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!
Tim C.
indeed! Today as our blog host says is a “NOT TODAY SATAN!” Day.
Litlebritdifrnt
That image had me tearing up.
debbie
Exactly this. I felt very much lighter when I took my walk this afternoon. I even smiled and chatted (about nothing) with a few people out in their yards. I don’t think it was a coincidence that this has been a very lovely day (70s with a bright blue cloudless sky).
R-Jud
I have a story about the time my Mom met Joe Biden, if that’s your thing, right here.
Jeffro
LOVE the illustration almost as much as I’m loving this weight leaving my shoulders.
Thank you, Joe & Kamala!
Thank you, historic D turnout!
Still sinking in just how huge this is. Trying hard not to be a bad winner but hoo boy it’s tough!!
phdesmond
in this happy moment, i’d like to share a poem i wrote last night.
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
Turgidson
Yes, I felt a palpable amount of what seemed to be permanent stress just start melting off in the minutes after I saw Pennsylvania get called. Man, I had forgotten what it felt like not to carry that shit around everywhere I went.
Ahhhhh. So nice. So very, very nice.
Also, looking forward to seeing who takes over for Kamala as California’s junior Senator. Tons of interesting possibilities.
geg6
Yep, I feel the same. Told my John that it felt like I’d had a band cinched tight around my chest that made it hard to breathe for the past four years. It’s gone now and I can take deep breaths again.
I have a nice bottle of wine in the wine fridge and I talked John into getting takeout from our favorite Italian place (my favorite food in the world). Gonna eat my pasta and drink toasts to Joe and Kamala until I pass out.
debbie
Ruby Bridges was interviewed today on NPR about her forthcoming YA book, “This is Your Time.”
Baud
Celebrate the BJ way, by stomping on AL’s thread. :)
CaseyL
I can feel it too, easing in slowly. My chest feels lighter. It’s amazing.
patrick II
It’s a shame we aren’t getting to see Rachel’s happy face.
Suzanne
I am excited to see what the stock market does on Monday.
Looking for all of the sat to run in all of the wounds.
germy
They’re still doing it:
Winston
God is not dead. nor does he sleep.
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to men,
Baud
Now we can truly relax.
germy
I envy you jackals who imbibe.
I can’t drink at all. Stomach hurts, head aches and I feel shitty. I can’t even drink beer, never mind the hard stuff or fancy wines. So I remain sober through my celebrations.
I’m with you in spirit, just without the spirits.
geg6
@germy:
Baquet really has filled that rag with every hack he could dig up, hasn’t he?
germy
photo:
Ohio Mom
I know we still have to get through the winter but — finally controlling Covid!
I can fantasize about leaving the house on a whim! Eating inside a restaurant! Traveling!
grammypat
I cried when I saw the video of the call between Kamala and Joe.
Since Charlottesville, my desktop background has been the pic of the gal giving a double-barrel middle finger to some Loser.
Today, it is now changed to this pic of the long shadow of VP Harris.
germy
@geg6: They do it on purpose, and then backtrack when they’re called out.
“Create narrative first, then find talking mouth to fill in the blanks.”
Miki
@R-Jud: What a great story! Thanks for sharing it.
PaulWartenberg
I hope they place a Historical Marker at the spot outside Four Seasons Landscaping in Philadelphia where Rudy pissed it all away as the state announced for Biden.
James E Powell
@germy:
And they are going to keep doing it.
Baud
@PaulWartenberg:
Four Seasons Landscaping should honor the occasion by having a sale on manure.
RSA
@germy: Ugh.
I checked the story, and the Times has updated it with “…said Ms. Lavoie-Carnes, who ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the New Hampshire State House this year.”
But no indication that the story was updated after publication. (Weinstein has screen grabs of the original, and he’s entirely correct.)
It’s crap like this, their editorials aside, that made me cancel my subscription.
PaulWartenberg
Oh man, the Fantasy Island Bookstore Google Maps page updated to include a photo of Rudy’s podium!!!
