Politics: 2021 Election Results

I promised that I would have this post or another one ready by this month. I could have given myself more time by going to a later service which would have put Survivor’s posts on Thursday and delayed this blog’s post until all the way to the 24^th which would have been the first time that a Thursday would have been available this month for this blog. It would change things in the off chance that there is only one church service during Lent, but you’ll find out more then.

 

Anyways, let’s get to the actual important part of this post. I realize that I could have done a post after the primaries to better prepare you for the general elections, but that never happened and it is far too late for that now anyways. I didn’t even think of doing it until too late and wound up more focused on other things anyways.

 

What you probably heard from this election was that it was a huge red wave as they were only focused on the state of Virginia and not the two other states electing governors or the results of the Georgia senate race runoffs which seem like a lifetime ago even just the very next day after it. But I’ll start with Virginia before going to anything else.

 

The Virginia attorney general race did have incumbent Democrat Mark Herring in the race. That party actually had a primary by the voters. The Republican Party did not have a primary that way. It did get Jason Miyares elected in the general election, defeating Mark.

 

Meanwhile, the Virginia governor race was the one that made everyone lose their minds. I do have to wonder why this was seen as referendum on Biden. They did that in 2009 with the same state, made that governor’s election link to Obama. But in 2013, they didn’t mention what role Obama had with getting a Democrat elected governor there or how the Democrats win in 2017 reflected negatively on Trump.

 

This race proved once again that Republicans can win based on campaigns filled with lies. The Republican, Glenn Youngkin, rallied against such things a critical race theory, something that is only taught in law schools and is not being taught to minors in any state in this country. He also ran against Ralph Northam, even though his real opponent that he beat was Democratic Terry McAuliffe. Glenn also ran against a lot of already ended covid protocols and the state could wind up with a worse response to the pandemic than the good one it has now.

 

The California recall was kind of a laughable attempt at trying to change things. I’ll admit that Gavin Newsom could have wound up forcing the hands of Republicans because he did make a mistake by doing the dinner against his own covid protocols that let the recall move forward. But he easily defeated the recall with over 60% of the vote.

 

New Jersey’s governor race got kind of lost in the whole news coverage since the results were delayed. Incumbent governor, Democrat Phil Murphy, ran against Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli. Phil won reelection. This was actually a big deal since no Democratic governor of that state won reelection since 1977, no candidate of either party won after a president of their party won the previous year since 1985, and no Democrat did that since also in 1977. Indeed, we have yet to see a pandemic era governor lose reelection, although that is probably statistically unlikely to happen again in 2022. Indeed, we may see a record number of governors next year lose renomination to other people in the primaries.

 

There are lesser elections that aren’t something I’m keeping track of, although maybe they should be kept track of by other people. While people think that it was a red wave, I think that a lot of context is missing that would make that true or more true. Still, we might have to be a bit more cautious going into the 2022 gubernatorial races. Polls are saying that it might favor the Democrats, pending the outcome of several tossups. Indeed, the last time any Democrat lost reelection to a Republican in a gubernatorial race was in 2014. We’ll see what happens next year in the end.

Politics: Redistricting

There is a huge post that is long overdue for this blog that I was hoping to have done at some time this month, meaning today, but this isn’t happening. I haven’t done my post on the results of the presidential election from a year ago now that I feel that I have to do still. I also could have blogged instead about the results of the 2021 gubernatorial races with a few others in there as well that happened this year which I think is too soon to blog about. I can promise that one of those posts will appear as next month’s post. I don’t know if that will appear later in the month to accommodate my Survivor blog which is usually delayed to Thursdays during Advent but might not be for reasons that I’ll talk about in that blog. But it will appear on a Thursday as I know that one will be free.

Now since I have to do a brief blog post, I might as well cover the topic of redistricting, a once in a decade event that covers multiple areas of the US electorate. I might as well cover it now since if I don’t cover it soon, I’ll have to wait until it is more time appropriate again.

Due to the census, there are shifts in population and this affects many things. In this blog post, I will just be covering its role in the US House election. It is already known to affect the number of seats some states will have in Congress and some are going up and some are going down. The overall number of Congresspeople remains unchanged as always.

We won’t know the full affects of this change until later. And we always have to worry about the affects of gerrymandering. We do not know what all will change with it. And I wish that I could only blame the Republicans for gerrymandering, but, sadly, both sides do this and that’s quite a shame since neither party should and they should be equal districts. 

A lot more than just redistricting will be affecting the future when we get to the 2022 House races, but that is a different post. We have the sedition caucus, Republicans who voted in favor of impeachment, people of both parties who will have to face each other in primaries, all of the new seats, all of the seats going away, and tons of other things to look for as well. Plus, it is not the House that sorts out the new districts, but the state legislatures and whatever party could be in control of them. That’s why we want the best people in control all the time and especially when it is redistricting time. That’s all folks.

Politics: The Injustice Senators: 2021 Update

I hope that the next planned post of this blog will be talking about the results of the presidential election despite the fact that it would be nearly a year ago by now. I honestly don’t know how I’d adapt if I were able to blog about The Good Fight again despite the name of the blog being about it. I’ve blogged about politics in relations to elections here for quite some time. Now, I’m doing something that I hope gain popularity. First, I’m doing the first blog post on it. I’m also going to do a YouTube video on it. I plan to switch back and forth between them over time.

 

What do I mean by the injustice senators? Well, it all started in 2016 when Antonia Scalia died and one Mitch McConnell stated that the Republican’t Party gets to be a bunch of dicks by not holding a vote on Obama’s yet unnamed nominee to the Supreme Court since a presidential election was going on that year. It took him all of a few hours to make this claim.

 

Poor Merrick Garland got screwed royally because of this. The seat was held open for over a whole year to effectively bork his nomination. He was the most qualified person ever nominated for the Supreme Court. And what’s worse than voting down the most experienced person ever nominated for the Supreme Court? Not holding a fucking vote at all.

