Biden Wins!

 

Today's doggo is presidential

Did you ever turn on a football game at the exact moment that your quarterback is throwing a touchdown pass?  If you're watching today's Georgia-Florida game, the chances of that happening are pretty good - the score was 38-21 at halftime (Florida leading, ugh), and it seems that one side or the other is constantly scoring a touchdown.

This morning, after scrolling my phone all morning like I've been doing incessantly since Election Day on Tuesday, I turned on MSNBC to see when we  could expect any new results.  As soon as I did, I saw the anchor people appear on the screen and then almost immediately, the "Breaking News" graphic. Now, that in and of itself hasn't meant much lately - "Breaking News" could be that some county commissioner somewhere in Nevada is announcing a press conference for later in the day, or someone found a bin with 16 uncounted provisional ballots in a mail truck somewhere in Pittsburgh.  But this "Breaking News" turns out to have been more significant - it announced that Joseph Biden has officially been projected to have won the election, and will be the next President of the United States.     

I'll be honest with you, he wasn't my candidate.  He wasn't even in my early season Top 10.  But I'll take it - in fact, I'm thrilled, primarily because that means soon there will be no more Donald Trump. Also, it's impossible, at least for me, to hate Joe Biden, although I recognize that there are plenty of Republicans and conservatives who will manage that particular feat.

The tv hosts at that hour, "Morning" Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, seemed unprepared to address the gravity of the situation as they vamped and improvised for time until the cutaways to the network's "big hitters" (Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, that lady who used to work for Georgie Bush), and for some reason Scarborough decided to fill the time with a gruesome and explicit account of a brain surgery Biden underwent years ago ("blood was soon spurting all over the inside of his skull," etc.). Why, Morning Joe?  After eight years as Obama's vice-president, that's the first thing your mind comes up with to fill the air time?  What's wrong with you?

Anyway, it was more that gratifying to watch the tube as spontaneous celebrations broke out across the country, including one large one in Washington, DC right in front of the White House.  It was fun to watch folks get some snarky and mean jabs in at Trump on Facebook and Reddit, and even to throw some fuel on that fire myself ("Sorry, I like incumbents who don't lose re-election").

The next months will be trying and contentious as Trump, who has said he is not conceding, slowly learns to accept the fact that he's been fired by the very country of which he thought he was the boss. His cult will react angrily and in the most obnoxious ways possible, and I wouldn't put it past them to resort to violence.  And here in Georgia, we have two critically important Senate races yet to resolve.  

But it's all over but the bruising.  Trump has finally been defeated and will no longer be our so-called "president."  Tough times and many struggles are ahead, but that thought is rendered so much more palatable knowing that Trump will no longer be a relevant part of those challenges.

So anyway, congratulations and welcome aboard, President-Elect Smokin' Joe Biden.  Please let me know how I can be of assistance, sir.