(long thread)

1/12 I vividly recall driving to work four years ago on the morning of Wednesday, November 9. Donald Trump was declared the President late the night before. Several people I knew were devastated.

2/12 As I was driving to my office at FOX, I was noticing how nothing had changed. The world was still operating much as it had the prior day. Cars were busy on the road. Shop doors on Santa Monica Boulevard were agape and declaring the businesses inside, “Open!”

3/12 I got to the office and people were crying at their desks. I got my standard mug of coffee, sat down, took a sip, took a breath, and thought, ‘It is what it is; this too shall pass.’

I mused and imagined how lightning fast the four years between then and now would go.

4/12 As much as I didn’t want to believe Donald Trump had actually won, he had. And despite how likely I thought his win would be prior to the election, the outcome seemed unfair.

5/12 Hillary had been damaged by an unwarranted and messy FBI investigation. That seemed unfair. It was clear there was foreign interference in the election. That seemed unfair.

6/12 The legitimacy of the election’s outcome seemed questionable. Hillary was up by 2 million votes but lost the Electoral. That seemed unfair.

But we accepted the results. Because that’s what we as Americans do. We trust the system to work the way it is supposed to work.

7/12 Here we are, four lightning fast years later. Donald Trump will lose the popular vote this time by more than 5 million. States have done their jobs.

8/12 The claims about election interference and voter fraud are unproven, lack evidence, and can’t come close to making up the difference for Trump to win the Electoral vote.

9/12 Does it seem unfair? 71 million people feel so. Most importantly, the election results are being gaslit and questioned by people in power who want to keep what they have. McConnell represents a state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Same with Graham, and Cruz.

10/12 Trump’s House enablers all come from districts that Trump’s base resides in. Trump, of course, doesn’t want to admit a fair loss at anything. It’s always a rigged job and it’s always unfair, unless he’s winning. Which he never is.

11/12 Did you know of all the lawsuits Donald Trump has ever filed, he has never won a single one? He has never won at anything. He was fired from The Apprentice. His business prowess is a myth.

12/12 He’s always been a loser. Except for that one time in 2016 when those of us who had an inkling of the shitshow we were in for accepted the results & went on with our lives till we could get him out four years later through the legitimacy of a Democratic vote.

Imagine that.