549 Seats

When I woke up this morning our outside temp was 37 (F).  Right now our outside temp is sitting at 50 (F).  The forecast is for a high in the mid to upper 60s (F), before the clouds roll in and cool things off.  There's rain in the forecast, too.  Tomorrow's high is supposed to be in the mid 40s (F).  We are 40 days until the onset of Winter.  According to some predictions, the Central PA region is supposed to get an average amount of snow, which means we may get nothing but a dusting or two.  We shall see.

Yesterday was a decent day.  I did chores, got a ride in on the bicycle, and bought a new pair of slippers.  The slippers were needed.  The pair I had were very old and at some point about a month ago, the plastic bottom of the right one had split down the middle.  Rather than going out and buying a new pair, I used some blue duct tape to keep it from falling apart. Of course, duct tape only last for so long, and this section of tape began acquiring Howie hair and started looking like it was growing a fur coat.  So, yesterday morning I threw my old slippers into the trash and bought a new pair.  Hopefully the new ones should last me four or five years.

MAGA cultists are still shrieking and moaning about the midterm elections.  They show vast swaths of America that are ruby red without understanding no one lives in much of those swaths; we're a very large country.  Kara Swisher says it best:

So, Petey Hegseth's impeachment hearing was yesterday.  They were actually supposed to vote today, on Veteran's Day to give the vote symbolism.  However, little Mikey Johnson chose to hold the vote yesterday afternoon at 5:30 PM when he knew that 11 Democrats and 7 Republicans were not in the building.  He cheated so the articles of impeachment would fail.  I was pissed, though in hind sight will admit that I should have expected some form of scumbagery.  Hegseth survived to lose on another day.  

And as someone said, all of those Republicans who voted to save Petey's ass have chosen to remain onboard the Titanic as it sinks.  They are staying out of spite and hatred.  They are terrible losers, and they always have been.  Rather than try and save themselves, they are choosing to drown in their own petty bile.  They simply cannot deal with the crushing numbers of the Blue Tsunami.  Their tiny little brains are cracking.  As of yesterday morning, 549 local, state, and national seats flipped from Republican to Democrat.  This is the worst defeat the Republican party has every experienced since it was founded in 1850.  And that number is still growing.