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GOP is increasingly likely to hold, though still a lot of counting to go.calling on nycfan...
Do we know where the results in the House stand at this point ?
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GOP is increasingly likely to hold, though still a lot of counting to go.calling on nycfan...
Do we know where the results in the House stand at this point ?
Frankly, it may be better for Trump to have all three levers of power (four if you count the court) for the first two years. If past is prologue, then 2026 could be a repeat of 2018.It was never likely, at all, that the Dems would take the House if Kamala lost. It was even less likely with that margin of victory. We aren't going to get the House.
I've been watching election returns a long time. This is ALWAYS how Nevada goes. I feel like I've seen these exact same margins many times. 80% of the vote, Pub leads by a few thousand, and then the Dem takes it as the last votes are counted. It's like every election there.Rosen squeaks out a win.
I agree with your sentiment, in principle. However, with at least one branch of gov held by blue I think democracy is the patient on a respirator with faint potentials detected on EEG - in that case, there's hope, if ever so scant. With red taking on authoritarian hegemony the same patient has zero EEG activity, and is effectively a mechanically sustained bag of cells and fluids, with no chance of recovery.No surprise, I've never thought that the Democrats would win the House majority. And I'm actually glad they won't. Don't give Republicans a target to blame if things go south with their agenda. It's clear that voters this cycle preferred Trump and far-right Republicans, so give it to them with both barrels. Let the GOP control all branches of the government, enact their agenda, and then see what happens. Having said that, it would be nice if the Democrats come within just a handful of seats of controlling the House, as it will make it easier for them to win a majority in 2026.
Oh goodie...a better society...when we are all dead.I agree with your sentiment, in principle. However, with at least one branch of gov held by blue I think democracy is the patient on a respirator with faint potentials detected on EEG - in that case, there's hope, if ever so scant. With red taking on authoritarian hegemony the same patient has zero EEG activity, and is effectively a mechanically sustained bag of cells and fluids, with no chance of recovery.
The only silver lining I see is the coming destruction allows a completely different, and more progressive, country(s) to form in 3-4 decades. In the interregnum, I think violence, rapid expansion of mass detainment, gross human rights abuses, and corruption will define the US.
It’s what I’d wager will occur, with a heaping side of “sure hope I’m wrong”.Oh goodie...a better society...when we are all dead.
I think default is viewed favorably by thiel and musk.I hope the Democrats come within a few seats of flipping the House but that it ultimately remains in Republican control. We need for the entire government apparatus to be controlled by the Republicans. Got to give the voters what they want. Maybe we need to go through government shutdowns every few months or default on our debt.
Yep. That’s exactly what they want. And exactly what they said they’d hope would happen. Elon Musk quite literally and quite explicitly said just last week that we’d need to experience some economic pain and hardship in the “short term” and millions upon millions of people who have whined and cried the loudest about the price of everything ran right to the polls and voted for it. Got to give the voters what they want.I think default is viewed favorably by thiel and musk.
I hear you.Yep. That’s exactly what they want. And exactly what they said they’d hope would happen. Elon Musk quite literally and quite explicitly said just last week that we’d need to experience some economic pain and hardship in the “short term” and millions upon millions of people who have whined and cried the loudest about the price of everything ran right to the polls and voted for it. Got to give the voters what they want.