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Should Hillary put a stop to the "Electoral College Stupidity"?

Lovely cover of Junior Kimbrough’s Hill Country classic, “I’m In Love With You”.

I have been pondering the violence and intimidation that the Democrats have visited on Trump supporters during this past week. Portland is one of the centers of this storm of politically correct madness. I believe this is all carefully planned and designed to keep the area voting blue. How do they accomplish this? First: They have these psycho thugs on call to cause a disturbance whenever the Democrats want. The Dems let these angry anti-social people pour out their rage on innocent people because if the Dems do not let them have "room to destroy" these dangerous looney tunes will...

He’s fired — or at least his name is. Three Upper West Side buildings that bear Trump’s name will soon be scrubbed of any trace of the president-elect, according to Equity Residential. The company said that rental buildings at 140, 160 and 180 Riverside Blvd. will no longer be called “Trump Place.” Instead, they’ll be referred to by their street addresses. “We are removing the [Trump] name on those buildings,” said Equity Residential spokesman Marty McKenna. “The decision was to brand the buildings with a more neutral building identity that will appeal to all current and future residents.” The changes...

Another campaign promise?

As one of his biggest supporters during the presidential election campaign, Michael Savage vowed to hold Donald Trump’s feet to the fire should he win, ensuring that the real-estate billionaire fulfills his promise to reform Washington. Less than a week after Trump’s victory, the nationally syndicated talk-radio host is keeping his word, criticizing the appointment of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff. “We’ve gone from RINOs to Rinso in one election,” Savage told WND, dubbing Priebus with the name of the iconic laundry soap. Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/11/savage-warns-trump-on-priebus-looks-like-jeb-bush-won/#i5RqlWPcEPJbgmcR.99

Did the democrats do away with the 60 vote rule to end debate? Will this apply to The next supreme court nominee or will the dems be able to filibuster our nominee? Thanks for any clarification!

Gather around my brothers and sisters for a parable about the popular vote in a U.S. presidential election. The popular vote in a U.S. presidential election is like an NFL Super Bowl game. One team, which has played in the last four Super Bowls, is a 28 point favorite by Las Vegas to soundly defeat the underdog, which has never even made the playoffs before. The favorite has a payroll of superstar players that dwarves the salaries paid to the underdog's. Come halftime of this game, however, the underdog is actually winning 21-20 despite the favorite out-gaining the underdog by...

"I won Iowa not because of the demographics, but because I visited Iowa 87 times. I went to almost every county. I went to every county fair I could find and I talked with people. And I knew that I wasn't going to win every county. But maybe I lost some by 20 points instead of 50 points. We have to campaign everywhere."

For years, the MSM has salivated over the health and demise of the Republican Party. While there are lots of things wrong with the RNC, my attention is shifted towards the DNC. Personally, I think it was and has been in worse shape than the RNC. For the longest time, the democrats were held together by loose alliances of fringe groups, many of them lunatic fringe groups. They ones with the most money had the most influence. Yet, many of these groups simply do not have much in common. And it has gotten worse over years. It could be said...

If what we suspect is true, that is that they are paying these folks with a cheeseburger by day and a bottle of Night Train by night and busing them in, why don't we have someone go undercover and document all this? With as many as they are paying it would be so easy. O'Keefe or somebody should go under and record all this, expose it to the American people and let them see for themselves that this is a movement that will lead to mass violence and an attempt at overthrowing our government. It would seem that we could...

Listening to protesters do their cute little chants remind me of a grade school assembly. Liberals for years have chanted in the streets like a bunch of pouty juvenile no-brains. As if they believe their cute little chants will do anything other than make Americans shake their head in pity. Go home you Soros-paid lefties, get a decent job, become a productive citizen, and don't worry about the USA. We survived 8 years of Obama (barely) and things can only get better. When they do Trump will benefit the protesters as he will his supporters.

Obama, the multi-failure POTUS, on all counts!!! Obama has failed on everything he ever touched. He has neither a positive record of accomplishments, nor will he have any sort of positive legacy. He has tried his utmost to disassemble the American Republic, to hold massive numbers of African-Americans, hostages on his mandated economic slave plantations, secured by the Congressional Black Caucus & the "Hate Charter Schools" NAACP!!! His one redeming quality was his left-handed leadership in destroying the political power of the "traitor" Democrat Party and his ranting and raving for Hillary Clinton as her number one surrogate of total...

Upcoming: President Obama to hold news conference Monday from press briefing room at White House at 3:15 pm ET - CNBC

Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 "Rodney King riots" in Los Angeles Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996 Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER Suspected that the Bush administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war" Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called “green jobs czar.” Has been a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress

Boy was I wrong. All along I had Trump at between 62 and 64 million votes. Our overly optimistic friend "Sundance" at www.conservativetreehouse.com was completely off the charts unrealistic, with a projection of 73 million. Yes, Trump won the electoral college---as I predicted---big. As of today I think he is at 304. Another 720,000 votes in seven states would have given him an additional 43 electoral votes. But unfortunately I was right in another prediction: the margin would be large, but each state would be decided by a small fraction of voters. Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, and Florida all hinged...

The election of Donald Trump proved beyond any doubt that the globalist Free Trader faction that dominates the upper echelons of the Republican Party, "Conservative" talk radio and Fox represents just a minuscule fraction of the Republican Party rank and file. The Republican party has a new ally in the the so called "Reagan Democrat". Without them Trump's would have never won on Tuesday and I am grateful for them. There is still a long term problem for the Republican Party however. The Republican Party, historically the protectionist party, could lose that legion of "Rust Belt" voters if they hang...

What do we say to Californians who want to secede? Most often, I hear, "Good. Do it," or some variant thereof. But that is way too flippant, and there are much better potential responses. Another appropriate response might be, "That wasn't the deal. The deal was that you would move to Canada." But even that misses the major lesson that should be learned from this election. The truth is that the people who elected Donald Trump as President spent the last 8 years suffering through Obama. There was little talk of secession, and certainly no organized effort to secede by...

It is my understanding that Trump's plan for health insurance includes allowing people with pre-existing conditions to sign up for coverage. It also appears that this clause of ObamaCare can't be repealed through reconciliation. I'm not really sure why that is because the Democrat X-rays only had a slim majority when ObamaCare was rammed down America's throat. So I have a few questions that I think others should consider. First, how can insurance companies actually be profitable when they are forced to insure people who are already sick even with being able to sell insurance across state lines. Second, given...

From now until Inauguration Day, reporters, politicians, supposed "insiders", and liars (excuse me for repeating myself) will all be whispering to us about what is "really" happening inside the Trump Cabinet and Sub-Cabinet personnel selection process. The reality is; the reporters are simply filling time and column inches, the politicians are trying to inflate their own importance (often to try to get jobs, since they probably lost their last election), supposed "insiders" are now on the outside.... and well.... it's Washington.... so they are all lying. In reality, for the next two months, the DC rumor mill will make Stalinist...