Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Republicans in disarray!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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As was foretold:

I would guess Jimmy Carter is almost as happy as about-to-be Senator Warnock, right now…

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    Since lawsuits now flow so freely, can someone please file one against Donald Trump for dereliction of duty since Nov. 3rd?

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    I was up until 2:30 this morning. I couldn’t get to bed until I knew about Ossoff. Just called in sick. Will do some work from home.

  13. 13.

    Patricia Kayden

    Black people have never been the problem, but the solution. No one values freedom more than those who’ve never had it. Saved this democracy from itself once again. Now, when will this country give Black Americans what they’re owed?— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 6, 2021

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    ???

    speaking of fox news, they just had a discussion about Democrats forcing Americans to stop saying Amen because it's got "men" in it and i have questions.— Florida Chris (@chrislongview) January 6, 2021

  16. 16.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    How does Pence let the Proud Boys down gently about taking Donald to a farm upstate?

  19. 19.

    MJS

    @Baud: Here’s hoping the next Democratic nominee for the next NC Senate seat has more self-awareness, and a better understanding of how politics works, than the most recent one did. First rule – if you’re a Democrat, and you’re having an affair that you’re documenting via text, maybe sit this one out.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie: Yep. Last I saw 16,000 or 0.4% with high population DEM areas still out. I am very hopeful but I don’t want to jinx it by counting chickens before they’ve hatched.

  23. 23.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I had a dream last night that Democrats fought to a 50-50 tie in the Senate and everyone was losing their minds about the possibilities and I pointed out very little would change unless there was filibuster reform and everyone got mad at me for being a debbie downer and I was like whoa isn’t this the place that specialized in steely-eyed reality about why nothing good was ever possible the eight years of the last Demcoratic president and then FlipYrWhig, Martin and Nick’s three sockpuppets all started beating me with inflatable Obama dolls.

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @rikyrah:

    Cleaver said he “concluded with a lighthearted pun in recognition of the record number of women who will be representing the American people in Congress during this term as well as in recognition of the first female chaplain of the House of Representatives whose service commenced this week”.

    Cleaver led the search committee that selected Margaret Grun Kibben, the former chief chaplain of the navy, for that role.

    “I personally find these historic occasions to be blessings from God for which I am grateful,” Cleaver said, adding that he was “deeply disappointed that my prayer has been misinterpreted and misconstrued by some to fit a narrative that stokes resentment and greater division among portions of our population.

    “Rather than reflecting on my faithful requests for community healing and reversion from our increasingly tribal tendencies, it appears that some have latched on to the final word of this conversation in an attempt to twist my message to God and demean me personally.

    “In doing so, they have proven one point of my greater message – that we are all ‘soiled by selfishness, perverted by prejudice and inveigled by ideology’.

    We can expect at least 4 years of Republican butthurt, because everyone knows they are the real victims: A Fox News Host Thinks Society Is ‘Rigged’ Against Republicans

    “I think Americans, I think Republicans, conservatives, can be forgiven for their skepticism,” Fox News’ Will Cain said early Tuesday. “Because whether or not an election was rigged, it certainly feels like society is rigged right now.”

  26. 26.

    mali muso

    What is this strange feeling….could it be…hope?  Glad to be working from home this week as I certainly would not be able to sit still in the office.

  27. 27.

    JCJ

    I am picturing Ms. Abrams responding to the big “fuck you” she got when the election was stolen from her in 2018 with a “no motherfuckers, fuck you” to the Georgia Republicans in 2020/2021 (and hopefully more in the future)

  28. 28.

    Ramalama

    Marcy Wheeler asks a couple of questions, one possibly relevant to a certain Jackal:

    Two stories I’d like to see: 1) A really nuanced profile of Manchin. He’s being treated as a caricature right now. 2) An argument that Dems waited too long (particularly as compared GOP) to focus on recruiting Black candidates at the state level.

  29. 29.

    Punchy

    So now we get to witness–twice over– the brand-new Trump-designed concession speech:  claiming victory instead.  Karpetbagger Kelly is already there, and Mister P will be doing it soon.

  31. 31.

