Can’t say I saw that coming. Trust fund laddie winning for the Ds?
Hmm, given history, perhaps that’s the way we should have been thinking.
Can’t say I saw that coming. Trust fund laddie winning for the Ds?
Hmm, given history, perhaps that’s the way we should have been thinking.
Is that embarrassing?
Not really rsm. It just shows that the Dems have perfected their system of rigging elections.
The US is now a banana republic.
Really embarrassing all round, he is almost completely incoherent and incapable of acting as a Senator. And yet Oz was so vulnerable a candidate he couldn’t get past him. How, one can’t be sure. Just as bad as losing to someone who has already died.
Fetterman is the one who had the stroke and can hardly speak properly now. I suspect people felt pity on him and voted for him because of it.
This was definitely one I wanted both to lose.
They said Caligula was mad for promoting his horse, but here we are voting for a guy so brain fucked he can’t hold a conversation. Barbarians can’t get here soon enough.
PA has been a particularly bad example of vote fraud by the looks of things. Soon we’ll have start sending observers to the US to make sure their elections are fair and free.
Well, the septics do have form when it comes to electing* someone with impaired brain function to high office.
* I am of course using the term ‘electing’ here not to describe the process whereby two people stand for election and the one with the most votes wins, but whereby two people stand for election……………..
On the plus side, fracking is back in town.
Feldman explained how it was going to happen: day counted votes would suggest he’s losing, but then, he’ll get a surge of votes in the night…
“Soon we’ll have start sending observers to the US to make sure their elections are fair and free.”
You can try, but I bet they wouldn’t let them in. Or the roof would leak and they’d need to ask them all to leave. Or something.
To be fair, that nice Toni Blair took action to make voting fraud easier here.
The racism implicit in what he did raised a chuckle with me.
Hang on! Isn’t “Fetterman” an obviously slavey name; shouldn’t he be cancelled?
Idk why, after they’ve already proven they can steal elections with zero consequences (to them, the FBI will naturally raid *your* house if you’re a Septic who asks awkward questions and Big Tech will helpfully run you off the mainstream internet), anybody would expect them to not steal elections.
We are more sophisticated in Britain in that we have more or less legitimate elections and the elected government simply gets coopted or nobbled into rorting their own voters as soon as they’re safely in office.
G2 – that’s exactly what he said. It’s a high tech banana republic, lol.
The Tories must be looking at the results from the US with absolute glee. If half the US electorate will vote for the party that totally fucked them and their country, then the Tories might not be totally wiped out in a couple of year’s time.
Yeah, I’m sure there was a lot of shenanigans but really… That so many people voted for the party of senile old perverts who locked them down, stopped educating their kids, destroyed their jobs and saddled them with massive inflation shows that there is absolutely no hope for the West.
Kevin – I suspect the Tories will find it difficult to get people to turn out to vote for them at the next election. Brit politics, while disgusting, aren’t as mental as Yank politics. Not sure there’s a substantial voter cohort willing to believe that Sir Keir Starmer is some kind of crazy extremist who Must Be Stopped at all costs.
The West is completely fucked, but thankfully so is the Conservative Party. William Hague OnlyFans when?
Dr Oz has phoned Uncle Festerman to concede. After thththanking his Republican challenger, he added, “nnnyeann nynghnnn guvvvrrneaghn”, before the pus-alien exploded out of the lump on the back of his neck and scuttled off to find a new host.
In the scheme of things, it’s the governors and state legislatures who really have an effect on daily life. As for the Senate, if you look at the policies Oz supported before his campaign and who he had on his show, you would know there’s not much of a difference between these two candidates. Oz is more of a RINO than Mitt Romney. Trump was an idiot for endorsing him.
Only difference is, when you hear “The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for one minute,” you can now grab the popcorn.
To add to that, @Tim, the polls have been showing Oz and Fetterman very close, even after the shitshow of a debate. That is how divisive America is right now. Pennsylvania is a battleground state, so the independent voters could’ve gone either way on this one. A republican who tells Pennsylvanians he wants to restrict Second Amendment rights, that some speech is “hate speech,” and that trans kids are a thing is not a republican. If he’s willing to say those things, then he’s willing to shut down energy production and raise taxes as well.
