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Takes strength to admit when you're wrong.
Nov 10, 2022 4:27 AM
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Takes strength to admit when you're wrong.
RaymondChoppard
Wow. That last line was unexpected.
Willowknowsall
I don't understand why the news outlets were projecting red wave, bad information? No information? Projecting desired outcome hoping it happ
DamnedIfYouDo
Can we show positive reinforcement for someone owning up to a mistake instead of shitting on them? The latter is just too easy.
filton2018
Red Wave stopped by the Great Tampon of Democracy.
FaithAlone
What’s amazing is this is the first election after Jan 6 and the republicans didn’t really pay a price for trying g to overthrow the gov.
km3000
"It's ok"
elBirdnose
I might not agree with their political beliefs, but I can respect owning being wrong.
TheOvy
30 years and somehow he can't read the polls. In 2010, RCP average had Republicans +9.4. This year, it had Republicans at a mere +2.5. It
TheOvy
was never going to be 2010.
symmetry7
What just happened? I think someone admitted they were wrong on Twitter, but that can't be right.
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
fimbl
Yes: all of the corporate (Republican) owned media has insisted on a red wave since 2021.
ucandcantunc
always good to compare the GOP with an elevator full of murder victims blood
Bendrix
If Rogan caims something it's a safe bet to go with the opposite.
FirstInLastOut
That never happens
draco25310
Statisticaly speaking in a normal year it would have been a red surge. But....someone passed a bunch of people off.
TargaryenLoyalist
He owned up to it and apologized, so I'm not gonna rub it in even more. To quote Tywin Lannister: "when your enemies defy you, you must (1)
TargaryenLoyalist
serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise (2)
TargaryenLoyalist
no man will ever bend the knee to you.” In other words, mocking a person after an apology results in no further apologies to you. (3/3)
OddlyPacific
Thanks, SLOsurfer! See you out there Monday
Kompromatic
I was a red wave-- wave goodbye
OseaDidNothingWrong
Wow holy shit, a conservative who talked trash but backed down when proven wrong. It doesn't even seem real.
NeutralForest
PaulHurley
Good on them for admitting it.
Sechran
An internet right-winger owning being wrong? Major "signs of the end times" vibes - is there an apocalypse scheduled I wasn't told about?
Imgerruinedimger
I stopped tracking them after the last 17 or so were a bust...
williamtowel
Well he never said he was...could have been a doomer liberal. Which would make WAAAY sense.
Crazycoke1994
Need not stop here, we need to continue to do what is needed for this country and planet.
Filanwizard
This round was unusual as the house does often flip big at the mids. This time around it’s extremely tight. 1/
Filanwizard
One anal cyst err analyst I saw said the GOP should see this as a message to jettison Trump.
Filanwizard
I suspect because now being endorsed by orange inspires more people to vote for the other guy for a good reason.
UnattendedDeviant
Shapiro said Rogan was correct but "it'll be more like Deep Impact movie with red asteroid". Lol. Reality: Most midterm Admins lose dozens..
Holinyx05
Ben is a cuck who gets paid to say Republicans are all directly anointed by God himself
UnattendedDeviant
...of seats. Dozens. Biden...5 or so. Least lost midterm seats by Admin in over 40 years.
Chair5768
This is incorrect, Bush gained 8H/2S seats in 2002 (probably due to 9/11). Your overall point about Rs underperforming is correct though.
UnattendedDeviant
Least "losses". Biden msy have the least losses amongst times when a lost happened. Hope that clears up the misunderstanding.
AxelBeingCivil
Best first midterm showing of any Democrat since Kennedy.
ThatRaccoonGuy
He admitted he was wrong. Joe Rogan and Shapiro and Tucker Carlson and all them will just double down, triple down, quadruple down.
NEUOLDMAN
Well yeah, cause they're knuckleheaded shills lol
SecondSince
Stop giving any if them attention. Just stop mentioning them completely.
