- In Scotties Toy Box, poll workers sign up as a part of good citizenship. They work to help voters and find themselves targets of abuse that sometimes goes to physical assault. Thank you Mr. Trump.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson advises patience. Careful counting of ballots may seem slow, and it is. But, as she reminds us, that care is a good thing. She notes the turmoil, much of it generated by Trump camp angst. At the center, election workers calmly keep on totaling.
- At The Moderate Voice, Kate Starbird reads social media for falsehoods and warns of the five most common types of misinformation.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger notes an alarming election trend.
- Max’s Dad thinks about the number of people who would vote for a child caging, fascist, sexist, homophobic white supremacist, considers one or two horrible new representatives, celebrates a prospective Biden victory, and wishes the new President luck in cleaning up the mess.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara holds that critics of the electoral college fail to understand America. Well that settles it, right?
I respectfully disagree. (sort of respectfully)
- On January 20, 2009, minutes after Barack Obama became President Obama, Mitch McConnell met with Republican Senators and conservative lobbyists to plan the following four years. At the center was a firm resolution to fight against any and every proposal the new President might make, no matter how valid, how necessary for the protection of the nation. The Senate filibuster as it then existed would enable their obstruction. Their only objective would be to prevent a second Obama term.
Twelve years later, there are a couple of outstanding Senate runoffs in Georgia. But it looks like an extreme longshot to take the Senate back from McConnell’s current Republican majority. So here we go again. Infidel753 comes up with a simple, elegant idea on how incoming President Joe Biden can frustrate this term’s McConnell obstruction. AND he can show great bi-partisan reconciliation while doing it. Presumably he can smile while sprinkling peace and friendliness along every flowery step.
- Lie, lie, lie!! At The Onion, both-sides-do-it media condemns Biden for his false claim that, as the election counting concludes, the nation will come together.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit watches yesterday’s competing speeches by both candidates for President, considers the unsupported accusations by Trump of voter fraud, and poses a direct question to those willing to believe those charges.
- It’s rare to see a televised meltdown that is also phenomenally eloquent. Tommy Christopher watches the raw emotion as Stephen Colbert tears up his nightly monologue and delivers an extemporaneous rebuke of Trump’s press conference. Video is followed by stunned Twitter reaction.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac has the best headline for my current-but-soon-to-exit president’s election night bluster.
- Helen Philpot writes to her friend Margaret with advice on how to get over a bad case of Trump itch. One of her best bits of humor.
Sadly, I read the vote part a day late.
Happily, I had already followed it.
Sadly, my vote was in Missouri, a lost cause.
Happily, the country outside of Missouri went mostly the better way.
- A friend sends a note about the year 2020, the virus, and Trump:
“I don’t think the therapist is supposed to say ‘Wow,’ that many times in your first session but here we are…”
- So what’s next for outgoing 45? Iron Knee at Political Irony floats one strangely plausible possibility.
- The election result diminishes the case a little, but Joe Hagstrom, in MadMikesAmerica, suggests that Donald Trump may be closer to the American prototype than we would like to think.
- Nan’s Notebook gives what may be the best explanation for reflexive Republican voters.
- Vagabond Scholar commits vivisection on shifting conservative definitions of their own shibboleths, and offers a plausible grand unified theory of the one core principle that holds together contemporary conservatism.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged reminds us that election ballots do not form the only important count this week.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil gets a little snarky at media coverage of how a deadly virus works. As in really? But we have to remember, some of these readers may be among those who voted for Trump.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson offers a sympathetic review of a lawsuit against emergency virus related orders in the the state. Seems the governor may have exceeded some aspects of his statutory authority and should have, instead, applied for additional legislative processing. To meet the … you know … a critical emergency.
I dunno. Strikes me as one of many techno-concerns from ideologues that endanger life and well being. My ingrained skepticism must be satisfied before I accept slippery slope arguments at face value. I recall a search of high school lockers by a principal looking for weapons after some anonymous threat. A critic called it a totalitarian violation of privacy. I wonder if some folks would watch a life guard desperately tossing a lifesaver to a drowning swimmer and object that the attached rope was longer than some local statute allows.
- The Propaganda Professor celebrates a blogging decade of making the case for reason, opposing propaganda and the corruption it supports.
- Athena Scalzi at Whatever recounts years of suffering over an crippling phobia about using telephones and how she accidentally got over it. Impressive empathy provoking description of fear.
- As a teenager, a young adult, and an adult evangelical pastor in The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce faced debilitating family and personal trauma. My religion taught him to hide his feelings in a bravado show of strength. After all, God controls everything and our troubles are a test of faith. Decades later, he is asked by a reader why, during those times, he sought professional help from a secular counselor.
- nojo misses the best Bond, James Bond.
Me too.
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