News Travels Fast: Who Knows if This is What Happened

Friday, November 13, 2020

Who Knows if This is What Happened

Would seem the chances of presidential recounts are fading. I'm disappointed. I would have liked to seen them -- hand counts of the paper ballots.

I wonder if there is interference. I'll verbalize it: I wonder if there is interference by the Russians.

Election night, every state was coming back just as it did in 2016. The states that were for Trump in 2016 were mirroring that in 2020. And, obviously, then, the states that were for Hillary in 2016, just happened to be the same ones this year that decided to vote for Biden. If there was any deviation, it was but a state or two. At that point, one wondered if ever any two back-to-back presidential elections had so closely resembled each other. Even the key swing states were the same, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

In a way, it made sense. Americans are religious to their party these days. They don't waver as much as in the past. If you are for Trump, there is nothing that is going to change your mind. While that might have led to a lot of the mirror image of 2016, consider also another possible factor: If the Russians had changed votes in 2016, they would have had to have done it by infiltrating the vote-counting machinery. And, if they had control of certain computers in 2016 -- if they were infected then -- could it be that they are still infected. Because, if so, the two elections could understandably mirror each other.

Early election morning, there was an ominous development. President Trump was saying we shouldn't count any votes that came in after that day. Cut off the voting. He said this before it turned out that that days votes would mirror 2016. Now, supposing the Russians were only able or interested in placing Trump on top in the votes counted that day -- and Trump knew that -- then it would make sense for him to be saying, Cut it off with the votes cast this day. From there, who knows where it goes. Maybe the Russians wanted Trump to lose. You create more chaos if he loses than if he wins, and it seems that is what the Russians are all about -- just wanting to disrupt and cause chaos. So, if they know the votes coming in after election day are going to swing things to Biden, they might like that.

But, what if the voting was so tight and indecisive that recounts were necessary? What if hand recounts of the actual paper ballots became required? If there had been manipulation, the hand counts are going to uncover the fraud. So, if you are the Russians and you are manipulating, you don't want that. You'd steer the election away from that so you are not caught.

No. I'm not saying all this is what happened. Who knows. But, it is not an unreasonable thing to consider.

Another thing fits into this possibility. Trump's golfing on Saturday. That was the day Biden was assumed as the winner. It seemed incredulous, to me, that he was out golfing that day. Not saying this is why, but it would fit in with what we've considered above. If you want to avoid being bugged, get out of your office. If the President wants to go somewhere where no one can eavesdrop on his, one of the best places would be out on the golf course.