Decision Desk HQ projects that @JoeBiden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes for a total of 273.
Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America.
Race called at 11-06 08:50 AM EST
All Results: https://t.co/BgcQsEyt3j
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 6, 2020
The Secret Service is on the way to Delaware and it’s all over except for months of Trump whining.
JR
Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey goodbye
Yarrow
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
Relief unlike anything I’ve ever known.
Cermet
WE WON!
Baud
There may come a time when America fails, but it will not be this day.
David Anderson
FUCK YES
Allen
@JR: When are we all gathering outside the White House to start singing that loudly? Tonight? Anyone in for tonight?
Mandarama
Oh God…please just let this be it. My family, all our families, need to live without this sick jerk and his miserable kin haunting our lives.
*This week’s anxiety might have made me a wee bit dramatic.
stacib
I may actually get some sleep this weekend now. Holy cow – doing the happy dance at work.
cmorenc
When even fix news calls the election for biden sometime in the next 24 hrs if not by this afternoon, that will be delicious. Their news desk seems to be inclined to acknowledge reality even though their opinion pundits are still kicking and screaming trump tantrum points
Ian G.
I kinda want to tell my boss I’m going home, then kind of wander around Central Park for a while (it’s been a beautiful few days in NY after a week of cold and rain), then go home and hug my wife and kids. Happy Friday, everyone!
ALurkSupreme
Let us savor.
Yarrow
CNN is very VERY SERIOUS. Jake Tapper making the point that Trump doesn’t have to concede. Doesn’t make any difference. Biden will be president.
Barbara
I feel totally wrung out and more than a little pissed at the state legislators so determined to steal my joy. It is going to take a while to sink in.
dr. bloor
@Mandarama:
Hah. I envy you your capacity for understatement.
jonas
I’m excited, but I won’t believe it until the AP calls it — that’s what most networks and news outlets wait for.
God, Trump is going to be the world’s biggest WATB for the next 3 months. I’m so fucking sick of that guy.
NotMax
Barkeep? Mimosas for the house!
Baud
A shout out to all the hard working vote counters including the Republican ones.
dmsilev
We saw it coming for the last couple of days, but man oh man it’s sweet to have it. Next up, the inevitable rage tweet storm.
Yarrow
Tapper: “People in the White House like McCarthy need to start preparing the President. Including those who are putting out mealy-mouthed statements about election integrity acting as if this is some kind of both sides story, which it isn’t. People have to decide what they love more – The United States of America and its people or one singular politician.”
Tapper ain’t playing around.
PenAndKey
So does this mean it’s finally time for me to set up a boombox playing “Let It Go” on loop and point it right across the street for my “Blue Lives Matter” super-MAGA neighbor?
Because I’m totally willing to do that, and I hate that song.
cope
@jonas: I’m with you. I can wait a tiny bit longer.
Gin & Tonic
Packing up for a 6-hour drive to see my grandkids, and now I don’t have to pretend to be happy, I can *be* happy. Looking forward to a nice weekend.
zhena gogolia
I couldn’t have gotten through these last few days without all you guys. I literally have not looked at any other news sources (except some of my favorite tweeters).
MattF
@jonas: Trump is getting the Dolchstoßlegende he wants, so everybody’s happy.
Yarrow
Tapper, re peaceful transfer of power: “This is not just a matter of good manners and grace. This is a matter of life and death.”
Now he’s going off on Fox telling them they have to put their country before their profits. Wow.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
We need a video clip of Aragorn’s speech to his army before the gates of Mordor.
jonas
@Yarrow: That’s right. Concession phone calls are a gesture that honors — until now, apparently — the peaceful, democratic transfer of power. Trump can throw all the tantrums he wants. At noon on Jan. 20, the US government will simply flip a switch to turn on Joe Biden’s power and Trump will be left sitting in the dark, a private citizen with a dozen subpoena servers waiting outside his door.
Betty Cracker
I’m watching Fox News. They have a sad.
catatonia
Mistah Trump — he dead.
Jeffro
So incredibly true. Mrs. Fro and I were talking about it just this morning. I’ve been venting all along, but she’s been holding it in and teared up at the news.
Spanky
Ah, to be a Russian bug on the wall of the White House Untergang bunker right about now …
That “scoop” about the Secret Service protection pisses me off. First, it would be SOP for them to do that, and I would HOPE that they moved in before said “scoop” was made public. Second, there’s a little too much opsec info in there for my comfort. I’m just hoping it’s a bit of disinformation to hide what they’re really doing, and when.
AliceBlue
@zhena gogolia: Same here. Thank goddess for you all.
zhena gogolia
@Amir Khalid:
Uh, let’s call upon Will and Larry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk_rPHoSc8w
mvr
When I got up and saw on TPM that the AP had Georgia as light blue I started crying without tears. And then I saw PA flip from pink to light blue as well. Not going to feel calm for a while yet.
hedgehog mobile
@Yarrow: This. Sobbing with relief.
SiubhanDuinne
Relieved and happy beyond measure.
And for the next 24 hours I don’t want to see a single blog comment, or read a single newspaper column, or hear a single NPR “think piece,” or watch a single cable news pundit panel, that even mentions how awful this country is or how we lost seats in the House or in any way attempts to throw cold water on our joy. Plenty of time for the necessary conversations and hard decisions and wearisome hard work over the next four years and beyond. But for today, we deserve to be proud and joyful and celebratory.
Spanky
@PenAndKey: How about the classics? “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”
Wag
@Betty Cracker: Poor fox and friends. They has a sad.
Fuck em!
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yes!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Well, it’s a good morning then.
narya
@Baud: Needed me some Aragorn today.
Gin & Tonic
Heard an interesting story about Georgia. Yes, major credit to Stacey Abrams, but apparently also a big push among sex workers and at the strip clubs to get their customers to register and vote.
hedgehog mobile
Happy.
Omnes Omnibus
I am calling this a win, pure and simple. Anyone who wants to piss on that can fight me.
germy
@Betty Cracker:
Will Trump write a nice letter to the new president? I thought that was customary
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Can we fight you even if we agree with what you said?
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
STACEY ABRAMS
PETER STRZOK
Betty Cracker
@SiubhanDuinne: Co-signed! But I reserve the right to gloat and make mean-spirited, spiteful observations about the Trumpsters. :)
Brendan in NC
PA flipping, GA in the process as well (Biden up 1k, with 8k in military and provisional left). As they say – Good things come to those who wait.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
There was a wonderful ad featuring them. Can’t remember where I saw it.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Hey, don’t @ me, I got it right.
frosty
I’m crying. I didn’t know I was that anxious.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker:
THAT IS FAIR GAME
I have an arrangement of “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” cued up on my piano, and when I get home this afternoon I’m going to play it on repeat, loud, so my Trump-loving neighbors can hear it loud and clear (will open all the windows and doors first).
TheTruffle
I am so happy that we will have a real president and a real cabinet again.
Competent people in charge. A cabinet of people who know what they are doing. Who will listen to experts–you know, like Fauci.
Stacey Abrams needs to chair the DNC. Ben Winkler also needs to be involved.