    JWR

    @debbie: Does anybody know when they’ll start the final count in GA? (And we all know they’ve been up to “something something rigged fraudulent dead people” down there, right?)

  36. 36.

    mrmoshpotato

    @debbie:

    Since lawsuits now flow so freely, can someone please file one against Donald Trump for dereliction of duty since Since lawsuits now flow so freely, can someone please file one against Donald Trump for dereliction of duty since Nov. 3rd Jan. 20, 2017? 

    Fixed.

  37. 37.

    Splitting Image

    I’m breathing a hell of a lot easier this morning. As happy as I was to see the orange thing get the boot, I knew that leaving McConnell with a majority would hobble Biden’s ability to get things back on track. As of last night, the Democrats needed both seats in Georgia to have any real hope of putting things right and I was afraid I’d have to be content with one win out of two. Winning both seats seemed too much to hope for.

    A big thanks to everyone who organized, everyone who contributed, and everyone who knocked on doors to make this happen. It’s been years in the making, and the whole world can breathe a little easier now. Pelosi will be introducing legislation in the House, Biden will be setting policy in the White House, and Harris will be breaking ties in the Senate. Just hang on for two more weeks.

  38. 38.

    Spanky

    CNN is telling me my investments are gonna go down because tech companies are askeered of the nasty Dems putting in some actual regulations. Also, Janet Yellen.

    It’s a price I’m willing to pay.

  39. 39.

    John S.

    Hopefully some of this blue will leak its way south of Georgia in 2 years. It would definitely help if Ivanka beat Rubio in a primary (which she would) and then went on to get trounced in the election (less likely but totally possible). Would also be nice to turn Deathsantis out on his ass, but we don’t have a Ms. Abrams here in Florida.

  44. 44.

    MJS

    @Spanky: I already heard the same thing from a friend. I had to point out the 33% increase in the stock market the last time the Dems had control of everything.

  46. 46.

    JWR

    Haven’t seen much on this, but what an odd coinkydink to drop this yesterday afternoon while no one was watching:

    Officer who shot Jacob Blake will not face charges, district attorney says

    The DA was cowardly pulling one of those Rodney King “yeah, but you shoulda seen what happened before we beat holy sh*t out of the guy” defenses. We really, really need police reform.

  47. 47.

    debbie

    @Spanky:

    NPR’s Marketplace says the market will go up because Dems will get more stimulus out to people.

    In other words, who knows?

  51. 51.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Not the Onion: Denmark launches children’s TV show about man with giant penis

    John Dillermand has an extraordinary penis. So extraordinary, in fact, that it can perform rescue operations, etch murals, hoist a flag and even steal ice-cream from children.

    The Danish equivalent of the BBC, DR, has a new animated series aimed at four- to eight-year-olds about John Dillermand, the man with the world’s longest penis who overcomes hardships and challenges with his record-breaking genitals.

    Unsurprisingly, the series has provoked debate about what good children’s television should – and should not – contain.

    LMPO.

  55. 55.

    Central Planning

    @Spanky: They are so scared my retirement plan is up 16% since the election.

    ETA: Also, too, the tech-heavy NASDAQ is up 15%

  57. 57.

    LurkerNoLonger

    Bye bye, Mitch. Maybe you shouldn’t have blocked those $2,000 checks for GA voters. Now go off and die.

  63. 63.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    I went to bed early last night so I missed the Georgia celebration thread. Holy cow. Stacey Abrams is a god

    ETA: Also if Trump goes after Pence, he must have decided he didn’t need Pence’s pardon. So he’s planning to pardon himself? Or he didn’t think that far ahead? Hm. So many stupid choices

  67. 67.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: When I was reading that yestereve, all I could think was something along the lines of,

    “No, it is rigged against contemptible, corrupt, lying, thieving, amoral, slime ball MF’ers who think they can sentence us to lives of serfdom, while they trash the planet and rape our country in service of the wealthy, all the while killing the elderly and people of color with impunity.

    If you don’t like it, try not being it.”

    Fuck ’em.

  69. 69.

    Soprano2

    @JWR: Does anybody know when they’ll start the final count in GA?

    I heard on the news that overseas votes can be received until Friday, so I assume the final count will be a day or two after that.

