Well damn America, I guess you really are fed up with MAGA and their cult leader! I read this somewhere, so I can't take credit for it, but someone said that Pete Hegseth wanted us to see a public execution, and thanks to the midterms elections, we were all able to witness one firsthand. If that was a football game the refs would have stopped it after the third quarter and invoke the mercy rule. It was that much of a beat down. It was a blue tsunami. To say it was just a wave would not be doing it any justice. Seventy- five percent of Americans will now be finding themselves being governed by Democrats.
So now Democrats will be the majority in the US House and in the Senate, and it's not even close. They flipped over forty house seats (and counting), and seven in the Senate. That's called a mandate folks, and it's a rebuke of the nasty out of touch brand of politics that the leader of the MAGA movement brought to fore over the ten miserable years that he has been in our lives. Sixty four percent of voting Americans felt that the MAGA cult leader had his priorities all screwed up, and over forty percent said they voted to oppose him . Imagine the Democrats electing Senators in places like Texas, Kansas, and Iowa. Oh, and Mississippi said hold my beer. They're sill counting, but it's looking like there will be a Democrat representing Mississippi in Washington as well. Oh, and not just any Democrat, a black man! Imagine that. In Mississippi!! (Just a side note on that Mississippi race. The man who is leading that race, Scott Colom, was denied the chance to become a federal Judge by the woman he is about to beat. Had she not blocked him, she probably would have been going back to Washington. Colom is a very good political athlete, so chances are that if someone else had run they would have lost. I just love when Karma bites the right person.)
Anyhow, as I tend to do to get a good laugh when Republicans are losing after an election, I found myself watching FOX for their reaction on election night, and they didn't disappoint, it was pure comic gold. They were shocked that the nation had such a blanket rebuke of MAGA Republicans, and their brand of politics. They tried to blame it on everything else but the real culprit, Donald J. Trump. He is the one who chose to go to war to cover up the Epstein files, which caused gas prices to go up. He is the one who chose to have masked ICE agents murder innocent American citizens in the streets of our cities. He is the one who chose to slap tariffs on foreign goods, causing the price of every day grocery items to go up. He is the one who declared war on black folks and our history, and called for gerrymandering districts in order to prevent us from being able to vote. He is the one who thought it was cool to dismantle DEI initiatives meant to level the playing field in corporate America and in institutions of higher learning. He is the one who treated the Justice Department like his personal law firm, and ordered them to go after his political enemies. He is the one who used his office to benefit himself and his family with a level of corruption never before seen in American history. And finally, he is the one who woke up every morning and posted incoherent screeds against the people in the country who are not a part of his MAGA cult. So yes, as you can imagine, it was a tough night for the FOX crowd, and yours truly loved every minute of it.
Speaking of black folks, a special Field Negro shout out to my people, who once again helped to save this country from itself. You all put ten toes down and headed to the polls down here in the South in record numbers. And shout out to our white allies who voted with us to make history by selecting four black governors to lead state houses. (I know what you all are thinking, there are five, but sorry, Byron Donalds doesn't count.) America, you all even sent a Muslim to the Senate. This gives me hope for us as a nation. Maybe we can actually think for ourselves, and not be beholden to the anger, fear, and extremism that has been wreaking havoc on our politics, and on our day to day existence for the past ten years.
It has all been so exhausting. This past Tuesday Americans simply said, enough!
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