42 thoughts on “Counting, Countering and Recounting”

  1. although the comedy continues: example from trevor who described GOPer red wave as more like a “red spritz”

    The Republicans “Red Wave” turned out to be a puddle, abortion rights had a major win in several states, multiple Trump endorsed candidates lost their races, and numerous historic firsts came out of the race including Alabama’s first woman in the Senate, Maryland’s first Black governor, Massachusetts first woman governor and first openly gay governor and Florida’s first ever Gen Z congressman.

    and stephen’s “pink trickle”

    While the former president is taking heat for backing losing candidates in the midterms, he prefers to blame his wife. In Georgia, neither Senate candidate got 50% of the vote so Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock will battle each other again in a runoff.

  2. jimmy kimmel as reported by the guardian:

    “Republicans were expecting a big night, expecting to win control of the House,” Jimmy Kimmel reported from Los Angeles. “You know last time Republicans took control of the House, they were hitting police with flag poles and pooping in it.”

  3. flying under the radar, a surprising issue tobe on the ballot did pass as wonkette reports:

    In this, the year 2022, 188 years after slavery was “abolished,” five states voted on whether or not to amend their constitutions to bar the practice of involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.
    Vermont voted yes. That was predictable.
    Oregon voted yes, in an unsettlingly narrow 54-45 victory.
    Tennessee voted yes, which is a very big deal given the state of incarceration in Tennessee.
    Alabama voted yes, which is an even bigger deal — they were the the last state to end convict lease programs (slavery under another name) in 1928 and they have the most overcrowded prisons in the nation.
    Louisiana voted no … but that’s actually not a bad thing. Let me explain!
    The actual language in the bill was very bad — so bad that it actually left room for one to argue that the state was legalizing slavery in general rather than outlawing it in prisons.
    […]
    The truly incredible thing is that these measures passed at a time when Republicans have been pushing a narrative that crime is out of control and only rightwing remedies (that they never seem to actually explain) can stop it. People, especially in these red states, had that rattling around in their heads and still voted for these measures. That’s something that should give us all hope.
    […]
    A more recent poll conducted by Gallup in 2020 found that “more Americans prefer putting money and effort into addressing social and economic problems such as drug addiction, homelessness and mental health (63%) rather than putting money and effort into strengthening law enforcement (34%).”
    It would be great to enact all of these great reforms that Americans so clearly want, but for now, getting rid of literal slavery in a few states is a pretty big win.

  4. Poor old trumpty dumpty……kind of like Lenny Bruce in the end just reading from his old court transcripts at his shows.   In Lenny’s case, sad—-in Trumpty’s case, it’s all good.

  6. Of some interest to me has been the complete lack, one exception, of maga violence, disruptions or just plain idiocy around the voting sites.  Has the desire to be mocked or arrested passed?  Or perhaps it is exhausted from constant hate?
    The exception is some crazy guy with a knife wanted the voting stopped.  He might have issues other than being a cult member.

  7. I noticed that also. I think the lack of violence began at the top and then spread down.  All the top gopers with any sense at all realized they’d been thoroughly whacked and were cowed into shutting the fox up.  
    Also an indication that the great unwashed act on what they see from their leadets.

  8. BB & Sturgeone

    I think Tuesday was a big slap on the head for @GOP MAGA and even many of the candidates that the big lie has run its course and people are tired of the noise.

    It looks like Kelly is a lock on Arizona.  Still fingers crossed on Nevada.

     

  9. I get tired of the manufactured suspense.  Looks like the House is done – speaker McCartney – what a fucking joke.  I hope the Biden convo with him was something like “Don’t expect to impeach me on Monday and expect me to do anything Tuesday on anything you manage to get past the Senate.  And I’ll hang the threatened shutdown around your neck daily from the briefeing room every day until you approve the debt ceiling increase. And by the way, you aren’t touching social security or Medicare/Medicaid.” 
     
