Biden Wins!

Yes! I'm back from vacation and working on updates. I sent a Staff Only update earlier, and I'm working on an update for everyone. Here's the <strong>tl;dr</strong>: I'll start posting <strong>pre-release chapters</strong> for Staff on <strong>Friday, Dec 4</strong>. I'll begin posting <strong>regular Monday updates</strong> about 3 weeks later, on <strong>Dec 21</strong>. I hope to post other things between now and then, but I'm still working on the list. For instance, I want to do an <strong>AMA on Discord</strong> if you still have questions about the original saga (e.g., What happened to so-and-so? What about that other thing?).

Nick Scipio

Hey Nick, hope you're enjoying the holidays. Any updates on future plans?

It's been a long strange trip. Don't agree with your politics, but have to agree that the system is - perhaps - irretrievably broken. How anyone could think that electing one corruptocrat scum over another is acceptable has lost the narrative completely. Fuck 'em all.

Drose

Biden /is/ a decent human being. Unfortunately the vote was too close (70m+ were like “yeah, I’m cool with that”) and the senate not (yet) solved. It sure does slow the rate of damage the gop is going to be able to do over the next 2 years. Much like the ACA didn’t fix rising healthcare costs - but it absolutely slowed the rate of increase and reduced the rate of bankruptcies. If the senate won’t even take up a bill for the next 2 years though... well, at least they won’t be passing bad bills. Kicking cheeto Mussolini to the curb is a big win. Fixing the chasm that runs through the center of the country... Far more than 75m of us are going to need to start saying “that’s not ok” and finding ways to get past the blind rage against whatever boogeyman people have chosen.

Joe schmoe

Please take your "both sides do it" false moral equivalency and shove it up your ass. I'm done debating a Trump apologist. It's time for you to find another venue to post your bullshit. Try 4chan or one of the Qanon forums. Buh-bye now.

Nick Scipio

So using your logic, because there are many people who can point to certain situations that make Biden a child molester, everyone who voted for him is a child molester. That makes absolute no sense. Ice Cube and 50 Cent made comments in support of Trump and we both know that they do NOT believe that whites are superior to blacks. You are making a blanket accusation that defies definitions.

Amen, brother.

Nick Scipio

Calling people racists is <em>exactly</em> the way to do it. Silence is complicity. If someone votes for a racist candidate and supports racist policies, then I'm going to call them a racist... loudly, frequently, and <em>publicly</em>. Name and shame. I grew up in the south, with all its subtle and not-so-subtle racism. I grew up telling racist jokes to my white family and friends. We all pretended we weren't racists, because we didn't burn crosses in people's yards. We all laughed nervously or made excuses when someone did or said something especially racist. People like me (the person I was back then) still exist, and they all vote Republican. They say they aren't racists because they don't burn crosses. But then they vote for a man like Donald Trump, and they support Stephen Miller's bigoted immigration policies, and William Barr's use of police brutality against peaceful protesters, and the list goes on. THESE PEOPLE ARE RACISTS. Call them out. Name and shame them. And never, <em>ever</em> vote for a candidate that laughs nervously and makes excuses for them.

Nick Scipio

First of all Nick, nowhere in my statement did I say who I backed or voted for. Your making assumptions and I'm being realistic. The definition of racism and racist is not limited to black and white. If you believe that there aren't any actual racists who voted for Biden, then your being foolish. We have to try and destroy racism as much as possible, and calling people racist by proxy is not the way to do it.

Democrats should be ashamed!! There is no way this election should have been even close, much less debatable... Typical election day, but the fascist has been dethroned... Unfortunately, he has 90 days to run his scorched Earth plans to further destroy our country... Biden needs to annul 2016 essentially making the last 4 years disappear along with all the destructive policies... Three SCOTUS appointments, fraudulently made, disappear, all the federal judges he has put in to pervert the legal system, gone. Even if that were enabled it will still take a decade to recover from the travesty that is Trumpler... So many stupid people in this country... uneducated idiots...

1) Trump is a racist. If you support a racist President and his administration, YOU ARE A RACIST. Whether you own up to your racism or not doesn't matter. If you support Trump purely for economic reasons, you still support a racist. Do you think the victims of your racism care WHY you're oppressing them? "I'm just in it for the money" isn't an excuse. 2) Black people aren't immune from racism toward other Black people. Clarence Thomas is a prime example. Bill Cosby's infamous "Pound Cake Speech" is another example of Black-on-Black racism. 3) If you think I'm going too far, you're free to leave. I don't want your money if you're going to defend racists.

Nick Scipio

Nick, you're going too far. Those 70 million that voted for Trump came from all different backgrounds. Not just whites. If you didn't like it 4 years ago, why dish it out now?

It's a victory for the whole world, along with basic human decency. Unfortunately, 70 million Americans don't care about anyone who doesn't look, act, and talk like them—IOW, anyone who isn't a straight white male Christian conservative. Sad, really.

Nick Scipio

Biden won. This has already been reported. I think this is really a victory not only for him, but for the whole of America!

VitAnyaNaked

Thanks for keeping it classy. "Fuck your feelings," indeed.

Pro tip: next time, lead with "I have no proof..." to save people from reading the rest of your nonsense.

It was hard to watch the number of stitches break at every grimace, frown or smile from Biden

Robar

The other countries aren’t providing real numbers for Covid. Biden won’t be the brain behind the presidency. What s normal? Wait for the taxes, wait for the backlash from the silent majority. I have no proof...time will tell.

Robar

Does it smell better in here or is it just me? I've been takin' out the garbage. Blocked a dozen Trump supporters. Can't say I didn't warn 'em. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Nick Scipio

Pray &amp; hope this is the first step back to normal. The US is 4% of the world's population but over 20% of the Covid19 cases is not normal. We are now the shit hole country he was talking about.

Somebody noted that the only way Trump could get to 270 is if he lost 50 pounds.

Les Bagley

Thanks. But... more than 68 million Americans voted for the worst person on the planet, literally. They don't care about basic human decency.

Nick Scipio

Biden may not be a great reformer, but I think his essential honesty and decency as a human being are going to make him a good president. I have watched a number of his tv addresses since the polls closed and none of them have been about him. They have been about your essential American character and what it means to be an American. Good luck America.

We have been kinda berserk in our house. We've been moving all of our music gear back to the room that we can humidify (we've been performing online all summer), all while exchanging terrible tRump jokes. What is the only way that tRump can reach 270? Lose 80lbs. (before someone yells fat shaming, I'm a fat boy, I can make fat jokes!)

David Kriel

Yeah. A classic case of, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." WTH?

Nick Scipio

Pyrrhus may just have fared better but I'll take it...

May the locust travel with "the fleas from a thousand camels," which do not carry any grammatical conundrums.

No kidding. More than 68 <em>million</em> Americans chose a racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, incompetent, corrupt sociopath. That kind of stink never washes off. Like being a Nazi or Klansman... you can't un-fuck that pig.

Nick Scipio

Looking down from your Top hat, really happy at the outcome, but still so disheartened by how close it was...

Grammar question: Is it "plague of locust" or "plague of locusts" (plural)? I'm too lazy—and happy!—to look it up.

Nick Scipio

I am really happy for the US even tho from my side of the ocean your democracy is just weird (I know where it’s coming from but still...) and the GOP has no shame (at least some of its members)