President Biden and US politics catchall

[Biffer]

Looking at the election map on the New Yorker site, it shows the count for the Senate at 49 - 49, with Georgia and Alaska heading to a new vote and Nevada not decided yet. How can this be when there are only 50 states? What am I missing?

Has Alaska been counted for the GOP given that the two candidates in the run-off election are both R?

Alaska has been called for the republicans.

[Kiwias]

Looking at the election map on the New Yorker site, it shows the count for the Senate at 49 - 49, with Georgia and Alaska heading to a new vote and Nevada not decided yet. How can this be when there are only 50 states? What am I missing?

Has Alaska been counted for the GOP given that the two candidates in the run-off election are both R?

Alaska has been called for the republicans.

[Kiwias]

Alaska wasn't in play though. Being a democrat in Alaska must be hilarious. You would think with all the Russian infiltration in the Republican party they would get some sort of electoral beating but nope guns and fucking up the natives take priority. You would have thought Georgia will go the Democrats way. People like winners and this has been a shite election for the Russpublicans

Peltola (D) won the Alaska House seat

[Biffer]

Alaska wasn't in play though. Being a democrat in Alaska must be hilarious. You would think with all the Russian infiltration in the Republican party they would get some sort of electoral beating but nope guns and fucking up the natives take priority. You would have thought Georgia will go the Democrats way. People like winners and this has been a shite election for the Russpublicans

Peltola (D) won the Alaska House seat

I see that now. Don't know what he was talking about last night. Total Republican vote maybe?

US analysts say a seat is in play if it’s competitive and either side could make a play at winning it. That’s not the case in Alaska, solidly republican, Dems didn’t really have a chance, so although an election was happening, it wasn’t considered ‘in-play’

[Hal Jordan]

Alaska wasn't in play though. Being a democrat in Alaska must be hilarious. You would think with all the Russian infiltration in the Republican party they would get some sort of electoral beating but nope guns and fucking up the natives take priority. You would have thought Georgia will go the Democrats way. People like winners and this has been a shite election for the Russpublicans

Alaska is oil and the military. Famous Democrat voters.

[fishfoodie]

Looking at the election map on the New Yorker site, it shows the count for the Senate at 49 - 49, with Georgia and Alaska heading to a new vote and Nevada not decided yet. How can this be when there are only 50 states? What am I missing?

Has Alaska been counted for the GOP given that the two candidates in the run-off election are both R?

Nevada looking good for the Dems too.

It's the same pattern as the Presidential Election, with the Clarke county mail-in ballots, that we know are going to be solidly Democrat, yet to be counted, & these should be more than enough to overturn the tiny lead the GOP candidate has currently.

[Hal Jordan]

Looks like GOP knives are being sharpened, with Turtle Mitch looking over his shoulder.

[Slick]

Looks like GOP knives are being sharpened, with Turtle Mitch looking over his shoulder.

Is it really too much to ask for Trump to be utterly humiliated and then start throwing them all under the bus as he is dragged to jail, skint

[fishfoodie]

Looks like GOP knives are being sharpened, with Turtle Mitch looking over his shoulder.

Its ridiculous blaming them for this shit show; they all know the orange turd in Florida is fucking up everything with his support for election denying fuckwits, & pushing policies that are further, & further away from the main-stream.

Aligning the entire GOP to pander to the furthest right-wing 5% is electoral suicide.

[Gumboot]

Democrats have won Nevada and will keep control of the Senate.

[Kiwias]

Democrats have won Nevada and will keep control of the Senate.

The Democrats should send a huge bouquet of flowers to the Orange Buffoon. Without his help, this would not have happened.

[petej]

Democrats have won Nevada and will keep control of the Senate.

The Democrats should send a huge bouquet of flowers to the Orange Buffoon. Without his help, this would not have happened.

An extra seat from Georgia would be useful.

[Gumboot]

Democrats have won Nevada and will keep control of the Senate.

The Democrats should send a huge bouquet of flowers to the Orange Buffoon. Without his help, this would not have happened.

An extra seat from Georgia would be useful.

Yep, and Trump won't be able to resist meddling, regardless of GOP efforts to dissuade him. The Hershel & Donald Show is sure to be fun viewing.

[Kiwias]

Plenty of time to find yet another woman Hershel pushed into having an abortion. Not that his core supporters could give a fuck.

[Gumboot]

Plenty of time to find yet another woman Hershel pushed into having an abortion. Not that his core supporters could give a fuck.

"I don't care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the senate!"

[Kiwias]

Plenty of time to find yet another woman Hershel pushed into having an abortion. Not that his core supporters could give a fuck.

"I don't care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the senate!"

It is astounding that someone actually said that on tv but then, I guess that is the state of the GOP these days.

[TB63]

The grift continues! No shame at all...

[Guy Smiley]

The grift continues! No shame at all...

[Hal Jordan]

Well, it looks like the red wave will be the ketchup all.over the walls at Mar-A-Lago.

[fishfoodie]

The GOP are begging him, begging him, not to announce he's running in 2024 on Tuesday; because it'll just keep him in the headlines, & fuck up the Georgia race.

