Matt Gaetz running the justice department. Fox hosts in charge of the Pentagon and transportation. Elon Musk as head of layoffs. And Robert F Kennedy Jr and Dr Oz overseeing the nationā€™s health.

Some have likened Donald Trumpā€™s administrative picks to a clown car; others are calling our incoming leadership a kakistocracy, or ā€œgovernment by the worst peopleā€, as Merriam-Webster puts it.

The word has been trending online, with a burst in search traffic in recent weeks and a new dedicated subreddit. Itā€™s not the first time Trump has (accidentally) made the term famous; many discovered it in his first term. But the kakistocracy of 2016 looks like Mister Rogersā€™ Neighborhood compared with the president-electā€™s new batch of sidekicks.

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    The sad thing - even if this were to be true, I bet nothing happens. Just look at Bush v. Gore. Even many so-called Democrats and so-called liberals pretend as if Bush won, that anyone bringing it up is just a sore loser and so on. More recently, we have the Russia and Comey thing when it comes to Hillary.

    Even if we later have the smoking gun about this, I bet we still sustain damage from donvict and his buddies in the meantime, and people still act like itā€™s NBD, even if trueā€¦

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      Start by contacting the relevant people and demanding a manual recount.

      If you can say that you actually tried, and still nothing happened, then youā€™re allowed to wallow in despair.

      But you donā€™t get to just skip straight to the despair part without the doing everything you can part. Then the only source of your despair will be you.

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      I mean the voting software stolen is undeniably true, since they admitted doing it themselves and thereā€™s evidence of Trumpā€™s lawyers hiring people to steal the voting software.

      nothing might come of it, but I still talk about how W stole his election because his brother was the governor of florida and stopped ballot counting in that state, so if this election was stolen, we might as well have indisputable proof like we have of Florida in 2004.