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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAddendum to Rutherfraud: the 2016 Stolen Election
Addendum to Rutherfraud: the 2016 Stolen Election"Remember Donald Trump's ceaseless, tireless, classless repetition of the claim that the election is, quote, "rigged." But remember it in the context of what one of this year's great patriots, his Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, observed about Trump and projection. Remember that Schwartz tweeted, "most negative things he says about others are actually describing him." Since Trump has endlessly bleated this charge that Hillary Clinton and everybody else are trying to rig the election, since his interests and those of the Russian hackers and Wikileaks are running on parallel tracks, if not the same track, go into the last stretch here assuming that Trump's charge of rigging is actually an admission of an attempt to rig the election on his behalf, not against him."
-Keith Olbermann October 26, 2016
When I first conceived of my most recent blog entry, Rutherfraud B. Hayes and the (S)election of 1876, I was not consciously attempting to engage in prophecy. The portion of the video that was shot at the U.S. Hotel where Hayes stayed was done months ago in conjunction with an invitation to attend my sister's wedding and reception, which was held on the premises. Perhaps on a subconscious level, I was digging into the past to correlate election fraud with the possibility of it occurring this year as Donald Trump and his associates proclaimed throughout the campaign. Then again, maybe on a deeper unconscious level, I might have heard about the Schwartz tweet and forecast my concerns as Olbermann would later do in his video for GQ, Does Trump's Obsession With Vote Rigging Signal Something About His Own Plans?
Either way, it happened. The 2016 election was stolen. It may not have occurred in the exact fashion in which the 1876 election was stolen, but it did happen. There are three primary sources on which I base this judgment: Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and J. Alex Halderman. Palast has reported on this kind of chicanery before in 2000 and 2004. On November 11, 2016, he wrote an article spelling out what he concludes about the most recent presidential election titled The Election was Stolen - Here's How... Using a system called Crosscheck, Trump operatives under the direction of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach purged 1.1 million Americans of color from the voting rolls of GOP-controlled states including Michigan and North Carolina. Palast details many additional methods, including felonious caging, that proves that "Jim Crow, not the voters, elected Mr. Trump."
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http://americanjudas.blogspot.com/2016/11/addendum-to-rutherfraud-2016-stolen.html
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Addendum to Rutherfraud: the 2016 Stolen Election (Original Post)
robertpaulsen
Nov 2016
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shraby
(21,946 posts)1. I'm witcha on this! Smells like rotten eggs from where I sit.
robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)2. Right on, shraby!
This is like 2004 Ohio times five. DOJ needs to get on this!
zstat
(55 posts)3. What better way to confuse the issue.
Hey, where have we seen this tactic before?
Everywhere there is a republican making accusations against the other.
Lets face the obvious.
Accuse the other before she accuses you and obfuscate endlessly.
It is an effective, very effective strategy in the war of words and media manipulation.
robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)4. Exactly. MONTHS in advance.
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