Well, it's beginning to look like the increasingly-misnomered United States are not yet quite as degenerate as people feared.

All the same, given the utter depraved shitness of one of the choices on offer, still deeply disturbing. For those of us still living in some kind of democracy, given how easy it would be to wake up tomorrow in a better, more functional, more optimistic and positive society if people would only fucking vote for it, it's frustrating hey

Don't even have to fight and die for it, just vote for it and it's yours. And, that's a no.

Anthony Flack wrote: Well, it's beginning to look like the increasingly-misnomered United States are not yet quite as degenerate as people feared.

All the same, given the utter depraved shitness of one of the choices on offer, still deeply disturbing.

Yes to both. The craziest of the crazies will probably lose (at least of the newcomers), thank fuck, but this shouldn't have even been close.

If you would have told me at this time yesterday that this is where we’d be at, I would have been pretty darned relieved.

Some of the state races, in particular. Election results in Michigan look pretty good, for example.

I'm not shocked Texas, Georgia, and Florida Republican governors held on, but by such wide margins.. depressing as hell. TX and FL particularly: those migrant bussing stunts, nothing? Texas: remember when you were frozen in your living rooms for like a fuckin' week, nothing? You said yes to more of that??

I hope abortion pills become easy to get cuz good fucking luck there.

I'm generally pretty pleased with how things turned out here in MI. D's control state house, state senate, and gov for the first time since 1984.

Anthony Flack wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:39 pm What happens when President Boebert decrees the Democratic party is a terrorist organisation and belief in climate change is blasphemy?

I will be giddy as shit if she loses her re-election bid. Race hasn't been called yet but she's down by more than 1 percentage point right now.

There is a lot of good news so I'll stop with this soon, but this one is tough to take:

Ron Johnson
Republican Party
50.5%
1,334,670

Mandela Barnes
Democratic Party
49.5%
1,307,296

99% reported. Johnson was like 6 points behind until a bunch of out of state funded Willie Horton-style ads came along to scare white geriatrics and save his ass. This could have been the key to not having every senate vote not come down to Joe fucking Manchin. gahhhhhh..

jfv wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:36 am I will be giddy as shit if she loses her re-election bid. Race hasn't been called yet but she's down by more than 1 percentage point right now.

Yeah, Boebert is a mockable idiot who's days have been numbered one way or another. It's disgusting Marjorie Taylor Greene who's managed to have a surprising amount of influence.

penningtron wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:37 am There is a lot of good news so I'll stop with this soon, but this one is tough to take:

Ron Johnson
Republican Party
50.5%
1,334,670

Mandela Barnes
Democratic Party
49.5%
1,307,296

99% reported. Johnson was like 6 points behind until a bunch of out of state funded Willie Horton-style ads came along to scare white geriatrics and save his ass. This could have been the key to not having every senate vote not come down to Joe fucking Manchin. gahhhhhh..

How have the state-level elections in Wisconsin gone? I heard potential horror stories beforehand about republicans being able to win supermajorities in the state houses, allowing them to completely bypass the governor.

It seems like it'd be something I could easily look up but there's so much election news that just searching for "Wisconsion election results" generally leads to results of the race you wrote about above.

jfv wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:15 am How have the state-level elections in Wisconsin gone? I heard potential horror stories beforehand about republicans being able to win supermajorities in the state houses, allowing them to completely bypass the governor.

It seems like it'd be something I could easily look up but there's so much election news that just searching for "Wisconsion election results" generally leads to results of the race you wrote about above.

That will likely be the case, yes. I believe it's counties in the NW part of the state that will flip red. The state legislature here has been pretty red for a while, already limiting the governor's power but it will get worse. The same dynamic exists in North Carolina.

Michigan is looking pretty damn nice right about now. I already love its pretty lake shores and dispensaries..