2bltap wrote:
Just sayin
Mike
"A 78 yr old man campaigned from his basement. Picks one of the most unpopular VP. Receives the most votes of any candidate in history at 4am. Confirmed in the middle of the night. An empty inauguration. 25,000+ troops to protect him. & nobody can question any part of it"
https://streamable.com/43vs74a. "78". So? Compare with the other choice (obese, and it's hard to know how literate that one is -- I know Biden is literate because I saw a paper he wrote) (somebody had posted it online -- that's how I happened to see it).
b. "campaigned from his basement". And you have no idea why, because for you the pandemic doesn't exist?
c. "unpopular VP"? at least moderately popular, I think. She seems capable. I'd vote for her over Pence. Even though I don't particularly _like_ her.
d. "most votes..." Both Trump and Biden each received record-breaking numbers of votes. It's to be expected. There was a lot at stake, so people turned out to vote (some of them even standing in line for more than ten hours to do it). Even in more typical times, each election can be expected to have slightly more voters than the one before, anyway.
e. "empty inauguration". See b, above.
f. "25,000+ troops to protect him". You slept through Jan. 6? That was the day they _didn't_ have 25,000+ troops at the ready. They trusted you. Guess that approach didn't work out well enough. More about Jan. 6 below.
About Jan. 6 (rioting, armed Trump supporters trash Capitol, threaten many officials (terrorized them, I think), kill a Capitol police officer, jeopardize several kinds of national security) (and some rioters later said they'd do it again):
Jan. 6 is linked to an idea about the election. Imagine a country far away, and you are there as an observer; it has an election; how would you know whether the election was correctly done? Would you sue in court about it? Would you demand recounts? Or audits? Would you only believe the officials in _your_ political party? Would you insist that there be a paper trail? Would you take exit polls? Would you shoot some people and hope for the best? How would you know which people to shoot? Would it matter? When you sued at court, what if you thought the judge was being unfair -- what if you thought the whole mess of judges were being unfair everywhere -- would you take the matter to the highest court in the land, where you know you'll get the most fair treatment possible because you yourself nominated and got appointed the most fair, impartial, competent, qualified judges you could find ;-) ?