Of course, being the turd he is, he has to be a whining piece of shit on the way out:
Despite conceding, Bevin reiterated his claim Thursday that thousands of absentee ballots were improperly counted, once again without presenting any evidence of his claims.
“These too would not change the outcome,” Bevin said. “It would change it by some thousands, but instead of it being now some thousands, it would be 1,000 or some hundreds but either way it would be the same end result.”
Bevin also took a swipe at the election process at the end of his remarks, saying Secretary of State-elect Michael Adams, a Republican, will have to make the process more transparent.
“There is not any real sense of transparency for how the voting process works,” Bevin said. “What you are going to see is that we do not have checks and balances.”
In case you can’t tell from my measured prose, this unsubstantiated voter fraud talk makes me really angry. Bevin lost a deep red state because voters went to the polls and split tickets to vote him out because even people who can tolerate assholes like McConnell and Trump can’t tolerate him. That’s a hell of an achievement on Bevin’s part, and it has nothing to do with the way ballots were cast, lack of transparency, the cost of tea in China, or the unsubstantiated but probably true allegation that Bevin’s anus is ringed by inflamed hemorrhoids. Good riddance.
Cheryl Rofer
???
Tiniest violins ever
Baud
Congrats, Kentucky, on your new Dem governor.
henrythefifth
“There is not any real sense of transparency for how the voting process works,” Bevin said. “What you are going to see is that we do not have checks and balances.”
If only he knew someone who had been in the position to increase transparency and accountability in the voting process…
Ah, the schadenfreude.
MattF
It’s good news, though. And totally unconnected to McConnell’s comment yesterday about how Kentucky now has a new governor.
geg6
Okay, is he the most sore loser of all time? What a whiner. First time commenting from the work desktop. We’ll see how that goes.
ETA: Went very well. Afraid of all the symbols atop the commenting box, though. No idea what some of them are and so I will avoid them like the plague.
Barbara
This is good news for Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries.
Capri
I read that immediately following the election, bots were opening twitter accounts and falsely claiming that they witnessed voting issues or claimed to be destroying Bevin ballots. One thing that all these GOP nuts have in common is that its not that they cynically think spreading lies via social media will help them, it’s that they totally believe these things themselves. So he probably didn’t make his claims up himself, but is too dim to understand that he was played.
Geoduck
I’m surprised. Thought he’d drag it out much longer. Suppose the office will go right back to the GOP in the next election, but with the party being what it is now, maybe their next candidate will be equally hated.
danielx
Yes, Matt, there were “voting irregularities” from your viewpoint.
You lost.
Now get your nasty ass out of the governor’s office.
Brachiator
F*ck the GOP. They love to play the voter fraud card, even as they do everything they can to prevent Democrats from voting.
Congrats to Kentucky citizens for shaking things up.
LanceThruster
Good news as I was worried typical GOP f*ckery could prevail. Our domestic politics at times aren’t that far from what happened in Bolivia. A false narrative is created, promoted, and backed by dominating power blocks. It escalates and reasonstes till the tipping point is reached, or it peters out. Corruption in other branches, particularly the courts long stacked ahead of time, makes any situation unpredictable and potentially volitile.
gvg
When is the new guy in office, and how long does Bevin have to do more damage?
I really worry about Trump losing an election and having about 3 months still in office. Whining like this makes me think it isn’t just Trump.
Miss Bianca
Wow, does this mean that the Republican-controlled legislature isn’t going to retroactively un-elect the new Governor? Seem to recall hearing some rumblings to that effect. Anyway, good riddance to bad rubbish.
Steve in the ATL
Somewhere in Virginia, Pat Robertson sighs in relief at no longer being the most embarrassing W&L alumnus in the news.
rikyrah
good riddance to bad rubbish
TaMara (HFG)
Kinda glad it took this long. Nothing says “asshole” better than refusing to concede, without a plan to contest and then just folding like a creaky old card table.
Baud
@geg6: Just make sure you don’t accidentally tap the self destruct button.
David Hunt
@geg6:
Just wait till November next year and Trump (hopefully) loses reelection. You’ll see some epic sore losing then.
Jay
Ringed by Inflamed Hemorrhoids is the name of my new ska/klezmer band,
DRickard
Wingnut to English translation:
“Voting transparency” == “Eliminate the secret ballot, so those who commit thoughtcrime of voting Democrat can be purged”
Art
“ringed by inflamed hemorrhoids”
Sooooo … that’s how he paid for Trump’s help.
EEEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Sooooo completely NOT worth it.
Omnes Omnibus
Again, now that he has conceded, the concession has no legal consequences.
MattF
@Jay: I was genuinely unaware that ska/klezmer was a thing. I expect to see it in crossword puzzles any day now.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
I suppose it makes certain that the KY legislature won’t interfere.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Nah.