 

Republican’ts invented a new precedent, trying to claim that it was already there that the liberals did first. But that’s not the case at all. They cowered behind what they felt was a close time table so that they would have an out on not doing what they are supposed to as senators. What’s even worse is that Merrick is just one of many judges to never get hearings during the end of the Obama administration.

 

What Republican’ts did then was very short sighted. They probably knew this too. What if there were a vacancy during a presidential election year and a Republican’t was president? They’d want to fill the seat, right? Well, this article called it in August of 2020.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/3/1966183/-Would-Republicans-fill-a-Supreme-Court-vacancy-even-during-Trump-s-last-weeks-Of-course-they-would?detail=emaildkre

 

This leads to the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This is something that I doubt that they never thought about in their minds. If Trump really did become president, surely she died during his term? We regain the Supreme Court. It won’t be too long that we’d be without it. We’ve had it since the 1970s and we would get it back during his term. Plus, then we don’t have to worry about flip flopping on this issue.

 

Well, if Republican’ts ever used their brains, they would have voted on Merrick and then not look like a bunch of hypocrites. But they don’t care about being hypocrites. That’s why within hours of Ginsburg’s death, Mitch McConnell threw out his own rules saying that a president could have an election year vacancy as long as the senate had the same party in control. This is why it was different, in his mind. Of course, he’d probably invent a third rule if a Democratic majority senate refused to hear the nomination of a Republican president.

 

This leads to the injustice senators. That’s what I’m calling the 41 Republican senators who all were against holding a hearing on Merrick Garland but had no issues voting for Amy Coney Barrett. I’m going to mention all of them by name, including an update as to if they are not in office anymore or if they are planning to leave office. This is why I plan to keep updating you about them over and over again.

 

They are Richard Shelby (retiring, 1-3-2023), David Perdue (voted out, 1-5-2021), Mike Crapo, Cory Gardner (voted out, 11-3-2020), Marco Rubio, John Boozman, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Lisa Murkowski, Jim Risch, Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, Pat Roberts (retired, 1-3-2021), Jerry Moran, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Bill Cassidy, Roger Wicker, Roy Blunt (retiring, 1-3-2023), Steve Daines, Deb Fischer, Ben Sasse, Thom Tillis, Richard Burr (retiring, 1-3-2023), John Hoeven, Rob Portman (retiring, 1-3-2023), James Lankford, Jim Inhofe (retiring, 1-3-2027), Pat Tommey (retiring, 1-3-2023), Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, John Thune, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn, Lamar Alexander (retired, 1-3-2021), Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Shelley Moore Capito, Ron Johnson, Mike Enzi (retired, 1-3-2021), and John Barrasso.

 

You might be wondering if they are all of the Republicans from 2016 that were still in office as of 2020. Well, it is all but one of them. You see, Susan Collins is different for one reason: she was in favor of holding hearings on Merrick Garland. It might have been because she knew that she would never have to live up to that promise and she was taking one of her many principled stands that mean nothing in the end. I don’t think that her vote against Barrett means a damn thing. And you are more than free to want her out of office.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/19/1978872/-Susan-Collins-says-next-President-should-replace-RBG?utm_campaign=trending

 

Now there are issues with the courts and there have been for quite some time. A majority of the justices have been appointed by people who didn’t originally win the popular vote. (It is worth noting that both of Bush’s justices were appointed after he won reelection, which he did with the popular vote.) It is horrifying that 2016, 2018, and 2020 all had the Supreme Court on the ballot when it never was any time before 1992. Let’s hope that it’s a long while before this happens again. We don’t know the full story of what’s going on with the courts.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/21/1979460/-Breaking-Sen-Whitehouse-claims-that-an-unknown-organization-is-behind-GOP-SCOTUS-Strategy?utm_campaign=trending

 

What we do know is the blatant hypocrisy of the Republican’t Party. They threw out their own rules when they no longer benefitted from it. They will always do this. And I refuse to believe that the Democrats also flipped on the issue of election year vacancies to the Supreme Court when they only wanted to play by the same rules as the other party. Why should they just get to invent rules and then throw out those same rules? But there is a big difference. Two of them, actually. One is that the election was even closer in 2020. The other is that the majority of the court was not going to change this time. It would remain in Republican’t hands.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/24/1980325/-Vulnerable-Republicans-don-t-want-to-talk-about-why-the-Supreme-court-in-2020-isn-t-the-same-as-2016?detail=emaildkre

 

Democrats had a lot that they could do, but not much of it was something that would work with them in the minority of the senate. Republican’ts were worried that they would lose the senate, the presidency, or, in the case that happened, both. And if it were a non incumbent senator who had died during this time frame (in some states, but not all), their seat wouldn’t have had one of their special elections to replace it until the next time they were up. These links all explain what all Democrats both did and could do. I don’t know what all worked.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980620/-To-honor-RBG-Democrats-have-to-do-everything-in-their-power-to-preserve-her-seat

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/5/1983715/-Senate-Democrats-need-to-play-the-same-hardball-game-on-the-Supreme-Court-McConnell-would?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/6/1984002/-Senate-Democrats-have-nothing-to-lose-by-making-this-Supreme-Court-nomination-war?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984405/-Schumer-and-Judiciary-Democrats-need-a-battle-plan-on-Supreme-Court-and-need-it-now?detail=emaildkre

 

The disgust of the second Supreme Court justice dying in office which was then being politicized by taking a person’s death and using it for personal gain speaks to the overall lack of soul that we often see in the Republican’t Party. Here are two links about this.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980584/-Republican-ad-blitz-gaslights-the-public-about-what-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-wanted?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/27/1981156/-Republican-group-hawking-Notorious-A-C-B-shirts-is-tasteless-but-the-real-problem-is-much-bigger?detail=emaildkre

 

