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You are here: Home / Past Elections / 2020 Elections / Election Night Open Thread – Looking Good

Election Night Open Thread – Looking Good

by Cheryl Rofer|  January 5, 202111:55 pm| 155 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Open Threads

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Vox has called the election for Warnock, and Nate Cohn says it’s about 95% chance Ossoff will win too. I’m going to bed and will leave you with this open thread.

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  1. 1.

    sstarr

    January 5, 2021 at 11:56 pm

    Amazing.  Still can’t believe.

  2. 2.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    !!! fingers crossed!

     

    Dave Wasserman

    @Redistrict

    ·
    1m

    I’ve seen enough. Jon Ossoff (D) defeats Sen. David Perdue (R) in GA’s other Senate runoff. #GASEN Democrats win control of the Senate.

    https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346681326934650880?s=20

  3. 3.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 5, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    While I was writing that, Dave Wasserman was writing this.

    I've seen enough. Jon Ossoff (D) defeats Sen. David Perdue (R) in GA's other Senate runoff. #GASENDemocrats win control of the Senate.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

    ETA: And so was lamh36

  4. 4.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 5, 2021 at 11:58 pm

    And I love this.

    Haha, turn over the Twitter handle, @senatemajldr https://t.co/zSOETnr4Gz

    — Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) January 6, 2021

  5. 5.

    dmsilev

    January 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    @lamh36: Wasserman is fairly cautious with his calls, so I’ll take that and file it under ‘damn good sign’. A good night.

    And, I think this is the only time in my life I have ever said this, but ‘thanks for the good work, Donald Trump, we couldn’t have done it without you.’ Tomorrow, of course, will be an epic clusterfuck because of him.

  6. 6.

    Jon Marcus

    January 6, 2021 at 12:00 am

    What are the odds this gets rolled into “The Steal” narrative?

  7. 7.

    JCJ

    January 6, 2021 at 12:02 am

    If the results really do go our way and McConnell is out as majority leader perhaps Stacey Abrams should be awarded a Medal of Freedom.

  8. 8.

    cmorenc

    January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am

    Keep in mind that there are 17k military and overseas ballots that won’t be counted until the 5pm Friday deadline for such ballots to reach the BOE.  And so if either or both of Warnock or Ossoff wind up with leads under 17k tomorrow morning with the rest of the vote all-in, it ain’t over until Fri night or Saturday.

    Currently, Warnock is up 35k and Perdue is up by less than 200 votes, with 2% of the vote still out, excepting also the 17k overseas military ballots.

  9. 9.

    sdhays

    January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am

    @Jon Marcus: I think we may see more pushback from Republicans as they blame Dump’s nonsense for costing the Senate.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Will there be a ceremony, like with the big House gavel?

    More seriously, assuming the votes are certified before the 20th (a big if, because I’m sure the GOP will do whatever they can to drag things out), how does Senate control work? Until Harris replaces Pence, a 50-50 Senate still tilts GOP, but only for two weeks.

  11. 11.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am

    CNN letting ya know that the will be pushing this “razor thin” drama narrative until tomorrow…stop watching CNN guys

    @mkraju

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says on @CNN there are about 200,000 votes still to be counted. And will have a better sense of where the race is by noon tomorrow

    10:56 PM · Jan 5, 2021

    https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1346681947901325313?s=20

  12. 12.

    NoraLenderbee

    January 6, 2021 at 12:04 am

    FTF NYT shows 1800 votes between Purdy-Doo and Ossoff now and I can’t watch any more.

  13. 13.

    sdhays

    January 6, 2021 at 12:04 am

    @JCJ: Eh, with the people Dump has given that honor, we may need to first create a replacement that is unsullied.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 12:04 am

    Another excellent sign:

    2/ As Warnock leads and Ossoff ties their races, @FoxNews has abandoned coverage of the Georgia Senate Special Runoff and has moved on to shouting about the vaccines.@aishahhasnie pic.twitter.com/9OXUANUIUd— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) January 6, 2021

  15. 15.

    patroclus

    January 6, 2021 at 12:05 am

    This is unbelievably fantastic!  The Ebenezer pastor is now going to be a Senator!  McConnell has been demoted!  Schumer will control the Senate voting schedule!!  All the Republican Committee chairs will now only be ranking members!!

  16. 16.

    Dagaetch

    January 6, 2021 at 12:05 am

    So how long will the lawsuits and other excuses allow Mitch to refuse to seat them, a la Pennsylvania today?

