{"id":39472,"date":"2018-11-07T11:09:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39472"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:41:33","slug":"the-morning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/the-morning-after\/","title":{"rendered":"The morning after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out to be a fairly normal election, after all.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/tladuke\/2018\/11\/07\/dead-gop-pimp-nevada-wins-state-assembly-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\">dead Republican brothel owner<\/a> was elected to the Nevada state assembly. And a live <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/11\/02\/5-excerpts-from-stacey-abramss-hilarious-romance-novels\/\" target=\"_blank\">writer of <del datetime=\"2018-11-07T19:40:50+00:00\">porn<\/del> romance<\/a> novels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2018\/11\/06\/georgia-governor-democrat-stacey-abrams-republican-brian-kemp-voter-suppression\/1893925002\/\" target=\"_blank\">is refusing to concede<\/a> the Georgia governor&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota elected a domestic abuser and Farrakhan supporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/keith-ellison-elected-minnesota-attorney-general-over-doug-wardlow\/499701441\/\" target=\"_blank\">as its chief law enforcer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Arizona is still trying to decide between a seeming all-American paragon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2018\/10\/30\/project-veritas-films-undercover-video-kyrsten-sinema-and-staffers-james-okeefe\/1815913002\/\" target=\"_blank\">a complete lying moonbat<\/a> in its Senate race. Decisions, decisions &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For me, personally, and for the good people of Washington state, the biggest heartbreak was the urban-driven slaughter of gun rights in the <a href=\"https:\/\/results.vote.wa.gov\/results\/current\/State-Measures-Initiative-Measure-No-1639-Initiative-Measure-No-1639-concerns-firearms_ByCounty.html\" target=\"_blank\">lopsided victory of I-1639<\/a>. But at least Washingtonians were spared I-1631&#8217;s carbon tax, which was nothing but a limitlessly costly gift to special interests at the expense of the state&#8217;s poorest citizens.<\/p>\n<p>And rural Oregon had good news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/expo\/news\/erry-2018\/11\/adaf7667eb118\/militia-groups-help-gun-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eight of the 10 counties with Second Amendment Preservation<\/a> measures on their ballots now have a hopeful layer of protection between them and Portlandian and DC gun grabbers. (Of course, the eeeeeeeeevil militias and the even eeeeeeeeviler Oath Keepers and Threepers are to blame.)<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, but predictably, the most radical cannabis decriminalization measure ever proposed by a U.S. state (North Dakota) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tomangell\/2018\/11\/06\/north-dakota-marijuana-legalization-measure-fails\/#6bafa7905c89\" target=\"_blank\">failed big time<\/a>. But elsewhere, legalization continued to creep ahead.<\/p>\n<p>And a few Senate seats swung interestingly rightward (Farewell, lying hypocrites Heitkamp and McCaskill). And the House swung predictably leftward. With any luck, we&#8217;ll have achieved happy gridlock. Or at least gridlock.<\/p>\n<p>So. We&#8217;re done. It&#8217;s over. We can take a deep breath and have a nice, long break from the insanity of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>Um &#8230; yes?<\/p>\n<p>Please?<\/p>\n<p>Pretty please with sugar on it?<\/p>\n<p>No. The newsers are now saying we&#8217;ve Officially Commenced the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>You know, that&#8217;s even worse &#8212; almost infinitely worse &#8212; than <a href=\"https:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/562877\/psychology-why-you-hate-early-christmas-music\" target=\"_blank\">being forced to listen to Christmas music<\/a> in early November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out to be a fairly normal election, after all. A dead Republican brothel owner was elected to the Nevada state assembly. And a live writer of porn romance novels is refusing to concede the Georgia governor&#8217;s race. Minnesota elected a domestic abuser and Farrakhan supporter as its chief law enforcer. And Arizona is still trying to decide between a seeming all-American paragon and a complete lying moonbat in its Senate race. Decisions, decisions &#8230; For me, personally, and for the good people of Washington state, the biggest heartbreak was the urban-driven slaughter of gun rights in the lopsided&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/the-morning-after\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The morning after<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39472"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39488,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39472\/revisions\/39488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}