Congratulations to America. (And the world). TBH I ‘been worried sick for the past few weeks. Compliments to the American voters. Very best wishes to the Biden-Harris team. Loooots of work to do. 👍🏻
Close call
Congratulations to America. (And the world). TBH I ‘been worried sick for the past few weeks. Compliments to the American voters. Very best wishes to the Biden-Harris team. Loooots of work to do. 👍🏻
Equinoxio 
Thank you, Brian. It’s a huge relief.
It is. For the entire world. Now we’re going to be able to work together to find solutions to our pressing problems… Congrats.
Thank you. It’s been very encouraging the past couple of days to see news reports of Biden rolling up his sleeves and getting to work as the current “president” becomes increasingly irrelevant.
Irrelevant is the perfect word.
And it feels great to be able to use it in this context!
Ouf !
Ça tu peux le dire. Je ne sais comment on aurait supporté 4 ans de plus de cet imbécile… Bonne semaine Gilles.
Merci tout plein et à toi également Brieuc.
I feel somewhat relieved but I have the feeling this won’t be over for a while. Fingers still crossed …
How can anybody call to stop counting votes? This has nothing to do with a democratic election and to be honest, this outdated election procedure is harder to understand than the Eurovision Song Context system. Everything about this is scarry and it won’t be over any time soon. Happy almost winning; fingers crossed!!!
France had an indirect voting system too until 1962, when de Gaulle changed the Constitution, calling for a direct, general election of the President. They need to change that. Meanwhile, this puts a stop to many would-be dictators… They can’t get away with it forever…
Meanwhile, the trAmp is still in the White House until January. I suggest they count the spoons when he lives…
Ha ha, and the paintings and good furniture …
😉
Contest! Stupid autocorrect. We got other stuff to deal with right now! I did not expect this light at the end of the tunnel to be honest. There may be hope for mankind
I have turned off every corrector on every programme and every machine I have. Can’t stand it.
And yes, there may be a renewed hope for mankind…
Today is a new day!
It so is! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are sick ?
Nothing serious I hope !
Take care of yourself, Brieuc
Sick? No. Just been very worried with the election. Maintenant on peut respirer…
T’inquiète. Ça va. Bonne semaine Mélie. Dans cette folie qui recommence en Europe… 🙏🏻😷
Bonne semaine Brieuc
Toi aussi Mélie… A+, Biz et tout ça…
You said it … Congratulations to the American people to restore our faith in democracy …
Thank you for this post 🙂
Aapka swagat Hai. (I hope that is correct).
The world needed this reassurance.
Cheers.
Yes, you are absolutely right on both fronts 🙂
The response in Hindi as well as your comments on the reassurance.
We are waiting for a state level election result (Bihar) in India tomorrow, where the ruling right wing party is part of the coalition which is sure to face a debacle.
America is not just a symbol, but indeed a reassurance for the whole world.
Dhanyavaad… (Brushing up my Hindi – or Urdu – is always heart warming.
Bihar, eh? From I know (very little) it is a very interesting place. You are absolutely right: a reassurance. When all would-be dictators (check who did NOT call Biden) see the bad example in, say the US, we are doomed. The hope for democracy has been retored.
Stay well. 🙏🏻
Phir milenge.
Thank you for this mini celebration! A change will do us good. So happy after a looong week. My favorite joke from late night was how is it that NV has all night gambling and buffets, but when it comes to counting votes they can’t miss their sleep. 😉
Absolutely. How many millions does NV have as compared to Cal? Tsss. BUt it’s all right. We can now breathe… (Just make sure they count the spoons when he lives in January…)
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Hmmm. Didn’t work. I have found it at times that you can’t really post an image on a comment. Or at least, I don’t know how to…
Not sure the image post worked. It says something like; Trump is having a 2020 typical for the US. He lost his job, got Covid and is about to be evicted…
Perfect. Though it seems he does not realize it yet… Fit for the psycho ward.
He who laughs last… We’ll see a bit later on how this is good news. Or not.
Incidentally I finished watching “Colony” and a couple days ago, completely randomly, I picked “Revolution (2012-2014)”. Funnily enough, in S01 E05 someone had to say the passphrase: “I’m looking for the biography of Joe Biden”. Hmmm… I’m curious how and why that particular phrase has been chosen for the script eight (or more) years ago…
Anyway, it looks like the planet is going back to being a huge prison, promptly at Cabal’s orders. Very little difference from how things go in “Colony” – reason why I found it so interesting. Maybe we actually are a colony, after all… But where the frack is the Resistance…?
