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Post-election thoughts from a 'deplorable'
by Alicia Colon
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The Electoral College Preserves Inclusion
Arnold Ahlert: In yet another demonstration of their "respect" for the nation's laws and our Constitution, many leftists are calling for the elimination of the Electoral College following the election of Donald Trump. "The only reason he's president is because of an arcane, insane 18th century idea called the Electoral College," insists filmmaker Michael Moore. Like so many of his fellow travelers, Moore demonstrates a profound ignorance of a constitutional mechanism the Founding Fathers put in place to limit the power of what millions of Americans just voted against: an all-powerful federal government that has routinely ignored them.
There is a reason this country is called the United States of America. It's because we are not a direct democracy, but a constitutional republic consisting of 50 separate entities plus the District of Columbia, operating under a federal umbrella. And while the Founders recognized the need for the extra layer of government, they were also extremely wary of politicians who would see it as an opportunity to eviscerate states' rights. The Electoral College was the vehicle they used to preserve those rights and simultaneously maintain democratic legitimacy.
The process operates as follows. According to constitutional provisions and limits, each party chooses a slate of potential Electors, which are then chosen by the state's voters on Election Day. These 538 Electors — equal to the number of people in Congress plus three addition Electors from the District of Columbia — then convent in December to cast their ballots. Congress certifies the results in early January.
There are no constitutional provisions or federal statutes that require Electors to abide the popular vote in some of their respective states. Thus it is unsurprising that ordinary leftists and their celebrity allies are circulating petitions urging the Electors to "go rogue" and ignore the wishes of their states' voters. Moreover, a group called FaithlessNow is targeting 160 Electors in 15 states Trump won that don't require a commitment to the winning candidate. In 25 states and the District of Columbia, Electors are bound by state law or pledges to cast their vote for a specific candidate. The penalties for failing to do so range from being replaced and/or paying a fine, to a fourth degree felony in New Mexico.
Thankfully, the odds of reaching a critical mass of so-called "faithless Electors" is exceedingly slim. As the New York Times reveals, more than 99% of Electors have voted as pledged throughout the course of the nation's history, and the last faithless Elector was an anonymous Minnesota Democrat who cast his 2004 vote for VP candidate John Edwards instead of presidential candidate John hanoi-Kerry.
Hence, some Americans — campus crybabies accommodated by canceled classes and exams, "disaster" counseling and other infantile coping mechanisms including Play-Doh, coloring books and therapy dogs; rent-a-mob thugs whose idea of democracy consists of violent protests, brutally beating up Trump supporters and inundating Twitter with Trump assassination threats; and those who wish to secede from the union — will be forced to deal with unpleasant reality.
That goes double for a Leftmedia yet to discover that their overt bias during the campaign is very likely to result in Trump being able to talk right past them directly to the American public. And because they've already denigrated Trump and his supporters in every way possible, from calling him a misogynist, a homophobe, an Islamophobe, a racist, a bigot and a xenophobe, to enabling those comparing him to Hitler, Stalin and Satan, future attacks will ring increasingly hollower. In fact, by completely squandering the trust of the American public, the Leftmedia may have just accomplished the unthinkable: enabling their own irrelevancy.
It's worth remembering that many of the same Americans now calling for the Electoral College's elimination were confident of a liar-Clinton victory precisely because they believed a blue state Electoral College-inspired "firewall" was impossible for Trump to overcome. Now that he has, they will continue their efforts, led by a group called the National Popular Vote, to further erode states' rights and require Electors to vote for the candidate who wins the national vote. NPV's efforts have been well-received, mostly by Democrat-controlled legislatures. Ten states and the District of Columbia representing a total of 165 Electoral votes have signed on. If they reach the 270 total required to elect a president, they will have effectively circumvented the Constitution to get their way. What else is new for leftists?
If it were up to those in favor of eliminating the Electoral College, liar-Clinton would be heading for the Oval Office. Yet far more important, she would be doing so based on a huge vote advantage in only three states: New York, California and Illinois. Moreover, the votes in those states were undoubtedly driven by a big edge in four cities: New York City, Los Angeles San Francisco and Chicago.
Now let's remember why Trump is president-elect: Millions of Americans rejected a cadre of arrogant and condescending elitists in government, media and academia united by their utter contempt for the "bitter clingers" who populate "flyover country." And yet, rather than come to grips with that rejection, the elitists and their followers would rather institutionalize their contempt, and effectively turn national elections into referendums controlled by a handful of populous locations. It is precisely the effort to prevent that from happening that gave rise to the Electoral College.
