I know we’re all feeling doom and gloom but can we get a thread of some wins/good news from last night?
Colorado enshrined the right to abortion and removed anti-gay marriage language from their constitution.
In Missouri, a red state…
Missourians vote to increase minimum wage, require paid sick leave
I may have lost everything else, but I won on minimum wage and abortion.
I guess that will have to be my bellwether
This is a good thread to have today. This is some encouraging news!
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.
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.
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.
Out of 10 pro abortion state measures 7 passed (one still undecided i think), and only 1 anti abortion measure passed.
Well, you won’t have to remember Election Day, because this was the last time you will be able to vote on a national level.
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.
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.
The monsters who want us all dead might not take all three branches…! Maybe…!
Good news is we don’t have much time left
Kentucky amendment 2, which would have redirected public funds to private schools, failed miserably. Of all the red states, Kentucky seems to be somewhat unique in its’ strong resistance to Republican attacks on public education. It is, after all, why we have a Democratic governor. I only hope that continues to hold true.
The heat death of the universe will eventually come
Can we accelerate that timeline? Say to like Jan 20, 2025 (let the kids enjoy one last chance at any snow we might be lucky enough to get)?
Well, the sun will explode in 5 billion years, but if that’s too long, don’t worry, it’s only 1 billion until solar winds carry off half of Earth’s water.
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.
Jeff Jackson for NC’s AG
We kept our democratic congresswoman, and the tax to help the schools passed.
Mark Robinson lost in NC?
Yep, and the important thing about keeping a Democrat governor is their veto power against one of the worst state congresses ever. I actually haven’t looked into what changed at that level, but I don’t have much hope that the GOP stranglehold was broken.
