But she was just the sweetest calmest baby ever, and I can’t help thinking I made her this way.

Oh sj, I’m sorry.

but at least I'm actively working to prevent election misinformation from spreading online.

Thank you, shrift.

I mostly disconnected last night and I'm only sporadically looking at results today. I'm trying to keep the anxiety at as low a simmer as possible so that if/when it becomes necessary to release the bees it can be at a strategically useful moment.

sj, my mother used to tell stories about the horrible tantrums I threw as a child. And yet, here I am - weird, but non-tantrum-throwing. I very much doubt it has anything to do with how you're raising her, unless you want to consider that she feels safe throwing a tantrum with you. (And from what we're seeing, epic tantrums may be preparation for being president.)

Oh, sj. I feel you. Jane was such a sweet, happy, easy baby too, and now she too is capable of throwing epic tantrums (as is her big sis, who was *not* a particularly easy baby)... They are who they are, and also so much changes from one stage to the next. You did not make her this way, I promise! A kid who never throws a fit is probably a kid who never hears "no." She'll be fine, and this too shall pass, but I'm sorry you're having to put up with it now.

I simultaneously want to hit things, bake, go to sleep, start working on the GA runoff.

Thank you, shrift

{{sj}}

I'm not trying to be cynical, but I'm not surprised that half the country is a bunch of bigoted shirtbags

Here's the thing that's disturbing me. In 2016 a whole lot of people didn't vote, and yes a lot of people did vote for Trump but I didn't feel like it was half the country, just half the voters. And that's still true and most of the disenfranchised would not, I am assuming, vote for him if they could but I really wanted a higher turnout to shift his percentage down and I guess that was just stupid of me.

My workday is just like every other work day but with extra seething in my head. And we got our new job descriptions which are a big change indeed but we aren't actually changing to those expectations immediately and in fact we may never really and this whole thing is a really unsettling mixture of "everything is different" and "just keep doing what you've been doing" and THANKS I NEEDED MORE UNCERTAINTY, JOB

OMG, a world where a raccoon herds goats can't be all bad

Everything that I am looking at out of Texas really shows it as a 10% red lead overall. Like a 1 million vote shift needs to happen for statewide races. That’s a lot still.

Someone on Twitter pointed out what seems to be happening with the Senate--the goddamn Lincoln Project and the other never-Trumpers did exactly what they set out to do: created a way for GOP voters queasy over Trump to feel comfortable and happy voting for Biden while continuing to vote GOP the entire rest of the way down, as if Trump was the party's only problem and everyone else is just peachy.

I never liked or trusted them and I never gave them a dime. Ass them all right in the ear. In 2022 I want to plow them all under and salt the earth.

JZ, I feel the same way. I've been a bit of a broken record about them, always saying, "You may admire the large wooden horse, but don't wheel it inside the city gates."

These are the same people who fed the GOP base red meat for years and wore out their dog whistles.