2020 Election Results 5: The Nightmare Is Over (For now)

[adidas]

4 hours ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

They just admitted on CNN that because Trump is attacking the process they are being cautious about calling the remaining states and won't do it until it's statistically impossible for him to come back.

It's gonna be a while.

Ex-President Trump is a bully, but we all knew that already.

[Destiny]

3 minutes ago, Zebedee said:

@DestinyOMG, that is infinitely grosser, and infinitely more hilarious than I could ever imagine! Not sure how I'll explain that to my German peeps who wonder why I call him Frothy! Hahaha, just knowing why this is his name is making listening to him babble is now tolerable. I've got half way through cooking a Thai (Thigh?) green curry. I might just leave it until tomorrow now. I need something soothing, like wine!

Oh, Gawd, it's so disgusting, I *almost* wish I hadn't asked, but given what Trump means in GB slang does make it so appropriate that Frothy is low-key sticking up for DJT. 

I find it hilarious, gross justice for his hate and vitriol toward the gay community. I'm not gonna lie, I totally participated in the Google Santorum campaign and have taken perverse delight in calling him Frothy for years. 

I'm not a curry girl, but can I come over for wine?

Edited November 7, 2020 by Destiny

[BookwormExtraordinaire]

5 minutes ago, WiseGirl said:

 

It's wonderful that so many people want to go out and celebrate, but crowds are not a good idea right now, even if it's outdoors and people are wearing masks. After all the precautions Biden took during his campaign to avoid the spread of Covid, it would be a pity if this day, which is supposed to be one of joy, results in the virus spreading even more.

[Audrey2]

Dear America, Dr.Jill Biden is what an intelligent educated accomplished first lady looks like. (She has a PHD and a passion for teaching.) Not the current one that Republicans like to push, Melania Trump. (And yes I know that we've had other first ladies who have definitely fit the bill. I'm so sick of Trump supporters mentioning how beautiful Melania is how classy and how she speaks five languages. (I have long suspected what I think she can say in five languages.)

And look Trump supporters, Jill Biden is even blonde like all of your female Fox news personalities.

Edited November 7, 2020 by Audrey2

[Zebedee]

@bird and who doesn't love Lord Buckethead?

[IrishCarrie]

The main evening news was just on Irish TV and was a half hour longer than usual as it had a US election special. Everyone on it, from the presenters to our Taoiseach (head of government) were GIDDY with delight that Joe had done it!!! ?

There wasn't any attempt to contain their joy and relief that we'd now be dealing with a rational grownup on Irish-American issues, particularly with the looming horror of Brexit and its impact on Northern Ireland.

I didn't realise that even aside from his Irish-American roots (he has 8 Irish great-grandparents apparently!) Joe has visited Ireland many times and has spoken many times about his feelings of love and connection with Ireland. I cried when I watched the announcement live on CNN but I cried again when I watched our own news and realised we now have an ally in the fight to prioritise the Good Friday Agreement in upcoming negotiations with Britain.

Joe is ours, we're claiming him like we did JFK!!! 

[Destiny]

1 minute ago, Zebedee said:

@bird and who doesn't love Lord Buckethead?

Lord Buckethead makes me smile every time I see pictures of him. 

[hoipolloi]

This is accurate, AFAICT:

[Zebedee]

6 minutes ago, Destiny said:

I'm not a curry girl, but can I come over for wine?

Of course! I won't be eating curry tonight either, now! But I do have half a dozen bottles of very nice Italian Primitivo, Montepulciano and Barbera (thanks, Lidl! They have an excellent selection here) so plenty to go round. Plus, Lidl is open until 10, another hour here, so I can do another quick booze run - well, walk - you guys are OK with kipping on the sofa, right?

[EmmieJ]

1 hour ago, clueliss said:

I went out for my daily walk and am playing catch up.  
 

interesting note from Claire about the Allegheny county ballot dump.  Military! Biden beat Trump on a wad of military ballots.  

 

When you refer to the men and women serving our country as suckers and losers, you will lose their respect (assuming you had it to begin with) and their votes.  

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, GOODBYE!

