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Democrats won the House and Senate. Time to make Republicans pay. Investigate them all. Investigate @ICEgov, @ElonMusk and @realDonaldTrump @GOP.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

Republicans spent election night discovering that “pretend I’m on the ballot” was not, in fact, a governing strategy. Trump, displaying his usual breathtaking commitment to personal accountability, offered this masterpiece of political self awareness: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

Apparently, the man who spent months demanding that voters treat every election as a referendum on him suddenly developed amnesia when the referendum came back with a resounding rejection. How convenient. It is the political equivalent of totaling your car, blaming the passengers, and then insisting the accident never would have happened if you had been driving. This is the same man who graciously acknowledged that Democrats “did a good job” and declared himself “absolutely willing to accept” the results, while simultaneously floating the veto hat. Nothing says accepting defeat quite like announcing that you intend to obstruct the people who just defeated you. Truly, a masterclass in losing without the inconvenience of admitting it.

Then came Mike Johnson, whose contribution to the evening was apparently to explain that history was always going to win, despite polling that had been practically screaming about a Republican wipeout. “We faced some real odds,” he lamented, which is a fascinating way of describing the consequences of spending two years ignoring every warning sign while confidently marching toward the electoral equivalent of a wood chipper.

And now, naturally, the Republican Party is talking about a “wake up call.” How precious. A wake up call generally suggests that someone intends to get out of bed, examine what went wrong, and make meaningful changes. Republicans, meanwhile, have spent the last two years treating Democratic voters, Democratic candidates, and enormous portions of the American public as existential threats to civilization. They have spent years screaming about communists, invaders, enemies of America, and the supposed destruction of the republic. But suddenly, after getting their political teeth kicked in at the ballot box, they expect Democrats to pull up a chair, pour some coffee, and have a pleasant bipartisan conversation about “core principles.”

Absolutely not.

You do not spend years vilifying an entire political party, questioning its legitimacy, attacking its voters, and treating compromise like an act of treason, only to lose an election and immediately demand cooperation from the people you spent years demonizing. That is not reconciliation. That is political entitlement with a fresh coat of desperation.

And that brings us to what these election results actually mean.

The voters who flipped Texas, Kansas, Ohio, South Carolina, Iowa, and a string of House seats did not send new Democratic majorities to Washington so they could participate in some adorable bipartisan friendship retreat with the very people voters just rejected. They did not vote for Democrats so Republican leadership could continue dictating the agenda while Democrats politely searched for common ground beneath the rubble.

They voted to STOP the Republican agenda. They voted to reverse what can be reversed. They voted to ensure that the next two years do not become another installment of the same political disaster with a slightly different cast.

Democrats were not elected to serve as unpaid therapists for a Republican Party experiencing the consequences of its own behavior. They were not sent to Washington to provide adult supervision for a movement that spent years treating bipartisanship as a one way street, only to suddenly discover the beauty of cooperation when it found itself on the losing end of an election.

And spare us the inevitable lectures about statesmanship, unity, and reaching across the aisle. Republicans had their opportunity to demonstrate those principles. Instead, they spent years setting fire to the concept of political cooperation and are now apparently shocked that Democrats might not be interested in helping them roast marshmallows over the ashes.

Working with a party that voters just repudiated on its own preferred political terrain is not statesmanship. It is surrender dressed up in a respectable suit. It is handing the losing side the authority to negotiate the terms of its own defeat. It is taking a democratic mandate and feeding it directly into the Republican obstruction machine.

Democrats should not be working with Republicans to salvage their agenda, rehabilitate their reputation, or soften the consequences of an election they lost. Republicans can spend the next two years contemplating the political consequences of their actions without expecting Democrats to rescue them from those consequences.

The newly elected Democratic majorities were not dispatched to Washington to negotiate away the very policies and principles voters elected them to defend. They were elected to USE THEIR MAJORITY.

Stop the agenda. Reverse the damage wherever possible. Exercise the authority voters handed them. And let Republicans experience the extraordinary constitutional concept of losing an election and no longer getting to dictate what happens next.

That is the mandate.

Anything less is rewarding a political movement that has repeatedly and loudly declared Democrats illegitimate, treated compromise as weakness, and only discovered the virtues of bipartisanship once its own political power was threatened.

Republicans spent two years making it abundantly clear that cooperation was beneath them.

Democrats should respect that position.

No bipartisan rescue mission. No political rehabilitation program. No surrender disguised as compromise.

Republicans wanted to govern without Democrats. Now they can discover what it feels like when Democrats govern without them.

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

One thing my family has always taught me is to be gracious in defeat. Congratulations to our Democrat friends on a hard fought battle. Enjoy the victory.

I genuinely hope both sides can work together for the good of the country. It’s time for some true soul searching, republicans.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@Variety Why are they displaying his pubic hair???

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@Variety Um… why?