  17. 17.

    RandomMonster

    January 6, 2021 at 12:06 am

    @Jon Marcus: “The Steal” narrative is capable of absorbing any result.

  18. 18.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:06 am

    @LarrySabato

    That sound you hear isn’t just Democrats cheering, it’s the air going out of tomorrow’s GOP clown show in Congress. The Fools on the Hill have picked the wrong cause and bet on the wrong horse. #GASenateRaces #SeditionCaucus

    11:03 PM · Jan 5, 2021

    https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1346683672322301955?s=20

  19. 19.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 12:07 am

    And so it begins.

    On a plane from TX —> DC flight attendants are struggling to control a plane full of Trump supporters as they display a pro-Trump projection and harass others passengers bound for DC.

    [DM to license] pic.twitter.com/BlTCbD8ntl
    — Maranie R. Staab (@MaranieRae) January 6, 2021

  20. 20.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:07 am

    @Jon Marcus: They started that at around 9pm

  21. 21.

    Punchy

    January 6, 2021 at 12:07 am

    Im way more pessimistic that this will go the full Norm Coleman/Al Fraken route.  Perhaps the Judiciary will speed up the reviews?  Otherwise why wouldnt McConnell delay this to the fullest?

    ETA:  did they stop counting at midnight EST?  Sure seems like it….

  22. 22.

    cmorenc

    January 6, 2021 at 12:08 am

    If the Ga results do produce a 50-50 Senate with the Ds controlling bc of VP Harris able to break ties – let’s hope there aren’t any D Senators deciding to go maverick on their own caucus.

  23. 23.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 6, 2021 at 12:08 am

    Let it be a positive night.

    Warnock ahead by 30-thousand votes.

    Wow.

  24. 24.

    Chris

    January 6, 2021 at 12:09 am

    WaPo has had Ossoff stuck at 1,888 votes behind “with nearly all votes counted” for a while now (at one point it was only 400 or so), but at least it, and everyone else, seems to have Warnock in the safe zone.

    One down…

  25. 25.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:09 am

    Damnit guess I’m gonna have to stay up?

    @AndrewDesiderio

    JUST IN: Warnock to speak around 12:20 a.m. EST

    11:07 PM · Jan 5, 2021·Twitter Web App

    https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1346684707443007488?s=20

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2021 at 12:11 am

    I AM THE THIRD LEAST UNPOPULAR ADULT TRUMP CHILD! HEAR MY WORDS! FEAR MY WRATH! Have you seen my wife who is hot if she’s professionally made-up and you don’t get the cameras too close? and shut up about “dollar store Ivanka”!

    Eric Trump @EricTrump · 1h
    I will personally work to defeat every single Republican Senator / Congressman who doesn’t stand up against this fraud – they will be primaried in their next election and they will lose.

    surprised his fingers didn’t snap off with those first four words

  27. 27.

    Wag

    January 6, 2021 at 12:11 am

    @Jon Marcus:  somewhere north of 100%

  28. 28.

    oclib

    January 6, 2021 at 12:11 am

    Starting to wonder when, not if, that the orange one rains new hell onto Kemp for choosing Loeffler over Collins…..love it when they eat their own….. :)

  29. 29.

    RinaX

    January 6, 2021 at 12:12 am

    My god, I was so negative about this race. I live in Duval County, which is basically South Georgia, and saw nothing but non-stop negative ads against both, especially Warnock. So glad to be proven wrong.

    Election night was like blowing up the Death Star. Tonight we took out Palpatine.

  30. 30.

    Keith P.

    January 6, 2021 at 12:12 am

    Holy shit.

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    January 6, 2021 at 12:15 am

    No letting off the gas. We need an expanded Senate and an expanded House in 2022. So somehow we need to keep the Democratic electorate engaged.

    But in the meantime…come 1/21 there will be $2000 relief checks. We’ll be back in the Paris climate agreement. Biden will get a Cabinet installed. Many many other good things will come about.

    And Georgia has made history. Its first Black Senator. Its first Jewish Senator.

    I was all set to be let down tonight. I am so happy for the people of Georgia.

  32. 32.

    sdhays

    January 6, 2021 at 12:17 am

    @Yutsano: I had forgotten that Ossoff is Jewish. Amazing night!