I think the resistance is very deeply undercover.
Heh… wishful thinking.
So undercover they actually got lost forever…😉
Maybe they just got… under. Six feet under. It’s so easy nowadays…
Yep.
Just took a long time. He beat him by a large margin and Chicago is celebrating, along with the rest of the world, well, except for the trump people. 🙂
👏🏻 (I was very concerned. I thought we’d be stuck with the crook 4 more years…)
🍾🥂
The world expresses a sigh of relief.
Isn’t that fascinating? From Mexico to Down under and between, all say the same… Pffff. 🍾
Indeed. Many people feel the same
Thanks Brian! Yes, lots of work to do, many problems still lie ahead, but at least now perhaps we can begin to repair some of the damage, begin to be a nation once again.
Both Harris’ and Biden’s speeches were excellent. Things are looking up again. I think they will be build a great team. Which is what America – and don’t forget the world – need. America is back.
The speeches were excellent, and just what we needed to hear … words like unity, working together, and his promise that he will be the president for all the people, whether they voted for him or not. Now, if the people will just give him a chance. We have dropped the ball and left our friends/allies holding the bag on so many things — we have some making up to do, especially in the area of climate change … and the pandemic.
Absolutely. Ir is a relief. And a vision for the future. A blogger friend recently told me that we need a new story. There it is… A new story…
A new story, indeed, but not one without a few villains, I fear. Sigh. I am joyous, but also … concerned.
I guess it’s not over until it’s over… But I don’t really see how he pull anything significant out of his hat…
No, I don’t either … he can make a mess, and break numerous things on his way out, just as a frustrated toddler might, but at the end of the day, I firmly believe that Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20th. I just dread the 69 days between now and then!
The rats will slowly abandon his ship. (Already beginning)
Far too many have stayed on the ship to batten down the hatches, though. We are in for a rocky 67 days, my friend.
One should not underestimate the crook-in-chief. But I still think too many institutions are -gradually – turning their back on him. What I have heard from Mitch McConell goes in the right direction. As all politicos he cares only about his own interests.
It’s interesting that only about 4 members of Congress have publicly congratulated Biden. Others have privately done so, but fear the wrath of Trump if they do so publicly. Isn’t that a shame? Sigh.
It’s what happens in a Dictatorship. Fear. Cowardice. Submission. Accessory before, during and after the fact. I’ve lived it.
All the more reason to celebrate the day he is kicked out.
A very close call, may we make good use of this second opportunity to reaffirm our beliefs!
Yes. And it seems to me that this is exactly what Kamala Harris and Biden have done in their speeches… Not a word amiss. Perfect. (I actually caught them by pure chance. I was just checking the last news before supper on ABC when I saw that Harris and Biden would speak. A blessing to the ears.
My ears too!
😉
Enfin une excellente nouvelle dans cette période difficile. J’espère que Toi et tes proches allez bien. Bisous
Ouiiiii. On avait bien besoin d’une bonne nouvelle. Ici ça va. Aussi bien que possible, mais comme ma fille et son mari ont eu le COVID. (Sans synptome). Du coup on a les petits-enfants à la maison 2 fois par semaine… 💕
Et toi? Comment ça va? Le reconfinement. La fermeture des commerces (!). J’espère que l’entreprise de ton mari tourne toujours… Et que la santé se maintient. Donne-mois des nouvelles, ça me fera plaisir. Biz.
Les pauvres, ils sont en premières lignes. Ici tout va bien pour nous, on gère …
Bon, c’est l’essentiel. Ça fait plaisir d’avoir de tes nouvelles… biz.
🙏🏻
😀
Hello Brian. It was scary for sure. It was not as close as was feared once all votes were counted, but tRump pull the stunt he had planned for months. He got the early count, tried to stop the counting of votes against all laws and norms, and declared himself the winner. His maga thugs forgot or ignored the way our system has always worked to create conspiracies. Sadly tRump has no dignity and will not concede gracefully, instead will wage a useless war in the courts to overturn the will of the majority of the people. All this does is tear the country apart but gives tRump a platform to shout his aggrievement and suck donations from his cult followers. All that said I am so excite we turned away from fascism, broke the glass ceiling with Vice President elect Harris, and have a chance to take the country forward and not backward as the Republicans wanted. A chance, and I will take gladly. Hugs
It is a major chance. The other imbecile must be raving mad now., And he will try to keep on being a nuisance… 2 more months and he’s out by the seat of his pants.
