Flotsam
The next D-Shift to set up shop was at the south end literally just a couple of yards from the side of the Road, it was initially stationary like the 'Sweeper'. Remember Billy the bus driver well he wasn't always a bus driver when he was younger he was an up and coming actor. Set on the gravy train for life until he was caught with the director's wife of the film he was in, in a very public incident with a recently printed giant banana. It basically put his career in the toilet, so he chose anonymity as a school bus driver and became well known in the local bars as 'Only-if' a man of many regrets apparently the incident with the director's wife was just the tip of iceberg when he got drunk which was pretty every night he would bang on saying over and over again only if he done it differently he would be so rich not stuck out here in the sticks. Billy did however have one redeeming feature he took care of his Mum and the locals knew this so they always made sure someone drove him home if he was too drunk to drive.
It was on one of these nights that Howard James one of Billy's friends was driving him home, they had literally just turned onto the Road when Billy said he needed to take a leak. Howard stopped the truck and let Billy out who wandered in a less than straight line off the edge of the Road. Ten minutes later Howard was still waiting for Billy to return, he grabbed a torch and walked off in the general direction Billy went in. I've met Howard and he said to me it was pitch black out that night even with his flashlight he couldn't see a lot. He spent about half an hour looking for Billy until he tripped over Billy's body lying face up, he was alive but with an odd calmness about him that Howard had never seen in Billy's eyes before. He couldn't work out what Billy was looking at until he looked up and for a moment he couldn't drag his eyes away from the spectacle above him. Unlike Billy Howard was not a man many regrets so he was not drawn into what he saw above him, he knew it must be another D-Shift probably something to do with time he supposed. He dragged Billy's body back to Road and back into the truck, fifteen minutes went by before Billy blinked his eyes and asked if he had beer in the truck and that he just had a really odd dream. Howard gave him a light beer then drove Billy home and didn't mention anything to Billy about what he saw. In hindsight Howard regretted that particularly decision although he never went back to what became known as the Oracle of Madness.
Unlike other D-Shifts known at the time this particularly one was spherical in nature hovering some twenty feet above the ground and was approximately twenty feet in diameter. To get a proper look at you really needed to lie under it although that wasn't always easy because it tended to wander across the land, at first it was thought that its route was random but when it was plotted it always took the same route across the plain and always ended up where it begun. It did however make stops during its journey across the plain and took exactly nine hours from beginning to end. The land that it traveled across was owned by a local entrepreneur called Jake 'River' Hook who instantly saw the D-Shift's money making potential and despite many attempts by the government boys was unable to stop him from raking in a fair bit of cash on the tourist ride he called River Futures. The government boys did managed to force some health and safety regulations into Hook's operation but it didn't stop several people losing their minds to the Oracle including Only-if Billy before the government boys shutdown Hook down permanently. Hook himself disappeared shortly after the shutdown he was found lying face up on the Oracle's route chained to ground, dead from exposure. It was written off as a revenge killing however not enough evidence was ever found to point the finger at a viable suspect.
What you saw when you looked into the Oracle according those big scientists from the City was all your possible futures based upon your past decisions made differently. The only problem is that you are effectively staring into an infinite number of realities all at once though according the scientists it appeared to affect people differently. Not everyone looking into it went mad which according to the government boys was why it took so long to shut Hook down. With Hook gone with no heir apparent the government took over and installed forty foot high fences around the Oracle's route and a daily security patrol. The same D.S. Agent that visited the 'Sweeper' on a monthly basis also monitored the Oracle.
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Route 101 – Thunder Part 5 of 9
Flotsam
The D-Shifts had just arrived around the time of the ozone hole but many of them were appearing over water except for the pigeon incident and there was a big one in Rome was well (an Escher type I think). It was the early days of the D-Shifts and government boys hadn't even begun to categorised them. The Road itself runs due south although when it was still open to the public it was a two lane highway so I suppose you could travel north too but back when it was used it had already acquired a bad name and most people drove around it. However it was on the local school bus route and gas prices back then were still quite steep so the local high school home of the 'Thunder Rams' I might add, spent a little cash on UV shielding to avoid the larger spend of going the long way round.
