‘I SPENT 500 MILLION AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY BLUE WAVE’

Elon Musk has a new tee shirt.

How I’m Feeling Post-Election
Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
Carrying beads? Shall I be let to sleep
Now this perpetual morning shares my bed?
Can even death dry up
These new delighted lakes….

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https://voetica.com/poem/5811

‘[I]t’s worth taking at least a moment to savor the fact that Texans chose not to elect the most openly fascist statewide candidate in recent memory.’

O Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo

Where d’ya go go go go go go go

“This isn’t a blue tsunami. This is a blue great mud flood,” wrote right-wing podcaster Tim Pool. “Shit. Its almost like the GOP campaigned on nothing and deserve to get blown out. Fucking insane.”

Said it better than I ever could.

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‘Democrats are on track to win control of the Senate — an unthinkable scenario just a few weeks ago.

Republicans suffered devastating losses in South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and Kansas, with GOP officials bracing for potentially more defeats.’

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“Democrats capture full control of Congress, NBC News projects, fueled by victories in deeply Republican states.”

The Nominee’s Ignominy

They’re calling it for Amy Acton, which only goes to show that sometimes in life the bad guy finishes last. Acton won handily against this espèce de merde, this individual about whom none of us, please God, has ever to think again.

Today’s Positivity

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DqvyF9Z4f/?mibextid=wwXIfr

“My sincerest wish is that tomorrow is the last day I ever have to hear the names Ken Paxton or Vivek Ramaswamy.”

‘[T]he stench of political death has repelled even Trump’s most devoted followers. On the campaign trail, Trump speaks to arenas filled with empty seats. And in the words of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), those who show up are subjected to two hours of “senile babbling.”’

LOLOL.

‘[T]he Trump Era is over. Cause of death: political suicide.’

‘If President Trump loses control of Congress, “he will want to punish a nation that, in his view, has ungratefully rejected him,” [writes David Frum].’

Trump gets his own Nero Decree!

“Hitler came to view the German people as having failed him, unworthy of what he saw as their great mission in history and thus deserving to die alongside his regime.” He ordered Albert Speer to burn to the ground the ungrateful German nation.

Speer, however, betrayed the fuhrer and secretly failed to carry out the decree.

Do similar Benedict Arnolds lurk at Mar a Lago? That smug little squirt Mike Johnson will pretend to firebomb us and then not have the guts to do it…

‘Texas has been a major testing ground for infusing religion into public education, recently passing laws allowing public schools to replace guidance counselors with chaplains, mandating that students read Bible verses and giving money to districts that adopt a Christian curriculum for their elementary school students.’

“There is no such thing as ‘separation of church and state’ in our Constitution,” state Sen. Mayes Middleton told a Christian magazine last year. This year, he is the Republican nominee to succeed [Ken] Paxton as attorney general, the state’s highest-ranking legal authority.

Just keeping you up to date.

Coolest Halloween ever!

“A man was arrested Halloween night after he reportedly pointed a gun at a Duncan [OK] police officer responding to a call of shots fired at trick-or-treaters. 

[J]ust after 8 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to Linwood Lane after receiving a call that “an individual had allegedly discharged a firearm in the direction of trick-or-treaters.”…

As officers were arriving at the home, the man allegedly pointed a firearm at one of the responding officers…”

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Wow! Dude is a former judge.

Halloween or Homecoming: It don’t mean spit without heavy machine guns.

Parades, football games, every public event with a touch of ritual: Sprays of bullets and a corpse or two is now de rigueur.

Finally reading the mood of the country correctly.

‘Surface-to-air Missile added at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach’

The freedom to force your six year old girl to wear a hijab.

Yeah, only your girl, because boys are better.

How dare a secular polity abridge your freedom to force a child to veil?

Double Fault: First the child-rape ad, and now…

… the nationally ranked player thing.

‘One Amish farmer, Ephraim Zook, still opposes vaccines even after he and his wife nursed their young twins through the illness. “We just felt that measles is a natural thing,” he said.’

Darn tootin. So’s cancer and so’s the contagion you and the missus are helping spread. Amen.

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