Nov 4, 2026, 11:28 AMWait… so after all the fuss from last night… America has to wait until January for all the winners to take their seats in Congress?
What are they doing for the next month and a half?
What’s to stop the incumbents from just setting fire to everything before they leave?
Are they trying to win the “slowest political system ever” award?
@gareth They hire staff, but it's mostly because the election and investiture dates are written in the Constitution which was written when all tabulation was done by hand and the fastest way to get results to the state capitols for ratification had one horsepower.
Nov 4, 2026, 12:16 PM@linuxandyarn ah, thank you.
Nov 4, 2026, 12:08 PMThe incumbents fully intend to burn everything down. If they can't have it, no one will.
It's our job to stop them.
Nov 4, 2026, 12:58 PM@gareth some of us wouldn't mind if they burn that shit down on the way out, but it's a start fresh start phoenix from the ashes, type shit.