For your live streams tonight... TYT is late due to freak storms in SoCal, but they finally seem to be up and running...
For your live streams tonight... TYT is late due to freak storms in SoCal, but they finally seem to be up and running...
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
And just in case their power goes off again, here's The Majority Report's live stream...
So far all I've seen is that our 105 year old governor will be re-elected. Polls closed 20 minutes ago. Dems have run shit candidates the last two elections.
Writing In All Proper Case Takes Extra Time, Is Confusing To Read, And Is Completely Pointless.
Ryan is up in my county just based on early voting.
County flipped to Vance. Looks like he's leading statewide too
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TYT just said Vance was up by 5 points. It's not over yet, but that's discouraging....
Vance was down 12 points around a half hour after polls closed. He won my county by almost 10 points.
Last edited by twonabomber; 11-08-2022 at 10:02 PM.
Beto loses. Maybe we won't have to hear from him any more.
You would think that Texas would be tired of being governed by morons since 1994. Guess not?
Sarah Huckabeast got her daddy's old job as governor of Arkansas.
The Guardian says the WA Senate race has been called for Patty Murray. Thank God... she's hardly my favorite, but her opponent Tiffy Smiley was another single digit IQ Trumpbot comparable to Margie Traitor Green or Gun Nut Barbie Bobert.
Ron Wyden also projected to win in Oregon, and Alex Padilla who replaced Scamala Harris in CA also projected to win. So the West Coast keeps all of their (theoretically) Democratic senators.
NBC News has called PA for Fetterman!!
Who knew Dave Roth was running for Senate in Idaho??
Unfortunately he lost to Mike Crapo. Because it's Idaho, of course.
House currently sits at 172 Democrats & 199 Republicans, with a whole lot of districts not officially called yet, but some of them will be obvious enough... for example here in Washington, I expect the Dems to hold all of the seats they had previously, and pick up the third district (where a MAGAtt beat the "moderate" Republican in the primary). The Republicans will hold the two districts in Eastern WA that have been theirs forever. Not exactly a shock there.
Everyone had some wins so everyone seems content. Zzzzz. Now back to inflation and war.
Democrats - 48
Republicans - 47
There are 4 states that have not been officially called yet.
Nevada - 28.9% Reported
Laxalt (R) - 48.6
Cortez Masto (D) 48.5.
Arizona - 37.9% Reported
Kelly (D) - 52.4
Masters (R) 45.5
Wisconsin - 99% Reported
Johnson (R) - 50.6
Barnes (D) - 49.4
Georgia - 99.5% Reported
Warnock (D) - 49.4
Walker (R) - 48.5
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FORD's Prediction: Nevada may be slightly down at the moment, but I think it's going to flip when the Vegas numbers come in. I also expect Kelly's lead to hold in AZ. Wisconsin is a painfully thin margin, but given all the Koch machination of that state in recent years, I wouldn't be surprised if Johnson skates by with a razor thin number.
Which brings us down to a Georgia runoff. Again. Hard to believe that you need to beat a brain damaged idiot like Herschel Walker TWICE just to shut him up.
Apparently Cheeto blames Melania for picking Oz as a Senate candidate for PA, so it's all her fault he lost
Who knew that choosing candidates based on the opinion of a mail order wife from Eastern Europe was not a brilliant strategy...?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2221512.htmlA furious Donald Trump spent the morning after the midterm elections lashing out at those he believes gave him bad advice as several of the candidates he endorsed in pivotal races came up short.
Mr Trump is reportedly blaming his wife Melania Trump for advising him to back Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania senate race.
Dr Oz has called Democrat John Fetterman to concede the race.
“Trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about Mehmet Oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back Oz, including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him,” Maggie Haberman of The New York Times tweeted on Wednesday morning.
An adviser to the former president told CNN that “Trump is livid” and “screaming at everyone” after the Republicans did worse than expected.
Jim Acosta tweeted that the adviser blasted Mr Trump’s handpicked candidates.