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fantasy+Island+Book+Store/@40.0266185,-75.0319193,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c6b44c2fb21c13:0x3410b7f8249c5541!8m2!3d40.0266144!4d-75.0297306
debbie
Icing on the cake: Dave Chapelle and Foo Fighters on SNL tonight.
Van Buren
Never really thought about it before but I am only 2 degrees of separation from Biden so I figure I will be getting offers for an assistant secretary position any day now.
caring & sensitive
I recognize the shadow image but I can’t place it. I seem to recall it’s from the era of school integration but I can’t come any closer than that. Any help?
By the way I have been reading the blog since before Terry Schavio ( having come here from Andrew Sullivan’s place) and I check in no less than 2 or 3 times a day. I’m in Vancouver BC and I cannot tell you how relieved I, and everyone I know, is about the result. I’m still concerned that 70,000,000 of you people (including my sister and brother -in -law) voted for that asshole.
germy
JoyceH
@PaulWartenberg: I’m seeing on Twitter that the legal team’s presser wound up in the suburban parking lot of a landscaper, next to an adult book store, BECAUSE THEY BOOKED THE WRONG FOUR SEASONS! They intended to be at the downtown luxury hotel but called the wrong place. Top flight legal talent. Top. Flight.
Turgidson
@germy:
In a just world, he would have to watch the spontaneous celebrations worldwide with his eyelids taped open Clockwork Orange style for at least 306 (Biden’s like EC total) straight hours.
Baud
@caring & sensitive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_We_All_Live_With
piratedan
and while I can finally put my personal eeyore to the stables at last, I sit back and reflect on some bit I heard on Morning Joe this morning about “what motivated” GOP voters and it wasn’t just supporting Trump but something that was mentioned by a current GOP talking head who indicated that GOP voters were motivated by the incessant messaging regarding “defunding the police” and that JB and KH are “socialists”.
You know and I know that these are not true, yet in ad after ad this is how the Democratic politicians and policy positions are portrayed. I really wonder if this is additional psy-ops stuff from our friendly Russian “helpers” who are toggling the concern buttons of low information voters by driving that narrative in an endless loop and I feel it’s a large reason as to why we under-performed in the House and Senate races… our politicians are looking to introduce anarchy by doing these “evil deeds” and only Trump can stop them.
As long as these asshats can continue to run unchecked, we will continue to struggle with the “us vs them” arguments that shape our political discourse.
Today I’m happy, come January, I hope Joe and Lady K are ready to fuck up some GRU shit and keep Putin busy in his own back yard.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Tomorrow we will wake up. We’ll feel like things are OK. When we check our news feeds, we will not be enraged. Our bodies will have to start adapting to the absence of that constant diet of rage that we’ve felt the last four years.
Something that amazes me is how quickly Trump seems to have become irrelevant in just a few hours. The news cameras are giving him the loser treatment.
I know there is damage left that he can still do. So why does it feel like the Wicked Witch is already dead?
David ?Booooooo!? Koch
YES! WE! CAN!
Viva BrisVegas
@PaulWartenberg: There was no confusion at all. They deliberately put Trump’s team at a landscaping place because it’s the only location they could find that had a large enough pile of manure to make their speech look less like a complete load of bullshit by comparison.
Jeffro
Busy looking through my FB timeline, the better to rid it of trumpov’s ugly orange mug forever, and I am coming across stories from March & April about what we’d need to do to get the pandemic under control.
Also found one from May(!) about how the president* is unraveling.
Jesus, GOP, you really fucked up. And you’re welcome, btw, for Dems going all-out to rid the country of this disgusting human being.
mrmoshpotato
It sure as hell is a weight off our shoulders!
I’m gonna sleep like a baby tonight (and wake up to see how the score has been run up more!)
HumboldtBlue
germy
@debbie:
Dave was on SNL the Saturday after the 2016 Trump victory. He told everyone we should calm down and give Trump a chance. He was serious!
I watched some of last week’s show, and guest host Mulroney (sp?) said nothing will change with a new president. He did that stupid “both sides are the same” thing which they think is clever.
