12.10.16
The minds of the Democratic Party are tossed upon an ocean of desperation
The harder the Democratic Party lobbies to deligitimize the election before handover by pushing their downfall and failures onto Central Intelligence Agency “reports” (Remember “It’s a slam dunk!”) about Russian efforts the harder they’re going to be hit in the next mid-term, I’ll bet.
Another famous they-did-it they-did-it story of yesteryear, found wanting.
North Korea hacked Sony and it was the end of the world — or not.
The establishment newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are desperate to prevent Trump from entering the White House. Between now and then (and after), they’ll probably print just about anything that serves the cause, no evidence required.
A more likely reason for failure was mentioned by the President, here quoted by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone:
“You know, I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and VFW hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. … There are some counties maybe I won that people didn’t expect because people had a chance to see you and listen to you.???
“Ouch. There’s no way to read that except as a stinging indictment of the Clinton campaign’s failure to compete in lost territory.
“In the past week, Obama has ventured some explanations for Donald Trump’s rise. He pointed out that Trump had made a ‘connection’ with his voters that was ‘powerful stuff.’
“This felt like a double-edged dig…???
Alternatively, a long dissection at the Intercept.
“That Democrats are now venerating unverified, anonymous CIA leaks as sacred is par for the course for them this year, but it’s also a good indication of how confused and lost U.S. political culture has become in the wake of Trump’s victory,” it reads.
anon said,
December 11, 2016 at 3:54 pm
There are some basic problems with this.
The CIA, circa 1988, told us that the Soviet Union would be a strong opposing force against the USA and NATO for some time to come. The CIA does not have any ability or power to enforce any laws. If anything, they are in the business of bending or breaking laws.
Even if all of the hacking claims are true, accurate and correct, there is not much in the Constitution regarding tampering with election results or disqualifying an electoral college win. Yes, in theory, faithless electors could change their votes or abstain, but, again, such a thing has never been done. Plus, I’d hate to be an elector who votes to overturn in this age of heavily-armed, internet rage monsters.
George Smith said,
December 11, 2016 at 4:05 pm
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/11/washington-state-electors-file-lawsuit-stop-trump-president.html
While I don’t think they’ll get anywhere in the end if they were able to gum up the works by inauguration day you’d see a constitutional crisis and, I believe, a sudden collapse of the government. Sort of the way the Soviet Union suddenly went down.
It’s not hard to imagine it setting off a slow burn imposition of martial law depending on who had the most power and was able to command the loyalty of the military. It would mean the absolute end of the Democratic Party I think.
Still fictions at best, though.