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You better believe I'm taking some next-level pleasure watching trad Caths freak out and declare that the Kingdom of Satan is upon us due to this.

However, this does not improve my opinion of the Catholic Church one bit, and they deserve no credit for anything as per before.

Behold the beast.

We can't withstand that kind of stasis anymore. Our government is too slow for the age of computerized thought, and everyone knows it. That's why the US keeps bullshitting its way into armed conflict but never declares a war, and so never fully faces the laws we have about war in turn. It's why we rely on the cancer prospects of 9 ancient boomers to make the law swing between Christian fascism and twisted-logic liberalism. It's why it has been ten years since the legislature wasn't obstructionist by nature, and even then it was barely churning along.

The filibuster is too big of an obstacle to be tolerated in the world of the boomer death drive. It's a no so huge there's only six Senate seats between overcoming it and being able to just change the Constitution outright. The Senate is already this mythical obstacle against Action that people want it to be by virtue of six year terms and whole states voting on the members, but 60 seats is a impossible hindrance at this level of partisanship.

The government can still struggle its way out of the big La-Z Boy chair and jump around a bit, but it can only do that once the crisis is already upon us and the bodies already litter the ground. Anything less than that and they punt out of ever passing laws about it, anything more and they collapse just like the diabetic boomers who run the joint.

We are not going to survive this shit much longer. Even if the Dems smash the joint up and kill the filibuster, the basic problem is still there waiting to become possible. All you need is a couple fuckups to lose their seats or a couple Yellow Dog LARPers to beg off for their boomer constituents and we're right back where we fucking started. And that's the upper limit of what the Dems can accomplish as is. The Republicans couldn't even pass their "kill everyone" laws during 17'-18', when they had the trifecta!

We need to reacquire the ability for long-term planning and short-term flexibility to have any chance of surviving the coming crisis. Personally, I'd just delete the Senate and have 30k people a Rep, along with finally putting an end to SCOTUS' bullshit and the President's overreach, but regardless we need to do a lot more than kill a couple parts of the filibuster.

We're going into wild times no matter what happens, of that I am certain. Trump was first. There will be no hegemonic normalcy again.

Yee-haw, and such.

Unironically fucking glorious result for NZ. It's a good thing they're going to be the only survivors of the nuclear war.

Quite a few places.

Alaska

You know, that's not a bad strategy, funding independents in red states. Pity the Democrats are too egotistical to actually adopt such a strategy, much as they are too egotistical to tone down the toxicity that helps make those states hate them so much.

Arizona (special election)

"It's the closest thing to Hell that exists, but it's our Hell!"

Colorado

I've always been kind of impressed by how well Colorado contains their conservatives - you can tell by how the right-wing districts in Colorado are really crazy.

Iowa

I don't know that there's any way to distance one's self from Trump at this point. I guess you could potentially trick the arbitrary portion of the electorate, assuming you're also willing to spend the next four years hiding from the Trump Patrols should he win.

Kansas

Never would have guessed that Brownback's governorship was going to kick off Bleeding Kansas II, but here we are. I think you could really get a permanent blueshift in Kansas in this moment in history if you played your cards right. So the DNC will fuck it up, I'm sure.

Maine

Don't forget the Ranked-Choice Voting! Oh boy, oh boy are the 3rd party voters excited, probably, I don't know. I seem to recall the ranked choice ballot being some insane "draw a line between the candidates you want" thing at one point, but it looks like a normal and sane ballot now so I guess that was taken care of.

inb4 every ranked choice election in Maine is invalidated by the Barret Court because the Constitution doesn't say you can do it, and so the RNC gets to appoint all seats and ECs.

Michigan

It's no Florida, but it's getting there.

Minnesota

Fucking wow, there have been a few incel politicians but this Lewis guy is probably the most successful one I've seen in the US (our friends in the hell of Ukland are not so lucky).

Montana

Again, a state that could be stolen from the GOP if the Dems gave enough of a shit to try, though not as easily as Kansas or even Georgia could be.

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Rating: I bet Erica Smith's nudes wouldn't have gotten sent to Tillis' office.

South Carolina

Fuckin' G.

Texas

The dream of the Blue Rose lives on.

Georgia (normal election)

The Solid South ain't quite so solid these days, but Georgia flipping would probably indicate the end, if only because the Dems might actually try to stop the suppression of black voters.

Georgia (special election)

Obama can end the Democratic primaries in a weekend but he can't get a bunch of two-bit state reps and dog catchers in line? He's been doing ads for Warnock, so he clearly cares. It seems like the Dems still worship Obama all the more for nostalgia. God, you don't even have to threaten them! Offer them DC sinctures! Or at least fucking RICO their campaigns if they won't take the deal! Ugh.

Which means that depending on how things shake out elsewhere, control of the US Senate may not be decided until two months after Election Day, and a mere 15 days before Inauguration Day.

I'd be angry about this too, but everything will probably be done and salted by January anyway.