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I walked out to pick up the mail yesterday and my Republican across-the-street neighbor ambled over to smirk at me. “What happened to that blue wave y’all were expecting?”
Okay, now picture this – a slightly chubby old white man on social security and socialized medicine, thinks Trump won the mid terms.
I looked at him with that “Have you had a stroke?” look that – not to brag – but, I’ve kinda perfected with this guy. In a county that had not even one county wide elected Democrat now has them all. We won every race where we ran a Democrat. It wasn’t a wave, it was the earth shifting poles.
And now there’s this: “The Cook Political Report shows that the Democratic lead in the U.S. House popular vote for the 2018 midterms is now up to 8.5%.”
“For comparison purposes, note that in 2010 – which was widely seen as a GOP ‘wave’ cycle – Republicans won the U.S. House popular vote by 6.6%. In 1994, which was seen as a Republican ‘revolution,’ the GOP won the U.S. House popular vote by 7.1%.”
I’m putting that on a poster board in my front yard right across from his mailbox, dammit.
I would gave said….
It was a tsunami. Guess what ? You ‘re dead and this is your worst nightmare.
Have a nice day,
1The ‘Cons lost bigly. With their cheating, gerrymandering and voter suppression, they’re still down ~40 US House seats, losses of several state legislative majorities, 7 governorships, and lots of down ballot races. Perhaps your Nostradumbass neighbor can explain why if they “won,” how is it that those bigly Con ‘winners’ in MI and WI are finding it necessary to rewrite the laws to cover their losses. Then he can explain to us why Orange Foolius isn’t dispatching Kris Kobach to NC to snout out some election fraud. Or, if you don’t feel like engaging the old geezer in a convo, maybe drop a vocabulary word of the week in his mailbox, starting with “projection.”
2@JJ
Just mention that after January 1st 2019, should the sitting vice president and sitting vice president, both snacilbupeR, be removed from office for high crimes and misdemeanors, Nancy Pelosi will take office as the 46th PotUS. Take that evil rat ba$tard$.
3Micr, my biggest dream!!! Frankly, I am of a mind that only a grandmother of a large brood would make a great President.
4JJ, When you make that poster/yard sign, use neon dayglo electric blue for the lettering, or background. Put a ‘big wave’ graphic on it too, with a little wiped out red surfer tumbling down the face of it.
Cue up some Dick Dale or Surfaris music too when he gets his mail, like “Wipeout”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(instrumental).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wipeout.ogg
The old geezer will probably remember the tune, but hasn’t ‘connected’ it yet, help him out.
As far as his SS and Medicare, you cain’t fix old Anglo stuupid. The Rethugs have been trying to gut his endtimes livelihood forever and he still doesn’t get it. Blinded by racism and FuxNooz/RWNJ radio no doubt.
5What?
Did he expect to see the landscape change color and Texas elect A librul senator?
It was close…
6Don’t waste your breath on him
7I do like the idea of a vocabulary word of the week in his mailbox
but
can he read?
He gets his “news” from FAUX, who insists that the repugs won. You can’t argue with trumpers – facts are irrelevant to them.
8Does anyone know how the Dems can fight back with this sleaziness happening in Michigan and Wisconsin? Lawsuits? Special election or ballot issues next time or ??
9AK Lynne, Dems can fight in the courts (again), that seems to be the MI & WI way. ROFL – or they can hope Scott Walker vetoes the bill in WI. There’s a reason the Cons want to stack the courts and have gone so far backing Orange Foolius and his grifting family & maladministration. Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh … so little time and so many in need of impeachment.
10JJ, I’m a fan of the “hails of derisive laughter” response. Preferably while pointing. Where exactly you point is up to you.
11Ask your neighbor if he’s getting a cost-of-living increase in his Social Security next month. This will be the third year without one, thanks to Donnie, Mitch and Paul, none of whom will ever have to choose between buying groceries and keeping the lights on. And how’s the Medicaid coverage in Red Texas?
12Buttermilk Sky, I am under the impression that Social Security will rise by 2.9% starting Jan 2019 – the largest increase in a number of years. Sure hope I’m correct!
