{"id":151947,"date":"2020-11-04T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=151947"},"modified":"2020-11-04T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:24:16","slug":"my-only-thoughts-on-a-post-election-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/my-only-thoughts-on-a-post-election-afternoon.html","title":{"rendered":"My only thoughts on a post-election afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. I am guardedly optimistic that, despite Donald’s appalling dishonesty about and continuing shenanigans with the electoral process, Biden will eventually win.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Even if so, I am deeply, deeply dismayed with the US that this election is this close. That 67 million Americans are willing to overlook (if not support) Trump’s horrible personality, his racism and sexism, his incompetence at home and abroad, his corruption, his authoritarianism, and his never-ending litany of lies … boggles my mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. I expect my animus toward Mitch McConnell will deepen to unexpected but off-putting levels over the next few years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The afternoon after the night before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,1142],"tags":[1741,723],"class_list":["post-151947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-elections-2020","tag-election2020","tag-nt","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-election-wed-0219.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131623,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/25\/the-los-angeles-times-endorses-clinton.html","url_meta":{"origin":151947,"position":0},"title":"The Los Angeles Times endorses Clinton","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Sep-16 5:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"With a succinct lede:American voters have a clear choice on Nov. 8. We can elect an experienced, thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable public servant or a thin-skinned demagogue who is unqualified and unsuited to be president.'The Times piece is open to Clinton's flaws, but declines to see this as a \"lesser\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12902,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/election_round_up_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":151947,"position":1},"title":"Election round-up","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Sep-08 3:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Still trying to figure out the best way to spread the linky-love here. 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Hodges, M.D.\" points out, using his \"ThoughtPrint Decoding\" technique, that Obama has admitted to election fraud, being a non-citizen, and, possibly, to the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping:'\u201cOn election night after initial voting reports declared him the winner, Obama once\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135321,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/election-results-good-news-democrats-not-necessarily-dnc.html","url_meta":{"origin":151947,"position":3},"title":"The election results are good news for Democrats, not necessarily the DNC","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Nov-17 11:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"If folk at the Democratic National Committee are busy patting themselves on the back this morning, that would be a huge mistake. 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