While hardly the worst of the current justices, there will always be too much controversy in her rise to the court. Barrett is the most inexperienced person confirmed to the Supreme Court since Clarence Thomas, which is horrifying as he is the most senior justice. She has controversial views behind just how she unfairly got a seat she never should have had.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980903/-Why-Trump-s-expected-Supreme-Court-nominee-believes-all-Civil-Rights-legislation-is-illegitimate?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1986719/-Amy-Coney-Barrett-refused-to-say-if-state-sanctioned-kidnapping-at-the-border-is-wrong?detail=emaildkre

 

Of course, there’s a whole lot of issues with her a bit unrelated to her. She might have been the reason for the White House outbreak of coronavirus. She had it and could have given it to Trump who could have easily died. And as horrible as he’s been after the election, I’m glad that he didn’t die because then he wouldn’t have known the country’s rejection of him.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/3/1983170/-Amy-C-Barrett-Had-CV-19-Did-She-Disclose-This-to-Trump-To-Senators-If-Not-Is-It-Disqualifying

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amy-coney-barretts-supreme-court-nomination-ceremony-seems-to-tick-all-the-boxes-for-a-coronavirus-superspreading-event/ar-BB19Lxgl?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/5/1983673/-McConnell-says-shut-Senate-down-for-COVID-19-relief-bill-but-move-ahead-on-superspreader-Barrett?detail=emaildkre

 

With her ascending to the Supreme Court, she has joined other controversial justices that Trump had appointed, although only Kavanaugh had to face one of his own making. And now we have to worry about voting rights. We’ll see how over time.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/27/1989984/-Kavanaugh-Barrett-put-voting-rights-on-the-ballot-next-week?detail=emaildkre

 

Then we get to the idea of packing the court by adding seats. Republicant’s do whatever they can to pack the court and then have the audacity to complain that Democrats might want to do the same thing. Why is it okay for Republican’ts to pack the court? I think that it isn’t, but by now, the Republican’ts are daring the Democrats to respond in kind and Republican’ts will have no one to blame for this but themselves.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/17/1987265/-There-s-nothing-sacred-about-nine-Supreme-Court-seats-and-nothing-original-about-that-number?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/5/2014258/-Dick-Durbin-Democrats-own-Tom-Cotton-on-his-court-expansion-gotcha-trick?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-says-republicans-didnt-try-to-rig-the-game-by-changing-the-supreme-court-hes-ignoring-2016/ar-BB1fWL9e

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/9/2025125/-Republicans-packed-the-Supreme-Court-Biden-is-creating-a-commission-to-study-the-problem?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=most-shared

 

Something that is worth mentioning is that when Merrick Garland was nominated to be the attorney general of this country, people had to vote for him and there were 19 injustice senators who did vote for Merrick Garland: Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Shelley Moore Capito, Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn, Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, Charles Grassley, Jim Inhofe, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mike Rounds, John Thune, and Thom Tillis. Merrick Garland can now handle criminal cases, something that no one on the Supreme Court ever does anymore. He could be the reason why Trump goes to jail, if we don’t count Trump himself. Only one Republican who wasn’t an injustice senator voted in favor of Merrick for attorney general. This sadly speaks to a testament as to what the party might wind up becoming in the future.

 

I’m mentioning the injustice senators in order for people to know who they are. Don’t vote for them. Always vote for the Democrat running against them. Even consider voting against those who run in primaries against these Republican’ts if you can without switching parties or you don’t have to register in your state as it is an open primary. I want all of them out of office which is why I’ll keep posting about them. I imagine that most of them will retire. But we need them all gone no matter what. After all, they show that they have no principles when it comes to following their own rules, hence showing an injustice.

Politics: The Complete Sedition Caucus

I am not the person who can be credited with coming up with this term. Also note that sedition is just a term used to describe these 147 people, but they did not commit sedition. It is still a term that is used and is the most widely accepted. Some call them instead the treason caucus. I prefer the term sedition even if those two words mean the same thing.

Who are these people and how are they infamous? Well, let’s get to why they are important. On the day of the storming of the capitol, there were people who were planning to vote against the certification of the election. They may not have realized what they were doing. After all, it would not have been Trump who would have become president if they succeeded, which they weren’t going to do while having a minority in the House. It would have been the Speaker of the House, namely Nancy Pelosi, who would have become president as she was next in line that was not part of the elected tickets. This is why there is a perfect conspiracy theory of her being the one responsible for the riot of January 6^th that only first was spread months after. As usual, we get the perfect conspiracy theory from conservatives far too late for it to make sense anymore.

Now, I’m going to mention all of them by name. All are Republicans. First, I will mention those who are serving in the House. Then, I’ll mention the senators. An asterisk next to their name means that they were doing their job for only three days when they made this vote. Edit: This was not accurate when I originally posted it, but I will now have all of the asterisks that belong once you are seeing this. I took out one that was there in error. It is worth noting that not all new House members are in this and never are all of the new Senate members either.

Alabama’s Congressmen: Robert Aderholt, Mo Brooks, Jerry Carl *, Barry Moore *, Gary Palmer, and Mike Rogers. Arizona’s Congress people: Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, and David Schweikert. Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford is one.

California’s Congressmen: Ken Calvert, Mike Garcia, Darrell Issa *, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, and Jay Obernolte *. Colorado’s Congress people: Lauren Boebert * and Doug Lamborn. Florida’s Congress people: Kat Cammack *, Mario Diaz-Balart, Byron Donalds *, Neal Dunn, Scott Franklin *, Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez *, Brian Mast, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Greg Steube, and Daniel Webster.

Georgia’s Congress people: Rick Allen, Buddy Carter, Andrew Clyde *, Marjorie Taylor Greene *, Jody Hice, and Barry Loudermilk. Idaho’s Congressman Russ Fulcher is one. Illinois’s Congress people: Mike Bost and Mary Miller *.

Indiana’s Congress people: Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Greg Pence (brother of Mike Pence), and Jackie Walorski. Kansas’s Congress people: Ron Estes, Jacob LaTurner *, and Tracey Mann *. Kentucky’s Congressman Harold Rogers is one.

