Nice Time In Delmarva!
The Blue Hens, Terps, and Wahoos reject right-wing ideology. Can't catch us all!
While America was failing its final exam on white supremacy, misogyny, transphobia, economics, ecology, reading comprehension, and civics, Delmarva (and many other states) held the line for progressive values! Democracy isn’t dead until it really is, and the fight isn’t over. Conservatives have been fighting for control of this country since before day one. Progress backslides. But it marches on. And even if the rest of the country may be all cool with trying to bury progressivism alive, not everybody is already ready to gently roll over and let Trump and the Heritage Foundation’s minions have whatever way.
In Maryland, pleasant Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks beat Trump’s down-low boyfriend Larry Hogan by nine points to become the state’s first Black Senator.
Over in Delaware, Lisa Blunt Rochester beat Republican and former Walmart manager Eric Hansen by nearly 17 points, becoming the first Black Senator from Delaware. Wasn’t she amazing at the DNC?
And Sarah McBride won Delaware’s one House seat, becoming the first (out) transgender person in Congress ever. So at least we can all feel safe in Rehoboth for a while? Poodle Beach will not fall!
Rochester and Alsobrooks just got elected the fourth and fifth Black female senators ever! (Carol Mosley Braun, Kamala Harris, and Laphonsa Butler, the appointed senator from California, being the other three). And down in Virginia, Eugene Vindman squeaked by to beat that guy who had a fake family. All three states rejected Trump between 5 and 23 points, a pretty solid no fucking thank you.
California also gave Trump a 17-point EAT OUR ASS. Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Hawaii also gave him double-digit two-middle-fingers FUCK OFFS. Progressivism isn’t dead, as much as it’s got more fighting to do. It just prefers to live next to a nice used bookstore.
Maryland also enshrined reproductive rights into the state constitution, with 74 percent approval. Hate racists? Come to Maryland! Sure, there’s still plenty of them, and Andy Harris too. But now the governor, speaker of the House of Delegates, attorney general, mayor of the largest city and half the senators are Black. It’s nice how Baltimore Duly (now re-)Elected Incumbent Mayor Brandon Scott has gotten the potholes picked up, the snow plowed, and the murder rate down. But it’s fucking EXCELLENT how good he is at taking out the trash, of the racist variety. We could watch his Joy Reid clip all day.
“Black men, and young Black men in particular have been the bogeyman for those who are racist and think that only straight, wealthy white men should have a say in anything. We’ve been the bogeyman for them from the first day they brought us to this country. […] The fact I don’t believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology, and I’m very proud of my heritage and who I am and where I come from scares them. Me being in my position means their way of thinking, their way of life of being comfortable while everyone else suffers is going to be at risk. And they should be afraid. Because that’s my purpose in life.”
He makes a good point, the mayor. Just because mean, shitty people are now in control doesn’t mean they aren’t scared little pissbabies. Also please nobody tell Republicans that Baltimore is actually not a shithole where everybody gets murdered five times a day. We’ve worked hard to cultivate the image.
Will a Trump administration find new ways to punish states for their disloyalty? Probably Maryland can forget about a new Key Bridge and a new FBI headquarters. But there won’t be any immigrants to build them or an FBI to staff them anyway, rueful chuckle.
Still, whatever we’re about to go through, our ancestors probably went through a lot worse. It sucks balls that we will have to keep fighting the same stupid fights our grandparents did, but we can, and we will, and there’s a whole lot of smart, tough people in our corner.
>> there’s a whole lot of smart, tough people in our corner. <<
When Marcie says there's a whole lot of smart, tough people in our corner, she means Rebecca, Robyn, Evan, Dok and OH YEAH, MARCIE WHO NEEDS A FULL TIME JOB.
Want Marcie in your corner? Then assuming you're not currently out of money (which you very well might be, and in which case don't sweat it), maybe throw some couch change at Yr Wonkette for to keep her in this corner.
Which is not the dunce cap corner. That's the other corner, where Trump is. We mean the good corner, with the stool for to sit on and the towel to wipe your face and the razor blade to cut open your swollen eye so you can see again and ...
WAIT A MINUTE? WHO THE FUCK CAME UP WITH THIS "CORNER" METAPHOR? ALL THE CORNERS SUCK.
Let's just pay Marcie, keep fighting, and dream of ending up in a place with no corners at all four years from now. Like maybe someplace oval.
Well, fuck. All the results are in and it's peanut butter on toast with no jelly for lunch.