My reaction to the US election fallout.

So as of today, Joe Biden's just six electoral votes away from the White House. This poll hanging on a knife-edge was widely predicted. But in his true ungracious, power-crazed style, that hasn't kept Donald Trump from conceding (impending) defeat or even acknowledging the result's authenticity. It seems he will take that to the Supreme Court (and indeed I doubt he knows the Supreme Court from a supreme pizza); the results from each individual state, no less. Then if the SC comply with that action, which I doubt they will as they should already know just how legal the vote already is, that'll be one hell of a marathon process given there's fifty American states. 

On Thursday as I was driving, I heard on the radio news that among the reasons Trump is citing for this proposed action of his is so-called "corruption" on the Biden campaign's part; my immediate thought on that was "Look who's fucking talking there!" I mean, briefly ignoring the crimes he's already committed in office, here he is trying to deny and legally challenge an election result his opponent is clearly winning. And I am certain he's doing so not for America's and the free world's benefit but for simply his own. He's also said on the campaign trail that losing is hard for him; well maybe it is but it was clearly hard in 2016 for Hillary Clinton, as she actually expressed then in her concession speech, but if she could accept that result then (and she is very far from perfect), why can't he accept this one now? Oh, yes: because he's a raging tyrant.

This proposal Trump's made has inevitably drawn comparisons in the media to the SC's forced involvement in the Bush v. Gore decision from 2000 with the Florida ballot recount. That was the first US election I recall hearing about hitherto, probably thanks to that deadlock. But what's the difference? That came down to late-arriving postal votes rather than one of the candidates denying the outcome (neither of them even claimed victory then, for that matter, until it was conclusively decided).

Come to think of it, this time Trump was prepared to claim victory while surely knowing the vote-counting, in both the popular and electoral categories, yet had quite some way to go; Biden, who for the record wouldn't have been my first choice for the Democratic nomination (Elizabeth Warren would've been), on Tuesday made neither a victory nor a concession speech. That was the honest and realistic thing then to do.

Anyway, in conclusion, if this vote does go to the Supreme Court, I very much hope they will not bow to Trump's threats and manipulation, and instead very swiftly repudiate him and his administration. Just like the American people evidently have.