If you are Donald Trump, or one of his cult the roller coaster ride of the election has ended badly. The car you were in went off the rails and after a fleeting moment where you kissed the sky on that Tuesday night gravity took over with a terrible vengeance.
Nearly two weeks later, however, reality hasn't set in. Indeed, the attacks on the election system have come in waves. There was mass voter fraud, ballots arriving after election day, despite their postmarks were illegal, republican observers were banned from counting sites, forged ballots were smuggled in by TV crews and catering trucks, dead people voted, the Dominion voting machines changed hundreds of millions of votes from Trump to Biden, or just deleted them, military ballots went missing, but the ones that didn't were invalid.
Indeed the conspiracy to thwart Donald J. Trump and his millions of devotees is a many headed Hydra with roots both in the deep state and media. Even Fox News was complicit, therefore had to be metaphorically stripped of its insignia, put up against a wall, and shot for disloyalty. The proof being the network called a Joe Biden victory in Arizona before anyone else did.
Yesterday Trump promised an, "organic," million Maga march, in Washington D.C. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany took one look at the crowd and immediately pronounced it a million plus of the, "best political base," the world has ever seen. Official estimates put the gathering at between 10 and 20,000. Proving his loyalty to the faithful, The Big Orange Guy did a brief drive-by on the way to one of his golf courses. There is no word on how his round went.
As always he was emboldened by the sight of a large crowd and after he returned to what can nowadays be best described as Ft. Trump, he hit Twitter with terse messages saying things like, "I won."
Judges from Pennsylvania, to Michigan, and Arizona are disagreeing. Meanwhile a vast array of lawyers hired by the Trump campaign to put a stop to the counting, or to continue the counting, depending on where they are began jumping ship. It remains unclear whether the desertions were because of the sheer hopelessness of the situation, or the realization they were going to get stiffed by their client.
This Trump phantasm would be funny in a theater of the absurd sort of way, except millions of Americans actually believe his bullshit. Indeed, if the presidencies Barack Obama and Donald Trump have taught us anything it's that racism in America is alive, well, and growing. So is brute fascism. In fact the only difference between those thousands in Washington yesterday and Hitler's Brown Shirts is the Brown Shirts had a better sense of fashion.
The cold truth is 72,944,072 Americans voted for Donald Trump. It is the second highest number of votes a presidential candidate has ever received. (And another reason Trump insists he had to have won the election) Delusions, lies, and disinformation aside that means a lot of rubes out there have bought into his vile nativism and consider those who haven't socialist sons of bitches.
Joseph R. Biden will be the next President of the United States whether Trump concedes, or not. His first priority appears to be getting COVID-19 under some semblance of control. However he faces a monster struggle, not just with the virus, but nearly half the electorate who hates his guts and will do everything thing they can to foul up the works.
That includes Donald J. Trump, who looks to be setting himself up as some sort of shadow president, filling social media and television with his cracked politics, outrageous lies, and in the worst case outright sedition.
sic vita est
11-15-20
Trump is already rattling the 2024 saber. But, hopefully he will find that it is much more fun to reach out to his idolizing base through his own media network, and say anything he wishes without having to even think about defending any actions of his own.
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