Doug Jones needs a cabinet job.
The House needs a new speaker. I like Nancy, but it is time to pass the baton.
The Senate needs a new Dem leader.
Oh, and I’m looking forward to having a real First Lady.
America has a lot of soul-searching to do. But right now, I am so relieved.
AWOL
I’m crying. For joy. For hope.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
Oops, sorry, I misread. I’ve seen it misspelled so many times over the last few days I just read it that way.
Bears repeating, anyway!
Brachiator
We finally got there!
I think.
ETA: The CNN home page still says “Biden on the Brink.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Yeah, but get at the back of the line.
amorphous
good
now uncover all his crimes, charge him appropriately, give him a fair trial(s), and if those conclude with a guilty verdict(s) throw away the key and let that be a lesson to all the future wannabe-dictators
NotMax
Everybody shake your bones: Yes We Can Can.
Yes we did.
@Gin & Tonic
Talk about yer pole watchers….
:)
zhena gogolia
@amorphous:
You know, I don’t care about all that. I just want him gone. Out of the White House, out of my life, out of my mind.
germy
hueyplong
@Spanky: I think that was “leaked” on purpose to discourage loan wolf loonies.
zhena gogolia
I do not know how I am going to teach a class in a few minutes.
Omnes Omnibus
@TheTruffle: You can’t have Wikler. He’s ours ’til we are rid of Ron Johnson. Sorry.
Poptartacus
https://youtu.be/OA8wkz0uGLE
jonas
@Gin & Tonic: A kind of Lysistrata for our age…
Edmund Dantes
@JR: this needs to be outside the White House all day.
hueyplong
@amorphous: I googled it and there appears not to be a city/town in the US called Nuremberg. There is, however, a Berlin, New Hampshire.
I’d hold the trials there if it weren’t for venue/personal jurisdication issues.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Plus, you know I know how to spell Strzok.
dmsilev
Via the NYT, How To Tell President Toddler That It’s Time To Go To Bed:
My schadenfreude overflows, both for Trump and for the Republicans who made the deal with the devil to stay with him.
Amir Khalid
Aragorn’s speech at the gates of Mordor.
Cermet
@Spanky: Glad they leaked that info. Nut cases (and we have many) will realise they will die if they try anything; one thing about these nut case rightwingers, they are cowards. Glad they are telling people, don’t even try or you die.
Besides, the orange fa%t cloud is crying as are all the rumpie’s because they are LOSERS
e julius drivingstorm
@zhena gogolia:
Stacey Abrams needs to be put in charge a national effort to ensure free and fair elections. Ridiculous gerrymandering will be on the agenda.
Tony Jay
Con – Grat – U – Lations
And Jubilations
I want the world to know
I’m Happy as can be
Congratulations
And Jubilations
‘Cos Trump is Dumped for Ka – Ma – La
And Joey B
Thanks America, Well done.
Omnes Omnibus
Biden ran a steady campaign, He never panicked. He made fantastic hires. He picked the perfect VP. And now he won.
different-church-lady
NOTHING is over yet. STEP 1 is CLOSE to being over. Celebrate, but it’s like champagne after the wild-card round. NO SLEEP ‘TIL JANUARY, DAMMIT.
PS: BUT GO AHEAD AND BE HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!
Edmund Dantes
@Spanky: it’s all well known. The air space thing happened much earlier last night. And Joe already had a fair amount. They are just talking about the standard stuff that everyone knows a president has.
germy
Ramiah Ariya
Congratulations to all here. I was on a television panel discussion on the US elections in India on Wednesday morning (which was Tuesday night for you). It appeared then that it was a repeat of 2016. Many of the questions to the panel were interesting, but I was disappointed at that time. Happy now that sanity will return to the US.
Edmund Dantes
Also. I want my taco trucks on every corner.
we were promised 4 years ago
Frankensteinbeck
Thank you, Sun Pony.
For the first time in a month, I can breathe.
For the first time in four years, I’m not afraid.
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: Biden has been amazing. He has met the moment.
Amir Khalid
@TheTruffle:
To whom? You need to name a worthy successor.
germy
Wow.
When you’ve lost these two:
Onward
RedDirtGirl
@Mandarama: I surprised myself (as well as family and friends) by not following any of this after the polls closed on Tuesday. Heard little snippets, but managed to block most of it out. Really glad I took this approach.
RobertDSC-iPhone 8
Happy and relieved. One bright spot in an ocean of difficulty.
Fair Economist
@JR: I called my mother to sing that. She was very entertained, having just seen the call.
Dupe1970
@Gin & Tonic: Indeed they did.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/otilliasteadman/get-your-booty-to-the-poll
Mousebumples
@Omnes Omnibus: second this. I’m happy to have him share his knowledge but he’s staying here for at least 2 more years.
Jean
When will the networks confirm the PA win, and thus the presidency?
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: Seconded.
I still want to fight you though.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Are they talking about the deficit yet?
Baud
@Jean: I believe they’re waiting for Joe’s lead to clear the recount threshold.
Redshift
Now that is some news to wake up to!
WOO-HOOOOOOOO!! ?️????
frosty
Second that, other than occasional forays to the Grauniad to check the headlines.
different-church-lady
People, be happy, but PLEASE be mentally prepared to fight for the next two months. No way in hell is he going to go quietly, and surprises can still abound.
Tim C.
1983 Ewok music (Yub NUB!)
or the one from the re-release in 1997?
chopper
so glad i got to see the count in PA switch over in real time.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
Ia shutila
Al Z.
I’m so happy I cry
Jean
I feel I’ve read nothing but Balloon Juice for years, according to the 2020 time warp.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yes. Apart from getting rid of Agolf, I haven’t let myself rejoice over having Kamala as VP!
pluky
@hueyplong: There is also a Berlin, Mass. Pronounced BER-lin though, not bear-LEEN. Does that matter?
raven
@different-church-lady: relax, will you
Jamie
FUCK YES
PPCLI
@Yarrow: There was a moment in the Hillary – Trump debates that I’m surprised didn’t get more attention, but it has always stuck with me.
Hillary brought up the huge settlement Trump made with DOJ for discrimination in housing, and Trump’s immediate response was “I never admitted fault!” (or words to that effect).
In the real world, of course, that makes it worse, not better, but in Trump’s mind, it is unfair to acknowledge the facts unless he decides you should.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: And I want you to wear pants. How’s it feel to want?
Alison Rose
Okay okay okay okay okay okay but I really want to see the AP call it and the campaign send a text please can that happen in the next hour and 15 minutes so it’s done before I have to start work
Ramiah Ariya
Trump is not going away, though – he still is going to suck all the oxygen from news organizations; and he is going to be a star campaigner for Republicans, for which privilege, they will pour money to him. Nothing like what happened to Bush will happen to him is my guess – the Republicans will continue to have him as a kind of out-of-power leader as happens in Parliamentary democracies.
