Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US

PS, more than anything, I want you to know that your contributions here are valued. I myself never want to be in an echo chamber (as I see many of my friends gleefully announcing their departures from Facebook to Parler and MeWe, and it saddens me to lose those connections), and I do read and contemplate what you, and Rick, and ramage post. And then I do research looking for more info, and find things like the hand count certifications from Maricopa County that debunk the Dominion machines having issues and the judge dismissing the suit by the witnesses you cited. I understand your frustration, because it's exactly how Democrats felt after 2016's election and I was hoping that would mean we'd all understand how each other feels and start from a common ground.

Neither this election nor the one in 2016 was stolen, there is zero evidence of vote tampering (in both elections) at any level that would change the results that the American People voted in the majority for Biden, otherwise all the other results from those same exact ballots would be null and void, and no one is contesting them for down-ballot candidates and measures. It wasn't just states in which Democrats were the governors, or Secretaries of State that Biden won the majority of votes.

Foreign adversaries are still trying their best to sow doubt in us for our institutions, and we cannot let them succeed for if they do, they win. Those witnesses were not silenced, they had their day in court and what they wanted - a hand recount certifying the results, is happening. The lawsuits that have been dismissed were done by judges across many states - it would be nearly impossible to coordinate that grand of a conspiracy to corrupt them all for a partisan result (and I don't have the time, but I'll bet if you searched every one of those judges, you'll find ones that have served for years and were appointed by Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and maybe even Reagan). Even some law firms hired by Trump have admitted the lawsuits were spurious, and some have pulled out of being involved in them - that says A LOT when even lawyers aren't willing to waste their time for the money they'd make continuing the effort.

We have to trust in our courts or there's nothing left to do but start fighting in the streets. We're better than that and we have far more to lose should that be our route to solving our divisions.

I agree with you 100% that trust in our institutions and election process has been weakened, but we have yet to have an in-depth conversation why and who the worst actors are in that effort. People on both sides are guilty of tossing around spurious accusations without facts and evidence to prove that our processes are being subverted. I haven't brought it up because I don't think most are willing to keep an open mind and delve into the facts, including our media who in many ways are egregiously failing in their duties to investigate and report on what's happening.

My husband sometimes asks me why I keep doing this, when it seems pointless to him. I reply that Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are my guiding lights, the knowledge that we've been divided before and come back from that stronger than ever by working through our problems together. It's on us to continue having a dialog, sharing what we know, and challenging each other's information with credible information back while keeping at the forefront our good faith in one another. We all love this country, we want security, fairness, truth, and justice, and yes, it will mean putting aside our own biases at times to accept that truth. If we don't keep trying, then we might as well give up and count this experiment of our Democratic Republic a failure. I'm not the giving up type, and I hope you aren't either.

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, September 28, 1820

"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves." ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787

"The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people." ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Dickinson, July 23, 1801

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate but it is really fear.
~Mahatma Ghandi

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." ~Abraham Lincoln

"If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted." ~Abraham Lincoln

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." ~Abraham Lincoln

"If you want a better government, be better citizens." ~Jim Wright

Because our counter-intelligence agencies were more on top of cyber attacks trying to infiltrate, Twitter refused to carry political ads, Facebook made at least a half-hearted attempt to shut down foreign-run groups and accounts, and a ton more people were motivated to get active and involved in this election who had already made up their minds based on the results of 4 years of Trump's administration (on both sides).

No, Biden is NOT for the Green New Deal as it is written. Yes, he has said he's going to get us back in the Paris Accords, as we should be because almost every other nation on earth is. We have to work with others, not petulantly demand they do what we tell them to, because that route means we become marginalized and lose our power and standing in the world. Yes, we need to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels as the effects of climate change are here and obvious to everyone who's suffered the historic wildfires and hurricanes we've been having, and will continue to have. Economically, Russia is nothing and the corrupt oligarchs who keep propping up Putin's regime with outdated resources will not last. Sustainable energy sources are the future, and the path to better national security and economic stability. No, it cannot be done all at once, but it must be done sooner rather than later.

I understand that there are multiple witnesses, I only cited one because 1.) I don't have time to look up every single one and 2.) that one is indicative of the trend of the bigger picture of most of the lawsuits and witness statements from what I've seen reported.

Why in the world would Democrats "steal" the results of the Presidency and not also take the Senate at the same time to make it a clean sweep for power? Why are the rest of the elections not contested when all votes were tabulated with the same exact ballots? Logic alone demonstrates that the results of the Presidential race are as they are called.

Did you know that the calls for donations to fight the results with lawsuits by Trump's campaign aren't necessarily going to the lawsuits? It's a grift, nothing more. Trump knows he can't win this, but he is a narcissist who needs to stoke the outrage in his fans and keep the money rolling in - he's got hundreds of millions of debt due soon. Follow the money and you find the motivation for his actions.