13@1smartcanerican,
You are correct. Those receiving Social Security, Disability & SSI will see a cost of living adjustment of 2.9% in 2019. That’s an extra $23 a month for me.
14Time to drag out this old David Foster Wallace chestnut, with appropriate modifications:
There’s this cranky old half blind fish swimming along, and he happens to meet his neighbor in the pond swimming the other way, who nods at him and says, “Morning, how’s the water?” And the cranky old fish swims on for a bit, and then eventually looks over his shoulder and yells back, “What the hell is water?”
15Six months from now or sooner, your neighbor will be institutionalized for dementia.
16This for Buttermilk!
Cola raise for 2019!
https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/info-2018/new-cola-benefit-2019.html
Under Obama’s 8 years the “Cost of Living Adjustments” totaled 10.8 %
Under the orange man, the COLA’s have increased 4.8% in just 2 years!
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/colaseries.html
17I realize I’m not a frequent visitor to this Salon because blind, one-sided partisanship by either side really pisses me off. But something happened yesterday that I believe every American should see. If you did not see Alan Simpson’s remarks at G. H. W. Bush’s state funeral, you owe it to yourself to watch online. Simpson was/is my kind of Republican. It got him thrown out of Washington and damned near thrown out of the party, but he and Bush 41 are the kind of Republicans we need to get things done in this country.
Mr. B
18@Mr. B
“blind, one-side partisanship” distresses me greatly, as well. But when examining the motives, means, and opportunities of our snacilbupeR elected officials, I find it easy to be vindictive, opinionated, self-serving, and often vicious. Goes with the territory. Merry Christmas.
192 things.
1) Voter fraud in N.C. It appears that the thuglicans were caught with their hand in the cookie jar. From what has been reported under N.C. law a “tainted” election must be rerun. This has been seen as meaning that only the Congress critter race will probably have to have a redo.
But..but… was this the only issue on the ballots destroyed? There were 6 ballot measures, including voter suppression, plus local and state office elections. They were all impacted by this crime. Why aren’t the d’s pushing to have all elections that were on the ballots destroyed be rerun?
2) For years as the d’s tried to win elections as thuglican lites with a thuglican agenda decrying any affliation with the d’s even witha D attached to their name on the ballot ( classic case was Kentucky where Grimes wouldn’t even admit to voting for Obama) and failing it has been presented that they are leaving their natural constituencies with no one to vote for.
20Now we have proof. In the last election with progressives driving the coverage of the election and a wave of progressive D’s standing proud a recent study came out that showed that at least 10% of the voters who came out were new or very sporadic voters.
Finally the progressives gave these people a reason to vote by presenting a clear choice and they responded with a blue tsunami.
If this last election does not show the failure of rahm’s thuglican lite strategy and drives a stake through the heart of thei idea that d’s have to be deferential to the thuglican agenda.
We want to win we have to give people a voice that they wish to hear. If that voice is just repeating thuglican themes and ideas with a few tweaks on the edges the voters will stay home. Give them a full throated unabashed voice for the working and middle classes with support for women, people of color and the environment and the d’s will win.
My job requires me to do such things as to research the percentages in all the elections. This mid-term saw the biggest percentage swing for the Democrats – over 70%. If this numbnutz ever saw the spreadsheet I had to read yesterday which clearly shows the wave, his head would explode. But i bet he is determined to live in his own little world and listen to the cuckoos sing.
21maggie, without harming your job, is there anyway you could provide a copy of that spreadsheet to Dotard45? If so, maybe attach a spy camera. We’d hate to miss those numbers leaping off the page like fire ants to drill into Donnie’s stable, er head.
22Jane & PMK –
Nostradumbass for the win!
23Only wish I could provide said spreadsheet for POTUS 45. It would be easier to read when blown up to about billboard size. And, yes, it’s in color! Lots and lots of color just to make certain points. that alone should attract him. But, oh, the numbers! Endless numbers! And he would have to read them in a progression! Oh,m God! The horror! And he would also have the cranial ability to understand all the data. Thus, in this and all other ways, he would not be capable of the job.
(Which is why I get the gig!)
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