Oh, just shut up, Stacey.
Is she still around? I would have thought that Abrams had so beclowned herself that even MSNBC wouldn’t…no, never mind, that’s impossible. I was about to write that even MSNBC wouldn’t be so silly as to give her a forum, but at this point MSNBC is so desperate to keep woke (and Trump Derangement) alive that it will give any progressive hack air time.
In an interview with Chris Hayes (talk about “Oh shut up!”) the always self-promoting Georgia “voting rights activist” wanted everyone to understand that Donald Trump won the 2024 election “but it wasn’t a landslide. It was an evenly divided nation. He got more people, but this was not the seismic shift where 57, 58 percent of America said no. It was less than 50 percent of the electorate who said this is what we want.”
Abrams is a laughing stock, or if you aren’t laughing at her, then you are part of the American Left’s problem. She managed to run twice for Georgia governor without any serious qualifications, losing both times. While the Axis was condemning Donald Trump for insisting that the 2020 election had been stolen and refusing to concede, Abrams was refusing to concede that her first loss to Republican Brian Kemp for the Georgia statehouse wasn’t legitimate while her party and its press embraced a damning, “Well, in her case, it’s OK!” double standard because she’s black, female, and “gooble gobble one of us!”
Abrams aggressively campaigned to be Biden’s DEI VP, engaging in nauseating grandstanding like the puff piece that produced the photo above of the portly Abrams posing like Batman. She faked out Major League Baseball and it’s wokey Commissioner to pull the 2022 All-Star game from Atlanta based on her insistence that Georgia’s then-new election reform law was “racist” and would suppress voting. The cancelled All-Star hoopla only hurt Atlanta businesses and the people of the city (and the state that MLB moved the annual event to, Colorado, had election laws that weren’t much different) so Stacey, having the integrity of a wet paper bag, flip-lopped and criticized the move. Then, of course, because she is wrong about almost everything, that “voter suppression” law produced a significant uptick in voting in 2024.
Oh…MLB is holding its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta. Georgia has the same election laws that it had in 2022.
Why isn’t Abrams walled up somewhere like the victim in “The Cask of Amontillado,” with a paper bag over her head and duct tape over her mouth? Why hasn’t she changed her name and undergone radical plastic surgery? Oh, can’t you guess Stacey’s game? She’s saying, “The election was so close that if it had been me running as the black, female Vice-President who never had to win a primary to get the nomination, I would have won!” In other words, Stacey would have run a better campaign than Kamala Harris, and with the lying, biased, almost entirely anti-Trump news media working for her like they worked for Harris, she would have won, so there!
A blind aardvark might have run a better campaign than Harris, so Abrams may be right for once, but so what? As Ethics Alarms has pointed out several times in its immediate post-election analysis, “landslide” is a poor descriptor of what happened, and the conservative pundits who continue to use it are being foolish, since even the likes of Stacey Abrams can rebut them. Trump won by less than 2%. But if the Democrats are going to use that thin reed to deny the significance of Trump, despite two impeachments, a year of political prosecutions designed to take him out, and eight years of the most biased vilification by the press any President or presidential candidate has faced in our nation’s history, making gains in every demographic, flipping crucial Democratic states and attracting voters Abrams’ party assumed were in their metaphorical pockets, then their party really is doomed. Heck, if it pays attention to hucksters like Stacey Abrams and the crazies on MSNBC, it’s doomed.
As in the 2016 election, the fact that a few states like California and New York are clinically over the rainbow masks how far the Democratic Party has migrated from the basic values and perceptions of the American public. Polling (yeah, yeah, I know, polls..) suggest that about 57% of the public is now optimistic about the Trump Presidency, and that he will have some time in 2025 where the bulk of Americans are rooting for him to succeed. This was the way it used to be when new Presidents arrived until 2016 and the advent of the 2016 Post Election Ethics Train Wreck authored by the news media, the “resistance” and Democrats. It’s the way it is supposed to be and how our system works best.
This time around, Trump’s inauguration parties will not be relegated to community theater performers and “American Idol” rejects for entertainment. The margin of victory is irrelevant. Trump’s win was a cultural rejection of unethical ideas, unethical policies, dishonest journalism and people like Stacey Abrams. The fact that anyone in the party is willing to take her seriously is smoking gun proof of the Left’s desperate situation, mostly of its own making.
