Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Associated Press and AFP photos Above: Dick Cheney gloatingly shows us today who's really the president of the United States of America; President Bush looks like a village idiot and Laura Bush looks like a Stepford wife, as usual; John Kerry concedes; and John Edwards and Kerry demonstrate today that they still don't have that body space thing down, but they put up a good fight against BushCheneyCorp. Below: The map of the 2004 electoral vote count thus far (Iowa and New Mexico are still undetermined) demonstrates that the crazy dumbfucks in the red states are progressively pushing those of us Americans who are sane and intelligent into Canada and into the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. h America fails national I.Q. test; evil triumphs over good (again) When I went to bed around 3 o'clock this morning, the presidential election was left at 249 of the necessary 270 electoral votes for George W. Bush and 242 electoral votes for John Kerry, with Ohio, the state that would decide the election, up in the air. It could take days or even weeks for them to sort Ohio out, I learned on CNN. It seemed safe to go to bed, and while I'd wanted resolution, it was better to know while going to bed that the election was still up for grabs than to know that Bush had won "re"-election. About eight hours later, I awoke to the news that Kerry conceded to Bush today, acknowledging that he can't win Ohio. The numbers right now, according to The Associated Press, are 274 electoral votes for Bush, with Ohio under his belt, and 252 for Kerry, with Iowa's seven and New Mexico's five electoral votes still unassigned to either candidate. The AP also reports that so far in the popular vote, Bush is at 51 percent and Kerry at 48 percent. My thoughts are swirling about, so I'll just write them as I can catch them: What will another four years of George W. Bush look like, with a Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate? Remember the scenes in "The Terminator" movies after the nuclear apocalypse? I can see it coming to that... The upshot is that President Bush (I guess I don't need to use quotation marks around the word "President" now, since it looks like he finally actually won a presidential election, even if barely) will provide me with a helluva lot more blogging material for the next four years than President Kerry would have. (But will my radiation burns prevent me from blogging?) If I hear one former Howard Dean supporter say that Dean would have won, Dean will have himself one fewer former supporter. Now that the election is over and Kerry no longer needs the Deanies' votes, I can say it: You Deaniacs are/were almost as out of touch with reality as is George W. Bush. You thought that a man with the temperament of a rabid Chihuahua on crack would be appealing to the national electorate? Jesus Fucking Christ. I might have been able to support Dean had his fairly moderate record as governor of Vermont actually matched his new-found foaming-at-the-mouth liberal rhetoric. And I could never get over the fact that he refused to unseal the records from his governorship of Vermont. We were supposed to just trust him that there was nothing bad in those records. While Kerry narrowly lost, Dean, had he been nominated, would have lost by a wide, embarrassing margin. I do credit Dean for bringing millions of people into the political process -- even if they were creepy and clueless and self-centered and resembled cult members -- but I have to wonder how many of them actually voted when their guy didn't win the Democratic presidential nomination. Dean himself, in one of his many foot-in-his-mouth moments, quasi-threatened that if he didn't get the nomination, he couldn't see his supporters supporting another nominee. Expect more terrorist attacks upon Americans. While many American-haters thus far have given us a break, realizing that the Bush regime stole the 2000 election, they will now see George W. Bush as Americans' choice, even though, according to the count thus far, only 51 percent of Americans chose him. The Bush regime has a great gig: Make the United States of America hated throughout the world, thus increasing the incidence of terrorist attacks, and then take credit for battling the freedom-hatin', terror-lovin', evildoing terrorists, who, according to the Bush regime's endless propaganda, attack us not because we've done anything wrong -- such as, oh, say, invade and occupy a sovereign Muslim nation that did absolutely nothing to us to warrant said invasion and occupation -- but because they're dyed-in-the-wool freedom-hatin', terror-lovin' evildoers. As "Fahrenheit 9/11" and many books and articles have pointed out, the Bush dynasty is in bed with the Saudis, the people who spawned 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, yet apparently 51 percent of Americans, who are abject dumbfucks, can't and/or won't see that the Bush regime is creating the very same terrorists from whom it claims to be so valiantly protecting us. Whatever. Those 51 percent of Americans who are dumbfucks are going to get what they deserve with another four years of the Bush regime's Armageddon-bent policies and practices. (Unfortunately, the rest of us have to endure it, too.)    I don't know if the United States has been more divided since the Civil War. And it's only going to get worse. Bush has acknowledged the division that yesterday's election has demonstrated, today's news reports say, but he is the one who has created it, despite his 2000 campaign promise to be "a uniter, not a divider." If you think that Bush, with the Senate and the House of Representatives in his AmeriNazi column, is going to work on reaching out to those half of Americans who oppose him, you are one deluded fuck. (Maybe I'll run into you in the concentration camp the AmeriNazis will put us liberals, fags and dykes, sand monkeys, et. al. into and we can discuss this point further.) Anyway, Bush lost to Al Gore by a half-million votes in 2000 and was installed by the five members of the U.S. Supreme Court who were appointed by Republican candidates, but he and his henchpeople proceeded to treat his 2000 "victory" like a fucking mandate. There is absolutely no reason to believe that he and the members of his regime will act any differently over the next four years, even though only barely more than half of Americans (apparently) voted