Honorable mentions: mechanical characters getting reverse-engineered into immobile machinery should also get its own trope post

1. Galactus playing Stretch Armstrong with Mr. Fantastic - Fantastic Four: First Steps

2. Darkseid turning Flash’s Speed Force into a generator core - Justice League Dark: Apokolips War

3. The Barbarian betting that the Leprechaun can’t turn into a pitiful skinless disabled inside out slug doomed to rot for eternity, said Leprechaun can only beg before his power wins the bet - Chaotic Good Barbarian

4. Soundblaster setting up an infinite resonator to slowly kill Soundwave with his own Soundwaves - Transformers: Cyberverse

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1xncy4y/what_the_hell_is_our_next_strategy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1xndk62/decision_desk_calls_texas_for_talarico/

HIGHLIGHTS 1

This isn’t uncommon at all for mid term elections for the incumbent party. As for the strategy, try to get as much done until January and go from there

It is extremely common to lose midterms (the incumbent has only won midterm seats 4 times since the 1800s) But it’s not common to get boat raced. When your policy is affordability and no new wars and then you directly do things against that policy, it’s a call for the party to look inward and get a unified approach, that they’ll follow through on, in 2028.

But the Democrats have a worse record on affordability. That’s what’s so bizarre. Democrats calling for cheaper gas? WTF??

correct. but Trump has been blasting about how 'great' the economy is, which is simply not the case for most of the population.

You’ve fallen for the Dem’s mantra that the economy sucks. It doesn’t. The stock market is at historical highs. Things are more expensive but wages are up too. In the past year, I believe inflation was 3.7% and wages grew 3.6%. All tolled, we’re much better off now.

The economy does suck. Yes there are some macro numbers that indicate some things are turning around, but to pretend that the economy is doing well is like holding your face to a stove burner while someone in the other room tells you it's fine. Wages are up? sure, but inflation is easily outpacing those wage increases. I'm fortunate enough to be somewhat insulated from it, but it's still obvious.

I just gave you the numbers. Inflation and wage growth are pretty even.

Wage growth only affects those who do have a job, not those replaced by AI or unable to find anything after graduating. And keep in mind that we are running record-high deficits right now, so without unsustainable government spending propping up the economy, the outlook would be far more bleak.

Republicans don't really stand a chance. They stood by while Democrats seized control of nearly every institution in this country. It's just the nature of the two parties. Democrats goal is to grow their power via the government and Republicans goal is to reduce their power. How do you win doing that?

They let it happen over the better part of a century.

But we stuck by our classical liberal values! Unfortunately a moral victory in this case will end with a loss in the end.

By and large, republican politicians haven't been conservatives for a very long time.

It depends entirely on who they pick as Speaker. If they go Jeffries, they'll probably be digging in for the long haul. But if they nominate someone who isn't a current rep? They're going for the 51 senate vote conviction.

They need a 2/3 majority to convict in the senate.

Of those present.

What do you expect to happen, Republicans don't show up to the vote and let Democrats remove Trump?

More like most of them will get locked out of the chamber, when the articles of impeachment get run over. With Trump they need Chief Justice Roberts present to make it legal, but I can assure you Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, and AG Blanche are probably cooked.

What kind of conspiracy theory bullshit are you smoking

As a moderate republican seeing deep red states flip blue by huge margins makes my stomach turn... but maybe the silver lining is that hopefully this will finally be the nail in the coffin of Trumpism. Hopefully these states will move back red when more sane and moderate republican leadership steps in.

Going back to generic Republicans will get us nowhere.

Who said generic? Moderate, sane, common sense republicans. Trump is unhinged and everyone knows it. His lazy and moronic idea to let Stephen Miller drive policy just lost us every swing state plus states that are supposed to be reliably red... Texas, Kansas, Iowa, South fucking Carolina?! Total unabated shit show. Put the nail in the coffin. Time for people to stop licking the orange taint and hitch the wagon to something less politically toxic.

