Satirical email linking electoral college outcomes to Trump and Bush elections

From: paul krassner po Sent: 7/21/2017 4:13:33 AM To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] Subject: hey Importance: — High J. or Jeff or Jeffrey, Hope things are going well for you. I finally finished trimming down my collection from 700 pages to 400, “60 Years of Investigative Satire: The Best of PK.” The piece below is the last one in the book. You’ve previously seen the first half. Enjoy, Paul or Zen Bastard or Rumpleforeskin Alternative Facts Between the choice of a one-man-one-vote (Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) and fake news of Weapons of Mass Destruction, invasion of Iraq, and horror of ISIS, George Bush was elected president in the year 2000. It was due to the electoral college (a rigged system which originally intended to prevent slaves from voting and evolved to gerrymandering), even though Bush’s opponent, Al Gore, won the national popular vote. Hillary Clinton was elected senator that year, and she announced that the first thing she would do was to get rid of the electoral college. A few years later, as a columnist for the New York Press, I sent her a letter asking about the status of that promise. She didn’t reply. On November 8, 2016, a crooked businessman, liar extraordinaire, bragging pussy-grabber, make-America- white-again, anti-choice, anti-Semite, fake Christian, climate-change hoaxer, twitter addict, homophobic, apprentice politician, friendly fascist, and Vladimir Putin’s “useful idiot,’ namely Donald Trump, who was elected as an insanely narcissistic dictator based on the electoral college, whereas his opponent, Hillary Clinton, won the national popular vote by “more than three million” individuals. Irony lives. But an incredibly cruel monster inadvertently awakened a sleeping population to counteract the essence of evil with love, laughs, and law, fueled by the aid of true news. Incidentally, Putin had 88 journalists murdered. No HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030871