Posted on 12/15/2020 6:37:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As Washington state elector Jack Arends registered his vote for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, his voice cracked with emotion. Then, Arends, 64, told the chamber that a doctor last month had diagnosed him with an untreatable, terminal condition.
"[In] November I was told there is no more medical treatment that can help me so it was important for me to do this one thing that I could do while I still can," said Arends, who wore a black beret reading, "Play Nice."
After his speech, Arends placed his microphone on the desk, crossed his arms over his face, and sobbed breathlessly as another elector came to his side to comfort him.
Arends, a retired aviation industry analyst and self-described grassroots activist living in Everett, Wash., told the Everett Herald last week that a doctor had diagnosed him with an inoperable heart valve.
Following the votes, each elector addressed the chamber. When it was his turn, Arends used part of his speech to argue that the electoral college system "is not great," but that it is the only system currently in place.
"Today is the chance to begin the end of the Trump administration," he said. "I was glad to do my duty ... Had he won a second term, there is no limit to the damage he could have done to the world."
Then, about two minutes into his speech, Arends broke the news to the chamber about his health condition.
"It will be up to others to do the hard work of rebuilding our nation as my health is failing," he said before abruptly ending his speech and setting his head down on his desk to weep. Julian Wheeler, a fellow elector, stood up to pat his back as the rest of the chamber clapped.
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If he engaged in sexual practices that produced children.
soon to be good communists.....
Boo F’N hoo.
Terminally ill Washington elector breaks down after casting Biden vote: ‘I was glad to do my duty’
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Don’t care. Biden. Not my president.
soon to be good communists.....
Orange man bad, boot man good.....
Soon he'll be VERY WARM, and deservedly so! May he roast in Hell!
Great. He farts and then leaves the room.
F him
Okay, he can die now.
These are the people who will be living in a tent on the street, one kid dead from opiates, another with purple hair identifying as a pansexual gender E, reading Rueters headlines telling him he's never had it better as he believes and repeats it.
What do you even do with this level of stupidity?
At least he didn’t steal any votes since Washington State went full retard quite a while ago ...
FU Jack.
You are a FAKE, PHONY, FRAUD with your “Play Nice” mask.
You have NO honor or shame.
Your casting a vote for Biden is utterly meaningless in consideration of your situation.
I hope he lives long enough to see Trump’s re-inauguration.
Not anybody's President.
News-flash: We’re all terminally ill - nobody gets out alive.
Good now DD and rot in hel!....
Terminally I’ll with a moral disease, blindness of mind to the fear of God, hardness of heart to the unborn, blood poisoned by the life of Satan, carcinoma of the soul leading to an embracement of wicked lifestyles and a seared conscience.
“...soon to be good communists.....”
Ummmm.....don’t be too quick with that.
The only good communists are the ones that don’t vote after they’re dead.
They never explain what they mean by this. Trump is just the worst human ever, because WHY?
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