Hurray!
Estoy muy feliz!!!!!
Yo también. Creo que no tienes idea. Ahora, hay que arregla el asunto de todos los amiguitos de este… One day at a time.
Cuídate.
Muy cierta!
Trump losing was perhaps one of my highlights of the year ✊🏾
THE highlight for me. It’s a complete turnaround on arbitrary and abuse… Hear! hear! As the Brits say… ✊🏻
We will have to wait for four more years! Pray every day that it happens here too! Lucky US!
They still have to evict the current tenant… 🤣
Best of luck for those 4 years. 🙏🏻
I sighed a huge relief on hearing the results. But yes, the man is too delusional. He still has to be “evicted.” I’m sure he’ll have to tossed out by the secret service.
How embarassing.
It was the longest week
It was. And it’s still not over yet. Risk is minimum but evil finds its ways…
I’m glad this was the result in the end!
Yep. But it’s not over until it’s over. I hope they throw the clown’s a.. in jail. 😡
Feeling very worried about the states right now following the situation from afar. I really hope he faces consequences for his behaviour and words as well. Will personally not defend either one – would feel the same if he was of another political party as well. Very disappointed in someone spreading misinformation – especially with the power he has. It misleads so many and messes with the entire concept of a functioning democracy 😐
I’ve in many a “dictatorial” country. I am confident the US will get back on track.
“Afar”? Are you outside the US?
Dear Brian and Heidi,
Hello to both of you! Thank you, Brian, for your latest report on American politics.
Needless to say, 2020 had been a difficult year, not to mention having to deal with the pandemic. One could say that we live in interesting times indeed, but often for the wrong reasons. What a day it was to unfold with sedition, insurrection and coup d’état on the 6th!
2020, the Year of the Rat, has brought us not the plague (black death) but Covid-19. And 2020 also brought out the worst of divisive politics and demagogic incitement. Could it really get even worse in 2021?
Whilst some of us may take some comfort in our living somewhere else, there is the danger that oppressive politics may spread elsewhere or be mirrored by other corrupt politicians outside their origins.
Democracy is not a given. It can be quite fragile, can fail rather badly, and often is approximately as good and benevolent (or bad and malevolent) as the members who practise, control and/or legislate it. We all need to do our parts in contributing to the smooth and equitable functioning of a civil country and democratic society. I have done mine in highlighting many of the most fundamental causes through my writings, and I hope that you will find more answers and solutions to these thorny issues in my latest and recently expanded post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity” and published at https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/misquotation-pandemic-and-disinformation-polemic-mind-pollution-by-viral-falsity/
I would be delighted if you could kindly submit your comment to my said article, as I am very keen and curious to know what you think or make of it regarding the increasingly pressing issues that many of us are facing, worsen all the more by mental pitfalls (or even mental health), social media, digital globalization, populism, Trumpism, illiberal democracy, and other behavioural and sociopolitical factors.
By the way, I would like to wish both of you a very happy New Year. May you find 2021 very much to your liking and highly conducive to your writing, reading, thinking and blogging!
Thank you “sound eagle”. Glad to put your comment up. Though I’m not sure if it’s on my blog or Heidi’s. I’ve seen you around. Always very discrete. Nice to hear your voice. I will drop by.
Best wishes to you too.
Thank you for your prompt reply, Brian. Please be informed that you might need to use a desktop or laptop computer with a large screen to view the rich multimedia contents available for heightening your multisensory enjoyment at my blog, which could be too powerful and feature-rich for iPad, iPhone, tablet or other portable devices to handle properly or adequately.
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May you thoroughly enjoy all of the “trappings” on my blog to your heart’s content!
Your reply was even swifter. But then if you are Down under, you’re already a day ahead of me. 😉
A good point. I’d actually thought of copying all your text in a word file to read at leisure but it0’s probably not a good idea…
Good day. 😉
Dear Brian,
I just posted a very long and special comment to your post entitled “21 “easy pieces” for the New Year”.
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Dear Brian,
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Done. Bear in mind that I do not always check my comments everyday, so it may be a couple of days before yours appear. Cheers.