From Closed Loop to Common Sense

I used to celebrate when a Black Democrat became a Republican. It felt like someone had broken a long-standing spell. Black voters have long delivered overwhelming, almost automatic support to the Democratic Party, often without serious internal debate. Crossing that line looked like genuine independence.

Earlier this year I declared myself an Independent. My own voting history is mixed. I’ve voted in Republican primaries in Illinois and I’ve pulled Democratic ballots more often than not. The consistent thread has been trying to choose the better person for the office, not simply the preferred party. That approach has never been perfect, but it was the standard I tried to follow.

Watching interviews with former Democrats, former progressives, or former Democrat Socialists has shifted what I value most. Some of that thinking comes from The Free Press interview with Sabrina Joy Stevens, and from other interviews shared on this blog. The important move is not necessarily joining the Republican Party. The important move is leaving a closed feedback loop that rarely produces real solutions. The people who walk away from that loop matter more than the party they eventually land in.

2020 gave the country a clear look at the “systemic racism” narrative in real time. Even during a pandemic, the story ran that “persons of color” were fed up and therefore entitled to destroy. Looting, vandalism, toppling statues of Confederate figures and Christopher Columbus, calls to defund the police — all of it was framed as necessary or at least understandable. From where I sat, none of it was a solution. It was performance dressed up as justice, and the country paid for it.

Those excesses, followed by the Biden-Harris years, helped produce the return of Donald Trump. Many of the same progressives who cheered the 2020 upheaval still treat Trump’s re-election as proof that America remains the problem. They have not updated the diagnosis.

What I celebrate now is simpler and more useful: people who return to common sense. The open question is whether their stories — how they noticed the contradictions, how they left the dominant narrative — will prompt others to examine it for themselves.

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The Side of the Story They Buried — Tou Thao, Minneapolis Police Officer

 Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao gave a long-form interview on the Yada Yada Gold podcast and spoke with unusual directness about four things that still get little sustained attention: the plea deal he rejected, what he was doing and thinking on May 25, 2020, the reality of federal prison, and the incentives that reward those who adopt the preferred narrative.

Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao in 2020 via ABCNews

Helen Andrews on The Great Feminization

Helen Andrews is a freelance writer and author whose 2025 essay "The Great Feminization" (published in Compact Magazine) offers a provocative explanation for the rise of wokeness. In a roughly 35-minute UnHerd interview with Freddie Sayers, uploaded around the same time, Andrews lays out her case clearly and compellingly.

Andrews makes a direct connection with the unrest of summer 2020. When George Floyd’s death in May 2020 sparked a bystander video that went viral, those pre-existing dynamics met a national spark. The result was what Andrews calls “the eruption of insanity in 2020”: rapid nationwide protests (many peaceful but others turning into riots with widespread looting, arson, and roughly $1–2 billion in damage), corporate and institutional capitulations, accelerated DEI pledges, statue removals, speech codes, and a wave of cancellations. Institutions prioritized signaling care, avoiding internal conflict, and enforcing group cohesion—hallmarks of the feminized style—over rigorous debate about trade-offs, data on policing/crime, or long-term consequences.

In short, feminization didn’t cause Floyd’s death or the initial outrage, but it shaped the style and scale of the response: fast-moving empathy-driven solidarity, intolerance for dissent framed as harm, and symbolism over practical outcomes. Andrews sees 2020 not as the root but as a preview—“just a small taste”—of how these norms play out at scale once institutions are sufficiently feminized.

This framing helps explain why the unrest and institutional reactions felt so uniform and emotionally charged across elite sectors, even as core problems in places like Chicago’s South Side (crime, family breakdown, education) saw little real improvement from the performative wave. It’s a demographic and cultural lens rather than purely partisan or ideological.

Key Points from the Interview

May 2020 - 'peaceful protests' in Downtown Chicago

[VIDEO] I'm sharing this video from my other YouTube channel Ninth Ward Chicago to show how this were this month in 2020. That was such a strange year we had a pandemic and then civil unrest in many American cities after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Most American cities are still recovering from this activity.

