12/15/20: President Trump suffers a stunning blow today when his most loyal pal admits he lost the election – six weeks ago – and congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden.
We mean, of course, Russian strongman
Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has sent Mr. Biden a “congratulatory telegram” wishing him
“every success” as he takes office. Putin also expresses hope that the two great
powers can work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues.
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AS FOR PRESIDENT TWITTER THUMBS, we know he’s not one baby step closer to accepting his loss.
Some days back, we highlighted the stages of grief the president must pass through. (See: 11/25/20.)
Now we need to add a few, because the current occupant of the White House is bogged down in the initial stages. Steps added in italics:
The Eleven Stages of Grief
Denial
Tweeting
Anger
Golfing
Hiding in the White House
Desperation
Bargaining
Lying
Depression
More Lying
Acceptance
Today, Lame Duck Donald’s itinerary reads: “The President has no public events scheduled.”
Otherwise, we have “desperation” tweeting. For example, a retweet: “Trump is in the process of proving he won, and Biden is pretending he did.”
Lame Duck Don also tapped out his own claim, about voting machines being totally off: “Able to take a landslide victory and reduce it to a tight loss.”
No Twitter Thumbs tweet-rampage is complete without a suggestion that someone needs to be locked up, even if we never bother with a trial. In this case, it comes in a retweet of a post by Georgia lawyer Lin Wood, who suggests jail time for two Republicans, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (left in the picture) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (right).
Their crime? Counting the votes in their state three times (two recounts demanded by Team Trump) and reporting that Mr. Biden won.
Three times.
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Governor Kemp gives "thumbs up," in happier times. |
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THE GOOD NEWS TODAY: the vaccine rollout offers promise that the worst of the pandemic may soon be behind us.
The bad news? We have passed the
300,000-dead mark since we recorded the first case in America on January
20.
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