The helpless feeling is overwhelming tonight.

[cry baby]

It feels like trying to hold back a tidal wave by holding our hands up on the beach.


Many women will be hurt by this tyranny of the minority.


I’m screaming into the wind.

[Blue Owl]

1. Don't let the bastards get you down

Focus on Biden winning next week and then we can start undoing the damage

[vercetti2021]

2. Get angry

We win we can fix all this. We knew it was coming. No more tears. Blood is in the water and its theirs.

[cry baby]

26. I'm angry.

Retribution is coming in a week...but tonight is a bad night.

[LizBeth]

3. Yes women and girls are screwed as are gays. As is those dependent on ACA. That is what happens when

you allow Republicans to have to power. Now what. Blue wave. My blue state will continue to stand with our women and girls and gays, and hopefully health care will be taken care of once Democrats get into the white house.

[SMC22307]

6. Add Social Security and Medicare to the mix.

Republicans are coming for them...

[LizBeth]

16. +1, But that us thru a Trump win.

[SMC22307]

19. Executive Order eliminating the payroll tax...

[LizBeth]

22. Right,, if Trump wins. We are talking SC, right?

[SMC22307]

23. He can sign one tonight. Just like the one he signed hosing federal employees.

Yes, SCOTUS, and this is a f*cking nightmare.

[LizBeth]

24. And Biden can make stronger and better after he gets in.

[SMC22307]

4. Please channel that helpless feeling into GOTV efforts. PLEASE.

The corrupt Republican juggernaut needs to be stopped, but I've been saying that for decades (especially during he Dubya years).

[Delarage]

5. It can be rectified

Starts with this election. Rachel just pointed out that Obama's the 2 nominees that Repukes allowed to be seated were sworn in at the Supreme Court, without him there. Trump's have been big-ass Republican parties at the White House, with him standing closer to them than their spouses. Republicans need to be wiped out...forever.

It's crazy that Delaware or Montana have the same number of Senators as California

[LakeArenal]

7. So, I understand your user name.

[cry baby]

17. I picked the name shortly after W was selected by the SCOTUS.

I felt there would be enormous consequences. I was right.

I cry when people are being hurt, ignored, abused, etc. I won’t apologize for that.

[LakeArenal]

20. No one asked you to apologize for anything.

[TDale313]

8. If you're not...

Straight, white, cis, male, pro-Nazi, and extremely rich, you’re screwed (I fall into multiple of the marginalized groups) It’s a sad, frustrating evening, but fuck ‘em... they won’t break me. I am way more pissed than defeated.

[SharonClark]

10. I'm with you.

[LakeArenal]

21. Thank you.

Pukes haven’t done anything we didn’t expect from them.

Don’t get mad (or sad) get even.
Nov 3. The Undoing.

[AlexSFCA]

9. it's exactly what I expected the consequences of 2016 would be

feeling helpless is useless though, we gotta work on state and local elections if we want to see real change. Nothing is permanent. I am 99.9% certain SC expansion won’t happen in our lifetimes, we need to focus on longer term and different strategy.

[BannonsLiver]

11. That's exactly how they want all of us to feel.

[Bleacher Creature]

12. We're not helpless, and the solution is obvious.

Win in 8 days. Period.

[PatSeg]

13. I haven't turned on the news yet today

As I knew that there was nothing any of us could do about what McConnell and the republicans have done. The best I can do right now is hope that there will be a reckoning and that republicans will live to regret what they have done.

Some day very soon, their era of corruption and lawlessness will end, though we will now be stuck with yet another far-right ideologue on the Supreme Court. I don't know what the answer will be, but if I dwell too much on it, I'll lose what little sanity I have left. So for right now, I'm taking it one day at a time.

Meanwhile, I'm rewatching The West Wing. I happen to be on one of the episodes about a Supreme Court nominee and imagining a more sane world with a President Joseph Biden.

And may Mitch McConnell get everything he deserves 100 fold.

[Freddie]

15. McConnell looks like he may not be with us much longer

Serves him right.

[PatSeg]

28. Yes, that dawned on me

That is some legacy that he will have left behind. I just can't fathom what on earth makes someone like him tick.

[stillcool]

14. I'm coming around...but it's been a day

fear is usually my trigger for helpless and hopeless. Got to turn that fear into fuel. Eye on the prize.

[cry baby]

18. Yep, I'll mourn for a day or two, then get back to my calls.

[Upthevibe]

25. cry baby.....

I think a lot of us are feeling the same way on this dark night. Having said that, if we win the Presidency and the Senate, we'll all need to call, email, have protests, and whatever else we can do to INSIST that we add FOUR (4) seats to the SCOTUS.

And then we'll need to get to work on everything we need to repair starting with voting rights...

[cry baby]

27. Thank you for understanding. We absolutely have a lot of work

to do when we win.