To all who contributed to heading off a Hillary Clinton Presidency…thank you.
We’ve dodged some political bullets that were potentially lethal to our rights. The election results have prevented the predictable vitiating of the Supreme Court.
In celebration, I think I’ll wear a couple of stag-gripped Smith & Wessons today.
The shorter, less powerful .38 Special on the left and the .357 Magnum on the right seems appropriately symbolic…
The mainstream media, which went so blatantly propagandistic for the Clinton campaign, literally created its own monster. In giving Trump so much more play than the other Republicans, thinking that if the clown they portrayed him to be was nominated the Democrats would be unbeatable, they unwittingly awakened a vast swath of ordinary middle class Americans with classic American values to the belief that Trump was their only hope. If Trump was as stupid as they portrayed him to be, he wouldn’t have outsmarted them at their own game.
We’ve won the battle, but not the war. Among other things, there will be some respite for this blog to go back to talking about using guns, and not just keeping them.
When you start seeing t-shirts like this, you know Americans are getting fed up with mainstream media that sounds like Pravda during the Cold War years.
I voted for Trump in the primary as well as the general election, along with my wife. In IL our Republican votes are really meaningless. If we didn’t have Cook County Trump would have carried IL
Now that we have what we wanted: There is an old saying; Be carefully what you wish for…..!
Well, we won, after a fashion?
But this DNC sponsored violence will continue, even though they will talk about us all getting together, and Rising above “Party Lines”, as a way to dupe us into allowing them to do/get whatever they want.
And, if the Democrats don’t get their way, they’ll take us all (Trump, and the rest of us) into court, with frivolous law suits, to stop/slow everything we want down, as well as to obtain whatever may be on their Agenda!!
Expect the next four Trump Years be nothing but a “Fur-Ball” cat fight, and the opposition to a second four Trump years to be an even harder fight than this one was.
Paul
There are still more than 4.3 million votes to be tallied in deep-blue California, as well as many more in deep-blue Washington. Clinton is likely to lead Trump by 1-2 million votes when the counting is done.
Liberal Dave,
As you know, there are large numbers of absentee votes in all states that have not been tallied because they are not counted unless they are enough to change the results of the count, on election day, in each individual state, thus changing that state’s electoral vote assignment. Since absentee voters, historically, heavily favor Republican’s, they would very possibly erase Hillary’s popular vote lead.
The founders, in their wisdom, recognized the possibility of a situation where a populous state like California, being so out of sync with the other states, having the ability to force their will onto the other, less populous states, thus destroying the Union. The electoral college lessened that possibility. California liberals are floating the idea of seceding from the Union because of Trump’s win. Areas of California outside the the population centers have been exploring separation from the state of California since before the election because of the perception their concerns are ignored by the liberal elite in that state.
Everyone needs to take a deep breath and see what Trump accomplishes. If he is able to revive our economy and get real employment booming, halt the assault on the middle class, he will get re-elected. If he turns out to be the “boogey-man” the liberals fear, we will probably get a Bernie type next.
As for me, I am going to relish the fact that I live in a country that produces the technology and physicians that have the ability to cut out a worn out arthritic hip, replace it with one made from metal, eliminating excruciating pain and giving me a mobility I haven’t had in years. Yes, I am blessed to live in, not a perfect country, but the closest thing this planet has to offer. I may go hiking. Might take a rifle with me and harvest a deer. May just spend a little time reflecting on how blessed I am.
Good talking to you, my liberal friend. Enjoy the blessings of OUR wonderful country.
It is instructive to look not only at the State-by-State results of the 2016 Presidential Election but to also look at the County-by-County map. Here is a link to it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016#/media/File:2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg
Going County-by-County really drills down to a finer level of detail. I truly cannot see how anyone can look at this map and see Hillary Clinton as the “People’s Choice” for POTUS irrespective of the final tally in the popular vote.
Honestly, the Electoral College method of making the final decision does seem to me to be more representative of the United States, as a whole, then going by raw popular vote which is too easily swayed by a few, densely populated urban areas.
After all, the election is supposed to select the President of ALL of the United States. Not just the President of New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Miami, Chicago and Portlandia!
@Dennis: You say, “Enjoy the blessings of OUR wonderful country.”
There were, as will surprise no one, many grating things about the Trump campaign for me, but one of the most grating was his slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
America has never ceased to be great. It was great, it is great, and with _any_ luck at all it will continue to be great despite Trump as president. Indeed, even without such luck it will continue to be great in the long run.
So I thank you for your kind recommendation, and I will follow your advice. (I am, however, moving … but it’s only across town, not to Canada.) Does the Trumpish future concern me? Yes, but — short of concerns about Trump’s orange finger on the nuclear trigger, which worry me only slightly (but slightly nonetheless) — in the words of the Persian Sufi poets, this too shall pass.
I think we are missing a few points:
1) The Founding Fathers fought hard to not have a democracy, ie. mob rule, so an Electoral College win is not a technicality, but a feature. But, agree, it is hardly a mandate.
2) Read Larry Correia’s blog about colon cancer winning over brain cancer
3) We are not seeing more pics of one of the coolest handguns ever – the 2″ S&W M-15, and with stag grips no less. I have one, plus Tyler T-Grips, minus ultra cool stag stocks, and could die happy if it were my last carry gun. Gotta save for stag stocks, though. And my Christmas list is already full, dang it.
One interesting note. Radical Left-Wingers, like Michael Moore, have been making all kinds of noise about “Hillary winning the popular vote”.
This “win” is entirely due to the California vote. If you sum up the popular vote for all the other 49 States, the U.S. Territories and even throw in D.C. (which Hillary won in a landslide), you will see that Donald J. Trump won it by about 1.8 million votes. Throw densely populated and highly liberal California into the mix and it flips. Hillary gathers so many extra votes in California that, with them counted, she wins it by about 1.5 million votes.
This is why it the electoral college approach is best. It prevents a single densely populated and highly ideological State from overruling the will of all of the other States.
Under the electoral college, California was counted. Hillary reaped all 55 of that State’s electoral votes. That one State gave her more than 20% of the electoral votes needed to become President. She failed because she lost in the other 49 States.
All these complaints about Hillary winning the popular vote but still losing the election are just “sour grapes”. Hillary did, in fact, lose this election in the sum of the voting of ALL the States.
I, for one, do not ever want the destiny of the U.S. to be solely in the hands of Leftist California. Yet, that would be the case if we went to a purely “popular vote” method as some are now advocating. The Founding Fathers (again) showed their profound wisdom when they set up the electoral college method.
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