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DO YOU KNOW HOW CLOSE WE WERE TO STILL HAVING TRUMP AS PRESIDENT AND MCCONNELL AS MAJORITY LEADER?

   From Worldometer (new deaths yesterday):

        DAY  USA  WORLD   Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093     4732        1185        246        82
July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120       572
Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835       130
Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168        82
Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703        85
Nov    11     1479    10178         564       550        60
           25     2304    12025        620       518      118
Dec       1    2611    13791       1075       285      497
           30     3880    14748      1224       299      465
Jan       5      3499    13106      1186       265      513 
            6      4100    14581       1266       221      392
           7       4207    14812       1455       234      441
           8       3914    14792      1044        229      616
         12       4259    15711      1109        200      755
         13       4103    16423      1283        201      806 
         14       4142    15512       1151         189      712          
         19       2804    14760      1183         161     839    
         20      4385    17350      1382         152     566

Whoops, maybe I misspoke.  Yesterday was the worst day ever for both the World, USA and Brazil in new Covid-19 deaths.  Further:
Well, I'll go on record again, and say that in a week, these numbers will be lower.  If I'm wrong, then, surely in a month, it will be so.  Certainly in a year.  Oh, one of Biden's first moves was to rejoin WHO.

But switching to the topic of the day, you know how many more votes would have made Donald Trump a victor instead of Biden?
  • If Trump won Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin, the electoral votes would have ended up at 269 each, a tie.
    • Then, the House of Representatives would have given Biden the presidency.
    • The Senate would have made Pence Veep.  Note, he would then still preside over the Senate, so this would have been a big deal.
  • If Trump won Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, plus Nevada, where he would have needed a grand total of only 76,518 additional votes, or 0.048% of the votes cast, he would be president today.  Recounts begin if the difference is 0.5%.  That percentage is one-tenth as much.
  • Keep in mind that all the third party candidates actually got 1.8% of the total votes.
    • Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen, Libertarians, got 1,864,720 votes.  Most of their support would have gone to Trump if they did not run.  Their vote total is almost 25 times more than what Trump needed.  You would think that there is so much room there that at least 76,518 votes could have been found in those four states.  THE FACT THAT THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY FIELDED CANDIDATES WAS A KEY FACTOR IN THE DEFEAT OF TRUMP!!!
    • Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker, Green Party, got 402,715 votes.  Most of their votes would have gone to Biden if they did not run.
    • There were also 12 other parties that ran candidates for president.
      • Kanye West/Michelle Tidball, Independent Party, received 67,908 votes.  Trump egged on West to run, and they did largely draw about that many votes away from Biden.  So Biden's victory would have been slightly larger if they did not compete.
      • You don't know Roque De La Fuente of the Alliance Party, but he got 88,214 votes, more than the difference Trump needed.  The Alliance Party is centrist, so probably drew votes away from Biden.
About McConnell and the U.S. Senate:

Jon Ossoff            50.6%   2,269,923
David Perdue       49.4%   2,214,979

Raphael Warnock  51.0%  2,289,113
Kelly Loeffler        49.4%  2,195,841

Jon Ossoff won by 54,944 votes, the reason why the U.S. Senate today sits at 50-50.  If Donald Trump had not gone to Georgia to support his Republican candidates, they probably would have won and the U.S. Senate would have continued to be led by McConnell.  That leaked phone call by him to Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the state's presidential election result, was probably the one event that made the difference.

What a difference a few votes made to Save Planet Earth and Humanity.  Just imagine how much additional damage a second-term President Donald Trump and Republican-controlled U.S. Senate would do for the future of the USA?  Instead of being in continued euphoria, I would today be in depression.

On this positive note, there were several highlights yesterday. Among them:

  • Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate:  With Biden, all three of us belong to the speech impediment club, and overcame.  Mine, like Joe's, was stuttering.  I recall in intermediate school purposefully dropping out in spelling bee contests because I had difficulty with this problem.  That led to stage fright.  Today, I can speak on virtually anything for an hour and more, and enjoy it.
  • Veep Kamala Harris, President of the U.S. Senate, swearing-in a Black, Hispanic and Jew.  Worth 2 minutes of your life to watch that, and you, too, can laugh at her unintended joke.
  • Katy Perry bringing an end to the Inaugural festivities with fireworks.  Starts slow, and you should bring up the volume and go to full screen.

President Joe Biden had a busy day and promised to accomplish various goals in his first hundred days.  One he will have a challenge is to insure that all Americans wear a mask for the next 100 days.  The problem with this mandate is that it only applies to Federal buildings.  Republicans will flout this request.  Part of this attitude is political, but much of it is upbringing and culture.  Watch this video about masks in China:

Let's see now, Jen Psaki versus Kayleigh McEnany.  Hmmm...  Day and Night?  Truth and Lies?  What a difference.  Here is Jen's first press briefing.  Kayleigh's first.    They are both 31 minutes long, and you can't determine their credibility until the question and answer portion.  Mind you, Kayleigh is a Harvard lawyer, while Jen graduated from William & Mary with a degree in English.  Sometimes it's all about who you represent.

You probably don't know Tony Schwartz.  To the right, he is on the left, next to Trump's the wife, Ivana.  In 1987 Schwartz ghost-wrote Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal.  Here is a New Yorker article in July of 2016, when Trump was still trying to gain the Republican nomination.  The following incredible prediction was made by Schwartz in October of 2016 BEFORE Trump got elected:

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