Hungry Joe
I’m gonna tell all you fascists / You may be surprised / The people in this world / Are getting organized / You’re bound to lose / You fascists are bound to lose
— Woodie Guthrie
Martin
MSNBC wondering who could talk Trump down. Have they considered sending in Putin or Kim Jong Un?
different-church-lady
@raven: Nope. Nope nope nope… Happy, but prepared.
scav
@Baud: I think it’s also good to explicitly keep counting — drive home the message that every vote counts. Don’t join in the game of declaring a winner as soon as things are running your way. Has the benefit for me at least that it prolongs their agony. Every vote tap another nail tapped into the coffin tapped above their still officially tap live face.
Yarrow
@different-church-lady: Celebration is an essential component of life. We celebrate and it helps us for the fight ahead.
Baud
@scav: They’ll keep counting, but the media is going to call the race later today.
EveryDayIhaveTheBlues
FUCK YOU, WE WON!
Omnes Omnibus
@Ramiah Ariya: The GOP will unperson him. His assholes will pay to go to rallies though.
different-church-lady
@Ramiah Ariya: The politics of this country are a superfund site. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of effort to get all the toxins out. But at least the biggest polluter will be shut down.
yellowdog
I will not untense until Biden and Harris are inaugurated.
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: Love it! Here’s my spite project:
different-church-lady
@Yarrow: Yes, great point. Celebrate! But celebrate cautiously.
I guess I just don’t want to believe it until I believe it.
MJS
@Gin & Tonic: Then I’m off to Georgia to join them in their efforts for the Senate runoffs! Wish me luck.
different-church-lady
@yellowdog: Yeah, I’m with you (which should be obvious to everyone by now…)
Capri
@Spanky: I want to be the bug on the wall when Fox and Friends won’t take Trump’s call.
different-church-lady
@MJS: GOD-FREAKIN’-SPEED!!!
scav
@Baud: I know that but, to repeat myself, I want the lesson hammered home, underlined, etc.
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: He’s going to attack the Republicans who “let him down” by somehow not getting enough people to vote for him. The Georgia runoffs could be interesting. He could attack both R candidates.
Alison Rose
@Betty Cracker: Bye-Don
Belafon
That and Georgia runoffs.
hueyplong
Anyone else’s milk carton have a picture of Bill Barr on it?
PenAndKey
In my dream world the GOP leadership will abandon/unperson him to salvage their own skin, but he’ll never go along with it. He’ll instead try to lawyer his way out of troubles and will try to mount of 2024 campaign run, complete with rallies and the adulation he’s grown addicted to. End result? A completely fractured GOP, split down the middle by the very troglodytes they originally attracted for their value as idiot attack vectors.
Hey, a guy can dream
He won’t attack them for not getting him the votes. He’ll attack them for not managing to steal the election for him. If we’re lucky he’ll continue to say the quiet parts out loud and sabotage all of them.
Ramiah Ariya
@different-church-lady: My take is that the biggest producer of toxin is not Trump, but Fox News. They created him and they created the latest Republican Party in my opinion. The speed with which they shifted to saying the election was fraudulent was amazing, and it is clear to me that they will continue to boost him forever.
Trump, in my opinion, is just a personification of an average Fox user. Without Fox, he is nothing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: I’ve always been fond of NSASurveilanceVan237, but a more timely one might be BidenSaysFuckYourFeelings.
NotMax
If Quinerly’s around, starting a GoFundMe to buy Kornacki BLUE pants.
:)
Spanky
@Betty Cracker: FUCKYOURFEELINGS of course
Omnes Omnibus
@Yarrow: Yep! Poor babies.
ETA: And how about a celebratory “Tick Tock, Motherfuckers?” We could use it.
Aleta
Kattails mentioned this on another thread:
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Omnes Omnibus: After last night it sounds like the GOP itself might have had enough of Trump. On the other, the Conservatard Media is going to love having Trump on to whine about poor little Trump was ripped off, so the GOP might not be able to.
Trump is going to be the GOPs creepy stalker ex.
James E Powell
Just got up. Turned on FOX. They are not calling the race yet
Rachel Campos is complaining about fraudandabuse in mail voting.
TheTruffle
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m calling it. Cheeto Benito will turn on the GOP.
I am imagining what kind of White House Biden will come to when he and Jill move in.
Spanky
@hueyplong: Milk carton? Barely fits on one of those stainless steel tank trucks.
BruceFromOhio
Ending a four-day media blackout with this post is pretty sweet. Nicely timed, thanks.
And now … I give you Morpheus.
Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I stand here, before you now, truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No, I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me but because of the path that lies behind me. I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us, and after a century of war I remember that which matters most… We are still here.
tomtofa
The official call will likely come later today. Fitting for 2020: the election of the President is a Friday news dump. I’ll take it :-)
Gravenstone
@Ramiah Ariya: Wonder which would win; Trump’s narcissism and spite at being rejected which would keep him from campaigning for anyone not him, or his greed and lust for adulation which would have in front of as many crowds (and pulling as many checks) as he could manage?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Betty Cracker: “SorosFAFieldSation4123”
Woodrow/asim
@e julius drivingstorm: Abrams is still heads-down for the 2 GA Senate runoffs.
After that, I expect she’ll take a well-deserved break, then start working to unseat Kemp. I don’t think she has any real interest in National politics, at this time.
Moreover: What she did is powerful, yet not magic — Obama did similar in 1992 in IL, helping to get Bill Clinton elected in the process.
Therefore: You need to fund and train eager people who understand the local/state landscape around voting patterns. Trying to put a top-down national effort in place is unwieldy and risks ensuring a cookie-cutter approach that is highly likely to fail.
Yarrow
I saw this live. It was amazing.
The Moar You Know
@dmsilev: Denial is a potent drug. He’s gonna spend the next three months burning their shitty party to the ground.
Spanky
@Omnes Omnibus: Ours actually was FBIvan36 for quite some time. Until the missus noticed.
Gravenstone
@Betty Cracker: Byedon!!
Danielx
@germy:
In black Sharpie, no doubt.
Kristine
MSNBC won’t call it yet. NBC Director of Elections still waiting for more numbers, trends in outstanding counts.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Normies.
rikyrah
I cried this morning when I saw Georgia
I am ????? now
Yarrow
@PenAndKey: Yes, good point. In any case he’ll attack them for “letting him down” and “not supporting Trump enough” and so forth. He’s a narcissist and things are either good for Trump or bad for Trump in the way he views the world. When he loses, these Republicans were obviously “bad for Trump” because they didn’t do whatever it took to win him the election.
germy
Yes, and Lindsey Graham knows this.
I think this is why Graham is donating half a million dollars to Trump’s “Steal the Election” campaign.
Graham doesn’t want a sleep-deprived and raging Trump to say “…And let me tell you what I know about Lindsey…”
Ramiah Ariya
@Gravenstone: The only thing that can stop him is the billion dollars in dues coming up or any investigations finding criminality. I also think Don Jr will be a super star in the Republican Party.
LurkerNoLonger
@Betty Cracker: Fuckyourfeelings
Lyrebird
@Baud: Yes indeed!
Insert big ol quote of Adam’s explanation of the Biden coalition here for the record…
Which is not to say that includes all the poll workers. Big respect to all of them for keeping on going in all this mess.
