the fillibuster don’t bother me much and chances are I look forward to McConnell to limit conversation/strike the weapon all together.
However if the Democratic Party’s next move is to act like a bunch of ‘Sid n Nancy’s’, I’ll wait over here.
I’m willing to grant something to the left in regards to enticements, but ever since '10, the biggest carrot was something that their ‘cousin’ seemed to grasp better than them.
To borrow from that Verizon guy:
Obama: “Can ya hear me now?”
It is odd that so many polls were off to the same degree.
there were reasons for that.
Hillary is a woman of dignity and strength, even in loss. God bless her and her family.
I feel as if my country died yesterday.
Not happening because McConnell will most likely nuke it. He had no reason to fear 2018. Look at the map, so he knows he’ll be Majority Leader for years. He’s gotta know too that Trump will likely be a one termer. Regardless, he’ll probably retire in 2020 anyway.
Chris Matthews was blabbing last night about how Schumer better not be an obstructionist - it was galling. Where’s he been on Mitch??
Here’s one thing that worries me – what happens when all those who voted for Trump don’t see the changes they want? What happens when their job is elimated due to technology or a plant closing because the company is bankrupted by a trade war with China? What happens to them. I sure hope Donnie has an answer, because those people will be hurting.
You OK? I’ve been thinking in particular about the women on this site I have shared this journey with. I’m not going to try to list them because I’ll fuck it up and leave out someone I didn’t mean to. But I’m thinking about you all out here in this wilderness of grief, wondering if you are as heartbroken as me and sending you lots of love. Here’s something I wrote this morning to friends on another site:
Today I’m going to get up and put on some clothes (because flannel PJ’s are not appropriate work attire). I’m going to grab a cup of coffee or three. I’m going to find my son and tell him that I will do everything in my power to make sure he and other people more vulnerable than this old white lady stay safe (though he’s 1000 times more powerful than me and really doesn’t need me anymore; I’m still the mama bear). I’m going to muster all the dignity I can in the grief I am feeling and do my job. It will be my first step. But one day soon, I’m going to get pissed off and channel that anger into action. And at that point, you can either work with me or get the fuck out of my way. Expect it.
Just the rantings of a middle aged woman, but maybe something someone, somewhere can hold on to.
The story is all those bernie bots who decided to vote 3rd party to “teach the dems a lesson”. I hope they enjoy what they’ve sown.
Entitlements.
From what I can determine, that’s what motivated the opposition. Entitlement, in two regards.
They essentially expect welfare for white people.
There’s a rationality behind these perspectives. Unfortunately, the perspectives are not taken rationally.
A number of these people are actually recipients of white welfare. I know, because as someone employed in the private sector, it’s my taxes paying for their pensions and fine benefits. In many cases, it’s my taxes paying their salaries, their insurance, their pensions. Hell, even their Social Security. They aren’t paying for the poor. I am.
But conservative America has chosen a narrow, limited track for government. As long as it doesn’t take away its welfare.
Welfare for “us” is good. Welfare for “them” is the problem they want Republicans to fix.
Except he can abuse not only the power that goes with his money and celebrity, but now the power of the Presidency. And he has an impeachment-proof House and high crimes and misdemeanors-proof Senate to look the other way.
This is galling in so many ways. Senate Repugs get a new Senate majority as reward for unconstitutionally denying the President his lawful authority to appoint a Supreme Court justice. Trump is rewarded with the Presidency for what should have been his serial crimes of sexual assault, and also gets to re-victimize his victims by threatening to sue them as well (forcing one even to flee the country). What woman would ever want to come forward when he is President?
Not least of the galling things is the President will be punished for GOP gridlock because voters did not throw the obstructors of his programs out of office while they rejected the candidate who would have continued his legacy. Very dark four years on the horizon.
Yep. I didn’t even feel this badly when W won a second term. Close, but not quite.
Well, I guess the Clintons won’t have to disband their foundation and can keep doing life saving work around the globe. Maybe Hillary can take a more active role in it. There will probably be a lot the Clinton Foundation can do here at home too, as our social programs are underfunded or destroyed.
SIgh.
When things go wrong and the Trump voters do not get what they were promised by Trump he will blame it on Obama and the Dems, of course.
I’m OK now. Thank you so much for caring and asking, but this morning I was back deep in the throes of grief and that’s just a place I can’t let myself go back to anytime soon. Not if I don’t have to. I’m hurt, deeply, but I realized much as you did in your post that you’ve got to move on, put it in its place and move forward. There are many, many more battles to come over the next for years. I can’t let this one break me. But it hurts like hell.
Yes, it hurts like hell.
But I’m with you. And so are my California sisters.
I listened to Hillary today and she basically said in so many words that this country’s ideals are worth a continuing fight. She said don’t ever give up. Tim Kaine said the same thing. I don’t see any other option but to step up and be like them. So I just wrote my local Democratic committee chair and said from now on I’m a permanent volunteer, not just a guy who shows up for election cycles. It hurts and it’s frightening to see where this mess has landed us. But if you don’t let it break you there’s always something you can do about it. I’m going to try to be like Hillary and Barack were today. If you look up to leaders like them you owe it to them and yourself to do that much. Don’t give up, guys. I think we owe Hillary that much for sharing so much of her strength with us.
I don’t want to sound like a sore loser. Trump did clean electoral college battleground states but there seemed to be some disconcerting patterns. There is something fishy that does not pass the smell test.
I keep reading and rereading this. There’s something about it that is very very comforting. Thank you very much for posting and sharing.
Worse, there is a good chance Trump will be impeached. That means Ayatollah Pence will become President and will take the opportunity to dump his religious venom on America’s LGBT community.