It’s finally over. President Donald Trump is done. Finished. Out. Expired. Old news.
And after four years of enduring the ceaseless neglect, corruption, and cruelty of a self-obsessed real estate developer with little interest in improving people’s lives, America is ready to pop bottles.
I am not jubilant in the streets but I am jubilant!
The Four-Year American Nightmare is finally ending. There is much to be jubilant about, but then, there is a whole lot of hard work that needs to be done to repair America and our nation’s place in the world.
Congratulations to Joe and Kamala!
Good bye Donnie . . . and Good Riddance! And don’t forget to take Mikey with you.
It’s a good day
As Churchill said on VE-Day, let us take a brief moment of rejoicing.
But I still find it a depressing outrage that the ratio of decent Americans to proto- (and total) fascists is so narrow. We’ll have to deal with these assholes for the rest of our lives.
I’m glad Joe Biden beat Donald Trump. Joe has the right attitude and temperament to be President of the United States. My nightmare is over starting January 21, 2021.
I keep puzzling over that. It just doesn’t seem right. No insight, but wait a few weeks or at least to the inauguration. Then see what it feels like. I suspect it is going to change in ways we do not expect. We may be dealing with a middle zone, contemptible still, but of people who sway to whichever way seems opportune in lieu of actual fascists.
Conservatism is a natural reaction to times of rapid change. Most voters vote with their emotions.
I can’t believe how relieved I feel. I didn’t realize the weight, until it was lifted.
Go get some fresh air!!!
I’m a civil servant. Joe Biden’s victory feels like a war-time liberation.
Four years ago, I had to draft a briefing paper for the Trump transition’s “landing team.” It had the distinct feeling of an occupation.
For the last four years, civil servants have had to work with, and under the direction of, truly contemptible political appointees who have been dedicated to wrecking the missions of our agencies.
On Monday, the new transition teams will arrive as liberators to end all of the carnage.
I am looking at that segment who look to their fortunes first, ideology and principle ninth or tenth. Trump had a reputation as transactional and money was king. For a while he was good for the investors. These people ride the coattails of anything that increases wealth. If that opportunity is gone, they will snivel the other direction to see if there is a morsel or two for them.
Several members of the TPM staff who weren’t online late Saturday morning when the news broke
Slackers
A friend had it right: “I feel like Dorothy when the wicked witch died!”
I knew someone who worked for the National Endowment for the Humanities during the reagan administration. It was an enemy occupation.
Such a good feeling
There’s a lot of high fiving, dancing and crying going on in my house today. Meanwhile, here’s the countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20210120T09&p0=900&msg=Inauguration+2021&font=sanserif
Congratulations to Donald Trump on whining the 2020 Presidential election!
Oh, and to all of the downhearted and dejected Trumpsters - you know, the ones who many in the media say that we are supposed to sympathize with and hug and “try to understand” because their Waterford crystal-fragile fees-fees got crushed:
“FUCK YOUR FAILINGS!”
Note to @rascal_crone: "I have done all I can to urge @castor_troy go home and stop dancing in the streets. Now his cover is blown, and the DOJ are searching high and low for him.