Louisiana’s Congressmen: Garret Graves, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, and Steve Scalise. Maryland’s Congressman Andy Harris is one. Michigan’s Congress people: Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain *, and Tim Walberg.

Minnesota’s Congress people: Michelle Fischbach * and Jim Hagedorn. Mississippi’s Congressmen: Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, and Steven Palazzo. Missouri’s Congress people: Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler, Billy Long, Blaine Luetkemeyer, and Jason Smith.

Montana’s Congressman Matt Rosendale * is one and Nebraska’s Congressman Adrian Smith is another. North Carolina’s Congress people: Dan Bishop, Ted Budd, Madison Cawthorn *, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, Gregory F Murphy, and David Rouzer.

New Jersey’s Congressman Jeff Van Drew is one and New Mexico’s Congresswoman Yvette Herrell * is another. New York’s Congress people: Chris Jacobs, Nicole Malliotakis *, Elise Stefanik, and Lee Zeldin. Ohio’s Congressmen are Steve Chabot, Warren Davidson, Bob Gibbs, Bill Johnson, and Jim Jordan. Oklahoma’s Congress people are Stephanie Bice *, Tom Cole, Kevin Hern, Frank Lucas, and Markwayne Mullin.

Oregon’s Congressman Cliff Bentz * is one. Pennsylvania’s Congressmen: John Joyce, Fred Keller, Mike Kelly, Daniel Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, and Glenn Thompson. South Carolina’s Congressmen: Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Tom Rice, William Timmons, and Joe Wilson.

Tennessee’s Congress people: Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Chuck Fleischmann, Mark E Green, Diana Harshbarger *, David Kustoff, and John Rose. Texas’s Congress people: Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C Burgess, John R Carter, Michael Cloud, Pat Fallon *, Louie Gohmert, Lance Gooden, Ronny Jackson *, Troy Nehls *, August Pfluger *, Pete Sessions *, Beth Van Duyne *, Randy Weber, Roger Williams, and the late Ron Wright.

Utah’s Congressmen: Burgess Owens * and Chris Stewart. Virginia’s Congress people: Ben Cline, Bob Good *, Morgan Griffith, and Robert J Wittman. West Virginia’s Congress people: Carol Miller and Alexander Mooney. Finally, we have Wisconsin’s Congressmen: Scott L Fitzgerald * and Tom Tiffany.

The senators are class one senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, and Rick Scott of Florida, the class two senators of Cynthia Lummis * of Wyoming, Roger Marshall * of Kansas, and Tommy Tuberville * of Alabama, and the class three senator of John Kennedy of Louisiana.. 

There is a scandal right now with one of the Congressmen mentioned, Matt Gaetz. LegalEagle did a video on him and his alleged crimes. We’ll see if this gets him out of office or if they won’t care about this in the end.

LegalEagle’s video on Matt Gaetz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDIJHWg0Pw

Now it should be noted that there were plenty of people who didn’t vote to overturn the election for president. Most of the Republican senate was that way as was nearly half the Republican House. While there was a link to a planned 12 then 13 people in the senate total who were going to vote against it, a good chunk of them didn’t after the storming.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/05/really-bad-day-dirty-dozen/

(Does not include the planned Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of North Dakota, Steve Daines of Montana, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia) 

It is also worth noting that relating to the vote at hand, there were 126 people on record as supporting the Supreme Court case of Texas versus Pennsylvania which violates at least one Amendment if not two. I’d have to check the list of this again just to see who here is not among those who voted against the certification of the presidential election results because maybe they saw the light. Also, one of the points regarding this mess that I just now thought of is that they were only voting against the results of just one of the elections even though plenty all took place at once. What would make the presidential race invalid, but not any of the others?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2001412/-A-breakdown-of-all-126-seditious-Republicans-who-signed-on-for-a-coup-d-tat?detail=emaildkre

(Includes, among others, Louisiana Congressmen Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Ralph Abraham, Clay Higgins, Indiana Congressmen Trey Hollingsworth, James R. Baird, James Banks, Arizona Congressmen Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs, Missouri Congressmen Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason Smith, Ann Wagner) 

Of course, while the people who voted against the certifications of the results of the presidential election did not commit sedition, those who stormed the capitol did. Some of them are or were elected Republicans. I read that it might be over 50, but am unsure of who all did it. I would need to check to see who all was at the rally Trump did and then marched to the capitol like he wanted them to. I have the link to at least one of the politicians who was responsible for them. If you do not mind supporting a Republican super pac, then donate to Run for Something which seeks to get rid of all of these people from office. Also donate to the Democratic pac Operation 147. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/8/2005864/-West-Virginia-Republican-lawmaker-arrested-for-his-role-in-storming-the-Capitol?detail=emaildkre

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/16/2016369/-57-elected-Republicans-were-part-of-the-Jan-6-rally-and-riot-Thousands-want-to-run-against-them?detail=emaildkre

There isn’t much else to talk about in this post. It should be remembered that there were plenty of Republicans who didn’t vote for sedition. Not even Trump poodle Lindsey Graham voted against certifying the election results. Now I need to get caught up on this blog by doing a post on the results of the presidential election that has long been delayed now. There are a lot of the really long blog posts that I need to do for different blogs sometime when I have the chance. And I’m running out of my self imposed deadlines to do it by.

Politics: Other 2020 Election Results

With only this and the presidential election results posts yet to do blog posts on in this blog, I might as well get this done since I want to get enough done before I start writing posts on the future elections in 2022. I’m not going to talk much about things as there is only one thing that does not relate to the presidential race worth talking about.

This thing is the Illinois fair tax. It was confusing and had the richest Illinoisan, Governor J. B. Pritzker, on the for side while the second richest Illinoisan was against it. It seemed confusing and the only way that I was going to vote in favor of it was if Pritzker was on the airwaves saying that he would pay more in taxes and want to do this if the law were passed like he was wanting to. But he wouldn’t want people to know that he was behind this tax, even though it was clear to many sources in the end that such a thing was happening. 