Baud
@Woodrow/asim:
QFT.
Mo Salad
@Betty Cracker: BidenIsOURPresident?
Danielx
@Betty Cracker:
may I suggest NotAnyMore
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: When the AP calls it.
cope
@Betty Cracker: Gee, none of my neighbors gave douchey names to their home networks. How about naming your network whatever the final electoral college result is, say 293/245?
mad citizen
Been waiting for the moment to blow some air horn into my immediate area. Was thinking high noon instead of timing it to any specific call. Then thought, maybe after our weekly tornado siren test thingy at 11 a.m. Maybe I should just do a short blast at the top of each hour.
I have a 2005 audio CD from the worldcan’twait.org, who are still fighting these fascists. It’s from Studs Terkel. I remembered it as being much more strident that it actually is. There must be one from a live rally somewhere that I can’t locate. Here is the text from Studs–we’ve been fighting this crap for a long while:
It’s time we assert ourselves,
And said to these outrageous liars
Who offended our sense of decency
And native intelligence
It’s time to BUGGER OFF!
Get lost!
And let’s unite on behalf of peace and sanity
and all that makes life rich and worthwhile.
Tom Paine was perhaps the most eloquent visionary
of the American Revolution.
His book, “Common Sense,” sold a couple of hundred thousand copies.
The population was hardly four or five million,
which means, of course, people read it.
It was a best seller for years.
He says, in that,
“Let us not let them confuse reason with treason.
Enough of that nonsense.”
OUT!
VAMOOSE,
Bush administration!
What I’m saying, really, is:
The World Can’t Wait!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!
germy
Omnes Omnibus
@Yarrow: Fair enough.
Yarrow
@TheTruffle: I think they’ll have to disinfect the White House. Like, literally because of Covid. But also they’ll have to do a very thorough sweep for bugs, cameras, bombs, etc.
Amir Khalid
I look forward to The Lincoln Project’s celebration video.
Ramiah Ariya
I also think that there will be an effort to get rid of the official notes and transcriptions of various calls he has had as President with foreign leaders. Biden must announce some kind of warning for govt officials assisting in any such purges of records.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
Oh, of course! I thought that was implicit.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: Jesus, it reads like Baghdad Bob.
Josie
@Amir Khalid:
I was sure I would not cry until I watched this. Thanks, I think.
Yarrow
Brian Stelter has seen some Fox memos saying anchors, hosts, etc. to “avoid calling Biden the President-elect” because of ongoing frivolous election lawsuits.” Super dangerous.
Gravenstone
@Ramiah Ariya: Don jr is going to be running from the same legal avalanche related to Trumpworld as Don is. Plus he’s a bigger fucking idiot than his old man. He may try to make a name in the party, but I imagine he’s also going to have to contend with the coattails of his dad’s unpersoning (as will the remaining family).
Omnes Omnibus
Move on up.
NotMax
Got
MilkBlue?Mike in NC
We all knew from the day Fat Bastard rode down that escalator that he was setting himself up as our very own Putin: dictator for life. He will never leave the White House except in a body bag.
catatonia
I think this kind of applies today too:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWE4OzQdjPk
Amir Khalid
@germy:
They’re all angry spoiled children, just like their boss.
Starfish
@Betty Cracker: ByeDon is your new WiFi name, but I see Alison Rose got there first.
montanareddog
@Betty Cracker: I frequent a hostelry near a big tourist attraction and have a very offensive phrase about Trump as the mobile hotspot name on my smartphone. So when tourists are in the cafe and searching for WiFi that is what they see. I guess I can change the hotspot name to something suitable for a grown up soon
germy
Thread:
Dorothy A. Winsor
CNN reports that the FOX staff has been told they can’t say Biden won.
Bex
In honor of efgoldman: Trump and the Republicans? fuckem.
JPL
@Starfish: perfect
ellenr
@frosty: Thirded.
Yarrow
@Betty Cracker: I’d choose something with Biden’s name on it. Make them see it every fucking day.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
No one is saying it until they officially call Pennsylvania.
Frankensteinbeck
I would love a thread by Adam about Putin resigning, because I can’t even imagine what will happen in Russia.
Also, be calm about the next couple of months, folks. Trump will throw a meaningless tantrum. The courts have already laughed at him. He will have a brief period of trying to get revenge, but there isn’t much he can do and malignant narcissists attack their minions and allies first. He may never concede, but who cares? Mostly, he’s about to check out. His only interest in the presidency now will be covering up for when he’s prosecuted after leaving. He will do that in mind-bendingly stupid ways. But all that ‘burn the country to the ground’ stuff that has made the last four years a nightmare? There is nothing in it for him anymore. His pure transactionalism will make these two months relatively quiet. He might even stop rubber stamping whatever McConnell sends him, or flee the country.
The MAGAs will briefly thrash in fury and then sink into whiny depression. There might be some small scale terrorist acts in the next few weeks, which sucks, but no campaigns of violence or anything. The Secret Service is very good at what they do, thank goodness, because Biden is the only real target.
There was no Barr Brownshirt squad. Trump’s voters did not turn out with weapons to intimidate voters nationwide. The Tara Reade and Hunter Biden stories not only flopped, but protected Biden from future attacks with the ‘crying wolf’ process. The military did not turn out to gun down protestors. And so on. Trust me when I say this: It’s all over but the whining.
Baud
@Bex: Hear, hear.
Warren Senders
From Tuesday till today has been the longest fifty years of my life. And from 2016 until today has been the longest geological epoch I’ve ever lived through.
The next seven weeks are going to be absolutely bizarre. I think Trump’s impending meltdown will be spectacular, and will likely damage more than a few R senators and congresscritters.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Edmund Dantes: Are we still going to get the taco trucks? I hope so!
Llelldorin
OK! Now we have to gear right the heck back up again for the two GA special elections, since they’ll determine Senate control.
rikyrah
@EveryDayIhaveTheBlues:
I want it on a T-shirt ?
PenAndKey
Man, I miss that cranky bastard. I wish he could have seen this.
Yarrow
@Dorothy A. Winsor: What Brian Stelter said is that Fox can say Biden won but they can’t say he’s President-elect. Jake Tapper said if the news people there go along with it they should hand in their journalist cards.
Sab
@Tony Jay: Robert MacDougall Canadian historian wrote that in 2008 and lived to regret it. And he, unlike most Canadians, actually likes us.
SiubhanDuinne
@hueyplong:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg,_Pennsylvania
danielx
@TheTruffle:
Well, they’ve been flinging shit at the walls for four years, so I would anticipate a major cleanup is in order.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I hate to be a dark cloud today, but that might have been a Hillary thing. Based on the past couple of weeks around here though, döner kebab vans might be a good thing for the Biden admin.
Yarrow
@Baud: No, the memos are for WHEN Biden wins. Not for now. When Biden wins they are instructing all on-air talent not to call him President-elect. It’s really dangerous.
Amir Khalid
My favourite song of celebration.
