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Maybe he’s going through something personal; normally guys don’t do a 180 degree turn of their beliefs.
Or as above, he’s going along to keep working.
I've never seen Joe as a hero, but now we need a Nelson Mandela. We need MLK. And it needs to be Joe. We need someone who can love the people who hated him and lied about him. He must rise to the occasion.
Half the country voted for Trump. These people did not buy a pig in a poke like in 2016, these were people who knew what they were voting for and voted anyway. It's appalling and horrifying, but these people are not monsters. These people are our neighbors and our relatives. These people are us, and we need someone who can teach us to love them again.
Joe started saying the right things already, but he has to go all the way. Please, Joe, make me embarrassed to say anything bad about Trump supporters. Please fill all our hearts with love for each other. Please. This is Joe's chance to have the situation make him better than he has any right to be. Please teach us to love and understand and move on together.
You have one job, Joe -- love all of us.
Penn Jillette
I don’t know what else he’s said but this is not far left. Thee are certainly libertarian Never Trumpers; see Reason Magazine. Jillette’s just calling for a stop to the hate from the Democratic leadership, trying to speak their language so they’ll at least listen. Right, it never works. Instead we got the Jan 6 psy-op branding Trump supporters as domestic terrorists, and executive orders punishing vaccine refusers (who tend to be Trump supporters because of his championing of medical choice).
Fuck you Penn. We don't need to "move on together" Because we are not going to follow Joe's illicit unelected bullshit.
I've never seen Joe as a hero, but now we need a Nelson Mandela. We need MLK. And it needs to be Joe. We need someone who can love the people who hated him and lied about him. He must rise to the occasion.
Half the country voted for Trump. These people did not buy a pig in a poke like in 2016, these were people who knew what they were voting for and voted anyway. It's appalling and horrifying, but these people are not monsters. These people are our neighbors and our relatives. These people are us, and we need someone who can teach us to love them again.
Joe started saying the right things already, but he has to go all the way. Please, Joe, make me embarrassed to say anything bad about Trump supporters. Please fill all our hearts with love for each other. Please. This is Joe's chance to have the situation make him better than ...
Seriously, this does not sound like Penn Gillette at all. I really do wonder what happened.
Seriously, this does not sound like Penn Gillette at all. I really do wonder what happened.
He became a mask hole and vax advocate.
The latest Libertarian to switch to Far Left, endorsing Yang in 2020 and ending up voting for Biden, and regretting his "Right Libertarian" stances. He's also a mask clown. So much for skepticism.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/opinions/post-election-roundup-what-now-america-opinion/index.html
Donald Trump, the inglorious captain of this sinking ship, has revealed the United States' flaws, which can never be un-seen. In America—a nation that is supposed to be a global leader—this year has been a raging dumpster fire, stoked by the whims of a raging narcissist of a president, a man with the emotional intelligence of a spoiled kindergartner.
Yes, Joe Biden will be the 46th president, but the fact that nearly half of the Americans who voted chose Trump is telling. The last four years have held a mirror up to this country's face, and the ugly reflection will be unyielding until we do something to fix it. Over 70 million people still voted for -- or didn't care enough to vote against -- Trump's cruelty. It is further proof that this land and all its systems are broken. And White supremacy is at the core.
This election should have been such a quick landslide loss for Trump and the Republicans. Instead, we had to sit tight to make sure all votes were being counted. We had to watch and listen to Trump spew baseless claims of voter fraud. We watched Trump rally his base with lie after lie and tweet after tweet. And as this happened, the other half of America held its breath, waiting for confirmation that the man who many saw as the walking epitome of the last gasp of White supremacy would be on his way out of the White House.
America is broken and it needs to be fixed.
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
"At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
These words, uttered on June 9, 1954, by a lawyer named Joseph Nye Welsh, marked a turning point in Senator Joseph McCarthy's infamous hearings. In a single moment of clarity, McCarthy's worst excesses, fear mongering and bullying were laid bare by a simple call for decency.
This election, the American people once again called the question of basic decency, and they found it utterly wanting in Trump, who from day one debased his office with his lies, pettiness, ignorance and incompetence. For no matter their politics, the American people can stomach only so much of an indecent fellow. Deep within us is an abiding sense that our leaders ought to reflect the values we hope to teach our children. And while some may still be blinded and trapped within his cult of personality, most Americans know that Trump isn't a decent man.
Enter Joe Biden, who even his biggest critics admit is wholesome and good at his very core. There were no optics or spin needed. Decency was on the ballot in the form of Joe Biden, and through his election, we have regained our deepest sense of it.
George Takei
For the past four years, I have been holding my breath, in a defensive crouch and bracing for the worst. I've expected some fresh horror, embarrassment or trauma to find its way onto one of my screens, and it's been exhausting. My soul has been clenched and now, with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, my heart is lifted, and I can exhale.
