So Texas could win the Speaker seat for Kevin McCarthy. Georgia could give the Senate to McConnell

[Stinky The Clown]

Once that happens, it seems to me there is little to turn the tide blue again. The Supremes are already compromised and little more than a right wing rubber stamp. Lower courts are little better.

What's happening in the states is terrifying.

Can we GOTV our way out of this? I kinda doubt it. The GOP has been at this for DECADES. Blue Texas is, I suspect, less likely than Ahab getting his White Whale.

The Florida and Georgia governorships were just plain stolen. And upheld.

The greatest hope is legislation to save voting rights and prevent gerrymandering. And that is really in the hands of Manchin and Sinema.

I really am very tired of banging my head into a wall.

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Joe Manchin Don't Care

Someone will be along shortly to tell you why you should love him.

[onecaliberal]

6. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Hoyt]

2. Hear you about banging heads. But, we ain't beat yet. Sure, I'm nervous.

[qazplm135]

3. I'll never understand defeatist posts like this

Guarantee you conservatives weren't giving in 09 when Obama had the House by a large margin and the Senate with 60 votes.

They went back to fucking work and 8 years later, they had total control.

Either we do the same or we quit, and then we deserve what we get.

[Grasswire2]

4. can't make that happen by continually looking forward, not back.

especially in terms of vote suppression.

[NJCher]

7. some people are just born with negative outlooks

and others positive. I read this the other day--some kind of study.

[Poiuyt]

10. OTOH, it doesn't help to have your head buried in the sand

I think it's important to be aware of our threats and weaknesses.

[qazplm135]

16. And basically giving up

Helps better how?

[questionseverything]

5. We need federal legislation that protects the right to vote

And guarantees an transparent, accurate count




Nothing else matters

[BeckyDem]

17. +1.

We're sunk without it.

[JohnSJ]

8. Let's see what happens with the California recall. I believe that will be a bellwether for

2022.

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested.

With numbers like that, I sure wouldn't be writing midterms off

[uponit7771]

9. Because only 64% of democrats believe Voter Suppression is a problem (link)

[onetexan]

11. What can Garland's DOJ do re: those states' subversive voting laws?

Anyone know?

[totodeinhere]

13. Most legal procedures take a long time.

You just can't do it at the drop of a hat. If the Justice Department tried to sue the MAGA assholes will use every trick in the book to drag the legal process out past the next election. But I agree that the Justice Department needs to try because we cannot allow them to suppress votes and steal the next election.

[totodeinhere]

12. They could but we have to do our best to see that they don't. n/t

[totodeinhere]

14. Manchin and Sinema need to come around but there are two paths to follow on this issue.

There is the legislative path and there is the judicial path. Failing congressional action the Biden Justice Department needs to step up and sue the hell out of those people who are doing their best to suppress the vote.

[monkeyman1]

15. wtf - only 8 months in !

only 8 month's in & here all this bull shit republican's are doing this & republican's are doing that ! jeeze , sounds like high school ! we got important issues going on that the previous administration completely screwed up & people say all is lost ! you all say it lost ! quit thinking negative, you finally get a president with a damn brain & need to have his back side ! channel the fucking negative to the republican's & they will run like hell ! they got dem's so buffalo'd . vote every damn republican out & take no prisoners.