12/13/20: In what has become a regular refrain since the election, we learn that Donald Trump is goofing off again today.
His full agenda for Sunday reads: “The President has no official events scheduled today.”
This is the same schedule he has followed on most days since he got thumped in the election, as, for example, December 1, December 4, December 6, December 9, and December 11. Plus today.
On December 2, Trump worked like a
dog for the American people, with his schedule packed with: “Lunch with the
Vice President.”
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“As we’re a nation of laws, and this is the Constitution, and this is the law, and this is how it breaks out, and the courts have ruled, then President Biden’s going to be our next president.”
Sen. Bill Cassidy
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A FEDERAL JUDGE, and a Trump appointee to the bench, by the way, throws out another challenge to the November voting results, this time in Wisconsin. It’s Team Trump’s seventh court loss in ten days.
Describing the case as “extraordinary,” U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig rules that Wisconsin officials followed state laws when they conducted the Nov. 3 election.
A sitting president who did
not prevail [emphasis added] in his bid for reelection has asked for
federal court help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues
of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote
occurred.
This court allowed the plaintiff
the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits. In his reply brief,
plaintiff “asks that the Rule of Law be followed.” It has been.
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Ludwig shoots another hole in the Trump boat. |
On the flip side of the rule of law, Lin Wood, the nutjob pro-Trump lawyer who keeps getting smoked in court whenever he claims to have evidence the election was rigged, offers up a new strategy. Forget judges! He suggests that like-minded “patriots” who love America so much they’d be happy to kill not-so-patriotic Americans to save it, stock up on “Second Amendment supplies.”
“Our leader is Donald Trump, not Joe Biden,” he adds.
Let’s start
shooting!
Other Republican leaders, like Sen. John Thune, the second ranking member of the U.S. Senate say it’s time to move on: Joe Biden won the election. Lindsey Graham, a Trump loyalist, Rob Portman, Roy Blunt, the Senate’s No. 4 Republican, and Shelley Moore Capito concur. Sen. Bill Cassidy is clear. On January 20, Joe Biden takes over. “Obviously, he is the president-elect. He has 270 Electoral College votes. As we’re a nation of laws, and this is the Constitution, and this is the law, and this is how it breaks out, and the courts have ruled, then President Biden’s going to be our next president.”
“There
comes a time when you have to realize that, despite your best efforts, you’ve
been unsuccessful,” Sen. John Cornyn agrees, “that’s sort of the nature of
these elections. You’ve got to have a winner. You’ve got to have a loser” he
tells reporters at the U.S. Capitol.
The
LOSER
is Donald J. Trump.
Sen. Lamar Alexander says during an interview that he hopes the president will put the country first and congratulate President-Elect Biden. But we know that’s not going to happen.
Trump would be happy to heed the advice of Mr. Wood, save for the fact that if he bought guns, he’d have to join any fighting.
Bone
spurs, you know.
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MEANWHILE, the spreading virus continues to kill our friends, neighbors, and family members in staggering numbers. The Centers for Disease Control has posted these grim figures.
12/6: 1,118
dead
12/7: 1,532
dead.
12/8:
2,566 dead.
12/9:
3,411 dead.
12/10: 2,760 dead.
12/11: 3,013 dead.
12/12: 2,283 dead.
12/13: 1,448 dead
That brought the total, in the first thirteen days of the month, to 30,964, equivalent to a Pearl Harbor attack every day.
To make matters worse, record numbers
of people are hospitalized with coronavirus (109,331 as of Sunday).
The president continues to focus on other matters, in the wake of yet another devastating court defeat on Thursday. And another on Friday. Yes, thousands of Americans are dying from disease. No, that’s not his worry.
Rather, at 10:36 this morning, Trump fired off this emerald of Twitter wisdom:
“MOST CORRUPT
ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!”
Tomorrow, the electors meet to cast their votes and seal Lame Duck Donald’s fate forever, as a LOSER.
That’s right, the man who has labeled scores of political opponents and personal enemies as “losers” on Twitter, and god knows how many more in press conferences and during rallies with the faithful, will join the club.
The Electoral College will make it official tomorrow. Trump might not concede. Yet he will be a:
LOSER.
Say it in Russian: “неудачник”
(neudachnik)
Say it in French: “perdant.”
Say it in German: “verlierer.”
Say it in Chinese: “失败者” (Shībài zhě)
Say it in Gaelic: “cailleanach”
Pick you language.
Trump is going down to defeat.
POSTSCRIPT: On the other hand, if playing a lot improves one’s game of golf, Trump has got to be getting good. Sunday, he carded Round #316 since he took the oath of office on January 20, 2017.
We keep repeating this, but it is a perfect measure of both the man’s hypocrisy and his utter incapacity when it comes to self-examination. It bothered Trump, or so he claimed, when Obama played “so much golf” in office.
That would be 333 rounds total.
In TWO full terms.
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