I was having a discussion the other day with a guy who is a Republican who just wants Trump to “move on”. His reasoning is simple: at the end of the day Joe Biden had more votes, and American history is characterized by smooth transitions of power. He kept saying “at the end of the day, it is the Constitution that matters.”
Here is the analogy I would offer. Imagine you have a high end cocktail party and the guest of honor, when he arrives, proceeds to take a giant shit in the middle of the room. Just drops his pants, squats, shits, then wipes his ass with his hand, then rinses it off in the punch bowl. Then he proceeds to act as if nothing happened. He tries to shake people’s hands. He makes jokes. He does, more or less, whatever you would expect Joe Biden to do.
Rather than an elephant in the room, you have a human shit in the room. What do you do? There is no etiquette rule for this. Nothing in Emily Post. It is the most egregious insult, nearly, that anyone could inflict. And by a guy in a tuxedo who showed up in a chaffeured limousine, who is by job and reputation the most important guy in the room. What to do?
That is our situation. Whatever is done will be unprecedented. On the one hand we could disrupt the coronation of Joe Biden by various means, which has not been done, or at least has not been done in a long time. On the other, is coronating a guy who has plainly taken bribes from China, Ukraine, and no doubt others, who was in fact seemingly directly aided in voter fraud by most of our enemies. The guy is a crook who has sold out America, someone who used HUGE fraud to appear to win the election, and who is a senile creep who gropes young girls and is plausibly alleged to have molested his daughter.
Habit is always a go-to, but what I would submit is that PRINCIPLE is the way out. Yes, it is EASIER to just have one of the wait staff clean up the shit, then replace the punch bowl, but at the same time you are not dealing with a lunatic. He knew what he was doing. It was conscious. It was planned. He was seeing what YOU would do.
Do you understand this? He knew it was wrong, but he did it any way, counting on your good manners and fundamental cowardice to let him get away with it. Even after he broke every possible rule of good taste, he expects YOU to adhere to them.
For all I know, more than one king has literally done this. That he got away with it was reinforcement that he was King and he could do anything he wanted, and no one could or would say anything.
This voter fraud is a shit placed on the podiums at the Senate and House. It is shit in the middle of the Oval Office. It is a shit placed in the mailbox of every American whose vote was stolen from them.
What are we going to do? I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. But I continue to believe that President Trump needs to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to secure justice, which is to say the second term that he EARNED at the ballot box.
And I will add that, as I have commented from time to time, the world needs dicks. The world needs people who are basically good, but not so good that manners are more important to them than standing up to bullies. Somebody who matters needs to say to Joe Biden: hey asshole, you just shit on America. And if we can’t stop this, collectively, then most of our leaders literally deserve to be shot. Treason is giving aid and comfort to our enemies. And obviously allowing and even encouraging our enemies to get Joe Biden into the White House qualifies, as does rubber stamping it.
This is South Park humor, but at the small risk of diluting the message I am trying to convey–hell, who listens to me anyway?– I will suggest that I agree fully with this “philosophy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2GwrR-4Q9E