Paul Ryan: Trump needs to concede

Over at The Hill, the sentiments of Paul Ryan (whom I'm always confusing with Rand Paul):

Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is calling for President Trump to accept the election results and move forward with a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden. 

While speaking at the Bank of America’s virtual European Credit Conference on Tuesday, Ryan said he believes it’s time for Trump to acknowledge that “the General Services Administration ascertained the election” so Biden can begin the process of populating his future administration.

The Wisconsin Republican then called for the Trump campaign to end its legal challenges in multiple swing states, noting they have failed to produce evidence of voter fraud.

The "failed to produce evidence" line is being repeated so often that people are stupidly accepting it as gospel despite the fact that plenty of evidence has been found and aired:  it's simply being ignored by the mainstream media.  Watch pretty much any Tim Pool video these days, and you'll realize the extent to which the media are playing defense for Creepy Uncle Joe, using specious semantics to keep claiming "no evidence!"

Whatever.  At this point, I'm looking forward to the comedy that will come with a Biden administration:  the drooling senility, the gaffes, the policy fuckups, the flaccid economy, the awkward attempts at placating the far-left wokerati.  This is definitely a case of Be careful what you wish for—you may get it.  Some might call it the Trump Effect writ large.  And come 2022, we'll see a backlash in Congress during the midterm elections, then a turnover to the GOP come 2024, assuming we can have trustworthy elections.

As I wrote before, I think Trump will ultimately concede for the sake of a peaceful transfer of power.  He's not physically brave enough to risk having the current cultural cold war transform into a hot war that might turn even the White House into a fire zone.  

Over at Instapundit, commenters are calling for Paul Ryan (no friend of Trump, and never really on board with Trump's agenda) to be "hit by a meteor."  I sympathize; now is not the time for defeatism.  I think Trump needs to continue using legal means to fight the fraud for as long as he can, and only then, when all legal options have been exhausted, should he concede the election.  So it's not over yet.  Besides, there's precedent for hanging in there:  Al Gore went until mid-December before conceding, and it can be argued that Hillary Clinton has made a post-election career of not conceding the 2016 results, just as her fellow lefties have failed to concede for the past four years.  Yelling "Concede now!" at Trump is the height of hypocrisy.  But when you're dealing with people who simply don't care how hypocritical they are, that's not saying much.  Too bad Trump failed to drain the swamp.