Joe Biden Hasn't Won Shit (Yet)

Why are we pretending what's happening is normal?

I keep seeing the brunch liberals sharing memes of Kamala Harris telling Joe Biden that “we did it.”

I’m curious what they think they have done? There are three months between now and when they will assume power.

Biden spent his campaign pretending Donald Trump was an anomaly of the Republican party and if he won their leaders would have an “epiphany.” Let’s check on that response, considering it’s been clear to anyone with a brain that Biden won last week.

Let’s see how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine absorbed the news:

Robert Costa @costareports

Based on McConnell's remarks, the leadership of the GOP does not view President Trump as defeated and will not address President-elect Biden as president-elect. And the defiant rhetoric of Trumpism infused the majority leader's speech.

washingtonpost.comEven in defeat, the embers of Trumpism still burn in the Republican PartyAfter President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, the question coursing through American politics is what becomes of the movement that has developed behind Trump.

Jeremy Pelzer @jpelzer

Ohio Gov. @MikeDeWine, in statement "congratulate(s)" Biden -- though the governor doesn't specify what he's congratulating Biden about.

Hmmmm. Doesn’t sound like anyone had that epiphany.

Notice how DeWine does not specify why he’s congratulating Biden. The rest of the release is your typical Republican nonsense about “illegal votes,” which baselessly insinuates widespread fraud occurred in the same election that saw Republicans gain seats in the House of Representatives and most likely retain power in the Senate.

Ohio Attorney Dave Yost, who refused to clarify if Ohio law allowed counties to have multiple drop boxes, suddenly had time to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate every single absentee ballot in Pennsylvania. In the middle of a pandemic.

The best case scenario is we are the last gasps of a failed project. However, these power-hungry jackals are only talking to their base, and their words are working:

POLITICO @politico

According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll 70 percent of Republicans now say they don’t believe the 2020 election was free and fair, a stark rise from the 35 percent of GOP voters who held similar beliefs before the election

politico.comPoll: 70 percent of Republicans don’t think the election was free and fairThe POLITICO/Morning Consult survey found trust in the election system plummeted among Republicans while rising among Democrats after the race was called on Saturday.

Considering “the polls” once again underrated turnout of rural Republican voters, it’s safe to say more than 70% of their voters believe this election is fraudulent, which will become the basis of their argument to oppose every half-baked idea that Biden proposes.

At least the Republicans understand there is a Cold War afoot. Meanwhile, I am forced to read shit like this:

HillReporter.com @HillReporter

Cindy McCain Says That She Expects Republicans to be Named to Biden’s Cabinet.

hillreporter.comCindy McCain Says That She Expects Republicans to be Named to Biden’s Cabinet.A lot of different people helped propel Joe Biden to victory in the 2020 election.

Imagine a scenario where a Republican president wins power and nominates Democrats to cabinet positions as a fig leaf to national unity.

You can’t. You literally cannot fathom that scenario unless you’ve been in a coma since 1776. Barack Obama ascended to power in one of the most decisive landslides in my lifetime. Then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said his goal was to make him a one-term president. President Obama tried to appease him anyway, and McConnell spent the final two years of his presidency blocking his federal judges and a Supreme Court justice.

Trump has blocked Biden starting his transition team. He fired the Secretary of Defense yesterday via tweet and replaced him with some stooge that was willing to accept an appointment from a lame-duck president. That would be less ominous if he didn’t now control the odious military-industrial complex.

Maybe you think, “Well there D.J. goes again with the hyperbole. Trump’s team has no legal argument! This will assuredly fail to materialize and Trump will be disgraced into leaving office and the Southern District of New York will immediately arrest him for insurance and tax fraud.”

I ain’t holding my breath. Seems like one side is marshaling their forces behind claims of non-existent voter fraud while the other side is trying offer an olive branch to the same psychopaths that allowed a demented gameshow host to drive this hellhole of a country off a cliff.

Republicans believe they are the only ones worthy of wielding power. Even if Trump leaves power in January, Biden will try his hardest to find common ground with voters that detest him even more than I do, which is saying something.

And if the Republicans retain the Senate after the January run-offs? Say sayonara to any meaningful legislation that this country needs.

I wish my mind were capable of more optimistic analysis. I just can’t fathom feeling anything positive from the election results. Biden wasn’t looking to go into the trenches for a knife fight even before he failed to smoke the dipshit criminal who smears bronzer on his face every morning. Maybe one day we will run somebody for president who is unapologetic about fighting for their people. Because 2020 is certainly not that year, and that does not bode well for 2024.

I would love to be wrong.