I was against the so called fair tax because I wasn’t convinced that the side in favor of it was being honest to me or anyone else. They said that it wouldn’t give the state legislature any power that it didn’t already have to raise taxes. But when I read the measure on the ballot, the very thing written said that the vote was to allow the legislature to do an increase and that it did not already have this power on its own. The measure failed and the tax didn’t pass in the end. Still, things may not have ended well as it seems the taxes are going up on everyone and not just the richer people that it might have had the measure passed. It’s hard to know for sure and that could have changed my mind on how to vote.

There are two links of which to share for this post. One is that twitter at least was doing more of certain limits with how campaigns are run. We need to make sure that social media is tracked in a well enough way. Hopefully, there will be Democrats who can learn how to best make use of social media to help their campaigns the way that Trump used to. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/twitter-tightens-limits-on-candidates-ahead-of-us-election/ar-BB19RMNI?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

The other one worth mentioning is something that I’m pretty sure that I haven’t mentioned yet before. It relates to the now former attorney general of Indiana. You would think that it wouldn’t make sense for an attorney general to be able to practice law without a law license. But he was still able to keep his job for a while despite not being able to practice law for a month. Still, this was a reason that the party insiders were able to oust him at the primary. It is almost a shame that the voters never got to decide his fate. But he’s out of office now and that’s all the matters. This is a good thing.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/11/1944343/-Indiana-Supreme-Court-suspends-GOP-AG-s-law-license-but-no-knows-if-he-can-remain-in-office

And that is it for this post. I do think that it would be best for me to finish writing the post that I want to do on this blog for the presidential race last year which will have at least two spin-off posts relating to it in the end. It’s a whole lot to write about potentially so I can only hope that I have enough time to tell you all about it and not forget any important links to it. It should finally be next month’s post in the end. Let’s end this post here.

Politics: Legal Votes

You have probably heard a new Republican talking point by now called legal votes. They love to say this and it is purposefully misleading. They are trying to get the idea that illegal votes exist and cost them elections. That is why they phrase it that way and not simply wanting all the votes counted, they have to add legal to it.

 

Journalists need to call this out whenever they hear this phrase. They should point out that all votes are legal and that a Republican led commission to find voting fraud found no fraud. There is no such thing as illegal votes as Republicans would have you believe.

 

This talking point came from Trump after the 2016 election. He was so butt hurt over having lost the popular vote by MILLIONS that he was convinced that he did win the popular vote “if you don’t count those that voted illegally.” He won an election but still didn’t like the results of the votes in the end. Thus, the inklings of the phrase legal vote came to be.

 

All votes are legal and the type of widespread fraud that would somehow only prevent certain Republicans from winning just isn’t real and is illogical to anyone with half a brain. So even if alien bugs from outer space crawled up into your ear and took half of your brain away, it still would not make sense for the phrase legal votes to be popularized to the point of being used as much as it is. This phrase needs to die and people need to call it out for the shit that it is.

Politics: Why We Should Want the Best in the Opposing Party to Win

While it is normally wrong to assume that both sides are just as bad as the other one when it comes to a subject, there is something that I feel needs to be addressed as I have heard quite a baffling thing from voters of both parties. 

When my sister was posting on facebook about which Democrat they wanted to win the nomination in 2020, one of my relatives wanted someone who he felt would lose the election if he were the nominee or do terribly as president in the off chance that he won. Why would you want the other party to fail? We should want a president or any elected official of the other party to do well. I mean, this is our country that they are elected to lead and we wouldn’t want bad things to happen to this country just to see our opponents fail.

When I was talking to an uncle recently about the Republican primary for Missouri senate and how I felt that there were terrible candidates in it, he was wanting the man who waved guns at people to win the nomination as he felt that this would ensure that a Democrat would win this seat in the future. Again, this is an absurd thing to think and a risky choice.

Many people wanted Trump to win the Republican nomination in 2016 as they felt that he would have no chance of winning the election against a Democrat. But a bunch of dumb scandals and the fact that Hillary Clinton underestimated Trump made the idea that a horrible person winning the primary would lose the election wrong. This alone is reason why I, a Democrat, would be as okay with a good Republican winning as I would with a bad Democrat losing. I would be fooling myself if I felt that there are only good Democrats and no good Republicans. I’d be happy with a Republican like Larry Hogan being president and I’d want there to be no political future for the likes of a Democrat like Michael Madigan.

So if you ever hear someone of either side sharing the idea that they want failure for the other side, remind them that the other side is good in some ways and in the event that your own party were to lose, you’d want someone good on the other side instead. Why set up things for a loss when you should want success for your country, state, or other states? I want good people to win regardless of the party they are in and you should too.

Politics: 2021 Elections

I might do multiple posts on the 2021 elections as more information becomes available with them as time goes on. But I’m going to mention what I know thus far about this year’s and I might do a round two about this sometime after the primaries for some happen and other dates for other elections become known.

The Virginia governor race has no incumbents in the race due to the dumb laws that the state has. There are no gubernatorial term limits, but incumbents can’t run for reelection. Does that make sense? I might talk about this some, but am considering myself disinterested in this for now. Maybe I’ll change my mind later.

The Virginia attorney general race has Democrat Mark Herring running for reelection. He has had some scandal, I think, involving blackface. I think that he apologized for it. There are others in the race including a primary challenge that Mark will have to face. Mark is one of the attorney generals helping with the good side of the Obamacare case. I hope to hear the results of that at some point in the future. I don’t know why I’ve heard about more recent cases, but not that one. It can make one feel anxious.

The New Jersey governor race has Democrat Phil Murphy running for reelection. Obviously, there are others in the race right now. But I’m not keeping track of them as I don’t care about the others in the race. I think that you should support Phil Murphy.