  70. 70.

    Lacuna Synechdoche

    Daniel Dale via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    The President will depart for the Ellipse at 10:50 AM to deliver remarks at a Save America Rally.

    It should go without saying, but if you are still attending Save America rallies after four years of your own Presidency, then you failed.

    I mean, it’s one thing to campaign on saving America when you’re the challenger, but when you’re the incumbent …

  73. 73.

    Patricia Kayden

    .@staceyabrams You have been there for all of us.I hope you know that whatever you do next, including possibly running for Governor of Georgia, we will be there for you.We will ALL be there for YOU.Please accept the thanks of 80 million Americans.Thank you!Don Winslow— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) January 6, 2021

  74. 74.

    TS (the original)

    @JWR:

    MJ they said the remaining postal votes should be out in the afternoon (as one group) – then there are still o/seas/military votes – about 17K. Steve Kornacki (not my goto vote person but he was on) thought it likely that Ossoff  should get over the .05% margin.

  78. 78.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: You know it, I know it, all of us here know it, it’s at the heart of all their whining. “We worked so hard to keep them from voting and yet they did it anyway!”

  79. 79.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    You know Republicans are wincing about that billion dollars they spent on Trump’s reelection when it turns out Pence can just declare who the president is. Who hasn’t been reading their pocket Constitutions??

  81. 81.

    JWR

    @debbie: Great. I was hoping this wouldn’t turn into a 3 day circus. But who knows, it still might not, given the pre-preparation, of ballots in Georgia.

  84. 84.

    BruceFromOhio

    Gaia, please hear my prayer and let us get back to “here are the meetings today” and “here is the legislation being voted on today,” all that boring, dreary drudgework it takes to actually run a country during a pandemic and economic crisis.

  85. 85.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Romney getting screamed at by his own voters at the airport is pure fucking gold.

  86. 86.

    Patricia Kayden

    @OzarkHillbilly: Please ask Will Cain to save some of his delicious tears for January 20th so we can have them to drink as Biden is inaugurated.
    Cain was pathetic on ESPN as a sports commentator and I see that he has only gotten worse.

  91. 91.

    germy

    I had completely forgotten about this guy:

    Could not be reached for comment. pic.twitter.com/lycaQJ0W4D

    — Schooley (@Rschooley) January 6, 2021

    Matt Lieberman, “Democrat” who was running for Loeffler’s seat, and wouldn’t drop out and clear the path for Warnock during the general election, even when he knew he had no path to win. He’s also weird AF and an asshole.

    — Susan Peacock ? (@Licious1105) January 6, 2021

  92. 92.

    Ken

    @Amir Khalid: Some who’ve played with him have said he cheats. I imagine his golf game will be changing soon, in a way not to his liking.

    TRUMP: “That’s a gimme, isn’t it?”

    OTHER: “No, it’s a thirty-foot putt.”

    TRUMP: “You would have given it to me last year.”

    OTHER: “Last year you could give me a defense contract and a pardon.”

  95. 95.

    Baud

    @germy:

    Unless Lieberman said something last night, it seems like a cheap shot, even though I disagree with how he handled himself.

  97. 97.

    Geminid

    There is a lot of good coverage of the Senate elections in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With more to come, I expect. The AJC is not paywalled

  98. 98.

    Kristine

    @germy:

    I keep bursting into tears at odd moments. I think I’m going crazy.

    I didn’t realize how much stress I’d been living under until Biden’s win sank in and a cloud lifted. Maybe it’s relief you’re feeling.

  99. 99.

    mali muso

    @germy: Cut yourself some slack.  These past four years and 2020 in particular have been crushingly stressful and we are all walking around with some form of PTSD.  Just let the emotions come and if you need to cry, then do so.  I will likely be joining you!

  100. 100.

    Citizen_X

    @Ramalama: Two stories I’d like to see: 1) A really nuanced profile of Manchin.

    Whoa whoa whoa, only Trump voters get really nuanced profiles. That’s some kind of crazy talk!

  105. 105.

    The Fat White Duchess

    Does Trump need a geography lesson? I can’t help wondering whether he thought*: if Volodya can bully Georgia into line, so can I!

    not realizing, wrong Georgia.

