Apparently the nation wants a fascistic theocracy over democracy

[thewayne]

We certainly shall see what we shall get. This time somewhat sane people aren't going to try to restrain the old weird guy at the soon to be no-longer White House, and if they manage to flip the HoR, we'll see what happens.

I hate the fact that in a few hours I'm going to be a couple thousand miles from my wife. I really should have delayed this trip. I'm off to Washington, DC - specifically, Bethesda, MD, but I land at Ronny Raygun and take the subway to Bethesda - to resume my annual visits to Nat'l Institutes of Health. Last time I was there was late '19, then they stopped for some reason.

Russet is going to be crushed. She really fears the Cheetoh Benito getting back in power, as do I. I can't imagine what the country will look like in four years, or if we'll ever have another fair presidential election.

I'm not sure which is worse: seeing his smug-ass face in the news and hearing about his fuck-ups incessantly for four years, or until he's removed from office via the 25th, or hearing about his whining about the Crooked Election until he no longer pollutes the atmosphere with his breath. And we're clearly never going to see any justice for his crimes.

I'm not going to theorize on why Kamala lost, there will be plenty of other people who are more election-savvy than I doing that.

Comments

[kaishin108]

Have a good trip. I feel for Russet in these new dark times. Be safe and get home soon!

[silveradept]

I suspect what we'll find in the immediate future is all the scholars who aghast told us this would happen. And those scholars well be disbelieved, because the opinion polls will say "we asked people, and only a very few people actually said the quiet part out loud, so it couldn't have been that," despite the evidence right there in what happened.

At this point, it certainly looks like he's managed to get away with trying a coup once, so we can only wonder what the next attempt will look like, and whether this time he'll leave it to the people who actually know how to succeed at doing it.

[disneydream06]

I read something on twitter that said somebody won their House seat and that would flip the house. I find that hard to believe the way the night went.
I kind of gave up on the news and so I haven't heard anything official.

I am so pissed that people are already blaming President Biden for her losing. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon

[pondhopper]

I suspect your trips stopped because of Covid.
Anyway, yeah. Nothing to add to this except my own disgust and despair.

[richardf8]

No need to theorize. She lost because more than half of Americans are Nazis.