It is interesting to note the patterns between the regular governor elections of this cycle typically. At some point, Virginia started electing the party opposite the one just elected president the previous year. This meant that a Democratic president elected one year would get a Republican elected governor of Virginia the next. New Jersey joined in this thread as well. This continued until 2013 when Virginia elected a Democratic governor after Obama won reelection. This might have been in reaction to the scandals that the previous Republican one had.

There is also a California governor recall election with incumbent Democrat Gavin Newsom facing recall over his successful handling of the coronavirus response due to some thinking that he took things too far. Obviously, you know by just my phrasing of this paragraph how I feel about him and how he should stay in office. I urge any California’s to vote no on recall. Here are some quick links about it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-governor-launches-campaign-against-likely-recall/ar-BB1eC0Oi?li=BBorjTa&ocid=mailsignout

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-26/when-is-newsoms-california-recall-election-its-unclear

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/editorial-sigh-the-bitter-costly-%e2%80%94-and-probably-very-silly-%e2%80%94-recall-nightmare-begins/ar-BB1g56ZC?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

There’s another group of people worth mentioning. There is a group of governors that I’m now calling the election integrity governors. This link should include more information about it. I am talking about it since some of the governors up for reelection (or recall) are part of this group.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1982273/-NEW-12-Governors-issue-a-statement-on-threats-to-voting?utm_campaign=trending

This group features governors J B Pritzker of Illinois, Jay Inslee of Washington state, Kate Brown of Oregon, Gavin Newsom of California, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ralph Northam of Virginia, John Carney of Delaware, Steve Sisolak of Nevada, and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, all of whom are Democrats.

Something else worth noting is that there is a possible Alaska governor recall that could be on the ballot as well. I’d have to see why that would be in the future. I doubt that such a thing would be the only thing like it as more governors might be in danger of losing their seats when they will be up for reelection due to the pandemic than we ever would have seen before. I just hope that those that actually had a good response will get to stay in office or at least not be replaced by horrible people in the end. I also hope that the pandemic will be over by November and that at least Virginia will have its first governor since the pandemic ended.

There isn’t much else to say in this post so I will end it with a calendar of things to come. If you are able to vote in each state that has an election (even if I’m not telling you about it, as I’m only covering the statewide races with no other special elections), then here are the important dates that are known right now. The known dates are on Tuesdays.

Calendar

June 8, 2021 (New Jersey primary, Democratic Virginia primary with Republican convention taking place instead of primary)

Unknown September 2021 (potential deadlines/voting with California recall)

November 2, 2021 (general election) 

Unknown November 2021 (California recall)

Politics: The Good Eleven

I am wanting to do a post of this blog today and this will be it. I’m hoping to cover more in the future but I will be posting most of the important updates here in this introduction. You see, the random posts of this blog are ending and I’m now only going to do monthly posts of this blog. It will be on Thursdays now. It will typically be the first available Thursday so it will appear on the last Thursday of the month at the absolute latest. I’ll let you know of any other changes about this hopefully before it happens.

Now I have come up with nicknames before for people. I once came up with the four horsemen for a group of governors where three of them endorsed the fourth to blame all of his problems on a Democrat. Because of course it is a Democrat’s fault. Whose else would it be? But I am coming up with nicer nickname that also isn’t original. This is to come up with a name for good group of Democrats in Congress.

There is one group of seven and another group of four that make the good eleven. The first were the House managers of Trump’s first impeachment. They are Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow, and Sylvia Garcia. Then there are the original members of the squad. They are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. I am calling them collectively the good eleven. I am calling them that because they are good people who know how to fight against the poison of Trump. And I want to focus on good. And that’s it for this blog post.

Politics: 2020 General Senate Results

This is not a post that I wanted to gloss over originally, but I see no other option for it than to do it today this way. I actually did want to do this in the end. The main change that you will see is that instead of doing a paragraph before most links is that I’m just putting links in at the end. All of the impeachment related links are about Trump’s first impeachment. Some of them may not relate to who all is up this time around, but were about senators that I feel was worth covering at some point in time. Some were just predictions that turned out to be wrong.

 

Class two was up this time around and Democrats did well. They had a net gain of three seats in the end, flipping four while losing just one. Both of Georgia’s seats went from red to blue, as did the seats in Arizona and Colorado. Alabama’s rental that Doug Jones had went back to the Republicans to a man who voted to overturn election results.

 

However, the Democrats didn’t do as well as they could have. The seat in Maine was lost by the Democrats to fake moderate Susan Collins. The seat in North Carolina could have easily been flipped and given Democrats 51 senate seats, but the Democratic candidate couldn’t keep it in his pants. There were other issues like not having a Democrat in the Arkansas race, not having people know that Al Gross, the independent in the Alaska race, was Act Blue supported, and having two candidates in the Nebraska race, there were stumbles in races that could have been more important in the end than what we got. Plus, I’ll never understand why the Democrats never did ads on the government shutdown. They had a silver bullet, but never fired the gun.

 

The special elections were ultimately what helped tip the race to the Democrats. If the seat in Arizona had not been up for election this cycle, it would remain in Republican hands. The same is true with one of the Georgia races. Speaking of Georgia, for once, we can thank a third party candidate for a Democratic election win. Thanks due to the laws of Georgia and the fact that there was a third party candidate denying David Perdue an outright majority, the fact that he got the most votes didn’t matter as a run-off caused him to lose his seat permanently instead of just temporarily. That’s good because I’m sick of losing to Perdue.

 

The seats will next be up in 2026. They were last up in 2014 when Republicans gained seats. When they were up in 2008, Democrats gained seats instead. This cycle also continues the pattern of Democrats gaining senate seats during a presidential election year, something that last did not happen in 2004 or in 1996 when a Democrat last won the presidency.

