The Washington Water Torture
05/11/2020 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaToday it has been more obvious than usual that watching the US election unfold while in the Wild West of Oz does have its disadvantages
It is a 12 hour time difference now ticked up to 13 thanks to pesky daylight saving over there
This morning the opening score was 235 for Biden and 213 for trump which had been quite a change from the last count
Joe slowly SNOOZED his way up to 253 before settling for the night at the ever so tantalizing 264 seats while the Teflon Don had barely crawled from 213 to 214. So it was looking increasingly clear that this was on account of the mail in ballots being added to the totals
I sure had a sigh of relief since the numbers looked so seriously scary on Wednesday. But i still cannot get over the fact that there is such a small difference between the total vote counts.
I had naively assumed that Joe Biden would get 60% of the popular vote while being unsure about the EC due to the ease with which it can be manipulated, hacked etc
I had also naively assumed that if many US Americans did not give a damn about kids being stolen from their parents on the border, police violence or trump trying to trash their healthcare that at least they would care about unemployment and the totally malevolently incompetent response to the virus
And those raw numbers were looking nothing at all like the 60 - 40 score that I had imagined
I just do not understand. Unless you are Mark Zuckerberg, a Koch Bro, Mitch McConnell or some inner circle trumPET, how could you possibly think that your life now is better than what it was 4 years ago. Let aione the lives of other people who are on the trump list of Untermenschen
Since around 3pm I had been obsessively refreshing the horse race scores hoping to see the magic number of 270 before finally realizing that the pollsters must be in bed for the night (such a shameless lack of devotion to duty)
I will hit the sack at midnight and by 8am local time, I guess the party will be over
I have just the thing to celebrate.
When I turned up at the charity shop yesterday to do my usual morning shift, someone had set aside a pile of books. I picked up the first one - an exceedingly shabby paperback with the cover half eaten by some God forsaken creature and the pages a pale crackly shade of faded yellow
It was "The Art of the Deal" My first instinct was to toss the filthy disgusting thing into the recycling bin but then I thought better. No. I am going to snaffle it for a very special Book burning party!
The other books were black and gold emblazoned with the Trump University logo. And pictures of you know who plastered all over them. In perfect condition as if never ever used. I do wonder what the poor sucker paid for them. I must go google. I could not help but be reminded of the court case that ordered a $25 MILLION settlement against trump university for FRAUD!!! I am sure that was in 2016 and in any normal times that alone would be sufficient to keep Don the Con out of the race in the first place
Hell. There was a contender for the GOP nomination who got scratched many moons ago for a slightly strange howl. He must be feeling really hard done by now
Soon the pity parties will ramp up and Dodgy Don will be out and about with his fog horn summoning the hounds of hell and his Hufflepuff Hitlers
I wonder how soon the bubble will burst once it is clear that the power has been turned off and trump is on limited time
How long will it take before he slinks into his Downfall Bunker and plots and plans punishment for the ungrateful nation that rejected him?
Because hell hath no fury like a malignant nihilistic narcissist scorned
It is a 12 hour time difference now ticked up to 13 thanks to pesky daylight saving over there
This morning the opening score was 235 for Biden and 213 for trump which had been quite a change from the last count
Joe slowly SNOOZED his way up to 253 before settling for the night at the ever so tantalizing 264 seats while the Teflon Don had barely crawled from 213 to 214. So it was looking increasingly clear that this was on account of the mail in ballots being added to the totals
I sure had a sigh of relief since the numbers looked so seriously scary on Wednesday. But i still cannot get over the fact that there is such a small difference between the total vote counts.
I had naively assumed that Joe Biden would get 60% of the popular vote while being unsure about the EC due to the ease with which it can be manipulated, hacked etc
I had also naively assumed that if many US Americans did not give a damn about kids being stolen from their parents on the border, police violence or trump trying to trash their healthcare that at least they would care about unemployment and the totally malevolently incompetent response to the virus
And those raw numbers were looking nothing at all like the 60 - 40 score that I had imagined
I just do not understand. Unless you are Mark Zuckerberg, a Koch Bro, Mitch McConnell or some inner circle trumPET, how could you possibly think that your life now is better than what it was 4 years ago. Let aione the lives of other people who are on the trump list of Untermenschen
Since around 3pm I had been obsessively refreshing the horse race scores hoping to see the magic number of 270 before finally realizing that the pollsters must be in bed for the night (such a shameless lack of devotion to duty)
I will hit the sack at midnight and by 8am local time, I guess the party will be over
I have just the thing to celebrate.
When I turned up at the charity shop yesterday to do my usual morning shift, someone had set aside a pile of books. I picked up the first one - an exceedingly shabby paperback with the cover half eaten by some God forsaken creature and the pages a pale crackly shade of faded yellow
It was "The Art of the Deal" My first instinct was to toss the filthy disgusting thing into the recycling bin but then I thought better. No. I am going to snaffle it for a very special Book burning party!
The other books were black and gold emblazoned with the Trump University logo. And pictures of you know who plastered all over them. In perfect condition as if never ever used. I do wonder what the poor sucker paid for them. I must go google. I could not help but be reminded of the court case that ordered a $25 MILLION settlement against trump university for FRAUD!!! I am sure that was in 2016 and in any normal times that alone would be sufficient to keep Don the Con out of the race in the first place
Hell. There was a contender for the GOP nomination who got scratched many moons ago for a slightly strange howl. He must be feeling really hard done by now
Soon the pity parties will ramp up and Dodgy Don will be out and about with his fog horn summoning the hounds of hell and his Hufflepuff Hitlers
I wonder how soon the bubble will burst once it is clear that the power has been turned off and trump is on limited time
How long will it take before he slinks into his Downfall Bunker and plots and plans punishment for the ungrateful nation that rejected him?
Because hell hath no fury like a malignant nihilistic narcissist scorned
