Day 5--Where We Are Now With This Election

 Day 5.

Still no conclusion. Still no formal, official result. Still no next President.

Still locked at 264 Electoral College votes for Biden, 214 for the Orange One.

Nate Silver, on ABC last evening, said there is a 1 in 20,000 chance this could or would go for the Trumpster at this point so there's good news there. Additionally, Pennsylvania is going more and more for Biden. If Joe gets Pennsylvania, he'd have 273 votes total. It would be done.

As it stands now, however, it's Saturday, of course. I don't know if this means the counting has been halted until Monday or it's still going on. No way to know if there could yet be an announcement today or tomorrow or we have to wait until Monday. I'm thinking it will, in fact, likely come Monday or Tuesday. So hoping no longer than that.

Meanwhile, the Democrats have started eating each other alive in their political party.

House Democrats savage Nancy Pelosi, demand she is replaced as Speaker and blame her and the Squad's backing of socialism for election disaster in wild conference call

So any thoughts about having a nation more for everyone, more for the people, more for all the people, the entire nation seems to be going out the window.  

Fairness? Equity? More wealth equality? Justice?

Fuggedaboudit.

At least for a while, if not permanently.

There's some good, hopeful news besides the fact that we very well likely will be getting rid of this orange President.

The Lincoln Project is campaigning for a Democratic Senate with a new ad

Ironically, very ironically, what we can't and won't do for ourselves and what we aren't doing for ourselves, we Left Wingers and Democrats and Progressives, these Republicans are doing for us. Ain't 'dat a kick in the head?

Now, besides having to wait for a declared winner, we have to hope the current man in the White House doesn't lose it and go completely crazy on us all. He's already put us nationally in some really awful international company.

Trump’s claims of stolen election have some recent precedents — in Gambia and Guyana

Once again, Republicans, we thank you, so very much, for foisting this greedy, selfish, self-centered, deeply reckless and uninformed shell of a man, shell of a person, onto us all as President. Thankfully, thankfully, we've made it this far and we should be soon rid of him. Nearly leaderless, this is where we are presently, at least on the issue of national debt.

'It is going to be very, very bad': Legendary investor Jim Rogers says the US debt load is creating a prime environment for a collapse — and warns the next market blow off will be worse than the Financial Crisis' 50% decline 

And then there is the current pandemic, of course. This took place only a couple days ago.

US records 100,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day for first time

That wasn't enough, we had to repeat smashing that record for a second day, yesterday.

Covid-19 cases break record for second day in a row

And it's not even winter yet, of course. God help us all then. Winter and Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years.  Wow.

Anyway, America, fellow Americans, now we wait.

God help us all.