Election 2026 #3
Mr. Monopoly
When Donald Trump ran for President in 2024, he was probably seeking a particular card from “Chance” or “Community Chest” in the game of Monopoly. By winning the election, he got one of them.[1]
Since becoming the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump has become the masked (i.e., source of a constant stream of disinformation), gun-toting (i.e., destroying small boats at sea without presenting any evidence that they are “drug runners”, attacking Venuzula and taking their President into custody, and attacking Iran in order to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons[2]), and money-grubbing (i.e., spend enormous amounts of taxpayer money[3], providing Federal loans and special privileges to businesses in which he and his family have a financial stake, etc.) Mr. Monopoly in this article’s header image.
This is How You Do It
At a re-election rally on May 31st, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff laid out a litany of the self-serving activities of the Grifter-in Chief and, in the process, showed other Democrats and Independents what is needed to beat their Republican opponents. Here’s an extract of the most potent part of that speech:[4]
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In Donald Trump’s America, “the rich get richer[5] and the poor get poorer”. Is this the country you want? If you supported President Trump in 2024, is this what you voted for?
What’s a President to Do?
President Trump is afraid. He’s afraid of you and me and all the other members of We the People who are eligible to vote.
In November 2024, the voters gave the President and his party control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the Federal Government. In November 2026, his party is almost certain to loose control of the House of Representatives. There’s a good chance that they’ll lose control of the Senate as well. The Congress that has given him a “rubber stamp” on almost everything’s he’s wanted to do will have evaporated. What will he do? What will he do? He’ll do what he always does when his will is thwarted and/or he feels backed into a corner. He’s going to lie about election fraud wherever his candidate loses, cheat with the help of his co-conspiritors in some state governments, and try to steal elections when all else fails.
Lying
By now, many who voted for Donald Trump have learned that most of his promises were outright lies or understatements covering self-serving and autocratic crimes and xenophopic atrocities. The biggest lies revolve around “voter fraud” and “illegal immigration”.
Voter Fraud
President Trump and those in the Federal Government who support or, for their own selfish and anti-American reasons, echo his lies have been harpimg about massive and wide-spread voter fraud since at least 2016. They talk about “illegal immagrants” voting and “fixing” the vote through manipulating voting machines, mailing in fake ballots, drop-box stuffing, etc. Here’s the truth about voter fraud taken from statistics maintained by the right-wing think tank, The Heritage Foundation … the fine folks who brought us Project 2025.
The Heritage Foundation has collected a database of all proven instances of voter fraud from 1982 through 2025. 1.3 billion during those 43 years. (That’s rounded to the nearest tenth of a billion votes, of course.) Of those 1.3 billion votes, 1,620 were proven to be fraudulent. That’s a vanishingly small 0.000125 percent … one fraudulent vote for every 162,008 cast. Only 100 of those votes came from undocumented immigrants … 0.000008 percent or 1 out of every 13,000,000 votes.
What do the President and his thralls use as proof that voter fraud is rampant? Isn’t it obvious? He lost the 2020 Presidential election to Joe Biden. (Never mind that he beat two of the most qualified candidates to ever run for President in our country’s history.[6])
In 2024, he did win a plurality of the popular vote (49.8%) and won the electoral college[7] … the only “vote” that counts … in both 2016 and 2024. But, he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 … and, he is a very sore loser. His narcissism will not allow him to beaten honestly. Therefore, Biden and the Democrats must have stuffed ballot boxes, mailed-in millions of fake votes, and registered imported and registered thousands of illegal immigrants to vote in the swing states. Of course, Trump and his cronies have never uncovered any proof that any of these allegations. Some have even lost defamation suits that cost them lots of money and/or their licenses to practice law.
Illegal Immigration
In March 2026, Senior Border Patrol officer and former Commander-at-Large, Greg Bovino said he hoped to deport 100 million “illegals” while serving in the Trump administration. At 4:35 PM EDT on July 5, 2026, the total population of the United States was 349,157,275. That number came from the U.S. page of the World-o-Meter website and represents everybody living in the country; not just citizens. One hundred million is about 29% of the 349,157,275. According to Officer Bovino, 1 out of every 3 or 4 persons in the living here is an undocumented immigrant. Does that sound right to you? Does it frighten you? Do you avoid leaving home because of all the “criminals”[8] out there?
Cheating
By now, anyone who doesn’t live in a cave is at least vaguely aware of the events of January 6, 2021. Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Rather than accept the results Trump and his mob tried to cheat. That cheating was after the fact of the election. It didn’t work.
Trump has been whining about the “stolen election” ever since. He’s even added “foreign interference with our voting machines” to his litany of how it was stolen. They must have known that Biden would go easy on them and he wouldn’t. (Is he suggesting that Obama’s and Biden’s Departments of Homeland Security in 2016 and 2024 were better at their jobs than his in 2020?)
Now, fearing the loss of his “rubber stamp” Congress as a result of the Midterm Election in November, the President is trying to cheat before the fact. His sycophants, his rich supporters, and the extremist groups who believe he is useful in forwarding their cause are doing everything they can to help.
The most obvious cheating started when the President called the Governor of Texas and and said that, since he had won the state in 2024, the Republican Party deserved 5 more Texas districts dominated by Republican voters. Governor Greg Abbot quickly convened a special session of the state legislature for a mid-decade[9] redraw of the state map. Some “creative redistricting” provided the extra 6 Republican districts Trump had “suggested”. Governor Gavin Newsom and the California legislature submitted a proposition to the state’s voters for the approval of a new state district map that created 5 new Democratic districts in California. The proposition passed by a healthy margin. Other states … on both sides of the political aisle … have followed suit. Isn’t gerrymandering a wonderful thing? It let’s politicians choose their voters instead of the converse that our Founders intended.
