How do I know? My Twitter tells me so

 

 The open hearings on impeachment start this week, and you don’t have to look very far to find an expert, solon or moosehead to tell you everybody’s mind is made up already. Contrarians are keeping a low profile. Maybe they don’t want to be primaried.

   The Times’s story on the Kentucky election today may tell us more than the experts, solons and mooseheads about what to look forward to in 2020.

  In the former tobacco commonwealth last week, the Democratic candidate for governor apparently beat the incumbent, Matt Bevin, by 5,000-plus votes. Nevertheless, Bevin demanded a recanvass (which is less than a recount). The history of recanvasses is: You still lose. Nevertheless, after the recanvass, Gov. Bevin can “contest” the election, which sends the race to the legislature. Where there is a supermajority of Republicans.

 Quoth Gov. Bevin: "What we know is that there really are a number of significant irregularities."

 Whence comes “what we know”? Times reporters wondered. Gov. Bevin’s campaign isn’t saying.

 So here is what the Times found: The big bang was a tweet from Overlordkranken1, who claimed to be writing from Louisville, but misspelled it. He has 19 “followers.” He said he had “shredded a box of Republican write-in ballots.”

 Twitter took down Overlordkranken1’s tweet, but screen-shots already existed, and so it was re-tweeted by more than 3,800 accounts, most of which appear, by their behavior, to be bots. And the re-tweets were re-tweeted, so now So now the action/confession of Overlordkranken1 is a fact, or at least suggestive that something was wrong with the Kentucky election and needs to be investigated.

  The only known, living non-bot authority for that is (I guess we had better resign ourselves to calling him)  Governor Bevin.

  Just think of what’s coming 2020.