This column is rigged. I have it on high authority. Everybody's saying it so there must be something to it. Don't ask me, ask those guys.
I'm just trying to let my more rabi...er...enthusiastic supporters down easy. No telling how they'll react when it breaks. Nothing I can do about it, really. Is there?
There's a lot of rigging going on out there, let's point some out.
The Democratic party had the audacity to rig their primary so someone other than the guy who'd never been registered to the party would win. It's not their fault hardly anyone in the party wanted to run against Hilary. If Biden had run, he'd be the nominee.
If the party has any sense, it will make good on Bernie's contributions to the platform.
But we all know how much sense the Democratic party has, don't we? For a stark reminder, take a look at our governor. Careful, don't arouse suspicion. If you can't beat a northern carpetbagger hedge fund millionaire on your home turf, well. Maybe the state party is just rigged wrong.
There are many state progressive voices that can change the rigging if the machine could get out of the way. But it's not rigged to be re-rigged. And, as Matt Jones (yes, the Kentucky Sports Radio guy) warned, the state Democratic party could be as insignificant as the national Republican party soon.
Speaking of, a recent survey of 1700 registered Republicans showed 72% had doubts that the big O was born in the United States. That is 72% could not believe the irrefutable fact that the President of the United States, elected twice by an overwhelming majority of citizens, was a U.S. citizen.
Speaking of rigged, I'd say if 72% of your club cannot grip reality, your club doesn't have a lot of life in it either. It's rigged against you man. Facts do not play fair. Facts keep getting in the GOP's way, no matter how much they've jerrymandered the country.
You know that's a fact when the Senate Majority Leader's "greatest accomplishment" is not allowing Senate consideration of the Supreme Court nominee of the Muslim Kenyan Socialist. That is one of the few things our constitution explicitly says the senate is supposed to do.
The e-mail servers are rigged to, if you need to know. Ever since Ollie North's little PROFS debacle (there's some ancient pre-world wide web technological history for ya, look it up), both parties have closely guarded their electronic communication. Closely, that is, if you're the American people and one another, but not so much from Russian hackers.
And here is the really scary part of the rigging: currently an American presidential candidate (and his party) is counting on a country with thousands of nuclear warheads pointed straight at us to produce hacked communications with the explicit purpose of defeating his rival for the White House.
Contrary to the Donald's assertions, Putin is not our friend. We don't want the Russian Mafia in the White House.
The good news? Polling and surveys suggest most of the American people are getting it. When Trump talks about the election being rigged, he's right. The majority want no part of him. If our system still works, then that's about as rigged as you can get.