I am so relieved about Cinema winning!!!!! SO relieved. I have lived here 24 years. First time female senator ever and first time a democrat senator in 30 years.
I am also going to thank Mc Sally for NOT doing what what she was asked to do by other high up national republicans. She is not contesting the race results. YEA! She will likely run for. McCains seat when it is up and Kyle leaves the appointed post at the end of the term. Smart lady. The Florida Governor Rick Scott is toting that republican line and thought. Is his very cranky and contesting everything as well as being very dark in ho w he is trying to manipulate that senate race. He is using his governorship to try to manipulate how votes are being counted, even wants to confiscate machines.
Is anyone picking up a signature for illness around Rick Scott?
VestraLux, I saw a picture of him today and would describe him as cadaverous, emaciated.
Dems net 36th House pickup in Maine amid GOP court challenge:
Democrat Jared Golden has defeated GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine's 2nd District, bringing Democrats' net gain in the House to 36 seats with five GOP seats still uncalled--and with Poliquin still embroiled in a lawsuit against Maine's secretary of state over the vote.
and now Susan Collins is the last repub in New England. Please turn off the light when you leave, Susie.
Dems flip another seat!
Southern California Rep. Mimi Walters was ousted Thursday night, the latest House Republican to lose their seat in the formerly deep-red Orange County.
The Associated Press called the 45th congressional district race with Democrat Katie Porter leading Walters, a two-term incumbent who previously served in the California senate, by just over 6,000 votes as ballots continue to be counted.
I found this prediction I made for November:
So far, I am thinking or Krysten Sinema, Jared Golden, and Katie Porter switching to Democratic winners since the election. Am I missing any one else in the last week that was declared a winner?
Did everyone see Donald Johann Drumpf campaigning in Mississippi for the "Lady Who Lynches"? He actually had the nerve to ask the crowd how Mr. Espy "fits in" in MS. I will tell you, you big, ugly ANCHOR BABY- Mr. Espy's ancestors were brought here in chains- and therefore has more right than you, to be in Mississippi Goddamn
Unk p, no kidding!
I'm a Mississippi native—born and raised. I moved away years ago and have rarely been back, though much of my family's still there. I know Hyde-Smith's habits and worldview like I know my own childhood home, which is to say every square inch. And just like that house, it shames me.
My mother, brother, grandmother, aunts, and uncles are all deeply bigoted. They're conservative Republicans who believe the Confederate flag is a symbol of pride and history. My mother and brother proudly refer to themselves as "rednecks." (I'm the sole liberal in my family, and came into the world this way, which is as baffling to me as to them.) Still, I guarantee you not one of them believes that Hyde-Smith's remarks about a public hanging or Trump's words about Espy not fitting in were a conscious dog-whistle. And as racist as those words are in both instances, I'm not certain that I do either.
I believe that the collective trauma of that place is so deep, so stark, and so pervasive, that it's created a vibratory morass in the cultural field. Trauma creates powerful denial, numbing, and suppression, as well as hyper-vigilance and over-activation (extremes in either direction). We see both of those reactions across the board in MS, but we especially see denial and suppression on the part of the right-leaning white population in the state, many of whom are the descendants of those who created or benefited from that trauma.
When we suppress consciousness into the collective shadow, it doesn't go away. The energy still exists in the field, and will be expressed one way or another. It's possible that when Hyde-Smith joked about a public hanging, she was unconsciously expressing what is still right there in the field: the shadow of Mississippi's dark legacy of lynching. As a famous Mississippian once wrote, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."
Don't get me wrong; the woman is a racist. Absolutely. I just don't know that she made that statement as a deliberate signal to her racist friends and supporters, which implies a conspiracy. She may have, but Mississippians are known for our gothic, off-the-cuff phrasing and morbid idioms. It's common to say things like, "If you invited me to a hog-skinning, I'd show up in Sunday pearls, just cuz I like you so much..."
I believe the forces we've split into the collective shadow are always seeking to be brought into the light, to be acknowledged and healed. Mike Espy wasn't going to win in Mississippi, but as a result of this race, his opponent's disturbing comments and behavior, and Donald Trump's horribly racist remarks (i.e., his entire presidency), we're all the more conscious of that darkness, and therefore more empowered to see it changed.
I also believe that Espy, like Abrams and Gillum, has an important future role in America. And it's possible that role could only be fully initiated by these very events, as difficult as they are.