American Voters To MAGA – YOU’RE FIRED!

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Just a few weeks in the past, the demented dicktator of catastrophe posted a video on his non-public delinquent media channel that confirmed him flying an airplane over America’s cities and dumping excrement onto the individuals beneath whereas smiling and carrying a gold crown on his head.  Yesterday, American voters received an opportunity to specific their disgust with him and his vile insurance policies of hate by delivering a powerful defeat to just about each candidate who dared to run for public workplace as a Repugnican.

From the highest of the ticket races for governor in a number of states and mayor of New York Metropolis to down-ticket races like those for the Georgia Public Service Fee, voters turned out in massive numbers to inform the MAGAlomaniacs, “You’re Fired!”

The contests weren’t squeakers. In NYC, Mamdani defeated the unctuous and odious Andrew Cuomo — who was supported by the Democratic Occasion — by 9 factors. In New Jersey, upstart Mikie Sherrill trounced her Repugnican opponent by 13% to turn out to be that state’s subsequent governor. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger turned that state’s first feminine governor by walloping her opponent 57 to 42%. In all these contests, the losers had been closely promoted by the so-called president.

Native Elections Matter

However these had been the highest of the ticket races that everybody was watching intently. Ordinarily the election of two members of the Georgia Public Service Fee — the state company that oversees utility charges — would hardly get any nationwide consideration. However the New York Instances did carry a narrative about that contest and put it on the entrance web page of an early version after the polls closed. Why? As a result of the outcome has nationwide implications.

Within the 1956 novel The Final Hurrah by Edwin O’Connor, the writer tells the story of a robust metropolis mayor — presumed to be James Michael Curley, the flamboyant mayor of Boston — who’s watching the election outcomes together with his rowdy supporters when he notices the numbers from an obscure voting district are usually not matching his expectations. Quickly, the totals throughout that board are displaying that he has misplaced the election — a outcome most thought was not possible.

The Georgia Public Service Fee might develop into a Final Hurrah second for Repugnicans. The Instances means that contest might sign what lies forward for the Pink Group when the midterm elections happen a yr from now when the governorship and one US Senate seat will probably be on the poll in Georgia.

Not a single Democrat has served on the Georgia Public Service Fee since 2007. In 2020, Democrats filed a federal lawsuit alleging the voting districts in Georgia had been improperly drawn to offer an unfair benefit to white candidates. That go well with was unsuccessful, however the court docket proceedings delayed the election final yr. That’s why it befell on November 4 — the one statewide race on the poll this yr.

The board has accredited six utility price will increase for Georgia Energy within the final two years, which has angered Georgia residents. The acknowledged purpose is the rise within the worth of methane because of the warfare towards Ukraine initiated by Russia. However Georgia price payers are additionally on the hook for a $17 billion greenback value overrun on the disastrous Vogtle nuclear energy plant in Waynesboro, Georgia.

The 2 Democratic candidates had been Peter Hubbard, a clear vitality advisor, who defeated Fitz Johnson, and Alicia Johnson, a well being administration and neighborhood improvement govt, who defeated Tim Echols. Johnson was appointed by governor Brian Kemp and Echols was the Republican incumbent who has held workplace since 2011.

The Democrats criticized the members of the board for embracing fossil fuels to generate electrical energy for information facilities, in addition to for backing away from clear vitality in lock step with the cynical objectives of the failed US administration, which has taken to threatening different nations with retaliatory tariffs if they don’t water down their very own clear vitality objectives.

It’s a little identified reality, apparently, that when the US exports its methane within the type of LNG, which means there may be much less obtainable for People. Most faculty youngsters perceive that when there may be much less of one thing, costs go up. What many People don’t appear to know is that the fossil gas firms are in a tizzy to export their merchandise exactly as a result of it means larger earnings for them — and better costs for his or her home clients.

How Low Can You Go

Most likely nothing illustrates the depths of despair of US voters extra that the election for the following legal professional basic of  Virginia. The Democratic candidate — Jay Jones — might be not the particular person most would decide to symbolize them in any capability aside from dogcatcher.

In the course of the marketing campaign, it was revealed that in 2022, Jones despatched a sequence of violent texts that urged the Republican speaker of the State Meeting deserved to be killed. These texts additionally mused in regards to the speaker’s youngsters dying. Then Jones was convicted of driving 118 mph and sentenced to neighborhood service, which he carried out by working for this personal marketing campaign.

Regardless of all that destructive baggage, he efficiently attacked the incumbent, Jason Miyares, by belittling him for not becoming a member of the attorneys basic of different states who sued the federal authorities for its heavy-handed insurance policies since taking workplace in January. He referred to Miyares as a Trump “cheerleader” who frolicked at MAGA rallies and was “too scared and too weak to face up” to the president.

There was one other issue at work right here. Many Virginia voter are federal staff who’ve been fired or terminated, particularly over the past month when the federal authorities has been shut down. The MAGA crowd is busily making an attempt accountable the Blue Group for that, however clearly the individuals are not shopping for their lies.

Maine & California

In Maine, the Pink Group, in slavish obedience to their mentor, promoted a poll query that may have required picture IDs for voters, restricted early voting, and restricted the variety of poll drop containers to no multiple per city. Maine voters rejected that poll query by a margin of 64 to 36%. Voting restrictions are a central theme of the MAGAlomaniacs, however the individuals of Maine need no a part of their madness — an indication voters in different states might really feel the identical means.

California overwhelming accredited a redistricting plan that can give the state extra Democrats seats in Congress, a victory that the New York Instances says might propel governor Gavin Newsom to the entrance rank of potential Democratic candidates for president in 2028. The measure handed by a margin of 64 to 36% — precisely mirroring the leads to Maine.

If there’s a lesson to be discovered from the 2025 election it’s this: MAGA and Challenge 2025 are losers on the polls. What each events select to do with that data will decide whether or not America continues to go over a cliff right into a pit of authoritarianism or stays a nation of civilized individuals who demand their authorities acts in a civilized method.