I wasn’t going to watch the election results, but I turned the coverage on mid-afternoon. It was like watching an accident, I found that I couldn’t look away.
Then the numbers kept coming in that began to indicate the current administration was crippled and on its way to the trash bin of history. It was addictive, and I was hooked.
As the night wore on, I felt like the rug would be pulled out from under me. I was sure that somewhere in a dank basement in Washington D.C. a cabal of vile creatures that used to be human, in whom the corruption had finished its horrific work, were meeting to dash my hopes.
I was waiting for some last minute judicial maneuver, played out in grandiose fashion that disqualified not only Trump but somehow criminalized all Republicans and MAGA supporters. With anyone wearing Red being loaded up into cattle cars then shipped off to “Work Camps” or Re-Education camps.
I was expecting Kamala to take the stage cackling like a hyena announcing she won… by default… again…
As more states turned red I was dumbfounded. I poured myself another drink and waited for the inevitable crushing despair I knew had to come. Surely there was something that the slimy Democrats had up their sleeve.
I knew Harris & that strange troll of a man Walz, were destined to win, their job was to subject us to at least 8 more years of horrific policies, war, and poor governance.
Their job was to finally and completely break the backs of the American Citizen.
Then Kamala blew off her “watch party” leaving her supporters exhausted, despondent, and unappreciated. She went to bed, without appearing. She sent a minion to make nice, and tell everyone the party was over and to go home.
Trump meanwhile, along with his family, Vice President elect, and many others appeared before the crowd and he was humble (relatively speaking for him). He thanked people, those who were on stage and those in the crowd for their support.
In short, he was Presidential.
X lit up like a Christmas tree.
There was a fair amount of vitriol directed at the paid shills who’d been propping up the Biden / Harris administration for the past four years.
They’d been doing this often by misrepresenting the truth and never missed an opportunity to bash Trump, often touting previously debunked stories or flat out lies as evidence of Trump’s Hitlerian evil.
The general consensus of the messages directed at these people was a resounding “Fuck You!“
As I was reading these streams of messages, I couldn’t help thinking that I’d rather have a strong convicted Felon, than a a weak duplicitous communist as the President.
At least a Felon can communicate with Putin and Zelensky on even footing…
I think the popular voting numbers also say “fuck you” to Democrats and their policies, only a bit more polite.
Some Senate seats flipped, it looks like the Republicans will control the Senate. Unfortunately, the scum Adam Schiff is projected to return to the senate. As is typical in California, the coastal areas screw over the farmers and ranchers in the interior of the state.
The House seats are still too close to call, maybe a majority will be held onto by the Republicans?
On a funnier note, some of the folks on X were saying, “I never thought I’d say this, but I am looking forward to watching The View tomorrow.”
Joy Reid is out of her damn mind and is calling Florida an “Extreme Right-Wing Fascist State”. Wow! She’s obviously never been there for any length of time. One thing I can say about Florida is you’re pretty much going to be left the hell alone to live your life so long as you don’t break the law or hurt someone else. Thats kind of the opposite of a Fascist State isn’t it?
Honestly, Joy Reid needs to retire. She seems to be interested only in fomenting anger and hatred with half truths and rage.
Oh isn’t that nice? George Gascón has been kicked out on his ass in a landslide. I guess the people of Los Angeles County are sick and tired of living in “Escape from Los Angeles” . Perhaps there will be a crackdown on lawlessness.
Barbra Streisand, & Cher should be busy packing their bags. They’ve both said they’d leave the United States if Trump was elected. In fact a lot of Hollywood celebrities should be loading up the U-Hauls this morning.
Even the HAM Radio Net, I’m in most mornings (a regular communication of HAM operators, checking in with each other.) Normally, these Nets are apolitical but once in a while someone makes a comment. This morning was one of those mornings.
One operator commented to another, “Four years ago you said we were in for a rough ride. We made it through & It’s been a pleasure to ride along with you.” The comment was super innocuous and nothing more than what it said on the face of it. The two operators had even signed off.
But there was a KAREN who listens but never says anything on-air during the net except to complain, piped up telling everyone how important, experienced, and righteous he was and that political comments weren’t appropriate.
