OMFG!!!

When I went to bed, Susan Collins was ahead by a lot in Maine. Depressing! I was fully prepared to wake up to profound disappointment this morning.

At 5AM Ten was already up. He walked into the bedroom when he heard me stirring and that was the first thing outta my mouth —“did Susan Collins win?”

No, she did not.

Thank fucking god! I nearly started to cry.

“What about Texas?”

We won — BOTH the senate AND the governor’s seat! Talarico and Hinjosa both won!!!

Now my tears of relief and joy really started flowing.

We flipped Texas!
We actually got South Carolina!
We flipped North Carolina, Ohio, Kansas, and Iowa too!
Did I mention Maine?!!!

Democrats needed 52 senate seats to ensure that any legislation put forward would have the votes to pass (remembering that MAGA-Dem Fetterman’s vote could NOT be counted on). We now have 54 senate seats! Fetterman is wholly irrelevant.

Yes, we lost Florida but … it’s Florida. I wouldn’t expect that state to do anything sane. Having said that, Angie Nixon came close with 47.98% of the vote to Moody’s and 50.87%. MAYBE the stupid is beginning to die off there?

Alaska hasn’t been called yet. It looks close but at this point the other Republican incumbent is ahead. With all the GOP interference it’s no surprise. (closing rural polling places and Trump’s bullshit threats to block the election results if Peltola wins and have the DOJ launch a full scale investigation of Alaskan Democrats)

We’re projected to win at least 250 House seats, going well beyond the 218 needed for a majority.

This means, of course, that little always-on-vacation Mikey Johnson can go ahead and make good on his word to quit Congress. He can go home to Shreveport, Louisiana and start lawn care business. Don’t know if the lawn mowing gig provides as many vacation days as Congress but I’m sure he and his beard wife can sort that out.

Immigrant murdering, woman hating, Trump toady Governor Gregg Abbott is OUT as governor of Texas and Democrat Gina Hinojosa is IN! Georgia has traded in their white, male, Republican governor for a Black woman — Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta. She’s the first Black woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state and the first Democrat to win the office in Georgia in decades. Another first — Deb Haaland won the governorship in New Mexico. She will be the first Native American (Kawaika) woman governor. And Dr. Amy Acton won Ohio’s governor’s seat over that slimy pool of rapist supporting, weasel vomit, Ramaswampy.

I feel like it’s easier to breathe this morning. I know the battle to regain this country is only now truly getting underway but I have hope again.

I’d like to see a real fighter as Senate Majority Leader. Someone like Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth or Mark Kelly. Someone with a real backbone who’s not on AIPAC’s payroll. Same for House Majority Leader. How about Jamie Raskin, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Rashida Tlaib?

Meanwhile on Mars … apparently the joints quite dusty AND that dust is mighty fine. Small enough to slip inside your bloodstream and fuck you right up.

Since old Elon’s so hot to colonize Mars, don’cha think the old election fixer should take a wee Martian excursion and check it out? Did you know, of the three space race robber barons, Leon is the only one who has not flown into space. 

Why not? Maybe it’s because his rockets keep blowing up before they get out of the atmosphere? I think he should go anyway. Don't you?