I know we’re all feeling doom and gloom but can we get a thread of some wins/good news from last night?

  • @Wahots@pawb.social
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    32 hours ago

    The west coast stuck to its guns almost completely. Mark Robinson and Kari Lake lost their races incredibly enough.

    Biden got some big stuff done with chips, infrastructure investment, and more. Unless Trump starts tearing down bridges and forcing people to remove heat pumps, some of Biden’s stuff will be very difficult to reverse, physically or politically.

    • Rhaedas
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      96 hours ago

      Yep, and the important thing about keeping a Democrat governor is their veto power against one of the worst state congresses ever. I actually haven’t looked into what changed at that level, but I don’t have much hope that the GOP stranglehold was broken.

  • @JordanfireStar@lemmy.ml
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    65 hours ago

    Hopefully liberals will wake up and see they can’t beat fascism, they have to embrace leftism if they want to beat it.

    The people want populism and they no longer want the status quo. The right capitalized on this while the liberals went the moderate-right route, and it failed them. The only solution left is to embrace left wing politics. Unfortunately, I doubt the democrat party will be to keen on the idea of becoming left wing.

  • @L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works
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    96 hours ago

    It gives the boomers another chance to solidify their legacy as the worst generation in human history. In a way that helps all of us.

  • @Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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    3510 hours ago

    Kentucky amendment 2, which would have redirected public funds to private schools, failed miserably. Of all the red states, Kentucky seems to be somewhat unique in its’ strong resistance to Republican attacks on public education. It is, after all, why we have a Democratic governor. I only hope that continues to hold true.

  • kersploosh
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    4710 hours ago

    Delaware elected Sarah McBride, who is the first open transgender representative in Congress.

    Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, who has been trying to prosecute Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, won reelection.

    Washington Congressman Dan Newhouse, one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump (and one of two in that group who survived the subsequent midterm elections), successfully defended his seat again against a Trump-endorsed opponent. That’s at least one Republican in the House who doesn’t always rubber-stamp the party agenda.

    • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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      2811 hours ago

      who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.

      Well I now worry for them since the DOJ will now be the arm of Trump to go after “political opponents” who “unfairly persecuted” him. :(

      • @ravhall@discuss.online
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        1910 hours ago

        Yup. The shit is gonna hit the fan quick. The blue states will hang on for as long as possible, but shit can fly from DC all the way to the west coast.

      • @Odelay42@lemmy.world
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        99 hours ago

        Not currently. Except for starvation wage retail. Tech hiring is still mostly frozen and smaller companies tend to just copy larger ones.

    • hallettj
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      1011 hours ago

      This is a good thread to have today. This is some encouraging news!

    • osaerisxero
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      710 hours ago

      We have been down that road before. The state government will simply refuse to implement anything passed by ballot measure that they don’t like.

      I expect the abortion measure to take effect since it deletes out an existing law, but i wouldn’t expect the minimum wage or paid sick leave to be worth the ink it was printed with.

    • NoIWontPickAName
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      410 hours ago

      I may have lost everything else, but I won on minimum wage and abortion.

      I guess that will have to be my bellwether

  • SkaveRat
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    4111 hours ago

    Last Week Tonight will have more material than they know what to do with it

    • @SanctimoniousApe
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      49 hours ago

      Can we accelerate that timeline? Say to like Jan 20, 2025 (let the kids enjoy one last chance at any snow we might be lucky enough to get)?

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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        39 hours ago

        Well, the sun will explode in 5 billion years, but if that’s too long, don’t worry, it’s only 1 billion until solar winds carry off half of Earth’s water.