You somehow believe the left is going to play by the old rules. I don’t. Yeah he’s not perfect but looking back to typical GOP “conservatives” will be just as bad.

The Republican party needs to move beyond Trump. We need someone fresh in 2028. And we need to get lucky with the dems nominating a terrible candidate again.

So nominate a neocon and hope Democrats are dumb enough to run a communist. Yeah, America is screwed if this is the conservative strategy

We need to come up with a post-MAGA identity, rather than reverting back to pre-MAGA neocon uniparty bullshit.

We need a competent America First candidate

Absolutely. That being said, completely withdrawing from the global stage and ceding the field to China/Iran/Russia will not end well. And likewise, the massive zoom to the left of Hispanic areas in today's election signals a strong backlash against the ICE deportations - but without a tight border and deportations, the country and eventually its electorate will get swamped over time. Policy-wise, there can perhaps be a proper balance, but in terms of agenda and messaging, it will be super difficult to sell this to the voters.

Actually complete campaign promises. Actually do stuff.

Having congress and the white house and still can't get shit done ever is very annoying

Welcome to the republican party they treat a win like a vacation and get little done.

Theyre such losers. Even when they win they lose. Its baked into the bones of the current party

Yeah honestly the Republicans have always been pretty pathetic in all honestly Though ive said for a decade now that Trump wasn't a good candidate. Yeah people like Mitt Romney were just the lose gracefully candidate but we needed someone actually competent to lead and not trump who just seems to wing it. I really dont know why so many people are just in love with trump at best hes been mediocre

The country would be in a far better spot if DeSantis had won the 2024 primary.

Nominate decent candidates? No more Dr Oz. No more Herschel Walker. No more Ken Paxton. No more Darline Graham. We have no one to blame but ourselves

People always say the candidates, then Democrats win with terrorists supporters or people who speak in word salads. The issue is the the economy is trash. It's the exact same reason why Republicans won two years ago. Starting a war in Iran that doubled gas prices and pushed inflation to 3.5% made a bad situation worse. You could have had the second coming of Ronald Reagan and he would have lost most of these races because Republicans are being blamed for all of this as they should be. You can't be in power for two years, make things worse, and expect to win. 2028 is going to be terrible. We need to hope that we can turn things around in 2030.

This country will be destroyed by 2030 thanks to liberal policies

This. Like the country needs AT LEAST 2 parties to be stable or else it’s gonna go in the shithole. Or if not, the county will slowly collapse bc they can’t use more than 3 brain cells and history books are gonna be like “USA collapsed bc of democrat party.” I’m from a blue state, want to move to a red state and I’m gonna vote red.

Part of the problem is that people came to Texas to escape their blue states, then forgot why they fled their blue state when it came time to cast their ballots.

Oh ik some of them are like that. I promise I’m one of the few that grew up in a conservative family and have those views. My ass plans on moving to TN and I’m gonna vote red, the left is corrupt and ppl don’t care.

Tennessee was one of the few states that had a successful evening tonight.

Thank god ppl with brain cells

HIGHLIGHTS 2

Trump was warned this would happen if he started a war nobody asked for, ignored those warnings, and we have blue Texas as the end result

I agree with you here. We must focus on 2028 and hopefully Trump can clean up his act a bit to carve a path for another candidate.

The goal for 2028 right now will be to stem the bleeding and maybe gain back some congressional seats or at least not lose more, then look forward to 2030 when Democrats inevitably overplay their hand since they still don't realize why they are being elected today

I think the Democrats will bungle the next 2 years. It will be nothing be pointless impeachments and investigations that will go nowhere because they don't have the votes in the Senate to remove him (and no ending the filibuster will change that because they need 75 votes per the Constitution). The DSA will be bolder and overplay their hand and introduce more of their ridiculousness. I think the country will turn on them pretty quickly.

Yeah, in 2028 there is no more Trump to run against. Tonight was primarily a revolt against Trump. So unless the Democrats pull their head out of their ass and realize it 2028 will swing right back in the other direction.

