donnie's meltdowns remind me of a great quote from "the sting", the 1973 redford/newman/shaw classic [View all]

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(technically a bit of a spoiler alert, but this is a movie from 1973...)

robert shaw as crook doyle lonnegan is, among other things, a card cheat.

to hook lonnegan in for a later big con, paul newman as henry gondorff joins lonnegan's regular poker game to out-cheat him.

on the key hand, we see gondorff gets a really good hand and all the chips go into the pot.
lonnegan confidently reveals a better hand than the one we saw, and after a nice little pause, gondorff somehow shows an even better hand to win the pot and break lonnegan!

lonnegan then storms into the bathroom with one of his henchmen and says:

"what was i supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others?"


i think this is exactly how donnie feels. he thought he had everything cooked up to steal the election. disinformation, mail delays, vote suppression, etc., and he's pissed because he thinks that biden cheated better than he did.


of course, we know we didn't win because of cheating, we won because we got out the vote in droves, and because donnie is certifiable. but that's the way donnie thinks, anyway; he thinks he's been out-cheated and he's pissed because he can't just say he deserved to win because he cheated hard for it.