  33. 33.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:17 am

    Just turned on MSNBC. THey’re showing too close to call. I wonder if they’ll cover the Warnock speech?

  34. 34.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 12:17 am

    @dmsilev:

    @Cheryl Rofer: Will there be a ceremony, like with the big House gavel?

    Yes, and after getting the gavel there is going to be a twist. Twisted tea style.

    https://twitter.com/DJLucas610/status/1344312840375697409/photo/1

     

    yes, it will look a lot like this – after receiving the gavel –

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 12:17 am

    No, sonny, gramps isn’t off his meds. There really was a time these things were wrapped up before midnight.

    :)

  36. 36.

    jonas

    January 6, 2021 at 12:18 am

    @patroclus: Not so sure. The last time there was a 50-50 split in the senate (during W’s admin, I believe), the parties worked out some kind of co-chairmanship situation with rules both parties had to agree to, split committee chairs, etc. No idea if McConnell and Schumer will agree to that or not this time around.

  37. 37.

    Mike in NC

    January 6, 2021 at 12:18 am

    But the Beltway Media need to work on their annual Democrats in Disarray message.

  38. 38.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 12:18 am

    @patroclus:

    MLK Day is going to be extra special!

  39. 39.

    Chris

    January 6, 2021 at 12:20 am

    @jonas: 

    They had fucking well better not.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2021 at 12:20 am

    stuart stevens @stuartpstevens 1h
    As someone who in past years has had to listen to major donor Kelly Loeffler going off on how the Republican party was way too conservative, it’s hard to express the depth of her nothingness. She makes Martha McSally look like Margaret Thatcher

    (not to be that guy, Stu, but you might’ve mentioned this earlier. YOu’re on TV a lot, and you get retweeted by people I follow, seems to me I should’ve heard this from before you… but we won, so…. s’all good man)

  41. 41.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 12:21 am

    https://t.co/Nl12KCZ1vp pic.twitter.com/hLMq39rzqU
    — Champ Biden (@ChampBiden) January 6, 2021

  42. 42.

    sdhays

    January 6, 2021 at 12:21 am

    @jonas: If the shoe we’re on the other foot, McConnell would tell Schumer to go f*ck himself.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    January 6, 2021 at 12:21 am

    @Anya:   They said they’re going to the Warnock speech shortly.

    Ads now.

  44. 44.

    Punchy

    January 6, 2021 at 12:21 am

    @jonas: there’s no way today’s GOP would agree to do anything that involved “sharing”.  Either be in charge and run over Dems, or behind them and make fundraising bankroll claiming Victim Status To Mean Dems!

  45. 45.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:22 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Joyce Alene is saying that this strengthens the case that that Trump’s call was a criminal extortion.

  46. 46.

    david

    January 6, 2021 at 12:22 am

    @cmorenc: If you say the word “Manchin” three times…

  47. 47.

    patroclus

    January 6, 2021 at 12:22 am

    @jonas: That’ accurate.  But at that time, the deal was in exchange for no Democratic Senator challenging the electoral vote count.  The Republicans are going to foolishly do that anyway tomorrow, so no dice on a similar deal this time.

  48. 48.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:22 am

    @Elizabelle: oh good. I will wait.

  49. 49.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:23 am

    @Mary G: ETTD

    Let us pray…

  50. 50.

    TS (the original)

    January 6, 2021 at 12:24 am

    I have been busy in my world & too scared to check in – I sure picked the best time to go online. Best congratulations to all those who voted for democracy in Georgia & to all those on BJ who supported financially & otherwise the democratic candidates.

  51. 51.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2021 at 12:25 am

    @david: … the image of Angus King appears in your mirror?

    actually, I think Angus King is pretty tired of Republicans. He won’t support any of the more ambitious goals of the Dems (court expansions, filibuster elimination), but I’d be surprised if he wanted to give the likes of Cruz and Hawley any rewards

  52. 52.

    Snarlymon

    January 6, 2021 at 12:26 am

    Great googley moogley. I’ll have to wait till tomorrow morning to make sure that this is not some pleasant dream.

  53. 53.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 6, 2021 at 12:27 am

    Warnock’s speech has been postponed.

  54. 54.

    Chetan Murthy

    January 6, 2021 at 12:27 am

    @Anya:

    Joyce Alene

    What are she and Barbara McQuade doing in the Biden Administration?  I can’t count the number of times their sober legal analysis was a balm during the Dark Times.

