Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

The new temporary speaker of the house is a spiteful little shit.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

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  2. 2.

    MazeDancer

    Fox News projecting that the Dems will control the House is uplifting.

    NBC gives it an 80% chance for Dem control of the House.

    This is all good.

  3. 3.

    Cheryl Rofer

  4. 4.

    zzyzx

    Citation is needed for history being on our side.

    Ultimately there’s a very strong rural/urban divide and we live under a system that gives the rural areas a massive advantage. I don’t see a workaround.

  7. 7.

    guachi

    The thing that surprises me most so far in the House is that, by 538’s classic estimate, every candidate with a 50% or greater chance of winning has won in races called so far. All of them. Zero upsets.

  8. 8.

    dnfree

    I want to thank you again for giving us the opportunity to donate funds to so many candidates. We’ll never know the difference you may have made.

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    It ain’t a wave…but frankly, when it comes down to it, all we need is 218 and the emergency brake will have been THROWN.

    I just need a Dem Congress for Mueller to give his report to, and two years of Trumponomics playing out as predicted. Add in 1M+ new Dem voters in Florida and we will hand the GOP their asses in 2020.

    HOWEVER…I cannot spend 2 more years in a blind rage over this sorry excuse of a country…no, that’s not right. This sorry excuse of about half of all our current voters, not our country as a whole. So, here’s to them – the GOP faithful, the unrepentant racists, the proud ignorants – dying off in record numbers, here’s to us continuing to inspire young people, and here’s to truly turning the page in 2020.

  19. 19.

    Mary G

    The FTFNYT finally put the dreaded needle up, and it says Democrats have a >95% chance to take the house, and right now they have the Senate at 53/47 Rs. I think we need to remember that this was supposed to be a bloodbath in the Senate for Democrats, and a gain of two isn’t great.

  25. 25.

    White & Gold Purgatorian

    It is truly the fight of our lives, for the rest of our lives. Even for the lives of those much younger than me. Evil is never vanquished, it must be beaten back regularly. Sometimes it gains a few steps, especially when good people are convinced the war has been won.

    Whatever the outcome of today’s battle, suck it up, take a breath, and hit it again.

    Thanks to all here for the sanity and the focus. These have been hard years.

  31. 31.

    Baud

    It should be clear to everyone by now that Trump has a strong constituency and 2016 really had little to do with the quality of Hillary as a candidate.

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Dems pick up NJ-11, used to be Rodney Freylinghausen’s for pretty much ever

    and repeating: Sharice Davids wins IN FREAKING KANSAS. First Native American woman ever elected to Congress. That in itself is worth celebrating. And in KANSAS!

    ETA: @Baud: white people who don’t want to admit they support him

  38. 38.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Baud:
    I’d like to think that a less damaged candidate (not her fault!) would have won. Of course, how much Russian fuckery had to do with Trump’s winning in those right states?

  39. 39.

    The Dangerman

    @Raven:

    Bye asshole.

    In Pauley Pavilion (and I miss the old Pauley; some things need to be left alone) it would be (on a foul out or DQ):

    So Long, Chief!

  45. 45.

    mdblanche

    @Cheryl Rofer: The courts de-gerrymandered Pennsylvania’s congressional districts for this election. I think there are still several more potential pickups, particularly in the Philly suburbs.

  52. 52.

    James E Powell

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    And California has more mail-in ballots every cycle. It takes days. I forget how long it took before we were sure we had Senator Kamala, but it was an agonizing wait.

    Is there a good source to see the tally of seats gained/lost?

  54. 54.

    Raven

    Real-time forecast
    House
    9 in 10
    Chance Democrats win control (89.8%)
    1 in 10
    Chance Republicans win control (10.2%)

  57. 57.

    The Dangerman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    They don’t do that anymore, at least the chief part.

    Bummer.

    If you went to any games, do you remember Frisbee (?) at the games? For non Bruins, Frisbee was not a flying piece of plastic.

    Frisbee was always great, occasionally brilliant.

  58. 58.

    dnfree

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I really like Schiff. The first time I saw him interviewed on NPR, I thought “Who is that guy? He sounds knowledgeable and reasonable.” Why isn’t he mentioned more among the prospects for president in 2020?

  59. 59.

    The Dangerman

    @Raven:

    I’m thinking 2005.

    After my time.

    Pickup in Pauley was legendary. Many pros showed up for the A game. I only ventured onto the A Court once and was dunked on so hard by a kid from Marquette I never did so again.

    I only got on the Court years later (in Manhattan Beach) with some Clippers and Lakers to get my ass kicked.

  64. 64.

    wasabi gasp

    You ever watch a WWII doc or movie and wonder how folks missed the cues and didn’t get out sooner?

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