Classless to the end

 

Say goodbye to Don, Melania, and the kiddies

I'm sure that Jimmy Carter was disappointed when he lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980.  Still, Carter conceded, attended Reagan's Inauguration, and his wife Roslyn gave Nancy Reagan the customary White House tour.  Likewise, I'm sure George H.W. Bush was unhappy that he lost to Bill Clinton.  But like Carter, he conceded, attended Clinton's Inauguration, and his wife Barbara gave Hillary Clinton the White House tour.

It's about respect for our fellow Americans and the following of political traditions that have served our nation well.  It's about respecting the peaceful transition of power which we've celebrated for over two hundred years and is a hallmark of our democracy.  Hell, it's about having the maturity to accept defeat.

But not Donald Trump.  Not only did he fail to concede an election he lost handily, he couldn't be bothered to stay for today's inauguration.  He couldn't muster the slightest bit of decency to mention Joe Biden in his farewell address.  His wife Melania couldn't show the slightest courtesy to Dr. Jill Biden.

If Trump had handled the pandemic with a modicum of competence, chances are, even with all the other horrors of his Presidency, he probably would have won.  Had Trump surrounded himself with talented people, he might have had a better response to the pandemic and won.  

It's not Joe or Jill Biden's fault that Trump lost.   He need only take a good look in the mirror to see the only person who is to blame for his historic loss.

416,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Peace,

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Goodnight, shithead, now it's time to go...

 Not particularly original, but a most appropriate tune for Donald Trump's departure today:

411,000 Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Certified Tally--Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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One more day

 408,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Certified Talley--Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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The last time I saw Richard

 

401,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Certified Tally--Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Ahead of the curve

Why yes, yes he is

 Over the course of the last several days, at one time or another Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi have all referred to Donald Trump as our worst President ever.  It is a course that Democrats of all stripe would be wise to follow--having lived through the Ronald Reagan years, I distinctly remember him being considered an average President at best until the right wing and its media began blitz after blitz of telling people how great Reagan had been.  This led to his legacy--which was horrid, especially for the middle class, the poor, and people of color--becoming much more rose colored than the truth.

The last narrative we need is to give any credence to any idea that Donald Trump was a credible President.  He was an inexorable disaster and we need to repeat it again and again until he's relegated to the same dustbin that holds James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson, two other Presidents who did their best to oversee the ruin of America.

We do not need monuments to a treasonous racist boor like Donald Trump any more than we need monuments to racist traitors like Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.

397,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Certified Tally--Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Pelosi saves America yet again

Pelosi--the only sheriff that matters

 Once again, Nancy Pelosi rides into town and saves America.  This morning Pelosi spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, to make sure that the increasingly unhinged Donald Trump did not have access to our nuclear codes.

She was assured he did not...though it must say mountains about where America is at that she even had to ask.

For some odd ass reason, "unprecedented" seems an inadequate word to describe just how far America has sunk under Donald Trump.

376,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Certified Tally--Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Time has come today

Fitting words for a failed President

 After today's traitorous lawlessness in our capital, it is time for republicans to put on their big boy pants and get Mike Pence and the President's Cabinet together and do what needs to be done:  invoke the 25th Amendment.

Donald Trump's unfitness for office reached a nadir today, in his incitement of violence, his inability to accept reality concerning his decisive defeat in the Presidential election, and his refusal to call in the National Guard to quell an insurrection.  The United States is in more danger than it has been at any time in my lifetime, and the nation cannot afford to have Donald Trump in the White House for two more weeks.

The time is now--President Pence until Joe Biden's inauguration in fourteen days is now vital.

370,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Not too clever by half

Be careful what you wish for...

 When I was in college I sent a letter to the editor to The Kokomo Tribune (a staunchly conservative newspaper that was happy to print opposing views) in rebuttal to another letter extolling the virtues of conservatism.  It was a well reasoned letter, full of what I had learned in my time at Indiana University at Kokomo, and it, too, garnered a rebuttal.  The gentleman who responded to my letter was happy to admit that I was smarter than he was, but in effect said he'd rather be stupid so he could continue to believe what he believed, even if it was wrong.