Uncle Cosmo
My inspired guess is that MoskvaMitch called him last night & said “Iff’n yew doan’ con-seed tamorrah, Kaintuck’ voters gon’ take it out on mah wizened ass nex’ yeer, so yew gowon out thar & quit now, y’heah?” Maybe they’ll take it out on Yertle McTurtle anyway. Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he? At least I won’t need a REMEMBER KENTUCKY bumpersticker now…
TomatoQueen
While I am thrilled to see this for the sake of Kentuckians’ health (in my work I see a long fucktonne of KY medical documentation and it is heartbreaking), I also wonder how well daily governance of the state will work, with so much of the R still in power? A similar situation prevailed here in Virginia for the longest damn time and it’s going to be slow work to clean up.
Ohio Mom
I have a cassette tape of a Bluegrass klezmer band, alas I no longer have a tape player. It was cheery, lively music.
H.E.Wolf
Thanks to the good offices of PostcardsToVoters.org, I wrote 15 GOTV postcards per week, for 8 weeks, to Democratic voters in KY… plus 5 more, which were written by various friends who (didn’t run away fast enough) kindly agreed to participate.
It works. Not my little batch of cards; the 278K+ which were written in the 2 months before the election.
Now up: GOTV in Florida, county by county.
https://postcardstovoters.org/
Their social media pages (linked at the bottom of their website) have lots of details. And their FAQ page is *chef’s kiss*.
germy
And fuck this guy:
Baud
@germy:
Trump’s base loves that shit. It helps keep them aligned with the wealthy.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
It may have no legal consequences, but it does have important PR consequences. It’s going to be really hard for him to go back and claim that he was robbed after he’s conceded, and that makes it very unlikely that the state legislature will try to steal the election for him.
Jay
germy
@Baud:
Is it a shrinking base, though? I honestly don’t know.
Baud
@Jay: What’s funny about the Soros hate is how little we liberal Dems actually think about him. Hillary, at least, is an occasional topic of conversation for our side.
Baud
@germy: Me either.
Steve in the ATL
@Jay: I’m glad I’m not Jewish—with the wife and kids and job I just don’t have the time or energy to run the world as well
Jay
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 The Senate voted to make Steven Menashi a federal judge. He’s never tried a case. He condemned women’s rights and diversity. He refused to answer senators’ questions. Every Dem present voted against, every Republican present but Collins voted to confirm.
Betty Cracker
I tuned in on the middle of some NPR program a few years back, and the person speaking on the radio at that moment struck me as the most self-important, obnoxious bag of shit I’d ever heard in my life, which is saying something because my ears are assaulted by aggressively unpleasant, conceited nonsense on the regular. Eventually I came to understand that the speaker was Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky. I’m thrilled his ass got bounced out of the governor’s residence in humiliating fashion, and I hope the sting of this defeat follows him to his fucking grave.
germy
@Jay:
Was he the one who broke down in tears during his testimony? I get my unqualified judges mixed up sometimes…
germy
NotMax
@Jay
Enough to make Roman Hruska weep.
cmorenc
Even Richard Nixon was gracious for the good of the country in conceding his narrow loss to Kennedy in the 1960 election, despite some bona fide questions about the involvement of Mayor Daley in the Chicago sector of the Illinois vote count.
Aziz, light!
All I know is that I’m still not getting my Soros checks, despite my lifetime service to ZOG.
Neldob
Another good reason to donate to Collins opposition.
NotMax
@cmorenc
Graciousness had little to do with it. Nixon knew full well there were also valid questions regarding Republican finagling in downstate Illinois, and wasn’t about to open that can of worms.
Neldob
Also, I feel I nailed it with my cheerful nyt comment: The Republicans are complaining Democrats are trying to overturn the election, but it is Republicans who overturn elections. They change the rules when they lose their majority – Wisconsin, NY’s Monroe County, Arizona’s Maricopa County, Michigan, etc . Democrats are trying to ensure that no one is above the law and our government is not corrupt. Republicans find that unbelievable because they would never do such a thing.
opiejeanne
@David Hunt: Judge Roy Moore still hasn’t conceded. I think right now he’s the biggest sore loser.
TruthOfAngels
@cmorenc
@NotMax
Also, even if Illinois had gone Republican, it wouldn’t have changed the result.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: I just said it when people were worried about his not conceding, so I thought it was only fair to say it when his did.
Mike in NC
Will this shitbird Bevin get hired to fill some cushy job by Fat Bastard?
Jay
Allegra Harpootlian @ally_harp · Nov 13 I know everyone is focused on #impeachment, but @CostsOfWar is releasing their new annual estimate today and BOY is it a doozy. Since 2001, the US has spent $6.4 TRILLION on the War on Terror. This is nearly $500 BILLION more than last year.
Jay
@Jay:
btw, $300 billion is what the UN Climate Panel figures it would cost to freeze greenhouse gas emissions and buy us a 20 year reprieve.
the F-35 is currently projected to cost the US alone $1.45 trillion,….
gogiggs
Transparency in voting? What does that even mean?
People vote. The votes are counted. The results are published.
It couldn’t be any more transparent without recording voters in the voting booth. Is that what he’s proposing?
I mean, I know that he’s really just a whiny little bitch vomiting word salad because he lost and it doesn’t mean anything, but…. jeez.
mapaghimagsik
Good riddance to bad trash