Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
I have tears as I write this. I’m happy for one final time to embed for you, the live speeches by our newly elected leaders:
By the way: People have asked about these images. It does look like they are official campaign images, but only one is available on the website is Joe’s
Joyous celebration open thread!
Open Thread: PRESIDENT-Elect Biden and VICE PRESIDENT-Elect Harris LIVEPost + Comments (214)
What’s on your celebration playlists?
If you got just one song to send the dumpster fire on his way, what would it be?
I was going to go with Hit The Road Jack, but then a jackal sent me this one, and I think it’s hard to beat.
Any particular food that got you through? I started with chocolate chip cookies, baking one at a time when I needed them, and potato chips were my “break glass in case of emergency” food. Three times!
Open thread.
Oh, and this from one of our jackals (is so good, it deserves to be front paged.
An Inauguration Tune
Trump is gone, and none too soon!
Angry, smug, grotesque buffoon,
stupid-suited Pantaloon,
Queens brat trying to play tycoon,
piccolo posing as bassoon.
No more poison-gas balloon,
orange-caked, pale-eyed raccoon,
whose nightly hissing at the moon
has made this country his spittoon —
on January twentieth, at noon!
— Peter H. Desmond
Music To Celebrate – Na Na Na Na Hey Hey GoodbyePost + Comments (158)
We just have one last thing to say to Trump… pic.twitter.com/3UJgeGlwwP
— teri in new york (@terinewyork) November 6, 2020
Saturday Evening Open Thread: <em>Celebrate!</em>Post + Comments (147)
It’s amazing how light and carefree I feel. I know things are fucked up and bullshit and will be for the foreseeable future.
But earlier, I was on my way from one place to another, and something was nagging at me, this feeling that I was forgetting a tangible item. Then I realized it wasn’t tangible at all; it was the usual bundle of disgust and dread and national shame I’ve carried for four years. It was lighter. I felt that.
This illustration:
— Gina Touchton (@TouchtonGina) November 7, 2020
There’s a lot to worry about. But not this day. Open thread!
Let’s get started on Georgia for the January runoffs!
But first, a tweet from Stacey Abrams, where she shares the credit for Georgia’s flip!
So many deserve credit for 10yrs to new Georgia: @gwlauren @fairfightaction @nseufot @NewGAProject @AAAJ_Atlanta @GALEOorg @BlackVotersMtr Helen Butler @GeorgiaDemocrat @RebeccaDeHart DuBose Porter @DPGChair. Always John Lewis. Charge any omissions to my head. My heart is full.?
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) November 6, 2020
In a separate post, I’ll be highlighting some of the people and organizations that Stacey Abrams credited above.
In the meantime, here are some great links if you want to donate or get involved.
Fair Fight Georgia Volunteer request form
Warnock Volunteer request form.
GA Runoff Interest Form – fill this out if you want to help with the runoff
Jon Ossoff Campaign – get started here
Ossoff Upcoming Virtual Field Training
Donate to Fair Fight (hoping DougJ can make us a BJ thermometer, but in the meantime…)
Balloon Juice for Fair Fight
Donate to GASenate.com (donations split evenly between Ossoff, Warnock, and Fair Fight)
Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff! (starting at 311,771, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount)
Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff! (starting at 27,997, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount)
How to help in Georgia (from Sam Wang)
GA residents can register to vote online.
MazeDancer’s PostCard Patriots will be doing postcards for the runoff.
#PostcardsToVoters hasn’t officially announced that they’re doing Georgia campaigns for the runoffs, but it seems highly likely as they are based in Georgia.
VoteForward will have a letter campaign for the runoffs opening shortly as well.
Is anyone planning to get involved with the Georgia runoffs?
If you have any information to add, please add it in the comments.
…and what a woman she is!
She posted this after the election was called:
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1325119592130252801?s=20
And I was doing okay until this one:
https://twitter.com/DouglasEmhoff/status/1325121659519561730?s=20
and I really, really want to see Joe do a victory lap in his green Corvette:
