From: paul krassner Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 4:14 AM To: Jeffrey E. Subject: hey J. or Jeff or Jeffrey, Hope things are going well for you. I finally finished =rimming down my collection from 700 pages to 400, "60 Years of =nvestigative Satire: The Best of PK." The piece below is the =ast one in the book. You've previously seen the first =alf. Enjoy, Paul or Zen Bastard or =umpleforeskin =/span>Alternative Facts Between the choice of a one-man-one-vote (Supreme Court Justice =ntonin Scalia) and fake news of Weapons of Mass Destruction, invasion =f Iraq, and horror of ISIS, George Bush was elected president in the =ear 2000. It was due to the electoral college (a rigged system which =riginally intended to prevent slaves from voting and evolved to =errymandering), even though Bush's opponent, Al Gore, won the =ational popular vote. Hillary Clinton was elected senator that year, and =he announced that the first thing she would do was to get rid of the =lectoral college. A few years later, as a columnist for the New York Press, I sent her a letter asking about the =tatus of that promise. She didn't reply. On November 8, 2016, a =rooked businessman, liar extraordinaire, bragging pussy-grabber, =ake-America-white-again, anti-choice, anti-Semite, fake Christian, =limate-change hoaxer, twitter addict, homophobic, apprentice =olitician, friendly fascist, and Vladimir Putin's "useful=idiot," namely Donald Trump, who was elected as an insanely =arcissistic dictator based on the electoral college, whereas his =pponent, Hillary Clinton, won the national popular vote by "more =han three million" individuals. Irony lives. But an incredibly cruel monster inadvertently =wakened a sleeping population to counteract the essence of evil with =ove, laughs, and law, fueled by the aid of true news. Incidentally, =utin had 88 journalists murdered. No wonder Trump told him, "1410=804os an honor to be with you." Now Putin wanted new Obama4>=99s sanctions on Ru