‘[T]here was no bigger loser on Tuesday than Elon Musk, who spent over $400 million backing Republicans. He poured more than half of that sum into Texas, his home since 2020, when he left California out of anger at regulation and Covid restrictions. He later moved most of his business empire to Texas and even built his own town, Starbase, there. Musk almost single-handedly funded the Senate campaign of Texas’ widely despised attorney general, Ken Paxton. He tweeted obsessively about James Talarico, Paxton’s opponent, amplifying conspiracy theories that Talarico was in a mental hospital when he was really sick with the flu.’

Michelle Goldberg, a wonderful writer always worth reading, reviews Elon’s spending habits.

Cassidy’s Revenge

Lawyers from [Harmeet Dhillon’s Civil Rights] office .. carried out some DOJ efforts that critics said were political vendettas, such as an unsuccessful attempt to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.

The inept apparatchik carrying out Trump’s insane orders has resigned, having lost virtually all the insane cases the insane Trump made her file.

‘Trump is entering the washed-up rock star phase of his presidency’

After a decade of Trump on the political scene, he is entering his Fat Elvis phase: tired, old, overweight, awful-sounding and embarrassing-looking.

Already things are changing in significant ways.

The new Texas AG has announced that unlike colossally creepy Ken Paxton, he won’t sue out of state docs for mailing abortion pills to Texas.

The state will “cease using Texas abortion laws as an instrument of persecution and intimidation, harassment and political showboating. All four of those things have happened.” Under colossally creepy Paxton.

There’s big good news. And there’s small good news.

Don’t overlook a judge having just ruled against super-icky F. Giro in her fruitless GIMME A BUNCH OF MONEY PLUS MY JOB BACK quest. Harvard dumped her when her research was revealed to be bogus to the max, but since then she’s hit up the courts as she seeks retenuring and all the trimmings.

Harvard (endowment $68 billion) seems able to afford any further litigation from her, so the beat goes on.

All of my posts about her.

Devastating detail here. With the help of moneybag friends who perceive no difference between doctored and undoctored research, Giro will undoubtedly continue her romp through the courts. Subsidizing her is as crazy as giving money to Republican political candidates.

The Vivek and Vancy Shoooooowwwww!

“Well look, you not only have to question the judgment of a man who would take a woman, an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in, in a parking lot of a church in Pennsylvania with her cats and put her in front of a video camera and make that a TV ad in a gubernatorial race,” [Chris Christie] said.

Christie said the “real problem going forward” was Vance standing up for Ramaswamy “100 percent … not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that ad.”

“Vivek, don’t call that number…

… Leave the phone at a distance, on a shelf
Vivek don’t call that number
All your dreams are tossed and blown
There’s no way that you’ll feel better
So get on home”

‘On the bright side…

…the midterms acted like a cleansing wave, ridding the party of many of its worst representatives, like Ken Paxton in Texas. “Well, we’re at rock bottom,” a Republican pollster said. “But there’s a lot fewer guys around to dig.”’

“May we never have to see the likes of you in this state again.”

Senator El-Sayed waves goodbye to his opponent as he boards the Asshole Express to Florida.

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As for Ramaswamy, I hear Wall Street can’t wait to welcome him back.

‘I SPENT 500 MILLION AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY BLUE WAVE’

Elon Musk has a new tee shirt.

How I’m Feeling Post-Election
Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
Carrying beads? Shall I be let to sleep
Now this perpetual morning shares my bed?
Can even death dry up
These new delighted lakes….

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https://voetica.com/poem/5811

‘[I]t’s worth taking at least a moment to savor the fact that Texans chose not to elect the most openly fascist statewide candidate in recent memory.’

O Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo

Where d’ya go go go go go go go

“This isn’t a blue tsunami. This is a blue great mud flood,” wrote right-wing podcaster Tim Pool. “Shit. Its almost like the GOP campaigned on nothing and deserve to get blown out. Fucking insane.”

Said it better than I ever could.

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‘Democrats are on track to win control of the Senate — an unthinkable scenario just a few weeks ago.

Republicans suffered devastating losses in South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and Kansas, with GOP officials bracing for potentially more defeats.’

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“Democrats capture full control of Congress, NBC News projects, fueled by victories in deeply Republican states.”

The Nominee’s Ignominy

They’re calling it for Amy Acton, which only goes to show that sometimes in life the bad guy finishes last. Acton won handily against this espèce de merde, this individual about whom none of us, please God, has ever to think again.

Today’s Positivity

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DqvyF9Z4f/?mibextid=wwXIfr

“My sincerest wish is that tomorrow is the last day I ever have to hear the names Ken Paxton or Vivek Ramaswamy.”

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It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
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There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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