I didn't record much unrest other than some vandalism. I recorded a march right on State Street. And then me waiting on a train to go back home, however, due to the "unrest" aka rioting in downtown Chicago CTA service had been disrupted.

I finally uploaded this video during the 2023 Chicago mayoral race hoping that Chicago would turn the page from the Lori Lightfoot era. Which explains the comments you saw scrolled at the end about how the next mayor should take control of the city.

With this said, Lightfoot left office in 2023 and the jury is out on her successor current Mayor Brandon Johnson. He's a much better communicator and perhaps not as abrasive as Lightfoot, however, he doesn't display the leadership that's necessary to be mayor.

For 2020, IMHO if Rahm Emanuel had run and won a third term as mayor the city would be in a different state at that time than it was at the time. Would Chicago be as out of control as it seemed to have been in 2020? Would the pandemic be any different under him?

Now I hear Chicago could fall behind Houston as America's third largest city.

I might also add that year there was a presidential race which ultimately was won by Joe Biden and 2021 started off with that same energy as was seen the last week of May 2020. And while the pandemic was rough, it has been a rough period under "Let's go Brandon". Will 2024 see different results?

All we can do is stay tuned.

O'Reilly: Did Pence save Donald Trump from being banned from politics?

 

[VIDEO] Hmmm an interesting thought. If Pence was able to single-handedly throw the election to Trump on January 6, 2021 would it have failed and effectively cancelled Trump out of possibly running in 2024? Also consider that after January 6, 2021 once the protests over the electoral college vote count started to spiral out of control then the Democratic Congress would attempt to impeach an outgoing President with the idea to potentially prevent him from running again in 2024 and destroy his movement. However, could Pence's stance that he was only a facilitator of the electoral vote count be the one thing that keeps Trump in the game?

CNN: Trump responds after Pence "calls him out" in speech

 

[VIDEO] I've been hearing so much about former Vice President Mike Pence's speech to the Federalist Society recently or I've seen a lot of headlines or even videos about this. I've opted to share this segment from Inside Politics Sunday which discusses this.

Pence was in the hot seat on January 6, 2021 as it had been expected for him to make some moves to insure Donald Trump got a second term. Well he opted not to and stated as much in a tweet before January 6th. He wanted to insure objections were heard and there were objections and would've been more had the U.S. Capitol not been breached.

Regardless I don't think Pence was wrong in his assessment. He couldn't just pick and choose electoral votes to give then President Trump the electoral college edge in spite of the popular vote counts. Let's not forget the "ever popular" Joe Biden has the largest popular vote total in Presidential election history.

One thing the CNN panel above noted was that Trump wasn't as forceful in his response to Pence's comments. And Pence himself didn't say much about Trump's accusations of vote fraud or even if President Biden actually won the election. I just say Pence as Vice President on that day last year was sure his role wasn't to single handedly determine who shall be the next P.O.T.U.S.

However, what I can note is the slant in this report by the above panel. Pence called out his former boss the President. That Trump and his wing of the Republican party are anti-democracy. It seems CNN can't stop talking about the President and in spite for comments made by a former Governor of Ohio John Kasich Trump hasn't lost his influence over the party. Trump can still draw many to his rallies and shows he can remain a potent force. Although who knows if 2024 is a lock for the former President.

Tim Pool: Time Magazine ADMITS There Was Election Conspiracy

 

[VIDEO] As you watch the discussion from Tim Pool's podcast I want to share this article with you from Time.

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.

This likely prompts more questions than answers I'm sure.... 

Don Surber: The Donald was their final warning

Sorry I just had to use this again

Oh yeah, really?

We all know they ole-stay the election-ay.

Official Washington wanted to be rid of The Donald once and for all, and so everyone went along with the Fake Election Results.

Chairman Xiden couldn't draw flies in the summer sitting in a pile of sugar coated manure. (There's an idea.) But 80 million ballots had his name on them, right? It was a mail-in miracle.