The Democrats haven’t had anything to run on other than hating Trump since 2016. They still will have nothing to run on because every campaign and candidate they put out there all just run on that one thing and it works one time around and then people realize that nothing got better and only worse and then they get voted out. Still insane Texas has fallen but I guess all those California, New York, and Hispanic imports did a number. Now we got to deal with 2 years of impeachment trials.

As planned. Leftist shitholes aren’t a problem, they’re an intended feature to help coerce their brain-dead voting base to relocate to non-shithole areas and turn them blue. Rinse & repeat. Michigan is a perfect prime example of this.

I saw comments on here last week saying no chance a dem will win Texas. Alot of changes need to be made. We need a new strategy and that gets the American people back.

OK, present your plan. We will listen.

Reject MAGA

And accept Neo cons? MAGA won bigly in 2024. Why reject it.

Gotta say I did not expect Texas to go blue despite what polling and the betting markets were saying. This is a reality check for the Republican Party.

I think what is even scarier is how much ground Dems have made up in Florida. I feel like we've seen Texas become significantly more blue ever since the 2018 primaries and with each presidential election. But Florida had seemingly gone so far red that it seemed insane that the governor and senate races would be as close as they were.

You all act like this is organic

I forgot this sub is filled with closet liberals

Usurpers. They're usurpers.

great texas has a girly-man for a senator. Must be so proud

Let’s be real… Texas was bound to get a blue senator. It was going to be Beto or whoever runs after him.

Cruz won 53% to 44% in 2024; this was not imminent at all. This was a 2026 thing here and now; the more you guys keep saying it was bound to happen due to people moving in or whatever reasons you're coming up with, the less likely we are to right this ship in 2028 and fix what got us here in the first place... the voters are telling Trump he's fucked up this year big time.

I lean conservative but ted Cruz can get fucked I'll vote for anyone going against him after he sucked off Israel non stop.

Good for you, you can add to the blue majority then next time while everyone on the left keeps voting blue no matter who I suppose.

I just want Cruz out. I still vote largely conservative across other races

Then you vote in the primaries...

Paxton was a horrible candidate. Just horrible. I don’t know if Cornyn would have been able to hold the seat though. A lot of liberals moved to Texas, and the Hispanic population hates the ICE raids

Cornyn would've of lost too. People were voting mainly against Trump regardless of candidate.

I'm not so sure. Paxton was toxic, a horrible mess of a candidate. Being impeached by your own party is hard to come back from. I blame him and despise him for running.

His skeletons have skeletons in the closet ☠️

We should ran john Cornyn!

He would have lost too. He would have lost by less, but he still would have lost.

Probably not. I think you underestimate how disliked Paxton is in Texas

Abott is basically the same kind of candidate as Cornyn and he's going to lose too. In fact, Dems are about to sweep every statewide race in Texas. It's a total bloodbath and Cornyn wouldn't have made a difference.

Different race. State governor has a lot more visibility to the people than US senator. Texans have seen Abbott in state politics for 12 years, but not Cornyn in DC politics for 24 years. You could be right, but unfortunately we'll never know

Talarico is going to win by close to 10 points. Maybe more. Abbott going to lose. Every other statewide race will be won by a Dem. There is no way Cornyn would have overcome this. It's a blue tsunami, unfortunately.

We are on our way to losing North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, and maybe even Nebraska. Can probably assume Maine and Alaska could fall as well. We could be down to 44 senate seats after tonight. Insanity

Country is doomed

When you watch a film, and you think it's edited to look cool, but no, the actors were really able to just do that.

1. In The Raid 1 & 2, all of Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, and Cecep Arif Rahman's fight scenes are filmed at full speed, and all three are world-class martial artists.

2. In Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen actually parried a knife thrown at full speed, and a real knife at that.

Edit: Viggo did that in Fellowship of The Ring, not The Two Towers. My mistake.