    *I know, i know.

  106. 106.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ken: They’re trying so excellently you wouldn’t understand.  Did you see how new and shiny the RNC platform was this year?  Luxurious and classy!

  108. 108.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Ken:

    If they told the true schedule, it would just say “14 hours of yelling at the TV, interspersed with whiny calls to associates and tantrums at staffers…”

  109. 109.

    germy

    Republicans in disarray.

    A former Republican presidential candidate meets a member of the base:

    We warned you these psychotic freaks would turn on republicans once Trump lost. I’m not a Romney fan but he’s done nothing but adhere to his oath, and the MAGA trash does this to him. pic.twitter.com/VowYYSxrvw
    — Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 6, 2021

  112. 112.

    Patricia Kayden

    @germy: The last four years have been rough on all of us. I went to bed on election night shaking uncontrollably with a sick feeling in my stomach. Can you imagine how we’d feel if Trump had won?  I can’t even.

  113. 113.

    Quinerly

    Lin Wood has a “to do list” for today up on Twitter. Basically, Pence must resign and be charged with TREASON, Rod Rosenstein must be arrested & charged with being accessory to murder & TREASON and Chief Justice John Roberts must RESIGN.

    All has been revealed in 3 parts posted by a whistleblower overnight. I waded thru the 3 parts. Something, something, something Seth Rich’s murder and “According to recorded testimony from our whistleblower, Rosenstein, together with Pence’s knowledge and consent, went on to help engineer the entire coup attempt against President Trump – in an attempt to oust Trump, and promote Pence to the Presidency, at which point, Pence would turn around and appoint Rod Rosenstein as VP. Thankfully, Rosenstein failed. But he almost didn’t.”

    https://www.neonrevolt.com/2021/01/06/at-the-highest-levels-part-3-of-3/

  121. 121.

    Elizabelle

    @Patricia Kayden:   I was afraid to go to sleep last night, because I remember turning in early in 2004, with John Kerry the apparent winner and … disbelief the next morning.

    The worst election aftermath of my life, though, was 2016.  We are still living it, but it’s almost over.

  127. 127.

    JWR

    @Soprano2:

    I heard on the news that overseas votes can be received until Friday

    Thank you! I suppose I’m just over-eager to watch the final votes come in, but like RIGHT NOW. ;)

  128. 128.

    Jeffro

    @Just Some Fuckhead: and then FlipYrWhig, Martin and Nick’s three sockpuppets all started beating me with inflatable Obama dolls.

    “Show us on…you?…where the Obama dolls touched you”

    LOL

  133. 133.

    Elizabelle

    @germy:   Couldn’t listen to all of it.  That woman is toxically ignorant.

    “You were voted in as a conservative to support us [conservatives].  You work for us.”

    I found myself wishing Romney had answered “why didn’t you support Trump?” with “because he’s a fascist, ma’am.  Look it up.”

    Romney spoke frequently of the Constitution.  It would be interesting to give these conspiracy/mouth breathing types a quiz on what is actually in the Constitution.

  137. 137.

    Punchy

    @germy:  Really hard to have sympathy for a guy in the Leopards Eating Faces Party having his face eaten by a leopard. Especially when’s there’s plenty of room at the opposing We Live in Actual Reality Party and they’d take him in in an instant (holding their noses, of course)

  139. 139.

    Jeffro

    @germy: saw that on tv just a bit ago.

    GOP has no idea what it’s in for now, with the orange moron and his slack-jawed covidiots screaming at them for (at least) the next four years.

    Karma, she’s a mean one…  ;)

  144. 144.

    Quinerly

    @mrmoshpotato: heading over to Sidney Powell’s Twitter. Send a rescue and recovery mission in 30 mins if I’m not back out. Related to crazy… Google ex Jones Day atty Brian Remy. I’m figuring one of the reasons he is “ex” has something to do with his spelling ( he even misspelled “Constitution” in his letter that will save the day.)

  146. 146.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @artem1s: It’s hard to understand how the magic works when you’re outside of the cult. You just have to trust it’s happening.

  149. 149.

