Comments on: If you like schadenfreud , you’ll love this

By: Delilah

Delilah — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:50:58 +0000

We will never know how many legal votes were cast for Hillary or Trump. Even if a voter registration investigation makes any progress and clears all the illegal and dead voters off the rolls, absentee and mail-in voting procedures are cleaned up, and miraculously states cooperate to identify double voting across state lines, no one will ever be able to calculate the true 2016 vote totals.

I fully believe there were more illegal votes than Hillary’s popular vote margin.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:25:46 +0000

Following on with what Neo wrote, here is a more expansive article that addresses the question of style, substance, and existential decision making in politics.

(via American Greatness today)

http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/making-politics-possible-again/

“Whereas Weiner and others fear what Trump may mean for conservatism, those (like me) who have come to realize that they care little for “conservatism” have asked instead what Trump may mean for America. It is a different and a better question. If you are concerned primarily with the reputation of a political movement (particularly one that admits it is destined over time to lose), questions about the private nature and habits of an individual said to represent it will naturally preoccupy you. It’s all you’ve got to console you, I guess.
But when you understand that the object of our politics is bigger than the reputation of a man or a movement and indeed, that this movement in which you’ve invested so much of yourself may have become a hindrance rather than a help to your stated objective of good government–in that case, the personal flaws of an individual politician can be viewed in a more sober and disinterested light.

This man was hired to do a particular job the voters want done. He is not auditioning to be our boyfriend, our husband, our father, or especially our priest. We needn’t endorse every aspect of a man’s character (and one hopes that with many past Presidents people did not imagine they were doing that!) in order to think he is qualified to do the job we want done and will do it well. Nor need we be suggesting, in praising Trump for the admirable job he is now doing, that he is also the beau ideal of a human being. He was hired. If he fails, he can be fired, too. It’s nothing personal.

Why is there such fear that the good ideas Trump champions will be tainted by any unsavory aspects of his personal character and private life? I submit it is because we are not thinking politically when we talk this way. “

By: Frog

Frog — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:24:56 +0000

Neo:
My observation had three parts, of which style v. substance was #1. You did not respond to “were MSM-influenced, and did not pay attention to Trump’s full sentences”.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:59:47 +0000

neo-neocon Says:
January 17th, 2018 at 11:02 pm
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Nice job of parsing out at least three major factions of response to Trump’s campaign.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:46:25 +0000

Richard Saunders Says:
January 18th, 2018 at 3:28 pm
I did suspect Hillary might lose, starting with the day she told the coal miners she was going to put them all out of work. I’m watching her on TV and saying to myself, “This woman is a Democrat? She’s out of her mind!” Then the Border Patrol Officers union endorsed Trump – a government workers’ union! Then the Fraternal Order of Police.
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Well, she heard Obama say he was going to bankrupt all the coal companies, so she was just speaking truth to power.
And who cares what the people on the front line of the war against Americans think?
And BLMs not LEOs have more votes.
She just did the math.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 01:44:24 +0000

Ray, I better not die in a Democrat-controlled county. :) Ray Stevens is on the case. Grandpa Voted Democrat.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 01:00:46 +0000

Gringo,
Aren’t you worried that your dead body will start voting Democrat? I used to wonder why all the dead people voted democrat and I finally realized it was obviously because they were brain dead.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 23:05:59 +0000

HRC’s faction was promised that the election would be in their bag given Hussein or Soros vote cheats. Even Johnson and Kennedy pulled one over Nixon a few times.

However, HRC did not expect her spoiler, DJT, to pull in so many Democrats not in the cities. This disrupted the calculations of the cabal.

The cabal is a SS or Deep State lineage, mostly associated with spirit cooking, soul cracking, child sexual slave trafficking, and various other interesting side businesses.

By: james S

james S — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:13:06 +0000

Also, that “baton” pass is just crying for a meme.

By: james S

james S — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:10:27 +0000

My Father and I talk politics almost daily. He was sure that Hillary would win, rather easily. He was not a fan by any stretch. I predicted Trump would win, partially to have some hope, and also because his rallies were SRO.
Election night, I was tense with anxiety 10x. I made it a point to watch CNN and MSNBC because I still had hope, and wanted to watch the faces of the talking heads transpose.
I remember the Florida results were being announced, with 90% of precincts reporting (IIRC) and the numbers for Trump kept climbing. That’s when my hope took on some momentum, and flirted with “He is going to win”.
Yes, I will watch that documentary, just to see their sadzz.