Feeling Better -- Some Election Thoughts

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Every masterpiece a la Copper Blue should have a mandatory outtake / angry, dark shit EP like Beaster.  It is known.

Some more salubrious thoughts than the ones that went before concerning the 2020 Election:

1)  Loser stink.  We all fail, but there's a particularly foul scent that goes with being a one-term US president.  It just doesn't happen that often.  Carter has rightfully been restored due to his incredible humanitarian work, but that took a long time.  George H.W. never recovered.  Gerald Ford?  A walking punchline.  Trump's whole brand is based on "winning" (he's a fraud of course) and this will stick to him forever.  Conversely, defeating an incumbent president is hard fucking work, and Biden pulled it off.

2)  As predicted, Biden is set to win the largest vote total in American history, with the largest participation in modern American history.  Only the Electoral College and the media's insatiable desire to get vote counts within a mere few hours is keeping this from looking like objectively what it is: a blow-out victory against a guy who, along with his Republican Party, pulled out every stop to make voting difficult, if not impossible.

3)  McConnell isn't going to let a single damn thing go through the Senate.  Biden and Pelosi need to message the hell of the fact that the House is trying to Get Stuff Done, and the Senate won't allow it.  Frankly, this is a long shot.  "Both Sides Do It" is pretty much the mantra of even left-of-center US media.

4)  If Trump isn't dead or in a New York State jail come 2022 he's going to run again, probably with his daughter or less dumb, more evil son in tow.  Honestly, I really hope he does -- he wrecked the Republican primary in 2015 and he can do it again, no problem.

5)  Everybody, including me, underestimated Biden's ability to rise to the occasion.  Let's see if he has some more magic to pull out of his Vintage Mustang.  And let's hope Kamala Harris will rise as well.  She was my second choice after Elizabeth Warren, and I think she will.  At the very least, a strong, smart black woman taking the reins of power is going to blow more than a few blood vessels among the GOP and FOX.

6)  Breathe.  We won.  We didn't shoot the moon, but we won.  Remember that Trump is not the sort to go quietly into the good night -- there will be casualties, as one of his favorite things is to reward loyalty with bitter spite and legal peril.