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.

Thank you, shrift.

sj, you are not a bad mother and you did not make your daughter this way. Please give yourself a little grace.

-t, I'm sorry work is so uncertain right now. I hope they figure out their shit soon, so all of the affected employees can stop wondering WTF is happening.

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

Noooope, you didn't. I'm pretty sure that this is LTC flailing with how to handle big emotions as she grows, and she doesn't have language and tools to say thing like "I'm upset and I don't know why".

(Hi, my youngest goddaughter went through this, and it was HARD on her mom.)

{{{sj}}}

Thanks, Maria. We just had another meeting with my boss and he is clearly trying to make it easier on us but it's just . . . there's a big gap between what we do now and what our new VP wants us to be doing and I'm not sure anyone but him really has a clear picture of what it's going to look like when we get there. If we get there. Bah. And, you know, this time of year is always just wildly busy under normal circumstances so it's not like we can afford to just stop everything and start again from scratch.

CNN says Biden has Michigan.

I have also completely lost track of what day it is. Although we are approximately 65 days into this week, it is somehow Wednesday.