    And in the Senate, Kelly’s race is in the bag as is Laxalt’s – control of the Senate will come down to the Georgia recount in December, which will come down to turnout (again). GOTV again (sigh…)

  10. Looks like Kevin has to fight for it.

    Axios: McCarthy’s hunt for the 218 votes needed to be elected speaker has become more difficult than he’d expected. Privately, House GOP lawmakers and aides tell Axios they’re unsure he can pull it off. Some are even saying as much publicly.

    “Kevin McCarthy has not done anything to earn my vote for speaker,” Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), a House Freedom Caucus board member, told Axios following an HFC board call Wednesday.

  11. Good, that prick couldn’t find a spine if he had one running up the middle of his back.  
     
    Oh, and maybe I’ll pull the Kelly lock comment back for now – his margin is dropping as the counting progresses.

  12. McCarthy will soon hubristically pay the price.  (Unless he doesn’t )

    But anyway:  Where is their civil war now, these hollow men?

  13. I have a serious beef with this election.   Too damn close, and not e-damn-nough.   

    Republicans are despicable. The idea that Herschel Walker gets even close to as many votes as Rev. Warnock. That’s just stupid. Even in Georgia.

  14. Lindsay Graham is a perfect example of what you get when citizens elect a schmuck over a great man just because he’s a republican schmuck. They all KNOW he’s a schnook and a schmuck, and just don’t care.

  15. There are about 400,000 to 410,000 ballots left to count in Maricopa County, the most populous county in Arizona, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates told “CNN This Morning” on Thursday. 
    Out of the 400,000 to 410,000 left to count, about 290,000 of those ballots were dropped off on Election Day at voting places, Gates said. 

     
    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-congress-senate-house-11-10-2022/h_cd092d6372077709db475130f23877c9
     
     

  16. Same with Rant.  How in the eff did he get another term (when he said he was for term limits) and has done nothing to help the folks in KY?   Answer: Republicans have a taste for shit. 

  17. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse officially named president-elect at University of Florida (omaha.com)

    Once Sasse resigns, that responsibility will fall to Nebraska’s governor. The current governor, Pete Ricketts, confirmed Wednesday that Sasse’s resignation will not come until January, meaning the decision to appoint his replacement will fall to Jim Pillen, who decisively won Tuesday’s race for governor.
    […]
    Since Sasse’s selection as the sole finalist, many have speculated that Ricketts would end up being appointed to the seat. The governor was one of Pillen’s most prominent supporters, especially during the GOP primary, where Pillen faced an arguably tougher fight than in the general election.
    Asked about the appointment during his victory party Tuesday night, Pillen refused to identify any potential candidates.
    “We’ll wait until the time comes,” Pillen said.
    Whoever Pillen appoints will have to stand for election in 2024 to serve out the remaining two years of Sasse’s current six-year term in the Senate.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/3729114-sasse-leaving-senate-in-january-after-university-of-florida-approves-him-as-president/

  19. the gaurdian

    Ukrainian official: Russia mining Kherson to turn it into ‘city of death’

    A senior Ukrainian official has warned that Russian forces are booby-trapping the city of Kherson, accusing them of trying to turn it into a “city of death”.

    Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head office of Ukraine’s president, tweeted that Russia “wants to turn Kherson into a ‘city of death’”,

    He claimed that the Russian military “mines everything they can: apartments, sewers”, and that “artillery on the left bank” of the Dnipro River “plans to turn the city into ruins”.

    He said that the Russian forces deployed to Kherson city “came, robbed, celebrated, killed ‘witnesses’, left ruins and left”…

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was not going to provide Russia with vital information by giving details of current military operations in Kherson.

  20. query for the senate experts on the trail:  any thoughts on fetterman’s senate chamber desk dimensions and placement? he’s 6’8′ and weighs somewhere around 350 lbs

     

    this from U.S. Senate: Senate Chamber Desks Overview

    All the original Constantine desks remain in use in the Senate Chamber today. Until 1877, all desks were made by private cabinetmakers under contract to the Senate. Since then, all desks (a total of 25) have been built by the Senate Sergeant at Arms Cabinet Shop. The last six desks were made circa 1959: four due to the admittance of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union, and two additional desks to be used as replacements.