Omnes Omnibus
@Llelldorin: Let’s take today to be happy.
satby
yeah, I played this for the market rednecks ?
germy
@Yarrow:
Kamala’s name might hurt even more.
Yarrow
LOL.
Martin
@Betty Cracker: Fuckyourfeelings
James E Powell
FOX people are hilarious. They are stuck in denial and they are very angry.
Did they not see this coming the last two days
Is this just an act for their audience?
patrick II
So, do you think the SC will still declare ACA unconstitutional after the court case’s champion has lost, or are they so obeisant to the originalist rule of law they will remove health insurance for 23 million people anyway? And how will that affect the Senate runoffs?
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@TheTruffle: Doug Jones would be a good pick for Attorney General. He’s got relevant experience, even.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: Speaking of… Has anyone seen Jay lately?
West of the Rockies
Absolutely fanastic!
Baud
@James E Powell:
They actually have a good decision desk, so I’m guessing an act. But who understands the wingnut mind and the worlds they create for themselves.
Matt McIrvin
@different-church-lady: I think celebrating helps–we need to emphasize a correct perception that Joe Biden has won legitimately, and in PA it looks like it’s not even going to be in recount territory. We need to make it embarrassing for Republicans to follow Trump’s delusions.
Alison Rose
Come on, damn it
hueyplong
@SiubhanDuinne: Sweet.
My google “skills” apparently aren’t.
Baud
@patrick II:
The decision will come down after the run-offs. But the GOP keeping the Senate makes a bad decision more likely.
MFA
[Sits down at card table outside Philly vote count, tapes to front of table a sign which reads:]
“Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. Change my mind.”
Matt McIrvin
@patrick II: I think the ruling comes down long after the Senate runoffs.
MFA
Our Dong national nightmare is over.
Baud
@Alison Rose: That’s BS. They never wait for all the votes to be counted.
Immanentize
@Spanky: Mine is “TheCatPalace”. And it’s staying that way.
topclimber
@Yarrow: In fairness to Fox (fuck ’em), Biden isn’t President Elect until the EC says so. Techni-bullshittily speaking of course.
MFA
4T58T6D!
Croaker
Two men arrested overnight in Center City near convention center. Heavily armed.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/11/06/2-heavily-armed-men-found-outside-pennsylvania-convention-center-taken-into-custody-as-police-investigate-threat-of-attack/
Good news inside they processing 10,000 votes per hour.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: I have another contender
Bitter MAGA Tears
p.a.
Just logged in at 10:11am est????????????????????????????
Want extra ?s? Think about what the lampreys and remoras around the lame duck are having to deal with now??????????????! Wouldn’t be surprised if the Bidens can’t move in until the feces are cleaned off the WH walls.
And to paraphrase S Gamgee, I won’t consider it over until this mess is cleaned up.
SW
All the whining about the polling being off is goofy too. In the end Biden’s margin is going to be north of 7% nationally. That’s not far off from the 7-10% margin in the national polls. State polls are on the other hand notoriously uneven. We won or are winning fucking Georgia folks! We made Texas howl! We will probably end up with the same number of electoral votes 306? that Trump characterized as the greatest landslide ever just four years ago. With a four million vote victory in the bargain. And the Senate? Well, we got Colorado. Run off’s in Georgia. Yes, slippery Sue escaped the noose. And Ernst came back in the end. Cunningham couldn’t keep his dick in his pants (you can’t plan for that). And after all that there is still a long shot chance at a 50-50 Senate. We showed up. We are stronger than they are. Look at the map. We are the economic and intellectual and creative engine of the nation and we are growing. The future belongs to us. We really should be feeling a lot better about this than a lot of folks seem to be right now. The next six to eight months are going to be hard. The country is going to need a villain. Let’s give them McConnell.
Immanentize
@patrick II: Certainly, the Biden administration will likely ask for the Court to hold the case (until next term?) so they might re-brief it.
Omnes Omnibus
I like the way you think.
hueyplong
@Betty Cracker: I’d go with “antifaVP”
I constantly tell people I’m an executive VP of antifa.
Prove I’m not.
We’re a shadowy organization.
SFAW
@Bex:
You beat me to it. I wish he were here. [Plenty of others, of course, but him in particular.]
Kattails
@Amir Khalid: As you wish.
(Aragorn’s speech at the black gate)
dexwood
Damn, I love this place. Thanks for being here Balloon Juice.
My neighbors, who took their Biden signs down early Wednesday morning, just put them back up again.
topclimber
@Baud: But probably do wait until the votes left won’t change the outcome no matter how much the LOSER gets.
cope
Hmmmm, I feel like I was invited to a kegger, got here and there’s no keg.
Marcopolo
@Woodrow/asim: Yeah, imagine if some of the hundreds of millions of dollars that went to Senate campaigns this cycle had gone to hiring & training more on the ground field organizers instead of TV ads.
Its one thing for Bloomberg to piss his money away, but a lot of them wasted my money (as tiny as that amount was) on those ads.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
I’m not on Twitter so can’t vote directly, but TrumpIsALoser works for me.
Tony Jay
@Sab:
2008? Are you saying Cliff Richard (who’s Cliff Richard? Only the singer/songwriter Elvis Presley could have been) borrowed Obama’s Hot-Dunk Time-Machine and did a ‘My Lovely Horse’ to almost but not quite win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968?
These very British pop-culture references doing anything for ya?
Sorry, I’m giddy.
Gravenstone
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Seems obscenely meta that news organizations are reporting on what is going on in other ‘news’ organizations. Yet here we are.
No name
This day does not belong to one man,
But to all.
Let us together rebuild this world
That we may share in the
Days of Peace.
patrick II
Johathan Turley is still opinionating on FOX news. Just not on camera.
Yarrow
@topclimber: The Fox memos are for WHEN BIDEN WINS. Not for now when he hasn’t officially won. When Biden officially wins Fox News has instructed its on-air talent – EVERYONE, including journalists – not to use the phrase “President-elect Biden.” It’s because of the frivolous lawsuits. That’s really dangerous for democracy and our country.
Immanentize
@Alison Rose: Small nitpick — That is a weird construction….
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden
OR
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
But they mixed them
Llelldorin
@Omnes Omnibus:
Fair enough! We can move on from beating the orange head to beating the purple hands tomorrow.
Luciamia
@Allen: Im all all for just chanting, “You’re fired!”
Martin
Regarding Dem messaging. I live in the district that was the standard bearer for the intellectual GOP for like half a century. Katie Porter barely won this district and won reelection by at least 9 points. That’s a LOT. It’s so much that the GOP didn’t spend a penny here. That’s a big deal.
And Porter isn’t a centrist. She’s for M4A. I’d say she’s right in the middle of the Dem party, a bit to the left of Nancy. But she’s really good at fundraising, really good at reaching her voters, really good at raising her profile by working hard and doing the job in a much more dynamic way than a lot of other Dems. I’d be willing to be all of you saw more of Katie than Steney Hoyer over the last 2 years. That’s why she walked to victory here, and *she* had coattails. This is now a D+9 district, and a D+9 county. That’s astounding.
