My e-mailbox continues to swell with pleas from the Trump forces to send money to help them stop "The Left" from stealing the elections. I have a friend who is far more Liberal than I could ever be who says, "If 'The Left' were going to steal an election, we would have stolen it for the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren ticket…and we also would have taken the Senate while we were at it."
I'm actually getting two of almost every e-mail the Trumpsters send out — one to me and one to someone named "Gary" who they think is reachable at the same e-mail address. Never mind cleaning up the registered voter rolls. They need to fix their damn mailing list.
Many of the messages tell me about the mountains of proof they've amassed about dead people voting, machines changing Trump votes to Biden votes, vote totals not adding up, observers who couldn't see everything but saw counters changing ballots, etc. I don't think any lawyer representing Trump's interests has presented any of this incontrovertible evidence to any judge. I wonder why that is.
I suspect Trump has given up trying to actually overturn the election. It's always dangerous to assume his thought processes are logical but if in this case they were and he thought he could prevail, he would have hired a lead attorney way more experienced with current election law than Rudy Giuliani. I'll bet there are many who would have had a better shot in court. The trouble was they wouldn't have done all those wild theatrics on the news…and right now, winning before a judge is way less important than keeping The Base riled up and believing Trump won and is being cheated.
And, oh yeah — they want those donations. Gary may send them something but I won't.
I continue to largely isolate. I go almost nowhere, a restraint made easier by a knee that sometimes doesn't want me walking far on it or driving. And also it helps that there aren't too many places I want to go at the moment. Thanksgiving Day, I'll don a mask, go do curbside pickup of a feast at a local restaurant. Then I'll bring it back here so one friend and I can eat turkey together. Usually, I get invited to about a dozen large dinner gatherings but this year, everyone I know is too wise to have one.
Someone claiming to be a pollster called to ask if I was going to take a COVID vaccine when it's available in my area. I've stopped talking to folks who claim to be pollsters because a couple who've phoned were clearly just mining for information on my buying habits and bank account.
This one, I talked to only long enough to discover that the acceptable answers to her question were "Yes, I will take the vaccine" and "No, I won't." There was no option to say, "I'll wait until I see which one or ones are available, read up about them and, most of all, consult with my physician." Which seems to me like the wisest answer but she could only accept one or the other.