Well, I'm back. I think.

  

Well. I kept my promise. No more blogging until after the election. Or, did I?

When I made the promise, I foolishly thought the election would end the day after Election Day. You know, like most of the other races for President.

I know that some states take a few days to count absentee ballots and to review provisional ballots - I’ve covered some close ones where every single ballot was important - but I never expected this seemingly endless wait.

I know. Bush v. Gore went on until Dec.12. But, time to end it. Not again.

Before we go on, let me tell you two things that I believe. It’s so you know my bias. First, I think the election is over. Second, I believe Joe Biden won. That will explain the prediction I make a little later, what I think will happen to Donald Trump.

But, first let’s deal with the electors and the Electoral College. You know, that thing we have loved and lived with for a couple of centuries.

Now people who think they are voting for the Presidential candidate whose name is on the ballot are really voting for electors who are pledge to vote for that person when the Electoral College meets.

Who picks them and what they actually do is a little complicated. Let’s just say those strict Constitutionalists don’t want to change things, and certainly don’t want anything radical like using the popular vote to determine who gets elected.

So, keep the system. But, every elector should have to get on a horse or get a horse-drawn carriage and go from their home to Philadelphia to vote. Ride for at least eight hours. Don’t stop at restaurants - there were none back in the 1700’s - and don’t ride on paved roads. We didn’t have those things either.

I’m sure there are enough historic sites on their routes to find the electors a place to sleep. After all, they won’t need electric lights, or even a flush toilet.

I will accept a couple of reasonable changes. After all, I’m not that hard-hearted. None of the electors will have to  bring their slaves. And none of the electors from any of the 13 original colonies will have to pay tolls out of their own pocket.

Too awkward? Well, that’s the reason we have an election in early November and the swearing in of a new President on January 20. It took a long time to get the electors to the historic city where it all began.

OK. Now that I got that out of my system, my prediction about Donald Trump.

He could stay in the White House and fight, but it would create a lot of problems for him. All those states with pending lawsuits against him - for things like non-payment of taxes - would start filing for declaratory judgements against him and his real estate empire. Take a couple of hotels here, a couple of golf courses there…pretty soon he’ll have to go to Deutsche Bank for another loan.

Or, he could just move to Florida and turn Mar-a-Lago into a fort. Secret service protection - all former presidents get it - and no process servers allowed in. But, one of them might buy a ticket and get into one of his parties, or someone in Florida government might leak how much it costs the state for the required security and other services. People in Florida don’t like to pay taxes for things like that.

So, what’s left? Go somewhere else. Someplace without extradition treaties with the United States.

My first thought was Saudi Arabia. He could live like a prince there. Oh, wait, he’s already friends with the prince. He would be treated like family. Oh, wait again. Earlier this year  Mohammed bin Salman, the young crown prince and future king of Saudi Arabia, sent security teams to arrest two of the nation’s senior princes. Scratch that nation off Trump’s list.

How about Russia. He’s pals with Vladimir, but it might not sit well with the Republicans he wants to nominate him in 2024. Besides, there’s not much more he could do for the Russians once he’s out of office.

Don’t even think of his going to China. Trump called that nation America’s biggest enemy. He even threatened to give back the exclusive manufacturing permits that China gave to his daughter, the ones that were estimated to be worth a couple of million dollars.

Sorry, again. I must be thinking of someone else. I’ve gotten a little rusty from not blogging for a while.

That leaves only one place where he could end up. I figured it out. He will too. North Korea. Look, he already has a beautiful letter from Kim. They know that the majority of Americans are their enemy. Hell, he endorsed Trump for President, in his own way.

So, just think of it. Donald Trump secure in North Korea. And what will he do? Declare a government-in-exile of course. All his supporters know that Biden stole the election. So, they can send their tax money directly to him to build up an army to liberate America. I’m sure the North Koreans will help, and Trump allowed them to buildup their nuclear forces.

Which leaves only one batch of losers. All those Republicans in Congress who will have to declare their loyalty to the President and move to North Korea to be with him, or learn to live without their base of Trump voters.

After all, it should be a simple choice. They’ve told us how they feel many times.

Anything else is, after all, just fake news.