I know we’re all feeling doom and gloom but can we get a thread of some wins/good news from last night?
Out of 10 pro abortion state measures 7 passed (one still undecided i think), and only 1 anti abortion measure passed.
We won’t have to vote any more, so all those people who never wanted to vote in the past won’t need to worry their little heads any more.
The monsters who want us all dead might not take all three branches…! Maybe…!
Liberals are ripe for radicalization and joining Leftists. Not all, of course, some are shifting rightward, but many are disillusioned and shifting left.
For anyone reading, I can give a basic intro to Marxism reading list if you want. For starters, I recommend Blackshirts and Reds. To know fascism, who it serves, how it rises, and how to stop it is immensely useful.
Unfortunately, I think liberals are going to continue taking the easy route, which is not really having much of a platform other than “we’re not Trump supporters”
Depends, many seem more receptive to theory as of late.
Just want to say: Thanks for your perennial civility as well as continuing to offer learning resources for people interested in any “sect” of leftist ideology.
Appreciate the kind words! It’s a tender time, liberals are both more open and more closed to radicalization, depending on how they are interacted with. Lenin has a fantastic quote:
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
In shining light on the causes of evil, illustrating ways out of these darker times, and in teaching how to properly struggle against evil, we can radicalize numerous liberals and strengthen solidarity.
I’d say that despair is also common for those of us who have been painfully aware of the causes.
Simply being aware is not enough, we must identify the way out and struggle for it.
Trump won.
I’d tell you to GFY, but you already have & just don’t realize it yet.
I’m curious, what part of that do you think will be good for anyone who isn’t a rich which male?
Delaware elected Sarah McBride, who is the first open transgender representative in Congress.
Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, who has been trying to prosecute Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, won reelection.
Washington Congressman Dan Newhouse, one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump (and one of two in that group who survived the subsequent midterm elections), successfully defended his seat again against a Trump-endorsed opponent. That’s at least one Republican in the House who doesn’t always rubber-stamp the party agenda.
Liz Cheney won’t be secretary of defense and Anthony Blinken will be out of work and ideally sent to Gitmo.
ideally sent to Gitmo
I though that detouring people we disagree with politically was the thing we didn’t like about Trump.
War criminals deserve the noose. Especially genocidal ones.
So people selling guns should be tried for murder of they are used by a murderer?
I have seen enough footage of the war crimes to be confident of Blinken’s guilt.
I chuckled.
In Missouri, a red state…
Missourians vote to increase minimum wage, require paid sick leave
And a atate constitutional amendment for abortion but that still needs to be played out in court.
Which won’t matter when the national abortion ban is passed.
But Trump said he would veto a national abortion ban.
Even if he weren’t a compulsive liar, he’s still pretty old. I doubt he’ll be serving a full four years.
This is a good thread to have today. This is some encouraging news!
We have been down that road before. The state government will simply refuse to implement anything passed by ballot measure that they don’t like.
I expect the abortion measure to take effect since it deletes out an existing law, but i wouldn’t expect the minimum wage or paid sick leave to be worth the ink it was printed with.
I may have lost everything else, but I won on minimum wage and abortion.
I guess that will have to be my bellwether
Last Week Tonight will have more material than they know what to do with it
I doubt they will cover it. That would be a death sentence at this point.
Last Week Forever: “Surprise twist this week: Trump good? Here’s why Trump is God and we should always worship him!”
Massachusetts passed an unprecedented measure allowing ride share drivers to unionize.
Split ticket scenarios seemed common, which can mean party loyalty is at an all time low.
Maybe we’ll finally wake up and realize this country was not built on good intentions and is operating as intended.
Almost like it’s on sacred Indian burial grounds.
I needed that chuckle. Thanks.
What was it before that, though?
Nono, Americans made peace with the natives!
Trail of Tears of Joy
Nebraska got weed and another state elected the first openly transgender U.S. Representative. Tlaib retained her seat.
Also, I learned that a grade school classmate won a state rep seat in one of the midwest swing states earlier and that’s good news to me, at least.
Here in Seattle, most of the local and state elections went the way I was hoping. We got a governor who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.
who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.
Well I now worry for them since the DOJ will now be the arm of Trump to go after “political opponents” who “unfairly persecuted” him. :(
Yup. The shit is gonna hit the fan quick. The blue states will hang on for as long as possible, but shit can fly from DC all the way to the west coast.
Corporate media will be ever more obsequious to get access. Military presence for “safety” in certain cities labeled “dangerous” which all happen to be progressive. Then the self-censorship starts. Then people stop being able speak freely, let alone thinking a rule of law exists. Then it’s “underground” to have an honest conversation about politics. We’ll be in Putin’s Russia level of legal system and political speech within a few years.
Funny we were just looking at Seattle as a place to move to. Know anyone who’s hiring?
Not currently. Except for starvation wage retail. Tech hiring is still mostly frozen and smaller companies tend to just copy larger ones.
Most manufacturing jobs are hiring actually.
Will manufacturing jobs keep the same Safety regulations? I’m gonna assume yes because QC but I’m still worried
No, they intend to kill OSHA.
The west coast stuck to its guns almost completely. Mark Robinson and Kari Lake lost their races incredibly enough.
Biden got some big stuff done with chips, infrastructure investment, and more. Unless Trump starts tearing down bridges and forcing people to remove heat pumps, some of Biden’s stuff will be very difficult to reverse, physically or politically.