So I don’t exactly buy this theory that Dems have a shitty message, that they’re too far left. I think we have some shitty messengers. And I think some proposals such as ‘defund the police’ is really destructively labeled, but the underlying concept is sound. So, I don’t think there are big problems here, nothing that some smart leadership can’t fix.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks for the laugh. I expect the neighbor, if he sees that and freaks, is the kind of guy who has “PASSWORD” or “12345678” as his password.
clay
@narya: How about this:
WITCH-KING OF ANGMAR-A-LAGO: No man can defeat me.
*Joe Biden stabs the wraith in the leg, causing it to stumble*
KAMALA HARRIS rips off her helmet: I am no man!
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wait, a Biden victory might get us döner kebabs? The good news just got better!
Martin
@patrick II: Well, I should hope not.
JPL
@Martin: We suck at phrasing, imo.
topclimber
@Yarrow: Wow, that’s even more wacko than I thought. Maybe they have to save their legal budget for all the folks who will come after them for recklessly spreading COVID lies.
MazeDancer
@dexwood:
Have had my Biden-Harris sign up since Monday. With the American flag – lit at night – next to it.
Not coming down til Biden speaks.
montanareddog
@hueyplong:
It seems that Knock-off Handbag Barbie has been quiet recently too. Some people have an inate sense of self-preservation perhaps.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@germy: Agreed
MoCA Ace
First good Friday new dump in four fucking years. America wins!
Omnes Omnibus
@clay: I am not sure that casting the President-Elect as Merry works.
Tazj
@Edmund Dantes: Yes, to taco trucks and to ice cream trucks !
I hope everyone can relax and enjoy the win today.
patrick II
FOX news is undercutting the legitimacy of Pennsylvania’s vote because the governor would not allow Republican poll watchers. They are saying it is a tragedy because it harms the legitimacy of the Pennsylvania vote.
What is with their claim of no Republican poll watchers? I assume there were and it’s a lie.
I think it helps immensly that Pennsylvania only counted the votes received by Nov 3 for Biden to get ahead. It would have been a scary court case otherwise. The margin will get bigger.
debit
@PenAndKey: Remember Palin’s bid to remain relevant post loss. She went from mini series to book tours to a studio in her home to grifting podcast to random domestic violence police reports.
Trump is going to TRY. But once his fans realize his rallies will just be repeats of his Serious Injury list (Joe Biden squeezed and pulled and hurt my neck in 2020) they will dwindle to a small crowd consisting of my dad and Rich Lowry.
Yarrow
I took down signs. I fear there will be violence and don’t want to be a target.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: No, dessert offerings have been sparse here.
cope
@cope: Oh well, at least the people are friendly.
SFAW
@JCJ:
With which we can have a Döner Party?
Martin
@a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio: Jones is nice. I want Preet. He knows where the bodies are buried and enjoys twisting the knife. I want vindictive, not nice. I want SDNY in the drivers seat.
Cameron
So, for the first time in months, I can write ‘TGIF” and mean it. OT, did anybody else read about Steve Bannon’s come-to-ISIS moment when he called for the beheading of Dr. Fauci and Chris Wray?
prostratedragon
[Relaxing muscles that have been tensed for four years]
Omnes Omnibus
@Yarrow: You don’t need signs to be happy. Just be happy.
dexwood
@MazeDancer: I kept my sign up, too, kept my hope alive. What I didn’t do was have a bottle or two of champagne chilling. I’m heading out soon to correct that serious lack of attention to detail.
SFAW
@patrick II:
They were complaining that 19/20 feet away from the poll workers was too far for them to fuck with the count, so they got it reduced to six feet.
Keith P.
I bet there’s a major run on liquor stores this evening.
Martin
@patrick II: There were. In fact, when the GOP brought the suit yesterday, the judge required that the GOP lawyer state on the record that republican poll watchers were there. He then allowed them to stand 6 feet away instead of 20 feet away.
LurkerNoLonger
I’ve been waiting to post this since Tuesday: https://images.app.goo.gl/uiks4NUEa8bGcFvU6
patrick II
If we ever get a Supreme Court majority again, and I was the president who selected them, I would insist that any law passed by the house get a vote in the Senate or the House version of the law would go into effect. Having one guy stop democracy will be the inevitable failure of the country.
And any Supreme Court judge nominated by the president will get a vote.
Martin
@Cameron: Yeah, I think he’s going to regret calling for the assassination of the current head of the FBI.
Ocotillo
Oh, by the way, Mrs. O and I are celebrating our anniversary today (18 years). We would like to thank Georgia and Pennsylvania for their wonderful gift.
Kent
@Capri: they’ll keep taking his calls. Ratings! Train wrecks and plane crashes get great ratings.
montanareddog
@Martin: I was thinking that Doug Jones is too nice, too, but couldn’t think of an alternative – thanks for suggesting Preet.
Gloves have to come off now. Unlikely that the Dems will win both the GA Senate run-offs and the SC is going to be a big problem. AG Preet’s first job – special counsel to investigate Boof O’Kavanagh’s perjury and mysteriously disappearing “baseball ticket” debts
clay
@germy: I think Lindsey SAYING he’ll donate half-a-million is different than Lindsey ACTUALLY donating half-a-million. He is becoming a Trump, after all…
James E Powell
@patrick II:
Rachel Campos was on a tirade. She made a string of claims of fraud and abuse and high treason. When they threw it to the FOX democrat for a response, he said there was no evidence of any of that, she started shouting over him and continued until the host said, okay we have to leave it there.
Ksmiami
@JPL: yes from now on Republicans should be called either the party of do nothings or death. Over and over till they cry Uncle
Martin
@MazeDancer: Ours are staying up until Inauguration. Did that with Obama. Not taking any chances.
dmsilev
Hah.
clay
@Omnes Omnibus: He seems pretty merry to me!
Kathleen
@SiubhanDuinne: Thank you. Wise words.
JPL
@montanareddog: Sally Yates!
sdhays
When I saw this, I texted my parents, who are currently driving through Pennsyltucky to see their 1.5 year old grandson for the first time since March. My mom texted me back saying that my dad wanted to pull over and cry. The signage there is apparently…not heartening.
It sure is going to be a happy visit!
Omnes Omnibus
@clay: I will cut you.
Gravenstone
@Martin: Maybe he just misses jail food.
The Moar You Know
You know what I’m looking forward to again? White House dogs! And Biden’s are stunning.
If nothing else I’d hope that America would have at least learned the lesson that someone who “doesn’t like animals” is a fucking freak who will inevitably come to a bad end.
Ruckus
@David Anderson:
Best reply so far…..
UncleEbeneezer
@Spanky: FUCK(Neighbor’sName)SFEELINGS
germy
Interesting theory. He could be just showboating for the cameras, but Trump would still be expecting that money.
You’re right, though. They all lie.
Quinerly
@Yarrow: I have some really neat Dem and Left leaning bumper stickers on my car that have been there since 2015, along with all my NP and SP stickers. I’m thinking of peeling off the political ones. I’m in the City of St. Louis so never had any problems but I may want to actually leave the city at some point again.
