Hopeful conservatives are anticipating a huge couple of days upcoming in this first full week of January 2021, with Georgia runoff elections Tuesday and the Electoral College vote count Wednesday.
I’m expecting a combination of Comet Kohoutek and Y2K.
As a short refresher, in late 1973 and early 1974, Comet Kohoutek was supposed to be the “Comet of the Century” in terms of brightness. The more hyperbolic enthused that it would be another Venus in the night sky or even a rival to a full moon.
In reality, it was a dingy smudge of light that one could observe only if that person knew exactly where to look in the night sky, preferably with a pair of binoculars.
And then there was Y2K. Digital Armageddon was predicted because early computer programmers, looking to conserve what was then scarce memory capacity, had denoted years by using only the last two numbers.
When 2000 arrived, it was feared, the computers would not be able to tell if it was 2000 or 1900.
Those who panicked in advance of midnight Dec. 31, 1999, found themselves with multi-year supplies of toilet paper and freeze-dried food, not to mention egg on their collective faces.
Fast forward to 2021, when long-suffering Republicans, and Trump supporters of all stripes, are hoping at last to find their election grievances being addressed.
Let us begin with the Senate runoff elections in Georgia, where the Democrats could forge a tie in the Senate should they win both. Said tie presumably would be broken on votes of significance by incoming VP Kamala Harris, despite the fact that witless Joe Biden recently referred to her as the “president-elect.”
Whether it was more raging dementia or just a Freudian slip by Sleepy Joe, the fact remains that in a split Senate, Harris would wield president-like power.
That those who would oppose the U.S. going socialist harbor any belief Georgia will delay that by going Republican in these runoffs is the triumph of hope over experience.
The polls close at 7 this evening in Georgia. By 7:01 the elections should be called for both Democrat candidates. Afterward, reports will leak out of Republican poll watchers being segregated in Tallahassee, Florida, while Democratic poll watchers were greeted with reams of blank ballots, to be filled in for the candidates of their choice.
Videos also will emerge of suitcases full of ballots being pulled from under tables and run through scanners on Dec. 25, while the faithful were celebrating Christmas.
This all will be ignored by Lamestream Media outlets. Anyone attempting to post about these questionable election activities on social media will be censored by complete removal, or merely having disparaging remarks included with their submissions so as to question the veracity of the information.
A day later than the Georgia sham, Electoral College votes are to be counted. Here is the last hope of the crowd who believe Trump was the victim of Grand Theft Election in November.
They are pinning their hopes on challenges from members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
They think Vice President Mike Pence might exercise his authority to hold off certifying the votes and instead order a full-scale audit of questionable states such as Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada.
The left-wing propagandists, who pass themselves off as journalists, have been hyperventilating about such things being a threat to our democracy, even though they are provided for in The Constitution.
These same hypocrites cannot specify how widespread election fraud is not such a threat to democracy. Perhaps you recall how the denials of election misconduct have been walked back from the original absolute claim that there was no fraud, to there was no widespread fraud, to there wasn’t sufficient fraud to change the outcome.
How any of that can be determined without extensive and nonpartisan examination remains unclear.
What is perfectly clear is the bulk of the country, if polls are to be believed, doesn’t think this election was absolutely on the up and up. Even some of the alleged winners can’t deny evidence of chicanery.
But such widespread belief has been whitewashed and pushed to the periphery, mostly by the very same alleged journalists and D.C. swamp creatures who spent Trump’s first term as president trying to run a behind-the-scenes coup on him.
Our courts have been found wanting, too, in this moment of national crisis, due to their procedural buck-passing.
Their actions, or lack thereof, did not, of course, threaten democracy.
A state that ran a questionable presidential election delivering more of the same in a critical pair of subsequent Senate runoff elections doesn’t threaten democracy, either, right?
Louie Gohmert, U.S. House member from Texas, seemed to be taking a cue from this blog when he said a few days back that the only hope for the political right is to go as violent, maybe moreso, as the political left – read Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
Gohmert backed off his comments a day later. Too bad, because he had it right the first time.
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