 

There’s not much to say about the links at hand. I feel that I might be harder on Ben Sasse than I should be and he might not be as bad as I believe that he is. Still, there are two links that I am sharing about him that are negative. It is worth noting that Ben did vote to impeach Trump the second time around so he might not be too bad.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/16/1986977/-Ben-Sasse-is-a-contemptible-coward-perhaps-never-more-than-when-he-s-railing-against-Trump?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/18/1945931/-Slovenly-GOP-Senator-insults-high-school-grads-calls-them-unfit-mocks-psych-majors-blames-China?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

Here are the rest of the links that I’m sharing from this cycle. I know that not all of these went the way that they could have. But some were more hopeful with wishful thinking of how they felt things would go versus how they actually went. I should note that only the polls in Maine and North Carolina were wrong as the rest had at least one saying that a Republican would win and that is what happened in the end.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978370/-Four-GOP-Senators-try-to-hide-their-votes-to-kill-health-care-coverage-for-pre-existing-conditions?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980542/-AK-Sen-HuffPost-A-Secret-Recording-Of-Mining-Executives-Is-Shaking-Up-The-Alaska-Senate-Race?utm_campaign=trending

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984225/-Iowa-is-a-fierce-Senate-and-presidential-battleground-but-Dems-have-the-edge?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984411/-Cornyn-s-weak-critique-of-Trump-proves-he-s-concerned-about-tight-race-with-MJ-Hegar?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/14/1986425/-Vulnerable-Senate-Republicans-forget-who-s-president?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1987586/-Conservative-Democratic-Senator-Coons-gives-very-revealing-answer-about-expanding-the-courts?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/10/1994873/-Al-Gross-in-Alaska-Senate-Race-Don-t-You-For-Forget-About-Me?utm_campaign=trending

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916645/-14-Republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-convict-and-remove-Clinton-will-vote-to-acquit-Trump-today?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/2/1949771/-Sen-Collins-Trump-did-learn-his-lesson

 

There’s not much else to say and I am ending this post around here. I wish that I could promise that I’d always have posts ready for my blogs. I am powering through this one despite feeling and being kind of sick. I shouldn’t do that ever. But if I can write it, then I will. I can only hope that nothing takes me out of writing all of my blogs with me never to return outside of a farewell post that will happen after a long enough gap. But it might be good to stop blogging.

Politics: On Changing Voting Laws after Elections

While I could put this in my Good Wife blog in one of its political posts as it covers what only the Republican Party is doing, I figured that I might as well cover it in this blog instead as it relates to elections and how they are changing the law. At least they are doing this before the next round of elections happen. But this is still a problem.

 

Now I should point out that this can be something focused on by both parties. But one party seeks to create voting suppression to get what they want while the other is more concerned about how to value election integrity.

 

There is this group of 12 governors of the United States that I’m calling the election integrity governors. They are J B Pritzker of Illinois, Jay Inslee of Washington state, Kate Brown of Oregon, Gavin Newsom of California, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ralph Northam of Virginia, John Carney of Delaware, Steve Sisolak of Nevada, and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, all of whom are Democrats. They issued a statement on threats to voting and one can only hope that they are not overruled by Republicans in their state.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1982273/-NEW-12-Governors-issue-a-statement-on-threats-to-voting?utm_campaign=trending

 

As short ago as 2019, the Democrats sought to enter a bill into law that would reform some of how elections are run. I’d have to imagine that it would wind up before the Supreme Court. But I am unsure of if the Supreme Court can rule on a law passed that affects it. One would think that they can handle any case that they agree to hear. There could be a lot of good that could wind up from this bill if it passes the senate.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act

 

Of course, there are horrible laws that Republicans are trying to pass or succeeding in passing that seek to curb voting. It is now a crime in Georgia to hand people water or food as they wait in line to vote for an election. This isn’t Georgia’s first brush with controversial laws and I highly doubt that it would be the last. We see it time and time again. And this controversy often relates in negative repercussions for the state. Despite this, they still keep passing laws like this since they learn nothing. And they have the audacity to complain about this. You can’t keep passing controversial laws or doing otherwise controversial things while saying that backlash to said things aren’t an issue.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Integrity_Act_of_2021

 

It is likely that the law in question would wind up before the Supreme Court. Even with a 6-3 majority of conservatives on the Supreme Court, I’d think that at least part of the law would have to be struck down by the court. I just wish that I could be more hopeful that just 2 of them could side with the 3 liberals to strike down all of the law in question.

 

Now Republicans are trying to suppress the vote in various states. There are bills in the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Some of these states are better off than others due to Democrats as either governor or in the state legislatures in such a way that makes efforts by Republicans largely moot.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_make_voting_laws_more_restrictive_following_the_2020_presidential_election

 

Of course, what Republicans fail to realize is just how effective getting out the vote works. I mean, they don’t seem to realize that the high voter turnout in 2020 helped them in some places where it is normally just thought to help Democrats. Republicans defied the odds and gained seats in the House in part due to high turnout. Typically after the Democrats suffer a defeat, they seek to reevaluate themselves to see what went wrong, seek to find voters where there were none, reach out to the other party’s side to find common ground, and just in general want to better themselves. Finding new voters is always part of the plan. Republicans don’t seem to care if they wind up purging their own voters. They should care. They must not have realized how the Wisconsin primaries in 2020 went against their wishes because of their rules. This could only seek to damage themselves.

 

That’s all for this post. I know that I’m not giving myself enough time to write posts and I’m doing a lot of more important things in life outside of these blogs. I may start talking about the 2022 elections for some races, but won’t talk about the gubernatorial ones or attorney general ones until after the 2021 elections. I’ll get some to the 2021 elections soon, I hope, while also scaling back these posts back to just once a month starting next month. I’ll explain more why then. I have some big posts to write for this blog so look forward to them soon, I hope. I will be sure to explain when the change will appear for the first time.