My response to that “Karen” out of California City was to turn my radio off. I’d have liked to yell into my microphone “Go Fuck Yourself!” But that really is inappropriate and against FCC Ham Rules. Perhaps I should coin “ESGFY” as a shorthand way of saying “Elon Says Go Fuck Yourself” I don’t think it would catch on though.
I’m tired of all the fucking busybodies! Look you joyless scolds, stay in your own lane, stay out of other peoples business or conversations and live your life. That’s a lot better than sucking the life out of everything and everyone around you. Not that any of you would have the introspection to see that.
CNN’s Van Jones is, of course, playing the race card. Jones is already making excuses yet ignoring the blatantly obvious facts.
Jones stated that while you can’t really say what exactly determined the result of the 2024 election, President-Elect Donald Trump had leeway to behave poorly that his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t due to race and gender.
Uhhhh no you blithering idiot. It wasn’t about race or gender. Trumps win was about the American People rejecting the Democrat policies, and about Kamala Harris being so throughly unlikeable that she was forced out of the 2020 election because she had so few votes. She hasn’t changed or learned anything and the American People haven’t changed their opinion of her. End of story.
I think perhaps the way forward to healing the rifts between us, starts by telling the truth. The broadcast media oughta give that a try for a while and see where it takes us.
I woke up this morning actually feeling hopeful.
I did check the news feeds because I’m still waiting for the legal maneuvering that Jamie Raskin alluded to so that Trump can’t be President. I’m sure that will come out of New York, you know the source of the shittiest legal proceedings in the country. The place that killed a pet squirrel and a raccoon in what can only be described as an authoritarian like cluster fuck, while allowing rapes, murders, theft, and drugs to wash through the place like a fetid river of shit. The place that re-elected Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the dumbest bimbo ever, (although AOC and Harris seem to be in a competition to reach bottom for that title.)
Today is still a good day, Trump is still the President Elect by number of votes cast. I was half expecting some “counting errors” to have occurred during the dark of night. Like last time.
For the moment, until New York does some other shitty legal wrangling, or BLM and ANTIFA, the dumb shit gays for Palestine, or the Frankenstein looking mob of Transgender mutilations, start burning shit down.
I’m going to enjoy feeling lighter, hopeful, and happier, than I’ve felt in years.
I think the military used to say something like “Smoke if ya got ‘em”
Have a great day.
The media continues to slit their own throats with the American people. 
After 8-10 years of lies mixed with the occasional bit of truth about Trump we’ve come to the Joseph Gobbels point in our program.
How can you vote for Kamala? From the other side I know the question is the same about Trump.
That alone speaks to her authenticity and character. If you think about it, when an inauthentic person can’t get votes in one of the most inauthentic states in the union, a place where illusion is king and success is one phone call away, then there’s something seriously wrong.
When you add the issues of translation. How will one of Kamala’s word salads translate? Translation isn’t just word for word… It’s taking what the speaker says, then framing it in context to the situation and subject under discussion then putting it into the listeners language.
Trump on the other hand is plain spoken, sometimes too plain spoken. He’s believable, and honestly just random enough that Putin, Xi, the Mullas, and everyone else don’t quite know what to think. He’s an interesting combination of bombastic, arrogant, and narcissistic which puts him on equal footing when he walks into a room full of world leaders.
(Although Poland is stable, clean, and full of good people. I don’t know if they’d give me a residence permit. )
I’m pissed off and worried all the damn time about the next expense, or next thing breaking. I’m pissed off interest rates are affecting my purchasing power, and my dollar goes 1/3 as far as it did.
What about our people, our elderly, our homeless, our veterans?
Four years ago, in this blog, I said I didn’t really care who won, I just wanted to get on with life. At the time I also said that our concern should be to improve our voting process such that any question of cheating could be ruled out. I suggested that we adopt voter ID and cleaned up voter roles, and even mentioned the possibility of everyone having to re-register. It’s obvious we must have clean voter rolls and only citizens should be voting. I expressed the opinion that If we did the basics without spending a ton of money we would know the will of the electorate.
So Joe Biden put down his Fisher Price Talkie Toy microphone, and found a real Microphone.