After Georgia and Michigan certified the presidential vote, Arizona moved one step closer to certification, and Pennsylvania likely to certify as early as Tuesday, President Donald Trump grudgingly allowed the transition process to formally begin on Monday, but vowing that he would never concede, like the character Jason Nesmith in Galaxy Quest: “Never give up. Never surrender.”
Trump’s cult followers are now vowing “By Grapthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged!”
Arizona’s most embarrassing congressman, Rep. Paul Gosar, decided to go a different route in choosing an analogy.
Gosar suggested the Trump cult would be like the Imperial Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda, who remained in the jungle on Lubang Island near Luzon, in the Philippines, until 1974 because he did not believe that the war had ended, and Teruo Nakamura, an Amis aborigine in the Takasago Volunteer Unit of the Imperial Japanese Army stationed on Morotai Island in Indonesia, who was left for dead after the island was overrun by the Allies in September 1944 in the Battle of Morotai. Nakamura was the last known Japanese holdout to surrender after the end of hostilities in 1945.
The America First agenda is just in its infancy. There are 75 million of us.
Also. Did you know some Japanese soldiers kept fighting for decades after the war? @Cernovich @ali @kelliwardaz pic.twitter.com/w74Dfvw3fX
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) November 24, 2020
So according to Rep. Gosar, Trump cult members will remain blindly loyal to their “Imperial Emperor” (a demigod), and will deny the reality that the election (war) is lost. That’s a sad, lonely existence.
If only they would disappear into the jungle on a remote island somewhere, never to be heard from again.
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I keep hoping that redistricting will take me out of CD 5 and into a new district!
It’s a toss up for me who’s the most embarrassing Congress person. Andy Biggs is right up there with Gosar. Hell, Gosar’s own family thinks he’s nuts! I won’t argue.
UPDATE: The Las Vegas Sun reports, The Nevada Supreme Court made Joe Biden’s win in the state official on Tuesday, approving the state’s final canvass of the Nov. 3 election. “Biden win over Trump in Nevada made official by court”, https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/nov/24/biden-win-over-trump-in-nevada-made-official-by-co/
The unanimous action by the seven nonpartisan justices sends to Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak results that will deliver six electoral votes from the western U.S. battleground state to Biden.
UPDATE: The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, “Pennsylvania certifies its presidential election results, officially declaring Joe Biden the winner”, https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-certification-2020-presidential-election-vote-20201124.html
“Pennsylvania’s top elections official certified the state’s presidential election results on Tuesday, officially declaring Joe Biden the winner and paving the way for him to receive the state’s 20 Electoral College votes next month.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar made the final vote counts official, three weeks after the Nov. 3 election: Biden received 3,458,229 votes, 80,555 more than President Donald Trump’s 3,377,674 votes.
Gov. Tom Wolf then signed the Certificate of Ascertainment to name the 20 Biden electors who will meet in Harrisburg on Dec. 14.”
Not quite yet the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945, but it’s getting close.
A sad song for Trump, Going Going Gone by Bob Dylan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7Lcu8RdaA
(Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the version with Bob Dylan and The Band on YouTube, it’s so much better than this one.)