Politics: 2020 Kentucky Senate Race Results

Well, by now you already know the unfortunate but sadly not surprising results of the Kentucky senate races from last year as Mitch McConnell is still in office, ready to use the filibuster at any moment’s notice to thwart all the effort that needs to get done. (I forget, wasn’t he in favor of getting rid of it when the time to confirm Neil Gorsuch came along?) It was also dumb that we saw ads complaining that his opponent, Amy McGrath, was too liberal instead of what could have been a real complaint about her. Some who knew her would call her more of a DINO than too much on the side of liberals.

What Amy McGrath did wrong was largely with her ads. She could have pointed out that Mitch had only three endorsements out of the whole Republican Party. She could have repeatedly pointed out all of the things that weren’t getting done with Mitch in charge. But she didn’t do this in the end leaving many unaware of his inaction. And while she was hardly alone in this, she did not point out the problem with the government shutdown. 

It took Mitch all of a few hours after Scalia died to say that Obama shouldn’t get to put a new person on the court due to it being too close to the presidential election when Scalia died in that February. And it took him the same short amount of time to demand that Trump better get to put someone on the Supreme Court when Ginsburg died even closer to the election. He knew that if this didn’t happen, Republican’ts could lose control of the presidency, the Senate, or, as what we would see happen, both.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984400/-McConnell-s-pushing-to-confirm-Barrett-like-it-s-the-last-thing-he-ll-do-because-it-might-be?detail=emaildkre

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/16/1977838/-McConnell-and-the-GOP-Senate-must-be-scared-about-something?utm_campaign=trending

Mitch has far too much power and control over what he does. Trump could not have done as much as he did without Mitch’s help. I would have rather Trump won and Mitch lost and not just because Trump would be term limited. He won’t even debate someone if a woman is doing the debate at hand, which is quite a problem. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/29/1981712/-Mitch-McConnell-doesn-t-want-to-debate-a-woman-if-a-woman-is-moderating-that-debate

Of course, some people want to vandalize or steal political signs. This is a bad idea and not just because the supporters of said candidate would get a new sign and thus spend money on this person’s campaign. That is why I wouldn’t do that. Plus, you know, it’s illegal to vandalize. One can only hope that people find good ways to deal with this if they are on the receiving end of such a thing with their own political signs. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/4/1983382/-Our-creative-response-to-sign-vandalism-in-Trump-McConnell-territory?utm_campaign=trending

As the world becomes more woke and deals with racial injustice in a better way, we still have to deal with the fact that although lynching is hopefully much less common today than it was in the past, there still aren’t any anti-lynching bills passed. Both of Kentucky’s senators are to blame for this and I plan to post a reminder of this when Rand Paul is up for reelection next year in 2022. One needs to be done and you should tell your senators of this now in the present. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/4/1950391/-It-s-2020-and-the-Senate-won-t-pass-an-anti-lynching-bill-because-of-Rand-Paul-and-Mitch-McConnell?detail=emaildkre

You know what’s dumb? After all that Mitch has done during the last years of the presidency of Obama by refusing to hold hearings on judges, ensuring that many vacancies remained open when Trump took office, he has the audacity to say that it is the left that wants to pack courts. He has done all of this effort to pack the courts even by putting Barrett on the court and he still wants to complain that it is only the left that packs the court or wants to. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/11/1952455/-McConnell-in-full-troll-mode-running-against-the-lawless-left-and-its-plans-to-pack-the-courts

When it comes to the pandemic, Mitch has been dealing terribly with it. The first relief bill might not have happened at all if enough Republicans in the senate weren’t quarantined at the time. The second one happened really late when Trump was a lame duck to make it seem like the senate was doing something. The third one happened without any Republican’ts voting for it. And this is the party that cares about others? Plus, the moment something happens, he then takes credit for something he had nothing to do with. Here’s how they have been handling the pandemic poorly in the present and past. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/2/1957845/-McConnell-lies-to-Kentucky-takes-credit-for-the-COVID-19-relief-bill-Pelosi-and-Schumer-negotiated

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/1/1957512/-McConnell-Republicans-say-extra-unemployment-and-not-raging-COVID-19-keeps-people-from-working?detail=emaildkre

Then we get to the Post Office crisis which is sadly still ongoing even now. Due to how the Spoils System is sadly alive and well, a Trump donor with zero Post Office experience got to be the highest person in that office and the board of people on the Post Office are all Republican’ts due to Mitch refusing to hold votes on the seats that have to be held by the other party. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1969548/-Every-single-member-of-the-Postal-Service-board-was-appointed-by-Trump-thanks-to-Mitch-McConnell

At least those in Kentucky have some good news to celebrate with something. But I can’t quite remember what the next two articles are about. I just know that I felt that they were worth sharing at some point in time so I hope that you like them. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1969504/-A-victory-for-voters-in-Kentucky?utm_campaign=trending

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980641/-Ezra-Klein-s-Take-On-The-U-S-Senate-and-McConnell-Is-Excellent?detail=emaildkre

Of course, something weird is going on with Mitch or at least had at one point. He already wants to change how the Kentucky governor would appoint a new person to the senate since he must have worries about whether or not he will live to the end of his term on January 3, 2027. I do think that he will leave office that day. It won’t be because he lost reelection or renomination. It will be because he retired from office. But he shouldn’t get to change the laws just because of the fact that he’ll have to deal with the fact that there will be a Democratic governor of Kentucky until at least December of 2023. Plus, as a federal office holder, he shouldn’t be able to tell a state wide office holder how to run his job. Sadly, a veto would be overridden. But there could be some sort of issues still with Mitch’s health. Is it life threatening? Who knows? Maybe he tried to use the resurrection stone, unaware it was a horcrux. Or maybe he made one. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/23/1988909/-What-is-going-on-with-Mitch-McConnell-s-hands-and-his-health

At least Mitch is the minority leader now instead of the majority leader. He probably doesn’t like this and will do whatever he can to reclaim the majority in 2022. I doubt that he will ever be a good and non polarizing figure in politics. We’ll all be better off without him in the future. But until that eventual day when he is out of office, we are all unfortunately stuck with him.