    Ken

    @Quinerly: he even misspelled “Constitution” in his letter that will save the day

    No, see, there’s the public Constitution that they let everyone know about it, then there’s the secret Costituton with the real rules.

  151. 151.

    germy

    (1) stimulus checks/covid relief;
    (2) federal minimum wage;
    (3) clean dream act;
    (4) John Lewis voting rights act;
    (5) an amendment to moot the ACA suit;
    (6) Bivens act;
    (7) amend Title VII and Judicial Conduct and Disability Act.

    I LOVE LEGISLATION!!!!

    — Leah Litman (@LeahLitman) January 6, 2021

    this was not meant to be an exhaustive list to the people adding things!!!!

    — Leah Litman (@LeahLitman) January 6, 2021

  154. 154.

    Ken

    @Jeffro: GOP has no idea what it’s in for now, with the orange moron and his slack-jawed covidiots screaming at them for (at least) the next four years.

    (pious tone) We’ll have to hope that they limit themselves to screaming, and don’t attempt physical violence — as allowed by the second amendment — against all the RINOs who betrayed President Trump.

  155. 155.

    Quinerly

    @mrmoshpotato: OK. Back out. Powell’s Twitter feed not as “exciting.”

    Something, something, something evil invaded the voting machines in Georgia. She’s also threatening Kevin McCarthy if HIS ENTIRE Republican House caucus doesn’t vote for Trump today, all fundraising will be withheld. Sounds like she has been chatting with Eric Trump.

    My work is done. Off with JoJo las Orejas. Oh, happy day!!!

  156. 156.

    Lacuna Synechdoche

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Please ask Will Cain to save some of his delicious tears for January 20th so we can have them to drink as Biden is inaugurated.

    It really is astonishing how sweet bitter tears can taste.

  159. 159.

    Jeffro

    @Ken:We’ll have to hope that they limit themselves to screaming, and don’t attempt physical violence — as allowed by the second amendment — against all the RINOs who betrayed President Trump.

    Yes.  Yes indeed.  Thoughts and prayers for all of them.  ;)

  161. 161.

    Immanentize

    @germy: Someone on Twitter last night pointed out that not one ? rose twitter bernbro ever once encouraged people to vote in Georgia.  Their grift depends entirely on their claim that Dems have failed.  So they have to hope for that failure.

  162. 162.

    Hoodie

    @Quinerly: You know something’s amiss when someone calls himself a “constitutional and patent attorney.”  As a member of the patent bar, I’d tell him he needs to stick to patent law to avoid hurting himself.   I know of another patent attorney colleague who recently got canned by his AmLaw 200 firm for freelance civil rights lawyering.

  164. 164.

    Elizabelle

    @germy:   direct quotes, not all of them:

    Qtah Loon:  “How ya doing?”

    Romney:  “Put your mask on.”

    Qtah Loon:  “Don’t tell me what to do.”  [She finally does because “I want to have a chat with you.  Why aren’t you supporting President Trump?” … ]

    Qtah Loon:  “You were voted in as a conservative to represent the conservative constituents.  Period!”

    Romney:  “Actually, that’s not how the constitution works …”

    Qtah Loon:  “It is.  You’re voted in to represent us.  You work for us.  Am I wrong?”

    Romney:  “I work for the people of Utah …”

    Qtah Loon:  “Exactly.  And I am from Utah.”

    Romney:  “But you’re not the only one.”

    Eventually she tells him she “wouldn’t be surprised … if you weren’t even voted in legally”; that “you’re a joke, absolute joke — it’s a disgusting shame.”  Alleges someone else named “Cox” assaulted her last night.

    This is the population that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News built, now on steroids.

    Ignorant and selfish as fuck. Loud and proud about it.

  165. 165.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Ken: I always figure the election shows how Trump plays golf.

    “I won already, we don’t need to play the game”

    “You cheated”

    “I am going to sue!”

    In the club house “I totally dominated the game, it’s a lie I lost.”

  166. 166.

    Baud

    President-elect Joe Biden is poised to make a final decision in the coming days on his pick for attorney general, a choice that suddenly comes amid a growing sense of optimism from Democrats that their party will control the Senate and will be able to easily confirm the incoming president’s Cabinet nominations.

  169. 169.

