10:34 PM
Not writing much tonight. The prolonged fallout of this election has me worn out. I cast my first vote for president for Bill Clinton in 1992. Can’t say that I voted consistently in every election since then, but the older I get the more important I find it is to be engaged. Since Trump, though, I am fried.
He demands attention. I don’t mean that I should pay attention because he might do something illegal. I mean that he does things, illegal or otherwise, because he wants the attention. As president, he gets what he wants. All media platforms devote an extremely high amount of their space to him. And they don’t go about it with any kind of real filtering to make sure that we the consumers get what we need. It is just a firehose at full pressure.
I voted for Biden and thought that would be it. Done and dusted. There would be a week or two of result contesting. Then Trump’s handlers would pack it in and begin the transition process. But no, the ass-clown-in-chief continues to push right up until the very end.
Here we are just a few days from Congress validating the votes from the Electoral College, and this election (+7mill votes and 306 to 232 Electoral votes for Biden) is still not over. Never since I started voting have I seen a loser so clearly defined by the stats fight so hard to stay in power. Only the Gore/Bush election had results worth contesting. The 2016 campaign was won by misinformation and gerrymandering. The 2020 election is a different animal all together.
It is an obnoxious, indolent and utterly tiring animal. And if we don’t get it out of the House sooner rather than later, it will become a monster that will devour the country. As it is, we will be left with torn drapes, shit in the carpet, and god knows what in the drawers of the Resolute Desk. It will be a decade or more before we properly recover from this election and the previous four years.
