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Ten Month Anniversary

Over the weekend we had the ten-month anniversary of an attempt to overturn the presidential election by force. Over sixty times the lawyers for the loser in that election showed up in court asking to overturn results in various parts of the country. According to the transcripts they showed up without any evidence of fraud, and the cases were summarily dismissed. 

Still, the loser in the election claimed that he couldn't possibly have lost, that he wasn't a loser, that too man people loved him for him to have lost. Sadly his pathetic childlike whimpers were amplified by various news organizations that supported him. When they crossed the line into libel about companies that supplied voting machines they quickly retracted those claims when sued.

A majority of the Republican party believes the loser in the election was cheated. They're not real clear on how that could have happened, since it didn't, but they believe him nonetheless.

Time has moved on. President Biden has done his job. Sometimes well, sometimes he could have done better. Given the travesty that his losing opponent supervised during his reign, urging violence against people of color and various citizens that disagreed with him, dismantling environmental protections in the face of oncoming climate disaster, and so on, and so on, I am still very proud that my vote helped elect President Biden.

But it's been ten months now. The organizers of the rally are well-known. Capitol police officers died. Why have the cabal so greedy to hold on to power that led to the attempt to kill people in the Capitol not been charged?  I know that the loser in the presidential election has built his career on a large staff of lawyers. That is how he gets his way. Ten months though. The insurrection failed thankfully. The attempt was a heresy against the Republic. 

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