KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW

Okay, so I guess it's official now (or nearly). The electors have spoken, placing Donald Trump on the path of presidential inauguration. What fun!

Some of the electors wanted information about the alleged Russian hacking before voting, but the intelligence community declined. At some point, perhaps just before the ceremony, a report will come out.

And maybe about that time Obama will unleash some sort of cyber-hell on the Ruskies, in retaliation for the hacking. "At a time and place of our choosing" begins to dwindle rapidly after that, at least for Obama's promise to bear fruit.

Will Trump keep the ball in the air? Unlikely.

He continues to deny that Russia had anything to do with any hacks, opting instead for the 400-pound cyberpunk sunk down in a mattress somewhere. Trump says they (the intelligence community) doesn't know if it's China or Russia or whoever.

Trump, being human, thinks he can penetrate the minds of others and divine their contents. He knows when people are lying, and calls 'em on it. (Okay, he seems unable to tell when he himself is lying, but you can only do so much, right?)

Remember, he knows ISIS better than the generals.

And while there appears to be no evidence any hacker actually interfered with the voting process itself, it's likely some minds were changed by the information produced by hacking and released by WikiLeaks.

The Russians (or whoever) may not have handed Trump the election, but the hacks gave the man ammunition he could (and did) use against Hillary Clinton.

Information filtered through his own puzzle palace.

For instance, when someone speculated in a hacked email about the relative conservativeness of Catholicism and Evangelicalism, Trump roared his outrage from the podium, characterizing this innocuous comment as a "vicious attack" on religion. Bizarre.

Acting from his position as alpha a-hole, Trump cried out to all the wannabe a-holes in America, getting just enough of them in the right states to vote for him. (Or to vote against "crooked" Hillary.) His tirades worked perfectly, splitting the country down the middle with a mountain of outrageous lies.

Now, he knows the people of America love him and voted for him in a landslide. It makes sense to him that whatever he does now is mandated by the country.

He can literally do no wrong, by definition.

So if he starts a war with China (which is looking more and more likely, every day), that too will be an expression of the will of the people.

Hey, don't blame him.

Remember, you asked for it. (Well, enough of you did.)