  55. 55.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:27 am

    Did the nets call for Warnock yet?

    If Stacey’s calling it, I’m calling it!

    @staceyabrams

    Congratulations to our next U.S. Senator, @ReverendWarnock. Last January, I endorsed my dear friend in his quest to serve. Soon, he will walk those august halls & cast votes as a leader with courage, justice and integrity. God bless you and keep you in your service to us all.

    https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1346688723942060034?s=20

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    January 6, 2021 at 12:28 am

    @jonas: Hell no.  These are not our father’s republicans.  These Republicans wouldn’t do that for us.  That was a different time.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 12:29 am

    We’re going to find out Loeffler knew she would lose 3 weeks ago and bought a ton of stock in Warnock.

    — Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) January 6, 2021

  58. 58.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 6, 2021 at 12:30 am

    @RinaX: I expected us to lose and was cautioning everyone I knew to keep expectations in check.

    Never happier to be (probably) wrong, and I’ve broken out the whiskey tonight in celebration. May even take tomorrow off.

  59. 59.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 6, 2021 at 12:30 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Ba-dum-tssh!

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 12:30 am

    Okay, Brian Williams actually made a funny joke:

    (Relationship advice:) “Find someone in your life who looks at you the way Mike Pence looks at Donald Trump.”

  61. 61.

    patroclus

    January 6, 2021 at 12:30 am

    Warnock becoming a Senator is a stunning sea change in the course of American history.  The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.  Justice is raining down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream tonight!

  62. 62.

    sdhays

    January 6, 2021 at 12:31 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: My big ask is statehood for DC. There’s no legitimate argument against it. Most other stuff I assume we need a bigger majority to start dreaming. I don’t know Manchin’s position on that, or King’s, but it should be a no-brainer, and even non-partisan except that DC is heavily Democratic.

  63. 63.

    Punchy

    January 6, 2021 at 12:31 am

    Kelly the Witch is now claiming she has a path to victory.  I assume that means judge-shopping her LEKSHUN FRAWT! stupidity for the next few weeks.

  64. 64.

    Delk

    January 6, 2021 at 12:31 am

    Will corpse hands retire if he can’t be majority leader?

  65. 65.

    Elizabelle

    January 6, 2021 at 12:31 am

    James Carville: “Pence and Mother are going to go back to Indiana to hide.”

    Says he’s enjoying watching this.  Earlier was talking about how the GOP is going to turn on each other.

    Will be fun to find a video of Carville’s whole appearance.  He is pumped.

  66. 66.

    Quinerly

    January 6, 2021 at 12:32 am

    But… Lin Wood and George Papadopoulos are Tweeting something cryptic about Italy and Obama conspiring to rig the Georgia election. And, something, something Pakistan…

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2021 at 12:32 am

    Adam Serwer @AdamSerwer
    A Black man and a Jew winning election to the US Senate in the deep south is evocative of the old civil rights alliance in a way I find … emotionally resonant.

    I wish I could tell my paternal and maternal grandmothers that Republicans did the whole rootless cosmopolitan and radical black preacher shtick in Georgia and still lost.

    If you’re not familiar with Adam Serwer (author of the much quoted “The Cruelty Is The Point”)

  68. 68.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:32 am

    I hope our side has learned a lesson just continue to say WE WON and start congratulating the winners. We should never give an inch to these anti-democratic sore losers.

  69. 69.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 12:32 am

    @NotMax: Midnight eastern or midnight island time?  Still got a ways to go before the later.

  70. 70.

    sanjeevs

    January 6, 2021 at 12:33 am

    @sdhays: Yup, but they’ll need to end filibuster for DC statehood to pass

  71. 71.

    patroclus

    January 6, 2021 at 12:34 am

    I think we should all take our hats off to Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, but (according to Sidney Powell), is the proximate cause of tonight’s stunning events.

  72. 72.

    sdhays

    January 6, 2021 at 12:34 am

    @sanjeevs: Just put it in reconciliation. Done.

  73. 73.

    Cameron

    January 6, 2021 at 12:35 am

    @sdhays: From Georgia.  The state where Leo Frank was lynched.

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 12:36 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    On this blog times are always presumed to be Eastern unless noted otherwise.

    Not that I necessarily endorse said policy.

    :)

  75. 75.