President Trump busted his hump for months doing his day job while spending his nights rallying his supporters. Hundreds of thousands or maybe even a million people risked their lives to attend his rallies over the course of the campaign.

Meanwhile, Xiden hid in his basement and popped out every three days spoke to a few hundred cars his staff had borrowed from local car dealers. He could not announce his rallies because he knew Trump supporters would outnumber his.

But the election was in the bag. They dumped the Fake Ballots in the wee hours of the morning when even the bartenders go home. The Supreme Court shunned any appeals. The state legislatures refused to fight for a fair election. The media ignored the evidence of the fraud.

They thought they got away with it, too,

Then 2 weeks before the inauguration, 100,000 people showed up at the national mall for the largest Trump rally ever.

Well, don't know what to say here. There are millions who believe there was some alleged fraud in last year's Presidential race. That's not going away as Biden (Chairmen Xiden 🤷) goes through day two of his administration.

I got something else for you today in about a couple of hours and working on it now!  

 

2020 race still not over???? Really?

 I'm sharing this new video with you, and yeah it seems like I'm overloading you with visual stimulation. My apologies.

Let me start off by saying this, I've accepted since about January 6, '21 that it's all over. Biden will be sworn in on January 20, '21. I don't think there is any further path for President Trump to remain in the White House beyond Jan. 20th. I've let this go, I think there is no time left in this ballgame.

For most of this drama for the past month I've been following Doug Tennapel and if you don't know who he is, he created Earthworm Jim. I didn't really watch the cartoon based on that character, but an Earthworm Jim show aired on Kids WB during the 1990s. Me and another young man in high school were casing on each other one day and he called me Earthworm Jim, yeah we were too old for that...

Anyway this video came out today and Tennapel shows clips of Mike Lindell of My Pillow from Minnesota saying himself and Michael Flynn & Sidney Powell is still working. And that Lindell declares that President Trump will remain in office for the next four years. [VIDEO]

I will basically file this under the category of let this go. I'm not sure continuing to follow this is a good idea. I think even Trump realizes it's time to let this go although he has all but conceded to Biden. He knows it's time to make the transition, he knows that he is in his own words a defeated President. I sympathize with the allegations of fraud or voting irregularities. Politically discussing this proved to be damaging especially with important US Senate runoffs in Georgia.

However as stated in another post we should care about honest elections. Even if nothing could be done for Trump now, we can still look at this issue and do better in the future.

What I can't ignore is that Democrats and Republicans are getting to work at this late date to impeach President Trump. The goal is to insure that Trump can never run for President again. Then again it just shows how much of a threat the current President remains politically. He still has a following and I think this sets a dangerous precedent the next person they don't like can magically be enjoined from running for a federal office again.

Regardless I think this push is strange as Democrats in the house are seeking to draw up articles of impeachment against Trump even after he leaves office. Wouldn't it be odd - as unlikely at this point as it is - that something strange happens and Biden is legit no longer President-elect?

I also want to throw out there that although Congress has certified Joe Biden as President-elect, they didn't debate and consider all the objections. In addition to Arizona & Pennsylvania which was considered even after the incident on Capitol Hill on the 6th. We also had Nevada, New Mexico, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia were there would've been objections. It would be interesting if what they may have would be through those states.

Well either way, it's time to let this go and move forward. I'm not that happy about it, but I'm looking forward and hoping for the best.

Mark Dice: What really happened on Capitol Hill?

 

[VIDEO] I just had to share Mark Dice's thoughts on what happened on Wednesday when Congress certified all electoral votes cast for the 2020 Presidential contest.

I'm sorry to report one woman who was identified as a USAF veteran had been shot and killed by police at the US Capitol. Three others died due to medical emergencies though so far I have no further details to offer on those three other fatalities. It was a very sad day which should've really been Trump's last stand to possibly stave off a Joe Biden presidency, however, let's be clear this was all political theater and it wasn't likely anything would've changed. As much as I and others hoped it would...

