Today probably made a whole bunch of newly-minted atheists out of Trump supporters who tied the Bible/Christ to Trump along with other conservative stuff like guns and all that.
For those truly too far deep in delusion, January 20th is their day to become disillusioned and possibly minecraft irl.
You know how a lot of people are culturally jewish, and sortof just practice the holidays and some of the food and decorations? I think a lot of the "evangelical" group leans that way as well, so the people who praised him as their savior... didn't actually
believe that, but expressing that nonsensical statement is just, like, a cultural behavior, an in-group thing. The ones who genuinely saw him as their savior, top to bottom, genuinely an agent of god, are probably buried in a million ways to excuse their own blasphemy as-is -- IE, trump truly was an agent of god, but the democratic pedophiles channeled satan power to beat us.
I am interested though who will be the next republican that can generate the cult of personality Trump has since these people treated Trump like a God and he at least won which further fueled their beliefs.
I think
@ConfederateIrishman had expressed some jubilation that this turned into a wet fart and Donald's image as GEOTUS has been permanently tarnished, as this might lead the right not to fall for star or idol or savior candidates once again, and instead focus in on... well, whatever priorities it determines most important, and getting someone who will actually DO them (rather than just have aides identify them and then speak them off). Maybe this can also teach people that it's a full-package thing: a lot of trump court picks pleased conservatives, but his political machine really wasn't great for populists specifically.
Honestly the fraud narrative probably came because of how unprecedented of a shitstorm of an election this is in terms of having mail-in ballots and during an ongoing pandemic. This one was managed differently than previous ones and given most of the people who were into the fraud narrative were people who don't understand the changes well, really gullible, or this being the first election they bothered with it really could be persuasive enough to convince anyone unfamiliar with things. I used to think fraud happened but now it's clear that it isn't wide-scale but the confusion is probably from a lack of transparency and new changes.
Election reform should happen but it's not for the conspiracies but so that not even a dumbass can doubt anything in the future with proper reforms so the shitshow of the 2020 election never repeats itself. This was Trump's election to lose from his subpar handling of COVID (the only thing he got right was the vaccine being ready by the end of the year), his shitty control of the riots, and saying dumb shit at inappropriate times during the most paranoia-inducing year ever really hurt him. Honestly any Democrat except for Bernie/Warren/Kamala (if she was the head nominee) could've easily won with all this shit in their favor, and Biden was generic enough that the worse scandals have his son more involved than him. COVID was the Achilles heel that came unexpectedly and we would be in a different place if it had not happened.
tl;dr A pandemic can create so much election chaos more than anyone else ever.
For all of my shitposting in the politisperg threads and baiting to get mad, I fundamentally understand the perception that such an election would be vulnerable to fraud -- I had it. I thought mail-in ballots were going to be a complete shitshow, in part because the postal service is a complete shitshow and several points through the summer had said it was not going to have enough money and personnel to get the thing done. The logistics of poor counties with few postal workers and a lot of distance to cover, of ridiculously overpopulated cities... And even beyond the mail-in, our electoral systems and processes are woefully out of date-- especially for a "superpower." There are a lot of things that can be done to increase transparency, faith in the system, security, etc.
But fuckery with this system would be visible and noticeable. As I've pleaded before, I read a good number of the suits (at least skimming), I looked at the data, the charts, the videos. I was open to Trump's claims of fraud for a good solid week or so after the election, and then I started to feel he was taking us for a ride. He lucked out with that, in this regard -- any other year and he'd have been laughed out, but he got to grift for a solid two months afterwards, shell out tons to his friends, and... ah, shit, he got high on his own supply and managed to somehow ruin it.
And I'd really love to see those changes, but it seems like people will genuinely just forget about them in two weeks. All this fucking idiocy damaged the cause of election reform - look at what these doomers are spouting and screaming. Not "fix the system maybe BEFORE the election, not AFTER," but rather "LEAVE the system." The victimhood complex has induced learned helplessness upon them, which they believe can only be broken by... I don't really know what the plan is.
