Or if Nader wasn’t an egotist spoiler candidate.

Or if Jeb! hadn’t played stupid games with counting the goddamn votes.

Or if Roger fucking Stone hadn’t staged a riot specifically to ruin that counting process.

Or if the Supreme Court hadn’t already been corrupted by Federalist Society bastards.

And this stupid instance scolds people for “celebrating death,” like it’s any rando commenter’s fault that an actively harmful force died old and rich. As if newspapers in 1945 should’ve read “Hitler dies, unfortunately.” Nah: you can read some obituaries with great joy. You wanna stop people from sharing the list they look forward to? Sure, okay, if I squint I can see how that’s untoward. But it is impossible to do harm… after.

This man is partly responsible for empowering absolute monsters. His failures may have contributed to threats to human life on this planet. Now he’s dead. I can manage a response stronger than than apathy. Don’t expect anything kinder.