“It’s not over ‘til the fat lady sings,” the old saying
goes. Apparently, it’s not over even then, at least if you are of a progressive
bent…and your side lost. Even if you lost 306-232.
Good
totalitarians that they are, Jill Stein and the Clinton campaign may be teaming
up to launch and oversee vote recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Oddly enough, the recount drive is being led by the Green Party’s Stein, who
finished with less than one percent of the overall vote total. This raises an
obvious question: why? Well, for starters, Stein’s website claims that she has
already raised over $5.7 million for her recount effort, with an ultimate goal
of $7 million. Considering the fact that she’s unlikely to be able to proceed
with all three recounts, and that she may not be able to spend all of that cash
in any case, this is potentially a scam of Clintonesque proportions. No wonder
why they call it the Green Party!
Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias- via a post
on the blogging website Medium.com- said that if the recounts occur, the
Clinton campaign “will participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a
manner that is fair to all sides.”
Yes.
Quite.
Ensuring
that political processes proceed in a manner that is fair to all sides has been a hallmark of all Clinton endeavors.
It’s easier to mask the giggles online than in person, I guess.
We have seen riots in the streets. Electoral
College members in several states have received numerous death threats in an attempt to turn their votes from Trump
to Hillary. Colleges have cancelled classes. Rage Rooms across the country are
doing land-office business. And now we may be facing the specter of multiple
recounts. How many times was Trump asked by the mainstream media if he would
accept the election results? Well, these temper-tantrum throwing would-be
tyrants clearly will not accept the results of any election they didn’t win.
Trump’s
senior advisor, Kellyanne Conway, stated: “Rather than adhere to the tradition
of graciously conceding and wishing the winner well, they’ve opted to waste
millions of dollars and dismiss the democratic process.” Kellyanne, the Democrats don’t have a tradition of
graciously conceding and wishing the winner well…if the democratic process
doesn’t lead to a Democrat winner.
Elias
himself added that he doesn’t expect the potential recounts to overturn Trump’s
election, but that it was “important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is
legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in
order to monitor the recount process itself. We do so fully aware that the
number of votes separating Donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of
these states—Michigan—well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a
recount.” (A combined margin of 107,000
votes separated the candidates in those three battleground states).
A
senior administration official stated that the government didn’t observe any
unusual, malicious cyber activity on Election Day and believes the elections
were free and fair in that regard. The Democratic Campaign Machine didn’t
initiate any recounts on its own, because it hadn’t found any “actionable
evidence” of tampering or chicanery. (Of course, it was only looking in one
direction).
Yet, in
steps a surrogate. Coincidence?
This
strangest of elections just keeps getting weirder.
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