2018 US Midterm Elections (general thread)

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idiots.



they should make me in charge of everything cartographical there.

No schadenfreude tonight ;(

Probably better for the country though.

Dems can put a stop to Trump's spending.

nothing i wasn't expecting






i'm just glad gianforte in montana got defeated. screw that guy.

Is it over?

Fat lady's not singing yet.

Republicans will take the Senate as expected. House is still open, though it looks like Democrats may take control, also as widely predicted. A way still to go there.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... tions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... tions.html

Yeah, Gianforte was a real piece of work. His violence in body-slamming that Guardian reporter was nothing short of evil. And Trump went to his district recently and paraded him and his violence as something to emulate. Apparently Montanans don't tolerate fascists.

And another one to get defeated was KKK (Kris Kobach of Kansas) for the governorship in Kansas. KKK was the one who initiated the major voter suppression efforts of the past few years. His defeat represents a body blow of its own, showing that efforts to suppress voter participation are not the popular thing to do, even among his fellow partisans.

Sadly, two GOP criminals have been re-elected to the US House: Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins. Both are under federal indictment, Collins for insider trading and Hunter for spending a quarter of a million dollars of campaign finance funds on his own personal purchases. Perhaps the House might reject their membership (which the House has the right to do). It's more likely though that the House will wait until they are convicted and then expel them. Both come from heavily Republican districts and their replacements would still be GOP, but at least not indicted criminals. Both of the slime were the subject of Trump's effort to corrupt the Justice Department with Trump whining that "“Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff.”

a lot of red staters seem to love their fascists. manchin survived only because he gave in to his state's fascists in voting for a judicial fascist.

We'll have to wait at least for Trump's removal and replacement in 2020 to correct the imbalance on the Supreme Court. Maybe longer if the Dems don't win both houses next time. The number of justices on the Supreme Court is not fixed; it's been changed in the past and it can be expanded to include additional members with congressional approval. Adding two members would allow a new president to appoint people who can negate Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh could still collect his salary, but as to his vote, he would be of no importance.

at least we can dream, that this can happen before he does major damage.

Who knows? You could get someone worse.

two indicted crooks have won their congressional races here in hard red districts. that is a telling phenomenon. it's ok to be a crook in office nowadays, IOKIYAR at least.

Dems take the House:

https://www.ksl.com/article/46421542/dems-on-track-to-take-house-control-but-gop-retains-senate


So now, my question is: What is the future of the GOP post-Trump?

hopefully in the dust bin of infamous history, but the GOP portion of the senate is gonna circle the wagons around that man until doomsday. they are all corrupted and in-it with that man.

Trump won't be able to hide his tax returns from Congress now.

couldn't happen to a nicer scoundrel.