IT’S OVER FOR TRUMP, SAVE FOR HIS INFANTILE KVETCHING

There’s plenty of noise but no cause for confusion as President Donald Trump vents about how the election turned out and vows to subvert it even still. This truth is self-evident: Joe Biden will become president Jan. 20, Calvin Woodward reported for the Associated Press (AP).

The machinery of government and democracy has reached that end despite Trump’s attempts to undermine the voters’ will. Trump demanded an “OVERTURN’ of the outcome in a collection of tweets arguing he could only have lost the election if it were ”FIXED.” He attempted to support his case by saying odds-makers on election night heavily favored his reelection, “the so-called ‘bookies,’” as if a gambler’s bet mattered. It doesn’t.

Americans who don’t wish to get caught up in the nitty-gritty of Trump’s attempts to undermine the election can take their cue from one of the many judges who have dismissed the complaints of his team or his allies that the voting or counting was corrupt. “This ship has sailed,” said US District Judge Linda Parker in throwing out a lawsuit challenging Biden’s win in Michigan this week. Not only has the ship sailed but it has reached safe harbor and dropped anchor.

Biden’s victory was already certified by the Electoral College. There are no more ways to manipulate the electoral votes that have been cast and sent to the Capitol for counting on Jan. 6. Fifty states and Washington, D.C. have all said Trump’s victory exists only in his mind.