Well…as predicted, pundits all over the country are flapping their gums and telling our side that we must try to “understand” trump voters and their lives and move on from the hatred of trump…I call bullshit on that whole idea…I refuse to forgive and forget what those people did to our country by voting trump into office in 2016 and then reveling in his hatred and racism and letting their own fly like a flag…making this country a cesspool of misoginy and xenophobia and loving the fact that children…damn it, children were ripped away from their parents and put in cages just because they were fleeing violence in their own countries. These are not “American” values…and this is not political, this IS all about values, how you treat other people and try to do anything to make this country a better place…but, 70 million Americans still think that the idiot trump and his hatred is just what they want….and that will never be my values or that of any of us on the left…the right has no values if they still want trump…and how do you reconcile that with the love for others that we have? It is time for them to understand us…not the caricature that has been built by fox news and right wing radio but who we really are…I have absolutely no hope that any person on the right even has the capability or desire to change…they don’t think they need to…and that is a chasm too big for us to bridge…and I am in no mood to build one….

Well…I have been waiting for four long, miserable years to write that title…a few minutes ago every news organization (except fox of course) called Pennsylvania for Joe and Kamala and that puts him over the top in the EC and makes him president elect….I can’t really describe the relief I feel that the stain on America, trump, is going to be gone soon and some sort of normalcy is going to come back  and we no longer will have a government full of grifters, incompetents, and assholes….I’ll come back a little later and add to this one but right now, all I want to do is read more about it in the news….

Okay, I’m back and I am surprised at how emotional my reaction has been to this good news…I would love to be sitting in a bar right now with like minded people having a few and laughing and smiling but that is one of the blackest of lasting legacies of the idiot in chief…I miss my friends and the surprise text to go out and hang out…but there are so many things I won’t miss…children in cages, ICE agents terrorizing the countryside, having a new law broken every damn day, having that smug orange piece of crap defiling out house, waking up to what new outrage the orange asshole has done, Bill Barr corrupting the justice department, more and more pollution, politicized government, stealing everything for trump’s cronies, incompetence, misogyny, fascism, hate, stupidity, corruption…you get the picture…it has just been so draining to see all of this crap for the past four years that I think I’ve got PTSD….I need to take the rest of this day off and just let all of the stress go….happy days are here again…..

Well…it’s pushing 3 pm here and there still is no call of the winner of the election…although, Joe is ahead in all 5 states that are left to call and idiot boy would have to take them all to win the election…so it is looking pretty good right now and no state has more than 6% of the vote to count so the call could come in the next few hours…or it might not…it might be next week, who knows? So, I think I’ll leave that there and do another one to talk about something else….

Well….just getting ready to get on the bike for the first ride of the day and thought I’d relay the news in a short one…just a minute ago, Joe took the lead in Pennsylvania with only votes from the Philly area to be counted that should be heavily democratic…and he took the lead in Georgia overnight although the lead is really small…and with pennsy, that means Joe is ahead in every state that is still counting votes….so, I’m going to go out and ride and I hope that when I get back the election has been called….more later….

Well….as I sit here waiting for the last state that Joe needs to win the election to be  called, I can say that I am exhausted from the entire elections season and I want it to be over as soon as possible when the votes are counted. I need to be able to just take it easy for a few days and stop thinking about anything but looking for a house and putting the doors back on the linen closet. I am so damn tired of trump and his idiot henchmen who are running around screeching “election fraud” but when asked, they can’t explain what is being done wrong or unlawfully…the rules have been explained clearly and the states that are still counting are following the rules for each state so where is the fraud? Across the world, new organizations just can’t believe what trump and his minions are doing, and even the UN election watchers are saying they see nothing wrong and no “fraud” in any state that they have been observing…but, I guess the UN is in on it, too? I think the world just wants trump gone, too…they have had enough of him and his bullshit as we have here…at least 55% of us want him gone and the other 45% are just racist assholes anyway and who cares what they think? I am just done with it for today…unless they call it then I’ll be back to do another one….