    Quinerly

    @Ken: he had “Constituution” in a heading and couple other places.

    Seriously, I want to know when he left Jones Day. Twitter acct just dates to December. RWNJs on line in small town local newspapers have been posting his letter to Pence for a couple of days. So someone is getting it out to Oan News. I finally got around to reading it. The typos were more intriguing than the letter.

  170. 170.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    The boy moved out Jan 1 so we’re empty-nesters now. Little verklempt but excited to start working on the naked room. When I started commenting here, the boy was 5.

  171. 171.

    Anonymous At Work

    Don’t overlook the committee assignment tweet, people!  Pelosi just stacked that committee with her most effective questioners/eviscerators.  AOC not getting her first choice was never a thing I gave much mind since Pelosi is damn well grooming her for leadership.  Her and Porter.

  172. 172.

    Immanentize

    @mali muso: re: this year and all of our problems with stress and emotions and distraction — We really have just been put in survival mode.  I guess it was good as an experience to see how that felt but let’s move on back to living life as consumer mode?

  174. 174.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    it certainly feels like society is rigged right now.

    They’re not wrong, and it’s the biggest part of why Republicans have gone batshit insane.  The government is rigged in their favor, but society slaps down their bigoted bullshit at every turn.  Bad enough the can’t call a n- a n-, but now they get yelled at in public if they mock trans women.

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I think it’s hard for Americans to grasp just how sexually repressed our country is compared to the rest of the developed world.  JAPAN thinks we have a stick up our ass.

  175. 175.

    Quinerly

    @Hoodie: glad you chimed in. I’m just a retired lowly collections attorney so never traveled in the Jones Day circles. I know enough that I have never heard of a patent/Constitutional atty. There’s a story here. Brand new Twitter acct too. Can’t really find any info about him on line but LinkedIn.

  181. 181.

    Immanentize

    @germy: In my experience, and sadly I suspect we all have experiences of this type, it is when I get good news in the wake of really bad shit — that’s when I become weepy.  It’s not happiness, exactly, not relief entirely.  It’s like the previously harnessed pain gets an escape hatch in tears.

  183. 183.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @BruceFromOhio: Me and Mrs. Fuckhead are beyond thrilled. We worry about him, of course, but we also high five each other over the fact we’re going to be very rich soon because we no longer have to buy his groceries.

  184. 184.

    H.E.Wolf

    @John S.: Hopefully some of this blue will leak its way south of Georgia in 2 years. [….] we don’t have a Ms. Abrams here in Florida.

    Good news! You can help bring a steadily increasing river of blue to your home state (and others), by joining http://PostcardsToVoters.org or one of the other GOTV volunteer organizations.

    PostcardsToVoters and the FL Democratic Party have teamed up to increase Democratic voters’ use of Vote By Mail, which has a 4-year effect on all FL elections.

    They will undoubtedly be teaming up with FL in-state and statewide Democratic candidates to GOTV for those elections.

    They’re my favorite group, because they allow volunteers to contribute in tiny amounts (= write 5 postcards in 3 days). As I’m an achy-handed, whiteout-reliant writer with plenty of other obligations, they’re perfect for me!

    [ETA: fixed 2 typos]

  185. 185.

    germy

    There appears to be some tension between Trump and Pence regarding Wednesday’s plan

    On Tuesday night, the New York Times reported that Vice-President Mike Pence informed President Trump that he does not believe he actually has the power to block the election certification process — a belief that is grounded in fact. However, Pence reportedly also “indicated to the president that he would keep studying the issue up until the final hours before the joint session of Congress begins at 1 p.m. Wednesday.”

    Shortly after the report was published, the White House published a statement from Trump denying Pence’s alleged doubt of the Republican stunt. “He never said that,” the statement read. “The vice-president and I are in total agreement that the vice-president has the power to act.”

  189. 189.

    citizen dave (aka mad citizen)

    @debbie: “Since lawsuits now flow so freely, can someone please file one against Donald Trump for dereliction of duty since Nov. 3rd?”

