Welcome once again to Fandango’s Provocative Question. Each week I will pose what I think is a provocative question for your consideration.
By provocative, I don’t mean a question that will cause annoyance or anger. Nor do I mean a question intended to arouse sexual desire or interest.
What I do mean is a question that is likely to get you to think, to be creative, and to provoke a response. Hopefully a positive response.
Those of us who live in the United States — and probably many others around the globe — are on pins and needles about the outcome of yesterday’s presidential election. I know that I have been unable to focus on much else, as I truly believe the future of America and the free world is at stake.
I wrote this post on Monday afternoon and have scheduled it to be published at 3 a.m. Pacific time on Wednesday morning. Thus, I don’t know what actually happened on Tuesday. By the time this post is published, the voting places will have been closed for hours, although it’s quite possible that we still won’t definitively know who won.
That said, we may have some inkling about the outcome. So my provocative question this week is simply this.
What do you think about what happened in the United States yesterday? Are you shocked or surprised at the outcome, if it’s even known as you read this? Or are the results of the election what you expected? And finally, are you happy or unhappy?
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I will wait till the results are in to answer this question.
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https://paperkutzs.com/2020/11/04/fandangos-provocative-question-94/
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Didn’t expect it to be close given the events of this year..but the results are not all in yet so there’s still hope..
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Unfortunately, there is no saving grace in the current results. Trump’s re-election should have been soundly rejected by the American people and it’s so disappointing that that’s not the case.
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That is the difference between living in the US or not.
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Absent the final results, I’m saddened by the narrow margin between the presidential candidates. In 2016 I was shocked by the number of voters willing to place the country’s fate in the hands of a failed businessman with no moral compass. I understood many people weren’t aware of #45’s tactics at the time but growing up in New York gave me the advantage of knowing what he is capable of. Here we are four years later, when everyone has witnessed his incompetence and destruction, and so many still support him. I’m more disgusted than surprised, at this point. America has shown its whole ass and its crack is way off-centered. Even if Biden wins, the evil of the people is already known and can’t be put back in the box. I was certainly shocked by Kentucky and South Carolina Senate races. I need to further lower my expectations of the American people. 🤦🏽♀️ 😞 🙏🏽
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I agree with you. I can’t fathom how half of America can be taken in by that charlatan. My spirit is broken by this.
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I am shocked by how much of the vote he got last night. Why do we even have polls anymore?
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You echo my sentiments exactly. I did not grow up in New York but found it easy to get a handle on Trump and know what kind of man he was – shallow and phony. I cannot fathom how his supporters do not see that too. Anyway, I feel crushed this morning but there is still hope for a Biden win. How do we move forward as a country which is so divided? This is truly sad.
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Even if, in the end, Biden wins the presidential election, with McConnell’s win in the Senate and the likelihood that the GOP will still have the majority in the Senate, Biden’s hands will be tied? This is no longer the America I know and love.
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I know but I am going to stay hopeful for a few more days. I agree, this is not the America I know and love, it is unrecognizable.
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That’s a great question and one I’m praying we find an answer to real soon.
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https://dontforgetthehalf.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/fpq-94-inexcusable-in-2020/
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So… I composed one response, then decided to hold off on it and say something about my other set of feelings, also based in real-life. The Donald wanted us to perceive that it’s over after election night. He told us ahead of time, and he, in his usual, pathetic, way, told us again last night. He said he wants the votes not to be counted — except where he does want them to be counted. And, of course, he said he won. He is not in charge of whether or not the votes get counted.
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Who would think that’s something needed to be said to an active president.
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Yeah, and (to be redundant) who’d vote for him?
I appreciate your poem: Please, Define Great… Again
https://dontforgetthehalf.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/please-define-great-again/
I also appreciated reading what you wrote above (also at your own site): Inexcusable … 2020
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Thank you! Don’t think I’ve ever shared politically driven posts before but current circumstances are blowing my mind.
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I think a lot of us have had their minds blown from this insanity.
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I’m not just unhappy, I’m pissed. I can’t fathom how so many of “my fellow Americans” are so blind and so stupid. WTF?
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Here’s my response: https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.com/2020/11/04/fandangos-provocative-94/
I’m disheartened and saddened by the POSSIBLE ‘real’ outcome. I’ve found a lot of flaws in our system that previously I was unaware of, and it discourages me more than I was before this election. What is the point? The game appears to be rigged and I’m sick of spitting into the wind.
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I’m sorry that I can’t like or comment directly on your post.
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A good word, “irretrievably.” I think that’s true for a lot of people. Maybe not all of them.
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I’m so disappointed that the race is so tight. It’s unfathomable to me how any intelligent person could cast their vote for more of the same
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Yes, I agree. I cannot comprehend why anyone would vote to keep Trump in office for another four years. It must be mass hypnosis.
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Doled our daily on Fox. 😳
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Well said: the world has seen a side – a truly nasty exposed fetid underbelly – of America we can’t now unsee. Trump’s America reminds me of George Orwell’s dystopian Animal Farm, where years after the animals rid themselves of the farmer in order to run the farm themselves, the pigs rise through the ranks to take over everyone else with the skewed principle that ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’.
My kids and I, independently, were starting to see this — the application of the pigs — about Republicans or “conservatives” and “libertarians” (when I was still in this slush of a camp) generally from before Trump. (The Democratic Party has gone pretty far right, too, so it’s not only Republicans.) Nevertheless, I hadn’t quite grasped the situation. I now think we don’t have much hope. When that was dawning on me, I learned of Town of Castle Rock v Gonzales.
The mother, Jessica Lenahan-Gonzales,
now goes by Lenahan. The decision
hinged on “shall” not meaning shall
and on there being no infringement of
property in the matter. Our constitution
is about property and about all men being
equal not meaning all people are created equal.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2004/04-278
https://ruthblogshere.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/wtf-america/
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I keep ending up writing my posts before seeing these prompts. But, here’s mine. https://lavenderandlevity.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/seeking-asylum-in-faerun/
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I learned what Faerun is, today. Enjoyed your answer.
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Okay, I think Biden’s going to take the presidency. BUT. We made ZERO progress in the senate and actually LOST people in the house. How much are we going to get done with McConnell still El Primo Senator? There may be a little more “looseness” in the senate, but nothing’s going to get done if we can’t get Congress to agree to at least SOME of the changes we need. From the point of view of “we the people,” it’s a bad moment because the Democratic party did what they do: they put everything on the presidency and didn’t support the down ticket.
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Yep. We needed the Senate to flip. We needed Collins and Ernst and McConnell and Graham to lose. But they didn’t lose.
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I wanted Osoff to win… too. It seemed obvious.
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Me too. He should have won.
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Hey! There’s hope, still, for Ossoff. If his opponent (Perdue) doesn’t get (keep) fifty percent, there will be a runoff (in that Georgia race).
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Let’s hope that is the case when the final votes are tallied.
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The thing is, Senators don’t NEED the nation’s vote — just their particular state. If they are getting their job done at home, they will win — no matter WHAT the president is doing (or hasn’t done). We obviously couldn’t support every senatorial contest, but we could have put the “more money than we could use” into critical ones: McConnell and Lindsay Graham, to name two. Now, I supposed we see what we can get done anyway. I don’t think they senators are NEARLY a stupid as Donzo.
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McConnel is the worst.
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Agree!
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Smile my friend… the clouds are clearing 😃
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Hurray!!
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The outcome is good, but there is still time for Trump to do a lot of damage. I don’t see it being a great 4 years to come without congress, but anything has to be better than the last 4!
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