Whoever came up with the name Thunder Rams must have had considerable foresight. If it hadn't been for the somewhat cheap nature of the high school it is possible that the D-Shifts that appeared around the Road would never have been reported.
First came the 'Sweeper' due east of the Road, it appeared two hundred yards away from the crash barriers roughly in the center, it must have been an amazing sight for the school kids as they drove past it. According the then driver of the bus one William Paker, Billy to his Mum although most of his friends called him 'Only-if' one moment there was nothing and the next a blue shimmering tornado spinning eastwards away from the Road. Billy stopped the bus, he said he wasn't sure whether it would be safe or not. When he and some of the older kids got out they discovered there was no wind whatsoever. This tornado was also acting very weird according Billy, it was pretty much stationary apart from the fact it was spinning clockwise, was about eighteen to twenty feet across and there were blue sparks appearing all through it. Billy could see that there was debris within it but upon closer inspection by the science team it was discovered that most of the debris was very small indeed. A leaf is probably the largest object a 'Sweeper' will allow inside. Billy waited about half an hour before he decided it was safe to drive past but he did as fast as he could.
The Road was closed temporarily whilst government boys investigated this new phenomenon when the Road was reopened the locals found the 'Sweeper' still there except with heavy duty razor wire round it with signs stating that the phenomenon was not dangerous had been categorised as a 'Sweeper' D-Shift but is under government jurisdiction and is a federal crime to attempt entry without permission. A D.S. Agent will visit the site on a monthly basis to confirm that all is in order.
I met that same agent several years later when I first came to this neck of the woods but I'll tell you about that later. There are quite a few 'Sweeper' D-Shifts around the world nowadays quite excellent for storing dead leaves although there has a been few lazy gardeners out there that have died when a 'Sweeper' departs for sunnier climes. The field of energy that spins a 'Sweeper' doesn't slowly dissipates over time it just vanishes all at once leaving the debris it has collected explode outwards normally taking several innocent people in its wake. When the first 'Sweeper' dropped its load so to speak the razor wire around the Road's 'Sweeper' was upgraded to heavy metal fencing and several outer fences to stop even the most determined tourist to get too close.
The D-Shifts had just arrived around the time of the ozone hole but many of them were appearing over water except for the pigeon incident and there was a big one in Rome was well (an Escher type I think). It was the early days of the D-Shifts and government boys hadn't even begun to categorised them. The Road itself runs due south although when it was still open to the public it was a two lane highway so I suppose you could travel north too but back when it was used it had already acquired a bad name and most people drove around it. However it was on the local school bus route and gas prices back then were still quite steep so the local high school home of the 'Thunder Rams' I might add, spent a little cash on UV shielding to avoid the larger spend of going the long way round.
Whoever came up with the name Thunder Rams must have had considerable foresight. If it hadn't been for the somewhat cheap nature of the high school it is possible that the D-Shifts that appeared around the Road would never have been reported.
First came the 'Sweeper' due east of the Road, it appeared two hundred yards away from the crash barriers roughly in the center, it must have been an amazing sight for the school kids as they drove past it. According the then driver of the bus one William Paker, Billy to his Mum although most of his friends called him 'Only-if' one moment there was nothing and the next a blue shimmering tornado spinning eastwards away from the Road. Billy stopped the bus, he said he wasn't sure whether it would be safe or not. When he and some of the older kids got out they discovered there was no wind whatsoever. This tornado was also acting very weird according Billy, it was pretty much stationary apart from the fact it was spinning clockwise, was about eighteen to twenty feet across and there were blue sparks appearing all through it. Billy could see that there was debris within it but upon closer inspection by the science team it was discovered that most of the debris was very small indeed. A leaf is probably the largest object a 'Sweeper' will allow inside. Billy waited about half an hour before he decided it was safe to drive past but he did as fast as he could.
The Road was closed temporarily whilst government boys investigated this new phenomenon when the Road was reopened the locals found the 'Sweeper' still there except with heavy duty razor wire round it with signs stating that the phenomenon was not dangerous had been categorised as a 'Sweeper' D-Shift but is under government jurisdiction and is a federal crime to attempt entry without permission. A D.S. Agent will visit the site on a monthly basis to confirm that all is in order.
