Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

[Alben Barkley]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455734418350514177?s=20

[Alben Barkley]

Claire McCaskill is pleading with Dems on Capitol Hill to try to stay focused and not blame certain members for blocking certain bills at this point... Lol, love ya Claire, but I think we all know exactly who is to blame for making it so we had no record of accomplishment whatsoever to run on. Sorry Sinemanchin, but I don't think anyone voted tonight based on a passionate belief in preserving the filibuster or making sure every bill that passes is "bipartisan." Think more than a few probably did based on feelings of disappointment that the guy they voted for to make everything go back to normal has failed to do so a year later, with even some backwards steps (mask guidelines reinstated, inflation through the roof, gas prices skyrocketing, massive supply shortages, labor shortages despite high wages). If we passed something to actually help the economy and people's pocketbooks, and then actually campaigned on that, maybe tonight wouldn't have been as bad. Instead the administration has left women to live out The Handmaid's Tale in Afghanistan in a disastrous withdrawal that killed our own troops and promised to pay half a million dollars to illegal immigrants. Meanwhile Obama comes down to Virginia and apparently mocked the rape of a girl in Loudoun County.

Good lord almighty there is a LOT of blame to go around, the Dems truly ARE in disarray right now. But I'm hoping against hope that Manchin at least takes this as a wake-up call to realize that he is NOT going to win again no matter WHAT, and drops the stupid f--king act already.

[Alben Barkley]

IDK why no one but Dave has called it yet. It's plainly over.

[Alben Barkley]

You know for all the comparisons Biden gets to Jimmy Carter, at least Jimmy was able to hold the House and Senate in the 1978 midterms. I see little to no chance Biden does the same.

[Alben Barkley]

LOL

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1455758291011735554?s=20

[Alben Barkley]

Well looks like it's not just the Democrats who take the wrong lessons from everything:

https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1455718639081070593?s=20

Morons should realize that Trump was the biggest liability ever for them who cost them a trifecta in four years. Meanwhile they are almost instantly able to turn it around bigly the moment he's no longer on the ballot. Youngkin kept his rural gains while making a lot of in-roads back into the suburbs. THAT is the GOP ticket to victory going forward. But Trump himself remains toxic in the suburbs and if they nominate him again, not saying he'd definitely lose, but they'd make it a lot harder on themselves. Youngkin proved that all it really takes for them is to keep the same basic message for the most part but moderate the rhetoric and be less of an unhinged jackass. If they were smart, they'd get this and dump Trump for someone more like him. But fortunately, they aren't smart.