I’m looking forward to see Chapelle. I’ll probably catch him on youtube tomorrow.
caring & sensitive
@Baud:
Thanks. It was driving me crazy
different-church-lady
Yes. He had to bear it with his own eyes and ears.
PaulWartenberg
@JoyceH: I heard. we’re talking about a dysfunctional administration that didn’t know how light switches worked!
I can remember trump had traveled overseas, and nobody had booked a secure hotel for that visit so he had to stay at the embassy.
Incompetence, across the board.
bluefish
Numb with relief. Anxiety will sweep in soon enough but today just comfortably numb. Five years of daily pesadelo. Get thee behind me, 45.
different-church-lady
@Baud: It’s amazing what Rockwell could come up with when he wasn’t in sentimental mode.
(PS: what he came up with in sentimental mode could also be amazing effective.)
cope
I remarked in your earlier post that I physically felt better the instant I had confirmed the victory. I also had goosebumps up and down my arms. I have not felt so carefree since I cannot remember when.
I’ve been somewhat worried that even though trump is gone, the trumpers never will be. But now, I can use the massive amounts of energy it used to take me just to make it through the day to deal with that thought.
Just to know that come January (the month after next!), we won’t have to see or hear trump speak/tweet as a representative of our country is a wonderful thing to behold. Also, the thought of all trump’s deplorable appointees heading out the door is just icing on the cake.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Hahaha. A celebratory bigfooting.
Citizen Alan
@different-church-lady: Per the wiki article, it was less about sentimentality than corporate censorship. Apparently, he’d been under contract to the Saturday Evening Post and they wouldn’t let him do racial justice issues. As soon as his contract ended, he move to Look where that work and other pro-civil rights works appeared.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Baud: Thank you for the link. First cry of the week :)
different-church-lady
Betty, the weight you feel lifted off your shoulders is actually a weight off the psyhche of the entire country, even if they supported Trump. They think they are crushed, but they are actually liberated if they want to be.
different-church-lady
@Citizen Alan: Well sure, I get that contract work in the mid 20-century for a general interest magazine ain’t gonna get into controversial subjects. But the difference in tone can be so jarring. Like a musician who could do classical or blues with equal fluidity.
phdesmond
@caring & sensitive:
i believe it’s this: The Problem We All Live With, a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@different-church-lady: A little while ago I was fondly looking over some pics in my phone of a time Pence came to town and an entire Philly street gave him the one finger Philly greeting.
debbie
@germy:
More realistic than serious is how I took it, but I thought his monologue was brilliant.
cope
@germy: I quit drinking a couple of years ago but today, when I finally acknowledged to myself that Biden had indeed won, I went and found a 7-UP in the back of our refrigerator. I don’t normally drink soda pop either but as I chugged down the celebratory beverage, it was as fine and sweet to me as any booze I ever drank in my life.
Kropacetic
Does this mean we can end the witch hunt?
debbie
@different-church-lady:
Ten weeks of well-deserved misery is coming his way.
patrick II
@germy:
I imagine that it burned deep to see so many people of color dancing on his political grave.
HumboldtBlue
I haven’t had a job in more than a year, I’m a broke-ass motherfucker barely hanging on, I haven’t hugged my lady friend since March, I haven’t hugged my nieces and nephews since Xmas and New years and yet I still have a fucking mile-wide smile glued to my face.
MaryRC
@JoyceH: The story I’m seeing is that Trump declared the press conference at the Four Seasons hotel before his staff booked it, the hotel turned him down, and rather than admitting Trump was wrong his staff had to find another venue named Four Seasons. Typical of Trump to always double down on a mistake.
different-church-lady
@debbie: Oh the misery is going to continue unabated for every day he lives beyond January 20th. Even if there isn’t an anti-Trumper in his sight: the misery will be coming from inside his own mind.
mrmoshpotato
Kiddie fence around it – “This is where Shitstain Ghouliani was…well…a shitstain trying some bullshit to undermine the winners of the most popular votes in history, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Patricia Kayden
Next move: donate, make phone calls and write letters to elect two Democratic Senators from the great state of Georgia. Yes we can!!