I met that same agent several years later when I first came to this neck of the woods but I'll tell you about that later. There are quite a few 'Sweeper' D-Shifts around the world nowadays quite excellent for storing dead leaves although there has a been few lazy gardeners out there that have died when a 'Sweeper' departs for sunnier climes. The field of energy that spins a 'Sweeper' doesn't slowly dissipates over time it just vanishes all at once leaving the debris it has collected explode outwards normally taking several innocent people in its wake. When the first 'Sweeper' dropped its load so to speak the razor wire around the Road's 'Sweeper' was upgraded to heavy metal fencing and several outer fences to stop even the most determined tourist to get too close.
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Route 101 – Thunder Part 4 of 9
Flotsam
Fortunately the Paris incident was probably the worst one for causalities and these events just seemed continued on at apace although the government says they are slowing down now. Incidents on the Road however didn't stop with the Greys's landing hell no, after the D-Shifts started it became the new tornado alley but without the wind. Both sides of the Road were originally used for cattle ranching although the slight radioactive nature of the then water table put to question as to quality of meat back then, of course most of the rich folk even then were printing their food. What the rich folk don't know or care is that in order to print the food in the first place you've got to have some raw material to put into the printer, many so called synthetics come direct from nature. Being a farmer you tend pick up on things like this you see.
I'm sure you have all heard of Black and Blue Meats, eaten their steaks in restaurants not to mention their chain of burger joints but I bet you didn't know the origin of the meat in the first place. Many people believed that it is actually printed food not using beef at all but they would be very wrong there well originally they were wrong not so sure now of course. The land on either side of Road had become tainted but the cattle didn't seemed to be affected by it at all in fact they seem to thrive on it.
Most people in this age think all cattle are black and blue coloured not so, many were brown and white or black and white or just plain brown, that shows the power of marketing nobody seems to remember the days before Black and Blue cattle.
The cattle along the Road seemed fine except the ranchers began notice little of patches blue coloured skin which slowly spread until the entire herd was black and blue. Edward Black the owner of the cattle was half an honest man, he'd spent an awful lot of money on his ranch and cattle but he didn't want to poison people with his tainted herd. He decided to butcher one of this cows and try out the meat himself turns out it tasted absolutely amazing, he then got some scientists in to test meat which proved to be negative to anything bad in the meat. This however was the first generation of cattle on the land the originals so to speak, the second generation were not so lucky in their lack of effects. Some of the calves were born with no legs but hovered a foot above ground but appeared to be in no distress whilst others just walked backwards however the meat itself was toxic. This would have been Edward Black's downfall however he was quite a clever man, he had taken organic cells from the original cattle before they were slaughtered. Dolly the Sheep may have made history so many years ago but its Edward Black that turned it into a stable industry of course some old guys say that the quality of a Black and Blue steak has dropped off of late and there are many conspiracy theories regarding the possibility that the meat is now printed too.
When the cattle farming upped sticks it was just a Road for a short time until some big scientists from the city discovered an ozone hole directly overhead. You may remember back in the eighties when all those green folk were worried about the ozone hole over the North Pole we had maybe a decade of people banning chemicals (CFCs) that's bad for the upper atmosphere and then it all went quiet but the hole is still there but no longer news worthy. The hole above the Road had been marked for the fringe press only, at one point the Road was known as Sun Tan Alley despite the lack of sun you could still get a tan and in really bad cases skin cancer.
Fortunately the Paris incident was probably the worst one for causalities and these events just seemed continued on at apace although the government says they are slowing down now. Incidents on the Road however didn't stop with the Greys's landing hell no, after the D-Shifts started it became the new tornado alley but without the wind. Both sides of the Road were originally used for cattle ranching although the slight radioactive nature of the then water table put to question as to quality of meat back then, of course most of the rich folk even then were printing their food. What the rich folk don't know or care is that in order to print the food in the first place you've got to have some raw material to put into the printer, many so called synthetics come direct from nature. Being a farmer you tend pick up on things like this you see.
I'm sure you have all heard of Black and Blue Meats, eaten their steaks in restaurants not to mention their chain of burger joints but I bet you didn't know the origin of the meat in the first place. Many people believed that it is actually printed food not using beef at all but they would be very wrong there well originally they were wrong not so sure now of course. The land on either side of Road had become tainted but the cattle didn't seemed to be affected by it at all in fact they seem to thrive on it.
