72 DAYS!!

Biden/Harris for the Win!!  The fat boy hasn’t sung yet, in fact, with the help of his usual cast of abettors including Senators Cruz and Graham, he’s doing whatever he can to muddy the electoral waters and feed the hopes of his far too many fanatical fans, but he’s lost and come January 20, Joe Biden will be President, Kamala Harris will be Vice President and our national nightmare will be over, at least until 2024 when some combination of Trump, Don Jr, Ivanka, Tucker Carlson, Nikki Haley, Governors Kristi Noem and Larry Hogan and Senators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio,  Josh Hawley and Cruz announce their runs for the presidency.  And though Trump and his enablers insist that the election is too close to call because of fictitious fraudulent” votes, trips to the polls by dead people and something to do with sharpie pens, the reality is that the Biden team flipped five states, adding Arizona and Georgia to the important “blue wall” of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, is likely to end up with the same number of electoral college votes that Trump earned in 2016 and, unlike Trump, has won the popular vote by a margin that’s still growing and already exceeds Hillary’s count.  Despite Trump’s pathetic cries of protests, each state victory, even the closest in Georgia, will withstand any recounts. Nevertheless, while President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris, doesn’t that sound good, will be announcing their coronavirus attack team today, Trump still hasn’t conceded, instead he has converted his campaign apparatus into an “Upend Democracy” team and over the weekend added more questionable players to his legal beagle team. That’s the team whose first public dog and pony show, held not in the Philadelphia Four Seasons Hotel as Trump had tweeted but instead on the outskirts of the city in the parking lot of the Four Seasons Landscaping company adjacent to a porn shop and across from a crematorium, was thrown off kilter just as Rudy Giuliani took to the microphone when the decision desks at all of the major networks formally projected Biden and Harris’ victory. For the record the Trump legal team hasn’t won any cases thus far, unless you count getting a judge to say that Republican poll watchers could stand a few feet closer to vote counters and Justice Alito’s confirmation of Pennsylvania’s already in place process of segregating and counting late arriving ballots last as victories.  By the way, if you are aware of any voter irregularities or saw any zombies at your polling place, you can report them to the Trump team’s voter fraud call-in number, but be prepared to wait on hold as a huge number of teen tik tokkers are one step ahead of you, jamming the Trump phone lines with reports of ETs, porn and the like.  Getting back to the legal battles, the Trumpers know that they don’t have a legal leg to stand on but their hope, farfetched as it may sound, is to delay the certification of vote counts so that Republican legislators in places like all important Pennsylvania can appoint a Trump friendly slate of electors rather than the Biden set.  Improbable, but as we all know its 2020, things happen.      

Earth Scorching: Humor and pie in the sky plans aside, there are some real things that Trump can and is doing to impede the transition of power to the Biden team.  Late last week, while the rest of us were glued to our TV’s waiting for the various Trump tweet skittish network decision desks to finally call the election, Lisa Gordon Haggerty, the head of the agency responsible for securing the nation’s nuclear arsenal resigned, and while the official line is that she left of her own accord, the timing is curious.  Additionally, reports are that Trump is more enraged than ever over FBI Director Wray’s refusal to inflate Giuliani’s Hunter Biden laptop scheme into an election killing scandal akin to the discovery of the Hillary emails on Anthony Weiner’s porn stuffed laptop that he really does intend to add both Wray and CIA head Gina Haspel to his roadkill pile shortly. The firing of Wray would be both alarming and absurd.  Alarming because Wray’s steady hand is needed now more than ever given that Trump’s efforts to question the validity of the election outcome is manna from heaven to gun toting extremists, absurd because it’s not like Biden wouldn’t appreciate selecting his own FBI Director.  Of equal or maybe even more concern, Emily Murphy, a Trump appointed administrator at the GSA is refusing to sign a letter allowing President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team to formally begin its work this week, that’s a bigly problem because her refusal will disrupt the smooth transfer of power. National security, immunization plans, government function, none of that is of any concern to Trump and anyway its not like his transition team did anything more than throw out the things they were handed, like the Pandemic Play Book, and that turned out okay, didn’t it?  Not to worry though, according to reports from Jared’s publicist, he and Melania are the voices of reason in the White House.  They are supposedly trying to convince Trump that its time for him to move on.  Sons Don Jr and Eric not so much, they’re all in on holding rallies, feeding the extremists and spreading COVID.  As to COVID, despite efforts to squelch the news, efforts that involved failing to do any contact tracing, Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and four or so of his staff members tested COVID positive last week after attending Trump’s election night shindig sans masks.  It turns out that virus denial and herd advocacy has consequences.  Has anyone seen VP Pence or AG Barr lately?

On to Georgia because the Senate is still up for grabs.