November 11th, 2024
My Dear America:
It has been a startling and Stunning Week for me as well as for my country.
To be honest, I did expect this election to be a Landslide, Just not a Landslide For Donald Trump.
This is a time in my life that I am grateful to have at least a few Friends who are Democrats and who I know are in as much pain as I am presently.
I have to credit my good friend, Larry for advising me me that on Tuesday after voting he was not going to spend time watching Television coverage of the Election results because like me he expected that it would take at least a few days for the final tally to reveal the winner in the Presidential Election. I thought that his idea sounded like something that I could do also and I followed along with his method of blacking out Election Results at least for awhile. Looking back on it I have to thank Larry for giving me one more day of happiness before the roof caved in.
On Wednesday I texted Larry advising him that I was too sick to get together online to play music with him and another friend of ours as we generally did on Wednesday evenings. After that I called another one of my friends who I was scheduled to jam with later in the week to advise him that I was not going to make it to jam.
That was when my friend presented me with the Horrible Reality Check that was the result of Last Tuesday's Election.
Trump Had Won my friend advised me and to make matters worse in Pennsylvania My Local Democratic Congresswoman and Senator also appeared to have lost to terrible Republican candidates.
After finding out the results of the election the pain in the pit of my stomach that had already been there seemed to get far worse.
Today, I have begun to feel a little more normal and better health wise but I have no expectation that I will be feeling better politically for a very long time to come.
Clearly Joe Biden is trying to behave more normally than his predecessor did by offering to treat Donald Trump in the way that Joe should have been treated when the shoe was on the other foot and Donald Trump was in office and tried unsuccessfully and unlawfully to keep Joe Biden from his earned Presidency.
Certainly Americans will be reviewing the results of this Election for many years to come because the outcome of this Strange and Terrible Election does not seem to make much sense at all.
Clearly anyone can see that the right person for the job of President was not the one elected this time around. It was not the first time that this has happened and it is not likely going to be the last time that this happens either unless Donald Trump in his return to the White House decides that we don't need to have another Presidential Election in four years from now.
What in the Holy Hell was the matter with the American voters who looked at The Two Candidates who were running last Tuesday and saw Donald Trump as being the best Candidate to vote for President.
Yes, These people who voted for Trump saw him turn a mob loose on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. They saw his horrible treatment of everyone he didn't like including threats of Trials and Tribunals and Firing Squads for Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney. They heard him lie about anything and everything including who won the last Presidential Election. They saw him kiss Putin's ass over and over and almost worship Dictators, Past, Present and I assume future.
And these American Voters looked at Trump in comparison to Kamala Harris, an accomplished Lawyer, Prosecutor, District Attorney, Attorney General, Senator and Vice President and said to themselves:
"Donald Trump is the person I want to vote for"
Jesus Christ, What in the hell was wrong with these People?
I think I have the answer to that Important Question.
I am convinced that many, if not most, of those Americans who voted for Donald Trump in Last week's Election were LIJO'S.
Who, or what are LIJO'S You are probably asking yourself.
I will answer that question for you right now.
One of my Long Time Friends who has always been politically aware and ready for a political discussion on a few occasions when we were discussing Donald Trump's strange political career used the terms "LIJO'S a few times so I asked him "What The Hell is a LIJO"?
He informed me that a LIJO is the following:
"A LOW INFORMATION JERK OFF"
I think that my friend is on the money when it comes to Donald Trump's followers.
We knew they were out there, those Low Information Jerk Offs, we just didn't know how many of them there were. There were enough of them this time around to turn the tide of this election.
Although Trump won the popular vote and won in a lot of states he mostly didn't win by very much. and consequently Kamala Harris didn't lose by very much.
But the sad truth is that whether it was by a wide margin or a small margin Donald Trump did Win And Kamala Harris did lose.
I have heard a number of people on television analyzing the election results and many of them seem to be ready to place blame on Biden for not staying in the race or not getting out of the race sooner and Harris for not doing as much as she could have in a lot of ways.
My feeling is that if Biden had remained in the race Trump would have slaughtered him. It wasn't right that Biden did a remarkable job for nearly four years and got almost no credit for the outstanding job he did but unfortunately that was the way it was after he had a problematic Debate with Donald Trump. All the attention was paid to Biden's less than stellar debate performance while Trump's Lying throughout the debate was given a pass. It wasn't right but that's the way it was.
Yes, Kamala Harris came into the Presidential Race with a very limited time left to campaign but the truth was that she could not really have had a better campaign. She quickly picked up endorsements from Democrats everywhere and even had some important Republican Endorsements. Her Crowd sizes were phenomenal and her pick of Tim Walz for Vice President on the Democratic Ticket was the right choice.
Donald Trump's Campaign, on the other hand seemed to be madness unlimited as he rambled, and "Weaved" over and over and seemed to be increasingly unhinged as the Campaign progressed. He picked a Vice Presidential Candidate that nobody seemed to care for but Amazingly on Tuesday, November 5th There appeared to be just enough LIJO'S to carry him across the finish line to the Presidency.
There seem to be some serious concerns about the possibility of widespread fraud on the part of Republicans on Election day but as disturbing as this election result is do we want to fail to have another legitimate transfer of power from one President to another. Unless we have proof of election regularities I think we have to face facts.
From all appearances even though we are not happy with the choice it appears as though American Voters have made their choice and like it or not we need to join Joe Biden as he follows the law and passes the political torch as every American President has done for Centuries before him with the exception of the one to whom the torch will be passed to this time around.
God Help Us to accept that which we can no longer Control.
Lets hope that Donald Trump turns out to be a better President than we who did not vote for him expect him to be.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher