I really think this European/Middle Eastern/brownoid misunderstanding of American government is fueling all the retardation about the midterms, because thanks to Midwit Powerball being promoted as serious analysis, foreigners can now bet on the outcomes of American elections. Nobody on the left or right wants to admit that the midterms aren't that important and will not impact Trump in any measurable way. It's better for your party to win an election, to be sure, but ever since FDR, federal power has been increasingly centralized in the executive branch. To Europeans: we don't have a parliamentary system. Trump is not obligated to resign from office if the Democrats take control of Congress. His term ends in 2029. His mandate comes from the people, not from the partisan makeup of an entirely separate branch of government. Realistically, what are the Democrats going to do if they win Congress? Nothing. Any legislation they pass will be vetoed. Budgets will be passed according to Trump's whim because the House always cucks out (the Democrats cucked to Trump in 2019 and 2020, the Republicans cucked to Obama from 2011-2016 and 2023-2024). If anything, all these new retard DSA politicians are going to make life hell for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. The new Democrat caucus will be full of Thomas Massies ready to cause trouble. OOOOOH THEY'RE GOING TO IMPEACH TRUMP! An impeachment means nothing. It's basically the equivalent of a speeding ticket. You need 2/3rds of the Senate to vote to remove an impeached president from office. The closest this has come to happening was in 1868, when Andrew Johnson was acquitted by one vote. There were only 54 senators then, by the way. Even the biggest blue wave optimists believe the Democrats can only win 51-52 Senate seats out of 100. You need 67 minimum to remove an impeached president. A few months ago, there was this fantasy that a ton of Republican senators would break ranks to oust Trump in this scenario. Yeah no Republican is going to end his political career by voting to remove his own president. The Republican senators who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, with the exceptions of Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, have all either retired (Romney, Burr, Sasse), are retiring (McConnell), or lost renomination (Cassidy). Oh yeah, and in the off-chance Trump were removed from office, he's replaced by the vice president. JD Vance. Trump's literal Top Guy. So congratulations, you removed a Republican president and replaced him with another Republican. The Democrats winning won't end the war in Iran either. Congress has no authority over foreign policy and a significant number of Democrats support the war. The GOP lost their congressional majority in 2006 but the war in Iraq didn't end until 2010. In fact, Bush did a troop surge in Iraq after the 2006 midterms. Tehran will be going up in mushroom clouds regardless of how Americans vote. If the Republicans hold Congress, not much changes either. We get more favorable legislation, but I doubt a nearly-evenly divided House and a Senate controlled by John Thune will be hugely more productive then the current Congress. Ironically, I think voters themselves have a better grasp of these issues then Extremely Online people, which is why voting is massively down outside of boomers and GenX (who strongly vote red, at least in states like Ohio and Texas that actually matter). The American people know instinctively that a Democrat Congress isn't going to make gas prices go down, so they're just tuning out the whole thing. Which is good. You want low-propensity retards to stay away from the ballot box. You want politics to go back to normal, which benefits MAGA since we run this bitch.

Hey remember a month ago when Americans were going EVROPE IS DOOMED because the right-wing government in Sweden lost one seat? The left-wing opposition parties can't form a government because the Left Party won't budge on their demand to get cabinet seats and the Centre Party won't budge on their demand that the Left Party be excluded. The first investiture vote for the Social Democrats already failed and the Centre Party (which only has 25 seats out of a 349-seat parliament) has been handed the mandate to form a government, with the deadline being Monday. There's also a gigantic electoral fraud investigation going on centered on a Somali who only got Swedish citizenship a few months ago somehow getting elected to parliament despite being a total unknown. Assuming the Centre and Left parties don't budge, Sweden either holds a snap election or the right-wing coalition is reinstalled. Americans who don't understand European parliamentary government should just shut the fuck up, just like Europeans who don't understand the American presidential system (and thus think the Democrats winning the midterms is meaningful in any way) should shut the fuck up.