    WaterGirl

    January 6, 2021 at 12:36 am

    starting to speak now

    https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ypKdgMkOkgxW

  76. 76.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 6, 2021 at 12:37 am

    @sanjeevs: Maybe not – honestly, I’m not sure what would happen if they put it and PR up for statehood. Some republicans might actually vote for that, given that they have somewhat of a chance at getting PR’s senate votes. And the vote would actually HAPPEN, unlike now.

  77. 77.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:38 am

    @Elizabelle: laughed so hard at that

  78. 78.

    Martin

    January 6, 2021 at 12:38 am

    @cmorenc: They wouldn’t dare.

    Dems need to make hay here. Kamala is going to be the busiest person in DC for at last 2 years.

  79. 79.

    gwangung

    January 6, 2021 at 12:40 am

    @Anya: Or, as they say…get practice saying, “Fuck you. We won.”

  80. 80.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:41 am

    Listening to Warnock via Periscope!

  81. 81.

    Kent

    January 6, 2021 at 12:41 am

    Like I just said on the other thread.  To be a fly on the wall in McConnell’s living room right now.

  82. 82.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 6, 2021 at 12:41 am

    Let us rise up and greet the morning …

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 12:43 am

    @Martin

    It does bother me a mite she hasn’t yet relinquished her Senate seat, though. The day after the electoral college votes were cast would have been the opportune moment.

  84. 84.

    patroclus

    January 6, 2021 at 12:43 am

    It’s dark now (we’re losing a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbor number of lives per day), but joy will come in the morning.

  85. 85.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2021 at 12:45 am

    Warnock will be on the ballot again in 2022, no? Since this is Isakson’s 2016 term he’s completing

    ETA: Which will put him on a ballot with (I’m assuming) Stacey Abrams for governor?

    ETA, A: Which will be after a primary in which the trump family is vowing revenge on Kemp and Raffensberger on the other side? Hellzapoppin!

  86. 86.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 12:45 am

    Now the Proud Boys in DC are yelling at right-wing live streamers for filming Proud Boys’ faces.“You’re f*cking doxxing us!” This is such a mess ???— Chad Loder (@chadloder) January 6, 2021

  87. 87.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 6, 2021 at 12:46 am

    @NotMax: Nah. Better to hold on until Mitch loses his majority. She might be (and was) needed for some votes.

  88. 88.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:46 am

    The nets are full of shit on not calling the race for Warnock.  Any other time, they would have already called it.

    Fuq’n bullshit.

    But like I said, oh well, if Stacey’s calling it for Warnock…I’m calling it.  Fuq the nets and their phony azz bullshit!

    https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1346688723942060034?s=20

    Good night folks and LET’S GO OSSOFF!

  89. 89.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 12:46 am

    I hope Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter managed to stay up late enough to see this.

  90. 90.

    gwangung

    January 6, 2021 at 12:49 am

    @Mary G: Tough boogies, PBoys. Be proud of your stands…you shouldn’t mind if people know what your opinions are.

  91. 91.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 12:49 am

    @MisterForkbeard

    The seat would not have had time to grow cool before the appointed replacement was sworn in.

  92. 92.

    david

    January 6, 2021 at 12:49 am

    … waiting for that damn number to go above 49.99%.

    Meh, bedtime.

  93. 93.

    JaySinWA

    January 6, 2021 at 12:50 am

    We are only 2 recounts and 60 lawsuits from winning!

  94. 94.

    Viva BrisVegas

    January 6, 2021 at 12:50 am

    @sdhays: Ossoff is also half-Australian and was a dual citizen for a while.

  95. 95.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:52 am

    @NotMax: It’s not uncommon actually many others before Harris did not resign the seat until almost inauguration day, including Joe Biden

    So why so many harping on Harris about it is ridiculous, IMO

  96. 96.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 12:56 am

    Alright…I’m off to bed.  Hopefully in the AM more votes come in and it’s finally called for Warnock and Ossoff!

    With the electoral college shit tmrw, it’s already gonna be a shit show..smh

  97. 97.

    JaySinWA

    January 6, 2021 at 12:56 am

    Proud boys, proud boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

    https://twitter.com/JaySinWA/status/1346694062166851585

    And what will the police union do?

  98. 98.

    Comrade Colette

    January 6, 2021 at 12:56 am

    @NotMax:  She’s my Senator and although I rejoice at her election as VP, I’ll also be sorry to lose her as Senator, so no, I’m fine with keeping her in the Senate until the last possible second. Also, who knows what fuckery could ensue in the next two weeks. She’s our safety.

