First, they REALLY ignored us...

[bleever]

We were walking around like ghosts! Even our friends and families couldn't hear us when we talked about fraud. We were desperate to get ANY mention of it, anywhere. We were so completely, impossibly ignored that we thought we might be nuts.

But now, they're REALLY laughing at us, with the same intensity, with all the drums and horns and whistles and pantooclers they have at their disposal. They're sending out the Uberclowns, their hyperfunded Superheroes of Derision, their Magnum Cum Loudies. "Heh heh: we'll just see how they like it when they've been HANNITIZED!"

They laugh so hard and so loud that we are really only there, on their shows or in their precious little circle of attention, to be laughed at. No need for us to reply; after all, we're utterly laughable.

So next we expect not that they will fight, but that they will REALLY fight. But there's something that we shouldn't forget about bullies: their power rests mainly on their bluster.

Once the bluster is used up and it gets to the actual fighting part, the balance of resources is usually nothing like the lopsided matter the prior noise might have suggested.

And besides, all we want to do is count the votes.

The Arnebeck contest is very well written. There will be a recount. This fight is far from over. We've got one more of Mr. Gandhi's stages to go through yet.

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