Trump loses :)
Biden wins :\

But the fact that this wasn't a landslide, and that Trump received the second most votes in US history, and that it's Biden...

Congrats but you still have a fucking long way to go, America

As a wise man once said, a journey of a thousand miles begins with one choice not to abandon the journey and become a fascist state.

And while we'd all prefer to run, not walk towards that glorious future, I think walking towards it is better than tripping and breaking our fool necks. Metaphorically.

So, yeah, we have a ways to go, but forgive me for allowing myself to feel this is a win.

Sorry, I'm going with slaytanik. I think that things will get worse before they get better.

I'm just hopeful that the environmental collapse will proceed slightly more slowly for the next fours years than it would otherwise.

Everything the left wants will have to wait another 4-8 years.

Expanding the court
Climate change action
Gun Control
Etc, etc.

Mcconnell and repubs will block everything. It'll be four years of obstructionism, and on top of that, the idea that demonizing the opposition by the right will not stop.

Saturday was for feeling good. Now, to business.

Fingers crossed.

Celebrate every win.

The problems are still there. No shit. But celebrate it, nonetheless. After a win will come a backlash and that will be so bad that you'll gaslight yourself. Celebrate so you remember what it feels like.

The real work is still ahead. Undoing the damage Trump has done on top of existing problems will take more than two terms of this new presidency.

Its been 4 years of Trump and a decade of the year 2020. Agreed - people need something to be happy about, even if its only a little and only for a moment.

That's what orgasms are for.

You aint seen nothing yet. If Biden doesn't start leaning left, and it seems unlikely he will, 2022 will probably usher in enough Republican wins for them to call a constitutional convention.

But the right now has essentially limitless veto power with the Supreme Court. It'll likely be Biden's "no new taxes." Supreme Court said I can't? Fine by me. Here's some moderately right legislation.

Agreed. The right wants the left to move further right in order to "unite." If it moves further left, then let the fireworks begin. . .

Here is the AP's detailed report on their decision to call the election:

McNaughton is getting better!

Who came second?

The woman, of course.

Aren't you a bag of sunshine Steele? This is a good thing.
Climate change is a thing again.
Allies will be allies and enemies enemies again.
Barr, Devos, Miller, and all the other ghouls are out to be replaced by competent public servants.
And racist terrorists will no longer have the approval of the highest power in the land.
No more lunatic meandering statements or tweets.

Let people breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate a return to normality. There'll be a time for shitting all over that, and pushing further soon.

Everything you mention is awesome and something about which any sane person would be pleased. That having been said, those things are irrelevant next to the problem of a rich class who perpetuates conflict among the poor and then profits from both sides of that conflict. Biden is better than trump, but he a compromise not a cure.

Yeah, this is gonna go well.

5 Democrat establishments lost their re-elections. Progressive Democrats took seats.

Kasich couldn't even deliver Ohio and he's mouthing off, blaming progressives. Fuck him.

Gee, i wonder what the media will focus on.

We got a Republican in sheep's clothes, sure. Got a long fight ahead of us, sure. But at least we're finished with that orange thing, or at least will be when the dust settles and we manage to evict him.

I'm glad to see him out of office, but Trumpism will still be alive and well and slithering under the skin of America. The Republican presidents have been getting progressively worse, culminating in what we just had for the last four years. I fear what sort of candidate will crawl from the underworld in 2024 or 2028. Worse than Trump can, and I expect, will be coming down the pike. I doubt the democrats will get their act together in time, and I don't know when (or even if) we will ever have other options than a far right party, and a Middle Right party. Also I'm glad SE is still around after all these years.

Also alive and well is democracy in America.
More people than ever before voted.
More young people enrolled.
More people who never before cared who was president or thought it affected them voted for the first time.
People realize how close they came, that things won't just trundle along safely if they ignore it, and how they can't be apathetic anymore.

I think you'll get a lot of energized young people getting involved in midterms, sheriffs, judges, council elections. All these GOP attempts to take people's voting rights away has caused a backlash, and a large percentage will make damn sure they exercise their right to be heard from now on.

On the other side of the coin, you will get pockets of madness in the red states, as conclaves of fired up Trumpists elect their own Arpaio style dictators and basically turn into ISIS.

We will be reading about this in history books (if they are truthful).

Trumpism is the worst version of McCarthyism, which never really went away and Russia has been replaced by China.

If America is a car driving down the road, Biden winning is akin to swerving to narrowly miss a fatal accident. But the fact remains that the tank is on E, the tires are worn thin, and there's this repetitive clacking noise coming from under the hood. If the next four years are, "Thank goodness we avoided that crash, now let's come together and learn to live with this broken car," we are indeed fucked. The country is deeply wounded, and needs to be healed. That can't happen without the hard work of justice and progress.

"The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won." Wellington after Waterloo.

"Vouloir c'est Pouvoir. Allons!" Romeo Dallaire, commander of UN forces in Rwanda during the Genocide.

There is alot of work to do. The thing about losing is you get to go home. When you win, you gotta clean up the field and treat the wounded, and then figure out what to do. There are ALOT of wounded in america to be treated. SOMEHOW, we have to get shit done. Basically, Trump is the only republican incumbent who lost.

We will see. You better be TERRIFIED AND MOBILIZED for the midterms. Obama started out with both majorities, which were squandered, and faced hostile congress for 6 years...