The reason I don’t fret too much, aside from not living in PA anymore, is because Mitt Romney lost in 2012 when Obama was re-elected. I’m glad that we had a second term of Obama and then Trump, rather than 1-2 terms of Romney. Otherwise, we would’ve had much the same outcome as we’ve had with Biden. Trump at least gave us some accomplishments and a glimpse of what could be (minus the Covid crisis). Maybe, after this sure-to-be dumpster fire of a Fetterman term, the GOP can have a real conservative for the next time around.
If these election results were necessary to get Trump out of the business of messing with Republican primaries, it might have been worthwhile. Not doubting the good he did while in office but he was responsible for the Senate being Democrat last session and it’s likely the same may be laid at his feet now. He has a terrible sense of picking friends and candidates, whether it’s picking toadies or some other weakness.
Exactly. Even if Pennsylvania is a big deal, Trump didn’t have to endorse anyone at all. Maybe he was trying to keep support from the GOP for 2024, or maybe he felt PA would vote blue for the presidential election as well if they have a democrat governor. Whatever the case, he’s now loosely connected to a phony conservative who lost to a stroke victim who once chased after an unarmed black guy with a shotgun. Good goin’, Trump!
The map of the state is interesting as it’s a sea of one colour offset by small pockets where the major cities are, but the imbalance means the small pockets dictate the outcome, the polarisation of rural v city is what we continue to see
Whatever the case, he’s now loosely connected to a phony conservative who lost to a stroke victim who once chased after an unarmed black guy with a shotgun. Good goin’, Trump!
So? He’s backed plenty of losers before (remember he first supported the GOP establishment hack Luther Strange, then the idiot Roy Moore for the Alabama senate election.)
Trump is great at rallying the base in directions they want to be rallied, articulating things they already feel. I’m going to make a guess that the off-putting Turkish equivalent of Jeremy Kyle with the political views of Mitt Romney’s softer cousin is not what potential Republican voters in urban Penn. wanted at a time of apparent social anxiety and recession.
Not that it matters when deep blue urban strongholds have their vote counting game on point. I also dk why you’d assume that a regime that just blew up Europe’s gas mains would allow itself to lose control of the Senate on account of minor technicalities such as what voters think. That was a gangsta move, we be gangstas now.
We’re talking about people who can vote trillions of dollars into existence, in a strata where nobody faces any consequences anymore, especially for the trillion dollar disasters they vote into existence. I assume there’s no amount of evil and devilry men won’t do to seize and hold that kind of power. Fraud, blackmail, counterfeiting, squirrel suit parties, murder, you name it. Senator Lurch is just rubbing their noses in it.
@Steve
Not exactly sure what you’re getting at, but I’ll try to get somewhere in the general direction.
Yes, Trump has backed losers before. No human being can possibly pick winners 100% of the time. But Pennsylvania is much more consequential electorally and culturally than Alabama. As I said before, Fetterman is still not the governor, so he won’t have any effect on life in the state, but the Senate usually has the deciding vote on bills before they’re sent to Biden’s desk (House of Reps > Senate > President). It looks like the GOP will now have the House, but the Senate can block their bills if the dems have the majority. Trump’s endorsement got us one step closer to that reality. I mean, yes, Biden can veto regardless, but still. The bigger deal is Senate committees. The Senate confirms a lot of federal nominees for cabinet positions, Supreme Court Justices and others. Some House committees, such as the January 6th
propaganda theaterCommittee will likely be disbanded (finally), but the Senate decides a lot of important things other than laws.And, keep in mind, Fetterman just flipped a seat that has been held previously by a republican. The state now has two democrat senators, instead of two republicans as it did in 2006.
It currently looks like the balance of power in the Senate will come down to Georgia. Arizona will likely go to Mark Kelly (D) and Nevada to a republican, but those two haven’t been called yet. Georgia is traditionally a red state, but Biden “won” there in 2020 (he lost the popular vote, though). And the GA election is so close it’s heading into a run-off. So we are very much at risk of having a 50/50 tie with our senators, which will be broken by Kamala. The same Kamala who laughs for a solid minute about how much she loves Venn diagrams. Could’ve had just one more GOP seat to solidify a majority.
So this doesn’t at all make Trump look like a guy with good judgment. He’s good when he’s in charge, but he sucks at picking friends, as a previous poster said, even in his own administration. This is something his own supporters, including myself, have been noticing. I’d still prefer that than a Biden presidency (Trump’s deep state saboteurs mostly affected him and not citizens) but his ego still gets in the way of winning over independents, and his habit of choosing endorsees based on personal favors and publicity doesn’t help anyone or anything. Remember, he had Omarosa as a presidential aide.