Posted on 09/03/2018 3:17:12 PM PDT by upchuck
President Trump likes to complain about “Fake News.”
So, here’s some very real news for him:
Republican control of Capitol Hill and the White House is based on a “fake majority.”
“A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation’s population,” David Wasserman, an editor for The Cook Political Report, wrote in a recent New York Times column.
He added that the crucial Senate seats this November would be “much whiter, more rural and pro-Trump than the nation as a whole. In effect, geography could again be Mr. Trump’s greatest protector: After all, the Senate — not the House — would have the final say on any impeachment proceedings,” Wasserman argued.
Think about this — America’s politics are being run by a cabal in the Senate that fails to represent 82 percent of the American people.
For starters, the 18 percent controlling the Senate have their own right-wing agenda beyond protecting an unpopular president.
They want a Supreme Court majority that reflects their views and not the views of the majority of the people.
To take control of the court they blocked President Obama — a Democrat twice elected with a majority of the popular vote as well as a majority of the electoral college — for close to a year from appointing a centrist judge to the high court.
Senate Republicans, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa), who will preside over this week’s hearings, refused to even give Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a hearing, let alone an up or down vote.
And now having already replaced Garland and installed a solid conservative — Neil Gorsuch — the Senate Republicans, who represent fewer than 1-in-5 Americans, are about to force another conservative on the Supreme Court.
If they succeed in locking in another conservative, this time Judge Brett Kavanaugh, they will cement a conservative majority on the court for decades in an act that might be described as tyranny.
It is not just the Senate that is acting against the will of the majority.
Remember that both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were nominated by a president who lost the popular vote by almost three million votes.
I could just as easily say that the New England states are over represented in the Senate with their 12 senators even though they are only 4.3 percent of the population in the USA.
New England has a population of 14 million people , which is roughly the population of Pennsylvania. The USA has 320 million people. I can argue that those left wing states should only get one 20th a senate vote. So there.
Why is Juan still employed anywhere?
The infantile whining from the nut-left is always satisfying. Though it is shocking sometimes how many of the nut-left imagine that any body at any point would nullify elections to assuage their feelings.
Maybe if he has a little sleepy time and gets his nappies changed, and a bottle, he’d feel just a little better.
Really tired of the idea things are “too white”. We are about 75% of the population.
Juan Williams makes the late Rodney King look like a genius.
Juanito is kept on at Fox for comic relief.
Don’t worry Juan, you still have John Roberts on your side.
“They* want a Supreme Court majority that reflects their views and not the views of the majority of the people.”
(meaning us*) The Majority VIEW does not control this nation. It is the Constitution that matters.
WAH!!! WAH!!!
Can someone post that photo of the crying white baby? Thank you.
Juan wrote a book?!?
Who’d a thunk it!
——Why is Juan still employed anywhere?-—
Juan is a living anomaly.
He is black to the core with at least semiradical black roots. He Has a white wife. He has two grown sons that are Republican. He as worked for seemingly every publication in DC.
So far as Fox is concerned, Juan can be reliably counted on to deliver left wing dogma and the takling point de jour.
Juan is a moron, Senators are elected by popular vote in each state.
And if there weren't a Senate and an Electoral College, there wouldn't be a United States.
Dear Juan Williams,
Since you want to give us the impression you are talking about “real” things and “reality”, let me drop some reality on you.
In the 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump 79.9% of the counties/parishes/townships in this country. Hillary Clinton won 20.8%. From a GEOGRAPHICAL perspective, Trump demolished Clinton.
Here are a few examples. In Illinois, Trump won 89% of the counties in the state. In fact, Trump would have won Illinois easily except for Cook County. Clinton’s entire Margin of victory in Illinois was in 1 county.
In Arkansas, Trump won 89% of the counties and won the state.
In Colorado, Clinton won the vote statewide. But Trump won 64% of the counties.
There is a divide in this country. The divide is the urban, liberal, big city versus conservative suburban, small city and rural.
Let me explain it another way. Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory (2,864,903) in the popular vote was obtained in just 3 cities in this country. The 4 counties that gave her the margin of victory to win the popular vote were:
Cook County, Illinois (1,088,369)
Los Angeles, California (1,076,074)
Brooklyn, New York (461,433)
Manhattan, New York (456,546)
You can continue to talk your nonsense. The truth is, Geographically, The country is behind Trump. In the big cities, where people depend on the government in so much of their lives, they lean to the liberal side.
If you want some more “real talk”, just let me know.
Bryan24
I found his stupid book online: I guess no one wants to by a book that claims Trump is waging a war on black civil rights.
Wow, Juan is an even bigger idiot than I thought he was.
Yes, if you carried the 12 biggest states you could win the electoral college with no other states.
Let's see who represents those states:
California has two Democrats.
Texas has two Republicans.
Florida has one of each.
New York has two Democrats.
Illinois has two Democrats
Pennsylvania has one of each.
Ohio has one of each.
Georgia has two Republicans.
North Carolina has two Republicans.
Michigan has two Democrats.
New Jersey has two Democrats
Virginia has two Democrats.
So who benefits from that fact, Juan?
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton
Come on Juan, Hillary would had you back on the plantation.
She would have never apposed at that uppity attitude sir.
‘Juan, it’s called a Constitutional Republic...”
Juan must have missed the day in first grade when they covered that fact.
I have sent him tutorial email’s on it however he seems a bit slow to comprehend it.
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