Change of subject just for a sec. What do you think of this picture?

[mtnsnake]

With all that's been going on during the last 24 hours, and with DU busier than ever, I almost forgot about the great news that Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff swept the Georgia Senate races.

Warnock and Ossoff battled hard to give us control of the Senate, and they did it against all odds. They did it with a lot of help from Stacey Abrams and all the black voters who came out in force to turn Georgia blue.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be President and Vice President of the United States. Warnock and Ossoff gave us control of all 3 branches. We can call it a mandate now.

Joe and Kamala will get to work immediately to get those vaccines out there and to finally get control of the pandemic that Trump the Terrorist ignored for a full year.

Joe and Kamala will do their absolute best to restore the honor and dignity to this country that it enjoyed under the leadership of Barack Obama and Joe himself.

Joe and Kamala are going to make all our lives better in the coming months, for one reason or another.

We really do have a lot to look forward to and a lot of celebrating to catch up on, especially after Trump is out of our lives, so stay safe. Better days ahead.

[bluestarone]

1. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!

[samnsara]

2. i didnt forget about them..they gave me permission to exhale briefly..then I was on high alert again

[CrispyQ]

3. I think Representative Lewis is smiling.

[Dream Girl]

4. Is that Jim Care?

Trigger fingers.

[Wounded Bear]

5. I think they will work well together...

[MoonRiver]

6. FANTASTIC!

[Beringia]

7. For a second, I thought that was Jared Kushner, but no

I also thought I recognized Al Gore at the certification vote yesterday, but no again.

[Massacure]

8. A see an old white man pointing finger guns at a black man

I know Biden didn't have bad intentions, but that was seriously the first thing that came to my mind.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. Same here. The picture is more disturbing than

heartening.

[3catwoman3]

30. That did not occur to me...

...for a moment.

I like the picture.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

9. Great pic !

Thanks GA

[denvine]

10. Beautiful!

[Fla Dem]

11. Love it except,

Wish Joe wasn't pointing with 2 gun hand gestures. If he kept the thumbs down, would have been OK. Guess I'm just a little sensitive with everything going on.

[LisaL]

12. I am assuming that was before the riots.

This looks like the rally before the run off election.

[Traildogbob]

13. Wow

An amazing break. Thanks for reminding us, of the tunnel light ahead.

[bluescribbler]

14. I love it.

[TruckFump]

15. TOTALLY WONDERFUL! EOM

[liberalmuse]

16. BEAUTIFUL!

And a palate cleanser from watching those disgusting cretins invade our Capitol yesterday. Thank you for posting!

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. I'm sorry that their (including Stacey Abrams) Big Day celebrating a monumental achievement...

...was pushed off the front page by idiots and villains. They deserved more limelight.

[Darwin2019]

18. Democracy lives.....for now

[marble falls]

19. I think a cat got OssOff's 'tongue'!

[OddMom20]

20. Thank you, mtnsnake!

For reminding us that brighter days are ahead!!

[catbyte]

21. Awesome! THIS is what we should be talking about instead of that fetid POS polluting the WH.

[lagomorph777]

22. This will greatly help the reconstruction effort.

[efhmc]

37. Will those 340+ bills that are on MM's desk have to be voted on and resubmitted to the Senate?

[lagomorph777]

38. Yes.

[efhmc]

41. Make sense. There are different people who would have to vote on them there now.

[lagomorph777]

42. Exactly. Everything is reset in the new Congress.

[housecat]

23. What high position should they offer Stacey Abrams?

[lagomorph777]

39. DNC chair?

[Lonestarblue]

24. It's fabulous!

[SWBTATTReg]

26. I got Georgia on my mind!! Great news and this means that we have cntl of the House,

the Senate, and the Executive Branches of government. Time to do some house cleaning!

[0nirevets]

27. Wonderful. But Dems control two branches, not three.

Legislative and Executive, not Judicial. Sorry to be so wonky.

[ARPad95]

28. LOVE IT! It helps to keep the anxiety over the next 2 weeks at bay.

[lunatica]

29. Yesterday was a most important day!

It definitely marks the end of the Trump era and the start of the Biden era. We successfully and Democratically won the Senate and the Trumpies tried and failed in their coup attempt to take the Capitol.

It was a good day for Democracy.

[AllaN01Bear]

31. love it . love it . +10000

[rocktivity]

32. History repeated itself -- very recent history

Last edited Sat Jan 9, 2021, 12:10 AM - Edit history (2)

"It was a perfect storm of sorts...With a combination of overall higher turnout (despite the voter suppression attacks); most of Biden's votes being cast early or by mail; and not much more than just one third of the votes actually being cast on Election Day, maybe there just weren't enough blue in-person machine votes to flip."

Rocktivity, DU 11/30/2020

I was cautiously optimistic about the Warnock race and a little nervous about Ossoff's -- that is, until that Georgia voting exec's press conference when he said that nearly three million of Georgia's 7.2 million voters had cast their ballots early!


rocktivity

[tosh]

33. YES!!! Thank you!

We MUST relish our victory and NOT let the orange idiot distract us with his darkness.

This is a beautiful photo - JOY!!!

[kcr]

34. Well, there's your answer. We love this picture.

[Rizen]

35. I'm so happy we took the Senate!

Trump turned out to be the biggest useful idiot of all.

[Saviolo]

36. Big appreciation to Stacey Abrams!

She is one of the hardest-working ground-game strategists you will ever find, and I hope she gets a huge recognition for all the hard work she did to deliver GA.

[BruceWane]

40. Amazing

In case anyone misses the significance of this..........

It's not JUST that Democrats have won control of the Senate.

An African-American man and a Jewish man have won both of the senate seats in GEORGIA. Fucking GEORGIA.

This is a seismic shift in power.

[crickets]

43. What a wonderful photo!

We really didn't get any time to savor their victories yesterday, did we?

[mtnsnake]

45. Yes it is. When I saw that beautiful photo it was like wow, this is the future

we have in store for us. Everything about it is beyond amazing.

Joe Biden is a wonderful leader, and he is going to have a fantastic VP in Kamala Harris at his side. Warnock and Ossoff are incredible, changing the course of history for the better in one single marvelous state election. Georgia is blue. Unreal. Someone pinch me and tell me I'm not dreaming.

Seeing Joe, Raphael, and Jon standing so happy and triumphant in front of the American flag and the Georgia state flag with the blue VOTE sign in between the two flags sent shivers up and down my spine.

And yes, crickets, we sure didn't get a chance to savor their victories, but we will, and we will very soon. It's been a struggle, but we have so much to look forward to, starting now. That photo kind of says it all.