Tally me votes.

 Welcome to the Third World, America. Would you like some bananas with this republic?

The last thing I wanted to write about today was this horrible election, with all the allegations of fraud (more votes than voters in areas of Wisconsin [with an unbelievable 88% state turnout], GOP districts in Arizona being given the wrong pens on purpose, Michigan back-dating ballots illegally, and so on and so on). The stalling of the vote count on election night was the strangest and most suspicious thing I could find -- what better way to assess the number of fake votes needed and make time to find them? 

It all seems so blatant that I have to wonder if the perpetrators just don't care -- that they think even if Trump sues and wins, the violence that would follow and the allegations that he has stolen the election would make what we have seen before, with unchecked violence in our streets and a House determined to trample all norms to get the president, seem like a cloudless spring sky. Go ahead, Mr. Winning -- Win this and see how you like it. And would the American people back Trump in a prolonged fight? I doubt it. The reason the markets don't like uncertainty is that the markets are people, and people don't like uncertainty. A legal battle that stretches past Christmas would be a horrific spectacle. Even Al Gore finally threw in the towel on December 13.

The worst part is that the playbook has been set. Any Republican presidential candidate has been put on notice that he had better obey the players in his own intelligence agencies and do exactly what a Democrat-run House wants or he will face:

😈 Massive protests before he has a chance to do a single thing

😈 Fake intelligence dossiers that will be used as grounds for impeachment 

 

😈 Illegally leaked intelligence that will be used as grounds for impeachment

😈 Impeachment (and if the Democrats also control the Senate, conviction)

😈 Riots that burn American cities and kill police officers with the complicity of the local politicians

😈 When he runs for reelection (if he survives that far), he will be up against a massive media and technology edifice that can be counted on to lie about him and bury information about his opponent

😈 And if all else fails, voter fraud will be enacted to steal crucial close races.

This is what destroying our peaceful forms of political action has done. 

Of course, Democrats may say that this door swings both ways, and the Republicans could do the same to them if it's such a big deal. Which would be true except that the Republicans will never have the cooperation of that huge entrenched bureaucracy or that massive media and technology edifice. 

The Democrat president will instead have big thumbs-up for anything that drags the country toward Leftism and works to ensure permanent rich and poor classes that will deliver reliable votes. If his Senate wants to introduce a spending bill (which it cannot per Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of that Constitution thingie), it will take an unrelated bill passed by the House, change the text, change the title, pass it, and send it to the president. Say, for example, the House passes something popular sounding like, say, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 to "amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes." Sounds pretty bland and probably a nice idea. Suddenly in the Senate it becomes the gigantic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and presto!  No one outside Washington will hear a thing about it, or realize that the government is breaking the nation's laws at the highest level. Then we have government of men, not laws, which is government by fiat. 

How do you like them apples with your bananas?

How we got here is easy to trace -- how do we get out of this?

I don't know. 

I'm going to get some work done and try to make some money and hope that every weasel involved in this travesty gets smitten by a guilty conscience and confesses his crimes before it's too late for his soul. Of course, if my assumption is correct, it's safe to say many crimes were committed because people involved thought it was more important to save the nation from Trump than perform their duties faithfully. It was for our own good. 

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -- C.S. Lewis