It's nice that the GOP think he gives a fuck about anyone other than himself

He knows he's going to get indicted in the next week or two; & he's planning on using his declaration to claim the prosecution is political. Now that the midterms are out of the way; life can go back to being a continuous stream of bad news for the turd !

[Marylandolorian]

Well, it looks like the red wave will be the ketchup all.over the walls at Mar-A-Lago.

New York Times

[Biffer]

Chances of him running even if he doesn't get the republican nomination? It's all about him so getting back at people he thinks have betrayed him by sabotaging the repu lican candidate would be very on brand.

[fishfoodie]

Chances of him running even if he doesn't get the republican nomination? It's all about him so getting back at people he thinks have betrayed him by sabotaging the repu lican candidate would be very on brand.

100%

There is no Republican candidate, because there isn't a Republican Party anymore. Those stupid fucks invited the snake into their house, & now they're trying to work out who will ask it to leave; all there is left is the shitgibbon Party.

[GogLais]

Chances of him running even if he doesn't get the republican nomination? It's all about him so getting back at people he thinks have betrayed him by sabotaging the repu lican candidate would be very on brand.

Well that’s an interesting proposition.

[sockwithaticket]

Chances of him running even if he doesn't get the republican nomination? It's all about him so getting back at people he thinks have betrayed him by sabotaging the repu lican candidate would be very on brand.

Think it depends on whether he'll have to spend any of his own money to campaign. If he can get enough of a war chest from idiots still attending his rallies and responding to donation mailers, he'll run.

[fishfoodie]

Chances of him running even if he doesn't get the republican nomination? It's all about him so getting back at people he thinks have betrayed him by sabotaging the repu lican candidate would be very on brand.

Think it depends on whether he'll have to spend any of his own money to campaign. If he can get enough of a war chest from idiots still attending his rallies and responding to donation mailers, he'll run.

He already has hundreds of millions he's grifted from the idiots. One of the reasons why he hasn't formally announced he's running for President, is that once he does so, that money can only be used for his campaign, & he is supposed to stop using it to for his day to day expenses, & legal fees etc, etc.

He has no shortage of money for his campaign, & that's what the GOP is after, but not for him, but for someone like DeSantis; who has a chance.

[Hal Jordan]

Kari Lake loses in Arizona and as night follows day starts calling it a stolen election.

The GOP is an absolute bind. The Trumpy election deniers have failed, but the primary candidate elections are likely to keep putting these arseholes front and centre because the grandees thought they could control the beast and have found out, just like every clever clever political class using a demagogue to further their own aims before them that the beast will eat them anyway.

[Slick]

I think he has probably gone as a serious candidate but he
Will burn everything on his way out. Should be hilarious from a distance

[fishfoodie]

In other good news, it's entirely possible that Lauren Boebert could lose her district, despite it being redder than a red thing.

Shes within a thousand votes of losing, & they're now going thru the painful process of, "fixing", votes, where the signature check was questioned, or the voters messed up some trivial field in their vote, & now they need to fix the error, to have their vote counted.

[Gumboot]

I wonder if Trump will go ahead with today's planned big announcement. Apparently Rupert's told him in no uncertain terms that his media empire won't back him if he runs again, and will instead go all-in on DeSantis.

[fishfoodie]

I wonder if Trump will go ahead with today's planned big announcement. Apparently Rupert's told him in no uncertain terms that his media empire won't back him if he runs again, and will instead go all-in on DeSantis.

I don't think his teeny, tiny penis.... I mean Ego, will let him do anything else, other than follow thru.

He's just that disgusting a douchbag

[Gumboot]

I wonder if Trump will go ahead with today's planned big announcement. Apparently Rupert's told him in no uncertain terms that his media empire won't back him if he runs again, and will instead go all-in on DeSantis.

I don't think his teeny, tiny penis.... I mean Ego, will let him do anything else, other than follow thru.

He's just that disgusting a douchbag

Yep, it's official, the orange shit-stain just couldn't resist.

Ah well, hopefully the GOP will eat itself before he can do too much more damage.

[Guy Smiley]

Apparently, this was flying along the coast near Mar A Lago during his announcement...

[Kiwias]

His speech was pretty rank all the same. Even for him. His sex daughter coming out and saying she ain't in this time is mildly humorous. It helps DeSantis really bar Trump actually does know some stuff about dungeons and whipped cream.

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[Thor Sedan]

His speech was pretty rank all the same. Even for him. His sex daughter coming out and saying she ain't in this time is mildly humorous. It helps DeSantis really bar Trump actually does know some stuff about dungeons and whipped cream.

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Ivanka won't be taking part in the campaign....she has her $2b from the Saudi's.....she's set without the drama - or the need for daddy's will.

Junior and eric on the otherhand.....

[Gumboot]

[Sandstorm]

[Marylandolorian]

Yes but

[Marylandolorian]

Maybe a good news but I fear they’ll go to the “politically correct “ instead.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/11333976 ... -step-down

[TB63]