November 4, 2026 | Sundance | 917 Comments

There are some easily predictable outcomes now evident from the midterm election results.  At a top-level initial review here’s the direction of greatest likelihood.

BASELINE: Democrats, Leftists and DSA want power; Republicans, corporatists and NRSC want money.

WINNERS: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mark Carney, EU-NATO, King Charles and Commonwealth, Globalists, Donald Tusk, Brussels, Chairman Xi, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Climate Change Inc., and “middle powers”.

LOSERS: President Trump, JD Vance, Karol Nawrocki, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Tech Bros., Elon Musk, DHS, ICE, DoW, Jensen Huang, Mike Johnson, American middle-class, auto workers and Border Security interests.

OUTCOMES:

(1) Gasoline prices, specifically diesel fuel prices, will likely drop very fast; election objective fulfilled.

(2) For a few months datacenter expansion and approvals will be paused. Datacenters will restart after the federal regulatory sub-agency is created and a series of ‘indulgency fees’ determined. [Similar to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)].  Those impact fees will be very lucrative.

(3) Congress will quickly act on pre-written legislation to slow AI and introduce government regulation; likely a new regulatory agency will be created and taxes assessed on AI investment under the justification of AI economic impact. AI investment fees and federal datacenter impact fees will be distributed to fungible DNC/DSA aligned NGOs (foreign and domestic) to replace missing USAID funds.  Congress will skim funds as normal (indulgences).

(4) Starlink will be nationalized.  The Ukraine vulnerability cannot be allowed again. Elon Musk will have to accept a new regulatory agency as created responsible for space oversight reportable to congress.  This way congress will control the specific mechanisms of Starlink on behalf of allied international stakeholders who do not have their own space program or capability.  More indulgency fees outlined for access, more congressional bribes, payoffs and skimming.

(5) More lucrative SpaceX impact fees will be demanded, same intents as above.  An additional layer of federal oversight and regulatory agency if Musk balks at payments.  All your space are belong to us, not private industry. Connected govt regulatory bureaucracy office, ie. monitors, assigned to SpaceX HQ – launch approval layer.  Grind Musk down, minimize exceptionalism again.

(6) Tech Bros and Silicon Valley will immediately switch support from Trump to Democrats. No-brainer. Done by December.

(7) ICE will be defunded.  CBP will be severely curtailed. Congress will pass some form of amnesty legislation, no border restrictions (North or South).  Comprehensive immigration reform with familial lineage approvals for additional imports.

(8) Congressional restrictions on executive branch tariff authority.  U.S. Chamber of Commerce will write it from K-Street.

(9) U.S. NATO Stabilization Act and European Strategic Defense spending bill likely for 2027.

(10) Cryptocurrency regulation and creation of U.S. digital currency standard. [Elizabeth Warren]

(11) Surveillance state will expand. Digital identity bill will be part of the Online Privacy Act.  When you set out to maximize power, the #1 priority is to control the ability of that power to be challenged.  The need for control is a reaction to fear.

(12) Russia will be more aggressive toward Ukraine with Trumpian limitations removed.  Putin’s pragmatic expectations of U.S. influence now evident. Russia will also align more with Africa, China and Saudi interests.

(13) China will speed up investments into Canada.

(14) The professionally republican will promote DeSantis again.

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November 4, 2026 | Sundance | 595 Comments

Vice President JD Vance gives his thoughts and impressions on the midterm election result.

JD VANCE (Via X) – “One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was “composition”—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we’re going to shock the world? “No,” he told me. “We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us.”

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team.

The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

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. I’m open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. 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. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.” (link)

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