The gif says it all, folks!
AMERICA WINS!
💙 BIDEN-HARRIS 💙
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Saturday, November 7, 2020
Friday, November 6, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Book of D: Remembering the Santa Barabara 2019 Collegiate Recovery Staff Summit
One year ago, sans Covid-19, several of my colleagues around the country and I gathered at UC Santa Barbara for the annual Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) Collegiate Recovery Staff Summit. Most of us stayed at the hotel in Goleta; we met in the lobby and chatted before and after the respective daily sessions. We had dinner and went shopping in the historic downtown area. On the final day, we gathered at the beach as a group for pictures. The beach was just a short walking distance from the beautiful UC-SB campus. It was a joyous trip, overall. I networked the heck out of the Summit, and I made new alliances with CRP members from different universities from across the country: UC-San Diego, Purdue, LSU, UNC, Florida St., Texas Tech, U of Georgia, Georgia St., UVA, WVU, Virginia Tech, U Virginia, etc.... And, of course I strengthened current alliances with fellow UT System schools, other Texas universities (TCU, SMU, Rice, UH), and other midwestern and western schools.
This year, the ARHE 2020 VIRTUAL COLLEGIATE RECOVERY STAFF SUMMIT begins tomorrow via Zoom. Although it won't be the same as meeting in person (the 2020 Summit was supposed to take place in San Diego), I'm looking forward to seeing my colleagues from various universities around the country. I especially look forward to the meetings and everything we learn and share, which in turn helps each of us (staff members) improve the collegiate recovery services we provide at our respective universities.
Book of D: Trump's 2020 Helter Skelter Gang
They are ignorant. They protest because their dictator-in-chief tells them he's being cheated out of winning the election without even showing proof. There's no proof of fraud. There's nothing in the election rules that states that counting mail-in ballots (that were postmarked accordingly) is fraudulent. Counting mail-in ballots has been done for a long time. It began as a way to ensure our military could vote while they were stationed away from home. But, of course trump doesn't care about that as he has pretty much shared his disdain for the military. That stupid idiot (trump) and his pathetic kids and staff should perhaps exercise some due diligence and READ the constitution and the election rule book. Trump is needlessly and shamelessly creating more strife in this country, and if/when he goes to court to try to fight all of this, the courts are not going to be happy that 1. He doesn't have legal means to sue 2. He is inciting violence. Bottom line, trump needs to just shut the f^ck up already. Let the votes be counted. No one really knows who is going to come out the victor, for all we know, trump could be headed back to the White House (L-rd help us all).
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Book of D: The State of the Race 2020
As of noon time, CST, only the Associated Press has allocated Arizona's 11 electoral votes to Biden. MSNBC & CNN have not. My spouse and I are political junkies, so we are closely monitoring the process. We have had little sleep, but we are both at our respective jobs working as usual with the prospect of changing who will be our next POTUS looming in the background, per se.
I want to add that the Latinx community (young and old) in Arizona are awesome. The younger Latinx community is also making fantastic strides in Texas. I believe that Arizona Latinos have had it way worse for a longer time and are sick and tired of all the maltreatment and oppression by their white counterparts and the abhorrent laws that have been enacted to keep Latinos down and "in their place" (I call bullshit). The Texas Latino community is kind of spoiled compared to Arizona. Conversely, the Texas Latino community has not had to put up with the likes of SB1070 (Arizona's "show me your papers" state bill), which was thankfully ended in 2016, six years after it's evil inception in 2010. The Texas Latino community did not have to suffer under the likes of the most racist governor of all time: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer - and all the wrongdoings she did to undocumented and documented immigrants and Latino citizens. The Texas Latino community did not have endure the bullshit, cowardly, and hateful actions of one Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. Nope. The older Latino community in Texas (including Florida) has not been as mistreated as our brothers and sisters in Arizona. The Texas Latino community (including Florida) are guilty of cowardice in voting for trump. The Texas older Latinos want to fit in with a crowd that might accept their vote but will never accept the color of their skin much less accept them as equals. The Texas older Latinos (including Florida) blame a fear of socialism for not voting Democrat; the idiotic fear of socialism that trump convinced them they would be subjected to if Biden won the presidency. I might be able to give the Floridian older Latinx crowd a break of sorts for fearing socialism since many of them have lived under socialist rule before coming to the United States, but at the same time, they should know what socialism really looks like, and it isn't Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The Texas older Latinos (including Florida) should be ashamed for not having done their homework and falling for the trump bully pulpit.
Biden is no more a socialist than trump is a Christian.
So, once again, kudos to the younger generation of Latinx voters for doing their part, especially in Arizona. My heart breaks for all of us Latinos who worked so hard to overcome republican rule - shame on those Latinos who stood in our way.
They do NOT deserve to be called Latinos.
Update: Wisconsin and Michigan were called for Biden earlier today.
Monday, November 2, 2020
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