[Hane]

(Sung loudly and triumphantly to the tune of “YMCA”)

Donald, it’s your time to say bye, because 

Donald, at this news you will cry, and poor 

Donald, now you’d better get high, because

This just happened and now BOMP BOMP BOMP BOMP:

Joe is the big winner today!

Your whiny tweeting won’t get in his way!

All the ballots will count

And his numbers will mount

In a big blue cascading fount!

Donald, just get on your golf cart, and poor

Donald, please don’t take this to heart, or, yeah,

Donald, maybe you should just start 

To get a freaking clue, you dumb fart—

Joe won and his big win will stay!

 

[AnywhereButHere]

I love curry, but unfortunately there will be none tonight here either. There will however, be cake! It’s sort of red/white/blue themed! 

 

Edited November 7, 2020 by AnywhereButHere

[HerNameIsBuffy]

I've been frustratingly afk most of the day with life, but I want to say I really do love you guys and this community.

People talk all the time about bubbles.  We all have them, some due to chance and some we choose.  

While I do go out of my way to hear different political view points and even to read about the unbalanced in our country in an attempt to know what we're up against I've chosen FJ as my bubble.

My place to be amongst other Americans who see the horror of the last four years for what it was.  To be with people who share the same overarching goals for equality, fairness, and decency.  To be with people who can discuss candidate or policy disagreement with civility because we know reasonable people can disagree on some things with neither side being monsters.

And where we know there are some view points without moral equivalency and arguments for hate should never be dignified as equally valid opposing points of view.

And to those of you from all over the world.  The Netherlands, the UK, Australia, Germany, Scotland, Canada, Italy*...your fervent support for those of us here trying to do the right thing has been invaluable.  In some other popular internet forums where American political discussions are populated with international posters there is almost a default of assuming that those of us from the US represent and are represented by this administration. You don't do that here.  You don't paint us all with his racist brush nor act as if we should continually apologize for the accident of birth that makes us Americans.  The phrase NotAllAmericans has never entered my thoughts while reading on FJ.

No country is perfect, but I'll admit I've had more than a few moments of jealousy toward those of you from places with civilized leadership in the last four years.  I've not seen one of you lord it over Americans here or treat us as if all of our people are inherently inferior. You understand that it is our government and way too many of our fellow citizens supporting the tyrannical bent of a would-be despot.

You see us as people, not our government and it's allowed me to learn so much here because discussions were had without derision and defensiveness.

Would I feel like this about FJ if I were a Trump supporter?  No.  Are there probably lurking Trump supporters who hate read here and feast on liberal tears as they put it?  I have no doubt.  Hopefully it's helped inform them about other points of view.  Thanks for not shitting on the carpet.

When I joined FJ I was what I would call socially liberal but very fiscally conservative and my motivation in voting was first and foremost my own pocketbook.  I was a Republican and went independent when I felt the tea party and their ilk had made the GOP unrecognizable.  I was on the executive board of College Republicans when I was in school.  I wasn't a heartless person.  I abhorred white supremacy and police brutality, as a pacifist at no point in my life would I have supported violence in political action.  No iteration of past me would have voted for Trump.  

Even at my most selfish I couldn't have voted for someone I consider genuinely stupid.  Not a word I use lightly, btw.  

My very kind and empathetic mother volunteered and donated a lot of her time and money to good causes, food banks, helping the less fortunate but who saw the answer to these problems in people being more giving toward others on a personal level rather than the government.  She was inherently non-confrontational and hates the nastiness of politics and thus ignored it.  My dad thought all politicians were corrupt so you voted for the one whose corruption would benefit you and in our world that always meant tax cuts.

FJ played a large role in taking me out of my bubble, in exposing me to people affected by the government in ways I am not.  My eyes were opened here, simultaneously also in my career, to how many other things matter to other people.  And as I began to educate myself those things began to matter very much to me also.  

None of this came from one post in a moment of catharsis, nor did it come from blindly agreeing with people just because they were my FJ friends.  Blind agreement has never been my strong suit, much to the chagrin of my family.  It came from years of discussions on all kinds of threads that helped me see things differently.  And in some cases helped me strengthen my long held beliefs because I had to defend them with facts and sources.  