Another Scott
Good, good. And well done Georgia!!
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bjga22020?refcode=thermometer
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bjos2020?refcode=thermometer
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1
Donated. Let’s do this!!
Cheers,
Scott.
sdhays
@Ocotillo: Happy Anniversary!
different-church-lady
@SFAW: Maybe he found some levers to work for us up there.
germy
Subsole
@TheTruffle: Oh god I want Jones for AG.
Can. You. Imagine.
Gravenstone
@dmsilev: Once again, Trump doesn’t have to leave the presidency. It will leave him on 1/20/21.
germy
SFAW
From CNN:
Feel them walls a-closing in, Donnie?
Quinerly
@Ocotillo: ?
montanareddog
@JPL: also a good idea!
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not sure I’m at happy yet. I’m so relieved I can hardly function.
Subsole
@hueyplong: I’d hold them at Appomattox. Just so everyone’s on the same page.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Shit, I’ve been spelling Wikler with a C.
Do you know what the shaving his head thing was about???
sdhays
@SFAW: I can’t say I’m surprised, but I am enjoying the moonwalking away from old Donnie by Republican officials as it’s clear he has lost. There was a lot of bluster before the election, but as it becomes clear Dump’s a LAME duck, pretty much no one except the washed up has been clowns with no actual power like Rudy and Newt have his back.
Except for Lindsey. Since the voters of South Carolina aren’t going to do it, I hope something rids us of that shithead sooner rather than later.
NotMax
@montanareddog
Doug Jones
Preet Bharara
Sally Yates
.
Plenty more from which to choose, it’s a deep bench.
Suzanne
I’m not seeing it called yet….
Subsole
@Tim C.: ’83. Yub yub is superior.
Subsole
@zhena gogolia: LOL @ agolf.
Croaker
Because words are hard and pundits and show people on TV don’t understand.
In PA, you can appoint Watchers for the polls, but they must be a resident and qualified elector of that County. The Campaign may have attorneys present. At last report I believe there were in excess 500+ for both campaigns.
The other Silly stuff yesterday was the distance they were standing from the clerks.
germy
Felanius Kootea
Oh – waking up to this in CA is amazing! I’m so relieved.
Wooohooo!!
The Thin Black Duke
@Mike in NC: “Your proposal is acceptable.”
mali muso
Echoing what others have said…don’t know what I would have done without this outpost of sanity. Jackals are the best company. :)
Let’s go win the Georgia Senate races in January!
bluehill
@Betty Cracker: AmericaIsGreatAgain
Omnes Omnibus
@Yarrow: I think that is a form of happy.
@WaterGirl: No clue. Maybe a bet or a promise to the team?
Ruckus
I have purposely tried to stay out of the fray, for my sanity, such as it is.
But I have been checking in every so often and I have to say, that we may need a bit of introspection, in that so many have been so on edge that we often seem to be taking it out on each other. I could be mistaken.
Healthy discussion is not just fine it is absolutely necessary in a democracy, a word which I say one of the definitions is “Having a need to discuss, compromise, and decide a best course, in politics. Not name calling and being always pissed off.” Granted we all have been and are being tested to about the maximum of my lifetime, and that includes fighting 2 wars, that both in retrospect seem to be totally unnecessary, especially as in how and why they were carried out.
Subsole
@Omnes Omnibus: I saw someone describe Trumpism as discount Scientology, and y’know? I can see it.
WaterGirl
@e julius drivingstorm: A new cabinet-level position for Democracy, Fair Elections, and Voting Rights.
Just Chuck
@amorphous: There is no political will to charge up tens of millions of Trumpanzees by going after him at a federal level when he leaves office. There just isn’t. He’ll never see the inside of a federal courthouse.
Which is why we can leave it to the states, notably New York, to nail him first.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: Not the time.
germy
Another Scott
@Betty Cracker: You could twist the knife with a smile on your face by picking a snippet of the Preamble:
EstablishJustice
InsureDomesticTranquility
PromoteTheGeneralWelfare
SecureTheBlessingsOfLiberty
etc.
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
James E Powell
I feel that if the facts were the same, but in Trump’s favor, that the networks would call it now.
It’s like the whole press/media has to protect the feelings of Trump and the right-wing hordes.
MoCA Ace
I’m Ok with those terms. (I’m sure I’m not the first here)
Subsole
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: And if not him, his worthless fuckup failkids.
TriassicSands
I’m sorry but it can’t be over until the fat baby sings!
And since this is now the greatest political crime in the history of the universe — taking over for the Impeachment witch hunt crime; the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax crime ; the Obama spying on Trump crime; and the more than 3,000,000 illegal votes cast for Hillary in 2016 crime, which cost Trump his rightful popular vote victory — the fat baby won’t sing until the SCOTUS stabs him in the back, which he knows will never happen because six justices work directly for him and the other three are traitors.
Besides, the fat baby has already declared himself the winner and THAT’S FINAL!!!
trollhattan
Hey, look at that:
-Friday
-First fall weather of the season
-A new president
Will take it!
frosty
@Ocotillo: It’s our anniversary too (39). Happy Anniversary to us!!
clay
@Omnes Omnibus: Can I at least get credit for “Witch-King of Angmar-a-lago”?
WaterGirl
@Baud: Pay per view.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ocotillo: @frosty: Hey, stop trying to horn in on Joe and Kamala’s day. Seriously though, happy anniversary.
horatius
@e julius drivingstorm: Eric Holder is already on it. Although he failed in his mission in 2020.
catclub
my guess is zero or two. people know what is at stake.
Actually i take it back. The woman loses, the man wins.
misogyny is a thing.
tallred
I’m relieved, but there’s more to fight for. I just donated a couple of Benjis more each to Rev. Warnock and Fair-Fight for at least one of the GA runoffs, and will donate more to Ossoff if he scores a runoff as well. As a denizen of Karen Bass’s district, my votes simply contribute to landslides, but my donations at least let me feel as though I’m helping.
I stopped all of my monthly recurring ActBlue donations for all of the Dem Senate challengers plus Peters and Doug Jones, so my only recurring donations now are for ActBlue technical services and Fair-Fight, who are both doing the Lord’s Work. Stacey Abrams will get my support for any and all endeavors she pursues for as long as I can afford it. She’s not only a hero, she’s an effective hero.
Omnes Omnibus
@clay: Yeah, that was cool.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
I like Nancy and she has done an amazing job. But I think he’s right. At some point it’s always time to retire, hand off the baton and relax. All good competitors should go out in style and grace when it’s time. And this may be time for her.
But you are also correct that her successor needs to be named first, that she gets to help chose who that might be and that if you call for a champion’s retirement, due respect means that someone who is their equal is named.
mad citizen
Will throw this Cracker tune in for the exit playlist, “Torches and Pitchforks” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MlpakTP24I
Trump is such a small man. Just read trade news and Trump took away the Chairmanship at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from the Mitch McConnell protege, apparently on Thursday. This is what he spends time doing, why? Surely a spite move to Mitch.
WaterGirl
@Aleta: I think her books are slightly risqué romance novels.
