ELECTED OFFICIALS TAKE OFFICE AFTER ELECTIONS AND VOTE COUNT? HOLD MY BEER

Elected officials come to office by many paths.

Some feel strongly about making a difference and run a political campaign as a difference maker.

Others fill a seat by appointment.

And still others cheat and steal their way in then whine and accuse if they lose.

However they get there, the job isn’t done after the final vote count.

Sometimes it takes a recount to get it done right. The man in the top pic is counting in his head.

More than a year after the 2020 presidential election there’s still uncertainty?

From NPR:

Fewer than half of Republicans say they are willing to accept the results of the 2020 election — a number that has remained virtually unchanged since we asked the same question last January.

“I think the Democrats rigged the election,” said Stephen Weber, a Republican from Woonsocket, R.I. “And who the hell would vote for Biden?”

Who Would Vote For Joe Biden

Our man Stephen doesn’t sound like he’d vote for Joe Biden.

I don’t know Stephen Weber other than what he’s been quoted saying, but I know plenty of grown men of the same ilk.

If they don’t like something, then whatever that something is, is wrong and should never see the light of day.

But that’s not how things work.

More than 81 million people voted for Biden, compared with more than 74 million for Trump. Biden won with 306 electoral votes to 232 for Trump. 

But Weber is skeptical. In a follow-up interview, Weber said he doesn’t trust mail-in voting and doesn’t believe that Democratic lawmakers have the country’s best interests at heart.

“They want to change it to something else. We don’t want it changed,” he said.

When adult men remind us of their narrow scope, their diminished range of view, are they nut jobs to ignore, or a rich source of click-bait interviews.

Like a lone-wolf blogger reaching for an audience, hello, mega-media outlets with huge appeal still need to provide content for their audience. One way is featuring numb-nut, self-appointed, voices of reason.

Who might that include? The pillow jerk.

My Pillow CEO Lindell has relentlessly peddled baseless claims of 2020 election fraud, and has insisted repeatedly that Trump will return to the White House any day now. He has said his first encounter with Trump in 2016 occurred through mysterious “divine appointments.”

A retired general asks us to stop listening to pillow guy.

(General) Anderson said that a “big problem” for some members of the military is that they’re caught between “allegiance to the Constitution, versus allegiance to a leader” — in this case, a cult-like figure like Trump.

Some believe the president is “something like a king,” and he’s not, Anderson added.

Who was Trump? An elected official who lost his re-election.

Elected Officials Who Lost And Moved On

Nixon lost a close election that had some disturbing evidence of voter problems.

From The Library Of Congress:

John F. Kennedy, a wealthy Democratic senator from Massachusetts, was elected president in 1960, defeating Vice President Richard Nixon. Though he clearly won the electoral vote, Kennedy’s received only 118,000 more votes than Nixon in this close election.

I’ll do the math: 118,000 is less than 7,000,000, which is the difference in votes between Biden and Trump.

Does anyone remember a President Nixon? Yes? Good.

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Al Gore won a close election with even more disturbing evidence of voter problems.

Gore was the sitting Vice President to then-president Bill Clinton, while Bush was the Governor of Texas and son of former president George H.W. Bush. In the national popular vote, Gore received 48.4 percent while Bush received 47.9, losing by over 540,000 votes.

Does anyone remember President Gore? No, because he lost in the Electoral College vote, then lost again when the Supreme Court decided in Bush’s favor.

Does anyone remember either Nixon or Gore a year after the election conjuring up a story, a big lie, about the vote counting shenanigans that led to their loss?

Who would do that to their supporters? Who would insist on making them believe he won in spite of the evidence of losing?

And more tragic, who would believe them, send money, attend super-spreader rallies during a pandemic? That’s not what honorable elected officials encourage others to do.

Elected Officials Closer To Home

The Nixon-Kennedy race had overtures of a fix in Chicago and West Virginia.

Gore vs Bush had Florida.

Were those elections tainted? If they were, people chose to accept the results and move on.

Not the case in 2020 on Jan. 6 when a lame duck president held a rally that sent his base to the Capitol.

Nixon and Kennedy were Navy men during WWII. Gore and Bush were Vietnam-era and wore a service uniform. All four were subjected to military indoctrination and understood their role in uniform.

More important for us, they understood how Americans saw men in uniform.

Then you get someone with heroic aspirations without the hero part, and they keep grinding on the American public because that’s their specialty. A man who shows little regard for the customs and traditions of the common man, but who knows where to push buttons, is not a good example to follow.

More from NPR:

Heidi Kravitz remembers watching Trump’s lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, at a news conference shortly after the election.

“He had a stack of papers as evidence,” said Kravitz, a Republican from Salem, Ore., in a follow-up interview. “And I was just like, ‘OK, well, then why don’t we at least check that?’ Like if there’s nothing to hide and if it is not true, then why don’t we just check it?”

What?

I’m like ‘sure the mayor had a stack of papers. Like why not check it out?’

Like, if I’ve got a stack of papers I’m putting in my copier tray. Why not check that out? You never know.

Or, like maybe you do.