Quick take: What is owed to the loser(s)?

This is over.  Finally.  The transition has begun.  Several observations have been made about why Donald Trump pushed this far beyond any point of reasonability.  Beyond, of course, the obvious point that Donald Trump has never done a reasonable thing in his life, especially when his fragile ego is at stake.

First, he needed "time to process."  A losing candidate does not deserve "time to process."  Democracy is about what the country deserves.  Not Donald Trump and his fragile, warped psyche.

Second, Trump's voters deserved a fight, or something.  No.  They deserved to have their votes counted.  They did have their votes counted.  After that, they deserved the truth.  The truth is that they lost.  At that point, they suck it up, like fucking losers.

I am reminded of a phenomenon that one has to face as a hard grader, on occasion.  The "grade-grubber," who believes that completing the assignment is only the first stage of receiving a grade.  The second stage is negotiating.  Also known as "whining," if they don't get the grades they want.

What is owed to the loser is the truth.  Nothing more, nothing less.

Yet you may notice that there are a lot of losers in this country.  Beyond the obvious implications of that phrase, there are a lot of unhappy people.  We also almost had some really bad things happen.

This weekend, I'll have some comments about why competitive elections are the bane of democracy.