For the past two weeks, from November 27th to December 11th 2020, I have adhered to a strict news diet of Trump’s tweets. And will for three more days. Just for the record, here is what I think is going on:
The past two weeks have been mainly about Donald Trump fighting to “#OVERTURN” (his word) the US Election of 2020:
- Sean Hannity says Trump won by a “landslide”.
- Trump tweeted “…I WON THE ELECTION, BIG.” In ALL CAPS!
- Lou Dobbs says this election is a fight for the soul of the nation.
- Some guy on Newsmax says a Much Higher Power is seeing all of this, so Trump will win.
Talking points: Trump and his flying monkeys have been endlessly repeating – on television, on the Internet, in state legislative hearings – stuff like this:
- Biden votes came out of nowhere in the middle of the night on November 4th.
- The Bank Heist video, as Rudy Giuliani calls it, shows a suitcase of ballots being pulled out from under a table when no one was looking (except for four security cameras).
- Trump won the most votes of any president ever!
- Trump won Ohio, Florida and Iowa. No one who has won all three has ever lost a presidential election.
- Trump won 19 of 20 bellwether counties!
- The Dominion Voting System, computers that 28 states use, helped Biden win, just like they helped Hugo Chavez in Venezuela win.
- Republicans who disagree with Trump and other Patriots are RINOs – Republicans in Name Only.
and so on.
Team China: Biden, the Democratic Party, and the Mainstream Media, who are all in the pay of the Chinese communists (directly or indirectly) are not interested in any of this. You would think they would at least want to clear Biden’s name so that he does not become an illegitimate president, a presidential occupant.
Court cases: Only one remains, “perhaps the most important case in history”: Texas v Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan & Wisconsin. Will the Supreme Court hear it? Amy, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you! The attorney general of Texas, joined by the attorneys general of at least 17 other states, argue that in those four states the vote was unconstitutional: the governor or the courts used the pandemic as an excuse to override election law. But the US Constititution clearly states that only state legislatures can do that!
Is this for real? I am not a professor of constitutional law, and Trump neglected to link to an informative Vox explainer by someone who is (or at least talked to one on the telephone), so I did not know how serious it was – till I read this in the lawsuit:
“The probability of former Vice President Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant States—Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—independently given President Trump’s early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4, 2020, is less than one in a quadrillion, or 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000.”
Like it was written by a 14-year-old. Or Super Friends.
– Abagond, 2020.
Update (December 12th): That Texas lawsuit was thrown out last night by the Supreme Court for lack of standing: Texas would not be an injured party. Even better, Trump’s three judges – Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett – stood by in silence! How wonderful. Only Thomas and Alito dissented.
See also:
- US Election Day 2020
- The Hair Dye Coup
- Programming note #42
- The Republican bubble
- Amy Coney Barrett
- tweet
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Abagond 
we all knew this would happen
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Trump and his insane sycophants and enablers can’t stop and won’t stop.
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This madness about Texas secession. All those politicians involved in that mess need to suffer the consequences of their actions.
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Speaking of Trump and his flying monkeys. When you keep doing the same thing over and over, it’s called insanity. The SCOTUS rejecting Trump is awesome.
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Update: That Texas lawsuit was thrown out last night by the Supreme Court for lack of standing: Texas would not be an injured party. Even better, Trump’s three judges – Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett – stood by in silence! How wonderful. Only Thomas and Alito dissented.
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I must confess that what drew more of my attention in this Abagond’s piece was the very picture at the head.
It took me more than a few clicks to discover where this picture comes from. The picture arose in me some dejà vu feelings. Where had I seen it before? . Maybe an article on this blog about life in the old rural America. Maybe something from Gone with the wind. Or maybe something else.
Then I looked at the picture and its related metadata. Yes, I right-clicked at the picture and title “aunt-em” appeared. With a few more clicks I arrived at the magical world of The wizard of Oz
So, the characters in the picture are Dorothy Gale and Aunt Em from the fictional tale of The wizard of Oz.
But why did Abagond choose that picture. What is its relationship with the content of this article? Is he implying that the world he visited (or self-quarantined in) for two weeks, the world of Trump believers, is similar to the magical world of Oz?
By the way, I’m a little bit disappointed with the Abagond coming from that world (the Trumpian world) because he came as skeptical as before of their set of beliefs. I was not expecting a full conversion but at least some understanding that he could share with us. And by the way, for all Trump’s attitudes which appear for me as totally insincere and aiming at exploiting some people insecurities (like in a religious cult!), I must observe that he expressed is reserves about “mail in ballot voting” many years ago, not just before this elections (2020) but even before the 2016 elections. It seems that he really was concerned about the integrity of those electoral methods long before the today’s elections.
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@ munubantu
The picture shows Dorothy locked up in the castle of Wicked Witch of the West, she who commands the flying monkeys. Dorothy sees Aunt Em back in Kansas in the witch’s crystal ball but Auntie Em cannot hear her or see her. Here is that scene on YouTube (49 seconds):
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxUmrGsWIQ)
Since I mentioned Trump’s flying monkeys in the post, I extended the metaphor to me. I am Dorothy, trapped in the castle of Trump’s tweets, Auntie Em is the world beyond that I used to know and want to get home to.
I wrote this post just to record what I know before I am contaminated by the outside world, to make it easier to compare before and after. I will write another post about what I have learned, not so much about the news as about the nature of the Trumposphere and beyond. The experience so far has made me MORE sceptical, not just of Trump but even of certain elements on the left who, I now notice, use the some of the same tropes.
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@ abagond
(emphasis added)
Can you please expand more on this idea? Maybe you could come with an example of such “tropes” by the left.
By the way, no, I don’t think that the American left is comprised of some kind of angels.
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