If You Can't "Put Up" on Claims of Election Fraud, It's Time to Shut Up!

 I'm tired of seeing Donald Trump's permanent snarl as he whines, gripes and lies through his teeth about election fraud.  It's time for the news media to shut that racket off and quit giving it attention.  I mean, good grief, it's been nine months.  If it actually did happen, with as many people who have been looking for it and trying to find it to try and give Donald some kind of credibility, there's been plenty of time and opportunity to move beyond innuendo, false claims and bamboo detecting machines and into some real evidence that more people voted for Trump than got counted, or fewer people voted for Biden than got counted.  It's long past time to see evidence of those claims.  Come on, something, anything more than the handful of routine issues that occur with every election.  

No? 

Well, then you know the saying.  Put up or shut up!  We're long past put up, so it's time for you to shut up. 

It should be found in a psychiatric diagnosis manual somewhere that refusing to accept reality is defined as insanity.  The anxiety level of people who think there's a conspiracy around every corner and it is always aimed at denying those who think like they do their rights must be off the charts, to say nothing of the kind of ego it must take to believe that the world is always out to get you.  Anxiety, paranoia and anosognosia are, indeed, signs of insanity.  They are considered primary symptoms of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.  That is about the only explanation that exists for continuing to claim that there was widespread voter fraud and that Trump really won.  If you can't accept his defeat as reality, then the only logical and reasonable conclusion is that you're insane. 

This was the most audited election in history.  There's been more checking on, sifting through, counting and recounting of ballots than in any other election in memory.  And there have certainly been more court cases filed, and more legal scrutiny of this election by the courts than any other.  Courts, I might add, where Trump-appointed judges serve, and where he still seems to think that they owe him something because of their position.  Expecting a judge to rule in your favor because you appointed him is corrupt.  Trump expects favors from every judge he appointed.  That says an awful lot, doesn't it?  And it's quite a compliment to those judges who, in spite of whatever career ambitions they might have had, decided that the constitution and the law was the best way to make rulings in cases, not misplaced loyalty to a con artist.   

There's plenty of time following an election to follow up on voter complaints or problems before totals are certified and candidates take office.  In one case after another, the Trump campaign came up with some real whoppers when it came to making claims of voter fraud.  But they never provided any real evidence.  How do you expect the court to rule in your favor if all you give them is far-fetched speculation?  All that evidence that you claimed you had, where is it and why didn't the courts decide to investigate?  

I'll tell you why.  There was no evidence whatsoever of "massive voter fraud".  None.  Look, Trump was planting these ideas in the minds of his deporables ever since the last election.  And as the next one approached, and it became apparent that the American people were not behind him and were going to reject his bid for a second term, he worked harder to plant the idea that the Democrats would perpetuate some kind of fraud, even as he himself was working to fix the election results in his favor.  It was a bit more difficult this time as election officials were on to him, but he still managed to get outside help.  

There's nothing new here. Trump supporters, especially those on whom he turned and attacked when they wouldn't support his lies, are not only weary of having to respond, they are rightfully fearful that a lot of Republicans are going to pay the price for these lies at the ballot box.  And even though there is nothing I'd rather see more than a boatload of Trumpies sink into defeat after the mid-terms, I think the country would be a lot better off with an election based on debate of the issues and not aggravation over more lies told by Donald Trump.  

The time for putting up is long past.  Trump and the Trumpies need to close their pie hole.