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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNot ideal, but I'll take it
We regained control of the White House, gained at least one Senate seat, and picked up a few more in the House.
Here's what didn't happen last night:
* Trump didn't receive a second term as President, possibly ending the country as a Democracy.
* The House didn't revert back to the Republicans, which would have just hastened the process
* We didn't have riots or looting or armed thugs attacking voters
* The Republicans didn't gain more seats, making it even harder for them to turn the country into one-party rule, and forcing McConnell to compromise more.
With Biden,
* we throw out the Barrs and DeJoys and the Salazars and replace them with people who are neither corrupt nor incompetent,
* we stop the hemorrhaging of civil service people,
* we restore the CDC and sort out real responses to the Pandemic
* we rejoin the Paris Accords
* we clean up the damage done to the EPA, get rid of all of those Trump EOs and start sane Climate Change responses
* we no longer conduct important governmental business on Twitter
* we no longer have to deal with abusive MFers gaslighting us
So, yeah, I'll take it.
(Had someone recommend I repost this as a thread).
ColoradoBlue
(104 posts)We sleep better at night.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,571 posts)I'll take it too, and I WILL LIKE IT!
Stallion
(6,474 posts)that is one area where Trump's Law and Order campaign may have gained some traction
Thank God for Virginia. Boy did that election turn on a dime
misanthrope
(7,411 posts)is that Reconstruction wasn't longer and more pervasive. Even for all its good points (arts, cuisine) Deep South culture has been an albatross around our necks for centuries.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Stallion
(6,474 posts)dustyscamp
(2,223 posts)I actually thought we would get it and add more Justices to the courts and set things right. Hopefully we can do some good with the house and the Presidency
llmart
(15,536 posts)Also, there are still more of us than there are of them. Never forget that.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)We still have majority, but not as strongly.
russiamommy
(244 posts)Been oddly depressed today, but at the end of the day we got rid of the Orange Ass. That was the biggest prize. It would have been nice to get the Senate and increase margins in the house, but we won the big one.
jeffreyi
(1,938 posts)For our beleaguered public lands, (Tongass NF, Bear Ears, among others), environmental laws, endangered species, etc. It's been a loooong four years.
Yeehah
(4,575 posts)The clown trump put in charge is a lying piece of confederate-loving garbage.
Tribetime
(4,684 posts)Accepting that we dont control the Senate and can't adjust the courts etc. Healthcare I pray can still be saved.
bigtree
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