“He can only cheat if the vote is close,” I’ve written countless times the last two years, “and this one won’t be close.”
Greg Olear
Nov 3
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/on-being-wro...L6UN-WS_y0
Will the MAGA terrorists try and intimidate voters? Yes. Will Trump cry foul when things don’t go his way? Yes. Will Russia try and fuck with the election again? Yes. Will the media shit the bed, live-reporting all of this? Yes. Will it be enough to save this mob asset, this hateful bringer of death, from a crushing defeat, and from leaving the premises by noon on January 20? Nyet.
Forget the crushing disappointment of four years ago and look at it objectively. Do we really think that the American people will re-elect this monster, the lone president since Gallup began polling to never once have an approval rating above 50 percent?
A loser so desperate for campaign surrogates that he allows himself to be represented by Jason Miller, a deadbeat dad who looks like a thumb with a face Sharpied on; by Candace Owens, who on Tucker Carlson last night said, in a rare moment of Freudian-slip candor, “You are either on the side of mob rule or you are on the side of law and order, and I am on the side of mob rule;” by compromised politicians like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio; and by his namesake son, who, all joking aside, appears to be one rail away from a stint in rehab?
A racist who, in his last visit to Ohio yesterday, led the MAGA crowd in a “Lebron James sucks” chant, because the Akron native vociferously opposes him? A would-be despot who has erected a series of walls around the White House, and who will spend election night holed up there, instead of at a more festive locale? A science denier who wants to fire Dr. Fauci during a pandemic? A sadist who in the final week of his campaign stranded his ardent supporters for hours on a freezing airport tarmac because his operation is too broke to pay the bus company to bring them back to their cars—not once, not twice, but three times?
Are we really to believe that all these voters flocking to the polls are this determined because they want four more years of this asshole? Even Barack Obama had a drop off of five percent in his second election; do we really think Trump will receive more votes than the 62,984,828 he got in 2016? That Joe won’t best Hillary’s 65,853,514 in epic fashion, and easily exceed the 69,498,516 that Obama earned in 2008 (the most popular votes ever)?
Put another way: do we really think Trump will break the popular vote record? Or that his Electoral College tally will enable him to cobble together a photo-finish victory? Even in our clunky, antediluvian system, there is a correlation between popular and electoral votes.
“He can only cheat if the vote is close,” I’ve written countless times the last two years, “and this one won’t be close.” Corrupt officials threw the 1972 Olympic men’s basketball final to the Russians, costing the U.S. the gold medal, because it was a one-point game. No number of corrupt officials would have affected the outcome of, say, the United States versus Nigeria—the blowout in which Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points in 14 minutes.
Shit, even the Trump people don’t think this is going to be close. That’s why they are in court, fighting to suppress the vote—and losing bigly.
Greg Olear
Nov 3
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/on-being-wro...L6UN-WS_y0
Will the MAGA terrorists try and intimidate voters? Yes. Will Trump cry foul when things don’t go his way? Yes. Will Russia try and fuck with the election again? Yes. Will the media shit the bed, live-reporting all of this? Yes. Will it be enough to save this mob asset, this hateful bringer of death, from a crushing defeat, and from leaving the premises by noon on January 20? Nyet.
Forget the crushing disappointment of four years ago and look at it objectively. Do we really think that the American people will re-elect this monster, the lone president since Gallup began polling to never once have an approval rating above 50 percent?
A loser so desperate for campaign surrogates that he allows himself to be represented by Jason Miller, a deadbeat dad who looks like a thumb with a face Sharpied on; by Candace Owens, who on Tucker Carlson last night said, in a rare moment of Freudian-slip candor, “You are either on the side of mob rule or you are on the side of law and order, and I am on the side of mob rule;” by compromised politicians like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio; and by his namesake son, who, all joking aside, appears to be one rail away from a stint in rehab?
A racist who, in his last visit to Ohio yesterday, led the MAGA crowd in a “Lebron James sucks” chant, because the Akron native vociferously opposes him? A would-be despot who has erected a series of walls around the White House, and who will spend election night holed up there, instead of at a more festive locale? A science denier who wants to fire Dr. Fauci during a pandemic? A sadist who in the final week of his campaign stranded his ardent supporters for hours on a freezing airport tarmac because his operation is too broke to pay the bus company to bring them back to their cars—not once, not twice, but three times?
Are we really to believe that all these voters flocking to the polls are this determined because they want four more years of this asshole? Even Barack Obama had a drop off of five percent in his second election; do we really think Trump will receive more votes than the 62,984,828 he got in 2016? That Joe won’t best Hillary’s 65,853,514 in epic fashion, and easily exceed the 69,498,516 that Obama earned in 2008 (the most popular votes ever)?
Put another way: do we really think Trump will break the popular vote record? Or that his Electoral College tally will enable him to cobble together a photo-finish victory? Even in our clunky, antediluvian system, there is a correlation between popular and electoral votes.
“He can only cheat if the vote is close,” I’ve written countless times the last two years, “and this one won’t be close.” Corrupt officials threw the 1972 Olympic men’s basketball final to the Russians, costing the U.S. the gold medal, because it was a one-point game. No number of corrupt officials would have affected the outcome of, say, the United States versus Nigeria—the blowout in which Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points in 14 minutes.
Shit, even the Trump people don’t think this is going to be close. That’s why they are in court, fighting to suppress the vote—and losing bigly.
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