Bob Gorrell’s cartoon at Townhall:
Friday, December 23, 2016
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Ohio Electoral College reports
cartoon credit: Margulies [okay, so it's 4 years old!]
Gateway Pundit posted this report on the Electoral College vote on Monday in Columbus:
Ohio GOP
Delegate Casts Vote for TRUMP – Then Torches All of His DNC Troll Letters in
Yard Pit
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones received
HUNDREDS of harassing letters from Hillary trolls begging him [to] reject
Donald Trump.
Sheriff Jones ignored the
letters, emails and phone calls and voted for Donald J. Trump for President on
Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
Then he went home and dumped
his pile of letters into a yard pit. Poured lighter fluid on the pile. … And
torched them all.
Sheriff Jones posted the videos
on Twitter . . . [scroll down on GP website here]
And
in the comments section, we find some photos of the Sheriff and Cleveland Tea Party’s
own Ralph King, who also served as a member of the Electoral College and cast his
vote on Monday for Donald J. Trump:
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Ohio Electoral College votes for Trump
image credit: insider.foxnews.com
From The Columbus Dispatch earlier today:
Ohio members of Electoral College cast all 18 of their votes this afternoon to formally elect Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence as president and vice president.
None of the electors strayed from the GOP ticket despite protests from some of those who oppose Trump.
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Fake News and the Propaganda Media
Bill Whittle's Firewall video says it all (and in just over 5 minutes):
According to Newt, today's "propaganda media . . . has no relationship with the news. It’s aligned with a Washington establishment which is corrupt and dishonest” (via Gateway Pundit).
And the mainstream/lamestream media wonders why President-Elect Trump is bypassing them so often by using Twitter.
Via YouTube
According to Newt, today's "propaganda media . . . has no relationship with the news. It’s aligned with a Washington establishment which is corrupt and dishonest” (via Gateway Pundit).
And the mainstream/lamestream media wonders why President-Elect Trump is bypassing them so often by using Twitter.
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
Post-election exploding cigars
art credit: The Hockey Writers
Following the Trump win six weeks ago, the Democrat party and its supporters have been apoplectic. And they have been employing all sorts of tactics to undo the results.
First, the strategy was to claim Hillary
won the popular vote, so the electoral vote was not a true measure of the
winning campaign. But nobody knows how many illegals voted in California due to
Motor Voter laws, and some estimates go as high as 3 million. Without those and
other potential illegal votes elsewhere, nobody can say whether Hillary or Trump won the
popular vote. (Two short essays on the Electoral College are here and here.)
And when that strategy didn’t get any traction, the
Democrats (presumably backed by the Clinton campaign and her financiers) got Green Party
candidate Jill Stein to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and
Pennsylvania. That blew up in their face, too. Pennsylvania
denied Stein legal standing, Wisconsin’s recount yielded an additional 100+ votes
for Trump, and the Michigan recount was discredited when something like a third
of the tallies in Wayne County (Detroit) showed more votes counted than were actually
cast.
So now the Clintons et al are coming out
with two more strategies to attempt to either change the results of the
election or to de-legitimize to the maximum extent possible, the Trump win. Now,
Hillary is blaming Vladimir Putin for hacking the election, even though what is
hackable is the emails exchanged within the DNC, not to mention Hillary’s own
email server that was notoriously exposed and unprotected. She and Podesta also
continue to blame Comey and the FBI. And the lamestream media is repeating this baloney despite the fact that there is NO evidence for these claims. (Anything
but the obvious problem of an unlikeable and flawed candidate with a long list
of alleged criminal activity who didn’t campaign much in the months leading up
to the election…)
DNC supporters are now doing
everything they can to intimidate duly chosen electors who will cast their
votes in the Electoral College on Monday; many Trump electors are on the receiving end of
everything from death threats to mail/telephone/social media pressure to withhold
their vote or cast it instead for Hillary, even when many states have laws that require electors to vote
for the winning candidate in their respective states.
President Obama piled onto the most
recent why-Hillary-lost “narratives” before flouncing off to Hawaii for his
final Christmas vacation on the taxpayer’s dime. FLOTUS is already complaining
that America now understands what it is like to be “hopeless” – as she joins her family
in Hawaii to vacation on the taxpayers’ dime (“Hopeless In Hawaii”).
Despite all the interference in and attempts to undermine the
election process, despite all the phony baloney accusations, it is likely that
the results of the Electoral College votes on Monday will lead to the Jan. 20
inauguration of Donald J. Trump.
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Fascism: redefining the word
woody.typepad via Steven Crowder/Twitter
If
you managed to wade through Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, you already know that the term “fascism” has been
misappropriated by Communists, Progressives, and other left-of-center isms to mean the opposite of its original far
left definition. Several online dictionaries today reflect the switch in meaning, and
even the Wikipedia entry shows the difficulty of navigating the origins of the
term and its current usage by the political Left as a pejorative.
Today
Bookworm (of the Bookworm Room blog) has a piece at American Thinker that
summarizes the origin of the left/right nomenclature and the sleight-of-hand in
redefining “fascism” – all in the context of a short history lesson. The entire article is here. Below are a couple of extracts:
For months now, the
Democrat-Progressive fever swamps have been using the word “fascist” in
connection with Donald Trump and those who voted for him. It took Michael
Kinsley to elevate this shoddy claim onto pages of the Washington
Post: Trump, he asserts, is a fascist.
. . .
Given that conservatives
Republicans, including the majority of Trump supporters, are on the liberty
side of the spectrum, far from the world’s most brutal tyrants, what gave rise
to the glaringly false syllogism that “Republicans are right-wing fascists and
Hitler was a right-win fascist, so all Republicans are Hitler”?
You can
blame it on a nasty little historic and linguistic trick American
communists pulled, which was to make “fascism” synonymous with the political
“right.” Once having done that, they could claim that American conservatives,
being “right wing,” are therefore fascist. This is pure disinformation.
. . .
“Fascism,” another historic
term, is one that American statists embraced until Hitler tainted it. It
first gained political traction in Italy in the 1920s. Mussolini defined it to
mean “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the
state.” In other words, fascism is purely on the statist side of the continuum.
Savvy readers will have noticed
that fascism sounds remarkably like communism: It’s all about concentrating all
power in the state, leaving the individual entirely subordinate to the state.
The primary difference between the two ideologies is that in communism the
government nationalizes private property, whereas in fascism the government
does not nationalize it but nevertheless completely controls — as is the case,
for example, with Obamacare, which saw the government establish the rules for
the private insurance market and mandate that Americans buy the product.
. . .
One more thing: Obama said that
the biggest disappointment of his presidency was his failure
to grab more guns from American hands. Statists always grab guns
because their regimes are
fundamentally hostile to the citizens they control, making it
impossible for those citizens to defend themselves against tyrannical
government. Trump’s promise to protect the Second Amendment is the antithesis
of a statist, especially a “fascist,” regime.
Read the rest here.
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