WE WON!!!
Celebrate.
Bathe in joy.
Luxuriate in victory.
We did it.
We f&%$ing did it.
I know when a victory comes in little by little, on the heels of a truly terrifying night (Tuesday night) it can be easy to not fully feel it.
Feel it.
Joseph Biden is going to be the 46th President of the United States of America.
We work our asses off and we beat Trump. We started work the four years ago — the day after he was elected he started and we haven’t stopped for even a day and we won.
We could have given up. We could have stopped trying. But we didn’t. We kept working.
We beat back the forces of fascism with democracy.
We are getting that monster out of the White House.
Enjoy that.
We fought hard for four years. We minimized the damage as much as we could by taking to the streets and calling and donating.
We worked our asses off and took the House in 2018 which gave us a way to further minimize the damage.
And then we BEAT TRUMP IN 2020 just like we hoped and dreamt we would.
ENJOY THIS
You earned it.
Joe Biden is going to be presidnet. A sane person will be president.
Kamala Harris will be Vice President. First woman. First Black woman. First Asian. First first generation American in the modern era.
Rejoice.
Listen to this advice:
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Biden will likely have the second largest popular vote margin in the last 25 years. Don’t let the small margin in a few swing states lead you to underestimate our lead.
Joe Biden now has more than 74 million votes — and more will come in. That's about 4.5 million more than the record till now. the U.S. just surpassed *147 million* votes counted and Biden's popular vote lead is up to 4.57 million (3.1%).
We had a blue wave.
And as for trump: it is bad for a bunch of reasons that he won’t do the right thing and concede, but ultimately, it isn’t in his power to stop the transfer of power.
Donald Trump doesn't need to concede
Conceding a lost election is the classy thing to do and it has usually been a part of the country coming together after a divisive campaign.
The constitution is very clear that a new president will take the oath of office on January 20 at noon. That will happen if Trump loses graciously or if he has to be escorted out of the Oval Office by Secret Service
and way more people are laughing at and ignoring his temper tantrum than helping him with this ridiculousness
Donald Trump is trying to steal the 2020 election. America is ignoring him.
Something noteworthy — and oddly hopeful — about the 2020 election: People are ignoring Trump’s antics.
While Trump’s behavior is troubling — and make no mistake, it’s deeply troubling — what’s most noteworthy is how almost everyone is ignoring it.
States are continuing to count votes, as they are legally bound to do, despite the president’s wishes. Trump-friendly networks like Fox News are denouncing Trump’s proclamation of an election win as “extremely inflammatory.” Basically, everyone is carrying on with the election even as Trump openly wars against it.
Their legal attempts will miss the “legal” part — there is no legal reason to not count the votes. Even Justice Beery McRapeface only suggested that ballots that come in AFTER the deadline shouldn’t be counted. That would still be ridiculous but those are ballots we don’t need. Trump's legal standing is bullshit and nonexistent.
they aren’t getting anywhere:
well except:
they need someone like this guy, except…
James Baker will forever suck for what he did in 2000, but there is a least this.
And from Heather Cox Richardson, some insight into how Trump’s plan fell apart
The unraveling of Trump’s plan to claim victory has been mesmerizing.
Until Tuesday night, everything seemed to be going according to plan. In the evening, Trump won Florida by about 375,000 votes, a victory certainly helped by the disfranchisement of 1.5 million ex-felons, whose voting rights Floridians had voted overwhelmingly in 2018 to restore. Florida’s 29 electoral votes made it look like Trump was on track to win, opening up room for him to declare victory even though many of the states he would need to win for real were still counting. If he could claim victory early on, any later correction would look like the election was being “stolen.”
But before he could take a victory lap, the Fox News Channel called Arizona for Biden long before anyone else did. Arizona had been a Trump state in 2016, so this meant a flip and undercut Trump’s claim to a commanding lead. Trump was furious. He and his aides worked Twitter and the phones, trying unsuccessfully to get FNC to retract the call and, when that failed, to discredit iy
As Trump fumed, the Biden campaign was watching its candidate's numbers tick upward—again, as expected—and Biden gave a short statement Tuesday night saying the campaign felt good about where it was, and encouraging patience as election officials counted all ballots.
