Friday, July 7, 2017

Losing, Hugely

DONALD TRUMP LOST the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, in his lingo, "hugely", by nearly three million. His hugely narcissistic ego cannot abide that fact. Astonishingly, Trump claims that all three million of Hillary's extra votes came from illegal, fraudulent voters. He's been making this claim, incredibly, repeatedly, since shortly after the election; does this man ever listen to himself, or stop to think what he's saying? (don't answer that). You can imagine how embarrassed his friends and family must be by this kind of behavior, and how frustrated they must feel at their inability to get him to simply....shut up... We of course well know by now that Donald lost the popular vote because he's crazy and because most of the American people noticed. Crazily, he has established a special election commission to study the matter, to root out fraudulent voting practices all across the fruited plain. He would have been better off to just drop it, but now he's in to deep to back out, and is sure to face further embarrassment. Talk about a witch hunt. There is absolutely nothing to investigate. Every state and county election commissioner in the country, past and present, will tell you that your chances of getting struck by lightening are greater than your chances of committing voter fraud. Those of you who might have been thinking about voting illegally, best give up the notion. It won't work. Trump's commission, trying to impress their leader by acting tough and efficient, probably embarrassed by what they are being asked to do, has requested detailed information from every state about registered voters, an unprecedented action by the federal government, very inconsistent with the republican smaller government policy. Nearly every state so far has refused to comply, asserting state's rights, government overreach, all the usual conservative arguments. Actually, it is difficult to imagine why the various states are taking this approach; all the voter information is already public property, and for the federal government to collect it seems harmless enough. Maybe the fifty nifty have figured out at last what a shady operation this administration is, and are leery of cooperating with it in any way, shape, form, or fashion. Meanwhile, all those people who suddenly entered the country or came back from the dead on election day and voted Hillary must be breathing a deep sigh of relief.

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