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Baltimike

(4,144 posts) Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:13 AM Nov 2018

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I'm not sorry, I AM celebrating...don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

Pre existing conditions are safe. Could it have been better? Of course! but, it could have been much MUCH worse.

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I'm not sorry, I AM celebrating...don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good (Original Post) Baltimike Nov 2018 OP

You live in Florida? zipplewrath Nov 2018 #1

Yes it did nt Phoenix61 Nov 2018 #3

No, and I haven't been since be either. nt Baltimike Nov 2018 #4

It ain't about perfect and good zipplewrath Nov 2018 #5

we've got good. Gillum is in recount territory nt Baltimike Nov 2018 #7

Completely agree. Crutchez_CuiBono Nov 2018 #2

We're clearly better off than we were last term treestar Nov 2018 #6

Exactly. Why people aren't celebrating that America saved its own ass is beyond me. GoCubsGo Nov 2018 #8

Because we allowed the conservative press to frame the narrative that we had to win it all Baltimike Nov 2018 #9

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

1. You live in Florida?

Reply to Baltimike (Original post)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:16 AM

Nov 2018

Cause it really got worse down here.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)

3. Yes it did nt

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:20 AM

Nov 2018

Baltimike

(4,144 posts)

4. No, and I haven't been since be either. nt

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:24 AM

Nov 2018

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

5. It ain't about perfect and good

Reply to Baltimike (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:26 AM

Nov 2018

We've got neither. Spare me the lectures. Give me some empathy instead.

Baltimike

(4,144 posts)

7. we've got good. Gillum is in recount territory nt

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:03 PM

Nov 2018

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

2. Completely agree.

Reply to Baltimike (Original post)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:17 AM

Nov 2018

Seems cheating is alive and well, and an investigation into that will be good too. Any laws they pass he will veto so, might as well start playing detective and reveal what's been hidden.

treestar

(82,383 posts)

6. We're clearly better off than we were last term

Reply to Baltimike (Original post)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:40 AM

Nov 2018

and the new D governors can veto any gerrymandering.

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)

8. Exactly. Why people aren't celebrating that America saved its own ass is beyond me.

Reply to Baltimike (Original post)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:08 PM

Nov 2018

Had the Dems not taken back the House yesterday, it would have been the end of America as we know it. We would have been well on the way to fascism. Yeah, some sucky things happened yesterday, too. But, at least Mushroom Dick no longer has unchecked powers, and that is a BIG FUCKING DEAL.

Baltimike

(4,144 posts)

9. Because we allowed the conservative press to frame the narrative that we had to win it all

Reply to GoCubsGo (Reply #8)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:13 PM

Nov 2018

That we had to win *every* race we entered or we somehow *lost*.

NOPE

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