We could talk about Antifa or any other extremists groups causing this mayhem yesterday. I don't care who they are, I don't care if it's staged it happened and we need to punish them.

I also want to note that we hear so many conspiracies and sadly some pursued the racial angle to this. Tired of it, if Black folks did it they wouldn't tolerate it, if white folks did it they be treated with kids gloves. Tired of it!

Wednesday was a dark day for more reasons than the stupidity that took place on Capitol Hill and it shows how skewered our society is. Where do we go from here?

Georgia runoff & January 6th, 2021

 As I share this, the Georgia runoffs for their two US Senate seats appear to be too close to call. I'm willing to predict that one of those two seats will remain Republican. The pressure cooker of this is that well Georgia is one of those disputed states from last year's presidential election and course a recorded call of Trump attempting to convince GA's Secretary of State to look into voter fraud.

And tomorrow will be January 6th when the US Congress will meet to certify the electoral vote. And there are a sizeable number of Senators and Representatives who will object to the certification over allegations of voter fraud.

Well I want to share with you Illinois Republican congressional response. How many of them might choose to join the group of Congressmen & women who might join in the object. They only mention LaHood, Kinzinger, and Bost. Also noted at CapFax Rodney Davis who represents amongst other parts of his district the University of Illinois has not taken a position as of yet.

LaHood still mulling objection to election results, Bost silent, Kinzinger calls it a “scam” https://t.co/SPcgNyRxWQ

— Rich Miller (@capitolfax) January 5, 2021

I also want to note that there is a protest being planned in Washington, DC just in time for this certification. I think if anything really weird happens with this election this might light a fuse under the more destructive elements of our society. Whether or not they were involved in the process all they need is an excuse to get fired up. Here's hoping things remain peaceful though I'm not sure the objections will really do anything to change the process.

Indeed we may well be in uncharted territory whatever happens tomorrow.

Finding votes in Georgia and calls for impeachment

 

[VIDEO] This news broke over the weekend and may well affect the Georgia US Senate runoffs today. I was seeing on YouTube uploaded snippets of a call. As ABL would state whatever is reported by some outlets such as the Washington Post whatever was said on the call was taken out of context.

What's going to be portrayed is that the President was hoping that the Georgia Secretary of State can simply manufacture some votes and give Trump Georgia's electoral votes. I think some Republicans or Conservatives, better yet Trump supports have recognized that the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger or the Governor Brian Kemp didn't work that hard in this process. Hell we see Trump supporters and Trump himself give Arizona Governor Doug Ducey a hard time for certifying Arizona's votes.

The bottom line is that we have cases of fraud in places like Georgia and Arizona. I think Trump really won those states but some serious cheating was involved to turn Georgia blue. And it seems we will have some challenges in Congress to votes in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Georgia although it's not likely this will change anything. Let's tell the truth I think the odds are very slim of anything changing although there are some ongoing legal challenges or appeals.

One weird thing going on though, Trump is on his way out and for Trump's leaked call to Secretary Raffensperger there are some unhinged Democrats who want him impeached again. Which includes members of the Squad, I'm considering this.

Well as I type and publish this post it will be on January 5 and Trump will leave the Presidency if there is no other weirdness on January 20th. US Rep. Ilhan Omar isn't exactly wrong there is no time limit on impeachment regardless of how much longer he will remain in office, however, if the impeachment trial of Rod Blagojevich from December 2008 through January 2009 is any indication it took about a whole month for the process to go forward. In my mind, that process which began not too long after Governor Blagojevich's arrest by federal authorities it still took a month for it to play out.

I understand they used rules from Clinton's impeachment so granted we're talking about a state process vs a federal process, however, there is some overlap. I think states generally would use some federal rules and thus the federal process isn't much different. I think Rep. Omar is just ignorant of the process and either this makes for a good soundbite or she's very serious about this which is troubling.

I mean President Trump is really a lame duck at this point, and I don't foresee anything changing that.

Conservatives turn on police

 

[VIDEO] To have watched this earlier this afternoon from Tim Pool is very shocking. Conservatives are turning against the police.