    There are noticeable differences in shape and dimension among the 100 desks. These result from the original semicircular arrangement of the desks in the Old Senate Chamber. A desk’s shape reflected its position in the room: aisle desks were narrow and angled, while center desks were wider and squarer. Today, senators may choose both the desk at which they sit and the placement of their desk within the Chamber. Desk occupants can change every two years with a new Congress and are based on seniority.

    and his chair?

    U.S. Senate: The Desks: Anatomy and Evolution

    Today’s Senate Chamber chairs are made in the Senate Sergeant at Arms Cabinet Shop and are of a modified Thomas Constantine design. They are somewhat smaller and less intricately carved than those built in 1819. Senators are permitted to purchase their chairs upon leaving office, and replacement chairs are made after each election.

    Image: Current Senate Chamber Chair"

    Image: Anatomy of a Current Senate Chamber Desk

  21. Well, the reptilian humanoids are beginning to feed on one another.  This will be like Kamodo Dragons looking for a mate. 
     
    Lots of slobber, teeth , and claws

  24. Damn.  With 98% of the vote reported I Boebert has a 794 vote lead. I was so hoping not to see her and her wingman MT(G?) and their stand up routine at the state of the union address this year.

  29. Beach Eaters  …..
    40 new homes  fall into the Atlantic , hotels are threatened. 
    No more federal  aid for beach replenishment , it’s time Fla. “Woke” up to it’s fate.  
     

  32. https://www.thedailybeast.com/some-republicans-want-to-raise-voting-age-after-gen-zs-strong-midterm-turnout

    “Tuesday’s midterm election saw Gen Z come out strong for Democrats, including for their generation’s first U.S. representative: Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old Democrat from Florida. The young blue bloc left Fox News personalities dismayed, with other conservative voices suggesting that the minimum voting age be raised from 18 (currently enshrined in the Constitution) to 21 or 28.”

    “The fact that these youth voters are coming in so strong in an off-year is very concerning,” Fox News commentator Jesse Watters lamented on Wednesday night. “It looks like they’ve been brainwashed. This new generation is totally brainwashed ‘cause a lot of these single women [who] vote 37 spreads for Democrats, are teaching all of our younger generation in these schools and they’re polluting their minds and then they grow up and they’re in their twenties and then they vote for leftists.”

    Yep, and also, only women are schoolteachers.

  33. India , and China did not attend the Climate meeting. But France has just mandated that all large parking lots must be covered with solar panels. 
    If this goes down to the size of Target , and Walmart stores.  It is a very big  for many reasons  . 
    France has the fastest electric trains in world, 170 mph.
    The French will embrace it. 
    The store can run off it’s parking lot , it’s customers can “top off” their cars as they shop. A whole new revenue stream for the store .
    The urban heat island effect is cut down , we stop heating the thermal mass of parking lots. 
     
    And our our cars  aren’t  a 124 degrees , when we get back to them.  If it’s raining , well you get the picture. 

  34. BiD  …………… 
     
    Women the root of all evil, pay no attention  to river of testosterone  that makes males butt heads, lock horns, grow  crazy feathers  ,  shoot each other , and piss on fire plugs. 

    Eve did not pick an apple , there were no apples on the mideast then .
    There were pomograits with hundreds of seeds.
    An age old metaphor of fertility , and abundance.

  35. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/business/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-collapse/index.html

    “Customers deposited their money to engage in crypto trading. But it appears that FTX instead took billions of dollars worth of that money and loaned it out to its sister firm, Alameda, to fund those high-risk bets, according to The Wall Street Journal.”

    “At the end of the day, FTX experienced the crypto equivalent of a classic bank run. Customers wanted their money out, and FTX didn’t have it.”

  39. His lead is from Elko , Fallon , etc, small  rural counties .
    Easy ro get a number . Reno , and Vegas are a whole other clam  bake. Remember every voter was mailed a ballot. 
    There were 4 ways to cast a vote under a brand new set of rules. 
     
    Nevada is open till 5 PM  sat. 

  41. One of the best days …….. Drilling  out of Fallon on  the 40 desert . The worst  day  moving to Vegas.  Vegas feeds on the human heart. 
     
    Nevada  feeds the human soul. 
     
    It’s real spooky tooth .

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