I heard that when Yo-Yo Ma was asked to play at the Inaugural program, he said, “OK but do not ask me to play the fucking cello.” He eventually agreed so that the nation could heal.
When you knew the recount wouldn’t overturn a result but while they were doing the recount your paranoid mind started inventing nightmarish coup scenarios but then the recount comes in and the result has NOT been overturned, as you knew it would not be.