Weekly open thread: Thanksgiving edition
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Thought people might enjoy Gavin Newsom's holiday release. I am gagged.
"HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE EXCEPT THE SERIOUSLY DEMENTED PIGGIE WHO TURNED THE OVAL OFFICE INTO A REVOLVING DOOR FOR “GRIFTERS & CROOKS,” A TRUE DISCOUNT BIN ADMINISTRATION, DIVIDING OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WHILE SHREDDING THE CONSTITUTION IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. THIS CLOWN SLAPPED TARIFFS (A TAX!!!) ON THE WORKING MAN & THE WORKING WOMAN, COZIED UP TO DICTATORS LIKE THEY WERE PART OF HIS MAR-A-LAGO REWARDS PLATINUM MEMBERSHIP, AND SOMEHOW MADE AMERICA WEAK AND MORE IN DEBT. SICK! HE AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY ARE A WELFARE FAMILY FOR FOREIGN GRIFT, CRYPTO SCAMS, TAX BREAKS (YOUR MONEY!), AND GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS. THEY ARE LITTLE PIGLETS SUCKING ON THE PUBLIC TROUGH, MILKING WORKING PEOPLE (YOU!) FOR EVERY PENNY. AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON HIS DIMWIT AVENGERS, INCLUDING KASH “MONEY” PATEL, DUMB DUMB PETE, KOSPLAY KRISTI (THE FAKE HORSE RIDER WHO MANY SAY SENT $200 MILLION TAX DOLLARS TO HER FRIENDS), AND THE WHOLE GANG OF DOZY DON’S SICKOS COVERING UP FOR CREEPS LIKE EPSTEIN. WE CAN’T EVEN USE THE 25TH AMENDMENT BECAUSE JD “JUST DANCE” VANCE IS TOO BUSY WITH “THE COUCH” AND WOULD PROBABLY BE WORSE. DON’T WORRY, HOWEVER, BECAUSE CALIFORNIA, UNDER THE GREAT GAVIN C. NEWSOM (ME!!) WILL RESCUE AMERICA FROM THIS SICK, SICK SCUM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN"
Happy Thanksgiving! One thing I stumbled across was that in Alaska, Democratic state senator Scott Kawasaki won reelection last year by 3 points to his Fairbanks area seat while Trump won it by over 16 points. Mary Peltola even lost it by just under a point. Other than the eastern Iowa senate special that we flipped earlier this year and the Orthodox Jewish seats in NY and NJ, this might just be one of the reddest legislative districts in the country held by a Democrat.
He is not up for reelection until 2028 and would not need to give up his seat if he ran for governor or Senate. I hope the DGA and DSCC are coordinating with him to run for whichever race that Peltola decides not to run. Unlike Tom Begich and Matt Claman, he’s also relatively young at 50.