Most people in this age think all cattle are black and blue coloured not so, many were brown and white or black and white or just plain brown, that shows the power of marketing nobody seems to remember the days before Black and Blue cattle.
The cattle along the Road seemed fine except the ranchers began notice little of patches blue coloured skin which slowly spread until the entire herd was black and blue. Edward Black the owner of the cattle was half an honest man, he'd spent an awful lot of money on his ranch and cattle but he didn't want to poison people with his tainted herd. He decided to butcher one of this cows and try out the meat himself turns out it tasted absolutely amazing, he then got some scientists in to test meat which proved to be negative to anything bad in the meat. This however was the first generation of cattle on the land the originals so to speak, the second generation were not so lucky in their lack of effects. Some of the calves were born with no legs but hovered a foot above ground but appeared to be in no distress whilst others just walked backwards however the meat itself was toxic. This would have been Edward Black's downfall however he was quite a clever man, he had taken organic cells from the original cattle before they were slaughtered. Dolly the Sheep may have made history so many years ago but its Edward Black that turned it into a stable industry of course some old guys say that the quality of a Black and Blue steak has dropped off of late and there are many conspiracy theories regarding the possibility that the meat is now printed too.
When the cattle farming upped sticks it was just a Road for a short time until some big scientists from the city discovered an ozone hole directly overhead. You may remember back in the eighties when all those green folk were worried about the ozone hole over the North Pole we had maybe a decade of people banning chemicals (CFCs) that's bad for the upper atmosphere and then it all went quiet but the hole is still there but no longer news worthy. The hole above the Road had been marked for the fringe press only, at one point the Road was known as Sun Tan Alley despite the lack of sun you could still get a tan and in really bad cases skin cancer.
Monday, 6 March 2017
Route 101 – Thunder Part 3 of 9
Flostam
Even before the D-Shifts started up, this Road has seen its far share of history, originally it ran up to the take-off fields of the Space Patrol of course they didn't last long what with the war between Dwells what a nutty bunch of aliens they were. They blew the Space Patrol right out of its socks and then surrenders for absolutely no reason known to man. There's still a big crater at the end of the Road some big scientists say it created a negative pole of instability at that end of the Road whatever that means. The Dwells didn't stay long but they did give us star-drive capability not that it helped us to travel to other stars of course, theoretically we could as long as we were at least four light years away from the Earth.
Then came the Greys, aliens with zero dress sense and I do mean zero. They landed at the end of the Road I'm currently sitting stationary at in my hunker about three miles northeast in fact. Turns out the Greys tended to follow the Dwells everywhere not to patch up their messes like my old Dad no such luck not that I believe in luck of course. Apparently the Dwells are drawn to highly radioactive materials and the Space Patrol had one of the old G-Reactors that belched the stuff on a regular basis of course back then the bulk of the Space Patrol was completely automated using those daft IA series robots. I mean come on, difference engines make terrible cops. We sold the Greys plans for the G-Reactors a completely unstable technology for a yet more unstable technology to help with the star-drive the Dwells had supplied us with. The government was apparently on their game that day because they asked for a demonstration so the Greys put a man in a shuttle craft east of the Road and used the tech to travel to the west side of the Road without apparently moving. Then they left quite quickly not to be seen again I might add and so did the government boys although we seen them all the time.
Five years later came the first of the D-Shifts and no one even noticed it for another year, it was right in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle so who is going to notice something strange there. Of course when an ocean liner that has been wrapped in a complete circle appears drifting off the coast tends say something was up, it was a bloody miracle no one was hurt. The incident in Paris however really made an impression particularly I assume on the French since it was their tower that had the make over in pigeon, I'm sure you've seen the video feed that one moment a very small pigeon in the middle distance flying above the tower and the next a twenty ton pigeon failing to fly and falling on top of it. Speared quite spectacularly by the tower itself not that the tower managed to support the extra weight for very long, which then bent down before snapping completely in two, only two hundred and seven people killed. One of the worst disasters the city had faced since the last war, I mean to have survived five wars and then to be destroyed by a twenty ton pigeon.