It's really about the pandemic and it's conduct and unfortunately police are called upon to enforce the many mandates in place for coronavirus. Wear a mask, social distancing, limiting numbers at a gathering, coming into homes to enforce mandates, etc. I could keep going.

In Salem, Oregon there was a protest against the mitigation measures there and unfortunately those who may be conservative are now saying fcuk the police. Now it's getting scary, and I see this as a case of the police have a job to do and unfortunately that means enforcing these mandates.

It was in the news that California will have an indefinite lockdown - actually two regions in California will have indefinite lockdowns. And increasingly I see Americans - and certainly citizens of other nations getting weary of these mitigation measures. We hear from our nation's public health officials that although we have a vaccine coming it'll be a minute before we get back to normal we still have to socially distance or wear masks or have other restrictions.

It seems our public officials are deadset on locking down the nation and deciding what work is essential or what travel is necessary. Continuing to control who goes where or how many for a holiday gathering. Even attempting to limit god-given rights of assembly or protest while allowing the more destructive amongst us to continue to destroy. Times are getting weird.

And then add that the Congress will certify with objections from both chambers the electoral votes of President-elect Joe Biden were in very uncharted territory due to this ongoing tragedy of the pandemic. Here's hoping 2021 emerges in a better state than we left behind 2020.

2020 election update and happy new year

 

[VIDEO] I couldn't leave 2020 without sharing this update with you. In the near year the US Congress will count all the electoral votes cast in December. There are some in Congress - there will be objections from the US House & Senate to the 2020 election. I say good on that, this wasn't an honest election by any means....

Either way, what's being perpetrated it seems as if this is nothing more than a hail mary. Dueling electors having Mike Pence "overturn the November presidential election" or even the possibility of a contigent election seems like a final push that may not work.

Either way I wont predict the future. For now Trump is staying quiet about the results and so is Biden. Roman Balmakov as you see above one possible outcome is that the objections are heard and debated and this could go to the S.C.O.T.U.S.

Regardless I don't think Pence as Vice President and President of the U.S. Senate can just give the election to Trump. That would be very controversial at a time when America experienced great unrest and under increased pressure due to coronavirus lockdowns. I feel as if any shenanigans give restless and destruction individuals an excuse to go crazy.

As always I hope for the best, happy new year! 

O'Reilly: Thank Trump for the Coming Calm

 

[VIDEO] Bill O'Reilly looks at Operation Warp Speed the amazing work done to create a vaccine for the coronavirus. He predict by next May the world will begin to return to normal. And I hope it's sooner than that.

Alas, what I may agree with is that as far as what happened in the Presidential Election last month. The pandemic is probably a major contributor to Trump getting only one term. It's not just his personality which is exceptionally brash while in office, it's probably these crises which many other politicians and the national media took advantage of.

I wonder how many people just turn off the news getting tired of all the bad news regarding this pandemic.

Trumpism is going global

 

[VIDEO] The clips shown in this video by Liberal Hivemind showing where they're watching this election. Nigeria, Taiwan, Hong Kong, among other places chanting "Fight for Trump". Now you know this is populism.

Trump is said to be an American populist. Of course he's a right leaning one as populism isn't really aligned with a particular ideology. However, populism always depends upon the public mood and the candidate in question.

Just think 2016 probably for many was unexpected. It was often consider an F-U akin to what happened in Great Britain with Brexit. It's a nation making their own rightful self-determination about their own direction. Britain broke away from the European Union for a reason and as far as President Trump well I just don't think the mood was that favorable for his opponent Hillary Clinton.

Either way it's amazing that there are people around the world paying attention to what's going on here. That Trump isn't just an American phenomenon, he's increasingly become a world phenomenon. His populist movement has gone global and perhaps the rest of the world is worried about Communist China's increasing dominance in the world.

Also there is a planned protest on January 6, 2021 and I'm sure that date is no accident. This is the day that the electoral votes will be counted by both houses of the US Congress. I'm sure Trump want his presence to be seen and heard in DC during that time. How many of his supporters will make the trip?

