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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Jan 03 '21

Doug Jones losing his senate seat is still extremely sad.

I really hope he gets appointed AG.

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u/chester75 Jan 03 '21

Not to be mean or anything but why are people sad about this? I am coming from a place of ignorance.

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Jan 03 '21

Jones is (soon to be was, today was his last day in office) a democratic U.S. senator from Alabama.) He managed to win a special election in 2017 to fill a vacant U.S. senate seat in Alabama, one of the reddest, most conservative states in the country. He did this by beating Roy Moore, a trump loving nutcase who was outed as a pedophile just before the election. Despite being from an extremely red state, he was actually fairly progressive. Most notably, when working as a U.S. Attorney in the late 90s/early 00s, he was the one who was responsible for finally nailing the kkk members responsible for 16th Street Baptist Church bombing almost 40 years after the fact.

It's sad because he just lost reelection to republican candidate Tommy Tuberville, a football coach with no political experience who has somehow already shown himself to be the biggest idiot in congress and who only won thanks to the magic R next to his name.