    I wish I had time to read the morning thread on this great day, but this made me think of a CNN clip I saw last night of Gabe the Georgia elections guy doing an interview last night.  He was alternating between speaking as a state worker and as a Republican.  My thought was, I wonder if he is counting these hours as state employment time.  You’re not supposed to be discussing your politics on that time–major violation (but totally the norm for republicans as we all know).

  190. 190.

    Immanentize

    @Baud: I expected he was waiting for the result of the special/runoffs in GA to determine whether he could get his first choice through.  I’m all for Jones who had a good chance being a Senator once and all — but I bet Sally Yates (who I love) has risen in the betting markets.

  194. 194.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Luciamia: Even McConnell said Republicans inability/unwillingness to pass a Covid relief bill was killing Loeffler and Perdue.

    I’m enjoying how none of the explanations for their (presumed) losses include the fact they are ghouls who profited richly off of their insider knowledge about the coming horror of COVID. I guess that just makes them good Republicans?

  196. 196.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @artem1s:@donnaimamTX
    Senator @BernieSanders single handedly flipped the Senate by championing the $2,000 relief.

    it’s a cult, as much as that other one

  197. 197.

    Lacuna Synechdoche

    @LurkerNoLonger:

    America was already saved on November 3rd.

    Yes, it was.

    Unironically: I don’t know if can take all this winning. As a Democrat, I’m really not used to it.

  201. 201.

    Lacuna Synechdoche

    @Amir Khalid:

    Such nuances are beyond the ken of Trump’s supporters.

    Ha! I’m pretty sure most of Trump’s supporters don’t even know how to pronounce nuance.

  206. 206.

    JPL

    @Elizabelle: I stayed up until Wasserman called the race for Ossoff.   Since I live in the burbs, I was disappointed that neither candidate spent time trying to win over the Biden/Perdue voters.   haha  Fortunately I was not campaign manager, because those constituents weren’t the important votes.    Gotta believe in Abrams.

  209. 209.

    Quinerly

    @dmsilev: I have been seeing a lot of Wonder Woman FB profile pics with Sidney Powell’s head. OK, here I go again… In local small town newspapers comment sections. Real peopl, not trolls. Her new super power is not Kraken releasing… It’s “Operation Kill Shot” something, something, and VP Pence today. Everyone must know she is a “licensed military tribunal atty.”

    Is it too early to start drinking?

  213. 213.

    Ken

    @Quinerly: Isn’t it good to know that in ten centuries or so, when  archaeologists are trying to figure out how the cult pantheon (Troompa the Eternal King, Pwell the Warrior Goddess, Ghoulianee the Undead, etc.) developed, the whole thing will be documented?

  217. 217.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    He could bring three of them to a negotiated middle that actually gave Americans real relief, and Trump loved signing checks.  McConnell, personally, sank Covid relief this whole year.  Standing back and letting the Trump administration be unable to negotiate was just his way of shifting blame when the let the ship sink.

  219. 219.

    Ruckus

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Well at least they admitted that they are against society being rigged for those able to buy their way into and out of everything, that equality is wrong.

  224. 224.

    Miss Bianca

    @Splitting Image:

    A big thanks to everyone who organized, everyone who contributed, and everyone who knocked on doors to make this happen. It’s been years in the making, and the whole world can breathe a little easier now. Pelosi will be introducing legislation in the House, Biden will be setting policy in the White House, and Harris will be breaking ties in the Senate. Just hang on for two more weeks.

    Let me second this. I had to sit this 20-21 election cycle out, just because of a combination of finances and extreme burnout/exhaustion, so I’m so grateful that this time round, so many other people picked up the torch and ran with it. Thank you thank you thank you.

  225. 225.

    Miss Bianca

    @germy: No, you’re going sane again.

    I have suddenly become able to write something other than newspaper stories again. I have suddenly been able to plan some theater work. I am suddenly able to sleep at night without gerbil brain.

    I may well end up bursting into tears at odd moments as well.

  226. 226.

    leeleeFL

    @OzarkHillbilly: Nevertheless, They PERSISTED!

    Funny how the Repubs are always surprised when their totally blatant racism and corruption are overcome by determined people who could SEE what they had been doing and worked hard to overcome their behavior.  Do they really not think they are as transparent as glass, and that smarter, more determined people can thwart their BS?

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