Change.org petitions aren't worth getting on our enemies radar for, they don't change anything, and even the media stopped paying attention to them, and that was the main thing they were worth.

Calling reps is better, but my reps are MAGA dirtbags, and most public leaders don't care about folks outside of their constituency calling them outside of the increases in call volume, Schumer and Jeffries know that we think they're shit, they're paid by AIPAC and others to not care, people should be calling the caucus leaderships, because some of them aren't compromised yet, and they're the ones voting for Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader.

Ultimately we have to make noise while not having anymore platforms of our own, having government/politicians we don't trust, and journalists who are derelict in their duties. We still have an uphill battle to keep fighting.

Resistbot petitions are better because they're sent directly to your representatives.

Not saying that is not a foregone conclusion but your method is flawed here.

Every search and headline today would be parroting what he said yesterday. There literally has not been any time for anyone to say differently in public (even if asked, most would not voice an opinion on election day)

If I search today, like you did, looking for the orange pedophile's response to the midterm election, it would seem he will respect it and allow the transfer of power... however, he may change his syphilitic mind and throw another insurrection tomorrow

There was a good video put out by AOC last night about how the speaker is voted for, based on that I think the answer is finding out who the caucus leaders are and getting their attention, because the voting basically comes down to all of the cliques of Congress/Senate getting together to decide who is speaker/Majority Leader, so we need to get in the ear of the leaders of those political cliques within the Democratic party, because based on AOCs responses, the cliques have the power and the smaller cliques and independents are on the outside looking in.

Maybe it's time for the Democrats to go through the equivalent of whatever internal civil war process put Mike Johnson in the chair.

I've seen a few headlines of congresspeople and congresspeople-elects saying basically that they want to exercise caution and hold some more discussions about who to nominate for the leadership roles.

It's basically a diplomatic way of saying they'd rather support someone else. Just need to build some consensus on who.

Both of them need to be convicted of treason.

You're right, sorry for being a pessimistic asshole.

I agree to a point. Today this is fine. And you're right about general doomsayers. But I need to see them moving VERY AGGRESSIVELY to get shit done.

We've spent too many years listening to "these things take time, be patient" only to find out that nothing actually fucking happened.

give them a chance

They've had 50 years to increase taxes on the wealthy to pre-Reagan levels while our debt EXPLODES. Monopolies haven't been busted since the 80s. They've just spent God knows how many tens of millions of dollars fighting a billionaire tax in California (and they won)

I don't think you're the worst, but I do think you're adorable. Never change.

So look, I'm ambivalent right now.

Blues are incoming. This is better as at least things will stop getting actively, aggressively worse since Reds won't have full free reign. I will take what victories I can right now.

However, your entire point remains entirely undisturbed. I don't believe they will actually do much. What keeps me ambivalent versus bitter is that nothing has had a chance to happen yet. They haven't been sworn in, nothing but words have been thrown around yet. Talk all you want, I'll believe it when I see it.

People didn't believe AOC was gonna be anything. Now I'm not glazing her, but those same people also predicted she would fail immediately. All I said was she has to make it through her first term before we can really take a measure of the girl, and look where we are now. Those folks were wrong and she is a voice that people have no choice but to reckon with one way or another as she has a following and sway within it. Like her or not, those are facts.

There is a glimmer here, and I think what we can expect from the voting public of this generation is the genuine desire for not the same old shit. That's why we got Trump in the first place; he wasn't the same old fart who made empty promises. He came in with passion and common speech rather than boilerplate PC phrases and promised to change the status quo. Monkey's Paw activated on that one for those who voted Trump, but I am seeing that in the current vote as well.

Again, I've got no crystal ball to see how it will turn out, but the hope I once had has somehow limped its way out of the rubble of this administration. Doesn't mean it'll get very far, it just isn't dead yet, y'know?