I know we’re all feeling doom and gloom but can we get a thread of some wins/good news from last night?
It gives the boomers another chance to solidify their legacy as the worst generation in human history. In a way that helps all of us.
Many Zoomers voted for him too, unfortunately
The monsters who want us all dead might not take all three branches…! Maybe…!
The heat death of the universe will eventually come
Can we accelerate that timeline? Say to like Jan 20, 2025 (let the kids enjoy one last chance at any snow we might be lucky enough to get)?
Well, the sun will explode in 5 billion years, but if that’s too long, don’t worry, it’s only 1 billion until solar winds carry off half of Earth’s water.
Split ticket scenarios seemed common, which can mean party loyalty is at an all time low.
Delaware elected Sarah McBride, who is the first open transgender representative in Congress.
Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, who has been trying to prosecute Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, won reelection.
Washington Congressman Dan Newhouse, one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump (and one of two in that group who survived the subsequent midterm elections), successfully defended his seat again against a Trump-endorsed opponent. That’s at least one Republican in the House who doesn’t always rubber-stamp the party agenda.
Good news is we don’t have much time left
In Missouri, a red state…
Missourians vote to increase minimum wage, require paid sick leave
We have been down that road before. The state government will simply refuse to implement anything passed by ballot measure that they don’t like.
I expect the abortion measure to take effect since it deletes out an existing law, but i wouldn’t expect the minimum wage or paid sick leave to be worth the ink it was printed with.
This is a good thread to have today. This is some encouraging news!
I may have lost everything else, but I won on minimum wage and abortion.
I guess that will have to be my bellwether
And a atate constitutional amendment for abortion but that still needs to be played out in court.
Which won’t matter when the national abortion ban is passed.
But Trump said he would veto a national abortion ban.
Even if he weren’t a compulsive liar, he’s still pretty old. I doubt he’ll be serving a full four years.
Trump won.
I’d tell you to GFY, but you already have & just don’t realize it yet.
I’m curious, what part of that do you think will be good for anyone who isn’t a rich which male?
Kentucky amendment 2, which would have redirected public funds to private schools, failed miserably. Of all the red states, Kentucky seems to be somewhat unique in its’ strong resistance to Republican attacks on public education. It is, after all, why we have a Democratic governor. I only hope that continues to hold true.
I am still so glad that when I lived in KY for a few years, that I helped vote him in during mid-terms.
We kept our democratic congresswoman, and the tax to help the schools passed.
Washington got a really awesome governor.
The west coast stuck to its guns almost completely. Mark Robinson and Kari Lake lost their races incredibly enough.
Biden got some big stuff done with chips, infrastructure investment, and more. Unless Trump starts tearing down bridges and forcing people to remove heat pumps, some of Biden’s stuff will be very difficult to reverse, physically or politically.
Are you kidding? California voted to keep slavery, and against rent control, and against the AIDS organization who was funding the rent control measure.
Jeff Jackson for NC’s AG
Nebraska got weed and another state elected the first openly transgender U.S. Representative. Tlaib retained her seat.
Also, I learned that a grade school classmate won a state rep seat in one of the midwest swing states earlier and that’s good news to me, at least.
Hopefully liberals will wake up and see they can’t beat fascism, they have to embrace leftism if they want to beat it.
The people want populism and they no longer want the status quo. The right capitalized on this while the liberals went the moderate-right route, and it failed them. The only solution left is to embrace left wing politics. Unfortunately, I doubt the democrat party will be to keen on the idea of becoming left wing.