Well…the day that we’ve all been looking forward to and dreading is here and my stress level is still at 11 and that is part of the reason I’m late here today…needed to take advantage of the weather and get 26 miles in on the bike and I am beat…but I’m here so let’s get started…okay, right up front, I hope all of you have voted or plan to today…we need all hands on deck to make sure the orange tumor that has infested our country for the past four years is gone in January…and while I am cautiously optimistic….okay, I hate that phrase, have read it over a hundred times today, it does nothing to describe the tension we all are feeling…one good bit of news is that the idiot boy’s ground game in PA really doesn’t exist…it appears that Brad Parscale, who was supposed to do it before getting fired, just took the money and ran….and many polling place in red areas are dead with no lines to speak of….oh, we can only hope since we are almost 700K ahead in mail in ballots and that may carry us to a win there….turnout is ridiculous across the country and may reach 70+ percent which is almost 10% higher than in 2016…whether that favors us I’m not sure and I think the analysis will have to wait until after the election…one thing that is happening is the turnout of younger folks is up 20% from 2016 and they appear to be pretty darn motivated…so, let’s keep them motivated by giving them a seat at the table to understand what they want the country to look like and what it is government can do to make their lives better….we should know by 9 pm or so who won Florida and Georgia…if Joe takes either one it’s over for idiot boy, if he takes both, it’s going to be a landslide and maybe almost 400 EV’s…I do know that after I finish this, I’m tuning out to watch soccer and then catch up on some shows tonight instead of watching the news…I may check on the results before I go to bed since that would be as good as a sleeping pill to me…and I am going to have martinis tonight….fingers crossed….

Well…okay, I’ll admit my stress o meter is pegged at 11 and thankfully I had some painting to do that took up some of my free time this morning…but not really enough so I thought I’d do this one to use up a little more…the final polls are in and they show no movement toward the idiot trump with the national polls showing an almost 10 point Joe lead and 538 moving their projection to a 90% chance that he will win…but, let’s remember one thing…they had Hillary at 88% at this same point and the idiot boy won…one point that I am hoping will hold up is that at no point during the 2016 election did Hillary have the support of 50% of the electorate and she still won the popular vote by 3 million…in the final poll, we see that Joe is at 52% which means there are very few undecided voters and these voters broke for trump last time and put him over by the 77K votes he won the EC by….I think the eye of the needle is much smaller this time and, let’s mix metaphors here, and can lightning strike twice for the idiot boy? One interesting poll from this morning is that Joe and idiot boy are tied in Texas at 48.1% and that is surprising in blood red Texas but I think it reflects the demographic changes that are happening there and, even if Joe doesn’t win, the writing is on the wall for the repubs that change is coming…and not a minute too soon. The Georgia senate races have tightened a bit and are basically a tossup today but we’ll see what turnout says there…we need to remember that Stacey Abrams only lost the last governor’s race by less than 1% even with the widespread voter suppression that may be able to be countered by turnout…I hope so anyway. I still think we’ll get the 4 seats we need to make Moscow Mitch the minority leader but that one is going to be a nail biter.  So, please people, get to to vote like this country depends on it…and it’s not hyperbole to say it does…I need some calm in my life and trump has to go to make that happen….VOTE!

Well…damn, it’s only 10:30 and I’ve accomplished everything I wanted to already…so, I thought I’d come here for the next to last one of these…or the penultimate one…can’t remember ever using that word before….so, let’s go…new polling is out today that shows very little movement in any of the states other than one that shows trump up by 12 in Iowa when every other one has it tied or with Biden ahead by one…I’ll take that one as an outlier since the sample size is only 200 and that makes it easy to not be representative…Biden looks good in the states that idiot boy needs to win, Pa, Wi, and MI with near double digit leads in those states where Hillary was even to up only around 2%….so that looks good for Joe and us…and many of the pollsters have started to convert these percentages into EV’s that all look pretty good for Joe…not one of them have trump winning with Joe having a floor of 280 EV’s without any states that are really swing ones anymore…it appears they are being conservative and I like that…they have also put the swing states in and with a Biden win in those states, it could be a landslide with up to 400 EV’s…but I am just hoping for any kind of a win even if it’s 270 and I am still nervous about the voter suppression that the repubs are doing openly now when they used to do it in the shadows…in Georgia, there was march of mostly AA people going to the polls who were attacked by police using pepper spray when they did nothing but walk….I think there will probably be more of that in the next two days but I don’t get the mindset of these morons…I mean, if we win all three branches of government, many of them will be held accountable and will be out of jobs…but past that, how much of an asshole do you have to be to pepper spray someone just wanting to vote? Okay, I’ll stop editorializing now…just get out to vote if you haven’t already…we need all of you…and we need you right now…