We must remain engaged, and we must keep fighting. This election was merely Round 1 of a 30 rounder. We can’t let Moscow Mitch shove us around anymore.
And we won’t.
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Moscow Mitch’s hands are purple. Maybe he’s run out of demonic goat’s blood consecrated by the sacrifice of an innocent child and he won’t reach his full powers.
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There is no Jekyll and Hyde thing going on within the GOP: it’s all Hyde now, all the way down. Republicans–voters and politicians alike–do not believe that the Democrats can ever legitimately hold power. Why on earth should they compromise with illegitimate politicians? What do they gain by it?
The goal now is to make Biden fail and then Pompei and Cotton and Noem can start campaigning in a year of so about what a failure the Democrats have been, so vote for me! Anyway, they have to please their voters to some degree, and their voters would like to see Hillary Clinton shot.
Even as we speak, McConnell is lining up allllllllll the investigative committees he can to go after Hunter Biden, and the GOP will be howling for impeachment even before Biden is sworn in.
McConnell has all the power here. I’m hoping that Biden has learned something from the Obama years, but who knows. The terrible thing here is that he will be forced to make the Presidency ever more monarchical, since the only way he will be able to get any kind of policy enacted will be by decree–which is a bad, bad set up for the next Republican president.
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There are a host of changes Biden can make that will normalize things. Proper investigations, compliance to information requests and so on. Then look at all the places appointees have been placed in government and the stone walling and games that will be stopped when they are removed. Trump is not the only person in government who has benefited from the cloak of the Trump hand.
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: Mark Kelly is running for a full term.
: Rand Paul, Marco Rubio are likely running for reelection.
: Depending on what Ron Johnson does, there’s a chance that the Republicans will be looking at three empty seat elections (Toomey and Burr aren’t running). Also Jerry Moran will be 68 in '22 and Grassley will be 765, so depending on the breaks, the Democrats could be looking at 5 seats.
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How? He can’t appoint all the judges anymore? Well, he’s appointed so many of them already, and now he gets to ensure that Biden doesn’t get a single one on a single bench. Mitch and the GOP win.
True, we’re not going to go full Handmaid’s Tale here, but the the fact that anyone is counting that as a victory shows us how bad things have gotten–we’re the abused spouse, deep in Stockholm Syndrome, telling everyone that Bob has gotten so much better because he doesn’t beat us every day.
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Damn. I was out all day working on my car, welcoming the excuse to not do the nail-biter thing, so I’ve been out of the loop for hours. Biden could still lose as he needs to hold onto MI & WI and of course all the other states, and win NV & AZ (or PA, GA or NC). And of course Trump’s coming legal challenges to a friendly court. This could easily go south for us. As for the senate, double damn and WTF. Pollsters got it wrong AGAIN? Any indication of cheating in any of these races, via the USPS or other means? What the hell happened in ME?
We are a nation divided into two camps, one a more or less decent and sane majority but unable to gain much purchase on the political process because it’s mostly concentrated in large states and cities, the other batshit, racist and dumb, and a clear minority, but because of these stupid things called states and the senate, disproportionately powerful.
I think we’re headed for a second civil war. I really do. What else can break this logjam?
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McConnell made it clear he will block anything Joe tries.
And Lady G is out for blood and will hound Hunter endlessly.
Thank you for acknowledging an undeniably positive outcome, despite the wailers and teeth gnashers.
At the moment, the 2020 election seems to have:
- Wrested the White House (and DOJ) from a literal madman
- Elected the first woman VP, the first African American VP, and the first Asian American VP
- Flipped at least three red states to blue – including AZ
- Grown the Democratic caucus/shrank the GOP majority in the Senate
- Held our large House majority
- Flipped both houses of at least one red state lege to blue
- Held every blue state lege (AFAIK) going into the reapportionment
How is this NOT an objectively – and significantly – better position than yesterday?
