We get up right this moment with this certainty: None of it mattered. The key paperwork, the sky-high covid deaths, January 6, the racist assertion after racist assertion, the financial crash, the sexual assault allegations, the pussy grabbing, Moscow, Roe v. Wade, the conviction, and what have you ever. All of it amounted to a hill of beans. And there will definitely be extra outrages in years to come back; and as soon as once more, they nonetheless won’t matter one bit. If we, on the left, come to this understanding, we will transfer on by merely asking: What, then, does matter? What really counts in American politics? What’s its precise floor? This sort of clear considering would possibly show to be invaluable.
We even have to simply accept the truth that California now not represents the way forward for America. Prior to now it did, however not anymore. The longer term is now present in Texas. Elon Musk knew this. He relocated himself, Area X, and X to what has develop into our entire nation: the Lone Star State.
Kamala Harris solely received deep blue states: So, Trump goes again to the White Home. And the Senate returns to the GOP. As for the Home, its remaining composition is but to be identified. Now, how are we to learn all of this, and, notably, the result of the presidential race? Effectively, Trump’s first time period in workplace is one thing like the primary e-book in Octavia Butler’s Parable sequence, Parable of the Sower, which was printed in 1993 and contains a Trump-like president who principally strips America of its financial property. The second time period shall be just like the second e-book, Parable of the Abilities, which was printed in 1998 and options an out-and-out Christofacist president who guarantees to “Make America Nice Once more.” Butler by no means accomplished the third e-book within the sequence.
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Florida and South Dakota gave abortion entry the center finger. However Arizona, Colorado, New York, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, and Nevada protected reproductive rights. Nonetheless, with the Senate, and probably the Home, underneath GOP management, the entire states’ rights enterprise would possibly grow to be value not more than the salt you set in greens.
The Stranger Election Management Board had an excellent night time. Alexis Mercedes Rinck goes to beat incumbent Tanya Woo for Seattle Metropolis Council Place 8. The identical goes with Democratic Socialist Shaun Scott. He will definitely beat Andrea Suarez within the race to characterize Washington’s forty third Legislative District. And the person who didn’t catch the Inexperienced River Killer is not going to Olympia. Bob Ferguson handily defeated Dave Reichert for the governor seat. Sen. Maria Cantwell gave her opponent nothing however the boot. And, altogether, it appears Washington turned bluer, saner, a little bit world, a valuable stone, set within the reddest of seas.
Now that the entire nation is principally Texas, Seattle would possibly think about not staying in mattress with conservative council members. Now could be the time to stand up and go onerous to the left.
Voters confirmed Washington State Ferries (WSF) some love this time: The Prohibit Carbon Tax Credit score Buying and selling initiative went down in flames. This implies WSF will get electrical ships and a few badly-needed authorities cheese. Nonetheless, the Guarantee Entry to Pure Gasoline measure , which needs to decelerate Puget Sound Vitality’s departure from carbon liberation and protec the consumers and sellers of pure gasoline statewide, left the gate within the lead: 51% to 48%.
Joe Kent is dealing with a second spherical of wound licking. His opponent in Washington’s third Congressional District race, Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is, at this level, forward by 4 factors.
The solar shall be out right this moment. That is one thing.
A termite mound that is been round for one thing like 34,000 years was not too long ago found in South Africa. After all, termites have not referred to as this mound dwelling for 1000’s of years. And it is a disgrace, as a result of termites are actually scrumptious. You catch them through the wet season; that is when termites take to the sky with plenty of fats of their our bodies (they’re making an attempt to start out a brand new colony—the circle life, that form of factor). A bit cooking oil and some minutes on the burner turns these brown critters right into a tasty snack.
Allow us to finish with this scene from Downtown 81. Ronald Reagan is president. Hip-hop is rising. And Jean-Michel Basquiat is getting his groove on within the ruins. What I need to level out is the way in which he strikes. So clean. So chilly. So inside. That is being with others to be by your self. That is precisely how I really feel right this moment. Dancing to the aftermath.
