I Have No Intention of Celebrating the Blue Tsunami Until Scott Colom Is Officially Elected

I would like the nation to know that I have no intention of celebrating the events of last Tuesday until Mississippi gets its damn act together and sends Scott Colom to the Senate. The man is too valuable a personality—and his election far too significant—to delay his appearance in Washington any longer. And haste is now required, because the election-denying harpies are gathering in the lush canopies of the Intertube forests again.First in flight is Mike Lindell. Pillow Dude is not satisfied with squandering his late-night TV millions on quixotic paranoid fandangos. He promises that, next Monday, he will reveal the Real Story about how the voices in his head stole all the elections last week. The president already is on board, as if he ever really disembarked from the SS Crazytown. From Time:“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump asked in a Truth Social post early Monday. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote,” he continued, adding: “It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”Meanwhile, Lindell keeps digging. From NBC News:Lindell was hit with a $2 million defamation judgment related to those claims last year. While Lindell had previously made unfounded allegations about foreign interference, the allegations this time around are focused on “matching algorithmic patterns.” Trump now appears to be focused on the numbers, as well, but it’s unclear which polls he was referring to when he wrote, “How could the Polls be so wrong???”Yes, Bunky. The polls were wrong. They underestimated the size of the catastrophe the president would bring down on Republicans at every level of government. This has resulted in a vigorous revival of the Floor Space School of election denial. This is the one that puts up a map of a state’s counties and then expresses amazement that the votes are heavily weighted toward those places where people actually live. Rocks and lizards do not vote, people, although several of the latter have received Cabinet positions recently.And there seems to be some weird concentration on the city of Galveston and its environs. As best as I can understand it, the deniers point out that Ken Paxton carried Galveston County 52–46, and if Paxton carried Galveston County by six points, how in God’s name could James Talarico have won the election by 12 points?Math is hard.