Joe Money, Joe Problems: the November 2021 U.S. Politics Thread

raw racism wins the day once again

virginia legitimately scares me, as a place

Feel like the Dems dropping basically every popular provision in their bill in favor of more tax cuts for the rich might go hand in hand with this

virginia legitimately scares me, as a place

their inability to get these bills done definitely hasn't helped

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that is one place in virginia

don't know how many more "CRT isn't even taught in VA public schools" takes I can read without smashing things

At least we only have another year of having to care about Joe Manchin's opinion on anything?

oh hell yeah

Some in Biden-land are already asking themselves if the president has allowed himself to be tugged too far to the left while in office, and those voices are likely to get louder now.

— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) November 3, 2021

replies seem skeptical

India Walton is the one to watch right now but it looks like it's going poorly for her so far

January 6 wasn’t even a year ago and people are fine going back to voting R.

geez, its almost as if half the country thinks all Dem power is illegitimate and that therefore the events of Jan 6 were rad as hell

Genius TMac mailer. pic.twitter.com/jAWr3SwZfp

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) September 14, 2021

jesus christ if that's what they're gonna do in 2022 they are truly fucked

gah this shit just fucking gets me incensed. I understand that the pendulum swings in this country but it sucks so fucking much that Trump was able to replace an entire third of the judiciary, including 3 goddamn Supreme Court justices, and incite this country into a literal insurrection, while when the pendulum swings our way all we get is a shitty moderate who can't even rally his party to do the massively popular things he ran on

fucking white people

dems are gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get more racist'

— raandy (@randygdub) November 9, 2016

Pretty sure Murphy pulls it out but this shit is way too close.

The republican candidate is so fucking bad too!

milo sharing that shit is not helpful

it is if you hate democrats above all else

just looking at headlines, but Youngkin winning over McAuliffe, a bad bad sign

and Ciattarelli over Murphy?

NJ will not be called until later this afternoon probably

we are fucked

and Byron Brown won as a write-in candidate over Democrat India Walton in Buffalo

people love the repubican party and its racist platform

critical race theory!!!

jesus

Heel yeah man

MSNBC blaming increasingly likely Democratic loss in Virginia on...Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan.

— Chip Gibbons (@ChipGibbons89) November 3, 2021

Hell

Dems should’ve locked the Manchin/Sinema/etc type members of the party in a janitorial closet the second Biden won to mobshit them from letting this stuff from happening.

milo sharing that shit is not helpful

Nothing helpful exists, tho. Not being snarky about Democratic incompetence and venality isn't going to make them any better. On a day when they trip over their own feet electorally, the news about the bill that has occupied the last nine months of their time is a laughable prescription reform and centrists trying to give money to rich people.

but I mean, the core of the randy tweet is also true so it's hard to even call it snark

Dem members are already texting me blaming progressives for “debacle” in Virginia https://t.co/MJnlDzW5WF

— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) November 3, 2021

Democrats deserve to lose until they stop doing this https://t.co/1dKVK8YZ55

— i'm not here (@dkulchar) November 3, 2021

With everything going on it is absolutely wild how committed the Democratic Party is to polishing the balls of a guy like me: an exceedingly comfortable white straight cis male careening into middle age (and southern to boot. seriously, if you heard my accent you would literally never stop throwing up). I have no kids and will most likely be dead before major fallout from climate change hits, or at least I’ll be cosseted from the worst of it. My entire life’s savings is in stock index funds, and wouldn’t you know it there are only like three things both parties agree on without fail—one being Line Can Never Ever Go Down again . At this point I probably have more equity in my home than I paid for it, and I’m more or less a fucking LANDLORD loool.

If the Democratic Party wants to make *me* one of their top priorities I guess all I can say is “thanks, dummies”. But I’m sure af not giving them any more money. And honestly, barring a few outliers, probably not many votes either.

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COOL FUCKING BRAG DOOD

cooool fucking party bro

I can't remember exactly which Democratic candidate sent me a mailer that looked like a collections notice but at a time when I was receiving actual collections notices for an old ER visit it did not put me in a supportive mood.

will, are you submitting to the Low poll?

honestly not intimate enough w them to do a poll submission. kind of a blind spot for me. I do like their ‘hits’ tho. or the ones I know anyway.

a fun thing to do when a former blue trifecta state plunges into ethno-fascism is “gloat”

virginia legitimately scares me, as a place

― certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

It is Alabama with a thin Jeffersonian veneer.

a fun thing to do when a former blue trifecta state plunges into ethno-fascism is “gloat”

I don't know if it's that simple, looks like GOP turnout was way up in both VA and NJ which I don't think you can attribute to the Dems failing to deliver anything

_virginia legitimately scares me, as a place

― certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink_


It is Alabama with a thin Jeffersonian veneer.

As a NJ resident, it's shocking to see this race so close. All the polls beforehand made it seem Murphy didn't have much to worry about. To be honest, I almost didn't bother to vote. I guess a lot of people probably saw the polls and thought like I did.

Obviously McAuliffe is a creep and he ran a terrible campaign that had no identifiable message unlike Youngkin and his constant drumming of “think of the children.”

Also Blame Dem primary voters who rejected two progressive black women.

I voted for Jennifer Carroll Foy, who might also have lost, but it would have felt like a nobler struggle. Perhaps there's an alternate universe in which she prevailed. McAuliffe, ugh, never presented a positive case. Just "I'm not the scary guy." Perhaps there are alternate universes where that worked.

This universe? Fucking sucks, is how I feel rn