Being gracious in victory is more important than being gracious in defeat.
We’ll get back to that very important thought. In the meantime WOO HOO!!!! We won!!! Yippee!
The cherry on top was how hysterically wrong the analyses based on the polls were! I am not sure which made me more nervous: that Trump might not win or that the stupid polls might actually be right.
Broken clocks are right twice a day. They make you look stupid for a minute or two while you argue with your friend over whether or not it’s broken just because you looked at the silly thing at just the wrong moment. Polling can be done completely wrong and still occasionally be right from sheer dumb luck.
Which makes someone like me who keeps harping on how bad the things are look pretty silly.
No matter. Trump won by a landslide. Honestly, I expected a little better in the Electoral College and the congressional totals but that’s just part of making the sausage. No one gets everything right.
I refuse to be grumpy because the win wasn’t as big as I thought it might be. Oh, not because I’m not naturally inclined to crankiness. It’s just too stupid to be upset when you got the landslide you thought you would but it left one tree standing.
Okay, and also because WE WON!!!! Yippee!
I’ll be cranky tomorrow!
Now, enjoy the victory. A lot of prayer, thought and hard work went into Trump’s candidacy and that just from those of us who supported him. I wish I’d been half as active as Trump is at 74 when I was 29! That man needs a good night’s sleep!
Maybe two, thought I hear Trump is a notoriously short sleeper. Well, as long as he gets enough rest because getting the job is the easy part. Now he’s got to do the job. That starts well before January 20th. It has already started. There’s a lot of work just for the transition, not to mention selecting a cabinet and a million little things we never see.
Probably because if people knew how much work being president is, no one sane would ever run. I mean, sure, it takes a certain kind of crazy to want the presidency but there’s crazy and there’s howling mad crazy. A little crazy seems to work for most presidents but a little goes a long way!
Anywho, enjoy the victory for a few days. But don’t forget, there’s more work to be done. We like to think of presidents as autonomous, making big decisions while we go about our lives and ignore politics for a couple years. Yeah, it doesn’t work like that. For a president to do all that stuff we elected him to do requires public support. Hi, guess who the public is? That’s right, us.
Ah, the joy of being ‘We the People’. Good thing the Founding Fathers didn’t tell anyone just how much work this governing our government thing would be or we’d all still be speaking with bad British accents.
Yeah, it’s work but it’s also one heck of a show. Seriously, this has been both the most confusing and the most entertaining election in my life. I’m a cranky old lady, that’s how old!
Whippersnapper.
Enjoy the party. Chant USA at the top of your lungs a few times. Chow down on apple pie and chicken wings – whatever you like. Supporting a candidate is harder work than we realize so it’s perfectly okay to revel in the glow of a well earned victory.
Just don’t be jerks about it. The problem with rubbing the other guy’s nose in it is that eventually, we switch places. No one wins them all. Be gracious because it’s always better to eat sweet words than bitter ones. Also, because it’s the right thing to do, no matter what you think the other guys would be doing if they had won.
Yep, I think the same thing about how they’d behave. I can’t control other people being stupid enough to deliberately be jerks but I can stop myself from being a jerk – and apologize if I stop a second too late. Humans only come in size human, after all. I can also warn you. The temptation to be a jerk is strong when the other guys have been such major jerks, but being a jerk to the jerks just makes you a bigger jerk.
The one thing this planet does NOT need is more jerks.
Especially when we’ve got more important things to do. The Biden admin has left a mess – a big one – to clean up and Trump can’t do it alone. The Democrats may be reeling for the moment but you remember how they tried to mess up Trump’s first presidency. Expect a sequel. Filming will begin immediately right in the middle of a full party system shift.
To quote Larry Elder, we’ve got a country to save!
But just for a few days, we also have a victory to celebrate!
You bring the pie. I’ve got the chicken wings!
YIPPEE!!!!