Stealing
Just in case cheating isn’t enough, Trump and his allies in the House have planned a theft called The Safeguard America Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The most fervent supporters of the SAVE Act try to make us believe that the bill is a simple “voter id” act. Who could oppose that? This is a deception. Here’s what the bill actually says:
- In order both to register to vote and to actually vote, one must provide documentation of citizenship. Valid forms of documentation include:
- An Enhanced REAL ID … one that includes specific identification that the holder is a citizen
Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington are the only states that provide the Enhanced REAL ID. - A valid U.S. passport
Do you have a passport? I don’t. The only time I’ve ever left the country was a week-long vacation to New Brunswick, Canada years before September 11, 2001. Back then, travel between Canada and the United States did not require a passport. - An official US military identification card together with a service record indicating a place of birth in the United States
ROTC in college is as close as I ever came to the military[10] - A valid government-issued photo ID card that lists a place of birth in the United States
- Any other valid government-issued photo ID card together with evidence of birth as a US citizen or naturalization, such as a US-issued birth certificate, a naturalization certificate, or a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA)
I do have a certified birth certificate.[11] Do you? Does the name on your birth, naturalization, or CRBA match the name on your voter registration? If you are married and took your spouse’s name or if the two of you chose a hyphenated name, the names names on the certification and the registration won’t match.
- An Enhanced REAL ID … one that includes specific identification that the holder is a citizen
- Suspected non-citizens must be removed from existing voter rolls
- States must share unredacted voting rolls with the Department of Homeland Security as another means to validate citizenship
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Notes
[1]
On March 30, 2023, Trump was indicted with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels as hush money to buy her silence over a sexual encounter between them. He was convicted on all counts on May 30, 2024, becoming the first U.S. president to be convicted of a felony. Following a series of delays and Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory, he was sentenced to an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025. He is appealing his conviction.
The picture on the “Community Chest” card shows Mr. Monopoly escaping from potential imprisonment altogether, I think that’s the one he pulled
[2]
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), (aka, the Iran nuclear deal) was an agreement to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and other provisions. The agreement was between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Germany) together with the European Union. The agreement allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor and inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities to ensure that they were not producing weapons-grade nuclear material.
The JCPOA worked. It effectively limited Iran’s nuclear production from the time it took effect (January 20, 2016) until shortly after the 45th President of the United States withdrew our country from the agreement in 2018. (For those who have forgotten, the 45th President of the United States was Donald J. Trump.)
[3]
Most of President Trump’s “improvement” projects were supposed to be paid for by private donors. They weren’t going to cost the taxpayers anything. After the fact, the President has asked Congress for money for “necennary additions” to the original plans (e.g., security measures for the White House Ballroom).
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Don’t be fooled/startled by the bold display FULL SPEECH across the face of the video. The video above is 12 minutes and 6 seconds extracted from YouTube’s 32 minute and 11 second video. If you want to see the whole speech, here it is. Otherwise, use the “Return” link to go back and watch the extract.
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[5]
On Friday, June 12, 2026, SpaceX announced its initial public offering at $135 per share. By the end of Stock Market trading, the stock jumped to $160.95. As a result, Elon Musk, the major stock holder (of course), became the world’s first trillionaire.
Even thinking about a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) makes one’s head spin. I found it a bit easier to comprehend by considering a trillion seconds.
Spend your money wisely, Elon. Even at a dollar per second, you’ve got a lot of time.
[6]
Before running for President, Hillary Clinton had been Secretary of State, a U.S. Senator, and First Lady. That’s a lot of Federal Government experience. In turn, Kamala Harris had been Vice President and a U.S. Senator. Both lost their elections to Donald Trump … in 2016 and 2024 respectively, but he lost to Joe Biden in 2020, I wonder why. Could it be that more misogynists turned out to vote in 2016 and 2024?
[7]
In 2019, I published an article on The Electoral College describing its inequity. A quick example of that inequity is comparing the number of registered voters and the number of electoral votes of California and Wyoming.
California has 15,810,412 registered voters and 54 electoral votes … about 1 vote for every 292,785 registered voters. Wyoming has 271,269 registered voters and 3 electoral votes … about 1 vote for every 90,423 registered voters. Since each state gets its electoral votes from 2 for its Senators and 1 for each Representative, the electoral college inequity carries over to the House.
Each Wyoming voter has more than 3 times the power of each California voter.
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What the current Federal Administration and like to call “illegal aliens” are more appropriately called “undocumented immigrants”. Living in the United States without proper documentation (Green Cards, Work Visas, etc.) is a civil violation subject to possible fine and/or deportation. It only becomes a crime if you are deported, then return without proper documentation. (Even then, the person is not automatically the type of violent criminal monster that white nationalists and other extremists would like us to believe.)
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In a normal reality, the states adjust their state maps once every 10 years shortly after the regular census required by the Constitution. (There are 435 representative districts in the country. Because of changes in population distribution the number of districts for some states increase while others decrease.) We’re not living in a normal reality right now. Under current conditions, mid-decade redistribution of a state’s allotted districts is not surprising.
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I was saved from the Vietnam draft by my S2 student classification, my A3 parenthood classification, and finally coming up with 362 in the 1969 draft lottery. (Had I ever been drafted, I would have gone to prison rather than going to kill or be killed. I would not have moved to Canada. The United States is my home,
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I had to request it from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in order to get my READ ID Driver’s License. Unfortunately, Massachusetts isn’t one of the 5 states that issue an Enhanced REAL ID.
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