{"id":33504,"date":"2026-02-01T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33504"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:21:23","slug":"the-repubs-are-so-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33504","title":{"rendered":"The repubs are so screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;did you see the result of the special election in Texas yesterday? In the backlash against trump and his ICE thugs, a dem won a senate seat in Texas of all places&#8230;and not by a small margin&#8230;in a seat the the repubs have held for 48 years. Taylor Rehmet blew the repub out by almost 16 points in a district that the idiot trump won by 58 to 41%&#8230;and the repubs dumped 5 times as much money to the race and it didn&#8217;t make a damn bit of difference&#8230;trump and ICE has become so toxic that we could be looking at a landslide in the fall and immediate impeachment of trump and noem and the rest of the thugs that are running the country into the ground&#8230;and the tide is turning on the legislative front. too&#8230;Bernie Sanders almost has the votes in the senate to take the 75 billion dollar increase to ICE&#8217;s budget in the repub spending bill and re-purpose it to restore the healthcare cuts that were in that bill, too&#8230;so all we need to do is survive until the November elections and we&#8217;ll stop the idiot trump in his tracks&#8230;keep the faith&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;did you see the result of the special election in Texas yesterday? In the backlash against trump and his ICE thugs, a dem won a senate seat in Texas of all places&#8230;and not by a small margin&#8230;in a seat the the repubs have held for 48 years. Taylor Rehmet blew the repub out by almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The repubs are so screwed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4437],"class_list":["post-33504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-blue-texas-senate-seat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33505,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33504\/revisions\/33505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}