 Well, it is official Joe Biden will become the next president of the United States and Donald Trump has in fact been defeated a lot of mainstream news outlets Have not called it yet, but I'm making the call right now Decision desk HQ is projecting that Joe Biden has won with 273 electoral votes and they base this victory off of Pennsylvania now last night he pulled ahead in Georgia and Pennsylvania with where they're at with the vote count And based on where these mail-in ballots are coming from in more blue areas. They're projecting that He's gonna win. So most likely not only will he win? Nevada, but he's probably going to win Georgia as well and even though decision desk HQ has not officially called Arizona for Joe Biden Fox News and AP has called Arizona, but they don't need to call Arizona to project that Joe Biden has won So, you know, it's fine that the news outlets are being a little bit more conservative in their projections nonetheless, I think we know that this is gonna happen Joe Biden has won Donald Trump has been defeated and Let's just take a moment to sit back and try to digest this information. Wow. It has been a very long and Just mentally taxing a couple of days But basically it's all over now and I think that by the end of today We will see all news outlets make their final projections Again, the counts probably won't be finished. The results won't officially be certified until quite some time But still we have enough information now to determine with a relatively high degree of confidence that Trump's out of here So what does this mean? Well, it means that between now and January 21st when Joe Biden is sworn in Donald Trump is going to be Pissed he's already insufferable Crying fraud with zero evidence to back up that claim his supporters across the country are either Depending on if Joe Biden is ahead or Trump is ahead Chanting stop the count or count the votes whatever works out best for them But they're going to have to grapple with the reality that there is no fraud There's no evidence that there's widespread voter fraud or election fraud. This was a win and It's not a shocker that a lot of Republicans did not vote by mail because Donald Trump instructed them to not vote by mail Because he told them not to trust vote by mail so it's not like You know, they're counting these votes and they see that Donald Trump is ahead and all of a sudden they're like Oh, look at I just found these pro-biden ballots out of nowhere I guess we should count them like that's not the way that it works If they were truly rigging this then they're the dumbest at election rigging ever because they would have taken Texas They would have taken Florida So we would have known on election night that it was Biden They would have rigged the house the Senate, but they lost ground there So there's no evidence of widespread election fraud and you can you can tell that that's the case Because as Donald Trump files lots of legal lawsuits across this country They're being thrown out left and right because there's there's no evidence. You have to present something You can't just cry fraud and present zero evidence so he's winning on some procedural issues, but Whenever there's this claim of fraud whenever there's this claim to stop counting the votes Can't do it and his intent is to have the Supreme Court ultimately hear whatever he wants to be heard I don't know if he wants the mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania for example to be invalidated But you have to take this through the court process You can't just ask your loyalists on the Supreme Court to do what you want It has to work its way through the system until the Supreme Court grants you a writ of certiary if it even gets To you know the appeals process like it's over Donald Trump doesn't have a path to victory and at this point thoughts of him actually stealing this It's just not there So he's going to have to grapple with the fact that Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States And we are going to have to brace ourselves because for the next two months Oh my god, he's gonna be fucking pissed and I'm laughing because it's gonna be funny to watch him melt down But understand that that that two-month period that is a long long time where a lot of damage is going to be caused Because Donald Trump is angry and doesn't want to take action while he still is the president of the United States So what I mean by that is even though Donald Trump already Kind of undermine his own moratorium on evictions as of January 1st that expires Landlords can evict people amid a pandemic Do you think that between January 1st and January 21st Donald Trump's administration is going to take action? Now perhaps people in control of certain agencies can take measures But I mean is Donald Trump himself going to do anything for the American people during this period? No, because he's going to try to punish people punish all of us for not voting to reelect him so in terms of getting a new stimulus some For some reason, I I mean I was shocked when I hear this Mitch McConnell is saying we should we should do another stimulus package Now is Donald Trump going to be open to that now? So this is why we needed this before the election because we don't know there's too much volatility and uncertainty And we just we don't know how Donald Trump is going to act and we can only anticipate that he is going to be The biggest baby and try to do as much damage as possible and in terms of COVID-19 I mean if it's going to get better if Joe Biden gets in and immediately Implements a lot of measures to try to get it under control. It's gonna get a lot worse first I mean we're surpassing 100,000 cases per day and Donald Trump is not going to do anything So it's gonna be a really long road ahead until Donald Trump is out and we get Joe Biden. So look I am feeling Happy right now, even though Joe Biden is not going to be a good president. He's going to be a bad president Donald Trump is unique. He is uniquely bad uniquely evil Joe Biden is predictably bad predictably evil, right? So it's kind of like we can either Have another four years of Donald Trump