Dance parties and champagne: celebrating election's end

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CLAIRE GALOFARO

As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns — honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties — as an agonizingly vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning.

Just after The Associated Press and other news organizations declared that former Vice President Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump, fireworks erupted in Atlanta. In Maine, a band playing at a farmers’ market broke into the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Neighbors ran out of their homes in Manhattan and assembled into an unplanned street party, whooping, dancing and high-fiving strangers. In Louisville, Kentucky, BIden supporters gathered on their lawns to toast with champagne. In Harlem, they danced in the streets, banged cowbells and honked their car horns.

Trump’s supporters have for days been protesting outside of ballot-counting operations, alleging without evidence that the slow-moving results were proof of cheating. But on Saturday morning, it was the Democrats taking to the streets in jubilant displays, celebrating what was for them an end to four years of constant crises, chaos and anxiety.



Amanda Madden sprays champagne as people celebrate at Black Lives Matter Plaza after CNN called the race in favor of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden over Pres. Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Washington. His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed the processing of some ballots. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


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[warmfeet]

1. Time to party like it's 2021.

January 20th, 2021 to be specific.

[certainot]

2. cops caught trump trying to escape out the bathroom window

[al bupp]

3. It's an invitation, across the nation...

Grateful Dead Live at Harpur College on 1970-05-02 - Dancing In The Street

https://archive.org/details/gd1970-05-02.138227.sbd.miller.flac1648/34DancingInTheStreet.flac

[EarthFirst]

10. America is a Grateful nation!

NFA my friend!

[al bupp]

14. Back Atchya!

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

People react as media announce that Joe Biden has won the presidential election, in, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 7, 2020.


Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, on November 7, 2020.


People react as media announce that Joe Biden has won the presidential election, in, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 7, 2020.


People celebrate at Times Square in New York on November 7, 2020.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/politics/biden-celebrations-victory-cities/index.html

[SergeStorms]

5. It's wonderful to see so many young people involved.

And it certainly is a day for rational Americans to celebrate. Spontaneous celebrations all over the country today. Now the hard work begins.

[progree]

6. (5 sec. video) A man wearing a Puerto Rican flag tosses paper towel over the White House fence

"Never forget" he said.

Link to tweet

[Hugin]

19. +1

[progree]

7. Not everyone is happy --

Caligula returns to the White House to scenes of crowds celebrating his defeat 😂😂😂 pic

[Capt. America]

16. He knows he lost. Look at his face.

[progree]

17. Ruined his golf game too I think (pic)

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from: https://nypost.com/2020/11/07/trump-returns-to-white-house-after-golf-outing-amid-loss-to-biden/

[Scalded Nun]

8. While I am so overjoyed at this outcome, I have to take note

That the majority of voters in the states comprising his 214 electoral votes were, with full awareness and consciousness of thought, willing to support returning a self-professed and indicted traitor to the highest elected position in the USA.

If that does not depress/enrage you then nothing ever will.

[llashram]

13. we had the numbers

those people who worshipped a con artist, MASS MURDERER, his grifter family who took joy in separating children from their parents have been given notice, vacate!!! I was depressed thinking the orange menace might pull his nuts out the sand and win. He never cleaned the swamp because he is part of the swamp and now he's drinking swamp water. I hope all he does is eat crow and drink poison for the rest of his life. That goes for his cult also. We have the numbers and moral high ground and they could not overcome us. We have the numbers...they don't. Let them stew in their juices. THEY LOST.

But I feel you...

[birdographer]

9. I put the champagne

in the fridge Wednesday morning, it's coming out and popping open tonight!!

[honest.abe]

11. We just had a victory party in with our neighbor from our decks.

[patphil]

12. My daughter lives on Nob Hill in Albuquerque

There have been car horns honking and people in the streets on Central Avenue (Rt. 66) all afternoon. It's a grand celebration of the Biden/Harris victory.

I live in Orange County, NY. Its dead as can be for a Saturday night in Trump country.
And I'm loving it!

[wnylib]

15. Great day for the USA.

[honest.abe]

18. Fantastic photo!

We did a Champaign cork pop on our deck with our neighbor. It was so fun!