Abrams isn’t the only one in denial, of course. The Missouri Independent’s so-called “autopsy” of the election similarly manages to miss the metaphorical Grand Canyon for the pebbles by also concentrating on Trump’s margin in the popular vote. Here one of the many tells in the article: “Trump claims that his supporters “showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory“…However, the part about his supporters showing up “in record numbers” is not true. Trump received 77,302,164 votes out of 155,477,242 votes cast. This equates to about 49.72%. This means that more than 50% of voters cast their ballot for someone other than Trump. It is also worth pointing out that the number of votes Trump received in 2024 is substantially less than the 81,283,501 votes that Biden received in 2020. In other words, Trump’s “massive” victory was about 4 million votes less that Biden’s victory.”
Yes, we know that Trump always exaggerates and claims things are “the greatest,” “the most” and “the best.” Is that all you’ve got???
At this point, I think it is.
Ethics Alarms 
Sorry. 2020 Biden win skeptic here.
I think the fact Trump managed to win the electoral college despite the Democrats’ stranglehold on the ballot box is incredibly significant. I was convinced the Dems would successfully harvest ballots all across the country and assure the win of even a blind aardvark. The fact Trump managed to actually carry the electoral college in the face of the Dems’ ballot shenanigans is indicative of a massive win. Add onto that the fact he won a plurality of the popular vote, again, against all odds, is arguably tantamount to a landslide.
And of course, don’t forget that Trump was not supposed to win. There was supposed to never be another non-Democrat president. We were supposed to be living in the Age a Aquarius. The Dems are on the right side of history. There was a new vibe. The country was joyful and brat. Had Trump prevailed by a W. Bush margin, that would have been a mandate, all things considered.
I agree. The fact that the election was called relatively quickly, absent the weeks of nail-biting as Trump’s leads in critical states all narrowed and disappeared while suspicious activity was afoot, suggests that Trump’s victory was far more crushing than the numbers report.
Of course, that depends on the paradigm that the 2020 election was plagued by numerous shenanigans at the ballot box. If those shenanigans are just a right-wing invention, and the 2020 election was as pure as driven snow, maybe the Trump victory isn’t as much of a landslide.
I know from my perspective, the deck was so stack against Trump that even an electoral college victory is huge. That he won the popular vote is simply phenomenal. So the landslide analogy may actually be based on the gap between expectation and reality, rather than on the vote counts between the two candidates.
So the landslide analogy may actually be based on the gap between expectation and reality, rather than on the vote counts between the two candidates.
That’s exactly what it is. “Landslide” is being used for “across the board, surprising, momentous, significant.” But it’s still the wrong word.
I agree, Ryan.
Trump may not have won the popular vote á la Reagan, but Abrams ignores what happened in down-ballot races and demographic shifts in Republicans’ favors, along with victories in states that were supposed to put Harris over the finish line. For example, Ted Cruz was supposed to be annihilated in Texas but his win demolished his opponent by huge margins where solidly Democrat/blue counties voted for Cruz, especially along the border counties. Additionally, there were seismic shifts in solidly Democrat voting blocks (larger amounts of black and Hispanic men, and women, voting for Trump). So, when you consider those factors, Trump did win a mandate.
jvb
Okay, okay, okay.
“Landslide” can go away. But let’s stick with the geological metaphors. How about “earthquake.” The results were “earthshaking.” The electoral realities “shifted beneath Lefty’s feet” so as to be “seismic.” A number of lefty strongholds were “washed away in a tsunami like wave.”
Anyone? Beuhler?
I know, potAto, potahto, but still. A lambasting is a lamb basting.
jvb
I can think of all manner of snark that involve the words “Stacey Abrams” and “seismic”, but it seems most variations on that theme have already been covered on TwitteX
As it stands now, VP Harris – and I can’t WAIT until she no longer actually holds that office – received 6.2 million fewer votes than President Biden – and I can’t WAIT until he no longer actually holds that office – did in 2020. That’s the full population of Maryland.
President Trump received 3.1 million more votes than he did in 2020. So do we think half of the “lost” 6.2 million Biden voters in 2020 switched to Trump in 2024…and the other half stayed home rather than pull the lever for Harris?
Anyways…Trump won the Electoral College, which matters. Trump won the popular vote, which doesn’t matter one whit, except to Democrats (and only then when it matters to them). But they thought Harris was a lock for the popular vote. Trump won all seven of the hotly-contested swing states. Some were very close, but Trump won them all. The not-swing states that some really moronic Democrats thought Harris might win (Iowa, Florida, and Texas) were won by Trump by double digits. Trump performed better than projections in nearly every demographic.