“They were all bad candidates,” the adviser said. “Candidates matter.”
The adviser added that it’s unlikely that Mr Trump will delay his expected 2024 campaign announcement because “it’s too humiliating to delay”.
What's funny about Oz is Oprah promoted him on her show and she loved the guy until he ran for office and then she was after his ass. Both candidates were not the best in that race. But why not send a guy who's fucked from a stroke to Washington? Not many brain cells left in the place anyways.
Chris Cillizza
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 2:39 PM EST, Wed November 9, 2022
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As votes rolled in from across the country Tuesday night, Donald Trump said something truly incredible when asked about how much credit or blame he should get for the election results.
“I think if they win, I should get all of the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all,” Trump told NewsNation, adding: “But it will probably be just the opposite.”
Yes, he really said that. And, no, he wasn’t kidding. He would, quite simply, like to have his cake and eat it, too.
In Trump’s world, all good things are the direct result of his action while all bad things are definitely someone else’s fault. He is forever telling himself a story in which he is the forever hero – fighting off the losers and the haters who are dragging him down.
Case in point, this tweet from Maggie Haberman of the New York Times:
“Trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about Mehmet Oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back Oz – including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him.”
It was his wife’s fault!
The data tell a different story.
Trump was viewed favorably by just 39% of voters, according to the exit polling, while 58% saw him in an unfavorable light. Those numbers put him below Joe Biden (41% favorable/56% unfavorable).
And there are other numbers in the exit polling that suggest Trump was a drag on Republican candidates. Almost 1 in 3 (28%) of voters said that there vote was to send a message of opposition to the former president – and they voted 90%-8% for Democrats in the House. Just 16% said their vote was a way to support Trump,
Aside from the exit poll numbers, there’s evidence of Donald Trump’s fingerprints all over this election – and not in a good way. He endorsed candidates in gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois and Michigan who all lost convincingly as they struggled to develop a winning general election message. (In the Arizona governor’s race, election denier – and Trump endorsee – Kari Lake trails although there is still a significant number of ballots left to count.....
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/polit...ction-midterms
My take on the mid-terms... contrary to Democratic party proclamations, democracy didn't die in the election. Actually proved it's quite alive and well within the republic. It was a stupid claim that democracy was ever in threat... dumbasses.
Despite a lot of misplaced optimism... both major parties failed to get the right messaging to move the needle significantly in either direction. What is crystal clear is, the nation remains fairly evenly divided with a lot of complexity within the division that neither party seems to have a handle on.
The contrast between major population centers and the rest of the nation is most interesting. I'm watching Florida though, as one area the made a major shift and it broke it's swing-state status which had been present for decades. The contrast in Florida between large population areas and rural pretty much evaporated. Plus the shift with Hispanics is noteworthy and something I see the Republicans continuing to make gains in...
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
Who said that and when?
It very much is under threat. You have armed shitheads performing active voter intimidation, election deniers (always losing in courts) and there were attempts to infiltrate biased partisans into the voter counting. Already on top of transparent and obviously biased voter ID laws and gerrymandering cutting out huge swaths of rural centers around urban ones. I do think that a sitting president calling a state governor and asking him to "find votes" is a threat...Actually proved it's quite alive and well within the republic. It was a stupid claim that democracy was ever in threat... dumbasses.
I hear it often with older white people saying that "we" are becoming the minority and inferring that maybe we don't really need a vote to decide things...
Okay, and the emergence of the urban educated white vote turning Blue, states that were perma-Red becoming swing ones like GA and AZ.Despite a lot of misplaced optimism... both major parties failed to get the right messaging to move the needle significantly in either direction. What is crystal clear is, the nation remains fairly evenly divided with a lot of complexity within the division that neither party seems to have a handle on.
The contrast between major population centers and the rest of the nation is most interesting. I'm watching Florida though, as one area the made a major shift and it broke it's swing-state status which had been present for decades. The contrast in Florida between large population areas and rural pretty much evaporated. Plus the shift with Hispanics is noteworthy and something I see the Republicans continuing to make gains in...
