Brace for two years of angry people getting nothing done

It was a spooky Halloween up here on the mountain. We had 200 trick-or-treaters and even a couple of kids dressed as Kamala Harris and Hunter Biden. They took more of our candy than they deserved, and then annoyingly refused to go away. I complimented them for sticking to the bit. We tried to scare the kids back. I dressed up as an after-school part-time job application and my wife appeared as an iPhone with only 3% battery life left. Even scarier than the result of the Democratic Party sweeping the midterm was winning control of both the Senate and the House, significantly neutering Trump’s final two years in power. The Democratic majority will take over in January, raising the odds of legislative congestion, endless punitive investigations and posturing. It was a big night for Democrats. Even Texas elected its first Democratic senator since 1988. Talarico thanked U-Haul for delivering all those voters fleeing California. But this is how a republic works.

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