In kind, I will readily acknowledge that Stacey Abrams set a terrible precedent, and also have said that many times on here. I do believe that accepting the results of elections is the foundation of democracy, and therefore she deserves a lot of criticism, which I will be happy to lay on her here. Acknowledging the other person won shouldn't be optional.
Did she?
When she ran for Governor of Georgia, her opposition, Brian Kemp, was the then sitting Secretary Of State.
The person who decides how elections should be processed, reviewed and managed is also a candidate? That's a more than fair reason for Abrams to doubt the results of that election.
But she didn't choose that as the narrative. She chose the identity politics path instead (when the logistical/structural argument was more sound and would have more impact on future elections) because it would
weaponize her fund raising capability and so she could shock market with not uncommon radical leftist "victim" virtue signaling.
Abrams had every right to question her first run for Governor. How she did it sucked. She chose to monetize it.
In the same way, Trump had every right to question the 2020 election results. Something was clearly wrong. ON BOTH SIDES. I'm not going to absolve the GOP and the Trump regime from doing some home cooking. But Trump wasn't wrong in that the establishment Democrats were doing everything possible to ensure the 2020 general cycle was not a free and fair election. But how he ended up doing it sucked. J6 was tragic and idiotic. It did not serve the greater good of the American people. And he chose to monetize it.
The problem with many of the radical leftists here in the PSF is they cannot separate the issue that just because Trump might be wrong doesn't remove the reality that he might actually have a point. Some major critical points that should be explored and investigated, not for his sake, but the sake of the entire Republic and it's future.
Abrams was wrong, she actually went to the NY Times and said, "I Won", but it doesn't mean she didn't have a point.
If I was Trump, I wouldn't concede either. Then again I wouldn't engage in what he did in J6 because it was toxic and stupid. I certainly wouldn't try to run a grifter fund raising routine off of it.
And if I was Abrams, I also would not have conceded. Brian Kemp cannot be both the sitting Secretary Of State of Georgia and oversee the election under which he is a candidate. I'm a hard line Conservative, but I'm no tribalist, and that's also unacceptable. Not for Abrams, but again, unacceptable for the entire Republic. But then again I wouldn't have done what Abrams did and played the intersectional victim card and cashed out over a 100 million dollars in fundraising out of it.
Some of you radical leftists might find Trump totally pathetic and anyone who voted for him totally pathetic. You know what I find pathetic? I'm a hard line Conservative and there are endless of gaggles of radical leftists in the PSF and I'm the ONLY ONE who has brought up the conflict of interest of Brian Kemp as then SOS and also simultaneously a gubernatorial candidate in the same state. The radical leftists here don't actually know the Georgia battleground. Nearly all just blindly repeat the shock marketing click bait outrage culture memes they are getting from Big Social Media. I'm also the ONLY ONE who pointed out when Trump called Kemp, while many radical leftists here were calling for Trump's head, that Trump asked Kemp to use his emergency powers as Governor to override then SOS Brad Raffensperger. That's within the bounds of the actual Georgia State Constitution. Even if you want to nail Trump for what's unethical ( it was unethical, I wouldn't have made that phone call, that phone call was idiotic), it doesn't make it illegal as most of the activist complicit left leaning Big Social Media was claiming. And I'm the ONLY ONE who pointed out Georgia SOS Brad Raffenspeger did not adhere to actual Georgia election guidelines for a "risk limiting audit" of the election. I pointed out that the creator of the RLA, Philip Stark, openly denounced what Raffensperger was doing because it was a desperate move to save his own job after taking massive fire for the logistical failures of the Dominion Voting Systems roll out in the primaries.
That Trump should not have done what he did on J6 is not a grand sweeping catch all to change the reality that any GOP candidate, even one not named Trump, should have cause to question the 2020 election cycle.
There are a lot of low information voters here in the PSF, but as I always say, it's their free speech. I'm not here to rob anyone of free speech, I'm actually one of the biggest proponents of the principles of actual free speech in the FBG forums. But the radical left can't just skirt through the actual principles of law and make up public policy and avoid contextual complexity because they want to burn The Big Cheeto.
Trust me, I'm more weary of Trump than many of you radical leftists. I'm not the only Conservative and/or Republican to feel that way. But the truth is many of you radical leftists aren't really that truly weary of Trump.
It's more of "I Hate You For Not Leaving Me!" If you didn't have Trump as a ramp on point to attack all Conservatives and the GOP, you'd have nothing else. If Trump walked up to a camera today and said he was leaving politics forever and never running for POTUS again, I don't think many of you zealots would actually know what to do next.
All some of you have is reckless hate against Republicans in defense of your "tribe" And if the center point of that hate is no longer available, then what exactly do some of you have left?
Donald Trump is a 4th rate failed reality TV star, a narcissist, a grifter and he's actually an idiot most of the time. But just because he's wrong about many things doesn't mean he is removed from the ability to actually having a point worth considering on a broad scale.
The Democratic Party and the radical leftists here need to give the American people something more than "Not Trump"
Donald Trump will not save this Republic. But neither will the reckless hate of the radical left. Think about that. I mean actually sit down and face that and ask yourself if unrelenting TDS is doing anything for the greater good of this Republic.
he is loving this.
Bookmarked for November.