Pepeseinn
I can hear the classic hymn of "It was stolen" already
rosebudthesled
Doesn't make their cult membership something we should applaud. They only admitted the bare minimum. Not that their views are wrong.
somerandomusernamething
They were already saying it was rigged weeks ago. The excuse is lined up for them
nintyuk
"Were not stuck in this hole! We can just dig our way out if we just keep on going!"
Marsmallowmancer
They're probably already writing scripts about how this was rigged and how "the youth" are too brainwashed to be able to vote responsibly
ThatRaccoonGuy
Yes, see the "GenZ is destroying America" and "Change the voting age to 21" posts lol
Zerubbabel
Not a big Joe Rogan fan but he seems odd to include in the list with the other two.
StontiumJaguar
His apathy towards the truth and good sources in the pursuit of content allows for a lot of shit to come through.
homoerection
Since he’s moved to texas he’s parroting GQP conspiracy theories and douchebagery. He definitely belongs on the list.
NinjablazerZero
He was doing that long before he moved to Texas. Rogan was never a smart man, but he's been drinking the kool aid for a long while now
W0lfsbl00d
Is Rogan an ideologue like the other two?
williamtowel
Yes but he won't say it out loud. Even if you broadcast a diverse range of people, there some groups you explicitly can't. Neo-nazi's and-
williamtowel
the like, because there goal is to pollute civil discourse and make i impossible. This knowledge isn't new. So if you do and he has, well...
ArkoneAxon
Wrong. You bring them out and show people what they say/do/think, and in the process you expose them. That is EXACTLY how the Ku Klux Klan>
ArkoneAxon
was dealt a crippling blow back in the 1940s, with the Superman radio show.
SJohnson23
But that’s because the authors of Superman wanted to cripple the KKK. Rogan just wants ratings and challenges nothing they say.
Filanwizard
Right, Wrong, Totally dumb, Rogan still gets his ratings. He won’t change unless the ratings fall.
rosebudthesled
I see your point but it always needs to be said that it is wrong or it's repeated till it isn't when no one fights back.
Filanwizard
Or he will pull a MAGA and claim cancel culture.
Briarcastle
They do it all the time. For him & his ilk being questioned, devoid of any consequence, is now cancel culture. Profoundly fragile fucks.
Filanwizard
also for all they yell Snowflake they seem to offend the fastest, 2sec same gender kiss in "Lightyear" was a full freakout for em.
chefsoda
To his credit, he owned it.
secondtalon
Weird way to announce you aren't a Republican.
KrondorMocker
FAKE! No one apologises on twitter
G4df1y
Which is why he'll never be a Tucker or Shapiro
DaggettOFlannigan
Honestly shocked by it
3ES60181487
yes indeed very admirable.
NeutralForest
All we need in this world and we can make some shit happen
imgurdotcommie
I was on r/conservative for a while and was very surprised. Lots of "trump is done" comments and solid assessments of what went wrong.
LuminoZero
Why does this surprise you? They want POWER, and courting Trump isn't getting them that anymore. So discard and move on.
endfreq
Good for him. Good for us all.
Renza0
I'm genuinely surprised it wasnt screaming about fake elections or some shit. good on them for owning it.
NERDRAGEohacat
Could've been a cynical Democrat expecting a red wave rather than a Republican hoping for one? Not familiar with their posting history.
telecomteardown
Even said further down he didn't mind the flack he was getting. Solid.
Armyguy8382
He sounds like he could actually turn the GQP back into a semi-reasonable party if he had a leadership role.
CurbYourClassWar
So what? Why the fuck would we want that? It sucked to begin with.
MeMonty
The GQP "movement" could turn itself back if it could just graduate from their very difficult tribal prebubescent stage.
OmenJones
The guy makes his living trolling YT has-beens.
Raeilgunne
would still be better than most gqp
Armyguy8382
That makes me feel old as fuck. Youtube has-beens. Youtube has been around long enough for stars to rise and then fall.
DickMercenary
It's the internet, brother. It has a short attention span. Some folk get a literal fifteen minutes of fame now instead of a figurative one.
WithFurtherAdo
some stay dry and others feel the pain