All of that, on a budget that was no more than 1/3 – and probably less than that – of what the Harris/Walz campaign spent. All of that, while 21.5 hours of every liberal news media day was spent bashing Tump/Vance, labeling him an existential threat, calling him Hitler, his followers Nazis and fascists.
So…a landslide? Maybe not, so Ms. Abrams may be right. But it was still pretty convincing.
“All of that, on a budget that was no more than 1/3 – and probably less than that – of what the Harris/Walz campaign spent. All of that, while 21.5 hours of every liberal news media day was spent bashing Tump/Vance, labeling him an existential threat, calling him Hitler, his followers Nazis and fascists.”
Don’t leave out “All of that, despite having the Justice Department weaponized against him, and thus having to spend a boatload of time and money dealing with the multiple bogus cases he was involved in, including the one where they managed to get him labeled “convicted felon”, the one the dishonest brokers have used to label him a “rapist”, (their word, not mine), and the real estate one where the judgement required him to post a $464 million bond, later lowered to $175 million.”
Also don’t leave out “All of that, despite at least two assassination attempts.”
It’s truly remarkable what he overcame to win the election.
Stacey Abrams got to be the President of the United Federation of Planets on “Star Trek: Discovery”; why would she still want to bother with the politics of only one country on one planet of the future UFP? — Catherine McClarey(Tried logging in with my Facebook credentials, which always worked on my old computer, but on this new computer, the FB login just reloads the same Ethics Alarms post, which doesn’t recognize that I’ve logged in, and repeats the whole login cycle unendingly.)
I did leave those out. Thank you for correcting my oversights.
Slight correction to my previous comment: My husband reminded me that Ms. Abrams was only President of Earth on Star Trek: Discovery, not of the entire United Federation of Planets. Nevertheless, we agreed that she would be far more interested in campaigning for the presidency of the UFP than in attempting yet again to become governor of Georgia, or VP to a Democrat President of just a single country on Earth. (LOL!) — Catherine McClarey(Once again, the Facebook login wasn’t allowing me to post a comment directly on the page of your blog post; sorry!) —– Forwarded Message —– From: Catherine McClarey mcclarey@sbcglobal.netTo: Ethics Alarms comment+zpeuekr9h8wlab2gpkrlgpl7zjd9zp065cki60us1fmxjmykeg@comment.wordpress.comSent: Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 08:28:40 PM CSTSubject: Re: [Ethics Alarms] Jon commented on Ethics Dunce and Human Smoking Gun: The Ridiculous Stacey Abrams Stacey Abrams got to be the President of the United Federation of Planets on “Star Trek: Discovery”; why would she still want to bother with the politics of only one country on one planet of the future UFP? — Catherine McClarey(Tried logging in with my Facebook credentials, which always worked on my old computer, but on this new computer, the FB login just reloads the same Ethics Alarms post, which doesn’t recognize that I’ve logged in, and repeats the whole login cycle unendingly.)
“So do we think half of the “lost” 6.2 million Biden voters in 2020 switched to Trump in 2024…and the other half stayed home rather than pull the lever for Harris?”
Consider a third option, Joel. That would be that not all of those Biden votes in 2020 were “real” votes. By that I mean individual voters actually casting ballots. While there almost certainly were voters who favored Biden in 2020 who, for whatever reason, voted Trump in ’24, there were most likely many “votes” for Harris that were never inserted into the count because the state by state voting was secured for Trump election night. No overnight pauses, or other opportunities to do so materialized.
Another Mike,
Oh yeah, I’ve considered it many times and it’s never far away. I’m pretty sure there were a good number of non-real votes in 2020. But when talking to Democrat friends/relatives, I always lead with the notion that members of their own party abandoned it for the Republicans and Trump. It’s a bit mean, but telling them their own party hung Harris/Walz out to dry carries some satisfaction with it. Then if they argue against that possibility, I ask them to tell me where all those votes went…or where they came from for Joe Biden in 2020.
In other words, I try to get them to tell me that some votes were manufactured. That hasn’t been very successful because at that point, I’m usually reminded of “Trump is a felon 34 times over” and “Trump impeached twice”…lather, rinse, repeat.