What a great way to end this week!!
Linda M
My wonderful husband died in 2016 and I endured the whole year of campaign without him. I was grieving, then bad piled on to bad, and tRump was elected. I have been grieving all this time over the death and then over the terrible things that have happened to this country under this maniac. Today, when I heard the news, I felt so much lighter and free of the pain of the every day news. Now, maybe, I can come up for air. The news on TV showing all the people gathering in all the cities makes me so happy.
mrmoshpotato
With the Kremlin printed on the bags! Fuck off traitorous, orange, Soviet shitpile!
Martin
A few things to note:
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: !!!!!!!
Dave’s gonna…. Oh man. I’ll have to tune in.
different-church-lady
“Narrative”, courtesy of the FYNYT’s:
Even when they’re kicking Trump they don’t have it right — he still got far more votes than a functional society ought to give . But at least the NYTs knows that kissing his ass ain’t worth the investment anymore.
Louise B.
So looking forward to having a functioning federal government again!! Biden and Harris will know how to do that, notwithstanding whatever bullshit the Senate throws their way.
Sister Golden Bear
I can’t tell you how much lighter I feel. I didn’t realize just how much dread and disgust I’ve been carrying around for the past four years. It’s a mixture of elations and exhaustion, since this is the first time I can let my stomach unclench—if only for a day.
On a very personal note, I also can’t tell you how amazing it feels to have the most trans-friendly president ever, after after four years of the administration trying to eradicate me and my siblings from public life.
different-church-lady
@Martin:
“Joe, we’re gonna have to send all the merchandise to Africa.”
Today I was joking to a friend that in Africa they have an entire alternate history of who won North American sports championships.
West of the Rockies
I’m thrilled but I’m also really, really, REALLY hoping there is retribution for Barr, Miller, Kushner, DeVos, DeJoy, Pompeo, etc. I want their careers in government ruined forever.
SiubhanDuinne
@R-Jud:
What a great story! So typical of Joe to recognise a home-town name and make the connection. And I have just fallen madly in lust with your Uncle Gino. Holy schnorkes, he was one good-looking man!
LuciaMia
When I first heard the news, for a moment it felt like theyd announced the end of WWII!
MisterForkbeard
@debbie: Right? I made my weekly shopping trip and.. actually talked to people. You could tell they were smiling!
And (this is the best, part of the reason why I love my town) there were 3 people in Chicken suits holding Biden Harris signs and dancing and singing, right in the downtown square. Lots of laughing, honking and congratulations from the cars and pedestrians. So much fun.
I had THREE other pro-biden/anti-trump moments on that trip. It’s a wonderful world today.
Eljai
@Linda M: So sorry for what you’ve had to endure. I hope your grief continues to lighten. May the memories of your husband be a blessing. It has been lovely watching the joyful celebrations around the country today.
different-church-lady
@debbie: There’s a story about Lenny Bruce that ends with, “Oh man, Vaughn Meader is fucked.”
So goes Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression, although I’m sure Alec is fine with it.
Martin
@caring & sensitive: Norman Rockwell’s ‘The Problem We All Live With’
Obama hung it outside the Oval when he was in office.
HumboldtBlue
@West of the Rockies:
It’s gonna hurt and it’s gonna hurt a lot when they get off scot-free.
HumboldtBlue
@Linda M:
It makes me happy to see your happiness. Have some love from the Lost Coast.
glc
@LuciaMia: More like the replacement of Chamberlain by Churchill
HumboldtBlue
@Martin:
Kamala’s the next Dem presidential candidate in 2024. We’ve got four years to make that happen.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Oops gotta go. I hear my wife playing Kool and the Gang, “Celebration” in the kitchen. Think I’m needed for some happy dancing.
NoraLenderbee
I’m still exhausted and numb. It will take a while. Like time-release medication. I had an upsetting, angry, emotional argument Wednesday night (not related to politics) and I’m still feeling it.
