US Politics

It says a lot that even Rupert can’t be bothered with him anymore.

Gonna keep this for when Scott Morrison loses to Labor. Oh wait.

He did it once. And then the Democrats resisted a red wave during the midterms, going against the typical backlash expected of the party in power, in the middle of an inflation spike. It seems Biden is winning quite a bit.

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CNN reported to have just called Georgia runoff for Warnock (Democrat)

And AP

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51 seats for the Dems which is a bare minimum

50 is the bare minimum, no?

50-50 requires a VP (Harris) to break a tie and 51 is the bare minimum to win outright.

Warnock won his GA senate seat in a special election in January 2021

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There is no power sharing agreement with 51 seats so they can now have the majority on all the committees. The senate also has subpoena power which will be good to use to counter balance the endless investigations the Republicans will do in the house to non issues like Hunter Bidens laptop and Fauci.

Good to know they will use their majority in the house to investigate such pressing topics.

Meanwhile, The Trump Organization was found guilty on all counts of tax fraud

They campaigned on fixing inflation but now crickets

Sadly nobody thought they would tackle minimal issues like inflation when Hunter Biden’s laptop is still around and lord knows what they want to accuse Fauci of I’m sure it’s something along the lines of peddling a narrative about a fake virus or something like that.

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Considering what mid-terms are like this is a great result for the Democrats. That way they can ensure that any stupid legislations or policies the slimy GOPs want to press through the house can go and die in the senate.

Shows the GOPs that they’re becoming increasingly irrelevant.

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Lindsay Graham has started the narrative that Biden should be impeached because he hasn’t visited the border.

Haha this is next level brain damage.

Yep… never anything serious or for the people… just have put on the theatrics “to own the libs”.

How did this lot get a majority in the house again? There are a lot of crazed people in that party these days.

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Senator Kyrsten Sinema announced she would quit the Democratic Party and serve as an independent.

She campaigned on a green agenda but then votes as a corporate loyalist and the democrat’s obstructionist. I don’t think she will be missed in the party room. This will be an interesting game of chicken in 2024.

Either democrats run against her, risk splitting the votes and republicans getting a comfortable win. Or they run dead, let her be their de facto candidate, and end up either having to deal with her for another 6 years but also risk republicans winning anyway.

I hope the democrats take the high-risk high reward option and run against her, but string out their decision so they get a year of loyalty out of her.

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She could also be transitioning out of politics into a corporate hack. Her positioning and posturing may suggest this. She’ll caucus with the Dems like the other two independents in the house.

Clearly she didn’t like the fact she would no longer get attention in a 51-49 senate and would prefer to play games with the dems.