Last week we learned about Palast's new documentary,

Pssst! For the last few days leading up to the election, you can watch The Best Democracy Money Can Buy for FREE: https://t.co/c75vztRDLl pic.twitter.com/kHjy2GsM9N

— Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) November 6, 2016

Heh. We watched it for free and liked it so much sent him some money anyway.

In the doc he makes the case for how oligarchs have colluded with their toadies in state gov to exclude people from voting using a program called 'Crosscheck.' states can subscribe, and use voter rolls in one state to compare with their own. Same name in both, different address, no vote. The catch is they leave out the middle names. And they include names that tend to be mainly poc.

This week Palast is saying that the election was stolen, in more ways than one:

Before a single vote was cast, the #election was fixed by GOP and #Trump operatives: https://t.co/4CBdTfK7z0#Crosscheck #BDMCB pic.twitter.com/7Yimreo3XM

— Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) November 12, 2016

Here's a snippet from Palast's article published since the election:

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/election-was-stolen-%E2%80%93-here%E2%...

Editor’s note: I interviewed Palast before the election, when he warned that Trump operatives were conspiring to steal it by purging 7.2 million minority voters off voting roles in key swing states. Now Palast has evidence that Trump’s winning margin in these states was far less than the number of voters wrongly removed by software called “Crosscheck.” It purported to remove duplicate voters with common minority names, even when middle names were different, denying millions of Latinos, blacks and Asians their right to vote. The mastermind behind Crosscheck is Kris Kobach, now head of Trump’s immigration policies transition team. If you believe this election should be investigated, send this story to your elected officials or party leaders. You can also Support The Palast Investigative Fund. E

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November 12, 2016 -- Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.

Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states.

The system, called Crosscheck, is detailed in my Rolling Stone report,

“The GOP’s Stealth War on Voters,” 8/24/2016.

Crosscheck in action:

Trump victory margin in Michigan: 13,107

Michigan Crosscheck purge list: 449,922

Trump victory margin in Arizona: 85,257

Arizona Crosscheck purge list: 270,824

Trump victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008

North Carolina Crosscheck purge list: 589,393

On Tuesday, we saw Crosscheck elect a Republican Senate and as President, Donald Trump. The electoral putsch was aided by nine other methods of attacking the right to vote of Black, Latino and Asian-American voters, methods detailed in my book and film, including “Caging,” “purging,” blocking legitimate registrations, and wrongly shunting millions to “provisional” ballots that will never be counted.

Trump signaled the use of “Crosscheck” when he claimed the election is “rigged” because “people are voting many, many times.” His operative Kobach, who also advised Trump on building a wall on the southern border, devised a list of 7.2 million “potential” double voters—1.1 million of which were removed from the voter rolls by Tuesday. The list is loaded overwhelmingly with voters of color and the poor. Here's a sample of the list:

Exit Polls Tell the Tale of Who Won

Palast goes on to discuss how the State Department uses Exit Polls to test election results in other countries, and here exit polls showed that Clinton won and that sure enough the stats show how that the Repubs and Trump operatives made the difference.

Pushing Back

Hundreds have been rallying and protesting across the country at the election of Trump.

3,645,611 supporters have signed the Change.org petition as of this writing and god help us if they successfully get electors to change their votes and vote to elect Hillary. Can you image the shitstorm that will ignite. Probably ain't going to happen.

Snopes says it is possible, but would be most unusual if it happens.

http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/11/the-electoral-college-and-the-popular-v...

The Electoral College and the Popular Vote
It's theoretically possible that the Electoral College could upend the results of the 2016 presidential election, but such an event would be unprecedented.

I have not signed it yet, but I might just to help people get to the point of looking more closely to changing the electoral college.

Here's the petition text:

Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19
elijah berg NC

On December 19, the Electors of the Electoral College will cast their ballots. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. Even in states where that is not allowed, their vote would still be counted, they would simply pay a small fine - which we can be sure Clinton supporters will be glad to pay!

We are calling on the Electors to ignore their states' votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton. Why?

Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic.

Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.

Hillary won the popular vote. The only reason Trump "won" is because of the Electoral College.

But the Electoral College can actually give the White House to either candidate. So why not use this most undemocratic of our institutions to ensure a democratic result?

SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE.

There is no reason Trump should be President.

"It's the 'People's Will'"

No. She won the popular vote.

"Our system of government under our Constitution says he wins"

No. Our Constitution says the Electors choose.

"Too many states prohibit 'Faithless Electors'"

24 states bind electors. If electors vote against their party, they usually pay a fine. And people get mad. But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states.

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!

https://www.change.org/p/electoral-college-electors-electoral-college-ma...

This petition will be delivered to:

Electoral College Electors

I voted for Jill Stein the last two Presidential elections, and I cringe at the idea of Hillary as President.

However one thing I read today just made me sick to contemplate:

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/november/health-care-in-the-age-of-trump

Even more ominously, Republicans now control both the executive and legislative branches, giving them the chance to remold the nation’s health care system into something both uglier and more lucrative for the nation’s corporate health care interests (Pharma stocks soared the day after the election).

For those of us who predicted (and hoped) that the coming health care divide would be between centrist-liberal and left-progressive visions, this election constitutes a complete upheaval in the political landscape of health reform.

Some important questions arise. What might Republicans have in store for health care? What will the politics of health care reform look like going forward? And how can we keep the dream for single-payer alive?

Trump said he would repeal ACA but has backed off somewhat, said he would protect Social Security and Medicare, but will he really resist some Grand Bargain shit that Ryan concocts during the first days of next session?

Cannot believe a damn thing he says of course.

Hope that the Historian who predicted Trump would win is right, and that he will be impeached.

Historian who predicted Trump's win says he'll be impeached
By Brooke Seipel - 11/11/16 02:36 PM EST

But would he be impeached in time to prevent him helping the Republicans do all manner of harm?

Of course if Clinton was put in by the electors and if a civil war did not then result , she too, would probably be impeached or be exposed to being coerced to going along with the Republicans. Not that it would take much, since she is a Republican at heart.