The father of the next governor of Georgia.
Sunday, November 08, 2026
Low Hanging Fruit
Jeffries says he's on board with impeaching Pete. Everybody hates that fucker except Trump.
That's Sad
I am sure that even with 56 senators we will get some revolving villains and excuses for not being able to do things, but we won't get random ogre tantrums. His character can be written out of next season.
With Democrats winning at least 54 seats in the U.S. Senate, and potentially two more, the consensus on Wednesday was that rogue Democratic Sen. John Fetterman faces a murky future with little leverage.
“John Fetterman is going to come back to the Senate and be isolated and irrelevant,” state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, a frequent Fetterman critic who is vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, told PennLive on Wednesday.
In an earlier era it would be possible for a "Fetterman" to switch parties and grab the Republic nomination, but I can't see it happening here.
That he's lazy and unpleasant doesn't help!
Know Your Place
My admittedly small experience with House and Senate culture is that they operate with a strongly hierarchical system based on seniority (this is not secret) and that the old guard does not like it when new arrivals are a bit too, um, enthusiastic.
In the House, if you keep your head down and play by the "rules" maybe you can get a gavel in 20 or so years!
That isn't much of a reward.
Saturday, November 07, 2026
Grifters All The Way Down
Nobody but dodgy SEO firms have offered to pay me to post (somewhat sadly).
Trump ally Loomer was paid thousands for political tweets, people familiar say
White Supremacist
Maybe one journalist could explain why every Republican interviewed on cable news isn't asked to condemn Stephen Miller.
Musk'd
The entire campaign against Talarico was 12-year-olds from 1984 calling him a "trans gaywad." It didn't work.
In Texas, these door knockers focused heavily on transgender issues. Mr. Musk’s team saw this as essential to turning out right-wing voters against Mr. Talarico, but some advisers thought that focus was a tactical mistake.
Last Friday, in America PAC’s final internal poll of the Senate race, Mr. Talarico held a six-point advantage over Mr. Paxton.
On Tuesday, after more than $210 million in spending from Mr. Musk to help Mr. Paxton, the results finally arrived. Mr. Talarico won by 12 points.
Friday, November 06, 2026
Pity The Fools
An octogenarian I can celebrate.
Senfronia Thompson says she has the votes to become the first woman and first Black Texas House speaker
The 87-year-old Houston Democrat, known as Ms. T, has served in the Legislature since 1973. On Tuesday, her party won control of the Texas House for the first time since 2003.
Trifectas
I don't expect newly empowered Dems to institute full communism, but I do hope they realize that with power they can actually do stuff.
PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats in Arizona won control of both legislative chambers and retained the governor’s office, giving the party its first trifecta in the state since 1966 as Democrats made major gains nationwide in this week’s elections and took control of both chambers of Congress.
And they should do things that are difficult to undo.
Fake Moderates
One of my (numerous) media pet peeves is how the press treats Republican "moderates." Everybody actually knows that Collins' whole schtick was too make concerned noises but never actually do anything when it mattered. That was rarely how she was covered by the mainstream press, however.
They used to call Lindsey Graham (!!) a moderate when he did some obvious kayfabe.
About the only Mavericky thing John McCain ever actually did was his health care vote during Trump I. I will give him credit for that. Otherwise...
Anyway, we won't have Susan Collins to kick around anymore!
Heckuva Job, Elon
The not many suckers who bought it are probably gonna run out of repair parts soon.
Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck, marking the end of a failed effort to take a chunk of the lucrative market for pickups in the US.
New Team In Charge
I can't even begin to fathom what it must be like in Texas right now. A power structure that has been in place for decades is just being chucked out
We will see if the Dems there use their power!
Thursday, November 05, 2026
The Deposed Queen Of Maine
I bet there are tons of people in Maine who are thrilled they no longer have to kiss her ass.
“Everybody ignores the fact that I voted to convict him in the second impeachment trial,” Ms. Collins said. “What bigger break could there be? It is never enough. I want results and they want angry rhetoric.”
On top of dissatisfaction that she hadn’t distanced herself sufficiently from the president, some voters harbored resentment about her vote in 2018 to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, given his later role in overturning Roe v. Wade.
A good sequence of paragraphs. The only type of results she ever got. Her 'only do something when it doesn't matter' strategy wasn't enough for those ungrateful voters. Unfair!
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