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This Week We Were Blessed By Matchbox Cars. But Too Many of You Complain They Aren't Hot Wheels. [1]
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Date: 2022-11-10
In time I will write a review of my predictions and hold myself accountable, but if you want to read the recipts I have them here.
I came here expecting relief, or surprise, or joy of some sort, not complaining. Look, it appears very likely we have the Senate and might even keep the House. We swept Michigan, are painting NV, AZ, and NM blue as we speak, and danced all over their rancid campaigns in Pennsylvania.
Tim Ryan showed us that Ohio will come back to us soon, and even Chuck Grassley won by the lowest margin since his first win in 1980.
We won on progressive ballot measures nationwide, including codifying reproductive rights in Michigan, where women now rule the roost. We reclaimed lost Latino territory in Texas and I am told we flipped three state House seats in Missouri. We continued our momentum in Georgia and routed them in New Hampshire. Yes a candidate fell asleep at the switch and drug us down in NY. Sure Florida is The Twilight Zone. But look at what we did in the midwest.
But if you had these results promised to you on January 20th, 2021, you should have been doing backflips.
The White House is pleased.
“Our democracy has been tested in recent years, but with their votes, the American people have spoken and proven once again that democracy is who we are,” he said after walking into the State Dining Room to address reporters for an extended news conference. From the beginning of the day, Biden aides and close allies were eager to remind naysayers that the president had been wrongly underestimated and counted out time after time before. As election results trickled in, the feeling inside the White House turned from encouragement to relief to an unmistakable sense of vindication, even as the practical realities of losing the House — albeit by far narrower margins than most believed — continued to settle in.
Except, we may not lose the House.
x Simple answer based on how everything is going at the moment suggests Democrats hold the House. Wouldn’t be too surprised. It’s going to take a while before there are enough official calls to indicate that, but the trend seems clear. — Harrison Lavelle (@HWLavelleMaps) November 9, 2022
x Analyzing the data for the remaining House races and trying to forecast what will happen based on remaining votes, historical data, and educated assumptions is difficult at best. But I have spent the past 24 hours trying to do it, and I predict Democrats will win with 220. — Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) November 10, 2022
So instead of plaid socks we get a package of Matchbox cars for Christmas/Holiday Season, and I for one LOVE Matchbox.
Sometimes it get worse than even plaid socks.
Personally, I always thought they had cooler cars, though everyone loved Red Lines. They also had a great variety.
But no. Some of you get perfectly nice, and let’s be frank, for most of you, unexpected toys and complain?
You complain? Some greatest hits:
“But we didn’t win. We just didn’t lose as badly as expected.” This is wrong.
“What happened in Florida?”
“New York worries me.” Never take anything for granted, I say, and Hochul did. That is not a personal attack, that is a strictly unbiased assessment of her campaign that likely cost Sean PAtrick Maloney his seat.
“Beto lost again.” The Panhandle is 90 percent deep red. It’s gonna take a minute.
I prefer to look at brighter sides. Winning this election was about two things, stopping MAGA’s run on our democracy and protecting our freedoms, particularly as it applied to women.
I believe for the most part we succeeded.
You can always find disappointments if you look for them.
You can also find joys.
If you didn’t know the packaging, most of us can’t tell the difference with the cars when we are playing with them anyway.
But the Republicans are waking up to a soft wrapped (remember how when you were a kid and you saw a soft wrapped package? Remember how hard it was to hide your let down?) pair of plaid socks, sent to them from Florida, which along with Texas will be their last, politically speaking, stand.
So let’s enjoy our toys, be grateful, and try to add to our collection in 2024.
Zoom Zoom.
Hey has anyone seen this 1984 Matchbox Lambo?
It’s the first thing I want to play with when in 2024, after 40 years pursuing retribution, we flip the map to more than 40 states blue.
If you have one could I buy it? I will give it a good home.
I will call him Walter.
-ROC
Curious to why I think Ohio will turn blue? The explanation is coming next week in The Claw News!
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Love,
-ROC
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