Trump then made a statement at 2:30 am Wednesday morning, claiming victory, demanding that officials stop counting mail-in ballots, and promising to take the election to the Supreme Court to decide. “This is a fraud on the American public,” he said. “This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win the election.”
But key Republican leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, noted that a number of Republican Senate candidates ran more strongly than Trump did, meaning they no longer need him. They have clearly decided that Trump is no longer useful to them, and they went before television cameras in the morning to contradict him. They said that all ballots should be counted.
Since then, the president has been flailing. His legal team has been filing lawsuits to challenge ballot counting, but the suits are frivolous, and keep getting thrown out.
I know we wanted more from the Senates, but that isn’t a done deal yet either. We will have two runoff elections and if we win them both we will have a 50/50 Senate. With Kamala as the deciding vote, that is a Democratic Senate!
and this election had other good news too
Virginians approve turning redistricting over to bipartisan commission
Virginia voters have approved a constitutional amendment creating a bipartisan redistricting commission after years of court battles over partisan gerrymandering.
Voters around the U.S. approve local police reform measures
Voters in at least six states overwhelmingly approved police reform measures on Election Day, reflecting a growing demand for greater law enforcement accountability after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in Minneapolis police custody.
Creating and strengthening police oversight boards, changing department staffing and funding levels and allowing greater public access to body and dashboard camera recordings were among the measures approved by voters around the country.
Voters remove ‘Plantation’ from Rhode Island’s official name.
For more than 200 years, the nation’s smallest state had the longest official name: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
No longer.
Voters approved a measure Tuesday to officially rename the state to what it has largely been called for generations: Rhode Island. Over the summer, Gov. Gina Raimondo had issued an executive order to remove “Providence Plantations” from all state documents and websites. On Nov. 4 voters were asked whether they wanted the state’s name officially changed.
These Candidates Made History in the 2020 Election
Cori Bush, a progressive who toppled a member of the Democratic Party establishment during her primary, cruised to victory over Anthony Rogers, a Republican, and became the first Black woman elected to represent Missouri in Congress. “To the Black women, the Black girls, the nurses, the essential workers, the single mothers — this is our moment,” Ms. Bush said in her victory speech.
Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones, both Democrats, swept aside their Republican opponents and became the first openly gay Black men to be elected to Congress. Mr. Torres, the first openly gay Afro-Latino elected to Congress, will replace Representative José Serrano in New York’s 15th Congressional District. Mr. Jones will fill the seat in New York’s 17th Congressional District that is being vacated by Representative Nita Lowey.
Marilyn Strickland, the former Mayor of Tacoma, Wash., defeated another Democrat and will be the first Korean-American woman ever elected to Congress and the first Black woman to represent Washington State at the federal level.
there are more examples in the article and they are heartwarming. Check it all out if you can.
Yes, it is distressing that so many Americans support Trump. But — as always — there are more of us. And when we band together we can win. We did win.
This Is America
hough Mr. Biden will probably win more votes than any previous presidential candidate, that President Trump was a contender at all is a disgrace. That Mr. Trump has received nearly 70 million votes is a disgrace. And it says a lot about this country that too many people refuse to face.
This is America. This is not an aberration. This is indeed our country and who the proverbial “we” are. The way this election has played out shouldn’t be a surprise if you’ve been paying attention or if you understand racism and how systemic it really is.
I’ll be honest. The past four years have shattered my faith in just about everything.
At the same time, the past four years have energized me. They have moved me further left from the comfort of left of center. I have become more active and engaged in my community. I find my sociopolitical stances changing toward real progressive values. I am not the same woman I was and I am grateful for that, even if I hate what brought me to this point.
This is America, a country desperately divided, and desperately flawed. The future of this country is uncertain but it is not hopeless. I am ready to fight for that future, no matter what it holds. Are you?
Let’s Laugh
Enjoy this. Celebrate. Luxuriate in our win.
Is this still work to do? You’d better believe it. But take a moment first to celebrate. Take a moment to enjoy. Take a moment to thank yourself and to feel the joy of us working together and winning.
Tomorrow we work. We keep showing up and we continue to move America forward.
Today we celebrate.
I am so lucky and so proud to be in this with all of you ❤️ ✊ ❤️