The tragic part of Donald Trump letting this particular genie out of the bottle is that now we can’t get it back in. This is the ugly part. We went for all the years we did in this republic, with losing presidential candidates graciously conceding — and if anybody in this world had a reason to cry “Stolen Election!” it was Al Gore in 2000.
Gore didn’t choose to do that. He could have and nobody would have blamed him if he did. As a matter of fact, a lot of people were in favor of it, because they knew all too well the shenanigans that went on down in Florida that year, with the likes of Roger Stone stirring the pot, the Brooks Brothers riot and the hanging chads and all of it.
No, Al Gore saw the bigger picture and he didn’t want to damage the republic. Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t care who or what gets smashed. If his ego is a party to any issue, then whatever other stakes may exist are of no consequence.
So Trump created the Big Lie and now the biggest losers in the lunatic fringe of the GOP are stoking its fires to keep it alive. And now, Rachel Hamm, she who was commissioned by Jesus Christ (a tenant in her closet FYI) to run for secretary of state of California, she says, has resoundingly lost. And she’s doing a Kandiss Taylor over it.
Because, thanks to Trump, every Republican candidate who loses now claims the election was stolen and refuses to concede, Rachel Hamm is alleging fraud in a race she lost by hundreds of thousands of votes. https://t.co/Keng8HlD1F pic.twitter.com/eRwzErNdLK
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 10, 2022
I’ll tell you what makes me sick about these people, Hamm and Kandiss Taylor (who got 3% of the vote but claimed Brian Kemp, who got 73% cheated) is that they drive people away from church. Their fantasy land version of Christianity is a turn off to most normal minded people and actual Christians are appalled. I used to identify as a Christian myself and I went to church for many years as well, but when all this prosperity consciousness and evangelical activity began to become the face of Christianity, I withdrew. I am not alone in that, so far as I can ascertain.
I withdrew because the word “Christian” has become synonymous with this level of blatant idiocy and delusion.
Rachel Hamm says things that are so far out there that she seriously belongs in a mental health program of some sort. She doesn’t belong anywhere near the public trust. I wouldn’t trust this woman with a parking meter.
Still and all, she got over 376,000 votes. Wow. Oh well, California has a huge population, it stands to reason that a certain number of people there are insane and want to vote into office a woman who thinks that she killed her neighbors, who were witches, she says, with the power of her thought. It’s frightening how many people there are who have given up reality and opt for mindless adherence to a cult.
She has a little under 12% of the votes, and is way back in third place. Weber has four times as many.
She doesn’t have to concede, but she *has* lost.