Biden has just won the election for the 8411460839th time.

This is a joke about the challenges dragging on and invariably failing. You don't need to have the same conversations we've been having since November again: the pointless repetition is precisely what we're acknowledging with that nonsense string of digits.

Also, we said "election", not "became president" or something. If Trump tries something more radical before January, that's not relevant to the observation.

The election is as done now as it was on 4th November (though the counts continued long after, enough deciding votes were cast by then), we're just living in a world where Trump is somehow not merely a former reality TV star barking nonsense into Twitter.

So we have to pretend like this ongoing, impotent tantrum is a newsworthy event rather than a tedious and ultimately irrelevant formality.

Like, it's not news if a bunch of bigots manage to wrangle a hearing in court and handle themselves with all the legal aplomb of the staff of Paddy's Pub, Philadelphia, except in a "holy shit, look at this wacky shit going on somewhere!" way.

It would honestly not be any stranger than reality if Giuliani had started going on about bird law.

But because it's Trump, and the presidency, and US democracy at stake, we've had to nod along and worry that the entire American judiciary might suddenly decide to entertain the guy with black ichor dribbling down his face.

"Yes, this crack team of legal pariahs with a typo-ridden brief filed to the wrong court, which doesn't demonstrate injury to their client and whose only evidence is what some guy thought might be happening while he was out of the room taking a shit, might be onto something!"

"Definitely gonna order a do-over of the largest, most complicated election in US history in the middle of a pandemic for that."

Like with the counts that dragged on for weeks, the media is so hungry for ALL NEWS, ALL THE TIME that they had to pretend the result was balanced on a knife-edge. They had to at least *pretend* the court cases were worth considering because otherwise the story ends.

Otherwise it's just, "Yeah, he really is a big fucking baby who conned all of us for 4 years and we let him because controversy equals clicks so whaddaya gonna do, huh?"

Trump's career trajectory is an indictment of a thoroughly diseased media landscape, and acknowledging that he is as pathetic as he is would be too much of an admission of culpability.

If he is the creature he demonstrably is - and it has never been clearer than now precisely what he is - then everyone looks very, very foolish for allowing such a miserable, empty husk of a man to ascend to such heights of power and influence.