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.

I was already shaky from lack of sleep, and now I’m extra shaky from the horrible tantrum.

Emmett had a full on body rage tantrum once a day from about 18 months to 2 1/2. And even then it only slowed down gradually until he was 4. At which point he started to mellow down a bit and just got more and more fun minus a few surly dips in adolescence.

It was exhausting. But strong willed kids are just trying to effect their will on their world, and that's the only way they've got. It's just her age, sj, and it will get better.

AP hasn't called Michigan yet, though.

It was exhausting. But strong willed kids are just trying to effect their will on their world, and that's the only way they've got. It's just her age, sj, and it will get better.

Yep. All of this.