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Tanuki: Republicans and their pet causes really got beat in voting yesterday! Fox: How's it feel to win all the unimportant things? Tanuki: It wasn't just that the Dems won. They wrecked the GOP like Gozilla versus Bambi. Fox: It's just the typical pendulum swinging. Tanuki: It makes me wonder if the 2024 election really was rigged.... Fox: Hey, that'sour thing. stay in your lane!

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This was a heck of a referendum on the Republican party: Pennsylvania keeps its Democratic justices; Abigail Spanberger, Ghazala Hashmi, Jay Jones in Virginia; Zohran Mamdani in New York City; Prop 50 passed in California; and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey. I'm sure there are many more smaller wins I'm missing. Just for balance I put "republican wins yesterday" into Google and all I got back were articles about Democratic wins and Trump complaining about them. So that's just gravy.

I've been trying, as I get older, to tamp down my tendency to believe conspiracy theories. When I was a lot younger I thought of it as a game, since I was a fan of Robert Anton Wilson and Illuminatus!. Of course I should've paid more attention to Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, where we learn that conspiracies are all bullshit but dangerous anyway, perhaps even more than if they were real. Well, Bush v. Gore and the Brooks Brother riot made it clear it's not a game, it's very real, and lives are on the line every fucking day.

I admit there's no proof but what worries me is it's not possible for there to be any proof. Keep in mind that there were voting irregularities back in 2016 and a number of districts found they couldn't legally complete a recount because everything was so messed up. So here we are in 2024 and how exactly can anyone determine if the president was elected fraudulently? There's no evidence to be had. There are some seeming statistical anomalies but that's it.

Is it possible to explain the utter repudiation of Republicans and their odious ideology across the board by noting that voters tend to blame problems on incumbents -- the same thing that maybe propelled Trump to victory in 2024? Is it possible to say that some number of Trump voters have changed their minds after seeing what he's doing now that he's actually president? Sure. You can explain things that way. Maybe.

I'm still a little suspicious.