Once he becomes an ex-president on 12:01 p.m. on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump will lose a special status Twitter gives to public officials whose tweets are deemed to be of “public interest,” meaning that his account can be suspended or terminated like any other user, reports Reuters.

Trump’s tweets on his personal account were deemed to be official statements by the Department of Justice, making them subject to the Presidential Records Act.  Twitter also labeled Trump’s personal account as “public interest,” meaning some tweets by Trump that would have been deleted under Twitter’s terms of service remain posted. 

Tropical Storm Eta, the 28th named storm of the season, which bounced off Central America and headed back north to hit Cuba, is now heading toward southern Florida as it gains strength, the Associated Press reports.

Eta initially made landfall on Thursday, hitting Nicaragua and Honduras as a Category 4 hurricane.  The storm caused destruction from Panama to Mexico before turning back into the Gulf of Mexico.

In a historic hurricane season which has seen four storms hit Louisiana, this will be the first storm to hit Florida this year.

George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, called President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to congratulate them on their election victory, the Washington Post reports.

Bush completes the list of former presidents who have welcomed Biden and Harris to the elite club of elected Executive Branch officials.  All living former presidents–Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama–have contacted Biden and Harris.

In a released statement, Bush said that the “American people have spoken” and “thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night.”

Television personality Alex Trebek, the host of the long-running game show “Jeopardy”, died Sunday at the age of 80 after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer, HuffPost reports.

The Ontario, Canada native hosted a score of game shows over his 57-year-career. He started hosting “Jeopardy” in 1984 and continued to host the show until the time of his death. He would often make guest appearances on television shows and movies playing himself or a parody of his “Jeopardy” role. Trebek became an American citizen in 1998, keeping joint US-Canadian citizenship. He is survived by his wife Jean Currivan, and their two children Emily and Matthew.

Convicted criminal and former California republican Congressional representative Darrell Issa will return to Congress as the newly-elected representative of the state’s 50th District, two years after announcing his retirement, the Washington Post reports.

The 50th District seat, which includes the city of San Diego, is currently filled by republican Duncan Hunter, who is scheduled to begin an 11-month sentence for campaign spending violations after pleading guilty in December 2019.

CNN: “When the White House essentially relocated to Air Force One over the final weeks of the campaign, President Donald Trump had a common reaction whenever he saw his rival Joe Biden appear on one of the airplane’s many televisions. ‘Imagine losing to him?’ he would ask no one in particular as he hurtled toward another regional airport in another battleground state, according to sources onboard. When his large-screen television flashed poll numbers showing an unmoving deficit to Biden, Trump sometimes brought his fist down on his wooden desk, jolting the glass of Diet Coke that was always nearby. ‘Can you imagine?’ he would holler, sometimes adding a curse.”

“Trump no longer has to imagine. Around midday Saturday, CNN and other news outlets projected Biden had secured enough electoral votes to become the 46th president, depriving Trump of a second term. Trump was at his golf course in Virginia, zipped into a dark sweater despite the unseasonable warmth, when the call was made. Posing with a bride whose wedding was underway in the clubhouse, Trump appeared placid, according to footage capturing the moment. ‘Have a great life, right?’ he said, walking away as the party cheered. ‘You’re young, you’re beautiful.’ The story of Trump’s loss is both familiar in its pattern of self-destructive decisions and altogether surprising in how little the President appeared to prepare himself emotionally for defeat by a man he deemed entirely unworthy.”

“President Trump has just arrived at Trump National Golf Course in Virginia, where he’ll get some fresh air for the second day in a row” reports NBC’s Josh Lederman.

We stand together as one America. We will rise stronger than we were before.https://t.co/97NKAZksSL pic.twitter.com/PRvzygWxRI

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 8, 2020

Washington Post: “They had mobilized for four years, from the bottom up as much as the top down, millions of Americans determined to deny President Trump a second term. And when the moment came, when Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election, they collectively exhaled with a sigh of relief. Finally, it was over. The uprising sprouted in the hours after Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 and blossomed throughout his time in office — women and men, young and old, African Americans, Whites, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans in cities and suburbs and small towns.”

“Many had hoped for a sweeping repudiation of Trump, which did not materialize, but they achieved their primary goal. They stood up to the president and then defeated him in an election that revealed once again the contours of a deeply divided nation. They exuded joy and felt as though a weight suddenly had been lifted off them, although they said that much work lies ahead in healing the country. This is the story of that movement to resist Trump, as told by those on the front lines. This oral history is based on interviews with 71 people — elected officials and political insiders, as well as community activists and ordinary citizens. The interviews were conducted during the final month of the 2020 campaign and were lightly edited for clarity.”