West of the Rockies
@HumboldtBlue:
Go hug your special lady friend, man.
cope
@different-church-lady: That’s my favorite Lenny Bruce story of all time. Here is a quick and ultimately sad take on the Bruce/Kennedy/Meader connection.
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2013/11/22/the-man-whose-life-was-ruined-by-the-jfk-assassination
germy
@debbie:
Oh I agree, he is brilliant. One of the best comedians.
bemused senior
Stage4 cancer patient here. I am so grateful to have lived in relative good health to see my country (with all it’s many flaws) return to the kind of society I want my grand twins to grow up in. I was alerted to look at the good news this morning by the sound of an air horn across the canyon. Could only mean one thing!
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: Don’t assume that Joe is one and done. He may be, but let’s not start his tenure by making him a lame duck. No matter how inspirational one finds Kamala to be.
Splitting Image
@JoyceH:
I’d vote for Rob Reiner to make the eventual documentary of the Trump administration, but he would be accused of recycling too many of his own jokes.
WaterGirl
@R-Jud: Great story!
Kent
Josh Marshall pretty much sums up my sentiments at this moment
WaterGirl
@phdesmond: Wow, that’s really good.
Baud
It’s not every day you get to beat back fascism through democratic means.
Horatius
Went to DC to harass the squatter. I got 30 years worth of honking out of the way.
West of the Rockies
@bemused senior:
I’m glad you saw this, too. Here’s hoping there is still much more victory and celebration for you, too.
Jazzman
Hooray for the USA! We have managed to lance a suppurating boil on our body politic. Now the healing process must begin.
Members of my church choir got together today (all masked) and sang “America the Beautiful.” To my ears it never sounded better.
Immanentize
NPR found David Dorota to trash Democrats on-site. Enemy!!
Martin
@Sister Golden Bear: I can attest that Harris has a long history of fighting for transgender rights when she was AG here.
There’s a LOT of good going into the WH.
Kent
Latest AZ ballot drop was 83% Biden and his lead creeps up to 21,188. He may end up sweeping all the remaining states except NC.
germy
@cope:
And Lenny Bruce got in trouble when he told an audience that Jackie Kennedy hauled ass to save her ass that day in Dallas.
The official story was that she was trying to retrieve a skull fragment when she scrambled out of the limo, before being pushed back in by Clint Hill. Lenny said it was unfair to his daughter, if her husband was ever shot and she tried to get away, that she’d hate herself because she didn’t “stay like the good Mrs. Kennedy.”
He pissed off a lot of people with that routine.
zhena gogolia
Feeling lighter is exactly how I’ve been perceiving it.
And not just because I lost two pounds between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
SiubhanDuinne
@JoyceH:
I saw that earlier somewhere and honestly thought it was a joke. As Charlie Pierce often says, these really are the mole people.
James E Powell
@cope:
There was a cartoon history a few years later, maybe National Lampoon, that depicted the inauguration of David Frye.
MisterForkbeard
@Immanentize: They got… Bernie’s insane toxic campaign manager who’s been semi-disavowed by Bernie?
Okay then. Thanks, NPR.
Baud
@Kent:
Nice! I would love to pile on.
Redshift
Heading down to Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC now. I had stuff to do this afternoon, and was waffling on whether to go, but it seems like too good a party to miss.
topclimber
@HumboldtBlue: As a fellow broke-ass hanger-on, I second your motion on KH.
In the midst of the celebration we still have the problem that so many voted for Trump. But for what it is worth, Hillary won 51% of the popular vote share of the top 2 candidates out of a total of about 129 million votes. About 16 million more popular votes went to the top two in 2020. Biden/Harris won more than 54% of that marginal share. That number will rise as the count rounds out.
I take this to mean that the more we turnout, the smaller the share of hate-filled merons will become.
“Now we are marching to Georgia.” (Changed from through because we intend to stay).
mrmoshpotato
Our French allies.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Haha. Me too with regard to the weight loss.
phdesmond
@WaterGirl: oh, thank you, WaterGirl!
Calouste
@JoyceH: It’s ole hands-in-pants and his on-crack legal team.