Even before the D-Shifts started up, this Road has seen its far share of history, originally it ran up to the take-off fields of the Space Patrol of course they didn't last long what with the war between Dwells what a nutty bunch of aliens they were. They blew the Space Patrol right out of its socks and then surrenders for absolutely no reason known to man. There's still a big crater at the end of the Road some big scientists say it created a negative pole of instability at that end of the Road whatever that means. The Dwells didn't stay long but they did give us star-drive capability not that it helped us to travel to other stars of course, theoretically we could as long as we were at least four light years away from the Earth.
Then came the Greys, aliens with zero dress sense and I do mean zero. They landed at the end of the Road I'm currently sitting stationary at in my hunker about three miles northeast in fact. Turns out the Greys tended to follow the Dwells everywhere not to patch up their messes like my old Dad no such luck not that I believe in luck of course. Apparently the Dwells are drawn to highly radioactive materials and the Space Patrol had one of the old G-Reactors that belched the stuff on a regular basis of course back then the bulk of the Space Patrol was completely automated using those daft IA series robots. I mean come on, difference engines make terrible cops. We sold the Greys plans for the G-Reactors a completely unstable technology for a yet more unstable technology to help with the star-drive the Dwells had supplied us with. The government was apparently on their game that day because they asked for a demonstration so the Greys put a man in a shuttle craft east of the Road and used the tech to travel to the west side of the Road without apparently moving. Then they left quite quickly not to be seen again I might add and so did the government boys although we seen them all the time.
Five years later came the first of the D-Shifts and no one even noticed it for another year, it was right in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle so who is going to notice something strange there. Of course when an ocean liner that has been wrapped in a complete circle appears drifting off the coast tends say something was up, it was a bloody miracle no one was hurt. The incident in Paris however really made an impression particularly I assume on the French since it was their tower that had the make over in pigeon, I'm sure you've seen the video feed that one moment a very small pigeon in the middle distance flying above the tower and the next a twenty ton pigeon failing to fly and falling on top of it. Speared quite spectacularly by the tower itself not that the tower managed to support the extra weight for very long, which then bent down before snapping completely in two, only two hundred and seven people killed. One of the worst disasters the city had faced since the last war, I mean to have survived five wars and then to be destroyed by a twenty ton pigeon.
Sunday, 5 March 2017
Route 101 – Thunder Part 2 of 9
Flotsam
Here I am hung over looking down a Road which is effectively a deathtrap to all those unwary enough to travel down it and stubborn folk like me who doesn't like to back down from a bet once made. I can just make out the blonde lass a mile in the distance they got a bunch lights all set up, I'm not sure a piece of tail is really worth risking my life over. Its not like the bet is for much in the way of credits either. I know what you are thinking and it isn't pride either, its more to the wipe the smug smile off that old boy's face. Still that mile just seems to be getting longer the more I look at it, fortunately or not depends on how you look at it there's only me here at this end. They've probably thought I've bottled it, not me I maybe a little slow sometimes but I'm not stupid got me a secret weapon.
Okay so as secret weapons go it isn't too secret just a sheet of second hand syntho-shield which I managed to bend over the more weaker points of the hunker and then I also I've got a cloak of the stuff. Didn't come cheap either the guy that sold it to me says its just like the shields the government uses for rescuing people from unexpected D-Shifts. Thing is the shields don't last long and government always throws them away after one use so there is quite a trade in them.
The real problem is that The Storm itself isn't a D-Shift, more sort of the waste product of one so I'm not actually sure how good the syntho-shield is going to be against The Storm's effects and there are many. You see I accepted the bet before I read up on the history of the Road, okay I admit that was stupid. Though I suspect the whole thing was a frame up, I mean they all know about the new protected zone being built right next to my property. They were just jealous and this is how they've managed to get back at me. Its not my fault that I'm risking my life not one bit of it. I bought that piece of land from one of the local widows two summers back apparently been in the family for centuries dating back to before the war of independence. Of course the locals didn't like a limey like me buying their land, its good farming land not sure why its never been turned. The soil is thick and black, had one of them big scientists from the city to test it before I bought it though just in case. They said it was high grade you could grow anything from it, I think that is why the government blokes decided to build near it so they could use me to farm for them but the locals say the land is protected and its bad luck to farm there. I don't believe in luck what happens happens, of course the locals tried to stop me from doing any work on the land straight off.