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@DOWResponse Oh, this is adorable. Just wait until January 3.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@MeidasTouch When I went to visit the memorial, the guard literally yelled at a child. They don’t play with whoever is there. You are not supposed to be loud or even chat. That’s just a fucking rule. And I think it’s a subconscious rule that people with a brain just acknowledge and respect.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

Hahahaha glorious.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: A U.S. Army Tomb Guard was forced to reprimand Pete Hegseth and his group after members of the group were caught laughing and loudly talking at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day.

“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times,” the guard shouted.

CNN obtained video of the incident.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

Who said they were wielding it against the American people? If anyone has it’s been the Republicans. But digressing from that point, I would say it’s more of accountability. And Congress does have the authority to hold you accountable no matter how much you guys get on your back swing your arms and legs in the air.

Being loud isn’t going to work here.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

One of the worst things EA has done was shutter BioWare #SAVEMASSEFFECT https://t.co/plPuShxkPp

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@riley_rogerson Even if they voted, the Republicans would have tabled it. Why aren’t you telling the public the entire thing like I don’t get it.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

“It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.”

[Best of Star Trek @Bestofstartrek]

What is your favorite Star Trek quote??

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@Bestofstartrek “It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.”

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

His wife was talking to another dude on the plane then she’s definitely talking to another dude off the plane. Clearly, his little 5 inch dick isn’t worth it to her.

[Wild Clips @JCFights]

This man got upset because his wife was talking to another passenger sitting next to her. He started making threats, was told to get off the plane, and refused. Things escalated when he threw his food at the other passengers. Meanwhile, everyone was laughing at him, making him even angrier 😭

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

I just love @Fallout I like these user created vids too. #Fallout4

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

I’m gonna be honest, then I’ve done a little bit of research on this because I was curious, even if all 11 of them went into vote him the Republicans would just table it. It wouldn’t be seen until January 3 anyway.

Effectively while people are upset and I guess they have every right to be. I’m not gonna tell them not to be upset even if all 11 of them voted for it. Nothing would’ve happened anyway.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@StateDept Well, you are supposed to, but we all know that you aren’t.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

Not bashing the DoorDash driver, but they just pulled up in a Tesla doing DoorDash. Which means like things are so tough for them, but they’re forced to do DoorDash while they own a Tesla. My roommate is the one who ordered the DoorDash, though not me.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

Either Jeff was saying propaganda or you believed it from your own side Chris. Point being is that local municipalities are gonna change things up and most likely not the way you want them to. This is a pure lesson of your own stupidity. This is something you were a champion of. You just don’t like the results now.

Trust me when I say I don’t like a tax shift and that’s exactly what amendment three was was a fucking tax shift.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

The number of people who willingly buy gift cards for complete strangers they’ve never met in person, send them the redemption codes, and then expect a company to refund them when they get scammed is absolutely fucking astonishing.

Let me get this straight. You met someone online who sweet-talked you into believing they’re madly in love with you. You’ve never actually met this person, but somehow you’ve decided that the foundation of your beautiful relationship is buying them gift cards. So you go to the store, willingly spend your money, and send them the code. They redeem it, then turn around and tell you it didn’t work. And what do you do? YOU GO BUY ANOTHER FUCKING ONE.

Then, when you finally realize you’ve been played like a cheap fiddle, you have the audacity to call and demand your money back because the gift cards have already been redeemed. What the fuck did you expect? The gift card worked perfectly fine. Your judgment, unfortunately, did not.

At what point did personal responsibility become everybody else’s fucking problem? Nobody forced you to buy those cards. Nobody forced you to send the codes. And nobody forced you to keep financing your imaginary romance with someone whose entire personality consists of stolen profile pictures, generic love messages, and an urgent need for another $200.

And here’s the part that really gets me. Some of you aren’t even calling because you realized you’re being scammed. You’re calling because you genuinely believe the gift card is defective, because your imaginary sweetheart SWEARS they couldn’t redeem it. Meanwhile, the system shows it was already redeemed.

You’re not experiencing a technical issue. You’re experiencing a catastrophic failure of common sense.

Stop expecting companies to reimburse you because you voluntarily handed your money to a stranger on the internet. Your online lover isn’t waiting for you at the airport. They’re waiting for you at the fucking gift card rack.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

@aip551 The entire account is set up to make X money. I can’t believe that we allow these kinds of accounts to just recycle videos for views and clicks.

[🖕🏻 @Periabo]

I think Democrats need to chill the fuck out and accept the fact that Republicans control the house and the Senate until January 3. There is nothing that can be done at this time.

I do not think that Schumer or Jefferies should be in majority roles. It is what it is.

Don’t expect anything to happen for the remainder of the year.

Do expect Republicans to push through as much as they visibly can until the end of the year.

Clearly, even if the 11 Democrats voted on the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, they could’ve just tabled it anyway.

[Grok @grok]

Yes. In plain terms: if the 11 Democrats had shown up and helped defeat the motion to refer, the impeachment resolution would have stayed on the floor. Republicans, still the majority until January 3, could then have moved to table it with a simple majority vote and killed it that way instead. Full attendance would have blocked the referral but not forced a final impeachment vote.