to where he continues to do more and more damage or we can see some Victories even if they are small with Joe Biden. He said he will be getting us back into the Paris Climate Accord on day one already Really huge thing to celebrate. That's that's really important if he actually gets us into the Iran nuclear deal Assuming Iran is even willing to come to the table with us after we just ripped up the deal that we signed with them That was difficult to negotiate in the first place That will be great if Joe Biden reinstates DACA how many lives that is going to benefit that is gonna be phenomenal Now that's not to say that Joe Biden will not be someone who causes damage as president He's going to continue the US war machine and that is really really Troubling I'm hoping that he ramps down drones We don't know because what happened was after Obama took office He ramped up Bush's drone war and then once they realized how many civilians they were killing They had to ramp it down scale it back a lot because Obama basically just gave the CIA autonomy To use this program as they wanted to and they were killing more civilians than they were actually enemy combatants, right? And for the more this is illegal because if you haven't declared war on these countries Then you can't just be in these countries bombing them But once Trump took power after Obama had scaled down drones Trump ramped them up by more than 400 percent 400% so if Joe Biden ramps them down even though he's still droning them and that's unacceptable Still hopefully less people will be bombed less civilians I mean what we're working with is some marginal victories that I think are better like the world is better off with Joe Biden as president I mean and it sucks like we shouldn't have to choose between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and that's over now But what I'm saying is you know if you feel relieved I think that that's okay like we can we didn't get Bernie Sanders But we can still feel a little bit sense of you know relief knowing that Donald Trump is out You know the fascism hopefully Will be minimized. I don't think it's going to go away But at least white supremacists won't be emboldened because they have someone in power You know at least maybe we have a shot at Getting Joe Biden to meet with some of the Black Lives Matter protesters to implement some of their agenda Even if he doesn't listen to them at least he'd be more willing to meet so meet with them So here's the thing Joe Biden has a short window to act. I Truly believe that if he does not do enough to help people this is gonna be a short presidency He's gonna lose ground Democrats will lose ground in 2022 and 2024 Democrats will see turnover because this election I think it's really obvious that Trump probably would have been reelected. It's difficult to qualify this but or To quantitatively assess this right not not qualify, but it's difficult to quantitatively say Oh, well, we know for sure that Trump would have won a reelection if it wasn't for COVID-19 But I think he would have so if Republicans put up someone who is at least somewhat like Donald Trump in 2024 The same policies same pseudo populist appeal I think that Joe Biden will be defeated in 2024 So he can stop that if he actually takes action to meaningfully improve people's lives now a lot of what he can do will hinge on The Senate which will come down probably to some runoff races taking place in Georgia And all Democrats need is 50-50 and then Kamala can break a tie if need be now What's gonna happen? We don't know but for now Donald Trump who is causing the most damage currently is gonna be gone And it's gonna be really irritating to listen to him whine for two months He probably won't Accept the results of the election or concede But he's gonna have to grapple with the fact that his time is up come January 21st Now, I don't know what to expect on the day of Joe Biden's inauguration is You know Donald Trump gonna sit in the Oval Office and like cross his arms and say I'm not leaving I think that would be hilarious if he actually did that But you know, I think that the more likely outcome is that Donald Trump is going to have to leave you don't have a choice Like do you embarrass yourself? Even more or do you try to leave with dignity and try to like I don't know put together the pieces you can try to re-run in 2024 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if Joe Biden is going to intentionally be a one-term president where he steps down and allows Kamala to run In his in his place and another Democratic Party primary to take place We don't know but all we know is that for now the better outcome has Happened and it might not be, you know, the outcome that we all wanted it might not be an outcome that is good enough To warrant, you know the change that we need but for now It's a little bit of easing off of the pressure and the damage that is being caused and I think that we should We should feel relieved We should we should celebrate that fact because even though Joe Biden is going to be a bad president I have no doubt about that. I hope he proves me wrong But even though he's gonna be a bad president There's no way he could be as bad as Donald Trump. So, you know, I think this is this is good for the country It's good for the world and I hope that he does enough To make it so that way the Republicans aren't so influential and I don't know that he is Is gonna do it. He's already kind of showing signs that hey, we guys we've we've got to unify with the Republicans So that basically means he's gonna compromise away all the Democratic Party's values What little they have and try to forge some sort of grand bargain that is going to be functionally right wing We don't know but still Donald Trump is defeated that in and of itself is a reason to celebrate if you pretend like it's not Joe Biden Who's coming to power and you just look at the fact that Trump was defeated? That's that's a good feeling. It is a good feeling. So, yeah, I'll leave that there Joe Biden will become the next president of the United States Donald Trump is on his way out and he is not happy about that