Thursday, November 19, 2020

The 45th President Still Will not Accept the Election Results

Greetings Earthlings! How are things in your neck of the woods?  I personally feel like I'm in the movie, Ground Hog Day.  The days are all running together in their sameness.  Cases in Arizona are on the rise, so we're not moving around all that much.  Although there is a new West Elm calling for me to visit, it's not worth dying for.  Maybe next year.

I took this last night with the cell phone.  I'm fairly impressed with the camera.  It did better than my big camera in seeing the two planets over the moon.  The big camera was crisper on the moon, so it's about a push.  The big camera will not see the palm trees in the dark.  The arrows are pointing at the two planets that are visible over the moon.  They're really faint.  I used to know which planets they are, but I forgot.  Sorry.

Today, the orange wombat is making good on his promise to steal the election.  He has invited Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield of Michigan to the White House tomorrow.  He plans to browbeat them into picking a slate of Trump electors to overturn Biden's significant win there.  Wednesday night he called one of the county canvassing board members and asked her not to certify the votes.  Unfortunately for him, she had voted for certification (after previously refusing to do so).  There is no legal avenue for her to take back her certifying vote.  She was the person who had no issue with tossing all of the ballots cast in Detroit, which went for Biden 80/20 over the wombat.  Anyway...  “That’s not going to happen,” Shirkey said. He noted state law awards electors to the winner of the state’s popular vote. And Biden won the state by more than 146,000 votes, according to unofficial results.  Many of the citizens of Michigan are out protesting, demanding that only Republican electors be sent to vote on December 14.  Democracy be damned.  If Shirkey and Chatfield are not willing to do what the wombat wants, one wonders why they are going there at all. 

Who saw Rudy Giuliani's one hour and 45 minute press conference today?  He was there with Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.  They're all deranged, making claims that Venezuela and China and others had interfered with the elections.  At one point Cindy Powell said that Hugo Chavez had been involved, which is odd since he died in 2013.  But the best part is that it was hot in the room.  That brown streak is Rudy's hair dye running down his face.

Even Fox News called out the press conference as being a complete and total pack of lies.

More from Sidney.

Currently the administration has lost 32 of its post election lawsuits, and won two.  One of today's losses came at the hands of a recently appointed wombat judge.  Giuliani has filed another suit, again, asking that a federal court stop the certification of the votes in Pennsylvania.  Thus far, their arguments have been little more than "because we want you to."  Their strategy at this point is:

This is all so very dangerous.  The majority of Republicans in the country believe the election was stolen.  They'll never accept the legitimacy of his presidency, even though he won with a significant margin.

After the election, Jim and I both were feeling so much better physically.  I felt lighter and Jim's shortness of breath went away almost immediately.  Now, we're back in the slough of despond.  Did you ever think you would watch a defeated president try to overturn an election?  I never did, always had faith in the process.  That's over.

7 comments:

  1. It is frightening. But I'm not sure a majority of Republicans think the election was stolen. I still think it's a minority of very strident people who feel that way. (The last statistic I saw was 47 percent, which is admittedly still pretty high, but that means 53 percent of Republicans still believe in the process.)

    It's remarkable to me that Trump can find so many apparently educated people (Powell, Ellis) to back him up on this. I hope they're all getting paid in cash at the end of each day, because Trump is notorious for not paying his bills.

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  2. He should take his "cult" to a remote island where he can be admired, fawned over, and King forever. What a shithead. As if a pandemic is not enough...

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  3. It's simply unbelievable. I completely echo your sentiments and just keep hoping he'll finally throw in the towel. Maybe go to Mar-a-Lago for Christmas and simply not return? It could happen, considering his off-the-wall behavior already. BTW, the planets are Jupiter (the brighter one) and Saturn (the close but less bright). Our local weather forecast has been showing graphics nearly every night for stargazers. We see them, along with the moon, nightly as we take our after-dinner walk. We walk back to the house and have a clear view of the southern sky, on our very dark rural road (no street lights). It's lovely.

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  4. Trump knows he lost and all this is just theater to delegitimize Biden because Trump is a vindictive asshole, payback for the democrats accusing Trump's presidency of being illegitimate (Trump's words) with the whole Russia investigation even though they never claimed his electoral win was illegitimate, just that his campaign staff was corrupt. he doesn't care about the country or the American people, ho only cares about getting even. like the spoiled brat who breaks the toy he can't have so no one else can have it either. that so many republicans are going along with it is disturbing. but then I shouldn't be surprised, they spend 8 years trying to hamstring Obama. all for the lust for power and racism. fortunately, there are laws in place concerning the electors...how they are appointed and who they can vote for and I think the governors and election officials of these republican swing states are incensed that they are being accused of allowing fraud in the election and they know Trump lost and they won't throw their reputations and legacies in the toilet for him.

    the planets moving into conjunction with the moon are Saturn and Jupiter.

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  5. I have to wonder - with the president and republicans' all focusing on the election results, who's watching out for the country? All the gods forbid we have an actual "Olympus has Fallen" situation.

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  6. There was about a week and a half where I felt so good. Now I'm back right where I was before. I really can't believe that so many people are totally willing to destroy this country.

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  7. I believe our democracy isn't destroyed, yet! Those fantastic racists in the senate will simply remain that, trouble making racists. We will not be great again until some of those youngsters in the house, and senate, rise up, and they will, when needed and called upon.
    I wonder if Biden will ever tell the american people how voting works. It is tightly controlled by law everywhere. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of voting precincts, and those electors uphold the law. Can you imagine their neighbors learning they lied and cheated! This election was stolen from Trump by the people who did not vote for him.

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