{"id":30391,"date":"2020-11-09T00:10:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=30391"},"modified":"2020-11-09T00:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:10:47","slug":"ridin-with-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/ridin-with-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridin&#8217; with Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To recap \u2013 <strong>Biden <\/strong>won.&nbsp; But not by a landslide.&nbsp; Someone please remind me in four years to market myself as a pollster \u2013 a job which apparently requires no credentials and has no accountability or expectation of accuracy.&nbsp; What is still unknown is whether there will be a peaceful transition of power \u2013 but never have the words \u201cdon\u2019t count on it\u201d been more apt.&nbsp; As with everything else in this unprecedented year, \u201cunpresidential\u201d is expected.&nbsp; I was surprised that <em>FOX<\/em><em> News <\/em>called states for Biden before any other network.&nbsp; <strong>Laura Ingraham<\/strong> implying that a <em>Supreme Court <\/em>ruling could wreak havoc was less surprising.&nbsp; This idea was also floated by <strong>Harmeet Dhillon <\/strong>\u2013 who is said to be a legal adviser to <em>El Presidente<\/em>\u2019s campaign, although I\u2019ve never heard that name before.&nbsp; \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for the <em>United States Supreme Court <\/em>\u2013 of which the president has nominated three justices \u2013 to step in and do something.\u201d&nbsp; Likewise, I\u2019m waiting \u2013 just try it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Anderson Cooper <\/strong>is kicking himself.&nbsp; During a live broadcast, he said the following: \u201cThis is the President of the United States.&nbsp; That is the most powerful person in the world, and we see him like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.&nbsp; But he just hasn\u2019t accepted it, and he wants to take everybody down with him\u2026including this country.\u201d&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t the first time the newsman had let his less-than-impartial views bubble to the surface.&nbsp; Back in May, he called <strong>Trump <\/strong>\u201ca little man, despite his girth and size.\u201d&nbsp; Cooper later said, \u201cI regret using those words, \u2018cause that\u2019s not the person I really want to be.\u201d&nbsp; And I really want to be mistaken for a fitness model.&nbsp; But you is what you is.<\/p>\n<p>As all eyes are on Biden, I\u2019m hopeful and cautiously optimistic.&nbsp; He told the <em>Philadelphia Gay News<\/em>, \u201cI will make enactment of the <em>Equality Act <\/em>a top legislative priority during my first 100 days.\u201d&nbsp; While that sounds peachy, I\u2019m OK with putting that on hold and getting some stimulus and unemployment money out to people who need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To recap \u2013 Biden won.&nbsp; But not by a landslide.&nbsp; Someone please remind me in four years to market myself as a pollster \u2013 a job which apparently requires no credentials and has no accountability or expectation of accuracy.&nbsp; What is still unknown is whether there will be a peaceful transition of power \u2013 but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30392,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391\/revisions\/30392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}