First it was none of the local farm-boys would hire out to me despite the high rate I was offering, then I had the cops down on a tip that my trailer contained government controlled plants and then the local hardware store refused my credits. I've had bring everything in from hundred miles away at considerable cost I might add, for the amount of credits I've spent so far on this shindig I could of bought myself a nice little flat in a protected zone. Of course that isn't me, I'm a farmer through and through don't like the indoors too much.
Its the government's fault again I had good farm back in Blighty, saw me a government sign about big money to be had in the land of the yanks. Lots of spare land since the population drop after the D-Shifts started. Apparently it effects your manhood not that I've ever had any trouble myself in that direction but since the D-Shifts the birthrate has dropped off quite bit. Blighty seems fine for that sort of thing but the government says it because there's more D-Shifts in the US, I'm not so sure on that front. Still that's why I here looking down that stretch of road cause the locals obviously want me dead and away from their land.
Here I am hung over looking down a Road which is effectively a deathtrap to all those unwary enough to travel down it and stubborn folk like me who doesn't like to back down from a bet once made. I can just make out the blonde lass a mile in the distance they got a bunch lights all set up, I'm not sure a piece of tail is really worth risking my life over. Its not like the bet is for much in the way of credits either. I know what you are thinking and it isn't pride either, its more to the wipe the smug smile off that old boy's face. Still that mile just seems to be getting longer the more I look at it, fortunately or not depends on how you look at it there's only me here at this end. They've probably thought I've bottled it, not me I maybe a little slow sometimes but I'm not stupid got me a secret weapon.
Okay so as secret weapons go it isn't too secret just a sheet of second hand syntho-shield which I managed to bend over the more weaker points of the hunker and then I also I've got a cloak of the stuff. Didn't come cheap either the guy that sold it to me says its just like the shields the government uses for rescuing people from unexpected D-Shifts. Thing is the shields don't last long and government always throws them away after one use so there is quite a trade in them.
The real problem is that The Storm itself isn't a D-Shift, more sort of the waste product of one so I'm not actually sure how good the syntho-shield is going to be against The Storm's effects and there are many. You see I accepted the bet before I read up on the history of the Road, okay I admit that was stupid. Though I suspect the whole thing was a frame up, I mean they all know about the new protected zone being built right next to my property. They were just jealous and this is how they've managed to get back at me. Its not my fault that I'm risking my life not one bit of it. I bought that piece of land from one of the local widows two summers back apparently been in the family for centuries dating back to before the war of independence. Of course the locals didn't like a limey like me buying their land, its good farming land not sure why its never been turned. The soil is thick and black, had one of them big scientists from the city to test it before I bought it though just in case. They said it was high grade you could grow anything from it, I think that is why the government blokes decided to build near it so they could use me to farm for them but the locals say the land is protected and its bad luck to farm there. I don't believe in luck what happens happens, of course the locals tried to stop me from doing any work on the land straight off.
First it was none of the local farm-boys would hire out to me despite the high rate I was offering, then I had the cops down on a tip that my trailer contained government controlled plants and then the local hardware store refused my credits. I've had bring everything in from hundred miles away at considerable cost I might add, for the amount of credits I've spent so far on this shindig I could of bought myself a nice little flat in a protected zone. Of course that isn't me, I'm a farmer through and through don't like the indoors too much.
Its the government's fault again I had good farm back in Blighty, saw me a government sign about big money to be had in the land of the yanks. Lots of spare land since the population drop after the D-Shifts started. Apparently it effects your manhood not that I've ever had any trouble myself in that direction but since the D-Shifts the birthrate has dropped off quite bit. Blighty seems fine for that sort of thing but the government says it because there's more D-Shifts in the US, I'm not so sure on that front. Still that's why I here looking down that stretch of road cause the locals obviously want me dead and away from their land.
Saturday, 4 March 2017
Route 101 – Thunder Part 1 of 9
I am currently a bit fed up with politics so I have decided to post up a short story I wrote in 2014/15 based upon another story I wrote whilst in school. I have split it up into nine parts and epilogue, Enjoy.
