2020 Presidential Election

[BullDog]

Hallelujah indeed!

I feel a combination of relief, gratitude, and jubilation!!!!

Kätzchen, Dems will control then House, but our margin has been cut. We have to win the 2 Georgia runoffs to get to a 50-50 tie in the Senate.

Congress will be very narrowly divided. It's going to be tough because the Republicans have every incentive for Democrats to fail so they can re-take power in 2022 and 2024. Biden will remind Americans every day how we must come together as a country and that's our best hope I think.

To me, we all started to take our country back with the Women's marches that took place on the day after Chump's inauguration. I was at the one in Albuquerque, NM. We all were shaking our heads, especially us "older" ones, not believing we still had to fight this hard, but we do. We need to keep fighting. The Republicans want us to fail. We need to keep fighting.

I'm sad that John Lewis did not live to see all the amazing things happening in Georgia, but he helped change our country and the world, and now Stacey Abrams and others have taken the torch and carry on his work.

This victory was fueled by black voters in places like Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. We need to never forget that.

[Vincent]

From Aust

You did it

Amidst all the intimidation and violence and madness that this 4 years has produced.

In Aust we are celebrating too

The Whole world is watching,with relief.

Now lets keep fighting

but for now
Congratulations America

That human waste should be charged with crimes against humanity for all the covid deaths in the US in the hague

[BullDog]

Thank you Vincent and to everyone around the world for their support.

We now have the chance to be good neighbors to our allies around the world again and work together on critical issues like climate change.

Also, we will have a President who stands up against authoritarians and dictators once again.

[Gemme]

Joe and Kamala and the Secret Service are going to have to go through every inch of the White House and all Presidential meeting rooms/areas because you KNOW the Cheetoh is going to try to do some secret recording to "prove" he was right or to find a way to sneak back in. After all, it's the cheater/illegal recorder that accuses the other one of cheating/illegally recording, right?

[Martina]

You can always find reasons for complex phenomena, but the fact is the centrists over and over and over foregrounded the argument that Biden would bring along down ballot Democrats. Whatever bullshit you want to spew, the fact is that he did not.

[BullDog]

Martina you can spew your far left-wing nonsense all you want. It doesn't make a lick of sense and no one cares.

The country overall doesn't share my political views either, but at least I'm smart enough to know it.

BIDEN/HARRIS WON!!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!

[C0LLETTE]

Looking at all those celebrations in the streets of America you'd think it was New Years Eve...or maybe the overthrow of some Latin American dictator. I'm thinking it must feel a lot like the latter.


Well done America but please don't ever go there again.

[Pacificblu]

Originally Posted by Martina

You can always find reasons for complex phenomena, but the fact is the centrists over and over and over foregrounded the argument that Biden would bring along down ballot Democrats. Whatever bullshit you want to spew, the fact is that he did not.

We faced an uphill battle to get us up off of our knees before our democracy was lost. To say that you didn’t get everything you want is your prerogative, but most of us are happy to be leaving 4 years of Hell.

Now is the time to get out and support candidates who will make the changes you want to see in the world.

[Orema]

Trump Dumps 3 Agency Leaders In Wake Of Election


Lisa Gordon-Hagerty of the National Nuclear Security Administration discusses global nuclear threats in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2019. She was removed from her post in an abrupt round of departures at three agencies. Susan Montoya Bryan/AP

The Trump administration abruptly dumped the leaders of three agencies that oversee the nuclear weapons stockpile, electricity and natural gas regulation, and overseas aid during the past two days, drawing a rebuke from a prominent Republican senator for one of the decisions.

The sudden departures included:

• Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the first woman to oversee the agency in charge of the nuclear stockpile. She was required to resign on Friday.
• Bonnie Glick, deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. She was replaced by acting Administrator John Barsa, who had run out of time for his more senior role under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.
• Neil Chatterjee, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He was replaced as chairman, though he will remain at FERC, an independent agency, as a commissioner.

The firings were overshadowed by the prolonged drama of the presidential election.

The White House declined comment on the firings and declined to say whether there would be more in the wake of the election.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued a statement criticizing Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, who he said "effectively demanded" the resignation of Gordon-Hagerty. (The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency that is part of the Energy Department.)

Inhofe called Gordon-Hagerty "an exemplary public servant and remarkable leader" and said Brouillette's decision "during this time of uncertainty demonstrates he doesn't know what he's doing in national security matters and shows a complete lack of respect for the semi-autonomous nature of NNSA."

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-up...m_term=nprnews

[Martina]

Originally Posted by Pacificblu

We faced an uphill battle to get us up off of our knees before our democracy was lost. To say that you didn’t get everything you want is your prerogative, but most of us are happy to be leaving 4 years of Hell.

Now is the time to get out and support candidates who will make the changes you want to see in the world.

Who says I'm not? It's a separate point. Centrists used the argument that only Biden could bring along down ballot Dems over and over against progressives just as they are now trying to blame BLM and Bernie supporters for the fact that there was not a blue wave. Hell, they initially tried to blame urban Blacks for not coming out in large enough numbers before they regained their senses. White voters voted for Trump in about the same percentages that they did in 2016. Without Black and Latino voters, Biden would not be President Elect as he acknowledged in his speech. AOC and others are pushing back against this vile rhetoric. Don't tell me or any other progressive to get on the god damned bandwagon again.