Is FJ a circle jerk on some issues in some ways?  Yeah.  That's why I deliberately seek out exposure to other view points elsewhere as well.  Is FJ a safe space?  Absolutely not, and I would never want it to be.  Anyone with any viewpoint can post here and as long as they are socially potty trained they have as much freedom to post as those who share more popular POVs here.  

But for this time in history I am glad FJ was a place that was here for me to come and restore emotional my emotional equilibrium after hearing of another instance of Trump and his goons wiping their ass with the constitution.  

As I sit here, in this moment, I wish I knew all of you personally.  After years of reading post after post overflowing with empathy, compassion, outrage over cruelty, and repudiation of hate I feel a closer kinship to you guys when it comes to this than anyone in my real life, with the exception of my kids.  Despite the anonymity I consider you guys so much more than screen names of randoms on the internet.  In a way I can't possibly explain or understand I consider you real friends.

I am riding high on an insane oxytocin rush from the learning his reign of terror won't continue for another four years, so I know I'm rambling.  I don't expect anyone to read all this, but my brain was demanding my fingers get busy and type this somewhere.  

TLDR:  I love you guys.  ❤️  Now to get caught up on the eleventy million posts I missed writing my version of War and Peace with this post.

 

 

 

 

 

[Gemini]

5 minutes ago, IrishCarrie said:

we now have an ally in the fight to prioritise the Good Friday Agreement in upcoming negotiations with Britain.

This is another reason I'm insanely happy about the result! The British government need to be put firmly back in their place. How dare they continue on this ridiculous path without a thought for the consequences. 

[onekidanddone]

 Wheels up Bunker Boy

Wheels fucking up 

? 

[AmazonGrace]

The Finnish PM.

[Black Aliss]

Oh, the irony! From the New York Times (which is not allowing comments on this article):

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Jodi Lavoie-Carnes, 48, a dental hygienist who lives in Dover, New Hampshire, supported President Trump for re-election. On Saturday, she was shocked and disturbed by the boisterous celebrations of Biden supporters, who had gathered in her town waving profane anti-Trump signs.

The tone was so negative that she wondered what lies ahead for the country.

“I’m like, are you serious?” she said. “The language doesn’t need to be there. My children need to drive by that.”

She said it was President-elect Biden’s responsibility to keep the tone of celebrations civil.

Oh, sweetie, have you been in a coma for the last four years? If your children are used to seeing BIPOC murdered by the police, and children being torn from their parents' arms and locked in cages, they're not likely to be traumatized by a little swear word. If they are old enough to read they are old enough to have heard those words many times before. Get down off your high horse and get over it.

[Destiny]

15 minutes ago, Zebedee said:

Of course! I won't be eating curry tonight either, now! But I do have half a dozen bottles of very nice Italian Primitivo, Montepulciano and Barbera (thanks, Lidl! They have an excellent selection here) so plenty to go round. Plus, Lidl is open until 10, another hour here, so I can do another quick booze run - well, walk - you guys are OK with kipping on the sofa, right?

I'll be right over! I can bring snacks!

[AmazonGrace]

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She said it was President-elect Biden’s responsibility to keep the tone of celebrations civil.

We don't believe in free speech any longer?

[kpmom]

19 minutes ago, hoipolloi said:

This is accurate, AFAICT:

And they could put Trump in the Lost popular vote circle too.  Twice!

[Vivi_music]

We are happy neighbours! ?

 

[thoughtful]

5 minutes ago, kpmom said:

And they could put Trump in the Lost popular vote circle too.  Twice!

Well, he is in there once - a second picture of him might confuse things. But a little arrow or asterisk with 2X might be nice.

Regardless, this might be my favorite venn diagram of all times.

[onekidanddone]

This might have gotten lost in the shuffle, but isn’t this infrastructure week?

[AmazonGrace]

 

 

[Jinder Roles]

Congrats American friends! (and me since I live here lol) 

While the biggest social issues can never be fully solved in this current political system, I am so happy that your country will no longer be run by a proto-fascist lunatic! 
 

He and the Republican Party tried to undo so much of the good that had been done within the system. 
 

 I hope the American people keep Biden/Harris accountable to their promises. 

FUCK TRUMP AND HIS DEPRAVED PARTY!!