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| Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States with 290 Electoral Votes. President Donald Trump has not conceded and will likely contest the results. |
The sound of spontaneous hurrahs spread through the open air at the Santa Cruz Farmers Market on Saturday morning. Dozens of masked shoppers turned to each other, their shining eyes telling the story that Joe Biden had reached the magic number of electoral votes to defeat the current President.
No four more years!
The man who, in his own words, had done more for black people in the United States than anyone except for maybe Abraham Lincoln, will not be doing a Trump Show State of the Union next year. Steven Bannon will not be receiving the National Medal of Freedom.
Pristine National Wildlife areas will not be handed over to the oil industry.
Vladimir Putin will not be more trusted than the United States Intelligence Agencies.
Toadies like Mike Pence, Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo will not be licking the King's boots.
Criminals like Roger Stone will not be pardoned for trading secrets with foreign countries and lying to Congress.
White Supremacists will not be called "very good people" by the Chief Executive of the U.S.
Dark-colored people from countries to our south will not be separated from their children at our border.
Young people in the U.S. who were born here will not be deported because they are not official citizens.
All citizens of the U.S. will not be kept in the dark about the real dangers of an imminent pandemic.
Our military men and women will not be called losers when they are wounded, killed or tortured.
Cities with impoverished ghettos created by racial bigotry will not be dissed nor will their mayors because they belong to the opposing political party.
Our national leader will not hide his personal tax returns from the American people.
Our national leader will not leverage his executive office for the profit of his own personal business interests.
Our national leader will not hold back Congressionally approved funds to a foreign country until that country agrees to investigate his political opponent.
Environmental protections will not be deregulated for the sole sake of capital investment.
The language of the Chief Executive will not be arrested at the level of sixth grade.
Our national interests, international standing, constitutional liberties and protections will not depend on partisan interests of the Chief Executive.
We will not suffer the lies and cons of an adult who acts like a petulant child.
Because the current President will behave badly until his term ends, it will be necessary to hold ourselves together for a little more than a month, during which time many unseemly shenanigans will be attempted. Republican Sen. Lyndsey Graham, South Carolina, has reportedly pledged $500,000 to help Trump overturn the election. Just sayin.
Keep the thought: he will soon not be our President anymore.
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