The Establishment™ Bar

PED here. As we've done before, LL and I will both be sharing our thoughts on the day. I'll lead off and let LL bring us home. We welcome all Barflies who join us throughout the day, as we'll be discussing the results in real time up until the wee hours of the morning. You all have stuck with us this far, so why stop now? Pull up a stool and get comfy; we're gonna be here a while.  We all remember how we felt two years ago.  Despair. Despondency. Defeat.  Anger at our fellow Americans, whom we thought we knew. Anger at ourselves for thinking that we were better than we were. What we learned was that we not only had 77 million fascist and fascist-adjacent Americans living among us, but we had 89 million Americans who couldn't be bothered to take the open-notes exam and do the one thing  that prevents fascists from taking control. Through both voting and nonvoting, 68% of Americans chose  to reinstate a regime that had previously banned Muslims, caged children, bo...