When will we know if the GOP recovered Senate or House or neither?
@rataflechera 4weeks? Could be a while.
>"When will we know if the GOP recovered Senate or House or neither?"
Who cares? Biden will just veto whatever they pass anyway. And there's no chance for an override.
It‘s a moot point really. You didn't actually fall for all that old-media nonsense about this being “the most important election ever” did you? They’ve been saying that about every election now for decades. The reason why old media say those things is so gullible people will get excited enough to foolishly hand over their hard-earned dollars to the campaigns, most of which ends up going to old media to buy campaign ads.
This is also why many elections are so close now. When there is a clear winner early in the campaign, then nobody donates money. But when the contest is 50/50% then more people donate. That’s why the campaigns and media and their pollsters always try to make the contests look closer than they actually are.
Get it?
Calm down.
@Pat @Bertrecords @daeyoung I'm quite calm. I haven't even paid much attention to the US elections.
I do worry that a Congress controlled by republicans would produce some paralysis (right, Biden vetoing legislative acts, but also majority party blocking or dilating executive initiatives) which might repercute in international scenarios such as Ukraine.
@daeyoung @rataflechera @Bertrecords
My toot was bit abrupt in tone. It's just that here the US we've been constantly pounded by the media about the world coming to an end if one side or the other wins a majority in congress.
If the R's get a majority in either house, we'll probably just see two years of government by executive orders and a bunch investigations by congressional committees. It's not like this hasn't happened many times before. In fact, Biden has spent nearly his entire live in congress, so he may actually be able to get something done with them.
@Pat @rataflechera @Bertrecords I live in the U.S. too and I don’t watch television. I kind of expected Joe Biden to only have 2 years to pass whatever laws he had in mind. He loses one house and no law gets passed.
I went to bed around 12 Eastern time. I think I’m just in a sports-watching mood? I don’t think the country is as divided as the media makes us believe. But Republican politicians are absolute nut jobs
@rataflechera @Pat @Bertrecords I’m quite calm as well. Budget bills might be a pain if republicans hold both housss tho