Wipeout!

Just going through the formality of posting in this blog if there is still anyone actually reading my posts. Mostly writing on Medium these days. Blogger seems all but dead. Hard to even find other bloggers as there is no main page anymore. What gives?

Anyway, I was happy about the elections. Cue the music! The blue wave not only turned out to be real but washed over half the country. Even Mississippi got hit with a Category 4 hurricane that sees Scott Colom still holding onto his lead over that Daughter of the Confederacy Cindy Hyde-White. That will really make my day if he pulls out a victory in this deep, deep red state.

Sadly, Florida was able to buffet itself against the winds and high tide. Byron Donalds became the first black governor of the state, but he's no more than a proxy for Republican white values. Angie Nixon almost scored a surprising victory in her Senate run, but came up short because no one was willing to believe she could actually win. The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee offered her no help at all. Kamala Harris went down to Florida to stump for her, but to no avail. So, Florida remains a swamp state unable to move forward or backward, much to the chagrin of my liberal University of Florida classmates who still live there. Maybe next time around.

I'm really surprised Republicans are taking it so well. I guess even their internal polls showed they were in for a rout and accepted it. Leon, aka Elon Musk, might be packing up and moving to Florida now that Texas turned Blue. He dumped like 300 million USD into those state elections only to see his good ol' boys in their red hats take a pounding. Ted Cruz was lamenting that he is the last statewide Texas Republican left standing. Remember the Alamo!

Probably my favorite was a Michigan House race. Republicans tried to push some guy named Amir Hassan in the primaries, only to lose to a guy who dropped out of the race after he ran out of money. All 2000 dollars. Seems MAGA voters confused Amir Hassan with Hassan Piker and refused to vote for him, despite having Trump's backing. Amir was Donald's kind of guy, big and strong with a tight ass, but it was not to be. Thomas Smith ended up winning the primary but lost bigly in the general election despite having more money.

This made Republican attacks on Dr. Abdul El-Sayed all the more hypocritical. Granted Hassan was a converted Muslim, professing to be 100% Christian Nationalist, but let's face it he had a "funny name" just like Dr. El-Sayed, which Trump purposefully maligned in his rambling campaign speeches. Maybe Hassan should have changed his name along with his religion so there would have been less confusion. Whatever the case, Dr. El-Sayed won by seven points. This after his former Democratic challenger Haley Stevens endorsed MAGA Mike Rogers. No one saw that coming nor did it matter. Michiganders as a whole were drawn more to the good doctor's message, not his ethnicity.

The wave rolled on, sweeping Ohio, where Amy Acton became its first woman governor. Deep in the heart of Texas, Gino Hinojosa kicked Greg Abbott to the curb. Deb Haaland became the first Native American governor by winning New Mexico. Women ruled the midterms, winning 17 governor races and a slew of Congressional races. There will be as many as 160 women in Congress come January. They're going to need to build a bigger women's restroom. It wasn't that long ago that women had to use the powder room on the first floor.

With that in mind, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries need to quit pretending they engineered these unprecedented victories and cede the Democratic leadership to women. This was their big night, not these two schmucks, who together have a lower approval rating than Donald Trump. Chuck 13 and Hakeem 18 percent. Maybe then Democrats might actually get something done.

Donald seemed almost contrite, congratulating Democrats on their big victories, although he once again said that if he was on the ballot Republicans would have won bigly. It would have been a landslide, even if the guy whose backside he favored the most lost too. John Husted was defeated by scrappy Sherrod Brown, reclaiming his Ohio Senatorial seat. 

Apparently Trump was too contrite, as Stephen Miller quickly stepped into the breach, taking over the role of Chief of Staff from Susie Wiles, who had disappeared into all the gold gilding in the Oval Office, which Trump now wants to declare a piece of antiquity. Seems like no one told Stephen that it was his heinous immigration policy that allowed Democrats to build a blue wall all along the Mexican border. Democrats took literally every Congressional House district along this 2000-mile stretch from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California. This my friends is truly "unpresidented!" Yet, Stephen says business as usual at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It doesn't seem like the Republicans learned anything from this election other than their anti-trans message went over like a lead balloon. Even in Washington, my last state of American residence, they tried to sneak through an anti-trans measure dressed up as a parental guidance initiative. It was resoundingly defeated.

Some Republicans did say they heard voters. Ron DeSantis offered this mea culpa of sorts. He was one of the few to admit Republican messaging didn't go over well, even if Florida's GOP barely held onto the Governor's mansion and US Senate seat.

Anyway, the Trump administration will no longer have a blank check when it comes to fighting immigration and illicit wars around the world. One figures Pete Hegseth's days are numbered. He might be shown the door long before January 3, as the last thing this administration wants is to have their foreign agenda drug through a Democratic Congress. They will try to put a new face on the "war department." Some have even suggested Ron DeSantis, who no longer has a job.

I don't think it will be that easy to duck and run, certainly not for Petey who released this defiant video. One woman who will definitely have him in her sights is Nancy Lacore. Hegseth fired her last year as Vice Admiral of the Navy. She won a Congressional seat in South Carolina and will be sitting in the new Congress. Karma is a bitch!

The whole cabinet needs to go. Petey is a good start but Bobby Jr. and the Lizard of Oz are also in hot seats. If Dr. El-Sayed has any say in the matter, these two quacks will be shown the door. 

It can't be all investigations and impeachments. Democrats will have to force inflation-reduction and health care bills on Trump, and make him squirm in his gilded seat. He vetoes them at his own peril, or rather whomever the Republicans put up in 2028. I don't think we will be hearing anymore ...