Twitterverse is afire over the acting Secretary of State’s announcement that “there will be a smooth transition to a second (shit turd’s) term.”
That’s right.
Conservatives, who have decided they will never ever have another Republican president if they don’t all commit seditious acts now, are desperately trying to overturn the election results.
Once more I vacillate from a state of calm to a state of frenzy to a state of reaching for a Zen moment to a state of high anxiety to a state of breathing deeply to a state of just wanting to have five minutes with one of those pasty old white men so that I can go all medieval on their asses. I am trying to read a broad range of perspectives on what is going on because I don’t want to overreact.
My instincts tell me this is another long con. The million pleading emails from shit turd’s campaign that land in my inbox every day asking for donations for their “fight” to uncover fraudulent voting are the tip off. As I understand it, the fine print of these emails read that after the shit turd’s crime family take their cut and the Republican National Committee take their cut, whatever remains will go to fight the fight over the so-called never-proved allegations of widespread voter fraud.
Which would be - in practical terms - zilch.
In other words, their bilking their may-as-well-be-lobotomized followers to pay off their substantial campaign debt, among other debts. Because, don’t forget, the shit turd owes Somebody, or bodies, more than $400 million dollars. And that is just the debt we know about.
While they’re working this long con, they’re working the rest of us up to believe they’re politically invincible or immune to the laws of gravity.
This is also why Tr*mp won’t concede, as my lawyer friend also told me. Once the president formally throws in the towel, he has to stop demanding a recount, and once he lets that I’m-the-victim narrative go, how can he solicit donations? “Help a supposed billionaire pay off the debt of his losing campaign” is probably not an effective fundraising pitch.
In short, Tr*mp is going on the road for the same reason any over-the-hill rock band reunites for one last “farewell” tour: he’s broke.
We’re a divided nation with a system that contains a lot of rot - I’ll grant you that. But, I agree with Greg Olear that a man, and an administration, affiliated with a hundred felons and whose minions held a press conference at a landscaping outfit next to a dildo shop on the outskirts of Philly will not succeed in tearing up the U.S. Constitution.
He writes:
As I’ve written previously, it would not surprise me if Tr*mp wound up fleeing to Dubai, where there’s golf and tacky architecture and sex trafficking and no extradition. Certainly there’s a greater likelihood of that outcome than an outright Tr*mpist coup, in which flaccid Bill Barr, purple Mitch McConnell, stinky Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys, Don Junior’s coke dealer, and whichever of Trump’s covid-wracked inner circle aren’t on ventilators thwart the will of the American people, our NATO allies, our military, our intelligence community, our judicial system, Wall Street, Hollywood, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and every living ex-president, to reinstate a grifting buffoon who doesn’t know the difference between polls and people from Poland.
Winning the election was vitally important for the survival of the republic. We won. But we knew that the lame duck period was going to be crazy and fraught with danger, just as we knew Tr*mp would not go quietly, or willingly, or gracefully.
This is a show. That’s all it is. But that show has been canceled, and there are very few episodes left. For Donald John Tr*mp, the finale is near.
I would also add, along with our NATO allies, the country that gets away with dismembering journalists, Saudi Arabia, recognized President and Vice President-Elects Biden and Harris and the country that wouldn’t exist without us, Israel, did as well. Cindy McCain, John McCain’s wife, has also agreed to work with the Biden/Harris transition team. And Mitt Romney is being outspoken about the fact that he has been presented with no evidence of noteworthy voter fraud.
(I don’t know what qualifies Cindy McCain, other than she was certainly instrumental at rebuking the man-child president from attending her husband’s funeral, and having Mitt Romney in your corner is not like having the great Bundini Brown but it’s better than the actor who played The Penguin - who also played Rocky’s cornerman.)
Still. As we go forward. Inching our way to January 21st.
It does not mean all of their hare-brained schemes are not going to sound scary.
It does not mean they won’t stop flinging poo against the wall anytime soon.
It does mean that, instead of everyone getting a good ‘blow’ before more hard work starts, we have to continue pushing back during what is meant to be an interregnum.
It does mean we should be doing what we can to help the two Georgia senate candidates - Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock - get elected in the special runoff happening January 5th. That would be a ‘death knell’ election, at least in the sense that, instead of running roughshod, Senate Republicans would have to adopt a more defensive stance.
Without those two seats, the asshattery continues unabated.
By the way, even shit turd’s niece believes he is a flight risk. He even mentioned fleeing the country numerous times during his COVID super-spreading rallies.
He would be like all of those dictators of the past who had to go into exile to avoid being guillotined, shot, imprisoned or stripped of all his possessions.
A fitting ending, I’d say, but what’s crazy is, if he would just behave like the 44 better presidents before him, he’ll probably get a pass.