I had dreamed, briefly, of an instant, massive, electoral rebuke of the outgoing president. I momentarily let visions of a landslide dance in my head. That did not happen. This is still the United States of America that elected the 45th president to begin with, still the nation that only decided in 2020 that Black lives might matter, still the nation too-long governed by GOP minority rule, thanks to the Electoral College, gerrymandering, voter suppression and an open-armed embrace of misinformation and White supremacy.
But now, at least, we have a fighting chance. Once again, overwhelming action by Black voters has dragged America, partially kicking and screaming, back from beyond the brink and toward a more perfect version of our union. Indigenous and Latinx communities showed up. Honestly, everyone showed up, from every race and every place, to flex their power and reclaim our democracy.
This was a victory not just for a Democratic ticket, but for our democracy and sadly, for basic decency. Now it's up to all of us to continue to invest in and defend it. We are ready to move forward.
Watching Vice President-Elect Harris and President Elect-Biden give their victory speeches, I know they are ready to heal and move forward too. Let's join them. Let's stay engaged in the process of self-governance well beyond this election. Let's be the nation we've always said we could be.
Baratunde Thurston
Like a lot of people, Biden wasn't my first choice. To me, he was a wise and empathetic grandpa who gave good hugs. Then he chose Kamala Harris as his running mate. My excitement was tempered by exasperation that we needed an older White man to pass the baton to a woman. But Kamala isn't just any woman. She's a woman of color, a child of immigrants with a name drawn from Indian mythology. That gave me hope for where this country is headed today.
Another woman of color, Stacey Abrams, galvanized the masses to vote. And that gave me more hope. Yes, we are a country divided, but what this election says about America is that even when you feel like you're screaming into a black hole, your voice can be heard. Your voice counts.
The 19th amendment was ratified exactly one century ago, but it took longer for women of color to enfranchise. This country was built—shamefully-- on the backs of African Americans. But today this country will grow and prosper through the power and generosity of women of color. Yes, we'll have another old White guy as our next president. But a heartbeat away from the presidency— prepared and ready to lead the United States at a moment's notice—will be a strong, tough, smart, progressive African and South Asian American woman in Chuck Taylor All Stars married to a nice Jewish guy who is undoubtedly verklempt. And that makes me heartened, hopeful and proud. I'm ready for that hug, Joe.
Judy Gold
Since Donald Trump eked out an Electoral College victory in 2016, he has proudly displayed a US map that highlights in red the counties he won despite losing the national popular vote to Hillary Clinton by more than 3 million. The point of the map, like the financial statements he used for years to apply for credit, was to claim legitimacy. A President who never had the support of a majority of Americans pretended to represent most of the country. But the red mirage was always an illusion.
In Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, Republican-led legislatures fought hard to help Trump maintain this appearance of legitimacy on Election Night by delaying the counting of overwhelmingly Democratic mail-in ballots. But elections are not decided by candidates or state legislators. In a democracy, elections are decided by the people.
Donald Trump did not create the myth of a "red" electoral map. He simply exploited it. But 40 years after Republicans strategists began using what they called "positive polarization" to pit some Americans against their neighbors in battle ground states, Trump's extremism has revealed a larger and more diverse electorate that has the power to re-shape priorities in American public life.
More than 74 million Americans voted to repudiate Trumpism, and fusion coalitions led by poor and low-income voters in North Carolina and Georgia demonstrated their power to make races competitive that Republicans could until recently count on winning without a fight.
From living wages to health care, immigration and the climate crisis, the most pressing issues we face are not red or blue issues, but moral issues that compel us to face who we are and who we want to become as a nation. This election has revealed that, while the forces of division are strong, the possibility of a genuine democracy is stronger still. Our task now is to build together an America that works for all of us.
The Rev. Dr. William Barber II
This election, the American people once again called the question of basic decency, and they found it utterly wanting in Trump, who from day one debased his office with his lies, pettiness, ignorance and incompetence.
AmericanKulak says
He became a mask hole and vax advocate.
See also “anarchist” Noam Chomsky:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/noted-covid-expert-noam-chomsky-compares-anti-maskers-to-mass-shooters/
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-unvaccinated-should-just-remove-themselves-from-society
That one doesn’t shock me. Chomsky has always been a huge govt advocate, a real fucking commie. I used to hate in the long distant past when people would cite him as an authority on anything. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if the Russians and Chinese were paying him.
Wouldn’t surprise me at all if the Russians and Chinese were paying him.
By being fucking retarded, it discredits everything he's correct about.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/opinions/post-election-roundup-what-now-america-opinion/index.html