I note this not because I wish to make fun of conservatives--I don't think I'm being mean when I say that many conservatives wear stupidity like a badge of honor.  They're proud to be stupid.

Unfortunately, being stupid can have its drawbacks--an easy example is how republicans vote again and again against their best economic interests by voting for candidates who have done everything possible to make sure their voters make less money and have less benefits so that rich people can have even more money they don't need (i.e., how much better can they eat?).

It appears that on January 6th, better than 150 republicans are going to reject the Electoral College vote of several states that did not cast its votes for Donald Trump.  This is a hopeless gambit, and all but a handful of the politicians backing it know it to be such.  But a vast majority of Trump supporters are not smart enough to know the difference between bread and bullshit and will believe they are being cheated out of their candidate of choice for President.  That, in fact, Congress should be able to overturn the will of 81 million voters.

What they don't know, is that Donald Trump is an idiot, and even if such a ploy could have been pulled off, Trump has nowhere near the smarts to be the one to do it (nor to surround himself with people who are).  But I can guarantee you that at some point in our history there will be a Presidential candidate who is smart enough to do it, and the odds are tremendously good, based upon the theory that Democrats tend to be much smarter than republicans, that it will be a Democrat who is first to overturn the will of the people.

My only regret is that I probably won't be alive to see their Trump ruse blow up in their faces and therefore will miss a much needed opportunity to laugh my fucking ass off.

358,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Happy New Year

Hope is on the horizon...

 For the first time since January 20, 2017, I feel hope for America.  I have no idea if Joe Biden will be a great President or not, but after four years of Donald Trump it's hard not to believe that we will be a more successful and certainly more compassionate nation because of his leadership than we were at any time under Trump's failed administration.

There is literally no place for America to go but up.

And because once again I can believe in the promise that is America, a song for a healthier and vibrant 2021 for us all:

A blessed New Year to you all,

emaycee

Victory Over Trump

Beating Trump was just as important

 While the coronavirus pandemic will undoubtedly be the biggest story of 2020, I don't think the election of Joe Biden to be the 46th President of the United States can be overstated.  Eighty-one million Americans stood up to COVID-19, republican voter suppression, and the crudity, violence, and lack of compassion of Trump and his supporters and said a resounding "No!" to fascism, authoritarianism, and white nationalism.  I truly believe that after another four years of Donald Trump, America as we know it would have survived in name only.

To say nothing of the tens of thousands of our fellow Americans who would have died over the coming months because the Trump administration would have done nothing to stop the pandemic once he had secured victory.

A paean to those of you who fought to end Trump's reign so that the generations of Americans who follow us will know the promise of America that we have known:

For the sake of my children, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

354,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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The biggest loser

 343,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Live by the lie, die by the lie

Some mighty tasty words they're eating

 I would be the first to admit that I don't have much love for Corporate America.  But every now and again....

Seems that Smartmatic, the company that makes the voting machines that Fox News and Newsmax have been lying about since Joe Biden won the election, sent a cease and desist letter to said propaganda organizations letting them know that either they retract their lies or face a lawsuit.  Since both companies knew their stories concerning the voting machines were completely without merit, they both retracted their stories faster than you can say "FUCK UP!"

Funny how the truth has a way of coming to the forefront when lies will cost a company tens of millions of dollars in lawsuits, ain't it?

330,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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We're not in Kansas anymore, mother fuckers

 323,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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You're fired

Trump's as bad at golf as he is at leading

 Russia has hacked our nuclear weapons systems and over three thousand Americans are dying every day from COVID-19, and Donald Trump is...playing golf and trying to decide which sexual deviants and/or traitors to America he wants to pardon.

The Presidency has never been anything more to Donald Trump than a way to make money and have sycophants bolster his fragile and timid ego.  Caring about people is beyond his mental abilities.