In other words, the Founding Fathers recognized that direct democracy is "two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." The wolves lost in 2016. And just like liar-Clinton, it's time they accepted it. ~The Patriot Post
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Where are the Mass
Media Firings and Resignations?
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ I missed a few losers in my column on the big media losers of the 2016 campaign. One person told me, “Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal has totally lost all credibility... with his anti-Trump rants in his weekly column right up to the very end. We used to be ardent fans of his, but no more!!!” I agree that Stephens is a big loser. His attacks on Trump were relentless and he declared that he wanted to build a new political party to compete with Trump. Sounding like The Huffington Post, Stephens used his November 8 column to find Trump guilty of “unrelenting and apparently irrepressible bigotry, misogyny, bullying and conspiracy-mongering…” After the election, his readers responded with comments like:...YOU ARE FIRED! http://www.aim.org/aim-column/where-are-the-mass-media-firings-and-resignations/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email111416&utm_medium=email
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Hamas Funding Sources Drying Up
by Yaakov Lappin
by Yaakov Lappin
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Hamas in Gaza is facing an acute financial crisis as its overseas cash sources dry up. This is forcing the Islamist regime and its armed terrorist wing, the Izzadin Al-Qassam Brigades... to resort to increasingly desperate measures, such as using international aid organizations to funnel cash away from Gazan civilians. Hamas's dire financial situation has multiple causes. Egypt has effectively blocked off many smuggling tunnels linking Gaza to Sinai, which previously were used to transfer money into Gaza from Hamas donors. Additionally, Hamas finds itself without a clear international backer these days. Not only is Egypt under the rule of President Sisi decidedly hostile, but relations between Hamas and Iran are unstable, rising and falling periodically due to disagreement over conflict raging in Syria... http://www.investigativeproject.org/5699/hamas-funding-sources-drying-up
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Bernie Sanders Building A New Communist
Jihad Friendly Democrat Workers Party
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The communist who has inexplicably and dangerously become a rock star of sorts among the young people of our nation and others who don’t really understand or care about the consequences of “feel good,” good sounding socialism, made an appearance Monday on “CBS This Morning.”... Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders joined the hosts under the unblinking gaze of the ever watching eye of big government media to help nudge the lost and disheartened Democrats into the next phase of fundamental transformation. Sure, the election of Donald Trump has effectively put out their fire for now, but the Democrats are regrouping and they never rest. They will be back and soon. With the liar-Clinton loss Sanders has suddenly emerged as the socialist, lighter public face of communism, sage voice among Democrats. He has become the man who possibly could have delivered the White House if not the recipient of dirty tricks waged against him by the loser and his temporary home party. Sanders positions himself as analyzing why they lost but perhaps he’s just delivering the initial party propaganda offerings in the rebuilding process. The official unofficial position and statement of what is to come...
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Trump Plans Quick Withdrawal From Climate Pact
{fixthisnation.com} ~ According to sources inside Donald Trump’s transition team, the president-elect is looking for avenues through which the U.S. can quickly withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement... that went into effect on November 4, four days before the election. Trump, who has expressed doubt as to the validity of man-made global warming, made a campaign pledge to get the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and sources inside his team say he means to make good on that promise. But if Trump withdraws in accordance with the rules of the pact, it would mean going through a four-year process. Trump is eyeing ways around that drawn out procedure. “It was reckless for the Paris agreement to enter into force before the election,” the source told Reuters... http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/trump-plans-quick-withdrawal-from-climate-pact/
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European Temper Trumptums
by Judith Bergman
by Judith Bergman
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Post-election thoughts from a 'deplorable'
by Alicia Colon
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Although the media and liberal pundits in both parties express shock that Donald Trump was elected president, we, who belong to the 'deplorables,' as liar-Hillary dubbed us, had seen the signs that augured this historic victory. If these liar-Clinton diehards had opened their eyes and shed their biases, they would have seen the writing on the wall.
The rallies
The 'yuge' numbers at Trump rallies and the enthusiasm missing from the comparable sparse attendees at liar-Clinton rallies. The only large crowds at liar-Hillary events were due to celebrity guests and entertainment not the candidate. Trump supporters came by the thousands just to see and hear what he had to say.
liar-Clinton's flaws
liar-Hillary was a very flawed candidate with her gender being her sole qualification. The Wikileaks proved again and again that her so-called experience in the State Department benefited her and the liar-Clinton Foundation not the country. It's really pathetic to hear her apologists blame sexism for the reason she lost to Trump. Most of those on the right would have voted in a heartbeat for a woman like Condoleezza Rice, one of the most highly qualified individuals in public service. It wasn't liar-Hillary the woman who lost. It was liar-Hillary the undeserving and corrupt who did.
