Joe Biden Wins Presidency

I was so glad I turned on CNN just about 5 minutes before it was called. This was the result I wanted but I did not think it would bring me to tears like it did. I remember when Obama got elected in 2008 and the emotion that came over me then. This was greater.

I cannot believe we have a female, non-white Vice President elect. Truly legendary.

Also TIL the R stands for Robinette and honestly, fuck yeah.

 

lot of work still to be done but thank fuck the orange bastard will be gone

 

Weekend post? What is this?

I’m super happy this has finally been declared, and I’m looking forward to Biden breaking 300 electorals when it’s all said and done. It’s terrifying how close this was still though.

 

the whole idea of the election having a narrative and Biden “coming back” is so bogus. The votes are the votes no matter what order we count them in. He was always going to win, nothing miraculous happened in the last three days

 

I consider it a miracle that somehow the trump train didn’t derail our democracy in the last week.

 

Thank the gods! But most of all, Stacey Abrams!

 

Still has 2 months..

 

I tweeted we should all start streaming this to get it on the charts..

 

I just watched their speeches. It was so fucking refreshing to hear a speech from our president (elect) just full of hope and completely devoid of hate, fear mongering, and ego. Just hope. It was so strange to see after the last four years.

 

I literally felt a dark cloud of Trump depression lift off me this morning. I feel lighter.

 

The world is a brighter place today.

 

Just think over 71 million people voted for Trump.

 

I'm still terrified that this is going to somehow be reversed and we're gonna have another four years of this prick. Watching the speeches last night gave me so much hope, even more so than when Barrack won the first time, which I didn't think was even possible. I'm just still waiting for the other penny to drop, I just can't celebrate until either Trump concedes or he's out of the White House. He's gonna do everything he can to fuck up even more over the next two months than he has in the last four years.

Sorry to be so pessimistic but after four years of living like this, it's hard to have hope that this is actually real. I'll celebrate come 1/20/2021 (just realized that's the same date backwards as forwards).

 

This election proves that voting for the "lesser of two evils" is 100% the way to go. Hopefully we can turn the Senate in January. I'll be reaching out to my former students in Georgia and try to do some registering/canvassing this next month or so.

 

I drank a bit yesterday to celebrate. Today I wake up with the same dread I have had for four years.

I won’t really celebrate or feel OK until that motherfucker is out of office or six feet deep and I don’t care which one happens first. And I’m a well-off white guy. I have nothing to truly fear, beyond a planet that is uninhabitable for my kids. I don’t know how others do it without slipping into depression. Maybe they don’t.

I’ll be praying and sleeping with one eye open until 1/21/21

 

That was damn stressful, so glad it's over. SMH at people that say Biden was the "lesser or two evils", like Biden is at all comparable to that psychopath Trump.

 

Exactly what I’ve said. Trump is pure evil.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/09/peaceful-transition-power-trump/

Good read.

 

Trump is a fucking cult and it's fucking scary.

 

Look, I voted for Biden. But if we really do want to be a society that "believes women," then we have to accept the fact that we voted for someone who has repeatedly crossed boundaries with female staffers and purportedly pushed a woman against a wall and put his fingers inside her. As easy as it is for some people to say "the choice is clear" this is still a big deal for some people. Voting for Biden was absolutely necessary for a multitude of reasons, but saying that he is not the lesser of two evils overlooks or downplays this aspect of his character. Yes Trump is worse, but they are comparable.