Perhaps it's time to change the amount of time a lame duck President is given after being defeated--Trump is not discharging the duties of the office and the American people deserve someone who will earn his pay.  I'd suggest swearing in the new President on December 1st, with a formal Inauguration ceremony sometime after the first of the year.

Because God knows Trump continued a lifelong trend and never earned one dollar he got from being our worst President ever.  The American people shouldn't have to pay their hard earned dollars so he can loaf during his final months.

318,000 Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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The American people have spoken

A real President

 Now that the Electoral College has made it official, a celebratory tune:

308,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

emaycee

The perfect coup de grace

 

305,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Strange brew

 300,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232

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Maybe it's time for the blue states to secede?

Just your average red state republicans

 Yesterday, the state of Texas petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the election results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia.  Just to give you a very brief idea of the sheer lunacy of their petition, a) the Solicitor General of Texas, who argues for the state at the Supreme Court, refused to put his name on the suit (presumably to keep his legal reputation intact), and b) one of their arguments that the votes should be overturned was that no Presidential candidate has ever won Ohio and Florida and lost...except that Richard Nixon did just that in 1960.  Trust me, there are numerous other issues.

Today, the shithole states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia joined Texas in their political stunt.  Keep in mind that these states represent less than a third of the American people and are trying to argue that the will of 81 million Americans and 306 Electoral College electors doesn't matter.  

Bear in mind as well that, with the exception of Florida and Texas, these states all are a drain on the rest of America.  They receive more in federal money than they pay in taxes--and are able to do that because the blue states are so much more successful economically.  These are also the states that lead the nation in poverty, have the worst education systems, whose citizen's are the least likely to escape poverty, the highest divorce rates, the most racist laws, and just to put the cherry on top, lead the nation in porn viewing (what a surprise--like the Jennifer Lawrences of the world want to live in South Dakota).

With each passing day I wonder more and more why the blue states--at the very least the West Coast and the North Atlantic states--don't secede.  Why should we be ruled by the whims of an uneducated and delusional minority?  Why should we support their laziness and ineptitude?

Frankly, as far as I'm concerned we should let them have their Darwinian clusterfuck and let them spiral into the third world country they were all meant to become without the charity of the blue states.  And the sooner the better.

296,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden: 306 EV's, Trump:  232

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The cowardly Trump loses again

 

"Terrorism is not a sign of courage.  It means cowardice."  Kay Kay Menon

A group of armed domestic terrorists stood outside our Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson's, home on Saturday night, while she put up Christmas decorations with her four-year-old son, and shouted more of their delusional and racist (they're only objecting to Wayne County, where the vote is heavily weighted to black Americans) objections to the Presidential election results in Michigan which Joe Biden won by more than 150,000 votes.  Had they stood outside her home without weapons and shouted their gibberish I would have still thought they were delusional, but at least I could have respected their constitutional right to free speech.

Be that as it may, it was nothing more than childish bullying by cowards.  You can measure their cowardice by the fact that most of them had covered their faces, knowing full well that with social media someone could have identified them and informed their employers, which surely would have resulted in the termination of their employment.  Most companies don't find terrorizing a mother and her child as an acceptable representation of their company's image--nor should they.

Frankly, if your behavior isn't acceptable to the company you work for, it isn't acceptable behavior, period--at least to anyone with the good sense that God gave even a goat.

Secretary Benson may have the last laugh, though.  Thanks to Donald Trump's horrendous treatment of our Governor, Gretchen Whitmer, women in Michigan turned out in droves to defeat him, leading to Joe Biden winning our state by more than twice either of the two other blue wall states (Wisconsin and Pennsylvania).  Benson is still quite young, and in a few years when she runs to succeed Gov. Whitmer, I'm pretty sure droves of women are going to remember the horrendous treatment Trump's supporters gave her as well.

290,000 Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232,

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Today's nugget o' truth

 290,000+ Dead Americans Due to Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Donald Trump:  232

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