Martin
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, I agree, but I also have a feeling that rolling into 2024, if he sees the ground is right for Kamala to win, he’ll push her forward. At a minimum, it’s hard for a party to get more than 8 years in the WH, so her odds go down in 2028.
I think that also means we’re going to have a VERY active VP.
R-Jud
@SiubhanDuinne: Ha! Check THIS out, if you want to see Gino at his dreamiest.
LurkerNoLonger
Seeing all the celebrations in the streets reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/GlCFPo6YYbU
Geoduck
@cope: Meader’s story is sad, but his JFK parody album The First Family is still totally worth listening to.
dmsilev
@different-church-lady:
I smell a lucrative franchise opportunity in the making. How much would you pay for a chance to jeer at Trump in person?
phdesmond
@Baud:
it’s utterly remarkable!
jnfr
I don’t know if I’ll fully feel it until January. I still have some fear, and mostly I’m exhausted.
Watching all the damage these four years, even while working against it, has been soul-shredding. And these last few days have stretched on forever. And I’m still very worried about what they’ll do before Inauguration.
I’ll get better once the electoral college is past, and maybe I’ll find some joy by Inauguration Day. That will be a joyful moment for sure. Until then, I’m gonna keep watching gifs of Kamala dancing.
Pete Mack
These heels are made for walkin’
And that’s just what they’ll do
Today I’m gonna use these heels
to walk all over tou
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@topclimber: Read today that Biden’s share of the popular vote is the biggest since FDR.
In the Reagan-Carter disaster, Reagan got 489 electoral votes, but only 50.7% of the popular vote.
Edit: Hmm. But in 1984 he got 58.8%. So I’m not sure exactly what they meant by “biggest since FDR”.
(Emily Litella Voice: “Never mind”)
p.a.
Someday we will cross a bridge, someday we will see
That I can lean on you and you can put your weight on me
And every man will get a chance to be what a man wants to be
And every woman will look at her child and know that he’s growing up free
The sun is gonna shine again
We’ll make it around that bend
I’ll walk one more mile with you Cos you’re my friend
The sun is gonna shine again
Someday we will ride a train that only seats one class
To a destination that feels like home at last, oh I
Know it seems impossible now, I know it seems like a joke
But if there’s no purpose, if there’s no love
We hang at the end of a rope
And the sun is gonna shine again
We’ll make it around that bend
We’ll walk together, I swear
Cos you’re my friend
The sun is gonna shine again
I have had my mind made up and I have been in doubt
But sometimes even I can see the light that will not be put out
And every man will hold up his head and know it won’t get beaten back down
And every woman will be not afraid to walk on the very same road
And the sun is gonna shine again
We’ll make it around that bend
We’ll walk together, I swear
Cos you’re my friend
The sun is gonna shine again
We’ll walk together, I swear
Cos you’re my friend
The sun is gonna shine again
Graham Parker, The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again (1991)
Mallard Filmore
Is there an opposite of rage click, or rage view? Back in February my brother sent me a link to the twitter account “https://twitter.com/drawandstrike” to warn me that Rudy would drop some amazing stuff about the Bidens in Ukraine.
I just went there to gloat view the page and it says “This account has been suspended.”
What a happy day this is!
Kropacetic
I wonder if Trump would go along with that. It puts his ego in direct conflict with his love for money.
Sm*t Cl*de
@HumboldtBlue:
Wouldn’t you rather have 1 & 1/2 terms of a Biden presidency, with Biden resigning in mid-term, allowing 2 & 1/2 terms of a Harris presidency?
David ?Booooooo!? Koch
@mrmoshpotato:
John has a long mustache (video)
bemused senior
@dmsilev: I imagine a parish harvest festival dunking booth with Trump in the chair and a line around the block.
WaterGirl
@Geoduck: “The rubber duck is mine.”
Dan B
@PaulWartenberg: A statue of Rudy in addition to the historical marker. Then it could be “baptized” for decades.
geg6
@debbie:
The Foos are one of my favorites (and fuck you to all the haters). I hope they play “Hero.”
