Wednesday Thoughts as the Counting Continues

I ent to bed at 11pm on Tuesday. Thank goodness. At 4, I woke up, had some water, checked results and went back to sleep until 8. A couple of thoughts

1. pandemic has made counting all the early votes incredibly hard. And one party has intentionally slowed the mail and vote counting process while yelling fraud every step of the way b/c they know if people truly voted they would lose. 

2. Dems texting me 30 times a day was cute, but there is no substitute for a ground game. Yes, I know we are in the middle of a pandemic and Biden pulled back in battleground states for safety...but your opponent did not. You faced an opponent with no shame who both exacerbated a health crisis and then used your caution and morality against you to send his supporters into the cresting covid waves around the country. In other words...

3. Knocking on doors will always be more effective than texts. A friend once described tv directing as 'dog work.' It's tedious, grinding, long hours. That's what canvassing is and you need to be doing it for months in advance. Once again, Dems weren't b/c we are in the middle of a once-in-century health crisis with 1,000 ppl dying every day.

4. Trump improved his numbers among Latinos and Black ppl across the board. So before we just scream RACISM, Dems have to do some deep thinking. Centrists had all the political advantages this election. They had the so-called Lincoln Project spend hundreds of millions to convert Republicans and...nothing. They had the McCain family, sensible conservatives uniting with sensible centrists and it did not inspire more Latino or Black votes. In fact, it inspired less and you didn't win over any more white people. 

5. And despite all this, Dems will get more votes. Clinton got 2 million more votes than Trump. Biden will probably get 5 million more votes. 

6.  my tv episode scenes are due this afternoon. Crap. 

7. I should probably go to the gym.  

8. TV Dems seem confident that Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania will flip blue. And when have they ever been wrong, huh?

9. So Progressives...you say you have some ideas about healthcare and green energy? And you're below the age of 90?!? And you're not just old white liberals from urban areas. 

10. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Biden have a combined age of over 226 yrs. We live in geriatric democracy and it's scary. Toward the end of the Soviet Union all its leaders were in their 70s and 80s and croaking. It was a sign of governmental rot. I think Dems are in leadership crisis in the next 10 yrs. If you're over the age of 60, you need to be mentoring someone. There is no way that Pelosi is the only one capable of running Congress. Same with Schumer.

11. And still my scenes are due. Crap!!

12. All you 'Imma leave the country' ppl stop it!! No one wants our diseased asses, LOL. Our politics have made us sick, divided, and an international pariah. You are stuck here unless you're smuggling yourself across the Canadian border. If I was Canada I would turn off the lights and pretend to be asleep. 'No hablo Ingles!! Hablo Canadian!!' Our dumb asses would probably believe them.

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w/o blk ppl you ain't winning Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Virginia, Pennsylvania. 

w/o blk ppl there is no blue wall. There is no national majority for the last 5 Dem presidential candidates. There are no close elections in NC and Georgia. There are no Dem presidents.

w/o black ppl you ass is living in the United States of Taliban. 

Reparations is not charity if you're still feeding, nursing, and voting to save white people from themselves. Consider it a much deserved salary for work that is still in progress. 

This abusive 400-year unpaid internship known as the black experience keeps rolling along. We keep trying to pull the country back from the abyss of its own hatred and self-destructive tendencies.

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Lincoln Project? Give yourself a hand. You did absolutely nothing. You did not convert one lily white Becky or Chad. You wasted oxygen and airspace to offer memes. The results of your hundreds of millions spent was a negative -3% among Republicans in this election vs. 2016.

Give yourself a fist pump, Bloomberg. Your millions did not switch one single state you targeted. That money could have been better spent setting it on fire and hoping Republicans choked on the ash. Or you could have given it to black activists and progressives to create a ground game.

w/o black ppl all these Bloomberg liberals and contrite Never-Trump Republicans would be be circle jerking each other off over their clever algorithms until death. Suicide by smug masturbation.

White liberals: can you please sit down. Forever. Stop hang-wringing and wondering why all your uncles are voting for racism. I'm so tired of showing you the facts of this country. They exist as plainly as the nose on your face.

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Finished and turned in episode, met with lawyer about not-for-profit paperwork, cooked, and took a break from the election to watch the season finale of "Lovecraft Country." God bless these actors for fully committing to babbledeegook, blood spews, and the CGI overlords. I know they were as confused as all of you watching. Then they had to go out there and cry and spit and snot up a booger babies, and run around a soundstage with the conviction of Harriet Tubman.

Prophetic Lovecraft Lines:  black girl to white lady at the end of all of this....You still haven't learned, have you?

That could be on a t-shirt about this election. At the end of a year of death and rancid racism and hatred and misogyny and fatal lies that killed 300,000 citizens and tore apart families... America, you still haven't learned, have you? 

But I'll take an unlearned Biden victory.