November 7, 2020: Election Called for Joe Biden!

 

11/7/20: You know what they say, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” So true, for President Trump.

 

As votes pile up, Joe Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania grows. The trend is clear. He’s going to gain the state’s twenty electoral votes and send Trump packing after one tumultuous term.

 

Symbolically, Trump happens to be golfing – symbolically, again, at one of his private courses – at the moment Fox News, CNN, the Associated Press, and other news services declare Mr. Biden, “President-Elect.” (The BBC does have film of the president playing golf again.)

 

Liquor store owners in Washington D.C. announce that sales of champagne Saturday are higher than during the last two New Year’s Eve celebrations, combined.

 

Back at the White House after his round of golf, the president tweets in all-CAPS, red-hot fury:

 

THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!

 

If Arizona remains blue, let’s give it up for the Navajo Nation. In three counties that overlap their lands, the Navajo people gave Joe Biden 73,954 votes.

 

Trump got 2,010.

 

Biden’s lead in the state when I last checked: less than 20,000.

 

On the other hand, Kanye West’s run for the White House came up short, although he did get 1,266 votes from the people of Essex County, Vermont. I am going to assume this was the “humorous protest” vote, since Essex went for Biden by a 2-1 count.

 

Otherwise, I think it’s safe to say, no one who voted for Kanye should ever get to vote again.

 

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MARK MEADOWS, Trump’s fourth and last White House chief of staff, will be recovering at home next week, if he’s lucky, or headed for a hospital if he’s not. It’s going to be a good week to stay away from the White House, since Trump will be raging at everyone he sees. Meadows and four other staffers, plus Trump’s campaign director of battleground strategy, have contracted COVID-19. Meadows, of course, scoffed at wearing a mask. In fact, he showed up for the White House Election Night celebration without one. Meadows enjoyed himself – good food – good drink – good company – spewing droplets of infection wherever he went.

 

Meadows has also been quick to defend the president’s “handling” of the coronavirus by saying we’re not going to control the spread; and the real path to victory is to get vaccines ready.

 

(I’m going to assume you can figure out why this is a stupid position to take, since no vaccine will be widely available for months.)

 

Texas has become the first state in the nation to pass 1,000,000 cases. For the day, 17 states report their highest one-day totals of new cases; 14 report record daily numbers of hospitalizations.

 

In fact, Saturday was the worst day yet for new cases: 132,830 according to the CDC, with 1,211 Americans dying.