All around the world, there are celebrations and fireworks now that our election has been decided. Yesterday, someone on TV said they have seen this kind of celebration before but it’s usually in countries that have toppled a dictator. And that’s about right.
I’ve never felt so relieved about an election before. It’s not just joy at breaking glass ceilings or racial barriers or even vindication of stutterers and less than perfect people. It’s just the feeling you get when you realize that you won’t have fo go through the incompetence, vindictiveness and injustice for another 4 years because the next term would have been so much worse. That’s what kept us up all night. That’s why we obsessively checked in with reality on social media. The last four years have been like being in the middle of a home invasion while being held back from shutting the door against the robbers and sadists.
Now, I know that the Trumpers are going to spin this like the US is about to be shafted and laughed at once Biden takes office and NATO expects us to take care of Europe and China manipulates it’s currency etc etc American Carnage blah blah blah socialism yadayadayada.
That’s not what I’m seeing. I think other countries are also just relieved that we are going to work towards defeating the virus and climate change together. There was very little they could do to help our predicament in the last four years short of sanctions. And the shining example that Americans have set for generations with regard to rule of law, fair elections and constitutional freedoms was on the edge of being no more. For a continent that struggled with authoritarianism in the last century, I’m sure Europe was alarmed that it started to take hold here.
We came very close to losing it. Der Spiegel had two illustrations from 2017 and today that shows us how they saw us in the Years of the Bad President:
Trumpers have no idea how deep in the weeds they are.
They’ve been living in a different world and forced the rest of us to go along with it. That’s over now. The light of reality is going to hit them soon.
I sure wouldn’t want to find myself on the wrong side of history after we find out what Donald Trump has been up to for the past four years. It’s not going to be pretty and the rest of us aren’t going to put up with wishful thinking or lame excuses anymore.
Come into the light.
And now for a little video about socialism. I’ve got this on a loop.
https://twitter.com/hopeoverfear2/status/1311716718692061185?s=21
Something lighter later in the day: I want nominations for the MVP’s of this victory of sanity over chaos. Add them to the comments.
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Black women voters deserve the MVP award. Thank God for them!
If I need to nominate one person to represent these voters, it would be Stacey Abrams. She is a powerhouse. So inspiring!
Second.
Joe must NEVER forget who is responsible for making him POTUS. It is not “moderate Republicans”.
I agree. They deserve a lot of credit. Stacey Abrams is a force to be reckoned with.
But when this election is analyzed, I won’t be surprised if we find that black women are tired of always having to save white women’s asses.
It’s servitude of a different kind and I think we should start carrying our own water.
I agree.
Love the video.
“Socialism” doesn’t scare me. Massive income inequality scares me. Poverty scares me. It scares me to death.
Close runners up for the MVP award: Latinas and Native American women.
Thank you!
Dead heat between Stacey Abrams and pretty much the entire Navaho nation in Arizona.
I love the southwest and after several attempts to vacation on the Atlantic shore and meeting with tropical storms and hurricanes every single time, I’m ready to explore the four corners area and vacation at lake Powell where there are no such things as tropical depressions.
See you next year to thank you in person.
Also a huge thank you to the Native tribes in Wisconsin, without whom Biden may not have won that state.
Marc Elias, the attorney who founded Democracy Docket, and who beat Republicans in so many crucial cases where they were trying to suppress or cancel Democratic votes. Without him, I don’t know that we could have won the election.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and perhaps most important of all, the Attorney General, who stood up for free and fair elections, despite the resistance from the Republican-controlled state legislature. Without Pennsylvania, we would be looking at 259 Electoral votes, with Arizona still apparently unsettled, and Georgia heading for a recount.
Spammy’s knickers be twisted again, ARRR!
Here is a picture that I found on another blog. The commenter said he received it twice, from someone in Brazil and someone in Kurdistan.
Any responses?
Yeah, I think it was shameful that Trump abandoned the Kurds. I hope that changes as soon as possible.