To all those sick and/or elderly dogged Democrats, whose last wish was to VOTE & to see Biden WIN

[hlthe2b]

but whose cancer and other diseases, COVID-19, or just age prevented them living to see this,

THANK YOU and their families and a toast for their most poignant efforts to help us rid the US of this scourge.

I know most here have heard or read about many such people, including some much younger people who tried to survive long enough to cast their last votes. I just want to think of them today as well.

Here is but one:

[Turin_C3PO]

1. Absolutely.

Carl Reiner is another who wanted to live to see Trump defeated. He died in June.

[hlthe2b]

7. Yup... I know Rob is ecstatic about the win, but even more so remembering his father.

[crickets]

9. Yes!

The Reiners and Mel Brooks likely will be lifting a glass for Carl today. I will too later on!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. And here's another:

[Laelth]

6. .

-Laelth

[crickets]

10. .

[ananda]

3. She is dancing in her grave!

Such a wonderful energy!

[Catcar]

4. RBG and others may be wielding Justice from another Realm

[Laelth]

5. .

-Laelth

[demmiblue]

8. Yes! My dad just sent me this text:

"Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this day."-- Epilogue to Les Miserables

[DeminPennswoods]

11. My mom

who passed away last year, would be beyond happy.

[Hortensis]

12. Yes. :) Fine thought and post. Let's also honor the many, many, many

thousands of younger, healthy people who have also died, and others who are suffering grave effects that may ruin their health for life.

Also, let's think of those who are dying now and will die in greater numbers still before this is considered over.

And let us lay a mental flower for the unborn children who've died with their mothers. Because they don't exist and will never be by those who spread deadly disease while calling themselves "pro life."

It's a vicious, fascistic, Republican lie that this virus only kills (i.e. "cleanses" society of) useless and burdensom -- disposable -- people. That those deaths are acceptable is in itself the essence of depraved indifference to life, a blazing red flag of fascistic thinking, even before examining their efusal to admit all the other tragic deaths resulting from their holocuast.

As is their insistence on voting to continue it as part of this mass sociopathy that's captured them.

Many will live because we won this election, and I'm so terribly glad about that, but not the ones who will die tragically unnecessarily over the months before we can start getting real control. Let's remember them too.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

[electric_blue68]

13. ❤️ 😭 ❤️ 😭 ❤️ (thank you)