I'm going to bet if things go the way I hope they would, it would be quite a crowd there. Let's hope this future rally is just a bunch people with signs and red ball caps. The next question is will this encourage any member of Congress both one Representative and one Senator to make their objections.

Roman Balmakov discusses the issue of dueling electors

 

[VIDEO] Well this is old news the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico all cast electoral votes for Joe Biden to give him and Kamala Harris their victory in the electoral college. However, the Republican elector slates who are pledged to vote for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have cast their procedural votes. So seven states have electoral votes for both Biden and Trump of course the issue here is Biden was the declared winner in those states.

The GOP electoral votes are procedural because those states are considered in dispute and it enables Trump to continue his legal challenges. Unfortunately it's not over until Congress counts and certifies electoral votes on January 6, 2021. There are other cases pending in court according to Epoch Time's Balmakov.

The next step here is to determine which electoral votes from those seven states could give Trump an edge or could be see a contingent election for President in the US House of Representatives as prescribed by the US Constitution once we see that there is no clear winner after challenges in the US Congress.

Other items to consider 

• Electoral Count Act of 1887
• Contingent election

Greg Kelly: It's not just a hunch...

 

[VIDEO] What if on January 6, 2021 as the US Congress in a joint session begins to certify and count the electoral votes from the states we see objections and possibly a US Rep and a Senator sign. It probably will be partisan especially Republicans. I don't know how Nancy Pelosi can influence it since Mike Pence as Vice President and President of the US Senate is expected to preside over this joint session.

And we have dueling electors from seven states Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and of all places New Mexico sending both Democrat and Republican electoral votes. Aside from New Mexico which its safe to say went to Biden, the other states were disputed.

Again who knows if this works, and correctly this is another hail mary pass to block Joe Biden's incoming administration.

Dueling electors?

[VIDEO] Well Liberal Hivemind still has hope over this idea of dueling electors. And cited the example of the 1876 election where Rutherford Hayes was elected president where like in 1888, 2000, & 2016 he lost the popular vote and won in the electoral college.

According to the Chicago Tribune over a month ago:

These guardrails were erected after the disputed presidential election of 1876, in which multiple states in the Reconstruction South cast competing sets of electoral votes. To sort out the mess, Congress formed a bipartisan commission of representatives, senators and Supreme Court justices, who awarded the votes to popular-vote loser Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes won the electoral vote 185-184.

That article is a fascinating history and illustrates the 1960 election also:

That’s what happened with Hawaii in 1960, with little fanfare. Congress chose to accept and count a third slate of electoral votes, for Kennedy, submitted by the state’s governor in January. By then, a recount had shown Kennedy won the state’s popular vote. Kennedy, who already had a clear majority of electoral votes from elsewhere, became president.

Now, I don't know if it'll work out this way. Legal Insurrection doesn't think so dueling electors going to Congress on January 6, 2021 is a dead end.

However, we're reaching the end of the attempts to contest the 2020 presidential race. 

It's official electoral college voting day

 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris was elected by electors from each state and the District of Columbia to be the president and vice president-elect of the United States. The election is officially over.

Surprise, surprise California's 55 electors placed Biden over the 270 majority votes mark earlier this afternoon. According to Citizen Free Press, Biden is at 302 electoral votes. Wasn't he projected to win 306 electoral votes, what happened with the other three?

With this said, CFP terms today's vote in each state as symbolic. In seven states GOP electors were able to cast their electoral votes for President Trump. Including in Michigan where at first Republican electors were blocked by state police from entering the state capitol when Democrat electors cast their ballots for Joe Biden. 

And here's a surprising one, Trump wants to block New Mexico's electors over their usage of drop boxes for mail-in voting. Although unlike the other battleground states that Trump actually won in 2016 and was leading until the vote swung right back to Biden later, New Mexico was one of those states that Trump likely wasn't going to win.

Well, I would still say this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.