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
The Freedom Fiddle
The question on everyone's lips at the moment is did Russians attempt to affect the America election, now I do not have access to any high security files or even some fake ones however I can apply some basic common sense to the situation.
First off like the UK the popular vote does not guarantee a win, in the case of the 2016 election Trump lost by 2,864,974 votes however he won more states than Clinton so when the Electoral vote occurred he won but only by 14% which makes it quite close indeed although the previous 2012 election was close on states but higher on the Electoral vote. The whole thing just gives me a headache an overly complex system if you ask me.
To affect the Popular vote you would require a huge amount of manpower or they could use fake news articles which whilst it failed in the outcome of the Popular vote it, it could of had enough of an affect to win enough states so that the Electoral vote was effectively in the bag.
However did fake news articles really do all that damage are we really that gullible (yes I know they sold Brexit to the British people from the side of a bus) but still there are other possibilities we have not yet considered.
Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. I understand this occurs in America somewhat, the Washington Post has this to say on the subject: without-gerrymandering and this is technically legal.
If all else fails you pick key states and lean on the Electors, does such illegal activities occur in America politics and are the Russians involved?
Well fake news articles did appear mostly by a bunch of kids in the Balkans who were making a packet on the advertising they had no political agenda they just learned how best to leverage the election in their favour.
What were the Russians speaking to the Trump chaps about then or did they just learn from the kids and add to the fog of dodgy news. Then there is Clinton's emails of which I have read a few on Wikileaks obviously I have not read all them but the ones I did read, are mostly spam, junk and quite pointless emails. Clinton's email server was hacked several times during 2012 and 2013:
Considering the small number of messages you have got to wonder whether they are even real or not especially since Trump did not pursue the investigation. Why investigate something that you know is a hoax or if not a hoax something you cannot win?
The timing of the pubic statements right of the middle of the campaign, yet more nails in Clinton's Election coffin.
Can you fix an election yes, just use lots of nails.
First off like the UK the popular vote does not guarantee a win, in the case of the 2016 election Trump lost by 2,864,974 votes however he won more states than Clinton so when the Electoral vote occurred he won but only by 14% which makes it quite close indeed although the previous 2012 election was close on states but higher on the Electoral vote. The whole thing just gives me a headache an overly complex system if you ask me.
To affect the Popular vote you would require a huge amount of manpower or they could use fake news articles which whilst it failed in the outcome of the Popular vote it, it could of had enough of an affect to win enough states so that the Electoral vote was effectively in the bag.
However did fake news articles really do all that damage are we really that gullible (yes I know they sold Brexit to the British people from the side of a bus) but still there are other possibilities we have not yet considered.
Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. I understand this occurs in America somewhat, the Washington Post has this to say on the subject: without-gerrymandering and this is technically legal.
If all else fails you pick key states and lean on the Electors, does such illegal activities occur in America politics and are the Russians involved?
Well fake news articles did appear mostly by a bunch of kids in the Balkans who were making a packet on the advertising they had no political agenda they just learned how best to leverage the election in their favour.
What were the Russians speaking to the Trump chaps about then or did they just learn from the kids and add to the fog of dodgy news. Then there is Clinton's emails of which I have read a few on Wikileaks obviously I have not read all them but the ones I did read, are mostly spam, junk and quite pointless emails. Clinton's email server was hacked several times during 2012 and 2013:
"The FBI investigation found that 110 messages contained information that was classified at the time it was sent. Sixty-five of those emails were found to contain information classified as "Secret"; more than 20 contained "Top-Secret" information. Three emails, out of 30,000, were found to be marked as classified, although they lacked classified headers and were only marked with a small "c" in parentheses, described as "portion markings" by Comey. He added it was possible Clinton was not "technically sophisticated" enough to understand what the three classified markings meant..."
Considering the small number of messages you have got to wonder whether they are even real or not especially since Trump did not pursue the investigation. Why investigate something that you know is a hoax or if not a hoax something you cannot win?
The timing of the pubic statements right of the middle of the campaign, yet more nails in Clinton's Election coffin.
Can you fix an election yes, just use lots of nails.
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