I supposed I don’t have to tell you that I worried all night and feel like burying myself in my own box. I was hoping for a landslide, and I feel disgusted. Even if Biden wins, Republicans will gain seats in the US House, and barring a miracle, hold the Senate. I have no words of wisdom that you can get from MSNBC, so I’m going back to bed to worry, cry for the fate of America and pray. Tomorrow is a WWWendy day and a grocery delivery day, and giving the national situation, I have no idea what I’ll have to share tomorrow. God save America.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 7:19 (average 5:32). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Trump* Virus still infests 1600 Pennsylvania. May the electoral fumigation service prove effective!
RESIST!!
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Cartoon: Ouch!!
I completely understand at how this is going, and not knowing the outcome.. (elections), and know how you feel…..me too! If I was a drinking kind of gal, I’d be drunk by now. All day and into the night. Do take good, good care, Tom, and yes! God Save America !!
*This just in: re: dt – (the attention whore). “I can’t sleep so why should you?” ~ Steven G. ~
2. “Hard to believe the racist senators were re-elected. I mourn.” ~ Patty W. ~
3. “If Biden wins this, I hope the first thing he does in tear down that ridiculous wall trump built around the WH. Walls are for cowards to hide behind.” ~ Kelli C. ~
4. re: Election Day: “It’s time to decide as a Nation who we really are.” ~ Barack Obama ~
5. “Graham, McConnell win. Ugh!, and good grief!” *”Trump declares victory in states he hasn’t won.” *pb*
6. “Trump’s campaign mocked Biden as he visited his son’s grave on Election Day.” ~ Chris R. ~
TJI’s #’s 2 and 3: Racism is what runs so many people’s lives, it seems. And the GOP has played that card to so much success, it’s pitiful. If Biden wins he needs to tear down the stinking wall on the Mexican border, among other things it impacts wildlife, and nature preserves so badly. The destruction to parks has been awful! He need to get the fossil fuel industry out of Alaska, and elsewhere!
TJI # 1-6 – a mix of joy and grief.
A new TJI – it was only a matter of time before this happened – anti-Semites have replaced swastikas with the letters T-R-U-M-P
Probably like everyone else, I’m suffering from a full-on case of Election Angst. Although this morning it does look significantly better.
Not only am I surprised with where we’re at, I’m also very disillusioned, disappointed and disheartened. America is no longer a top-tier nation in many critical aspects.
Assuming the current projections of a Biden win hold (and we don’t tear ourselves apart), I hope he will govern like it was a landslide!
Our side tried that “reaching-across-the-aisle” for eight years with Pres. Obama, and it got us nowhere.
Mitch and his henchman have taught us it’s time to play hardball!
That urge to work in a bi-partisan manner, of Biden’s, scares me. It will only work for the benefit of the GOP!
Seriously, we need to eliminate the words partisan, non-partisan, bipartisan from our vocabulary completely and start talking exclusively about HEALING. And reconstruction. Because some things which are easy to condemn as partisan are in fact necessary for the nation to heal and for any reconstruction (as in “Build back better”) to be effective. (Like locking up some criminals.)
I was hoping for a landslide, as well, most of us probably were. The apparent stupidity, bigotry, misogyny, and gullibility of our fellow citizens is depressing. Voting for too well displayed incompetence is mind-blowing! Biden seems to have a chance, yet, and DeJoy may wind up in jail, for contempt (PLEASE!), but McConnell is in, Graham is in, Collins is probably in; Sheeesh!
‘toon: That’s where they live!
Get what rest you can!
Good News:
“The Squad” Ladies have all won re-election!!!!!!! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/aoc-ilhan-omar-ayanna-pressley-rashida-tlaib-squad-wins/6156013002/
Well, we in Colorado did what we could. We went strongly for Joe and kicked out Cory Gardner, replacing him with John Hickenlooper. We passsd some good propositions (but also failed to pass some), and defeated some bad ones (but not all of those.) Some are still too close to call. I haven’t looked at our House delegation. I know Mitsch Bush lost, but that district was already red (and she was demonized beyond belief.) I actually think she did well, just not well enough.
In other local news, I got a call from my doctor’s office in response to my fax about delaying my annual physical – “Take as long as you need, give us a call when it’s safe and we’ll get you in.” Very grateful.
I have not been a beer drinker since I grew up and learned to appreciate wines, but for “Chinga tu Pelo” beer I might make an exception.
Stop Hate!
So apropos on this day.
Forevermore!
That is a most wonderful image!!!!! Very worthy of copyright!
Grinchy curmudgeon here …
I very much like that graphic – EXCEPT (and I’m going to be picayunish)
That’s the symbol for a Mercedes Benz, rather than the Peace Sign
The reason I happen to know this is about a decade after I moved to KCMO the High School from the uber-rich Johnson County KS suburb decided to celebrate the past with a “Hippie Day”. It made the evening news:
I like curmudgeons. Did you knowihe wordt comes from the (medieval) French for “Naughty heart”?
I like others honestly thought that we were going to have a landslide with Joe so far ahead.
Watching the election results up to 11 PM last night, I was stunned to see how tRump was the projected winner of certain states. What confuses me, is what these people see in him???He’s done nothing….not one single thing since he was voted into office in 2016.
Are people that fllpping DEAF, DUMB and BLIND???
I’m still sticking to my gut feeling that Biden/Harris will be the winners. That’s even though tRump is going to do every single things he can by taking it to court.
Plus if he does lose, I dread the next 2 and a half months of him still being in there. No telling what type of chaos he’ll create for our country?
As for the Senators who were re elected like mItch, gRaham, and sUsan? It’s going to get uglier with the three of them We know mItch sits on everything.
This Just In via email from Barbara Lee
“Democrat Rev. Raphel Warnock just advanced into a runoff election in Georgia. That means we still have a shot at flipping the Senate and ending Mitch McConnell’s majority.”
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Naturally he is accepting donations between now and the runoff
This is our last chance for another Senate seat.
Date to be announced!!!!!!!
Date to be announced!!!!!!!
For four years, I held on to the belief that 2016 was a mistake and that Americans would come to their senses after their mistake brazenly displayed his madness and every possible disqualification under the sun to be president and dismantling what was left of democracy before their very eyes.
No more.
68,338,087 (UTC+10) votes of those counted at 11:15 am went to Trump and the worst of the Republicans are back in the Senate, likely with a majority. Even if Biden should win, something still uncertain, Republicans will rule, just like they did during Obama’s second term, forcing him to counteract by decree.
I’m sorry, I’ve given up on America. Time to direct my energy towards damage control and trying to save the planet from further harm coming from your direction.
Sadly, I can’t blame you one bit.
It’s going to take DECADES to repair the damage Trump & Rethuglicans have done to our country … IF we’re lucky enough to even be able to undo the damage.
I can’t blame you either. I suspect that, though giving up on the country, you are not giving up on your friends at this site, though. I hope not, anyway.
I went to bed by 9 PM CST last night…..really early, but had to be up at 5….and things looked better this AM than when I went to bed…but still waiting on Nevada….
Thanks and Exhausted Hugs to all. Please see today’s Insanity Update.