And yet, those who didn’t get EVERYTHING they wanted keep labeling it…A Catastrophe!™
(I’m disappointed we didn’t do better, too, but I’ve been SMDH since last night.)
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God, I hope so. The next two years might be tough. It would be great if we can get the Senate and not lose seats in the House in 2022.
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Is it just me, or does Joe look pretty displeased about the position he’s in right now…?
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They will win handily. The only question here is whether Rubio will run for President again. And there will be no Democratic senator out of Nebraska, unless the Grassley retires and the GOP runs the reanimated corpse of Ted Bundy. Wisconsin is possible, and who knows, maybe a future seat from North Carolina and Georgia, but in the next few years? Nope.
The only way Democrats return as a dominate force on the Federal level is to dump Civil Rights. The moment that the meth-addled voters in West Virginia realize that Black people won’t get anything, you’d find that they would suddenly be very interested in all the nice things the Democratic Party has on offer.
As long as the Electoral College endures, our future is fascist.
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Welcome to being a Democrat.
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Not to mention these:
- Nevada became the first state in the nation to protect same-sex marriage in its constitution
- Charmaine McGuffey became Hamilton County, Ohio’s first female & LGBTQ+ sheriff
- Michele Rayner-Goolsby became FL’s first Black queer woman in the state legislature
- Stephanie Byers became the first transgender legislator in Kansas
- Kim Jackson became the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to the GA senate
- Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones became the first openly gay Black members of Congress
- Susan Eggman became the first openly LGBTQ+ Latinx woman elected to the CA senate
- Taylor Small was elected as VT’s first transgender state legislator
- Torrey Harris and Eddie Mannis made history as TN’s first openly LGBTQ+ state legislators
- Mauree Turner became the first non-binary state lawmaker in the US
- Shervin Jones became FL’s openly LGBTQ+ state senator
- Sarah McBride became the first transgender state senator in US history
- New Mexico elected its US House delegation made up entirely by women of color
- Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have won their first reelection races
- Cori Bush, a BLM activist and community leader, will be MO’s first Black woman in Congress
- Jamaal Brown, beaten by the police when he was 11, started his own public school to serve his community, beat a 30-year incumbent to serve in Congress
- MS voted to end a Jim Crow-era electoral college system aimed at diluting the Black vote
- Jabari Brisport was elected in NY’s 25th district, making him the first LGBTQ person of color elected to the New York state legislature
- Khaleel Anderson became the youngest Black person elected to public office in NY state history
- Nikil Saval became the first Asian-American elected into the PA State Senate
- Eric Fagan was elected as the first Black sheriff in Ft. Bend, TX since reconstruction
- Dedrick Johnson was elected as Texas City, TX’s first Black mayor
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It depends on who’s running.
Cunningham should have been a senator elect, but i live in a country in which a fake Oxford scholar is still Texas’ senior senator.
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Personally, I think he’s seriously ill. And kept that fact out of the election eye.
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Grassley is in Iowa.
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While it’s a drag that we won’t have the Senate, Biden will be able to reverse Trump’s execrable executive orders, reinstate the environmental regulations, and add some of his own. The Senate elections in 2022 will have 22 Republicans up for reelection, and only 12 Democrats. So it’s possible (unless we lose the House) some real action can happen then. Meanwhile, I’m happy that Trump and Barr will likely be gone from our lives.
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" Without A Blue Senate, A Pres. Biden Would Have To Dramatically Adjust His Expectations This Entire Election Was a Waste Of Time"
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Total. 100%. Failure. This was an all or nothing affair and we’ve essentially achieved absolutely nothing. It is an absolute, unmitigated disaster and the next 2 years will only result in a mid-term election in 2022 that obliterates any hope of saving this country.
Forest. Trees. Nose. Spite. Face. Fuck you Berniebots. Fuck you forever and ever and ever and may you choke on COVID for your anti-Clinton obsessions in 2016, because yes, that’s where all this starts.
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Looks more like an angry Bob Barker.
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