Subsole
@Frankensteinbeck: All true. Not that we shouldn’t keep kicking the everliving shit out of them.
As far as Putin, I expect he’ll be the power behind the throne no matter what. He doesn’t want to be a Brezhnev figure.
mad citizen
@Ruckus: Guessing she will still want to be Speaker for the State of the Union event.
Luciamia
Damn. A new President and a new episode of GBBO!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Yarrow:
Mark my words – there will be no transition. Dipshit will keep sitting at the resolute desk and watch his phone lights go blank at noon on January 21, and will run around a mostly empty White House shouting “turn the machines back on” like Don Ameche’s Mortimer Duke in Trading Places.
Glyph2112
First, I bet deep down trump is glad to have loss since he never really wanted to workin the first place. Second, as long as he has a phone and Fox News we will hear from him daily because he needs the attention. The only questions are how long does fox keep answering the phone, how long before his cult followers lose interest, and if the coming investigations cut into his executive time.
Subsole
@patrick II: I can see them being awfully circumspect. If they lose the senate, they will be in a WORLD of shit.
Bluegirlfromwyo
@germy: You can write a letter with a Sharpie? That won’t be happening and it’s probably for the best.
Subsole
@SW: Like I said below, if the other side wasn’t hurting right now they wouldn’t be trying so hard to play this off. We drew blood.
catclub
@mad citizen: i wonder if he will try to fire Powell, just to wreck things.
One of very few acceptable appointments he made.
[I think Biden should fire him and install Yellen.]
I bet he fires Wray – that actually makes it easier for Biden.
germy
Looking forward to hardworking, serious, competent and organized people in the White House again.
Bluegirlfromwyo
@Betty Cracker: ItsVPKamalaSnowflake
NotMax
@Subsole
All I can say for sure is that with two runoffs upcoming, every TV or radio station owner in Georgia is shouting across the room to his/her spouse, “Honey, we can afford to get that yacht for Christmas after all!”
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Subsole
@Marcopolo: Yeah. There is an interesting ethical question though about sending people out to canvas during a Covid wave.
Another Scott
@Subsole: I think Jones has the perfect resume for heading the Civil Rights Division, myself. I don’t know who should be AG.
I also hope that Biden is able to pick a new FBI head and picks a strong Democrat for that. No more “moderate” Republicans. We need someone who understands and respects the Preamble to the Constitution there, and there for 10 years, to help straighten this country out.
Cheers,
Scott.
Leto
@Ocotillo:
@frosty:
happy anniversary, you two!
catclub
I am not sanguine.
If we don’t have the senate, McConnell can sabotage everything. The same senators that voted to acquit on impeachment will be in lockstep with him. There will be no stimulus, and voters will be FED UP in 2022 and throw out the bums.
Will they know who the bums really are?
JPopeC
So proud of my second city…another addition to the victory playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCjeDOFGxI
Subsole
@JPL: PHRASING!!!!!!!!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
The smart ones are running for the exits.
Subsole
@Martin: Ooooooo…that would be fun.
Leto
Another update from DelCo, PA (Delaware County): roughly another 2k votes for Biden. Lead is now 9207 votes.
Paul W.
One of the horrible meteors aimed at democracy has been knocked off it’s collision course. Lots more to do, but there is a path and this was a crucial and necessary step.
Subsole
@Ocotillo: Congratulations!
Nutmeg again
@pluky: and a BER-lin CT, also, too, in addition. I crack up each time I drive by the little highway sign that says, “East Berlin”.
James E Powell
@Another Scott:
Don’t we have any younger people. I like a lot of the people who are proposed for cabinet posts, but I feel like we need younger people for our brand. Is that shallow? Yes, it is.
O. Felix Culpa
Biden’s PA lead continues to grow. Now at 9,027. An estimated 136K votes remaining to be counted and Biden is currently averaging nearly 87% of the count.
Thank you to James Powell for recommending this site.
Subsole
@frosty: And congratulations to you too!
Miss Bianca
Damn, I am supposed to be writing an article and I cannot stop surfing this site and now I cannot stop smiling.
WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON!
Another Scott
@James E Powell:
Mark Herring is 59. He’s been excellent as AG in Virginia. Really, really good.
There are lots of excellent people on Team D that we don’t hear about. I’m sure Biden will cast a wide net.
Cheers,
Scott.
mad citizen
@catclub: I got it. We offer Romney a trade for his votes, we’ll erase all evidence of his WH run.
AnotherBruce
@Martin: What’s the over/under on Bannon’s sentence. I say 10 years and take the over.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ocotillo:
Congratulations! Eighteen is L’Chaim! A most auspicious number.
Another Scott
Good, good.
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@frosty:
Happy anniversary to you and Mrs. Frosty!
Miss Bianca
@Spanky: @Betty Cracker:
I concur. : )
SiubhanDuinne
@Luciamia:
And the new season of The Crown starts Sunday week (17 November), and two days later is the release of Obama’s memoir, A Promised Land, which I preordered the day the pub date was announced.
This is shaping up to be a fine November.
AlanM
@Tony Jay: Nice. Probably my favourite Cliff song.
AnotherBruce
I imagine Hillary is having a good day!
Mike E
@Bluegirlfromwyo: MadameVicePresident :)
Warblewarble
HAVE PAULA WHITES ANGELS NOT ARRIVED YET?
WaterGirl
@Ocotillo: I had no idea that 19 years was the “2 states” anniversary! Of course, the only other ones I think I really know are “paper” and “gold”.
TheTruffle
@WaterGirl: I have been misspelling Wikler’s name, too.
He has a huge future, that’s for sure.
Next up: give Mayor Pete a cabinet job too?
SFAW
@pluky:
Berlin, MA, even has bumper stickers telling the “rubes”* how to pronounce it.
*If you can be called a “rube” by someone from a farm town of less than 3000 people.
TheTruffle
@Warblewarble: Blame Stephen Miller. He barred anyone from “shithole countries.”
burnspbesq
@Betty Cracker:
“NOHEAINT’
J R in WV
@SFAW:
Neighbor’s wireless network is called Southern Division FBI Surveillance Van 003 — no one tries to log into that network! Plus we live in the woods…
Ocotillo
@frosty: And to you as well!
burnspbesq
@Martin:
Maura Healy checks more boxes than Preet. I’d rather see Preet as head of the Criminal Division or chair of the SEC.
Neal Katyal seems the obvious choice for Solicitor General, as does Marty Lederman for head of OLC. And I wouldn’t be surprised to see Andrew Ceresney as U.S. Attorney for SDNY.
sgrAstar
@montanareddog: Sally Yates is on Biden’s transition team and is rumored to have the inside track on the AG job. Imo, she’d be great.
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A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@clay: That was semi-brilliant :-)
Groucho48
@Gin & Tonic:
And, let’s not forget Jo Jorgensen who gave Dems the win in Georgia, Arizona, and, possibly, Pennsylvania.
Tim Posh-looking in a mask
“And it will be glorious” is a classic response, but you really have to say in Bela Lugosi’s voice for it to work.