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Everyone's making fun of the so-called "red wave" and how it ended up being more of a "red trickle" at most. But here's the thing, though. The fact that the GQP candidates, particularly the worst of the Trump-wannabes and other such QAnon-believing, (2020) election-denying nutfucks, won as much as they did (e.g. GQP expected to take majority in the House of Representatives, which is terrible enough on its own), and that every single one of them wasn't completely, entirely, fully shut out, in utter landslide defeats across the board... well this just goes to show that this country is still far too fucked up in the head right now, same as it has been since the colossal brainfart of 2016. Maybe not as fucked up as it could be, granted, but still incredibly fucked up. (EDIT June 2025) And with Trump somehow having been reelected as SCROTUS IMPOTUS in 2024 and having spent the last four months doing his damn level best to utterly dismantle the US government, I think it's safe to say that things right now actually are about as fucked up as they could be, short of us all dying in a nuclear hellfire or something. (/EDIT June 2025)
Also, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are still there (they're not up to be drummed out until 2024, which they probably won't be, unfortunately), so it doesn't even really matter all that much that the Democrats will retain the Senate, because those two DINOs/stealth-GQPers will continue to monkey wrench everything all to hell anyway, same as they did before.
I guess I'm happy that it wasn't much, much worse (especially when taking into account all the myriad ways in which the GQP has been [and is still] trying to cheat and game the system), sad that it wasn't much, much better (i.e. complete and total, unequivocal, literally not-able-to-be-denied defeat for every GQP candidate), and realistic that it is, objectively speaking, still pretty fucking bad, regardless. It has been "pretty fucking bad, regardless" for quite a long while now.
Everyone's making fun of the so-called "red wave" and how it ended up being more of a "red trickle" at most. But here's the thing, though. The fact that the GQP candidates, particularly the worst of the Trump-wannabes and other such QAnon-believing, (2020) election-denying nutfucks, won as much as they did (e.g. GQP expected to take majority in the House of Representatives, which is terrible enough on its own), and that every single one of them wasn't completely, entirely, fully shut out, in utter landslide defeats across the board... well this just goes to show that this country is still far too fucked up in the head right now, same as it has been since the colossal brainfart of 2016. Maybe not as fucked up as it could be, granted, but still incredibly fucked up. (EDIT June 2025) And with Trump somehow having been reelected as SCROTUS IMPOTUS in 2024 and having spent the last four months doing his damn level best to utterly dismantle the US government, I think it's safe to say that things right now actually are about as fucked up as they could be, short of us all dying in a nuclear hellfire or something. (/EDIT June 2025)
Also, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are still there (they're not up to be drummed out until 2024, which they probably won't be, unfortunately), so it doesn't even really matter all that much that the Democrats will retain the Senate, because those two DINOs/stealth-GQPers will continue to monkey wrench everything all to hell anyway, same as they did before.
I guess I'm happy that it wasn't much, much worse (especially when taking into account all the myriad ways in which the GQP has been [and is still] trying to cheat and game the system), sad that it wasn't much, much better (i.e. complete and total, unequivocal, literally not-able-to-be-denied defeat for every GQP candidate), and realistic that it is, objectively speaking, still pretty fucking bad, regardless. It has been "pretty fucking bad, regardless" for quite a long while now.
