It just occurred to me. We are now 11 months past a FAILED COUP and not one fucking leader of it . .

[Celerity]

19. I follow the elections pretty closely, and we have had only one huge break so far, and that could

blow up in our face.

Sununu is not going to run for Senate in NH (nor is Ayotte). Hassan was fairly likely toast if Sununu had run (NH flipped both chambers from Blue to Red in their statehouse in 2020 and is trending more Red overall atm). It was my number one chance to lose a seat via a flip of a Blue to a Red seat until Sununu declined. Ayotte had a decent shot as well.

The potential blow-up-in-our-face part is the new favourite to win the Rethug primary is a far more radical RWNJ, Bolduc, and he would be far worse to have in the Senate than Sununu or Ayotte.

Brian Sandoval refusing to run in Nevada is good for us too, but Adam Laxalt is hardly a pushover, and IF he gets in, he is more than a wee bit younger than Sandoval (almost 3 full 6 year Senate terms younger, he will be 44 in August 2022) and thus could be there for 30+ years.

IF Manchin and/or Sinema refuse to allow a filibuster carve out for the voter rights bills, we are in deep shit as well, especially when combined with the gerrymandering, the lose of seats via the Census, and then the horrid historical performance for first term Dem POTUS's in their initial midterms.