for him. Those touch-screen voting machines: I understand that the conspiracy theories are already circulating about the touch-screen voting machines, which do not produce tangible proof of the voters' votes. Would I be surprised if I were to to learn that the Republicans stole yet another election? Absolutely not. But as of this writing, I have no proof that that is the case, so, until and unless I have reason to believe otherwise, right now, I consider George W. Bush to have been elected as president of the United States for the first time yesterday, albeit very narrowly. Am I angry at Kerry for fucking it up? Not in the least. I'm not angry -- I'm disappointed, of course, but not angry, and I'm not devastated, because although I really thought that Kerry would win, I always knew that Bush might -- and I don't see that Kerry fucked it up. Kerry gave it his all, and it was an uphill battle from the beginning, trying to unseat an incumbent who for the past three-plus years has fed the American people a steady diet of fear and and lies and disinformation, which at least 51 percent of them lapped up like obedient lapdogs. It's not Kerry's fault that at least 51 percent of Americans are dumbfucks and that for the past four years the Bush regime has played up to the fact that a good chunk of Americans are total fucking idiots who can be misled with minimal effort. The Bushies can celebrate their victory, but our republic, our democracy, cannot and will not survive when more than half of its citizens are dumbfucks. So the AmeriNazis win a presidential election -- but now face the potential of the fall of the American empire within our lifetime. Dumbfucks. I gave the Kerry campaign hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours of my time and energy for the past year and a half. Do I regret it? Not in the least. When Armageddon arrives, at least I'll know that I did what I could do to prevent it. Let us sane, intelligent, progressive, liberal Americans have our day or week or month of mourning that we are faced with another four years of the Bush regime, but let's not roll over and play dead. We are still 48 percent of the nation, at least!  We fight on! Finally, those of you who are feeling suicidal should take some wisdom from my long-haired Chihuahua, Kit. She sees no difference between yesterday and today. For Kit there are still dog treats to eat, walks to take (and other dogs' urine to sniff and cats to be wary of during those walks), people food to beg for and baths to have to endure. She will continue to steal my pillow whenever I take my head off of it and will continue to jump into my laundry basket full of clean clothes within minutes of my return from the laundromat. My point is that in many aspects, for the next four years our lives will go on much the same as they have the past four years. Wait a minute -- that's the problem... OK, so you'll have to look for sappy inspiration elsewhere. But I still say: We fight on! P.S. This is funny. It's from Not a Dollar Short via The Forge: In all seriousness, however, I recommend that those 48 percent (or so) of us Americans who are intelligent and sane continue to fight for our nation, not flee to Canada...  P.P.S. This is the e-mail that I received this morning from the Kerry-Edwards campaign: Dear Robert, Earlier today I spoke to President Bush, and offered him and Laura our congratulations on their victory. We had a good conversation, and we talked about the danger of division in our country and the need, the desperate need, for unity for finding the common ground, coming together. Today, I hope that we can begin the healing. In America, it is vital that every vote counts, and that every vote be counted. But the outcome should be decided by voters, not a protracted legal process. I would not give up this fight if there was a chance that we would prevail. But it is now clear that even when all the provisional ballots are counted, which they will be, there won't be enough outstanding votes for our campaign to be able to win Ohio. And therefore, we cannot win this election. It was a privilege and a gift to spend two years traveling this country, coming to know so many of you. I wish I could just wrap you in my arms and embrace each and every one of you individually all across this nation. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. To all of you, my volunteers and online supporters, all across this country who gave so much of themselves, thank you. Thanks to William Field, a six-year-old who collected $680, a quarter and a dollar at a time selling bracelets during the summer to help change America. Thanks to Michael Benson from Florida who I spied in a rope line holding a container of money. It turned out he raided his piggy bank and wanted to contribute. And thanks to Alana Wexler, who at 11 years old and started Kids for Kerry. I thank all of you, who took time to travel, time off from work, and their own vacation time to work in states far and wide. You braved the hot days of summer and the cold days of the fall and the winter to knock on doors because you were determined to open the doors of opportunity to all Americans. You worked your hearts out, and I say, don't lose faith. What you did made a difference, and building on itself, we will go on to make a difference another day. I promise you, that time will come -- the election will come when your work and your ballots will change the world, and it's worth fighting for. I'm proud of what we stood for in this campaign, and of what we accomplished. When we began, no one thought it was possible to even make this a close race, but we stood for real change, change that would make a real difference in the life of our nation, the lives of our families, and we defined that choice to America. I'll never forget the wonderful people who came to our rallies, who stood in our rope lines, who put their hopes in our hands, who invested in each and every one of us. I saw in them the truth that America is not only great, but it is good. So here -- with a grateful heart, I leave this campaign with a prayer that has even greater meaning to me now that I've come to know our vast country so much better and that prayer is very simple: God bless America. Thank you, John Kerry Paid for by Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. John Kerry, entirely unlike George W. Bush, is a class act. P.P.P.S. Some more: 1:49:04 PM    Discuss amongst yourselves []