A lot of the divide is sheer ignorance. The substantive issues like Roe vs. Wade the messaging was pretty clear. But it's hard to trust the GOP to fix anything like the economy or inflation. I never heard a single substantive plan other than, wait for it! LOWER TAXES!!! Durka durr!
President Biden a week ago...
It's not 2020 anymore... try to catch up!
Abortion appears to be primarily a hot issue among women... but if you pay attention several states enacted legislation supporting abortion rights. So it appears shifting that to the states to legislate is getting the desired effect.
As I stated, the complexity of the issues dividing the nation is presenting a problem for both parties... taxes were not a major issue for most demographics, along with abortions and threats to democracy. Inflation, crime and immigration were the top issues. Neither party offered any compelling vision, solutions or answers to what most Americans are concerned about.
He never said it was "dead", he said "extreme threat". Extreme or not (and I think the majority actually threatening it aren't smart nor effective enough to be an extreme threat) most people agree there is a threat (74%). Perhaps Repubs like DeSantis are a bit smarter and couth than The Donald, and have embraced mail-in voting and taking vaccines so larger numbers of your voter base do not die off than your opponents. But there are lunatics like My Pillow Douche that are election dead-enders. And most of the mini-Trumps were either defeated or are having close run contests in heavily Red areas...
Great! Tell the fucking asshole you voted for that!It's not 2020 anymore... try to catch up!
Not just women, but "younger voters" including men. Some states enacted some protections. Others women can still possibly go to jail if they have a miscarriage!Abortion appears to be primarily a hot issue among women... but if you pay attention several states enacted legislation supporting abortion rights. So it appears shifting that to the states to legislate is getting the desired effect.
I do sort of agree with that but you are a fool if you think abortion rights didn't play a major role, and will from here on out. The crime thing in NY was more or less a joke as Lee Zeldin made that his central argument, but Govenor Hochul (from my home town and I am not impressed with her either) pointed out that crime is down around 14% overall. So the scary Willie Horton shit isn't going to always work. The GOP can do nothing about inflation that isn't already being done and the immigration thing is a bizarre obsession that's been fumbled by both parties. It gets old hearing people bitch about "nobody wants to work anymore" and then in the same breath "those fucking illegal aliens!" Part of the problem is "walls". "They've" been coming here since at least WWII, the difference is they could easy go back and forth, they stay now because it's a lot harder....As I stated, the complexity of the issues dividing the nation is presenting a problem for both parties... taxes were not a major issue for most demographics, along with abortions and threats to democracy. Inflation, crime and immigration were the top issues. Neither party offered any compelling vision, solutions or answers to what most Americans are concerned about.
Both sides had their wins. Florida probably will become the economic powerhouse of the US. It’s very business friendly. California has dropped the ball. Who decides who’s in power is the middle because a partisan Republican and a Partisan Democrat will never vote for the other side and all the political noise you hear comes from the partisan echo chambers. As far as civil war and all that bullshit goes it’s partisan banter. We had the election, it went pretty well. One side will continue to blame the other side but what’s new.
The abortion issue is really about more than abortion, of course. Overturning Roe v Wade was just the latest example of an extremist right wing Supreme Court which has been out of control since December 12, 2000 (if not before) And while abortion could technically be decided on a state by state basis, a runaway federal judicial system certainly cannot be.
You do have to look at the issues the court created when it handed down Roe v Wade originally. That ruling imposed a burden that overrode states rights in this matter and has much deeper roots into the balance of legislative power the states held and has been returned to them with this being overturned.
Roe v Wade created a federal overreach to begin with. This is what drove the steady stream of litigation over the decades that followed.
This is not a technicality that the recent ruling handed to the states. It's actually a reinstatement of power. Nothing extremist about it... we are a republic of independently governed states. Keep that in mind...
Fuck Maloney. As far as I'm concerned he got a Karmic kick in the ass for fucking up the NY 10 primary.
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