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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia Revolution Is a 'Fuck You' Aimed Right at Trump
https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-revolution-is-a-fuck-you-aimed-right-at-trump?ref=scrollGeorgia Revolution Is a Fuck You Aimed Right at Trump
STAGGERING NIGHT
On an unbelievably heartening night for America, Georgia put an end to the pathetic career of Kelly Loeffler and ushered in a bright new era.
Michael Tomasky, Special Correspondent
Updated Jan. 06, 2021 7:56AM ET / Published Jan. 06, 2021 7:16AM ET
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It was a staggeringly amazing night. Georgia has elected a Black man and in all likelihood a Jewish man to the United States Senate. Both of them liberal. Georgia. Its astonishing. And the historical debt paid, especially in Raphael Warnocks win: The pastor at Martin Luther Kings church is going to be a United States senator.
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This is one of those rare situations in life where its impossible to know what to be happiest about.
Maybe about Trump. Picture him fuming over this, confused, pacing, picking up the phone, screaming at whoever, throwing stuff at Hogan Gidley; just think of the dark torment that has clouded his brain, which must physically hurt. Hell rationalize it away as cheating, of course, but hell do that for the precise reason that hell know deep down that this was a fuck you aimed right at him.
So that is good. But then, every 30 seconds or so, my brain starts ringing with: Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Because this is a repudiation of him, too. There is a price to his oily arrogance, his sneering abuse of democracy, to block a Supreme Court nominee in March of one presidential election year and jam one through in September of the next. You cant sit on bill after bill after bill designed to help people, from minimum wage to infrastructure. You cant deny people $2,000 in a COVID relief bill and restore the three-martini lunch. People will say enough.
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The Trump rage machine will heat up again today. If youre not nervous about these next two weeks, youre asleep. But at least now theres light ahead. Or, as Warnocks famous predecessor in that famous pulpit put it: Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
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Georgia Revolution Is a 'Fuck You' Aimed Right at Trump (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2021
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(268,949 posts)1. THIS IS MUST READ
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(297,154 posts)2. Oh Yes it IS! & Mitch like the article says!