I haven't heard anything about the 2020 election than I haven't heard before, either from Uncle Ken or from any other news source. More details may have come to light, but nothing that significantly changes the outcome. Trump refused to acknowledge that he had lost the election and spent the next year or so unsuccessfully trying to overturn the results. The worst thing he did was incite his followers to attack the Capitol Building while Congress was in session. Call me "old fashioned", but that's treason in my book. I said at the time that impeaching him was a mistake, since they knew that the Senate would never convict him. They should have waited until he was out of office and tried him in a regular court. Now they seem to be trying to impeach him all over again, which is impossible since he is no longer in office. They still could try him in a regular court, it might not stick because of the double jeopardy law, but it's worth a try. I understand that several civil suits have been filed, which they can do because that doesn't count as double jeopardy.
Speaking of courts, an attitude such as mine would certainly be unacceptable if I was a member of a jury in a criminal or civil trial, but I'm not, and neither is Uncle Ken. We are both merely spectators of this spectacle. As such, we have no obligation to pay any attention to it at all if we don't want to. Meanwhile, our attention is being redirected to Ring Number Two in this circus, where the long simmering abortion issue has been whipped up to a conflagration.
I don't consider voting to be like betting on a sporting event, which I have never done anyway. I don't vote for who I think is going to win, I vote for who I want to win. I only have one vote, and if everybody else votes the wrong way, there's nothing I can do about it.
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