We should secede after this election, or force them to do so

No matter who wins the Presidential election this November, the losing side will not accept defeat.  Don't believe me?  There remains a significant number of Democrats, including candidate Hillary Clinton, who have repeatedly called Donald Trump an illegitimate president.  Clinton did so most recently in the fall of 2019 during a CBS interview, which is years after the results were certified against her.  

If Trump wins again, this unhinged minority chorus will morph into a malignant majority who cannot bring themselves to understand how any sane human being could rationally vote for Trump on purpose.  So based on very recent past history, I can confidently predict that if Trump wins the presidency again, a significant number of Americans will deny that he has done so.

If the cards fall the other way and Trump is not re-elected, there are millions of us who will not accept a flawed and illegal election in which votes were counted past deadlines, voter fraud was conducted on a huge and organized scale using unrequested mail in ballots, and in which the media has played the role of Democrat drum beater for the last four years.

No matter which way things eventually fall out, whoever doesn't get their man in the White House won't be happy and the winners will have a huge problem dealing with those unhappy losers for the next four years.  America will be divided and that's never healthy, so what should be done?

Secede.  

There's certainly precedent for it.  If you're unhappy that your guy lost, leave the Union.  In fact, secession should be required of the losing side.  Secession could be the sharp shock that heals the wounds of this everlasting torment, much like a divorce can allow warring parties to take leave of each other before one kills the other.

Thus I propose this win-win proposition:  all those states who vote their Electoral College electors for Donald Trump get to have him as their president for the next four years.  Those states voting for Joe Biden get to have him as their president.  Whoever has the most states gets to call himself President of the United States.  The other guy can pick another name for his new country.  

Most people will thus be in states loyal to the man they voted for.  If not, now they'll have somewhere to which to move.  No need to stay in a country run by a man you oppose when you can cross a state line and live under the guy you did vote for.

The new country can form a style of government of their choosing and perhaps open diplomatic relations with the USA.  If the borders of these two new countries are non-contiguous, so what?  Alaska and Hawaii don't touch any other state and yet are part of the whole.  A checkerboard approach can work again.

So whoever wins gets to stay and whoever loses gets to leave.  Secession, the solution to make everybody happy.

Sturgis - the aftermath

I got curious why we haven't heard anything else about the Sturgis biker rally a couple of weeks ago.  Supposedly all that partying together was going to unleash hell with Covid-19 infections.  Since the rally, we've heard...nothing.

So what happened with the terrible apocalypse?  As best I can tell from scrolling through news sites, liberal sites like NBC and others, there were 103 confirmed cases of people "connected to" the event in about ten states.  That's cases, not deaths, not necessarily even sickness, just cases.

News reports say there were approximately 460,000 vehicles at the rally, down from about 500,000 last year, but still a shitload of people.  So out of several hundred thousand people, we have 103 confirmed cases?  That's an infection rate of around .02 percent.  Either bikers are incredibly healthy, incredibly lucky, or herd immunity may be taking hold.  But I guess since the infection rate didn't come off as planned, the media aren't covering it.  They're not the least bit curious about it because it doesn't help their case, so there's no reporting of it at all.

We don't have a pandemic; we have a casedemic where math and sense is getting tossed out the window and potentially good news isn't reported at all.  If someone is trying to scare you into doing something, or not doing something, without evidence and without allowing time for discussion and dissension you should be suspicious as hell.