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Let's celebrate by considering who should be in the Oval Office today

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Lately there’s been some scuttlebut over a viral article about a stolen election through the usual players: Peter Thiel, Barre Seid, The Federalist Society, and most importantly, Palantir, which is a data company that the Trump regime has hired to keep track of everything about you, probably including your bowel movements.

Image of Kamala with headline, "Remember Me?"
Image of Kamala by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

My initial thoughts on early claims about a stolen election when I saw them several months ago were: Oh, goody: BlueAnon conspiracy theories. Yay. [See my update in NOTES]

But I think we need to revisit one of the nagging questions about Trump’s never-ending false claims about the Biden election. The question? Why was he so persistent in the face of 50+ lost court cases and overwhelming evidence that his claims were a scam? The fact that he’s crazy is one obvious answer. But maybe there’s more to it.

By torching the very concept of a tainted election, did it make it easier for him to steal one? After Kamala technically lost, Democrats were, by the sheer force of their insistence that Trump’s claims against Biden were complete nonsense, forced into a position that they couldn’t investigate claims against the much more real prospect that Trump and his tech bros stole one.

I worked as a software engineer for twenty years. I find the newest claims to be worthy of consideration, especially given the fact that I spent several years working at PayPal, which was founded by Thiel and Muskovite.1

I hope all of you read this report:

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We need to start asking state attorneys general to look into this, since it’s obvious the Sith Clones who sit in Congress won’t do anything. All it takes is one state to discover tampering to bring down the Trump regime.

Honestly, it shouldn’t have come to a few thousand votes in the various states. Young men have drifted right, which is a bigger problem than crooks whose misdeeds, eventually, will be uncovered.

But that’s a topic for another post.

In the meantime, let’s keep in mind, as we protest the mad king, how normal things could be if Kamala were in the Oval Office instead of a lunatic.

Yeah. That’s right. Remember her? Remember the huge, enthusiastic crowds?

I do.


Thanks for reading! Please stay safe if you’re out in the streets protesting. Don’t give them an excuse to shoot you.

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Notes

Regarding specific claims about Rockland County (zero votes for Kamala, hundreds for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand), fact-checking site Snopes reports that the discrepancy is probably due to demographics:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/12/new-york-lawsuit-2024-election/

The Snopes claim is that Hasidic and Orthodox Jews vote according to the recommendations of their rabbi.

A lawsuit has been filed demanding a full hand recount.

Footnotes

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And another guy, Max Levchin, who hasn’t been involved in politics as far as I know. He wrote most of the original code for PayPal that I saw in the repository, which we called “MaxCode.” I saw no code written by Muskovite or Thiel in the code repository. These guys are sweatshop owners, not coders.


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“ BlueAnon conspiracy theories. Yay.” 🤣

That’s just it. Nobody wanted to look like sore losers/Trump by questioning anything.

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