"[Members of the Democratic Party] went from liberal to progressives to DSA. It just keeps going on that trend," he added. 

Manchin left the Democratic Party after frequently breaking with fellow Democrats while serving in Congress. The longtime moderate registered as an independent in May 2024.

In a statement announcing his departure, Manchin criticized extremism on both the left and right, saying he had "seen both the Democrat and Republican parties leave West Virginia and our country behind for partisan extremism while jeopardizing our democracy."

Manchin also argued that neither party was willing to "find common ground" or "put country before party." Read more, and see videos here.

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Just a Thought

The thought below is my thought alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com  

[[[ Remember back on March 4, 2025 when President Trump first said he can end the Ukraine war in “one day” if re-elected...well that war has now been ongoing for 4-years with no real concrete end in sight.

Now Trump said the Iran war will end "whenever I want it to end," during a midterm rally in Lubbock, TX on Tuesday. This war is now costing us over “47 billion dollars,” and to date shows no real end in sight either. Not only that, but unlike the Ukraine War, this war is directly affecting each and every American every time we “go to the pump.”

Also, now remember that Israel wanted to finish the job last summer when together we launched lots of bombs that did their job and went boom, and that Israel successfully made sure that many of the top members of the “regime” can no longer “fog a mirror” as they say. But when Netanyahu proposed this to Trump, our Commander-in-Chief emphatically said “NO” that he...I emphasize “he”...wanted to try diplomacy first. How's that been working out for “Mr. I, I, I...me, me, me”...NOT well I'd say.

So here the question becomes, why did Trump foolishly say what he said in Texas on Tuesday...with the answer being to try and “play superman” to his ever adoring die-hard supporters before the midterm election, after all even he knows his overall poll numbers are near an all time low.

Trying to flex misguided “political muscle” in a time of war...especially a war that brings with it still rising energy costs and the ever-dreaded “affordability” issues...is but an attempt to “save face” and nothing more. If Trump had really wanted to end this war in what he had promised would be a relatively short period of time, he would have done so when Israel suggested they do, and not when his ego alone tries to dictate the war's end. My thought, my opinion, and I stand by it. ]]]

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

Dozens of House Dems ditch Ilhan Omar as party rallies to block Trump immigration probe

Ally Goetz / NEW YORK POST  

Dozens of House Democrats are keeping their distance from Rep. Ilhan Omar as the Minnesota “Squad” rep faces a federal investigation — even as party leaders rally behind her and demand that the Trump administration back off.

A letter led by Rep. Pramila Jaypal (D-Wash.) and signed by 175 House Democrats accused the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security of weaponizing law enforcement against Omar, whose Washington DC home was searched by federal agents earlier this month.

Around 40 Democrats declined to sign the letter from the 214-member caucus.

“Congresswoman Omar is seeking reelection in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in just one week. News of the search warrant...Read more, see photos and video here.

Netanyahu bloc maintains edge over opposition in Israeli elections as vote count continues

Jewish News Syndicate / NEW YORK POST 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc of right-wing and religious parties held a lead over the opposition on Thursday morning, according to updated partial results from the Central Elections Committee.

Netanyahu’s Likud party had 1,085,162 votes (20.65%) after 5,278,597 votes had been counted at 12,032 voting stations, the committee said in an update at 9:08 a.m.

Netanyahu’s bloc, which also includes United Torah Judaism (293,990, 5.59%), Otzma Yehudit (292,985, 5.58%), Shas (277,689, 5.28%) and Religious Zionism-Zehut (250,996, 4.78%), had 2,200,822 votes, or 41.88%.

Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar had 849,121 votes (16.16%). Together with B’Yachad (476,857, 9.07%), the Democrats (340,562, 6.48%) and Yisrael Beiteinu (311,728, 5.93%), his camp had 1,978,268 votes, or 37.64%. Read more, and see photos here. 

Just a Thought

The thought below is my thought alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com  

[[[ As the media, courtesy of the very nature of partisan politics itself, has turned the upcoming midterm election into a referendum on both President Trump the man and his polices, the fact is that Republicans will either lose this election because of Trump's ego driven persona, policies that failed or promises not kept, or Republicans will win the election in spite of Trump's ego, failed policies, and promises not kept.

But no matter which scenario plays out for Republicans on November 3rd, know that either scenario will still signal a very bumpy ride to 2028...and beyond. ]]]

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

We’re nearing five years of the Ukraine war — and no one knows how to stop untold slaughter 

Victor Davis Hanson / NEW YORK POST

After crossing with his army into Asia, Alexander the Great stopped at Gordium (in modern-day Turkey). He approached the famous Gordian knot — a tangled mass of bark tying an ox cart to a pole, so intricate and tight that no one could unravel it. When told that anyone who could untie the mess would rule all of Asia, Alexander simply pulled out his sword and cut through it — solving the problem and fulfilling the prophecy. 

The Ukraine war may be our Gordian knot, but — in our current nuclear age — it is dangerous to cut rather than unravel it. 

No one knows exactly how many people have been killed in the Ukraine war, which has now lasted four years and eight months — longer than World War II in the Pacific, the American Civil War, or World War I. There is still no end in sight. Estimates of the human toll vary widely, since it is in the interest of both sides to exaggerate the losses of the enemy while underreporting their own casualties. Read more, see video, and photos here.

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