SFAW
@dmsilev:
If you want it, you better hurry — I’ve already locked up the rights for the pissing-on-his-grave franchise, as well as the adjacent beer garden, and the hydrochlorothiazide pre-beer dose.
Mike in NC
I think the world is going to think today was almost as big a deal as the Berlin Wall coming down.
dmsilev
@Kropacetic: Who said anything about paying Trump?
different-church-lady
@cope: Talk about a joke you can only use once…
mrmoshpotato
@David ?Booooooo!? Koch: Hahaha, ok.
Kent
Maybe if you are talking about challengers, but not incumbents for sure. Eisenhower got 57.4% and 457 electoral votes in 1956
germy
@geg6:
Who hates them? I like them. I thought they were popular.
Winston
@different-church-lady: Comfortably numb, iow.
https://youtu.be/XpqjEnRU6uM
different-church-lady
@dmsilev: OK, I’m not violent, but I will risk investigation to say that it goes far beyond jeering for me. Trump is one of the only people I would be willing to punch in the face on sight.
phdesmond
@Mallard Filmore: bliss click?
Horatius
This is so delish. Peurto Rico remembers.
https://mobile.twitter.com/schmidtsam7/status/1325148092228804614
Omnes Omnibus
@Sm*t Cl*de: Come on, let’s not write Biden off as a placeholder for Harris.
Hmmm… It looks like this is a thing I am going to be pissy about.
Starfish
@Immanentize: We were in the car a while ago, and NPR was only talking to Black people. It was great. They asked Jim Clyburn about what the agenda was, and he did not want to let them go because he was so busy discussing the agenda. He said that he hoped that they would get all the criminal justice reform legislation of the past forty years and form a commission to study the unintended consequences and fix them.
C Stars
@Mallard Filmore: If past behavior is any indication, they’re going to be gnashing teeth about the many Hunter Biden laptops for well into the 2020s. But yeah, they’re also incompetent so…
zhena gogolia
@R-Jud:
FABULOUS STORY
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
Oh, what a great comment. I agree wholeheartedly. I think they will start to realize it with time.
Horatius
Matt McIrvin
@Sm*t Cl*de: While I certainly preferred Harris to Biden in the primaries, I don’t think either of those things is going to happen unless Joe Biden dies, or has debilitating health issues. Incumbency is a huge electoral advantage, and the kind of person who gets elected President is the kind who won’t quit the job unless they absolutely have to. And Joe Biden has clearly been preparing to be President for most of his life.
Dan B
@piratedan: Thomas Frank has an interesting op-ed in The Guardian about some reasons the white working class are not identifying with Democrats. It seems reasonable that Bill Clinton, Obama, and Joe adopted policies that disadvantaged workers, like “free” trade.
I don’t accept it as gospel but it postulates an interesting viewpoint.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dan B: Link?
Baud
@Dan B:
That’s not a new view. But there’s no support for it. The GOP had been even more free trade, and it hasn’t hurt them with the WWC.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Omnes Omnibus:
We are fortunate that there is only this one thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sm*t Cl*de: Yeah, aren’t you.
geg6
@germy:
I know that some here are not fans. But to me, they are great. My all-time favorite song is “Everlong.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=AxuTd9rwEHQ
topclimber
@Sm*t Cl*de: Nope.
Elizabelle
This was funny. From a friend’s FB page:
Elizabelle
@geg6: Mine too. Love Everlong.
I got to see the Foos at RFK Stadium when Dave G was touring in his throne, since he’d broken his leg. He’s since passed that throne along to some other injured rockster.
Lot of depth to Dave Grohl.
Jeffro
@geg6: Seconded! “Days Like These” a close second er third
Jeffro
@Elizabelle: I was at that show!
The crowd was NUTS when LL Cool J hit the stage!! Good ol’ dilapidated RFK, you could feel the whole place bouncing =)
The Moar You Know
@Omnes Omnibus: Me too. I voted for Biden in the primaries. For several reasons.