  99. 99.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 12:57 am

    @lamh36: A lot of times a Senator that’s leaving for another office will resign before the start of the next Congress to give their successor seniority.

  100. 100.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 12:57 am

    Chuck Schumer isn’t my favorite, but I am so glad that he’s going to be the first Jewish Majority Leader in history.

    I am also glad to see the great circular firing squad forming up on the right:

    No Republicans, the Democrats did not steal the races in Georgia. You talked yourselves out of voting. That's not theft. Turns out many of you are as stupid as they said.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 6, 2021

  101. 101.

    rikyrah

    January 6, 2021 at 12:57 am

    @jonas:

    Nope ?

    Not sharing

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 12:57 am

    @lamh36

    Oh for Pete’s sake. I’m not harping on her, just expressing what my preference was.

  103. 103.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 6, 2021 at 12:59 am

    @JaySinWA: What is this Trump trash?  What about their orange god emperor bellowing about “Laawww and Odor”?

    Oh, right, that was all dog-whistle bullshit.

  104. 104.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 1:00 am

    @Mary G:

    Fine the living shit out of them.

  105. 105.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 1:02 am

    @Yutsano:

    Er wasn’t Joe Lieberman Jewish?

    ETA oh never mind – Georgia’s first Jewish senator.

    It’s about time – looks like Georgia is changing, just like North Carolina – but looks like the South is finally losing the civil war.

  106. 106.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2021 at 1:02 am

    ABC News@ABC· 1h
    NEW: @jonkarl: “I am told that Donald Trump is prepared to go after his own vice president and go after him hard, if he does as expected and follows the rules tomorrow.”

    What’s he gonna do if Pence figures out what everyone else has known for years, that he doesn’t have a political future for trump to destroy?

  107. 107.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 6, 2021 at 1:02 am

    @Mary G: When Erik Son of Erick is calling you assclowns for playing yourselves…

  108. 108.

    JWR

    January 6, 2021 at 1:03 am

    OMG! Are you guys sure? Can this possibly be happening? I’ve avoided the news, leaving it to you guys to give me the bad news after the fact, (also, no fucking charges against the cop who shot Jason Blair because the cop “feared for his life”, ie. is, and remains, a fucking COWARD!), but if this is true, well just Hell Yes!

  109. 109.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 1:03 am

    @cain: Joe wasn’t a Senator from Georgia.

  110. 110.

    Yutsano

    January 6, 2021 at 1:04 am

    @cain: First from Georgia sorry. And I thought Schumer beat Lieberman? I’d have to look really fast.

    EDIT: looks like the first Senator of Jewish ancestry* from Florida of all places.

    * father was Jewish.

  111. 111.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 6, 2021 at 1:05 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: What’s he gonna do if Pence figures out what everyone else has known for years, that he doesn’t have a political future for trump to destroy?

    Are you thinking White Bread Dense will show some anger?

    That would be hilarious, and mocked until the death of the Sun.

  112. 112.

    West of the Rockies

    January 6, 2021 at 1:06 am

    @Mary G:

    Whoa, Redstate Eric is mocking Republicans? Oh, what a world, what a world…

  113. 113.

    JaySinWA

    January 6, 2021 at 1:06 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: “I am told that Donald Trump is prepared to go after his own vice president and go after him hard, if he does as expected and follows the rules tomorrow.”

    Phrasing. And really can Pence keep it up and follow the rules?

  114. 114.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 1:06 am

    @NotMax: Maybe she was asked not to because her vote was needed.

  115. 115.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 1:06 am

    ????????

    .@senatemajldr <<< You need to change this twitter handle boi. Chop chop.— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) January 6, 2021

  116. 116.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 1:07 am

    The hits keep coming.

    Good news is, if Loeffler loses tonight most of her jeans and flannel shirts are still well within their 30-day return policy.

    — todd levin (@toddlevin) January 6, 2021

  117. 117.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 6, 2021 at 1:08 am

    @Steeplejack: I’m a jeans-and-flannel-wearing private jet owner!

  118. 118.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2021 at 1:08 am

    @Yutsano:

    And I thought Schumer beat Lieberman? I’d have to look really fast.

    I think Lieberman was already gone (post 2012?) when Harry Reid stepped down, I think Durbin was Schumer’s main rival

  119. 119.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 1:10 am

    @Mary G:

    He’s going to end up a pariah if he keeps talkin that way. Hopefully he doesn’t end up joining us. I’m happy to have Tom Nichols on our side since he’s a fairly sane conservative – but not that dude.