Daily Beast: “With Joe Biden declared America’s newest president-elect, darkness descended over Russian state media this week. Pro-Kremlin news anchors, pundits and experts have long dreaded former Vice President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, having described it as ‘the worst scenario for Russia.’ As their nightmare became an inevitable reality, Russian state television shows were permeated with angry faces and raw emotions.”

“‘Nothing will ever be the same… What are we witnessing? What is the world coming to? Not only this country, but the world?’ mournfully asked Evgeny Popov, the host of Russian state media show 60 Minutes. Panelists in the studio grimly outlined the bevy of consequences Biden’s presidency may mean for the Kremlin. Lawmaker Leonid Kalashnikov, who admittedly celebrated Trump’s victory in 2016, said: ‘Unfortunately, Trump lost.’ Pontificating about what Biden’s presidency will mean for Russia, Kalashnikov surmised: ‘Understandably, I have nothing to be happy about… All of us should be thinking: ‘What is Russia supposed to do now?’ Get ready to be disconnected from SWIFT [international banking payment system]? That Europe will line up along with their sanctions?’ He warned fellow Russians about the wave of incoming consequences: ‘Trump lost, so it’s time to get ready … They will start fighting against us like they do in the Middle East.'”

In the celebration of the announcement that Democratic nominee Joe Biden has secured a victory in the 2020 presidential campaign, we must remember that for a couple more months, the Trump cabal still runs the government.

Trump’s government oversaw another day of record confirmed coronavirus cases, with 128,000 according to the COVID Tracking Project.  The aggregator also recorded 1,100 fatalities, the fifth consecutive day over 1,000 deaths.

The COVID Tracking Project also increased the number of hospitalized Americans to 55,817, the highest level since July 30th.

“For those of you that might have tuned in and did not see Fox News’ ‘Justice’ with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, sources told Newsmax the show was suspended over a spat on the network’s coverage of President Donald Trump. Sources close to the network tell Newsmax, because she made a very staunch defense of President Trump and wanted to expose the vote fraud that took place in the election, Fox News decided not to air her show. It had extended coverage of Democrat Joe Biden’s acceptance speech of a contested election. The sources gave no inclination of whether the network is going to keep the show going, but we hear she was suspended at least for this weekend” – Newsmax.

WINNERS: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (yeah obviously but let’s just get that out of the way).

LOSERS: Donald Trump and Mike Pence (obviously too, but still feels so damn good to type).

WINNER: America, for not having this fat bastard as president anymore.

LOSER: MAGAmerica, because the libs owned them, lol.

WINNERS: Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and all the other world leaders who despite their occasional fuckups and flaws care more about their people than they do enriching themselves.

LOSERS: Benny “Bibi” Netanyahu (lol), Andrzej Duda, Mohammed Bone Saw, Jair “Complete Cocksucker” Bolsonaro, Viktor Orban, Alex Lukaschenko, and that one pop star dipshit from Azerbaijan or whatever who’s friends with Don Jr.

LOSER: Vladimir Putin gets his own listing. He must really be trembling now that his buddy lost. Oh wait that’s just the Parkinson’s disease! LOL.

Outgoing republican president Donald Trump never took his presidency or his campaign seriously.  He had very few campaign staff who had worked on reelection campaigns, instead relying on family and close friends to manage a campaign that went off the rails in the final months.

In a new report from Politico, the inner workings of the Trump campaign make it clear that there was no grounding in reality on how the coronavirus was going to impact not simply the campaign for reelection, but how it would impact campaign staff.

The fundraising operation also never coalased, with major donors questioning the people heading the efforts:  influential republicans expressed doubt at the professionalism of finance chair Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s current girlfriend, who once offered to perform a lapdance for the attendee at a fundraising event who brought in the most funds.

Declaring that “the people of America have spoken,” an energetic Joe Biden said that he would be a president for all Americans in his victory speech to become the 46th President of the United States following his defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

The speech was in sharp contrast to the vision Donald Trump put forth during the campaign, which depicted America as a land of chaos and distrust.  Biden called for those feelings to be cast aside to take America forward in a challenging time.

Saying that he was surprised by the celebrations shown on television, Biden noted Americans and people around the world celebrated the calling of the election.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris reflected on her role in history as the first woman, the first Black woman and the first Asian person to be elected to the office in her victory speech Saturday night.

Harris opened her speak saying, “Democracy is not a state; it is an act,” citing the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

“We the people have the power to build a better future,” Harris told the thousands in the crowd in the parking lot at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Deleware.

At the moment Trump lawyer and Nosferatu cosplayer Rudy Giuliani learned that a cascade of networks were calling the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden, he states that “networks don’t decide elections; courts do.”

Apparently, he forgot about voters.

https://youtu.be/jmvlFW2Raco