Dan B
@Sister Golden Bear: I can only guess at the magnitude of your relief. My anxiety as a white gay man has been immense but I believe that living through Joe McCarthy, a Mafia contract, anti-gay initiative campaigns, and AIDS have hardened my expectations. I have noticed I’m more interested in doing chores so drop by drop my spirit is reviving. And I really slept well last night – 11 hours!
Our 15% white neighborhood was completely quiet this AM but my Mike guy says there’s a rally at the light rail station on our hill this evening.
Elizabelle
@Jeffro: Yes. LL Cool Jay was beloved. Also Buddy Guy. Great show.
George Marshall’s statue is down. We are all still here. And, we have President-Elect Joseph R Biden and VP-Elect Kamala Harris. Bells rang in Paris. Such a day.
Geminid
@C Stars: like the 2016 election, the outcome of this election was close enough that it could have turned on a number of factors. One might be how in the critical last two weeks of the contest the trump campaign wasted valuable messaging bandwidth pushing a laptop scandal that flopped.
Betty Cracker
@R-Jud: Now I remember Gino! He was featured on a D-Day post several years back? Handsome dude. :)
Ken
All lines stretch around the block nowadays. I foresee a new set of cliches for the post-covid era.
evodevo
@Dan B: No…economic “anxiety” has NOTHING to do with white voters and Trumpy…it’s ‘bortion, ‘bortion, ‘bortion and middle-class racism. You could fix ALL their economic problems, and nothing would change. The biggest Trumpy voters around here in Scott Co. Ky work at Toyota and make a bundle. They also fill up those megachurches on Sunday and are virulently anti-tax. What would change their minds, I haven’t a clue. They are all IGMFU
Dan B
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m on mobile and can’t figure out how to link. Title: Ding dong the witch is gone, but don’t celebrate yet …
Dan B
@Baud: That was my feeling although Dem support put the meme “Both parties are the same.” into some mouths. It would be great to have some study and a touring task force, even if on Zoom, to address the public’s concerns.
Dan B
@R-Jud: Had to look up the handsome guy. Yep. And the women staring at him like they were in a trance, ha!
He could have been a model or been in the movies. His bravery seems unreal. Although I’ve been impressed on many occasions by unlikely people rising to the challenge when the chips were down.
Dan B
@evodevo: Good to know. It seems to be a fragile status issue, based in perception, not on reality. In Seattle our working class is union and because of Boeing was well paid. Since Boeing execs bailed for Chicago and seem to be setting the company up for bankruptcy the employees know who is causing their pain.
scott (the other one)
@germy: I love John Mulaney. But that was reprehensible on his part.
J R in WV
@bemused senior:
So glad you got to see Democracy take a win for your Grand-twins!
Hope you get to see more wins for Democracy in the near future!
Best wishes from the bright red state of West Virginia…
cope
@James E Powell:David Frye…I haven’t thought of him in decades. He used to show up on Carson pretty regularly as I recall.
J R in WV
@R-Jud:
Fabulous story about Joe Biden and your mom. And Gino was quite a guy, a real hero, even as “just” a PFC. Doesn’t take rank to be a hero is the lesson there!
Thanks for sharing this with us!
J R in WV
One interesting thing about these guys who win the Medal of Honor. If I understand correctly, even though they may be a PFC or such low ranking soldier, everyone has to salute them!
Generals, Admirals, etc. They all salute a Medal of Honor winner!
The Pale Scot
@MaryRC:
That sounds more likely, how does one reserve space on the tarmac in front on a landscaper’s garage? That’s a comedy skit waiting to be written. And not realize that they’re not talking to hotel booking?
The Pale Scot
@dmsilev:
If you can arrange for him to be stocks and supply a basket rotten vegetables…… with some rotten eggs…….. and a super soaker filled with permanent phosphorus ink… with a choice of colors, name your price
SuzieC
Dead thread but..in addition to everything else Kamala Harris is a beautiful and classy woman.
Miss Bianca
@phdesmond:
Way late to this thread, but I am stealing this and posting it elsewhere (with proper attribution, of course). Yee-haw!