Protest Too Much

Though I certainly wouldn't ever vote for a Pyramid Scheme Pharaoh like Trump...

... I'm not convinced Hillary's nuclear winter would have been all that much better than Trump's global warming. When it comes to who won between two candidates who weren't Marco Rubio or Bernie Sanders (thanks to Hillary,) I am fairly neutral.

However, on the night of the 2016 election I asked friends "why isn't anyone talking about election fraud, considering the difference between 538 and the actual outcome of the election? This is strange considering that the FBI and Russians hackers have already messed with our politics this election." Trump aggressively protested the recounts with his usual bluster, and then some, with wild eyed comments about how he would have won the popular vote if it wasn't for supposedly "MILLIONS" of fraudulent votes. Does He Protest Too Much? Could it be that:

• Russian hackers found a way to tamper with our election in ways not already discovered?
• Trump doesn't want the focus on voter suppression to be associated with the electoral college?
• The one case of voter fraud in 2016 was in favor of Trump, does he know of more cases?
• Trump had non-Russian help electronically altering the vote results as the W had in 2000?

Since Trump was elected, he settled a fraud case for Trump University (not to be confused with ACN or Trump Network) for $25,000,000. What you have to realize is far more so than any previous President-elect, Trump is capable of extraordinary large-scale fraudulent schemes, and that this in fact is at the core of his business dealings that have given him fame. Not only did he disastrously have notorious MLM Pharaoh Michelle Van Etten speak at the GOP Convention this year...

... he has appointed none other than the Queen of the ultimate Pyramid Scheme, AMWAY, Betsy DeVos, to lead the US Department of Education (yikes, so much for effective business education.) Beyond that the most prominent Ponzi scheme in recent memory was the Bernie Maddoff's, and Trump's selected Treasury Secretary, Stephen Mnuchin, made over $3,000,000 off of that same scam. (Does that really sound like a good "treasury secretary" to you?)

When Ross Perot was the king of 3rd Parties, I was all about Ross. When Ralph Nader was the dominant 3rd Party candidate, I was all about Ralph. However this election both the Libertarian and Green Party candidates:

1. Did not dominate the majority of 3rd party voters.
2. Were both incredibly flaky, adding baggage that did not represent the interests of their parties (such as for example Jill Steins apparent aversion to use of Wifi and Screens in K-12.)

However Democrats are notoriously squeamish about street fighting over election quality, and this is exactly what cost Al Gore the election in 2000. I thought Hillary would at least stand up for herself which would have been consistent with her public image, but she apparently couldn't call in to concede quickly enough even though the election numbers didn't seem to make sense. Was she somehow conspiring with Trump on some secret agenda?

Crazy as she may be, at least Jill Stein actually believes in doing the right thing. When: 

• the president elect is a known con-man, and 
• he proceeds to promote other scammers just as far and wide as he possibly can, and 
• the election results were at odds with the most reliable polling analysis available (538), and
• there had already been election manipulation by Russians AND 
• election manipulation by the FBI...

...an election recount is certainly in order. More important than any political agenda is the quality of the democracy our republic is built upon. We need to know exactly how much election manipulation there was, and exactly how it was done, in order to preserve the USA as a legitimate institution: