In the run up to the election I wrote about how the only idea the GOP had was to ask the electorate for 2 more years…so they could just keep doing the same things. It’s been a week since the GOP got its butt kicked across the length and breadth of this country. Let’s see what they’ve learned.

Our Fearless Leader Adrastos noted Trump’s decision to make Stephen Miller his chief of staff. On one hand, yes, we saw it coming. But on the other hand it fits in with the abusive nature of this administration and of this president in particular, which has always been centered on the idea of hurting “the right people” in order to appeal to MAGA voters.  Remember this from 2019?:

A few miles away, another prison employee, Crystal Minton, accompanied her fiancé to a friend’s house to help clear the remnants of a metal roof mangled by the hurricane. Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary, said she had obtained permission from the warden to put off her Mississippi duty until early February because she is a single mother caring for disabled parents. Her fiancé plans to take vacation days to look after Ms. Minton’s 7-year-old twins once she has to go to work.

The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

But it’s clear that the Trump II administration went off the rails from day 1. Actually, no one in this administration had any intention of ever staying on the rails. The worst people were hired for important jobs, and they brought in people just like themselves, all hellbent on destroying everything good about the country. And that hurt everyone.

But this time the voters decided to get rid of these losers and the GOP is still coming to terms with what happened.

Rep. Emmer: “To our colleagues on the left, enjoy this honeymoon phase…come January 3, 2027, you will regret ever putting your name on a ballot…This Republican leadership team will expose the Democrats’ lies and show the American people their true colors as the radical communists that they are.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-11-10T21:35:42.712Z

He seems nice albeit a little confused since he’s going to be largely irrelevant for the next 2 years.

Surely the current Speaker of the House, whose charge was to hold the House, has had some time to think and has a plan to win back the House in 2028:

OK, well Pete Hegseth knew this morning that the House was going to vote on possibly impeaching him and so he must have thought about what to say at his press conference:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is getting shredded online for a rare press conference in which he implied he was just following President Donald Trump’s orders to defend his wartime actions.

Hegseth held the press conference — his first one in six months — after Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, who has emerged as a fierce Trump critic, introduced articles of impeachment against the Pentagon chief.

The articles filed Monday accuse Hegseth of unlawfully waging war in Iran and Yemen, capturing former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and striking suspected drug trafficking boats.

“Iran, the cartels, Maduro, Yemen — every one was a lawful operation ordered by the commander-in-chief, then ordered by myself, notified to Congress, and executed by American warriors who did their jobs,” Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday morning.

My stupid MAGA House rep wrote a 13 post thread about the election. Here’s the first one:

I would try to explain it but I can’t except evidently Trump is a political genius and the GOP let him down.

Our local Koch serfs had a pretty funny reaction:

So the real solution was to double down on the stuff that people hated. There is zero self-awareness here.

And then Tuesday afternoon the House GOP elected Jim Jordan, pedophile protector extraordinaire, to be their new Minority Leader. Because who better to help lead the GOP than a morally deficient dumbass who yells all the time? And Trump, too.

All of this, plus Pee Wee German’s promotion, makes perfect sense if you understand that the GOP is a party of abusers:  pedophiles, men who hit their partners, cheaters. There’s no room in their thinking to admit they were wrong. Their only approach prior to the election was to tell America that we would come to like the abuse that they embraced as their policy.

So the GOP has told us over the last week that their plan until the end of this administration is to continue to abuse—as much as they can in the minority—us. I don’t think that’s going to give them the 2028 results they want.

I’ll leave you with this:

Why do you keep on making us hear your song?
Tellin’ us how you are changin’ right from wrong
‘Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven’t done nothin’