  120. 120.

    lamh36

    January 6, 2021 at 1:11 am

    @NotMax: not just talking bout you sorry.

     

    there was ALOT of talk on the SM particularly the bird app on the same thing that why I said harping.

     

    Also…the pattern when it comes to Kamala Harris is all of a sudden making it seems like “what is she doing”, when she’s doing nothing different than any other pol before her.  The same thing would happens with HRC if she’d won as well.

    just kinda aggravating that it keeps happening ??‍♀️

  121. 121.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 1:12 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    Thank you for pointing that out. In the semi-ossified halls of the Senate, a smidgen of additional seniority is no small potatoes.

  122. 122.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 1:14 am

    @cain: Nichols isn’t going to last. He’s already warning Democrats not to do anything he doesn’t approve of.

  123. 123.

    Comrade Colette

    January 6, 2021 at 1:15 am

    @cain:

    Hopefully he doesn’t end up joining us.

    Eww. No. Do not want.

  124. 124.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 1:16 am

    MSNBC is still going strong! They’re burning up all their analysts. Morning Joe is gonna be running on empty.

    Yamiche Alcindor does not look like an after-midnight type person. No makeup and ready to go to bed right after Lawrence O’Donnell lets her go. (Beautiful complexion.)

  125. 125.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 1:16 am

    @NotMax: I think one of the reasons Biden didn’t resign early from the Senate is that his  appointed replacement was a caretaker, there would be a special election in a short period of time.  In California, we don’t do caretakers, Padilla will be up for election in 2022(that would be the end of VP-elect Harris’ term).

  126. 126.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 1:16 am

    Kamala doesn’t exactly have a lot of seniority; she was elected in 2018. So one freshman taking over for another freshman isn’t a huge advantage.

  127. 127.

    2liberal

    January 6, 2021 at 1:17 am

    1. DC Statehood
    2. Puerto Rico Statehood
    3. have a discussion with California. Tell them that they need more representation in the Senate, and to do that they need to give up a part of the state.  Turn San Diego into a state
    4. reform the Supreme Court. It’s loaded with Federalist apparatchiks,  who are all conservative Catholics and movement conservatives.
    5. Covid relief.  Don’t borrow the money,  print it.
  128. 128.

    patrick II

    January 6, 2021 at 1:17 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I have thought that Pence will essentially do what he has to do after putting on some show of “fairness”.  But I think that because I see no national political future for him.  What does he think? The core Senatorial poseurs have ambitions for 2024.  Does he think he has a shot?

  129. 129.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 1:20 am

    @2liberal:

    Turn San Diego into a state

    And you’d probably get two Republicans.  You DO NOT want to divide California, “Whiskey’s for drinking Water’s for fighting”.

  130. 130.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 6, 2021 at 1:22 am

    Tucker Carlson not taking it well.

    Tucker should make it a regular segment.
    pic.twitter.com/ohKJRaEyfm

    — The Right is Wrong?Mask Up (@therightswrong) January 6, 2021

  131. 131.

    Kattails

    January 6, 2021 at 1:22 am

    For my next wish, I want someone in the Senate tomorrow to play this Don Winslow short  by way of bitch-slapping Josh Hawley with his “Antifa thugs” BS. Then censure him. That would just be so sweet.

  132. 132.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 1:25 am

    Trivia:

    Even though the Constitution specifically forbids any religious test for holding office, the Senate came real close to spitting on that.

  133. 133.

    Comrade Colette

    January 6, 2021 at 1:26 am

    @2liberal:

    Turn San Diego into a state

    You’re not from around here, are you?

  134. 134.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 6, 2021 at 1:27 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    @2liberal: And San Francisco becomes its own state, and LA, and Chicago becomes its own state while we’re being insane. :)

  135. 135.

    VOR

    January 6, 2021 at 1:29 am

    @Mary G: Kamala Harris was elected to the Senate in 2016, not 2018. But the Senior Senator from CA is Dianne Feinstein who has been in the Senate since 1992. Harris giving up her seat early is not going to put her replacement ahead of Feinstein in seniority.

  136. 136.

    Ruckus

    January 6, 2021 at 1:32 am

    @cain:

    Land the plane, kick their asses off and refuse to sell them tickets to anywhere. Maybe even have them arrested for endangering the flight. Sue them for all the extra costs, landing fees, refueling, etc.

