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With the future and the democratic reputation of the American republic at stake, this is not an occasion for grandstanding. Rather, it’s time to humbly reach out in the dark, seeking only to summon measured words that convey the intense dignity of this moment. In short, I think we all feel the hand of history on our pussies.
Donald Trump, America’s howling id, has not lost this election. On the other hand, Joe Biden hasn’t won it. Shortly before 6am UK time, Biden headed to a rally, never a better time for one, buddy, and told the Delaware crowd that he was “optimistic.” On split screen, Trump addressed his Twitter entourage and told them of “a huge GAIN”, adding that “they are trying to STEAL the election, no votes can be cast after the Poles are closed.” Expect it to invade the Polish land in the next few days.
However, whatever happens now, no one can argue that such a close result was a repudiation of their way of doing business, which is why anyone expecting the sputteringly loyal Republican party to steer clear of its current psychiatric space for the next two decades it probably should. get used to disappointment.
Shortly after 7am UK time, Trump addressed the nation with quasi-dictatorial fanfare, falsely claiming both victory and election fraud, and seeking to disenfranchise voters in undeclared states. This had at least been predicted. There have long been indications that Trump could not even handle potentially unfavorable election results. After all, look at how you handled male pattern baldness. Contrary to what many people have said over the past four years, Trump has finally managed to build something described as an “unscalable” fence. Unfortunately, it only did so this week, and now it’s circling the White House.
Militia fears, a barricaded presidential precinct, open calls to disenfranchise voters: this is a frame of mind much taken from what Trump would call “shit countries.” As the weeks go by, don’t rule out Donald’s two great adult sons, Uday and Schmuday, bringing down a Black Hawk within the White House autonomous zone. Expectations have already been so profoundly switched that if armed convoys of Klan members do not fire celebratory rounds into the sky from vehicle convoys by the time this article is published, it will be considered positive.
World Cup
So what happens now in the name of terminal insanity? I’m encouraged to know that the paths from here include everything from victory for the orange dopamine pusher to the most illegitimate or contested victory in history, and Biden’s likely best-case scenario is a narrow victory with a Republican Senate, lo that would allow him to achieve even less than he did during this campaign. Either way, blockades around the world are sure to be animated by continued coverage of the fallout, possibly in the country’s sarcastically admired judicial system. Were American Lawyers Part of the Original Pandora’s Box Break? Otherwise, expect swarms of them to break through your defenses in the next few days.
If Biden achieves a victory, thanks to the way the world’s so-called largest democracy works, we will have months of grim inflammatory claims from Trump that it was stolen. Or, to put it in terms the rest of the planet would understand: this is like winning the World Cup in November, then having the losing captain use it as a bathroom for three months before finally handing you the trophy in late January. .
Elsewhere, what a great night for pollsters and their polls, which seem to have been as accurate as any Trump statement. Billions of dollars have been spent conducting surveys in this cycle. Definitely the business to get into when journalism, which did so badly, breaks down.
High Covid deaths
According to the exit poll, Trump beat his 2016 results with all races and genders except white men. In counties with high Covid death rates, Trump performed better this year than he did in 2016. I suppose we have to believe that the arc of history leans toward justice, but it certainly takes some incredible detours.
Other assorted low appearances so far include Lindsey Graham winning again, while some QAnon gorgon is now a real Georgia congresswoman. Republican Madison Cawthorn, 25, whose list included a visit to Hitler’s vacation home, will also go to Congress and announced his victory just as Abraham Lincoln once did, in a tweet that read: “Cry more, lib “. Louisiana voters approved an amendment that declared abortion not protected by the state constitution.
Still, no one is suggesting that a democracy contested by two men in their seventies is beginning to look somewhat necrotic in some way. Yes, it would have been nice to have at least one candidate that no one had ever accused of sexual assault, but he had to be deeply comforted that one of the candidates had been charged with literally dozens more sexual assaults than the other.
Of course, the 2020 US presidential election situation is still unfolding, and by the time you read this, there could be plenty of hostages of fortune. Or even just hostages. Don’t rule out anything. Maybe nothing except moral optimism. People used to say that irony died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, but the real victim was actually the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s hard not to think that something of this order of magnitude is now true of the presidency of the United States, which forever after this time will be seen as a job that a man of Donald Trump’s character could get. Maybe even twice, or almost damn it.
Marina Hyde is a columnist for The Guardian – Guardian News and Media
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