Faulty polls
Wikileaks also exposed the collusion with the liar-Clinton campaign and pollsters and the MSM; thus the public refused to believe those polls showing liar-Hillary winning. Trump also cited a warning of this deceit. We no longer believed anything reported in the mainstream press which had abdicated all journalistic ethics by their blatant bias for liar-Clinton.
Trump supporters are no dummies
We are not stupid. Although we have been labeled as uneducated, sexist, racist and simply deplorable, we are none of the above. The membership in the deplorables includes physicians, academics, lawyers and many with advanced degrees. A friend I hadn't spoken to in a long while expressed her opinion of Trump supporters that came straight from the New York Times and other MSM pundits; that we are basically uneducated and Trump is a sexist racist who mocked the disabled. I told her that didn't happen but when I listed all the pertinent facts of that misinformation, she ended the conversation with, "I don't want to talk about it."
The prospect of four more years of liar-nObama's policies
For the past eight years, America has been subject to the monarchy of Barack liar-nObama who by fiat and endless executive orders has managed to sink this nation into weakness and economic stagnation. In her speeches, liar-Hillary Clinton proved that she would continue the president's policies and we simply could not afford this.
The left never really looked at us or our movement. If they had just bothered to look us in the eyes rather then looking down on us, Trump's election would not be a surprise at all. We are religious. We are pro-life and mourn the daily deaths of thousands of unborn children. We believe in God and He is definitely not in the Democrat platform. In fact we remember when He was booed at the 2012 Democrat Convention. The Evangelicals, practicing Catholics and their clergy, the pro-lifers, all joined together on social media to voice their right to religious freedom and the fear that the Supreme Court would take this away and our right to defend ourselves. The next president would be naming at least two justices and we wanted those to respect the Constitution. On November 8th, we broke out our bibles, rosaries, prayer beads and shawls and prayed for our country and Donald Trump.
We were heard.
The rallies
The 'yuge' numbers at Trump rallies and the enthusiasm missing from the comparable sparse attendees at liar-Clinton rallies. The only large crowds at liar-Hillary events were due to celebrity guests and entertainment not the candidate. Trump supporters came by the thousands just to see and hear what he had to say.
liar-Clinton's flaws
liar-Hillary was a very flawed candidate with her gender being her sole qualification. The Wikileaks proved again and again that her so-called experience in the State Department benefited her and the liar-Clinton Foundation not the country. It's really pathetic to hear her apologists blame sexism for the reason she lost to Trump. Most of those on the right would have voted in a heartbeat for a woman like Condoleezza Rice, one of the most highly qualified individuals in public service. It wasn't liar-Hillary the woman who lost. It was liar-Hillary the undeserving and corrupt who did.
Faulty polls
Wikileaks also exposed the collusion with the liar-Clinton campaign and pollsters and the MSM; thus the public refused to believe those polls showing liar-Hillary winning. Trump also cited a warning of this deceit. We no longer believed anything reported in the mainstream press which had abdicated all journalistic ethics by their blatant bias for liar-Clinton.
Trump supporters are no dummies
We are not stupid. Although we have been labeled as uneducated, sexist, racist and simply deplorable, we are none of the above. The membership in the deplorables includes physicians, academics, lawyers and many with advanced degrees. A friend I hadn't spoken to in a long while expressed her opinion of Trump supporters that came straight from the New York Times and other MSM pundits; that we are basically uneducated and Trump is a sexist racist who mocked the disabled. I told her that didn't happen but when I listed all the pertinent facts of that misinformation, she ended the conversation with, "I don't want to talk about it."
The prospect of four more years of liar-nObama's policies
For the past eight years, America has been subject to the monarchy of Barack liar-nObama who by fiat and endless executive orders has managed to sink this nation into weakness and economic stagnation. In her speeches, liar-Hillary Clinton proved that she would continue the president's policies and we simply could not afford this.
The left never really looked at us or our movement. If they had just bothered to look us in the eyes rather then looking down on us, Trump's election would not be a surprise at all. We are religious. We are pro-life and mourn the daily deaths of thousands of unborn children. We believe in God and He is definitely not in the Democrat platform. In fact we remember when He was booed at the 2012 Democrat Convention. The Evangelicals, practicing Catholics and their clergy, the pro-lifers, all joined together on social media to voice their right to religious freedom and the fear that the Supreme Court would take this away and our right to defend ourselves. The next president would be naming at least two justices and we wanted those to respect the Constitution. On November 8th, we broke out our bibles, rosaries, prayer beads and shawls and prayed for our country and Donald Trump.
We were heard.
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