I slept better last night than I have in quite a while. I wonder now if the election had been weighing on me. As in 2016, it’s as though a great weight has been lifted.
My immediate thoughts: Barack Obama doesn’t get his fourth term. All of that lawfare against Trump is probably moot now. And we won’t be hearing any more whining about the Electoral College, at least for the next four years or so, since he won the popular vote. And speaking of that, what happened to those millions of voters from 2020 that didn’t make it to the polls yesterday? I have a theory.
I may have more thoughts later, but for now, a foreigner explains to other non-Americans why they’re surprised at this outcome.
[Update a few minutes later]
Heh.
BREAKING: Trump gives his notice to McDonald's pic.twitter.com/C9XZT0AHre
— Kim Anh (@KimAnhUSA) November 6, 2024
Another big loser in addition to Barack:
You know who had a really bad night last night? Nancy Pelosi. She was basically the coup leader against Biden, the one who organized the effort to remove him and replace him with Kamala. She defended the putsch in very cold and practical terms, and it blew up in her face.
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) November 6, 2024
I went to bed early expecting a long and drawn out week. Very happy that I was wrong. However, I’m not sure yet if Pelosi is the loser, as her focus was the House and that’s still not settled, although I hope it keeps her up at night until she eventually is forced to accept the lost.
And while I’m for unity and Trump moving forward on his agenda; I do hope some time is given to investigate all the “crimes” committed by Pelosi, et al. By crimes, I mean the things they did for which they just accused Trump of doing in order to litigate whether it was legal or not while putting his ass on the line. Fani Willis claims it was RICO, but it was her lover that was negotiating the prosecution with the Biden White House. The investigation into those actions needs to continue. The criminal referrals already sent to the DOJ need to be brought up again under the new Congress, passed, and sent to the new DOJ. We need government accountability and verification that nobody is indeed above the law.
Many have noted that Trump dodged a bullet on July 13th and perhaps America did so on November 5th. I think we will learn just how true that is in the coming months.
Same here on sleeping a lot better.
I’m holding onto a hope that the Democrats will rip themselves apart over recriminations over why, and how, they chose to anoint the one and only possible candidate who shared the Biden Administrations bad baggage. Specifically, why did they break their public promises (which evaporated the moment Biden actually stepped aside) of a process to give the voters a say in Biden’s replacement? That debacle hurt their chances, a lot. I’d like to see them tear themselves apart over what they’ve done, not for vengeance, but in the hope they’ll come out of it as a better, more ethical, less radical party. That would be a great benefit to them, and the country as a whole.
And, I do hope the whole backstory of their “palace coup” against Biden comes out soon, as I suspect there’s a lot that hasn’t come out yet.
I hope you’re right about the lawfare against Trump coming to an end now, but I suspect it won’t. I hope I’m wrong. Trump’s still facing the risk of being sent directly to prison in a couple of weeks (unless the sentencing date has changed again), due to the most preposterous of the cases against him, the New York business records one (the payments over the porn star affair). Normally, a sentence isn;t immediate when there’s an appeal underway, nor would prison time be normal for a paperwork offense, but it’s within the judge’s (evidently a very biased judge) power to send Trump directly to prison. At least, I think so, and I hope I’m wrong, especially as I think there’s a very real chance Trump would get killed in prison.
“Specifically, why did they break their public promises (which evaporated the moment Biden actually stepped aside) of a process to give the voters a say in Biden’s replacement?”
I like the theory that Dementia Joe’s endorsement of Que Mala tied their hands. What were they gonna do, suddenly bad-mouth the guy they’ve been propping up forever?
“I hope I’m wrong, especially as I think there’s a very real chance Trump would get killed in prison.”
Agree. I believe the sentencing date has been pushed back to the 25th of November and the scuttle butt is it is liable to be postponed indefinitely. We shall see . I didn’t sleep better because I worked swing shifts so I was actually up all night at work following the election; was very pleasantly surprised ny the results. I slept better this morning.