  137. 137.

    Comrade Colette

    January 6, 2021 at 1:32 am

    When do Warnock and Ossoff get sworn in? (Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that their elections are certified in the way we used to think of as normal.)

  138. 138.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 1:33 am

    @VOR: No, but the idea is to give them seniority over the new Senators that were elected in November.

  139. 139.

    Elizabelle

    January 6, 2021 at 1:34 am

    @Mary G:   They’re screaming that Biden is a pedophile.

    What delightful people.

    Lock their little asses right up.  I actually think the airline might be ahead of us on having these charmers escorted off the plane.

  140. 140.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 6, 2021 at 1:35 am

    Seriously, Tucker not taking it well.

    pic.twitter.com/pupiOqlGJd

    — Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 6, 2021

  141. 141.

    sgrAstar

    January 6, 2021 at 1:35 am

    @NotMax: huh?  Gavin has already named her successor. Senator Padilla, welcome to Washington.

    ?

  142. 142.

    Calouste

    January 6, 2021 at 1:37 am

    @Mary G: The airline should tell them they can walk back to Texas.

  143. 143.

    Viva BrisVegas

    January 6, 2021 at 1:38 am

    @Comrade Colette: Going by Al Franken’s election in 2008, some time in June.

  144. 144.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 1:38 am

    @2liberal:

    Maybe you should go lie down and breathe into a paper bag until your election erection subsides. Your brain’s not getting enough blood flow. ?

  145. 145.

    Elizabelle

    January 6, 2021 at 1:39 am

    @Calouste:   They can swim home.

    Through their river of tears.

  146. 146.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 1:40 am

    @sgrAstar: Padilla won’t be the Senator until the seat is vacant.  I’m sure that Sen. Harris has reasons for not resigning early, maybe related to tomorrow’s shitshow; but resigning early would have giving Padilla seniority over the new incoming Senators.

  147. 147.

    JaySinWA

    January 6, 2021 at 1:50 am

    deleted for misunderstanding.

  148. 148.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 6, 2021 at 1:59 am

    Ossoff youngest Senator (age 33) to be elected since Joe Biden was elected 48 years ago at age 30

  149. 149.

    DropKicker1

    January 6, 2021 at 2:02 am

    @Mike in NC:

    Oh, and suddenly be very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very worried about the deficit.

    Good on you, Real America!

    Mike

  150. 150.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 2:12 am

    @Mary G: @cain: Nichols isn’t going to last. He’s already warning Democrats not to do anything he doesn’t approve of.

    I think his tweet was more around not to get into too much ideological fights with the left – which I think is sound advice. We’ve already seen Justice Dems and their showboating about M4A. Luckily, they seem to be losing influence because of all that attacking they are doing.

  151. 151.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 2:18 am

    @Ruckus:

    Land the plane at the nearest airport – kick all them out, take out with the right passengers. Fine them and then do not refund their money.

    Also give them some masks.

  152. 152.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    January 6, 2021 at 2:34 am

    @Steeplejack (phone): Tucker’s description of Ossoff reminds me of a young bowtied conservative many years ago who broke into prominent conservative journalism in his early 20s largely on the connections of his wealthy family.

  153. 153.

    Nashville_fan

    January 6, 2021 at 2:37 am

    Ding ding the Mitch is dead!

  154. 154.

    Ruckus

    January 6, 2021 at 2:44 am

    @cain:

    If you are going to give them things to wear how about handcuffs?

    I’ve had to sit next to people who worked at letting everyone around them know they were conservative assholes. I’m on a plane I just want to get where I’m going, not have a political discussion with an asshole or have to listen to an adult child throw a tantrum. Worst thing I ever did on a plane was fall asleep (window seat) before the plane took off, except that they closed the door and backed the plane up about 20 ft. I woke up a bit later, looked out the window and thought I was having a Twilight Zone dream when I saw the brick wall next to the plane and asked the guy next to me if we’d landed. “Fuck you, you bastard, you’ve been asleep for 45 minutes and are the only person on the plane not pissed off that we haven’t left yet!” I couldn’t help but laugh my ass off. He laughed as well, it was a great ice breaker for the entire plane. I could have been snoring, which would have made it even better.

  155. 155.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 2:51 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Yeah, I seem to remember. Can’t quite place the name . . .

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